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Igrflctirj) fllaimlealer J. VAN SLVKE. Etter and PuMtlw. McHEXBY, ILLINOIA Now that the base ball Beacon has fairly begun, the trade m arnica and ooort-plaster is becoming brisk, while the man who mends broken fingers lias his hands fulL ACCORDING to the Voltaire, a French •doctor has made a discovery calculated to bring down the price of tenors, and furnish an unlimited quantity of mascu­ line sopranos. The operator applies his surgical skill to the human throat in auch a manner that he can produce at will a first-class bass, barritone, tenor, or soprano singer, and the opera­ tion is, of course, very simple and almost painless. It was thought that •the limit of folly was reached by the man \ylio lately manufactured "Italian Atmosphere" for English singers. IT costs a Clinton, Illinois, clergyman thirty-eight silver dollars to.secure the Attention of his Sunday school children through One discourse. He announced that he would preach on the following Sunday from the longest verse in the Bible without announcing what Terse it was, and would give a silver dollar to -every scholar who found out for them­ selves where the text was. He WAS as­ tonished when thirty-eight bright pu­ pils claimed their dollar, and he will .adopt some other method of impressing relipious instruction upon Clinton ju­ veniles in tlie future. Bugg.«ats that the same methods of com­ pression as are employed by the female sex are popular also with the Marquis. His shonlders are padded out further than those of anybody I ever knew. He wears boots which are padded on the inside under the heels so a? to give him a fictitious height, and they are so tight that they make him limp on both sides. His face is adorned by a tre­ mendous black beard, which is curled and oiled and shiny, and his hair if artistically puffed. Carefully cocked over on his left ear there is a bell- crowned hat of grotesque pattern, and, on the whole, it would not be safe for the Marquis to show himself in any part of the town where our guying American gamins hold sway." ' "IN an old paper, worn with age and now unknown, I came across Abraham Lincoln's only autobiography," says a Washington correspondent. "It was written it 1848 at the request of Charles Lanman, who was then making np his •dictionary of Congress and had asked Mr. Lincoln for a sketch of his life- The following is Abraham Lincoln's written reply: 'Born Feb. 12, 1809, in Harlan County, Kentucky. Education, •detective. Profession, lawyer. Have been a captain of volunteers in the Black Hawk War. Postmaster at a very amnll office. Four times a member of the Illinois Legislature. And was a member of the Lower House of Con­ gress. Yours, etc., M'A. LINCOLN.'" THE Prussian people believe that Bismarck is superstitious. They say that he is awed by apparitions in unin­ habited castles, shrinks from dining where thirteen sit down at table, be­ lieves in unlucky days, and adheres to the ancient belief of the influence of the moon on every living thing. 1'ut according to Dr. Busch, this is all non­ sense, with the exception of a single -story which happened at Schonausen {where the Chancellor heard mysteri­ ous footsteps in the ante-chamber of his bedroom). "They jest about my super­ stitions," he said a few months ago, "are nothing but jests, or consideration of the feelings of others. I will eat at table with twelve others as often as you like, and will undertake tlie most im­ portant and serious business on a Fri­ day." PHILADELPHIA Record: Twenty- >eight million dollars' worth of gold and silver and securities will l>e placed in the new postofiice building in a short time. There will be six tons of gold coin. The mere carl ing of this pile of valuable material from Fifth and Chest­ nut to Ninth street will require more wagons than are used in clearing the streets of the city in a week. The work will be entrusted to the Adams Ex­ press Company, and the men who will Tide on the vehicles containing the sil­ ver will each one be an arsenal on stilts. In addition to the $12,000,000 worth of silver there will also be nearly $4,000,- 000 in goltl coin. The annexed state­ ments shows in detail just what the Sub Treasurer would remove if the vaults were ready to-day: Standard silver dollars, $8,846,470; fractional silver •coin. $3,f>45,,G00; gold coin, $3,354,689; minor coiR, $334,280; gold certificates, $7,474,810; silver certificates. $630,330; United States and National-bank notes 44,187,139. Total assets, $28,373,318! THE dignified Lord-Justifice Cole­ ridge writes to a London journal in ref­ erence to the statement that he had •proposed to Mary Anderson: "I desire, in the fewest possible words, to state that I never had the pleasure of see­ ing Miss Anderson in my life, either in public or private, and that I never wrote a line to her. The whole mat­ ter is an absolute and impudent falsi, fication." The journal in question •caustically remarks: But who would liavo thought that the Lord Chief Justice--and such a Lord Chief Jus- lice--could actually be in a position to say that he has never seen Miss iLllderson? Surely, if the cares of the •oourts are so crushing as to deny Lord Coleridge the pleasures enjoyed by all other men, a special adjourn­ ment might be arranged to enable the Lord Chief Justise to attend the Lyceum, if only for onoe. But if he went once he would want to go again, so hi* last state would be worse than bis first. On the whole, perhaps it is safer as it ig. " TH^ .Marquis de Leuville, who is to marry Mrs. Frank Leslie, is spoken of by the "Town Listener" of the New York J Porto as a most gorgeous speci­ men of the imported dude. The Lis­ tener describes the Marquis as being ^'above the medium height and rather thickly built. But his waist is no big- ger than that of • an ordinary robust woman, and it is of the shape which SINCE the Cincinnati riot, says the Current, of Chicago, many allusions have been made to the effective work of the San Francisco Vigilance Com- mitte thirty-five years ago, and it has been suggested that it may be necessary to have similar organizations in some of our large and corrupt and lawless cities. The San Francisco Viligance Commit­ tee was, however, a necessity growing out of cruder conditions. There are ! remedies within reach in our times, re­ quiring only courage to grasp them, and they are not tumultuary remedies. San Francisco, in 1840, had a Mayor and Common Council but no police force; not a street was paved or light­ ed, and each individual had to protect his own property from a gang of des­ perate roughs, calling themselves "Hounds," who attacked different quar­ ters of the city at pleasure, firing at men, women, and children, indiscrimi­ nately. One day, the citizens organized and arrested a number of "Hounds," improvised a court, impanelled a jury, and tried and convicted the prisoners^ who, however, escaped, as there was no jail in which to put them. This stop­ ped the exploits of the "Hounds," tem­ porarily. In 1851, lawlessness took root again in the city and incendiarism was frequent. One evening a merchant was knocked down is the store by some robbers, who were subsequently arrest­ ed and placed in jail. Fearing that they would not be punished the people appointed a committee, who secured a jury and the prisoners were sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment Sev­ eral more scoundrels wera subsequent­ ly arrested and hung with the celerity of lightning. The majority of the rascals fled to Australia and other points, whence they had drifted, and {Perfect security for life and property was ob­ tained. Then the committee left the regular authorities to exercise their functions, and the city had peace for a long time. They stopped when they had removed the source of disturbance, and did not in turn become a terror to the community. We do not want lynch law in our cities now. What is needed is for each citizen to stop complaining about corruption and go to work and insist that his voice shall be heard iu the conduct of municipal government and that public affairs shall be com­ mitted only to men who can be trusted. Dexterity of a tioat. Either Dr. Clarke, in his travels, is an atrocious prevaricator, or some of the Arabs of a hundred years ago had attractions that Barnum would envy to-day. "Upon our road," says he, "we met an Arab with a goat, which he led about the country for exhibition, in or­ der to gain a livelihood for itself and owner. He had taught this animal, while he accompanied its movements with a song, to mount tipon little cylin­ drical blocks of wood, placed succes- ivelv one above the other, and in shape resembling the dice-boxes belonging to a back-gammon table. In this man­ ner the goat stood, first upon the top of one cylinder, then upon the top of two, and afterwards of three, four, five, and six, until it remained balanced upon the top of them all, elevated sev­ eral feet from the ground, and with its four feet collected upon a single point without throwing down the disjointed fabric upon which it stood. The practice is very ancient. It is also noticed by Sandys. Nothing can show more strikingly the tenacious footing possessed by this quadruped upon the jutty points and crags of rocks; and the circumstance of its ability to remain thus poised may render its appearance less surprising as it is sometimes seen in the Alps, and in all mountainous countries, with hardly any place for its feet, upon the sides and by the brink of most tremendous precipices. The diameter of the upper cylinder, on which its feet is ultimately remained until the Arab has ended his ditty, was only two inches, and the length of each cylinder was six inches."--The Eyt Ending a Letter Properly. It is not everyone that can wind up a French note in the exact form which the circumstances under which it is written demand. A son of the late M. Menier (a chocolate Bonanza) was placed under arresi for a fortnight, when a twelve monftis' volunteer, for assuring his colonel of his "high con­ sideration." The colonel did not want to be highly considered by a young fellow of his military rank. I saw Louis Blanc furious because a noble deputv, with whom he /was not well acquainted, ended a sctawled note to him with the word "Salutations," and tagged it to a postscriptum. The salu­ tations should have been qualified, and the writer, before addressing a man of Louis Blano>'s standing, should have considered well what he wanted to say, and thus obviate the necessity of a P. S. It is extremely difficult for a lady to wind up a letter to a Frenchman of such high station as the President of th4 Republic, she being moire worthy by her sex, and yet bound to make him feel that she is conscious of his superior rank. In all cases respect should be expressed in the wind-up phrase of a note or letter if the person to whom it is written has a gray beard or a white head.