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" " ' 1 J " " cntg § latndealn J. VAN SlYKE. WK* and PuMtalwr. TtfoHENRY, ILLINOia THE Glasgow Herald says we bor­ rowed $38,000 000 of Europe last spring -to build railroadB with. foBUn's Progress claims that bill­ iard balls can be made of potatoes. Perhaps they can, bat what's the useof wasting the potatoes ? new Iowa State Capitol has thus far cost $2,000,000, and it will require -$500,000 to finish it. It is 365 feet long from north to south, and measures 274 feet from the sidewalk to the top of the •central dome. WILLIAM H. KENNEDY was elected •Coroner in New York. There are five •of them in the city, and two of that name have already come forward to -claim the office. The three others have not been heard from, but, if they are all as savage as the two who are now fight­ ing for the office, death will have ne^ -terrors in that city. F « BALTIMORE Sun: St. Louis, with - ' "20,000 more population than Baltimore, according to the last census, cast less "than 36,000 votes at Tuesday's election, while Baltimore polled over 54,000 votes. The registered vote of St. Louis is 10,000 less than that of Baltimore. About the time the census was taken St. Louis was making frantic efforts to appear as big as Chicago, but it really looks as if it has less population -than Baltimore. MISCREANTS living along the line of vthe elevated railroads iij New York fre­ quently fire bullets into the passenger trains from the second-story windows of the houses. And yet they have not been detected, as the rooms which they ^ : select for casemates are always dark- • ened, and it is impossible to locate the firing. But thus far, if no one has been * arrested, no one has been hit. The passengers sometimes get excited, but the conductors are said to be quite used .to it. - v. NEW YORK Tribune: The lake shore • Seems to be good soil for Presidential candidates. Harrison started upon his •career there near Toledo; Fillmore made his career at Buffalo; Lincoln and ' Douglas became celebrated at Chicago; Grant lived at different periods at Sackett's Harbor and Detroit; Hayes lived near Sandusky; Garfield was bred •on the lake store; Grover, Cleveland, the new portent, is a Lake Erie-side man. The Lacustrine basin is the bowl of Presidents. ANNIE LOUISE CARY is said to own the largest and most ptaf'fewt emerald in the world. It belonged to Queen Isa­ bella, and was bought at the sale of that fearfully and wonderfully-made Spanish lady's jewels in Paris two years ago. It weighs two carats, and is set in a broad band of Roman gold studded with twenty- four large diamonds. The value of the emerald is $50,000. Janauschek has four diamonds--among many others . she possesses in her imperial collection-- which were given her by the Czar Nich- " olas and the Queen of Bavaria. They are worth about $12,000 apiece.. HIGHLAND (Pa.) Recorder: "Thonqas Hamilton, of this place, went out hunt­ ing one day last week. After wander­ ing about .for sometime he beoame tired and hungry. He sat down upon a big black log, as he thought, and stood his .gun against a tree close by. After fin­ ishing his lunch he reached for his gut), but it was missing. What was to be- • come of him ? Had some bold highway- . man robbed him of his only weapon ? For once in his life he was troubled. After examining the log upon which he was sitting he found it to be a large black snake, which had moved off sev­ eral hundred yards from where he had .jset his gun." SCOTCH engineers have demonstrated that throwing oil upon the troubled waters is^more than a mere figure of speech. ^Sti6 latest test of its practical value was made at Aberdeen harbor a fortnight ago. In consequence of a gale from the southeast the water at the entrance of the harbor was very rough. A large quantity of oil--about seventy gallons--was pumped through valves which had been placed across the channel, and the effect was very marked, the waves, on reaching the belts of oil, losing much of their for­ midable character and assuming the form of smooth and comparatively- harmless rollers. ONE of the most enormous ropes in size and length ever produced in En­ gland is that recently manufactured for • service in New Zealand, where it is to be employed in hauling up ships when they run aground on the soft mud bot- • torn there, which is occasionally the • case. The rope in question is a twenty- • one-inch manila hawser, 120 fathoms long, and composed of nine strands of . 316 yards to the strand. Another rope, , intended for the same purpose, is a fifteen-inch hawser of the same material and length, and composed of nine strands with 164 yards in the strand. As is well known twelve-inch ropes are the largest size ordinarily made. THE most remarkable of recent sales of land is the transfer of GO,000 acres in North Carolina to a colony of Mennon- ites from Russia. It is rem trkable both because ot its nd cation of the increase of immigration in the South, and be- . cause, of its exhibition of the of the Mennonites to establish them­ selves in the United States. Although their conscientious scruples against bearing arms have been respected to some extent by the Czar, they evidently regard the United States as the country where war is the least probable; and in coming here that they may live in peace they also increase their prospects of pecuniary prosperity. They are among the most industrious and frugal of immigrants, and North Carolina is fortunate in securing a large colony of them. V.'