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> ; ^ f wpKP^y •/>»{?•» ^citrnrg flmatealtf 1. VAN SLYKE. Editor and PmMWmt MoHENBT, ILLINOIS. : ' ; MBB. ANNIE BURNS, a Leavenworth ? washerwoman, died sixteen years ago, < and the projier proofs of her demise are wanted in Ireland, as her six children t have fallen heirs to a stake of £200,000. ~=&r -- CONCERNING the death of his wife, Frederick Douglass recently wrote to a friead in the West: "The main pillar of ; my house has fallen. Four and forty years have passed away since our union. Life cannot hold much for me, now that -> she has gone. Still, I feel that the les­ son taught by this death, as by all such, : is silence, resignation, humility and 'hope. We are all strangers and so­ journers." - . FRED MCCARTHY, of Greeley, Col, :met with a singular adventure while - fishing. He had caught a small catfish weighing probably a quarter of a pound, ' -and was swinging it into shore when a huge pelican swooped down, gobbled "(the fish, hook and all, and started to fly away. The sea-grass line proved too strong for the bird, and, after a hard - struggle, Fred pulled the bird to terra :i firina, where he speedily dispatched it J with a club and got his fish. The bird . measured three feet six inches from tip to tip of its wings and weighed about ^nine pounds and a half. THE statistics of longevity in Prussia «re striking. In December, 1880, there were living 359 persons who were at least 100 years old, 128 of them being men and 231 women. Of "the men thirty- two were .still married; of the women five were. Twelve of the men had never married, and nine of the women never liad. "Of persons born between 1781 and 1790 5.355 were still living, the men being 2,025 in number, and the women 3,330. The records further show that the number of persons born in the last century and still living, those, therefore, who were at least 80 years ef age, leached a total of 77,668. LIZZIE HAMMOND, a chambermaid in a San Francisco hotel, being detected in a fourth-story - room where she had no business to be, attempted to avoid ex­ posure by climbing out of the window and sliding to the ground by means of a telegraph wire'that passed by just with­ in reach. Before she had descended many yards the wire burnt her hands as though it was red hot, and she was confe pelled to let go. In falling her body bounded back and forth between two parallel walls. This lessened the mo­ mentum of her descent, which was still further diminished by striking on a tel­ ephone wire. She thus escaped being • killed -by the fall, but the physicians I found that her neck had been disjointed as it would have been by hanging. They chloroformed her, set her necUP' - back in its proper place, and now have hopes that her youth and strong consti­ tution may carry her tftirough. A FEW days since two voting men were burned to death in a house in a country town in New Hampshire. Their bones could not be distinguished one from the other, so one father wanted them buried in one casket and in a com­ mon grave. The other wanted to pick out what he thought were his son's skull and bones and bury them in his own lot. The other protested, because he feared that that might leave him with the other man's son's bones; be­ side, if they were to be divided, he wanted liis first choice. The other man persisted, however, and the first choice was decided by lot--not a cemetery lot --and, much tohlis delight, the man who, , insisted on this method of disposing of them won. He thereupon selected the skull and the bones which, for some reason, lie believed were his own off­ spring's and took them away with him. ' JOHN SOWK has read the story of King Lear to advantage. . He is a wealthy stock-raiser of Iowa, but, hav­ ing declined into the vale of years, he thought to do a fatherly act by turning his entire property over to his son, with the single proviso that he and his aged wife be cared for on the old home stead during life. But no sooner was the deed signed than the . ungrateful, and, somewhat too previous, son ordered the old folks to leave the place and seek protection on the i>oor-farin. Amazed, the - old gentleman choked down his wrath, and pleaded for the privilege to remain at least one night more tinder the familiar roof. This boon was grudgingly graiited, but dur­ ing the night the crafty old gentleman arose. bui*ned the deed, and fired his unnatural son from the premises, and has since disinherited him. There are a couple"©! morals tucked away in this story. • THE father of a thousand children has Just died in Vienna. Ferdinand Reidt "was a man of considerable wealth and "was happily married, but the great re­ gret of himself and his wife was that they had no children, and they conclud­ ed to act as parents of the fatherless and motherless. For nearly a quarter of a century he was known as the father of the orphans. He commenced by taking charge of a couple of orphans, but his zeal and repute increased to such an extent that at the time of his death he was the legal guardian of more than a thousand fatherless children. Those whom he adopted in this manner were not fitfully taken up and then let drop, but he kept conscientious watch and ward over them, from their early education until their marriage, or their start in adult life at the close of their apprenticeship. He never sought fame or publicity, and took no credit to him­ self for his devotion to those who had no natural claim upon him. As CAPT. THOMPSON, of the schooner Transit, was stopping off the Mosquito cpast in Central America, six Spaniards, arm e<V with muskets, boarded his vessel and overpowered him and his three men. The pirates entered the cabin and pro­ ceeded to sample the stores of the schooner, liquors especially. Capt. Thompson told them he accepted the situation. He and his men knew how to manage the vessel. The Spaniards could not