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^4i«taeiSito:S*sfie; ĉ|Ttrnr|! ̂ lawflcalei f* li *lN SLVKE, Editor and PubRahar. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. Ma. Couxuho is now-keeping bous6 on Thirty-sixth street, New York, and may be seen nearly ertiy afternoon walking up Broadway. A STKDiCATB of Minneapolis capitalists has purchased fifteen of the principal elevators there, having an aggregate ca­ pacity of 537,000 bushels. Kreros draw better than prima donna s At the Lisbon Opgra House, •whenthe Kings of Spain and Portugal with their wives expected to attend, seats sold for 9190 each and boxes for $500. Ax analysis of the . census of New York city shows that the foreign-born residents are 478,670, or a little over one- third of the whole. The Irish exceed all other nationalities, their number, if the figures are accurate, being 198,595. Germany comes next, with 153,482. Ik the Vienna disaster a girl of 18 lost her father, mother, sister, brother-in- law and her betrothed in the fire. She returned to the bulling house twice in search of them, and at last jumped from the front balcony into the street and was killed., . CoItmissioneb of Pensions Dudley thinks the payment of pensions to In­ dians should be made in silver dollars. Such pehsions aie pud to the Oherokees, Creeks and Seminoles, and have hereto­ fore been paid by means of checks, which were subjected to heavy discount. 'J. . ! • -- • A remarkable story is told as having occurred near Monroe, N. C. A man named Ferrill was inclosing the grave­ yard in which his little child had just been buried, and was carrying two poles, one on each shoulder, when he tripped and fell lifeless across the little grave, his neck having caught against one of the po&ps and been broken. A Texas cattle-ranger, owning about 3,000 heaid, asked Morgan, the New York banker, to lend him some money on them, so that he might increase his stock. He told the banker how much the cattle were worth; how they doubled in value every five years, and made a large annual profit; but, when he told Morgan that they didn't have any fences in Texas, he exclaimed in a tone of holy horror: " No fences 1 Why, good Lord ! young sa»n, i'u »a buuii take a mortgage on a school of codfish off the banks of Newfoundland." A Syracuse man was going along the street and saw a parcel drop out of a wagon. He didn't yell at the driver and chase him to return the lost property, but, seeikg that no one was looking, quietly picked it up and went on his homeward way as if he had just bought something nice at the atum When got home he opened the package, and to his horror and chagrin it contained a human leg, which is supposed to have belonged to some medical student. He didn't advertise it, but buried the thing in the back yard, and his children told the neighbovp all about it. Of the 441,043 immigrants who landed at Cbstie Garden last year 152,431 gave New York as their destination. Of course a large part of this invading army will encamp elsewhere as soon as friends th^rg or in other parts of the country find a place and employment for them in less crowded localities. But the fraction left over will appreciably swell the raAks of the beggars, rag-pick­ ers, organ-grinders, low criminals and other objectionable classes. Eleven thousand two hundred and- seventy of the ne/W-cqmfcrs went to Massachusetts, 45,11^' to Pennsylvania. The vastly more inviting State of Illinois received but 54,461. Michigan got, according to the announcements of intended destina­ tion, 20,300; Iowa, 16,475; Minnesota, 18,819; Wisconsin, 19,715 ; Missouri, 9,724; and Indiana, 6,131. To the wheat States and Territories--Dakota, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michi­ gan, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wiscon­ sin---there wene bound 148,274, or more than one-third of the total arrivals at New York. South Carolina got but 704; Georgia, 828 ; Kentucky, 1,557 ; Louis­ iana, 1,039; North Carolina, 785; Miss­ issippi, 572; the cotton States together but 4,854--an insignificant share. The London Time* emphatically de­ clares that a far more serious commer­ cial danger than the ill-will between Jew and Christian threatens Russia from this side of the Atlantic. It says: " The American is underselling the Russian as a corn grower and dealer. Both Id# • the* production «Ad for the conveyance of cereals the Yankee finds that machinery can do the pork of hun­ dreds of thousands of men. * * * After several seasons of scarcity border­ ing on famine, there has been in South- em Russia this year a fair harvest, though by no means as good as people in their eagerness anticipated. There is pl^tj of grain ready for embarka­ tion nfbnl the Russian harbors to the Englisji i|i;ifket3. But will it be able to stand the competition of American pro­ duce ? As well might a sailing vessel be expected to outstrip a steamer. Mod­ ern ihgenuity and the spirit of «uuMyja tion have given the New York and Chi­ cago smart men a start which has made them yjctoci^tts upon the earnest and patient, but plodding John Hodges o England. What will they not do to the detriment of Russia, a country not emi­ nent as yet lor ingenuity, thrift or labo­ rious energy ? " The writer adds that the Russians hope this competition is ephemeral, anx^ nhftriih the belief that in this country the population will soon grow up to the territory, raising the price of land, increasing home consump­ tion, and otherwise Istablishing more equal conditions. The Times asks, the family doctor. jooD and Disease.