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A clownish boy dropped chunks of coal on the head of a man who was running a furnace under the grated sidewalk, and presently a red-hot poker came up to make him leap and yell. He was taken , ^hospital and the fireman to prison. THERK is an enthusiastic vegetarian in England, whose antipathy to anything of an animal nature is so extreme that •he refuses to wear any garment made erf Animal products. Vegetable boots have been an unattained ideal, but a cobbler in Regent street has, after many efforts, covered the woman's feet With some­ thing that looks precisely like leather, and the whole story has lately been told at the Vegetarian Conference at Bir­ mingham by the woman, Mrs. Anna Kingsford, M. D. „R , „ V, " !«•>*>, .« jfc; ".(*>'• *ft%4 LAST October a package, alleged to" contain $5,000, was sent by the First National Bank of Cincinnati to the First National Bank of Buffalo by the United States Express Company. When the | package reached its destination it was jiound to contain nothing but brown pa­ per. The Buffalo bank began suit against the express company for the re- •cov^ty of the money. After a delibera­ tion of thirty-four hours the jury re­ turned a verdict against the plaintiff, thus establishing the honesty of the ex- is company's claim that the package received from the party at Cincinnati itained paper in lieu of currency. The plaintiff will now bring su^&gainst the First National Bank of Cincinnati. THB chief objection to the use of iron for architectural purposes is its liability to rust and weaken from this cause, either paint nor any other external pplication hitherto known has been able prevent this. And the cost of the ecessary frequent application of paints been an additional obstacle to the use of iron for these purposes, nd on railroad and other bridges where iron is exposed to the atmosphere there jig a constant deterioration. It is now iaimed that a disoovery has been made y which iron can be made absolutely rust proof, and that after iron has once passed through the process it will never mbsequently require coatings of paint >r any other external application. A writer in the New York Times, describ­ ing the process, says " the system of treatment requires the artificial rusting >f the iron before it can be rendered nsfc proof." If this is true itiscer- ainly curious. THB Rev. Henry Giles, who died re­ entry in Boston, was a brilliant and cholarly Irishman, who lived a sad life or many years. He was a Unitarian lergyman, btrt never had a settlement, lis unfortunate deformity standing in lis way. Mr. Giles was a dwarf and unchback, with a large head, swarthy omplexion and heavy features. He lamed a wife about thirty years ago, as be result of a coiCbtship conducted en- irely by letter. The lady fell in love ith his intellect as seen in his writings, nd they exchanged many letters, and ever met till they came together to get larried. They lived m apparent happi. ess for some years, when Mr. Giles had ae still further misfortune to be stricken ith paralysis. He lost the use of his >gs from this, and by a second stroke hich followed later was deprived of all of motion otherwise. In this ay he lived a long time, during which is wife died and left him almost literal- alone in the world. Mr. Giles is pscriljed as a natural orator, and he had good analytical mind, as well as decided letorical talent. . ' BENNETT, the janitor ai -the Elizabeth i.) bank, has taught the CUB- klians of money another triok to guard gainst He had a room directly under le bank, with a gas-pipe hole in the iling, which was immediately under le cash drawer. Over the center of the rawer and directly into the bottom of e counter he turned a screw ring, oar, deadeye," and another into the face of counter, so that a cord running rough both would work at right angles itself and without a sound. A disk of ad was fastened to the end of the string side the deadeye over the drawer and another string by which it could be llled back to the hole in the floor, liere could be nothing in sight and >ver was anything. The janitor sat in e cellar and worked the apparatus by und, which told him when the paying ller was at his desk. Every night the tobaooo, Health and enjoys perfect health, id maturity is what is needed ; not old age and invalid- Mrs. Stow is anti-monopoly, anti- ring, anti-Chinese ; she believes in hon­ esty, not policy ; in reason, not specula­ tion ; in truth, not falsehood. She does not fish, hunt nor play poker. No at­ tractions can lure her from her post of duty; she is a scholar, orator and edi­ tor. Does Mrs. Stow expect to be Gov­ ernor of California? Certainly she does ! While visiting the Conoord School of Philosophy,, three years ago, Prof. Wasson said to her, ' Mrs. Stow, I shall expect to hear that you are a United States Senator in a few years. We need just such women as you in Congress.' To be Governor is the stepping-stone to that offioe, and'the Senatorehip will be the stepping-stone to the Presidential chair." The modest name of the paper which thus advooates Mrs. J. W. Stow as a candidate is Woman's Herald of In­ dustry and Social Science Co-Opcrafor, and the wonderful Mrs. i. W. Stow ii herself the editor of it. v? *1? THtf whole number of deaths in the United States from lpckjaw, resulting from wounds inflicted by toy pistols on the Fourth of July last, is placed at 200. This, says the Chicago Tribune, is a costly sacrifice to offer up to the tutelary j b® made fine and swallowed to the de^ THE FAMILY DOCTOB. OZOHK,--Ozone, II has been found, depresses the nervous system and in­ duces sleep. The drags usually token --chloride and bromide of potassium-- are positively hurtful; but there is no unpleasant reaction from ocone, for the sleep produced is quite natural. ' THE SAMVA.