even take her over the bar. He and the crew were willing to join the party and become freebooters. They would do the work while their captors enjoyed themselves. This plan suited the pirates, and the crew were unbound and set at work. The schoonea's an­ chor was heaved up, sail was set and the pirates resumed their attacks on the ship's storey having laid aside their guns. The Captain gave a signal to his men, who sprang upon the pirates, and, after a desperate struggle, the Spaniards were bound and thrown into the hold. The Captain at once set sail for port and handed over the prisoners to ther American Consul. ' ' PRESIDENT WELCH, of iKe Iowa State Agricultural College, has gone to Eu­ rope, making the journey by appoint­ ment of the United States Government to visit and thoroughly inspect the ag­ ricultural and industrial schools of the various countries, and, after ,such exam­ ination, make a report as to the systems and methods in such schools. This is done by our Government for the wise purpose of gaining all possible informa­ tion for the benefit of the schools of the same character ill* the United States. In the selection of Mr. Welch, the Des Moines Register says, the Government has chosen wisely. He possesses fine and superior qualifications for this work, as he has the experience both of public service and political life, as well as an educator, in various positions, in­ cluding his service in the United States Senate as a Senator from Florida. He will be fully representative of the more intelligent forces and the more! intelli­ gent purposes of the country, and with his rich equipment in education and sci­ ence will take up and prosecute this work to the* best possible results, and in a form which will be of abiding prac­ tical use.- „ ' . The Self-Possessed Man* the noticeable person# tfli t!ba train you will not fail to discover the self-possessed man. He is easily recog­ nized by his rotundity of form, his se­ rene unconsciousness of the frets and worriments which make railroading a misery to the ordinary mortal, and his supreme indifference to the comfort of his fellow-passengers. = ^ The self-possessed man inevitably ««. enres, by a sort of natural selection, the best seat in the car, always on the shady side, and manages, by the aid of his hat, his traveling-bag and his unas­ suming tact and mastership of the situ­ ation, to keej) it to the end of his jour­ ney. The self-possessd man, having calmly settled himself in the middle of the seat, with his hat upon one side and his traveling appurtenances on the oth­ er, slowly produces his newspaper and proceeds to its perusal with dignified deliberation. Of course the self-possessed man has his window wide open, but equally of course he does not open it himself. The brakeman does that for him, and as the brakeman clambers over the un­ derstanding of the self-possessed man to do it, the self-possessed man contin­ ues his reading with the utmost com­ placency and without losing a word. As the time for starting approaches every other seat is filled, but nobody disturbs the self-possessed man. There is something in his Nova Zemblian coolness which deters all attempts to rob him of his monopoly. Nobody has the temerity to ask; "Is this seat engaged?"much less to squeeze himself in without indulging in this conven­ tional remark. If the cold wind blows into the ear of the neuralgic individual in front, or sets the valetudinarian behind to shivering, or if the cinders rush in sooty showers to the destruction of the eyes and good temper of the passengers in his vicinity, the self-possessed man minds it not. So loilg as his personal tranquility was not disturbed, a rain of pitchforks or cats and'dogs might dash into that open window, and he be entirely oblivious of both it and its ruinous consequences. The self-possessed man is also self- possessed when the conductor comes through the car. The other passen­ gers, at the cry of "Tickets, please," cease their reading or conversation and go straightway to fumbling into their pockets with inordinate haste that the ticket puncher may not be delayed; the self-possessed man budges not until he has' been asked again and again for his ticket, and then lie leisurely lays down his paper, advances on Ms poeketbook in funeral order and finally produces the pasttwoard just as the conductor has lost his last particle ot patience. The sljarp, short wliistlewhicli strikes terror to every other heart and sends everv other head out of the window, af­ fects neither the heart nor the head of the self-possessed man. His heart Wats on with the regularity of. an eight-day clock, and his head, bald though it may be, maintains its level, notwithstanding the hungry fly which is I Hiving into his medulla oblongata, or the babel of voices that is dinging into his ears. None pf the major or minor incidents affect the self-possessed man in the least. If the train is ahead of time or behind time, it is all the same to him; if anything breaks his serenity remains unbroken; if a man or a cow be run over, he runs over his newspaper as calmly as ever. If the cars should leave the rails and be dashed down an em­ bankment and broken into ten thousand splinters, it is more than probable that the self-possessed man would be found amidst the wreck of matter, still self- j possessed, deposited in the most desir- ; able place and position amongst the , dead and dying, himself unhurt and un­ disturbed, and still reading his paper in a leisurely way, unmindful of the I horrors of his environment.