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m'i UJf§fBtg flainflealer I. VAN SLYKE. EAttr ami Pablishw. jtcHENBY, ILLINOIS. BEFOBB the dreaded ophthalmia can ce havoc with the English' troops in Egypt, it will hare to overcome the re- •istanoe of blue spectacles, of which 35,000 pain have been ordered by -tke. •Government, at 5 cents a pair. • IT is proposed to practioally abolish, l>y catting twenty feet wide and twenty feet deep, the narrow isthmus which, dividing the east and west lochs of Tar- bert, Scotland, unites the Mull of Kin- tyre to the mainland. Such a canal •weuld give a direct passage from the •Clyde to the Atlantio, saving aboat 115 miles of the voyage to the West and Jforth of Scotland. HORACE QKTEUCI'S FAMOUS stage- -driver, Hank Monk, is now employed on the proposed line of the Northern Paci- in Montana. A particularly bold but inezperienoed road agent undertook "to stop his coach the other day, but Hank whipped up his horses and dashed -off with five bullets flying after him, one -of which strnck a horse. The animal •did net, however, break down till the *tage reached a freighters' camp. A BEOSNT candidate for political office lli Canada is charged with having promised to buy wedding dresses for aome young ladies in the constituency, 4Utd, " lest he should forget to make the purchase," with having deposited the "necessary funds with the parents of the •damsels, requesting, at the same time, that the ballots of the parents be marked in his favor. American politicians can't teach those .on the other of the line muoh. "THE Itafi&n courts have just decided adversely the claims of the heirs of Pius XX. for 15,000,000 lire, which they .-alleged was due them from the Italian Oovernment. Under the Papal guaran­ tiees this money was granted to Pius IX. »$>y Italy, but he always refused to accept :it Now the courts declare that the 1 money was granted to Pius as Pope and not as a private individual; and.that his theirs have no legal claim upon it. XENTUCKT appears to have decidedly •put the cart before the horse in the mat­ ter of education. She has no less than twenty universities and colleges, seven -schools of medicine, .six theological ^schools, two law schools and one agri­ cultural and meohanieal college, with several hundred grammar schools, acad­ emies and colleges, each holding a high standard of education. With all these .means of secondary education her pri­ mary schools are confessedly poor. There ate 250,000 illiterates in the •State. quarrel between Jared Smith, in Rich­ mond, Ind., and his wife and two sons culminated in his being shot by his son Dan, aged 19, after which Dan and an older brother threw the body into a well. In February, Solomon Richards, Charlton, Maw., was shot and killed by his son, a young married man. The murderer claimed that his father had abijped his mother. There was some evidence that he slew his father to get the farm. In the same month James G. Allison was hanged at Tn^i»n ̂ pa., for the murder of his father. The father and mother were on bad terms, and the son Bided with his mother. He was 30. Later in the month, Charles B. Gillem, aged 17, shot his invalid mother in her bed at Macomb, Ohio. Having had a dispute with her, he went into another room, got a pistol and killed her, and when arrested manifested no re­ morse. It was also in February that John Lanaha, who lived twelve miles from Kock Bapids, Iowa, was shot by his daughter, aged 20. The girl's lover, to whom the father objected, furnished her the pistol, and her mother and younger sister were in the plot. They had been intending to kill John, but neither the wife nor the younger daugh­ ter oould muster up courage to do it, so they sunt for the older girl, who was away. A somewhat nimiUr crime oc­ curred in May, in the same State, near Muscatine. A man named McMenomon was shot by his young son, his two daughters, both young, being parties to the crime. They said they wanted to have things their own way at home, and they couldn't so long as the father lived. They planned that the younger sister should confess that she killed her father, their idea being that her sex and age would (shield her from severe punish­ ment, and so all would escape. But the plot fell through. On the Fourth of July, Frank Dagon of Harwinton, Conn., pushed his father backward, breaking his neck, because he was not allowed to take the horse for a ride. f-T ^ „ /Vr ^ " * ; . A1. 1 . A Naw YobK Custom House inspector noticed a very nervous man ooming oft •of an ocean steamer and holding a valise in his hand. On opening it only a few articles of wearing apparel, exempt from •duty, were to be seen ; but the inspector Also noticed that the inside depth of the -valise did not account for the depth of the outside. A closer inspection dis- •covered a false bottom under which were $6,000 worth of diamonds, breast­ pins, riugs, scarf pins, watch chains, etc. Among the articles in the valise was a pamphlet on the " Extinction of Pauper­ ism." So far as the owner of the valise -was |ersonally concerned, he had evidently read the pamphlet to some purpos ̂ » CAPT. MAYNH RBID, of whbm the reading boys know something, was met in London the other day by a corres­ pondent of the Graphic, who thus des­ cribes his strange attire: He wore a furry woolen suit, cut as to coat like a Nor­ folk shirt or an artist's jacket; velvet- furred slippers on his feet that displayed almost coquettishly vermillion-hued «tockings ; a bright red vest; an un­ daunted oollar of red and white stripes standing erect and encircling the neck Shiglier than the latitude of the ears and pointing in direct right-angles over the nose in frdht; a white service cork hat /bound with satin ribbon draped with silk cords around the crown, while from •out of this oddly appearing figure, and -from its upper end, peeped a face so «hrewd and jovial, in which shone so twinkling an eye, tb^t one oould nT>t but join in the pleasurable feelings so ap­ parently fully enjoyed by the owner. ABOUT two weeks ago the shingle -xnan^acturers of Manistee and Lud- iugton, Mich., concluding that their pro­ duct was selling too cheaply in the market, entered into a