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[f§fnrg IHaimlealet 1. VAN SLYKE. U Iter a* Parnate. Wc HENRY, ILLINOIS. ' • WHEN A Simeso Judge is nnable to decide between the litigants he orders them both put under water, the one living the longest being considered the "winner. This beats the American jury Jiabit of flipping a copper. THE latest move of the "drummers" of Iowa is the proposed establishment of a traveling man's colony at Des Moines. They intend to organize a sstock company which is to bay a num- tier of lots upon which traveling men v delusively shall build homes. '5 CHINA will soon build its first rail- ~vay. It will soon connect Pekin with Tientsin. A few years ago a short line ^ras experimentally built between Shanghai and Woosung, but the na­ tives got the idea that their "joss" was opposed to it, and the venture was jflnally abandoned. AGUERO, the agitator, who is making "things uncomfortably warm in Cuba, is -described by a Toronto gentleman who recently visited that island as being a :«mall, yellow-skinned man, with long finger-nails, wears patent-leather boots, ladies' size, and tallies with a descrip­ tion given of him by a celebrated au­ thor, "all eyes, hair, teeth, and shirt- collar." THE advocates for the co-education J>f the sexes and for the admission of •women to the same field of labor and •enterprise as men, will be somewhat ^disheartened by a study of the class list recently published in Cambridge University, England. Neither in math- hematics nor in classics did any female -Student attain the honor of a first class, nand in the second appear the names of 4orty-three men against two wojpen. A GEBMAN woman living along the line of the Northern Pacific road lost sflome cattle, for which the railroad com­ pany refused to pay, and she wrote a letter saying "If Mr. Yillard was here lie would pay me for all my little cat- lies, because he is so good. He lived in my little village in Germany; and he •was a great, big, fine young man when 1 was a little, small girl going to school an our village, and he would never let the big boys hurt the little boys and ^girls in our school." "" *• A Ii a contrivance, a design of which lias been submitted to the Australian 'Minister, for Water Supply be success­ ful, one of the greatest enemies of the farmer-- drought--will to some extent be avoided.. It is a machine for bringing down rain, and is in the form •of a balloon, with a charge of dynamite •underneath it. The balloon is sent into the clouds and the dynamite is fired by a wire connecting it with the eart'1. It is the intention of the inventor to make n trial of the apparatus on the dry dis­ tricts of New South Wales. k. 4*- ' Miss HURST, of Georgia, has been ^astonishing the people of Washington -and other localities by her marvel­ lous personal strength. Some of iier feats are incredible. She can bold up a chair in her hands -and no two men can force it to the ground; but she in turn can force a chair to the floor even though three men try to hold it up. Miss Hurst is mot distinguished by size of person or largeness of muscles, but she seems to be an ordinary strong, healthy-looking country girl. There is no claim on her part of supernatural aid. All accounts -agree that she is a very remarkable •young woman. THE New York Sun describes a cu­ rious accident which happened in the voyal inclosure on the Ascot Cup Day. JL lady's dress was discovered to be on fire, and if it had not been for the pres <ence of mind of Lord Hardwicke and some other bystanders, who promptly .-extinguished the blaze with their over •coats, the consequence might have been "exceedingly serious. The cause of the fire was a lighted match carelessly thrown down by some one after light­ ing his cigar. Oddly enough the acci­ dent was repeated on the following day an a precisely similar fashion, only that •on the second occasion the fire was de­ tected and extinguished somewhat *nore quickly. j: Massachusetts is becoming some -what alarmed at the growth of illiter­ acy, as she may well be, says the Brooklyn Union. The last census showed that there were in the state 75,635 persons above the age of 10 who could not read, being 5.3 per cent of all ithe persons above that age, a pro- fjortion which is exceeded by no other Eastern State except Rhode Island. "The last Legislature passed a law which it is hoped will tend to check the ad- Tanoe of this percentage. It provides that any person who employs a minor 14 years of age who cannot read and write shall forfeit from $20 to $50, and "that any person who employs a minor •over 14 years of age who cannot read -and write, providing such minor has been for one year a resident of a city *or town wherein free evening schools jare maintained, shall forfeit from $50 to $100 for every such offense, to go to tlie benefit of the evening schools. IF THE New York Tribune can be Ibelieved there is one fashionable '-shoppist" who has been properly pun­ ished. It seems that a lady in Ashta­ bula, Ohio, who had a mania for shop- T'Dg, but who seldom bought any­ thing, recently bought a spool of thread after spending two hours in looking over the finest goods in the shop. She ordered it sent home, and *hia is how at was sent: A heavy dray drawn by Jfour horses was procured and four stal­ wart laborers with bare arms were placed upon it to hold the spool. *rfcen the team drove up to the door «r- erybody stared, and no one could make out the purpose. After a deal of whip-craeking and other impressive ceremonies, the car was backed against the curb. There, reposing calmlv, end up, in the center of the cart, was the spool. With the aid of a plank it was rolled, barrel fashion safely to the side­ walk, and after a struggle it was ••up­ ended" on the purchaser's doorstep. CHICAOOAKS, who indulge in too co­ pious libations of stimulants, have dis­ covered that taking a Turkish bath is one of the quickest and most effectual ways of sobering off. There is a bath­ ing establishment in Chicago that keep? open all night for the purpose of sobering up citizens who do not care to go home drunk and disturb the peace of the household, or wake up with a swelled head in the morning. The process is called in the uncultured phraseology of Chicago "biling 'em," and the keeper of the baths says a large business is done. It is claimed for the "biling" process that a very bad case of drunk can have all the liquor sweatel out of him in five Sours and sent home with a steady step and a clear head, able to make a logical ex­ cuse to his wife and resume work next morning. This discovery will destroy the force of the phrase, "drunk as a biled owl," which Matthew Arnold found to be very common in Chicago, for if '"biling" will make a Chicago man sober it would have the same effect on the owL PROF. WIGGINS, of meteorological notoriety, attempts to explain the oc­ currence of phenomenally high tides, the occasion of atmospheric disturb­ ances and earthquakes by the presence of a "dark" moon, invisible to the earth, that, coming into conjunction with our familiar satellite, exerts a double in­ fluence on mundane phenomena. He urges scientific attention to this point, believing that the movement of this mysterious body may be measured, if "the sudden quenching of stars" be noted and recorded. Prof. Wiggins is of the opinion that the