--Paris Correspondent London Truth. THKRE are 7,600,000 farmers in the United States, the next largest number engaged in other pursuits being miners and manufacturers, who number nearly 4,000,000. ' " AGRICULTURAL. A MICHIGAN fruit-grower ma^ttafas that apples at 25 cents a bushel pay better than wheat at $1. IK fattening hogs, if they nre fed in open pens or in muddy ground, fully one-fourth of the corn, mav safoly said to be wasted. A HEN may be calculated to consume one bushel of corn annually and to in the eame time lay ten dozen or fifteen pounds of eggs. IT is acknowledged by all who breed poultry that meat is an essential por­ tion of their diet, especially if the fowls are confined in olose quarters. IN favorable winters the evil re­ sults of kite pasturing may not be so marked as in severe, open winters, where its disastrous effects are plainly to be seen. THE strawberry is hardy. The roots will live through the severest winter, but it is generally believed that if the leaves are preserved through the win­ ter green it will be better for the crop that is to follow. Heuce a light cover­ ing of straw is a benefit when the winter is severe enough to destroy the fully- exposed leaves. A CORRKSPONDKNT gives the follow­ ing method for growing sweet potatoes: "In the fall or winter cover the spot intended for potatoes with good manure, then in winter plow a deep furrow where you want the ridge and fill even full with rotten straw, then cover with dirt. The straw will liold.the moisture and the potatoes will grow short and thick. LACK of pure and fresh water greatly interferes with the production of eggs during cold weather. Eggs contain a large amount of water, and unless there is a constant supply of it fowls will not lay. Many poultry-keepers are very neglectful in the matter of providing water for fowls when in confinement, and especially during the winter. As a consequence they obtain but few eggs. A CEMENT #oor is not the best for a dairy, as it absorbs the drippings of milk and becomes foul in a short time. A good floor is of matched plank, with tight joints and painted, so that it will absorb no moisture. Whatever drip­ pings fall from the churn may bo wash­ ed off such a floor without leaving any traces. Brick is quite as absorbent as cement. A flagstone floor with close joints set in cement, is the best of all. ONE of the most promising trees for forest culture, where the conditions fa­ vor, is the American chestnut. It grows spontaneously from New Hampshire to Carolina, and from the eastern slope of the Alleglienies to the Western prairies. Not only is this tree valuable for its nuts, the production of which begins in a very few years from planting, but the timber is very valuable for fenciug; it is also admirable for house-finishing, the color and grain of tho wood being very attractive. SHOEING FLAT-FOOTED HORSES.--A correspondent of the Blacksmith and Wheelwright says some men think that a flat-footed horse should always be shod with a bar shoe; when the foot is healthy lij puts on a plain shoe, well Reveled on the side next to the sole as far back as the last nail-hole. Particu­ lar pains must be taken not to let the shoe bear on the sole, for, if so, it will be apt to lame the horse. He has had several case"* of lameness lately which were caused in this manner, and he cured them by paring the sole a little where the shoe rested. If tho shell is chipped off on the edges so that it is not level with the sole, he places a strip of leather under the shoe all the way around the hoof. This prevents tho shoe from bedding itself in the shell, and allows itself to grow down, so that, at the next shoeing, tbere will be a firmer vein of horn on which to nail the shoe. SOIL BEST ADAPTED TO HOPS.--Any good corn soil will grow hops. A strong loam or well-drainetl clay, with a light sub-soil, is adapted to this crop, but the soil must bo well drained or tne plants will soon die out. When made suffi­ ciently rich, hops will thrive on light loams, but a strong sod that requires little or no manure is better. A loca­ tion sheltered from cold winds should be selected. A desirable exposure is a gentle slope toward the south. The plowing is best done in the fall, and when manure is required this ought to be applied in the spring and harrowed in. The surface should be made mel­ low and marked out in squares abont six feet each way. The usual practice is to plant in the intersection of the furrows. New roots are taken from the old hills, and must contain two or more eyes. From four to six plants are put in a hill and covered to a depth of about fi¥e inches. The first season the spaces between the lulls are cultivated v»th corn or potatoes. No poles are necessary the first year.--Portland^ Oregcn,News. COCKS AND COCKERELS.--The cocker­ el should be full grown, and should be from among those that were hatched early. Old cocks (one year) are better than cockerel, and when mated with early hatched pullets the eggs produce a larger per cent, of chicks than when the old hens are mated with cockerels. On acoount of endeavoring to adhere to "points," some breeders are induced to keep a young cockerel of a late hatch­ ing, but it is not wise to do so. A fowl is not mature under one year of age, ami it is a settled conclusion that neither animals nor poultry should be used for breeding until the system has had time to develope and make com­ plete growth. If the old cocks can not be used except on their own offspring, which should not l>e done unless it can not be avoided, change with a neighbor who may have good ones, or keep such pullets as may be supposed to not bear too close relationship, for an occasion­ al in-breeding may not be injurious, provided the cross is different the succeeding year. But the adult cock for the next year may be produced by procuring eggs for hatching earlv in February, or as soon after Christmas as aav one of the hens offers to sit. If from such an early hatch you select a cockerel, ptisli him forward in growth and keep him under favorable condi­ tions. The next season will find him a ye <r old, by tiie time eggs are wanted for hatching, and he will be strong, vigorous and active. Cockerels hatc hed in April or May are not always in when spring comes in, unless the breed be Leghorn or Hamburg, but even the Light Brahma and 1'atridge Cochin will be serviceable if hatched early and kept growing from the start. If you have a good cock keep him another sea- Jon by all means.