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f i f -- V f x - gjjftflrm'g f? lamflcaln I. VAN SLYKE. E«»or I MrHENBT, ILLINOIS. WEEKLY REWS REVIEW. THE EAST. 1st the oleomargarine investigation at New York, H. K. Thnrber testified that he manufactures weekly about 2,5<K)tub8. of which h»«xDortB 7 per cent William H. V*nder- bflt hM Withdrawn from the direo- tarv of the Western Union telegraph Gen. Grant has started for Mexico, to assume tbe duties of President of the Mexican Southern railroad. , A ROCHESTER (N. T.) Coroner s jury returned a verdict that a corporation which em­ ployed an incompetent engineer, through whose incompetency a boiler explosion oocurred which resulted in the doath of an employe, was gross- ]. amj criminally negligent and should be held Cuilough's (or the Debtnayers ) bill fixed with Miewerable for the IOBROC life and property.... *>- » «* "* - Hutrh .T, .Tewett, the railroad magnate, has de­ clined the Presidency of the World's Fair Com- The instructions will not be opened till the Commissioners teaclt Paris. England will not send a representative to the conforenc© It is understood that the President has de­ cided to recall Gen. I/mgstm't, Mini*- ter to Turkey, and appoint him United States Marshal for Georgia 8ecretarv Kirkwood's instructions to the Utf Commission direct that great care be taken in selecting lands to find those which are adapted to agricultural and grazing purposes, and that they are sufficient in quantity to leave no ero'und for complaint on the part of the In­ dians. THOMAS M. NICHOL, nominated for Commissioner of Indian Affairs,-has resigned on account of ill-health, and will be transferred to internal-revenue service in the South. POLITICAL. SECRETARY KIRKWOOD has issued an orde. Buspencting competitive examinations tn his department. THE difference between the position of the Reatfjnsteni and their opponents in Vir­ ginia on the debt question, says a Washington correspondent, whicn has been made so promi­ nent in the Senate, is about as follows : Mc- ntnion. THK remains of Col. J, N. Ross, of j Holmes, Mass., were cremated at the Le Moyne I furnace at Washington, Pa The Earl of j Caithness, a Scotch Peer, died in New York city , in his 69tJu year Frederick Kingman, a well- j known lawyer of Trenton, N. J., is dead. the consent of the creditors the debt at $32,- 000,000, made the coupons receivable for taxes and other duep to the State, and the bonds non-taxable. It fixed the rate of interest at an average of 4 per cent. llkldleberger'B bill, which the Re adjusters stand by, fixed tne debt at less than $20,000,000, made the coupons not receivable for taxes, made the bonds taxable, and the rate of interest 3 per cent It was proposed to make tins bill a law, without the consent of the State's creditor#, on the ground that it was just to both the creditors and the . , , ., _ main, juoi HJ win utuitmi' «•"<* A FIRE in the editorial rooms ol tne j g^e. The Readjustee' bill excludes from the State debt the interest accumulated during the war and the reconstruction period. McCul- lough's bill includes this. AFTER ratifying the reorganization of the party by the committee of 100, the Irving Hall Democracy of New York was disbanded. Tot NEW Turk Spirit of the Times has compiled a new table of the vote in the late Presidential election, the figures being obtained from the Secretaries of the several States, and the highest vote given electors on each ticket be­ ing considered. The lootings are : Garfield, 4,446,628 : Hancock, 4,443,106; Garfield's plu­ rality, 8,522. GELVEHALT THE immigrants who arrived in the United States for the eight months ended Feb. 28 numbered 305,022, of whom nearly 83,000 were from Germany, 77.000 from Canada, 36,- 000 from England and Wales, and 30,000 front Ireland. THE tide of immigration is rising higher than ever before on the shores of this country. All the resources of the Commis­ sioners of Emigration at New York are taxed to the utmost to attend to the vast army that is pouring across the Atlantic. The statistics show a constant and large increase of German immigrants over other nationalities. The number of immigrants lauded at Castle Gar­ den during the year 1880 was 320,800, the largest number in one year since the estab­ lishment of the Emigrant Commission in 1847. i This year bits fair to eclipse the figures of its THE WK8T« j predecessor. A LARGELY-ATTENDED meeting of the j THE majority of the immigrants thus leading citizens of Chicago was held in Central J far have come from Germany ; Ireland oon- Xusic Hall, for the purpose of discussing the ! tributes the next largest number; there is a project of commemorating the anniversary of ' falling off in Scandinavian immigration, while the great fire bv laving tne corner-stone of a the numbers coming from England and Holland Mbfic library and art gallery. The deepest in- i, are larger than at this time last year A thug ferest in the enterprise was manifested. The j at Londonville, Ohio, has been punished. He contributions required will be very large attempted to rule the town by bulldozing and CoL J S. Wilson, for manv Tears the General ' insult, when the citizens assembled, put a rojie Superintendent of the Chicago Division of the ! around his neck and led him through the streets Western Union Telegraph Companv, has ten- : on exhibition, and he was only released upon a dered his resignation Old Abe, the famous j promise never to show his face there again war eagle of Wisconsin, died at Madison last New York papers report that the large stock- - -- -- ~^ tt • -- holders of the Chicago and Northwestern and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad New York Journal of Ccnimercr destroyed •8,000 worth of property... .Mrs. Oswald Ot- tendorfer, the wife of the editor of the New York $taat*-Z?ituvig, has given 835.000 for the promotion of the German school system in this country The Massachusetts Legislature has defeated a bill to give municipal suffrage to women Lewis Cortambert, of New York eity, is dead. He Was a son of the French geog- rapher, and was born at Bondnlin in 1809. JUDGE WALLACE, of the United States Court for the Northern district of New York, has rendered a decision in which he held that tho State of New York had no authority to levy taxes on national-bank stock, on the ground 4».