solemn league ^and compact by the terms of which in-, strament they were * severally to cease -operations for the space of thirty days. Their employes were not consulted in the matter further than to be notified that their services would not be wanted forthe period above mentioned. The mills shut -down, and the price bobbed up 30 to 40 cents. Now it is reported that the mill men conceive it to be to their interest to recommence the manufacture ol shingles. /The employes are also willing to resume work, but now believe it is their tim« to speak, and as a condition precedent to resuming demand of the companies compensation for the time lost, or rather their proportion of theSOoents taken -from the general oonsumer. It is a very interesting controversy as it stands, and, as Sir Roger de Ooverly would remark, much might be said on both sides of the question. Thx year 188% says the New Toirk Sun, hm been a shocking year thus far for parricides. Guy Smith, the Missouri boy, just convicted for murdering his father, does not stand alone, except for* yqnlihfnliiHM, In January a pgqfcraoted Value of Vegetables. We find many valuable general re­ marks upon various topics in the latter- day cook books of which the number is legion, and nearly all worth the money they cost to every housewife. For in­ stance, in Reeves' Book on Cookery we find the following about vegetables their importance at the table as helps to health and happiness: Asparagus is a strong diuretic, and forms part of the cure for rheumatic pa­ tients at such health resorts as Aix-lee- t Bains. Sorrel is cooling, and forms the staple of that soupe aux herbes which a French lady will order for herself after a long and tiring journey. Carrots, as containing a quantity of sugar, are avoided by some people, while others complain of them as indigestible. With regard to the latter accusation, it may be remarked in passing that it is the yellow core of the carrot that is difficult of digestion--the outer, a red layer, is tender enough. In Savoy, the peasants have recourse to an infusion of carrots as a specific for jaundice. The large sweet onion is very rich in those alkaline ele­ ments which counteract the poison of rheumatic gout. If slowly stewed in weak broth, and eaten with a little Nepaul pepper, it will be found to be an admirable article of diet for patients of studious and sedentary habits. The stalks of cauliflower have the same sort of value, only too often the stalks of a cauliflower are so ill-boiled and unpalatable that few persons would thank you for proposing to them to make a part of their meal consist of so uninvit­ ing an article. Turnips, in the Bame way, are often thought to be indigestible, and better suited for cows and sheep than for delicate people; but here the fault lies with the cook quite as much as with the root. The cook boils the turnip badly and then pours some butter over it, and the eaterof such, a dish is sure to be the worse for it. Try a better way. Half boil your turnip, and cut it in slices like half-crowns. Butter a pie dish, put in the slices, moisten with a little milk and weak broth, dust once with bread­ crumbs and pepper and salt, and bake in the oven till it gains a bright golden brown/ , The dish, which is the Pied- montese fashion of eating turnips, is quite unsuited for cows, and ought to be popular. What shall be said about our lettuces? The plant has a slight nar­ cotic action, of which a French old woman, like a French doctor, well knows the value, and when properly cooked it is really very easy of digestion. But in our country, though lettuces are duly grown in every garden, you otten hear the remark, "I can't eat a salad," and as few cooks know how to use the vege­ table which has been refused in its raw state the lettuces are all wasted, and so is the ground in which thej are grown. Growing Old. The Sunday evening cheer at Mr. Smiley's last evening consisted of a pan of russet apples, apitcher of hard cider and a plate of Hannah's twisted dough­ nuts. The old couple's son and wife had been over for the day and had just quit­ ted the cheery, old-fashioned room. " I tell ye, Hannah," said Ichabod, as he stepped to the mantel and took down his clay pipe, "it's mighty comforting to grow old and sort o' mellow at the same time. Darn that pipe, it won't draw at alL Ah, there it is, all right. As I said, it'B comforting to grow old »t ̂V Yes, Ichabod, it may be; but I am not growing old at all, you see. I'm as spry as ever 1 was." "Not hardly, Hannah, not hardly. Ton do very well, but when you was young you was a hummer, you was. As I said before, it's kinder pleasant to grow old " "Pshaw! there you go again. You are the worst old sentimental coot I ever saw.. If you could only sit by the fire and smoke your pipe and dream out loud all day you'd be happy, but I like to see folks stir around and be lively. Why don't you put some wood on the fire?" " Never mind the fire just now. As I said before, it's pleasant to grow old If But TTMITUA couldn't Btand any more, and she went hastily into the kitchen and washed the potatoes for breakfast, and cut the meat from the chicken car­ cass to "warm up in the oven, you know," and by the time she returned Ichabod was dreaming in his chair, his silvery hair fallen over his forehead and the firelight reflecting naught but peace in foia oonntftnano".