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icf&ewg fCkiutlcaler J. VAN tLVKC, ErfttftTM* Publish*. McHENRT, ILLINOIS. IT was a pet monkey that Btruck a match and fired the British bark Mar- querite at Bayonne, N. J., laden with 1,375 barrels of naphtha of petroleum. --•--: AT the marriage of a daughter of Congressman Tucker, of Virginia, to Lawyer Logan, of New York, silver that belonged to Oeorge Washington' when at Mount Vernon, and a pair of silver candlesticks which once belonged to Lady Spottswood, wife of the Colo­ nial Governor, were used. HEKBY SMITH, of Danbury, If* ft, a tobacco farmer, became almost insane with rage over the damage to his fine crop by the rains and winds. He walked over his plantation, swearing and cursing the Almighty, and finally fell speechless. His farm-hands -carried him into the house, and a physician who • was summoned pro­ nounced it a case of paralysis from which he cookl not recover. MARY CHURCHILJC, went to Indiana­ polis to engage in the laundry business because there was no demand for her kind of talent in St. Louis. As we. are informed, St. Louis people do not be­ lieve in the customary processes of laundrying. They hang out their clothes twice a year during the big rains of the equinoctial storms, and this, in their opinion, dispenses with the necessity of soapsuds and washer- AN illustration of the ridiculous and annoying way in which a church choir will sometimes run together the wordB -of a hymn is afforded by the remark of a small boy in one of the front pews of a church in Boston. The hymn begin­ ning, "The consecrated cross I'd bear," had just been sung, and in the momen­ tary quiet which followed the perplex­ ed youth turned to his father and asked? in an earnest whisper: "Say, pa, where do they keep the consecrated cross-eyed bear?" , A conitESPOXDEXT of the Lancet de­ scribes the following as the method em­ ployed in China fqr determining pater­ nity: A basin or cup of clean water is obtained; the supposed father's finger is cut, and then put into the water till some blood trickles; then the child's finger is cut and placed in the water, aud if the two bloods immediately unite, the proof is complete. The mag­ istrate is sometimes bribed and the water tampered with. SINCE the wooden pavement was laid down in Pall Mall the clnbs in that throughfare have, for the first time, obtained the full us* of the buildings they occupy. So intolerable was the racket of the passing carriages during the height of the season in the old days that conversation in any room which looked upon the street was practically impossible. All this has been changed since wood was laid down, and a party of diners can now sit at a window look­ ing upon Pall Mall and converse with each other with ease and ccmfort. A FRIEND of Mrs. Howgate says 'that from a once proud position in Washing­ ton society, she and her attractive daughter have been reduced to the necessity of seeking employment wher­ ever it may be found, in order to gain a livelihood. Miss Howgate earns a small salary copying for some legal firms. When Howgate fled he took with him some $22,000 in bonds, which his daugh­ ter owned in her own right, and turned over to her erring father at home to aid him in making good his escape from the clutches of the law. MR. RCSSELL, of the tJnited States Geological Survey, who has spent the season in the California mountains, near Mono Lake, says that the lava there is the result of recent volcanic outbursts. His studies on the old beaches lead him to the conviction that there have been two ice ages over the world, and that the second, dating back to tli& advent of man on the earth, was the most severe and protracted. He adds that the signs of glaciers are as fresh as though left yesterday. He has found living glaciers back of Mono Lake, not far from the Yosemite Val­ ley. They are about a mile long and many feet deep. THE Germanization of Alsace pro­ cess painfully. It is not many months since great commotion was caused by an order that all discussions in the Municipal Councils should be conducted in German; and now there is renewed indignation at an attempt to banish French from the schools. Hitherto four hours per week have been devoted in the public schools to the teaching of French; this amount of instruction in that language has now been reduced by one-half. The newspapers are, of course, in arms. The design of the conquerors', they say, is to render French a dead language in Alsace; and there does seem to be reason in the complaint that the geographical situ­ ation of Alsace-Lorraine makes French as necessarjr a language as German. The Journal d'Alsace recommends that parents should themselves teach "their patrimonial language" to their children, and that German should not be used in the family. NEW YORK letter: Jay-Eye-See will probably go Into winter quarters early next month. Mr. Case has, since his departure from -JSew York, received many offers for the horse, despite the prohibitive price of $50,000 which was placed on him, but is determined to keep him. People in a position to know say his winnings foot up to very nearly $200,000. On the Monday after Jay- Eye-See beat St. Julien he bought a $1,000 camel's hair shawl for his wife, and offered in payment a check for $1,500. The proprietor naturally hesi­ tated about accepting it. "I don't know you," he said. "My name is Case, of Racine, Wis." The owner looked blank. "I'm the owner of Jay-Eve-See," said Mr. Case, The merchant jumped up. "I beg your pardon; I did not. know that." Mr. Case then drew his wallet, which was full to overflowing with checks ranging in value from $800 to $4,000. "See