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^ •" . • * >-,r* ' vv «•"•- *\«^v>r*fTy •%,*•• 'fW -.• «*Uy">-, - •.• • „* * ..^ •• ' •*-. '< . ^ , ""* V ,/ „ ,, ; '•y*. ••>&.• v.**iasMt*i«s-v*A. •• m ifet -AjL Jt-A^ .-.»-'--.,ii«<-^ -„... ^firurg ftafeitaut 1. VMtt.YKE.ES MoHENRY, ILLINOIS Or forty-two principal rulers in the -world King William of Germany is th« oldest, 86, and Alfonso of Spain the youngest, 19. The* Pop# is 73, Alex­ ander of Rassia 3l, ind Victoria 65. • ., '* ' ' i •' „./ * A NEW YORK dramatic paper an­ nounces that, at the close of Mrs. Lang- try's tour, Mrs. Lydia Pinkham will take the stage in a new pity, supported by the old hermit of St. Jacobs oil fame. There will be no Gebhard al- low«d around Hhe fsremiaes. J h THE Colorado ' jLegiilatnre fleeted two Senators last week. One is' worth •10,000,000 and the other is worth -$5,000,000. There are already eleven millionaires in the Senate--Davis of Illinois, Brown of Georgia, Camden of West , Virginia, Cameron of Pennsyl­ vania, Davis of West Virginia, Hide of Maine, Hill of C,Qjpra4<V Miller of Cali­ fornia, Pendleton of Ohio, Sawjtt of Wisconsin and Fsjr of Nevada. THROUGH Dr. Towjee, of Boston, Mr. Luke Whitney Mason was sent to Japan to introduce the American method •of music. His success has been very gratifying, * JM'S class of Princes and nobles at Tokio numbering sixty. A musical conservatory has been estab­ lished, and he has Bent for reinforce­ ments to assist him in his labors. Thir­ teen mission pupils, as they are called, •desire to be instructed, and the Em­ press of Japan is greatly interested in having the system introduced in all the ft; schools throughout the country. HON A AH DUCK, a CHINESE murderer at San Rafael, Cal., anticipated his hanging with the utmost satisfaction. He implored the Judge to fix an early •day for the execution, believing that after death he; would be in purgatory for a period of not. less than one year nor more than twenty, during which period he would be able to return to the earth and torment his enemies. This doctrine caused him to look forward with so much pleasure to his death that he attempted suicide, and when taken * to the scaffoidliterally jumped for joy. A RAID is being made upon the tenth- rate doctors employed on steamship lines. It is complained that a ship sur- geon's pay is absurdly small; that he occupies no social position on trans­ atlantic lilies, and is treated with less respect than is shown a steward. He has to discharge all the duties which devolve upon him single-handed; there is no assistant, no dispenser, no nurse to help him should an epidemic break out of general sinkness arrive, ler, it is declared that lie has no control over the ventilation of the ves­ sel or its hygiene, "such matters being left to chance or to the benevolenoe of the Captains." The death rate on the Atlantic is strangely high, and the, po­ sition of ship surgeon should be filled by a man of years and experience. - Treasurer of Tennessee: "When Cook, who was the conductor of the sleeping car, saw Polk enter the eoaoh he deter­ mined to arrest him, and during the whole journey from here down he did not one* take his eyes off his game. He formed no plan of action, bnt relied on his own ability in strategy to accom­ plish the task he had laid for himself. Just before the train arrived at Webb station, the fourth this side of Laredo, and only a few miles distant from that town, Cook detected Polk making stealthy preparations for flight. As soon as the train stopped, Polk and the man who called himself Cameron quit the car and mounted horses in waiting for them. ' Send on Joe Sheelv to help me; I am after this man!' yelled Cook, to Merrill, $ie conductor of the train, and he then hastened after the fugitives. Polk and Cameron rode through the chapparal toward Loredo, and, on reaching the outskirts of the town, made a circuit round it and toward the Rio Grande, which they evidently intended to cross. Cook toiled on after them, sometimes in sight of them, sometimes. far away from tyem. The hushes tore his clothes and hisshoee were scratched. He overtook the fugitives on the bank of the Rio Grande, just as they were making arrangements to cross He hid in the bushes for awhile and watched them as he deliberated on the best method to pursue them. He then recollected for the first time since he left the train that he was unarmed. The situation was a desperate one, but Cook, with the bravery of a lion, jumped from behind a bush suddenly and said: 'Gen­ tlemen, you are my prisoners.' In­ stantly two revolvers were leveled at him, but he never fiinohed, as he quiet­ ly added: 'You had better surrender, fbr I know you, Mr. Polk, and the Rangers are all around you. Put up your guns, or Til have your heads blown over into Mexico.' Polk turned pale and his companion appeared to be nervous. Cook saw the impression he had made and quickly followed up his advantage by jerking out his watch and impatiently exclaimed if they did not give their weapons to him in a quarter of a minute he would command the Rangers to fire. When the time was .nearly expired he took his cap in his hand as if to signal- with it, but a con­ tinuance of his strategy was unnecessa­ ry, for Polk tremblingly handed his re­ volver to the brave young man and Cam­ eron followed suit. With their own re­ volvers pointed at their heads the men started to Laredo. Officer Sheely came up at this juncture and assisted V* guarding the prisoners." DEMOCRACY AND ILLITERACY. * lir the Httld towp of Tnnbridge, lives a farmer who is the. village musician. He is also the father of two little girls, 12 and 9 years of age, whom he has taught to play on the violin. Their fame got abroad, and last sum­ mer Camilla Urso, passing through the oountry, learned of them and wrote them fe Very torching letter, concluding by urging them to meet her at her hotel in a neighboring town. The little girls gladly accepted the invitation. They played for Jier and she played for £hev. Then she hugged^and kissed them, aiitl salcft" "Twenty years hence you will take my place, perhaps, if yott work hard, and I shall be an old woman,; if, indeed, I l>e alive." They are preparing for a concert tour, hoping to raise money enough to furnish them with a course at the Boston Conserva- * * r o t M u s i c . • ~ ~ s r _ ' • . IN order to show tiieir sorirow* af the loss of a colleague, the members of Con­ gress require a great deal of what may designated as creature comforts. The mortality in the present Congress has been unusually large, and the funeral expenses correspondingly great. The itemized aceouht of the expenses of the committee which followed the coffin of the late Congressman Allen, of Mis­ souri, to its last mating place has been published, and, as is usually the fact in such cases, reveal& some peculiar items. To the credit of a Republican Congress be it said that it was a temperance par­ ty, and the customary provision of wines and liquors, which in the past has created so much scandal, was omitted. But the omission was supplied by the 'purchase of other and more temperate supplies, which are not ordinarily con­ sidered necessary at well-ordered funer­ al. For example, there were thirty-two boxes of strawberries, oosting $16; $20 •worth of spring chickens, the same •mount in value of sandwiches; $10 worth of turkeys; $4 worth of bread and butter; $16.50 worth of apollinaris water; $8 worth of sardines; $5 worth of apples and oranges, with smaller ex­ penditures for mustard,' Worcestershire sauce; and other condiments, itj. addi­ tion to the regular hotel bills, which amounted to $97. The special cars cost $400, and $429 was paid for transporta­ tion. Thirteen white-silk scarfs were purchased ^t a cost of $117, and nine 'black-silk ones at a cOst!of$81. The total expense of the funeral was $1,967. • THE San Antonio correspondent of the New (Means Times-Democrat tells this remarkable story of the cap- of Marsh Polk, the thieving Agany In • Dry Well* For twenty year an old man of Mon­ tezuma county, Georgia, whom we will esH -Tarft Baldwin, has cultivaved the soil and drawn therefrom a tfuppaM for himself and wife; he is childless. One day Jack left his house in search of a missing cow. His route led him through an old wornout piece of clay land, of about Bix acres in extent, in the center of which was a well--about twenty or thirty feet deep, that at some time had probable furnished the inmates of a di­ lapidated house near by with water. In passing the spot an ill wind'drifted Jack's hat from his head and malicious­ ly wafted it to the edge of the well, and it tumbled. Now Jack had always practiced the virtue of economy, and lie immediately sat upon recovering his hat. He ran to the well, and finding it was dry at the bottom, he unrolled the rope which he had brought for the pur­ pose of capturing the cow, and after several attempts to catch the hat with a noose, he concluded to save time by going down into the well himself. To accomplish this he made fast one end of the rope to a stump hard by, and was soon on his way down into the well. It was a fact of which Jack was less ob­ vious than the reader hereof--that a mischievous fellow whom we will call Neal was in the old building and saw Jack go down into the well, and it hap­ pened that Jack's old blind horse was near by with a bell on his neck. The devil himself, or some other wicked spirit, put it into Neal's head to have a little fun; so he slipped up to the old horse, unbuckled the strap and ap- Eroached the well with the bell in his and, ting-a-ting. Jack thought the old horse was coming, and said in an audible tone, "Hang the old blind horse; he's comin' this way, sure, and he ain't got no more sense than to fall in here on me--wo, Ball!" But the. sound of tiie bell came closer, and Jack was rest­ ing at the bottom of the well. "Great Je­ rusalem!" said Jack "the old blind fool will be right on top of me in a minit-- wo, Ball--wo, haw, Baill" Just then Neal got closer to the well and kicked a little dirt on Jack's head. Jack thought Ball was about to come, got close to the side of the wall and began to pray, "Oh, Lord, have mercy on me--wo Ball--a poor sinner. I'm gone now; wo Ball-- Our father who art in--wo Ball-- Heaven, hallowed be Thy--jee! Ball, jee--name. Now I lay me down to si-- jee, Ball out of your livers! (just then in fell more dirt) Back, Ball; oh Lord, if you ever intended to do anything for me, back, Ball, wo, ho! Thy kingdom oome--jee, Ball!" Neal could hold in no longer,and show- ad In'niKAlf at the top of the well, with a big hoarse laugh, which might have been heard two miles. This was more that Jack could bear and he started up the rope like a monkey. "Blame your pictures, I'll give you fits; 111 make your ears ring worse'n that bell." Neal took to his heels and ran like a quarter horse, and the last that was seen of hkn he was half a mile from the well, with two big dogs grabbing at his coat, and Jack was close behind him, yelling at the dogs^ LIME KILN philosophy apropos of the death of Elder Spooner: "He was honest, an' darfore poo*. He was con- scienshus, an' darfore ragged. He was full of mercy an' pity, an' sympathv, an' darfore had the reputation of bein' weak in de second story. I doan' ad­ vise any man to be wicked, but I de­ sire to carelessly remark dat de real good man ~hc am obleeged to turn his paper collars am shunned by society and laffed at by de world." [From the Detroit Post] The figures of the censu» of 1880, showing the percentage of illiterates in the several States, when combined with the election returns of the same year, bring out some rather astonishing re­ sults. It is commonly said and believed that tlis D^!nccrstic psrty tbc great bulk of the ignorant white voters of the country, but few people realize that illiteracy and Democratic votes in­ crease and diminish with such relative uniformity that a person knowing the percentage of one can pretty well cal­ culate the percentage of the other in the same proportion. The following table shows the per cent, of the whole population of each State which is made up of native-born white persons of 10 years of ftge and upward who are re­ turnable as unable to write; the per cent, also of the entire white popula­ tion, including those of foreign birth, who are returned as unable to write, and, finally, the per cent, of votes cast by Democrats in each State in the year of the census: otim No PROMINENT actor In this oonnti7 is ever free from corns and bunions. Munchimtti., Connecticut. Nevada..................... New Hampshire........... Maine Minnesota ,..»