---Boston Transcript. THE FORTY-SEYENTH CONGRESS. | The Work of the First Session--Important i •hwmw Perfected or Wen Adnuwed-- ' • A. Review by Congreiiamiin Barrows. ' [From the Detroit Post.] .! The following is the Kalamazoo Tele- \ graph's report of the speech made by j Congressman Burrows before the can- i vention which renominated him: • I Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the OOUVMI- * tton: | For the renewed expression of your \ confidence and partiality permit me to i return you my heartfelt thanks. For I the fifth time the Republican party of i this district has conferred upon me the j distinction of leading the forces in the j contest for Congressional representa- j tion, but at no time has that honor been | bestowed under circumstances more gratifying than to-day. Detained as I havejbeen at Washington until a week ago, in the discharge of public duties, it is peculiarly gratifying to receive this unanimous approval of my public acts and unsolicited renomination from the largest Congressional Convention ever assembled in the Fourth district. It is an honor of which any man may justly be protul. I again thank you. I shall not detain the convention to enter into an extended discussion of the issues involved in the approaching cam­ paign but may be pardoned for allud­ ing in the briefest possible terms to the leading features of the work of the first session of the Fortv-seventh Congress jiist closed, and reply as briefly to some criticisms passed upon, it. It will be remembered that the Presi­ dential campaign of 1880 resulted in the restoration of the Republican party to power in the legislative branch of the Government, after six years of Demo­ cratic control. During those six years but little was done in the way of gen­ eral legislation beyond making provision for the ordinary expenses of the Gov­ ernment. The session just closed is the first under Republican control since its return to power, and the result of its labors must be eminently satisfactory to the party and to the country. Beside providing for the needed expenses of the Government, many measures of a public character have been considered and passed, contributing to the well- being of the nation. * '* The subject of polygamy in the Territories received Srompt and efficient consideration. A elegate from the Territory of Utah, himself a confessed polygamist and avowed representative and champion of that k'twin relic of barbarism," demand­ ed a seat in the lower house of Con­ gress. Heretofore it had been granted him. It was for this Congress to take cognizance of his offense and decline to accord him a place in the national coun­ cil. More than this, such measures have been taken which, it is to be hoped, will, at no distant day, put an end to this national disgrace. The Chinese problem has for the time being, at least, been solved. The people of the Pacific coast demanded protection against the importation of cheap labor which was driving her people from the avenues of trade and threatening the good order of her States. While it will be admitted to be contrary to our tradi­ tions and the spirit of our institutions to exclude any people of any race or tongue from our shores, yet it may well be doubted whether we would be justi­ fied . in throwing wide open our door to .a race having no interest in our institu­ tions, contributing nothing to the sup­ port of the Government in peace or to its defense in war, and looking forward vims their fortunes • might. them to return to the land of their nativity. Happily this question has been settled in the in­ terest of American-born labor, and in accordance with treaty stipulations be­ tween the nations involved. • Another question has been settled. The charters of national banks were about to expire by limitation^ law and it became necessary to continue this system or devise another adapted to our business needs. The opponents of the present system, the advocates of a greenback currency, made haste to ad­ vance their theories and urge the retire­ ment of the national-bank circulation and the issuing of Government notes in their stead in quantities sufficient to meet the demands of trade. The country is to be congratulated that all such vagaries are discarded, the public credit maintained and the present banking system continued, giving totlie people a safe and a stable currency. The tariff question demanded atten­ tion. Its revision is a necessity. The consideration of the subject provoked general and extended debate lietween the advocates of protection and free trade, and resulted in the creation of a commission, whose labors it is believed will contribute to a thorough and in­ telligent revision of our tariff laws. It is hoped and expected that at the next session a code can be adopted which, while repudiating the doctrine of free trade and its twin, folly, "a tarift' for revenue only," will so impose duties as to yield sufficient revenue and afford just and ample protection to American industries and domestic labor. It may be of interest to note in pass­ ing that at the close of our late civil war a large number of soldiers who had served faithfully to the end, without waiting for the formalities of a dis­ charge, hastened to their homes, and from that hour they have been borne upon the rolls as "deserters." These faithful men have been relieved of this unjust imputation, and upon proper proof are to receive that honorable dis­ charge to which their honorable ser­ vice entitles them. Other measures of more or less im­ portance have been matured, and re­ ceived executive approval. Others again have passed one house and await action by the other body. Of this class 1 may mention the Agricultural bill. The Agricultural Department has lwen and is wholly unworthy this great peo­ ple, whose material prosperity rests upon and depends to so large an extent upon the cultivation of the soil. A measure has been passed the Hous»> of Representatives, and is awaiting the ac­ tion pf the Senate, by which the Com­ missioner of Agriculture is made a Cabinet officer and his department ele­ vated to that dignity which its import­ ance merits. . The House also perfected and passed a measure to protect the purchasers of patented articles from unjust exactions, and, while it may not be all that the ne­ cessities of the case may require, yet it will go far to correct abuses which have become well-nigh insufferable. Another measure of national import­ ance only waits the /favorable action of the Senate to become a law. I refer to the bill reducing /'taxation. With an overflowing treasury, with a surplus3 revenue more than Sufficient to bear the ordiuarv expenses jof the Government and provide for the public debt, it is high time that war taxes to the extent embraced in the bill of the House should be completely removed. .