--It may be well to recollect that it is not the quality so much as the quantity of food which lays the foundation every year of in- " tV hat will become of the steed while ^uinerable diseases and death. Let it be remembered, also, that men need a the grass grows ? " and evidently that such hopes are fallacious. * 1 variety of food; living on one or two kinds for a length of time will always a , «_ -r-- _ | undermine a healthy constitution. Milk A recent letter from Salt Lake City, only has all the elements of life; and Utah, says: With regard to blood- J <^bpr on® kind of aliment, used in atonement F am assured that it is practiced to-day as frequently as it was twenty-five ye<u-a ago, though not so openly. There are no Coroners in Utah, and when a body is in death it is simply buried. Poison does the "work and there are no inquiries. When a man gets til ed of his wife he poisons her. One crime, which was commtited here only a short time ago, I rtiust describe. „ari„ - A -- mr >r n , ' ,iT , ... -A i ea™yvaocination, in order that thev may Mrs^Maxwell came to Salt Lake City with , thereby secure the measurable protec- her husband in 1869. Two years after- tion it gives against small-pox, and be- ward her husband took another wife i oauae 'be degree of protection it gives and one year subsequently he j bSJg SLulatel Si£°£m" to a third. Mrs. Maxwell had two sons, ! ease that has always attended tJ^ttse of aged respectively 14 and 16 years. ; humanized vaccine. The thirtyN*rt**>- Their father urged them to go through ' li^haients in the United States where the Endowment House and become j J^jthv calves^'^gbly ,, , ,, „ , , , , | "caitny calves or young cattle aflord an Mormons, bound by all the oathB of the | abundant supply, stored on ivory points, church. Mrs. |Maxwell, having led a ! and obtainable by all druggists and phy- life like that of Mrs. Etynt, objected, | f"5*®118; ? very moderate cost. The he; T"' ! riScedoea'̂ affoTd" she told them the secrets of the Endow- safety, and, whlie successful vaccination ment House. The penalty for revealing • i® Hot an infallible safeguard against these secrets is dismemberment of the f™*U-pox, it renders its fatal tormina- b*U, the .Lroat out, and tongue torn j fiSSaSTSSKS out. Mr. Maxwell overheard lus wife, system is suflering from manifestations being in an adjoining room, and forth- °* a tendency to erysipelas or lutlamma- w'th he informed the elders, who sent ^?1?1 anJ. kind. As a rule, children for the unfortunate woman and her two , LoagaTnreiLd^our rackS oUte sons. Tney were taken into what is . fact that a pinch of powdered sulphur called the "dark pit," a blood-atoning put in the foot of each stocking when- room under Brigham Young's house. eT?r are changed is, to a very con- mi . j .. . * ii i siderable extent, absorbed by the svs1- The woman was then stripped of all her ( tem, and it is a most effective preventive clothing, and then tied on her back to a ' against the contract iou ol very nearly large table. Six members of the priest- ^ contagious diseases. Sulphur puh- hood then performed their damnable . Palpitation (precipitated lao crime; they first cut off their victim's | *> •»*--*»«*«« » .. ̂ 4, . , ̂ jSurns AUD Scalds--Imihjrtant Rem- tongue, they then cut her throat, after , edy.-f our years since this paper ri which her legs and arms were severed, ommended the ase of bioarbonate erf The sons were compelled to stand by and s°da, that is the commou cooking soda, witness this dreadful slaughter of their j^r moa)1 kinds of burns. Since then A, m. .. . , , frequent experiments and observations, mother. They were then released and the opinions of physicians and the best given twenty-four hours to get out ot medical journals have more than con- the Territory, which was then an im- finned all we then said. As burns and possibility. The sons went directly to are always liable to occur, and as the house of a Mend, to whom they re- to bT^tr^rdhS/'u^fu'l, it Eld lated the butchery of their mother, and, be fixed in the mind of every one. The obtaining a package of provisions, they aoda, and the carbouic acid so readily started; but on the following morning Be'a*i liberty from it, have anaesthetic, ,t , ^ , , ., ° ,. ° antiseptic and disinfecting properties-- they were both dead--they had met the all highly benefice for burns. For Dauites. One other case almost similar slight burns cover all the injured parts to the above occurred about five years W1th a layer of powdered soda. For ago in the Citv Hall. These are truths, £eePeI burns, but where the skin is not , . ,, .. . broken, dip lmen rags in a solution and the lady to whom the sons told their made by dissolving about one-third of story is willing to make affidavit to the an ounce of the soda in a pint of water: facts if she can be guaranteed immunity lfty tbe f^gs on and keep them moist from Mormon vengeance. 1 J*1"1 *^e s^utioii. ^or very severe burns, followed by suppuration (forma­ tion of pus), apply the rags in the same way, keeping them moist; but frequent­ ly exchange them when dry for fresh ones, and carefully wash off with the soda solution any matter that has accu­ mulated underneath, so that it may not be absorbed into and poison the blood. Leading European medical journals give numerous instances in which, by the above treatment, extensive burns of a definitely as to time, will as certainly deteriorate the constitution, bodily and mentally. The popular notion that one or two kinds of food at a meal is most wholesome, is wholly untrue. On the contrary, several kinds at a meal, other tilings being equal, are more conducive to our well-bemg. Quantity and ndt quality is the measure of haaltfa.-- Hall's Journal of Health. Small Pox.