>•....«. C a l i f o r n i a . . . . . „ Wisconsin ... New York. Michigan; ................ Nehraaba. Vermont towa Rhode Island.............. Kansas New Jersey Oregon Ohio Pennsylvania*...^.... Illinois Indiana Colorado Maryland Delaware Minsouri I Texas MiMMjHsippi Virginia. West Virginia....... Louisiana Florida Bonth Carolina...... Kentucky Georgia t.'.* Alabama Arkansas Tennessee North Carolina. In Virginia a considerable portion of the Democrats voted for the Readjuster candidates, and the aggregate Dem­ ocratic and Readjuster vote was 60.49 per cent, of the entire vote cast. French Canadian and Irish immigrants furnish New England with illiterates of foreign birth, while the immigrants who settle in the Northwest are largely Germans and Scandinavians who can almost all read and write. Southern immigration is very small and of miscellaneous or­ igin, but in nearly every Southern State the per cent, of illiteracy is diminished instead of being increased by it. This is true in Maryland, Missouri, Missis­ sippi, Virginia, West Virginia, Louisi­ ana, Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennes­ see and North Carolina. It is true in every Southern State except little Del­ aware, which seems to have been pecul­ iarly unfortunate in the class of her immigrants, and big Texas, whose white illiteracy receives substantial contribu­ tions from the * Greasers" who oome over the Mexican border. This table incidentally furnishes a curious illustration of what may be called inherited tendencies to ignor­ ance. It is well known that migrations tend to follow lines of latitude, and that, under this law, the North Car<j» lina stock drifted westward into Ten­ nessee and Arkansas, as that of Vir­ ginia did into Kentucky and Missouri. The lowest measure of intelligence among native-born white citizens, as in­ dicated by the census returns, is in North Carolina, where almost one-third of the native whites are unable to write. Next west of North Carolina lies Ten­ nessee, with nearly 28 per cent, who cannot write, and next west of Ten­ nessee comes Arkansas, with 28| per cent. These three States, stretching in a line due west from the Atlantic ocean to the Indian Territory and in­ habited by people of the same stock and politics, easily take the highest rank in general ignorance. Starting with Vir­ ginia again, which has 18^ percent., we come to West Virginia, with almost exactly the same, Kentucky with a little more, and Missouri, in which the Old Dominion influence has been so far counterbalanced by the old free State proximity and immigration as to cut down the rate more than one-half. For another range of States on the same parallel take Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. They stand to­ gether in the table of illiteracy, as they do on the map; and Maryland, which joins Pennsylvania at the east, is only separated from the group by Colorado, which seems interjected where it does not belong. In these States, how­ ever, the bulk of the settlements did not pass from one to another; The two older ones had each a distinct founding of its own, while Ohio, In­ diana and Illinois were largely peopled from New England in the northern parts and from beyond the Ohio river in the southern. But New York, Mich­ igan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa constitute a group of States that have been largely peopled by a westward migration originating in New England, and it is curious to find them, with the six New England States, occupying elev­ en of the fourteen places in the list which show the lowest percentage of illit­ eracy. It is unnecessary to re­ mind our readers that these eleven States cast their votes for a Republi­ can President in 1880, as indeed did all the fifteen States having the lowest percentage of illiterates, except Nevada, which went Democratic by a plurality of about 800, and California, which was divided; and it may be added that, if the element which makes up whatever showing of illiteracy they nave were swept out of existence, they would be as sure to vote for a Republican Presi­ dent in 1884 as North Carolina, Ten­ nessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, West Virginia, Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, Missouri, Delaware and Maryland--the sixteen States hav­ ing the liigliest rate of illiteracy among native-born white citizens--are to vote for a Democratic candidate. It is said that illiteracy and crime go hand in hand; it is clear that illiteracy and party Democracy go in that way to an extent that makes a pretty significant exhibition in the reports of the census- taker and of the inspectors of elections. WOMEN are certainly getting their rights as to educational facilities. Lon­ don University; University College, Liverpool; the Royal University of Ireland; Cambridge University; four colleges in Canada, and In this country Boston University, Cornell, Michigan, Oberlin, Vassar, Vermont University, Kansas University, Iowa University, and a dozen other inststatioiia, confer degrees upon women. Political Rata*. How WOULD Polk and Vincent do for a Democratic Presidential ticket on a civil-service reform, tariff for revenue only, State debt repudiation platform? THE chronic scolders and growlers at the President have mostly retired in disgust with themselves. In the mean­ time all unite in declaring that Presi­ dent Arthur is doing well, and making one of the most exemplary and satisfac­ tory Presidents we have ever had.