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tMSHi ' ' • • " * ~ . I •' 1 ' \ .. t I. VAN SLVKK, Etftsr mt AMaher. McHENRY, ILLINOIS V AT the recent sale of the Duke of Hamilton's library in England anob- acure Scotch history containing an au­ tograph of James Y., of Scotland, was sold for $4,000, nnd a prayer-book con­ taining the autograph of Charles I. sold for $685. >/ «. • " v IT is not surprising that Pittsburgh working men are continually on a strike when the employers go so far as to die tate what cigars they shall smoke. The Superintendent of an electric light concern issued an order that his men shonld not smoke cheap cigars, and when lie found a workman with a 1-center between his teeth he plucked the offending weed out and flung it in the gutter. Twenty men immediately •truck. •flit* classmates of youag Allen Ar­ thur at Princeton are not overpleased with the favoritism and leniency shown him as the President's son. They say that lie passes successfully throush all examinations, "though the standard is •ery high and examinations rigid, and lie is not a good scholar at alL He is said not to average three days a week at Princeton, and is in New York or /Washington, and sometimes absent three weeks at a time. IN a recent interview, ex-Governor Hubbard, of Texas, gives a glowing ac­ count of the condition and prospects of that State. One-fourth of the entire cotton crop of the United States is now raised in Texas, he says, and in a few years the production will be doubled. Hanufactures are springing up on every aide, a lucrative trade is being opened with Mexico, and the money formerly •pent in protecting the frontier now goes to the support of free sehools. IT does not become a newspaper which is exposed to the perils of mis­ take in proof-reading once every twenty-four hours to gloat over the blunders of its esteemed contempora­ ries, but the Commercial Telegram, of Toledo, had a pair of errors the other day which nearly produced serious con­ sequences. A couple of correspond­ ents were holding a pretty warm con­ troversy which the intelligent composi­ tor helped on by converting "Ingersoll" into "hyperbole" in one fellow's letter, and "slander" into "skunk" in the other fellow's letter. Both parties at once withdrew from the contest ^ A STORY is going the rounds to the effect that ex-Tinted States Senator Rollins, of New Hampshire, is constant­ ly hectoring Senator Pike, his successor, by giving him advice as to the course he should pursue in the Senate. Re­ cently, so the story goes, Rollins "went npon the floor of the Senate, eat down by Senator Pike and began telling him what he ought to do on a pending mat­ ter. Senator Pike listened attentively; then looked his adviser hard in the face, and remarked with warmth: *1 want to just tell you Mr. Rollins, that I am the Senator now, not you, and tfiat I shall vote and do as-I please.' 'Yes,' replied ex-Senator Rollins, 'it is true that you are a Senator, and you're a pretty d--d poor one, too.'" KARL KROM, a journalist, rode a bicy­ cle from Detroit, Michigan, to Staunton, Vermont, a distance of 1,422 miles, at an average rate of forty-two miles a day. On one day he made over 100 miles. One hundred and twenty miles in ten hours' riding time has been often done A ride of 236 miles without a dismoun was done in England, and 1,404 miles in six days, riding eighteen hours a day. W. F. Sutton rode 260 miles over Eng­ lish roads inside of twenty-four honrs. An English tricyclist's record of road riding for the year 1883 amounted to 6,053 miles. In six years and a half the number of wheelmen in the United States has increased from three to 30,- 000. The best bicycling record for a mile from a flying start is 2:31 2-5. MRS. CARRIE B. KILGORE, who has made repeated efforts to be admitted to the practice of law in the Philadelphia courts, has at last met with success. Each of three Common Pleas Courts rejected her application, but the fourth, presided over by a more tolerant and libera] judge, has given a different de­ cision. Admission into one has usually been considered as giving the right to an attorney to practice in the other three courts, but it is expected that in this case the unfriendly judges will find it advisable to establish a different precedent. The opposition td the lady Is not with regaril to her qualifications, which are couceded to be good; but the learned and honorable judges who re­ fused to admit her to their respective bars are of the opinion that the place of women is at the domestic fireside, and that her presence in court, other than as a prisoner or badgered witness, is calculated to lower the sex from the pedestal on whioh it is supposed to be placed by admiring man. AT » recent primary election Is the little town of State Center, which rep­ resents the geographical if not the po­ litical hub of Iowa, four Blaine men where elected; but lor the fifth a tie be­ tween a Blaine and an Arthur man was announced. The aspirant representing the former is a young merchant. He who espoused the cause of the latter is BO less & personage than the Mayor of KM village, . j§§» «Mi the query arshe, How Bhou'd the matter be deoided, and a solution to the problem was quicklj arrived at by the young candidate chal­ lenging his rival to a foot-race. The challenge was promptly accepted, a track wa3 prepared, and the contestants, stripped to the waste, started. For about half the distance Arthur kept well to the front, but