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V-Wr llJfStrtttg |?toiiu1calc» i VAN SLYKE, Etfttor and Publisher. ^McHENBY, ILLINOIS. ABOUT 1,500,000 barrels of floor have been shipped from Minneapolis from -Jan.1 up to November, 1880. THE gTeat Brooklyn bridge, which is ... not yet finished, has already cost $12,- * 385,178.77, and there are $87,569.48 lia­ bilities. ... A FOREIGN milling paper says that a barrel of floor can be shipped from ~Milwaukee to Liverpool cheaper tluw from Buda-Pesth to Vienna. THE ex-Governors of New York now ? alive are Hamilton Fish, Horatio Sey- ::mour, Myron H. Clark, Edwin D. Morgan, Reuben E. Fenton, John T. Hoffman, Samuel J. Tilden and Lucius .Robinson. - WHILE a little girl in Norwich, Ct., was combing her hair with a celluloid- band comb, near an open gas-jet, she accidentally brought her hetkd too near the flame, and the comb took fire. The frightened girl had presence of mind • enough to throw it from her head, and • escaped with her hair considerably .-singed. The comb burned on the floor until it was entirely consumed. \ SWIMMING is advocated in San Fran­ cisco as a cure for the opium habit. A physician gives the history of a lady who, from taking morphine to alleviate the pains of a long-protracted disease, had become a confirmed opium-eater, and was suffering all the distressing .symptoms of this terrible habit. The -doctor ordered her to cross the bay -every day and take a swim in the Ala­ meda baths, which she did, and in a few months was completely cured. • 9 -- the gold imports at New York amounted $40,300,203, and in the same time $29,899,548 in gold and $39,775,- 086 in legal tenders were drawn from the New York banks and United States treasury to supply the demands of busi­ ness. In the same period this year the specie imports have amounted to $32,- 332,205, while $49,481,118 in gold and $5),854,570 in legal tenders have gone flnt and into various channels of busi­ ness. THE following table, taken from Poor's Manual, shows the miles of railroads operated in the ten Western States, and their gross and net earnings : Ohio". Indiana..... Illinois. Minxouri..... Michigan... Wisconsin.. Iowa , Minnesota.. Kansas Nebraska..., • fotals .. MUe* < f itailrixid Operated. 6,380 4,5J4 10, a»4Ri S,->T2 9,992 v>-* 3L12!>; 4,405 514 GnmsEarn-l Sjet Kam- iiujx. j I'm/*. 52,499,430!# 20,331,375: 19.101,987 j in.rn.yji 14,5S9,ll53i 8,7'.nt,;s8n C,4ac.,S-22l V.TT.VtWhj 19,940,511 6,485,732 30,255,551 8,411,836 5,959,089 6,'234,098 4,090,593 3,312,913 6,390,732 1,605,508 40,379 ?'il 8.111,4501 < 9i,f. 6.623 JACK RAFFKRTY made a wager that he could drink without paying in every sa­ loon on Spring street, Jeffersonville, Ind. He got safely into and out of iseven places, but in the eighth, when he said "Hang it up," the bartender gave him a dreadful whipping. There were six more bars to cover, and he .-struggled on; but his appearance •was now against him, and at the eleventh liis skull was fractured with a club; so he lost the bet. THE saw-dust, which has become such a nuisance at Minneapolis and along the river l>elow that growing city, offers a promising field of enterprise for who­ ever will utilize it. Several applications have already been made of it, and now arrangements are being made. by a French manufacturing chemist for the •establishment, at Minneapolis, of a lab­ oratory to make from the saw-dust an *cid, now imported from France, and largely used by dyers, chemists and ilruggists. It is to be hoped that the Enterprise will be successful. THEBE is a manifest economic absurd­ ity in making the Patent Office of any •country a source of revenue. The fees paid to the Government should be so regulated that they will, as nearly as may be, just meet the expenses of the Patent Office. In Great Britain, as ap­ pears from a treasury return published a .short time ago, the receipts of the Patent Office during the twelve years 1868 to 1879 were £1,779,892, and the expend­ iture only £504,322, leaving a net gain to the public exchequer of £1,275.570. Our own Patent Office management is far from free of blame in this respect --.also. THE Southern Pacific and the Atchi- --^aon, Topeka and Santa Fe roads are each mot more than 100 miles from their point of intersection at Florida Pass, N. M., about thirty miles west of the Bio •Grande, and the gap is steadily being narrowed, and will be closed about •Christmas. The Southern Pacific por­ tion of this great line will be 1,244 miles long, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe end will be about 1,147 miles long, making the distance from the Mis­ souri to San Francisco about 2,390 miles. By the Union and Central Pacific roads the distance is 1,916 miles, an advantage • of about 474 miles in favor of the present route for business between these points. The mties of railroad operating in these ten States aggregate about 40,380; the cost of constructing and equipping was about $1,900,000,000; the annual gross earnings about $218,000,000 ; and the net earnings nearly $93,000,000. The net earnings of the railroads of Illi­ nois alone exceeded, in 1879, $30,000,000, and the 6,380 miles in Ohio report a net earning of nearly $20,000,000. The en­ terprise and energy of our capitalists, and their faith in the future of this country, have been exhibited to a great­ er degree in this matter of railroad building than in any other of the enter­ prises which have placed the United States foremost among the nations of the world. CLERKS. A WRITER in the New Orleans Picay- uyic says the fashion of going without gloves, which has prevailed among young men for some time, owes its origin to an accident. The Prince of Wales had been dining and wining rather late with several other "jolly good fellows," and subsequently attend­ ed a reception a little the worse for liquor. He had forgotten his gloves, but was in no condition to stand upon trifles. His little irregularity instantly revolutionized the fashibn, for, as his ancestor remarked, " nice customs cur­ tesy to great Kings." Immediately all the swells went to receptions with their hands bare. "Unhappily," says the writer in the Picayune, "the fashion spread to this country, and at operaf theater, ball and reception our jcunesse dorcc wore no gloves. It looked badly enough anywhere, but wfcen it came to gentlemen dancing with elegantly at­ tired ladies, and encircling a delicate silk or immaculate satin waist with an arm whose ungloved hand, aided by the dust and other causes, left an indelible imprint upon the back of the dress, it became high time for the ladies to pro­ test at thus being 'handled without gloves.' So some bright young man, fertile in expedients, in a flash of inspi­ ration, pulled out. his silk handkerchief, and gracefully inserting it between the dress and the bare hajud, prevented a> social revolution and introduced 'la mode.'" T«rtm n ;; <ffar Ir t%arart«rl<.