." WHILE some of Sherman's "bum­ mers" were pillaging a house, one of them rolled up a barrel of sorghum to the top of the stairs, knocked in the head, and let the stuff run in cataracts down the stairs. He then covered it with feathers from a ripped bedtick and awaited results. At the cry of the bugle to "boot and saddle," all made a rush for the stairway. Thr first man got down half way, and seemed to hit every corner on the steps with some tender part of his body. Then came the whole crowd, and went down stairs in a lump. They landed at the bottom in a heap, looking like a monstrous eliicktn just breaking out of its shell. They staggered out hatless with torn clothing, smeared with sorghum and feathers. They climbed'Wearily into the saddle and rode off at a brisk can­ ter, every j >lt threatening to kill each one outright. YOUNG St.,Louis housekeeper, who had re id in a .Paris letter that four- post bedsteads were again in fashion* started in search of one the other day. S!ie finally found what she desired in the house and under the person of a sick Hungarian, whose wife was per­ sonally supporting him by sewing, and who valued it as an heirloom, but was willing to supply his necessities by sell­ ing it. The next day she took a dealer^ to fix the price, and, having been pur­ chased for a liberal sum, it was sent to his shop to be fitted with new ropes. It was, in fact, a mahogany four-poster of admirable workmanship, and the dealer was examining the carvings with de­ light when he accidentally pressed upon a carved rose, which yielded and dis­ closed a secret receptacle in which was tightly wedged a leather bag, contain­ ing Italian coins worth several thousand dollars. The money was handed to the poor Hungarians, whose amazement was so great that in all probability they have not yet recovered from it. THUBLOW WEED'S LAST LETTER TO THE PUBLIC. Spinal Irritation. Most persons are familiar with the above words, and with the distressing affection they denote. There are two forms of it, the one characterized by excitability, the other by depression. The first is more common among fe­ males ; the second among males. We shall here confine ourselves to the first. The disease ia in the spinal cord. It is developed slowly, but incresmnglv. At first there may be only a frequently occurring mental discomfort, and a feeling ot uneasiness in the back and limbs. Later there are distressing pains in the spine between the shoul­ ders, or in the neck, or lower in the back. For awhile they are consequent on exertion or fatigue, but at length become more constant and intense. Intolerable pains may be caused even by the weight of the clothing, or by the least movement. They may follow the course of the nerves from the cen- tre-point to the head, face and arms, if the irritation is in the spine of* the neck; to the arms, the .muscles be­ tween the ribs and to the stomach, if the upper dorsal region is affected; to the abdomen, intestines and along the lower limbs, if the lumbar region is, af­ fected. They may be fixed, wandering, or in­ termittent. Slight functional disor­ ders often throw the patient into a state of feverish excitement. Even continuous talking exhausts. The pains cause the patient to take a posi­ tion, upon the back, of, absolute inac­ tion. The treatment requires an abund­ ance of nourishing food, light stimu­ lants, tonics of different kinds, and es­ pecially a protracted residence in the oountrv, if possible in the midst of for­ ests and in mountainous regions. * But the most important thing is to remove the exciting cause. This mav have been over-exertion, night-work, excesses, or any form of strong emo­ tional excitement.'--Youth"8 Compan­ ion. " Not That Kind of a Blow. As a youncr man carrying an immense pair of blacksmith's 'bellows on his shoulder passed along the street he was accosted by a dilapidated-looking stranger, Who said: "Excuse me, sir, bnt will you kindly do me a great favor! Will you let me take one pull at your bellows ? They-- they--remind me of the long ago, when I lived at home in the dear old place, and every morning when I came down to breakfast found my good old mother on her knees before a greenwood fire, blowing, blowing with her precious bel­ lows ! Just one blow, my dear fellow-- just one blow!" "You shall have it," said the other, "with the greatest of pleasure in the world. Stand back so I can get a good whack at you! Next to kicking a thieving dog I should admire to get is one blow or a dozen, on a fellow than would let his mother get up and"-- But the stranger was gone.--Detroit PI0*1. Wine in California. There are many little wineries in San Francisco. In this business good profits are realized upon a small capital. A visitor to a winery describes the pro­ cess of crushing forty tons of Zinfauilel grapes. The owner of the establish­ ment had invested $2,000 in casks and machinery, and a vat cost $325. Two Italians and a German were at work. The wine made in these small manufac­ tories is sold by the gallon as soon as it is fit to drink. Though pure, it is al­ coholic and heady. If kept two or three years the wine is choice, but as a Year­ ling wine it tends to stupefy. The' Zin­ faudel grapes were imported from Hungary^ ROSES bloom in summer only, but a large majority of the American nose blooms all the year round. To the Editor of the Tribune. SIR : I have had the papers read to me this morning, and I see an