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i f l ictirjj fClnintlcaln I. VAN SLYKE, Editor M Ml Pabttther. * ilcHENBY, ILLINOIS. PRESIDBNT ARTHUR'S life is insured for $100,00°. ______ Tint wife of Bonanza Mackey has had |MNT portrait painted by Meissonier at a 4M»t of $16,000. . PRESIDENT ARTHUR does not propose tosliake hands with miscellaneous crowds of people. No stranger is admitted to see hi™ now until he has told his busi­ ness to the private secretary. THB Washington Hotel, at the Bat­ tery in New York, which was built 140 years ago, and still contains some of its original furniture, has been demolished, to give place to Cyrus W. Field's build­ ing. , . ONE of the causes of the deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans is thought to be the decayed and rotten timber in private houses and public buildings. To meet this danger the Common Council recently ordered the City Surveyor to investigate the use of creosote as a pre­ servative <o£ wood and preventive of dis­ ease. MB. WENDELL PHILLIPS, wh6 lately celebrated his 70th birthday, is said to show signs of age, and is not lecturing at all this winter. His home in Boston is now far "down-town," but he refuses to leave it for more fashionable regions. A . new street, which was lately cut through near his house was partly turned away for his pleasure and convenience. A NEW YORK court has decided that i a man breaks open a door under the be­ lief that there is a fire in the room, and it shall prove that there was no public necessity for his doing so, he will be lia­ ble for damages; but, if there is a pub­ lic necessity in order to prevent the fire from spreading, he may even demolish a building. How a man is to judge of the public necessity through a locked'door, unless he has, according to Sam Weller, "a pair of double-barreled gas micro­ scopes of h'extra power," the learned Judge does not explain. THE cities and towns of the South are running up pretty respectable munici­ pal debts. Below is the aggregate debt of the towns having a population of over 7,500 for 1870 and 1880 of the States named : thropists' coffee. No man with the ghost of a pretension to a palate could have stood a cup of it. LTJCT HAMILTON HOOPKB writes from Pa. is to the Cincinnati Enquirer : "It is really amazing to find how little is known about the United States in France. A Colonel in the French army once asked me, with a polite peroration respecting the vast size of my native land, if the United States were not twice as large as France?*-' We have one State,' I answered, 'that is.as large as France' (I meant Texas), ' and there are forty States in the Union.' The old gentle­ man looked at me with an expression that said, as plainly as words could have done, ' This woman is lying to me most abominably, but I will be polite and will not let her see that I know she is lying.' So he made some vaguely-icivil remark, and changed the conversation. Yet this intelligent military man prided himself on having crossed the Atlantic and vis­ ited the United States--that is to say, New Orleans." SCIENTIFIC MSCBLLASt* fcv 'DR. BLISS' bill for . professional at­ tendance upon President Garfield has not yet been paid, and is likely to en­ counter no little opposition from the Washington physicians before it receives the approval of Congress. A new direc­ tion has been given the discussion of the matter by the production of photograph­ ic copies of a letter from Dr. Boynton to Dr. Baxter, in which he says : "On the 8th of August, while in the President's bed-chamber, in the presence of his wife, he said to me that he had never at any time made a request that Dr. Bliss be his attending physician, that position having been occupied by Dr. Baxter for several yt ars, and that he had no recol­ lection during his present illness of hav­ ing sent for Dr. Bliss, and he did not know how he happened to be in the case." This is*"indorsed by Mrs. Gar­ field with the remark : *' I have read this letter, and it is true, to my distinct recollection." Dr. Bliss has indicated his purpose not to present a bill to Mrs. Garfield, but this action of the family, bearing indirectly, as it does, upon his claim before Congress, may, in the event of its failure to pay him, induce him to change his mind. CAPITAL punishment of late years has rarely been inflicted upon women in this country. Mrs. Surratt at Washington, and a servant girl in New Jersey who murdered her mistress in the hope that her master would take her for his second wife, are the most notable exceptions. Mrs. Emeline L. Meaker, of Waterbury, Vt., is likely to share their fate, the Su­ preme Court of the State having over­ ruled the exceptions to the verdict of a lower court which convicted her. She will remain in prison until the last Fri­ day in March, 1883, the closing three months in solitary confinement, accord­ ing to the practice in the State. It is .THB Boston people have been severely I likely that she will escape the pen- Wishing to borrow for I alty unless by previous death, for more Mr " the rebel flag that floated over !than otoe offender has mounted the «**f- States. Alabama. Arkarmae Florida Georgia South Carolina Mississippi Louisiana Texas v.. vlrginia North Carolina Maryland 1H70. ...$ 2,773,900 122,096 331,(100 ... 34,383,315 ... 5,312,208 121!,950 ... 18,123,010 521,460 6,743,800 659,248 ... 