-- Inter-Ocean. STATE TREASURER VINCKXT, of Ala­ bama, as we are assured upon good au­ thority, was "an elegant gentleman." Treasurer Polk belonged to "the first families of Tennessee. It is pleasant to know that they were not "miserable carpet-baggers." The money may be as surely lost, but from the notices in the press we infer that there is a kind of pride that the acts were committed by "a perfect gentleman" and "a mem­ ber of the first families." ANT observer who notices the quiet chuckle of satisfaction that goes through the Democratic press whenever the prospects appear particularly gloomy of a tariff bill passing the present (Con­ gress cannot help but recognize how eager the party is to have the Republi­ cans make the blunder of allowing the session to end without any legislation on this subject. The Republicans never had the question more plainly presented to them whether they should work for themselves or for their opponents.-- Chicago Tribune. THE Ohio House of Representatives passed by Republican votes a resolution congratulating Senator Pendleton on the passage of the Civil-Service-Reform bill, and thanking him for introducing that measure in the national Legisla­ ture. The Democrat^ of the House first opposed the resolution, and finally refused to vote upon it. These are the identical Democrats who, during the recent campaign, when it was necessary to do something in order to catch votes, were loud in their professions of devo­ tion to the principles of reform. Their action at this time simply goes to show the miserable hollowness of their pre­ tensions of three months ago, and de­ monstrates, if any such demonstration were needed, that they are rooted as ever to the foundation-stone of their party, the Jacksonian motto, "To the victors belong the spoils." No man, unless absolutely void of political sense, expects reform from a Democrat or puts any trust in the ante-election promises of Democratic leaders. Men do not gather grapes of "thorns, or figs of thistles. THE oountry ia being favored with foretastes of the kind of civil-service reform to be expected from the Democracy. There are some fifteen more Democratic States to be heard from; but four of them have shown up already, namely, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama, with an aggre­ gate defalcation of something more than a million dollars, not counting the city of Louisville ($200,000), a Texas County Treasurer, and numerous other small fry. The of Missouri sus­ tained no adfhal but the last out­ going Treasurer forked over $200,000 to his successor on compulsion. The Tennessee and Alabama cases are fresh in the public mind, having just been brought to light. The former State lost about $400,000, and the latter at least $250,000. The Arkansas affair was the most thoroughly Democratic of them all. This Churchill was State Treasurer when elected Governor. When he retired from one office to accept the other his accounts were short. A Legislative committee was appointed to investigate the matter, and it was found that he was a defaulter to the extent of $200,000. The facts were made known and there the matter dropped. The State seems to be serenely content to be presided over by a criminal. Of course there is no Re­ publican party in a commonwealth sunk so low as thai.--Chicago Inter Ocean. Canard* "Canard" is an oft-quoted word, used to brand an assertion as false. It is the French for "duck," and had its origin in a French wag tooling the learned men of the capital by publishing as a remarkable fact that twenty ducks were each carefully weighed; one of them was killed and cut into thin slices, which were thrown into the coop and speedily devoured by the other nine­ teen. Another, and still another, was killed and eaten, until but ohe duck re­ mained. That one was then carefully weighed and found not to have gained a single ounce. This statement set the wisely-learned men of Paris all agog with philosophical and scientific reasons why the weight of the duck who had eaten nineteen of his fellow ducks had not increased The reasons given were all on scientific principles, scarce any two of them agreeing. The laugh was against the French savants when it was proclaimed that the whole tale was but a hoax--not a word of truth in it. After that all tall tales void of truth were pronounced canards--duck stories. It has since been adopted in the United States as a name for a polit­ ical falsehood. "Hain't Seen No Such Cretur." Nothing can be more provoking than to hinder a questioner for explanations when you cannot help him. A hunter, in a furious hunt after game, called out to a gawky youngster: "Hallo, boy, did yon see a rabbit cross the road here just now?" "A rabbit?" "Yes, be quick, a rabbit." "Was it a kinder gray varmint?" "Yes! yes!" "A longish cretur with a short tail ?" "Yes; be quick, or he'll gain his burrow." "Had it long legs behind, with big ears?" "Yes! yes!" "And sorter jumps when it runs?" "Yes, I tell you, jumps when it runs." "Well, I hain't seen no such cretur here." . THE value of farming land in Ala­ bama varies greatly in the different counties. The highest value is in Eto­ wah, $6.50 per acre, and the lowest in Escanaba and Washington, less than 50 cents. THE girl who goes to church merely to show her sealski^ sacque is looked upon as sacquerilegious. WHEN a New Hampshire man wants to get a wood-pile moved he tc£la tto boys thai a rabbit has run under Eleven bills were introduced in the Sena** •n the 2d inst. and the calendar of bills oa the first and aeoond reading was etoared. The resolution favoring ths Sherman Bond- eu WnskT t>ui ww nude Uie upeuuti order for Feh. (I Among the bills introduced was one by Mr. Condee conferring the power of eminent domain upon School Boards; one by Mr. Torrance to pay mr-mbers of the *500 rw»r year semi-annually, and 9<> per day for extra pensions, without inileuge. one by Mr. Tan­ ner to provide in what manner anil by what authority licenses to keep dram-shops in cities, towns and villages may be jrriiiited; and one by Mr. Laimn<f to provide for the publication of the Revised Statutes The Senate, in executive session, confirmed all the appointments made by Gov. Cul- lora during the vacation of the l-etnuiaturei The Hou^e received the reports of several committees upon Mils, and loaded the cal­ endar of bills on tirrt reading with a good grist Fifty-one new bills were introduced and referred Those of general interest, are as follows: By Mr. Clinton, reg-uiarinar the pri­ mary systems of elections; b v Mr. Sheridan, to establish industrial schools lor boys aad girls between the ages of 8 and 14 years; by Mr. Kennedy, of Cook, a copy of ex -Senator £«. hoe's bill regulating primary elections--(the bill was introduced by Kehoe during his term as Senator, afterward by Sherman In the Thirtieth Assembly, when it was killed in the House on the third reading); by Mr. Sheridan, amending the Garnishment law; by Mr. lloundtree, fixing the salary of a member of the Legislature at #500 for the term for which he is eleoted, and the further sum of 10 cents mileage. After bills were read a first time and ordered to a second reading, the following resolutions were in­ troduced and adoj^ted: By Mr. West, to in­ struct the Finance Committee to investigate the reasons for the levying and collection of the surplus of 48 cents on the #100 of all assessed property in the State By Mr. Black, instructing the Drainage Committee to investigate the full statistics on the drain­ age question, By Mr. Littler, that Capt John Cowden be invited to address the Gen­ eral Assembly on the question of the im­ provement of the Mississippi river. Ttsn was a bare quorum In the Senate and just sixty-eight members in the House on the 3d Inst,., and the session at each end of the Canitol was exceedingly brief. The only busi­ ness of interest in the Senate was the adoption of Senator Merrltt's joint, resolution providing for an investigation of the alleged extortions and discriminations of the St. Louts Bridire Compinv. The House did absolutely nothing worth chronicling. Vmm Senate failed to produoe a quorum st Its meeting on the 5th Inst. Bills wen intro­ duced as follows: By Mr. Duncan, of La Salle, to permit the recovery, upon a suit, on contract, of such portion as has been pertcrmed where the contract has not been completed; by Mr. Tor­ rance, of Livingston, authorizing courts to ap­ point conservators when a person has once been tried for insanity and found insane; by Mr. Mason, of Cook, to prevent fraudu­ lent preferences by Insolvent debtors; by Mr. Merritt, appropriating $7f> of lapsed sal­ ary not drawn by the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the Southern Grand Division. The lIou*o joint resolution, substituted for Menrttt's resolution on cases carried from the Htate to the United States courts, was postponed, and the ono inviting Captain John Conelen to speak on river imurovefnents was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. The House was not in MS- sion. Tint following bills were Introduced in the Senate on the 6th inst.: By Mr. Whitney,to amend the law in regard to roads and bridges. This is the usual voluminous bill. By Mr. Sun­ derland, to provide for the organization of sav­ ings societies. By Mr. Glllliani, for an act to regulate the servlnK of summons in courts of record. By the same, to 'amend (he law in ro- Sard to attachments in courts of record, ly Mr. Shaw, to amend the act in regard to Jurors. The bill provides thut when a Judpe ant.icti>ates that the list of jurors drawn will prove Insufficient he shall order another drawing instead of sending out a bailiff. The House joint resolution instructing Congressmen to vote for Sherman's Bonded Period Extennton bill came np per speoial order, and a spinto.1 debate ensnod--Messrs. Bell, Merritt and Bhlne- hart favoring, and Messrs. Rloe, Whiting, Lorinct and Condee opposing the resolution. It was finally defeated by a vote of XH yeas to SO nays. Gov. Cullom sent in his resitmation as Governor to the Secretary of State, who in turn notified Lient. Gov. Hamilton of Gov. C.'s resienatlon by senditii: him a copy of the epistle. Lieut. Gov. Hamilton thereupon api>eared before the Senate aud made a pretty little speech. Mr. Merritt in^wuHCi-u U^timOuuil resolutions to the retirement of Lieut. Gov. Hamilton from the Senate, and remarks thereon were made by Senators Merritt, Archer, Laning and Hunt. The resolutions were adopted by a unanimous ri*iuK vote. The Lieutenant Gover­ nor proceeded at once to the executive office, where he took the oath, administered by the Chief Justice, and at once assumed the reins of State Government. In the House, the Senate Joint resolution, requesting <&ngrcss to pass the bill increasing pensieiiH of soldiers in the late war, who lost a ' limb or arm, to $40 per month, was adopted. The Senate Joint , resolution providing for the appointment of a joint committee to investigate charges of extortion and disci imiiiation made against the St. Louis Hridge Company was also adopted. The following bills were intro­ duced: By Mr. Abrnhams, giving the right to ap]>cal from the decisions of the Appellate Court to the Supreme Court, where the amount in­ volved is $l,ooo or more. By Mr. Emerson, re­ quiring the coal operators to welali the product of the miner's labor at the mine where produced, before, or while being loaded into cars, lionts or barges, anrl to provide for a snjiervision of w eiirht* by t he persons mining the ooal being loaded, or by their agent, to be ap­ pointed by them, when tluy desire to do so. By Mr. I.ittler. Mpprbpriiiting for tlie com­ pletion of the Stat.