--We again call the atten­ tion of our readers to the importance of • A Paris Wit's Performance. One of Vivier's favorite performances: Having marked down his prey, an elderly citizen who has ordered a glass of beer and is preparing to assimilate it on the asphalt in front of a cafe, Vivier ap­ proaches and salutes him profoundly, theu with • mingled volubility and brusqueness thus addresses him : . « -- " Motforau-, i «on«6fWttijpS!io!i" -y&ty bc vere cnamcuir baTOtatated spee$. of the new ^Department of Chemical ily, leaving little scar.--American Ag,- Analysis, established for the purpose of detecting adulteration in articles of daily consumption. I have been detailed to the subject of beer. My face being know to the proprietors of the establish­ ment, if I were to order anything they might take the alarm and serve me quite ricvlturisf. "Stonewall" Jackso^ The story of the killing ^ General Jackson has been told over and over again, but never seems to be wanting in Iratnatic interest, and is as often read by a different article and thus baffle me. j those whom the history of the struggle Permit me, therefore, to taste your beer." j ior freedom never fails to attract. It The stupefied victim offers no resist- I was at CU&ucellorsvilla, in May, 1863, ance, and Yivier drains the glass at a , when he turned Hooker'ft right, upou i which he turned by surprise. The ill- i fated Jackson rode out with his staff and draught, and sets it down, remarking : " Excellent! excellent! You can drink that beer with impunity ! I thank you in the name of science and the munic­ ipality for your unselfish co-operation. Good afternoon 1 Waiter, another beer for this gentleman !" and vanishes. Abont Worms. Darwin, in his latest work, estimates that there are in gardens 53,767 w >rms to the acre, and that they would weigh 356 pounds. Having four or five giz­ zards apiece, each worm is able to di­ gest a lar^e amount of coarse food, and to bring sixteen tons per acre to the sur­ face per annum. Mr. Darwin says that a field near hie house has been cleared of cobble-stones within his remembrance, and this not so much from the fact that the pebbles have been undermined as escort. That was 9 or 10 o'clock of the aiglit of May 2. He was riding oil his well-known "Old Sorrell" toward hts awn men. The little body of horsemen were mistaken for Federal cavalry charg­ ing, and the Rebel regiments on the right and left of the road fired a sudden rolley into them. General Jackson re­ ceived one ball in his left arm, two inches below the shoulder joint, shattering the bone and severing the chief artery; a »eoond passed through the same arm, be­ tween the elbow ana wrist, coming out through the palm of the hand; a third entered the palm of the right hand, about the middle, and passed tftough, breaking two of the bonea. He fell from liis horse, and was caught by an officer at hand. Later he was found, plaoed because fine earth has been brought to apon a litter, and conveyed to the rear, the surface. Many of the foundations J On his way to a place of safety, oi;e of of Roman buildings recently discovered j the litter-bearers was shot and Jackson in Great Britain are preserved under­ neath this constant y-accumulating de­ posit of "earth mold," which is from two to three feet deep over the ruins at Wroxeter. Harked Progress. The last census shows a rapid advance­ ment in the growth of cotton and food products. In 1870 the amount of cotton produced was 4,352,317 bales ; in 1880 more than 6,0G0,<t'J0 bales. In 1870 the amount of corn ruised was 760,910,594 bushels; in 1880, 1,751,449,435 bushels. During the last decade our agrienhural products were increasec lieaily 10i» per cent. During the year from 1879 to 1880 our export trade largely increased. The cattle export rose from #13,000,000 fell from The shoulders of the men, re­ ceiving a severe contusion, adding to the injury of the arm, and injuring the side considerably. He died eight days after­ ward at Guinea's Station, some five miles from the place where he fell. The Number of Public Schools. According to the last report of the United States Commissioner of Educa» tion, General Eaton, Pennsylvania haa the greatest number of public schools of any State in the Uuion. The following table is of interest. The reader's atten­ tion is invited to the letters opposite the names of -tares; "a," where the num­ ber erf schools is indicated^ " b," num­ ber of school-houses: J.UC UliUC CipUlb 1UBC UUU1 j / * . , . . to 814,1)00,000; wheat from $167,6J8,000 | (b) Arkan'"is.'!r'~ '70s to $190,546,000; flour from $35,000,000 I W i --«• to $45,0; .0,(M»0; cot'.011 irom S?:iv>v),852,00t) to $245,536,391; and pork from $5,000,000 to $8,0u0,00U anuuailv. The Jiew Hoop-Skirt, The vexed questi-m of crinolette has been partially solved by the introduction of a single band of steel introduced into the voluminous 1'oldeof the back breadths of a skirt so a.s to unite them and give the amplitude of an antique tourniere. Although apparently simple, the adjust­ ment, of this incipient hoop is difficult, for the graceful fall of the drapery is entirely dependent on the correctness of iis position. Hence, in this case, sins of omission should bt lightly condemned, for a neglect to comply with the sug­ gestions of fashion is rather praiseworthy than otherwise, when the graceful ele­ ments ol a lady's attire may be imperiled by faulty crinoline.--JSTew York Hour. (b) . (a) (Villus, tiout..... l,<a* (a) IMa-.vurv 4i.<; (ai Florida...... 99:2 (a) Gvurgia 5.7:>"i (a) Illinois :12,:<J4 (b) Indiaua 9,545 (b) Iowa ...,10,7;il (b) Kansas 4,»:i2 (a) Kentui'kv........ 6,45ti (a) ]/Otii»ia!ia M:»4 (b) Maint- <a) Maryland 2,CM© (a; Massachusetts.. 5,55H ! b) Michigan 6,:iij a) Miunesota 3,925 (a) Mississippi....... R3 («) Missouri ... 