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mmmi www McHSRBf, ALEXAITDER H.STXPHRXS, tike last -Oovernor of Georgia, ccmld not walk. Henry D. McPaniel, the present Gov­ ernor, is a very bad stammerer, and cannot talk. THE late A. K. Henderson, of Erie, Pa., has bequeathed to the city of Cleveland, Ohio, property to the value of $200,000, to be applied toWatd the endowment of an industrial school. A FLOEIDA. man says the stories about the invulnerable coat of an alli­ gator are all nonsense, as he has often blown the top of an alligator's head off with a charge, of buckshot. He also -says alligator steak is delicious. WORKMEN digging a hole' for the foundation of 9 building in New Orleans brought to light the remains of a boat eighty feet long. In the hull human bones were found. The boat was im­ bedded eight feet below the surface. Nothing has been ascertained about it "Yon will become totally blind," was the hopeless sentence pronounced by a Newark, N. J., physician in the case of a patient, Mrs. Hanson, whose eye­ sight had been gradually failing. She went away, purchased some eorrosiv# sublimate, and committed suicide, pre­ ferring death to blindness. A YOUNG Jewess of Elmira, N. Y. who rantwyay and married a youth of the same town, will find the old folks unforgiving when she comes back. After they learned of the girl's act crape was hung at the front door of the family residence and an announcement of her death sent to the newspapers. The parents objected to the young man because he was a Roman Catholic, and renounced their daughter for marrying outside of her own faith. HYLAND, of Toronto, leaving his wife and two daughters un­ provided for. Two years after it was rumored that he had died in California. His wife became insane and ended her days in an asylum. Of the daughters, one died while a child. Several weeks ago it was learned that Hyland lived until recently in California, and left property valued at $250,000. Thus, after thirty-five years, the surviving daughter is enriched by her father's de­ sertion. SECBETARY LINCOLN sent the eldest son of Gen. Bobert E. Lee $125,000 the other day. It was in payment for Arlington, the home of the Lees, in whose pleasant fields so many of the Grand Army of the Republic await the judgment day. The United States Supreme Court decided last winter that Arlington still belonged to the Lees, despite the long tenancy of its grim inhabitants, and Congress appro- priated $150,000, the appraised value of the property, to be paid to the heir of Bobert E. Lee for his ancestral home. A NORTH CAROLINA colored husband recently arrived home and was lured by his wife to a part of the room directly under a fyole in the ceiling through which the wife's paramour lowered noose which she put around her hus­ band's neck. Before he knew it he was strangled, dragged out and covered up. But he was not dead, and scratched his way out of the grave. The guilty par­ ties on hearing of his resurrection fled, but were arrested and lodged in jail The husband will try and keep out of the matrimonial noose after this. AN amusing scene was witnessed by a newspaper reporter on Fifth avenue, New York. A well-known dude was listlessly standing on the curb, facing the main entrance of the Hotel Bruns­ wick, when an Italian organ-grinder founded the corner and began business. The dude was entirely oblivious of his surroundings and continued his in­ different and bored attitude. Finally, a little girl, who was an interested listener to the music, approached and timidly proffered l»im a penny, Then he went into the hotel and drank liquor. DR. WEBB, who defended Brady and Curley, the Irish Invincible*, is a gen- \ tleman of amazing versatility. A poet, a mathematician and an admirable scholar, he crowned his University career by obtaining a fellowship at 25, at Trinity College, Dublin. This success only stimulated his genius to new efforts. As Professor of Moral Philos­ ophy and afterward of Civil Law, he has conquered new fields, and while keeping up academic studies he has been able to attain a very high position at the bar. He is the author of several able pamphlets on the Irish land ques­ tion. It is objected to his eloquence that it is too Curranish. THE richest young unmarried woman on the Pacific coast is Miss Jennie Flood, only daughter of the bonanza king. The richest prospective heiress in California is Miss Hattie Crocker, the only daughter of Charles Crocker, another of the railroad syndicate. She, "also, is a charming girl, and, like Miss Flood, is rather plain in appearanoe. She is noted for her charities and do­ mestic virtues. She was sought in marriage by Lord Beaumont, an En­ glish nobleman, but she* gave him no encouragement,, and, it is believed, prefers to remain single. Mr. Crocker has two other children, sons, but his immense wealth will give each a prince­ ly fortune. . THK East river bridge nugr not be est feats of modern engineering skill it World. Its first saqpneer, John A. the mm who first urged np«n the people of New York and Brooklyn the advantage to be derived front such an undertaking, and to whom the cred­ it is due of having practically demon­ strated the possibility of constructing a span which would In no wise interfere with the movements of shipping, died from the effects of" a blow received at the works before the first pier had reached bed-rock His son, Washing­ ton A. Roebling, was then called to take charge of the work, and not long after­ ward was taken from the interior of the New York pier, stricken with- the cais­ son disease, from which he has never recovered. For ten years he has been an invalid, the greater part of that time confined in a room of his house, from which he could watch the progress of the work on the bridge. Although physically a wreck, his mind has been spared, and he has superin­ tended the work of construction, as­ sisted by able lieutenants, from his sick-room, as ably and intelligently as if he had been on the bridge daily. Some figures connected with this bridge are interesting. The first esti­ mates made the probable cost of the bridge $7,000,000, and the time neces­ sary for its construction five years. Many changes were made in the plans, however, and the cost is not less than $15,000,000, while it is nearly sixteen years since the work was first com­ menced. The work between anohor. ages is 3,500 feet; between termini, 5,989 feet, and. between the towers, 1,595* feet. The towers are 274 feet high. Amount of wire in the four cables, 6,928,346 pounds. Amount of wire in one cable, 1,732,086 pounds. Solid section of each cable, 144 834- 1,000 square inches. Strength of one cable, estimated at 170,000 pounds per square inch, 24,621,780 pounds. Strength of the four cables, estimated at 170,000 pounds per sqare inch, 98,- 487,120. ___ SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE. To EBONIZE WOOD.--Mix lampblack with good French polish and apply in the usual way; the lampblack maybe collected on a tin held over a kerosene lamp or lighted candle. CHEAP BLACK STAIN FOE PINE AND WHITE WOOD.--Water, one gallon; black copperas, half a pound; logwood chips, half a pound; extract of logwood, half a pound; indigo blue, half a pound; lampblack, one ounce; simmer over a slow fire, cool off, strain and add half an ounce of nut-gall. A splendid black stain for cheap work. • MAKE THE MOST OF IT.--Here is a hint for the careful housewife who wishes to make the most of everything. When your red tablecloth is too much worn in spots to use any longer on the table, cut the good parts in the shape of napkins, fringe them out for about an inch, if inclined to ravel easy, over­ cast them, and it will be many a long day before any member of your family will discover that they are not regular "boughten" fruit napkins. FURNITURE POLISH.--For a polish to clean up and brighten old furniture, pianos, etc., dissolve four ounces orange shellac in one quart of 95 per cent, alco­ hol; to this add one quart of linseed oil and one pint of turpentine; when mixed, add four ounces of^sulpliuric ether and four ounces of aqua ammo­ nia. Mix thoroughly and well before using. Apply with a cloth or sponge, and rub the surface to which it is ap­ plied until the polish appears. To BEMOVE CREASES FROM ENGRAV­ INGS.--The following is from Good. Cheer: Lay the engraving, with the face down, on some clean white paper; over this lay another sheet of paper, covering the entire back of the picture; this should be dampened evenly before laying it over the engraving; then iron this with an iron that is not too warm. The best way to dampen the paper is to lay a wet cloth over it, and press it for a moment with the iron. If the frames and glass over engravings do not fit closely, it is a good plan to remove the glass once a year and dust the glass and the picture. EBONIZED WOOD.--The wood is first stained with a decoction of logwood, which may be purchased from any drug­ gist. It is dissolved in warm* water until all is taken up that the water will hold. Application to the wood is made freely with a large, soft bristle brush, and the surface is rubbed with a cloth to protect the formation of a gummy coat thereon. After the article has been left to dry for a few hours the second application, which consists of vinegar in which a quantity of nails or clean filings have been soaked for several days, is also freely laid on with a brush. The moment the vinegar touches the wood it combines with the logwood solution in the pores, making an ink which is a permanent jet black stain. The influence of the iron in the vinegar is all important. If any tend­ ency to grayness is noticed, a second treatment is necessary, but this seldom happens. When perfectly dry the article is varnished and rubbed down, or finished with furniture oil well rub­ bed in. A Qnick-Handed Parson. It was in the Carolina hack woods. A country couple and parson. When he had finished the ceremony he said: "An' them *uns who God have joined " "Stop thar, parson," said the groom, don't say them 'uns--say these 'uns." "John," said the parson, "I tech you at school, and I say them 'uns." "These 'uns," shouted the groom, drawing his pistol. The parson, seeing the movement, fired through his surplice, and the groom dropped dead, winging the par­ son as he went down. There was a lively fusillade of perhaps thirty shots. When the smoke cleared half a dozen men were on the floor. The bride >eeping over the pulpit, to which she lad fled for refuge, gazed mournfully on the scene, and said: "Them a-self-cockin' pistols is • plavin' the dickens with my prospecks." --thirango Herald. A LETTER mailed in Denver to a young lady in Auburn, no State mentioned, has been going around for ten years, and hasn't been to all the Auburns yet. If it did not contain a $1 bill it would have found rest long ago. BMIT, of the Western New York fiorttatftural Society, savs the estivation ©f the ground in pear orchards, must be confined to near the •axfae* and without much depth. TIL* draining is the best method of subeoiling, for then the roots will go far beneath the surface, attracted by the elements they require, and will do their own subsoiling and deep-plowing. AN authority declares that ticks and lice will never be found troublesome where sheep are fat and in good con­ dition, the pest only attacking poorly- kept animals. The "moral" is obvious. DR. VOELKER, of the Royal Agri­ cultural Society, says it will*take four tons of clover ensilage to equal one ton of clover hay as food, owing to the loss by fermentation, at the expense of the most valuable elements of the food. AMERICAN buyers have taken so many Clydesdale stallions in Scotland that it has caused au increase in priee of 100 Ser cent, within the last year and a alf. There is also a great demand for polled cattle and Shropshire sheep. WHEN setting out plants of any de­ scription spread the roots out in their natural position, not cover them when cramped or doubled up. Be careful not to cover the crowns of strawberry plants with earth; set them just level with the surface and press the earth firmly about them.