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If ^ ^ ^ * * EPKT- •W ^ ijij*S i':."i-fe^; ;•. ,- $•:£. .. : V.-..̂ !'*',/. . 1^ 1 _ _:'.\; * l' jlcHENBT, JMilSOIS. ROBERT TOOMBS is losing his eyeaght «od "will soon be entirely blind. # , . V TH> Kentaoky Legislature hn voted J $5,000 to be used for stocking the rivers "of the State with choioe varieties of fish. GUN. ABXSTBONO, the Indian College principal, of Hampton, Va., is in favor ©f employing Indians as police Instead tof the military at the frontier. ~ •* THS raster of a wealthy St. Loais mer- 1 * îuuit was allowed by him to die in a *'" |K>or- house and be buried in the Potter's field, although before dying she begged v bim to give her remains a respectable $nriaL IMJESOIS has the largest number of -jjensionera--19,619---of any of the north. • Western tier of States. Indiana has 14,- *166, Iowa 10,925, Michigan 11,468, Wis. n * fsonsin 9,126, Kansas 7,524, Minnesota, 3,952 and Nebraska 287. In the whole | Country there are 269,861 persons draw- % fag pensions, and the money paid to " iheni amounts in the aggregate to 829,- ̂̂ 63,469 annually. This is about the sum £2 it the entire national debt in 1868. isthatetfeaamflssof bed are entitled to protection from tl»ef weakened and disofciod condition which snch treatment entails. There is a Unit­ ed States law which requires that cattle in transit shall be fed and watered at least once every twenty-eight boon (they ought to have water as often * as every ten or twelve hoarfe), but the law seems to be violated with impunity by the railroads and dealers. The Tr ibune thinks the various societies for the pre­ vention of cruelty to animals which are located in the different cities ought to form a league and appoint competent agents to keep strict watch over the transportation of live stock with the pur­ pose of compelling the railroads to ob­ serve strictly the very lenient require­ ments of the law, and if possible to se­ cure even better care than a strict com­ pliance with the law would afford. S ,.R;, JOHN SKAE, or "Johnny," as he usod / So be called at champagne suppers, ma- | 1-̂ ftipulated Sierra Nevada stock so suc­ cessfully six yearB ago that he became a I' 4; Millionaire to whom San Francisco paid v. obeisance. Then he slipped, lost every foliar, became a vagabond, and last year " * '%ras committed to prison for drunken- I' ,/ttess. Now he is out again in broadcloth », .find beaver, and persons say that he re- - aently cleared $250,000 in mining spec- • 'llations. : A T Harrisburg, Pa., while a circus ;. v«f%aa starting on its street parade, one of the elephants wandered from the herd, 1 and could not be controlled, and, in his J excitement, rushed toward the crowd, ̂ trhicli swayed back in much excitement. ̂A lady named Wise had a baby carriage f:r charge with a child in it, and in her efforts to get out of the crowd found herself and carriage in front of the ele­ phant. With great presence of mind rs. Wise snatched her child from the carriage, and the next instant the front , . Jpot of the monstex crushed down in the ̂ * i <mi#g6 t̂fl6pp)etely demolishing it' " OATH," in one of his letters te the Cincinnati Enquirer, from'New York, • .. reports a conversation between him and Montrose Pallen, who was promi- ' Bent in the recent great convention of ̂ physicians in London, from which we take the following: " I asked Dr. Fal­ len, among other things, if he thought ' ̂ ' there was any connection between lager beer and Bright's disease. 'The man,' he, * who habitually drinks beer is sure to have Bright's disease. Beer in targe quantities is one of the worst things man a canjruih his stomach with, fin Germany, where the students drink a great deal of beer, their kidneys and •gadders are always affeoted." i&s P A WASHINGTON letter writer recalls reminiscence of a fat Senator: The r; mishap to Senator Davis, of Illinois, last ' week in the Senate, by the breaking of a chair on which he dropped for a rest- ' > ing spell, reminds a gentleman here of Senator Dixon H. Lewis, of Alaoama, who was a bigger man even than Sena­ ry:. |or Davis. He was BO fat that when he laid down in bed he could not get up without assistance,, and so he was accus- - tomed to fasten a leather strap to the ̂ foot of the bed by which he pulled him­ self up when alone. When he came •;:v/ down the stairs of the hotel to the street the hackmen all fled. He was the big- f*; gest man that ever sat in the Senate, and was a general favorite lor his jovial * i' nature. SI . A "TIN-BOOFKB" thinks that those of This trade are the most God-forsaken, riave-driven folks on the footstool, and * j floes not believe that people have any Idea of their sufferings. In the summer I they kneel down all day on the hot and burning tin, faces almost on a level with . Jhe roof, the sun unmercifully pouring Upon overtaxed spinal columns, and fire pots filled with burning char- ' jboal on all sides. The heat from the tin !; Ijpakes a man's head feel as though he was in a kettle of boiling water. When ̂ the cold and cruel winter sets in they are ^^almost frozen to death by the bitter, ©hilling winds, and have hardly life tnough left to reach the ground in safe- 1 ' %•. Of all the skilled laborers concerned ; In house building, they are the poorest ̂ jpaid, for on an average the most skillful |' -roofer cannot make more than $8 a week 'all the year lound. The only time the t " newspapers refer to roofers is when one ' pf them falls from a roof and is picked mp dead. Then all they say is that he X " .leaves a widow and six or eight children ̂ y ̂jko mourn his loss. He omits, however, <, ' fo suggest any remedy, tor, in this lati- H ̂ tude at any rate, the summer sun is al- » ^ways hot, and the winters are always if'•'"told. FBOOFS of Quite -u's sanity were shown in a paper read at the last monthly meet­ ing of the Mew York Medioo-Legai Society by Dr. William A. Hammond. The analysis 'jras prepared in obedience to a request from District Attorney Corkhill, oi Washington, expressed through ex-Judge John K. Porter. " Guiteau appears from