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»r , ry t- L -v - ^ q. f^f.*! Soil whole for an hour. ,: r I. VAN SLVip. URer aatf PaMshsr. McHENBY, ILLINOIS IK -is; ••* • •:• fc;: IT has been discovered that a citizen of Cincinnati who fell dead in a railway car the other day was poisoned by > tobacco emote. He was an oeoedsas! sufferer from heart disuse, tad the ^rouble was so aggravated by the suf- ocating smoke of the car that he died after breathing it a few minutes. The car in which he rode had only one com­ partment for men, woman and children, and the smokers were allowed full •way in it. Two other male passengers were overcome by the tobacco fumes. M. PASTEUB has communicated to the Academic des Science* the results of his experiments with rabies. The most interesting of his statements is that he Can render dogs insusceptible to infec­ tion by inoculating them with a modi­ fied, virus, Hydrophobia is, however, declining in Paris. According to a re­ cent report there were but 6 cases of it in human beings in 1883, whilb in 1882 there were 11, and in 1881 the - number reached 17. Among the ani- : mala there were 615 cases in 1881, 276 in 1882, and 182 in 1883. DB. SAVOBY says in the. British Medical Journal, that among the chief causes of injury to the health from gambling, is the prolonged mental strain which becomes necessary to the maintenance of self-control during ex­ tended periods of intense excitement. He cites the case of a lady who had lately returned from Monte Carlo much broken 'down in health, and greatly weakened by the severe fits of exhaus­ tion from which she invariably suffered after an hour or two at the gaming table. She said that her ability to con­ tinue the game was determined by the extent of her power to sustain an aspect of indifference in the presence of spec­ tators. A VARIETY of stories, each one more improbable than the other, about the diamonds presented by the Khedive of Egypt to Miss Sherman, now Mrs. Fiteh, are afloat. For some years they re­ mained locked up in the Custom-house at New York. Congress then passed a resolution exempting them from duty, and they were taken to Tiffany, who pronounced them worth between $40,- 000 and $50,000. With the consent of Mrs. Fitch, they were divided equally • in four parts, one for her, one for Mrs. Thackara, one for Sherman, and the other for Miss Bachel Sherman. So each one of the general's daughters had a set of solitaire earrings, a breastpin, and necklace. They very seldom wear them, however. ZOLA is thus described by M. OFLT de Maupassant: "Zola is of average height, rather stout, and has a good-natured though obstinate look. His head, very like those which are found in many of the old Italian paintings, without being handsome, shows great power and in­ telligence. His hair, cut short, stands upright on a well-developed brow; his nose is straight and cut square, as if by a too sharp stroke of a chisel; he wears a rather thick moustache, and the lower portion of his fat but energetic face is covered with a beard cut close to the chin. He is short-sighted, and has dafrk and penetrating eyes, which seem to search you through and through while a certain movement of the upper lip gives the mouth a peculiar and mocking appearance." A DAKOTA paper gives the following s description of the approach of a bliz­ zard: "Until about 4.15 p. in. the day was sunny, pleasant, and with a tem­ perature as mild as spring. The streets were filled with people, and ladies were promenading in the enjoyment of the ethereal mildness. Suddenly, and with­ out the slightest warning, a solid white wall of frost and snow appeared in the northwest. It seemed as though the bluff's in the direction had suddenly shot upward to a height of 1,000 feet, so solid and compact did this icy wall appear. In a second of time the storm burnt with appaling fury, and the windows, which had by the mildness of the atmosphere become clear of frost, wore heavily coated with clinging snow on the outside and heavy frosted par­ ticles on the inside. The air grew ter­ ribly cold, and was darkened by flying frost and snow. The high walls of the hotel directly opposite were not to be seen. All objccts were hidden by the- flving and rapidly driven snow. People on the streets sought shelter, and the stores were temporarily used for protec­ tion from the fierceness of the howling blast. Darker grew the atmosphere, to such an extent that business in the of­ fice was stopped until lights were pro. cured." MRS. FRANK"LESLIE, who is scfon to be married to the Marquis de Leuville, is said to be the smartest business wo­ man in Now York. By her sagacity and prudonco the estate left by her hue- band, who seems to have been an extrav­ agant bon vivant, has been raised from bankruptcy into a "condition of great prosperity. She is a wondrously charm­ ing lady, of handsome, dignified pres­ ence, varied accomplishments, and re- mar bablc conversational powers. The Marquis is younger than Mrs. Leslie, aud is said to be a most engaging gen­ tleman. Ho has great wealth, and is closely devoted to literature and art. Not long ago he published a volume of meritorious poems. Last fall he over­ heard a foreign nobleman make the slightest remark about Mrs. Leslie, and the result was a duel, fought in Bel­ gium. It is that Uus incident had much to do with bringing the fair widow to terms. The Marquis haa the ptltfcttoa of being one of the best pis-j tol-shots in the world. The announce-: ment of his early marriage to Mrs. Leslie is by no means a surprise, al­ though it has been variously hinted that the lady