$a;<x»,ooo 300,000 «s,nuo 12.-.,0l)0 l;r. (KMJ 140.1100 W.OIK) 60,000 *00,000 These, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, j are some of the many measures which I have engaged the attention of the first ! session of the Forty-seventh Congress. There was only one question during the entire session which assumed a distinct­ ively partisan character, and that was the subject of Southern elections. The seats of several members from the Southern States were contested, and, after the Committee on Elections had investigated these cases and reported against some of the sitting members, the unusual position was assumed that the House of Representatives* should not even consider the merits of these cases, and by parliamentary chicanery it was sought to keep men in their seats who were not in reality elected. We were forced at last to amend the rules that these cases could be brought to a hear­ ing and the parties really elected ad­ mitted to their seats. It is to be hoped that the people of the South, when it is established that they cannot profit by their fraud, will permit every lawful voter to cast one honest ballot and see that it is honestly counted. Upoil no other theory can free representative government be maintained. But it is charged that this Congress has been extravagant and that its ap­ propriations have been largely in ex­ cess of the last fiscal year. The River and Harbor bill is cited as an instance of lavish expenditure, and it has been the subject of severe criti­ cism by the public press and denounced as a steal. But what are the facts ? 1. No work is appropriated for in that bill that was not recommended by Government engineers. 2. The amount appropriated is in no instance in excess of the recommendation, and, 3. The total amount of appropriation is less than one-half the sum which they af­ firmed could be profitably expended during the present fiscal year.« c The amount carried by the last River and Harbor bill was $11,441,300. The sum appropriated this year is $18,743,875--an increase of $7,302,575. It is assumed that this additional sum of $7,000,000 in round numl»ers has been appropriated for creeks and streams and objects Hot of a national character. But what does the bill dis­ close upon this point ? The following are some of the items going to make up the increase of $7,- 000,000: * Improvement of Mississippi river and tributaries t Baltimore Providence river Charleston harbor i . . . . Savannah harbor Oalves ton hat oor................ Oakland harbor. | Buffalo hurt tor..... I Lynn harbor j' Potomac flats Total .;.L >5,200,000 The foregoing items of increase, it will be observed, aggregate more than five millions, and other works might be pointed out, equally meritorious, suf­ ficient to account for the remaining $2,000,000. L This examination shows how unjust and unfair the charge is that the River and Harbor bill is a "steal." It will be observed that the main portion of this increase is for tlie improvement of the Mississippi river and its tributaries, that great national highway through which the surplus products of the West may be cheaply conveyed to the markets of the world. It must not be forgotten, either, that much of the criticism of the River and Harbor bill may emanate from the rail­ road interest of the country, which would be materially aided by arresting all iin |i 111 Veiiieux i«|iue great national waterways. rj: And, finally, it**'-fer charged that tAe amount appropriated -f&r the support of the Government for the current year is greatly in excess of the amount appro­ priated for the last fiscal year. Here again a simple statement of facts will show how unjust such criticism is. In determining the increase of appro­ priations this year over those of last, we must first add to the appropriations for last year the amount of deficiencies made necessary by insufficient allowances. This sum is $29,248,193.9(5, which added to the regular appropriation aggregate the sum of $219,3(57,983.38, the amount actually made use of in support of the Government during the last fiscal year. The amount appropriated for the current year for expenses, including the River and Harbor bill, is $265,923,005, an inprease, it will lie observed, over the preceding year of $46,522,001.71. This increase was made necessary by the en­ larged service of the country and the pension list. The chief items of increase are the following: Excess for pension* over last year. .