8,0»5 (a) Nebrask»......... 2,776 !:.) Ni'Wt'Ja 175 (a) N. Hampshire- 2.5U5 (l») N.-wJersey. . l,V>s d)( New Ynn-k ll,i*)2 (a) N. Carolina 0,5t)S (b) Ohio 12,14;! (a) Orogon 865 (a) Pennsylvania..18,386 (a) Rhode Island... 819 (ai JS. Carolina 2,901 (•) TennesJee 8,812 (a) Toxax ,... ...» 5,804 (a) Vermont ...... 2,573 a) Virginia 2,491 (a) West Virginia... 3,725 l>) Wisconsin... S,(i26 Massachusetts has 88 evening schools and Rhode Island 33, which are not counted in the above enumeration. In Mississippi, it is explained, that the schoc' districts are the counties, with such cities of 1,000 or more inhabitants as may choose to organize sep;irate dis tricts. The figures given for Virginia count each grade of one teacher in the graded schools as one school. An Irish Recipe. This Irish recipe for dandelion tonic was taken down word for word from an What surprised Noah more than aught «lse was that he received no application for free passes. And what astonished ., . , the public after the flood was that the j ?Jd *'oma" "i* a b"^red miles from Tsteran navigator never tried to get up j , . ,j, ^ dandelion just • complimentary benefit for himself. | af"re 14 ̂ P11̂ ** UP root an all. 111 take it to the river an' wash Thb slopes forming the base of the it in a basket. I'll pound it on a large Sierra Nevada range are said to be flag. When I'll have it pounded like adapted to the growing of the finest chopt cabbage for pigs, I'll sqneeze it irait Ib ite Union. into a bow). I'll get my sthrainin' clotfl on another bowl an' Til squeeze the stuff into it. I'll wash "the sthrainin' cloth next an' give it the second sthrain­ in'; it's clean thiu. Thin put a glass of brandy or ould spirrets--wan glass to a pint. ~ Thin bottle it. Whin ye're takin' it in the mornin' shake it. Take it in the mornin' fastin'. In ten minutes yell turran around and ate anything." Jimmy Brown and the lee Cream Party. There wras pretty nearly a whole week that I kept out of trouble, but it didnt last. Boys are born to fly upward like the sparks that trouble, and yesterday I was "up to mischief again," as Sue said, though I never had the least idea of doing any mischief. How should ato innocent boy, who might easily have been an oij>han had things happened in that way, know all about cooking and chem­ istry and such, I should like to know. was really Sue's fait Nothing would ao but she must have a party, and of course she must have iee-cream. Now the ice-cream that our cake-shop makes isn't good enough for her, so she got father to buv an ioe-cream freezer, and she said she would make the ice­ cream herself. I was to help her, and she sent me to the store to order some salt. I asked her what she wanted of salt, and she said you couldn't freeze iee-cream without pleuty of salt, and that it was almost as necessary as ice. I went the store and ordered the salt, and then had a game or two of ball with the boys, and didn't get home till late in the afternoon. There was Sue freezing the ice-cream, and suffering dreadfully, so she said. She had to go and dress right awav, and she told me to keep turning the ice-cream freezer until it froze, "and don't run off at)d leave me to do everything again, you good-for-noth­ ing boy ; I wonder how you can do it." I turned that freezer for ever so long, but nothing would freeze, so I made up my mind that it wanted more salt I didn't WAnt to disturb anybody, so I quietly went into the kitchen and got the salt-cellar and emptied it into the ice-cream. It began to freeze right away ; but I tasted it and it was awful salt, so I got the jug of golden syrup and poured about a pint into the ice-cream, and whtn it was done it was a beautiful straw color. But there %as an awful scene when the party tried to eat that ice-cream. Sue handed it round and said to every body: "This is my ioe- cream, and you must be sure to like it.'* The first one that sdie gave it to was Dr. Porter. Ho,is drey/ifully fond of ioe- cream, asnd he siniled such a big smil^ and said he was sure it was it delightful, and took a whole spoonful Then he jumped up as if something had bit him, and went out of the door in two jumps, and we didn't see him again. Then three more men tasted their ice-cream, and jumped up and ran after the doctor, and two girls said, "Oh, my!" and held their handkerohiefs over their faces, and turned just as pale. And then every­ body else put their ioe-cream down on the table, and said thank you, they guessed they wouldn't take any. The party was regularly spoiled, and when I tasted the ice-cream I didn't wonder. It was worse than the best kind of strong medicine. Sue was iu a dreadful state of mind, and when the party had gone home--all but one man, who lay under the apple tree all night and groaned like he was dying, only we thought it was the cats--she made me tell her all about the salt and the golden syrup. She wouldn' believe that I had tried to do my best and didn't mean any harm. Father took her part, and said I ought to eat some of the ice-cream since I made it; but I said'I'd rather go up­ stairs with him. StAl wentg# ; ' 'Be«ne of ttw** begin U to understand thaniifpy are jiurt waiRting ~ and throwing away a boy who always tries to do his beat, and perhaps they'll be sorry when it is too late.