then it became ev dent that time, though she had not dealt lightly with the Mayor, had no1 left him unscathed, and though the race was an even one to the close, Blaine secured the victory. This some­ what novel, but entirely satisfactory, method of deciding a tie has its advan­ tages, in the fact that it has afforded much amusement to the inhabitants, and broken in on the hum-drum monot­ ony of village life. . LUNDT (Cal.) Index: The great Sierra Tunnel at Tioga ha9 developed the pres­ ence in the indurated mudstone, ailicions limestone, and arenaceous shales ol Tioga Hill of protoxide of nitrogen, the exhilarating gas known as "laughing gaV* witli traces also of the nitrades commonly associated with several of the metals. As is well known, the inhala­ tion of protoxide of nitrogen produces exhilaration to intoxication, an irresisti­ ble impulse to muscular exertion, in­ sensibility to plin, and develops the characteristic propensities of aff indi­ vidual to a striking degree. Air is forced into the great Sierra tunnel through wooden boxes, and, distance, leakage, and friction being great, the supply was inadequate; and hence the accumu­ lation of this nitrouB gas at the header, the inhalation of which had the charac­ teristic efiect upou those working there, as soon as one of them got an overdose. Bill Harrington, a muscular miner, who had l een talking of going below to meet Sullivan on the board*, was brought out fighting, and it took four men to hold him until he returned to consciousness in the open air. Bedtingshafer, the sriowslioe mail-carrier, went in and got a dose, and when brought out seized a couple of bars of iron, lashed them to his feet with wire, leaped over the dumpt and went sailing down the mountains over the snow. CINCINNATI Enquirer interview with Ex-Gov. Hendricks: Just then Mrs. Hendricks turned the laugh on the Governor by relating this anecdote. She said: "All his life Mr. Hendricks has been fond of entertamg his friends at his home. When we first set up at housekeeping we had but little, an4 often that was less, but Mr. Hendricks went right on with his hospitable habits. One day he came down and told me he had invited a friend to sup­ per with us that evening, and that he wotild like something extra for the meal. I was horrified. We had barely enough for ourselves, and I told him the supper could not be given unless extra supplies were purchased, but he Baid he had no money. I was just ready to ory when ho happened to re member that a gentleman living about three miles in the country owed him a small fee, so he said he would walk out there and get it, and we would feast our friend. The day was hot, the roa 1 dusty; but out he went, collected tho fee, and the banquet came off. I thought that experience would have cured him of inviting friends without knowing whether we were prepared to receive them, but it did not." "Does he embarrass you in that way now?" I asked. "Oh, no. For quite a num­ ber of years I have so arranged my household that he cannot surprise me." A Nautcli Girl's Dance. Her gestures wero very expressive, and at times I was reminded of the French saying: "What cannot be said may be sung, and what cannot be sung may be danced." The feet had little more to do with the dance than to bear a few steps backward and forward the swaging or rather undulating form, while the arms were ever on the move and the lingers twisted themselves into a thousand variations. None of these hand movements were the same, and each meant something. The first scene pantomimed, so to say, was the maid­ en's first glimpse of her beloved, told in embarrassment, meditation, melan cholv and an appeal to the god of love. Then followed the first coquettish at­ tempt to fascinate him--now by coy­ ness, next by a display of charms. Tl.eu follows dismay--tho beloved gives no sign of acquittal. The maiden becomes melancholy, weeps; she becomes pas­ sionate and tells him her love in mourn­ ful accents. Ho is still cold: she pon­ ders the matter (hand under chin) and becomes jealous; but finding he loves no other, she asks what kind of man he can be who remains unmoved by wo­ man's love. He proposes illicit love; this she refuses with an indignation that turns to sorrow. Then she becomes angry, stamps her foot, tosses her head, and when her anger meits the heart of her beloved also melts; or so we may judge by her finale of joy. Much in this dance was touching, much exciting, and it was all of absorbing interest. When the girl sat clown, breathless, it for the first time occurred to me that she had been dancing without rest fif­ teen minutes. But the last thing I should ascribe to the dance is--beauty. Its beautv is rather for the antiquarian than the artist--Ceylon Letter in San Francisco "Chronicle. (jjuinastics in England. An English writer on gymnastic ex­ ercises says that gymnastics in any technical sen^e remained unknown in modern Europe until about 1774, when, at an educational establishment found­ ed at Dessau, physical exercises were introduced as a part of the system. Soon afterward a certain Galsmuths, of Gotha, published a work on gymnas­ tics, and promoted the practice of Jahn of Berlin who first started a public gymnasium, in 1811. His establish­ ment, with several other which had been founded in imitation of it, was closed in 1818 by the police, on the ground that they were used as places of political intrigue. A royal decree at last re-established their legality