if you can find a check among them whose maker you know," •aid Mr. Case. A suitable one was found, and as Mr. Case left he said; "This is all Jay-Eye-See's money." THIS is the question that troubles a French Justice of the Peace: A drover and a butcher in the market adjusting their accounts went to a tavern to dine together. During the meal the butcher took from his pocket a bank note of 100 francs value, wherewitl^ to ̂ >ay the drover, but in handing it over let it fall in a dish of gravy. He snatched it out, and, holding it between the thumb and fore-finger, waved it to and fro to dry it. The drpyer's dog, accepting this movemement as a friendly invita­ tion, and, liking the smell of the satu­ rated note, made a spring at it and swallowed it. The butcher was furi­ ous. "Give me my money," he de­ manded. "Kill the dog and open him." "Not by a blanked sight," replied, the drover; "my dog is worth more than a hundred francs." "Then I owe you nothing. Your dog has collected for you before witnesses." My dog is not my cashier; and, besides, where is your receipt ?" "The Justice will have to settle this." "Let him." And now for weeks the Justice has vainly been seek­ ing law or precedent for such a case, and the townsmen have been on the verge of riot over it again and again. "BY the end of next June," said Wm. J. Scanlon, the comedian, to a New York reporter, "over 300,000 copies of my 'Peek-a-Boo' song will have been sold. It belongs to the class we term 'craze* songs, written in a catchy way to become popular, as it deals with children, home and the fireside. I wrote 'Peek-a-Boo' five years ago, and first used it to help along a comic opera entitled 'The West Point Cadet.' I saw at once it had not the proper sur­ roundings, and so determined to lay it by until the right time came to use it. That time came in 'Friend and Foe.' I introduced 'Peek-a-Boo' into the home scene of the last act, and it immediately became popular. My first successful song was the Jim Fisk song--'He Never Went Back on the Poor.' I sat up all night at it, but had it finished in the morning. 'Moonlight on Killarney' has been a success, though not largely in a financial sense. The songs go best that relate to the fireside and have bright glimpses of home revealed in them. 'Put Me in My Little Bed' went over 300,000; so did 'Grandfather's Clock,' and 'Silver Threads Among the Gold' sold as high as 350,000, and they are still selling." CHICAGO Daily News: When plun­ derers can walk deliberately through a sleeping-car and pick the teeth out of the slumbering passengers, then pride is abashed and humbled, and extreme and bitter mortification takes its place. A minister, too, one of a class which even the bandits .of Missouri are ac­ customed to respect, is plundered in this way, and no trace left of the unre- generate thief who perpetrated the deed. This preacher was on his way from the East to Minneapolis. He laid himself down in a Wagner car and com­ posed himself to sleep, firm in the con­ fidence that he was in a Christian land and that his teeth were safe. In his dreams he saw perhaps the loved faces of those he had left behind, and he parted his lips to utter a blessing or speak another farewell. In .that un­ guarded hour a thief stole upon him and lifted a $12 set of teeth from his jaws and put them in his impious pock­ et. When the morning broke the gray- haired minister turned over iu his bunk and found himself alone among stran­ gers, the stringy beef of a dozen eating- houses and hotels before him, and no molars to tackle it with. And when he made complaint the porter smiled, the conductor smiled, the Chicag^ agent smiled, and the general passenger agenf actually laughed. Old Ch Mren. One practice that is becoming too common in our midst deserves severe condemnation, but whether all the con­ demnation we can muster will help the matter any is doubtful. The evil re­ ferred to is the prevailing practice of pushing children toward maturity and making old men or old women of them before they have passed the years of ahildhood. To'dress your little tots of girls in garments fashioned after the styles of grown-up women, put them in corsets and pads and other artificials peculiar to female flubdubbery, teach them to be so severely polite arfd pre­ cise, so demure and dignified, and to imitate their elders, is a positive sin. Many mothers, in forcing their girls' maturity while yet in their tenderest years, will regret, when their daughters have attained the years of young lady­ hood, to see them growing old--yea, actually old--long before their prima It is all very wrong. Let a child be a child as long as possible.--Ream. MEMPHIS real estate, in about a year, has advanced 25 per cent. VICTOR HUGO pronounces Poe "the prineeof American literature." AGRICULTURAL. HAVE a special place to? , „ forks, shovels, hoes and other tools, so that no valuable time may be lost in hunting for misplaced tools. LAYING hens should have a low perch. They enjoy it more than sitting on a box or anything else, and it is better for them, because nature says so. IT is found if rye is grazed so closely as not to allow seed to form, its roots will live several years and form a turf. The root- penetrates deeply, and the leaves, while young, are greedily eaten by all kinds of stock. LONDON Gardeners' Chronicle: I think that the custom of beating pans, etc., originated in the desire to prove that a swarm of bees is still held in sight by the owner of the hive from from which it issued, and he took this means of warning his neighbors and maintaining his rights. THE Germantown (Pa.) Telegraph notes the fact that, as the Western States are