|lni a»ii ifr iiwllilllH>ia [N"«w Haven Itpiii-ti.r.l How difficult it is to distinguish them from proprietors until you are used to them! Then it is easy. Proprietors wear clothes that clerks wouldn't be seen wearing to sift ashes im At the start clerks always; speak, of themselves as " salesmen." They have a faint idea that the latter is a dictionarv word and means something. The king clerk is the " floor-walker." He's a drum major without bearskin cap or baton, and fills an important position in an important manner. Poor human­ ity always feels its knees quake before his awful presence, until lie says, "Shows these ladies them hose," and it is proved that he is mortal. Th<\ active clerk shows all the goods in his department, talks a steady stream and wears a customer out. He makes a few sales and does not stay long in a place. The listless clerk, with drooping eyes and pale necktie, drops the goods on the counter in a doii't-eare-a-tive sort of a way, wearied by the exertion, and the customer trades with him because he is so refreshingly lazy. The average clerk comes up town in the morning the very ideal of spick-span newness. He is fresh every day, his col­ lar and shirt front are just from the smoothing-iron, his clothes are molded to his form and his hair looks as if his good, kind grandmother, had slicked it down with bear's grease. He is a daisy. The poorly-dressed clerk: There ami no facts in regard to this nonentity. The " masher" as a clerk: He is en­ gaged because of his superlative attrac­ tion to silly women, who call on him every day aud buy some little knick- knack in order to bask iu the sunshine of his radiant aud charming smile. A genial clerk, a man who is too good for his position and a positive addition to a well-regulated establishment. One clerk of this sort is worth a whole store full of average clerks. He sells goods before you know you have taught them. The genuine business man sometimes begins life as a clerk, but he pushes out of the position in an amazing hurry. The lady clerk: Who would bo so un- gallnnt as to say she is not interesting? She is. Gentlemen always like to trade at the counter where she presides, and she is usually assigned to a department where they are sure to come on little er­ rands. Ladies, on the contrary, do not like to purchase of her, and it is notice­ able that she is seldom iu the dress goods department. There are a great clerks Colton, of New York, who works so slowly and so carefully that, should he work till very olt, he would ootnplete, it is said, only fifteen violins. The Tomb of Themistocles. As if to have stood on the Plain of Marathon was not enough for one day's I delight, we must needs start off after ; dinner (and by train, too, on the only I railway in Greece!) to tlie Piraeus, to pay j our homape to the last resting place of 1 the man who, whatever his faults, was I the first to see what Athens had it in her | to accomplish, and to open her eyes and ; guide her hands to the fulfillment of her j destiny. j Making our way as best we oould in | the darkness past the shipping and the | dock-yards, then through the straggling j houses which he above the harbor to the ; seaward, amt where, each house being ; provided with a fierce and obstreperous ! dog, we had some difficulty in escaping : with a whole skin, we at length came out j upon a narrow footpath leading through j waste moorland along the sea shore. A scramble of five minutes or so through the rough bowlders brought us i to a point where the coast line turned j slightly southward, and left us looking i across southwest to the Island of Sala- mis and the mountains of the Morea. Hard by lies the Athenian. His tomb ' commands the scene of the battle, which rivals the fame of Marathon, and which ; would hardly have been fought at all save for him. Hitherto the night had been dork, and the moon chary of her light; but now, as we looked, she shone forth triumphantly, and amid flocks of white cloudlets, which here and there i relieved the blue-blackness of the heav­ ens. At our feet gleamed the dark I waters Of the gulf, just trembling in the : breeze, and beyond the gleam the cone • of ,?5giua, the "eye-sore of the Piraeus." ; Behind JEgiua, and sweeping round to 1 to right, loomed the Argolis and Acliaia. I Nearer at hand lay Salamis, her jagged | outline well defined against the sky. Be­ tween her and the shore little Psyttaleia, ' whose name lives in the record of the battle, asserted its existence by the ' steady ray from its light-house shining ; across the mouth of the harbor. Looking inland, the lights of the Piraeus added to the scene fresh interest, both of pictur- ! esqueness and of association, as showing 1 that, not less now than in old days, the j place was full of the stir and hum of j men.--Blackwood's Magazine. fcî OTIO* DAT AT XE3T0B. CoLtTMBUR, O.--On. GAKFIKI.D---See Psalm 75, versee 6 and 7. Family sends congratulations. Frank C. BURT. F&XXOHT, Q.