--Chicago Journal. W. F. BROWN, in the Rural Xeic Worker, says: "I find more profit from the cows that come in fresh in the fall than from those that are fresh in the spring. Not only does butter bring a better price, but I think the cows give more milk in a year under this management, for just when they come to the time when they would naturally begin to shrink largely in their milk, they go on fresh pasture and increase the flow: while a cow that is fresh in the spring begins to shrink just at the season of failing pastures and the transition from green to dry feed, and a great falling off in milk is unavoidable." HUNGARIAN grass cannot bear cold weather. If the weather is hot it grows rapidly and the plants obtain a rank growth, while if there is a cold spell the crop is much injured. From this intolerance to cold the seed of Hun­ garian grass should not be sown until warm and settled weather has come and the soil has lost its chilliness. Sown as lite as July, it it will make a fine and full growth, provided there is an abundance of food in the soil. From what has been said, it is clear that Hungarian needs a rich soil. This is true, and there are few crops that respond more freely to the application of manure or commercial fertilizers.-- --Chicago Timett. A HORSEMAN remarks: "Some may think that special breding to obtain fast walkers is not necessary, and that any sort of a horse can be trained to do it. Such doubters have only to carefully compare the anatomy of a fast-walking horse alongside of that of a slow walker, to be convinced of the necessity of breeding for this special purposed for the difference between the two in vari­ ous nice points will be found consid­ erable in bone, muscle, tendon and cord, and in general structure. Place a heavy farm or cart-horse alongside of a fast trotter or racer, and see how very different they are in make-up; and how impossible it would be to wereaae the pace of the former, either in a trot or a run, to that of the two latter. The thing is out of the question--all the teaching and training of the world could not do it. Now, like, as a gen eral rule, begets like, and if you want fas| walkers, in order to obtain them of a natural, easy, reliable gait, they must be bred from fast-walking parents. THE Massachusetts Ploughman says that some farmers have an idea that any boy can feed farm stock as well as a man, but the more observing believe that to feed stock, so as to secure the best condition on the smallest amount of fodder, requires quite as much skill as any operation on the farm, and it is a work which requires both study and practice; study to learn the nature and requirements of each class of animals, and the nutritive qualities of each kind of food; practical experience so that the particular wants of each animal in every class may be thoroughly under­ stood. While the farmer should en­ deavor to have his boys feed the stock a portion of the time, he should always be with them to give directions and to see that the work is properly done. The knowledge of how to make cattle eat up the coarser fodder without waste, is fully possessed by some farmers, while others do not even know how to make them eat up clean the best of hay, but keep lange quantities before them the most of the time. For economy there is nothing like keeping a clean crib, giving cattle only as much as they will at once eat up clean. This will apply to all farm animal? as well as cattle. THE "POTATO ROT. "--One of the most destructive disease of cultivated plants is the "wet rot" in potatoes. The "rot" is due to the growth of a microscopic ; fungus (Peronotpora it if ex tans) that infests the potato plant in all its parts. This destructive parasite is closely re­ lated to the grape mildew fungus, so familiar in many American vineyards. The fungus makes its appearance in frost-like jjatches upon the under side of the potato leaves, soon causing the foliage to curl, turn brown and die. The stems are next attacked, and through them the disease passes down to the tubers, where the destructive work is completed. The "rot" plant consists of a multitude of minute threads that run in all directions through the substance of the potato plant. These fine fila­ ments rob the surrounding tissue of its nourishment, and induce a rapid decay. The "rot" usually appears in midsum­ mer, and is associated with rain-- "muggy" weather being favorable for its development. Early and quick- growing varieties of potatoes are recom­ mended when practicable, as they are much more likely to be ripe before the pest makes its appearance. Much has been said about "rot-proof" sorts, but knowing that the disease is caused by the fungus, the development of which is favored by moist, warm weather, and hindered by the opposite, there is little hope of finding a kind that will differ so much from others as to be disease proof. In England prizes have been offered to encourage the work of find­ ing out the sorts of potatoes best able to withstand the attacks of the fungus, and elaborate experiments have been carried out without any satisfactory positive results. Tfye farmer should be on the watch for the appearance of the disease, and harvest the crop as soon as possible after the trouble is found in the field. This may prevent the fungus from reaching the tubers. After dig- [ ging, the potatoes should be placed in a dry and cool place, thus providing | regions. the; . development caution against t fungus, it is well the old vines stroying the may have formed. *pre- iof the andbtom all tttns de- of. spores' that Ally tubers that are affected should be thrown out, and either fed to stock or burned. One diseased potato may communicate the "rot* to a whole heap-or bin. HOUSEKEEPERS'" HELPS*. OuouiCBKR SALAD*--Let the owing* bers lie in salt and water one hoar be­ fore paring them; then pare and slice as thinly as possible; drain through salted water; add olive-oil, lemon juice, pepper, salt and a little mustard in quantities to taste, and serve> TOMATO SAHD.