14,097,836 1880. $ 3,492,500 178,694 26M97 • P,927,8IM1 6,38(1,401 378,218 IB,665,490 8,141,642 10,707,177 697,»'H) 21,158,375 Sumter during the war, and other "relics," their application for it to its custodians, the Washington Infantry, of Charleston, S. C., was refused on the score that "the display of the relics in Boston or anywhere else, North or South, would be unbecoming; and Pres fold after two years' imprisonment. Her j son, who was her accomplice in crime, ; will be hanged next February, there i having been no judicial delays in his j case. The offense for which they are to : suffer was a most heinous one. Their ! victim was an orphan girl of 13 years, a ident Arthur, having been invited to j half-sister of Mrs. Meaker s husband, dinner by an association of Boston mer- ! They were tired of keeping her, and, chants, has declined, because, even if it j ftfter having subjected her to most were practicable-, it would be unbecom- ; brutal treatment, took her from bed one ing." He has " no disposition now, i fright, tied a sack over her head, drove while the country is still mourning the ^ lH'r fc°me miles off in « carriage, and death of the late President, to engage in I forced her to driiik a decoction of public festivities." strychnine. She quickly died, and was j then buried in a swamp. The evidence THE latest bit of New York gossip ; against the criminals was at first circum- concermng millionaires is that young i stantial, but the son has since confessed Mr. Astor, who ran for Congress and 1 ]jjs guilt. His mother has been a turb- Jailed to receive the Irish vote after | ̂ Jent prisoner, and once set fire to the having danced at a ball with a cigar- j ja.il in which ^he was confined. factory girl named Lizzie Lynch, owes j m. . his defeat to the money and exertions of Vaaderbilt, this being the latter's meth­ od of revenging himself for the non-ad- mitUnee of the Yanderbilt family to the social circles in which the Astors „ move. As the original Astor traded six- TVR. TISSANDIEB is having constructed in France an elongated balloon, to be driven by a small and very light electric motor. The force in the first experiment will be supplied by an electric accumu­ lator, which will develop considerable energy for a brief period. SATISFACTORY evidence shows that a great fire must have occurred in the out-croppings of a Nova Scotia coal district at a remote time. Fiom the number of annual rings borne by trees growing over the spot, it is estimated that not less than three hundred years have elapsed since the fire was extin­ guished. Bnt three centuries have not cooled the ashes, and an area of some two acres is known to be now abnor­ mally heated to such a degree that frosts never penetrate far in the severest cold and snow soon melts. BOTANISTS in the Fontainebleau dis­ trict of France have noticed a considera­ ble change in the flor i of that region in recent times. A nuniber of species have disappeared chiefly on acconnt of the severe winters. The winters of 1564, 1709, 1788 and 1876-80 were disastrous to vegetatiqn, especially in places but little protected by snow. Among the plants which have been frozen out, or nearly so, in Central France, are the maritime pine (the loss of which was a national misfortune), the broom heather, ivy, holly and box. The elder, the oak, the cliesnnt and the walnut have all seriously suffered. The loss to the Fontainebleau flora in these and other species is replaced to some extent by the appearance of various new species in recent times. THE average descent of larger rivers, exclusive of cascade regions, iis seldom more than twelve inches to the mile, and occasionally does not exceed a third of this amount. From Memphis down, a distance of eight hundred and fifty miles, the Mississippi has a pitch of less than five iuches at low water, and above /the Missouri, from its source, of only eleven and three-fourths inches. The Missouri in its greatest length of nearly three thousand miles, descends twenty- eight inches to the mile; but from Fort B nton to St. Joseph, over two thou­ sand miles, only eleven and one-half inches: aud only nine and one-fourth^ inches below St. Joseph to the month, a length of nearly five hundred miles. The average pitch of the Amazon is a little more than six inches to the mile; of the lower Nile, less than seven; of the lower Ganges, about four. The Rhone is notable for a great pitch of eighty inches per miie from Geneva to Lypns, and thirty-two inches below Ly­ ons to the mouth. The researches of scientific men have shown that thought is not so rapid as is usually believed, but that every action of the brain requires an appreciable time. Hirsch proved that less time is required to recognize a touch than a sound, and that it took more time to see them than to hear, but the question still remained as to what part of the time was consumed in the act of recognition. This problem was solved by Donders. By means of very ingenious apparatus, he has found that the double act of recog­ nizing a sound and giving a response occupied seventy-five thousandths of a second, of which forty thousandths were required for the simple act of recogni­ tion, leaving thirty-five thousandths for the act of volition. One twenty-fifth of a second was occupied in judging which of the irritants was acting upon the same sense ; but a slightly longer time was necessary to determine the priority of signals sent bv different senses, as those of seeing and hearing. The dse«rib«d results were obtained from a man of middle age, the young were somewhat quicker; but the average of many ex­ periments showed that the time required lor a simple thought is never less than the fortieth of a second. The mind, therefore, at its greatest activity, can perform not more than twenty-four hun­ dred simple acts per minute--not a very j great speed when it is considered how many of these "simple acts " must be combined to form any process of reason­ ing or continued thought. the most sold ?" " That New Orleans almost all are In Chicago and Cincinnati 1: more common." --Iritervu oculist. 