--This is secreted by fine, small glands of the mouth, varying from three to six and one-half pounds each day. Chewing and the presence of in­ viting food (or the thougnt of it) in the mouth excites the flow of this Baliva fast enough to meet the wants of our food, even though dty, when taken slowly. Indeed, there is really no neces­ sity for drinks at meals, simply as a means of swallowing food, this being nature's moisture. This is important not simply for moistening, but for the production of chemical changes needed in the transformation of food into blood, • our food or bolt it, thus depriving it of 1 the necessary combination with this sol­ vent, we impair digestion and manufact­ ure dyspepsia, liver complaints and bowel derangements. It is »!•/* true that just to the extent that we re­ lieve these glands of labor, by the use of moist food, or by haste, we so far dis­ courage their efforts, of course diminish­ ing the amount of the flow, since the or­ gans of the body--like lazy boys--do ,only what circumstances compel them to perform, inactivity always tending to­ ward weakness. And though food may deity of national independence. It is especially distressing because it is un­ necessary. The toy pistol is by no means essential to the proper celebra­ tion of the Fourth. Many national an­ niversaries have been observed without it; and we fancy that if it had never been invented or come into the posses­ sion of the small boy the expression of national exultation and gratitude on the last holiday would have been not less, but more decorous, than it was. There two kinds of toy pistols. One uses a small cartridge charged with pure rifle powder, and similar in all respects, ex­ cept size, to the ordinary pistol cart­ ridge. The other explodes a detonating wafer charged with a fulminating com­ pound. The latter is supposed to be the dangerous weapon. The fulminate of mercury with which the wafer is charged is known to "Ufe-a nerve-poison when taken into the circulauhp. It can be administered internally without dan­ ger. But if it passes into the system from the outside through an abrasion or cut, it will almost surely produce lockjaw, and ultimately cause death.' The toy pistols are clumsy instruments. The wafers seldom explode promptly, and, even when they do, thro# off sparks and fragments that may break the skin of the pistol-hand. If through these wounds the fulminate of mercury gets into the blood, lockjaw is a natural re­ sult. This is the best explanation of the many deaths indirectly caused by the toy pistol that we have been able to find. Whether it is the correct one or gree in which it is deprived of this sol­ vent, will it lack one of the aids of di­ gestion, and to the same extent will the succeeding processes be impaired. If, then, one smokes, chews tobacco, or any other substance, as gum, wastes the saliva, particularly just before the meals, allowing no time for an additional sup ply, of necessity digestion is impaired, the stomach weakened. If one, there­ fore, must 6moke, chew, etc., or will do so and take the consequences, these customs are far more disastrous just be­ fore than after the meal, since that which passes to the stomach with the food will ordinarily remain while that wasted, thrown out of the system, car not be used as nature designed to aid digestion. It is true, also, that after the meals, the whole powers of the system being active, in a better condition to re­ sist attacks, the harm from bad habits will be to that extent diminished. THE GASTRIC JUICK.--This juice is wanted in the stomach in quantities vary in g--according to different authors-- from about four te fourteen pounds in twenty-four hours, the last estimate not being quite reasonable. It is slightly acid--the stimulating element--contains pepsin--two-thirds of the whole--co­ agulates albumen and prevents putre­ faction of the food in the stomach, until it has a reasonable time for digestion, or until the amount actually needed to re­ store the waste of the *ystem can or­ dinarily be digested. Tins gastric juice is absolutely necessary to the porfeot digestion of our food, as it is a very powerful solvent, dissolving only dead substances, aside from which fact the wastes of the stomach would yield like meats consumed. The amount of this solvent fluid in health corresponds with the actnal daily wants of the body, that it may digest an amount of food equal to the decay of the tissues from labor, physical and mental--an accurate gradu­ ating gauge oi index. Of course in ly that the native eye could distinguish ' those belonging to Popes and Kings by their miters and crowns. A Nuremberg clockmaker inclosed in a cherry stone, which was exhibited at the Fieuch Cry*,- , tal Palace, a jian of Sebastopoi, a rail- ! way station and the " MessiaU" of Klop- 1 stock. Pliny, too, mentions the fact that Homer's "Iliad," wir,u its 15,u00 PHEW! "tftMlltoMartw «*»»c P««r. [Kttraot from 18p«eol) in Congreat br Hi. HuU»i worth, of Oh£] Now, is the Democratic party the proper agency to secure civil-servioe re­ form? I want to say to gentlemen and verses, was written in so small a apace ; the oountzy that men are not judged by as to be contained in a nut t-hell. The ! * «n<rl« nfWor,™ AV Kv a ̂ 1 A. a single utterance or by a single act, but by the whole tenor and course of tVir lives. And parties are not judged by a single resolution or platform, nor by a single act. Political parties are rightly judged by their record and by the im­ print they leave upon their country's history in the times in which they exist and move; by the manner in which they deal with .the country's interest® and HARVssThandsarepaidfSadayon the : honor. Sangamon bottom. j Gentlemen, the history of your party greatest curiosity of all, however, was a copy of the Bible, written b v one Pekr Bates, a chancery clerk, in so small a space that it could be inclosed within the shell of on English walnut ILLINOIS NEWS. A CANVASS of Springfield shows 22,459 inhabitants. THE new bridge at Lscon will be 900 feet from shore to shore. 