interview with Mr. Bayard--a very interesting and important one--in which he shows in reference to the Republican defeat the good sense and wisdom of a states man. I find everything to commend till the Senator strikes the civil-service question. I agree with him that it is the great political problem of the coun­ try, bnt no man has yet arisen showing any capacity to deal with it. I have not strength left to say what I would like to. If health should be spared to me, and T could get a paper to repre­ sent my views, I do believe they could not fail to open the eyes and ears of hundreds of the most patriotic of our citizens. The question has run away from Mr. George William Curtis and his associates. They hoped only to de­ moralize and weaken the Republican party in the recent election, but they have helped to drive it to the verge of ruin. •' . '. Our system of government is almost a century old. For between eighty and ninety years the "Civil Service Reform." which now bewilders all who touch it, •was undiscovered. Each party acted within reasonable bounds upon the "spoils system." Offices were made the prize Of that partisan activity and sagacity which so often a-snme I the form of high patriotism. Four I Presidents, Washington, Jackson, Gra it and Lincoln, were rewarded with two executive terms each in considera­ tion of the important military and civil services they rendered to the country. I a\n most emphatically in favor of con­ ferring the offices o: "the country, al­ ways modified by circumstances, upon those who, in eminent or more humble ranks, have rendered good and patriotic service to their country--a service of* en rendered through the form of^ a party. .Practically I am a better civil-service reformer than Mr. Curtis or any of his followers, as my record proves. It is with no personal object that I make this statement. I am forced to do it to vindicate my position. If time had not taken away my colleagues, I should not need witnesses to prove what I did to secure the nomination of Harrison and Taylor. In the case of Grant I have written testimony whenever there is oc­ casion to produce it. Many Governors and several Presidents have voluntarily assigned to me the selection of larue numbers of public officers of every de­ gree. I have chosen men always for their fitness for the place, and have usually been able to find them within the ranks of those who had helped my party to power. But often Democrats have been retained because they seemed to be expert and Useful, and I have kept a good many Democrats in office during the last forty years because of their exceptional efficiency. I organized and established through Governors who yielded to my urgent request the first non-partisan commissions ever created for this city--the Policc Commission, the Commission on an Exterior Water Line on the East river, the Castle Gar­ den Commission, and several others -- insisting that each board should be made up of an equal number of the members of both par tie-. X. have now exhausted my strength, bat I ssotker of our defeat is the spasmodic prohibition movement. It promis d radical suc­ cess in most of our Western States. That promise has been so far realized as to threaten the country with two or three years more of strife and discord, leaving the cause of temperance weaker and rumsellers stronger than they were in the beginning. Worst of all, the Republican Congress dragged itself slowly through a long session without doing anything to ease the burdens of the country. Those burdens are not onerous, but, with a large surplus, they were made to appear so, and now, if the Democratic party does not lose its head by running into the free-trade heresy, it will have us at a disadvantage. Congress must act this winter. It is within the power of the present Con­ gress to do much to retrieve the past. It must act promptly and vigorously and w sely, or all is lost. THURLOW WEED. NEW YOBK, NOV. 14,1882. Past Repiibican Reverses. Had the Republican party never be­ fore indulged in eccentricities the wild freak of Nov. 7 might well create dis­ may.' But in the trying days of 1862, when the rebel armies were overrunning Maryland and threatening Washing­ ton, and when Lincoln had issued the emancipation proclamation, the party that had elected the President was de­ feated at the polls. Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, the States of Blaine, Seward, Cameron, Chase, Morton and Lincoln, all gave Democratic majorities. The surprising, startling result was paraded by the Democrats as a rebuke to President Lincoln, and a condemnation of the war policy of the Republican party. Soldiers sat around their camp-fires dazed afid distressed and discouraged, and the staunchest of the Union men at home were troubled with misgivings, and puzzled with questions no one could answer. Were the loyal people opposed to the war ? Did they disap­ prove of the emancipation proclamar tion ? Were they dissatisfied with the removal of'^MeClellaii V Or did the people of the great war States dispute President Lincoln ? However it might be, there was one m m who made no complaint and in­ dulged in 110 ^crimination. That man was PresidentTiincoln, and he went on do'inglthe best he could, and murmuring not at the dissatisfaction of the people And the people themselves, after that exhibition of irritalilenes;, became so heartily ashamed of themselves that in 18(53 every one of the States named above gave overwhelming