evidence," said Dr. Hammond, " to be a man whose original organization has been bad, physically, mentally and especially mor­ ally depraved. His depraved organ­ ization has given him a bias or inclina­ tion to crooked an perverse ways of life. He has been calltd a crank, and, from the frequency with which he applies this designation to himself, he Beems to adopt it. If by this term is understood one warped and naturally given to crooked, perverse and ill-regulated ways of life, it suits him ; but it is far from meaning insanity in his case. His men­ tal and moral organization is a singular* ly unbalanced and perverted one. Such a combination of mental acuteness with diabolical moral depravity and perver­ sity is seldom met with. In Ouiteau's case three prominent symptoms belong­ ing to insanity are wanting--restlessness, sleeplessness and want of appetite. There was no wildnees nor incoherenoy of lan­ guage, neither was there anything fan­ tastic in his appearance to attract atten­ tion. He passed for an ordinary vaga bond of the better class and office-seeking dead-beat, and the whole history of the man, as set forth in his own testimony, his cool preparation for the murder, his subsequent efforts for self-protection, his own conception of the plea of insan­ ity based on the assumption of Divine inspiration, go far to establisn his san­ ity. The case of Guiteau is, as I regard it, one of chronic progressions! motal depravity of a very low form." The Summit of the Earth. . Adolphus Schlagintweit, the immortal through unpronounceable explorer of Central Asia, oalls the highland of Pamir "die Welt-Zinne"--the roof of the world. On the road from Punjaub to Yarkand four passes have to be crossed that are higher than 17,500 feet, and for a distance of 280 miles the halting- ground is not below the height of Pike's Peak. On the eastern plateau of the Beloor-Dagh there is a, shelter-house near a cliff, from whose summit the main ohain of the Himalayas with all its giant peaks and immeasurable ice fields is in full view from the highlands of Lassa to the sources of the Indus, while in the west the head waters of the Oxus and Jazartes can be traced to the borders of Cabook, where the peaks of the Hindoe- Koosh lift their crests of everlasting snow. In spring the echo of the ava­ lanches resembles the boom of continu­ ous thunder, and in midwinter, when the storm-wind sweeps the table land, whirl­ ing pillars of snow send along the ridges, and often? seem to dance together like specters in their fluttering wind-sheets. Our 'Land of the Sky" in the Southern All eg] tames must be a mere piazza com­ pared with top-roof of the earth.--Pop­ ular Science Monthly. -•i •; ̂ TH* Chicago Tribune prints an ac- of the miseries which cattle are & " ' • Compelled to undergo in journeying from the first railroad shipping point in the f %Test to the final termination in New •1 York. It is a dreadful piotqre. Crowd- ' ed into close cars, they are left for days | ' j»t a time without food or water, and in v. •*' this wretched condition they push, bruise ̂and horn each other, and trample down 6 .• any poor beast that falls from exhaust- | J,.1,'fcn. There are two considerations which « should make such treatment criminal, * ; and lead to adequate punishment for ; ̂those who are responsible. The first is ; ̂ __ that sucli oiuelty to dumb and helpless animals Jsa disgraoe tothe nineteenth Saving and Marking Garden Seeds. Ever sinoe I can remember, it has been customary to save some garden seeds every year ; such as beans, peas, melons, cucumbers, turnips and mus­ tard. A few families save a great many kinds of seeds. We should save more seed than we do. We would know more about our garden seeds if we raised and saved them at home. I will give a few hints about saving seeds. It has been and is yet largely the custom of farmers' wives to have little bundles tied up in rags and little pockets, which must all be untied at planting time to see of what kinds they are, and all depends upon the memory how old the seeds are. My plan is to gather them when thoroughly ripe, put them up in papers of suitable size, and write on the papers the name of seed and date of year in which they were raised. For example, " Bed-fleshed Watermelon, 1881," So soon as you look at this label you know what is in the paper; this saves untying a dozen bundles of various seeds. It costs next to nothing.--J. If. in Cincinnati Farm­ ing World. /- A Roman Custom. The ancient Romans were passionately fond of roses. To enjoy their scent at me^ls an abundance of roses were shaken on the table, so that the dishes were completely surrounded. By an artfieial oontrivance, roses, during the meals, de­ scended on the guests from above. Heil- ogabalus, in his folly, caused roses to be showered upon his guests in such quan­ tities that a number of them were suf­ focated in flowers. During meal times they reclined on cushions stuffed with rose leaves. Cleopatra, at an enormous expense, procured roses for a feast which she gave to Antony, and had them laid two cubits thick on the floor of the banquet-room, and then caused nets to be spread over the flowers, in order to render the footing elastic. Heliogabalus caused not only the banquet-rooms, but »l«n the colonades that led to them, to be covered with roses, interspersed with lilies, violets, hyacinths and narcissus and walked about on the flowery plat­ form. Answers. Advice te s garrulous man: Go higher a >,al1 if trees have souls, as some »).im[ oork trees must have cork "Who wrote the book of James in -who mo , ~ ~ - New Testament?" askad a Sunday s i village; and a 'The James Boys!" mow 7 teacher in a Missouri fellow at the foot at Tillage; and a little . * •• ̂,\*r 'k ,1.