«t the State law providing for the assessment was in conflict with the laws of the United States .During the month of March 4,561,8iK) pieces." representing *8,793,401, were coined at the Philadelphia Mint. JUSTUS SCHWAB, in behalf of the New York Communists, has telegraphed Most, the FreHieiJ editor, that the latter shall have mone­ tary assistance from this side... .Ebon Wright, the senior partner of the firm of Wright, Bliss & Fabian, of New York, is d-ad The workingmen of New York are demanding Mi increase of 50 cents per day in their wages. II has been granted in most instances Will­ iam Hinsley was torn into fragments bv the explosion of some dynamite cartridges which he himself had made, at Heidelberg, near Wilkesbarre, Pa. William Williams, an engineer, was badly injured by the same explo- .The Pacific Coast Blood Horse Asso­ ciation offers a purse of $20,000 for the four- mnsu, race next falL Three Eastern horses are Companies are considering plans for the prac- «pected and efforts will be made | tical consolidation of these two railroad syt,- to engage flyers from Australia. ; tems The maohead of a boiler in Brown, Fbotpads in Chicago are getting too slow, i Bonnell .Sr Co.'s furnace at Youngstown, Ohio, Red Wallace, well known to the police, acoont- j blew out, and three men were seriously scalded and otherwise hurt by the escaping steam and flying debris; nine others were somewhat in­ jured. DIPHTHBBIA of A malignant type has broken out at Ottawa, Ontario. Many deaths, pauied by two companions, stopped Edward de Aligners, a music-teacher, late at night, with Intent to rob him, Wallace pushed a revolver fntr J)© Anguera's face, but received a bullet in his Itings before he had time to state his business. Ownta to . .rife, th.., floods have occurred along the Upper lEisotur I tween Weston and Rowel!, will take place river and in the Platte valley. Many lives have ! in England, commencing Juile 20. been lost and an immense amount of property ! Mftrtba * glrl of " -vfar8'htta destroyed. Fort Pierre was inundated" audits ! sentenced to the Illinois pemtentiaryfor arson. A British man-of war has been dispatched from Canadian waters to intercept the steamer inhabitants fled to the hills. DANIEL KKISTLER, a stock-raiser, was j Australia off the Sable islands. The Australia shot dead in 8an Bernardino county, CaL, by a j h*.8 on board one Coleman, and it may_be renegade Indian, on account of some trifling whole of Afghanistan under his own rule.... Three persons described as " American Irish­ men," and named Moouey, O'Donnell and Cole­ man, are strongly suspected of having been concerned in the plot to blow up the London Mansion House recently. Mooney and O'Don­ nell osaaped to the Continent. Coleman is on his way to this country, and a man-of-war II&H been sent to intercept the steamer which bringe him and to take him back to England. THE King of Italy has made the mag­ nificent donation of 500 francs to relieve the 6ufferers from the Nice theater conflagration. ... .A page of the Czar has been arrested ou a charge of secretly " serving sentence of death" UiMin the late Emperor The British Govern­ ment is to prosecute the Freihrit for an article approving regicide Lord Dufferin is to be tranferred from St. Petersburg to Constantino­ ple. An able diplomat H needod at the lat­ ter city to look after British interests.... Earl Spencer has stated in the House of Lords that separate compartments for infected ani­ mals would be provided on wharves when foreign cattle were landed in England, ana that the Government would take every possible means to prevent the spread of disease Archbishop McCabe will, according to the London Morning Post, be made Papal Legate to Ireland, a posi­ tion which has not been tilled since the death of Cardinal Cullen. RUSSIA made a loan to Servia during the Russo-Turkish war. The new Csar has canceled the loan Sophie Pieoffsky, one of the persons arrested for complicity in the as­ sassination of the Czar, is a woman of consid­ erable txlont, and of education superior to' most Russian women. According to her con­ fessions, she was the chief spirit of the conspiracy to murder the Czar. Boussakoff was a mere instrument, and implicitly obeyed her command. She had an idea that the "death of the Czar would result in the estab­ lishment of a social republic in Russia There is a fraction of the former and present inhabitants of the Transvaal who are not at all pleased at the idea of Boer independence. Some of these malcontents held a meeting at Newcastle, Natal; declared in favor of annexa­ tion and called on the English and loyal Dutch inhabitants of the towns not to sur­ render them to the Boers, promising them sup­ port iu the event of a civil war There is a rebellion at Candahai,. and it is ru­ mored that Ayoob Khan has been taken pris­ oner At a Land-League meeting in Dublin Secietary Brennan acknowledged the receipt of f12,000 from this country ; also, some contri­ butions from Queensland, Australia A mo­ tion to appoint a committee to consider the decimal system of coinage was rejected by the British House of Commons. IN the case of Clark against Brad- laugh, prosecuted for voting in the House of Commons withodt having taken the oath, the Court of Appeals has decided against Brad- laugh on all the points. He has taken an ap­ peal to the House of Lords, will resign at once and stand for the next election... .The father of the Nihilist, Boussakoff, has attempted to commit suicide several times Small-pox pre­ vails to an alarming degree among tho native inhabitants of Honolulu. The white inhabi­ tants have so far escaped the disease It is said that the Czar has quarreled with his brother, the Grand Duke Constantine, who is strongly suspected of Nihilistic sympathies, and that Constantine will resign the post of Grand Admiral, Minister of Marine, ana other posts which he now holds... .The experiment of lighting portions of London with tho Brush- Siemen electric light was entirely successful. MR. ROWELL, who was recently elect­ ed to the English Parliament from Wigan, a Lancashire borough, has been unseated for bribery and corruption There will be a meet­ ing of the Emperors of Austria, Germany and Russia at Ems tne coming summer Three professors at Jassv, in Iloumania, have been (suspended because they are suspected of Nihilistic tendencies France is sending troops to Algiers, ostensibly to protect French subjects from marauding