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• » f f 7 • • *'&> »•»,' v • • > dppiiiip «>MNi H [fflfntg fJIaindealet J. VM SLYKE, Editor and PMMMMT. ^"""* IcHENRY, ILLINOIS. jf /TBH Congressional Library, according 10 the Librarian's report, numbers 420,- 0*2 volumes, as against 396,788 volumes ay oar ago. ' Tax three famous Washburne broth- lib are at Eureka Springs, Ark.--Israel, at Maine; Eiihu B., of Illinoi%aad Uadwalader C., of Wisconsin. •<?* COL. B. G. INOIBSOLL gives recep­ tions to the "rich and the poor, the lame, the halt and the blind," at his residence in Washington, cm Sunday Openings. V THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company, ' li order to curtail the number of free passes over their road, will hereafter charge employes at the rate of one-half dent a mile. Outline of Chicago street ears is pro­ pelled by an endless cable, revolving around a large cylinder driven by a steam engine. The cable is always in motion, a "grip " being let fall from the ear, which seizes the cable, and the ear is dragged on until it is necessary to stop, when the" grip " is relaxed and the car stops. TJNTKVUBTEDLY New York has ""the finest police force in the world." One of them arrested a boy for walking on the grass in Central Park, and, when the Justice inquired how the culprit oould walk on the grass with six inches of snow on the ground, protested that "his footprints spoiled the appearance of the snow!" DANIEL WEBSTER'S birthplace is a farm near Franklin, N. H. G. W. Nesmith, the owner of the farm, has joined a movement started by the citi- sens of Franklin, Concord and Salisbury for a local Webster centennial on the old place next June. A field where Dan­ iel used to sit on the fence and watch his father hoe corn will be shpwn to vis­ itors. tfna. ELIZABETH CADT STANTON is 66 years of age. She wears her snow-white hair arranged in little puffs on each side of her forehead, with a band of lilac satin tied behind them, dresses neatly and becomingly, and has a matronly, motherly appearance. She has reared seven children; her youngest daughter is now studying mathematics in the Uni­ versity of Paris. Miss Susan B. Anthony is four years younger, but looks older. THS FAMILY DOCTOi. afe his landlady was the last person in I the world he would reasonably ̂have ex- | •. -m . -- , peoted to get moaey o t • -*> J f uwurea«mracy,_as usual jn guch SINGULAR as it may apoear, the ifiifttf- gration to this country from the British islands is undergoing great changes, and, while the number from Ireland is decreasing, the exodus from England, Sootland and Wales is increasing. Dur­ ing December the number of immigrants from England, Scotland and Wales was 5,181, while the number from Ireland was 2,011. For the six months ending Dec. 31 the Emerald isle sent us 227,077, while from the other islands 52,727 persons came. The apparent reasons for this are th#large investments made in this country by the English and Scotch, and the increase of silver and gold mining and reducing enterprises tha. form au important industry in Wales. Colonization schemes in this country are being undertaken by En­ glish philanthropists and others, and extra inducements are offered those peo­ ple to migrate. -- - A BECENT Washington dispatch says concerning the alleged discrepancies in the census : There is trouble ahead in the census office unless they can explain some very disagreeable things which have recently oome to light in connec­ tion with the stme. The most glaring er­ rors have been discovered, and equally glaring things done to cover them up. The manufacturers' division recently re­ ported their results, and they gave as their footings 65,000,000 more pounds of flour manufactured than the agri­ cultural division reported pounds of wheat grown. The division of final re­ sults found the contradictions and a talk was held in regard to it Strangely enough the figures of the agricultural division was accepted as against the di­ vision of manufacturers, and the latter had to be cut down to suit the amount of wheat grown. In this way the flour report of Ohio was very considerably reduced. So, also, were those of Indi­ ana, Illinois and Minnesota. The fig­ ures of Indiana were reduced 6,000,000 pounds. The result of the whole thing is that confidence has been lost in many of the returns of the Census Bureau, and much injury has been done the in­ terests of the millers who have pro­ duced flour. There does not seem to be any reason why the agricultural division figures should be accepted, as those of the division of manufacturers were ob­ tained from responsible sources, and in most cases from the millers themseves. IN his eulogy upon the late Senator Carpenter, Senator Edmunds stated what was not generally known, that Carpenter and he were boys to­ gether, and afterward met "when we were both very young and studying law at a small school-house situated in th» heart of the mountains, to oontend through a whole day and night for the rights of our respective clients in a very small affair, before a farmer Justice of the Peace and a jury of six." AN actor who, being lazy and having a bad memory, insisted that all letters and other documents which he had to read on the stage should be copied, was astonished one night while playing as Napoleon L. at finding the dispatch he ! afM)ut the 8maU"P°x . , , , . ° . * , akuit it »" was to read to his staff of Generals was a blank sheet of paper. Turning to his young aide-de-camp who brought it, and who was the author of the trick, he knitted his brow and, with a gesture of oommand,6aid: " Bead the dispatch to the staff, Colonel, while I look at the map." The aide paused, became flus­ tered, broke down and was soundly hissed by the audienoe. He wished he hadn't. . A CINCENNATIAN who had insured his life went in swimming last summer, and was taken with cramps and was drowned. The insurance companies refused to pay, pleading that death was not caused by bodily infirmities or disease, but was the result of voluntary exposure to ob­ vious and unnecessary dangers, and that the nature and cause of death were in­ capable of positive proof. Judge John­ ston, however, said that it could not have been the intention of these compa­ nies, whose principal offices were located on the seaboard, to exclude its policy holders from enjoying swimming and bathing, and that the evidence showed thai death was occasioned by cramps. A DSK7SB reporter determined to be ahead and interview Alice Oates the very night of her arrival in town. She had retired, but he knocked at the door in a very 'determined manner. "Who's there?" cried Alice. " Reporter." "What you want?" " Want interview you." " Can't to-night," " But I must." "Why?" "Very important." "Oh dear," said Alici; then she slid out cm the floor, and, mounting a chair, talked to the reporter through the transom. "Well," said she, "what is it?" "Wait," said he, and running away he soon came with a chair which he mounted from the other side. Thus they gazed mournfully at each other through, the narrow aperture. " What is it, you bad boy, that can't wait till to-morrow? Anybody dead ?" " I wanted to ask you said he. " What about it ?" " Wanted to ask if you have ever had it ?" " Bless you, no ; but they hain't got in the house, have they?" " No." " Well, then, what do you want to inquire about it ?" *' Wanted to ask if you were going to be vaccinated while here, and, if so, whether on the arm or like Emma Abbott, you know, .'* " There !" said Alice, " this beats them . all. Well, you may say that I am going ' to have it put in the back of my neck." | "Sure?" **Sure?" " Well, good-by. Thank you." " Good-by," said Alice. "Come again later," and then she said that for enterprise in searching for real news and obtaining it under difficulties, the Denver newspapers beat any in the world. Two DISTINGUISHED men have just died in Paris from a singular cause. CoL Adan, Director of the Institute Cartographique, thought he had a chair behind him, and in sitting down fell with all his weight on the floor. He died within a short time from the effects •f the accident. About ten days before M. Pirson, Governor of the Banque Na­ tionals, went to a dinner party at the Spanish Legation and sat beside the hostess. She rose from the table, and, then continuing a conversation, resumed her seat. M. Pirson followed her ex­ ample, but a footman had meanwhile removed his chair, and in his fall he injured his spine and survived only a few days. THE following incident is related by the Chicago Hews as occurring at the noon prayer meeting at Farwell Hall, in that city: Nearly a dozen requests for ^articles in the uyt*. Old and young persons are often sorely troubled by small, hard particles of matter that get under the eyelids. When children sufter in this way, their parents may not even suspect the cause of the trouble. The irritation may go on increasing for years; for the in flu mm* tion strongly resembles catarrhal con­ junctivitis, which has quite a different cause. The conjunctiva (as the termi­ nation itia in medicine always means " inflammation of," conjunctivitis means inflammation of the conjunctiva) is a mu­ cous membrane which begins near the edg9 of the lids, upper and lower, lines them, and then, turning back, covers the eyeball. It thus forms two sacs. It is is exceedingly sensitive, and is very lia­ ble to inflammation of various kinds, all painful and some very difficult to cure. A foreign body beneath the eyelid soon iufiamesit. Such a body beneath the upper lid is not as readily detected as one beneath the lower, and it is hard­ er to remove it. A child that had long suffered from what was supposed to be catarrhal infla- matinn, and for which it had been ener­ getically treated, only to grow worse, was brought to Dr. Broosa, Professor of Ophthalmology in the New York Uni­ versity. On turning back the child's upper eyelid, the source of the trouble was found in a small bud of a cherry- tree. Relief and cure followed its re­ moval. In all such cases the main tiling to do is to evert the lid. The lower lid is easily turned over the finger. If the particle is beneath the upper lid, press eases, we sent a proof-slip of the above to a very competent regular physician, who returned it without correction or addition, except as follows: "Theabove is valuable and entirely reliable, and should be widely read. Nine-tenths of the people who take nostrums for ca­ tarrh have no such disease ; but have been made to believe they suffer from it by the quacks who sell their useless and poisonous stuffs for the cure of catarrah at an immense profit. A common 'cold' is an acute catarrh^ And properly treat­ ed is soon well. Chronic catarrh of any part of the mucus tract is not so easily cured, but fortunately is much more rarely seen by physicians even than peo­ ple usually thttk."--Americian Agri­ culturist. SIMPLE REMEDY FOB CATARRH AND BRONCHITIS.