--New jEtevcn Meg--, ister. _ WHISK a MAN tells a story he T&inks is funny and the crowd does not catch on, his face falls, naturally. It is affected by tha fall ol gravity. WHO IS BESFOffSIBLl f [From the Chicago Evening Journal,] Cbitgreea will no sooner adjourn th»» * heated discussion will begin in ̂ newspapers as to the responsibility of it. When the Forty-seventh Congress as­ sembled the Senate stood 37 Republi­ cans, 37 Democrats, and Senator Ma- hone, Readjuster, and David Davis, In­ dependent. In other words, it was a tie, with Davis and Mahone holding the balance of power. Taking advantage of some Republican absentees one day at lhe commencement of the session, the Democrats elected Mr. Bayard, of Dela­ ware, President pro tem, of the Senate, thus placing him in the direct line of succession to the White House in case President Arthur's death. The ability to do such a thing really looked " to a man up a tree " as if the Democrats had some power and responsibility in the Senate. To make a President or to place a man in the official position where he is liable to become the chief execu­ tive officer of the Nation, by the progress of events, seems to indicate that- those who are able to do it should not now plead the baby act. * But the best-laid plans of the politi­ cians often miscarry, and when the ab­ sent Senators returned, it was proposed that David Davis be elected President pro tem. of the Senate; whereupon Mr. Bayard stepped down and out; probably repeating to himself, " I was so soon done for that I wonder what 1 was begun for." However, Senator Bayard made •a very respectable presiding officer the few hours he was permitted to occupy the chair, but the /Republicans went on by the aid of Davis and Mahone and or­ ganized the standing committees of the Senate. The political situation in the House wm almost identical with that of the Senate, but not quite. The House stood as fellows: Republican! Democrat* Qreenbackerm Independents..... SMdjaaten. ry ?" The Bepublioaits are boldlv com­ mitted to th- idtenathe of both oif these issues. The -democratic party is m»lring a defensive warfare, and will probably lose, as nearly every battle is lost jj vaged on the defensive. Gov. Foster sounded the keynote of the campaign in his opening *peeoh, and threw down the gauntlet in the following gallant manner: "He said that the old party lines ih Ohio were not worked this year as in years previous, but that a new question has arisen that does not seem to give them great hope of success. • I refer to the recent act of the General Assem­ bly in the proposal to tax the traffic in intoxicating liquor, and to secure a quiet and orderly Sabbath. The Republican party proposes that Sunday shall be a day of rest, not of orgies and carnivals and that the liquor traffic shall be re ̂ stricted. The howl about invading the sanctity of personal liberty sim piv arises from the fact that we propose "to pro­ hibit one day's sale of intoxicating liquor. That is the true animus of the liquor-dealers' opposition. We desire that every man shall make such use of his time as he shall deem proper and expedient, so long as he does not inter- CHKISTIAff COUNTY'S SEHSATIOH. WmttiM mm* cictteati Tmlkmm trmm IIm j*U ui Strattr» t* m Tmc-Lci Bom and Reau»ct- ted--They Their ina«c..c« lu« iowu of TayiorviUo, the county seat or Chruti*u ooany, theaeeueof the wildest exoitement on th« night of Friday, Aug. 11. Th6 three young men, Montgomery Pettis and Clementi, charged with committing the fearful outrage on Hiss Emma Bond, had juat under­ gone a preliminary examination, the result of which was their committal, to jail to await the action of the Grand Jury. What followed ia thus described by a correspondent who wit­ nessed the exciting aoenee enacted: Shortly after 6 o'clock p. m. th© crowd began assembling at the jail, and at a quarter to 7 fully 500 men were gathered about the bailding while 200 women and young girls were on the adjaoent sidewalks. All was dark, except when an occasional match was struck. Oooasionallv j a new crowd would pat In an appearance, and the assemblage hailed them with eheera. All was orderly until 9 o'clock, when ths mob' became impatient Larger and larger grew the crowd, until at 9:30 it was fully fifteen hundred, including ths organized horse thief vigilance committee, from Tower Hill, made np of ftftv experienced regulators. A* 9:15 the mob broke into the jail through the front door, while a small delegation toned the door at the kitchen of the structure, and just at the foot of the stairs leading to the cage room. .; , • > esssi % .x /• A ̂ 14* u..JM ..... 8 ) 1 - . i-AK'l' 5» If the Democrats had secured the sup­ port of all the members who were not classified as Republicans, they would have elected the Speaker and organized the standing committees of the House at the commencement of the present session. Indeed, the parties were so evenly divided, and the attitude of the Greenbackers so uncertain, that the Democrats were enoouraged to believe that, with the aid of the old Democratic Chief Clerk, they might be able to con­ trol the organization. But the result was that tjtie Democrats and the other elements of opposition failed to make the usual alliance, and the control of the House passed into the hands of the Re­ publicans, but by a majority so small that it was often easily destroyed by sickness or absenteeism. For days to­ gether the Democratic minority has had the practical control of the House, and, by refusing to vote, oould easily break the quorum and defeat the passage of any measure, no matter how important it was. And this obstructive power they invoked whenever the opportunity to do harm presented itself. Thus the Republicans are made responsible for the evils whioh have been inflicted upon the country by the Democratic minority in Congress. We have shown that the Senate is re­ ally a tie, and that the Republicans only succeeded in defeating the Democrats in the election of a. President pro tem. by voting for David Davis,, an Independent. It was a victory tlfat was first cousin to a defeat. In the House a similar uncer­ tainty existed until it was known what course the Greenbackers would adopt. If they had united with the Democrats, as they had in previous Congresses, this would have been called a Democratic Contrress, and Joe Blackburn or Bill Springer, instead of Gen. Keifer, would have wielded the Speaker's gaveL We wish to particularly emphasize this fact, in order that the people may thor­ oughly understand, clearly and distinct­ ly, just where the responsibility rests, and why it is that the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress has been able to accomplish BO little practical and useful legislation. The Democrats in Congress are like so many burglars, who, after robbing a house and setting fire to it and running off by the light, are now com­ plaining of the neighbors, who vainly tried to extinguish the flames. The New York World, the leading Democratic