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rpcntg § laindcalei I. VAN SLYKE. E<!«or and PaMtthtr. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. WEEKLY IEWS REVIEW. • " THE EAST. • 1V» six-day go-as-you-please contest tor the O'Learv belt in New York w&s won by John Hughes, "The Lcpper," with * score of k:W*£ miles, which is the best on record. J ©'L*iirv Las entt rrd him for the next Ant.ey- ~^Celt contest in England. The other competi­ tors who shared in the gate money, and their icarea are: Albert, 558 miles; "\iiit, 550 tniles; Kronno, 529 miles; Howard, 51 a>^ miles. This was on astonishing raw, no leas fcian five men covering more than 500 miles «»eh, three of them equaling or beating Wes­ ton's great i»erforiiianco of 550 miles, »nd one of them all previous records Boiug ambitions iu a judical war, Mr. Thorn­ ton offered to su've as Judge of Sullivan couulv. N. Y., for 81.200 per rear, the salary bairn; *$2,500. Tins pledge to taxpayers in ad­ vance of election is held by the courts to be a and he will not be allowed to take his tear on thejxjnch Selina Peters, aged 12, --•as killed, and several companions seriously injured, while coasting at Bayside, N. J. "*^A fire in Philadelphia destroyed the Bethlehem Baptist Church and Horticultural Hall, besides injuring several residences ad­ joining. The loss is placed at $210,0^0 Ifrs. Geo. Stone and her daughter and sou '"perished in the flames at the burning of a •hoe-shop at Union, Cfc. A. lamp-burner fiutory at Forest vile, Ct., was destroyed by Are. The loss was about $150,000. A block of six high ouildings in Car­ ter's alley, Philadelphia, owned Dy John Rom­ mel, Jr., and valued at 1165,000, have been burned. Bi the destruction of a house in Com­ merce strc-et. Boston, Mrs. Johanna Hanlan asij ;.tr son William were roasted to death iue rioiler of the stenm-yactyt Carrie exploded n ine harbor of Baltimore, four men being Milled. Catharine Miller and George Smith were executed at Wilhamsport, Pa., for the murder of the woman's husband. On the scaf­ fold the woman uttered piercing shrieks. 8mith made a declaration that bis paramour first propo»ed the murder Trancis A. Duti- v«ge. the author, has just died in Sew York. A heavy failure is reported from Phil­ adelphia--that of John Brown's Sons, manu- fcclnrers of cotton goods. The liabilities are placed at $750.000. TBI WEST* years as a soldier and teamster. She «n be­ trayed, ted lately lived a depraved life. WASHINGTON. The Commissioner °f the General Land Office recommends the amendment of the laws to provide that in all entries of lands, ex­ cept for mining purposes and town sites, set­ tlors mar deposit moneys to have surveys made. This actioii is intended* to cover an nnsurveyed parallelogram which is now tho refuge of the worst class of outlaws, and is not withiu the limits of any State or Territory. It is said to be one of tlie finest regions in the W< st, andhes north of Texas, befovoen Indian Territory and New Mexico The President-elect will take up his permanent residence in Washing­ ton about Feb. 15. Appearances indicate the failure of the Funding bill, so far as this session of Con­ gress is concerned, and Gen. Gartida's friends declare that in such a contingency he will call an extra session The receipts of the Patent Office for the year ending D c. 31, 18S0, were •749,085, and the expenditures $538,865. The amount now standing to the credit of the patent fund is f1,631,626. The following is the public-debt state­ ment for January: Six per cent, bonds $ 902,986,880 Five per cents 460,651,080 Four «nd one-half per cents .T. 350,000,000 ; Four Dfr cents 938,480,MO Refunding certificates. $67,'250 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 , a ticket-of-leave. It is generally believed, how­ ever, that he will be conllued only until the ag­ itation in Ireland shall have ceased. He was committed to Milbank i>euiteiitiary, where he at once assumed the prison garb.... A Berlin dispatch announces that Russia in­ tends to place her loan on the American market. CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. Total coin bonds. $1,675,365,400 Matured debt... Legal tenders. Certificates of deponit... Fractional currency ($18^- 630,433 :ess amount ea- tirnnirtl on lost or de­ stroyed 375,934).... Odd and silver certifi­ cates 7,372,285 846,743,720 8,630,000 7,144,498 63,341,100 Total without interest. 415,857,825 Unclaimed Pacific-railroad Interest.... 7,927 •fetal debt i .*2,098,396,B10 Total interest. 16,077,492 Caah iii treasury.. 221,674,535 Debt lem cash .In treasury $1,891,799,563 Decrease during January 7,382,167 Decrease ninco Juno 30, 1880........... SO,152,727 Current liabilities-- Interest due and unpaid. .. .$ 3,039,713 Debt' on which interest has ceased 7,273,285 Interest thereon. 7">3.389 Gold and silver certificates 83,341,700 United States note* heid for redemption of certificates of deposit. 8.630,000 Caah balance available Feb. 1,1881 118,616,447 Total $ 321,674,535 Available assets-- Cash in treasury .$ 231,674,835 Bonds iwned to Pacific railway oompan- lea, interest j>ayab!e in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid...... 323,117 Interest paid by United States 49,528,666 Interest repaid by companies-- Interest re] mid Dy transportation of mails 14,052,966 By cash payments of 5 per cent of net earnings '. 656,198 Balance of Interest paid by the United States 34,820,401 GENERAL. Among the most destructive fires may be noted by the burning of Trow & Co's flour- ing-mili, at Madison, Ind., the finest in that State, the loss being $120,000 ; the Down-Town club rooms, No. 52 Pine street, New York ; Adams' cotton mill at Bainbridge, Ga. ; a grain storehouse at OninuevUle, Ont. ; four stores at Johnstown, New York : and four carloads of cotton at McComb City, Miss The ex-Presi- _ _ drntial fund being raised by the New York California has been vi-ited by the heaviest rain ! Times amounts to .