--IT is now generally known that carbolic acid is strongly disinfect­ ant, and very usefully applied to putrid sores or purulent wounds. Wood creo­ sote is ̂ similar, is decidedly antiseptic and quite volatile. It is therefore nat­ ural to suppose it would be useful when applied to catarrhal and bronchial af­ fections^ which, arise from diseased or putrefying mucus. We learned of its use for this purpose from Dr. Pescetto, * leading physician in the noted Italian medical school in Genoa, Italv. We have since recommended the following statement in many cases with the best results. It can do no harm, is simple, and is eminently worthy of trial, both for temporary and chronic affections: For Bronchitis.--Get from the drug­ gists a little good wood creosote. Put two drops of it into a bottle holding a pint or so. Pour in a little more than half a pint of clear water, and whalta it well; also shake well always before using it Take a mouthful of this, throw the head back, gargle it some time in the throat, and then swallow it. Repeat this every two hours, more or less, so as to use up the liquid within twenty-four hours. For each subse­ quent twenty-four hours use three drops of the creosote in three to four gills of water. This three drops a day may he continued as long as any bronchitis ap­ pears. Two to four days is usually enough, though it may be continued in­ definitely without harm. For Catarrh.--Prepare the creosote water as above, in any amount, at the rate of one drop of creosote to one gill of water (four drops to the pint), or a little more water if the creosote be very strong and the water too irritating. Make a fresh mixture once in two or three days, and as much oftener as more is needed. Take a handful of this water, previously well shaken, and snuff it through the nose into the mouth, and eject it. A little going down the throat will do no harm. Do this two or three times, and repeat it at bedtime, in the morning on rising, and, if need be, oc­ casionally during the day. In fact, keep the nasal passages washed out with creo­ sote water. Its vapor will even penetrate the l>ony cavities, and also be drawn into the lungs with useful results. It des­ troys the purulent muous, and tends to prevent its futher secretion. It is useful for any discharges from the nose or lungs produced by colds or general weakness. For bronchitis, and espec­ ially for catarrh, good rare cooked beef or other nourishing food, and quinine, if needed, to obtain and retain a vigorous system are capital aids to the creosote or any oilier medicine. prayer were read by J. W. Dean. Two i the lid against the eyebrow and have the were from young men in financial diffi­ culty. A man who had made several attempts to get the floor finally succeed­ ed, and said he believed in direct answers to prayer. One night he didn't know where his breakfast was coming from. He kneeled down and prayed, and before leaving his room the idea struck him to ask his landlady for some money. He did it, and she said "Certainly." This he oooiiciered a direct answer to prayer, patient look down. Then seize the eye­ lashes and edge of the lid and turn the lid quickly over the thumb. Remove the speck with a handkerchief and show it to the patient; for tie will often feel for some time as if the objeot were still in the eye. HUMILITY is everywhere preached, and pride practiced; they persuade others to labor for heaven, and fall out about earth themselves ; their lives are contrary to their doctrines, and their doctrines one to another. The Vegetable Origin ef Diphtheria. In a lecture before the Academy of Natural Science, in Philadelphia, Prof. H. C. Wood, of that city, gave a state­ ment of the results of certain researches upon the nature of diphtheria, undertak­ en by him and Dr. H. F. Formad, at the instigation of the National Board of Health. In this pursuit Dr. Formad visited an infected town on Lake Michigan, where one-third of all the children in a marshy district died of the epidemic, and brought back with him specimens of the diph­ theria virus, several of the false mem­ branes which are invariably formed in the throats of afflicted persons, and por­ tions of their viscera. % In all blood, said the professor, as reported by a Philadel­ phia paper, there are two kinds of cor­ puscles, the red or color-giving, and the white. By careful study and experi­ ments, both in human beings and the lower animals, it was found that this infinitesimal plant fastens upon the white corpuscles and multiplies its cells, alter­ ing their character until, with the inter­ ior destroyed, they burst; and the plants, set loose in an irregular mass, separate and go off individually, to continue the destructive work on other corpuscles. Thus increased, they poisou the blood, choke the vessels, and are found in myriad numbers in the spleen and other organs rich in blood. Prof. Wood's in­ vestigations show that the false mem­ brane, supposed to invariably indicate the presence of diphtheria, may be caused by ammonia, Spanish fly, or any other irritating influence in the throat so that its presence is not ir fallible as indicating the presence of this disease. But in any case the false membrane is built up by this parasitical plant, which grows and'multiplies upon its inflamed surroundings, whatever may be its cause. It is when the plants grow strong enough to extend to the blood, either poisoning it themselves or carrying the poison with them, that diphtheria sets in. This little plant is exactly the same as found UDon the coated tongue. When Prof. Wood put plants such as are found upon a healthy tongue in sterilized matter they failed to grow. On the contrary, plants from the throat or blood of a per­ son affected with diphtheria multiplied rapidly. The practical result of the investigation pointed out was the possi­ bility that diphtheria, if