<* Hons ', the proposition to be snbmitted to a vote of the j>cople. By Mr. Line- gar, devising a plan of taxing railroads ou their gross earnings; this meas­ ure was introduced by Mr. Lineger last session, but was bitterly fought over. By Mr. Llnegar,.authorizing cities, towns and villages to protect the sites thereof ft£>tn overtlow and Inundation, and to regulate and control em­ bankments, etc.. By Mr. liovey, a substantial copy of the Missouri law on gambling; it makes the offense of keeping gambling-houses, etc., s felony punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary. By Mr. Llnegar, re­ quiring .railroad companies to so arrange the running of trains as to give each em­ ploye a lay-over of eight, hours, and prohibiting tlicin trout requiring any employe to work over twelve consecutive hours. By Mr. Littler, ap­ propriating $'25,000 for constructing sidewalks, curbimr streets, etc., around the Capitol building in R:irin:/ticld. Trac first business of the Senate, apca convening on the 7th inst., wss the concurrence In the House amendment to the resolution passed some days ago in regard to taking cases from the State to the Federal courts. The Senate refused to ooncur by a vote of 13 to 35. A com­ munication was received from the Gover­ nor, notifying the Senate that he had assumed the reins of government and had appointed . Harry Dorwin his pri­ vate secretary. Messrs. Buger, Mason and Herclev were,after considerable discussion,added to the Railroad Committee. The following bills were introduced: To fix the compensation of appraisers; to simplify the making service of papers and copies; permitting free pauses, and to appropriate the biennial amount for the Hor­ ticultural Society; to provide for weighing and screening, coal; to elect public ad­ ministrators; to elect llailroad Commissioners; to a low the State Auditor to print more reports, sufficient to fill the popular demand; to discharge certificates of levy. Mr. Clark's bill to annul the chancery practices was passed. Bills reported favorably from the Judiciary were: The Mil in regard to voluntary assignments, and the bill to permit policemen to serve writs, with an amendment excluding service of execu­ tions and collecting money. The same committee rej>orted unfavorably on the bills permitting County and Probate Jndges to interchange, and giving County Courts juris­ diction concurrent with Circuit Courts. The Committee on Education, by Mr. Torrance, re­ ported back bills favorably to allow condemna­ tion of school sites, :md to permit school funds to be loaned on annual interest. In the House, Mr. Morrison, from the Judiciary Committee, reported back adversely several bills. Mr. Sumner, from the Judicial Department, reported several bills adversely, and recom­ mended the passage of No. 185, relating to judi­ cial jurisprudence; also a substitute for the bill to abolish the city courts of Aurora and Elgin. The following bills were introduced and referred: To enable County Superintendents to hold nor­ mal Institutes; to prevent death by neglect or default; relating to the qualifications and du­ ties of Justices of the Peace and constables; to revise the law in relation to State contracts for printing: to prohibit the sale of toy pistols; to provide for the weighing of coal at the mines; for the conduct and regulation of primary elec­ tions. Mr. Nichols offered a resolu:ion for the appointment of a clerk for the Commtttee of Pen­ al and Beformatorylnstitntlons, and Mr. Har­ ris offered one against the prevalent use of to­ bacco. WHKK the Senate met for business oa the tth inst., Mr. Merritt offered a resolution to abolish the Committee on Ball roads, which was adopted. The dead committee was composed of Tanner, the Chairman, Condee, Mamer, Adams, Fiter, Rogers, Hogan, Evans, White, Whiting, Walker, Merritt, Lemma, Rinehart, Kelly, Blinmway, Cloonan, L-ining, Ruger, Mason and Hereloy. The committee only needed five more nvmhor* to hnve a trmnim of the S Ne»r- ly every Senator wanted to be on the committee, and as they oould not be accommodated it was voted to abolish it altogether. Mr. Whit­ ing's bill to tax express oompani<»« 1 I*T cent­ ner n"""m of their gross reciiipU was referred to the Be venue Oonmtte, by avery close vote. BB I AH. Mb to permit rm-Ome when court Is Mr. Clark, from the Committee on Judicial De- not In seestoa: to provide that ths statutes of limitation shall run from the date of com- BMicial paper; to prevent preferences la votaatsry oMrimuneota, to p«»fl, and tho bUl repealing the military code do not pass. Mr. Morris presented a minority re­ port, that the MM code was una P^^djwgerpns.jutd that the hfll stand: Bills . - - repeal the law of insolvent debtors; to amend the Garnishment set; to amend the Railroad Com­ mission act to extend the time of office to six years, one to go out every two years: to provide for the election of township princi- pala to assist and advise school teacher*; to per­ mit Circuit ConrtsJurisdiction In special assess­ ment cases. The Fish and Game bills were dis­ cussed and recommitted. In the House, the License Committee reported the Fnller High- Lioense bill unfavorably, but the author of the bill objected vigorously to their course, and moved to have the bill printed. This was op­ posed by the low-Uoeaso advocates, but, after a spirited discussion the motion prevailed by a vote of 93 to 40. The Committee on Judiciary reported back Mr. lilttlSr's bill to consolidate the several grand divisions of the State Supreme Court, and to locate the same at 8pringfleld, pre­ senting a substitute therefor, which was read. Mr. Klnman. of Morgan, introduced a joint tariff resolution, requesting our Representatives in the lower house of Congress to use their efforts to place lumber on the free list, and to favor all possible redaction in t he tariff upon woolen and cotton goods need for clothing; upon salt, sugar, and all other necessities of life and npon all farm implements and utensils. After a lengthy discussion the resolution was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. Mr. Harper offered a resolution fixing a uniform license of $soo throughout the State for the sale of liquors. Referred to the License Committee. Mr. Bethea introduced