organ in the United States, has the cheek to say, speaking of the River and Harbor bill, that "it was brought before the House as a party measure and passsed m a party meaaum This is the kind of shallow falsehood that is easily exploded by analyzing the vote by which the report of the confer­ ence committee on the bill was adopted, and by the vote it obtained in both houses over the President's veto. Re­ publicans will do well to fix these fig­ ures in their minds, as they furnish a perfect answer to all charges made by the Democrats that the Republicans are solely responsible for the passage of the act. In the House the vote on passing the bill over the President's veto stood, politically, as follows: Jtop. Dm, nu. Tea «f H m Hajr, 39 ST 89 Total 99 n 181 In the Senate the vote stood as fol­ lows : Hep. Ztom. TotoL Tea 18 . a* 41 Nay 13 3 M fero with the rights of others, and his j difficult to find anybody courageous enough to conduct is in keeping with the public ~ good. We believe that Sunday should be set apart, if for no higher motive, as a day of rest and recreation. Do we in­ terfere with any man's rights in this i «•« ie«ow was nustiect out by position ? Is it a great privilege to get I 8heriff» and when he reached the front yard drunk on Sunday f The Republican 1 J** thoroughly disgusted with the action of enter, except one old gray-haired man in his •hirt sleeves, who, pushing the Sheriff aside, and crying out "Come on, boys, every one of rushed in through the front door. But ere were no boys to come on. At the old fellow was hustled out by the you! then party proposes to stand by the principle that the saloon keeper shall conduct his business as regards the Sabbath the same as other business men. The liquor deal­ ers have declared that they will resist the enforcement of law. This is an issue higher than restraint in the traffic or the closing of saloons on Sunday. The Li­ quor Dealers' Association defies the law, and in some localities has sough t, to brow­ beat and coeroe the judiciary and intro­ duce perjury into the jury 'box, and with this association the Democratic party is in open alliance. At the brewers' con­ ference, recently held, there were pres­ ent the Chairman and two members of the Democratic State Central Commit­ tee. At the conference it is understood that an agreement was made by which there will be a thorough co-operation, and it is further understood that the brewers' organization is to furnish the money to run the Democratic campaign. The question quickly resolves itself whether law and order shall prevail, or whether we shall have free rum and dis­ order." A Desperate Duet. > Two worthies entered a railway ear in which a News man was seated. They were picturesquely attired in sombreros, rubber boots and pearl-colored suits of military cut. They glowered arountl the car a minute and then seated them­ selves and commenoed a whispering conversation. Thoughts of train rob» bery flashed through the minds of the tenderfeet in the train, and a conserva­ tive looking old gentleman was noticed to surreptitiously slip his gold watch and pocketbook nnder the cushion. Suddenly one of the " Wild Bills " stood up and there was a general movement among the tenderfeet to throw up their hands,, and to allow the supposed desper­ adoes to get through with their work of aoquiring their booty as expeditiously as possible. But a general relief was ex­ perienced when it was found that the blood-thirsty looking fellow merely wanted to borrow a chew of "navy from an acquaintance aft the opposite end of the car. . He had scarcely left his s^at when hie oompanion titmed to his nearest fellow- passenger, and remarked: *' That's the hardest man in Golondo." . Has he killed anybody?" "Killed anybody? You betcher life. Mor'n you've got fingers and toes on you. Why that's Dead Shot Bill Never has to waste a second cartridge. Always takes 'em an inch above the right eye. "Is he a robber?" hesitatingly in­ quired the passenger whom Dead Shot Bill's companion had taken into con­ fidence. "Naw! He ain't nothin' of sort. He kills foi sport. Wouldn't steal nothin'." 14 Might I inquire if he has shot any one recently ?" " Waal, no; not since a week ago, Friday, that I can recollect on." This was carefully noted down by a stout, fat gentleman, who appeared *to be all ears and looked as tnough he might be an English tourist. '* Weil, don't the authorities make any attempt to--to restrict his amunn ment ?" "Authorities? Guess not; why he's Sheriff himself of this county, and since he shot the last Judge for fiuing him for contempt of court, when he shot a law­ yer that had the impudence to say that the man the Sheriff had taken in for horse stealing wasn't the right man, there hasn't been anybody felt like tak­ ing his place." Then he rose and joined his bloody- named companion. " Do ytm know these men 7" s»v ̂the News man of a quiet-looking stockman, who had got on at the same station. "Know them ? Well, yes, I've known them for a few weeks, since itiev from the East, and I hired them to look after a flock of sheep, but I had to let them go because they were afraid to leave the ranch on account of the In­ dians--in their minds."--Denver Newt, his comrades, calling them a lot of chicken- hearted' oowards, mud saying they had not murage nuough to hang a chicken. Sheriff Haines, Attorney Drcnuan. and one or two others who seemec to have authority com­ manded peace, but the ciowd in the street pushed vigorously against the line in the front yard. Again the old man was in the lead. This time the mob nuooeeded in making bead- way, and those who entered at the front were found at the side door by the delegation that nad gone to that opening. The mob went np the stairs with a whoop and shout, and cheen rang out from the vast crowd in the street as the entrance was effected. Boon the narrow winding stairway was so orowded that the sa^ooa6" ware packed tightly together like When the stairs and the yard had been thronged with men and boys, the air began to fiu with and cheers. The cry oC nulitii raised at freqnent intervals did not nccm to disturb the moa'a nerves any. The only reply given when