Bteadily coming into form­ idable competition with each other in the production of tobacco, fruit, cheese, butter, vegetables, etc., the East is coming bock to wheat growing, and urges the seaboard farmers to jump in, raise all the wheat they can, export the surplus to Europe, and thus arrest what is called "the drain of the agricul­ tural districts to supply emigrants to the west. In fact," it says, "the East­ ern farmers have suffered in many ways from a policy wholly adverse to their interests, which has built up the West at their expense." * ' IN transplanting fruit trees place them shallower than they formerly stood. Roots, are of two kinds--the young and tender rootlets, composed entirely of cells, the feeders of trees, always fonnd near the surface, getting air and moisture; and roots of over one year old, which serve only as support­ ers of the tree and conductors of its food. Hence the injury that ensues when the tender rootlets are so deeply buried in the earth. Placing .fresh or green manure in contact with the young roots is another great error. The place to put manure is on the surface, where the elements disintegrate, dissolve and carry it downward. Numerous forms of fungi are generated and reproduced by the application of such manures directly to the roots, and they immedi­ ately attack the tree. It is very well to enrich the soil at transplanting the tree, but the manure, if it be in contact with or very near the roots, should be thorougly decomposed.--Ch icago Jour­ nal. THE appetite for good fruit has evi­ dently existed as long as the human race, and will continue while there are any grown people and children, the lat­ ter devouring what is fcreen and very- bad. The qnestion is as to the., rela­ tive quantity of early and perishable, and of long keepers. Perishable fruit must not be thrown on the market faster than the people within its reach can use it, no matter how excellent it may be. Long keepers may be re­ tained for months till wanted. There are three agencies which will greatly aid the extension of fruit growing, namely, the preservation of surplus perishing supplies by canning: the keep­ ing of fresh fruit in well constructed, air-cooled fruit houses; and by far the most important of all, the conversion of all fruits into the permanently-keeping- article by means of evaporators. When well dried, it will not decay; it may be handled without bruising, and its re­ duced weight renders it of easy and cheap conveyance on long journeys. Planters should make themselves well acquainted with the probable amounts for these different demands; producers and consumers should unite in extin­ guishing the attempted frauds of vari­ ous kinds which tend to injure or ruin the trade.--Chicago Herald. How MUCH CAPITAL TO THE ACRE?-- A pertinent and timely question, and a fitting one for discussion at any season of the year, is the one, "How much cap­ ital should be used to the acre of till­ able land?" The expenditure of capi­ tal in the employment of labor on wide areas of land, that are constantly deter­ iorating in their productive capacity, should be diverted to the more thorough and profitable culture of more limited areas. If, instead of applying all our surplus capital to increasing the num­ ber of acres, we would but deepen and enrich those we already possess, is there a doubt that we would not be the gainers by such a course ? A deep, rich soil is what we want, instead of a shal­ low one. In order to bring this about a proper system of culture, manuring, and rotation is necessary. So, also, is the annual seeding of tlte tillable lands with clover and other grasses, with the view of incorporating with the surface- soil a liberal supply of kuinus or vege­ table mould. In the preparation of a deep soil it is not best to bury the sur­ face-soil to an unusual depth, but to leave it on and near the surface, and, where the soil is a obmpact clay, to use the subsoil plow to aid in deepening it, so that the roots of the growing plants can penetrate it and assimilate the plant food that would otherwise remain un­ available.--Farm and Fireside. THE CAUSE OF GARGET.--The founda tion for a great many cases of garget is laid in the fall and winter when cows are l>eing dried off, by going too long without thoroughly milking out the bag. The long detention of milk pro­ duces swelling and inflammation, which linger till the bag l>egins to enlarge preparatory to another birth, and the consequence is an extraordinary hard­ ness and swelling, accompanied with inflammation and soreness that keep up for a long while, and often prove the ruin of a part or the whole of the ud­ der. Garget is generally curable, but not always. In mild cases the treat­ ment may be frequent bathing in tepid water with friction after each bathing. In severe cases the water used had bet­ ter be as hot as the animal can endure. When very severe, fomenting with hot water has proved efficacious. Cathar­ tics should always be given when the swelling is obdurate, and frequent and thorough milking in ail cases, and a spare diet allowed. Rubbing the bag frequently with some penetrating oil, like oil of terpentine diluted with lin­ seed oil to a strength that will not be injurious, or anointing with iodine salve, are valuable aids, and are often all that need be done. The daily use of a little saltpeter administered in the water drunk or in the feed is recom­ mended by some high authorities and has proven useful.--Prof. Arnold in the New York Tribune. HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. FRIED PARSNIPS.--Boil until tender in salted water; cut into slices, dredge with flour and fry brown. . BOILED MUTTON.