--Peel nice, fair tomatoes, not too ripe;, cut in slices and grate over them. a. nice fresh encumber, and season with pepper, salt and vin­ egar to taste; add a teaspoonful of French mustard* a. table-spoonful of best salad oil, a fiUely-minoed onion and a little celery salt. DROP CAKBS.--One cup of molasses, one cup of sugar,, on* cup of lard, one teaspoonful of ginger and one each of cloves and of cinnamon, two teaspoon­ ful of soda,.dissolved in a cup of warm water; stir in flous- eaough to make a batter that will drop readily from a spoon; add a little salt and* a cup of dried currants. INDIAN PUDWNG.--Take four eggs, and the weight of three of them in meal, half a pound of sugar and a quarter of a pound of butter, and the juice and grated rind of one lemon. Beat to­ gether till light, then break the eggs in the dish with them and beat briskly; then stir in the meal. Bake in a quick oven; serve in saucers,' and pour over it some thin jelly or jam, or fruit sauce. LOBSTER SALAD.--Pick all the meat from the body and claws of a cold boiled lobster and chop it fine; chop separately the white part of a head of celery or lettuce and mix with the lobster meat. Season with pepper, salt, four table-spoonfuls of vinegar, five of oil, three of thick sweet cream, and the tinely-minced yelks of four hard-boiled eggs, a table-spoonful of French mustard and a few capers. From a life table that IIM just ap­ peared in Kngland, it seems that since 1776 the longevity of the English peo­ ple has sensibly increased. Whether bam the operation of the Public Health act, or from the general atten­ tion to health which produced the act, or from an unobserved change in the ways of the people akin to the devel­ opment of temperance now going on, or from one of those alterations in the virulenee of disease which have re­ peatedly oocurred in history, the mor­ tality from epidemic diseases suddenly declined, till the mean mortality in England^ which, between 1838-54 had been 22.5 per 1,000, dropped in 1876-80 to 20.8, and is dropping still, the mean death rate of 1881-432 being only 19.3, a total improvement of very nearly one-seventh. This increased longevity is not, it is true, quite equally divided between the sexes. Owing to causes which are still only partially ascer­ tained, but which probably have some relation to the extra liability of women during the child-bearing period of life, females benefit most by improved sani­ tary conditions, and the total progress affected maybe broadly stated thus: Men live two years longer than they did thirty years ago, and women three years and four months longer, a differ­ ence, we need not say, quite large enough to be perceptible in human life. The very old live longer--that is, of course, they are stronger, less liable to that senile feebleness and degeneracy which struck our ancestors as their natural condition. They decay, o| course, and lose powers of all kinds, but they no longer sink into a second childhood, but, except when over­ worked, die, so to speak, standing, as only heroes used to da We see men ommiaii. and women, nowadays, over 80 with all! Cronkrite, their faculties intact, able to converse, j Downing, to eat well, and to walk, and with a de- j nilgai, cided and admitted influence on the affairs amidst which they live. This is the more striking, because, the in­ creased longevity of the very aged is not shared by the old. Both in men and women, the chance of survival be­ tween 55 and 70 has not increased, but has rather, if anything, declined. Peo- *«• In bond*, stecke 4k martwe^be tost depoRttmi la the In Department toone of the State* of the Suit**, wis takes up «a thir* reading and In the Mine raaaaer theBwuTwfito peeves*! the adnltemttoa cC vtaegtr ~ and se amended was parmmt The strikes ont tb* tklrd section, authorizing the appointmentof Vinegar Inepeetorn by "" villages-sad Town. Boards. Mr. Lemma np the resolution by theCommittee on Printing, Directory, cities, called paasSSTln'tt ttMTHigh-Ltee Brans' the Hooae concerning "prln and tt waa adopted Cyclone Insurance hill the day wao spent on the High-License bill, which was finally passed by a vote of ayes, 79, nays, 55. The following is a Hst of those voting tor the billi Axiams, Grwr, Ansley, Ctoeathoita^ Bethea, €toetrg. Black, Hammond, RO'mimaiv Havper. Boyei, Hawker, Brown. Hawks. Calhoun of l>e- Heater. Witt, Hiatt. Calhoun of Ver- Hoffman, million. Honey, Clt*eland» Hoskinson, Coats, Johnson, Cooke. Jon^a, Cowporthwatt, Kennedy. Parrish, Benson at Madison, Pearson of McDonoagha Pftdersen!*^- »ktn, Uvfc#- Crews, Crocker; Curtis, Day, Deford, iSST" Ewinsr, Falrbanln, Felker, Foster, Fuller, Funk. Gooilspeed, Rosrrs, • Sen rlocMf$ ***!