--Farmers' Magazine. HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. CRANBERRY SAUCK.--Stew the berries until done, then rub through a sieve ind add sugar according to taste; th«n return to the saucepan and cook until it jellies. ""*• , OOCOANUT Pm--One cocoanut grat­ ed, four eggs, two cups of milk, one and a half cups of sugar. Beat yolks of egg and sugar together and ad4 .the whites of the eggs. "" ' LIM\ BEANS.--Soak nntil tender, then put into a saucepan with cold water enough to cover them. When done add a small piece of butter, some milk, salt and pepper to taste. PWUNE PODDING.--Make a crust for pie crust, roll out and spread thickly with stewed prunes and some raisins or dried peaches stewed, roll up and tie in a cloth and put in boiling water. Eat with cream and sugar. RABD TIMES FRUIT CAKK.--Two sups of dried apples, soaked over night, chopped rather coarse, three cups of molasses, one egg, two-thirds of a cup of butter, one teaspoonful of soda, all kinds of spice, flour as you would cup cake, APPLE FRITTERS.--Beat to a froth two eggs and mix with one-half pint of milk, one-half teaspoonful of salt, two cups of fleur. Pare and core and cut in slices tart apples; stir into the bat­ ter and fry brown in boiling lard. Sprinkle with sugar when done. DOUGHNUTS.--One cup of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, one-half teasponful of salt, four teaspoonfuls of lard, nut­ meg and cinnamon; mix thoroughly with a little flour in which has been sifted three teaspoonfuls of baking powder; roll and cut and fry in boiling lard. VINEGAR PIE.---Prepare a paste, line the pah with it, cover the bottom of the pan thickly with sugar, then sprinkle over the sugar three tablespoonfuls of flour; add several lumps of butter the size of a quail's egg, one-half a cup of vinegar, flavor with nutmeg; bake with two crusts. PORK CAKE.--One pound of salt fat pork, and one pound of raisins chopped together fine, one cup of molasses, one cup of boiling water; pour over the meat and let stand till cold. Three cups of sugar, one tablespoonful each of cloves,spice and cinnamon,one teaspoon* ful of soda, nine cups of flour. COCOANUT COOKIES,--One and a half cups of sugar, one cup butter, two eggs, one cup of grated cocoanut, one-half cup of sweet milk, one-hall teespoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of vanilla and flour to make a soft dough. Roll as you do common cookies, using as little flour as possible on tho kneadiug-board. Bake in a quick oven. MUTTON BROTH FOR AN INVALID.-- Cut one pound of lean mutton in small pieces and put in a quart of cold water. Cover closely and boil until the meat falls to pieces. If you wish to add rice or barley let it Boak in warm water while the meat is boiling; when soft skim out the meat and put in the cereal; simmer two hours. LEMON PIES.--Bruise one pound of double refined sugar, and sift it through a fine sieve. Put into a bowl, the juice of two lemons, and mix them together. Beat the white of egg to a very stifl froth, put it into your bowl, add three with two rinds of lemons grated. Mix it well up, and drop on the puffs in small drops and bake in a moderately heated oven. What He Wanted to Join Church For. Some people in this world have qneer notions of tho saving power of religion. The Rev. E. li. Donehoo tells a good story about its compensations, though in this case the compensatory part of it was rather in tiie prospective. As is pretty generally known 4ie is, among other things, the jail chaplain. Fre­ quently up there his parishioners are more anxious to get out where they can choose between rum and true reli­ gion, than they are to remain where the good minister can force them into a cor­ ner and pour the gospel into them whether they will or not. One of his recent subjects of this class was a victim of forgetfulness. He got a lot of goods he forgot to pay for. He is a married man and the restraints of the jail made him desperate. He laid in wait for the minister, and taking him aside out of the hearing of tlie other prisoners he looked him fequarely in the eyes and said: "See here, I never thought "of such a thing before in my life, but a man will do almost anything to get out of a place like this. Now, I'll tell you what I'll do. You get me out of here and I'll join the church." Thesolemn impressiveness with which he concluded the offer made Mr. Done­ hoo feel as if the man really thought he was making a sacrifice next in impor­ tance to surrendering his life. As soon as he recovered from his surprise he asked him: "What church will you join?* "I don't care a d --n which. I'll join any church you say, only get me out."--Pittsburgh Commerrial-Gazette. Goes About Like a lk>;gar. It is related concerning Mr. Tenny­ son that he had just gone to live near Blackdown, and one night he lost his way while rambling about. A woman standing at the door of her cottage did her best to set him right, and in doing so described one corner of his own house, saying: "You will see it as you turn the corner by a clump of yew trees. Some one's come to live there from Lunnon. They say he's a queer 'un. He's a actor, or does writin' or summat o' that sort; but he's a queer 'un,'e is. He goes about more like a beggar nor anythin' else." "Oh," said Tennyson, "have voa seen him!" "No, I can't say as I've seen 'un; but that's what I hear. He croes about just for all like a beggar."