was enamored of Joaquin Miller, the poet The truth is that Mrs. Leslie has always admired Miller, but whatever she hss do&e for hi™ has been done purely from a desire to en­ courage a man whose gifts and powers she deemed worthy of encouragement. WHATEVER they may say, said Bear Admiral Ammen to a New York report­ er, all that they are doing at Panama looks to the construction of the eanal that must have 124 feet lockage, and will then cost $200,000,000, in addition to the $100,000,000 called in on stock or obtained on bonds. About $20,000,000 has gone to 'the founders and sub-found­ ers ; about as much more for the pur­ chase of the Panama Railroad, and 10 per cent, in advertising and, extra fee to bankers; and as much more to con­ tractors as a bonus. I have from an engineer, conversant with the work, that every cubic metre of hard ground excavated costs $2.50, which is five times what it should cost even there. But the difficulty, even for a lock canal, is to get rid of the excavated material. An enormous amount of evcavation will be required to get proper slopes in the Calebra cut. This is almost wholly in earth, and the summit level of the rail­ road is a mere "hog's back,"--that is to say, it has very steep grades on both sides. The cut was made only twenty- five feet deep, because of the tendency of the earth to slide. In fact a train was caught in this gap by a slide, and it required days to dig it out. The earth had to be carried off in buckets and it was like putty. If the canal has a lockage of 125 feet then the deep cut will be at least 200 feet. So you see what a cut in width it must be, and what the land slides will be after heavv A RUSSIAN paper publishes a pen picture of the mother of Turgenieff, which is anything but flattering. The lady was proud and vain to the point of folly, ruling her children as despotically as her slaves. She was as proud of her noble descent as of her inches, and af­ ter she became a widow her arrogance knew no bounds. She ordered her household like to a royal one; her serfs bore the title of office in use at court. Thus her postboy was called postmas­ ter general; her steward, chief of the gendarmes, and so forth. No one might speak to her unless addressed. Not even her sons might appear in her presence unannounced. And when her eldest son, Nicholas, married without her consent, she withdrew from him all pecuniary aid, and let him suffer the most cruel privations. When, in 1849, the cholera broke out in her district, she happened to hear |hat the infec­ tion was spread by means of bacteria that pervaded the air and were breathed in with it. She thereupon ordered her steward of the household to eonstrnct for her some contrivance bv means of which she could see objects when going out of doors without breathing the pes­ tilential air. She therefore caused a kind of sedan chair to be made with a glass roof, which had the appearance of one of thoso ohests in which in the Greek church the figures of saints are borne abroad. Thus it came about that,' going out in her machine, a pious per­ son who saw it pass fell on his knees according to custom, crossed himself, and offered the bearer a penny for the good of the church. •y Neighbor on tlie Corner. I am mad at the man on the south­ west corner of the block, and he is mad at me, and it's all on account of nothing at all. We bought a mantle and grate just alike and costing the same price. We had tilling just of the same pattern, laid down by the same man. For five years we were like brothers. If I had a sick horse I consulted him. We went over to his house to play old sledge, and his family came over to my house to play croquet. I'd have turned out of bed at midnight of the darkest night you ever saw, and walked twenty miles through the mud thirty feet deep, to bring a doctor, in the case of sickness, and I'm certain he'd have done fallv as much for me. In an unfortunate hour my brother- in-law from Chicago paid me a visit. He said the mantle was very handsome,, and the grate a perfect beauty, and added: "But you want a brass fender." "No!" " "Certainly you do. It will be an im­ mense improvement." A day or two after he returned home he sent me a brass fender from Chicago. He not only sent it as a present, but paid the express charges. Some one told the man on the corner that I had a brass fender. "It can't be!" "But he has." "I'll never believe it" "But I've seen it." "Then he is a scoundred of the deep­ est dye. Some folks would mortgage their soul for the sake of showing off a little!" When the remark was bronght to me I turned red, clear back to the collar- button. I called the southwest corner man a liar and a horse-thief. I said that his grandfather was hanged for murder and that his oldest brother was in State prison. I advised him to sell out and go to the Cannibal Islands, and offered to buy his house and turn it into a soap factory. The usual result followed. He killed my cat and I shot his dog. He com­ plained of my alley and I made him put down a new sidewalk. He called my horse an old plug, and I lied about his cow and spoilt a sale. ^ He got my church pew away by paying a higher price, and I destroyed his credit at the grocery. He is now maneuvering to have the city compel me to move my barn back nine feet, and I have all the arrangements made to buy the house next to him and rent it to an under­ taker as a coffin wareroom.