--Cook fifteen min­ utes to the pound in salted water, take ont and wipe dry with a hot, wet cloth. Pour over all a cup of drawn butter. POTATO BALLS.--Season cold mashed potatoes; beat to a cream with melted butter. Add three beaten eggs. Roll into balls; dip in beaten eggs, then in bread crumbs, fry in hot lard. BREADED EGG PLANT.--Slice and pare the slices, lay in strong salt water one hour, wipe dry, dip in beaten egg and roll in pounded cracker, fry to a good brown, drain well and dish "hot. CHICKEN FRITTERS.--Cut a cold boiled chicken in small pieces, put in a dish and season with salt and pepper. Make a batter of three eggs, one pint of milk and flour; stir in the chicken and fry in hot lard. EGG SAUCE.--Roll one tablespoonfnl of butter in flour and stir it into one cup of meat broth; add two beaten eggs; boil one minute. Ponnd the yeke of four hard-boiled eggs and season; pour over the liquid. GRAHAM BISCUITS. -- Graham biscuits are made of two cups of graham flour, one cup and a half (scant measure) of sweet milk, one egg; stir all the lumps out. To insure a nice brown for the crust add one teaspoonful of sugar. Bake for twenty minutes. PICKLE* PEACHES.--Take six pounds of sugar to one quart of good cider vinegar; boil the peaehes in this (after rubbing off the fur, or peeling them, as you prefer), until a broom-splint will easily pierce the skin; stick some cloves into the peaches before putting them into the vinegar, and scatter a handful of stick cinnamon over them. GRAPE PIE.--Do not send to the table a grape pie the filling of which is at least one-third seeds; if you have not time to make the pie as it should be made, wait till a more convenient sea­ son, and stew the grapes without sugar first, and then the seeds can be removed with ease; then sweeten the grapes and fill the paste just as you do with other fruit. LEMON SPONGE.--The juice of four lemons, four eggs, one cupful of sugar, half a package of gelatine, one gener­ ous pint of water. Soak the gelatine two hours in half a cupful of water. Squeeze the lemons and strain the juice on the sugar. Beat the yelks of the eggs and mix them with the remainder of the water. Add the sugar and lemon to this and cook in the double boiler until it begins to'thicken; then add the gelatine. Strain this mixture-into a tin basin, which place in a pan of ice-water. Beat with the whisk occasionally until it has cooled, but not hardened. Now add the unbeaten whites of the eggs, and beat all the time until the mixture begins to thicken. Let it thicken al­ most to the point where it cannot be poured, and then turn into a mold and set away to harden. Remember that the whites of the eggs must be added as soon as the mixture cools, which should be in abont six or eight minutes, and that the mixture must be beaten until it begins to harden. The hardening is rapid after it once begins, so that it will be necessary to have the molds all ready. The sponge will not be smooth and delicate if not poured into the molds. If for any reason you should get the mixture too hard before injur­ ing, place the basin in another of hot water and let the sponge melt a little, then beat it up again. Serae with powdered sugar and cream. « Conclusive. « .•>; Before Alexander Fletcher became a famous London preacher, he was set­ tled over a Sootch church, as the col­ league of the Rev. Mr. Kidstone. His preaching was characterized^ by a sprightly, flowing style rather loan by logic and doctrine. This led the peo­ ple, while he was "candidating" for the position, to doubt his orthodoxy. Bu k one sermon so delighted them that the ' gave him "the call." As he came dow* from the pulpit, the Rev. Mr. Kidston * said to him. with great suavity,-- "Weel, Sandie, I must admit you'io vara soun', but, oh, man, youre na' deep!" The Scotch rightly insisted that the minister should be a good pastor as well as a sound preacher. He is, ac­ cording to the Scotch idea, a shepherd of the flock, whose duty obliges him to look after each sheep during the week­ days, as well as to feed them when fold­ ed in the kirk, on Sunday. An old Scotch wife once administered a stinging rebuke to an indolent minis­ ter who neglected his pastoral duty. Shortly after his settlement, over the church, the clergy called on one of its members, a poor, old, deaf man. He promised to eall often and pray with him; but the promise was not heedfed for two years. One day, while walking through the street where the deaf man lived, and, seeing his wife at the door, he stopped to inquire after husband. "Weel, Margaret, how is Tammas?" "None the better o'you!" was her curt reply. "How! how! Margaret?" exclaimed the minister,taken aback at the woman's cnrtness. "Oh, ye promised twa years syne to ca' and pray once a fortnight wi' him, and ye hae ne'er darkened the door sin' syne!" answerefl the indignant wife. "Weel, weel, Margaret! don't be short! I thought it was not necessarv to call and pray with Tammas, for he's sae deaf ye ken he canna hear me." "But, sir, the Lord's na deaf!" an­ swered the woman, with all the dignity of a mother in Israel, reproving a way- yard prophet. -- Leisurely Behind the Agfc The languid gracefulness of' r) the women of Baltimore, which is due to the enervating climate, and a multitude of servants and the half torpid sleepy quiet of the city, the result of the same cause, has an indescribable charm for the worried and hurried Northerner. The people there are firm believers in the maxim laid down by femerson that all haste is vulgar. They move about leisnrely and quietly, and speak with a slow sort of drawl, which to a nervous person is almost exasperating, but which is the heighth of southern cul­ ture. Their open-handed disposition is proverbial, and in no part of America is their politeness and courtesy exceed­ ed. They speak admiringly of the en­ ergy and push of the northern ladies, but have no %mbition to emulate them. They do not mind being told, in public or private, that they are behind the age, and repeat the following story with an "I reckon it is true" at it's close, with­ out any feeling of regret that it is so. A stranger in the city asked of a native Baltimorean the difference in time be­ tween New York and Baltimore. "By minutes upon the dial," was the answer, "ten; but in reality, 100 years."