$34,roo,non.oo Increase pension force l.Wv'.ftOO.OO Increase of River and Harbor bill... 7,80-2,57.voo Increase of postal and other service l,*'j;i,llrt.77 Aggregating $44,538,121.77 , The amount deducted from the total increase, leaves only a balance of $1,983,- 879.98 to lie accounted for, which was properly allowed for legitimate objects. Having thus briefly alluded to the chief work of the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress, it only remains for me to accept the nomination which you tender and to assure you that if your choice is ratified at the polls, by the good people of this district, I pledge you that in the future, as in the past, I will carry the Republican standard with •-a steady hand and. unflinching courage, aiming to advance the interests of the people I represent and by just -and wholesome laws promote the welfare pf t h e r e p u b l i c . ^ ; " • « ' . TWO *EM0RABLE B«C0R1>S. [From the Chicago Tribune.] ' Mr. Blaine in his recent speech at Portland in Maine, in addressing the people concerning the curious combina­ tion of all the parties and factions which was now opposing the Republican party in that State, made a graphic and, forci­ ble presentation of the character of the opposing parties. This he did in detail, and also (in his own inimitable, terse and pointed way) expressed his thoughts in a few brief sentences. We repr<xluce his summary of the two records: "1. For twenty-one years past last March the destiny of the'United States of America, in so far as that destiny can be controlled by a political party, lias been in the keepipg of the Republican party of the United States, and if there be a gceater chapter of history written in the annals of the human kind, I would like for Gov. Plaisted or any other gentle­ man supporting him to be kind enough to point it out. If there be any chapter of history in which human progress has lieen so rapid, in which human Tights have lieen guaranteed so firmly and en­ larged so grandly as within that period, I am ignorant of where to look for it or where to find it. "2. And now at the end of these twenty-one years, in this blessed year of 1882,-we find an opposition made up of two or three parties. What do they propose to do? Nothing. The positive ! measures, the aggressive policy, the de- j finitiou of the line and the metes and* j bounds of legislation have all beeil' prescribed by the Republican party, and * outside of it we have had objection, and • cavil, and quibble, and slande>, and all j manner of dishonorable and mean1 critics following as camp-followers af­ ter a great procession that has gone j • ahead. But I challenge anv man to | show that in the whole of the twentv- i one years the Democratic partv and its i various side issues, "like Greenback, and j labor and other organizations, has ever j proposed a measure that was able to be > materialized in the form of a bill or re-i solve of the Congress of the United' States for the amelioration of any hu- • man woe or for the advancement of any i public good." j No man can question the fidelity pf j these records. There is no man in" the i land, exalted or lowly, statesman or j other, who can show that during those ' twenty-one years the Democratic party as a whole, or any of its factions, direct-1 ly or indirectly, has ever proposed any measure or policy capable of being ma­ terialized in the form of an act of legis­ lation for the amelioration of any human woe, or for the advancement of any pub­ lic good. No friend, or leader, or active member of the Democratic party can point out in the record of the twenty- one years of active life of the country such as has been experienced since 1861, one solitary Democratic proposition even having for its object or purpose the benefit of any human being, or the improvement or elevation of any race, nation or branch of the human family. A more humiliating record for a party claiming the government of a nation of 50,(KM),000 of free and intelligent peo­ ple is not, perhaps, to be found in the history of Governments. No merely defensive party was ever intrusted by any people with supreme power, and for the twenty-one years that the Dem­ ocratic party has been in the minority it has been nothing but a mere nega­ tive organization opposing everything the Republicans did without one thought of progress or improvement. It has not a policy to propose, nor even a scheme to suggest. The country has passed through one of the most trying ordeals to which any nation has been subjected. There have been many times when the people were dissatisfied with the Republican man­ agers and Republican rule, and when another party with -vigorous leaders, capable of proposing proper remedies for existing abuses and weaknesses, would have been welcomed, but that party, with such leaders, and proposing any remedy for anything; or capable of proposing any policy for any purpose, was never forthcoming. The only rem­ edy ever suggested for financial strin­ gency, depression or distress was repu­ diation ; the only remedy mentioned for defects in the currency was to weaken by watering the existing currency; the only remedy for fraud and corruption and "incompetency in the civil service was to install in tiie public service fresh tribes of incompetent and inexperienced officers, clamoring to be provided for out of the treasury of the nation they had wasted their substance in trying to destroy. Twenty-one years of the most import­ ant period of the national life, when the nation was struggling to preserve its existence, when its credit was impaired by disastrous war and oppressive debt, when the means of the people were con­ sumed by confiscating taxation, and the times demanded the most sacrificing -- a-jpuillVXlildlU) lii\" migawiov uiwircv vo aim industrious labors of all her people! • What was the Democratic party doing for the national welfare ? How was if trying to relieve the Government of its burdens, lift up its failing credit and maintain the national honor at home and abroad ? It >vas declaring the war for the Union a failure, proposing an armistice between the armies on the field that the Union might be severed in twain; insisting that slavery should 1m? left undisturbed; that the national 1 )oiids should be paid in irredeemable paper, and that the paper should then i lie repudiated; there was never a Demo- | eratie proposition that did not imply I national disunion, national dishonor, I national repudiation, national liank- | ruptcv, national disgrace and the na­ tional preservation of human slavery or national peonage. As Mr. Blaine strongly put it, during those twenty-one • years, while the nation was struggling for existence, the Deiflberatic party