in 1842 and since lh»t time they hare flourished more in Germftny than elaewherft. THE HAUNTED ENGIKK Thy an Old Koglnoer Left • Ooo«l Bfr hi- An Accident Whteh Could Mot be Ex­ plained. [Sew York York Tribunal It was tyte and everybody in the car vas asleep. The conductor sat upon the •ail and nodded, and the driver fingered he reins and prodded his horses in a vay that showed he was wholly indif- erent to the subject of rapid transit. Che car stopped at a crossing for a noment, and a man with a round, red .'ace and a studdv, red bear clambered H1 aboard and took a scat by the side of i ^ribune reporter. Although the night <vas bitter cold he wore a thin summer ;oat. From beneath a round, black jap, which covered his head, hung ft few locks of curly gray hair. "Sort o' cold, ain't it?" said he as he turned up his coat collar and breathed upon his fingers to make them warm. 'I suppose I feel it more than you do, because I have been workin' in the warm boiler all day and a part of to­ night," he continued. "I am a steam­ boat engineer by trade, but bein' out of a job and in need of a little 'packin', I took the task of fixing up a boiler in a down town warehouse. A man who won't work when he's got a chance ought to go to the poor houseand the old engineer, by way of emohasis, brought down his fist upon his knee with such a whack that a at woman in the neigh­ boring corner opened her eyes with a jump, and wanted to know if the car had struck a grocery-store. On being convinced that nothing of the kind had happened, she sank back into her corn­ er again, and Was soon fast asleep. "I've been an engineer for more than twenty years, off and on, and during that time I have held some pretty re­ sponsible situations. I guess I wasn't more than five years old when my dad­ dy took me down into the engine room of the factory where he worked, nnd let me look into the red-mouf.hed furnaces and watch the great fly-wheel of its en- gina I was all taken up with what I saw, and wondered what it all meant. When I got old enough I served my time as a a'prentioe and became an en­ gineer myself. My first sea trip was on tho Atlas, rvinnin' between Liverpool and New York. It was a big position in them days and paid well, but I had to give it up after awhile." " What was the trouble?" inquired the reporter. "It's a queer story," replied the old man, with a mysterious shake of his head. "You see I had been the engine­ er of the Atlas about five years, when something queer happened. We were about three days out from New York on a return voyage. It had been raining for twenty-four hours, and as the air below was kinder close, I concluded I would leave the engine-room and go on deck for a sniff of the sea. When I opened the door and stepped out into the passage-way. I almost tumbled over a man who had evidently been peeping into the room through the key­ hole. He jumped up as quick as he could and hurried away without axin' my pardon or makin' any explanation. However, I got a look at his face 'fore he went. "He was a,tall fellow with long black hair, hollow cheeked, sharp black eyes that seemed to burn right through a man; stoopin' shoulders and had a sneak in', dog-gone gait. When I went below an hour later, I couldn't help feeling that that queer fellow's eyes were following me. I sat down in a phair and tried to forget all about him, but I couldn't. I opened my door again |o see if he was out side, but no one was there. I went to my birth, and lyin' down tried to get a wink of sleep, but it wasn't' no use. His face was forever staring at me out of the darkness I toss­ ed and turned all night long, but didn't get a moment's sleep. When I went flown to tl e engine room the next morn­ ing, who should I find lying dead on the floor, his head crushed and his clothin' torn almost entirely from his body, but that same man I stumbled over the night before. My assistant told me that the fellow had come into the room ou some pretence or other, and, when his back was turned, had jum]>ed right in among the machinery and was crushed before the engine could be stopped. "The queer part about tho accident was that nobody on board had ever seen the man before. Not one of tho pas­ sengers was missing, and not a state room or berth was empty. The body was buried at sea the following day. From that time on the engine room of the Atlas was haunted. At night, when a storm was brewing or the sea was very rough, the machinery creaked and groan­ ed like a person in distress. In vain did we work over the bearings and fric­ tion parts. Still they creaked. -' The firemen in the hold said that the gost of the dead man could be plainly seen oil the third day of every voyage out from New York. Well, I ain't much of a believer iu ghosts, but I tell you that after I had listened to the nioanin' of and creakin' of that engine for a week, and hal the face of that fellow looking at mo from every hole and corner of the ship. I get nervous and dispirited. That's the reason whv I left the Atlas." The Ministry of Affliction. There is, however, another view of this question which should not be over­ looked. While human beings in civil­ ized countries manifest, and always have manifested, more or less sympathy with the physically afflicted, their stead­ fast aim has been to get rid of physical evil in all its forms. No care that is token of the sick has for its object the perpetuation of sickness, but rather its extirpation. We do not put idiots