'f HE State Fair will be hold in Peoria Sept. "25 to 30, inclusive of both of days. IT is probable that Qaincy will be made the victim of the soldiers' reunion this year. written. Its record is made up, and is as palpable to all the world as if printed iu letters of light and suspended across the heavens between Orion and the Pleiades. Known of all m^n by that record, you must stand upon it. You came into th$ control of this House proposing civil-servioe reform, reform in all matters that challenged public ©riti- THB assessment of dty property in c*8m- How did you get here? I speak it Galesburg this year gives a total value ~ 5" ~ not, parents will be wise to keep that .certain forms of acute diseases this is dangerous toy, without reference to its construction or the manner in which it is charged, away from their children. ; V A B*11* A t>etToit lawyer took in a new boy, and, as he had suffered to some extent from the depredations of the former one, he decided to try the new lad's honesty at once. He therefore placed $15 in bills under a weight on his desk and walked out without a word. Upon his return, half an hour later, the bills were gone and 75 cents in silver had taken their place. " Boy 1 when I stepped out to get a draft on London I left $15 under this weight!" ^ "Yes, sir." " And now I find only 75 oents!" "Yes, sir, but, you see, you hadn't been gone five minutes when a man came in with a bill against you of $14.25, and I paid it I guess the change is correct. " You--you paid a bill?" "Yes sir--there it is, all receipted. The man said it had slipped your for the last four years, and so " He didn't get any further before he was rushed for the stairs, and he isn't in the law- business any more. Railroads. The following table shows the mtm ber of miles of railroad constructed and in operation each year in the United States from 1830 to the close of 1881, in­ clusive : „ Annual MM in Inc. of tan 1,098 1,j7S Year. 1830.. 1831 18S3 183 3 183 4 183 5 183 6 1837...... 1,49T 1*38 1,913 1839 SISOS mo 3,818 18*1 3,53ft ma i.<m 184 3 4,18ft 1844 3,377 184 5 4,638 1846 4,930 184T 5,598 184 8 5,99f 1849 7,36ft 1830 9,'>21 185L 10,98ft 185 2 12,908 185 3 15,360 1354 16,790 1865 18,374 .Annuo/1 Mile* in /«. efi Operat'n. MiPge.\ Year. 1856 22,0)6 92 1857 24,503 134 18 8 26,968 151; 1859 28,789 253 1860 30,635 465! 1861 31,286 175:1862 32.13U 324 '1863 33,178 415 1864 33,908 88 l 1865 35,085 #16 18$ 36,801 717 1867 39.240 491jlS6? 42,229 159 1869 46,844 192 1870 52,914 256 1871...... 60,233 Operat'n. Mil'ge. 8,647 297 1872 ' 868 1873 398 1874 1,369 1875 1,636 1876 1,961 1877 1,826 1878 2,4)2,1879...... 1,360 1880 9$«71 l,64ll| 1881 104,813 <6,171 70,278 72,383 74,006 76,808 79,0*9 81,776 86,497 2,647 2,465 1,851 1,816 651 834 1,050 938 1,177 1,742 2,449 2,979 I 4,615 ! 6,07u | 7,179 | 5,878 4,107 2,105 , 1,712 I 2,712 1,284 | 2,987 4,721 i 7,174 I 11,142 wanting, ordinarily, without which food will not digest, but must remain and fer- ment out, The folly--nay, worse than folly, cruelty- -of urging children to eat when there is no appetite- -the indication that food is needed -must be apparent, fhe flow of this gastric juice ceases in fevers and such attacks, the appetite is destroyed, taste impaired, and an actual nausea established as a means of pre­ venting barm, and still the thoughtless assure the sick that they must eat, when the Creator forbidB it by these indica­ tions, or gain no strength when that food cannot digest, cannot add strength, cannot nourish till blood is made from such food, and till that blood reaches the lungs, there to be prepared for its work of renovation; wa therefore need gastric juice first, then appetite, then food. If food, by rapid eating--the great dietetic crime of Americans--is token more rapidly than this jukte flows, there is almost an absolute certainty that too much will be taken ; if so, the body is not as well nourished as it would be by the proper quantity, while the blood is necessarily contaminated by the fermentation and decomposition of this excess, •' Gwlne to de Po8,olll«e.,, One of the oddest sights in the South is to see the negroes hang about the postoffioes. They are the first ones to call in the morning and the last to leave at night, and it is by no means rare to have them inquire for mail ten or fifteen times a day. I was in the office at Mari­ etta, Ga., when an aged darky limped in and inquired: " Am dar fo' or five letters heah far Junebroke Duke?" "No, sir," replied the Postmaster, af­ ter taking a look. " Well, den, I'll take one." " There are no letters for you." " Isn't dar a newspaper ?" "No." " Hasn't I dun got nuffin' 'tall?" Not a thing/ "Dat's curus--werry curus,' , he walked out. mut­ tered the man as! a of $3, <>18,665 THE Director* of the Lincoln Fair Association have decided to allow the sale of beer on their grounds. IN Massac county, George Bradley, colored, attempted to assassinate George