& num r, .. ndelius, Thomas Thomson at Peoria; Thornton. Walker, "Hot Guilty- the Rendered by the Route Jury. ... . ' < i I r / 11am <rf Gnat Kiinbrou^ch, Lackie, Lawrencet Littler, McCartney, McFie, Munahan,' Mathews,) ! Mitchell, / , Moore, vj, Morrison, • Howers, • U Owen. Darker. Those voting against it -vtar£: Abrahams, Linegar, Stevens at M*nt- sromery, Struckman. Sullivan Murray of Sim- Clair, Welch of Ken* . S clall, jSyilloutfhby, • Wood of Cook, Wood otDe- Kalb, Worthinnton, Sjieaker--T9. Baker, Bei, Billings, Brink, Caldwell, Cleary, Clinton, Cox, Crafts, St Bymondu 1*, Taylor of kakee, gammon, Newton, O'Comielk O'Mara, : • O'Shea, rurnell, Qiiinn, Richardson, Rook, Rowland, Sexton, Sheridan, Starkel, Stevens of Han- Wiley, cock, ^unc^y Iftn. ffempleiiuii, Thompson Of j/Cass, IT tiger, Tarnell, Vauehey/1 j" !Xl > 1 i , i : . . -< , , VeWhofWkm Wendell, West, jkountree, lullivi i pie of that age do not benefit so much ' WASH a coffeepotful of rice in two or ! by the reduced power of epidemics; three waters, then let it soak all night in three pints of new milk. In the morning add a little salt, a large spoon- ; ful of butter, a little ground cinnamon, ! and grated nutmeg. Put in the pud- ! ding dish, and set in the oven, allowing ample time, say two hours, for it to COOK. Stir it frequ&itlv, but without removing it from the oven. When it is ' beginning to bubble, add a quarter of a pound of stoned raisins. Serve with powdered sugar sprinkled over it when ' it is put in saucers. i ENGLISH ROLLED PUDDING.---Boiled pastry should be prepared with chopped and sifted suet instead of lard or butter, but otherwise in the same manner as pie pastry. Boll jam or preserved fruit out into a thin sheet; spread over a thick layer of fruit, and then, com­ mencing at one side, roll carefully until all the fruit is inclosed within the "paste; pinch together at the ends, and tie up in a strong cotton cloth, then drop into a pot of boiling water. The cherry is the best for this purpose, or some other fruit possessing acidity. To be served with sweet sauce. . P.OKTAJU.S Sot v x-Vake three pernios of fresh beef, the bones of which break, and two small knuckles of veal; put them in a stew-pan, and add as much water as will barely cover them; put in three onions and seasoning to taste: stew the meat to ribbons; strain ancj then put in the coldest place you can command. When thoroughly cold take off the fat, and boil it fast in a ^tew-pan wiHiout the lid, oy g a quick nre. Lejfc it boil, and keep it stirred for at leastveight hours. Pour it into a pan and let it stand twenty-four hours; then take your largest hp basin and set your soup into it, boil sufficient water in the basin to reach as high outside the pan that is placed in it as there is soup in the pan, but do not let any bubble into it. Keep the water boiling until the soup is reduced to a good con­ sistency. It should then • be poured into small jelly-pots or in saucers, so as to form cakes when cold, and is best preserved in tin canisters, kept in dry cool places. This soup may receive various flavors of herbs or anything else, when desiring to use it, by boiling the herbs or other ingredients, and then melting tjie soup in it. they feel, unless exceptionally strong, the influences, such as sudden falls ol temperature, over which science liaa little power, and they decidedly suffer from the increase of worry and anxiety which, among men and women with grown families, so markedly character­ izes modern life. It is, however, in youth and early maturity, that the im­ provement is most marked. The man's chance of life is increased most decid­ edly between 5 and 86 and the woman's between 5 and 55. Refutation ef a Baseless Report The publisher of an obscure agents' p* per in Philadelphia has started the sillj report that Postmaster General Gres- ham has "about decided that newspa­ pers known as * * • ' co-operatives' shall be excluded from the mails at second-class publications." The state­ ment has not a particle of truth back of it, and is so ridiculous that it would deserve no notice, only for the fact that its malicious author has used extra pains to circulate it, by sending marked papers containing it all over the cpjin- try, sna ttnw MOenringjia insertion in.a few respectable Journals. The follow­ ing letter froiq (he PostofBce Depart­ ment, addressed to Senator McMillan, of Minnesota, gives the lie direot to the book agent's oanard: SIB: YOU are advise^ in reply to your favor of the 1st Inst., whioh is herewith re­ turned, that there is no foundation for the report as therein stated Very respectfully, J AMIS H. MAKX, For First Ass't P. M. Oenl. Bon. R J. R. McMillan, St Paul, Winn The law relating to newspaper post- age explicitly declares-- That newspapers, one copy to each actual largest lip^ basin and subscriber residing within the county where the same are printed, in whole or in part, and published, shall go free through the mails. This secures the mailable rights o! newspapers printed on the oo-operative or ready-print plan so firmly that, how­ ever much disposed the Postoffice De- Fellows, Gallup, Herrington, Jennings, Kinman, Klnpn, The absentees were: Carlin, Henry, Clark, HJfftfins, Sullivan ofOook Collier, Lodge, Tavlor of Cook, Hay, Murray of Scott,Updike-12. THK House convened on the 0th without a a quorum. Mr. Willoughby arose to a ques­ tion of privilege, claiming to have been mis­ represented by a local paper. During Ms re­ marks he took occasion to define the position of the nine Democrats who voted in favor of the High License bill, saving their course was in ac­ cordance with the requests of their constit­ uents. Mr. Billinurs Introduced a resolution call­ ing for the appointment of a Commissioner to investigate the causes of the strikes now in progress among coal-miners and report its findings to the next Legislature. Mr. Morrison objected to the consideration of therms- olution, and it was postponed. A drahiime bill was taken up and considered on second read­ ing. It l>ecame evident that nothing conld be accomplished, and the House adjourned. THE High-License bill was reported to the Senate on the evening of the llth. and, on motion of Mr. Condee, was ordered to second reading without reference to a c ommittee. There was no quorum in the House, and but little business was done. NEARLY every Senator was on hand on the morning of the 13th. The House amendments to the Road bill were all concurred in. The Elevated Railroad bill came up, and the House amendment to it was concurred in, so that the b'll will bccome a law