--Harper's Young People. Poljfamj-liemocraey. There was a time, not. long ago, when slavery and polygamy were wont to be referred to as " twin relics of barbarism." Slavery is dead, but polygamy*, it seems, must have a yokefellow, and how could it be better mated than with Democracy --that kind of Democracy which learns nothing and forgets nothing? But the polygamists should reflect whether they can afford the union proposed by the Democratic party. That partv is a sort of upas-tree which spreads a deadly malaria throughout the radius of its malign influence. The pathway traoed by the Demo­ cratic party in its hunt for the last ditch is strewn with the wrecks of measures and systems of administration upon which it has lavished, its poisonous af­ fection. The embraces of the Demo- cratic party are like those of the bear- hearty but fatal. As over the entrance to liis hell Dante inscribed this awful warning, " All hope abandon, ye who enter here," so history writes over the portals of tfie temple of modern Ameri­ can Democracy, "Alliances with this political harlot are signs of impendii p ruin." , Slaveiy was intrenched behind the constitution and might long have de­ fied the Abolitionists. But, recklessly throwing itself into the outstretch -d arms of the Democratic party, it quick­ ly perished. The Democratic party coated ihe Southern people into a "solid" allegi­ ance with it after the peace of Appo­ mattox, and for fifteen years all en ter- prises at the South languished, decf yed and died, while the solid Republican North prospered. But at the first sign of revolt in Virginia the sound of lavivr ing industry is heard throughout the length and breadth of the late Confed­ eracy. The Democratic partv took Greeley, and Trumbull, and Doolittla, and a host of Republican malcontents to its bosom, breathed upon them, and they are po­ litically dead and long since baried out of sight. Uncle Sammy Tilden tool, his State reform measures into the Democratic camp, declaring that reform was "neces­ sary," and the Democrats party shout­ ed the refrain hoarsely, and marshaled their truncheon flour'sliers, and, not­ withstanding his school-district system of campaigning, Civried the hero of Ci­ pher alley in funeral procession to his field, and Porter's conduct upon it, which glowed in strong colors apon my mind *nd tue court martial seventeen year* ago. And now, my dear friend, I need vonr help still further' *nd need it more than ever be tore iti our ac­ quaintance, overwhelmiM'd an I am with the Current dal'v work of the House. It. in Hlmoct impoeaiblt* for m to get the lime to go minntelv through all the maps of this nen evidence, an I ought to da With kindest regard*, I am, u •w, yours, J. A. Gaktuxd. Why Pendleton Favors Civil-Service Reform. Senator Pendleton admits very frankly the real cause of his zeal for his scheme of civil-service reform. He said to a re­ porter of the Cincinnati Enquirer: "As a partisan Democrat I am strongly in favor of my bill. I believe it will aid us greatly in getting into power. If my ---- organize an association for the put . of building a monument. The prefim^ nary circular, just issued, after recalling the great responsibilities imposed npoAt Gov. Yates by the Rebellion, anl briefly reciting the marked abilit* with which he performed all his e*. ' ecutive duties, says : "In truth, Illinois has produced few men-more worthy k>ve and a-lmiration than Kicliard Yate%,,„ The appellation of War-Governor coik revs but a tithe of his merited hono% : Warm, impulsive, generous to a fanll * ' be united the most endearing qualitie# •< of the heart with many of the most bi* • liiant as well as solid qualities of the in* telli ct. Is not such a man well worth* , of monumental commemoration at th» ha^ds of the people of Illinois? Thagp such a testimonial is appropriate, war# 0*v gvl HJLIg UilU WCl, XI HI V i .i ' . . X* 1 - """"j bill should pass it would paralyze the * ? aii? P *° memory erf the illovif AtWvwtia f AA /\AA T> 1-1. . V . . IflOlU 1 51 f PS VA ^v^vri efforts of 100,000 Republican incum­ bents fighting to retain $100,000,000. This of itself, in an election as close as that of 1876 or 1880, would decide the contest in our favor." But what would become of the reform after Mr. Pendle­ ton's party got into power ? Does he suppose for a moment that the Demo- trious Yates, we feel confident, patriotic Iilinoisan will concede.' Fish Culture in Illinois."" ' * Fish Commissioner Bartlett fnrnishe#^ * ,Jf some interesting statistics and informal tion relative to the culture of.. food-fisfer throughout the State. He savs that th#5 week before Mr. Gentleman George ^^3 ve^rs ofd X 1,^,3 ^ reform bdl in order to give tlie spoils- the mirror vari«tv<»f L™ - men of his party an unobstructed rush at the swill-trough. WlXTEIi WHEAT. ProalalriK Condition •( IM ThNagkoHi the State,' The condition of wheat in ail portions of the State is promising, and above an average, in all but a few counties in the Shite. The wheat acreage of the State is 12 per cent, less than in 1880. sion have distributed frun here 1,500, almo: t every county in the State bein* represented by ihe applicants for them* ' ~ 1 • Fully <5,500 more of the same specicli " are expected froin the General Govern***•' meat us soon as the weather is suitably ; ' - > for their transportation. These 7^ * # fish are regarded ^ith great,.; favor by sportsmen as wet) as by tha members of the commission They ar# very hardy, tbriviugin any of the wateriil ' ^ t of Illinois, and multiply and grow rap*: ' idly. There %re specimens in th§?.' Northern ! »» The' area of division is 15 per cent, less than last year, or 12,212 acres. The condition of wheat in northern counties is 4 per cent, above an average: OOVNTOM. *11 Booue Bnroak. grave, burying him with <hia pranused ^ reforms. jneKuih • But there is no objection to an nlli- j Gnimte.'.'.V.".". ance between the Democratic party ; nd I Hendetaan*!!!