Blue, also colored, for being too intimate with his wile. IT is understood that a .company of wealthy brewers of Dubuque are con­ templating the opening of a mammoth brewery in Galena. THE prospects of the rye.crop of Illi­ nois are encouraging. Where harvested the yield is abundant, and the quality far excels the average. MRS. WARREN, aged 70, wife of John Warren, a wealthy farmer living near Metamora, was found dead in a cistern near the family residence. " -|gg| A CONSERVATIVE computer of the number of men now idle in Chicago for the reason that they can and no work puts the figure at fully 20,090. FREDOUNK BABKKNMEYMR, a well- known brush manufacturer of Galena, committed suicide bv drowning himself, tying a seven-pouncr wiudow weight to each wrist to expedite hts exit from earth. THE late Joseph Amour, the wealthy Chicago pork-packer, was not a Baptist, but lie left the direction of his $100,000 institution for the training * of Chicago boys and girls to Dr. Loriin^r, a Baptist clergyman. His brothers Trill increase the endowment and make it one of the leading charities of Chicago. SEVERAL weeks ago Joseph Beam, of Bloomington, missed one of his large hog«. It was finally found wedged in between the fence and a wagon bed, in such a manner that it could not escape. It had been iu this place twenty-three day 8, without food or drink, and it came out rather a thin hog, but will recover. THE Superintendent of the Quincy Humane Society reports that he investi­ gated 142 cases in the month of June, and says: "The majority of my work has been instructiug drivers of horses and mutes to feed more, whip less, fit their harness and collars bettor, loosen their ch^j^in^.*at(SR-«Osfe4toii4^N»4 lighter. REPOKTS from eleven townships in De Witt county show that there are 1,405 dogs assessed. The personal property is assessed at $1,089.50. There are only $50 worth of diamonds. The assessed value of real estate is $3,371,312 ; town lots, $393,576. There are 92 pianos, and 288 organs and melodeons. Harnett township is reported to be without any dog®. THU Quincy Board of Commerce HAS' decided to send a committee to Wash­ ington to confer with the Secretary of War concerning the transfer from Bock Island to Quincy of the Government en­ gineering corps having in charge the im­ provement of the Mississippi river be- j tween the mouth of the Illinois river and | St. Paul. The President of the board thought that the location of the Govern­ ment engineers iu Quincy would be a most desirable enterprise, as it would not only bring a number of people to the city, but it would probably result in the establishing of shipyards in the bay and a Government storehouse on the island. _ 1HK Chicago Times, in publishing the circular of the Illinois Board of Health, iu relation to the examination of immi­ grants arriving in this State, remarks : The issue of the circular is nece sitated by the refusal of Congress to make the needed provision for such inspection under authority of the National Board. This refusal exposes the people'of the Western and Southern States to dangers against which the best efi'orts of the local authorities can but poorly and im­ perfectly protect them, and may be with­ out extravagance characterized as a crimo. The burden it imposes upon the people of Illinois is outrageous, for they are compelled now to assume the expense of guarding not only their o * n territory, but that of all the States west and north of them, against infection with pestilential diseases by the thousands of immigrants who enter and pass through the State every week. before my country in deep humiliation ; but it is the reoord of this republic, that your majority rode to this House fetlock deep in human blood. Nay, nay, this is a matter of record and not mere decla­ mation. To get your majority more men were murdered for attempting to vote the Republican ticket than fell in. defense of our flag at Gettysburg. In order to get and maintain your majority in this Home more men went down un­ der the knife, the revolver and the shot­ gun than fell fighting for the republic at Malvern Hill or Shiloh. And yet this party talks to us about civii-servic^ re­ form; about political freedom! There is not a spot upon the escutch­ eon of our country's honor upon which we do not find traces of your party fingers. There is not a rent in your country's flag that your partisans" did not shoot there with hostile lead. The tim^was within ten years when you did not furnish as much protection to Amer­ ican citizens in the enjoyment of their political rights within the shadow-fall of this Capitol as pagan Borne furnished to her citizens in her remotest provinoes, and yet this party parades itself as the champion of civil rights and political equality before the law. Upon yonder wall hangs the map of your country. If I asked y/>u go and put your pencil upon a State where political riot goes un­ checked, where political outrage and wrong go unrebuked and the perpetrat­ ors go unpunished, there is not a "inn in this House who would have the brazen effrontery to pat a pencil within the boundaries of an acknowledged Re­ publican State. Gentlemen will not accuse me of any unkind intention, I want to cay to my brethern from the South (and do not forget it, gentlemen) that the mothers of the North that bound bandages around your wounded soldiers, who watched over them when Bick and soothed and comforted them in their dying hours, who gave them tender care when dying andChiistian burial when dead, are not the mothers who could or did teach their sons to hate you. We fought your cause, not