̂ .. \ji " nraxicpsai in ft; *TOf «TOE.» ̂ * : phooi tha OWeeeo Tribaa&J In the Lynch-€halmers contest for a seat in Congress the Southern Bour­ bons boldly defended the frands prao- boed in behalf of Chalmers on the ground that " intelligence and wealth must rule," end not the majority of legal voters. The Vioksburg district contains about !0,00U Bourbons, all white, and nearly half 01 than neither read nor write, and about 35,- 000 Republican voters--mostly colored, and a large number of them illiterate. These 10,000 Bourbons, by fraud, force and ballot-box stuffing; returned Chal­ mers m elected by 5,000 majority, whereas on a fair oount he was defeated by 15,000. In the oontest for the seat m the House, Chalmers frankly admit­ ted that the Lynch votes had not been counted, that Lyneh had been cheated out of his election, that a vast majority of the district were for Lynch and against Chalmers, and had so voted. A large number oi Northern Democrats refused to filibuster m defense oi tfii« out­ rage. To them the dishonest eleetion return wss too flagrant, to defend by rev­ olutionary proceedings. It was some­ thing which they amid not defend be­ fore their constituents. The Northern Democrats, unlike thoee from the South, dare not exclude Lvnch by breaking up a quorum upon the only theory by which it coulg_ be justified, and that theory was stated by Chalmers immedi­ ately after the election took plaoe. He thus explained it: "I tMnk about 5,000 votes for Lynch mn Uurown out in the district, oat of 15,000 in all. AB ̂ elf-preservation is the first IAV of nature. I am in favor of using every means short of vio­ lence to preserve t he intelligent white people of Mississippi in control of political affairs. They are justified in using every means that wit or money, short of open bribery, can procure. If thlE ^3 flftlriadffli "I mi proud of it" This dootrine of "wealth and respect­ ability," however satisfactory as a justi­ fication to Southern minds for any ac­ tion necessary to preserve the "solid South," could not be accepted by the Northern Democrats. " Chalmerism" may be an all-sufficient defense for de­ claring that the man who gets 9,000 votes is elected over the man who gets 25,000, but in other parts of the country, where the law and the custom is that the man who gets the most votes must be declared elected, "Chalmerism" can­ not be accepted, and hence Gen. Chal­ mers could not induce the Democrats of Congress to attempt a revolution to keep him in an office to which he had not been elected. There cannot be any safety when elections are to be deter­ mined not by the number of votes, but by the wit, money, wealth and superior intelligence and cultivation of those who vote. The most weal thy and bent-educat­ ed class may present the most refined or talented candidate, and the one who would make the ablest representative, but if the candidate of the "wealth and intelligence " only gets one vote out of every four polled the superiority of those who vote for him must not be counted as electing him, in the absenoe of votes. This Tory doctrine, that the social and pecuniary superiority of voters shall determine elections instead of majorities of legal votes, is peculiarly the doo­ trine of that wing of the Democratic party which holds the entire industrial and laboring class of the Northern peo­ ple in contemn*. Aocording to Qen. Chalmers' theory, the "self-preserva­ tion" of the idle people of the South justifies them in denying to the men of toil, the laboring masses, the farm-hands and the men of trade stay voice in polit­ ical affairs, in opposition to the " supe­ rior " classes. The white farmers, the field-hands of the Northwest, the miners, the men engaged in factories and shops and on lines of transportation, whether white or black, are, according to Southern Democracy, dangerous to society and vested l ights, and the " self- preservation " of the superior, non-in­ dustrial classes justifies the exclusi«>p of these dangerous working-people from any political voice in public affairs. In olden times this aristocratic theory was considered as belonging exclusively to a portion of the old Whig party, and was a terrible heresy in the estimation of the Democratic party. Now it is the general doctrine of the ruling half of the Democratic party, and a doctrine which is enforced upon every possible occasion. It is the corner-stone of the ••Solid South." " Self-preservation " with them means an exclusive political supremacy of the idle, non-working class, who alone are, it is contended, fitted to rule. The law, however, is that elections must be de­ cided by the majority of votes; that is the law at the North, and Chalmers wss compelled to submit to that law, the submission being more humiliating that he had to surrender his seat to a negro. But it happens that negro is his superior in brains and • education, eloquence and reasoning powers. If the Chalmers and Bourbon doctrine that " wealth and intelligence " «hould rule at elections instead of a majority of the legal votes, how many cities north of Mxson and Dixon's line would be car­ ried on that test? Not one. If a major­ ity of the wealth and intelligence of each district were to prevail the Bepnb- licans would carry every Congressional district in the twenty-two Northern States. In concluding his speech, Mr. Lyneh thus expressed his notions of political right and justice, which will contrast favorably with the higher-law doctrines of Chalmers. Mr. Lynch said: " In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I regret to be compelled to say that it seems to be the settled determination of the Bourbon party at the South that we must either have a centralized Govern­ ment or no Government at all. They seem to be determined that if they can­ not destroy the Government in one way they will in another ; for it is an incon­ trovertible and indisputable fact that the sanctity and the purity of the ballot is the chief pillar in our governmental structure. Destroy that pillar, and the structure must necessarily fall. I speak to-day not in behalf of my party, but in behalf of my country. I hope that I speak not as a partisan, but as a patriot. If the party to which I belong, and to which I feel that I owe allegiance, can­ not commend itself to the approbation and support of a majority of the Ameri­ can people upon its merits, then it does not deserve success. Political parties under our system of Government are supposed to be organized for the purpose of advocating certain political principles and to carry into effect certain publio policies. Upon all such questions we may honestly differ, and make snch dif­ ferences the basis of party organization. But upon questions affecting the stabili­ ty of the Government and the perpetuity of our institutions we are at least pre­ sumed to be a united, harmonious and in­ dissoluble people. " Mr. Speaker, this disgraceful sys­ tem of election frauds in several of the Southern States, through and by which that section was made solid in its sup- . ,.4 parties bede- i jiniatooan- l»triotio to stroyecLIhepeceleof trrare too intelligent ei tolerate a conttnuanoe of upon our elective system. 