--Mjr BMRTTAT congratulation* God Mesa you. R. B. H A vis. At 12:18 the following wu received from Senator Blaine: The rote in Maine to-day la probably the largest, ever capt in the State. It may possibly reach 180,000 nnd this from a total popn'ation of 650,000; onr plurality will be more than and your majority over ali will probably exceed 4,000. The«e ai» the Indications trow retuniF rooehod from 200 town*. Accept my sincerest congratulation# upon your tri­ umphant and deserved ejection. J. G. BLAINE. CONCORD, N. H., NOV. %--Have carried the State by about 2,500, aud probably elected three Congress­ men. E. H. ROLLINS. The crowd of friends remained in the little office, and the telegrams of congratulation continued to come in until 3 o'clock in the morning. Just as your correspondent was leaving the room the General said: " Do you know this is the desk I occupied during all my teacher life at Hiram College. I have had this desk for more than twenty years. I simply used it to-night because it was the most con­ venient. I didn't thiuk of it till just now." The desk is an old piece of the furniture which the General had made to order iu Garrettsville, near Hiratn. This little reminiscence about the old desk, with the twentieth President fitting behind it full of recollections of the lite at Hiram, is aa lit a closing to these dispatches as can be had. DEAD AND BCKIED. Changes of Life. Change is the common feature of so­ ciety--of all life. The world is like a magic lantern, or _ many variety of 016 shifting scenes of a panorama. Ten :lrug clerks, grocery clerks, and J*ears convert _ thepopulation of schools ten thousand others. They are the or- jluto men ftud womeil> tll« young into namental and somewhat- useful mile-posts I fibers and matrons, make and mar for- on the highway of business. They seem ! tuue8» bury the last generation but to be a necessity, but why they should ! oue* j Twenty years convert infants into | lovers, fathers and mothers, decide men's : fortunes and distictions, convert active j men and women into crawling drivelers, I and bury all preceding generations, j Thirty years raise an active generation j from nonentity, change fascinating beau- | ties into bearable old women, convert j lovers into grandfathers and grand­ mothers, and bury the active generation, or reduce them to decrepitude and imbe­ cility. Forty years, alas! change the face of all society. Infants are glowing old, the bloom of youth aud beauty has passed away, two active generations have been swept from the stage of life, names once cherished are forgotten, unsuspected can­ didates for fame have started from the exhaustless wom&of nature. And in fifty yeArs--mature, ripe fifty years--a half century--what tremendous changes occur. How Time writes her THBKE are frequent references in ?Shakspeare and contemporary writings to "sea-coal fires," the term "sea coal" being applied to the soft coal brought by •sea to London from Newcastle. Early in the thirteenth century its use was prohibited in London on account of its unhealthfulness; but the prohibition was not long observed, and it soon became the only fuel. Combined with the thick and constant fogs which hang over or • enwrap the city, the smoke and soot is " increasing the death-rate every year, and has even caused some fear of a catas­ trophe which shall end in suffocating the Whole city, and the calamity of Pompeii in a different form be repeated. Famous Men and Cats. Our domestic favorites--cats--were not highly thought of in the Middle Ages. They were then looked on as Satanic agents and were burnt alive. In Paris every St. John's Day a number of the abhorred animals were heaped up in baskets aud bags in the Place de Greve, to afford an auto-da-fe, the Sovereign himself setting fire to the pile. This practice continued for a long time, the last monarch who officiated in this man- vtivity of the brain and nerves, ner being Louis XIV. The persecutors of the feline race were, no doubt, ignor­ ant of the fact that cats had been the object of snperstitious veneration in early times. Iu Egypt, for instance, the cat was deified as the patron of litarty and a similar respect was shown it throughout nearly the whole of the East. The Turks still regard "Tabby" as the "cleanest" of animals; Mahomet him­ self, indeed, having had a great liking for cats, it is only natural that all good Mussulmans shoidd profess the same affection. It is not in the East alone, however, that the feline tribe have managed to acquire a secure aud recognized position in society. Many great men have had an inordinate fondness for cats. Riche­ lieu's special favorite was a splendid An­ gora, his furry confidant's usual resting- place being his Eminence's table, among state documents, books, etc. Montaigne iraed to obtain relaxation by playing with his cat. Colbert reared half a dozen cats in his private study and taught them, after a lengthy display of patience, to perforin all sorts of tricks. Fontenelle was very fond of cats, and used to place a particular old " Tom " in an arm-chair and deliver an oration before him. We must not forget, too, that fclis catus supplied Perrault with one of the most attractive subjects of his stories and that under the pen of this admirable story­ teller " Puss in Boots " has become an example of the power of work, industry and savior-faire. -- OalignanVs Mes­ senger. carry the world in its entirety on their shoulders, and superintend the progress of the planets in their orbits, is a mys­ tery. But they all do it; or, at least think they do. What Shall We Drink! The editor of the Sricnre discusses at length the value of the different articles of food which generally enter into daily consumption. Chocolate, he says, from its large proportion of albumen, is the most nutritive beverage, but at the same time, from its quantity of fat, the most difficult to digest. Its aromatic sub­ stances, however, strengthen the diges­ tion. A cup of chocolate is an excellent restorative and invigorating even for weak persons, provided their digestive organs are not too delicate. Cardinal Richelieu attributed to chocolate his health and .hilarity during his later years. Tea and coffee do not afford tills ; ., . advantage. Albumen in tea leaves, and • ®T®rywh^re, in rock, legumin in coffee berries, are represented i , ores i cities, hamlets, villages, in in very scanty proportions. The praise I e ua man and the destinies and of tea and coffee as nutritive substanccs is, therefore, hardly warranted. Tea and coffee, though of themselves not difficult of digestion, tend to disturb the digestion of albuminous substances by precipitating them from thoir dissolved state. Milk, therefore, if mixed with