--M. Quad, is AGRICULTURAL. PLUMB thrive best on soil which is rich and naturally moist, but which has ftlso been well drained. A NEW YORK dairyman says that at 8} cents per quart milk is more profit­ able than butter at 28 cents a pound. IT costs, as estimated. $400 per acre to transform a swamp into a cranberry meadow; the profits of the business, however, justify even this heavy ex­ pense in getting the land into bear­ ing condition. DIFFERENT opinions are expressed by fruit-growers as to the best time for cutting out the old canes of raspberries after they have done bearing. Some prune out as soon as the orop is gathered; others wait till the leaves have fallen, while a third class do all the pruning early in the spring. SWEET potatoes raised in moist parts of the West the past season are of very poor quality. The flesh is extremely soft and watery. The season doubtless­ ly had much to do in influencing their quality. The best sweet potatoes are produced during hot and dry snmmers. The past one was moist and cool To KEEP off mice and rabbits wash trees with a mixture of quicklime, sul­ phur and whale-oil soap. Make the mixture of the same consistency as whitewash for walls. A tablespoonful of sulphur is enough for twenty trees. If you object to a whitewash, add enough lampblack to color the mixture. A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Tribune recommends a tub largest at the bottom and tapering at the top, of sufficient size to contain a year's supply, as the best package in which to store pork; If packed properly the meat will not rise in the tub, being held down by the slant of the side. It should be put down edgeways in laying as solid as possible. THE different varieties of potatoes were discussed at a meeting of the Ohio Horticultural Society. Air. Campbell bad grown the mammoth pearl for two years, and found them healthy and handsome, but lacking in quality. Col. Innis had raised twenty' acres of them and regarded them excellent. They sold freely in Columbus. Mr. Pink- ham intended to discard mammoth pearl and raise only snowflake, which he found better and superior to early rose. G. H. Miller found mammoth pearl a fine yielder, but not quite of the best quality. Mr. Innis had tried snowflake, but ndver got anything valuable from it. So the doctors disagreed, as to taste, treatment, soil, time of planting, etc. THE Swiss cow is large bodied, bat fine boned, of the style of a shorthorn; the horns are large, short, clear and tipped with black; the color is chestnut brown, mixed with white; the nose, tongue, hoofs and switch are black; a mealy-colored band surrounds the black nose; the udder and teats are large and well formed, and while they differ to a great extent from our common notions about the right form which a cow should have, yet they are excellent and profitable cows, yielding twenty or twenty-five quarts daily, and the milk is rich in butter of an excellent quali­ ty. The skin is yellow, soft, elastic and covered with soft silky hair; they carry remarkable escutcheons and are extremely even in appearance, showing careful and good breeding, for a con­ siderable length of time. , SEED CORN.--The Germantown Tele­ graph says it is not sufficient that seed Wfll merely grow. There are degrees bf vitality. Some will grow when the Conditions are all favorable, but perish or have a sickly growth if vicissitudes occur. Seed corn should be so full of vitality that cold or wet will not prove fatal. A good practice for large corn raisers is to plant & small piece with the very best type of seed and under the verv best conditions of ground, preparation, and culture. From this select seed for the main crop, and again select from this the approved type and the best for the next year's patch for seed. This practice continued may be expected to secure a uniform type of corn and more constitutional vigor. The great American crop is worthy of our most careful study, in order to achieve the best possible results. HINTS ON POULTRY RAISING.--Mr. A. M. Halstead, an Eastern poultry raiser and the author of a recent work on artificial incubation, gives the fob lowing suggestions on the location of a yard and the construction and the ar­ rangement of the buildings: In the first place, the site of the yard should be a dry situation, with a southern or southeastern slope. If on the bank of a lake or pond, well; but a small run­ ning stream is preferable. A rough piece of land, with some underbrush or rocks, is not objectionable, unless the rocks are broken or piled up, so as to .make a harbor tor rats or weasles. Some underbrush is desirable for shade. Currtilt buslies make good shade, and their fruit is good for the fowls. In the buildings to shelter the fowls it is bet­ ter to hare a number of small houses rather than one of large zizc for the breeding stock. A convenient as well as an economical way is to build each house double, that is to shelter two yards of fowlB, letting the dividing fence join the house in the center. Houses twelve feet long by six feet wide will make two apartments, each large enoagh to accommodate fifty hens and four cocks, which u:as many as should be kept together. Ventilation must not be overlooked, and in hot weather should be ample. The yard for this number of fowls should not be less than one-eighth of an acre, two- thirds of which should be in grass; the remainder should be in bare earth and should be plowed or spaded in alter­ nate portions every week. A small shed, not necessarily over three feet high should be constructed, and under this prepare the dusting ground on fine sand, wood ashes and a little tobacco dust In another part of the yard place a trough or shallow box, in which keep a supply of fine gravel. In case, however, the soil of the yard is gravelly this is not necessary. In fencing tbe yards the height of fences will have to be regulated by the breed of fowls kept. The Asiarjc fowls will stay in­ side of almost 5iv sort of inclosure while the Leghorns and other light- bodied fowls will readily fly over a fence six feet liigbt. In addition to the building for the breeding stock, there will be required a setting or hatching room, a nursery for the young chicks, which should be partially covered with glass, and a second building into which they can be renspved when fivo or six weeks old. Theorize of these buildings is of course to be governed by the ex­ tent of the business. HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. OYSTER PLANT STEWED.