you and when that cause went down in the red sea of war we gladly welcomed peace and hailed you as our countrymen. All we ask IH)W, in the language of the • mar-' tyred dead, is, everything for security, nothing for revenge. To return once more to the map of my country. Go with me to any county where political corruption reigns su­ preme; go with me to the wards mid pre­ cincts where the police on election day j are doubled, where the police are trebled, ! where trembling patriots walk ap to the I who finds no trace of a higher and Let­ ter law (HI the tablets of his heart will spit upon and despise that printed in your statute-book. The hope of the re­ public is in the enlightenment and en­ nobling of our people. Teach men to 1 aspire to the better things above rather than be satisfied in the contemplation of the foot that there are baser persons and meaner things below. To this service it is our duty to dedi­ cate ourselves and our children. of the sew apportionment Carolina. Mr. Dibble is a political eaeoiBt of the type that has been de­ veloped in the South by the cgdj pencies of the Bourbon causa, He pr^Sida to be an honorable gentlemen, aiM^roivp highly indignant if his preCes&iolis iitf this respect are disputed. Yet Pentay <* to ae compliahthe suppression of tH negro vote ui his State, and belies that in so doing he is acting the not at the patriot and the statesman Some t̂ha <}mi*ote In Polities. There is a Democratic newspaper in Chicago which has masqueraded several j weak wimngh tasay that thev believed years under the dress of party independ- ' the letter was it man of htirior, though ence. Every onoe in a while, however, they had the best possible reasonin the d<r ,r i the political domino and reveals the true ; of the Bourbom campaigns iih tfy* character of the wearer. The latest i Charleston district for many years, and manifestation of partisan wile will be I 5® * responsible, if anybody is, for the found in the following proposition, sag- that have been praotioed there, geated o .̂ibly to ft. interest ol & £ V i* . i' !• , j a- '•V& service reform 41 That in 1&84 they (the Republican and Democratic parties) shall unite in naming one citizen as their common choice for President, upon the under­ standing and mutual agreement that he shall not act as the President of either, but m an impartial, non-partisan Chief Magistrate of the nation which contains both ; that he shall not treat the public offices as spoils for the victors, nor as' patronage to be awarded to anybody; nor farm out the appointing power to Senators, Representatives, or party bosses ; but that he shall call a Cabinet of the party which shall choose a major­ ity of the Representatives, and hold the Cabinet responsible for the success or failure of the party administration." There is not muoh reason to doubt that the Democratic managers would fasten upon such an arrangement greed­ ily if they thought there were the slight­ est hope of obtaining the consent of the Republican managers. The Democrats have been making desperate attempts to elect a President ever since they for­ feited their claim to national trust by the secession, rebellion and war which their action forced upon the country. All their machinations to that end have failed. They declared the war a failure, and were beaten. They voted the war a success, and were beaten. They took up as their candidate an old-time Aboli­ tionist and original Republican, but could not deceive the people. They re­ turned to their vomit, and thought by intrigue and oorruption to seize the Presidency, but they failed. They have tried civilians and military heroes, have flirted with the Greenbackers and sworn by hard money,, have in turn reiterated and disavowed the State sover­ eignty heresy, which is the dis­ tinctive mark of their existence, have followed the progress of the Re$- publican party about four years late, nave experimented with, every expedient which political shrewdness has boon able to suggest, but all to no purpose. No doubt, then, they would gladly agree to vote with the Republicans for lorne non­ partisan candidate (if it were possible to find such a person qualified to fill the office of Chief Magistrate), and leave to the Congressional majority the privilege of shaping the policy of the administra­ tion. At all events, such a plan v.ould give them some chance to control the executive administration of the Gov­ ernment which the regular method of electing a President does not hold out to them. With the aid of intimidation and fraud in the Southern States, the Demo- crate sometimes succeed in securing con­ trol of Congress when they cannot choose a President, and they woulf; doubtless be happy to avail themselves of the same connivance with bulldozing and ballot- box stuffing as a means to get control of the executive part of tiie Government during four years. They will have no such opportunity. Of course the scheme outlined in ti e to oall things by their sight' names i f they wish to respect themselves or be \ respected by others. Nothing was ever gained yet by compromising with a scion ' of Southern chivalry engaged in dirty work as to his personal responsibility -P- \ {orit- Dibble has himself thrown a strong \ light on his pretensions as "a Southern 4 ̂ gentleman " by perfecting-a new plan of apportionment for South Carolina* ̂ which in its disregard of ws require- %; » mente of decency and law iilwM# previous efforts of the kindjtat have f,:' V. been made in this country. He had the plan of this apportionment in hiS fc>6ck«t ̂ at the very moment when he was pi#- -* . testing his purity and innoeence in t&& j?1'V halls of Congress. But the least feSS- ) amination of it will show that stt ^ honorable man could not have con­ ceived it, and cannot now countenance it.