£225,000, which will proha- «*\>eritneed t-ince 1S61. It spread along nearly ! blv be giveu to Grant outrieht, Yanderbilt, the whole Pacihe cotwt. and ha« done immense j Gould, Mackay, and ex-Gov. Morgan coatrtbu- damage at R:necia, Nepa and Kanta Cruz.... i ted $25,000 each. O'-n. John Love, of IndianajKjli^, a gallant j The sudden spread of small-pox ill officer in the Mexican w ar and during the F.e- j , • bullion, died at Indianapolis of heart diseaw. New York causes alarm among the health au- ....Under the stimulus of a bounty of #65, , thoritiea. There are over sixty cases under wolf hunting is the chief amusement at Pal- j treatment at the hospital on Randall's* island. mvra, Wis Stock men from the ranges in i _ ., , . . , . ... Western Nebraska report great loss of cattle ! ^ blafk ™iU-pox, which is soppoeed to have from storms and enow. ! h®"1 introduced by Menuonite immigrants, con- _ _ , • t» ' tinues its ravages at Jefferson, Dakota, which Jackson Goodrich, a farmer in Boone . has been quarantined for over a month, towiuhip, Ind., having lost forty sheep through j thirty-two deaths hiving occurred. Fifty-two the assaults of dog*, got out his gun and am- ! "re under treatment in Chicago.... *,.,, - b 'At New \Sestaiin»iter, Bntiah Columbia, four monition ana Hilled twenty-three canines in % ; half-breedn were hang^'i for ttie murfler of •ingle raid E ght Chinamen ont of a party | John Ussher, one of a party who Bought their catting timber near Santa Cruz, CaL, were j arrest for stealing horxes. On the day follow- buried alive by a iand-hlide lrom tlie mountain, j ing they killed John Kelly. About two weeks The propeller St. Albans, bound from : f8? the eldest of th.i prisbaers tried to neg5- tr. : tiate with tho hangman to use rotten ropes, bo AiaEKBT P. and Charles E. Talbott have been convicted and sentenced to death at Marysvi'le, Mo., for having, in September la*t, murdered their own father, who, at that time, • was the editor of a Greenback paper at Marys- | •Die Dtiiing the year 1880, 10,462 persons died in Ci;icaeo. of whom 7.592 were lorn in the United States, 1,0$9 in Germany, and 786 in Ireland. The mortality among the infants was disproporti Miately large--there were *,147 deaths of children under 1 year. The deat.h-rp-te for the year was 20.79 pei 1.000 in­ habitants^ while in 1879 it was only 18.01 Milwaukee to Ludington, was bo badly injured by floating ice that she sprang a leak and soon vent to the bottom. The passengers and erew took to the boats and reached Milwaukee, iu safety. The 8L Albans was loaded with flour, and vulued at f:50,0G0. Archbishop Pukcell has been strick­ en with paralysis over his entire left' side, but his intellect has lost none of its vigor Ex- Gov. R. D. Scott, who shot and killed Warren Drury. at N«poleon. Ohio, in Deoe-aber last, hus been indicted for murder in the sccond de­ gree Ihe murderers or CoL Potter, three in number, were taken fn.m the ji il at Albu­ querque. N«-w Mexico, and hanged. H. W. Fairbanks, of Petrolia, Ont., a student at the University et Ann Arbor. Mich., shot himself dead in a hotel parlor in that city, In presence of two women who had gone from Detroit to see him, one of them claiming to be h>s wife The reservoir back of Frank- town, Nev., gave way, and made a elean sweep of the pli-o The Sheriff »t Battle Muinl.iin, Nev., in bins- fill ignorance of the responoihility he takes, is seizing C- ntral I'acitic miil cars for delinquent taxes amounting to *24,0(K). The pro|>ertv of the company in C\iiloriiia is assessed at $36,- 00,000 under the new constitution, bat no taxes have been paid. Henbt Lamk, the oldest person in Indiana, who claimed to have been a body ser- •aut to Gen. Mercer durng the Revolutionary war. died at Mount Vernon at the estimated age of 123 yearn. Thb Capitol Hotel at Dover, Del., bnrned to the ground, and, the guests barely •scaped with their Uvea Tne Park Theater, on Twenty-second street, Chicago, and the B jon Theater, Fort Wayne, have been reduced to a»hes Joseph Wade the Indiana polk murd.rer, has been grante d a new trial, for error iu tiie charge to the jury Two men and a boy wer« ki'led and two men i jurcd i>j tne explo-ion of the boiW-r or Frank Mciimidt's flouring mill at Kinswick, twenty mileiH be ow Kt. Louis According to Brad- sif««t he amount of lumber manufactured in tne lead ug Michigan districts dunng the vear 1H8) was 3,9,i8,187,227 feet, an increase of UJtl K.t.« KI4 _ a.1 51.51' <,514 teet over the production of 1879 :Wore than one-third of the deniand. that on escape might be possible. POLITICAL* The Washington Post is authority for the statement that Gen. Sherman has so con­ ducted himself as to gain the ill-will cf the President, Gen. Grant, Gen. Sheridan, and tho friends of O -n. McDowell....The students of the Univers tv of Michigan have formed a Civil-Service Chib. The dead-lock in the election of State officers wi.s ended in the Tennessee Legis­ lature, by the election of Capt. James Nolan, Republican, Comptroller, and ex-Cougrts^mau D. A. Nunn. llepublicau, Secretary of State, four Low-Tax Democrats having gone over to them, and made their election barely possible. The Woman's National Anti-Polyga­ my Society met at Salt Lake City and passed resolutions urging Congress to sustain Gov. Murray in unst ating C .nnon. The Western Union Telegraph Com­ pany announces that it has taken (>osscssion of the properties and privileges of the American Union aud Atlantic and Pacific Companies A dispatch from Victoria, B. C., says the three MacLeans and Hare were hanged at New Westminster for the murder of Constable Usher and a settler named James Kelly, in De­ cember, 1879. TOBE1C1I. Placards have been posted in the Londonderry district of Ireland urging the people not to revolt, as the time has not yst come. The Land League denounces them as a fraud. ...Twelve tubing Rmacks have been wrecked in the Bay of Biscay, and forty-six men drowned The terms which Chili wants to knpone on P. ru and Bolivia as the price of peace are severe. They include (he cesnion of gome Peruvian ter­ ritory : the surrender or tlie Peruvian aud Bo­ livian fleets ; the payment of an indemnity of $•3'),000,000, of which Peni ts a»ked to pav $20,- OOO.otiO and Bolivia fl0,00o,000. Tlie C'niiians propose to occupy Callao, and to work the Pe­ ruvian ooppcr and saltpeter mines until the in­ demnity in paid. fill tho United States Senate, on Saturday, the 29th u!L, Mr. Lamar presented the credentials of James Z. George, of Min&iseippi. Mr. Iiigallx' reso­ lution for counting the vote iu the 8euato chcmber was referred to the Committee ou the Electoral Count After eon siderable debate, the Chicago Lake- Front bill was passed. The Indian Land bill earns up, s&d was amended to provide for the edu­ cation of fifty copper-colored lads at the Agricultural College at Fort Collins, Col., and to grant to each head of a family one section of land for grazing pur- posnM. In the House, thf day was monopolized by the North Carolina contested ease of Yeates vs. Mar­ tin, the former being a.iiiiitinl Mr. De La Mutyr presented a i>etition, with 22,000 signature!), a*king that e:iero:ii.'lmient8 by wlute settters on Indian reservations be prevented. In the United States Senate, on the morning of Monday, Feb. 1, Mr. Baldwin, of Michigan, took hin seat, and the credentials of Mr. Conger were I presented. Mr. McPherson introduced a bill appro­ priating $100,000 to fit out a war vessel to : search for the steamer Jeannette. Mr. Dawes, commenting upon the killing of ; Big Snake, the Ponca chief, by whits so!