--Cleve­ land Herald. THE extent of this country will long prevent its full homogeneity, and no man is fully known over the entire land except P. T. Barnum.--Gath. GREAT results are the outcome of small beginnings. MISSISSIPPI BANDITTI. Resolutions fetMed by » Democratic Meet- In^ h1>i|>tah County. Miss. [From the Weekly Copiahan.] ? We copy from the Meteor the ApP- (owing resolutions adopted by a mass- meting held in Hazlehurst on the 7tli of November, J. L. Meade, Chairman; Jesse Thompson, Jr., and C. L Allen, Secretaries: WtaEHEAS, Certain rumors are current that the relatives of the late J. P. Matthews have threatened the pence of society In order to avenge his death by killing- Democrats and destroying'their property; now thereforebe it Remit red. By thu peopie of Copiah county. In mass meeting assembled this day at the court-house of said county, that if any person shall bo injured, or attempted to be injured, either In person or property any manner, by the said relatives or friends of said J. P. Matthews, that we hereby de­ clare that we will bold his eaid relatives or friends who participate accountable for the rame, and that we hereby regard them with­ out the pale and protection of the law and com­ mon enemies of society, and that we will visit upon them certain and swift retribution; be It further >hvd, That so long as the said relatives and friends of J. P. Matthews obey the law. as becomes good citixens, we hereby pledge them the protection of the law. Hexuhrd, Further, that in the opinion of this meeting it is necessary to the safety of society and the welfare of all races and classes in thi» county, that hereafter the Matthews family shall keep out of politics in Copiah county. Removed, Fuither, that from henceforth no man, or set of men, shall organize the negro race a$a'nst the whites in this county, and that if it shall be attempted in the future we hereby give notice that it shall be at the peril of the person or persons attempting so to do. Re*<A ird. That we do hereby pledge our­ selves, each to the other, bur lives and for­ tunes and our sacred honor, that we will all and individually from henceforth hold ourselves in readiness to enforce the tore- going resolutions, and to meet at any time upon the call of the Chairman of this meet­ ing. iffsoftW, That a committer? of twenty-four from each Supervisor's district be appointed by the I'hair to present a copy of these resolu­ tions to the brothers and sons of the late J. P. Matthews, and that the same be publ shed in the Copiah Sfjnal and the .Crystal Springs Meteor. ItcMtlred, by the citizens of Copiah county in mass meeting assembled. That the honors heretofore worn (and worthily so) by Beat No. 2 be and the sante are hereby awarded to Beat No. 3. Be it further iiwolred, That this resolution is by no means to reKect upon the past and present services of Beat No. 2, but to show our ap­ preciation of the result of the election of the ticket iu Beat No. 3. it was also iicKoliTii, That the clubs continue their or­ ganizations. and consider themselves pot dis­ banded, subject to the call of the Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee. Rcxolvcd. That the thanks of this meeting be extended to the Hazlehurst brass band fur their sorvices on this occasion. and freely extended as it is in the North the bloody shirt will be waved. The fault lies at the door of the South. So long as a white or black Republican is disfranchised by violence on tbe one hand, or trickery on the other, it will be waved. So long as men are mur­ dered, persecuted, terrorized, tortured, or driven from their homes for speak­ ing or voting their opinions, it will be waved. So long as legitimate majori­ ties are suppressed by fraud it will be waved. So long as every election in the South is characterized by brutal outrages and nnblushing corruption on the part of Bourbons, it will be waved, and the Richmond State need not lay the flattering unction to its soul that its complaints or whines are going to stop it.--Chicago Tribune. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS, The Bloody Shirt. The Richmond (Va.) State, one of the most prominent Bourbon organs of the South, assail* the Republican pa­ pers of the North and charges that they, are wantonly vilifying and traducing that section by their comments upon the "affair" at Danville, the "affair" at Copiah, and the various other "affairs" wnich have occurred in South Carolina and elsewhere. It declares that they are appealing to prejudice, ignorance, and sectional animosity, that they are seekipg to "arouse again that danger­ ous spirit which should long ago have ceased to exist in this country, and that they are waving the bloody shirt to arouse sectional hate and promote par­ tisan ends." *" If the Richmond State does not want the bloody shirt waved, then why does it not join hands with other Bourbon papers in the South and urge its people to remove the necessity of waving it ? They have it in their own hands to stop the waving of the