1 /•». *{ V'UM')- I, ^ R< IIF'I,* deSola- ted by an reach years?' Popular an in- statistics. to raise mail life, adult at that German, o the age :>ut three e people ared that The Limit ef Huraa In the Revue Scientifiqu ville considers the questio; physiologists so much, and pass the age of one hn His article is republished " &'ci-r.nce Monthly, and it teresting array of opinions Buffon, the tirst man in F the inquiry as to the limit oi argued that as man becom 16 he ought to live to be age, that is 96. Heusler, thought that a year previoi of Abraham was equal months of our time, among of the East, but even he "man kills himself rather tSan dies." Dr. Hufferand and other German physiologists held that man does not be­ come an adult until 25, and that he ought to live to be eight times that age, or 200. Dr. Gardner, an English physiologist, believed that a century is nearly the limit of human life. As to the greatest age attained by man in modern times there is a conflict of opinion, Sir George. Oornewell Lewis believing that the existence of a cen­ tenarian has not been demonstrated. M. de Solavtile, however, furnished statistics which rebuke such skepticism. He says Hippocrates, father of medicine, lived to be 90. Terentia, the divorced wife of Cicero, passed 110, although her life was vexed by four successive hus­ bands. and in almost all countries there are many instances in which men and women have survived a century, a few having lived almost two hundred years. As to the means of attaining the greatest possible longevity various suggestions are given, the fact being noted that cen­ tenarians have almost invariably been temperate, regular in the use of plain food, accustomed to much walking and devoted to the dictum of "early to bed and early to rise." A summary of such advice is contained in the following quotation from Hoffman, the wise and witty German physiologist : "Avoid excess of everything, respect old habits, even bad ones, breathe a pure air, adapt your food to your tem­ perament, shun medicines and doctors, keep a quiet conscience, a gay heart and a contented mind." M. de Solaville finds that more people pass sixty years of age in France than in any other country, but the number of French centenarians is not increasing. What is better, how­ ever, is the fact that the average dura­ tion of human life is increasing in that country. As physiologioal laws come to be better understood, the average dura­ tion of life will be increased throughout the world. For example, the irregular habits of most New Yorkers may not permit us to cherish the hope of produc­ ing many centenarians, but the fact that the great mass of the American people are becoming more familiar with and more obedient to the laws of health justifies the expectation that the average duration of life will steadily increase in the United States. A Japanese Hotel. In imagining a Japanese hotel, good reader, please dismiss all architectural ideas derived from the Continental or Fifth Avenue. Our hotels in Japan, outwardly, at least, are wooden struct­ ures, two stories high, often but one. Their roofs are usually thatched, though the city caravansaries are filed. They are entirely open on the front grqnnd floor, and about,gix. fe$^,fs4tlLthe %ill or threshold rises 4 John Adams' Shattered House. "John Adams," said his friend and colleague Thomas Jefferson, speaking of the Congress which issued the Declara­ tion of Independence, "John Adams was our Colossus on the floor. He was not graceful nor elegant nor remarkably bladed jack-knives to the Indians for'1 fluent, but he cauie out occasionally furs, and the original Yanderbilt sculled people across the East river for 5 cents, the claims of both families to a place among the aristocracy of this country seem to be equally slim. s MB. WEBB, the English cutler, recent­ ly died, leaving a fortune of nearly «1 ,000,000, and it is believed that a large part of it he never would have accumu­ lated but for the novel plan he hit upon for advertising. It was due to his o^n personal suggestion that the firm of which he was a member embarked upon a continuous and enormous advertising system in the days when hansom cabs first came into U8e. He bought for a little money the right to display his ad­ vertisements on the splash boards of the cabs, and the name of Mappin & Webb for a long period was as familiar to the eyes of Londoners as the two-wheelers themselves. Four or five hundred of these cabs, with the firm name upon them in faded letters, are still running. TH» New York Times tells a story to show why the recent experiment with a coffee shop for working- men failed. For several months af- with a power of thought and expression i that moved, us from our s<>ats." ! An illustration of Mr. Adams' force of | language aud striking figure of speech I was given to Daniel Webster, just before the venerable ex-President's death. Mr. | Webster called on Mr. Adams at his ! home in Quincy, and found him reclin- i ing on the sofa, breathing with great I difficulty. ! "I am glad to see you, sir," said Mr. j Webster, "and I hope you are getting j along pretty well." I 4' Ah, sir," answered Mr. Adams, draw- ! ing a long breath, " quite the contrary. | I find I am a poor tenant, occupying a i house much shattered by time ; it sways i and