never had a measure of legislation to propose or a policy to offer "for the amelioration of auv human woe or for the advancement of any public good." What does the Democratic party of to-day propose any way different from what it has proposed during the last twenty-one years? The only aggres­ sive proposition was that made in 1880, when it suggested "a tariff for revenue only," but then, before the election was over its candidate repudiated that is­ sue, and in so doing was joined bv the ' other leaders of the party in a majority of the States. At this time the party has nothing jfco offer. One faction is for a tariff for revenue ^nd another is for protection; Yoorhees and Hendricks are at variance in Indiana; Morriso;n and Robinson dispute which is the Demo­ cratic doctrine in Illinois; One faction is for prohibition and another is merg­ ing the Democratic into the Liquor- Dealers' party. In Maine and Iowa, Kansas, Michigan and other States the party is largely inclined to greenbacks, while in New York and New England (outside of Maine) the party is for coin and specie payments. The Democratic party, therefore, to-day is as barren pf principle, as desperate as to policy, as uncommitted to any measure that might be reduced to the form of an act of legislation as it has been during the past twenty-one years, during which it never proposed a bill or resolution to "ameliorate a human woe or for the ad­ vancement of a public good."' THE sMfering in Germany for lack of employmKt is great, and the natural gain in population is about 500,000 a year. under such circumstances, several German statesmen are convinced that emigration is inevitable, but they have liegun to argue that the great stream of people pouring out might better be utilized for the benefit of Germany than enriching America, En­ gland and many other countries all over the world. But colonization' "has not yet lieen favorably looked upon by the German Tjovernment, whose aim is the concentration of its powers within its own compact domain. AMONG the writings the late Senator Hill, found among his papers, he thus refers to his college career: ttI promised my father that all my college expenses of any kind should not exceed $300 per annum. I promised my mother I would take the first honor in my class., I redeemed this promise. The proudest day of my life was when I wrote to my parents that I had taken the first honor in my class." ILLINOIS ITEMS. THERE are 88,783 volumes in the Ghi cago Public Library. TAXPAYEHS at Springfield, 111.." WE discussing the fact that the recent mili­ tary encampment in that city cost $12,000 or more. POSTAGE-STAMPS, postal-cards, envel­ opes, etc., were sold during the month of"August at the Springfield postoffice to the amount of $2,762.15. CAPT. BRINKEBHOFF, commanding the Governor's Guards, of Springfield, has been reprimanded and suspended for thirty days for disobedience of orders. JOHH C. DORE and others, of Chicago. | cm have incorporated at Springfield the H- i linois Electric Light and Power Com- i pany, with a capital stock of $2,000,000. J W. O. HEWITT, formerly master me- i chanic of the Wabash railroad at Peoria* j has been appointed master mechanic of j the entire system, with headquarters at ] Peoria. was considerably higher than Imh tWMk given to any other class examined by State Superintendent Slade.---Sh ' field Cor. Inter Ocean, THE wis M m *44 Aa Arab mob at Alexandria tbe police In charge of the corpue the aa- tive hanged for ssaider and carried it eff s®= aether with the rope, intending to ha-e the nody embAtmed • tMof • BITIIT. J /ecoB- noistiance by the Brittfeh from" • Infmlif on the 7th inst. caused a . brisk " shots between the oppoMnjr force*. Khedive issued fftringen;-order* to rto® the torturing and ill-treatment of prisoners at Alexandria. The freah-water canal was alnive Tel-e!-Kebfr, thus flood, the low lands in that ?ection. Wolseley arranged with the Water Company to artve Port Said.*500 tan* 6f water daily and furnish Ismaiila a ; amount. The Coloaeis of three Rngttah oav- ' regiments wore in the hospital life alrv Ismailia. Arabi Pasha WM rejk>rted to be suffering-from dysentery. The Khedive has aoared the Britfefc Gep> snl General at Alexandria he will step AT the opening of ^he Grand Opera > keel-hauling and other punfiAniieiits rtfrly- House at Peoria, which cost over $100,- j nant to modern times. ArsW Pasha Atteed 000, addresses were made bv Gov. Cnl- : the lighting near Kasaassin, wiMrv-aggifcinet lom and others. Twentv-two hundred i d®1*as keP,t *P for two hours aton* a line of three miles, the Ecrvptiaos itatng wtth great? precision. Gen. Wbtoel^/ttlegrspte that he sustained trifling loss and captured BLOOMDJGTON Pantograph: The past ' retired to their woita. i • ' i - - - r : I h e E g y p t i a n s l e f t 200 dead on the field. Oreo* dtmeultiee are experienced kr the „„i 1 • * . ~ line ot three mues, the ™s sold' at ranging from J great? precision. Gen. *1 to $20. I that he sustained trifli season having been remarkably wet, we find our farmers continue to tile-drain at a more rapid rate than ever. The demand for tile is enormous, and tile factories are behind with their orders, and are in many instances enlarging their business capacity. We chronicle these facts as evidences of {Permanent prosperity. Miss NELLIE TOXTZ, aged 16, resid­ ing with her father at Highland, Madi­ son county, recently eloped with her father's hired man, who bears the eu­ phonious name of Gillett, and is up in the thirties. They were pursued, cap­ tured, and the young girl is now under the parental roof, but her father will not countenance her marriage with the! Boats were sent np the fresh-water can# to « . . . . . O ®uv 1,1 • * English troops while on the march from ex- oesMve heat. A large body of Bedouins ap­ proached Moks. The English shelled them, nut- a small party succeeded in