after July 1, provided the Governor sign it. The resolution to authorize the Canal Commissioners to employ counsel to protect the iuterests of the Central in the lake- trout .litigation was adopted. In the House, with Mr. Haines in the chair, the bill changing and revising the general law in relation: to mines and mining was passed. The following members, who wer^ absent when the Higli-Li- cease v. a-i The closing *cene in the House was very bois­ terous. Paper-wads, newspapers and books iiew thickly through the air, in spite of the rap­ ping of Mr. Haines' gavel. A member who railed attention to the rule jn regard to the preservation of order in the Hoftse, was jnade a target for a shower of missiles, and re­ treated ignominiously. Even the Speaker was not considered as too big for a target, and he had to dodge a big roll of newspapers thrown by a lusty yeoman as he rose to recognise the kicker. THE Senate, on the 18th, spent a couple of hours in passing House bills, only a few of which were of any special importance. Among these were the bill requiring railroad companies to maintain a public office in Illinois for the trans­ fer of stock: the Cai itol Paving bill, and the bill increasing the fees \>f State's Attomevs in case of convietion for felony from $15 to $20, and requiring them to follow up changes of venue. The High-License bill then came up and the following amendments were offered, every one of which were voted down: By Mr. Duncan-- To strike out the $150 beer clause; to add "vinous" to the class of malt liquors; to strike ont the words "public good." Bv Mr, Ruger--To change $500 and $150 to $250; to strike out section :t. By Mr. Shaw--A section Grart-Boom on the A-- [Waahbigton Telegram.] Hie court-room was star-route Joryfllcd In. DOraey art by the aide of his wife, fluFhed and Brady was jost back of his special Judge Wilson, looking as hard mm as ever. All of the counsel for Ihe ringsteza were in their Feats. , CoL Ingersoll's face shewed great control, as be was evidently laboring tntdsriferonf nervous excitement He Ids entire family--Mr*. Io^OMO, to bJsel Wjllt with a small, black bonnet an iMr bead; J|9si Eva, m a light-cloth walking tvil, Vttfc • white-plumed bat; Mlf»Mwid]B>dat-|Hwi cloth walking suit, with a teroad tsfasgnad hat trimmed to match the suit: Mr. and Mia Farrell. Mr. Baker. Cel. Ingttiifll# sec­ retary, and the white-haired an" bearded Bush, the h-ird-working of Ingersoll, who has locked tip ev of conspiracy.^ the Colonel pats ^toock^tO the time when Adam first rai-e h-- with Eve." * When the jurors had taken their plscw^i Judge Wylie looked at them and asked iM his slow, he-itatingway: 'Gentlemen, I have sent ftor yon to le ahem--to learn if you have agreed- upon a verdict. "We have agreed," replied Foreman Craae. Judjre Wv'ie gave a start of fcurprtae ftod looked tow ard the seats for the Government counsel. Not one of tbem was present This looked <>miniou*, and indicated thafc the Bailiffs must have betrayed the seorete of the jury-room. Neither BitsS Iter Met' riok came to the court Mr. Ker stocdint]^ door of one of tbe ante-rooms. "Receive this verdict," said Judge Wylie to the Clerk. There was the usual silence "We find the defendants not guilty," said the loreman, deliberately. Then followed a scene of great confushMB and uproar, which the Judge could not re­ strain. Indeed, he did not try. The figure of a woman in gray silk wail seen jumping up and down, w ith hands ex­ tended toward the ce ling, sobbing, shouting and crying, "Glory to God, glory to God.* It was Mrs. Dorsey, who had a vio'ent fit of hysterics, Dorsey, with tears running down his cheeks from under his green goggles, had all he coukl do to restrain his wife and. make her retrain her self-control. Intrersoil s face was a study. The stern lines of an intense anxiety relaxed. His lips and chin trembled, and' tears filled bis eye-?. His family were on iheir feet per­ fectly wild. The stern Judge Wibon be­ came as nervouB as a child. He walked around with a lighted eisrar in his hand, and burned his moustache half oil' trying to put the wrong end in 1 is month. The nervous­ ness of the defendants and their friends was commas cated quickly to the tickle crowd of spectators, who cheered and yelled at the victory of the defen e. while every mtn of them would probably have been as ready to cheer and yell if the. Government bad been successful. Brady was the only one in the whole crowd who retained the same iron-clad composure which be had !-hown all through tbe trial. His countenance never changed. He sat silent for a few moments sad meohanicalhr shook hands with those who approached. Then he got up and walked quietly over to the jury. He was tbe first to approach them. Beginning with the foreman, he shook hands solemnly with each member and then asked a friend to present him to Judge Wylie He said that be had never had the pleasure of meeting the Judge: Wylie looked at him quizzically handa lly as he shook The Man Who Shot Ellsworth* I asked a man from Alexandria--that . , , .. curious old town, once a part of the educfttlnK District of Columbia, writes a cofre- '* *' -------------- spondent, but now sleeping on the Potomac, five miles away from the dis­ trict line --whether his town contained any odd people. "Thousands," he said, quickly. "Who was the oddest?" partment might feel like denying then) the privileges of the mails, it would not dare commit such a flagrant violation ^ ^ etfvc,1 1.1*** ByJUr A 'ii„„ .v . Ar. ! White--lo add the words fermented before Of the written law. But there IS tn€ I "malt.