to death; but when an idiot dies there is a general feeling of relief that so imper­ fect an existence has come to an end. Were idiots permitted to marry, the sense of decency of the whole commmi- ty would bo outraged. Public opinion blames those who marry knowing that there is some serious taint in their blood; and commends, on the other hand.those who abstain from, or defer, marriage on that account. There is probably room for a further development of sentiment in this direction. We need to feel more strongly that all maladies and ail­ ments are in their nature preventable, inasmuch as they all flow lrom definite physical antecedents, As long ns our views on this subject are tinged in the smallest degree with supernaturalism, so long will onr efforts to track disease to its lair and breeding grounds l>e but hal.-hearted. How can we venture to check abruptly, or at all, the course of a sicknc s* sent expressly for our chas­ tisement ? Is it for us to sav when the rod has been sufficiently applied? How do we d ire to fortify onr.-elves in ad­ vance against disease, as if to prevent t ie Almighty from dealing with us ac­ cording to our deserts? We vaccinate for small-pox, we drain for malaria, we cleanse and purify for cholera, we ven­ tilate and disinfect, we diet and we exercise--and all for what? Pre­ cisely to avoid the paternal chastenings whioh we have been taught are so good for us, and the origin of which has al­ ways been attributed by faith to tne Divine pleasure. Evidently our views are undergoing a change. We all wish to be fit to survive, and all more or less believe that it is in our power to be so and to help others to be so. We be­ lieve in the sanitary science, and, if we attribute any purpose in the matter to the Divine mind, it is that all men should come to the knowledge of the truth, as revealed by a study of nature and life.--Popular Science Monthly. Saved by ft Stubborn Mnle. The will is the executive faculty of the mind. Through it the muscles of the body are made to act; it has some influence in directing the nature and course of the thoughts, and by its action the manifestations of the most power­ ful emotions are controlled. Persons in whom it is well-developed, but whom, nevertheless, it is governed by strong reasoning powers, are paid to be "strong-willed" or "firm." Tho«e in whom it predominates over the other mental faculties, and in whom the in­ tellect is weak, are called "obstinate.". Obstinacy, therefore is unreasonable firmness. The mule is commonly sup­ posed to exhibit this quality in marked degree; but it is quite certain that man excels him in this respect, and that what in the brute is taken for irrational impulse to have its Own way is often a determination based on knowledge and reason. One afternoon some thirty years ago while stat oned at Fort Webster, near the Bio Gila, in what is now Arizona. I conceded the idea of taking a ride down the canon on a very £ne and large mnle of which I was the envied owner. The commanding officer, Major Rich­ ardson--afterwards a major general,who was kiiled at Antietam---endeavored to dissuade me from my intention, on the ground that it was not safe for an of­ ficer without an escort to go beyond the limits of the post, as Indians had been seen in the vicinity within a few days. He even threatened to prevent me by positive order; but finally on the prin­ ciple, probably, as ho was fond of say­ ing, that he was "not bound by the army regulations to fnrnish sense to every fool under his command," I was allowed to go. I accordingly mounted "Juana," as my mule was called, and with pistols in the holsters, and sabre and spurs jingling, I emerged from the sally-post into the open country. The road ran through the bottom of a deep and narrow ravine, or canon, to where a couple of "prospectors" were washing the dry bed of a creek for gold. Mv object was to pay them a visit. The animal was of the masculine gender, big-chested, strong-limbed, and endowed with greater powers of endur­ ance and force of character than I have ever seen exhibited by any other, of ita hybrid species. He had moreover, the reputation of being the most self-willed and obstinate mule in tiie country. When he had once made up his mind to a certain course of action no persuasions, entrea­ ties, vituperations or punishments had the slightest effect in causing h'm to change hif\ determination. Juana cantered leisurely'down the road, snifling the air and tossing his heAd gaily till, vheu we had gone about two miles, he suddenly gave a loud snort, pricked up his ears, and planting his f«ve-feet solidly on the ground, came to a dead stop. / Now when Juana stopped in this abrupt manner it meant absolute cessa­ tion of forward motion in the fullest sense of the expression. So decided was his ijiertia on his oc­ casion, that he sank down on his haunches, causing, his back to b&ome a step inclined plane, while his forelegs, straight and rigid, stood out far in ad­ vance of his body. He had evidently prepared himself for the struggle with his rider, which he seemed to think was ipevj^ablo, but out of which he certainly intended to come victorious. I patted him* on the back and neck, and in my most dulcet tones requested him to go on. He shook his mane and head, and signified by his whole manner that, not even to oblige me would he budge a btep. Finding that blandishments were in­ effectual, I dug my spurs into Ins, flanks till my legs ached; but all