--Scrape and throw at once into cold water with a little vinegar to it to keep them from friyning JflfiflML J£| fine and season; or drain the pieces dry, and serve with drawn butter. BRANDY SAUCE.--Two tablespoonfuls of flour, and two of butter, mix to a smooth paste, add boiling water by de­ grees until perfectly light and smooth, flavor with nutmeg, the juioe of a lemon and a wineglasaful of wine or brandy; sweeten to tfste with whlie or brown sugar. It should be Of the consistency of starch. APPLE TAPIOCA PUDDING.--Put soak­ ing over night one teacupful of pearl tapioca. In the morning add a quart of sliced apples, one teacup sugar, a lit­ tle salt and cinnamon or nutmeg, and water enough to cover the apple. Bake slowly two and one-half hours, stirring it occasionally. Serve with sugar and cream, or with either alone. PARSNIP FRITTERS.--Wash and scrape three large parsnips clean: cut length­ wise in halves, and boil an heur, of two, if very old. Mash fine; add two well- beateq eggs, half-a-teaspoonful of sat, a salt-spoonful of pepper, two tablesDOonfuls of milk, and one heaping one of flour. Drop in spoonfuls, and fry brown in hot fat or butter. Oyster- plant fritters are m#de in the same way; BAKED MACARONI.--Wash the maca­ roni and put it in a sauce-pan, with suf­ ficient water to cover it; boil a half- hour ; put alternately in a pudding-dish a layer of boiled macaroni and grated cheese; seasoning each layer of maca­ roni with salt and pepper; have the top layer of cheese with a tablespoon­ ful of butter in the center; pour over it lialf-a-pint of sweet milk; bake a half- hour. A NICE PUDDING.--A cheap and easily prepared dessert may be made on any bread-making day with bread- dough. Into one pirn of dough work one-fourth cup of butter, three-fourths cup of sugar, one teaspoonful o( cloves and cinnamon each: when well-mixed add three-fourths cup of raisins. Put it into a well-buttered dish and let rise like bread, then steam it two hours. Serve hot with maple syrup or sauce. MILK SOUP.--Four potatoes; two on­ ions ; four pints boiling water; one pint of milk; two ounces of butter; two large tablespoonfuls sago or crushed tapioca. If sago is used, soak one hour in a little water. Mode: Put onions, potatoes, butter, salt, and pepper into a stew-pot with the water. Boil about one hour or till soft enough to rub through a sieve. Wash stew-pan and return the soup to the fire. Add the milk. When boiling, sprinkle in sago and boil fifteen minutes or till sago is clear. RAISED MUFFINS.--One cup of milk; one-fourth cake of compressed yeast dissolved in one-half cup of warm water, (or one-fourth cupful of home-made yeast), one tablespoonful melted butter; three cups of flour; one egg. Mode: Beat egg, add pinch of salt, butter and yeast to the milk. Stir gradually into the flour. Beat until the batter is light and smooth. Mix it up over night. In the morning, beat it up. Fill buttered muffin-pans two-thirds to the top with the butter, and let them stand in a warm place until the batter has risen to the brim. Bake half-an hour. Concert Talkers. Alexander Dumas speaks in one of his novels of the Parisian custom of using the opera as u convenient place for gossip. The young beaux, ignoring the music and the singers, talk aloud of the latest social celebrity, and newest style of dress-cane, or the latest bon mot at the club. Those plebeians who are present to listen to the music are annoyed, but there is no way of stopping, the "chin- chinning" of these dandies except by the music lovers crying "Silence! silence!" Even the respite lasts only for a few «ninutes. A fresh arrival again starts up the tongues of the gos­ sips, and the honest Frenchman who has paid his money to hear the famous cantatrice is cheated out of his evening's entertainment. In our days, the ill-bred people who deliberately talk aloud, or even whsiper, at a concert, or oratorio, though com­ paratively few. still live. Unfortunate- •ly, the long-suffering public has not yet founa a way to teach those offenders against good manners that in a concert- room there are people whose right to hear they are bound to respect. Occa­ sionally this class of disturbers are re­ buked by their own sins. A magnificent passage from the ora­ torio of "Elijah" was once being ren­ dered, at Providence, before an enthu­ siastic and delighted audience. In the center of the house sat two ladies, whose conversation was so absorbing as to make them heedless of audience and music. The passage was approaching its climax, and the two friends were foreed to raise their voices. Suddenly, the music stopp<>d. to al­ low an effective pause, before tin? theme was resumed. Through the stillness, made more impressive by tbe i-essation of so many in strument and voices, came a shrill woman's voice,--• "1 put butter in mine!"' The two women had been talking about cooking-receipts! They had not anticipated