8«eh methods and such practices are eocpny to the spirit of thenge in Irhioh we live and to the civilisation of the nineteenth oent- nry. Iftat there mav exist in all parts of our country--North, South, East and West--and among all races and I'lurmnn of our people peaoe, happinees, oonoord and fraternal feeling upon snch condi­ tions as will secure to all exact justice and the equal protection oi the laws is the aim, the object, the hope and the aspiration of every patriotic American citizen. For the aooompliahment of these grand and noble purposes, and the attainment of these commendable and patriotic ends, I invoke, in the language of the immortal Lincoln, the consider­ ate judgment of mankind and the gra- doiisfavor oi Almighty God." tounciL disabilities. A lMNkte In the 8«Mc as ngf. *wwww •* Oplmi«w Which LN "to the Rebellion. ~ [Washington Tetagrom to the Chicago Inter Ocean., The usual monotony of the proceedings was relieved to-day by the revival of a sectional battle between rep­ resentatives of the Ncsrth and South, growing out of a bill to place an ex- rebel in the army with the rank of Sur­ geon, after removing his political dis­ abilities. In connection with the bill a resolution is pending for the repeal of section 1,218 of the Revised Statues, which prohibits all who were in the ser- vioe of the Confederacy from being ap­ pointed in the United States army or navy. The bill has been the subject of debate for several weeks, and on each occasion has had the same effect in the Senate that the wav­ ing of a red flaor m front of a mad bull would have. It has 1>een urged as a rea­ son by the Democrats why the subject of the bill should be relieved of the op­ erations of the statute that he was very young when he went into the rebel army and had since repented of his conduct, and, by way of atonement, wished to serve in the army and draw a comforta­ ble salary at the same time. ̂ In the dis­ pute over the question Senator Butler, of South Carolina, held Jeff Davis up as a patriot worthy to rank with John Hamp­ den and George Washington, at the same time urging the repeat of the ob­ noxious statute on the ground that it was the outcome of party hate and passion inflamed by war. Such a declaration caused a decided sensation among the Bepublican Senators, and Senator Ingalls, in a short, incisive speech, em­ phatically asserted that the North would never consent to repeal such a statute on the ground that it was an unjust measure, for by so doing it would ac­ knowledge that secession was right and that the Union men who fought to up­ hold the Government had been in the wrong. He oonoluded by asserting his intention to vote against the pending bill and all of a similar nature, aod as he resumed his seat Mr. Butler, who did not relish the home thrusts dealt by Mr. Ingalls, attempted te reply, but soon yielded to Mr, Voorliees, who was deemed more capable of completing the task set for the party. The latter gave an aocount of the feeling in Washington after the first Bull Bun fight, and the fi«fciou of Congress oii that occssion, bat his defence was a lame one. Mr. Hawley, « then took a hind & 1ft* in a ringing speech pirooeeded to show that it was three years ere the North fully realized that the South was in earnest in its attempt to destroy the Government and divide the country. He said that the loyal men of the North had just begun to show their strength when the war closed. Before he con­ cluded, the morning hour expired, and when Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, asked the unanimous consent for an extension of time, Mr. Walker, of Arkansas, ob­ jected, but was promptly silenced by the more discreet Democrats, and the Connecticut statesman was allowed to finish without further interruption. He pursued the same line of argument ad­ vanced by Mr. Ingalls, and it was con­ ceded when he completed his speech that the bill stood a poor chance for passage during this Congress. Useless Expenditure. While every girl and woman should justly take a pride in her own adorn­ ment and that of the home, she should use her own judgment and not buy just because a thing is cheap. Get what you need, and before buying think whether you really need the article. It is prob­ ably a pretty trifle in dress, in furniture ; but what solid benefit will it be to you ? Ur it is some luxury for the table, that you can as well do without. Think, therefore, before you spend your money. Or you need a new carpet, new aofa, new chairs, new bedstead, or new dress; you are tempted to buy something a little handsomer than you bad intended, and while you hesitate the dealer says to you, "It's only a trifle more, and see how far prettier it is." But before yon purchase, stop to think. Will you be the better a year hence, much less in old age, for having squandered your money ? Is it not wiser to " lay by something for a-rainy day ?" All these luxuries gratify you only for the moment ; you soon tire of them, and their only permanent effect is to consume your means. It is by such little extravagances, not much separately, but ruinous in the ag­ gregate, that the great majority of families are kept comparatively poor. The first lesson to learn ia to deny your­ self useless expenses ; and the iirst step toward learning this lesson is to think before yott spend.