bands. There* are some who think that France has designs on Tunis. I others, who are suspected of being concerned in ' the plot to blow up the London Mansion House.... : A Pittsburgh (Pa.) paper is authority for the ; statement that a number of slaves have been sold at auction in Fairview, W. Va. The prices ranged from $80 to &160 Capt. E. P. Dorr, : of Buffalo, whose name is familiar to everybody i interested in lake-marine matters, died in South j Carolina. GEN. BENJAMIN F. LOAN died at St. Joseph, Mo., of apoplexy. He was 62 years old, a native of Kentucky, and served in the Union army Weyprecht. the Austrian Arctic explorer, is dead Miss Emma Sproa, a young lady of Defiance, Ohio, tried to cross the canal on the ice, when the ice broke and she was drowned Dr. Heinrich Windward, a German revolution­ ary hero, w dead Large numbers of the in­ habitants of the mountain regions of Bohemia are preparing to emigrate to this country on account of the intolerance of the Czechs, the dominant faction in Bohemia. A REDUCTION of 5 cents p^r 100 pounds On grain and provisions has been ordered on the railroads leading east from Chicago. The new rate, 35 cents on provisions and 30 cents on grain, is as low as tne lowest that prevailed last summer during the height of the navigation season A dispatch from Woody mountains says Sitting Bull and camp of about 10U lodges arrived at" Woody mountain, N. W. T., on the last day of January, and has been ; camped near that post ever since j During the eight months ending Feb. 28, 77,- ' 218 persons left Canada to make their homes in ' this country. The Canadian Government is I alarmed at the exodus Mrs. CapL Flagstaff, of Montague, Mich., became jealous of Emma , Drake, a 17-year-old girl, threw twelve ounces of sulphuric acid into the poor difficulty. Some Indians in the vicinitytdeliv- «red the murderer to the authorities, bur soon ; after a number of masked men took him out and hung him. TEN cow-boys at O Neill City, Neb., went on a spree. They become very quarrel- • some, and Sheriff Bernard Iiearns attempted to 1 suppress them, when one of their number, j named Henry Dean, shot him dead. A Deputy 8heriff was badly injured in the row which fol- j lowed. The cow-boys made their escape j Judge Sullivan, of the Superior Const,of San j Pr.mcisco, rendered a deci-ion in the suit of I Burke against the bonanza firm of Flood, 1 Xackey & Fair, through which Burke and j others recover between 8800,000 and $900,000. j An incendiary tire at Leadville destroyed ! CowelTs saloon, McDaniel's Theater, and dam­ aged the Capital restaurant THE town of Green Island, opposite Yankton, D. T., was entirely swept away by the recent floods. Churches, stores, dwellings, in tutt, every single building, were carried away and destroyed Tom Ryan, a desperado, at­ tempted to kill an attorney named Michaels at Sydney, Neb. He inflicted some severe wounds with a knife and escaped. LEWIS BOYLE shot and killed a man named J. S. Ballard, at Leadville recently. Ballard had seduced Boyle's sister Angus Smith and William Young, of Milwaukee, arc reported to have struck paying silver ore in tbre Bed Cloud mine in the San Juan country.,, THE SOUTH* MB. JOHN. P. T. DAVIESS, a promi­ nent lawyer of Harrodsburg, Ky., blew out his brains with a revolver. . girl's face, and permanently disfigured her.... JACK EIIBREY, his wife and two chil- i Reports from all parts of Ohio indicate a larger , . . . . . . : a c r e a g e o f w i n t e r w h e a t i n t h a t S t a t e t h i s y e a r - dren wcre ^ed by a cyclone which demolished < tbaQ b,aM yeaI, The crop is in hcaltby Jadi. their home in Randolph county, Ga | tion, and the recent snowfall will prove advan- A tornado has devastated the country ! tageous unless followed bv frosts. in the Vicinity of Danville, Va. j A FARMER living near Caseyville, HI., . International Cotton Exposition, j hM two dogg which he ^ined to ch4ge to be held at Atlanta, Ga., next October, prom- A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. tees to be a sucoess. All the stock allotted to Mew York, $25,000 worth, was subscribed for two hours after the books were opened. ! PACL RICHARDSON, William Green j and Milton Brown had a discussion as to the ! way to play "California jack" in a gambling ! house at Pendleton, S. C. The discussion • ended in a fight, in which Richardson was ! lulled and Brown and Green badly wounded. | ....William Bates, a United States Marshal, ! was fatally stabbed near Somerset, Kv ! Richard H. Brewden, living near Mount Ol- I ivet, Ky., was engaged in abusing his father, when a youpger brother interfered and shot Richard dead. WASHINGTON. AVABHINGTON dispateh says that" per­ mission is finally given to announce the fact •that it has been decided by the Cabinet not to call an extra session. This decision is subject to the reservation that, if circumstances shall seem to make it necessary, Congress may be convened in the early fall, but there will be no summer session." GEN. BADEAQ, now Consul General at liondon, declines the position of Charge d'Af­ faires to Denmark, to which he was nnmintt(»] by the President. TREASURY officials estimate the reduc­ tion of tho public debt for March at not less dogs set upon a Clucas, who was the farmer, and so he cannot live than §5.000,000 The naval Board of Inquiry recommends a detail of live officer* and thirty- five men for the Jeannette expedition. Bible agents. The nurseryman named delivering trees to worried him that John Walters and Silas Williams, two youths of Unionville, Ohio, aged respectively 14 and 15, went oat hunting and have not been heard from. It is thought that they perished in the snow-storm which followed their departure Emigrants to the number of > 20,000 left Bremen, Germany for this | country since the 1st of Januarr The Early-Storey libel suit has terminated, the j jury finding for the plaintiff, and assessing damages at $500 GustavKeichfus, a wealthy bachelor, living near Monroe, Ohio, has l>een assassinated John Bodkin, an Irish landlord now in Toronto, who is fully seven feet high, says he left Ireland because he was too big a mark for bullets. FOREIGN* OSCAR DK LAFAYETTE, a member of the French Senate, died in Paris lately, aged 65 years. Being a grandson of the Marquis who aided the American colonics in achieving their independence, it was the intention of President Grevy to send him to tho Yorktown Centennial to represent the republic of France. The father of Roussakoff, the assassin, has shot himself. THE Nihilist colony in Geneva threat­ en the present Czar with certain death if the woman Sophie Pieoffsky is executed for *h Am Article That Will nake tbe Bald and Gray Kcjolce. fl'rom tho Pittsburgh Commercial.) Of all the compounds which the chem­ ist's art have given to the world, for hundreds of years, for the purpose of restoring the hair to its natural growth and color, not one has been perfects Many of the hair dressings of the day are excellent, but the great mass of the ionable, when they were sent him with a request for his autograph. It is said that while President he never drank any ardent spirits. This was cor­ roborated by liis negro servant, who eaid that "Massa Jackson no drink rum, but den he drink his coffee strong enough to kill de debbil."