* The object of it is to nullity as fsr as possible the colored vote of the State'. The colored majority in South Carolina is 3*2,000. Dibble's plan begins by putting 25,000 of it in one district. This district is 250 miles long. It varies in width from 150 miles to 150 feet, except for three miles, where it is an imaginary line. The act of the Legislature uses the following language in describing part of the Seventh district: "James island, Folly island, Morris island amd islands lying between them and the lower portion of Charleston har­ bor and the ocean ooast line from below high-water mark." ̂ " The ocean ooast line 6m and ba» V , low high-water mark " is, of oouree, nil | ̂ during high water. The district is p shaped like a bat with outstretched . wings, though, in the Words of Polomus, " it is backed like a camel," and from fcv v;< one point of view is " very like a weasel." Sf W Such a configuration never was seen jp this country before since Congressional ̂ districts began to exist. * „ ^ The other six districts have been ar- f. • ranged with a view to returning Bour­ bon members, but all of them, with two exceptions, have colored majorities, t ' v The number of male persons over 21 years of age in the new districts in 1880, according to the official statement of the census ottiea, is as follows: Whit* CVFLFW# *V.,£ mm. Eolls fearful lest they be beaten ovor the „ eads with bludgeons or be thrust away j above paragraph is utterly chimerical, by ruffians; point out that ward, point j There is no inducement for the Repub- out that precinct, point out that couaty i lican paity to enter into an alliance with to me. There is not a man within the j the Democrats to elect a so called "no-v- sound of my voice who will ever think of pointing to a county, ward or precinct which is confessedly Republican. How is it, gentlemen, that political rights are only safe where you are not, and threatened only where you are in undisputed majority? How is it? I have traveled from Maine to the Rio Grande, from the northwest corner of the republic to Florida, at least in imag­ ination, searching for an answer to this questiop. When my eye rests upon a State, couaty or precinct where there is a clear Republicau majority Ifiud quiet, order, < qual rights, full Mid protection to every voter. partisan," or more properly a compro­ mise candidate for President. The Democratic party would not listen to any such proposition if it were not so hopelessly moribund. Political condi­ tions are not favorable to any such ar­ rangement. It is hard to conceive of a man of sufficient character and ability to serve as President of the United States who has not strong convictions as to the principles which divide the Democratic and Republican parties. Civil-service reform is lugged in simplj as a pretense for suggesting the scheme, adequate j Nothing in the past history or present I ambition of the Democratic party prom LrintricL White. Flrrt. 12,445 Seoond 11,446 Tllird*.. 13,359 Fourth 17,670 Fifttl 11,905 Sixth 12,480 Seventh 7,694 Colored. 13,884 12,70? 16,V8J 12,60^ 13,4s*. 32,89# • r"i& •. wmjoritg. 1,439 4,8i7 Wi . But when I want to find the | ises any aid to this reform movement 'opposite of that--j ou know, gentlemen, ' from th e clique of politicians who con- it is a matter of record, these ballots [exhibiting the tissue ballots used in South Carolina] attest the truth of what I say--when I want to find the reverse of that, I say it in all humiliation, I have to go where Democracy reigns su­ preme and exercises almost undisputed power. One word more and I have done. Much has been said about the preserva­ tion of the country's honor and integri­ ty. In 1880 your party -approached a victory away up in the frozen corner of this republic, in Maine. What was the result ? The credit of this country was chilled to the heart, the national securi­ ties sank in a moment. Yes, your coun­ try's credit was shaken, and millions upon millions were lost upon the bare suggc stion that the national Government might pass under your control and its TEE gloomy forebodings of the last few & u ^ I followed after, and when**I asked I as t0 th* ®roP of are j houor and integrity"' info your party's him if he expected an important letter I bLlhe./eif r4 i_^*C.1iVe_d I keeping. Nor is that all. What else ? A Name. It was only a little while ago that the Qtteen was graciously plessed to grant Mr. Bartlett "her royal authority and license to call himself William Leiiman- Ashmead Burdett - Coutts - Bartlett- Coutta," but now appears a notification that he is to be known " William Lehman - Ashmead - Bartlett - Burdett- Coutts" only. That ought to satisfy him, though it is hard to have one s , name pruned down to such insignificant oney was taken from the drawer, which proportions. The trouble was probably is left open, and this gave Bennett the >portunity to arrange his device. One ller was driven to resign by an unac- uutable shortage in his cash, but his ccesaor was fortunate enough to "oatch t" to the janitor's little game, and sab- quently to the janitor himself. A WOMAN'S paper in San Francisco animates Mrs. J. W. Stow, of that city, an " Independent candidate for Gov- nor of California." She is a graduate Oberlin. * Her qualifications for Gov- nor are thus stated: "Mrs. Stow with the people, of the people, id for the people; she is in the -ime of life, unpiekledwith whisky and that before a flunkey could get through announcing William I^ehman, etc., and his bride at a drawing-room, the coupty j had entered, spent a pleasant eveiling and were just getting ready to leave. The flunkey's case was similar to that of the stutterer, who, when asked the-j way to Roxbury, replied: "G-g-g-g-g--oh, g-go 1-Mong! Te- ! ye-you'll g-get there before I can t-t-tell yon."