--Christian at Work. A Moorish Honse. Coming by what may be called a mis­ take up one of these unguarded arch­ ways in a deserted alley, we had a con­ futed glance of a splendid court of bright greenejry, walls white as snow, playing fountains, rich mosaics, marble pavements--a sight to till the head for life with delicious dreams. It is a type of a first-class Moorish bouse : «ianv of the dwellings which lie behir d these prison walls are built on the same plan --a central court surrounded with lonjr, narrow, windowings rooms opening on to a balcony of Moorish horseshoe arch­ ways by a wide door, which serves in the day tor both air and light and is closed at night by a curtain. One«side of the court is for the servants, one for the women and children, and one for the master, the other being reserved for re­ ceptions and friends. The courtyard of the wealthier class is laid in chased marbles, with mosaic basins and fount­ ains, which play surrounded by graceful greenery, under whose shade meals are often taken ; in the heaven-open courts the grander parties are held. These rooms are furnished with never-failing taste, and the gala attire of the family is marvelous alike for simplicity and pomp and grace of color. The poorest and rich­ est dweili plan. ' .W t . J," • II tBM OOlGBKsnOVAL UPmflOI' KEHT. ISie ast to apportion the ̂ ste of Iffi. nois into twenty districts for the election of members of Congress is as follows ; SEcrros L Be U mooted, «*, That tha State of Illinois be and the IHIIM la feanlvf appor­ tioned into tirrntj Oonflioai ioiul dMmt% aod that tiie name in hereby eaUbtuhed, and ah*U be respectively composed aa herein set forth, to-w it: The First district shall be ocanposed of the ftrct, Second, Third and Fourth wards in the city of Ohicaao, and the towns of Riversidet Hyde Park, Lake, Lyons, Oalumet, Worth. Palog, Lemont, Thornton, Bremen, Orland, Bloom and Rieh, in the county of Cook. Ihe Socond dtetiict, of the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh warda'in the eity of Cbioago, and that part of the Eighth ward in the city of Chicago which is south of the oenter of Polk street, nM the of ̂ ^Untfir wiajyi The Third district, of the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards in the dtr of Chicago, and that part at the Eighth ward tatbe oity of Chicago which ia north of the oenter of Polk atrcmi and the oenter of Maoaleeter place. The Fourth district, of the fifteenth, Six­ teenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth wards in the city of Chioago, and t&e towns of Lake View, Jeffenon, Leyden, Norwood Park, Eramton, Nilea, Maine, Elk Qrova, Schauta- bnrg, HanoYer, New Trier, Nojthfield, Wheel­ ing, Palatine, Barringtoo, Cicero and Proviso, in th® ocmnty of O00E. The Fifth district, of the oonnties of Lake, McHenry, Booue, De Kalb and Kane. The Sixth district, of the oonnties of Wines- Stephenson, Jo Daviess, Ogle and Oar- The Sarenth district, of the oonnties of Lee, Whiteside. Henry, Bnreau and Putnam. The Eighth district, of the oonnties at IA Salle, Kendall, Grundy, Wilt and Du Page. The Ninth district, of the counties of Kanka­ kee, Iroquois, Ford, Livingston, Woodford and Murtitll, The Tenth district, of the counties of Peoria, Knox, Stark and Folton. The Eleventh district, of the oonnties of Book Island, Meroer, Henderson, Warren, Hancock, McDoaongh and Schuyler. The Twelfth district, of the conn tie* of Cass. Brown, Adams, Pike, Soott, Greene, Jersey and Calhoun. The Thirteenth district, of the counties of Tazewell, Mason, Menard, Sangamon, Morgan and Christian. The Fourteenth district, of the counties of McLean, De Witt, Piatt. Maoon and Logan. The Fifteenth district of the counties of Coles, Edgar, Douglas, Vermillion and Cham­ paign. The Sixteenth district, of the counties of Clark, Cumberland, Jasper, Crawford. Clay, Richland, Lawrence, Wayne, Edwards nd Wabash. Ihe Seventeenth district, of the oonnties of Maooupin, Montgomery, Shelby, Moultrie. BMnptuun and Fayette. The Eighteenth district, of the oonnties of Bond, Madison, St Clair, Monroe and Wash- Nineteenth district, of the counties of Perry, Randolph, Jackson, Williamson, Union, Johnson, Pope, Alexander, Pulaski and Massac. Sac. 2. One Representative to the Congress of the United States shall be elected in each of the districts before enumerated, on the Tues­ day after the first Monday of November in the year of our Lord 1882, and one in each of said districts every two years thereafter; snch eleo- tioca shall be held, and the returns thereof made and canvassed, in the wanner provided by law. BEG. 3. An act entitled "An act to apportion the State into nineteen Congressional mstneta and establish the same, ana provide for the election of Representatives therein," approved March 38,1872, in force July 1, 1872, Is hereby repealed. The populations of the several dis­ tricts, by the census of 1880, are as fol­ lows : Pvpulm- District*. mm First 136,9M Second 1KMN Third 170,614 Fourth.. 146,71§ Abo* ratio. 16,688 BtUm ratio. 16,676 Ml Fifth. Sixth.... Seventh Eighth.. Ninth... TwsMth Thirteenth Fourteenth. Fifteenth... Sixteenth... Seventeenth .129,41* 136,961 . ..133,70* ....172,801 ....llki.TM ....146,16* ....171.0M ....177,IN ,...171,5ff ...1*8,SIS . . . . . . . 1B0,84» ...1S1.MS 161,9" Eighteenth Nineteenth...........163,839 Twentieth ...162,710 ifin 4... 7,»1S 169 0,044 6,968 34,957 16,728 10,074 1,078 Cm The ratio being 153,676, eight districts appear to have an exoess, while twelve districts fall below the standard--some of them very fat below. The expected political status of the new districts is based on the Presiden­ tial voteof 1880. as follows: O ft s> i nrauurs Dsmm. i * : *• * Rtp. DMN. First 'l«,009 1.0,250 314 5,759 Heoond 6,7« 11,521 461 5,759 <U778 Third 15,504 11,138 221 4,396 <U778 Fourth 16,722 11,133 207 5,187 Fifth 18,74.' K,023 851 10,719 Sixth 17,592; 9,99 914 7,CO* Seventh lfi,649 0.676 1,659 <i,87S 5,931 Eighth l9.li&VM,i:<4 2,22S <i,87S 5,931 Niuth ltt.648 ll,98»! 2,085 Tt'Ulli. 15,518 13,496 2,527 2,022 Eleventh i.v*r,[ir»,7'."y 2,717 2,846 Tweltth 13,63<)i 18,75: 1,862 2,846 5,123 Thirteenth......... l«,81t!