tea or coffee, is more difficult of digestion than if taken alone, and coffee alone without cream promotes digestion after dinner by increasing of the 'dissolving juices. The volatile oil of coffee and the empyreumatic aud aromatic matters of chocoalate accelerate the circulation, which, on the other hand is calmed by tea. Tea and coffee both excite the ac- Tea, it is said, increases the power of digesting the impressions we have received, creates a thorough meditation, and, in spite of the movements of thoughts, permits the attention to be fixed on a certain subject. On the other hand, if tea is taken in ex­ cess, it causes an increased irritability of the nerves, characterized by sleepless­ ness, with a general feeling of restless­ ness and trembling of the limbs. Coffee, also, if taken in excess, produces sleep­ lessness and many baneful effects veri­ similar to those arising from tea-drink­ ing. Coffee, however, produces greater excitement, and a sensation of restless­ ness and heat ensues. For throwing off this oondition fresh air is the best anti­ dote. H*W President (iarfleld Received tk* Nevra of His Election* [Mentor (Ohio) Cor. Chicago Tribune.] The day at Lawnfield did not specially differ from other days, except in its extreme quiet. Everybody was busy at the polls. The General and his family wont about their usual duties. He received mora than 150 letters during the day, and some attention was paid to these. The General's old-time fri«nd, Dr. Robison, arrived on the noon train from Cleve- 'and. and with him and Mrs. Garfield a con­ sultation was held with regard to the plowing of the garden at the left of the house. When this was over, the General, in company with the doctor, drove to the polls, and there, in thd presence of a considerable crowd, he deposited. his ballot. Entering the little Town Ilall in the grove, he removed his hat, and, stepping forward to the judges, tendered an open ballot, and the name of J. A. Garfield was recorded on the poll-books. From the voting-place the General ar.d doctor drove to the cheese factory, and, looking over the Rccouut of their dairy products for the past month and giving direc­ tions in regard to their winter butter, they re­ turned home again. Another batch of letters had arrived meanwhile, as also a dozen or more tolegra,..., ",'>0 1 lie so were hastily examined. As early as 3 o'clock this afternoon telegrams from various parties began to coine a;, »n- <ratutating the General in advance upon ha election. In conversation the General said: " I have not allowed myself to make any definite opinion in regard to the result It will be a close elec­ tion. Things seem to be with us, and I hope for the besi, but we cannot tell till to-morrow." About half an hour before the closing of the polls the General sat himself down to answer the important letters that had come to hand dur­ ing the day. The first letter read and answered was from Vice President Wheeler. He said that the votes were changing fast in New York, and prophesied that the State would go for Garfield. Then came an important summing of affairs in two letters from New Hampshire, one from Gen. E. 8. Myer and the other from W. E. Chandler. They called attention to the exciting closeness of things there, and said that in case Indiana had gouo Democratic there would have been little chance for them to re­ deem the State, but as it was thev felt con­ fident After having voted in their respective pre­ cincts, some of Gen. Garfield's old-time friends liegan to gather at his residence 1 at or in the day. Hon. Harmon Austin, of Warren, who had al­ ways been at once father and brof her to the General, had written him, some days before, that the greatest ambition of his life* was to be at Mentor on the night of election and hear the news as it came. Capt. C. E. Henry, of Cleveland, when asked by your correspondent, yesterday, whether he should be here, said : "If I thought there wag a possibility of the defeat of tho Republican ticket, I should be there to console the General; but, as I know he will be elected, there will be enough to congratulate him." A very intfroKting incident was given yeur correspondent by Mr. J. H. lihodes, who is'now a prominent attorney of Cleveland. He was a Professor at Hiram when Gen. Garfield was resident there, and afterward followed him to Williams. Mr. Rhodes said : " I well remember twenty vears ago to-night, and just what Gen. Garfield was doing then. We were together at Hiram. Garfield had just bought a horse and buggy. He had, as I now well remember, run in debt for a considerable portion of the pay. We were very much inter­ ested at the result of the pending election ; and after talking the matter over w e weut over to his house, and ourselves harncHsed tfte dying and the burden of the lament"wilfbe, horse to the buggy and drove to Kavcnua, at "The mighty is fallen; the Democratic party distance of fourteen miles, to await the news, J- a _i... u.. Mark Twalu'!* Funeral Oration Over the Democratic Corpse. During a Republican jollification meeting in the Opera House, at Hart­ ford, Ct, on the night oi the election; Mark Twain was called upon for a speecli, and delivered what he termed a funeral oration over the Democratic party. Com­ ing as it did immediately after an ad­ dress by two clergymen, and beginning in a rather lugubrious way, the assem­ blage did not at first know how to receive it. As the speaker went on, however, count. For now them mint befMedoifc/ of speech at the Booth as vdl aaal tS* North. There must be a free vote # fair count there as well as bete, Mian ' must be as free there as here. must be no more assassination for < ion's sake. The red-shirt clnbs must b* disbanded. Their existence is an afltottk •; to the majesty of the nation, MH} people have said, and mid with engfe#' «ts, the nation shall lire! All houor io ilie prominent figures ill the great campaign, which W ende& / so gloriously, to Grant, and Sherman, ., and Blaine, and Conkling, and TngMnn ̂ and Logan, and a thousand othen who , have done stalwart service in the fights "H But let us not deceive ourselves. Thift victory is no man's spoil. Paul may plant and Apollos water, but God alon* giveth the increase. This is a Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and the people only can savft '•*'f and perpetuate it. To the people, thex% ^ be all the praise--to their virtue and int t telligence, and to their righteous resolve and determined performance, the vkv tory is due. They have shown then* selves worthy of the generations ; *1 before and of those to com® after £ ' worthy of the grand destiny of the na» tion which thev have so powerfully oott tributed to mold. .