--Boston Transcript | GSOBQE WH-MAM CUBTIS, thirty years ago, asked Bancroft how far he proposed to continue his history of the United States, and the reply was: "HI were an artist painting a picture of this ocean my work would stop at the horizon. I can see no further. My history will aid that day he replied " Sartin I does. Dat's why I'ce walked fo* miles dis mawnin'." " Where was the letter ooming from ?'* "I dunno." " Did you expect news or money in the letter ?" "'Deed I did, sah. I 'seeded dat let­ ter might hab $20 into it " Who from ?" " I dunno, but I 'spected it." He then told me that he oould neither read nor write, had no friends to write to him, had never mailed a letter nor re­ ceived one in his life, and yet he had in­ quired for mail at least five hundred times a year for the past ten years. In fact, it wasn't an hour after I left him before he circled around to the office ^aiu and said: " 1 reckon I mus' hab some mail by dis time." ® " No--nothing for you." "Wall, if dat hain't curus--werry curus 1 Reckon I'd better wait for dat 1 o'clock train 1"--M. Quad. Minute Workmanship. The Salem (Mass.) Museum has iu its possession a cherry stone containing one dozen silver spoons. The stone is of the ordinary size, the spoons being so small that their shape and finish can be dis­ tinguished only by the microscope. This is the result of immense labor for no de­ cidedly use'ul purpose, and there are numbers of other objects in existence the value of which may be said to be at the State Derartment of Agriculture from tw. nty-six counties. With an acreage materially decreased because of the inability of farmers to plant corn in the cold, wet weather of April and May, and with a continuation of the most un­ favorable conditions for the growth of such of the crop as could be planted, the prospect now seems definitely As it was flashed along the wires that < span the country that you were success- j ful in Maine, presaging a victory for yon I in October, there followed swiftly after | messages to the great manufacturers of J the country in these words : " Stop my | order; if Hancock is elected I shall countermand it" In my own city an order was given for twenty-one thousand trol it A helpless President who should five himself over into the hands of a democratic Cabinet, appointed at the dictation of a Democratic Congress, would be unable to check the headlong rush of Democratic place-hunter.! which would set in at once. There would be a revolution in the civil service; but that is not reform. The people might just as well elect a Democratic President at the start, and that they j would not do. Civil-service reform is only to be achieved by the combined ef- ' fort of law, public opinion and long-con- J tinned practice. The Republican party I has made considerable headway toward ' it in its long tenure of power, which 1 gives a certain assurance of permanency j to officers and employes who are com­ petent and faithful. The next step is 1 one which would probably have been ! taken if Garfield had lived--viz : to pro- j vide by law for fixed term® for the mine* I officers and employes of the Government j Until measures shall be adopted to as­ sure the retention of the skilled and ex- perienced men now serving the Govern- ' ment the threatened revolution in the • civil service will always be a strong ar- , gument against the election of a Demo- | cratio President, and any scheme de- mm •This 1» the only district wfeieh Hon*of countie*. ' ~ The population of the seven districts k- > ^ is as follows: First, 118,803; Second, ' 1 136,748 ; Third. 131.569 ; Fourth. 167,- 230; Fifth, 121.308; Sixth, 132,3831 Seventh, 187,536. The Fourth aud Seventh districts have a population of 3 >1.766, or one-third the popu'atibn of th • State ; where** the First district h*s 32,0i)J less tlmu the ratio, aud thrve other district* 1.1,000 to 20,O X) less. Jt is a n marbable iact that the Bourbons profess to be able to curry the four'dis- tricts in whi6h the colored people have majorities ringing tVom 800 to 4,8Q0, though it is admitted that all ,the negroes aud a considerable number pt whitrsiu these districts are Republicans. Dtb >!e lmM thoughtfully put htmseff and Mucki'V ni ttie First District, where' the colored majority is 1,439. It would apt lie agreeable to Dibble to go to Congress honestly, if he oould; so he has left himself a good colored majority to over­ come by fraud. But he will easily dis­ pose of 1,500 majority against him aftd preserve .his reputation for "honot" among his neighbors and friends. Mackey is so satisfied of this that he will not contest the district with Dibble, but will run in the Seventh district, where the colored people have 25,000 majority. • It will be the duty of Congress if the Republicans shall have a majority in the next House to investigate carefully the elections in all colored-districts of South Carolina, and to unseat any member whose certificate shall appear to be tainted with fraud. If Mr. Samuel Dibble snail be one of the number so much the better. The whole apportion­ ment might properly be rejected, if the point ghould be raised, on the ground that the districts mm not composed of "compaet and contiguous territory," nor