* By Mr. Merritt--To add a section re- best authority for stating that Post- Quiring one-halt' of all money received from li- mnster (rpnoral ftrpuhum ia nnf nnl« ' £ensei* U) "e turned over to the State. By Mr. master general uresnam IS not only , Hereley-- A section providing that soldiers honor- not hostile to the ready-print plap, j ably discharged, treedmen and pensioners should but has a decidedly friendly feeling in I i'e permitted to take out licenses . J- • AV . . O "f free. By Mr. Needier--To add wine to that direction, in that it gives thfl the beer clause, f The bill was then country more newspapers and bettei ordered to a third reading by a strict hflw«r>&nora than it -irnnbl ntbnrnriad Par' V vote. In the House a number of appro-newspapers mail it ot^erw^se | prlatlon bills were imssei1 in, hlding $135 000for get, and thus aids in disseminating in* I the Jacksonville Insane Asylum, $57r>,iiOO for --3 ' the Kankakee Asylum, and $2,500 for a nion Caps, Hats and Flags. ~ « No lexicographer has yet been able to define a hat. They all say it is a covering for the head; so is a cap. a bonnet, and in Spain, a mantilla. Jackson, the fellow who shot young indicate a man's rank and station in life Julsworth, the zouave. Knew him well. --his business and calling. The Very eccentric fellow. Cut down the preacher and lawyer wear a plug; the first Federal flag unfurled in Virginia miller, a slouch all whitened with during the war times. It was some flour; the student a cap; the jockev months before hostilities broke out, and always wears a skull oap. An Trifling down at Occoquan, just below Alex- begs or steals an old one, cuts a hole a#idria, among some Abolitionists, who in the crown, stuffs the orifice with had lived on Occoquan creek for many feathers, and walks around the camp years, and maintained their principles with self content. The colored brother right in the midst of a hostile commu- finds an "ole hat," brushes it up and nity. ^ I respected them for it, because wears it on Sunday and at picnics. I believed them to be sincere. But The Arizona cowboy revels in an um- they were always a thorn in the side of brageous brim; a narrow one savors of most of the men around them. When a cramping civilization. Nothing is too war was imminent these men held a rich for him. He would put a prairie meeting and planted a pole with the on his head if it would fit. A plug hat Union flag at the top, as an evidence of implies a sort of dignity and propriety1 their attachment to the Federal Gov- that the slouch hat does not hint at. ernment. When Jackson heard of it he swore like for five miles, and then he got a crowd of loafers together and went down to Occoquan. He cut the Federal pole down with his own He who wears one must keep the rest of his dress in harmonious trim, else the inconsistency of dress is too marked. A man with a plug hat will buy an um­ brella and seek the society of ladies. ument to Col. Mulligan, who was killed in Virginia, the latter appropriation to l>e paid when a similar sum shall have been raised by private subscription. The State Road bill was also passed^ THE Senate, on the 14th, passed the House bill providing for a training-school for boya, and concurred in the amendment to the Kanka­ kee Appropriation bill, which appropriates $25,- (M'O for the sustenance of additional patients that may come in after the new buildings are erected. Charles J. W hite and E. A. Fisher were confirmed as Justices of the Peace at Chicago, and William A. Witlierell was rejected. The Governor sent in a message explaining and com­ mending the conduct of the militia during the recent riots. The House passed a joint resolution permitting the Canal Com­ missioners to dispose of a water-power at Joliet, the proceeds to be used in repairing the canal. It also concurred in the Senate resolution looking toward an investiga­ tion iuto a claim made by Alex. Bruce against the State of Illinois tor a balance due him from the State as one of the contractors for the Cop­ peras creek dam. A House bill was passed ap­ propriating $1,(.00 to George McKee, who lost an arm while tiring a salute by the premature dis­ charge of a cannon owned by the State. The General Levy bill was then read a third time, passed and sent to the Senate. hands, and announced grimly that he He can't go hunting and fishing in a woujd split the poll of any man who plug hat, nor run, jump, romp, or get put it in place again. Then he marched into a fight in a plug.--Cincinnati En- his men back to Alexandria, and they qu iftr. drank all night in honor of their , Children's Compositions. - The latest revelations of infant genius brought forth in the composition class are found in the 6mall American citizen of African descent, who, on being re- 3uired to write a slate "pencil-talk" on < -- _ . . . . . . - achievement. Oh, I remember him very well--him < and his pickled-ears." "What, his own ears?" "No, his ene­ my's. He cut7 them off with a sharp knife and put them in pickle. I re­ member them standing in the front window of his hotel in an old-fashioned thick glass bottle. Oh, he was a terror, Winter Sports," brought forth: "We see the Sports walking down Baltimore was Jackson, and it did not surprise me street every pleasant day in winter." A when he shot Ellsworth. ^ But it pained young candidate for Congress, of the me and everybody else in Alexandria, j superior race, down in Virginia, tried except a few hot heads." j jj{g hand at the subject given to the ^ I higher class--"Enterprise," and read MB. HAYDEN, of Washington, is the aloud the following; "Enterprise is a inventor of an apparatus for burning good thing. Columbus enterprised petroleum as fuel, which is claimed to j America. If Columbus ^hadn't done it be the only one in the world that will! we should be nowhere,' for nobody perform the work for which it is con- knew anything about America but the strueted. Some years ago a woman, Indians, and they wouldn't teU."