* ,, • 1f • >- V-' • ^ 1 » ILLINOIS ITEMS. PKKIK horaes have the epizootic* THE Odd Fellows of La Salle COIMTRF^ have perfected a county organization. ' * STREATOK is in a bad muddle as to thtt location of the artesian well about to bft dug for fire purposes. ?s, ̂ ( THE attempt to raise fluids with whieli' , the queer political hit began' to be apl j *° staTt a l)lovT factory in Elgin is meet* « ̂ predated. Almost every sentence WM fith considerable success. - THE silver wedding of the Rev. aa<t Mrs. Green, of Centralis, was oelebrated lately. The presents were Follow-groeted with roars of laughter. iug is the address: There are occasions which are so solemn, w> weighted with the deep concerns of life, that even the licensed jester must lay aside his cap and bells and remember that he is a man ana mortal; tnat even his light, butterfly career of folly has its serious seasons, and he cannot flee them or ignore them. Such a time, my friend*, is this, for we are in tne near presence of one who is a passenger from this life, one whom we hare known long and well, but shall know no more forever. About the couch of him who lies stricken are gathered those who hold him dear, and who await the oncoming of a great sor­ row. His breathing is faint, and grows fainter; his voice is liecome a whisper ; his pulses scarcely record the languishing ebb aud flow of the wastod current of his life ; his lips are pallid, and the froth of dissolution gathers upon them; his face is drawn; his cheeks are sunken; the roses are gone from them, and ashes are in their placo; his form is still; hia feet are ice ; his eyes are vacant; boaded sweat is on his brow ; he picks at the coverlet with unconscious lingers; he "babbles o' green llclds death's rattle is in his throat; his time is at hand. Every breeze that cornea to ua out of the distances, near and far, and from ever/ segment of the wide horizon, is heavy with a voice mourning for sorrow accom­ plished, and the burden of the mourning is, '•The aged and stricken Democratic party i> •'•M? the nature of man and the destinies ; aspects of all civilised society. j Let us pass on to eighty years--and [ what do we desire and see to comfort us j in the world ? Our parents are gone, ! our children have passed away from us j into all parts of the world to tight the | grim and desperate battle of life. Our old friends--where are they? We behold I a world of which we know nothing and i to which we are unknown. We weep for j the generations long since gone by--for i lovers, for parents, for children, for j friends in the grave. We see everything I turned upside down by the fickle hand of fortune and tho al>solute despotism of time. In a word, we behold the vanity of life, and are quite ready to lay down the poor burden and be gone. Different from Boston. The Boston Courier tells of a very hard drinker who reformed, joined the church, and became very pious. One day as he was leaving church some one pointed at him and said that he must be as drunk as usual. He heard the remark and went off on a spree, and has been a hard drinker ever since. A somewhat similar instance occurred not long ago in Chicago. A very easy drinker who re­ formed to such an extent that he became a Baptist, was pointed out one day as he was leaving church by a person who said that he must be drunk. He overheard the remark, aud, after wiping the floor with his traducer a few times, went off to find some other member of the family to practice on until his real opponent got well. Chicago must be different from Boston.--Chicago Tributie. the remedies proposed is the importa­ tion of anthracite from this country, so that the old term of "sea coal" may -come into use again. An Editor's Trials. No words can tell how much Thack­ eray's generous soul suffered in his edi- One of ; torial capacity. There is a class of peo- Wbat Voices Indicate. ! There are light, quick, surface voices ! that involuntarily seem to utter the slang, j "1 won't do to tie to." The man's i words may assure you of his strength of j piu-pose and reliability, yet his tone con- j tradicts his s^ieech. Then there are low, deep, strong I voices, where the words seem ground out, ; as if the man owed humanity a grudge, ; and meant to pay it some day. That ; man's opponents may well tremble, and | his friends mav trust his strength of piupose and ability to act. There is the coarse, boisterous, dicta­ torial tone, invariably adopted by vul­ gar persons, who have not sufficient cul­ tivation to understand their own insig­ nificance. There is the incredulous tone, that is full of a covert sneer, or a secret "You- can't-dupe-me-sir " intonation. Then there is the whining, beseeching voice, that says "sycliophant" as plainly as if it uttered the word. It cajoles and flatters you; its words, say, "I love you, I admire you ; you are everything that you should be." Then there is the tender, musical, com­ passionate voice, that sometimes goes with sharp features (as they indicate merely intensity of feeling) and soiho- times blunt features, but always with a genuine benevolence. If you are full of affection and pre­ tense, your voice proclaims it. If you are full of honesty, strength and purpose, your voice proclaims it. If you are cold and calm and lirm and consistent, or fickle and foolish and de-Japanese Paper. The English paper-makers l>egin to | odious, your voice will be equally truth- fear that they will be ruined by Japanese I telling. THE gold reserve in the Bank of pie who look upon an editor's office as a bureau of general relief : young widows with numerous children send in manu­ scripts with a frank avowal that they are conscious of possessing no literary ability