any stop in the music, so that when it came, the sentence about the butter filled the gap. The music went on after a little commotion among tbe singers, bat every glass in tbe house was levelled at the two offenders, mak­ ing them thoroughly uncomfortable. A wag remarked to a friend, at the close of the concert, "Her words wer^ softer than butter, yet they pierced her as if they had been drawn swords-"-- Youth's'Companion. The Aspects of the Body. It may seem a dream to those who have not thought upon the subject to suppose that any connecting link can be found between such animals as worms, mollusks, crustacea, spiders and insects, on the one hand, and fishes, amphia, reptiles, birds and mammals on the other. Yet it is a significant fact that if any one of the first series of animals be turned upon its back, the heart, nervous system, stomach, etc., stand in precisely the same relative po­ sition to each other as they do In the latter Beries. The only thing that dif­ fers in position is the mouth, which in the first series opens out between the tw» nervous ganglia which form the brain, and is directed toward the side of the body on which the nervous axis is situated, and in the socond series opens out beneath the brain, and on the opposite side of the body to that occu­ pied by the nervous axis. Prof. Owen believes that certain structures which are situated in the center of the brain of back-bonod animals, and have known use, are remains of the primitive course of the upper part of the gullet, and show the vertebrate developed from the invertebrate. -- Pittsburgh Dis­ patch. MIRRORS with plush frames are now hung flat against the wall. Some of the newest are embroidered in gay A SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN. It is for the Republican National Committee to say what shall be done with the Southern States in the ap­ proaching campaign, whether the Re­ publicans of the South shall be left to their own futile resources, or an organ­ ized canvass shall be made in the States that are fairly Republican in sentiment or could easily be m&ac so. In view of political possibilities, of consistency, and of the not very remote future, it would seem imperative that an active canvass of that portion of the Union be made in balialf of the interests and principles of the Republican party. It cannot be logically nor truthfuily de­ nied that with the lapse of time the South in all its interests is growing more in consonance with the spirit and policy of the Republican partv. North­ ern capital, literally by the millions, is going into that region to develop natu­ ral resources and to encourage manu­ facturers. Under the stimulating influ­ ence of enterprise, eastern Louisiana and northern Alabama have'become im­ portant in the manufacture of iron, and the industrv is yet new to that region. All over Georgia cotton mills are springing up, already fairly rivaling thosu of Massachusetts. The South is beginning to bid for the trade of the world. With the deadwall of slavery thrown down, there are no longer any barriers of prejudice of pride to im­ pede them. The South has grown wise enough to invite it. The Atlanta Cot­ ton Exposition was the first formal in­ vitation for outsiders to conie in and view the land, to see what it could produce and what it had to sell. Closely following came the industrial show at Louisville, where the products of North aud South and the men and manufacturers of North and South met in competition, to their mutual advant­ age. Next comes the World's Exposi­ tion at New Orleans, for which almost unprecedented preparations are being made and at which the world's progress will be fully set forth, The South is rising in its renaissance. From the petty pageantry of Mardi Gras mum­ meries it is advancing to the splendid panorama of commerce. The indus­ tries that have for years l>een typified in tableau cars and crystallizing into realities, and the not-understood proph­ ecies of former years are being rea­ lized. All this is in direct line toward the Republican party, as the patron of industry and the conservator of commerce. This metamorphosis of the South is traceable wholly to the wise legislation of the party in power during the past twenty- three years. The South is prosperous because Democratic ideas have been abandoned and Republican ideas have been adopted. Tlie like was never known, never possible under former administrations, and is as much the outcome of Republican legislation as the freeing of slaves was the result of the emancipation proclamation and the war. The thousands of Southern men-- operators and operatives--now finding occupation in these new industries must naturally turn to tbe party that made them possible and fostered them into vigorous existence. The Democratic dogma of free trade, ever hostile to American progress, dares not be put to the test before the growing industries of the South, and, if it ever shall be, the -issue will not* be doubtful. An active Republican canvass in the South, especially in the States of Alabama, Tennessee. Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia is imperative. Let the people of those portions of the country be fully instructed in the principles of the party. The years are few until the ideas of Republicanism must pre­ vail there in politics as well as in busi­ ness. If the Democratic party should dare to push its free trade theories to the test of trial, the new industrial South must naturally and unavoidably turn to the Republican party in self- defense. There is now absolutely noth- ing to prevent the. better elements of Southern society from uniting their fortunes with the Republican party, in the full assurance that every vital in­ terest will be as faithfully conserved as are those of any other section of the country. The principles of Republic­ anism, under which the North has made such wonderful progress in trade and manufactures, and which have put the leaven of industrial enterprise into the South, are universally applicable, and with like happy effects wherever put into practice. There need be no "bloody shirt" in this issue. The men delegated to the work of expounding the doctrine of political regeneration can confidently appeal to the culture and intelligence of the South--to the men who have so far forgotten their ante-bellum preju­ dices as to see in labor a dignity and independence strangers to all peoples who live by means of unrequited and involuntary servitude. The sinews and muscles of the new South are growing stronger on pabulum furnished by the Republican party. The brain of the South will come to the realization of whence this new strength originates. While brain and1 body are growing stronger prejudice will weaken. Southern industries and fortunes were wrecked when the Dem­ ocratic foundation of slavery crumbled. They are now resting on foundations built by a party of newer and better ideas. It will not be long until the Democratic party will not dare promul­ gate its ancient free-trade ideas there. A new order of things has come into operation, and the Southern men who work in thenj will not be long in dis­ covering tl^>t the antiquated theories of Democracy will no more meet the de­ mands of the present day and genera­ tion than would the Blue Laws of Con­ necticut. All the people of this won­ derful republic of ours are growing into perfect homogeneity. The interests of the East, West, North, and South are the same. As one section prospers under wise legislation, so will all the others. The South has caught step in the ranks of progress. The unoko from her new manufactories is a pillar of cloud by day and the glare ot her furnaces a pillar of fire by night to guide her to the promised land of uni­ versal prosperity. An honorable, active campaign should be prosecuted in the South as an earn­ est of the Republican party's sympathy and desire to co-operate for mutual good. With that prescience which has ever characterized the party, it should now lay the foundation upon which to bnild Republican States in the solid South. Relying on increasing intelli­ gence and fading prejudice, the party can approach the Southern peoplo, con­ fident that the partes principles will commend themselves to the men whose fortunes are the result of and dependent upon their maintenance as a fund­ amental part of the country's polity. As for the spirit guilty of outrages like that of the murder of Matthews, at Bazlehursti its influence must wane, and these bloody deeds will come to be condemned by representative Southern men as hurtful and dangerous to the vital interests of that region. If South­ ern Republicans are to have voice in selecting national candidates, they should be encouraged to make an hon­ est endeavor to get before the people of the South the merits * of Republican men and measures.--Indianapolis Journal. ll.MNOIS STATE NEWS. K;.;- . Democratic incompetence. ^Whatever Congress may or may not do before it shall adjourn the present session, it has already demonstrated anew the incapacity of the democrats for public affairs. The Democrats con­ trol the House of Representatives by a working majority of more than seventy votes. It has been several years since they were in a position to impress their influence upon national legislation. ' They have been loud in their outcry lor reform and in their condemnation of Republican management of the National Governmeut. If Republican supremacy has been so prejudicial to tbe best interests of the country as they have contended, it is plain that there was much for the Democrats to do, and they have had ample time to make up their minds as to what ought to be done and how to proceed with the business in hand. As a matter of fact, they have done absolutely nothing, though Congress has been in session four months. Even the regular routine business has been neglected. The ap­ propriation bills have been held back, apparently with the purpose of using them as impedimects to other legisla­ tion during the later days of Congress. Already the politicians are becoming restless; they are anxious to get away from Washington iu order to give their attention to their individual in­ terests at home. The public long since began to murmur at the sluggishness of the Democratic House. The prospect for future activity and efficiency is dis­ couraging, for the Democrats have yet to encounter their most serious ob­ stacle, the tariff discussion, and they approach this with division in their ranks and bitter discord among their leaders. Their indecision promises to prolong the session far beyond the usual term, and the longer the session the more conspicuous the incapacity of the Democratic party will be. The lack of agreement among the Democratic leaders and the consequent incapacity 'to accomplish anything in the way of legislation is a natural result of their long exclusion from direct party responsibility for the affairs of the nation. Their faculties have de­ generated into the habit of faultfinding. They have been engaged so long iu tho practice of criticising that they have lost the creative power. They can ob» ject to anything mat is proposed or protest against anything actually at* complislied