Republican majorities, and in 18<ii everyone, vot ng squarely on the issue of 1802 (the policy of Lincoln against thijt of McClellanJ, gave a tremendous majOiitv for the man for whom it was said the rebuke of 1862 had been intended. The plain truth was that the people were dissat­ isfied in 1862 because they could not understand the President nor compre­ hend the difficulties in his way, nor the magnitude of his undertaking. In; 1866 and 1867 Johnson's change of policy threw the Republican party for a time into such confusion as prom­ ised certain disasters, hut the people separated the man from the party, and rebuked Johnson by triumphantly elect­ ing Grant in 1868. In 1874 there was a reaction from the intense party feeling of 1872, and, through indifference or dissatisfaction on the partpf the Republicans, Massa­ chusetts, Indiana, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania gave Democratic majori­ ties. This was regarded as a rebuke to Grant, but, curiously enough, in 1875 Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Ohio gave Republican majorities In 1876 the factions of the party made a treaty of peace over the nomina­ tion of Hayes, and, in 1877, New York Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts went squarely against the partv that had elected him. The dissatisfaction then was the President's Southern policy, and, when this cause had been removed, the party got in good shape for the fight in 1880, and, after a bitter fight among the factions, buried the hatchet in the nomination of Garfield. Chicago Inter Ocean. The Democratic Record. As the Peoria Transcript afeserts, the Democratic party is still the same the party of obstruction, negation and nul­ lification that it has always been ever since the.election of Abraham Lincoln as President. And when defeated in this pernicious policy it has been its habit to adopt the progressive ideas of its opponents as its own, and to exploit them in its platforms as living issues. Meanwhile, the people urging the Re­ publican party, always and sympathet­ ically responsive to their demands on' to new achievements, repudiate this worse than Bourbon stupidity, and for nearly a quarter of a century have with tare exceptions relegated the leaders of the Democracy to the back seats in the national counsels. Enough of them have been at the front, however, to make a record for the entire combina­ tion of obstructors, negationists and nullifiers. The Washington National RepublicaJi summarizes the Democratic record of constant objections and at­ tempted nullifications.as follows: 1. President Lincoln's proclamation in 1861 for 75,f!00 troops to defend the National Capital. 2. President Lincoln's call for 300,- 000 troops to take the Southern forts and other property and resist rebellion. 3. The refusal to return slaves escap­ ing into the Union lines during the war. 4. The issuance of greenbacks. 5. The armiijg of negroes. 6. The emancipation proclamation. 7. The continuance of the war against rebellion after 1864. 8. The overthrow of the Southern State Governments by President John son after Lee's surrender. 9. The constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. 10. Trumbull's Civil Rights bill. 11. Tlie Fourteenth amendment, which was intended to make the Civil Rights bill constitutional. 12. The overthrow of the temporary Governments in the Sonth and the formation of others by the general vote of the people. 13. The payment of the public debt in coin. 14. The internal-reyenue system. 15. The external-revenue systenl. 16. Any and all measures for raising money, either by taxation or by loan. 17. Any inquiry as* a preliminary to a revision of the tariff. 18. Any check to Chinese immigra­ tion for a less term than twenty years. 19. Any check to polygamy sover­ eignty in Utah. 3b. Any r«d^tJeujB ta4*fck»i>. fc. KLECTIOI TABLES. Vote by CooatlM « Amendment. STATS HOU8K APPBOPRIATIO*. Cfttmtiee. Adams.. A exanler Bond.................. Hoone Hrown Bureau. t'aihoun.... Carroll................ C&Hg Champaign.........,. Christian Clirk....c Clay Clinton C-'le" ..*V" Cook Crawford ( umb rland D ,< Kalb He Witt Ponirlas I>u Tage Edear Ed war tie Effingham..... Fayette . Ford Franklin... Fulton................ Gallatin Greene Grnndy Hainilton ..^ Hancock Hardin.... Henderson... 3e ry... i'roqnoi# 'ackson.k Jasper ......,.......i. J offfi»on.. .*f....... Jersey *....' Jo Haviess.. Johnson Ka 'e Kankakee............ K -mlaH... ?........... Knox. Lake.................. La Salle.............. Lawrence............. Lee Li vlnprston............ Logan Macon .'.............. Ma oupln.......... .. Ma llson.............. Mar on,.... Marshall Maso i. MdR-w.. McPonongh. McHe ry REPORT OF THE SUPERVISING ARCHITECT. Supervising Architect James G. HH1, of the Treasury Department, has submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury his annual report for the year ended S«>pt. 188"?. The re- n rt sh 'ws tlie following am unts to have been ex ended upon the various publia buildings in t e West, and also the unex­ pended balances of approp iations remaining in the treasuiy'at the dose of the year: Amount Expended. Balance. Cincinnati Custom Honae. $231,3:u. 1 $4 V>+'i.85 Chicago Custom Uonae... 23,Hn9.H5 Cleveland Custom House. H<,'218.6^ ifil.lflO'S K<il. Citv Custom House. '26 fiifi.Sl 182,510.03 Little R'k. Custom House. 14,70S,3S 1,870.82 Memphis Custom H -use.. 9.\744.68 10 Nashville Custom House 61,295 81 <>.67:).'2i> N. Orleans Custom House. 