entering. They were di(«l<xhred at the point of the bayonet. The British shelled the Bedouins* in trench m en ts south of Sfeks. The out • posts at Ramleh were betng generally strengthened, owing- to the activity of tike Bedouins between Ramleh and Maad&ra. l%e British tents at Kassasstn were strode and the Inarch to the front began on the evening of Sept 12. A correspondent tele­ graphs that " Wolseley's plaiwTTSave aff$eea perfected, and now muafc ensue the struggle for supremacy." The correspondent thinks | " Arabi will" be a clever Oeftera! if" he escapes capture with his whole ranpy.' destroyer of his happiness. THE village of Leroy, McLean countv, w|is recently shocked by the terrible suicide pf Seth Moore, a prominent and wealthy farmer. Mr. Moore, just after supper, went to his room, and soon after the report of a shot-gun was heard, and when his friends rushed to the room they were horrified to find him lving in a dying condition on the floor, He liad taken the gun and placed it in his mouth, and in some way discharged it, the load blowing away a' portion of his head. Death was almost instantaneous. He was a married man in good circum­ stances and much respected. It is sup­ posed he was suffering from mental de­ rangement. . SAMUEL HAZEL, who murdered ft 6- year-old girl near Dongola, was con­ victed at Anna and sentenced to ninety- nine years. The trial occupied a week of the Circuit Court's time at .Tones- lioro, and much interest was manifested in it by people of all classes. It was clearly proven that Hazel whipped the child unmercifully with a cowhide rid­ ing-whip, and then kicked the little 5- year-ohl innocent from room to room until she was dead. He held back all who attempted to interfere by present­ ing a revolver at them. The Sheriff, as soon as the sentence was delivered, im­ mediately removed the. prisoner to ; Chester prison, fearing mob violence. . DURING the month of August there i were 1,460 deaths in Chicago, against ' 1,730 during the same period last year. ! Of the 1,460, 941 were children under 5 ! i years old, and 672 under i • year. Ot | j these there were males, 794; females, j } 666; white, 1,4&4; colored, 16; married, [ 210; widows, f6r#WoWfcMi, 88f j&ngle, 1,162. Smallpox killed 5, measles 10, } 1 scarlatina 14, diphtheria 34, croup 8, i j whooping cough 11, typhoid fever 52, j | cerebro-spinal fever 17, malarial fever j 11, diarrheal diseases 485, consumption | 70, acute lung diseases 53. The per- j | centage of deaths was equal to 32.44 to j ! each 1,000 of the population. There j> were 10 deaths from suicide, 68 from ae- j cidents and 6 from murder. j WHEN the Emma Abbott opera troupe j appeared at Peoria the first basso singer in the chorus, W. A. Roberts, sent for a I m woman of Burlington, with whom, it j eoivpieiter' j seems, he had elojied about a year ago I of j from Oswego, Y., now passing under i the name of Eva Baum, to meet him j there. The wom^n came on and regis- \ tered as his wile. When the troupe j were readv to depart the woman accom- ! paied him in a hack to the depot and | bade him an affectionate adieu. When | lie went into the depot she excused lier- i self to the driver, and, retiring into a : corner, immediately swallowed 75 cents' j worth of strychnine, with which she | had provided herself. Roberts, on j rushing back to the carriage to see her I once more before leaving, found her in j convulsions. He immediately jumped • into the hack and went back to the | hotel with her, where she received ! proper medical treatment. The special, j train conveying the Abbott troupe was held four hours for Robertis. Wow up the dams eonstrueted by the",Ejrypt- iana Lieut. Commander Camper F. Good­ rich, an American officer detailed to accom­ pany the British army, had arrived at Alex­ andria. ' •'*»>'• „ anuria. Wednesday, the 13th of ftepiemlkftCWkt a great day for the British arfnv In'Ogypt Gen. Wolseley, at day-break, adva&ad-^pon Tel-el-Keber, the Egyptians epfnjqgfire when the British were one raUa distant The place was captured by a the struggle lasting only twenty )The loss of Arabi Pasha-is estimated at 2,000 men, beside forty guns and 3,000 prisoners. The ntfinbcr killed on the British side wA about- U00. Arabi is said "to have escapcji on horseback to Zagazig,. while his 'men lied toward the desert:, hotly 'jfttoned by the Indian cavalry on the > sou$tb»$d the British cavalry on the north. The Egyptian regiments are credited with eomfaftHy Beha­ vior. while the Mack troops-from tb»Squdan fought bravely, and tlie rohel wtilleni was well nerved. The Khedive's bandnefned a procession at Alexandria whtdkvfaKtutî d in a jubilee over the yictoyx. pf Jth .̂JBtitish. Gen. MoPherson pushed forward? antPbcca- pied Zaeasri£, Capftrtlri^! "**11 way trains, lilispafehes £poui giye the following .particulars of the battle: "Tlie rebels discovered our fc»en ^tifci atjaut a mile from their works,, and î hoavy ritle lire Our men paused, for a mpme&t on the line of the sand-hills, hnd tWh,'HHth a gallant rush, tfiev were anu>*cp'th» ffibels Acting on Gen. \Volseley'8 ojuep. they re­ served their fire and went iti WTth T&e t>ay«>- ntt. The slaughter for • very great The rebeta oould not sta^d^U. anil broke and fled, pursued hotly. The final rush was made oter a: diitano* of 900 yards, the men skirmishing seek­ ing cover until they reaohed this point Sev­ eral thousand Egyptians were ttiXMk prison­ ers. Our own loss np tq this tim ĵLfhoukl computeataoo killed. The following offi­ cers fell: British offloert killedM&toq. Col- ville', of the 8et<u|y<to«nrtll-. BWwidew; t.iowfc Somervell. Sftreatty-fouiih Highland­ ers. British Qffioers wounded :CoL ftWkineon, of the Forty-sixth reHUfifent; Oapt. Kephel, of the SexwnfcMMBrife HI|lfclW»llWi; Capt Cumberland of the ftrexidk HlgMeaditu; IiantJ the Seventy-fourth Hlghl Gordon in toe melee xQIed tHrfe£"15gyptlaa officers with hisolayntera " , The Engliiii advance guard reacfefjl Cakt> on the evening of the 14th inft,.)