was to no purpose. There he stood as firm as a reek. He did not rear or kick. His resist­ ance was entirely passive, but it was intense. It was the will of an appar­ ently unreasonable brute against that of an apparently reasonable man. As often happens, the appearances were deceitful. I pulled him round and he galloped back to the Fort as rapidly as his legs could carry him. The next morning it was ascertained that at a point scarcely a hundred yards in advance of where Juana hud gained his victory, some twenty or more Apa­ che Indians had abus' ed the road; and but f >r the mule's keen nose and ears and firmnes* in resisting an obstinate man. short work would have been made of both of us. After this Juana was never accused of obstinacy. It was taken for gransed that whenever he declined to do anything, or to perform a particular act, he had some good reason, perfectly satisfactory to himself, for his conduct; and he was quietly a lowed to have his own way.--Dr. Il'm. A. Hammond, in Youth's Companion. The Bill was Paid. --"How is it that my gas bill is smaller than usual? I certainly consumed as much last month as the month previ­ ous." "Tho bill is according to the meter. You are not burning as much in the parlor as you did the previous month." "On the contrary," said the man of the house, "we are burning more. Month before last my daughter was absent from home and the gas was never left burn­ ing later than 9 o'clock iu the parlor, but last week she returned, and it is often 12 o'clock before I hear the young man who calls on her" take his depa:- hire." "Well, I am unable to explain it. I only know that I pass votir house every night and I notice through the window that the gas is always turned down very low." "H-m, yes; just receipt tike bill, please."--'Philadelphia Call. • A <>reat Mind. &'•? It was at a dinner party, and they were criticizing Mr. Brown. "But, pa," said little Johnny, "Mr. Brown has a great mind." "What makes you think so, son:" asked the father, looking around se­ renely at his guests. "Oh, I heard him say so himself." "At this there was a general laugh.'* "You heard him say so himself, eh? Come, tell us what he said." "He said he had a great mind to sue you if you didn't settle that bill yon owe him." -- Williamsport Breakfast TabU. r-,--- • What the Democrats Should Do. j It will be at once ridiculous and use­ less for the Democrats to go into na­ tional convention and patch up a Janus- faced platform with the hope ot, recon­ ciling tariff differences which have been practically proved to bo irreconcilable. They cannot reasonably expect to at­ tract the votes of the revenue-reformers •in the Bepublican party, who have had a plain demonstration that they can se­ cure more from their own party than from the Democratic party. On the other hand, those who are bound up in the interests of "protection" are" threatened with constant agitation without results at the hands of the Democrats. That faction of the Dem­ ocratic party represented in the Horse by 151 votes wiil not surrender to the faction represented by forty-one votes; but the latter have the power to pre­ vent action. The party is hopelessly divided against itself. It can make no headway in legislation; it represents nothing but d.scord and disturbance before the people; its platform will be mean ngless, and its candidates will bo stu tified. The only honest and straightforward course for the Democrats to pursue is to run two ti kets as they did in 18f>0; hold two conventions, and nominate two sets of candidates, each of which shall fairly represent the sentiments of i:s faction This course M ill involve no great sacrifice, for the Democrats have already made it impossible for their party to elect the President this year. There Will never be a more favorable opportunity to fight out the irrepressi­ ble conflict which divides them, and determine the relative strength of the two factions. Let the high-tariff Dem­ ocrats nominate Randall, of Pennsyl­ vania, for Prbsident, and select Con­ verse, of Ohio, or ono of the Southern Democrats w ho voted to kill the bill for the second place. Let tho low-tar- ifl" Democrats take up Carlisle or Mor­ rison, and run Hurd, of Ohio, or some revenue-reformer like Cox or Dor- s h e i m e r f o r V i c e P r e s i d e n t o n t h e s a n e ticket. Let the two Democratio plat­ forms set forth frankly the ideas which the two tickets represent. An appeal to the people under these conditions will test the popular Democratic fol­ lowing of the men who are now vainly striving to pull together, and there may be a reorganization of the party which, in case of subsequent victory, will convey some |ssurance of principle a:.d definite policy. The spoils ele­ ment in both factions will resist such a course as fatal to its hopes of office, but it will be equally t&tftl for the two fac­ tions holding opposite views to coalesce under a thin veneering of harmony which the whole country can see through. The Democrats have forfeited all their hances for success this year in any case; they might better shape their affairs with reference to a victory at some later period than to prolong their contentions and maintain a condition of things which will entail defeat as long as it lasts. One thing is certain: The Democrats cannot escape popular judgment on the record they have made up. If they are content to stand by it, so much the worse for their party. It has forfeited public confidence in its capacity and its professions. It would bo unreasonable for the American people to hope for anything from a political organization made up of such conflicting olements. If the factions persist in the vain efl'ort to further deceive the people by a pre­ tense of affinity which lias now become obviously fraudulent, then they will have the poor consolation of going down together, and it will be for the last time. The Democratic party stands for no principle, and its constituent ele­ ments are incapable of affairs, so long as they are bound together simply by greed for spoils.