moon and this dark satellite were in conjunction with the sun, or nearly so, on March 9, 1883, which produced the great Java volcano and caused the greatest storm of the present century. In congrmation of his belief, the Professor says he has ju&t received letters from Michigan say­ ing that a solar eclipse was visible in that State on May 16, 1884, at 7 o'clock in the evening, when fully one-third of the solar disc was in darkness. As the moon at that moment was twelve de­ grees south of the celestial equator, and the sun was as many degrees north of it, this phenomena could not have been caused by our visible satellite. Doubtless it was the passing of this dark planet across the sun's disk. There is enough in the idea to warrant the consideration of the world of science, and if there be such a planet it is de­ sirable that the inhabitants of the earth know it. AN eccentric person named Mitchell died recently, ill Winfnnaip, loqvinqr will in which, it is said, $500,000 was set aside for experimenting in machines to navigate the air. $100,000 of this sum is to be given to Prof. Retchel, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who was the inventor of an aerial ship that has real merit. Since the terms of the will Hag been made known. Prof. Betchel's life has been made a burden to him by the number of persons that have called, and the number of letters he has re­ ceived from all sorts of people, who think they know how a successful air­ ship can be constructed J -but they all want the money in advance. It is cu­ rious what myriads of cranks there are in the world, who think it is their mis­ sion to solve the mysteries of nature, including the mechanical puzzles that promise good results to the human race. It is, by the way, passing strange that rich people and governments have not appropriated money to solve the problem of aerial navigation. It is over a hundred years since the Mongolfier brothers made a successful ascensicA in, a balloon inflated by hot air. Birds and insects dash through the atmos­ phere in twelve different ways, yet man has allowed this easily solved problem to remain an enigma for the want of little faith and money. The practica­ bility of the telegraph was first success­ fully tested by the United States Gov ernment, which strung the first wires between Baltimore and Washington; but aeiial navigation is of a thousand times more importance. Milliohs of dollars ought to be offered as rewards to stimulate the ingenuity of inventors in this fruitful field of researches. MR. BLAINE DEFENDED. JUl Eloquent Speech by Sena­ tor Hoar, of Massa­ chusetts, Italian Epigrams. The world is hard enoufrh, God knows, without one shutting one's mouth the day it rains com tits. To a woman's eyes there is always an atmosphere of youth left about a man who has once made love to her. The chestnut is for the man who takes its shell off. If bad temper were a fever there wouldn't be hospitals enough to hold us alL Another man's admiration is a ground against which many an ordinary woman lias shone, clad in unaccustom­ ed graces to her lover's eves. It is a poor sort of bnsiness to waste your breath whistling for yesterday's breeze. It is only a fool who would expect the wind to be always blowing from the same point of compass. And a real sorrow--an old sorrow--I've known it to act like a ballast. It's heavy, aye, but it trims the boat. There's many a man wouldn't sail so straight if there wasn't some dead weight 'o that sort at his heart to steady him. THE most trjing circumstances under which a boy can be is when another boy is in the alley winking at him, and his father is offering him a' nickle to carry in a pile of wood.--Texas Si/l­ ings. DR. ARNOLD said that he preferred a Christian and - gentlemen, an active man, and one who has common sense and understands boys, to high scholar- && -"Tfc*" .. , Delivered at the Great Repub lican Meeting at Boston. f)w flnt question, compared fevfttab every other is petty aud trifling, is that of the su­ premacy of the Constitution itself. I know not what others may think, hut I cannot stand in Faneuil HaU in honor, when I know that in great States the right of suffrage is practically denied to my countrymen. I do r.ot think my own right to vote for President is of much value, if the man of my choice is to be defeated by such processes as prevail at the South. There are three States--Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina--to say notnlng of others, in which, beyond all question, the electoral vote recorded at the coming election will have no re­ lation whatever to the will of the people. These three States cast twenty-six electoral votes; with Virginia they cast forty. Now, giving to Gov. Cleveland all the States that his most en­ thusiastic supporters can hope tor, he will fall far short of an election, unless the votes of these States, wrested from their Republican majori­ ties by crime and fraud, are to be counted in his favor. The young reformer who votes for Gov. Cleveland cannot help to elect him. He can only help to make possible the successful accomjiiishment of the crime by which a minority shall usurp the government of the country. The process is very simple and familiar. It is known as the Mississippi plan. Violence and murder are made use of until the minority get the election offices in into their hands, and thenceforth the ascendancy is maintained by the easier way of tissue ballots and fradulent counting. These things will scarcely be denied by a Southern Democrat in private. The leading Democratic papers in each of these States I have named, have in substance admitted these tacts, and all but one have vindicated them as a necessity. You tell me Gov. Cleveland is not responsible for these things. If he were to declare in a man­ ner that showed he was in earnest, that he would, if President, use the power vested in him for their suppression, or if lie should declare, as an honest man should do, that he would not take an office gained by such means, he could not get a Democratic vote south of Mason and Dixon's line. Another question next in dignity, is that of the wages of the American workman. We do not accept the teachings of that political economy, with its tidings of despair, which tells us that it is the lot of the workman forever to toil lor bare life. We believe this country is governed, is to be governed, and ought to be governed, by the men who work with their hands on farms and in shops. Unless these men shall have a return for their labor, which shall bring them leisure, comfort, education for their children, they can­ not preserve the qualities needed for c.tizen- ship, and the republic must fall. There may be a great and powerful nation on this continent on other terms but there cannot be a great re­ public. This end can only be secured by the maintenance of the American system. The prices of many other things, the rates of ex­ change, are, in the artificial arrangements of commerce, determined in Great Biitain. We do not propose to annex American labor to that market. We believe that bv a judiciom system of protection, framed for that purpose, this re­ sult can be and is secured, and that agriculture, manufacture, and commerce will alike be bene­ fited. A few theo;etic economists, a few college professors, and the great bulk ot the old