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Bcnrn HHaiudealci' J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Publisher. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. THE papers are filled with accounts of suicides of impetuous young persons, who, being "dissapointed in love," felt that life was no longer worth living. There are soasons when the midsum­ mer madness called love is like the small-pox, more fatal in its effects than at other times, and this seems to be iOne of the bad years for the complaint. GEN. BUTLER makes a long story in the North American Kevieiv of thealr leged offer to him by anonymous per­ sons in 1864 of the' Yice Presidency on the Republican ticket, first with Chase, , afterward with Lincoln. The Boston Record says that the Geneta! does not give the same "reasons for declining now as he did then, when he said he "didn't want to run with Ale Lincoln." A LADY scientist physician, the wife J of the leading doctor in Clinton, Maine, has been' in the healing business ̂ or two months, and has secured a practice greatly overtowering that of her hus­ band in the' most palmy day3 of his profession. She has surely come into possession of a talisman of the family, if not of even a wider circle. She averages forty-two professional calls per day, and some of her patients now go miles to see her, who until a few -weeks have been confined invalids. THE mayor and his aldermen of Mon-, treftl started on a little junketing trip to Ontario the other day, and upon^en- tering the borders of that province were overhauled on the train by the healthofficer, who desired to know if they were vaccinated. Two of the dig­ nitaries were found to be without the strawberry mark, and were forthwith compelled to submit to the lancet or to forego their iun. There was a loud protect against this outrage upon their personal freedem, but the two finally Bnccumbed and were made small-pox proof. ' THK organ of the De Lesseps canal at Panama is not at all confounded \>y the slow progress of that enterprise. In its opinion the coming year will be one "of extraordinary feats in the an- Ibals of canal . dredging." By next month the. first section of the canal will be opened--twelve kilometers, <5r seven miles. But it is not the dredg­ ing that is the main difficulty before the engineers. They have got to find a way to carry tjjieip. great Ship waterway across the treacherous river, which at times is a sluice-way of mud, and ajgain a resistless torrent. * A WASHINGTON newspaper man, dur­ ing a visit of the Mexican editors to that city, was assigned to a carriage in which one of the young ladies belong­ ing to the party was seated. Taking it for granted that his companion spoke only her own language, several places ,,of interest were visited, always in si­ lence. As the carriage approached the capitol, however, the newspaper nan felt that he Inust say something, even if he received no answer. Ac­ cordingly, pointing to the noble pile, he ejaculated : El capitole, very fine, ntdgjiijico." To which the lady re­ plied: "You bet your life it is." THK ancient Hindoo faith has met with a severe shock. It is an article of faith with the HindoSs that the sacred city of Pen ares cannot be shaken by an earthquake because it does not rest upon the earth at all, but upon the back of a tortoise.. The earthquake which recently visited Hindostan gave Benares a pood shaking up, and many rickety buildings came tumbling to the ground. Thereupon the Mohamme­ dans laughed and the Hindoos were wrotli, as the learped Brahmins openly derided the notion that the city would be disturbed. Hindooism itself has re­ ceived a telling blow. CANON FAKRAR, who is now in Can­ ada, has, it is said, prepared a lecture on Robert Browning which he will de­ liver nowhere but in Boston. He re­ gards Browning os second only to Shakspearo. and fancies, perhaps, that in Boston alone will he find sympa­ thetic hearers. The would-be literary people of Boston who have not hitheTto given the matter much thought will now, if any exclusive distinction is to be gained thereby, at once decide that they, too, believe Browning to be a second Shakspeare. In making the announcement of a special lecture Far- rar evidently knew his audience. After the lecture is over Browning can come to Boston and be a successful candidate for office. AT the office of the Adige of Verona, says the London Xews, there appeared tho other day an aged lady, still robust and gay, who offered to recite at per- formancesCproposed to be given in favor of old actors, reserving a benefit night for ljerself. She was Rosalinda Caruso, formerly an, actress, well known in Verona through her career, and lately on account of her venerable age. She was born August '27/fV8.">, and has, therefore, just completed her 100th year. She is still able to read without spectacles. All the savings she had been able to accumulate during sixty years ou the stage had been devoured by tho troubles she had gone through, principally by the burning of the Monte di Pieta and the inundations which occured a few years ago. SENATOR PALMER, of Detroit, Michi­ gan, has been prowling about the old homestead at Asliford, Connecticut, where he was born, and has shipped thence a large number of old house­ hold relics, with which he will fill a log cabin whfcli he has built on his grounds at home. The astonished ru­ ral expressman told the sender that "the hull lot ain't worth the express cost, stranger." Small trees of eTery available kind on the old place are to be taken up and transplanted about the cabin, also huckelberry and black­ berry bushes; and, to complete the miniature New England which he pro­ poses to lay out around his Michigan cabin, the millionaire Senator even thinks of shipping a car-load of genu­ ine New England rocks from the old farm to the smooth and stoneless West, DB. • BCCKLAND, gays Chamber*' Journal made some experiments in re­ gard to toads which are claimed aa conclusive. He placed twelve toads separately in twelve holes cut in blocks of hard, flinty sandstone. They w;ere firmly sealed in. The imprisoned ani­ mals were buried three feet deep on November 26, 1825. At the same time four toads were deposited id holes cut in the heart of an apple tree, and the opening securely plugged. Foly: others were placed in plaster-of-paris, covered with lilting. On December 10, 1820, all the buried toads were examined. All in the hard stone and in the tree and two in tho plaster-of-paris were dead. The remainder were dying, but some placed in a softer stone were in tolerably good health, and some were actually fatter than