--New York Tribune* She Will Star. A young actress visiting Florida re­ fused to leave or be consoled until she had shot an alligator. So her friends secured one about three inches long and brought it to her room on a small seashell and held it at arm's length while she perforated it with shot from a toy pistol. Alter much exertion, and when she was sure the creuture was dead, the fair shooter gave a stage shriek and swooned. On recovery, she sent telegrams North relative to her ex­ ploits, and will star next season.--Xeio York Commercial Advertiser. - Helps Onward. If you speak the right word at the right time; if yon are careful to leave people with a good impression ; if you do not trespass upon the rights of others; if you always think of others as well as yourself; if you do not put yourself unduly forward; if you do not forget courtesies which belong to your position, you are quite sure to accom­ plish much in life which others with equal abilities fail to do. IN 1846 there were no postage stamps in the United States. Children were licked and put in the corner instead. IN cards, a successful player holds a good hand--the game of life is-wen by holding a wise tongue. THfivFASILT DOCTOR!' CONSUMPTION AND WOOD-SAWINO.-- "H Dr. Dio Lewis is right, the worst oaso of consumption may be cured by plenty of exerciee in the open air. Horseback riding is excellent, but sow­ ing wood is hot without its advantages. Consumptives should not give up, but see what fresh air will do for them. * BOYS--sometimes girls--have a per­ fect passion for ciituhing fences, trees, buildings, etc., a kind of daring spirit, loving to see how near danger they can approach and still escape. Aside from accidents, the greatest harm re­ sults lroin jumping from preat heights, as great a distance as they dare, or when stimulated l>v compel ition and by a foolish desifo to be regarded as brave. In this there is not o.ily danger from ben lmg. fracturincr and breaking bones, but from jarring the bra;n, leading to diseases of that organ, with similar af­ fections of the spinal column, the wonderful structure of which indicates, the necessity for great care lest it should become irritated or severed, alter which no sensation is left or can be felt save l>etween that point and the brain. A few words of counsel may save mnch pain and harm.--The Gold­ en Iiule. To MAKE LIME-WATER.--Takeof fresh burnt lime a pie?e the size of a butter­ nut. and pour upon it a quart or two of pure soft water: stir it well, cover the vessel, and s6t it aside for three hourB. Then put it in a well-stopped bottle, shake it a few times, and keep it for future use. This is a valuable antacid, tonic and astringent and may be em- played with great advantage in manr cases, and especially in dyspepsia, at­ tended with acid stomach And mixed with milk, which completely covers its taste, it is one of the best remedies in our possession for those whose stomachs will not retain their' food. Such per­ sons ought to make it their principal ailment; that is, lime-water and miik, with bread, crackers, mush, etc. Say a wine-glas3ful to a pint of milk. To check vomit ng, a teaspoonful every fifteen minutm may be given. In di- arrluva and other complaints it is also useful. - Hot MILIC AS A DRINK.--From careful observation for a number of years, we are satisfied that many people drink torf little. Copious water-drinking is one of the best possible means of encourag­ ing the action of the liver, kidneys, skin and bowels. Invalids with weak diges­ tion suffer discomfort from drinking cold water copiously on account of the depressing influence of cold upon the functions of the stomach. Hot water, however, is not open to tlfis objection, and hence is to be recommended to in valids, especially those suffering with almost any form of disease of the stom­ ach, liver, skin or kidneys. Water is the universal cleansing" ngent; and wa­ ter-drinking is one of the most effec­ tive means of cleansing the blood. When taken hot, it stimulates the action of tho stomach and bowels, promotes the secretion of bile, encourages the action of the kidneys, relieves dryness of the throat, and secures a healthy activity of the skin. Hence it is particularly valuable to dyspeptics, especially those suffering with acidity, ami for persons suffering with torpid liver and inactive kidneys. Hot water, as well as other drinks, should be sparingly used, if used at all at meals. When the digestion is very slow, a few sips of hot water at the close •of ,the meal will be found a useful aid to digestion: but hot milk may general­ ly be substituted with advantage. The best time for taking hot water is one hour before the meal, ana just before retiring at night. One or two glasses may be taken at a time. The tempera­ ture should be 105 degrees to 108 de­ grees F. Hot water" is not a panacea, and is not best for everybody. Persons suf­ fering with painful dyspepsia, ulcer of the stomach, and organic disease of the heart should ijoi take it.