owners of plantations and slave labor, differ with us. We propose to delv.te that question with them, and take the verdict of the American people. The Republican party has nominated its can- dates and iram »d its platform. Your delegates, in obedience to wliat they believed to be the wish of their constituents, voted for the distin­ guished statesman troni Vermont. But we are bound to say that there was never a nomination made under circumstances more entitled to re­ spect. Tue unit rule, which formerly threatened to trammel the free choice of the people, was overthrown. The holders of office were in al­ most solid column for another candidate. I do not believe that until within a few days Mr. Blaine citner sought or expected the result. It was the irrepressible act of the i eople who "had eyes and chose him" Look at the States and communities who have made this choice. They are the very flower of America. . . . Fellow-citizens, this is the nomination of what is best in our American life. It is the nomination of what is best in human society the round world over. It is the nomination of the great free Stales. It is the nomination of the church and ot the school-house. It is the nomination of the men who own and till their own larms. It is the nomination of the men who perform skilled la­ bor in our shops. It is the nomination ot' the soldier, of the men who went to the war and stayed all through. It is the nomination of the men who paid the debt and kept the currency sound, and saved the nation's honor. It is the nomination of the men who saved the country in war. aud who have made it _wnrU» • Hvta^ fa ju Tflffl, tem*w-cru*eiis, Is the "riffraff of the Republican party that surrounds James G. Blaine. The people knew well what they were doing. Mr. Blaine, if we except our great soldiers, has been for nearly twenty years the most conspic­ uous personal presence in the country. He has dwelt in his simple American home in Augusta and Washington with wife and children. "Into the inmost recesses ot his life a blazing light has been constantly poured. He is the choice of what is best in character and what is most pro­ gressive in opinion throughout the whole coun­ try. Gentlemen tell us that he has done noth­ ing of m' moiable public service. I had thought otherwise. I had thought him one of the very greatest of the great leaders who have conducted the American people along the difficult pathway of danger and of glory which they hive traveled for the past twenty years. 1 had thought his hand was found in the framing of the four­ teenth and fifteenth amendments. I had thought--indeed, I had known--that he was in the very inmost councils when the resumption act was framed, and that his influence carried it through the House over which he presided. I had thought that he had been Speaker of the House of Representatives during six crowded and eventful years. 1 bad thought that among the great orators of the country he had been of the very greatest and most persuasive in the de­ bate which satisfied the American people to take up the heavy burden of the debt, to keep its cur­ rency depressed and its credit safe. 1 had thought that when in Maine the ambitious lar­ ceny of the Democratic party undertook to pil- ta^ty- in the miraculous development of our manufacture, in the creation of our great domestic commerce, in the peaceful settlement at the disputed Presidential muxessioo. There is hardly a man who has taken any ot the re­ sponsibilities of public life who has not been compelled to undergo the oontemptuou* criti­ cism of these gentle hermits of Cambridge. It has been so from the beginning. Even the men whom they are now most eager to praise, and Whose examples they (ire to show the decay of modern statesmanship---they dealt the same measure to in their time--John Adams and his illustrious sons. Sumner, Andrew, Wilson. as they erect their mausoleum to each, they should write over it the inscription "Ourfatheis stoned this prophet, and we bnild his sepulchr^T- BLAINE'S RECORD. TIM Charge* of the New York Herald Fully Answered. [From the Boston Journal.] In the New York Herald of July 28 appeared a lengthy sensational article, prepared for the sole purpose of proving that thirty years ago Mr. Blaine belonged to the Know-nothing party, and strongly favored its principal aims and ob­ jects. It needs scarcely be said that what Mr. Blaine s political views may have been so long ago, when he was a very young man, is not now very important to any intelligent and honest citizen. A majority of the best public men in the country have essentially changed their opinions in that period of time. It is to the credit of Mr. Blame that he has made great progress jn his political education since 1854, and that he is now so able and popular a states­ man is commanding proof of his constant in- tellect-ual growth and of his ripe experience as a public man. But it so happens that the main charges of the Herald as to his political opinions in 1851 and 1855 are not true. They are substantially these. 1. That being one of the editors of the Ken­ nebec Journal during the political canvass iu Maine in ISM, Mr. Blaine supported Isaac Reed the \\ hig candidate for Governor, and then be­ trayed him. a. That Mr. Blaine was a member of the Know- nothing organization. a. That certain riotous proceedings toward Catholic priests in Bath and Ellsworth in 1854 were excited, or at least not disapproved, by the Kennebec Journal, of which Mr. Blaine was editor. 4. That the Kennebec Journa I and Mr. Blaine supported Anson P. Morrill, a Know-nothing, for Governor. 5. That the Kennebcc Journal, with Mr. Blaine as one of its editors, continued a devoted advocate of the Know-nothing party until com­ pelled to abandon it by public sentiment. The first allegation of the Herald is sufficient­ ly answered in the statement that the owners aud editors of the Kennebec -Journal during the political campaign of *854 are now l>oth dead, and that they supported the Whig candi­ date for Governor that year in good faith. Mr. Blaine did not become a citizt n of Maine and one of the Editors of the Kennebeo Journal un­ til severaljmonths after the political campaign of that y^ar was terminated and the election held. , 2. Mr. Blaine was not a meml>er of the Know- nothing oiganization. On the contrary, learn­ ing that Mr. Stevens, who became his partner a few weeks after Mr. Blaine had become one of the editors and owners of the Kennebec Jour­ nal, was a nominal member of that organization and earnestly resolved to discard it and get it out of the way us unfit for the meml>ership ot freemen, Mr. Blaine commended his partner's resolution. 3. The riotous proceeding relative to Catholic priests in Bath and Ellsworth took place mouths prior to Mr. Blaine becoming a resi­ dent of the State, and months prior to his be­ coming one of the editors of the Kennebec Journal. 