existing theo­ ries hold good, may be prevented by artificial vaccination. In the case of splenic fever caught from animals, which has been proved to originate in a somewhat similar plant, Pasteur, has found that the plant, when exposed a sufficient time to the air, by the action of oxygen loses its virulent character, and when then introduced in­ to the system make the animal sick, but is no longer fatal. The deduction is that thin diphtheric plant, scientifically known as "micrococcus," may in time be cultivated so that when inoculated with it the system will no longer be subject to it in its fatal form. Conclud­ ing the lecture, Prof. Wood was ap­ plauded when he said that these discov­ eries could never have been made but for the aid of vivisection, against which there is a foolish prejudice in the minds of many. Husbands and Wires. A good husband makes a good wife. Some men can neither do without wives nor with them ; they are wretched alone in -what is called single blessedness, and they make their home miserable when they get married ; they are like Tomp­ kins'dog, which could not bear to be loose, and howled when it was tied up. Happy bachelors are likely to be happy husbands, and a happy husband is the happiest of men. A well:matched couple carry a joyful life between them, as the two spies carried the cluster of EshcoL They are a braoe, of birds of Paradise. They multiply their joys by sharing them, and leftMtt their troubles by divid­ ing them ; this is She arithmetic. The wagon of care toBi lightly along as they pull together, laid When. it drags a little heavily, or there's a bitch anywhere, they love each other all the more, and so lighten the labor.- -John Ploughman. The Terrors of a Fox Bite. As" an evidence that the bite of other animals is sometimes as dangerous as that of a dog, says the London Tele­ graph, we may adduoe the well-known case of the grandfather of the j: resent duke of Richmond, who was governor general of Canada in the year 1818, and died there in the August of 1819, from the effects of a fox's bite. The story was elaborately told by the late Lord Wil­ liam Lennox, in his "Fifty Years of Biographical Reminisenees," and is well calculated to warn careless readers of a not uninteresting volume against the danger of putting their hands within reach of a so-called tame, but really wild and chained-up fox. We are informed by Lord William Lennox that his father had determined on a tour of inspection to the upper province of Canada, and after a farewell banquet to his civil and milit ary subordinates, the duke set off in the midsummer of 1819 from Quebec, in a government steamer, whose head was pointed up the St, Lawrence river. Lord William accompanied his father, on whose staff he waa serving as military aid-de-camp, as far as Montreal, whence the governor general made his way to Fort William Heury, lying on the south bank of the great Canadian stream. "Here," says Lord William, "occurred an incident of the most frightful nature, which totally changed the aspect of our hitherto happy residence in this n.stant colony," It appears that one of the English soldiers at Fort William Henry had a pet fox, and that an officer there, named Capt Fitz Roy, owned a bull terrier, between which and the fox there had been several flghts. The fox was in a highly excited condition on the day when the duke happened to take notice of him, and just before mounting his horse to inspect the garrison, he rashly stooped down to pat the fox on the head. The animal instantly snapped at the duke's hand, biting him slightly, upon which he took hold of the fox's ear, ex­ claiming: "You'll bite, will you, you rascal?" The brute at once seized him Bear the lower joint of the right thumb, making his teeth meet in the flesh. Little was thought of the incident, and when the duke arrived at Kingston a fortnight later, the wound had com­ pletely healed. He proceeded from Kingston to York--now called Toronto-- and thence went to Niagara, and on to Drammond's Island, upon Lake Huron, then the most distant of our military outposts in Canada, On his return he stayed some days at Kingston, and had himself entirely forgotten that he was ever bitten by the fox. The 70th regi­ ment was quartered at Kingston, and the duke took part with the officers in all their amusements, playing at cricket and rackets, and riding out with them frequently. It had been arranged that on his way back to Montreal, a new settlement or township named Rich- mondville should be visited, and the land marked out under the duke's super­ vision. For this purpose, m there was no carriage-road,, and only a small por­ tion of the distance---thirty miles--oould be accomplished on horseback. It be­ came necessary that the vice-regal party should proceed on toot, On the occasion to Wliiyh we are re­ ferring, a large and men? party set out from Kingston, and among them none was gayer or seemingly in better health than the governor general himself. He walked nearly the whole way to Rich- mondville without fatigue; but one night, just as dinuer was ended, he sud­ denly turned to Col. Cockburn, who was seated by his side, and remarked: "I don't know how it is, but I can't relish anything to-night as usual, and I feel that if I were a dog I should be shot for a mad one." The words were little re­ garded, but on the following morning the duke's symptoms became aggravat­ ing. He could not drink, and shrank from the sight of water. He was pre­ vailed on to walk by the river side, iu order to get into a canoe, and exclaim­ ing, "Charles Lennox was never afraid of