--J. Hf Kellogg. An Avalanche on the Matterhorn. Sitting there gazing at the seven or eight thousand feet of the Matterhorn's height and breadth that w&r$ still higher than my resting place, and drink­ ing in influence of the vast, silent scene around and beneath, I perceived a movement upon tho left hand outline and u large surface of the adjacent front of the mountain. The upper fourth part, apparently, of the - moun­ tain's height from the left hand edge to about the middle of the front was al­ ready bare and black, like solid rock. The movement of the mass, at the out­ set very deliberately, was first precepti- ble from the widening distance of the dark surface between its upper edge and a crest of bare rock that stood out upon the profile above. Then it was plain the entire weight of snow, for a thous­ and or two feet below on that side of the mountain and nearly to the midst of its front, as I viewed it, was moving; and I felt the strange false sense of be­ ing lifted with the whole steep, mossy bank on which I sat facing the ava­ lanche. Swiftly it gathered momen­ tum, and its immensity became more comprehensible when its greater part fifty to one hundred feet thick, shot out over a crag that had not been visible under this great thickness of snow and down through the clear air in one vast sheet, striking upon a less inclined sur­ face 2,000 feet below, where it was dashed into a million fragments, and there flashed up a vast cloud of fine dusty snow. Rapidly massing itself, it again surged forth from the fleecy bosem of the snow-cloud over a preci­ pice of nearly vertical wall for a mile or mprc, into its final depths, leaving a large area upon the mountain black and barren* and tossing upward throughout the broad abyss another and more widely spreading snow-cloud, while its sudden displacement of air produced a rushing wind, which reached to where I sat. As you first see the distant ar­ tillery's rushing smoke and then hear the roar, so here arose--far beneath and a mile or two away, a rolling, white, misty clou 1, and th^n the astonishing thunder of the concussion. The inter­ ruption of tlrs avalanche in its progress doubled its sublimity. Had it rrached all the way down one incline, with no intervening crash between the loosen­ ing of the mass and its plunge into the depths, if it had shot off clear into the air and struck into the very bottom in a solid mass, it could not have car­ ried with it such majestic movement of 'awful deliberation nor produced such iprolonged and terrific roar.--Detroit Tr i b une. WE often say if we could live our lives over again we would only live them very differently, but we are apt to for­ get that if a man has a capacity for making a fool of himself once he wil not be likely to lose the opportunity when a second chance is offered. WHEN we give our very best wheat to our friend's we are not satisfied to take chaff in return. ' CARLISLE FOR PRESIDENT. Kentucky Democrats Express a Pref­ erence for the Speaker of HUM. State Convention of the Prohibition Party in Hassaohn* setts. Kentucky Dmooflii. Hon. Boyd Winchester, of Louisville, presided over the Kentucky Democratic) Convention, which met at Frankfort. Henry Watterson, J. Stoddard Johnsey, James A. McKenzie, and Thomas L. Jones were elected delegate9-at-large to the National Democratic Convention at Chi­ cago. Henry Watterson was made Chair­ man of the Committee on Resolutions, and reported the following platform, which was unanimously adopted amid great applause: The Democracy of Kentucky, in oonvention assembled, declare: 1. We pledge ourselves anew to the constitu­ tional doctrines and traditions of the Demo­ cratic party as illustrated by the teachings and example of a long line of Democratic statesmen and patrios aa emliodiedinthe platforms of the National Democratic Conventions of 1H76 and J.880. 2. We do especially renew oar declarations of hostility to centralization, as that dangerous spirit of encroachment whic'i tends to consol­ idate: the powers of government and thns to create, whatever the form, a real despotism, with all subsidies to corporations and grants without consideration of the public property, and we again express our conviction of the urgent necessity of the general and thorough reform of the civil service; and U- We do especially deny the right of the Government to surrender its taxing power to corporations or individuals, which is the result of both the theory and practice at the Republi­ can party; and we denounce the present tariff, which burdens the people with excessive war taxev in time of peace, as a masterpiece of in­ justice, inequalltyj and false pretenses. We arraign the Republican party as the creator and defender of a system which has impoverished many industries to subsidize a few; which has prohitiited imports that might purchase the prod­ ucts of American labor, and desrrade 1 Ameri­ can commerce from the first to an inferior rank on the high seas; which has cut down the ssl"s of American manufactures at home ani JIbroad and depleted the returns of Ameri­ can agriculture, an industry followed by half our people. It costs the taxpayers five times more than it yields to the Treasury; it promotes fraud. fosters smuggling, corrupts officials, en­ riches the lev.- by forcing bounties from the manv, and favors the dishonest to bankrupt hoiiesr men li,a its. We assert the doctrine of tlie Constitution that all taxation shall be ex­ clusively for revenue, and demand that no more rov> irjc shiill tic collected than is required to m et the expenses and obligations of the Gov­ ernment economically administered. Jieaoh'ed, That believing that no geographical line should exist in this country as a test of eligibility to any office in the gift of tho whole people, but that the standard of hone-sty, com- petcncv, tidelity, and constitutional citizenship alone should prevail, Kentucky recommends to the Democracy of the Union for the Presidency of the lTnitcdStates him whose elevation to the third office in the nation was the first step to the obliteration of tho s>am loft by the late civil war, who was the first to lead his party back to it# own national platform of steady approach toward the removal of obstructions to trade, the foremost exponent of all the living Democ ratio principle* of to-day, the Hon. John O. Carlisle. MauMhaMtti Prohibitionists. The Prohibition State Convention of Massachusetts convened at Boston, elected delegates to the national convention at Pittsburgh, and adopted resolutions