trembles with every wind, and has, : in fact, gone almost to decay ; and what | is worse, sir, the landlord, as near as I ; can find out, don't intend to make any j repairs." j An .Esthete <jot Kicked. j They stood on the porch at midnight "Ah, sweet mine," he sighed, "lily of j my soul, dewdrop of my happiness, let | the intensity of our afiVetion intensify • to intensejiess, and let us iive to love, ' that loving we may live in the ethereal j ethereality of a pa sionless passion, puri­ fied to angelic purification." " Rather ever, hero mine," she an swered, depositing her wealth of golden ; hair upon the shoulder of his six-dollai 1 ulster, "and our lives so sweetly per- hips, just now, will be joined in the su- Freneh Breakfasts. Can't get acclimated to French break­ fast. First the hour--11 o'clock ! And the first difch ? Soup ! Potage ! Soup for breakfast! And the waits between the acts ! I mean the intervals between the dishes as they're brought on the table. They seem to have no idea of value of time to an American. What is breakfast ? I mean an American break* fast. A swallow of coffee, a bite of bread, a bolt of beefteak ! C'est tout, n'est pas ? Oui! Time, ten minutes. But here the waits between dishes are five, ten, even fifteen minutes. Betime* methinks they have forgotten me alto­ gether. Occasionally they commence ! their meal with a slice of bologna | brought in on a plate with ridiculous i ceremony. I fork my slice of bologna : to my mouth. Voila ! The plate is | empty. But the Gaul cuts it,up with as ! much pomp and circumstance as though | it were a turkey, and eats it cireuin- ' speetly, bit by bit. And after the soup ! a single dish of boiled beans, or cauli­ flower. Alone and unsupported by j aught else. And in ten minutes more a ' miniature fish. Over this the Gaul wast-i a good quarter of an hour. I cut my fish in four pieces and swallow it in eight seconds, a 1' Americaine. For I am diligent in business--aud breakfasts. SeeBt thou a man diligent in business ? He shall stand before kings, even though dyspepsia stand with him. After the fish a bit of steak. Enough to bait a fox trap. Oh, the precious minutes the lazy Gaul wastes over that steak ! And then cheese ! Cheese for breakfast. And then confection. A teaspoonful of jam! which the procrastinating Gaul requires ten minutes to eat. And then coffee and a cigarette. the Gaul takes an hour, at least. Sixty precious golden minutes wasted every day here by thousands over what they call breakfast. Because I emptied a third of the little decanter of brandy into my black coffee thev charged me extra. I objected. They showed me the tide-water marks on the bottle. You must p<^ur ouly down to each mark. And charged me a sou for a serviette--e napkin [--Prcntice Ala/ford. and a half high, upon which may be seen the proprietor, seated on his heels, busy with his account books. If it is winter, he is engaged in that absorbing occupa­ tion of all Japanese tradesmen at that time of the year, warming his hands over a charcoal fire in a low brazier. The kitchen is usually just next to the front room, often separated from the street by only a latticed partition. In evolving a Japanese kitchen out of his or her imag­ ination the reader mutit cast away thd rising conception or Bridget's realm. Blissful, indeed, is the thought as wa enter the Japanese hotel that neither the typical servant girl nor the American hotel clerk is to be found here. The landlord comes to meet us, falling on his hands and kness, bows his head to the floor. One or two of the pretty girls out of the bevy usually seen in the Japanese hotels comes to assist us and take our traps. Welcomes, invitations and plen­ ty of fun greet us as we sit down to take off our shoes, as all good Japanese do, and as those filthy foreigners don't, who tramp on the clean mats with mu.idy boots. We stand up unshod, and are j led by the laughing girls along the | smooth corridors, across an arched I bridge which spans an open space in ! which is a rookery, garden and pond | stocked with goldfish, turtles and ma- i rine plants. The rodin which our fair I guides choose for us is at the rear end of . the house, overlooking the grand scen- , ery for which Kauozan is justly noted all over the empire. Ninety-nine valleys 1 are said to be visible from the mountain !<**> on which the hotel is situated, and i we suspect that multiplication by ten j wcftild scarcely be an exaggeration. A i world of blue water and pines, and the detailed loveliness of the rolling land, form a picture which I lack power to paint •with words. The water seemed the type of repose, the earth of motion. --LipphwAt. ter Wilkes Booth was shot the owner j perlutive certainty of conjunctive blisi of the saloon where he took his last drink made money by selling the liquor out of the same bottle. One evening a stranger entered. "Give me a drink," said he, "out of that bottle." "What bottle?" "Oh, , the Lincoln-killer, of course." It was given him* "Did Booth really drink this ?" he asked, after the first sip. " You bet your life he did." "How much?" " Why, a whole ghiss, to be sure." "I don't wonder he did the deed. With only half a glass"-- and here he emptied his own into a neigh­ boring spittoon--" a man would murder Ms grandmother." So with the philan- conjugated in happy wedlock. "Dear heart of mine," he rapturously exclaimed, pressing her to his new satin necktie, "this is too too !" " And this is too, too ! " abruptly broke in the girl's father, coming down in his boots, and giving the young main two kicks which landed him out in