are they "nearly equal in popula­ tion," as the law requires. But it w\ll be for Congress to determine what course it shall pursue iu this respect after the elections have been held. ' if • ̂r, Aft ippeai for the Jew*. S .. •t On one side man advances ̂ ith meas­ ured but certain tread toward an ever brighter horizon, lead­ ing by the hand a child. He steps forth, bis head full of light, the chfld, its head full of hope. Lai tor does its grand work; science seeks God. Th» , mind beholds him--God truth, Qosl just- God conscienee, God love. Man $: assured that Illinois^ will this vear hardly j dollars' worth of machinery. After the ^ - ! ref.urng from Maine the order was stayed until the result of the October election determined that the country's integrity and its honor were secure against the ' danger of Democratic ascendency, j No, my countrymen, I say these things j not in unkindness, but in humiliation. ! I but recite the record. It is the fault j of the facts, and not of him who pro- j claims them. , Do you expect by legislative enact­ ment to make men good ? Oh, no; onr fathers had no such hope. At the hearthstones we build the foundation of ' this republic. Teach our children to adhere to the eternal principles of right not because they are advocated by one man or another, but because they are right, and because apart from them , there can be no salvation for this re­ public; being as it is a Government of the people; a government in which realize more than half an average crop of corn. But, while corn has suffered, farmers are not without partial compen­ sation in. the exceptional promise of wheat, oats, rye, barley and hay, which will in a great measure supply the loss in corn. SOME, twelve or fourteen years ago Henry Zimmer, of Chicago, began sav- 1 ing up money with which to build him­ self a house. Being only a common laborer his coffers did not swell very rapidly, but last May found him in pos- ; session of #1,700 of hard-earned money. ' May 16 his wife took the money and J placed it in two buckets, one holding $8°0 in gold and the other holding $900 i in greenbacks, and she buried the buck- ( ets a foot under ground and two feet apart, uuder the house. A few days ago, when the woman crawled under the house to see if the monev was all right, . . ice, signed to circumvent the popular will blends with things belonging to earth, because the people will not consent to w£th liberty, equality and fraternity. el*M a Democratic President will (j(Ki sought is philosophy; God seen as always be obnoxious to good sense and religion. There is nothing more--no good morals. mere idle tales, no more dreams ̂ no If the proposition to which we have m0re dogmas. AU the peoples are j referred is based upon any genuine de- j brothers. Frontiers disappear. IVfan . aira adnnt "«*«-1 pg^gj^g that yet the earth has not .i - - \'i'* 4. she discovered to her dismay that the i virtue and intelligence are indispensably bucket of gold was gone, although the ! necessary to the security of the rights greenbacks had not been touched. Her and opportunities which belong to free- husband took the loss so seriously that j men under the constitution. he has Inst his mind. He can think of I Legal enactments are of little avail to . nothing eke but his lost pile of glitter- I control the action of voters who are so quite as indifferent Thus, Dr. Oliver j ing wealth, and does little but wander | utterly oorrupt as to make the highest with the adoption of the constitution, igives an account of a cherrystone on [about the house all day bemoanipg; his land most* sacred badge of citizenship a All beyoad that is experiment" 'which were carved 124 heads so distinct A misfortune. 3W thief left no 'aubjeotrf bair ̂and sale. The wreteh : • " ' " " • ' ~ - . . ... . sire to adopt what is known as the re- ^ 'sponsible " system of government--that ! which obtains in England--the answer | is that the American system as it is now ! constituted is not in harmony with the ! theories of a "responsible" Ministry, ! and that, whether desirable or not, the ! other system cannot be grafted upon I our Government, except through consti- j tutional amendments adopted by vote of ' the people. Any indirect and rounda- ! bout way to attain the proposed change I of system is foreordained to failure, j Meanwhile the Republican party will I not be tempted to surrender the trust confided to it by the people, and oouid not be justified in doing so by auy soph­ istry based upon a pretensa of civil- service reform.--Chicago Tribune, The Sooth Carolina Gerrymander. Mt. Samuel Dibble, who was reoently ejected from a seat that he wrongfully ! held in the lower house of Congress, 1 is generslly credited with the paternity the earth been possessed. Wars, become rarer. Races have henceforth but one n\oti*e and one goal--civilization. * Every throb of the human heart means progress. On the other side jnan is seen receding. The horizon becomes blacker. Multi­ tudes go about groping in the gloom. The old religions, crushed under their two thousand years, have lost e^verythitfg but their myths ; once the illusion ef the childhood of humanity, but now scorn of its maturity ; once accepted,i ignorance, but now contradicted science ; leaviug to the clinging believer, w^>se eyi's are closed aud ears stopped, u "other refuge than the frightful *'Ctedo quia absurduui." Errors devour cms sm­ other. The Jews are niwtyred by.j Chrisiiaus.--Fmm Victor Ay/o s te*U V , • * * % » * "SOME people, aajs Alpiwose Kan; "are always lading fanlt with natnm for patting thorns on roses; 11' tlMUUt harfar > Q si