the alarm was raised was : " The militia be --!" After a delay of more than half an hour, two or three men made their ap­ pearance on the soeno with a sledge and orow- " Break in the doors," the mob cried. "No, don't," som>body suggested; "here oometi the turnkey with the key*. Hu'll open the door." Hure enough, the turnkey was there. He squeezed his way up stairs through the crowd, and after another delay opened! the doors. As aooa as the door opened a half dozen sturdy men took the lead, and with lamps and biti of candle searched the halls around the iron cagea. in which there are ten oells. "Where is Joliu Montgomery?" was asked. "And Lee Pettis?" shouted anoi^^r. "And Cieuienti?" a third added. Sixty feet of new white hemp rope was thrown In the corner. Then men began climbing np tbe sides of the cage, whiie others tookughw and made the search. They found Montgomery and Pettis crouch­ ing in a corner at the north end of the hail, Montgomery was first seized by two big men, who shook their fists in his face as they dragged him by the coat oollar from his hiding pl&oe. The poor fellow's face w as white with fear, and his eves were red and tearful. He did not beg for his life, but said: "Gentlemen, you are go­ ing to punish an innocent man." Scoffs and oaths were his only answer. They •aid: "John Montgomery, you are going to die, and if you've got anything to aay Bay it mighty quick." "Put the rope around hit neck," was rag goated, but the rope was not yet ready. Men were tying the hangman's knot in four pieces of equal iength at that particular time in one ooc^ nerof the room. » Pet tis was dragged out into the open space as rudely M Montgomery had been He looked frightened at first, but regained his composure, attd soon was able to apMk to the asaeihblage. He cried some, and repeated almost the same words made use of by Montgomery in asserting that he was innocent. " Lee Pettis. ---- you, we're a-going to hang you until you are dead- er'n h--11, and now, if yen have got anything to confess, be pretty quick about speaking u j out" waB the way in which a tall, thiu fsimer from the Stonington region addressed the young fellow. « "1 can't say anything but that I Mclnno- eent," Lee pleaded. i'Tes you kin, yon, and we an going to make you do ii before we get through with you," the Stonington delegate repeated. Every cell was examined carefully, but no Clementi was found. Borne wanted to lock Montgomery and Pettis up while the building was searched from cellar to roof for the miaaiw prisoner. " Bring 'em over here," said a Grove City man in the corner, "and Til keep them till h--1 freezes over, and then I will put them on ioe.'1 ***** BaofJIIw greatest confnstea reigned tor a apace, and then, with nnwilling eomwnj, a prooewbn started btek to the ^L^aving the Court Home yard, John a Montgomery was sapported bw* to the by State s Attorney Drannaa and Deputy BhaHfr r^e from Montgomery^ neck, but the mob No> no, "keep it on." Time and •gain the mob crowded np and around. but Mr. Drennan continued bis speech along the highway, and kept the crowd at bay. Reaching the Jul the crowd crushed and rushed into the building, bnt was ^gain and again, time after time, excluded, and Mont­ gomery was finally lauded in the turnkey's bed- rooma, where dementi was lying on a bed. Pettis was soon after hanled into the room the door closed on the three terrified men. Another break in the crowd caused renewed terror, and not until they were within the friendly grating of the cell-house did the faara of the men relax. Then, the rope was from Montgomery's neck, and from his line come a prayer of thankfalness. Detective Page and others, who have don© ae- cret work on the case, are still firm in their be­ lief in the prisoner*' guilt, and regret the inter­ ference of Mr. Bond and State's Attorney Drenuan. On the other hand, many citizens who listened to the testimonv elicited in the pre l'tnnarv examination a: e perfectly twtisfied witli the result The end is not yet, and it looks aa It Christian county had started on another chap- in its already bloody his ory. The Grand Jury, to assemble in September, will doubtless cognizance of the lynching and indict the ring­ leaders, but it is very doubtful if a jnrv could be obtained t* bring in anything but a verdict or acquittal. The lar^e reward now offered for the arrest and conviction of the outragera has stimulated detective work, and something start­ ling may be expected to be evolved. W alls .Cmer* The first number of the AL„ Monthly, that lor November, 1857 tAinivl M, v '«Brahma'" was the last of the four which excited* ».1 widespread discussion and no little rid-^ * ,4 _Ot If th« «l*in thinks he is Ml _ •&¥ kl,ow not well the mbtiTwritt F" V 'W keeP' "d P"« and tarn | ̂ /* 1% \ or forgot to me U near; • * Sfc.clo* and ""i'IkM are the same: * vanished Rods to me apnear'; ^ one to me are shamp and faaa. i r '.: When me they fly I am the wln^i. • • *nd the j \ and I the hymn the Brahmin t j*, ,, t ,&* The strong Rods pine for m* sbode: :*in tbe "*CIed / *• j Bnt thon, meek lover of the good, 1" * , find me, and turn thy back ™1- • Total 81 98 87 This was about the relative party rote on the original passage of the bill, and yet the World declares that it was in­ troduced and passed as a Republican party measure. The vote proves that the iniquitous measure ha<l the ardent support of Democrats and Republicans alike, and that both alike are responsi­ ble for it. It is not beooming in the pot to call the kettle black. And even the World has the candor to say, before it concludes its article, that " the Democrats who voted for the bill are, as individuals, in a much worse oondition than the Republicans." True enough. They are in a much worse condition, because they are, individually and collectively, just as much responsi­ ble for the passage of the bill as th# Re­ publicans are, and have not now the eourage to defend their public acts. They add cowardice and meanness to the list of their other follies. The Campaign in Ohio. GOT. Foster opened the campaign at Elyria with one of the best speeches he ever made. Muah interest has been awakened in that State on the temper­ ance