ensanguined banner any time they choose. All thev have to do is to demand of their peopie that persecution, bulldozing and murder shall stop; that every man in the South shall have the right to vote as he pleases, free from intimidation and peril to life; that the negro shall have the same right to go to the polls and deposit his vote that a Bourbon lias, and that his vote shall be counted the same; and that Republicans shall have the right to ex­ press their opinions, to declare them on the stump, and to carry elections where they happen to be in the major­ ity. If this were done there would be no waving of the bloody shirt, there would be no cause for unfriendly criti­ cism of Southern political methods, and it is little less than folly to suppose that the North will stand ;dly by and witness such rank political injustice and persecution, and the disfranchise­ ment of thousands of Republicans, without condemning it. Does the Richmond State, in its de­ nunciations of Northern newspapers for waving the bloody sliirl', mean to imply that there is anything like politi­ cal justice or equality in the South? That voters who oppose Bourl>onism are allowed a free aud unrestricted ex­ ercise of the ballot ? That a negro has the same political freedom as a white Bourbon ? That in any city, county or district where there is a Republican majority, however overwhelming it may be, that majority can be voted and de­ clared? That when the negro vote cannot be suppressed by violence, it is not counted out by every fraudulent device that ingenuity can suggest ? If so, then the history of events in the South during the last year and through many previous years stamps the im­ plications as false. The record of the last year, the massacre at Danville, the murder at Copiah, the frauds in the South Carolina Congressional dis­ tricts, which the National Government is now investigating, the reduction of the vote in representative districts at least 50 per cent, below the average vote in the North, show that there is no intention in the South to depart from the policy which it has pursued for years of deny­ ing free suffrage and practically re­ stricting it to Bourbons. Mr. Matthews was shot down like a dog at Copiah for no other reason than that he voted against the Bourbons. The Coroner declined to hold an inquest. The mur­ derer gave himself up and was set free at once. The entire Bourbon commu­ nity met and passed resolutions com­ mending his act, and the murderer has announced himself a ' candidate for Mayor and will be elected upon the sole issue of murder. This is the violent method. The other is the fraud method, and it was so gross in South Carolina that the United States Court at Colum­ bia will try the knaves who were en­ gaged in it, which the State will prob­ ably regard as another wave of the bloody shirt. Any infraction of Na­ tional or State election laws that will insure the success of the Bourbon ticket and suppress Republican majori­ ties is considered justifiable in the South, and any exposure of such in­ justice or demand for equal political rights is resented as hostile to the South. The South, as we have said, has it in its power to bury the bloody shirt out of sight at any time by conceding to all its people the right to speak and act and vote as they please without inter­ ference, but until that right is as fully An Incident ef Gettysburg* here's where I came to grief,* said a Twelfth Regiment man, as he stood upon Seminary Ridge. "How did it happen?" was asked. "Well," said he, "if you wish I'll tell you. but I fear 1 may be wearisome. I "always had the uneviable reputation of talking too much, and on that 1st day of July, 1863, my propensity to be too loquacious came ^ery near ending my career. You see thev brought us up to tho brow of this hill on tho double quick, and we found we had a beautiful chance to get a cross-fire on a brigade of 'Johnnies' that lay down there in the open field. We peppered them awhile, and then our boys began to shout 'Forward!' and 'Charge.' I don't think the order came through the regularly constituted channels. It was a sort of spontaneous and voluntary movement on the part of the men, who were brim full of fight on this occasion. The Colonel and Adjutant both tried to find out 'Who gave that order but all we knew about it was that everybody in the regiment was shouting 'forward.' The advance was inevitable, so our officers placed themselves in our front and away we went like a whirlwind. We had cap tured and driven in all but about twenty or thirty rebs, Sifter a slight re­ sistance, and my propensity to talk was so strong upon me that I couldn't help telling the 'Johnnies' that were hanging behind all about our good treatment of prisoners, etc., and thus I didn't notice when the regiment went back to its old positjon. When I came to my senses I found J was alone. I concluded I would go back, and so informed them, but they very emphatically ordered me to remain. Now, something had to be done, so I quickly determined to take my chances of instant death gather than perish by the slower method of disease and starvation, and I informed them in not very elegante terms, modes of ex­ pression that I do not novr use, that they might go straight to a very warm country. Then I ran, ami th^. faster the bullets came the faster I ran, until after a while a bullet, from the right came and struck me iu the left groin and down I' went. Oh, von needn't laugh; the bullet struck me in front, I'mhappy to say, and I've never re­ gretted the decision I made in such a hurry." " What became of you after­ ward?" was asked. "Well, I lay there unable to move, till nearly