by some other party, bat they are not prepared to propose or ac^ complish anything themselves. They have no party traditions around which they dare to rally; most of them were exploded in the war of the rebellion. Some of the leading men make occa­ sional speeches in which State sov­ ereignty inconspicuous, but they are all ready to Surrender the "principle" when it Btands in the way of an appro­ priation. The free-trade record of the early career of the party has almost as many terrors for them as their old heresy of State rights. They are united only in a common greed for the spoils of government, and they are so much afraid of doing some­ thing which may impair their chances to obtain possession of the offices that they prefer to do nothing. If they have any convictions they have not the cour­ age to carry them out. They are Tories as well as Bourbons--that is, they originate nothing in the science of gQvernment, but rely on any popular reaction there may be from time to time against a creative and aggressive party. This characteristic has been revealed repeatedly, but never so strik­ ingly as during the present session of Congress. The inactivity of Democratic concep­ tion and execution is the more con- spicuous just now because the people are about to be summoned to choose again between the Republican and Dem­ ocratic parties. What possible induce­ ment does the refcord of the pres­ ent Democratic House offer to the American people to in­ trust the entire Government into Democratic hands ? If there has been any abuse of power by the Republicans, why has not the Democratic majority in the House taken steps to correct it ? If the Republican administration of national affairs has been corrupt or in­ competent, why has the Democratic House failed to impose the proper re­ straints? If the oountry demands re­ lief from excessive taxation, why has the Democratic caucus refused to agree upon any definite method of allevia­ tion ? Why has there been no response to the popular protest against monopo­ lies? Why is it that not a single meas­ ure looking to the improvement of the Government has been passed by the Democrats when they have undisputed control of the popular branch of Con­ gress ? The answer is, that the Demo­ crats have forgotten all they ever knew about the science of government. Their party is simply an organization of spoiis-hunters, having no higher aim than to divide up the loaves and fishes among their ward bummers. Tbe ca­ reer of the present Congress has left no doubt of this fact, if there were any before. It has given notice to the American people that hesitation, inde­ cision, and impotence will be the most they can expect from a Democratic ad­ ministration of the Government.--Chi­ cago Tribune. THE name of Democracy is a stench in the nostrils. It is associated with all that is meanest and most infamous in American history. A man of sense might well give five years of his life to get rid of a name that smells of defeat and dishonor, of slave-pens and Ander­ son ville prison, of organized assassina­ tion and vote-stealing. Why should any set of men, starting in a race io: public confidence, choose to load them­ selves down with a name and record sc damaging ? Such Democrats as have beliefs, such Democrats as have any desires higher than a beast's hunger for something to eat, would better get out into free air as soon as they can, and form a party of which they need not be ashamed. --New York Tribune. > IT is very trying to our ̂ Democratic friends to have to guide % heir course when in power either by their pledges male to get power or by the cold light of reason. They will now have to struggle with the liquor question in Ohio, as they are struggling with the tariff question in Congress, and it looks as if they would come out, in both cases, wiser and sadder man.- New York aMfcr;?-'*"-*--"•*; TH* police force of the capital township ojp; Springfield has been Increased by I of three more policemen. « A n*w city directory of Sgla to shortly# be issued. The work of aonlwrlBf thipf: houses in that city has been completed. THE date of the National Wool-Grower#" Convention, to be held in Chicago, has beeft changed to May 19, in order to oo-operattf witfe the National Industrial Congress, wMejjl*,,.. will meet there May 21. , Ltdia Labor, tbe woman who was arrested at Springfield last week and taken to Virginia, Cass County, where she was charged with keeping- a house of prostitution, was found not guilty, and discharged, and has returnff̂ to Springfield. THE waterworks Company, of DanrillSt have accepted the ordinance releasing them from putting in filters, and instead to co«h> struct a reservoir with a capacity of 2,000,Cf| gallons, to be completed in six months frail tbe date of said ordinance. O**. Wii.i.iam Myers was awarded $20,048: by a jury in Judge Rogers' court, in Chicago for slander, the defendant being Daniel Vep» milye, who accused the General of undu ̂ - familiarity with Mrs. Vermilye. Vermilye, it is understood, cannot pay the money. Thk G. A. R. post of Decatur Is talking UGI the idea of raising a sum of $10,000 for a me» mortal monument, to be erected in the old square. It is to contain the names of alt soldiers sent from Macon County in all warSi " • and to be surmounted with a statue of Codt> modore Decatur, for whom the town ' tj.; named. Thk water of Nigger Lake, about two aiwA; a half miles southeast of Havana, conitencei flowing through the city Friday morning by?