-- Oincmnati Gazette. Wanted--Good Story Writers. The lack of good American story- striffs Hold for promoting the growth and ! writers ^ something which must have brinffinc wV fZ Mlnr arft I impressed every reader of fiction. As long as the spirit of romance lives in tlie CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. In the United States Senate, on Saturday, March 38, after some argument on the propriety of electing new officers, an adjournment was effected, Mr. Mahone having the floor, for Monday. The President nominated Charles E. Van Felt, to bef oat- master at Seward, NeK; W. C. Brtmdage, to be Sur­ veyor of Customs at Michigan City, Ind., and C. H. Smith, to be BsMivMftf PubBo Moneys atf Washing­ ton, Minn. The galleries of the Senate Chamber were jammed on Monday, March 28, in anticipation of a sensational debate. Among the auditors was Mrs. Sprague. Senator Mahone devoted three hours to the task of making his position on repudiation clear, and rounded off in a few extemporaneous remarks^ A feeble attempt was made toward the election of offloers. The President nominated William H. Craig for Postmaster st Albany, N. V. Mr. Craig is the present Postmaster. In the United States Senate, on Tuesday, March 29, Wade Hampton denied the statement o! Gen. Mahone that the Democratic party had repu­ diated the debt of South Carolina. Mr. Brown re­ futed the chsrge that he had withheld the militia of Georgia from the Confederate cause. Mr. Beck ridl. culed the Republicans for picking up Beadjuster Riddlebereer. MOOTS. Jonas and Kellogg had s war of w ords in regard to tbe infamy of Louisiana politics. The following revenue appointments were made: CharleB C. Johnson, Store-Keeper, Seventh district, and W H. Havers. H. L Harlan and Edward P. Boteford, Fifth district, Kentucky. In the Senate chamber at Washington, on Wednesday, March 39-, Mr. Kellogg fourid a hand­ some bouquet on his desk, while Mr. Hill was the recipient of a magnificent floral effect--a ship of j state sailing upon a sea of riolets and rose?, accom­ panied by a laudatory letter from ladies of Alexan_ dria, Va. A resolution was panted to pay the ex­ penses of the iuneral of Matt H. Carpenter. A mo­ tion by Mr. Harris to adjourn to the ft rut Monday of December was lost. Hill and Dawes then opened debate on political issue?, during which Logan in­ dignantly denied that he sympathized with the South at the outbreak of secession. The Senate was apparently no nearer the election of its officers on the last day of March than it waa at *he beginning of the fight The proceed­ ings were similar to those of the day before. The principal speakers were Senators Cameron, Maxey, Dawes, Jones, Kellogg, Jonas, and Beck. Jonas provoked a discussion of the Louisiana debt ques­ tion, and the debate branched out into the features of the election of 1878. There wan nothing of a sensational character in any of the speeches. The President nominated John B. Stickney to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. There was a strong flavor of the sensational in the Senate proceedings on Friday, April 1. Th® debate was made up of a periex of personal encount- ei-f. Lamar, gf^Mist-iiwippi, for the first time in many months, made a speech. He was very weak and spoke with evident effort, and at the end of an hour was utterly exhausted. Hoar, of Massachusetts, replied to him, and George, tbe new Senator from Mississippi, spoke of politics in tbat State, and was answered by Dawes. Hill of Georgia, Logan and Untier took part in the disru'rion. An angry altercation between Voor- hte« of Indiana and Mahone of Virgin a capped the climax, and brought the proceedings to a close. Voorhee* adopted the language of a quasi Re­ publican paper, and applied the epithet renegade Democratto Mahone. and accused him of being a party to a disgraceful bargain. Mahone replied that no brave and honorable man would make >i«e of such language. Both npoke of settling the i.ifficulty "hereafter," which led to rumor* of a coming duel. The President nominated John E. Clement*, of Louisiana, to be United States Consul, at Uuatema a. bringing back the original color are mere humbugs, while not a few are posi­ tively pernicious in their efl'ects upon the scalp and the structure of the hair. All hair dyes are weli known to chemists as more or less poisonous, because the change in color is artificial and does not depend upon a restoration of the functions of the scalp to their natural health and vigor. The falling out of the hair, the accumulations of dandruff, and the pre­ mature change in oolor are all evidences of a diseased condition of the scalp and the glands which nourish the hair. To arrest these causes the article used must possess medical as well as chemical vir­ tues, and the change must begin undei the scalp to be of permanent and lasting benefit. Such an article has been dis­ covered, and, lifcft many other wonder­ ful discoveries, it is found to consist of elements almost in their natural state. Petroleum oil is the arti­ cle which is made to work such extraor­ dinary results; but is after the best refined article has been chemically treated, and completely deodorized, that it is in proper condition for the toilette and receives the names of Carboline. It was in far-off Russia that the effects of petroleum upon the hair were first ob­ served; a Government officer having no­ ticed that a partially bald-headed ser­ vant of his, when trimming the lamps, had a habit of wiping his