question and the peculiar attitude of the two parties in relation to it, and the old party lines have become well- nigh obliterated. The issue is not one of prohibition, but the questions now are: "Shall the liquor traffic be taxed the same as other business investments are?" and 6 'Shall Sunday be observed •8 a day of rest, instead ol a day of revel- Carljle and the Snorer. How I took tea, eta, and went to Md ht quite abolished from recollection; too i well can I recollect snoring of my onfc- j eyed provision friend--whose eating at | tea, whole chickens and plates of ham i vanishing before him, I do now recollect! | Also that I got up, probabiy about mid- | night; was told we were opposite Brigh­ ton, bnt could see no token of that or of anything but a dim, flat coast with some i kind of luminous gleam all along where j sea met land; whereupon I had to smoke } a pipe and descend to my lair again. I Cyclops snoring still more effectively ' now--seldom or never heard such snor- I ing, which was not a stream, diastole | and systole, but a whirlpool rather, or | system of whirlpools, bottomless mael- j stroms and sandy systis conjoined (ah me !) for the man was nearly suffocated by closed enrtains and by vanished plates of ham. I have a dim but certain recollection of jumping out of my bed, or drawer at least, indignantly dashing his eurtaiiiB open, with some passionate demand to "cease that beastly gurgling and gluddering, in the name of all the devils!" Whereby at least my heavy provisional friend did awake ; and I fell asleep and heard no more of him for that 4ight. Poor fellow; not a bad creating, after all; there seemed a kind of healthy Winter in him, a merry vivid' eye; prob­ ably an excellent dealer in bacon, praise­ worthy as a British citizen of 1849; but he did eat excessively, and his snoring was to me at once hateful and terrible-- poor fellow, after all 1--Carlyle'a Irish Journey. Soorrrir is composed of two great classes: Those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.--Chamfort. After several minutes' delay Montgomerv and Pettis, who oontinued to plead their innoceuoe, had ropes put around their necks and were taken clown-stairs on the sidewalk. A belt was made while the surging crowd kept crying out to hang them, " No, let them talk," said half a dozen men. "Let them tell us all about it if they want to." "Here's a good tree, hang them to this," shouted a gentleman in a stove-pips hat In a miuute there was a farmer branches of tho true, leauing down to take the end of the rope. Pettin and Montgomery, in tho iron grtrrp of a big burly man, both stood nnder tiie *ame treo. Tiiey wore ask *d to con- less, Lut said their dving br-ath would be used only to assert tht-ir innocence. The crowd kept caving to hang th< m, u.ittl eomebody *ug- that anoUivr searoii be made for dem­ enti. " 0»t them all and hang every bloody one of tbv-ni," w*s the war cry. '• Ywt, ge'itlemen," the^nao in the stove-pipe hat said, "if one ii guilty all are guiltr, and all fboulj be equally punished. This trirl who has b«e i outraged so brutallv is now the ward of ChriNtiun county, and it lies with m to aveuge the da«t irdlv cri ne. Let u-t do it up in a style that will be creditable to tu." Then came more cries to htng them. There and theu this might hare been done, had not the mob shoutud : " Take them to the Court House square and hanr them there." Acting on this suggestion a move was made towHrd the square, but the crowd lingered lov­ ingly nnder every tree, aud new cries to hang the prisoners were raised at every stopping- place. At last tbe square was reached. John Mont­ gomery was placed under a tree, opposite the HlMenrtftheCrtM. *"• *h*y ot the horrible crime which haa brought about all this excitement aud violence in Christian county, briefly recited, it aa fol- !<ws: "Miss Emma Bond, a well-educated, high-spirited country girl, was teaching at. the iUymoiwl school house, fourteen miles from raylorvilUs Her school was to close with an exhibition on the 80th of Jnne, and on the 2Dth, while nearly all her pupils were at home, she was at the school house making prepara­ tions for the cloning oxerciaes. She had not been popular with the young men of the immediate neighborhood because of what they called her high and miirhtv airs. She had declined the acquaintance of some of those living near, and had possibly indulged in some unflattering remarks. At all events she had been warned through writing on the black­ board that she must be careful Miss Bond's father lived about four miles from the liaymond school house, and the young lady's acquaintances were all m that neighbor­ hood. It has been hinted that there was some ill-feeling between the people of the two neigh­ borhoods, and that remarks made by Miss Bond's friends as to the character of the young men in the liaymond neighborhood may have had influence in creating some feeling against the young lady herself. However thin may be, sha had taught the school to the satisfaction or her patrons, and there had been no complaint against her ex­ cept that it was difficult to become acquainted with her. ID other words, she was, in the language o( the country bumpkins, " stack At 4 o'clock on the afternoon of June SB she was about to leave the school-house, when without warning a man dropped from the nttio, and coming down behind her pinioned her arms and choked her into unconsciousness. When she partially recovered her senses she realized that her shawl had been tied about her person, and that she was being lifted through the scuttle-hole to the attic, In her half-conscious state die saw nothing clearly except, when the pain incident to being pushed through the scut- ilo-hole roused her, she saw in close proximity to her face the low shoes and red stocking of the man who stood with feet near the hole pulling her up The attic was dark, and she could not see the faces of the three men pregent. He re the girl was kept for several hours, her person outraged, mutilated and subjected to most horrible indignities. The greater part of the , time she was unconscious, under the in­ fluence of chloroform, but when she would be­ come partially