dark, and had a good chance to review the rebel army, as most of it swept over me. Ar­ tillery wheels and horses' feet came un­ comfortably near, but I escaped death --providentially, it always seemed to me. About sunset the 'Johnnies'car­ ried me back to the Pennsylvania Col­ lege, but it would make too long a sto­ ry to tell all my experiences there. I will only say that from that point, lying near an open door, I could see many of the movements of the rebel army, in­ cluding the formation and advance of Pickett's division, and could hear the yells of the rebs as they swept forward, and the hurrah of our boys, when the charge was repulsed. There were fif­ teen of us wounded men at the college --the other 700 were rebs--and we cheered, too, when our bovs did, until the rebs threatened to kill ns if we didn't stop. . I shall never forget the four terrible days I passed there-- days of alternate hope and fear--nor the joy I felt on that morning when gray coats went away and blue coats appeared. But I'm getting back into my old habit >f talking too much. Please excuse me. I'm apt to forget myself when thinking of those days."--yfteetou Journal ' * Government Credit In Europe. National credit has had its dangers in the past, in the extreme East and the extreme West, from Oriental gov­ ernments and from North American States or South American republics; but the day is olose at hand when a great crash of government credit is coming in Central Europe. The debts cf "Europe," and this practically means the larger half of Europe west of Russia, have risen, in fifteen vears, from $13,200,000,000 to $21,600,000,000; the cost of government has risen one- half, and the cost of national arma­ ments in still greater ratio, until they cost $900,000,000 a year, keep idle 3,200,000 men and employ 1,800 vessels. Meanwhile there is scarcely a land­ owner, whether bending over the spade and walking between the plow-handles or taking rent from tenants, who does not find his labor worth less than it was by reason of the cheap food which floods*Europe fiom beyond the sea and takes pay in the precious tribute of men. The end is certain in the sudden sloughing off of the gigantic mortgage now lying on Europe, and which is rob­ bing it of almost every advantage which capital needs for high profit in an old c,gentry.--Philadelphia Press. Tub Treasurer of Chicago has Sl,80MHA«wi»i V * l/tafcfta bank. i*' W*. p. MAUCNDM at Jtoepwt a fat'L# . (lays siaee, ia Us 09th year.' tteWaMoo*ltfg^t^f '. • • • heaviest pain dealer In Northwestern lib- ' ' -A nois. W. WooDKtrtT, a livery man, returning tat Havana from Lewiston. drove into tbe Illinois river through the draw and was. drowned. %?' . . . . . . . r - ' I x t s i n g l e d a y a t C h i c a g o r e c e n t l y f i f t y lawsuits were instituted by as many miUBtt- ed couples, who sought relief from tbe yok* *; of matrimony. THE average depth of drain net* wary e '• drain Nigger lake, Mason county, is five feffft'" 4. * " six inches. The probable cost ia estimate^ > ^ at $4,000. The contract has been let. A SCBOHOIXATE body of the new Order of the Triadlc Alliance has been formon; 5 - at Freeport. The society, which is a bene*^.^ flcial one, was incorporated under the Illinois law^ ' * Tea Wil8os lost $15? la a Decatur gambling room. Reswore out-a warrant for' the arrest of John Blackburn and WUUauiM1 Bradley, charging them with gambling. Both; - were heavily flnedi THE Pike County bank, of Plttsfleld, failed, with heavy liabilities, and but $5&,C0^ assets. It is thought the creditors will 50 per cent. It is alleged that speculations by the cash!er caused the crash. ~ '• W&F THERE was a party of Government sar„?v. ^ s. V * \ "• j?- ^ veyors at Rock Island the other day taking ( ' observations and sounding the dfepth of river, it Is reported that eady in the spring •' f ' the entire barber will te thoroughly dregej 1 >t \ and the channel greatly deepened and widlr Nwnf 9 \cl'r e n e d . v } , f ' f • THE right, of way has- been secured an#<v.\:<- ' Von\1 contracts have been made for the construe ^ | tion of the Springfield and Southern railwajv^,. running from the former city to Murphy%* ^ •* J • i boro. 160 miles. D. T. Mclntyre, of Mattoon*. ' f .. is President of the company and ex-GoV. * *-1 K-0 •. Palmer is one of the Directors. ' EX-HE v. HOITMAN, who was expelled from4**' if*" Mr/" *1 the Methodist Episcopal church, charged with " if immoral conduct, is a hard man to dowi^'^ j He began a series of sermons at MooTTiingto#"'> » kl V ̂ * ' * i last Sunday night, intending to found a nef< ,7\.; 1 church, and had an immence audience, hun> *> dreds being unable to obtain admission. ,| * JVDOK JOHN M. WILSON, who died in Chi.J? " 4 .'4 "* i cago recently, had teen a resident of thajt city since 1841, and had filled many positions 11 •':?