anything," he stepped, not without a considerable effort, into the boat. The sound of the plashing oars and the sight of the running stream, however, soon brought on an acute fit of pronounced rabies, and seizing one of the rowers frantically by the throat, he demanded to be put on shore. No sooner had the boat touched the land than the duke sprang out and ran »t full speed into the woodr. Col. Cockburn, who was on horseback, rode after him, and assisted by one of the boatmen, managed to ear­ ly the sufferer to an adjoining- farm, where he wao laid on a sofa. Here the ripple of (he -rater was distinctly audi­ ble, and he bogged to be moved farther away from the river. He was taken to a barn a hundred y&~-dr distant, where he was placed on a bed of straw. He now grew more calm, called for writing ma­ terials, and wrote a letter to one of his daughters. He seemed perfectly resigned to the fate he knew was approaching, and recognized the faces of the friends who stood anxiously by his couch. To­ wards the close of the day he was seized with shivering fits, and his extremities became icy cold. He remained perfect­ ly conscious, awaiting his end with tran­ quility, although suffering unimaginable torttires, and about 8 o'clock in the even ing, breathed his last More than sixty years have passed sinee the duke of Richmond's lamentable death, and since then the bite of a rabid animal has lost none of its terrors for humanity, nor have physicians come as yet to a distinct understanding how a wound thus inflict­ ed may be3t be treated. Loafing. Many persons who would scorn the idea of telling a lie, will yet be guilty of acting a lie their whole lives. They will perhaps be engaged to work for another a certain number of hours, yet will shirk or but half do their work, making their life a lie. It is as much a crime to act falsely as to speak falsely. It is an un­ satisfactory and an unprofitable thing to be a loafer. Once fully embarked on the sea of loaferdom, and you bid fare­ well to every friendly sail that sails un­ der an honest and legitimate flag. Your eonsorts will only be the bui*)£.r»eers of society. It costs money, for, though the loafer may not earn a cent or have one for months, the time lost might have procured him much money, if devoted to industry instead of sloth. It costs health, vigor, comfort, all the true pleasures of living, honor, dignity, self- respect, and the respect erf the world when living, and finally, all right of con­ sideration when dead. Be a gentleman then, it is far cheaper. DUBINO the ninth waltz, Oscar, point­ ing to his boots, remarked to Feliciana : " You can't say I have no polish." " No," said she, "but you skine at the wrong end." ; •*;.* njjan»ww»i THEBE are WpriMBpm in jail tn Chi­ cago. JOHN FLINN, a Chicago journalist, has been appointed Consul at Chemnitz, with a salary of $2,000. THEBE are 134 inmates in the La Salle oounty asylum--the largest number the house has ever had at one time. IT is claimed by Streator papers that the Burlington road ships about 3,000 tons of coal per day from that point. A YOUNG man of Springfield, on being halted bv two foot-pads, drew a revolver and held them until policemen arrived. A FARMER named Howard, residing in Munster, La Salle oounty, had four horses shot by some unknown persons one night last week. / y ANDREW OLSON, of Chioago, who thought he was going to have small-pox, drank two quarto of whisky by way of antidote, and died in half an hour. AT the blast furnace of the Calumet Iron and Steel Company, at Irondale, near Chicago, five men were suffocated by gaa. Two of them have died. THE Methodists of Mattoon are in­ censed against their preacher, Mr. Vil- lars, for having allowed his wife to preach in his pulpit oa the evening of Jan. 16. Miss WALSH suod Hammond Piatt in the Superior Court of Chicago for breach of promise of marriage and obtained a verier of $4,250. Both parties live in Hyde Park. A SWINDLES has been going around the streets of Chicago vaccinating peo­ ple at 25 cents an arm with mucilage. He pretended to be an employe of the Health Department. AT Lawrenceville, Miss Seed, Post­ mistress of the town, recently superseded, took a fatal dose of chloroform, either with suicidal intent or to cure toothache. She died in a few hours. THE saloons of Springfield now pay nearly $15,000 annual licenses, and a local paper is urging that the saloons may be made to pay more, enough, in­ deed, to pave the streets, the limits of the municipal taxation having been reached. % A CORRESPONDENT of the State Jour nal,, visiting Southern Illinois, writes : The people in all the counties I have been over are very much dissatisfied with the Chicago and St. Louis papers for saying they are all starving to death, statements which are far from being true, although the people are truly in bad circumstances. StiU they <li»Iilt« to be misrepresented. THE Lincoln Journal tells this: " Girls ought to be warned of the fear­ ful danger to be incurred in marrying railroad men, especially brakemeu. It is related that the other night a member of that hard-working fraternity, on being aroused from a dream of an im­ pending crash, was found by the neigh­ bors sitting up in bed, holding hia wife by the ears, having nearly twisted the terrified woman's head offm hii» ineffect­ ual attempts to ' down brakes.'" THE Bloomington papers are authori­ ty for the statement that Miss Caverly, of Ottawa, will not accept any of the 850,000 lately awarded in the celebrated suit for damages. After duly compen­ sating the lawyers, she will ask that the balance be appropriated