26,429.58 69 Crt>i. '5 Paducah <'ourt Honse,... 65,291.43 ."fi,: 62.51 Pittsburgh Court House.. 70,2^9 91 2fiV,r'.'M."9 St. Louis Custom House.. 461,480.48 29«>, 172.22 Toledo Custom Housa.... 50,370.93 19:,466.37 Topeka Custom House.... 57,404.48 93,379.47 Our Manufacturing Industries. A special census bulletin reoently issued presents the following s atiBtical data re­ specting the various manufacturing indus­ tries of the country: The wholesale slaughtering and meat packing Industry comprises 8T£ establish­ ments, with a capital of $49,419,313, and em­ ploys 27,397 hands The annual expenditure for'wages amounts to $10,508,530. Th cost of raw material of all kinds aggregates $267.T>8,9'^, and the vaiue of manufactui ed product $308,56:2,413. In asfricul' ur 1 implements the o pital in­ vested is $62,109,6<»; value of materials vised, $31,5:11,170; amount of wages paid, $15 0; value of manufactured products, $'<j8,ti40,4«<j. In boot and shoe manufacture there are 1,959 establishments, employing 111,152 hands; capita , $4.'.994,028; valu-* ot materi­ als us«ed, $102,442,442; wipes, $4».00l,433; value of manufactured products, $l«i,050,- 350 In lumber the capital is $181,186,122; value of materials, $ 14<1,155,3S5; products, $283,367,- 729; wages, 531,8+5,974. In paper munutacture the capital is $46,- 941,202; materials, $3 ,̂931,297; value of pro­ ducts, $55,109,914; amount paid for wages, #8,524,355. Old Nath's Mistake. Old Natli entered a Markham street store, and approaching the proprietor said: "Boss, I can't git but ninety cents fur dis Mexicnin dollar." "That's none of my business." "Yes it is, sail, case I got de dollar heah." "You didn't get it from me." "Dat may be true, but I foun' it in do store when I was sweepin* out. You would liab los it jes' as quick ef it had been a Newmted States dollar, an' I would hab been jes' as ap'-ter lind it. So, under dese 'siderations, I thinks dat yer aughter make dis dollar good by givin' me ten cents." "Let me see the dollar." • Natli complied and the merchant put the coin in his pocket. "Dar now," exclaimed the negro. "I always did go too fur wid a proposition. Ef I hadn't been so hones' an' wanted dis white man ter make good de dis­ count on his outstandin' obligations, I would hab made ninety cents. A nigger is de biggest fool I eber seed, nohow." --Ark an saw Traveler. THE lumber cut in the Sierras will this season reach 46.000,000, and of this probably 40,000,000 feet sold for about $12 a thousand, footing up about $5000,000, and the rest sold as clear lumber for about $35, making over $200,000 more--over $700,000 earnings for the nine mills that ran, some of them only part of Hie time. M i H e r y a , 3 8 t o J 3 ; 8 McLean 4,63#? 4,345 Men<rl.w .-. 1,52T" 495 Mercer M<>n oe 1,81$; ; Montgomery .." 2,7 V> M 'rgin i 3,11V M> trie. 9;<% O le..... 1,7(1 Pe rla 31? P "Y .Mt Piatt 1,07. P ke 4, 71 Pope. ' Pu aski 92# • Pi tu m 14f1' Han olph '.,69t Ri< h and 1,12| ' Rick Is and.. 1,14: 8^1'iie 1,0 8 £anir;imon ; 9,WT Schuyitr, 718 Bc< t 1,23$ Shelbv. ,41# St lk 881 . 8 . Clair 8,no Stephenson.. ........ a»2<>4-- Tart-wel^...- ...I.... 38# Union. 976 Vermillion 8,711 . Wabash 704 , Wai i< n 9 <5 Washington 933 Wavno 1,295 White 1,011 Whiteside®. 2.872 Will $,852 Williamson * 979 Winnebago 3,811 Woodford 780 CANALS. Adams 6.37T A1 xander... 1,109 Bond 1,175 Koone. 2,008 Brown 1,(20 Bur'an .' 4,886 Calhoun.. 461 Carroll 2,238 Cans 1,649 Champaign.... 6,206 Christian 8,679 Clark l,80i Clav 888 Clinton 1,781 Coles 2.7-0 Cook 67,177 Crawford 1,098 On Hwlawfl..f,rrm,........ 0^41- Pe **..«......... 8,474 Douglas s.ujp Pu Page 2,7*7 Edgar AMI Eilwarda 791 Kfflnrham 1,990 Favctte t............ 1,510 Fnr'l ....• 1,787 Franklin 76 8,318 1,327 2.272 2,606 802 3,068 454 . i ,m 6,134 9 i,8ii 1,154 K:ui<'.. +,731 Ka kakee 2,6#I Ken I all Kn * .... Lake... La Salle Lawrence I«"e. Fu'idii.!'. Gallatin Greene. Gr ndy. Hamilton Hancock. Hardin Henderson. 1 enry 'roqnois Jackrnm Ja- per JefferHOn Jersey Jo Daviess J 'hn*on. 2,021 6,337 ..... '2,160 11,768 1.76T ...... 4,510 Livingston 8,389 Lo^an 6.108 Macon 4.928 Mvxt'i pin *,m Mad Won.'. 6.072^ Mkrioil. 2,452 Marshall..... 2,866 M a<on 1,437 Ma rac.. 1,038 M " 1 >< mough.. '.',740 Mi H< nry 2.78» McLean 9,8J8 Menard 2,'M Mercer 2,40T , Monroe ...» 1,338 M niromery ;... 3, 48 Moriran S,311 Moultrie,... 1,4»7 Ogle. 4,289 l'eoriaj. 8.860 •Pe ry. l.'.'S* l'iatt... 2,074 Tike.... 3,486 Pope... 966 Pulanki 1.093 Putnam 868 Kandclph 2.637/ Kici i land.... 1,418 Hock Island...-trn..?;........... 6,488 Saline Z... 1,704 Sangamon. 9.1T1 Schuvler 1,789 Bcott 14OT Shelbv l.Wl Btnrk. M38 S t . C ' l a l r 4 , 4 8 9 S'ephenson 2,601 Tazewell 4,282 Union 1,012 Vermilion... *."66 Wabtwn „ ;....... 1.272 Warren 2,710, Wash ngton li"4 Wavne. 1,798 White W8 Whi esldeo 4,145 <Vill 9,068 Williamson. 