- : diers, preoented a protest from Standing Bear and | others againnt the sale of the old ) enervation*. Sen- j ator Logan defended Secretary ScUurz in thii mat- ; ter. The severalty bill was taken up. and an amend- J ment adopted to allow allotments to be taken by in- ! dividual members of a tribo which does not consent | to take laL.de, Mr. Voorhees introduced a bill to pension the survivors of the battle of Tippecanoe. 1 In the House, Mr, O'Reilly presented a bill provide j ing that no telegraph company sliiill cha: ge more for I me usages than the rates ol the American Vnion Com- ] par.y at tiie commencement o!.' this year. Mr. Springer put forward his postal telegraph measure. A bill wa* pssoed to enable the Utah Northern Rail­ road Company to construct branchea In Utah, Idaho and Moniana. Among the bills introduced was i one to prevent food adulteration; one to ! com]>e:isate railway mail clerks for injuries ! received while on duty; one providing that j two members of a llrrn csnnot serve as Directors of < the same national bank; that no money broker, pri- I vate banker or Director in any private banking house or savings Iwiik shall serve as Director of a national bank iu the ranie city as thst in which the private bank or savings institution with which he is | connected is situated ; and that when u Director has | less tlisn ten shares of the ttock of the bank he be- | comes disqualified, and camnot -continue to Berve. : The Iowa contested-election cases were settled in favor of Messrs. Sapp and Carpenter, the routes tees. At a caucus of Democratic Senators it was resolved not to content to the principle established by the Ingalls resolution, but to hold s continuous session t > force the passage of a resolution that the Vice President has no constitutional authority to count electors! votes. Mr. Morghn reported from the Electoral Committee, on Tuesday, Feb. 1, as a substitute for Mr. Ingalls' resolution on that subject, the concur­ rent resolution adopted by the Democratic caucus. It was laid on the table to be printed. Con­ sideration of the case of Big Snake, the Ponca chief who was killed while resisting arrest, was resumed. Mr. Kirk wood replied to the remarks made Tiy Mr. Dawes on Monday, and defended the Indian Agent aud the Interior Depart­ ment lrom the charges prt ferred by that Senator. Mr. Duwes reiterated his previous statements, and the subji-ct Was dropped. Gen. Logan gave notice that he would next day call up the bill p.acing (ien. Grant upon the retired list of the army. The Pension Appropriation bill was under considera­ tion. Two amendments were adopted. One limits ihe fee of the examining surgton to fl, and the <-ther provides that the money paid inmates of Sol­ diers' HomeR t h .il be jiiid through tlie Treasurer of these institutions. The District of Co timbi» bill occupied the attention of the House of Representa­ tives. No action was taken. Senator Cockrell introduced a bill in the Senate ou Wednesday, Feb. 2, providing for an ap­ propriation of $5,000 for the publication of a de­ scriptive catalogue of all public documents from July 4, 1876, to data A message was received from the President transmitting the report of the special Ponca commission and outlining an In­ dian policy for the future. Mr. McPherson made a favorable report . n tho bill to appropriate $100,000 to equip a vessel t > search for the Je ninette in the Arctic regions. 'Ihe Morgan electoral-count resolu­ tion* occupied a largt- portion of the d.ay, and were finally adopted. The House passed tlie District of' Columbia appropriation. The Legislative appro­ priation, setting aside $17,181,000, was report­ ed tavorably. The Speaker prepcnted a mes­ sage from the President, accompanied by a recom­ mendation from the Secretary of the Navy, that fant.iiOO be appropriated tor naval stations ou tbe American isthmus. The Apportionment bill coming up, Mr. Cox entertained the House with flowery tributes to our institutions and our progress. The concurrent resolution on the Electoral eount, introduced by Senator Morgan on the l-.t'i of June of last year, was discussed in the Senate on Thursday, Feb. 3, The resolution declares that the President of the Senate is not invested by the con­ stitution with the right to count the votes of E'ectors for President and Vice Pre-iident of the United States, Senator Edmunds was opposed to the consideration of tbe resolution at the present time, and moved to lay it on the table, which was negMivod by a vote of 32 to V2. Hoar, \Vindom, Booth and C.iikling were opposed to the consideruti n of the question, as im­ portant and pressing business awaited the action of tho Senate. During the discuxsion Conkling said he agreed witu Morgan that tlin Vke Presidei.t had no power in the matter of the count, and that the Senate and House had quasi-judicial authority over it. Senator Edmunds moved an amendment to the effect that neither the Senate, Houf e nor I'refid. nt of the Senate were in­ vented by tlie constitution with the powe to make the count, but the amendment was rejected by a party vote of 1'8 to 18. The Bepnblicans then ab­ sented themse;ves to prevent a quorum, aud there Tt" r'° ®nsl act.on on the resolution. The Hpuso took up the Apportionment bill. Mr. Cox offered an amendment fixing t^ie number of Representatives ut 307, whi:e Mr. Sberwln, of the Census Committee, favored 3411. The debate then assumed a po itical cast. Mr. Thomp­ son, of Kentu cky h declared that the second section of the Fourteenth amendment could not he practically enforced by legislation. Mr. White denied that there was a property qualification ill force in Pennsylvania. The bill went over with­ out action. Mr. King introduce i a bill appropriat­ ing $'20,000 for the distribution of cane seed. The Indian appropriation was reported with the Senate amendments, which were sgreed to. The Kiver sud Ha. bor bill, which appropriates about (11,000,000, was reported. A motion to take up the bill to retire Gen. Orant was defeated in the Senate on the 4tli iust. The Morgan resolution in regard to the Electoral count was passed; also the House bill sppropriating $26,000 for a national museum, as well as a measure tetting aside $175,000 to equip a vessel to search for tho Jeannette. In the House, a bill was reported, authorizing the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to p-osecute ""Its against the Government in the Supreme Court of the t'nlb d States. An act for tho snle of Indian lands in Kansas was passed, the rate lieing fixod st $3 per acre. In the debate over a pension bl'l Mr. Atkins expressed the belief th-'t the Arrearages act would cost the Government $1,000,000,000. am •±tti The authorities evidently expcct some­ thing unusual in Ireland, and extraordinary pro- fi.