oonscton« the brutes would torture her by sticking their knives into her arms or neckp threatening st intervals to kill her. When the victim of this brutality finally •re­ covered consciousness she was lying faoe down­ ward on the school-house floor. She dragged herself to the house of Mrs. Pettis, aboat «M) yards distant. It was then nearly midnight, and after much persuading Lee * Pettis and Emanuel Clementi secured a wagon took the unfortnnate girl home. The girl's injuries were more serious,and mor? horrible1 than even she at first supposed, and when the diabolical character of the as­ sault WHB made known, little wonder is ii that the people of the county were in a fury. Tue first theory was that the assault had been made by Inimod who had secreted themselves in the school-house attic the night before. This left the maliciousness of tho indignities heaped Upon the girl without adequate explanation, and assumed a knowledge of the incidents of that pucticularduy that strangers could not have had. But it appeared that John Montgomery, Lee Pettis and Emanuel Clementi, all living •within a few hundred yards of tbe school house, did know that Miss Bond would be alone iu the school house in the afternoon. She had been in the house of Mr, Pettis several times during the day to give directions to the Pettis girls, who were to participate in the exercises tha next day, and the theory is that the three young men, during one of these visits, went to the school house, secreted themselves in tha loft, and assaulted the girt aa has been de­ scribed. The circumstanoes were against theu. They had been absent from their homes on the pre­ tense of fishing. They disliked the young lady. One of them, Clementi, wore low shoes and red f .. j stockings, and all of them acted peculiarly after JjJ* the circumstanoes of the outrageous assault be­ came known. These circumstances led to their arrest on the 1st of July. They were incarcera­ ted in jail until the 11th of August, when their examination took place, followed immediately by the hanging scene described above. T4 To most readers this remains ariddleu ItwfM ̂therefore, to eive th* .solution & «« Emerson's admir-!§fc era Mr. Alfred EL Guernsey. H< it is, m fact "an exposition of one of the profoundest of all human faiths--the "" pure Buddhist theosophy, freed from3; ̂̂ later increments of transmigration and the hke Brahma, the Adorable and incomprehensible, represents himself as u1 .̂» ** *t once cause and ef­ fect the subject and the object of every ^he same time the doer and the thing done. The strong gods, who appear to have come into being and wh»!feSt!"v sre themselves only flhuiona^r appari-j ̂ ̂ tions of Brahma, are by a bold sttetfcllti'VJ • of imagination represented as piniu« ,to attain the knowledge of him; the^JlfcdSii seven, by we understand theaeva* ŝe roen of antiquity, aa repreeentativeeMV' <f M i J f f l ° t e N e c t u a l w i s d o m , a l s o p i n e ^ SJ knowledge whioh ia reserved *n!i l?e?k lovera the good;-it*4 •- and this knowledge is the Nirvana--the *11 p. complete md beatific abeorptioo of » ̂ individual being and consciousness intot * ̂ the Infinite Being; and this involves the % f renunciation of all that can be eoaeeteed »,'•*> ,. -S3 of under the name of heaven." . n | : : • " f - v A -<• f A Dog Miser. Instances of canine ecououiy ue by ̂ ̂ JV tend, unique! Dandie, the animal re-^® ferml to, was a Newfoundland dog, be­ longing to a gentleman in Edinburgh. It frequently had money given to it, be- "' -; cause, beside other interesting signs oil . sagacity, it would go to the baker's andt.. buy its own bread ; but Dandie received * / K ' more money than his needsMsalled for. I 1 and so he took to hoarding ii This hia^^t. master discovered in consequenoe of the ̂ dog appearing one day with a hnpafcfaat,, „ 'x' ' roll when it was known that no one had ! given it any money. Suspicion rouae&fjftf search was made in the room where J dog slept. Dandie appeared quite un-, . concerned until his bod wis approached,' • when he seized the servant by the gwwh'®»J-' *- and tried to drag her away, and became v I . BO violent that his master had hold him. Seven pence half-peony was found,̂ L« hidden in the bed. Dandie did not fore- ' * go his saving propensities evjen after' this; but he exhibited a greatdislike ***>'* afterward for the servant who had .ysft covered his hoard, and in future careful to select a different place of con- ; cealment. Stories of dogs who carry money to shops in order to obtain food are quite numerous ; but the toilo*ing '̂>!f >> incident, which was communicated to 1 the Bristol Mercury,, is, .if,aatifenitu^i^{ probably unparalleled even iu canine (I A K«lof/\{ Elto.-I I)rt.m1-v*n MI; t> no means rare; bnt this account of miser is, so far as our records ex- ,ffc southern entrancfe to the Court House, and the f had no rope thrown over a high limb. Again he re- | leather fused to say anything except that he was inno­ cent His arms were quickly pinioned and his legs were also. Three or four men took hold of the rope and, by the light of a lantern. John Montgomery's form could be seen swinging up anions; the swaying elm leaves. They let him hang about a minute, and ware disposed to keep him banging till dead. "Let him down and give him a chanoe to confess." With much reluctance the rope was slackened and Montgomery fell limp and almost lifeless to the ground. A physician was called. He soon revived, and, when questioned, he still replied that he was innocent. "Gentlemen," he said, 'Tm a dving man, butl can tell yon nothing else bat that I am innocent of this crime." " Here's Bond," the crowd cried. And then he received a general invitation to pass through the mob. Soon he was at the side of Montgomery, who was still lying on the grounl. II" answered Bond's questions with­ out hesitation, denying that he had outraged Miss Bond, or that he knew of anybody who bad done so. Mr. Bond asked him the same question over and over, but always got the same answer. The crowd waa now abont evenly divided as to Montgomery's innocence or guilt. Some declared that he should be let go, others that he should be hanged. Mr. Bond said