the street --and separation like a pall thenceafter- ward fell upon those two young lives. --Sieubenvtlle Herald. "This butter, Mr. Spicer," said the dealer, ."carried off the prize at the farmer's fair;" and-Seth spat out a taste of the compound, Stnd remarked, "Un­ less the prize Was a ship's anchor and chain cable, I should think the butter could have carried it off easily." Glass Eyes Thaf Seem Natural. " What's thd cost of a glass eye?" "From 810 to $15. Perhaps the doc­ tors charge more." "Sometimes they move like a genuine eye, do they not ?" " Oh, yes. Surgical operations are per­ formed on the eye more delicately than formerly, when it was deemed neces-arv to tak<- tlie «'ve out entirely. Then the artificial eve wa-j « fixed, g'assv, staring object. Now, amputations of" portions of the eye can be performed quite oiten, anil the glass eye fitted- on the sturun, which moves quite naturally. Some people have 'several glass eyes, with pupils painted in them, which are of different sizes, so as to represent the dilations.which occur at different times in the day. Thus a man Will have a morning eye, an afternoon eye and a large-pupiled eye to wear of an evening at a party." " What colored eyes are Paper Blankets. Everybody knows that- a layer of news­ paper over a bed affords as much warmth at night as the ordinary counterpane. Various attempts have been made of late years to turn thfe to account, but owing to the crackling nature of the For'all of'which ^ Pal>er and the impossibility of securing free ventilation bentath paper coverings the idea has been abandoned again and again. A Manchesaer (England) firm, are however, credited with having over­ come these objections, and have invent­ ed a' paper blanker which furnishes a perfect ventilation as takes place beneath au ordinary woolen blanket. The new covering is made ct two sheets of paper, between which s layer of wadding, chemically preparjd, is inserted in such a way that it cannot gather together in lumps, while the edges are strongly whipped, so there is no possibility of a separation of the swo pieces taking place. The paper is manufactured from the strongest fiber*known, and is softened by a special process until it is free from the objectionable crackling and rustling sound of paper. It is true there is a slight crisp feeling when new, but this | soon wears off and the coverlet becomes j soft and limp. At the same time the j strength is muili greater, having regard ! to the material from which it is manu- I factured. As far as looks go the new | blauket has aK the appearance of a wool- i en one, while the warmth it affords ex- | ceeds that possessed by its predecessor when the siza and weight of the two are brought into comparison. It is, more- I over, mtich cheaper. RESOLUTIONS never arise spontaneous ly. They afways have to be drawn up, ^ POLITICAL GOSSIP. Anti-Bourbon Movement hi ffee South--Democrat* ^larincd at the Slum lion---The Tariff lawae In Con- [Aaaociated Pre* Agrnt'n Washington Tele*r«ni.] Both parties are beginning to plan for year's political canvass. Repub­ licans believe they have a hold upon the South at last, and they are determined to made special efforts in that section. The election of Brownlow as Door­ keeper of the House was a sop to the Southern Republicans. It is said that one of the Virginia Re adjusters will be given the Chairmanship of a committee, and that every encouragement will be offered Southern men to break from the Democratic party. There are now here a number of men from the South, some former Demo­ crats, who are picturing to the Repub­ lican leaders the glorious future of the liberal anti-Bourbon movements down there. The Republicans intend to aid every movement in that section that op­ poses the Democracy, and they count upon getting thirty "or forty Congress­ men from the South next year, who will be anti-Democratic. Special efforts will be made in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and even Texas. The Democracy of Maryland is divided into two factions, one antagon­ istic to the machine in power. The Read]uster Legislature will redistrict Virginia so that they expect to get six or seven members out pf the ten the State will be entitled to \md.e5/*^the new census; .fe/North Caroliua the Democrats are i not harmonious, and Republicans from j there assert that many who were Union j men dnri'ig the Rebellion are weary of ' Democratic rule and ready to assist its overthrow. In Tennessee the Democrats are split over the debt question, and the low-tax wing are preparing to make a contest on their own hook. In Arkansas the State debt has rent the Democracy asunder, and the ruling element has about read the repudiation- ists out of the party. In Texas it is represented that the an- ti-Democratio vote has not been showing itself but that it can be brought out by a liberal movement This is the substance of the view now taken by the Republican leaders here. The question now is to find a suitable leader for the anti-Democracy move­ ment in these States, aud, with a view of inducing men of ability to take hold, Federal patronage will be offered as a bait. Representative Jones (Greenbacker), of Texas, vouches for the existence of a strong anti-Democratic sentiment iu the State, and, as he has been successful in organizing it in one Congressional dis­ trict, he will be recognized as the leader of the anti-Democrats in Texas. He will be permitted to have his say in Federal appointments for Texas, and will endeavor to so place them as to build up opposition to the Democracy. The regular Republicans from