oil-besmeared hands in hiB scanty locks, and the result was, in a few months, a much finer head of .black, glossy hair than he ever had before. The oil was tried on horses and cattle that had lost their hair from the cattle plague, and the results were as rapid as they were marvelous. The m anes and tails of horses, which had fallen out, were completely restored in a few weeks. These experiments were herald­ ed to the world, but the knowledge was practically useless to the prematurely bald and gray, as no one in civilized so­ ciety could tolerate the use of refined petroleum as a dressing for the hair. But the skill of one of our chemists has overcome the difficulty, and by a pro­ cess known only to himself he has, after very elaborate and costly experiments, succeeded in perfecting Carboline, which renders it susceptible of being handled as daintily as the famous EAU DE CO­ LOGNE. The .experiments with the deodorized liquid, on the human hair and skin, were attended with the most astonishing resulte. A few appli­ cations, where the hair" was thin and fall­ ing, gave remarkable tone and vigor to the scalp and the hair. Every particle of dandruff disappears on the first or second dressing, ail cutaneous diseases of the skin and scalp are rapidly and permanently healed, and the liquid, so searching in its nature, seems to pene­ trate to the roots of the hair at once, and set up a radical change from the start. It is well known that the most beautiful colors are made from petroleum, and by some mysterious operation of nature the use of this article gradually imparts a beautiful light brown color to the hair, which, by continued use, deepens to a black. The color remains permanent for an indefinite length of time, and the change is so gradual that the most inti­ mate Mends QUI scarcely detect its progress. In. tfc word, it is the most wonderful discovery of the age, and well calculated to make the prematurely bald and gray rejoice. The name Carboline has been given to the article. The Tote for President. The New York Spirit of the Timet has been appealed to to settle numerous election beta, which it has been unable to do up to this time, owing to discrepancies in the various political almanacs. For that reason, as the paper says in its last issue, " we determined to address the several Secretaries of State ourselves and pub­ lish a correct table when tho full returns were received. These we have now. As the only just method of ascertaining the vote or plurali­ ty in a State in a Presidential election, we have in all cases used the highest vote in that State for either tho Republican or Democratic elect­ or. In Virginia the Funder and Keadjuster vote is added together, and in Maine the Fu.-iion vote is. credited to Hancock." The complete table is as follows: State. Garfield. Hawock. human beast, stories will be read more than any other sort of literature. The monthly magazines, the innumerable weekly papers, furnish a gigantic mill for the consumption of stories, particu­ larly short ones. Vivid, dramatic tales of a few columns long, that can be read at a single sitting, are those most in de­ mand. The editors of the story papera in this country have infinite trouble to supply the want. They rack their resources continually to find lively short stories. Their success is only indifferent with all their efforts. It is not that they do not have material enough to choose from, such as it is. Bushelsof manuscript are sent them daily. More dreary than listening to a lecture on physiology is the task of reading them. As the hap­ less reader of the pack of trash sits down beside his barrel of manusoript, more or less, he is apt to mournfully ask himself what sin he has committed that this should be his punishment. Most have carefully prepared directions accompy- ing them, telling him, in case lie pub­ lishes the story, he may leave out the word "gracefully." in Buch a place, or omit line thirty-four on page 502, etc. He knows beforehand what the result will be. From all the chaff he will rarely be able to sift but one golden grain. Our American stories lack an inde­ pendent basis and standing of their own. There seems ito be nothing, somehow, about which they can build up a sub­ stantial being. Whether the fault is in the country or in the writers, one can not say. Such stories as Americans essay usually are stiff and artificial, with no easy and natural movement about them. Two-thirds of them are imitations of Charles Dickens. They come in floods, especially about Christmas time. "Boz" never dreamed of the mischief he was working when he wrote, "Marley was dead to begin with--dead as a door­ nail." The worst faults of the American at­ tempts at story-writing are two--first they are artificial, next they are crude. Those that do not pattern after Dickens go still further back. The favorite blood and thunder tales of certain well known weeklies are the exceedingly degenerate descendants of the tragedy and fiction of half a century ago. All are alike repro­ ductions of something the writer has read before, feebly strained through a Yankee sieve. The fiction dabblers in this country who have made most money out of the business are tlTose who have carried imagination beyond sea, and written about the loves and romances of high life in Europe, sluug in lords and countesses by the omnibus load, when, neither they nor their readers had ever seen a real Lord in their lives. Thei'- literary style at times goes on stilts and at times falls into tho vulgarest common­ place. Advanced thinkers we have by the hundred thousand in the United States, enough to blow up the country. A gun could not be fired off at random without hitting one. But of men or women who can write a simple, unaffected, entertain­ ing story three columns long, we have scarcely half a dozen. That, too, when our country is so big that, as we are fond of saying, the whole Empire of Austria could be lifted up and set down in a sin­ gle State, Texas, and have room around the edges for a potatoe patch for the wh<ide Nation. It is certain we are enormous readers of novels. Why can we not write them? We never have had a story-writer of the first-class in this country, scarcely indeed a clever writer of fiction of any son --Cincinnati Commercial. complicity in the assassination of the late Czar. A messenger from Potchefstroom reports T T» « T. . . j that the place surrendered the dav peaoj was AJIBOT. B, JS1. .DABBY, of the navy, has signed, after hard fighting, in which eighteen If : | l»en appointed to the command of the Helen Mary, which is to go in search of the gfTr; Jeannette. He will select his crew and snbor- * "dinate officers from those who have already *' volunteered to go on tho expedition. 