which declare for the immediate Suppression of the liquor traffic by constitutional and statu­ tory measures, and against legalizing an acknowledged evil; that the right to vote is inherent in an individual, without regard to sex or nice, subject to such regula- lations as shall apply to all alike; that " science and experience prove alcoholic preparations not only unnecessary but ter­ ribly injurious as medicine," and that the license law is a "covenant with death and an agreement with hell." Prof. Kempton, in an address at the opening of the conven­ tion, said if the liquor business was worthy of being carried on in the commonwealth it should not be licensed, inasmuch as gro cers and other traders were not compelled to pay licenses, although they were put on the same level with the liquor-sellers other­ wise. FOR AND AGAINST. The Record of Congressmen on the Tariff Question. Following is the vote cast in the National House of Representatives on Mr. Mor­ rison's tariff measure: IN FAVOR OP THE BILL. Adams (N. Y.), Garrison, Aiken, Alexander, Hazley, Hallentinc, Bapbour, Jlarksdale, Bach, Belmont, Blackbnrnj Blanc hard. Bland, Blount, Breckinridge, Urcai lluad, ltuchanau, Buckner, Burns, Cabell, Caldwell, Gibson, Graves, Green, Green leaf, Halsell, Hammond, Hancock, Hardeman, Hardy, Hatch (Mo.), Hemphill, Hanlev, Herbert, Hewitt (N'.T.), Hewitt (Ala.), Hill, Hoblitzell, Holman, Houseman, Campbt ll (N.Y),Hurd, Canoler, Jones (Wis.), Carleton, Cassidav, Clartly, Clay, Clements, Cobb, C .lkins. Cook, Cosgrove. Covington, Cox (N. Y.», Cox (N. C.), Ctlsp, Jones (Tex.), Jones (Ark.), Jones (Ala.), King, Kleiner, Lamb, Iianham, Love, Lewis, Lovering, Lowrv, McMillin. Matson, Culberson (Tex)Maybury, pariian. Miller (Tex.), Davidson, Mills, Davis (Mo.), Mitchell, iDeuster, Money, . Dibble (S. C.), Morgan, Dibrell (Tenn.), Morrison, Cookery, Dowd, Dorsheimer, Dunn. Kldredge, Kills, Kvins (8. C.), Kollett, Forney, Fyan, Adam") (111.), Anderson, Arnot, Atkinson, Bayne, Belford, Bingham, >• isbee. Boutelle, Bowen, Boyle, Brainard, Breitung. Morse, Moulton, Murphy. Neece, Nelsou, Oates, O'Ferral!, O'Neill (Mo.), Pierce, Peel (Ark.), AGAINST THE «TT. Haimer, Patton, Hart, Payne, Hatch (Mich.), Payson, -Haynes, Peetle (Ind.), Henderson (Ia.),P rkins, Henderson (111.), Peters, Potter, Pryor, Pusey, Rankin, Reagan, Reese, Robertson, Rogers (Ark.), Roirers (If. Y.J, Rosecrana, 8cak«, Seymour, Shaw, Shelley, Singleton, Skinner (R.C.), Slocum, Springer, Stevens, Stewart (Tex.), Stockslager, Strait, Sumner (W1&), Talbot, Taylor (Tenn.), Thompson, Throckmorton, Tillman, Townshend, Tucker, Turner (Gajl, Turner (Ky.), Vano\ Van Eaton, Wakefield. Ward, Warner (Tenn.), Wellborn, Weller, Whitn (Minn.), Williams, Willis, Wilson (W. Va.), Winans (Mich.), Winans (Wis.), Woltord, Woodwaid, Worthiugtpn, Yaple, Young, Carlisle--1M. Hepburn, Hiscock, Hltt, Holmes, Holton, Hooper, Hopkins,' Brewer (N. Y.), Horr, Brewer (N. J ), Honk, Browne (Ind.), Howey, Brown (Pa.), Hunt, Brumm, Hutchins, Budd. James, • Burleigh, Jeffords, Cal Iwell, Johnson, Campbell (Pa.), Jordan, Cannon, Kasson, Chace, Kean, Connolly, Keifer, Converse, Kelley, Culi-crtson(Ky.)Kellogg Cullen, Cnrtin. Cutcheon, Davis (I1L), Davis (Masr.), Dingloy, Duncan, Dunham, Eaton, Elliott, Ellwood, Ermontrout, Evans (Pa.), Everhart, Eerrell, Fiedler, Findlay, Finerty, Foran, Funsum, Ueddes, George, Glascock, GofT, Gnmther, Hanback, Ketcham, Lacev, Laird. Lawrence, • Le Fevre. Llbbey, Long, Lyman, McAdoo, McCord, MoComt", McOormicK, McKinley, Millard, Ml ler (Pa.), Miltiken, Morey, Morrill, lluller, Murray, Petti bone, Phelps, Poland, Post, PTIcb. Randall, ; tanney, tay (N. Y.i, Say (N. H.). teed, Uce, lobinson (O.), "Itockwell, towell, lussell, Ryan, ; - . •••( eney, kinner OR.YJ, ' malls, ! mith, Inyrier, pooner, • I leele, itephenson, tewart, I tone; : irorm, trahle, 1 urnner (Cal.), I. B. Taylor, . D. Taylor, Thomas, Tulty. VanAlstyne, WADSWORUA, Wait, Warner (Onlol Washburn, Weaver, Weniple, Whitin; Iowa), Paige, Parker, York --isa- A FLOBIDA fisherman has seqn a swamp snake over thirty feet long. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. Thk Government engineers are actively at work on the wing dams on the Missouri side, opposite Quincy. AT the annual meeting' of the stockholders of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Ball, road. In Chicago, all the members of the oU Board of Directors were elected. JOHN HCJIOATE, of Flora, Clay County, ono^ a wealthy farmer, became insane over tho foreclosure of a mortgage, and fatally stabted M. H Presley, agent for the insuranco com­ pany of which he made the loan. # THERE are over 1,003 more saloon-keepeM and bartenders than proachers in the State of Illinois. There are over 2,00 J bankers and brokers, over 33,bOJ merchants of tho vari­ ous trades, and about r00,000 persons ea» gaged in agriculture. THE city authorities of Jacksonville m advertising for more paving brick. Every­ body there appears to be satisSed with brick for paving purposes. When the principal streets of that place are Well pavod with this material, it will be the handsomest little city in the West. A CITIZEN of Litchfield has discovered • process of distillation whereby the natural lubricating oil which abounds in that viciih ty can be converted into a high grade of il< juminating fluid, equal to the best headlight .oil. The discovery reveals ttew noseibiUtte* of value for this product. - AT Decatur the police arrested seven bciya who were running a boys" tfambltag-room in a stable. The boys had poker-tables, gam­ bling-chips, and all the necessary pa raphes nalia for an outfit of the kind. Several of the boys are sons of respectable citizens. R*v. W. B.