1,466 Wi- nebago 4,528 Woodford 8,288 tv, and that about one-half the crop is gone. FIFTY-FIVE trains are said to arrive and depart daily at Litchfield, Mont­ gomery county, and i s railroad busi~. uess to have nearly doubled in the last wo years. JAMES GKLLIN«, one of the pioneers of Hancock county, died at La Harpe. He gave the seminary which bears his name to the Northern Illinois Methot dist Conference. Ji THE Chicago fire department has made a success :nl test of a telescopic water tower, which can be raised to a height of sixty-five feet, and which will distribute water from four engines. THE Peoria Hnmane Society has in the last seven months investigated 282 • 1c>ases- Of these 26 have been cases of brutal treatment of little children and 2o6 cases of the brutal treatment of animals. JOHH B. WILL, who last April SHOT ! homas Kelly dead on the corner of La Salle and Randolph streets, Chicago, almost without provocation, was de­ clared by the jury in the Criminal Court to be insane. - . SAMUEL L. GILL, Republican, WILL contest the election for Sheriff of Peo­ ria county with Cyrus L. Berry, Demo- orat. £ Berry's majority was ninety, aad (TI114S satisfied that a recount will give liim a majority. SILAS KESSINGER, an old citizen of Litchfield, came to his death by a sin­ gular accident a few days since. A heavy box, which he was lifting from a wagon, overbalanced and fell upon him, breaking his neck and causing almost instant de .th. AT Stanton, Macoupin county, two ^oal-miners, John Matthis and John B irrison, had a fight, and Matthis had the other down. Alexander Dore. an Italian, rushed in, and drawing a dirk- knife stabbed M itthis in the back, the vnife penetrating the left lung, making % d herero s and probably fatal wound. Dore is in jail. THE follo w ing is the official vote of Cook county at the recent election: STATS TREASURER. 8-nith Republican 40,440 Or t d rt. Democrat 42,06H win, Prohibit! nist 2,4lti McLantih ln. Anti-monopoly 429 SUPERINTENDENT OP SCHOOLS. ^t.rattan R'publican 39,746 Raab, Demoe<»t 42,607 B own. Prohibitionist 2,38-i Hall, Anti-monopoly 410 The Re publicans e ected the Sheriff, Probate Judge, Superintendent of Sell ><>ls, and one of the County Com­ missioners, while the Democrats elect d the County Treasurer, County Judge, County C'erk, Coroner and four Coun­ ty Commissioners. QCINCY Whuj: A comical nffair oc­ curred on York treet on Thu'sday even:ng. The night was very dark, a d two men were on their way home at a late hour--one a bookkeeper in the south pare of town a d the other a imckman. On York street the hack- man stumbled over Bome obstacle and measured his length on the sidewalk. The bookkeeper was coming from the op osite direction, and was so near the h a c k m a n t h a t b e f o r e ^ t h e l a t e r c u d rise the other fell over liim. They im­ mediately grappled both ne rly scared o de th. and each th ught the orher intended to rob him, until the book keeper began t»beg, when explanations followed, and both smarted on thpir W*y- • A - ..... i THE Chicago Tribu\ie, In printing the cal: of Mayor C ook, of' Springfield, upon the several Mayors of the State to send repre entatives to that city Thursday, Dec. 7, to confer to e her upon the proprie y of securing such re- iorm in road laws as will result in giv- i g the people permanent State roa is, rema k : "For this end The Tribunehas labored many years. It i < the one grea want of the agricultural distrie s the one great desire of the urban popula­ tions. While Illinois ranks first in manv sources of material wealth, first in miles of railway, first in internal- revenue receipts, first in her educa­ tional, eleemosynary and reformatory institutions, first in agricultural yields, she ranks fourth in population. If she had even as good State roads as Ohio or Indiana, she would before many years be at least thiidin population. The question resolves itself into this: Good roads must be built some time-- why not bu.ld them now, when the State is free from debt and the people prosperous? We hope the conference will be well attended." y THE PRATER-HIE. Alleged Recovery, of an Invalid « Cripple at Bentleysvilte, '* Pennsylvania. The Truthfulness of the Story T«MM for by a Rnkr «f 1,219 1.436 6 1 1,64S 907 2.603 8,7*6 1,66 t:!4i 1, 35 1. 43 197 1«6 •*,' 6 • l.m 2,71(8 I 061 * 124 11(49 441 I.P74 r»K8 2.809 -- 359 4, 66 937 5.342 1,093 1,')83 2,432 1,217 1,9*5 1,6>0 i,ai a,185 1,028 ' 2,137 1,025 305 966 54 983 266 437 105 587 249 953 722 450 518 1,016 679 C88 ;85 **» WI 66 1,012 135 153 1,268 478 1,319 1,440 814 1,303 49 1,337 1,932 76 383 100 101 425 302 718 734 '24 956 109 221 45 280 27 151 117 122 169 13S 943 1,154 1,500 1,1*8 210 455 HA9 l,r>0Q 110 9,008 94 43.) 1,417 34S 35< 144 182 302 'iwi 1,440 793 143 27 1,917 656 4> 410 494 499 378 " 907 181 3,109 229 V67 623 1.245 308 989 1,121 631 1,801 42ft 137 !,M9 455 199 ILLINOIS ITEMS. A KENDALL coil ty farmer raised a beet weighing seventeen pounds. THE vein of'"coal found at Virginia proves to be forty inches thick and of superior quality. THE Burlington and Ohio River rail­ road has secured the right of way through Schuyler county. THE I onded indebtedness of the Illinoi-i Central railroad is $48,000 to every mile owned by the company. B GOSVILLE is willing to pay $10,362 toward building a new Court House, if the county seat of Hendersoii »can be rno ed there from Oquawka. ' THK Peoria Club folks are just com­ pleting a building for their club-room, gymnasium, etc., which wi^l cost them in the neighborhood of $40,000. THE Springfield and St. Louis rail- : o d is to be built, and before the ad­ vent of the new year the busy bustle of the workmen will be heard all along the line- • A CORRESPONDENT of the Cartilage Republican says that hog cholera is prevalent in Oak, Grove, Hanoook coun- [Pit* flbnrgh Telegram to Chicago TfmwT The details of the apparently-miraculooB a cure by prayer of Richard Hoffman, a arlp- ple of Bentleysviile, Washington county, which has already been briefly referred to, make a wonderful story. Hoffm-m Is 4S years old, and was