Ten­ nessee and North Carolina insist upon controlling the patronage in those States, and may thus interfere with a reunion of the Republicans and liberals. Hauk, of Tennessee, is opposed to giv­ ing office to any Democrat unless he joins the Republican party. But the men who control and direct Republican policy are determined to encourage in­ dependence in the South in spite of Re- pulblican opposition in that section. As yet leaders for the anticipated indepen­ dent movements in most of the South- era States have in»t been selected, but conferences, conpultations and corre­ spondence are going on to that end. Mississippi is not overlooked. Gen. Fitzgerald, who run on the recent coali­ tion ticket, is here for the purpose of obtaining aid that will keep the coalition party alive. Southern Democrats are aware of these plans, and some of them are un­ doubtedly uneasy since the result in Virginia." An Arkansas Congressman says he does not believe the Republicans oan make a union with disappointed Democrats in that State, because the latter are too much afraid of the domi- nence of the oolored race. He believes the Democrats will come together on a compromise platform. The Democrats are making plans for next year's canvass, and a prominent Congressman said to-night: "I won't go into the fight if Barnum has anything to do with it." Barnum is Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, and is very unpopular with his party. Demo­ crats from the North and South de­ nounce him, and declare the party can make no headway toward efficient organ­ ization while he is at its head. Some of the Southern Democrats openly de­ clare their party must pursue a more lilxiral course if it is to live. These men say a great mistake was made in driving the Virginia Readjusters out of the party, and they largely blame Barnum for that. They say Southern Democrats must en­ deavor to attract votefs and not repel any. Congressman Murch is quoted as say­ ing : " The Greenbackers have assur­ ance that they will be well treated in the disposition of committee honors, and at least one Greenbacker will, get a Chairmanship." Murch, too, has been counted pmong Greenbackers of Demo­ cratic leanings, but the indications are he will vote with the Republicans on party questions. The tariff subject is daily attracting more attention, and a lively fight over it this winter can be seen. The free trad­ ers will oppose the bill for a tariff com­ mission. They say it is only a trick of the protectionists; that the committee will be composed of protectionists, and, instead of recommending tariff revision, will go still farther toward the protec­ tion extreme. On this ground they will fight the measure and try to get some­ thing in the direction of tariff reduction. It is evident, however, that the Commission bill will pass, as the sentiment of both houses favors it. It is estimated that 165 members of the House will vote for it. This question promises to divide the Democrats considerably, and, while a few Republicans may go with the free­ traders, party discipline will hold them nearly all in line. Protection is grow­ ing stronger in the Republican party. They believe it is taking more hold on the country, and that it particularly opens an opportunity for Republican ascendency in the South where manu­ facturing establishments are increasing. Western Democrats are outspoken for free trade. Sparks, of Illinois, said to­ night that the farmers of the West are nearly all free-traders, and that next year they will only vote for free-trade candidates for Congress. He believes Illinois can be carried for the Democrats on the issue of tariff for revenue only. The vote in the recent Democratic cau­ cus to table a free-trade resolution did not represent the sentiment of those present. It was a shot at Randall, intend­ ed to beat huq for the domination for Speaker, ana, therefore, such ultra free­ traders as Whitthorne and Sparks voted to table it A majority of the present Democxatio members of *the House are apparently in favor of tariff for revenue only, and will so vole when the question comes np. Legislation to restrict the silver coin­ age will be introduced, and will some­ what divide the Republicans, though to what extent is not yet apparent. West era members of that party generally oppose it. ILLINOIS SEWS. THESE is over $2,000,000 on deposit in the banks of Decatur. Ekic ANDERSON was crushed to death by a freight train at Bioomington. THK Logan county jail is vacant, and the temperance people claim that nro- hibition has done it. BBICK from the ruins of the burned glucose works, at Peori^are to be used in the building of the new opera house. A SPECIMEN of the great snow owl, a wanderer from the frigid zone, was shot and killed at Mount Zion, Macon county. SAireia J. Fox, of West Jersey, Stark county, was murdered in cold blood by a farm laborer named Church. The murderer was arrested. THE Warden of the Joliet penitentiary reports 1,385 prisoners on hand at the close of Novenilier. The number incar­ cerated at Chester is 363. CORN is being shipped into Fayette county in great quantities to shpplv the needy fanners--the crop being almost an entire failure in that county. INCLUDING those m private schools, more than 4,000 pupils are attending school in Springfield. This is nearly one-fifth of the population. AT a special election in Warren comi­ ty, James H. Stewart, Independent, was elected County Judsre by eighty-six ma­ jority, over Aimer Kidder, Republican. A MCLEAN county footpad, watching to waylay a .farmer returning from mar­ ket after the sale of 1,200 bushels of corn, assa'llted the wrong man and made his escape. THE real-estate transfers in Ch'csgo for the past eleven mouths aggregate $31,231,543, and the building permits for the same period were 4,114, involv­ ing the expenditure of $9,740,000. AT Peoria, while a young girl named May Miltner was returning home from a party, accompanied by Jacob Paul, they were struck by a train of cars, and the girl was killed instantly and Paul badly injured. A TEAM driven by the wife of John . . . . . .. . 