<HX).'mo,000'^a"f stippHed" by^Michigan1 caution8 are ***"« uken- Arrangements have Wu*x)u?iu aud Minnesota. ' been made to increase the number of mounted THE SOUTH, A jubt has decidad that Tom Buford, who shot arid killed Judge Eliott, of the Ken- tttckv Couit of App: a Is, for deciding a case avmris! him, was insane at the time of the constabulary at forty- even stations iu the out- lying districts of the south and west, and mounted men will be attached to the stations to insure communication iu case the telegraph wires should be cut. Thb entire revenue of Turkey is being absorbed in military preparations, and not even salaries wisl be paid until April. . . . . . i Gladstone's residence in London is A*ylum a t Anchorsge, hy Judge Jackson de- | guarded night and day by policemen, and he diutug to be held responsible for his acts if set i* followed to the House of Commons by an offi mr. Michael D a vitt, Secretary of the Land League, was arrested at Dublin on the 2i mst., for violation of the conditions of his tickot-cf- tuurder. Tou Bufobd has gone to the Insane rHBBE children of Rev. Manning Hun- U r ('-olon-d), iu Ruiuter county,8.C.,were burned toU' i.tu iu a lire, caused by a kerosene lauin ex- r.i „i._ , ,. "" *luifluuu ui iuc wuumoni ui ills UCKCI-Ci-pi "I n^. 1 lie father was awav preachin" and i„ rro, . . . . tSe lucther »as also ab ent.'. I.The vU^ge^ i^®* ^ arro8t caused mten«e excitement I'ly ii.iU.b, in North Carolina, was destroml by ' throughout Ireland. In tlie British House lire, o.ily a freight warenouse and one store ' of ^onm,ons. Vernon Hsrcourt refused to m- .!*h! In- flames? j form Parnell what conditions of bw ticket- Whjey Embiiet, a respected faimer of j hi»lcave Pavitt hftd vlo)ttted to canse Busier county, Ky., and six of his children were bnrm«l to death. Mrs, Embrey and daughter ' " bi eke out iii an upper room ew.-iHAiig aft« r tbe fanulv had reiireil J hkeb men attempted to outrage Miss Georgia Ham'jlet, a young and highlv-aceom- pltrf.'d woman of Au^nsta, Ark. Her screams U»n-.hi assistance Inlore tbe brutes could ne­ ar >e>-t, the Irish members shouting "Shame!" nnd the others cheering. The Hisuk- er refused to he»r John Dillon, who continued to talk, and a motion for his suspension was adopted, and he wa-t forcibly remo.ed by the 8 rge'-mr-at-Arnis. When Olsdstone rose to spetik, O'Donohue moved to adjourn. Parnell proposed that OlodHtone be no louger beard, whereupon the loruier's suspension was moved snd c.trried, the vote being 405 to 7. On bis refuging to leave he was escorted Ont by six ...v.ir.'.1 „ ~ Khas'ly j were su-iK-udid in a Lodr and removed i i.o therhx-r Thlmfk6 ftUe dtiMl^ bo<^'s ; singly by tlie Bergeaut-nt-Arins. Gl.ul- ^ r J u n ' v * ̂ ° r ̂ 5 " | t ' U V ! : Z T r g e J t , «t " * o . I "'trtHcn lives were lost by the ninUing of an A EARLY 8,000 persons witnefused the I English steamer bound from Balbao to Mid- execut on of ltash Keunett, a negro, at Eldo- ' rad.', Ark., for the murder of Col. A. C. Jame- I Davttt was taken before the »oii Jennie BobertseD, alius " Soldier ! c^'e^ n»"g'st rate at the Bond Ktriet Police 8ta- Cinir h , ' ti.is just ditd ut Sa^bvilU-, Tenn., j *'on f"r a private lu aring. Tho result was an "'ie ilouueJ .lnal,: >1>- i U» finish the remainder of his senUuce, ptrel, eah. ted at uhic.tgo, and served several which was iuteri uptod in 1877 by his release ou Old Hickory's Force of Character. Says a correspondent of the Cincin­ nati Commercial: There is an old Btory that when the fact of liis death was communicated to Mr. Clay, his great rival in politics, the queetiou jocosely arose as to the probabilities of his final salvation. Mr. Clay listened for a mo­ ment and remarked : " Oh. yes ; all li-- couldn't prevent it!" Hon. Thos. L. Jones relates an anecdote of a similar nature. In a letter of the late Gov. Call, of Florida, who waa once on the military staff of Gen. Jackson, and waspreseutat his obsequies, I find this : "Shortly after the funeral, one of tho old negro women at the Hermitage wus visiting Nashville, and met with an ac­ quaintance, a negro woman also--who probably belonged to a Whig family, and had imbibed its political prejudices. ' Do you think your old master's gone to heaven?' was asked of her, doubt- ingly. 'Gone to heaven!' answered the other, with an air of sanctified dis­ dain ; • why, of course he has;' and added : ' If he wanted to go dar, I'd like to know who's gwine to stop him!'" fcjlie evidently believed that even so doughty a saint as Peter could not re­ sist the imperious will of her dead mas­ ter. A Boston correspondent of a New Hampshire paper writes: "Do you in the Granite State love to sueer at ' Bos­ ton culture?' Then your heart will glow when I tell you'about au irreverent New Yorker condemned"by business obliga­ tion to spend a week here. Thinking to amuse himself by seeing the city, he stepped on a Beacon street car and said to the conductor: 'Does not this car pass the new Art Mu-ims um?' 'No,' was the reply, 'but it passes the new Art Mu-se-um.'" j&LDfOIS LEGISLATURE. Jan. 28.--Sknate.--The Incfttental Expense bill for the Thirty-second General As­ sembly was road a third time and passed. The M iliary Committoe reported back Mr. Ed­ wards' bill, providing for the repeal of numer­ ous sections of the military code, with the recommendation that it do not pass. Bills were presented as follows: Regarding agri­ cultural boards and agricultural affairs ; in re­ gard to the adininistration of estates ; in re­ gard to county insurance companies; iu regard to township tire insurance coupsnies; in regard to enforcing the observance of the laws concerning the tolls and rates of chargo exacted by railroad companies ; to regulate the practice of pharmacy in Illinois ; appropriat­ ing $4,01)0 for tho State Horticultural Society ; to appropriate $10,00t' for the erection of barns, etc., at tho Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Juckson- villo, aud '*'85.000 for tbe expenses of the same for tho next two years ; to require a majority of the directors of all corporations hereafter cre­ ated in tho Htate shall be residents of Illinois. House.