1 SEALED instructions will be issued by > tbe Government to the Commissioners to the f^. Irtwrnattonal Monetary Conference at Pans. '-r British soldiers were killed and nine tv wounded. The Boers capturod i',000 pounds of ammunition and two guns.... It is slated that the lives of the Pope and bis brother, Cardinal Pecci, are threatened by some secret agents. A mysterious female lias warned them There is rebellion against the rule of Ayoob Khan at Herat, led by Moham­ med IlasHan Khan. Abdurrahman Khan pro poses to take advantage of the fight to bring the Alabama. 56,2^1 Arkansas 41,C>8 Ca ilornia 140,318 Culorr.do. 27,4'S) Connecticut 67,073 Delaware. 14,1(18 Florida 23,634 Georgia 47$tl8 I .'nois »18,037 :• nana. 232,164 • owa 183,904 Kansas 121,541) Kentucky 106,050 Louisiana 38,634 Maine 74,039 Maryland 78,513 Massachusetts 165,301 Michigan 185,190 M.mieHota.... 03,003 MissisHipiri 34,854 Missouri 153,567 Nebraska 54,079 Nevada 8,732 New Hampshire 44,852 New Jersey 120,568 New York f 55,544 North Carolina 115,878 Ohio 375,048 Oregon 20,619 Pennsylvania 414,731 Rhode Island 18,105 South Carolina 5h,071 Tennessee 107,H77 Texas 67,799 Vermont 45,567 Virginia 83,642 West Virginia 46,243 Wisconsin. 144,400 01,105 60,483 80,442 24,647 61,417 15,181 28,026 101,623 277,321 225,528 105,845 50,801 140,068 63,067 65,171 03,655 112,010 131,301 53.315 75,750 208,609 28,523 9,613 40,794 122,577 534,520 124,2)14 340,821 19,955 407,502 10,779 112,312 128,191 156,428 18.316 128,081 57,391 114,640 Totals 4,446,728 4,443,106 Qarfie.d's plurality 3,522 A Slander on David Davis. David Davis is a man whom no one, to look at his frank, open countenance, would suspoct of having quibbles about little nothings, and yet he is probably the worst of them all in this respect. He would scream outright if he was to see the new moon over liis right shoul­ der instead of his left, or should wring out his dish-cloth before he had wiped the pie tins, for all the world like a romantic and dizzy school girl. But try as hard as he can, he can not get these notions out of his head. By watching himself closely, he is able to keep from exhibiting any signs of the singular weakness, though on several occasions he lias astonished the Senate by appear­ ing with spit curls on his forehead, and eating slate pencils. On having his at­ tention called to it he would blush, sim­ per a few thanks, and reach for some candy in his reticule. He buys his stockings iu Chicago and St. Louis, using tlie St. Louis foot and the Chicago calf and throwing the rest away.--Peck's Sun. Stories of Andrew Jackson. When Jackson was President, Jimmy O'Neill, the Irish doorkeeper of the White House® was a marked character. He had liis foibles, which often offended the fastidiousness of the President's nephew and Secretary, Maj. Donelson, who caused his dismissal on an average of about once a week. But on appeal to the higher court the verdict was al­ ways reversed by the good nature of the good old General. Once, however, Jim­ my was guilty of some flagrant offense, and, being summoned before the President himself, was thus addressed: "Jimmy, I have borne with you for years in spite of all com­ plaints ; but this goes beyond my pow­ ers of endurance." "And do you be­ lieve the story ? " asked Jimmy. " Cer­ tainly," answered the General: "I ha ye just heard it from two Senators." "Faith," retorted Jimmy, "if I be­ lieved all that twenty Senators say about you, it's little I'd think you was fit to be President." " Pshaw, Jimmy," concluded the General, "clear out, and go back to your duty, but be more care­ ful hereafter." Jimmy not only re­ tained his place to the close of Jackson's Presidential termr but accompanied him back to the Hermitage, and was with liim to the day of liis death. Gen. Jackson had very little love or taste for jioetry, his favorite author be­ ing Dr. Isaac Watts, from whose " Psalms and Hymns " he used to make his selections for the inscriptions in the ladies' albums which were once so fash- The Presidency. Who first gave America the idea of a President? Should such a question be asked, the reply would be Benjamin Franklin. Twenty-five years before the Declaration of Independence, Franklin was a member of the Colonial Conven­ tion, held at Albany, the object of which was to consolidate the colonies under a President General. British interests were to be promoted, but the home gov­ ernment objected to giving such power to their colonies, and the scheme failed. Hence, when the revolution took place, a "President" was a natural idea. At first he was merely President of Con­ gress, but when the present Constitution was formed, he was President and Gen­ eral. Franklin just lived long enough to behold the beginning of his scheme in George Washington, his dearest friend, who visited him in a dying bed when he passed through Philadelphia on his way to New York City. Franklin died soon afterward, but the news of the inauguration cheered his last hours. Washington was fifty-seven at tho time of his inauguration. John Adams, the next, was a native of Massachusetts, and was sixty-two at the time of inaugura­ tion. Jefferson, who succeeded him, was a Virginian of fifty-eight, and was sixty-six when he retired from tho Presi­ dential Chair. Madison, likewise a Vir­ ginian, was fifty-seven when elected, and retired after eight years* service, ranging from 1809 to 1817." Monroe, also a Vir­ ginian, was inaugurated at the age of fifty-nine, and was sixty-seven when he retired from office, a period extending from 1817 to 1825. John Quincy Adams, a Massachusetts man, was elected at the age of fifty-seven, and retired at sixty- one, having served but one term, which closed March 4, 1829. Jackson a native of North Carolina, was sixty-two when elected, and retired at seventy, having served eight years, from 1829 to 1837. Van Buren was the first native of New York State to enter the Presidential of­ fice; he was fifty-four when elected, and served Vut one term, which lasted from 1837 to 1841. Harrison was a native of