|l»,76U l,5i« 2,869 Fourteenth......... 19,359114,381 947 'Z978 2,869 Fifteenth 17,416! 14,47ft 1,352 2,909 Sixteenth 14,9S:j|16,42« 925 "1,476 Seventeenth U,7(Jl|19,627 1,951? v . • . 4,926 Eighteenth 16,034(15,451 318 033 4,926 Nineteenth......... 12,45^116,961 2,000 '̂ 602 Twentieth. 16,918115,078 1,055J 1,841 '̂ 602 OLLUfQlS LMUUTDU. Tho House at Representatives, at its session on the 28th nit, amended the Senatorial Ap­ portionment bill in a manner to avoid the dis­ franchisement of Tazewell county, and ordered it to a third reading, the victory being a sub­ stantial one for the Democrats. The Judiciary Committee, by Judge Baldwin, the Chairman, then presented a report against the proposi­ tion to appoint a oommiBaiou tr revise the criminal code. The report was auopted. The Congressional Apportionment bill was then tak­ en up and passed. The bill to appropriate money to the Normal University was read a third time and passed. Mr. Wright, of Boone, offered a resolution enloaistio of the Hre and services of the late Gen. Stephen A. Hnrlbut, and moved its adoption, ana in regard thereto spoke briefly of the d<*d as a citizen, a statesman and a soldier. Mr. Liuegar/ Of Alexander, and Mr. Moms, of Hardin, paid tributes to the deceased, and th* resolution was adopted by a standing vote. The Senate was not in session. In th* Senate, on Saturday, the 29th nit, the joint resolutions eulogistic of the life ̂ character and public services of the late Oen. Stephen A. Hnrlbut were reported from the House. On motion of Senator Hunt, the res­ olutions were temporarily pestpontd. The House bill providing for Congressional appor­ tionment was read a first time and ordered to - • •Mttoaef Wk : V . / ; > " The Highest Building in Europe, Hitherto the Hospice of the Great Si Bernard, which stands 8,200 feet above the level of the sea, has enjoyed the dis­ tinction of being the most elevated in­ habited building in Europe. This honor it can now no longer olaim. The city authorities of Catania, in Sicily, have caused to be erected near the summit of the great volcano, Mount JEtna,-* an astronomical observatory which stands 2,943 meters above the sea level, or fully 1,000feet higher than the Hospice of St. second reading. When tne House con- j Bernard. The structure is nine meters ~ in height, and covers an area of 2U0 square meters. It consists of an upptr and lower story, and is built in circular form. In the lower story there rises >• massive pillar, upon which is placed the great refracting telescope. The lower story ia divided into a dining-room, kitchen and store-rooms. In the upper story there are three bedrooms, intended for the accommodation of astronomers and tourists visiting the establishment The roof consists of a movable cupola or dome. From the balconies of the upper story a prospect of vast extent and grand ear is presented. The spectator is able to see over half the l&land of Sicily, the Island of Malta, the Lipaii Isles, and the Province of Calabria, on the main­ land of Italy. The obst-rvatory is erected upon a smail cone, which will, in caseot eruption, protect it completely Irom the lava-stream which alwava flows down on the opposite side of the volcana-- Builder. ' vened. a motion came from the Democratic side providing for an adjournment sine die on Wednesday, May 3. it was promptly voted down l>v the Eepubhcsns. Mr. Stratum, of Will, from the Committee on Canal and ltiver Improvements, reported back without rworameudation Mr. Underwood's resolution requi-Btiug the Illinois members of Congress to niitUu an effort to secure a Government aj>- propr^tion for the improvement of Illinois rivers when called upon to do likewise for the Lower Mississippi. Mr. Bur lee said if it was desired to provide protection to farms alone said rivers he was opposed to it; but If its object WSM to improve me carrying- ways of tiio country, he was in favor of 'it Mr. Underwood, of Pike, and Mr. Pear­ son, of Madison, said the object was that in the event that an appropriation was mads for the Lower Mississippi, a similar one should be secured for Illinois nvers. They urged that Illinois had good claims, from the fact that the State had within the past twenty years paid into the United States treasury *800,000,000. Mr. Mann said the object seemed to be this: That, if a great steal ia to be made, miwih should have her share. The reeoliitimi was adopted--ayes 86, noes 10. Nothing wimte'«rer w»s-donFkrJ"ll» latare on the 1st inat lie 8snate aat sad k to isdsO ths Baastodal fniSSS?-- wssasae and osrrisd. The Beasts bad % farioT and •Mtoa ee tfcs Uisa*. A message was received from Ike Ooverws tnftunung the Senate that behaAdotr s%asd sad approved the bOito codettas asaal and the Congressional Appor­ tionment MIL A batch of Honse reaotntions wss disposed of m short order, the Underwood resolution, relative to levees on the Upper Miss- issippi, b«ng refecred to the Oanal dommittm, and the other river-improvement screeds being ordered printed. The Senate concurred, by a vote of yeas M, najs X, in the Honse amend­ ment to the Normal University Appro­ priation bill. The amendment consisted in striking oat the emergency clause. Nothing was done In the Home, the BepnbUoans having not yet arrived at an agreement upon the Senatorial apportionment question. A motion to adjourn was carried by a strict party vote, with the exception that Mr. Sexton (Democrat), from Cook, voted in favor of it,'1uid managed to get in the explanation, before the Speaker out him short, that, inas­ much as Green B. Raura, "Long" Jones and Dan Sbepard were in town, he was in favor of giving the Republicans an opportunity to go into cancns and receive instructions. The ex­ planation was received with laughter on both sides. Rwolutions relativs to the death of Gen. 8tephenA. Hnrlbut were called np hi the Senate on the 3d inst., by Mr. Fuller, of Boone county. After the delivery of an eloquent eulogy upon the deceased by Mr. Fuller, the resolutions were nnanioiotsBly adopted. In the House the Senatorial