--Bills were introduced : To submit to the voters at the next general election tho question of amending the constitution so as to limit the sessions of the Legislature to seventy days ; to regulate tho practice of pharmacy ; to amend the chapter on administration of es­ tates ; providing for two additional terms of the District Court in Cass county ; requiring reap­ ers and mowers to be so cotisirucicd that tlie driver's seat is protected, and to require dan­ gerous machinery in factories to be boxed; to appropriate *2,500 for the erection of a monument to Col. James A Mulligan in Cal­ vary Cemetery, Cook couuty; to provide for a system of bank inspection and reports; to re­ quire Appellate Judges to die opin- | Ions in affirmed cases; to amend the i Drainage law; to prohibit the appointment of j Park Commissioners by Circuit Court Judges, j I and to ailow the Governor to make them; to I ! di: eet the Cook County Commissioners to con­ demn for publij use turnpikes, plank and other toll road a; to make the wages of persons who. labor by the day or mouth at a salary not greater than $50 per month exempt from irar- nishment; to appropriate £107,000 for the"or­ dinary expense and repairs of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum for two ye<re, for $10,000 for new buildings for the same institu­ tion; to appropriate $000 to Shawneetown; to require opinions of Appellate Judges in af­ firmed cases, and to allow appeals and writs of error from that court in all cases; that any person who nhall commit assault and battery ujiou the person of his wifo shall, npon comic- tiou, be punished by being publicly whipped u^oa his bare back, the couvictea person to re­ ceive not less thun twenty-live blows with a whip known as a rawhide ; to prevent the garnishment of wages for debt incurred by the purchase of intoxicating liquors; to include Meters in Chancery anwng tLe officers require d to deposit unclaimed moneys with the Couuiy Treasurer; to appropriate •50,000 for the Joliet pru-on for ordinary ex­ penses ; to amend the 1 Judge law ; to regulate the practice of pharmacy ; requiring witnesses when once summoned and tlie cause is con­ tinued to attend on the day for which the cause is tet down in the calendar without a new subpoena ; to amend the ltoad law ; to make the usual appropriation for the Central Insane Hospital 9225,000, $12,000 fcr the piucLa o of land : to appropriate f250,000 lor ordinary expenses of the Chester penitentiary to June 30, 1883; to amend the Revenue act by omitting tho pen­ alty of 60 per cent, addition to the valuation where a party refuses to list his property; to amend the act in regard to fugitives lrom jus­ tice ; to provide for the dismissal of all ap­ peals from Justices which are not docketed within two months from date of appeal; to provide for a system of steam-boiler inspection; to exempt property used exclusively for armory purposes by the militia from taxation ; to amend the law regulating the management of the Joliet prison--bids for convict labor must not, be less than 20 per cent, below the regular price paid for ihe same cl-iss of work iu the city of Chicago: to appropriate t250,000 for the construction of buildings at Chester peni­ tentiary ; tolix the per diem of members of the General Assembly at 46 for the first ninety days of the session, and $ 1 per day thereafter; to limit the number of convicts that may be hired for any one kind of employment to fifty; to amend the Attachment act before Justices and in courts of record ; to require tract indi­ ces in Recorders' offices to be kept and treated as public records ; calling upon Sheriffs gild Clerks of courts to furnish to the House state­ ments of the amount of foes received by them for the two years last past. Mr. Carir then called np hfrf&olntion in regard to the death of tlite late^iW Ja ob Krye, in respect to whose memory lie wished the House to adjourn. The Ilotife tiien adjourned to Monday. MoNDAf, Jan. 31.--Very few members put in an appearance this evening, and nothing was done. Tuesday, Feb. 1.--Senatx.--Bills were in­ troduced : To prevent the eonsolidatidn of telegraph companies; in regard to amending the act concerning religious societies: in regard to the incorporation of ei ies and villages--to amend the law on that subject; to provide for the proper distribution of fines, forfeitures and penalties ; to amend the act in regard to Ap­ pellate Conrts ; to appropriate $145,774 to the Feeble-Minded Institution at Lincoln ; in re­ gard to eccWiastical bodies acquiring, holding and selling projierty. The bill introduced by Senator Campbell iu regard to the assessment of property aud for the levy and collection of taxes was read a third time and parsed; also, the De Lang Pool bill by a vote of 29 to 10. House.--bills were presented; To amend the Guardian snd Ward act; to change the time of holding the Circuit Court in several counties ; to repeal sections 16 to 33 inclusive, of the Landlord and Tenant act, being the sec­ tion in regard to distress for reut; to authorize appeals in cases of coutempt of court; in regard to appeals ; to change the County Court terms in Vermillion county; to require Assess­ ors uuder penalty to administer oaths to persons lifting property ; in re­ gard to partition of property. The Speaker announced the special committee called for by tho AlcWilliams railroad and ware­ house inventigation resolution. Tho commit­ tee is as follows : Mr. McWilhams, Chairman ; Menard. Struckman, Sumner, Chi^holui, Peter­ son, Durfee, Murphy, Kiehaus, and Tenney. Resolutions favoring placing Gen. Grant on the retirod list by Congress were presented and laid over. Tho two resolutions in regard to calling on County and Circuit Clerks for statements of fees received by county officers, were taken up and adopted. A resolution was off -red ask­ ing the inspection of grain at East St. Louis New bills came in as follows : To provide for the prosecution of criminal ofTenses by in­ formation instead of by indictment under the Grand Jury system; to "tin tbe salaries of the Canal Commissioners at 11,500 per annum ; to limit the number of convicts that may be let on one contract; to fix the maximum rates for the carriage of freight and pus-engerg, and to confer additional powers on the Railway Com­ mission ; to appropriate #5,000 for the comple­ tion of the Lincoln monument; to abolish cap­ ital punishment; te appropriate $80,000 for tiie erection of a hospital f<jr lusmie criminals ; to forbid saloon- eeotrs u4ng either vocai or instrumental music in or abimt their premises; requiring Coumy Clerks io deliver the tax books to tho Collectors \ulbin ten days afier the list dav of De ember; a> legalize the tax levy for lftiO in c ti: a and vi|a«en; to appropri­ ate $122 OlH) for the ordinniV exjwmses of the Asylum for Feeble Minded foitho next two years, and $31,275 for improvements and repairs; to require all aracies manufactured at tbe J iliet prison to be branded, « manulhCtured by convict lalor in regard to »trect-car compa­ nies fnrntsbing their paH«eug(r* wnh seats; to require Cleitib of courts to keep copies ol all appeal bond*, bail bonds, ate.; j roviding s similar method for tho preservation oi cooies of indictments; to require tbfl payment to tho Recorder, on presentation fof record of any I instiument requiri d by law to be recorded, of 75 cents in addition to present fet s ; to provide lor tho inflection fit gram under the authority of Boards of T^ade ; to appro­ priate $100,i)00 for the construction of addi­ tional accommodations for the 'insane persons at Klgin Akyium ; to ail.nv aliudony to the wif« duriui; puudencv of a suit, for Separate main­ tenance ; to authorize a conn i» administering ou the estate of a deceased pirtaer to require of a nurviving partner to give bind ; to require every public officer to prepare and publish a statement under oath. | Wkdxbsdat, Feb. 2.