a resolution submitting to a vote of the people an amendment to the constitution allowing the Governor veto a portion of an appropriation hill without affecting the other portions of it. Referred to the Jndlciary Committee. The following bills were introduced and re­ ferred : To regulate the liability of fire insur­ ance commni»»: relating to the licensing of na­ pless companion and telegraph companies; amending the law in regard to the nse of lsnds by railroads; to allow towns and villages to ac­ quire and dispose of property; providing for the toxin* of telephone companies. ";*::-p|s Bsaaty aad Advantages, [Whitehall Review.] I shall he considered mxnUwtat " -'i',. when I mj that next in Im nlinn-- nf ill the hair I have ever seen comes m che&~ elure of golden red. Very red hair .as * " ; orange, and orange hair is far 1 THE DICE SATED THEfe An Incident in the Prussian Military Service. This story is fonnd in the memoirs of a Prussian officer of distinction. He was at one time on the staff of General Winterfiekl, one of the most skillful and competent captains of his day, and Winter field was the general in command at the time spoken of. Two soldiers had been eondpmed to death. In a drunken condition at night they had assaulted an officer of the line, and one of them had drawn a knife upon him, bnt could not positively say which of the twain held it. And the men themselves did not know. Neither of them remembered anything about it. So both of them were condemed to be ahot. They were both excellent soldiers and only one of them had been guilty of using a weapon. The officers of tho division, including him who had been assaulted, asked that the men might be pardoned. At length Winterfield said he would pardon one of them. Only one held a knife, and only tHat one ought to die. He would pardon one and the men must decide which of them should be ahot. "Let us shake dice said one of the condemned." And the other agreed to it. And it was agreed to by all interested. The two men took their places by the side of a big drum and were to throw the dice upon its head. Two dice were given them and a proper box for shaking. The first man threw two sixes. He groaned in agony. He felt that he had consigned liis comrade to death. But when the second came to throw he also threw two sixes. "Wonderful 1" cried the lookers on. They were order­ ed to shake and throw again. This time the second man threw first and threw two aces. "Good! You will live, Peter." But when Peter came to throw, the dice presented two aoes. And now the beholders were wonder- stricken indeed. Another throw was ordered, and Pe­ ter threw a fiye and a deuce. The other threw--five--deuce. After the excite­ ment had again subsided the men shook once more. The first threw two fours. "Oh, now throw fives and save yourself, Peter." Peter throw--two feurs. At this point the Colonel ordered them to stop. He went and reported the marvelous result to Winterfield. Said he: "Clearly, gentlemen, Provi­ dence will have those two men to be saved." And saved they were. The General eared not to oppose the wonderful fate of the dice. It did seem providential, and so be accepted it. And the redeemed soldiers lived to prove that the saving fate had given back to Prussia two of the very best and bravest of her sons. ̂China's Present Condition. The London Times contains a letter from Shanghai in which the condition of China is discussed with more than usual thoroughness. The letter con­ cludes that China does not have above 300,000,000 inhabitants, and that the empire has suffered vastly in men and money during the last fifty years. The province of Chekiang, for iiytance, still figures in some reference books with 26,300,000 inhabitants, which was right in 1812, while a recent census gives it 11,570,000 people. The theory that China proper, which includes Yunnan, but excludes Manchooria, Tibet and Corea,has about 250,000,000 inhabitants, if apparently borne out by all trust­ worthy information. Thus the land tax gave the Peking government about $60,000,000 in 1812, against 25 now. In order to meet current expenses, the Peking officials have resorted to import duties and to the dangerous {(Arm, or a tax on goods transported from one prov­ ince to another. But the Peking gov­ ernment is poor, and the people under it are poorer still. The Treping rebel-, lion, poor crops and the lack of indus­ trial enterprise has condemned thd larger part of China to hopeless and ruinous poverty, and keep the foreign commerce of China below that of little Belgium. The dreams of vast commer­ cial dealings with' China waa always a romauoe. 1 Mare Is a Herse. Torfmen will be interested In know­ ing that the Supreme Court of Califor­ nia has decided that a "mare" is a "horse." The conclusion was reached in this way: A certain man stole a roan mare and was arrested. In the trial the prisoner's attorney requested the court to instruct the jury that a verdict of not guilty must be found because the ani­ mal stolen was a "mare," not a "horse," as the indictment cited. The court's re­ fusal to give such instructions resulted in an appeal to the highest judiciary of the State,and that tribunal sustained the ruling of the lower court on the ground that the word "horse" was used in a ge­ neric seuse and was held to include all animals of the horse species. Thenuib- ble made by the defendant's attorney was, of course, a trivial one, but no more ludicrous and senseless than those made every day in courts nearer home. MOREUKAD CITY, N. C., haant ahorne, mule, wagon, ea t, 1-u.arsry or. wheelbar­ row within its corporate iimits. All the houses are built on the river, and all the fcoing to and fro is by skifla. which 1 refer were ot the color oi w>; fectly ripe corn, with that reddish tfnn(> which makes the waving harvest ftelasr ^ s o b e a u t i f u l . B e d h a i r , e v e n i f u n l o v e l y , , * ^ " i has its advantages in a practical ag*e,.?";"- ' when a girl or woman dares not be in4vat- significant, "invisible," on penalty of!4 f , be ing nobody . The wr i t e r o f a l i t i l e t v j f , 1 book on the toilet sets forth as followst , . one of these advantages: "Enter aroom^J; t in daylight (by artificial light red loses* *-' 1 much of its ferocity) where there ar»* J i women without bonnets or hats; and 1%. * there l>e one of them with bright mistakable red hair, she will stand oufc from the rest with a never-failing prom-j^ ^ inence, which, if she be a pretty womai* ^ --and red-haired women have very of tent \ great beauty of features and very often1*1' lovely complexions--is of the greatest^-f* advantage to her, socially speaking.?. $ -' Another advantage lies in the fact thafiH the possession of red hair restricts tha^ j to 1 owner to a narrow but select range of^* - m color. 