Apportionment bill, with the Sublican caucus amendment, was or-ered to A third reading after a stub­ born fi^ht Akeaoti and Stowell were the only ItepubJicans who voted with the Democrats sgainst the bilL During the debate 011 the Apportionment bill an undignified scene was enacted, in which Senators Herriugton, of Kane, and Parriah, of Cook, were the chief par­ ticipants. Mr. Cronkrite raixed a point of or­ der, holding that the bill could not come up for amendments at that time, from the fact that the motion made by Mr. Parrish was simply to recall from the order of thinl reading back to second, and that no specifio purpose for so doing was stated. The Speaker stated that Mr. Punish said when he offered the motion to recall that it was for the purpose of amendment Mr. Herriugton, of Kane, asserted that Mr. Parrish did not so state. Mr. Parrish arose to a question ot privilege, and declared that he, when the mo­ tion was made, distinctly said that it was for the purpose of amendment Mr. Herriugton still persisted that he (Parrish) did not BO state. Mr. Parrish walked over to the Democratic side and to Mr. Herrington'e seat, and, putting his elbows down on his desk, addressed Mr. Her­ riugton in l!ti« wi^e: "What in h--1 did you mean when you awhile ago so misrepresented me? I dil say when I made that motion to recall the Senatorial Apportionment bill, last Saturday, that it was for the purpose of amend­ ment" Mr. Herring ton--I was standinf sear yoo, and you did not so stats. Mr. Parrish--Tou an a Hsr. Mr. Herrington (rising excitedly) exclaimed, "Don't yon call me a liar," and inserted his fist fair and square in Parrish's face. Mr. Parrish staggered and came near falling. He was at onoe hustled out into his oommittas room and janitors dispatched to bring water to wash the claret from his nose and faoe. Naturally, this episede created nrooh oonfnsion and no little excitement Subsequently, during the pro­ ceedings, Mr. Herrington made a sincere apol­ ogy to the Speaker, to each member of the House, and to the member himself for what he had done. For many years he had been s mem­ ber of the General Assembly. He regretted the occurrence venr much, and hoped that one and all would pardon him. Mr. Parrish then rose to a queetion of privilege, He stated his side of the affair with Herrington, throwingthe en­ tire responsibility upon the latter. He con­ cluded his remarks by saying: "I believe his action to be cowardly, unparliamentary and un­ becoming a member, and I move the appoint­ ment of a committee to investigate the affair and report the facts to the House." Mr. Parrish was then greeted by hisses from both sides of the House. In the confusion, the motion to appoint the committee was declared carried. The Senatorial fkpportionment U& wss psssed by the House on the 4th inst, eighty Republicans voting for and fifty-seven Demo" oats against the measure. MIL Mann, of Ver­ million, at considerable length criticised the measure. He tennSd the - proposed Wabash district the sansa^e>link district, and held that it was not composed of contiguous territory as required by the constitution. Mr. Linegar, of Alexander, said the apportionment out­ line as marked out in the pending bill was flagrantly unconstitutional. The Democracy would appeal to the people. Mr. Mitchell of McLean, said the Republicans were perfectly willing to have the Democrats app al to the people, and gave notioe that they in the future, tin 111 the past, would snow them under. Mr. Burfee, of Maoon, hammered the gentleman from McLean for gerrymandering Congressman Smith out of the McLean county district, and touched him up somewhat, on his record relative to aotion on State institution appropriations. Mr. White, of Wabash, admitted that his county was contiguous by a 96-rod space ia low-water times. When the water was high a boat had to be used in passing direct from White to Wabash, and vice versa. Mr. Crook, of Btngamon, said, for one, he proposed to hew close to constitutional lines. Mr. Hill, of McLeac, in reply to an insinua­ tion to the contrary, said the Democrats had ever stood ready to vote for a fair bill, and called attention to the fact that the bill pre­ sented by the Democrats provided for as many Republican districts as did the pending one. The bill was then pat to vote and passed. Mr. Linegar, in behalf of the Democrats, presented a formal protest, which wss ordered spread upon the minutes. The Senate transacted no business. The question before the Senate, at the open­ ing of the session on the 0th inst, was the concurrence in the House amendment to the Senatorial Apportionment bilL Mr. Callen, Democrat opened the fight by moving non- ooncurrcncc, and irfoking a speech in support of the motion, in which he denounoed the Dill, and especially the amendment, as a flagrant vio­ lation of the constitution, in that the population of some of the districts was too large, and that contiguity of territory had not been observed. Mr. Kuykendall, for the Bepublioanst said the Democrats had come here to complain, and no matter how the bill was arranged, as far as they were oonoerned. it was as good now as the Republicans could ever nopa to make it. Mr. Merritt Democrat, said the bill was an outrage upon the people, was unconstitutional, ana, while the Democrats did not hope to sway a single vote, they did pro­ pose to solemnly pitotest against the bilL The House amendment was finally adopted by a strict party vote, 80 Republican Senators voting aye, and 15 Democratic Senators no. The Ssn<* ate then adopted the House resolution for an adjournment on Saturday. May 8. if Turn African cUanaoBd 00 j first discovered in 1881 . . BBFORB the Conquest the a&j ot £•*- don was called LondoBburgh. THE earliest known 000k book wim- printed in yenioe in 1475, and was Hi";,v j I^atin. * CHKHKIKS were first brought tetoBV- . rope from Kerasunt, in the Black 06% | by Lueullus, about the year 70 B. G. . VICTORIA as a surname ooemsin fee Wi ! °f gentlewomen who went with VIIL and Katherine to Canterbury. PLAYING-CARDS were introduced IN|H; England