---Crete Miss Amanda Jones, invented an appa- : (Neb.) Literary Note*. ratus for burning petroleum under j :---- c5ftiu"-1 Co a-WHEEL 8 are sociable things, j d successfully nsed in the oil (t̂ ey are always in each others' company., Earth Booft. In New Mexico once, I, with three others, was sleeping in a large mining- camp house, covered with sandy clay, on which more had been added from time to time, until a mighty weight rested upon it. The roof timbers of heavy cottonwood, eight to ten inches in di­ ameter, snapped during the night like pipe-stems, and with a crash like thun­ der the whole came down, except in the small corner where we were lying. Tables, chairs and other things were crushed beneath the weight, and the entrance door was blocked, but fort­ unately a window was near our beds through which we escaped. In the morning when we examined the wreck we saw that the great beam directly over our beds was cracked three-quar­ ters through.--Cor. Chicago Tribune. Divorce. "Four States," says the Worcester (Mass.) Spy. "in New England have made changes in their divorce laws for the better within five years. Divorces have, in consequence, fallen off nearly one-third in Vermont, one-fourth in Connecticut, and the changes made the past month in Maine laws will insure a further reduction." "Gen. Brady, you had great experience in that office of yours in the Postoffice Depart­ ment, and yon certainly must have known if anything wrong was going on," said the Judge. Brady bowed and said nothing. AB soon as the confusion had moderated tbe jury was polled The court then an­ nounced that there were no more du- ties for the jury t > perform. "You had a laborious task to perforin in this earn;" he engaged in the trial Many of von have oo ̂ cupations of your own that you have obliged to neglect, and, although your ver- diet will cjreate dissatisfaction with many, yet the court is bound to presume that, hav­ ing been selected according to law. and sworn to perform that duty faithfully, you have done so. That you have done it, eafeh one according to the dictates of his <JwS conscience, will be satisfaction to you as long as you live You are therefore dis­ charged with the thanks of tbe court." . KISSING AND CHEF-IUNli INOKRSOLJ. * The defendants and their counsel went to one of tyie &nt$rp?oms of the court, when a most extraVflgaiit g&ne of oong|atatajjgn followed. Dorsey went up to Tuger^O'L and, p^ttipg both orms around him, gave lam a ferocious hug, and then surprised the Col­ onel by kissing him with a rapturous re­ sounding smack of superlative g~fatitndeL Then Mr-. Dorsey kissed him, her tears of happiness continuing to flow. The triumph of such an unexpected s ..cce », after two years of li^htintr in the faae of the entire Government, made the humblest person, connected in the most remote decree, craiy with joy. Even Brady lost his stoicistn when be was out of sight of the crowd. When Col. Ingersoll came out of the court fcouse a crowd gathered in front of him, and then one stout-lungcd, broad-should­ ered man cried out: "Three cheers for CoL Ingersoll!" There was a wild scene of tiger-like cheer* insr and "yi-i-ng" from the excited crowd. This demonstration was a personal Compli­ ment to the Colonel, for wheu the defend* ants passed out there was not the slightest signs of approval or disapproval beyond the congratulations of personal friends. The biggest celebration of the day was at the main salo n, opposite the Court HouSa Dorsev woii1 in iheie just a*'er th»> verdict and announced that it should he a free bar for all who came. The bill was to be sent to him at the close of tbe day. The scene that followed surpassed the excitement in the court-room. All the Judges and Oolonele who have to struggle all day long to get drunk were enabled to enjoy this sweet luxury. All called for the most expensive drinks, and tcorned anything but 3keeat cigars. The bill began to mount so high that the bar-keeper sent word ti Dorsey, and at noon the free-rum dispensary was shut down. The following are the payments made by the Government to special* attorney & The statement will throw some light oa the gen­ eral cost of tbe trial: Bliss $4'ViO< M'Ker $37,873.41v' Brewster...... 5,'OD.iOM' r ick 32,000.0* Cook........... 6,949.lHjAllan A. link- Gibson.,,....., 5,000.00; erton S.MSJS : Total $125,979,1# >: To the above payments others are to be : added, whioh will considerably increase the aggregate paid to the Government luwvfw, ^ Si- say to 85 per cent additional. - *-'r$ * „ % ^ PEOPLfc ASD THtXfcS# "wmL. , j • - A CHILD in Northampton oonnty, Pa., has six living grandmothers, the oldest being 100 years old. Thx Prince of Wales is an expect boanir-.^ and is fond of the glovea JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS. "Uncle Beiniw^ has red hair and blue eyes. •• -r' • GERMAKY boasts of 956 poetesses SUHA :' authoresses on the roll of fame. • GEN. W. H. F. LEE, Robert E. Lee's eldest son, has been farming in Virginia ever atnoe ; the war. Gov. CLEVELAND, of New York, wears blaefc alpaca coats and wkie-hrimmed straw hals ' in summer. > JAMES livssEix LOWELL inherits IntltimnMS tory rheumatism from his father, the Re^ ' Charles LowelL i; 1 ' j HE was fond of singing revival hymns. aaA? bis wife named the baby Fort, so that he would want to hold it. ^ : GEN. SPINNEB, whose name is to be seen <Aa !" BO many greenbacks, has left Florida for Boston. He will remain in the North until November, AN Illinois man boxed his wife's ears for v i* invest ingt2 in a lottery ticket She went to > her father's home, and* her ticket soon aftss ! drew A TALLAHASSEE lady of uncommon nerva-; appeared at an evening party re .ently,' wearing live spiders, chameleon^, ! eetk# and tire-Hies in ner hair and on her dress. ; ^ THE only representatives of EthnundS^j t Burkes family are found now in th/h Flenches; of 'Loughiea. .County. tt&lwa& • Burke was essentuui.v of Ceic e stock. HIT mo;her was a iunuan Catooiic lady, ly name Ma^te. bus. his father was * itofc test art He bad two sons besides E4« . ^ mund, and one daughter, Xts. French.