whatever, but that they feel sure this or that one will be accepted, as otherwise Prance amounts to $140,800,000, in the i ant* ^eir little ones must starve ; *» v » n i , , „no „,n ___ . I there are farmer boys, who write diagon-Bank of England to $128,312,650, m the 1 - J e - United States treasury to $135,244,839, - and in the Bank of Germany to only ' $47,000,000, the remainder of the latter's reserve--$85,000,000--being in silver. The gold in Franoe and England is ^steadily decreasing, much of it coming to this country. In France, under the operations of the double standard, gold is drained from the bank in exchange for »ilver, bat the finances of that - country are in a most healthy condition. In the first ten weeks of the business ^season last year--from Aug. 1 to Oct ally across brown wrapping paper, and beg for favor as a means of acquiring an education; there are thousands who have failed at everything else, but are sure they can write ; some are preten­ tious and impudent, others modest and appealing, and with the latter it is par­ ticularly hard to deal. A great many are vituperative, and look upon the editor as a deposit installed to crush all rising genius. More than once, when Thack­ eray paid out of his own purse for articles which he could not use, the writers re­ proached him for suppressing mattei which surpassed his own. The work be­ came unendurable to him, and he gave it »P. cheap labor. The skill of the Japs in in the paper business is well kuown. The Imperial Japanese Government has paper mills at Tokio, and an agency has been established right in the heart of London, where the royal paper-makers threaten to undersell the home manufac­ turers. Deeply as we would regret to interfere with the accumulation of wealth by our worthy paper-makers here, we still hope that when this item meets the eye of the High Mikado Kockelorum in Japan, he will at once establish apaper- selling agency in this country. The Im­ perial paper-maker can hear of something to his advantage by calling up at this office the first time he is in Detroit.-- Detroit Free Press. Expensive Violins. Bemenyi has three violins, of which one is a Stradivarius, called the Prin­ cess, and valueld at 85, (XX); another, called the Pidnce, is an cf the same value; and the third, called the Crown Prince, and used for parlor play­ ing, valued at $3,000, was made by Mr. You can not change your voice from a natural to an unnatural tone, without its being known that you are doing so. Consenting to be Shot at on a Bet. At Kingston, N. Y., in a beer saloon two men differed as to their relative qualities as marksmen. To settle the dispute one bet the other a glass of beer that the other could not hit his hat, and he proceeded to hold it at arm's length. The challenged man blazed away with his revolver, but the ball missed the hat. After the beer had been drank, the man offered this time to set himself up as a target, saying that the other could not hit him. Staggering across the room he faced the marksman and called upon him to shoot. The other in his drunken stupor quickly drew his pistol, aimed and fired, but the chamber was empty. An officer took the revolver away. OFNNILOML OIL R.T.'^T.R.NR*' to change its large wooden-barrel manu­ factory at Pittsburgh into a manufacto­ ry of paper barrels. We took our places at tho Cleveland aud Pittsburgh depot, where a small knot of the prominent ]K)liticians of tho county had already gathered, and there we i atiently await­ ed the arrival of new*. It was past midnight Ix'foiv anything satisfactory came. Finally a dispatch w* s heard running over tho wires from the Hon. William H. Seward to Lincoln.1 sayings, that New York had gone llepublican. This we thought practically settled the thing, and so took our horso and buggy and started fer home again. We arrived iu Hiram at about 3 o'clock in the morning, and were ready for our classes the nest day. It is not necessary to comment on the won­ derfully cliaugcd situation of Gen. Giulield to­ day. lit re he is in the place of Lincoln, and he awaits the decisive dispatch from New York which shall settle the question in this no less decisive and important otisia, after twenty ve\rs of terribly eventful history has been written. Oue of the most interesting incidents of the day here was the bringing out of ths eight old m«n of the township, all over 80 years old. The Gcnc-al sent his carriage with his white team to bring them to the polls, and some oue else contributed another team, thus making a four-in-hand. The campaign cavalry of the village aocouinanied them, aud they Cast eigiiC, straight Republican votes. TJio oldest of these men won over 100. He is hale and hearty, and, giving three cheers for Gartieid, s*id he ex­ pected to live to vote for him four years heuoe. Iu the evening early tho reports began to come in. The first bulletin from New York said that the city would only give Hancook 58,000. "We'll have the Bhvte, then, sure, if tlie city only gives that much," said the Gen­ eral. Before he was through speaking another bulletin said there wo ild bo only Us, 000 aud the audience cheered. The General, noar the principal operator, himself read the : elugranis ss they came hi. The little office at thv rear of the house was well filled with friends and neighbors, who appreciated the good news as it camc, and discussed it with intelligence. The fitvt dispatch of interest came from Secretary Dorsev, and read : "This city gives about 4<),(k)0 for Hancock. The ma­ jority for you in the Ktate will be 40,000. The news from li&ine and Jersey is good." Soon came oue from Senator Blaine, which | read, "llaine has given a handsome majority | overall. Will seud details." At 8:54 p. m. came the following from New > York, which the General passed over to a friend | to read : i. A. GAHFIELD' WP reverently ball you as tlie ! twentieth l'resldffht of the l iiited States. ; J. G. HOWARD, Wu. UlVKll. G. vr. HOOILKB. I "It is too early for that," said the General, | modestly, but his friends insisted that it was all I right, and might as well come now. i At 9 o'clock a dispatch was receivod from C. E. Fitch, editor of the Rochester Democrat, whom the General