^ the polygamists, at least on the ^t of Meu*y«. those who want to see the »K/wination of Mormonism ;i0m face 0{ ihw etti ui. The alliance was to l»e er- ?ected in the natural order of events. he struggle with the monster of po­ lygamy has been long, but rather lan­ guid than arduous. The abuse still flourishes in an "oasis in the desert" situated in the heart of the continent. Its isolation has thus far protected it from the sturdy blows ol the reformer. But civilization approaches it on every | Hock idand.V. side. In the stronger light cast uoon i 5^ ̂ ." ••• • it its hideousness is more clearly re- j warn*. Iroqnoto, Jo DattoM Kane Kankakee... Kendall. Kn«>x. Lake... .... I<a Ik* l.iviii»(rton....,\i,a;.. Mar>*liiui McHoniy .....'J. Mfrroet. Ogle Pcorl* . v.i.. Piitnan.... The Poor Sea Islanders. " Here let me ask the sympathies of all people for the poor South Sea Islanders who are1 held as degraded slaves on the Sandwich Islands. The other serfs can in some way be heard. The Chinese coolie* are, perhaps, better off than they were in China; anyway, they are able to take care of themselves, and they have more ttian once thrown defiance |n the face ol the Hawaiian Government^ The Portu­ gese have a sort of Consul/ in Honolulu aud also the Bishop of the Catholic Church to whom they can appeal in some respects; the Mexicans, rand there are quite a number on the islind now, have al»o a Consul I do not Know how it is about the Norwegians atid others, but being white men they cm probably be heard. But no hearing can alleviate their galling servitude, j They may be 8ply counseled to oliodience. It is erent with the South Sea Islanders, sy have no Consul, nobody to repre-b them, and as they are ignorant of both the Hawaiian aid English lan­ guages, they are virtually deaf and dumb, and are drivei^; about by signs, precisely like beasts ;of burden. In their own islands they iiever labored be­ yond fishing and picking cocoanuts enough to sustain life. ^ Th$y were free and independent men^ subject alone to the call of their chief. When arriving on the plantations they find that they must work from daylight till dark and their food is not fit for liogs. They are a simple, child-like race, and not being inured to hardship theyfind their ehains cutting into them. The mortality among them, both on the slaves while they are coming to the islands and on the plantations, is frightful. They at times die off l^ke sheep that have the rot. They are a sad sight as they ar­ rive, and to see them with tin labels around their flecks, and numbers thereon to designate them, as they go along, de­ jected and aimless looking, is a sight that would move any heart (bot hard­ ened) with pity. "I will narrate a touching incident connected with one of those poor crea­ tures. He wap working on one of the other islands,/ got sick, and by some means came to Honolulu to go to the hospital. The steamer on which he was on board arrived in Honolulu on Sunday, but the authorities took no steps to see into the case of the unfortunate South Sea Islaiuler, as people there are very careful not to break the Sabbath. Chi Monday mottl­ ing somebody made it his business to inform the authorities that there was a hospital patient on board the steamer, and when the proper authorities went on board they found the poor South Sea Islander dead. He was literally mur­ dered through carelessness, through in­ human and brutal neglect. I was in Honolulu at the time, and I only heard one man who denounced this merciless indifference, and that was Dr. McKib- ben, jun., who did not hesitate to name the brutality in its proper terms. But I can not give you a perfect picture of the degradation that exists on the planta­ tions, and of the utterly wretched condi­ tion of the serfs. The dead South Sea Islander is but one, no doubt, of many who die like dogs, and are pat ottt oJ sight as soon as possible, Honolulu Cor. San Francisco Chronicle, vealed. Its increasing prominence renders the affront of its continued existence the more palpable, the mora shameful. It travesties law, insults de­ cency, menaces public virtue. At this point, the House of Representatives feels keenly the disgrace of association with a polvgamint delegate sitting in its hall. A Republican niamber moves a resolution against the admission of polygamists as delegates, and asks its consideration as a privileged question on the imjundrthat the House is in bad I pttMk* be«aiM»® of its coat­ ing individuals living in the practice of that crime. And the Democrats voted that it should not be considered. Another Republican member presented a bill embodying the same provisions, which required unanimous consent for consid­ eration, and a Democratic leader-- Springer, of Illinois--jumped promptly to his feet with " I object!" At last, then, there is an issue be­ tween two great jwrties of the country Wblteaide Wttl Winnebago. Wyodford Total ),4S6 1,55!) 3,1411 tl74 8T5 Ml 34? 3,371 tSM. VJJ $,8*7 137 2,6!W 1H7 8,269 277 l,777i 2,101 8J8 936 4R-> -J,M0 .831 7,4.*) 1,077 477 444 ,238 8,847 , 6S2 1,278 IS,670 76.128 ITT" 03 441 9S 50 l(*i lOOj 92 10 66 63 •Wj ldl 62 <17 100 108 <2 73 9* 107 20 100 6' 95 *100 li<) 1» 87 ii Is: !*• lis twenty inches long and weigh from thrc* to four pounds eavh. A lively interest-, in fish-culture has been aroased amon|f"e ' ' ^ the people during the past two yeawa't-.tl^ In 1881 over 800 ponds were constructed, , in this State, and it. is the_pmpose ot the v Commissioners to supply each of then| ^ with a minimum number of carp durin® ? ' the coming season. The native fish will ! also be distributed to accessible points i§ A s | suitable transportation on rivers and I 8!5| 1 ro:V's can be procured. The Commk 1,444 1,260 1T0 1S7 274 347 3,101 8» 8,226 IIS 2.G79 S2 8,68. 1,«Wi 1,301 T» 9!T «! 