*;: J|f of trust and honor in the community. It waif * he who, after the great fire of 1JTC1, built tin . _ .. * * .. ill-starred Central hotel. The failure of .thi^'.., 0$^ <• enterprise involved Its owner tnaaetaily^ aai; 3s he was never afterward able to retrMre Ml • *• : a _ \ f o r t u n e s . t y " % . -Zv 4 ' Parallel Reaiarks of tireat IM, In Bartlett's "Dictionary of Familiar Quotations," says the Pittsburgh Dig- patch, Lincoln's "Government of the people, by the people, for the people," is paralleled by similar phrases from earlier speeches by Theodore Parker and Daniel Webster. No original is suggested, however, for the equally famous passage from the second in­ augural address: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firm­ ness in the right, as God gives us to see the right." The following expres­ sion, however, bears so close a re­ semblance as to be worth quoting: "In charity with all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do." It occurs at the close of the letter addressed by John Quincy Adam*, on .July 150, 1838, to A. Bronson, of Fall River, Mass., in response to an invitation to attend a celebration, on Aug. 1, of the final abolition of slavery in the British West Indies. ^ THEBE is no use for money equal to that of beneficence; here the enjoy­ ment grows on re ect on, and our money in most truly ours when it ceases to be in our possession---MaeJtetme- / . :: CONGRESSMAN GEORGE R. DAVIS, of the - Third Illinois district tChicago), hall prepared *" . ft b i i l s f o r t h e p r o m o t i o n o f G e n & S h e r i d a n a n j j | ' • , $ , * Hnnoock: to force the Pubi c Printer to «<%f - 1 ^ ^ vertise in Chicago for supplies; to permit the v1*. * * 'f use of Eearborn park for a public library; appropriate $808,000 for Chicago harbor, ani%p^i^;. to place on the retired list, as a Brigadier'11 " * , ' " % General, the name of Col. John K. faith, of •' " V „ , Chicago. ' ' *'*' • - *'-J- THE present City Council of Pans* which ia 2" ^ anti- icense, has secured the indictment of | iali» * gallon-house man near that city, and also a •» - - ? • druggist within the city, both on the charge* ^ of selling liquor contrary to law. The ga)» t l o n - h o u s e m a n h a s g i v e n b e n d s a n d w i l l f l g M t ' 1 his case through the courts, whrle the drug* * gist pleaded guilty and has settled hiscais .̂̂ A- •'A a cost of nearly $1C0. ^ *'.1$ '** THE sum of $13,000 was saved to the Unioa ip- " National bank ef Chicago by the almost acc^..^ dental detection of a clever forgery. A ma|i',: 41 named Mackey-Joley presented a sight draiBt" for £3,500 on London which was apparent^ v all right; and the book-keeper was aboet tj*' '" purchase the draft at the market rates wkc||^ his suspicions were aroused, an investigatiosli^ was set on fcot, the forgery wad dctopte4^( and Mr. Mackey-Joley ledged In Jali. - ; X' : '-It: -•-am THE neighborhcod of Blount towndiip^ai few miles from Danville, is somewhat excited over recent developments in a rather strange love affair. The parties are George W. Lur cas, 42 years of age, with a wife and five c h i l d r e n , a n d M i s s L o u i s a B l a n k e n b u r g , i f 1 years of age, who had arranged an elope-. ment and secured a package of strychnine t(f be taken in case their plans were discovered^ i The girl, becoming alarmed at the serious a#1"* pect of the afTair, revealed the secret. ^ ^ # AN eight years'litigation has been tenai*"^ - ;*^ . nated at Charleston by a verdict for $9,430 ip, *, addition to $8,030 previously paid in acon|> , promise with the guardian of the mino^, ^ Children. The suit was by the widow forhef^^ ^ * self and children in Hayes ft Hayes vs. Tfcie-*^" Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Com­ pany to recover the amount of a policy fojw** ft; t i $12,000 and aocrued Interest, notwithstanding^, : said compromise, receipt in full, and su^*|^, ^ ^ render of the policy by said guardian eight years ago. The refusal of the company was - based on alleged intemperance and frau«t^'®. • ulent answers on this point in the applic^^1' '• t i o n . > ? « ? ' , ; A HEM ARK ABLE tragedy occurred at thiNM1 nrifgi Houfe Chicago, one evening lately^* Fat Kinsley, Lead-waiter, had impugned character of Fadle Kaigh, a waitress. The women in the dormitory had repeated Kin^-::* ley's remarks with considerab e malice an|i ^!«.. ! ,. lolly, and the ti'l made up her mind to sue^Vt her de:ractor. 1-indlng thut her mpney wouli not go far enough to bring the vengeance of tbe law cn his ht ad, she paid out her wage#' for a revolver and shot Kinsley fata'.ljV When asked if she had considered the const^ quences of her deed, she said: '-I am a p->or working-girl. All I've got is my honor, ttnl,\y. I'm going to defend that if I hang for it!" ^ f ,• ' , J BLOODY fight oocurred in Justice Albert's* l- * ' office, at Tecatur, the other day. Lewlf Ernest, a colored janitor, clothed wiih pi;lie^'s' r authority, arrested a white toy named JameS^:.ff ; . t. Bail* y for disorderly conduct, and brough^ V, «v him to court. The father of the boy followed^- s with a rock in his pocket and proceeded t<f$f ? tlog the negro. The two fought for thirty (<;~ minutes, knot king over the stove and throw* in* about chairs. Wfcen separated both me4^:fr were lloody ard their clothing was torn. Bailey took bis boy away from the negro and went down on the street. He was after-( ward arrested on two warrants, and Bailey also had the negro arrested. The fight creau ed a big *-(nsation. THE attorneys for John F. Bert-ill are pre* paring to petition the Supreme court for a rehearing of his case. Burrill was Secretary of the Illinois Grand Lodge of V s^ons, and at.' the February term of tbe Macoupin County Circuit court was convicted ©: stealing $2,"-»« from the lodge, and sentenced to fire years*' imprisonment at c heater, where he row is. The point in error on which the petition will be based is that tho revenue of the Grande lodge would not amount to the sum claims as embe/.zled and the amount paid tbe Orand Treasurer. The same point was rated during^1 the trial, but was ruled out by the court asi*4 Incompetent, for the reason that it was shown;, that Burriil received the money, receipted; for it, and did not account for it to the Gtand, Tre 1 surer.} 1 he court held that the legality : of the levy oould not enter into the question Of Burrill s guilt or innocence. t, THIRTEEN divorces wore granted by fth*v' ;cuit iwiy .iMfilwv" 1 ' ' -» ̂ ' ' , . * •m