'And you Call that an ad van-^ tage?' cry the phalanx of the red-hairedE^* sisters. Undoubtedly I do, and prove it. I ask if, in your inmost soulsjtf. you do not adore pink and cherish thef if . belief that it suits you? Of course you^ do. I never knew anyone of your color-C^ > : ing who did not. Restriction as to color^ = | II universal, and regulated on a basis of?4 jgood taster would make England mow|*< ^ celebrated than ever for handsomer ̂ women or pretty girls, many of whom ' now ruin their looks by wearing wrong 'J tints. And what may the red-haire<l *£ wear? I will tell you. If you wish tor' '& be insipid and commonplace, wear pr.lekt blue. That has been the heritage of th<# red-haired for centuries. If you wouldjj? • like to jump out of that deepened groove, and wish to look a very poem-, buy warm golden browns, orange-tinted^ yellows, ruddy cream colors, with 4 hash as from russet leaves upon them/ - terra-cottas, and the whole range offe such tints as are exemplified iu priui-is • -; roses, buttercups, marigolds, tea roses^ is Marshal Neils, and Gloire de Dijon^ chestnut browns, chocolate, dull wall* flower reds, and dull gold color. Ajj? 4 •. bnautiful rousse who is a great favorite^ , in English society, wears a gold ban<$ in her hair, and usually dresses in evening in yellow satin or gold-col< velvet. She is a picture, indeed; an in her walking gowns of chocolate, rt lieved with amber, or of tawny red anc| gold, is as picturesque a woman as on# would wish to meet.-- Whitehall Reviewf '-m a The Yonng Man and His Uncle. ! Once upon a time a voung man start* 1 | ed out on his travels. He found 4 El ace where life looked rather easy, anijt eing of a lazy disposition bv inherit* ance he concluded to take up Uis abod* there permanently. So he rusted in. Having no longer any use for a gmt that he possessed, he lent it to his un| cle, who kept a little shop of varum# commodities, with "a juggler tossiuj§ three gold balls in the air for a sign. % And many times afterward the voun# man repented, looking wistful as a wild foose tied by the legs at a passing ock, as often as the shooting season came around; but long abstinence front active life made him slow to move; th# more he looked, the more liis body pro^ tested against Iwing exposed to thfl cold and Wet and clamored for letting well enough alone; so his good inten­ tions went for naught. The young man's uncle kept the goijf in a safe place until he should com# again. But he did not come. Years passed by, and each year th# same battle was fought between th* young man's soul and his body, th# same vows were made and broken, and the good intentions went to serve as' paving-stones in a certain locality much in need of firm footing. But each year the fight was less fierce as the soul grew weaker,and the body likewise, and at last one day they agreed to disagree* and parted. His uncle's face grew brighter as oft* en as he looked down the street and saw him not; and at last one day he be­ held a curious black carriage, with ft long procession of other carnages fol* lowing, and he cried out, "Solomon I Solomon Isaacs! Dake dat leetle gun and polish him till he shine like a newly coined shekel!" ' 'But de young man--" answered Sol* omon Isaacs timidly. "If he sees him bright he may want him back." "Ah, never more!" and the yonng man's uncle rubbed his hands. "It is too late! He have gone to superintend his own paving."--Forest and, Stream. . A Justifiable Homicide. Patrick Mulcahy, a son of the Emer­ ald Isle, was|before Justice Ingersoll, charged by Philip Mousancker, a cor­ pulent Teuton, with entering the lat- ter's yard and shooting his dog. * "Patrick, did you shoot this man's dog ?" asked the justice. "Faith, I did, ver honor, but I want that Dutchman to prove the charge." "But you acknowledge it," argued J. P. "I do not, that. I did shoot the dog, but I deny the charge until it is proved." "What was yonr dog worth!" asked the perplexed justice of Mousaucker. "Oh, dot liddle dog vas vort noting.*" "Then what do you want done with this man you have had arrested ?" was asked. "Vat I want done mit him? I just van$s to make him bay de value of dat dog." This confused the justioe more than ever. He declared the ease was too intricate for him to try, and referred it to Capt. O'Donnell. That official said he thought it was "a justifiable homi­ cide," and the prisoner waa discharged. --Chicago Herald. In ttrand Stjle. Serpa Pinto, the famous explorer* relates the following ludicrous incident of lus travels iu South Africa: At a point on the Zambesi river he met Dr. Bradshaw, an English naturalist, who was reduced to the greatest misery, and had nothing bnt rags, aud very few of those, to cover his nakeduess. So meager was his wardrobe that he pre­ sented himself in his drawers to Serpa Pinto, to whom, however, with trua British formality, he handed his card, engraved in London, before saluting him. 1 Vi •a Ix the farming district* of where smoking is universal, the inhab* &tnt* measure distances by "j>ii>es* r a t h e r i l m u b y a " j a p s * 1 - J 5 the distance a man can travel whti* * pi|>o of tobacco la*ta. Kxjnr eoe* shows that a "pipe" is about two gUsh mil--, ot ons hitf a Danish