to* some char­ itable object. The suit, as far as she was concerned, was for vindication, and, having obtained this, she is reported to be disinclined to have the payment of money to her associated with the vindi­ cation. The bodies of three dead men were recently found in the woods, near the btuiks of the Embarrass river, in Law renpe county. The faces went to show they had been dead about three weeks. Lying a hundred yards inland, on a little knoll'the men, wet, cold and hungry, had probably perished by exposure. They were last seen at the funeral of James Price, in the lower edge of Crawford county, where they resided, all more or less under the influence of whisky, and it is remembered that they indulged in some of the most disgraceful conduct imaginable, cursing, carousing, etc., which was wound up by one of them being pushed into the open grave made for the old man Price. The friends com­ plained more or less at this lawless state of affairs, and strong talk of arresting and fining them was indulged in. The young men, becoming acquainted with the feeling entertained by the neighbors in regard to the matter, prepared to leave the couuty, and repairing to the bank of the Embarrass river, where an old and dilapidated boat was tied up, they stole it and launched it in the swollen stream at nightfall, bound for Cairo. From the place of launching the boat to where the bodies were found is about fourteen miles, and it is supposed the trip was made that far without mis­ hap. Near where they were found it is supposed the boat struck an eddy or swirl and capsized them, and, being near a large drift in the river, they either swam ashore at once or, waiting till the morning dawn gave them an idea of their whereabouts, then made the trip to tiie little knoll a hundred yards in­ land. A man living three-quarters of a mile from where they were found now remembers to have heard hallooing from that direction three weeks ago last Sun­ day. It is plain that, surrounded by water as they were, and not knowing in which direction to go, thev were in hopes of some one coming to their rescue un­ til, wet and benumbed by cold, they finally perished. Marks and tracks are plainly visible where they had run around the trees near by in their efforts to keep warmth in their bodies. Au in quest was held, and the bodies conveyed to their friends in Crawford couuty. he would send one around to her house the next day just like ik--CfooMutotf Commercial. Oaly Seieitj-Hflne Killed and Wounded. Before the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, concerning the dangera and disasters of the revenue service, is laid away among the forgotten records of Congress, we would bespeak in its behalf the earnest consideration of the country. The Associated Press flashes along its wires page after page of mat­ ter, detailing the minutest circumstances of the Soteldo shooting affray, but is easily content with a meager sentence, as an epitome of this official paper. Nor does the body to whom it was referred appear to have accorded it anything more of respect than the cold charity <5 its silence. The moth is waiting on the dusty shelf to consume this testimony of offi­ cial duty heroically done, but before the messenger takes it there, we would touch his shoulder as in ihe play, and say, "Soft you, a word or two before you go." This dispatch simply writes down the gallant list as twenty-nine killed and fifty wound­ ed, and the House lays it upon the table and the country carelessly for- geta it. Who, how and where killed? Is the war not over, or has there been some skirmishing on the dead line of the Lost Cause ? Should not this statement of seventy-nine Federal officers killed and wounded in times of profound peace give us pause ? These murdered men are employes of the nation in the enforce­ ment of its laws necessary to its reve­ nue. The nation lives by this tax, and is bound to enforce it, equally and im­ partially. The citizen who refuses his honest dues is want'ng in his civil duty, but he who takes up arms and resists the process of a necessary law is not on­ ly disloyal and unlaithful, but he is an enemy and a rebel. If he goes further and wounds or kills the officer, then he adds to the offense of disloyalty the aw­ ful crime of murder and becomes an out­ law, who should feel the vengeance of his country. Is it not a startling fact in the history of this republio that in any pert of our country the enforcement of its revenue laws should oost the lives of so many good and true men? Is it not still more startling that this bloody sacrifice should be demanded in a section of the country where the authority of the Union was so desperately defied, and where the boast is made that the unruly spirit has been exchanged for the perfect ardor of patri­ otic loyalty and devotion ? Does this new record of Federal dead and wounded look like a late vision of the "bloody shirt," or is it to be laughed down under the bitter ridicule of that phrase? If it appears that this ghastly record is true, is it to be sneered out of existence like the horrible outrages of the Klan, and the violence and intimida­ tion that wrenched a dozen States from the Republican party? Is the miserable charge that "we are waving the bloody shirt" to be the ail-sufficient reply to this official statement of Southern mur­ der? Is the humble story of heroic de­ votion, hidden in this mere summary of casualties, to be banished from bur grate­ ful memory? j If midnight raids, whippings, oat- rages, murder, tissue ballots and all manner of atrocity are proved to illus­ trate the sectional spirit, the answer is " Pshaw ! it is all bosh'--a wave of the bloody shirt." If Davis says the rebel­ lion is not dead, but Bleeping, and the Republicans take him at his word, the answer is " Davis is a lunatic, and you are at the bloody shirt again." And now, when the official head of a department of the Government, in re sponse to a resolution of Congress, re­ ports that twenty-nine men of his offi­ cers have been butchered and fifty wounded, the same answer, underscored in blood, will be made by the Demo­ cratic party. It is the first time in the history of the world that disloyalty and outrage have been ridiculed out of pub­ lic recognition by a miserable para­ phrase.