4. Anson P. Morrill, whom the Kennebec Journal supported for Governor in 1855, was nominated by the Republican State Convention early that year, and in the platform of this con­ vention there was not one word or indication in favor of the special doctrin's of Know-Noth- ings. In 18."4, l>efore Mr. Blaine came into the State, Anson P. Morrill was nominated and sup­ ported by the anti-slavery Whigs, bv the Free Soil party, also by the Anti-Nebraska Demo­ crats. .lust prior to the election ot that vear he was also indorsed by a majority of the Know- No. hlmrs,wlio«e organization had just beenintro- duced in Maine. There was a contest lor the control of that organization between the anti- slavery men on the one side and the pro-1 slavery men and allies of the Democrats on the other. Wisely or unwisely, many anti-slavery men rushed into it to control it to prevent its being wielded by their opponents. Anson P. Morrill never was a member of this organiza­ tion, and never cherished a particle of ani­ mosity against the foreign-born citizen. He was then what he is to-day, at 84 years of age, a large-minded, liberal, earhest Republican, and as true a patriot aB lives within the limits of the republic. 5. Most emphatically Mr. Blaine, as one of the editors of the Kennebec Journal, did not remain devoted to the Know-nothing party until public opinion forced its abandon­ ment. On the contrary, both he and his editorial associate, immediately after becoming owners and managers of the Kennebec Journal, did put themselves actively to the effort of in­ ducing the members of that organization to abandon it and give full field to the Republican wutv. Tim Maine Legislature of lftt waa not a Know-Nothln* body m spirit or ehrpoee, tout one of the most pure and respectaijtai legislative bodies nhich ever assembled in the State. The distinctive Know-Nothings made but a small fragment of its members. All ot its measures may not have been necessary. But its action relative to naturalization was dictated by the de­ sire to maintain the naturalization laws intact, to protect them against abuse and fraud, aud thus prevent those shameful transactions in cities such as Tweeed and his gang practiced in New Xork, which were as much an outrage against the honest naturalized citizen as the na­ tive born. Since that Legislature closed its labors nearly thirty years have passed, most of which time the State has been under Republican rule, and during this j>eriod Mr. Maine lias been conspicuous in leadership, jvhile not a natural­ ized citizen of the State has been deprived of his rights or experienced the least illiberal treat­ ment by any action of Mr. Blaine. It is because he is in favor of nil citizens being considered equal before the law and firmly maintaining their rights at home and abroad tuat the Hera hi in vain tries to mislead the public as to the po­ litical principles of Mr. Blaine and his high character as a statesman. and God bless the women that smoothed the brow of the sick? wounded, and dying soldier-- with all this they went forward that the old flag might be unfurled from the icy shores of the lakes in the north to the land of everlasting flowers, so that each and every citizen might enjoy the same privileges, no matter where born, or what his complexion may be. I thank yon again, ladies and gentlemen, for your kindly greetings. BLAINE AT OLD ORCHARD. An Enthusiastic Greeting from the Veter­ ans--Text of Mr. Blaine's Remarks. [Special from Old Orchard Beach, Me.] Mr. Blaine and party arrived from Portland this morning. The streets were filled by a crowd, which gave Mr. Blain; an ovation. Upon arrival at his hot* I Mr. Blaine had a conference with Prof. Downing, of Utica. It is estimated that 25,000 persons, including s.ouo old soldiers, are here to-day, to attend the encampm nt of the Grand Army. Most of the visitors attended Mr. Blaine's public reception in the Old Orchard House. Mr. Blaine stood in the center of the parlor, and the crowd passed in single file and shook hands with Blaine and Gov. Robie. The reception ended at noon. When Mr. Blaine ascended the steps of the stand to address the veterans he was greeted with shouts, cheers and cries of "Blaine, our next President." He said: "Gentlemen of the Grand Army of Maine: I thank you for this kindly and cordial greeting. The occasion has been one of great pleasure to me, in the renewal of old acquaintances and the recalling of old scenes in civil life and vour splendid deeds of war. My mind is carried back to the winter of 1861, to the excitement, the elation, and, at the same time, seriousness and sadness of that ominous and critical era. I vividly remember every incident as we stood on the eve of that gigantic struggle. When, at last, the war-cloud burst, and President Lincoln is­ sued his proclamation for 75,000 men, Maine was asked for one regiment. Gov. Washburne sum­ moned an extra session of the Legislature. I had the honor, at that time, to be Speakerof the House ot Representatives. Patriotism was fer­ vid, confidence was strong, and we younger members of the Legislature--I was but thirty- one years old myself--determined to do some­ thing very bold, something that., we ventured to hope, would be rather appalling to the Confederate government. Instead of re­ sponding with the regiment which the President had asked, we authorized the Governor to offer ten regiments to the Na­ tional Government., and, although entirely un­ used to a State debt, we empowered the Gov­ ernor to borrow $1,000,000 on the faith of the State, for immediate use in the equipment of troops. We all felt that we were bragging when we used these big figures. We felt sure our ten regiments would never be used, for such a contingent from Maine implied a larger force than Napoleon and Wellington both controlled on the field of Waterloo. Gen. Fleming, you, far better than I, know the sequel. Our " ten regiments were swept into the vortex of war before the expiration of half a year, and we ended by Sending thirty-two regiments of in­ fantry, two regiments of cavalry, and nine bat­ teries of artillery. These, with the recruits needed to keep their ranks full in the terrible contest, absorbed more than 70- ooo men of Maine--a draft almost as large In proportion to our arms-bearinir popula­ tion as Frederick the Great levied on the prov­ inces of Prussia in the hardest-pressed period of the seven years' war. You, gentlemen, are an honored and important portion of the surviv­ ors of that great struggle. 1 join with you in commemoration services for the 'unreturning brave,' for that great host who died for their country and for liberty. No victory in war ever assured so much good to mankind, none ever prevented so much evil. The struggle is over, and our triumph is celebrated, not with a sense of having conquered a foe, but with that better sense of having rt claimed our kinsmen, and brought them back to their own heritage and to the protection of their own flag. Beneath that flag North and South, East and West will all find protection. Under its sheltering folds we shall all dwell together in unity, for we are brethren." The speech closed amid a tumult of applause, which lasted ten minutes. THE LIBEL ON BLAINE. GEN. LOGAN. His Speech at Herkimer, X. T. [Utica special.] Gen. Logan had a public reception upon arrlv- • . .. - lng in Herkimer, N. Y. He was received with fer a whole fctate Government at once, it was , . , „ his leadership that by peaceful and la wail meth- long-continued applause. He said: ods battled the conspiracy ana saved ;he State. I iemember too the next year, when the l.emib- iloms had the t< mptation to letaliate in kind and exc.ude Gov. Plaisted by technical objec­ tions, it was Mr. Blaine who said "One majejr- ity ior Mr. Plaisted