1 A There's » ..»•».itifnl song on the slumbrous alt,} That drifts through th<- valley of dream*; It conn s from the clime when; the roue* Wf-n, And a Innefol heart a»4 bright hrowa haiiy - . , That n avt-d in the morning beams. J. Soft vxr* of azure and eye* of browr*, * ^ And snow-white foreheads, arc UteW{* A giinimt ring crone and giit'teriiig crowat A thorny bc<l and a couch of down, l>ost hopes and leasts of prayer. A breath of spring in the breezy woods, . Sweet waft." from the quivering pinefr-- . Blur violet eves beneath hoodie A btibhk- of l,rook!t»!>. a scent of l>o4a, ' « Bird warbK r* and clambering vines* A TOfv wreath and a dimpled hand,.; A ring an;! a flighted vow-- * Three coiilen links of a l>roken A tiny track in the unow-wliite sand, A tear and a tunicas brow. ^ . Ji There's a tincture of grief in the beautiful saMg Ti-.at sob? on the «lambrous air. And loneliness felt in the festive throng bmks down on the s<>ul as it trembles along From a clime where the ro<-. s wcr^. r We heard it first at the dawn of day, And it mingled with matin chinvHtt' ' ! But years liavi distanced the beautiful lay," And'its melody flowelh from the far-away. And we call it now Old Times. PITH AND POINT. HIGH training-- Haughty cultnn. . * How TO restore oil paintings--Canry them back to the owner. ASK a woman how old she SB if want her to show her rage. J; •" EVEBYTHIXG lias to pay np sometimes .. --even the Utile chickens hare to shell # out. ' ', " NOT satisfied with hones of every $,J other color, the ruler of Tunis Mustapha % DURING the deluge Mr. NOAH was in r" arkf the habit* of calling his wife an ringel. ONE is a beer mug and the other is a mere bug. The conundrum is of no im- portnnee. - " THERK is one town in Connecticut j that has no fear of the measles. It's Hadilain. AFTER you come to know a man like a' •?. book, you make no account whatever of . • , *7 . h|s binding. - ':7*^ ;*• "THE widow's smite,** remarked the ' ~ ^ ^ relict as she boxed the ears of a too-for­ ward admirer. AUTHORS are spoken of as living in at- tics, because so few are able to live on V'.' .LJ their first story. ^ ^ A WOMAN who has four sons, all Bail- Coble, of Decatur, was frightened by a ' ^f8' ®om!>ares herself to a year, because Wabash train and the ladv thrown fmm | sh® has four ,sea 80ns- THINK their feathers pretty : A satiri­ cal slave says that tenors usually-put on more airs than they sing. A BIRD that lives on the finny tribe is ' a tish-hawk ; and the man who sells the finny tribe is a fish-liawker. "SLANG is ^ie destroyer of conversa- tion. You bet it is, and the American public should sit down on it. •, : i •' NORWAY has discovered that telegraph lines scare the wolves away; They are! if probably afraid of the extortionate rates. THKY tell us the time is coming when ̂ the grasshopper shall be a burden. Itr is sincerely hoped it will be a dead" "^ff; IN January last Frederick Koester was | WE always enjoy Greenback meetings, :^ * when the meeting happens to occur be- tween a greenback and ourself.--Oil City Derrick. AN Oil City man whose wife presented him with twins thoughtfully remarked : " Well, well; 1 should smile to utter ; that is a little too two." THE new Coroner lias appointed a col- the wagon and seriously hurt. Coble | ha* sued the railroad company for $10,- j 000 damages. i AN infant child of George Rehburg, of j Champaign, was supposed to have died, i last week, and had been laid out for burial, but the watchful mother discov­ ered signs of life and tha child was re­ suscitated from the cramp. ON the railroad route between Spring­ field and Bioomington there is said to not a single taloon in any of the towns, or a bar for the sale of liquor. Certain traveling men, therefore, regard that run with aversion. IN January last 1.-- -- hanged in vormillion county, charged with the murder of his wife. Lately' Koester's father-in-law, a man by the | name of Bearmiester, was at the point j of death, and made a confession that he, j and not Koester, was guilty of the i crime. | A. C. BOYD, a prominent merchant of j Imiapln, has been sued by the Trustees j , of Lincoln University for iff, ft nmp IIII nnn irr liln anpii>fcw_i jj. ages. This university is under the pat- j frill be handy for blackburying pnrtirw. ronage of the Cumberland Presbyterian : --San PrancUco Post. denomination of two or three States J "GRACIOUS ! wife,"said a father as ha Mr Boyd was formerly Treasurer of_tkcM looked at his son William's torn trous- institution, and this suit is the result of • erSf ..get that little biJ1 reseate(i - *nd this business relation. , • • • THI: Chicago and Alton railroad | gracefully submits to the new tariff of j rates adopted by the Railroad and Ware- I ho'ise Board, and the Illinois Central j and the Rock Island do the name. Other l roads will likely follow suit. While : she replied, " Sew I will. NEVER marry a Hartford girl. She ;may be all right in other respeots, bnt her family ties will make her Mk in­ surance to you till you can't rest. CINCINNATI has founded a "Home" . . , x, . , , . for