explained was a beloved classmate. It said: "The thing is done, and done magniticently. New York is good for over 30,000 majority. The solid North sends hearti­ est congratulations to you, sincerest gratitude to the American people, and to the Giver of all good." '• Here is a report from old Portage county," | said the General, as he read the following: i "Thirtv-five gain over October. Outrageous | detraction rebuked." By this time the telegrams came in every ; minute, and the operators were exceedingly ii busy. At 10 o'clock the General, with a paper ; in his hand on which he had been figuring. | said: " We have not heard from the Pacific States at all. If we have New York, as it seems that we have, we can give the Pacific States, New Jersey, Connecticut, aud the solid South, and still beat tiicru." Several of his friends remarked that they were not going to have it so close as that. The General's little boys, who had made themselves very busy all the evening in carry­ ing chair* from the house and looking after the guests, at about 9 o'clock brought in a pail of tine apples, at the General's suggestion, and passed them around. At length, after it was pretty well settled how New York wss going, the General remarked : " The drift of things this evening seems to me to mean the people of this country have de­ cided to stand by first, the nationalitv of this Government; second, the honest administra­ tion of affairs and honest financial legislation ; third, nothing that shall narrow and disgrace national politics by a campaign of personal abuse." It was universally remarked all through the evening that Gen. Garfield was the ooolest man in the room. I spoke to him on this subject, and he said : " It IH much different with me from the man who feels like rejoicing over the general result, and then knows that his responsibility ends. I see before me the great responsibility of the office in case I am elected, and it makes me feel truly solemn. I rejoice at the snoce a of the party, vrhile I tremble at what it means to me." / Finally, the General asked if anv one had thought of what a wonderful thing this matter of voting is. " Every time the pendulum has swung to-day, about 200 ballots have been dropped ; that is 12,000 a minute, and 600,000 an hour. What a grand aggregation of intelli­ gent will would each one of these convey the honest convictions of him who casts it!" Among some of the more interesting dis­ patches that were received, the following may be quoted: i CINCINNATI, O.--D*aw_«» Hamilton ooonty far i majority, and «a will uuuur UI>» E. T. Cuwi. PiimrtTTA o Mow lathe winter of our dfck content mad* cioriooa •omaaar by th« aon of Ormoga. A. I* Turn. is dead." And who and what is he that is dy­ ing and will presently be dead ? A foot-sore political wanderer, a hoary political tramp, an itinerant poor actor familiar with many dis­ guises. a butcher of many carta. In the North he played "Protection" and '• Hard Money." In the West he played "Pro­ tection," "Free Trade," "Hard Money" and ^"Roft Money," changing disguises and parts according to the exigencies of the occasion. Iu the South he played " Tariff for Revenue;" in the North and the West he played " The A)x)stle of Freedom." In the South'he plaved "The Assassin of Freedom," aud mouthed the sacred shibboleths of liberty with cruol and bloody lips. His latest and final appear­ ance upon the nation's stage was in the new piece entitled " Forgery, a Farce,-' in which he was assisted by the whole strength of the company. It was a poor piece. It was indifferently played; so it failed, and be waa hissed and abused by the audience. But he lies low nofr, and blame and praise are to him alike. The charitable will spare the one, the judicious will reserve the other. Oh, friends ! this is not a time for jesto and levity, but a time for bended forms and uncovered heads, for we stand in the presence of majestic death, a momentous and memorable death : a grislv and awful death. For it is a death from whicn there is no resurrection. Heaven bless ua one and all! Heaven temper the blow to the afflicted family. Heaven grant them a change of heart and a better life ! OUR GREAT VICTORY. And Its Grand HesBlsf. [From the Chicago Tribune.} The late splendid llepublican victory shows that the people of the United Btates are well poised; that they may be trusted to vote to let well enough alone; that they will not exchange a good certainty for an uncertainty of any kind; they that know a hawk from a hand-fiaw. The Republican victory of Tuesday is a tribute to the wisdom of impartial suffrage, to the sterling com­ mon sense of great masses of people ed­ ucated in the common schools. It is a rebuke io demagogues, liars, and forg­ ers, and a warning against political campaigns of trickery, fraud, aud ras­ cality. It is notice to all mankind that the great republic of the West is not a failure ; a greeting of strong en­ couragement to the Republicans of France ; a hint to the struggling peoples of monarchical, aristocratic, autocratic and despotic Governments of the dawn­ ing of a better day for the oppressed of all nations. It is notice to the disfran­ chised white and black people of the South that their brethren of the North have not forgotten their prayers and cries, and that they propose to redress their wrongs. A solid North means that there shall no longer be a solid South, made solid by terrorism, fraud and assassination; that at the Souths as at the North, there must be, here­ after, a free vote and a fair count. It is notice to the Democratic party that its history and methods are alike repulsive to the patriotism and intelligence of the country, and that it can never atone for the evil of all its record by mere li]>- service. It negatives the absurd idea , that a political organization can exist , only for a oert^n limited term of years ! regardless of its principles or its achieve- j ments, and shows that the mission of | the Republican party will not be ended numeron* and valuable. JOHN POOL, a farmer's boy in Raimer township, Fill ton county, was driving • cattle, the other day, when his horso fell on him, inflicting probably fatal in* juries. CROOKS and