shall be as goad as a thousand." They say Mr. Blaine is a "Jingo." He is just such a "Jingo" as was John <,>uincy Adams. The malice of his detractors brings against his per­ sonal integrity a single charge which is support­ ed by no proof and refuted by every witness who knows the facts, avid a simrle phrase in a letter which is fully susceptible oi an honest construc­ tion. It is said that the President of the I'nited States ought to be like C esar's wife, above sus­ picion. I have one thing to say about Ca sar. Citsar did many base tilings: among them was the destruction of the liberties of his country; but he never did a baser thing than when he abandoned his wife because somebody slandered her. I wish to say a word concerning Mr. Blaine's associate on the ticket, whom tor fifteen years I have had abundant opportunity of knowing. Gen. Logan's opinions and character have l>een a constant mouth from the time he entered public life as a .Democratic Representative irom Egypt thirty years ago. I have not explored, but t have no doubt if you were to look back among forgotten records, you would find many opinions that he expressed and many votes tnat he gave with which you and 1 should have little sympathy. )>ut wnat of that? He was born nga n in the day of the great regeneration. He went through the baptism of fire and blood, and ever since has been true as steel on every question of l atriotisin and freedom. He is the type and representative of the American volunteer soldier. He entered the war a private. He came out the highest in rank and the most famous of all the men who enlisted from civil life. Ever since, the people of his great State "have kept him in public service in House and Senate, until the other day she presented him at Chicago as her candidate for the highest office. If anvbody questions Gen. Logan's civil capacity, I should like to have him try his hand at encountering him in debate. I see the President of Harvard tells his neigh­ bors that the platform is immoral and demagog­ ical. Well, I differ with the worthy l'resident. The Republican platform states squarely and cleanly what a majontv of Hepublicans think. The civil-service plank was drawn by Geo ge William Curtis, and that about the surplus by Cabot Lodge. President Eliot thinks the civil- service resolution is not honest. Well, I would rather stand for civil-service reform with the men who passed the law of last year, with Ed­ munds and Hawley and John Sherm in and Dorm-m R Eaton, than with the men who re­ tired Pcndletou to private life. President Eliot does not like the Chinese resolution. I quite agree with him. I like the Declaration of in­ dependence better. But I am sorry to say that the policy of Chinese exclusion is in a cord- ance with the opinion of a large ma­ jority of the American j> cple of both parties. We must submit to it till we can convert them. President Eliot expresses the sentiment of a lit­ tle bo y of men about Cambridge; 1 am happy to believe he does not represent the college-- whose influence, in my judgment, has tended infinitely to deera e the public life of the Com­ monwealth. These men have taught our edu­ cated youth to be ashamed of their own history. They have told them that "since the close of tiie war there has been no time when a young man kneV how he coi Id honorably serve his coun­ try." They were preaching in the same strain during the war and before the war. Their eyes are microscopes which can see a blemish on the skin, but cannot take in a fair landscape or a healthy huznan figure. They can find no states­ manship and no public virtue in the payment of the debt, in the settlement of the currency, in the return to apecie payment, in the sublime clem­ ency that dealt with the conquered after the trar. in the sreat self-restraint of the Alabama Ladies and Gentlemen of Herkimer: It is very gratif ying to me to enjoy the great pleasure I have here to-day of meeting so many of you. As was said by my friend. Senator Miller, I came here on a social visit to fultiil a promise I made him, in fulfillment of which it is certainly a very irreat pleasure to me to meet you on an historic Bpot, remembering that to­ day on the way here we p issed over ground, from the time we started this morning till we landed, where our forefathers defended the liberties ot this people--irom West Point, pass­ ing the headquarteis occupied by the Fattur of his Country at Newburg, and from thence to this ]>oint, where the Indian used the scalping-knite, and where Britons fought tor the purpose of subjugating and dominating the cojuntvy. Passing alon,' this beautiful valley thi re appeared to my view s i nerv whose grandeur came from the touch of Nature's hand, and then unfolded itself for the benefit of man­ kind. With all the surroundings, all the fer­ tility of the soil, with your great wealth, with the civilization of your |>eopIe, with all that is pleasant, gratifying, grand, and beautiful, with churches dot'ing the lulls and valleys, your beautiful homes that we tiud everywhere, with manufacturing establishments that are found along your rivers, your production of soil, it seems to me that our d-'sire should be to make this peaceful country one in which man could dwell with good, amicable relations forever. So, too. in this grand State of New York, whenever this country has been threatened in any way by internal dissensions ora hostile foe from without, it has always been ready to bear our flag and stand by it, and to put its strong arms to the rocking pillars of this mighty Republic, and rest and steady them for the beneht of mankind. [Applause.] You, as citizens of New York, in the history of to-day, enjoy a reputation which any others might envy. So, too, X might say an American citizen, find him where you will, shonld be proud of his country--the country that has made him by giving him the right that a citizen should enjoy, and the country that he has hoped to save, by preserving and protecting it against the foen of liberty and the republic. Take our land from east to west, from north to south, with all its pros]>ects and promises, with all Its grand past and great promise in future, take the civilization of the American people, their advancement and achievements, and the glory resting on the American name to-day, they ouirht to be the happiest people that are per­ mitted to enjoy the benefits of any Government. [Applause. J There is but one thing forthe .Amer­ ican people to do--with a grand present, with liberty and privileges enjoyed by no others; with a prosperity unsurpassed by any nation on tlte earth: with a civilization that goes in ad­ vance ot all others; with all that there is to make this a great, peaceful, and happy nation-- that is, to look well at all times to their own in­ terests and see that their country is preserved and protected, its laws executed, its liberty pre­ served, its civilization advanced, and all the enjoyments that can come to man can be found here beneath the old flag. Let that tree of lib­ erty planted by the forefathers, its roots #atered by the blood of the patriots, extend its branches to the four corners of our land. Let its fruit grow, and ripen, and burst with its own rich­ ness till every one entitled to its benefits may rest beneath that flag and pluck that fruit and partake thereof. [Applause.] Ladies