--Omaha Republican. A Remarkable Young New Yorker, A young exquisite, the son of a cele­ brated New York ropemaker, is exciting much good-natured laughter by his ex­ ceeding daintiness and lavish display. He has lately attained his majority, and is anxious evidently to dispense the large income he finds at his command. He has forty coats, an umbrella for each shade of dress, and canes and scarf pins innumerable. He said he had to get a brougham because he had to goto his lawyer's so often, and he has beside a two-wheeler and a Russian sleigh, with horses to match. He has flowers sent to his room twice a day, and when he walks with a young lady he always buys fo»* her a most expensive bouquet. He spent $4,500 in fitting up two rooms in his mother's house. He wears three mar­ velous rings upon hia hand--a cat's-eye set in hammered gold, a red cat's-eye with two diamonds and a sapphire set with two diamonds. His shirt buttons are two pearls set in diamonds, and also ; a cat's-eye set in the same preciotu stones. He has five dozen pairs of silk hose with his monogram upon them, and he has a cane in which is concealed a cologne fountain. To a young lady who admixed one of hia rings he kindly aaid Revised History of John Andre* [Bill Nye.] John Andre was borA of Swiss parents in 1751. If he had lived, therefore, he would be 130 years old. He entered the British army at the tge of 20, and was sent to Amerioa in 1774, with the rank of lieutenant. He was a fine looking young man and a good waltzer, aud so rapidly obtained promotion until 1779, when he became adjutant with the rank of major. Being by birth a Swiss, and having early ac­ quired the habit of carrying a Sweitzer- aase in his coat-pocket, ne outranked almost the entire British army. Benedict Arnold having offered to trade West Point to the British for $2.50 and » meal ticket, Andre was selected to make the transfer and deliver the goods. He visited Arnold, and having re- 3eived from him the maps and the town plot, with a warranty deed Of West Point, and the right to pay the out­ standing indebtedness of the town, to- gether with a trip pass to New York City, he started out. Near Tarrytown he was intercepted by three armed snoozers who belonged to the American army, and who seemed inquisitive about his destination. They asked him a lot of impudent questions about where he was going, and how he liked it as far as he had gone, and then wound up by asking him to turn his pockets wrong side out fear their diver­ sion. Then they asked him to take off his boots, but he told them he had a hole in one of his socks, and he felt a little reserved about disrobing his feet in the presence of three total strangers. They insisted, however, and when they had pulled his boots off, they found the documents which gave him away. He tried to bribe them with a Tobias watch and some fine cut chewing tobac­ co, but they were noblej patriotic men, and they told him they couldn't be played for Chinamen. * Then he offered them his horse if they would let him go, but they found thst the animal was a condemed government horse with saddle galls on him as big as a door mat, and with his off hind leg out of plumb about ninety degrees. So they told him that their love of country over­ balanced even his princely offer, and they took him to Colonel Jameson. Andre was tried by a board of generals as a spy, and sentenced to be hung. The day before his death he drew a very flattering picture of himself, which is now in Trumbull gallery, at Yale college. Since his death the crop of Tobias watches which he offered to bribe his captors with, has increased to such an alarming extent, that good new watches, without any pedigree to speak of, have been greatly depressed in price.' Although Andre was considered a noble young officer, and his untimely death greatly deplored, his awful fate should stand up before us as a living monument to this day and generation, and as a warning throughout ail time never to bite off more than you can shew. GEMS OF THOUGHT moderating mere im- Au romances e WISDOM lies in press: ons. I A8SKBT thai cariosity is not the nopoly of sex.--Joaquin Miller. THEBE is a loquacity which ing, and there is a silence which much. IF THE poor nan cannot always meat, the rich man cannot always di­ gest it. IT SEEMS that beauty is part of the finished language ty which goodneŝ speaks. THE creed of the true saint is to make the best of life, and m*V° the most of it, --Chapin. HALF the pleasure of a feeling Use in being able to express it on the spur of the moment. DON'T assume the attitude of saying--* lee how clever I am, and whatnm everybody else is! THKY that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety dfr- lerves neither liberty nor safety. GREAT ideas travel slowly, and for a time noieslessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.