Virginia, and was sixty-seven when elected. He died after a months' serv­ ice, and Tyler, also a Virginian, was raised from the Vice Presidency to take the office thus vacated. ^ This was the first instance of such an exigency, and therefore was an important experiment. YEARS of prosperity following one upon another in unbroken successsion have a strong tendency to make us blind and deaf to the deeper teachings of events. We take the world as it is, and, finding it full of good things, we allow ourselves to be bribed with comforts. But after a time a blot flashes across our bright sky, and in a glance we read the tremendous possibilities of existence to which we have deliberately blinded onr eyes. A BRIGHT little 3-year-old, wliile her mother was trying to get her to sleep, became interested in some outside noise. She was told that it was caused by a cricket, when she sagely observed: "Mamma, I think he ought to be oiled." Women and Polttics. But for women, literature--especially that portion of it known as belles lettres --and the fine arts, would be crudf r and more barbarous than they are now. Feminine taste, feminine sense of betpty, delicacy and artistic instinct chiefly prompt the adornments which smooth and soften manners and cultivate the finer impulses. Even though the mas<- culine intellectlf^concerned in gratifying the indulgence of these tastes, yet it is in response to feminine demands that modern art and the more poetic and hu­ man side of literature largely flourishes. It is women rather than men who are in­ terested in decorative art; in the general furnishing and the graceful and delicate appendages of refined and attactive homes; in embroidery ahd pottery and carving. They give great impetus and large support to musical education, and are musically sensitive and susceptible/- Women are generous patrons of the lighter and more delicate phases of liter­ ature--of poetry, biography, and es­ pecially of fiction, all of which compose a large proportion of the whole body of literature. Women are worshipful and religious. But for them the church would die. They are the vital and re­ viving elemeut of all congregations of whatsoever denomination. But for women's interests in these various forms of human developement, a-1 would find its expression chiefly in architecture, in massive buildings, or in structures devoted merely to material and mechanical uses. Literature would be shorn of much of its grace. It would be harder, graver, far less imaginative. Even feminine apparel, where some re­ form would be gladly welcomed, would assume a too severe, too sober, too neutral and depressing a form and hue. In place of much that is cheerful, en­ livening, hopeful and stimulating in all these respects, we would have a deaden­ ing and superfluous gravity. Art would be supplanted by mechanism; poetry by history and political philosophy; religion by science. Should the hopes of some women be realized and the feminine mind become absorbed in politics to the extent of ex­ ercising a refined and reforming in­ fluence therein, one might reason­ ably expect to see these superfine and, if you choose, superficial, at­ tributes of human society, sacrificed, in proportion to the importance which politics assumed. It is not meant that the two are necessarily incongruous, but that the human mind is, with compara­ tively few exceptions, incapacitated for a wide compass and comprehensive grasp. If the time and attention which earnest, conscientious and serious-minded men now give to the cultivation of their imagination or of their artistic instincts, or of their love of beauty, or of their re­ ligious sentiments, be given to political science, to government, and to the art of governing, it would be at the expense of this other set of faculties and tasteB. This is now observable in respect to men. As a rule, those most interested in art and the drama, ih literature, music, and ecclesiastical affairs, are not inter­ ested in political science or in practical government. The painter, actor, dra­ matist, poet, musician, and even the preacher, except on the moral and senti­ mental side, generally not only ignore, but repudiate, politics. They are bored by the subject. They seldom find iu it any­ thing worthy of their attention, regard­ ing it chiefly as stupid quarrels and con­ flicts which possess no imaginative inter­ est, until it rises to the dramatic phase of war, assassination or intrigue, by which it is invested with the romance that ap­ peals to imaginative sensitiveness. Women, if not as imaginative in •crea­ tive art as men, are more susceptible to the influences which stimulate the imaginative faculty than men are. They are more sympathetic than men. Hence they are interested in those features of life which have an immediate social in­ terest rather than in a broader political one. If they become interested in poli­ tics, they will be iuevitably exposed to feel less interest in literature and the fine arts. Even if politics are improved there­ by, it will be at the expense of these finer manifestations of the human mind; and for the reason that these harmonize more entirely with feminine mood sand express more happily feminine instincts, women are not likely to abandon them for poli­ tics or political science. --Dctro it Free Press. A Free Country. It has always been thought, by read­ ers of the daily papers, that New York had a fair share of crime; but it appears that the place has never been permitted to show its real criminal strength, on account of a law which makes it a crime to be a witness. It appears that when a witness, or a probable witness, is dis­ covered, who has any knowledge of a criminal transaction, he is at once ar- resb^d and placed in the "house of de­ tention^" which is nothing less than n prison and from which he can only be released upon bail. In this place wit­ nesses are sometimes kept for months, and even years, while the criminal him­ self is out on bail! It will be seen, there­ fore, that the penalty against any one for making a complaint, or giving in­ formation that a crime has been com­ mitted, is very severe, and by this means much of the crime committed in New York is kept out of the courts and not made a burden of expense upon the peo- Ele. Strangers in New York, who have ad their pockets picked or been robbed, can secure justice only by going to prison themselves for