--Skhatb --A communi­ cation was receivod from tho Sectary of the Htate Board of Agriculture in roj^rd to pleuro­ pneumonia in cattlo, asking for appropriate Ickikuuoii iu regard thereto. X n:im»er of (letitions were pressed playing fot the support oi* the Illinois Na;ioual Guard, ft If the pn*»age of the Hinds bill, aud from ihto < <. A. It. of Peoria praying tout tbe lllu.ois battle- flags in tiie care of the Adjutant tM.nn al bo ^V>'n more at­ tention, to tiu< cud that tuuv be I etu^r preserved Buls were j r.w iiud : l'o pl.r -nam certain c pus ol the Illinois Divert, l,Ui,0, nl Edwin J. Hill, at £<} j*i copy; to mppropi I:us i42.ti^5 lor the ordinary cxjhuiscs of tnu ftalditi's' Oi phau» Home, and al.out $18,000 lor olnh" |>ur|Misu* connected then with; revising tbolaw le^urd- ing libel; to amend thu L.w in .regard to licensing I ha sale of intoxicating liquor; A to provide for the expenses and disbursements of the Appellate Court of the Second dis­ trict, aud to make an appropriation of $2,00;1; in regard to garnishment, ieducing the amount to be exempt to i25 ; to revise the law in regard lo iluifur ; in regard to criminal jurisprudence. f be tauun joint resolution in regard to the caiitl improvement then came up as the spt-cial order, aud, after a long discussion, was passed. 1 toisE. --The first business in tli* House this morning was a communication from the Gov­ ernor submitting threo bills, prepared by the Supreme Judges, to remedy defects in laws. j* One of tho bills is an amendment to section 18 oi division 13 of the Criminal Code, and for­ bids tne discharge of a prisoner lor want of prosecution In less than tlx mouths from the date of his committal. The second biff proposes an expicsa statute auuioiiz- mg tbe holding, by two or more of the Judges ol t.he Criuuud Court of Cook couuty, oi a different branch of that court at the same time. The third bill is to lessen the time m which Uaii .ci.pis in cases oi appeal to tbe supreme Court may be filed. New bills wt re presented : To require Appellate Court Judges to be assigned fro ill tbe Circuit Judges of other dis­ tricts than the appellate districts in which they serve as suca; u< nx the nuiu oi the election for School Directors ou the third Saturday of March; to appropriate f4,000 for the benefit of the widow and children oi one John tsteigubowcr ; to amend the law in reguid to County Judges, by requiring tucli officii, is to be licenced attor­ neys ; to require Town Clerks to act as Cleru of Hignway Commissioners if requested by them ; to appropriate $42,625 lor ordinary expenses for tlie Soldiers' Orphans' Home for the next two years, and $23,000 for improvements; to fix County Court Units in Winnebago couuty in March, June and November ; to declare so­ cieties and corporate ns, not lor pecuniary profit, not subject to the State Insurance laws ; to revise the law in le^ui a to sidewalks ; amend­ ing the Lieu law ; to i.mend the Insurance Jaw ; authorizing the Canal Commissioners to build a dam on the Iilmou ri.vr at Beards town, and appropriating $500,000 for such work. Thursday, Feb. 3.--Senate.--Senator Full­ er, from the Committee on Railroads, present­ ed resolutions relative to the railroad and warehouse investigation, which were poa tponed till to-morrow. New bills ^ere presented as assembled, told of Jho circumstance-- follows : To compel insurance companies of 1 declared that he had purposely insulted I Fitz _Allau> tad not dared to re- Dneling of the Last Century. A man of the present age, not thor­ oughly conversant with the state of so­ ciety in Europe during the eighteenth century, would hardly be willing to lie- lieve the truth of the matter. We speak piirticulnrly of the duel. Really, much of the adventure on the so-called field of honor, of that time, is entirely unfit for publication, and, if published, would be believed by but few. When reading of the duel in Ireland, the impression rests in our mind that the Emerald Isle must take the palm in the way of horrors and abominations of personal combat. But anon we visit England ; then France ; then Germany ; Italy, Austria, Spain-- in short, wherever fashion had intro­ duced the sword and pistol as social ar­ biters ; go where you please, and read of the doings there, and you will feel that each in turn was the most bloody of the lot. In those times men fought just for the fun of the thing. These thoughts have been suggested by the following curious passage, which comes to me from a source not to be questioned : During the reign of Goorge I. two military officers of London--Maj. Walsh and Capt. Hudon--having heard repeated accounts of the success of two Irish gentlemen in affairs of honor, de­ termined to go over and test the muoh- boasted skill. To Dublin they came, where Mr. Fitz Allan and Col.. Callahan were pointed out to them as the heroes whom they sought. Walsh embraced tlie first opportunity, at a public ball, and brushed rudely against Mr. Fitz Allan. The latter turned, and saw a stranger; and, thinking the affair must have been only an accident, he went his;, way without further notice. On the following day, Maj. Walsh, in a tap-room where many gentlemen were o Callahan chanced to be present. of property and for the levy and collection j He advanced to the Englishman, and ot taxes; to amend the revenue law;; politely informed him that he was Fitz to provide for making certified copies of tho ! Allan's friend • that Iia w.wilrl t..lra if records of the custodian of field notes and sur- > ^ u- f '1 veys evidence in all courts ; to appropriate upon luiiiBili to declare that his friend $900,000 to pay the officers and member* of tho had slighted tlie insult, believing it to regard to the administration 'of estates ; to : 01}ce» amend the act in regard to the completion, im-I ihe Major accepted, and the other provement and management of public parks ! went in search of his friend, who was and boulevards. Mr. Mayfield's Railway Board quickly found, and brought upon the bill was killed on second reading. ! BCeue House.-The biU restricting the sale oft Fitz Allan came in smiling. No words deadly weapons to minors came up in the j were wasted. The company repaired to House this morning as tho first thing in the | an adjacent riding-yard, where the pre- order of unfinished business. After a motion i liminaries were arranged, and the com- £„rcravh0 >*dbeen defeated, it was batants placed in position, sword in conniaered by sections. The minimum fine to ! hand be imposed by violators of the first section was ! _ „ , reduced by amendment from $50 to $10. Tho I Upon my soul, said Callahan, ad- bill was tinkered with until tlfe hour of 11 ] dressing Capt. Hudon--the two acting o'clock arrived. The Chair then announced the Qrant r-.