born where he now Uvea He is a carpenter by trade, and a very ia- genious mechanic. When 13 years old te sustained a fall which injured his iptoa He suffered more or leas until about flit . yea s ago, when he was compelled to relin­ quish h s trade, and had to uae crutches to assist him in walking. As he grew weaker his feet refuse I to support him, and for about a year he walked on his kn<-es. After that he traveled abont in a w eeled chair operated with ievers, butfina lyhe becuno unable to sit np, even, and reported to the use of a contrivance which wis a combina­ tion ot choir and ionnge. in w:iich he could sit erect or lie do wn as he fe t able. He designed both chair and lounge himself. A year ago he was given op by h s physicians who pr nounce i him incu able, and said his death was on'y a question of time. About thi t time he read newspaper accounts of remarkable cure-« of cripple* near Erie, PH., through the medium of prayer. He opened oon-eppondence with them, and they confirmed the sta em nt' he h d read. Mrs. Ella Thompson and Mrs. W -rd, of Elrie, one ot whom had been an invalid for eight­ een years, both wrote him th jt they had bern cured by prayer. It was along time, he says, be.ore he could biing him el' to lave faith that prayer could effect his cure, but eventually such fa th Insp red him, • nd af '•< o re p v de »«. e with the persons at E ie it wa* m aua y agreed t at T urt-d y evening, th 9;h 11s , sh' nid be devot -U \ the ' to p aye f 1 hi - lecov- ery. 'J hat ng the says fie c awl̂ l out ia the da' k and rain on h s knees to the wagon- shed, whei" he pi ed f > two h n s He felt that the veiy do >r of Hoave ' mercy wa open, ant that he coud se J su* st etching f rt'i is hand to 1 f ", him from hi* inttrmifiea. When done praying heaiosea: d »a edut>ahi tome five rod% nea > pa fight of steps, nne in number aud t» en forty feet aero s a ponch ana through a k tcnen into the house, where he called his relative-; to Fee his wonderful rea- ts ration. Lver -in e tha day he has wa'ked erect 11 n l unaided, and ti s neen constantly growing in strnvjrth. '1 he story of Hoffiuan'a marVelous recovery can lie vou -hed tor by hundreds of persons, among whom is Rev. Marquis of the Picenn Creek PJe.sbvteriaa Church, who savs H< ffuian has been or years a very religious man. Dr. Jos e G. Scott, who attended Hoffman, was very much sui prised to hear oil his sudden recovery. He savs Hoffman was afflicted with hardening of the spinal cords, com resting the nervous fibers and breaking the ec nnection bv which sensations are transmitted to the brain. When he had exhausted every resource at h.s command, he took Hoffman b fore the Washington County Medical Socie y, which pronounced the case incurati e. Hoffman has done some­ thing in the way of local preaching, and ia now traveling through Wa-hingtou and Greene counties tell ng nightlr to great etowd* the story of his miraculous roetOga'i • tion to perfect health. 1* •*.; Wi l. •; t m t F •tC'i CURRENCY AND COIN. THE POSTOFFICE. Synopsis of the K>port of the AaalaUmt fostra 'Ster General, The annual report ef Frank Hatton, the First Assistant Postmaster General, shows that there are now 46,512 postofiices in ope­ ration. During the year ending Oct. 30( 1,447 have been discon inued and 3,166 es- tab ished. The total appointments during the year were 12,341 Tnere have been em­ ployed during the year 3,115 carriers in 112 of the principal cities, being an increase of 254 carriers. The serv ee during the year has been extended to Augu-ta, Me., Buriing- ton, Vt., and Concord, N. H. The cost of the service was $2,623,•,'62. leaving an unex­ pended balance of |1,T36 to the credit of thi« division. t The aggresrnta postage on local matter at all the free delivery offices WDA #3,816,5*6.09, being $542 !V45.70 more than for the previous, year, a> d fl,ll.>3,316.45 more than the co>t of* the servic-; a per centum increase of post­ age on local matter of 16.50, and 4.93 increase in the cost of the service. The avcr.-tg > cost per piece of handling matter was 2,3 mills, a decrease of one-tenth of a mill as compared with the preceding year The average cost per carrier (com­ puted on pay of carriers and incidental ex­ penses) was $835.75, a decrease of $37. Tfll The aggregate pieces h niled b • the c r- riers during the year was 114,832,S3.! in Chi­ cago, as compared with 238.518.2; 3 in New York, 82,in Boston, 27.285.2 7 in Cin­ cinnati, 144.81M, 869 in Philadelphia, 41,0«>5,249 In St. Louis, and 23,046,213 in San Francisco. The Chicacro service did the most work, :is is shown by the fact that in this city each carrier handled an average of 519,6 >2 pieces, os compared with an average of 43 >,'J6 1 in New York, 303,169 in Cmciunati, 379,670 in Boston, and 431,817 in Philadelphia. The p >t-tasre on local matter was $283,716 in Chi­ cago, $l,62i),667 in Jvew York, and $488,077 in Phi ade.phia. The estimates for the fiscal vear. ending June 80, for the office of the First Assistant Postmaster (ieneral aggregate #19,369,091, of wh ch $10.134,'-91 is for Postmasters, $4,S5 090 for clerks and S.Wii.COO for carriers. The estimates for ihe next year show an increase of 12,227,091 over the appropriations for the current year. Tne report conclude* as fo lows: "In closing the above statement it Is prop­ er to say th .t, unless the original appropria­ tions for the last fiscal year had been in some instances considerably increased by subsequent legislation during