-G11.MORE, of Havana, suffered for several ytars with some affection of the stomach. He died recently, but of what no one Could tell. A post-mortem examination was held, showing the stomach contracted and hardened, with the whole inner surface covered with a cancerous formation and the duct to the bowels closed. AT Golconda, Pope County, at 9 o'clock at night, ex-SherifT Frauk Waters was fired at through a window, the ball taking effect in his left sida, just below the heart. A man named Charley Morrell was arrested. Devel­ opments indicate that the guilty party rode on horseback into town, extinguished all gaslights on the square near Waters' houses tied the horse in an alley, stole into the backr yard, and with a heavy horse pistol fired a shot through the open window, setting the curtains and bed on fire with the Sash. War ters and Morrell were paying attention to the same lady. AN eld man, poorly clad and with long gray hair streaming from underneath a tattered hat, was seen to climb on the railing of the State street bridge, at Chicago, the eTort re­ quiring all his strength, and then throw him­ self toward the water. His ragged coat, how­ ever, caught on a beam, and for a moment the old man hung suspended in mid-air over the river. An officer ran to the rescus and pulled the would-be suicide baok on tho bridge. "I wanted to die," said the old man* "because I have no home and cannot work. I am £2 years old. I gave my nephew $1,600; all the money I possessed, to keep me the balance of my days, but after getting the money he said he did not want me nny longer, eo I walked from near Lincoln Park to throw myself in the water." The aged outoast gave his name as Philip Flick and that of his nephew as Frank Stelnmitz, but he had for gotten the nephew's address. WILLIAM E. MIKSHALL, a blind man, who is well known in Chicago, had an experienoe in that city which was woll calculated to un­ nerve even a man In the full possession of his senses. He was feeling his way into Az* cade court. In search of • meeting of the Society of the Blind, which was being held In the Farwell Hall Building. Mr. Minshall, being unacquainted with the locality, had to ask his way, and was lod by someone into the noon prayer meeting room, where his guide left him. Everything being quiet, the blind man was feeling his way out again, when he was seized and handled in a very rough man­ ner. From the ejaculations and incoherent phrases of his antagonist, Mr. Mlnsball dis* covered that he had to deal with an insane person, and, realizing his sltuation, he strug­ gled violently to Bhake off his assailant. The blind man succeeded in throwing his an­ tagonist and in * aining the door. In the hall he met people who bad been attracted by the noise of tbo tussle, who conducted Mr. Min­ shall to the place of meeting. Others went into the room, and there found that the blind man had, Indeed, struggled successfully with a raving maniac, who by this time was per­ fectly wild with excitement. The police patrol was called and secured the insane man. THE Illinois State Board of Agriculture held a meeting at the Sherman House, Chi­ cago, to arrange the premium awards for the State Fair and Fat Stock Show this year. The old rules governing the Fat Stock Show were adopted, with the exception that Aberdeen Angus cattle were admitted to contest for premiums. Sweepstake premiums on grass- fod cattle were Increased from $50 to $75. The privilege of offering special premiums, upon Holstein cattle was extended to the Holstein Breeders' Association, and a like proposition to give special awards upon Herefords by T. L. Miller & Co., of Beecher, I1L, was also accepted. It is expected that these special awards, in addition to the pre­ miums offered by the board, will cause a more lively competition at the fat stock show among the breeders of the cattle men­ tioned. In view of the success attained last year by extending an invitation to school children to attend the fair, it was decided that riot only the children of Chicago but the entire Northwest shall be invited this year, and it is expected that the SO.OJO who visited the fair iu 18e>3 will be increased to 60,000 in 1884. Among the speed contests will be trots in 2:40, ~:34. 2:27, 2:22, 2:20, and 2:1* classes for purses of $500 in each race. From re­ ports already received it is predicted that this feature of the fair will be the best oa record. A SMALL boy who stood at the east end ot the Illinois Central viaduct, at Chicago, lost his hat in the lake by reason of the high wind, and was straightway s?i/ed with a par­ oxysm of grief. His shrieks greatly terrified two other small boys who were his compan­ ions. "Come away, or you'll git drowned yourself." &aid one of them. The little lei. low continued to »hriok, and the others drag­ ged him off. kicking and wailing. "He knows he'll catch it when he gets home," chuckled a stout old gentleman who saw the catastro­ phe. "Dear me," said his companion, a pale young man. "But if he's a boy with any (rood in him," said the old gentleman, "he*| lie to the old folks. He'll say a tig boy stole his hat as he came from Sunday-school.'* "That would be a shocking falsehood," said the young man. "Yes, but he wouldn't get licked," said the o'.d gentleman. "If I was i& his boots I'd lie about it." '\>h, father," said the young man, sorrowfully. "And yon would, too," said the old gentleman, fiercely. •'Have you forgotten how you used to lie to me? If you were that boy yo i would go home and say you hadn't lost your hat, and that you never had a hat. That would b* lying like a fool, aud that's your style, sir/* 1 he yOung man was silent. NINE young wolves were kil'ed at Piano, IMP which the captor received $90 bounty. ~ :r