and gen­ tlemen, 1 return to you my heartfelt thanks for the kindly greeting 1 have received from you to- . day. I met along the road the citizens of your i grand State, who showed a kindly feeling toward me personally. I certainly return the same kind feeling toward them. If I should ever return here I hope to meet you as one citi­ zen meets another, and that we take one another by the hand as friends only. To the old veter­ ans i met nere to-day iec me say to itaem there is nothing I enjoy more than to take the hand of an old sokller that I endured the fatigues of war with that this country might live. I feel at all times grateful to them, who, at your will, with loyal hearts behind them,.with kind greetings to them, with the prayers of Christians for them-- ; Utter Falsity of the Whole Story. (Louisville (Ky.) special.] In 1876 the Paris True Kentuckiaw, a weekly paper printed at Paris, Ky., published a scandal­ ous story to the effect that while James G. Blaine was teaching school at Georgetown, Kv., he had seduced a pretty New England girl, who was a teacher in Miss Jackson's fashionable boarding-school.for young ladies at Lexington. This same paper also declared that, when the matter became public, Blaine fled from popular indignation, taking the young lady with him. The Frankfort VVomtin.aseini-weeklv Demo­ cratic organ, of which J. Stoddaid Johnston is the editor, followed up the story printed in the Paris Kcnturk-ian with another one of much the same import. Shortly after these scandals had begun to go the rounds, and not long before the National Republican Convention in 187U, the Courier-Journal sent a reporter to investigate the charges, and the resu t was a complete vindication of the statesman's charac­ ter and the lady's virtue. The ' nui ter- . fouTnat at that time editorially disapproved the charges. A representative of the New \ork Hfra/ri, who had been sent to Scott and Fayette Counties to inquire into the true inwardness of the scandal, returned to Louisville to-day. To-night, in conversation with your correspondent, this gen­ tleman declared that the charges were utterly without foundation, and had been invented by a few old maids and village gossips who envied the young woman her dashing lover. [Editorial comment of the Chicago Tribune.] The Democratic managers have evidently con­ cluded that some story must be invented about Blaine to offset the terrible scandal admitted to be true of Cleveland, and they have found in the Chicago Times a willing tool to do the dirty work. The story is one which was started in much the same shape eight years ago by a local paper ir. Kentucky, which afterward retracted the slander. As told at that time, the sequel would have reflected credit on Mr. Blaine rather than have injured him if there had been any truth in it. As told now, it is barely an intimation that, some thirty-three years ago, when Blaine was a young man 19 or 20 years old and teaching an academy for boys in Kentucky, he contracted an intimacy with a girl which led to the departure of both parties from the town of Georgetown. The girl's name is not mentioned, and no one vouches tor the truth of the statement. The only basis for it alleged in the scurrilous pub­ lication is that Mr. Blaine emigrated from Ken­ tucky thirty-three years ago, which everybody knows, and the assertion that the unnamed girl also left the State and never returned, which is probably true of a large number of young women. It happened, however, that the very day this vile yarn was prepared for the Chicago Timex Mr. Watterson made a statement in one of the New York clubs to this effect. His journal -the Louisville Courier-Journal, had jjeen offered the "sensation," but he declined it because he had investigated the whole story when it was first put into circulation years ago, and had sat­ isfied himself that "there was absolutely not one word of truth in it." Mr. Watterson's word as a gentleman, a Democrat, and a resident of Kentucky, is the most complete answer that could be made to the slander, es]>ecially after a personal investigation. This Blaine "scandal" will fall still-born, and leave the Clereiand scandal, which is recent, explicit, and authenti­ cated, to stand on its own merits. JAMES 6. BLAINE. A Non-Partisan Reception from Hw Busi­ ness Men of Portland, IPortland (Me.) special.] The reception to Mr. Blaine by the business men of this city, at the City Hall to-night, was a brilliant one. The hall was packed, the seats having been removed and the audience stand­ ing, while the galleries were filled with ladies. Mr. Blaine held the reception fn the Mayor's of­ fice. At 8 o'clock he was conducted to the plat­ form, leaning upon Congressman Reed's arm, and being received with great cheering. Mr. Reed, in a happy speech, presented the business men of Portland to Mr. t laine, saying, jocu­ larly, that if he attempted to present them individually it would soon be apparent that Mr. Blaine was better acquainted with them than he. George Woodman, as spokesman of the mer­ chants, read an address to Mr. Blaine, signed by over aoo business men and firms of this eitv. The address, after expressing gratification that a citizen of Maine had been made the recipient of the Presidential nomination, says: Although we have not been able to agree with you upon political questions, we1 have all had confidence in your integrity as a man and your purity and ability as a statesman, and we are united in a conviction that, should the people of the United States ratify the choice of your poli­ tical associates, you will give the country an ad­ ministration unrivaled in its wise solicitude and practical measures for the promotion of all our material interests, and for its painstaking care for the purification and perfection of all the public service. Mr. Blaine replied as follows: Fe low-citizens. I do not know how to express my sen*e of the great honor von pay me in this most cordial reception, all the more grateful be­ cause not tendered in a partisan spirit or for partisan advantages. Forthe business nun of Port-land I have, from personal knowledge, al­ ways entertained profound respect. In no com­ munity has a higher standard ot mercantile honor been maintained, nor a more taintless commercial credit, than in your city, and the prosperity yon enjoy is the legitimate fruit of comprehensive intelligence, industry, and cour­ ageous enterprise. Though never, a citizen of Portland, I was a resident among you for nearly three years, beginning in 1H57 and ending in 1859. During that time I was editor of the Daily Advertiser, and in constant intercourse with the business and professional men of the city. I recall no more pleasant period, and in a wide sense no more profitable period in my life. A quarter of a century has since elapsed, marked with events of world­ wide importance, but the flight of years has not dimmed my appreciation of the Iiieiidsnips I then formed, nor the great kindness I received in Portland. Were I to recall the long list of eminent men of both parties, now no more, whom I was then permitted to number among my friends, time would fail me, and this large assemblage, called for a friendly greeting of the living, would be turned to eulogy of a past gen­ eration." Introductions to Mr. Blaine followed, many gentlemen being introduced. 