--Chicago Tribune. The Copiah Counly Jury. In view of the circumstance* sur­ rounding the recent trial of Wheeler, in Copiah Courty, Mississippi, for the murder of Matthews, because he at­ tempted to vote the Bepublican ticket last November, the manifestq wliich has been published by the jury, who brought in a verdict of not gui ty, will sound to the vast majority of peoplo outside of Copiah County as little less than blasphemous. According to this manifesto, the jury achieved its remark­ able verdict in a truly religious manner, and is inclined to believe it lias done a religious duty, inasmuch as it opened and clo>ed its sessions with prayer! If it were not too serious a subject, this attempt to ally the Almighty with the Copiah County Bourbon murderers and to assume His sanction for one of the most infamous crimes ever committed would be ludicrous. It would incliuo one to ask what kind of a God is wor­ shiped in Copiah Comity, and it is cer ­ tainly not unnatural to ask what kind of views are held in that delectable lo­ cality as to the d.vino func­ tions. In other sections, if jurors pray at all, they are not in the habit of praying that they may be able to acquit murderers in the faco of positive evidence of guilt, and in the Copiah affair prayer was superfluous, as they would have acquitted Wheeler if they had not prayed at all, and thus might have spaiel themselves the ne­ cessity of their blasphemous exhibition in lett.ng a murderer go free, with the additional grotes -ue spectacle of pray­ ing for him and appealing for divino blessing upon their own outrageous conduct. There is but one thing that people want to know in a manifesto of this kind, and that is, why the jury did not convict Wheeler. Ti.ere was no ques­ tion as to the facts in the case. Distort the evidence r \ they might, it pointed unerringly to Wheeler as the murderer of Matthews. Tho testimoi y was not disputed that Wheeler deliberately killed li s victim because he, tried to vote the Republican ticket. It showed no offense on Matthews' part. It re­ vealed no personal enmities between the two men; on the other hand, it showed that Wheeler had, enjoyed M ttliews' hospitality only a few days before the murder, and conside ed him li s friend. The e was not u scintilla of evidence to show that it was not a cow­ ardly, brutal mu'der, deliberately planned in a council of Bourbons which commissioned Wheeler to kill Matthews if he attempted to vote. Instead of impudently and blasphemously posing before the country as twelve mea wb » had actfed under divine guidance and inspiration, the entire twelve ought to be shut up in a penitent ary fo - will­ fully and deliberately maltreating jus­ tice. --Exch ange. THE Bepublican party is committed to reform by what may be called the law of its being. It owed its origin to a wide-felt need of a political organiza­ tion which would have respect to the Iteration of moral forces, which would not decline to acknowledge that there was such a thing as a higuer law; and there never has been a year since it fought its first great fight under Fre­ mont in which it has not been the champion of some good cause in volving the safety or prosperity of the country. Ita sympathy for "free men, free speech, and free soil" in 185G was not a mere p ece of political shrewdness. It was the outcome of a sincere and earnest desire to promo'e the common weal. Its patriotic devotion to civil-service reform has the Fame significance.-- New York Tribune. Tllden Ready to Die In 1886. 1 have not seen Mr. Tilden in some time. I do not think anv body can say with positiveness that he would or would not accept the Presidential nom­ ination. But there are certain things in the past from which we may judge. He never wanted the Presi lency as a personal matter. Because he thought he could serve his party and his coun­ try he was willing to accept it. In 18f»0 he was very glad to l>e relieved of the harassing cares incumbent upou the nominee. He does not desire or wish tho nomination now. I am certain of that. But he would have accepted in 1880, even though it looked like the sacrifice of his life. And I believe he would accept now, if the nomination should be tendered him unanimously at Chicago, as it may be. If Thurman, and Bayard, and Hendricks had sunk personal feeling in 1880, and wted purely from patriotism as Mr. Tilden did, he would now be President. They sny he hasn't the pluck, and that he let the electorial bill become a law because he was afraid to fight. I remember well during that period, when lie took me into an inner room at his house for a consultation over important matters. He was walking up and down tho room. I asked him: "Mr. Tilden, if you are called on to go to Washington and be inauguiated, will you go?" He raised his arm aloft, and as he stopped for a moment, said: "Will I go? Will I go? Yes, though I am killed on the steps of the Captd, I will go!" I hope he won't be nominated,. liecause I am out of politics and don't want to be drawn in again.