1,701 2,12S T,lft2 1,152 55 444 4,i7« 2.V05 nsi 1 27« 2,016 4,933 Sil 64,9161 IH 101 giouers have labored under a great man^ .; > I difficulties, but have undoubtedly mad#, A f > 5 loo considerable headway in their wor^ loo j They have been especially harassed bj£ ;r* % "163 | fishermen setting wiug-neta across th#»^> ,:^; i«o > mouths of sloughs t«i which the fish j sort for spawning, by means of which'mU ;- 100 i tlie larger fish have been prevented froif I * ^ 1 agfti-'i seeking deep water, and have bee#*^'*"*.; 1W s exterminated by thousands, in mauy in* " : '1 95 ! stances being left to die on the low landi *:>.V]T }}® ! when the water receded. Measures haffc-^^i' 1M i been taken to punish these violators of ^ 1 the fish laws, but the difficulty has beeit ,s!ff iw I *° procure positive evidence against «njf *r 102 of the offemlers, and no prosecution# *'* J®* ; have thus far occurred. Now, howeveiftp < there is promise of a case which wilt; :/ ,• *00 i test the (.ower of the statute and tlia 1na i authority 103 105 of the ^te Fish Vuuiiuirasul *E*UDMt«d. tAflreagfl ItSO. CHNTRAXi DIVISION. In the ccntral counties of (lie State the condition of wheat is 3 per cent, above an average. The acreage is IS per cent, less than that Beeded in 1880. • „ Nearly one-half the wheat area of the State is in the Central division. ... ; under it A well-known member of tli» x J«|1 Illinois State Sportsmen's Association, ^ 105 i has inteiested himself in the questioti|^^ 1 and has obtained what he believes to positive proof of a violation of the lalir' by certdin individuals. Suit is to be in*- ' ^ v Btituted immediately, aud the r«Mblt «l( ( it will prove ot general interest •, *. t *- The Smnll-Pox Epidemic. A recent dispatch from Springfield^ sa^rs: Eighty-two points of smalts ^ ..... p°x infection, all reported within th$ Thrtre arc lftcres wWt lP,i8t fow weeks, now disfigure the map nangiiig In* tlKf Bowrd ot HLeallh offi. in this portion-of the State than last year CotTNTIW. t Ailanw. j Brown, Calhoun j Cad# represented in the lower house of Con ' ohHsUaif11." gress, and, strangely enough, it is on the j oiark..... subject of polygamy. The Democratic ; - • •••••••• party takes the hoary old abuse to its "ni ermn bosom, hugs it, and hotly " objects" to its being disturbed. Springer might well have repeated of polygamy what Douglas said of slavery in the Terri­ tories: " I don't oare whether it is voted up or down." But the alliance between Democracy and polygamy is to be re­ joiced at rather than deplored. The alli­ ance seals the doom of polygamy. The union of the two renders each of the con­ tracting parties more hideous; and there is poetic justice in the fact that polyga­ my is destiued to meet its death in tlie arms of the political party monster in whose foul embrace slavery found its grave.--Chicago Tribune* Past Praying For. Congressman Ellis, of Louisiana, & another Southern Democrat who is pre­ paring to attend the funeral of the Dem­ ocratic party. He says: " The Democratic party is dying na­ tionally of timidity and inanition. It is without men or measures. It is not agreed on any policy. In the States of the South it is losing ground. Virginia is gone. There are grave fears for other States. Jt is disrupted and broken into divisions' and factions in nearly every Southern State. It is past praying for, aud if the South breaks up the Demo- ?ratie party is a thing of the past In his State and city--Louisiana and New Orleans--for six or eight years past any­ body, without morals, brains or princi­ ples, could l>e elected, provided he could trick himself into a Democratic nomina­ tion, and all liecanse of a tyrannical pub­ lic opinion that almost ostracised a m»" who avowed himself a Republican." Mr. Ellis thinks both parties are des­ tined to break np and new ones be formed which will divide on principle rather than prejudice. That may hap­ pen, but it looks now as if all the break­ ing would be confined to the Democracy, to whose prayerful consideration we commend the frank utterances of Mr. Ellis. Fita John Porter--A Letter from (tea. Garfield. Ex-Gov. Jacob D. Cox,' of Ohio, has furnished the following letter from the late Gen. Garfield for publication : Hocse or Eepeesentativbs, | Wsfflnwoww. I). €., Feb. 18, 18S0. * f MyDkabCox : IU oar tweaty-tive years of acquaintance and friendship, yon have never done a greater service to this truth, or given me so valuable 5 help m in yonr letter of the 14'.h iust., which 1 have just received. I have been ho xtuug by the decision of the Schodeld Board that it is very hard to trust my own mind tornpeak of it As it appeared to me, I have made a strong effort to separate myself from the case and to look at it intellectually, ag though it related euiy to the pieceb and chess­ board, and not lo living men or men who had over lived, and all my bent efforts have brought me out precisely to the conclusions of your let­ ter. Stall I had not yet made, in the light of the test:mony, a careful, strategic study of the field aud maps aa you have done ; but how cu- riouu It i* that what yon aay uow, with the new maps before you, is* the exact picture of the I DeWitt j IVmglM. 1 Edgar . Ford.. I Fultoa.^, j dreeno ! Hauc'ock .1.. ! i»ney Logan . ! Mscon | Maunuptn I Maaon ' j M&DntiQUgh...., | McLean ......... 1 Menard | Montgomery I Morgan....: Mouitri®..f'. Piatt : Pike •••. Sangamon Schuyler Mcott Shelby Taaewell..., ;. Vermilion Total Fill X 89,1-25 24,454 *22,118 1V,9.U ; \to,uoo r,j,ij:; S->,94»i| . 