1,^1 ' That "Personal Issue. " * The "personal issne" raised by the Re- fnblican bolters is becoming troublesome, f they could recall the platform which they gave to the country two weeks ago they would doubtless change the sentence whiclt declares that the questions involved in this campaign are "moral" rather than "politi­ cal. " When they made this declaration they invited an inqniry into the private character of their candidate for President, which has brought to light a most unsavory scandal. Not one of them has dared to take the responsibility of saying that the mat­ ters alleged against Gov. Cleveland are not true. A few of the perfectionists have so far recovered from the shock produced by the bursting of this bombshell'as to say that they don't want any "mild slinging." The missile which struck their model can­ didate was filled with something worse than mud. Hot lava or Greek fire could not have been more withering in its touch.--Boston Journal. , •, Let the Tattoo Be HonorttL We have a tattooed man. Let the name be honored. Also on the skirmish line I have heard the tattoo in the drawn battle when the weary army went to rest knowing that to-morrow would be sulphury again. The tattoo was beaten next when the camps and hospitals too were glad with victory, and blessed in the heavens by fevered eyes the stars seemed to shed the gentle mnsic back. Finally the tattoo dissolved the noble army which, surviving a thousand half- hearted Generals and despairing moral phi­ losophers, marched before its long-in suited President with modest mien and hallowed feelings of gratitude to God that it had per­ severed to the last and never mutinied by the way. November next the tattoo will be beaten upon another dead rebellion when the tattoed man walks up the White House porch and says "My countrymen, ave!" Campaign Notes. THE Valparaiso (Ind.) Herald, a Demo­ cratic paper, has come oat for Blaine and Logan. TIMOTHY HEENAN, a prominent Demo­ crat of Appleton, Wis., declares his inten­ tion to vote for Blaine and Logan. THREE St. Louis papers of hitherto Democratic proclivities have come out for Blaine and Logan and iu opposition to Cleveland. They are the Evening Chroni­ cle, the Wetttliehe Post, -and the American Celt. Two PROTESTANT clergymen of Erie, Pa., the Rev. Mr. Westill and the Rev. Mr. Carstenson, who have hitherto voted the Democratic ticket, announce their intention to vote for Mr. Blaiue. They do not like Mr. Cleveland's record. A GREAT political meeting, in which thousands of colored people participated, was held at Cambridge, Ohio, the principal speakers being Senator B. K. Bruce and the Rev. .Tames Pointdexter, a popular col­ ored orator. The enthusiasm for Blaine and Logan found vent in various ways. MR. DANA'S opposition to Cleveland de­ rives most significance froni the fact that it was not determined on until after due de­ liberation and when it became apparent that Cleveland's election was impossible. Mr. :|l)ana did not begin to sneer at Hancock in 1880 until he realized the hopelessness of his candidacy. CHAIRMAN MCKEE, of the Independent Republican Committee of Pennsylvania, reports the receipt of letters from fifty Chairmen of county committees in the State proclaiming that * the Independents are everywhere enthusiastic for Blaine and Logan. Mr. McKee thinks that Pennsyl­ vania will give a majority of from 60,000* to 80,000 for Blaine. • WAS it Carl Schurz who said, in a politi­ cal speech a few years ago: "Only once have I slept in a side-room of the Demo­ cratic party, and there I have heard enough not to vote a Democratic ticket again in my life. Y es, my hand shall wither before I do so again." Is this the Carl Schurz who not only will vote for Cleveland, but pub­ licly boasts he can even stand Hendricks. Well, well! JOHN G. WHITTIER, the poet, in a letter to Mr. Cabot Lodge, Chairman of the Mas­ sachusetts Republican Committee, inclos­ ing a subscription to the campaign fund, Miys he is not prepared to abandon Repub­ licanism and go over to a party whose prin­ ciples and measures he has opposed for a quarter of a century. He hopes that Mas­ sachusetts will give the nsuai majority to the Republican ticket this fall. CAPT. MANGAN, an Irish-American sol­ dier of Fond du Lac, Wis., who fought in Gen. Bragg's brigade, has published a letter to his fellow-countrymen in the Fond du Lac Congressional district exhorting them to vote against Bragg in the event of nis receiving the Democratic Congressional nomination, and against Gov. Cleveland in any event, Capt. Mangan denounces Bragg and Cleveland as enemies of the workingmen and political Know-Nothings. "THE nearer you get to Cleveland," says Mr. Fowler, a prominent Democrat of Rochester, "the smaller and weaker he ap­ pears." The same gentleman refers to Cleveland as "a fourth-class lawyer," and says he got the idea that the five-cent-fare bill was unconstitutional into his head be­ tween the §herry and champagne when he dined with some New York corporation at­ torneys. He imbibed the idea, Mr. Fowler says, "when his mind was fuddled," and "has not been able to get rid of it sine ?." EX-CONGRESSMAN T. H. MUKCH, of Maine, who has represented in Congress the labor movement more distinctly than any other man, has started for California to stump the Pacific coast for Blaine and Logan. Murch was elected as a labor man, defeating in the first instance Eugene Hale for the lower house. He was at the head of the Stonecutters' Union in New England, and has been identified actively with labor interests since he was a Democrat. He takes the stump for the Republican ticket because of the opposition of labor to Grover Cleveland. JUDGE J. S. O'CONNOR, of New York, who fought in the Union ranks, in a private letter to a friend in Washington says: "The ' back-bone' of the Democratic party here is broken. The disaffection among our people [the Irish] from the Democratic ranks is something wonderful, and a cause of much alarm to the old war-horses of the party which was 6aid, though erroneously, to own them." Judge O'Connor say that though immersed in business and tired of political life he cannot resist the desire to take part in the campaign in the interest of Blaine and Logan. THE Democrats of Georgetown, Ohio, were badly taken in last week. They held a ratification meeting and persuaded Mr. L. Vananda, a life-long Democrat, to make a speech. Judge of their surprise when the gentleman delivered himself of the fol­ lowing: "Fellow-Democrats--You have persisted that I should address you. I do so very reluctantly. You have had doctors, city officials, and the legal fraternity to ad­ dress you and represent you this evening. As a daily laborer, I represent the laboring- classes, and as such I will briefly say to you that if I live till next November I will most assuredly vote for Blaine and Logan." THE Rev. Mr. Mclncrow, a Catholic priest of Amsterdam, N. Y., contributes to a local journal a strong protest against the candidacy of Grover Cleveland. The defi­ nite charges against him. Dr. Mclncrow says, make it the duty of every religious and educational journal to opi>ose his elec­ tion and to demand his withdrawal from the canvass. No man with Cleveland's record in private life can hope for election at the hands of the American people. "The re­ ligious and moral elements