--IVilliairi L. Sco t, of Erie. Fruits of Republican Rule. The following table exhibits the de­ cline of the national debt during five Bepublican administrations since the close of the war to put down the Demo­ cratic pro-slavery rebellion, with the reduction in yearly interest-charge and the reduction in yearly interest-chargo per capita: Redaction. Int. Debt. Y rlv Int. p. cap. *2A.453,700 »7cta 327,309,8 U 27,474,191 97ct8 W',,lS»;,fi'20 4,1-8 ,I(W 34cr« 1!K>,6'.3,277 18,141,948 IttctS 2an,H6M,;V>9 23,581, D.H4 51cts Lfnooln-Johnson..! Ori.nt, flret Grant, second Hays. Garfield-Arthur... Total. $1,217,649,746 $39,540,988 *3.34 It must be remembered that each of these periods except the last covers four fiscal years; the last covers only two fiscal years, and yet its results com pare well with those of anv four years preceding. When the war closed the interest-chargo was $i.29 yearly for each person, and in four years under Secretary McCulloch it was reduced to $3.32. Then four years under Mr. Bontwell reduced it to $2.35, and in spite of the prostration of business, four years more, mainly under Mr. Bristow, reduced it to $2.01 per capita. About the close of President Grant's second term business Itegan to recover, and more than half of the entire burden of the debt lias been removed in tho six •years which have followed, four under Secretary Sherman cut it down from $2.01 to $1.46 per capita, and two under Secretaries Windom and Folger have cut it down from $1.46 to 95 cents per capita.--Neio York Tribune. IF it (Congress) would stop the coin­ age of the silver dollar, place the national banks on a permanent basis, pass the necessary appropriation bills and adjourn, it would do more for tho industries of the country than can l>e accomplished in any other way, The people upon whom the growth and prosperity of the country depend are wonderfully capable of solving difficult problems and taking care of them- selve if not interfered with by Con­ gress, and the advice that should be given to the lawyers who are posing as statesmen at Washington is to wind up the session, let the industries alone and return to their respective homes. The United States is governed too much.-- Cincinnati CommerciaI• Gazette. THE Democratic party is no longer able, try as it may, to take an open and unconditional stand on any question, and fight for it as any party must that ever gains a victory or commands confi­ dence or respect. That is the moral of the m serable result of the last five months' exertion of Democratic states­ manship on the tariff issue. The lesson was not needed to convince the Ameri­ can people that such a party is not lit to be trusted with the control of the Government; but it makes that fact still more definite and glaring, and accord­ ingly furnishes nn additional reason for voting the Republican ticket. -- St. Louis Globe-Democrat. THERE is plenty of money ixi the Treasury for the work, and there is no reason why it should not be so applied. Instead of hunting about for methods of squandering the surplus revenue, Congress will satisfy an impatient and disgusted people bv devoting a portion of it to the strengthening of our sea­ boarddefenses so that a great nation of sixty millions of people may no longer be exposed to the snubs of any little contemptible power on earth. Such an appropr ation might also relieve tho timorous soul of Rice, of Massachu­ setts, and debar him i;i future from ad­ vertising our naval weakness and urg­ ing it as a reason for national cowardice. --Chicago Tribune. * THE Democratic party stands halting between conflicting opinions, practi­ cally confessing that it is unable to say what is its own tariff policy. Is it any w o n d e r t h a t t h e b u s i n e s s m e n o f t h e ' country decline to trust such a party? Is .t any wonder that tho merchants, and m nufacturers, the farmers and the mechanics conclude that a political organization, which hai not states­ manship enough to find out and formulate what its convictions are o. tho tar.ff, is totally unfit to be given the reins of Government? Is it an\ wonder that leading Democratic news paper*' already give up the Presidentia fight?--New 'York Tribune. JBDGK PAYBOX, of Illinois, said "Pin ashamed of this Congress. Hert are 325 members who have been ii session all winter and have not acconi plished fts much, relatively, as a Boarc of Supervisors out in our country." Th« J udge is by no means alone in his opin ion. The whole country is ashamed ol this CongHM. ILLINOIS STATE NEWSw ^ --Bock Island County has abolished fliit act offering a bounty for wolf scalps. If5 --The Danville people are endeavoring tNk' secure the location of the new Wabash Hos ­ pital at that place. --The gypsies inhabiting some, of tlft streets of Springfield have been ordered fta leave by the city authorities. . --Rev. 3.. L. Jackson has resigned tb pastorate of the Park Place Baptist Church at Aurora, and accepted a call to Blooming* ton. --Sam T. Stone, clerk for Wilcox A Hop­ kins. dealers in hardware and agricultural implements at Virden, was arrested in that place recently, charged with stealing goodft from his employers. His home was searched, and in every nook and corner were found boxes and parcels of fine hard­ ware, cutlery, and table silver. 