that Montgomery was innooent, and ap­ pealed to the crowd to have him taken baok to jail The mob had meantime found Clementi, and he and Pettis were subjected to the same tort- ore that was inflicted on Montgomery. Both firmly protested their innocenoe, and with the divided opinion there came a momett of in­ action, A fire broke out in another part of the town at this juncture, as if by interposition of Providence. To this greater attraction half the crowd rushed. Taking advantage of the diver­ sion, Bond and Drennan again implored in terms that the lives of the men be and that they be kept in jail to be ooa- Heary Bank Robbery at Kewaaee. The First National Bank of Kewanee, Henry county, was robbed in broad day­ light by two men. They looked the cashier and his lady assistant in the vault and then secured about $20,00", one-fourth of it being in gold. The robbery was not discovered until an hour afterward, when tho cashier was heard pounding on the inside of the vault. One of the men is described as being about six feet tall, slim, dark complexion, low square jaw, and had on a stiff hat and a long linen duster. His appearance was that of a Jew. The other apparently is five feet high, with a red face, blue clothes with brass or pearl buttons, and a slouch hat. He beard. He carried a worn sachel. For coolness tliis robbery is unequaled in this section of the country. The lady cashier is quite badly injured, aud is prostrated by the sbock. The particulars of the robbery are ••d follows : Two men called at the bank during the afternoon, asking to leave a sachel for a while. About 6 o'clock, as Oashier Pratt and Assistant Cashier Miss Palmer were cashing up, the two men knocked at the door, asking to get the sachel. Miss Palmer opened the door, when one of them grabbed her by the neck and kicked her until nearly in­ sensible. The other man rushed by her toward the vault, where Pratt was stand­ ing, knocking him insensible with a re­ volver, after which both were forced into the vault, the money secured, and the men left. Mr. Pratt, after working an hour by the aid of a 10-cent piece he had in his pocket, loosened the screws in the combination, and broke the lock and released himself and Miss Palmes. Miss Palmer was badly bruised. records, A Bristol dog was allowed by a certain butcher to receive his meat On trUst, the butcher scoring each penny- V ̂ worm supplied on a board with a piece WisJ - • of chalk. One day our canine friend, ; s | observing the man make two marks with * chalk instead of one, seized another t».• • piece of meat, and, despite all the efforts <f> • of the butcher to detain him, ran off" A ̂ home with both pieces in his mouth.-- L'hqmher&' Journal. - : « • a • " - f "" >< **• ̂ < Iw great, men pay much attaMloh 'to' 4,%, if > • ̂ their penmanship. They seem to oon- eider it something too trivial for their , >,• , to f) % notice, forgetting that whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. % • Oberlin, the famous French pastor of ^'I^V the Alps, put the matter in its true light >i 1 when he made it a point of Christian , .,,jj duty to write in a clear, round hand,,be- « r. ^-1 cause, as he said, bad' writing was die- • • pleasing to God. Charles .Tames Fox, when made uttder- secretary in one of the English depart- > ments, took great pains with his hand- writing, that he might excel his pred&> , ceasors. He said to a friend, " It is a ' dutv to do everything of one'* best, erett 4 *'*,* in little things." Mr. Webster once sent a sharp reproof mtyjfi to Mr. Choate, who was nosed for the most illegible hand. He had received a letter from Mr. Choate, giving his ad- vioe on an important matter in a great crisis. He opened it eagerly and ran his eye down the pages. He coutd make out scarcely a word. He aent a by a mutual friend-- " Tell Mr. Choate to write better. His hand-writing is barbarous. I could not read a single word. There is the letter. Just look at it. Tell Mr. Choate to go to a writing-school, and take a quarter's lessons." No better advice oould have been given. What is written is intended to be read, and the letter and the writer are both failuree, If the words cannot be deciphered. Bayard Taylor, whose " oopy " wa» the delight of compositors, made it a rule always to write each letter perfectly'leg­ ible ̂and the result was a manuscript that could be read as easily as pcintij - . < "oVu' f Tm* ,* "•? 4 * -• THB amount of water in many things Is rather remarkable. Thus: Eggs have 74 per cent.; lean beef, 78; carrots, 83; cow's Milk, 87; lager beer, 89; turnips, 90; watermelons, 94; cucumbers, 97. bo we take in large quantities of water without knowing it, and the kidneys have to dispose of much matter that We suppose to be solid when we eat it. On. HOWARD is doing his best to put a stop to the harmless flirtations of the Weet Feint oadets. Production of Sugar in America. This country ought to make its own sugar. The sugar-fields of Louisiana, with wiser management and a more ecientific agriculture, could be made te increase their yield tenfold. Along the more northern parts of the Union tha climate and soil are well adapted to the culture of the sugar-beet We should not be discouraged because a few at­ tempts in this direction have not proved financially successful. Twenty-five years of failure* in Europe have been followed by fifty years of success, until at the present time two-fifths of the case-sugar produced in the world art? obtained from the sugar-beet. Last of all, the freak Indian-corn-produeing area of the coun­ try is peculiarly suited to the growth <4 the sorghum sugar-cane, and the pro­ duction of crystallised sugar from this source is no longer a more possibility. It has already been realised. Land which will produce forty buahels of corn per acre will yield from 600 to 1,000 pounds of sugar and nearly 100 gallons of sirup. In another decade, instead of having to import eleven-twelfths of thb sugar we consume, as we d© now, may hope to produce it all---Popttfmt Science Monthly, Tn latest centres gives the populatim of Japan ss 86,358,99* ; males, 18,413,- 273 ; females, 17,995.720, &a increase of 3,000,000 since the last previous eeotma