a few months, while their assailant is out on bail, busily and industriously engaged in pick­ ing pockets enough to fee a lawyer^ to clear him; and to such a complexion does it come at last that the poor victim is ready to fall on his knees before the man who has robbed him, and implore liim to be merciful and release him from prison. But pick-pockets, as a class, are a hard-hearted lot, and usually spurn the supplicant unless his offer is accompanied by a tender of money. Our Western people, when in New York on business or pleasure, should take care not to place themselves in the power of these merci­ less wretches by being robbed by them. In case, however, such a misfortune cannot be prevented, and a person finds his pocket-book stolen, he should make a break to get out of the city, and die rather than be taken. The World's Travel and Traffic. liittle does the world think what tre­ mendous capital is required to carry on its travel, traffic and commerce. The railroad net, woven all over the globe, consists of 200,000 miles ; Asia. Austra­ lia and Africa can claim only the four­ teenth part, the other thirte«n-four- teenths being nearly equally divided be­ tween Europe and America. The roll­ ing stock in use over this railroad net consists of 66,000 locomotives, 1-0.000 passenger and _palaee cars, and 1,500,000 freight cars. The capital invested m all the railways is estimated at twenty mill­ iards of dollars. The commerce on the seas is carried on by 12,000 steamers and over 100,000 sailing vessels. The tonnage of these vessels amounts to over twenty million tons. Telegraphic com­ munication is maintained l>y 500,000 miles of wire, at wliich about live-eighths fall to Europe, two-eighths to America; and fully one-eighth to the sub-marina^ telegraph system. There are 40,000* stations, from which 110,000,000 dis­ patches are sent annually, or an average of over 300,000 daily. According ta population, Switzerland does the most telegraphing, there being one dispatch sent annually for every inhabitant. Thia. is undoubtedly due to tbe groat annual' influx of travelers and pleasure seeker*. Next come the Netherlands, and then. Great Britain. Bussia comes last on the list, as she sends only forty-five dis­ patches per annum for every thousand inhabitants. The transmission #>f letters by mail amounts in round numbers tor about 4,000 millions. According to thfr population of the several countries, the; Americans write by far the most letters^ next oome the English; then Switzer­ land, Germany, the Netherlands, Dett» mark, Austria, France, Sweden, Nor-- way, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Portugal,. Greece, Russia, Serna, Iloumania, Tur­ key. . Successful Books. Books which are immediately success­ ful are those which catch and reflect the passing tones of opinion--all-absorl iing: while they last, but from their nature, subject to change. The mass of men. know little other timeB or other ways of" thinking than their own. Their minife. are formed by the conditions of the pre­ sent hour. Their greatest man is he- who for the moment expresses x&ost. completely their own sentiments, and. represents hnman life to them from their own point of view. The point of view shifts, conditions alter, fashions succeed, fashions, and opinions; and having our­ selves lost the clue, we read the writings- which delighted our great-grandfathers- with wonder at their taste. Each gen­ eration produces its own prophets, and great contemporary fame, except in a few extroardinary instances, is revenged by an undeserved completeness of neglect. Very different in general is the reception of the works of true genius. A few persons appreciate them from the first. To the many they seem flavorless and colorless, deficient in all the qualities* which for the moment are most admired. They pass unnoticed amid the meteors- by which they are surrounded and eclipsed. But the meteors pass and they remain, and are seen gradually to- be no vanishing coruscations, but new fixed stars, sources of genuine light, shining serenly forever in the intellectual sky. They link the ages one to another in a common humanity. Virgil and. Horace lived nearly two thousand years ago, and belonged to a society of which the outward form and fashion have ut­ terly perished. But Virgil and Horace do not grow old, because while society cliangesMnen continue, and we recognize in reading them that the same heart beat under the toga which we feel in our own breasts. In the Bpman Empire, too, there were contemporary popu­ larities; men who were worshiped as gods, whose lightest word was treasured as a precious jewel--on whose breath millions hung expectant, who had temples built in their honor, who in their day were a power in the world. These are gone, while Horace remains -- gone, dwindled into shadows. They were men, perhaps, of real worth, though of less- than 4heir admirers supposed, and they are now laughed at and moralized over in history as detected idols. As it was then, so it is now, and always will be. More copies of "Pickwick" were sold in five years than of "Hamlet" in two hun­ dred. Yet "Hamlet" will last as long as the "Iliad;" "Pickwick," delightful as it is to us, will be unreadable to our great­ grandchildren. The most genial carica­ ture ceases to interest when the thing caricatured has ceased to be.--Jame# Anthony Froude, in Good Words. The Dnke of Connaught and the Irish­ man. All classes in Ireland are fond of grandeur and circumstance, and the es­ tablishment of a royal residence there would have a most beneficial effect. During the stay of the Duke of Con- naught in the country, he was, as usual, very affable, and won golden opinions among rich and poor. I waa told that, one day when he was standing at the door of a hotel, a tatterdemalion came up to him, and with native assur­ ance called out: " Welcome to Ireland, your Royal Highness! I hope I see your Highness well." "Quite well. I am much obliged to you, replied the Duke. ^ * " And your royal mother, the Queen?" continued the man. " I hope she is also enjoying good health ?" " Yes, thank you," returned the Duke; " tlie Queen is very well." "I am glad to hear it, your Royal Highness. And how are your ro^al brothers?" " Get along there, fellow !" said one of the aides-de-camp, who happened to- come up at that moment. 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