>y^U, and at once took poepe^sioi} of the,<eity. Arabia ware scattered ip. all directiong over the deserts, and were conrfnjf^•f&fward as fast as iKissible with aiflpender. Arabi himself was virtuailx A prisoner in Cairo, whore, on his armalararTOettisiister of Tel-el-Kebir. he wafc'greetM wittr stones bv the MmieiMmilac^jtihitfWOHldiuiV hailed him as the deltvereroff^V^-itad the bf 'h« "frbtWi" Awl th) battle -tMnvd ott»«r way. , It was stilted that he would be held by th^ locaiJi authorities sub- tee* to the demands of dtp UMt̂ r^and his English allies. The Kultr.n tetefranhed Gen. Wolseley his cougratulatioiift, lif'We same time preferring a request tfcafi ttm march of the British «ny further into,the inferior of Egypt 1M; stopped. To this cool jfcwiosition Gen. Wolseley reijurnedu brief 4»||y refer­ ring the Sultan,.to the ^|ttoh .yyTOrament in Iiondon, but at the" Bame time ordering his forces oittMurtt Cairo. Numerous dele^itdM^fnifryd M^lexandria to express* the loy;dtyf and suDlnflSsiveness of tlie people to the* Khietl el force at Tel-el-Kebir cciajprifpd Sfmg^ffgplan, 7,- 000 Bedouins, and 3.00P volunteers. The British loss was tiny-mdr Inne?r and 350 wounded. The following the bat­ tle at , Tel-el-Ketjir ,. was. tele­ graphed by cable lib* tfcte New York Herald:' *Th0»<«ittt*jk"ebegan on the left Nothing coul<V be.,inaqglued finer than the advance of the Highm ̂ brigade. The Fourteenth were nexf'uk|i>vsMd. Next State Teachent* Certificates. I were the Cameroniaus, Uoijion High- ! landers continued the line, with the Black i Watch upon their Hank. The F«rty -sixth i and Hixtieth regiments formed a. second line. | Swiftly and silently the Highlanders moved 1 forward to the attack. No w6rd wdk spoken, ! no shot fired, until within J508 yards of the { enemy's earthworks, nor up to- time did any sound in the Egyptian betoken that they were aware of'-tllwjxwsenee of their assailants. Then . su^jfrtonly., j> terrific fire flashed along the line of Sana-heaps, a storm of bullets willxaed' bve? heads of the advancing troops, a »il4 ,fl»ger broke from the Highlanders^ and in .response the pipes struck shrillr up' oily^llelB"#ere fixed, and at doublequivk .tiinq ,tb9jr ,<|j|8bed for­ ward The tirst lipa of . jntptpchments was carried, the enemy sckMely offer­ ing any resistance. Bub t CretS anoth­ er line of iuUvni^ment^, behind which in the still dim light oBB could scarce­ ly see, a burst of lttliflketywhufltevefct For a few minutes the ' jjoped in a heavy lire, but it was probably id Innocuous as that of the unB«*n '#iietilV'iw6fase bullets whistled harraletisly, pverbMV&.JI^ delay te \en the order went rap- The class examined this" year juuxi- bered forty-seven--thirty-seven to take all the work, and ten to make up some branches in which they had not passed at some previous examination. The statements made by the applicants show that the youngest was 22 years of age, and the oldest 48, The average was 28. The lowest number of months taught by any applicant was 24; highest, 250; average, 63. The applicants were! natives of: Germany, 2; Denmark, 1; j England, 2; Canada, 1; New York, 1; New Jersey, 1; Virginia, 1; Pennsyl- ( vania, 4; Ohio, 10; Indiana, 1; Mis- j souri, 1; Illinois, 22. I The Board of Examiners were E. C. | Smith, of Dixon; A. M. Brooks, of j Springfield; and J. N. Wilkinson, of I the advance was but shor^. ~ Decatur. Tliev awarded twentv certifi- ! was given, and the brigade ** cates. •" " I idlT forwarA The successful candidate^' were Miss ' l>aew>d Ada C. Starlrack, Joliet; Fred U. White, Geneseo; Miss Mary M. T. Walsh, Chicago; Geo. K. Leonard, Secor; Miss Cora Carpenter, Rockford; Rudolph !R. Reader, Rutland; Miss Annie C. Wright, De Kalb; David Felmlv, Carrollton; Miss Emma B. Wheat, Lanark; Miss Belle Ful­ ton, Decatur; Miss Mary L. Hen- dee, Sandwich; Miss Minta Fulton, Decatur; W. H. Chamberlin, Rossville: Horace N. Foltz, Fowler; Miss Ida B. Fall, Champaign; Miss Sophia Watson, Waverlv; Miss M. Evelyn Rider, Nil- wood; H. D. Grider, Windsor; Antoine M. Wolleson, Belleville; Chas. W. Sheeppy, Slielbyville. Beside these, twenty more were given the required average on the whol&e^ animation, and will be entitled to cer­ tificates when they have passed, at a subsequent Examination, with a mark of not less than seventy in each of the branches in which they fell below the minimum fixed at this examination. The average obtained by the claw and opened u naiimnir nre,"~'inis was too much for the Egypti*«M*»ho took to their heels :i;ul fairlv^n^L fufifwng. asth* crowded tnas.se.-! ninhed acrowwopen des­ ert, very heavi'y from Vni# "testy #>cing liter­ ally mowed down by hmutatds-jllcaiiwhU* lighting iiegan upon the otrar frank. Th« horse artillery shell. U extreme lore. Here tW. Kgyptiap* suore pre­ pared tht\u on their right. For'a pime tuev kept up a steady tire Irish were ncnt to turn «|MNWS left. At tlie word they dashed at the trenches and carried theih at tlie uaVuwiH no turn­ ing the think of th» dWwedenii#f the peti­ tion. Next came th? J^hty-eighth regiment, then the Eijrhtv-fourtSL ~$tifc"At&rds being close up behind tin snpmelv 3heee regi­ ments advanced by re<^ul)u-, nuhpft. * For a short time the enemv clung X6 weir line of intrenehments, but' thrtr t̂mm was sin­ gularly ineffective, aj*i thg British troops got fairly into the' frencnes. Then the enemy fought stoutly for a few mo­ ments. The ooinhtf ,)TS*< 4»|^and-to-hand one. Maj. Hart shot one man as he was trv- ing to wrest a revo^PftMoitdrliuftd. This was even after the Oienafc frfft faim tomad by our advance on ttyej British ̂ poured in, the" idly as those on theothririito 4MM fore the Highlander*. practicably over."' ' » ' - r - « 3 < - . » h l | ; ( > y •«! 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