- the drain constructed for the purpose of ioH* ering its waters. For a few yeai s past, thl§ body of water has been increasing in height and oovering more and more land. The open­ ing of this drain will redeem a large amount of land. \ Thk waller whioh threatened the safety •' ' the Sny levee, at Quincy, has subsided, wlfj|. comparatively little damage to it The next thing in order will be tbe June rise, whioh |p not expected unless' accompanied by heavy rains to exceed the last. The bottom farmete are very hopeful, as the wheat on the toffs lands never looked better. Sami'kl J. Walker, the famous real-esta«| operator ot Chicago in the years before great panic, passed away in his 68th yeah ** He once held 1,600 acres of land inside the city limits, and was rated at $10,000,000 St the time of the lire. He obtained his dl£ charge la bankruptcy tbe week before bf>. died. Col. C. 6. Hammond, an old and honor̂ t citisen of Chicago, fell dead in the retail stote of Marshall Field, in that city, in his 8Gth- year. He had been Auditor General of Mich* lgan. President of the Burlington and the Michigan Central itoads, and Superintendent of the Union Pacific He gave the Congrega­ tional Seminary of Chicago tbe money with . which its library hall was recently erected A ptrangb disease prevails among t!j|| > cattle of S. 8. Zollars, who lives a few miiet cast of Lincoln. One week recently he lost# thoroughbred cow weighing 2,000 |iounda» followed closely by the death of another, lis has lost all told seven head, valued at 81,20ft. - A favorite watch-dog ate a part of one of the carcasses and became mad, necessitating the killing of the cunine. Mr. Zollars describes the disease as being like hydrophobia. cows take suddenly ill and suffer pains, their muscles contracting into knots. *• Ex-Mavou Phii. R. Webster died at Sh<fT byville after a long and painful illness of liright's disease of the kidneys. Mr. WebstSC was a civil engineer and helped to survey and locate theTerre Haute and Alton HailroaH, , and, after its completion in 1855, settled In Shelby ville. He commanded a company of the 143d Illinois Infantry in the war, served four years as Mayor of Shelbyvilie, and was Junior member of the firm of S. H. Webattll' & Co. He was an Mrdent Republican; wig, born in Lorain County, Ohio, in 1832. A raw days since Sheriff Heckle, |ft Quincy, inquired of the Superintendent'of the Jacksonville insane Asylum how many men |t would take to bring over the four insane persons ordered removed from that institn* tion to the county poor farm. He received a reply that the Sheriff and one woman could accomplish the task. Sheriff Heckle has not pet decided which woman to take, bat iMt aught to take his wife, for she showed motii bravery at the time Gadbois escaped than did some of his deputies. SUIT has been commenced at Decatur bp F. M. Overacre against John Trainer, Coun^T- Superintendent of Schools, and Messrs. Tujp. ner and Brooks, of the Macon School Boards to recover $5,000. Overacre was principal Of the Macon School, and Trainer revoked b|s certificate on a charge of lying preferred bgr brooks and Turner. The trouble started some weeks ago when, it Is alleged, Overacre „ was discovered writing endearing notes ta young girl pupils. Overacre made a state* ment in the local papers, and in some of the declarations made he was charged with falspp hood, to whioh he entered a general denial. ̂ Mark Phklps, an old resident of Qulnc*> and three other men started to a point abovt five miles above there to get some piling. Tbs fiat-boat in which they were became wind- bound, and in trying to get it froai the shore a skiff was used. In some manner tt was capsized, and Mr. Phelps was drowned. The same afternoon two boys, Johnnie Murphy and Olaf Magnussen, aged raspecS- ively 11 and 13, started to cross the bay in f>. leaky skiff. When a short distance from the shore the skiff filled and sank, and tbe bojr% being unable to swim, were both drowned. The private collection of mementos <|jjr . Abraham Lincoln, numbering over 2,000 Igiv all, collected during the last twenty years O. H. Olroyd, of Springfield, and arranged 1* . the old Lincoln home, have been opened t h e i n s p e c t i o n o f t h e p u b l i c . I n a d d i t i o n t i l a great number of manuscripts. mcdal% office fixtures, and articles of wearing ap» „ parelonce belonging to Mr. Llacoln, theift was a collection of household effects, inclu<|r ing the cradle in which the Lincoln childrê were rocked, which attracted a great deal <|| attention. This collection is displayed in two rooms, fitted up as nearly as pos*ib |̂ just as Lincoln left them when he wenttjV Washington to assume the Presidency. . A day or two ago a small boy presented $5 gold-piece at the Chicago PostotEce a<a§ asked for postagerstamps. The clerk exam* ined the piece, found it light weight, and toll the lad he must get another or paper mone |̂«; The boy brought a second gold-piece, which, was also light, and was refused. His em­ ployer soon came around and said he had got* ten the gold at a bank and was told to send || to the Postoftiee. When any light money tl received at the Sub-Treasury it'is stamped "L," and as all the Postoffice money go«|| there the clerk has to lose the light pieces he takes them in. There is no law for the re­ demption of such coin, and as the banks get? ' rid of them when they can. tbe only thing the ' bolder of such mouey can do is to pass ifc around and let somebody finally get styck fofr the difference between the value as monajr and as bullion. % v % •-"i 1 ' Ps A Vl * ~">'M * **1 * "% | <». '-kl -4X1 A i "s J V - r i •' "M: COCHTRY towns are oonaplainJfcj* filthy condition of their streets. •• if r-5* _,!*•