8,6<;i i *aa,.Vi 47,ii-29i ROT I '26,644 44,032 Ml,072 + 51,74" '2fl,199 *"•+39,899 1!'2,271 t9,46« *'20,000 *5,000 1H,H0I 89,'219 •io;ono > 1,08'i 10,217 77,446 Kl/JW 29,6H2 24,530 *50,'i00 2fl,565 44,»47 1,2TW,B4'2 w: •5*«is I s s VI n 68 T? «« 86 90 75 107 n 103 w «) 71 M 79 115 01 100 ft 1(15 71 m $ 140 86 90 86 » 21# 87 T " 82,571 17,007 19,46* 12.9M 2»;,-soo 47.31' 44,3(14 23.351 2ti,015 9,1C0 17,10<> 48,44" 336 23,8iS*i 31,?'8 30.722 40,S«0 !»0.4'29 3«,908 57,'2'iH 0.45 10,00^ 5,260 12,781 58,^92 28,40n • 715 1,173 103,U)4 55,902! 28,150 22,07" 4',0iX/ 22'3 5 5l,i4l' 1,086,244 Tlie disease is slowly, but steadily, e^, ->i tending southward, following the maim. lines of railroad travel between Chicago* , and St Louis, and aloqg the Mis^ aissippi river from Jo Daviesi' •5 s jto Alexander, nearly every county *"; ^ loj | on the river now containing one or morrf^ so ' centers of infection. At the majority of ^ y JJJ ; these plaoea the digjase is well utidef . , , ii-j | control. Vaccination or revaocinatioa * * 116 has been generally resor ed to, and rigid . I"* isolation and quarantine of patients an<t T f 100 ! Miapects enforced. These measures havlif * "' * jJJ® fully realized the promises of the Stat#» > ;•;** no , board, and tlie detailed reports uow 100 | ing received demonstrate their efficiency^ ^ j Communities are again advised thai ? * ' v 109 wherever the published rules aud reg» ' j illations are'complied with small-po*-1,1 n6 ; may be totally excluded or confined ttfvswf.fe. 71 106 J6 108 its 73 9t MS 108 uo 113 MS 115 igi 108 116 1(M the drat cases.' •Eatlmated. t Acreage 1880. SOTJTHBBI* DIVISION. The prospects for wheat have seldom been better in Southern Illinois at anj corresponding date. . The aiea is tmt 7 per cent less than that seeded in 1880, while the cohdition is 8 per cent, above an average. In 1880 the wheat area in the Southern divison of the State was 1,639,698 acres, or 114,486 acrei? more ^han the present acreage: Oomxijfa. Alexander Buid <"lay Clinton Crawford Edward* Klliutrliua........ ,J Fa,1 <ti« FrHnklin. j (ialutin........... Hfimlitpil Harilill. .Inc »aoB J.mper .Jefferson. ..... .. Johnson lAWrcttCSM. J'adiKiiSi Marlon..'..... I... Mastmcw Monro® Perry l'ope. Pulaski .. llaudolph. Klohlaud Salmn St. Clair Union Wnba8l».,......... Washington Wayne..,......;.., White W.liiamaoa J. Total....! n\ *6,853 *81.33" 40,5'26 88,0611 *50. 92 2S/.«1 60.396 *«2,1'29 *2fi,e55 32,623 35,! 18 4,80 48,983 - 44, MS tt!3,4S6 22.164 •M,023 152,900 51,9O0| • I7,l'23i 'B0,04HT "44,4»»1 16,229 11.397 . S4.993 4",572 l.M<,64:i *2fi, 181 37,461 •72, IW 62,167 6«,lrt7 47,964 1.639.S 8 ~rn H 76 lift 86 80 7* 84 80 MS 90 100 lit 86 91 US 90 87 108 t) 111 84 86 93 100 73 80 100 115 89 90 86 91 86 o,«jy, 81.634 80,019 96,878 43,079, 22.961 87.7971 62.1 ><81 20,5'V4 83,325 81.606 4,801 63,88' 41,939 #7,745) 23,272 49,521 133,011 63,460 16,267 66,6'"3 13,957 10,519 84,911 29,61' 21,SGI 158,64 30.108 24.44 85,230 44,864 SI,112 41,819 1.52S.M t Acreage, 188 ' IIoa ament to Got. Tate*. ^ if movement is on foot to secure the erection of a suitable monument to the War-Governor of Elinois, Richard Yates, and it is probable that a meeting will be called to be held in Springfield, at an early day, to consider the matter and to 3«ar<*SiglitedB«aB. Education may create discomforts af-vHS' ;'l well as secure great advantage*. Th«t.: German nation is threatened with a pe^;, c u l i a r t r o u b l e o f t h e e y e s , a s a p e n a i t j f ^ J for reading badly printed books and / unwise methods of study. A careful in^" ^ veatigation of tlie schools by ownpeten^^tf?. i>liysicians has revealed the unpleasavlffh;^ 4. act that near-sightedness is growing r%. , Common, aud may become universal. \„- ln children of five years and under, i| was rarelv found; the vision was quitfi' , perfect. In the lower schools, from filf^ * 4*- i teen to twenty per cent of the scholar^:. r were effected; in the higher schools,,,.^. } ' from forty to fifty per cent. In thf ^ j theological department of the University^ *•y j seventy per cent, of the students wert*"-"'* 1 troubled ; and in the medical department 1 the misfortune was almost universal, , ! only five per oent. not being thus ' afflicted. _ | The phyriciasis asenbe the difficulty , to the practice of hcl<$ig the books too near the eyes, and the practice is due in a large measure to the poor print of Cheap books. S . . I The trouble is increasing in our own ! country, and it mighfle wise to have a similar examination of" our own schools i by skillful physiciana»dn order to call ; public attention to th* evil.--Morgan- : town Pre**. j ^ ; Wicked T«amjr as< tils Pear IsUw. J " Mamma, come quick ! The eat8ujp»;>*i '-J' on the shell!" "Drut that snooping*: • cat, I'll make fiddle-strings out of her lift - no time, if I ever lay my hands on her. SWs forever into something," and the en­ raged materfamilias vigorously iioundtHl h e r w a y t o t h e c e l l a r m m r . " W h e r o i f ? * 4 ' she, Tommy, I don't abe her?" "Se^'^ a * who?" "Why the cat.you said was on. the shelf." "I nevrr^said there was m cat on the ahelf " " Tea. you did, too. You said the catsup on the shelf." "So I did, and I say so yet. The catsup on that# shelf, right before ytmr eyes. D<>n t yoa^s , see it ? There, in that qjtl wine bottle and h© quietly butv^rjtswiftly dodgedJA£f in out into the kitchen.--Jrreenbuth Ga-5., ; '- aette. - r •*? ^ A noted flirt of Akron, Ohio, is said to have all her love letters bound m a "a * : volume for her patior table. It it ^ Him-book, in both long and short meet- . 4 her. If thi< Toliine were to be pro­ duced to prove, that she is a heartless m i i3 104 100 111 101 110 108 99 ias 100 110 100 110 171 114 100 106 94 106 108 108 118 105 120 116 104 100 106 106 101 116 102 l.« creature she would have to plead jilty. --New York Itxlepmdmi. It is alleged that oysters found off the Texaa coast an the laigeat and bast ia the world. i