soon after the second erase# --iu the latter put oi the tfedrteettf* century. / " 4 >' : AN ABABIAX geographer of the twdfiife century says that so many varieties 0f * marble were found in the ruins of Carth­ age that it would be to '̂/-' scribe them. "t" [• CHAIN cables were first wsed onsh ̂ board in 1811. The first vessel to Me them was a West India ship. They warn invented and patented in 1S0E by a mat- ̂ geon of the navy. *• IK THE Chinese famine of 1875 soflae of the inhabitants ate the thatch frapk their cottages. A statement hardly to be understood is that seme of them afc- tacked red slate-stone. •> CHARLES MAKES*, grandfather of Charlemagne, sent his sen Pepin te Luithprand, King of the IxnuKk "that he might cut his first looks, ana by this ceremony hold for the fntare the place of his father." MESXEB, in his old age was asked ̂ he recommended river water as to well water for bathing, and anaweni that it was because it was magnetised. "Why," said the enthusiast, " twen ĵr, yoars ago I magnetiaed the sun." IT is a common belief that Dr. GuQla* tin, who invented the instrument bear» ing his name, was executed by means «f it. It ia, however, stated on good aa- tliority that he survived the Revolution many years, and died a natural death |K 1814. ITALY has the strongest man-of-war afloat; it has an army nearly equal to that of its neighbors ; it is about to re­ sume specie payment in gold, and m about to adopt electoral reforms whieh G&mbetta found it impossible to carigr out in France. ̂ UP TO the time of Jemee L the Etajg* lish Church Catechism consisted only at the repetition of the baptismal vowe, the apostle's creed and the Lord*# prayer. The additional portions were added after the Oonrerenoe at Hampfem Court, in 1604. IN 1759, when Colonel John Hale (who went to London with the news cf Wolfe's fall and the conqueet of Cana­ da) raised the Ijancers. George II. <*•» dered that "on the front of 3m BMQ% caps and on the left breast of their ni- form there was to be a death's head anil cross bones, and under the motto 'or glory 1" This grim device they still fg». Hk 'J '* •m- ft i / t - M.V. * JLSontkeraType. In the South one soon meets the youag man, a lawyer, or editor, or physician, who will talk for hours, t > any one who will listeu, of the superiority of the South; its people and its civilization, over the North and everything Northern. He always talks well, and is usually a very good fellow, but he proceeds entirely upon the a priori method, and his con­ clusions liava little relutiou to the faots of life. He know* little of his own HgiaB of the country, and nothing whatever el any other. Youngmenof this type alwagra dwell with proud and endless iteration on " the superior purity of Southern wo» men." Their persistence always brinies the mere fact of chastity more nakedly and definitely before the mind than seems wholesome or desirable to persons who have seen more of life and of the world. These youthful eulogists appear to think that it is a virtue which is almost unknown except, in the Southern States. They do not recognize the fact, which is of great importance in any real discussion of tide feature of our civilization, that the wo­ men of another race, formerly helpless and now degraded, have always formed a pro­ tecting barrier between the licentious passions of Southern white men end tha women of their own race. I do not sup­ pose the best women of the South have any superiors on earth, but their igfc» munity from temptation and wrong hill cost other women dear. What young men of this class moAt need is a wider observation and lannr knowledge of the world, or, espeeiaQy, of their own country. They would thoa, in time, understand how much better it is for our young men . to be penetrated and inspired by the idea of being Ameri­ cans than to be always dwelling upon the fact that they are natives of Virginia, or Massachusetts, or Arkansas ox Nev Jersey. Them is really no harm in these young gentlemen, although their vehe» men! utterances regarding subjects with which they have bnt slight soquaintanee have sometimes furnished convenient ma­ terial for the use of 'Northern politicians who were hostile to the South. --Atlanfio MoatUn. -'M r illf •1 ' 1 ' • f\ si TBB virtue of prospetilsy is temper- t ** "v * ̂ Heme Kdacstiea. " mother, unwilling to sub| six-year-old boy to the impure air, bad light and other evil influences sometimes found about the rooms, grounds, and out­ buildings of the school, though herself unable to add a ledger-column with a®*. * curacy and dispatch, yet teaches him l» J count, and write small numlwra. Sha l tears from some old arithmetic a leaf coa- 't taining easy, properly graded exsmplea I in addition without answers--as, for> instance, pages 17 and 18 of Fetter'a J practical arithmetic; and, by some ra» : ward, trifling in value, perhaps, bi|t> prized by the child, induces him t£ add the" examples until he does it accurately and rapidly. Then she gives . him the next two pages, but only when thev are fully mastered the next and so on, until st length--it may not be till after two or three years--the child has: mastered thirty pages of ex*.unple.s, and M" able to add long examples on the 45th Eage w'th as much ease and accuracy as e can count ten, ^ud would be trosttHjl by his father to foot up his ledger pages* Under the mother's supervision, with a very little instruction on her part at tha beginning, she furnishes examples fie# an incentive to practice ; the child hsS learned by practice to do what she can* not possiblv do, and will probably never be able to do; what lew hign school graduates or teachers can do- namely, to add oohtmns of figures of whal* ever length' with accuracy and rapiditjb - The mother has in this case done tha very best kind of teaching ̂ Though aha has seemed to do but little, aha haP(:;.| induced the ohild to do a great deaL ' always in the right direc tion, srfwith M such gradual progress from shorter e» ^w amples to longer ones as to sistanoe almost unnecessary. 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