-solution as the special order, and it was adopted by 80 to 54. The Deadly-Weapon bill mw then ordered engrossed for a third reading. 1 TEAR'S FAILURES. seconds to their friends, respectively- I think we may as well take a hand in the pastime. It is a pity to lose such an opportunity." " Nothing, at that moment, could have pleased tlie English Captain better. He consented immediately, and tho twain drew'their swords. And then commenced the do'ible duel --a duel brought about on the merest whim--to test the truth of flying rumor. liabilities: 1880. Xo. F'il- ur'«. Eaattm-- Maine New Hampshire... Vermont Massachusetts. Boston city.... Bhorie Inland Connecticut, . Total Middle-- New York New York ctty.... New Jersey Pflnncylvutila Philadelphia. De.aware Maryland Dint, of Columbia. Total Southern-- Virginia Went Virginia..... North Carolina.. . South Carolina... Georgia Florida Alabama Mi'cisnippt Louisiana Texas Arkansas. Kentucky Tennessee Total H 'estern-- Ohio Cincinnati f udfana Iilfnois Chicago Michigan WiHcon«in Iowa Minnesota Missouri. St. Louis, Kansas. Nebraska Total Pacific States arid TV ritalics-- Ort-Ron California San Kranclsoo city Colorado Nevada Utah New Mexico Wyoming Idaho Dakota. Montana Washiugton Arizona Total Grand totals Cau.da 73 33 82 223 106 79 178 461 41.r> 89 •i«Jl 131 18 63 14 1,472 83 14 63 48 77 12 47 65 64 155 36 104 103 1,171 Liah'litiea. 687,230 151,084 1,385,554 (1,951,400 1,073,817 $ 6,460,117 6,617,760, 19,459,741 U84.i)}G 8,943,50. 8,84V_>2 l £ i ,4a)u 820,1 (13 157,939 $33,953,292 708,180 9(5,10* 411.65H 31i:i,'2.1() 1,(118,703 ll)4,f>OI 7r>lM)04 7(10,549 7CHi,^(i 1,493,210 310,i>7^ 1,030,000 1,051,21'. $8,813,442 1,320,318 514,241 842,84? 4K1,802 780,154 8,28.1,^66 600,'207 4i»5.. 5.V l,8c7,i'(W 4211,972 i, 186,210 44i,,958 3i9,9l9 1879. Xo. F'il- ur'g. Amount of Liab'litie*. 87 62 63 336 1170 95 168 796,600 417,748 859,736 4,820,504 S},t>u,200 VttM.M'.i 2,474,844 $16,577,282 2,290 84 27 100 73 86 19 24 76 90 169 48 138 152 The Dun Mercantile Agensy has issued its annual circular of failures for the year 1880. The following table shows the failures for last year and the year before, with the amount of Callahan and Hudon being seconds, and ' feeling that they ought to lie ready to attend to their principals, went at it with the quickest and most energetic move­ ments. Very soon the Englishman was surprised. He had fancied himself an expert at sword-play, but here was a man who bewildered him. The Irishman's blade flashed through the air like a line of light, leaving behind it a network of flame that seemed to create a dazzling Veil of blinding rays. So for a little time, till the Englishman had been wounded in three places, and then Cal­ lahan gave the coup de grace, passing his point through between the nbs and out at the back. As he recovered hi« sword he turned to his principal and said : " I'll attend to you now, Fitz. My man is laid away !" ** Oho! Then, egad! I'll finish mine!" And gathering himself for a feint--a twirl--and a pass, that had nev­ er yet failed him, he spitted his opponent through, from side to side. The two Englishmen were taken in band by the best surgeons and faithfully nursed. For a time their lives were despaired of, both ; but they finally re­ covered, and lived to become warm and ardent friends of the men who had given them so severe a lesson in dueling. Not Impromptu. The day after Senator Hayne of South Carolina delivered his celebrated phil­ ippic against New Ehgland, and Massa­ chusetts in particular, Daniel WeliBtsr answered it by the greatest speeeji of his life. All over the country surprise- was expressed that buch a masterly reply sltould have been composed within twelve hours. But the fact was that Mr. Webster had lieen for years preparing that speech. One of its strongest constitutional argu­ ments had been written a long time be­ fore, as a professional opinion. No oc­ casion had called for its public utterance until Mr. Hayne made one. Then the great orator had but to marshal forces already equipped, and hurl them at the assailant of his state. m A lady visiting the studio of Mr. Hunt, the artist, and seeing an elabor­ ate charcoal picture, asked how long it took him to draw it. "Well," answered Mr. Hunt, "I think it took me an hour or two; that iB, I was about that time putting it on the paper there. But 1 suppose I ought to say that it took me lorty years, as I've been drawing about that length of time." An unenlightened public may believe in extemporaneous efforts; but the en­ lightened know that the labor of years is required to make one superior effort. The lesson is a plain one--improve every moment by work, for the hour is not forseen when you may be called to do the great duty of your life.--Youth's Companion. (11,519,419 674,342 1,123,700 l,7B.">,7i<l) 64ii,5l)0 641,90(1 04,000 35,800 U,tM) 49,0,4! 111,000 27,dot 80,58M 44,7'JO 534 $ 6,005,7341 4,735 i«6,752,0U 9o7| 7,9h8.o77 1,1.76 260 74 122 lv4 88 179 146 15V 128 83 66 66 66 1,608 8,389,378 13,301,909 1,2<I1,080 8,242,049 3,08G,lia 180,137 910,874 207,982 $36,534,191 848,066 124,000 1,000,290 2,497,740 574,323 120,077 202,109 991,374 4,752,5.57 1,223,81*2 42.;, 427 l,54n,577 1,509,871 $16,876,703 8,230,176 1,17 ,099 1,509,791 3,390,480 I '2,237,;lOO | 2,003,8114 l,8S(y/45 1,121,900 1,241,697 284,894 2,444,0'.>0 392,043 221,e*o $21,207,619 438,046 3,660,736 6,317,118 335,601 425,100 383,854 2it,039 25,400 68,090 90,000 171,305 21,500 7t4;$ 9,963,358 •sftMlitW. 149,063 1,902' •.0,:i4V,"i37 The tables indicate that the .mercantile iall­ ures in the United States, during the year 18SD, were in nuinoer 4,735, with liabilities* ag­ gregating nearly *66,0(io,b00. The failures lor 1S79 were iu nuiulicr (5.658, with liabilities of 'fiW,0 -0,000. Tho d<'crea-<e, therefore, for the p.tst veur is 1,0.3 in number, and in liabilities <t2l,000,000, thus showing an improvement i'<piul to 40 per cent, in number, aud a saviug in losses by bad debts in tbe same proportion. Wnilu the comparison of the last year with the previous one is so extremely favorable, tbe comparison of 1880 with 1878 is even more re- marU^ile. In 1878 tho failures limn erud 1",478, while in 1880 they numbered ouly 4,735, indicating a l»!S«ctud number of casual­ ties by 5,748, equivalent to neai ly 00 per cent. Dtit in thu amount of li ibilities tho t'haugc tor tho lietior is evon groatet, for in 1H7H the indebtedness of those who failed was tj8«,(X:0.000, while in 1880 it did not reach *<),;,000,Oil i, a lesseued amount by $168,00<),000. Real Jamaica Rum. Jamaica rum, so-called, as that article is sold in this country, has for many years had a dark color and a fiery quality w bi;ii ii is rouiumbered that the nuuila-r of which it never possessed forty or fifty now «iiLrHi?i il in lmsiiiMui oh mi.:. • ...i_ __i__ • i n J persons now eugsgid iu bu.