--Garfield. JLoVK is muter of &11 irt*, - ' V,. And puts into human hearts The strangest things to say and do. _ 3 -H W. LmjMm. M THAT indifference to fate which,,, fj- a- though it often makes a villain of a is the basis of MB sublimity when ^ ^ does not. " REFLECT upon yoor present blessings--I i of which every man has many--not oo|! V your past misfortunes of which all nteo ̂ have some. f EVERY man's work, pursued steadily^, tends to become an end in itself, andf} *;;;® goes to bridge over the loveless chasing/ " ft of his life. i- LOOK on this beautiful world sad read the tislt In her fair page; see every season brings New change to her of everlasting^out C. Bryant. M THAT quick sensibility which is thei groundwork of all advances towards per-*! * 1 fection increases the pungency of pains . . and vexations. i fs VICE may be defined to be a miscall ̂ eulationof chances, a mistake in esti- mating the value of pleasure and pains. - It is false arithmetic. - No ojfK is accurscd by fate, " Mo one so utterly desolate, T . But some heart though uaknown Be*ponds unto hia own. V* --U. W. WE ABB members of one great bodyi Nature has made us relatives when it begat us from the same materials an^ .̂̂ p ̂ for the same destines f vl SHAKESPEARK sets Ms readers' souls oil fire with flashes of genius; his comment tators follow close behind with hncketaf ; Of water putting out the flames. ̂ C . DIFFICULTY, abnegation, death are the aUuremeuts that act on heart of mau. Kindle the inner genii life of him, you have a flame that bn up ail lower considerations, I SHOULD as soon think of swimi across Charles River when I wish to to Boston as of reading all my books originals when I have them rend for wits iu mj uuuiei toiigue, ton. MEN thin away into insignificance am ,̂ ̂ oblivion quite as often by not making ,̂ ' ; . '« the most of good spirits when they hav#> , - them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable. ' ? t ^ THOSE who have the power of re* I . J proaching in silence, may mid it a mean#- < > . more effective than words. There ar#V accents in the eye which ate not on th£ ' 3 tongue, and more tales oome from pal« | lips than can enter an ear. ^ 5" BY CULTIVATING an interest in a few 1 good books which contain the result of . > < the toil or the quintessence of the geniuit .« ^ i of some of the most gifted thinkers \ 1 the world, we need not live on the marsh*' v and in the mists. The slopes and ridgse invite us. . 2 ̂ Russian Exiles in Siberia. Knch that is erroneous prevails as to the character of prisoners sent to Siberia < J from Russia, as well as in regard tothej# ̂ ̂ oondition and treatment in that land of, _ i,'* bondage. Every year the prisoners sen-. . tenced to Siberia are collected at Mos-> ' cow, or some other central point, and thence sent forward to their aestinatio; in parties of various sizes. They go the penal territory in the su months, or from May to October. vast crowd that assembled last May Moscow aggregated about 12,000 per*-. sons, and yet it was affirmed by carefu^J statisticians that probably not more than 1,000 of these were sentenced to hardis labor. There are several facts to bo borne in mind in regard to the criminals. who are banished to Siberia, the nature^ . of the crimes for which they are con-, v ^ victed, and the character of their pun-t , ishment. in Russia there is no capital - punishment, except for treason or crimeafenl^ of that nature. The courts sentence; criminals to the mines in Siberia, to ser-jj// vice as laborers at fortresses, to impris-L>r', onment at home, to banishment to the^ •> colonies in Siberia, or to lighter punish-v A ^ ment in reformatory institutions. , The* „ | convicts Bent to the mines m Siberia are'*; / J the most hardened persons, such ^ murderers, etc. The life led by that| class in the mines is said to be deplora­ ble beyond anything in any other country. Persons who have been con­ victed of ordinary penitentiary offenses. are sent to the penal colonies, and their s. families have the privilege of accom­ panying them. It is stated that many ^ vagrants are sent to these colonies. ^ There the colonists, as the prisoners ' may be called, are under the supervision < of the government, and are given laud ^ and allowed the proceeds of their own labor. It is claimed that this system ; V, has been attended with excellent results, ,, % these colonists becoming prosperous and ^ forming orderly, thriving settlements, v, and doing much to develope the country " ~ and civilize the natives. More than one- ; ' \ half the population of Siberia is com­ posed of banished Russians, or the descendants of exiles. A few facts may be of interest in reference to the crimes committed and the number of oonvie- tions secured. Of the persons arrested for or accused of crime, about 17 per cent, are convicted and sentenced. Of the number of convicted, about 2 per cent, are sentenced to hard labor in Siberia, about 4 per cent, to exile in the Siberian colonies, about 12 per :ent. to labor in forts, about 25 per cent, to im­ prisonment, and the remainder to lighter punishments. It should be added that, besides the families of exiles, some Siberia as volunteer immigrants. : - - a Mopping or Staying. * m Hypercritical folks will have it that it is not proper to say " stopping " aft » hotel " Staying ** is the right expres­ sion. In the name of common sense, why? A person "stops" where he "stays," doesn't he? And, if there is any choice between the words, " stop" should be preferred. A majority of toe patrons of hotels remain but a single night To stay at a place rather irrrpftiie a long period. But either K&T UUINJMI r* • \' ̂ " wism&m-:-