the last sess­ ion of Congress, the postal business, so far •s the allowances of this bureau for the ser­ vice are concern d could not have been conducted so sati-factor ly as it has been. I hope th t tin equally liberal spirit will be m n fe-ted by Corv-jess in the consideration of the pres nt estimates, and that there will be no hesitation among the members of that body in doing ail tha *eems reasonab e and proper to aid in promoting the eiliciency of the postal Bervice by gr.ntiig the enlarged appropriation a^ked for." Mate from the Report of the Cm Of tlie Currency. The report of the Comntroller of the Cur­ rency contains tables showing the amounts ot United States bonds held by National banks, 8tate banks, savingv-banks and prbvate bankers on the 1st of November, 1883, and al -o showing the amount and dis­ tribution of the coin and paper currency ot the country at the same date. Hatumal . banks held on Nov. 1,1882, as security for j caruuuwuu huu ; purposes. 0 of intemnt liwlH| j bonds of the Un ted State* This is nt>arly $ 0, 00,000 le s than the amount he'd on Nov. 1, 1 -81. and about $7,000,00.) less than for the corresponding date in I88O1 fiankin nsso iations other than national ho d th -e bonds as follows : Stat1 banks in twenty-one S ate , $8,789,172; trust, com- Eanies in fiv States, $1 ,\ -34,812; savings nks in fifteen States, $237,786,442. There has been duri g the past year a decrease o: abo t #2,000,'w n tuo amount held by 8:..te banks and trust om;tan<es, and an increase . of nearly $27,000,U)J in the amounts held by savi gs banks. Ihe amount held by geo- graphi al divisio s by the3s associations lu 1882 was as fol ows: East-rn Sta'es, #42,- 667,248; M ddle 8 ates, #197,1 5,239; South- . ern S ate-% $26S,35 >; Western States, #8,- 909,414; Pacific States, #23,000,175; to­ tal, #263,460,436. These returns have been compil d from reports made by the officers of different States, w ich have been forwarded by them to the Comptroller. Interest-bearing funded debt of the United States was in November last #1,418,080,200. The total amount of bonds held by the na­ tional bank«, State banks and savings banks at the nearest corresponding date that could be ascertained was #6^8,639,357, wMch amount is not greatly less than on£-half of the whole interest-bearing debt Similar facts have been also ascertained from returns ma le by .State banks savings banks and private bankets to the Treasury Department for the purposes of taxation, showing that the banks and bankers of the country, exclusive of national banks, held • an average amount of Uu te i States bonds during six months ending May 1st last as follows: Savings banks, $ 42,128 782- State banks and trust companies, # £i,211,430; pri­ vate bankers, $14,870,745. The amount of bonds given in the returns to the Commissioner of Intetml Revenue, which is the amoilht invested in United States bonds, and may include pre­ mium as well as the principal of bonds, is $16,6M),000 more than the amount obtained from returns to State officer*. The differ­ ence is small, and the amounts obtained from one source serve to corroborate the general accuracy of the returns obtained from the other. In referring to the distri­ bution of coin and paper currency, the Comptroller says: From Nov. 1, 1881, to Nov. 1,1882, the pro­ duction of gold by the mines of the United StateB is estimated at $43,359,021, and the ami unt of gold exported from the country in excess of the amount imported has been $36,122,536. The difference, S7.236,4S5, is the increase during the year. The Director of the Mint estimates that $2,700,000 ol this amount has been us d in the arte, leaving #4,536,485 as the increase in the stock of gold remaining in the country and available for circulation. The total excess oi imports of gold over exports from the date of resunm- tion to Nov. 1, 188'.*, has been $101,311 5iK and the total gold product of the mints or the United States for the -ame period is esti- , mated to have been $147,-.09/SJ1. 'lhis is the first year since 187V during which the exportation of gold has exceeded the Importation. During the last two months-- September and O -tober, 1882--the imports have, however, slightly exceeded the ex­ ports. The amount of standard silver dollars coined during the year has been $27,057,175, and the total amount coined up to Nov. 1, 1882, since the passage of the law of Feh. 38^ • 1878, authorizing their coinage, has been • #128 329 880. The amount of gold coin held by banks Jan. 1. 1879, was #46,000,000, and on Nov. 1, 1883, $112,0-10.000. t t _ The amount of silver com held by these institutions at the same date was re­ spectively $6,00 ,0u0 and $8,000,000. and of currency $167,000,000 and $134,000,000. Tike gold coin held bv the Treasurer on Jan. 1, 187 > was $112,UX),000, and on Nov. 1, 1>8^, #14&0C0 000; of silver at corresponding date*, #3 '000,000 and $12:5 IVO.OOO; and of currency, #44,000,00 and #26,000,100, makfag the a ggregate amount of coin and currency held by the banks and the treasury $552,«47,47a. * *--< ••Mi a A CCSTOMEK takes back to a tailoor a pair of trousers which are a perfect mis- lit. The knight of the shears is over­ whelmed with grief and surprise. "O, never mind," says the customer; "youH be able to work 'em off on some one else." "It is not the loss of the panta­ loons that affects me," says the tailor haughtily; "It is an artist's sorrow al his failure of which you are the uncom­ prehending spectator !"' " ~