8tone wtot going West in a month to start a hnrdwaii store, and had a stock valued at $1,500 al­ ready on hand. He was married to an esti­ mable young lady. --At Aurora J. E. Nourse, a <flerk in tiltf employ of the Burlington Bailroad Cona* . pauy, has born arrested on a charge of etft»» bezzling $G75.24 of the company's fnnd|ii';! The money was in a package which Nourafc should have delivered to an express messen­ ger named Cooley. The latter says to never received it, and it is charged that Nourse not only appropriated the money but forged. Cooley's name in the receipt-v book. Nourse was bound over to await tfe action of the next Grand Jury. --Charles B. Lessing, the Yandalia renl- "estite agent, who recently committed Bid- cide in St. Louis, Mo., held a $7,000 insur­ ance policy in the Knights of Honor. Tto following letter, addressed to his wife, waft- found in his room at the hotel: "You know what brings me to a full completion of this act--whisky and gaming. Had both been let alone we would have been happy. Women are not the cause of this act, bat drink and gambling have been. Raise thff children in the way best suited to your own taste, but instill in their mind the ruination of their father by drink and gambling. My brain has been on fire all day." Alfred Conover recently moved his fami­ ly from Indiana to a farm several miles northeast of Mattoon. Recently, eggs, brickbats, clubs, and other missiles have been thrown against the house and through the windows after the family would r&irfe. Conover offered $50 reward for the appre­ hension of the guilty parties. Three young men of the neighborhood played detective and discovered that a daughter of Conovflar, aged about eighteen, was the obe who threw the missiles. They sued for the reward and were given judgment for $15. The female portion of Conover's family desired to return to Hoosierdom, and used this method to scare the old man ont. --Jones and Robinson occupy adjoining offices in a Dearborn street block in Chica­ go, it being necessary to go through Jonea* . den to get to Robinson's. Robinson is ft literary man and Jones his some taste that way. A recent forenoon a loos?-jointed fellow with a capaeions summer overcofti on walked into Jones' office, and, the tenant not being in, procaeded to the lair of Hob- hison. Drawing a bunch of patent tooth- picks from one pocket, he said: "Want any tootlip.cks?" "No." replied Robinson, gruffly. "Can I sell you a fat man's shoe- buttoner?" taking one out of on inside pock­ et. "No." Do you ever have any use IR one of these things?" exhibiting an ivory paper cutter. "Na-aw, I don't want any­ thing," roared Robinson, burying himself in his books and turning his back on the i|^ trader. The salesman looked at him a mo- , ment, made up his mind that he would no! turn around again, and walked out slowly, picking up from a table which stood behind Robinson a brand-new $2 paper weight a> he Rmbled out. Finding Jones in as lw passed through, he said: "C.m I fell you ft paper weight to-day?" Jones looked at it and observed that he needed something of that kind. "How much'd > you want for it%; "A dollar." The money was paid, the pe<l* dler disappeared and Jones and Robinson continued about their business. Some tiiaft in the afternoon Robinson discovered that his paper weight was gone, and, calling ait Jones, the whole thing was soon explained "There's no use in a miin trying to be hon­ est nowadays," said Jones, after the whoife thing had been thoroughly canvassed. "From this time on I'm a robber of every­ thing human that comes in my way." --A Sprinfield special gives the following particulars of a late affray: About 2 o'clock in the afternoon, two men cami to the city fiom Buffalo Hart, a village on the Illinois Central Rulroad, in this county, thirteen miles east of Springfield, and at once re­ paired to Foster's undertaking establish­ ment and annouueed that they wanted 'Ik coffin. Upon being questioned, they said that it was wanted for a man who the even­ ing before was murdered near that place ty a wealthy firmer named Homo B. Ennn. One of the men refused to give the particu­ lars, saying: "The time has not come y<| for me to tell what I know about the affair. :|rt •! M ti : /- I can ouly saw that it was terrible, and thait great excitement prevails in the neighbor­ hood." The other man was more comma* r.icative, and from him the details went ascertained. Horace B. Enos, a man nearer yeiirs of age. hud iu his employ a yourg man named Moses Hart sock, who came to •-i Buffalo Hart from Effingham County about five years ago. It appears that Mr. E.ioft • * _ ii and Hartsock have several times had morii less serious ijuuTels. That da|f > two were in th» field. Eaon was riding a plow, and Hartsodt was operating a corn-planter. About jpudock Hartsock stopped the planter an# commenced talking with a man in an ad­ joining field. Hartsock, it is stopped the planter several the afternoon, and Enos had with him, saying that he did not want it repeated. This angered Hartsock, who re­ plied: "If yen don't like my work yoft can pay me off." Angry words followedL and Enos claims that Hartsock picked up * rail and rnn after him, whereupon he (Enos) turned upon him with a pocket- knife and stabbed him in the breast to the depth of about four inches, from the effect of which wound he died about 9 o'clock that evening. Hartsock made an ante* mortem statement, saying that he np the rail after Enos had dnwnhi --An effort is being made & A. JU Bart ia i& Cfcarkft,