widows who have no intention of ae- disekiming against the righteousness of ; cepting a second offer. It is hoped that this tr.riff, still they adopt it m the main, j at ieast two rooms will be occupied, professing that they desire to avoid i trouble aud litigation. It is quite evi-! dent to everybody who has studied the j tariff, that if the railroads would adopt " it fully, and cease their indiscriminate . cutting at competing points, they would i make more money than they ha?e here- | tofore. | A STRANGER named King, while tfti a ! spree in Chicago, was knocked down and I robbed of $375. The next morning, in | the jKlice court, he was placed under , oath and called upon to identity his as­ sailants from among the spectators, sev- ! eral characters under suspicion having j been distributed among the crowd, in charge of policemen. King created a i sensation by declaring that he had been | robbed by four men whom he pointed out, and who proved to be two Alder- | men, a County Commissioner and an- ' oth'^r local official. A roar of laughter greeted this palpable blunder, and the | next case was called. THE Illinois State Teachers' Associa­ tion will hold it* annual meeting at Springfield Dec. 27 and 29. TLe Ex* en- t tive Committee announces that arrange- 1 incnts are nearly completed for what ' promises to be the largest, most entliu- ! siastie and most profitable meeting of the educators of Illinois since the estab­ lishment' of the association. All rail­ roads will return members at one-third rates. Hotels will provide for and §1.50 per day. The Chicago Quartette < has been engaged to furnish music for j the entire session, which feature alone will abundantly reward all for their at­ tendance. Gov. Shelby M. Culiorn will address the association on Tuesday even­ ing, and President Gastman will present a paper, which will be followed by brief speeches by the State Superintendent and others. Benj. F. Taylor, the re- , nowned author and lecturer, has been secured for Wednesday evening; an­ other equally noted speaker will lecture Thursday evening. The Hon. Newton M. Bateman, of Knox College ; the Rev. Joseph Cummings, D. D., LL. D., of the Northwestern University, aud Rich­ ard Edwards, LL. D., will also deliver addresses on important themes during i the session. Papers on vital subjects, such as "The Township System," "State and County Supervision," " Promo­ tions," " What Shall Be Taught in the Grades," will be presented by O. 11. Sabin, W. B. Powell, Leslie Lewis, C. I. Parker and others, each followed by oral discussion* by leading teachers. Hon^^eorge- How- land will also read a valuable paper. It will be st social, musical and literary- holiday feast. e Judge to Sheriff , the Sheriff, "he ... S e he was brought ̂ *" :• A VEST corpulent man passing through one of the meat markets was assailed with the usual cries: " Buy, buy--what d'ye buy, sir ? " when an arch fellow stepped up to the man of fat, and said : " If you do not want anything, sir, only say you buy your meat of me, and my fortune will be made." occupied. WHEN the Chicago man saw Niagara he shed tears. "Durn it^" said lie, "I ain't liar enough to describe it and make , it out bigger than it is. I'm floored." "THAT prisoner has a very smooth ? countenance," said the Judge to Sheriff Bowe. " Yes," said t" was ironed just before in." " PARTING is such sweet sorrow," re­ marked a bald old bachelor to a pretty girl as he told her good-uight. "I should smile," she replied, .glancing upon his hairlessness, and wondering m how he ever did it. *3 ANOTHER impostor tas been exposed. He claimed to be a railroad brakemau out of work, but when lie went out of the room he did not slam the door hard enough to make the chairs dance, was of course arrested. A NFRSE war telling about a man who had become so terribly worn out by dis­ sipation that he could not keep any food on his stomach, when one of her listen­ ers asked: ' •'What does he live on, then ?" " On his relations, ma'am," answered the nurse. THE young man who stores his mind with old proverbs must become wise. For instance, he will learn that 4'An empty bag cannot stand upright." No one <.Yer thought or believed it could, or ever wonted it to ; but it is well enough to know Buch things. THtY were conversing the other day, about a common friend, wheu Butterby said: " Poor fellow, he's got the mumps. "Sorry to hear it," replied Quilty; " can't he get anything for them ?" "Well, no," answered Butterby, with­ out a blush', " there's no market for them now." NOWADAYS, when you see a husband and wife together in public, you may make up your mind thath there are neither children nor lap-dogs in the family. If such were the case, the hus­ band, would have to remaii^at home with the flJiiidren while the wife went out with the dog. .... - Bacon and Hopefulness. Mrs rrho despair of mankind and of the future are, happily, seldom success^ lul in iyranading others to accept their advifiP®W: their systems. There is a healthy instinct in mau which leads him to biTieve'thiit the future will be better than the past, and that the lal»ors of the present generation will uot be without their effect in improving the? condition of the next. No man was ever inspired with this feeling more strongly thau Bacon. He stood like a prophet, on the 'verge of the promised la«d, biddiug men leave without regret the desert that was behind them, and enter with joy and hopefulness on the rich inheritance that was spread out before them. POLITIC At economy--buying a rote far twenty-live cents, when the voter wanted a dollar for ib '* k '%k