confidence men are be­ ginning to put in an appearance at Bloomington, and already the polico have spotted several slick-looking indi­ viduals. WHILE William Heron, of Blooming* t in, was engaged in administering med­ icine to a sick horse, he was severely kicked in the abdomen by the animal at it rose to its feet. £? TROUBLE at Pekin between Sheriff -' Kinsey and his discharged Deputy, William Barnes, will, it is said, eventu- ate in a lawsuit. Kinsey and Barne* / !' were rival candidates for the nominal - 5 tion, and out of that there has grown 4 bitterness that only money or blowB can apparently heaL THE Bottle Company at Ottawa, bf the introduction into their furnace of new pots of their own make, muclk larger than the originals made for then|» by the window-glass works, have greatly increased the capacity of the works, and are now turning out about seventy gross per day instead of fifty, as at first. DR. R. S. LORD, one of the mosfc prominent ^physicians of Springtieldr died last week after an illness with pneuf monia of about one week. His deatll will ' be a severe loss to Springfield, where he has resided since 1850. In th# Illinois militia he was Surgeon General • on the staff of Gov. Cullom, with tho rank of (Brigadier General .. , Illlnoio Citl«hfe ^ The returns made to the Census JBu- reau, Division of Wealth, Debt ami Taxation, of which Robert P. Porter, o^f- is Chicago, is Chief, are being rapidly re* ceived, says a Washington dispatch. Unfortunately, many of them are in - crude form, and will have to be returnec| for correction. In a great many ease* v municipal officers have not made th^f ^' returns in accordance with the blank# sent cut by the Census Bureau; ami some officials have been so indolent, ami ;; have had so little regard for the state*; . ment of the information regarding fcheif , localities in proper form, thai, • they have thoaght it was a suflieieui - compliance with the Census law to cu| out a scrap from some local paper an<i paste it upon the Government" blank. •< Other officials, on the contrary, havt|i ^ taken the pains--and, it should be statedi*" ^ have had sufficient patriotism and local pride--to see to it that the very compre­ hensive and skillful blanks prepared by - Mr. Porter were properly filled. These of­ ficials have as much facilitated the com­ pilation of the returns as the indolent and careless officials have retarded it* And, if there are errors in the returns, of some oi the eities and towns, the in­ habitants of those places will do well to. charge the inaccuracies to the negli­ gence, the indolence, the bad writing and tlie4 'slop-work" of their own officials, rather than to the efficient and labori­ ous workers in the census office. The; following is an analysis from some of the leading Illinois cities and towns : BLOOMIKOTON. Valuation. $3,441,l:i4; Taxation $ 11T,009 Revenue li3,0(M>i Floating debt.. Expenditures... 110,4K)i OALEKBUBfl. Asa'd valuation.$3,703 twijUondeddebt....S Ktrveuue ' Expenditures... 6.TM 83,330 143,301) BOCKroRD. 112.ti7.il Assets llV* VILLK. Valuation $2,0KMM.TaMtioik....~.«4^ B3,3TS Revenue. 118.39.1 j Uouded debt.,.. 2S7,OUO Expenditures... IStt,S77j Assets LA SALLK. Valuation >1,5*4, -"05: Taxation..UJttt lie venue. 17,J«ojBoiided debt..., Expenditures... Valuation Keveuue.. PEOMIA. Valuation «8,7« taxation.t l63,)MU Receipts M5,4ytijBoudeddeh».i.. Expenditures... » AlKOKA. Revenue % 45,8i5|Bo«dB44^,.^ Expeudituiej... 80,17('j JOUIET. : ; ; Valuation $a,827,!>l31'raxattoiu., îifcw 41,000 Aestte.. 6S,88»| ROCK ISLAND. $3,50 VS17 'Taxation..- 73,000 , ' * ; Receipts Expenditures... ..i-f 118, WM so long as it shall address itself to the ; A»s'd valuation .$2,9^5,7Hj Boudeddeb*/i,«$ 38MUO * » it i Ti * . -- i Kiuvinta >44 77<li I u ads /. living Issues of the hour. It is a verdict of recreancy against Trumbull and Farns- worth, and Butler, and other once dis­ tinguished Republicans, who deserted their party from interested motives, impelled by the delusive theory that the people would demand a change of ad­ ministration for the sake of change merely. It .shows that the intelligent citizen can read between the lines of party platforms, and detect the real purposes of party leaders and speakers under the mask of plausible pledges and the sophistry of fair words. It shows once more that no man is goo 1 enough to go bail for the Democratic party. Mc- Clellan, Seymour, Greeley, Tilden, Han­ cock--these men have been selected for one reason or another to serve as a mask for Democratic designs. But in each instance the people have looked beyond the standard-bearer at the party whose standard the candidate bore. Principles, not men, parties, not cliques, shall control the administration of this Government, the people have declared, and they have made their word and purpose" good. It In m B|UVUU1U ViCiuijr--it Vicwirj in the interest of peace and pros­ perity, a victory in the interest of free speech, free men, a tree ballot and a fur Keoeipta.. Expenditures 81,770! 90,7W. r BELLKVII UC. " - ;;- Ass'd vaIuation..$l,B51,2&>; Expenditures.. .• Receipts Uoudetidebt.... CAIBO. Amesoed valuation of rest property .||Jl%$a Assesssd valuation of property... 1133, lift) Receipt* $ TO,4»i!:jTaxation. * 38,17a Expenditures... 65t7()7|Boudeddebt»..» t!7i),000 OKOAVUa. Ass'd valuatio«j.41,061,'-'(W Uondeddel)k..,4t 8® Receipts CMM; Assets % , 1T8, Expenditures... 66,0.il| » J rKKKi'oaT. Ass'd valuatioa..$l,!ftP,&<Sj Taxation....... SS^il? Receipts bonded debt.... -A -lajm Expenditures... C$.l>>7j uriscv. v Ass'd vatuatioa.4M87.tft>? Taxation.....«,*"M ItMyMa Receipts 112,106 Bonded debt.. .. lJtSfti,7(tt ' Expenditures... 112,10f> tf MOU1SS. C Ass'd valuation..il,439.440 laxati n........f ?0,75»> Receipts Bonded debt.... '̂,.500 ALTOS. Asa'd<Vlttaa'n...!l,8ir7.7uo Beaded debt....* 112.SJ0 Reemtfa. 116,087! . • I OAl-KNa. City levy tor municipal 3lS§ MIfr* City levy for school purpose*. ii.*** Valuatiou of personal lyM.Sdl Valuation of real estate sruxsnna Total receipts M8.917 Assessed value of real and jHmail property vtimahfcl vahM ***»> ear--* -- -- Ratintatahit erty Expendtn res, Tola! taxauva Rate of tax per $U0 tor ettjr fw|a«w.. Tota! assets