-4nass as coiui arud with l.i~78 Is nearly 10 per cent, greater, and that the extent oi the irsnsacuons during the pant vear at leant trebled those of 187M, the >-ig- mfl'-MiCf of the lewst-ned number of failures and the reduced loss by this cause will be ap­ prehended. Thu following table shows the failures for twenty-four years : Y**r. 1*5? 1858 18.19 1H-4I Ib'll 1862 1883 1864. 18<». 1866. 1807 1868. .... 186 9 187 0 1>WI 187 1 1873. 1874 1875... 187 6 187 7 18,8. 1879 Failur ... 4,932 ... 4,225 ... 3.V13 ... 3,1.70 ... 6,998 ... 1,52 ... «!* 620 ... 630 ... 1,505 ... 9,780 ... 2,608 ... 2,799 ... 3 546 ... 2.916 ... 4,069 .. A,183 ... 6,830 ... 7,740 ... 9,1'92 ... 8,872 . .10,478 ... 6,668 ... 4.TM years ago. This dark color is wholly or almost entirely due to ingredients which are put in the rum t-•» color it. Jamaica rum, when first distilled, is as white as water; as coloiless as any other rum; but iu former days in the primitive times before the abolition of slavery on tho Amount of Lia- j island, it was customary to use for a con- aoiw'itooo j denser, instead of the' spiral "worm" w^74'.mxm i known to most diHtillcries, a simple rod 64^04,000 j of hamlxto, leading down through water, arilh'Vioo ' "n^ buniboo was in many eases pre- pared for th- purpose by burning out a 7,t«M,'.wo hollow passage throiiK'n it, from end t<» i7,,iil!'^II end, with a red-hot iron. This impart* d 63.783,>xh) ; to tMe liipior a certain tint about liko 2:«h,atraw color. Of mi"h was the "old w»jo.VM>M ' J anisic i" that wa« so popular in London 8jV«2,iiuo • |orty years ago. It possessed a peculiar 12j*o Itvioo o'lorubd ta>t»', nnlik*- that of St. Croix 228,49i),9io rum, but not less distinctive; and this 2^"".h'!2w 1 circumstance, of so much of the is!mil 191)117',hw 1'U111 possessing a kind of pale yellow l«o,«ifiu,a»ii tjn^ ietj dealers to venture 011 a slight ^V4v'oIj additional coloring bv the use of burnt 6»!752vk% sugar. In due^time tho rum-using part of the public, in both hemispheres, came to recognize "old Jamaica" as colored rum, and to expect that hue, or else sus- pect the genuineness of the article. Finally, the sophistication was carried to such an extent (chief ly by tho use of' burnt sugar) than no Jatnaica rum could be foolid in the American market that; was not colored very dark red, like dark brandy, and by the same means. A case bottle of unadulterated Jamaica rum--the last remnant of a Middletown importation of that article forty yeara was of a pale lemon or straw color; and on removing the gilded glass stop­ per, the peculiar aroma or bouquet of the rum would fill h room--a very dif- fercnt color indeed from that of the stuff" which is now sold, by druggists as welfc as m the dram-shops, for Jamaica ram. --Hart ford, Tim cn. Sayings of tieorge Eliot. No man can be wise on an empty* stomach.--Adam Bede. Nothing is so good us it seems before­ hand.--iSilas Manner. Trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.--Felix Holt. As for age, what that's worth depends on the quality of the liquor.--Attorn Bede. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline* --Daniel Deronda. Blows are sarcasms turned stupid wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest--Felix Holt. There is no sorrow greater than to- love what is great, and try to reach it. and yet to fail.--Middle-march. There's a sort of human paste that,, when it comes near the fire of enthnsi--" asm, is only bake^ into harder shape.-- Daniel Deronda. No story is the name to us after the- . lapse of time ; or, rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.-- Adam Bede. Every man's work, pursued steadily,, tends to become an end in itself; and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.--iSilas Marner. It's easy finding reasons why other- people should be patient.--Adam Bede. Ignorance is not so damnable as hum­ bug, but when it prescribes pills it tnay to do more harm.--Felix Holt. It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are the only folks as aren't wanted i' the other world.--A dam Bede. It's allays the way wi' them meek- faced people; you may as well pelt a. bag of feathers as talk to them.--Adam Bede. College mostly makes people like bladders, just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into them.-- Adam Bede. It's an uncommon fine thing when yon can let a man know what you think of him without paying for it.--The Mill on the Fiona. Life is so complicated a game thntt the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, in­ calculable as the descent of thistledown.. --Romola. The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt t»»m. Beckoning bis skill with opportunity. --Feiix Holt. No man puts rotten apples in bis pouch Because, their upper side looks fair to him-- Constancy In mistake is constant folly. --Felix liolL Bales for Skaters. Never get out of anybody's road. If any one is in your road don't go- round him--go straight through him. When you find yourself falling bring some one else down with you, and be sure to keep on top. Don't burden yourself with any ex­ tra wraps ; shivering is pleasant occa­ sionally. If you happen to own skates don't lend them to little brother, little sister, or any oue else. If you get uncomfortably warm, hand, your ulster or sealskin sacque to the first one who comes along. They'll keep it< with pleasure. Always carry temperance tracts about you; tnen if you want to leave your girl for a few moments to get a hot lemon­ ade, tell her you see a fellow iu the dis­ tance you want to give a tract to ; she'll believe you. If you give her a pepper­ mint lozenge when you come back, she'll believe you more yet. Skaters would do well to remember that love on skates always luns smooth. A fellow that owns a good pair of skates, a commanding ulster and a jaunting cap- - can have pick and choice of gu'ls. If your straps and buckles get out of order, swear at them; bottled anger is bad for the soul. If a green skater asks your assistance, don't give it; people might take you for a greeny. if a pretty girl comes along and cap­ sizes at your feet, pick her up tenderly and offer her your arm. Xf your sister takes a tumble, make out you don't see her ; it's terribly stu­ pid work to play the agreeable to an old poke like her, If you fall, don't be in a hurry get­ ting up; you can take a rest, and if a dozen trip and double up over you, it- will only make sport for tlie crowd. Don't learn to skate by the old-fash­ ioned methods; try spread-eagle at< once.--Albany Sunday Times. THE MARKETS. NEW YOKK. Bkt*s (8 75 (Sill 75 Hooh 6 75 Oil 8 0J Cotton ll'ifrt 12 Flouii--Superfine 8 75 (4 4 10 Wh£4t--N». 2 Spring 1 13 (^ 1 14 No. li Winter 1 15 ^ 1 17 Const-- Ungraded 64 (4 86- Oats Mixed Western 42 (n! 45 PoHK--Men* 14 00 (a) 14 50' Lari> , 10- CHICAGO. 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