of our life are too powerful to admit of such a result" The Christian Church of the country must condemn the man whose impure life sug­ gests the treatment accorded to Aaron Burr. Father Mclncrow advises the Dem­ ocrats to withdraw their candidate and to nominate Horatio Seymour in bis place. AS --Judge Zane has resigned the Circuit Court Judgeship at Sprinfield, toaccept the position of Chief Justice of Utah Terri­ tory. ' --No more Greek is (o-be taughtin Chi­ cago's public schools. It has been sud­ denly discovered that there are many other things, more useful than ornamental, thnt need to be taught in onr public schools. - --Gov. Hamilton has issued a warrant for the arrest of Franklin J. Moses, ex-Gover­ nor of South Carolina, in order to secara his transfer to Massachusetts for trial on the charge of «windling Thomas Wentworth Higginson. --Miss Alice Daily, well known in Chi- < cago artistic circles, has become iasane from overstudy. She attempted to kill her father at her home near Murphysboro. in this State. She has been confined in the insane asylum at Anna. --John W. Mason, one of the pioneers of Kendall County, whp has' passed away, owned 1,000 acres of choice land, but clung like a hermit to an old log house in the. densest part of a large grove, He preserved every newspaper he ever received. „ --Mr. A. B. Southard having resigned: the position of Geuer.nl Traffic Manager of? the Louisville. New Albany and Chicago Railroad, that office has been abolished. 'r Mr. W. H. McDoel, who has been appointed ' General Freight Agent, with headquarters^ at Chicago, has assumed hia duties. --The corner stone of the new Catholio church of Mattoon was laid recently. Bishop Baltes, of Alton, was present and conducted : the ceremonies, and church societies from ; Pana, Peoria. Decatur, Litchfield, Cham­ paign, Newton, Effingham, and Charleston were present. The new chnrch is to be one; of the finest in Central Illinois, the proposed cost being about $30,000. --Lieut. Frank E. Brownell, popularly known as "Ellsworth's Avenger," attended the Minneapolis reunion. He was standing behind Col. Ellsworth, the leader of the Chicago Zouaves, when Jackson shot him, in Alexandria, Va., in 1861. and instantly ; leveled his musket and killed the murderex on the spot, do is now employed at • Pension Agent. V ; :--One evening last week, at a picnic and: dance some ten miles southwest of Pana, a , quarrel between Oscar Perry and Josh Bird! and his two brothers occurred. Perry stabbed • Josh Bird in many places with a knife, dis- embowling him. Bird is still alive, butt probably fatally hurt. Perry has not been .. found yet. The Birds are young men, ' / single, and Perry is a yoang married man. V All are farmers. An old grudge was the • cause of the quarrel. ,, --Otto Mohardt, with a small party, went / bont-riding on Lake Michigan near the v Chicago breakwater. One of the party, a ? little girl named Mamie Leyes, bent over the side of the boat to take a cup of water.|^ - She lost her balance and jumped into the 4' , < lake. Mohardt jumped in to rescue her. The girl was drowned, and Mohardt, being u# taken with cramps, as it is thought, shared ,i- her fate. About 2,COD people witnessed the ^ accident from the pier. ( / --The Mississippi Valley Medical Society will hold its annual meeting this year at * ' •• Spriugfield, commencing Sept. 33 ,*nd J continuing four days. The society is the old Tri-Stnte Society, which formerly in- - eluded Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. It , now extends from the Rocky to the Alle-' ^ ̂ gheny Mountains and from the lakes to the t Gulf, including about twenty-two States. t Over 1,000 invitations have been sent out, and a large and interesting meeting is ex- " *' pected. --An instance of unusual presence of mind in sudden danger on the part of a ̂ young lad, occurred near the village of Wil- mette. Little Eddie Freeman, a child of 9 " years, the son of John Freeman, went down! \'-0 to the pier to fish, in company with a com- * panion of the same age, Johnnie Braid- *§£ wood. While they were on the edge of the , pier, Eddie remarked to his friend that he * • •' had better be careful, as the planks were ; • 1%;! slippery and he might fall into the lake. j The words were hardly out of his mouth when Johnnie missed his footing and plunged into the water, which at the spot • « was some seven or eight feet deep. He struggled to the surface, but sank ngnin, and still a second time, and in a few mo- ments all would have been over with him. Eddie, however, kept surprisingly cool, and, twisting the line round his body, he stuck the butt end of his fishing-pole down by the drowning boy, shouting, "Here, , Johnnie, catch on to the pole," which Johnnie failed not to do. Eddie then / i slowly and gradually lifted him along 0 shoreward, until he succeeded in getting him into shallow water, and thus saved his life. That was well done, and shewed that he carries an old head on his young body, as well as a brave little heart within it. w: "SSit : 4>si' Lej*l Requirements of X'ew Corporatta^s. The Secretary of State's office is contin­ ually meeting with annoyance in the papers sent in by new corporations, arising from an inclination on the part of orgauizers to hasten the work by attempting to waive the ten days' notice to stockholders required by law to be given before the election of offi­ cers aud boards of directors. The following letter upon one of these cases will be of public interest: OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATK, J SPKINliFlEIJ), 111., Aug s. f To James H. Hay, Esq., Belleville, 111.: DKAK SIR--I have your letter of the 4th inst.. returning Commissioners' report oi the Belleville and Itichland Water Company, with waiver of notice of subscrit ers to stock attached. I regret that the haste of your incorporators has caused and will cat se you so much delay. The notice, as prescribed bj- law for completing the organisation of the corporation, cannot be waived. The sub­ scribers to the frtock have n.» authority to waive anything or to do any act with respect to the creation of the corporation prior to the complete organization, except as pre­ scribed by the strict letter of the law. There is no corporation until every step in the law has been cotnp'.ie 1 with, and it Is the very essence of the corporation that it be brought into life by the lorms j rescribed by ljtw. Until this has I een done and the corporation stands for the indivi tuals composing it. the subscribers to the stock are uiereiudh idua]*, and have no vitality as pi rt ot the corporate body. Vou. as a lawyer, must see the differ­ ence between an embryo corp ratiou and one full grown and endowed with life by the forms of law The one is an entity: the other a nonentity. I am uwij elle l to return the report tor correction, an I the notic*? to the subscribers tc the stock must be sent by mail, as re iiiired l>y law, before your corpo­ ration can become a le al corporate body. I have no option hi the mutter, and the Com­ missioners named In the license can only pro­ ceed as the law direc's. 1 must execute the law as I find it, not as con en lence or iuiiliiia tion might dictate. Yours very truly, HKNHV D. DKMEXT, fecretary of State. , --Charles Duth, aged 81, living M CMamRe, hanged himself in Us bam. IllSfliiliiSa r &'