when placed in the holes. From this it would appear that in positions where water can penetrate toads may live, and e„ven thrive, al­ though buried at a considerable depth, entirely away from the light and any visible means of subsistence. THERE is a good deal of humbug, says the Detroit Free Press, about the so- called swift passages of ocean steamers across the Atlantic. In' the whole his­ tory of ocean travel less than a dozen passages have been made under seven days, and those were between New York and Queenstown only. Now Queenstown is something of a sail dis­ tant from Liverpool, the real end of the voyage. The very leasl time re­ quired for the passage between New York and Liverpool is seven days, to accomplish which requires the con­ sumption of 150 to 200 tons of coal a day, instead of seventy to ninety, when not running for baucombe. Some careful statistician has worked out the fact that at least 2,500 trips are made by passenger steamers annually across the Atlantic, not ten of which are ac­ complished in seven days and not fifty of them in eight days. Most of the voyages between New York and Liver­ pool, or Glasgow, Plymouth and Havre (those being the four,nearest points of actual desination) occupy nine or ten days. But Sandy Iiook isn't New York, nor is the sighting horizon off Queenstown the end of the voyage, by a very respectable minority. We have lately done a good deal of crowing about our phenomenally fast trips, but exactly thirty-three years ago the Collins steamer Baltic ran froih Liver­ pool to New York in nine days and three hours. Lust His Taste. „ I was sleeping in a second-story bed­ room of a planter's house in Missis­ sippi, and it was not yet daylight, when something roused me up. I was lis­ tening to hear the noise repeated, when there came such a yell as fairly shook me out of bed. I ran to the ope^^-in- dow, but it was too dark outside to see anything. As I stood there listening 1 heard the clank of a chain, followed by groans, and then all was still. 1 went back to bed with the idea that some crazy negro was prowling around, and slept until sunrise. Then I looked out and solved "the mystery. A few rods away was the smoke-house. A big beai-trap had been set at the door, and it had caught a prize. With one leg held as in a vise, and with his bunds grasping a young tree to hold him up, a burly big negro looked up at me and called put: "Say, boss, but I want tagit loose of dis!"' When I went down and told the Col­ onel he expressed no surprise and took no action until atter breakfast. Then wo walked out to the smoke-house, and, after looking the prisoner over, he said: "Does it hurt?" "Nebber was hurted so in my life, sah." "Can't you get out?" "No, sah. I'ze bin tryin* eber since midnight, but I can't do it." "I have liams and shoulders in there." "Yes, sah. I recon you has " "Are you fond of smoked meat?" '"No, sah. I used ter be, but 1 ain't any mo'. I shall nebber tech smoked meat agin!" "Like to walk out nights?" "No, sah. Jze gwine ter bed ebery night at sundown arter dis!" We got a rail and opened the trap and let him out He went off dragging Jiis leg behind him, and as he reached the gate he lifted his hat and said: "Werrv much obleeged, Kurnel. If my appetite fur hams an' shoulders ober returns I'll keep cl'ar o' dis plan- tashun, an' doauf you forgit it!"--De­ troit Free 1'resx. Emery Moors ami the Millionaires. One day a group of millionaires, who were sitting on the piazza at the United States, at Saratoga, began to. chaft Storrs in a solemn fashion. He had just confessed to them that he was not/worth any money, and that he had swept everything that he had ma.le as fj£8t as he got it. Suddenly he turned upon one of the would-be tormentors and began: "You rich fellows appear to think money-making is an intel­ lectual process, and that the wealth ac­ quired by you proves that you are a very superior kind of men. Y'ou are very much mistaken. There is nothing intellectual about acquisitiveness. It is merely an animal trait. It is le-;s highly developed in you gentlemen 'than it is in the chipmunk. The beaver is very much your superior in this regard. Where are the rich men in history ? There are two only who live in the legends cf literature--Dives, who sur- vive§ on account of hi s fortunate con­ nection with a pauper, and Cra>sus, be­ cause his name has been used by poet3 , merely as a synonym. Gentlemen, whero are the stockholders who built the Parthenon? Doubtless in their dav they sat around in Athens and spoke of the tine work that Phidias was doing for them. But, gentlemen, where are the stockholders to-day and where is Phidias ?" He went on in this quaint way for fully lWlt an hour, and when he had finished eVen the million­ aire did not Beem to tmnk that they had had the best of ilt^New 1 "ork World. MR. BAYABD is honored in the nam­ ing of the new town of Bayard, Florida* PROTECTION OF THE BALLOT. Senator John Sherman Discusses the. Host Important Question of •-"f the Time. A Democratic Revolution Accomplished by Fraud in the South--The Remedy. {Speech in Washington, Oct. 24.J -By far the most important question uw before the American people is how to pro­ tect tho ballot-box from fraud and corrup­ tion. It is transcending in importance, be­ cause if it is established as a rule in our country that anywhere the voice of the people can be overthrown by scoundrels and rascals of any degree, and the people deprived of their choice, then our boasted Republicanism ends, and the war of the Guelphs and the Ghibelines, riot and ruin, commences. -I do not intend to speak of partisanship. You all know that I am a republican, atid I intend to dismiss th6 subject of partisanship to give you my con­ ception of ,the nature and the character of the danger that now threatens the Ameri­ can people. The habit of fraud in elec­ tions has existed more or Jess from the beginning of our government, and must to some extent exist everywhere that crimi­ nals abound; but never lefore 18G8 was the crime of election frauds organized by great bands of men, bound together by ties and compacts, which, contributing to a common purpose, overthew and thwarted the will of the people. This was in 18(18, to prevent General Grant from receiviug the -<4tiCtoral vote of New York. Fortu­ nately for the country, it did not affect the result. Mr. Sherman here reviewed the Tweed frauds, and then recited the frauds in the South in 187(>. "The day that Garfield was elected Pres­ ident of the United States the same fraud existed in those Southern States. The same combination existed, but fortunately, impressed with the importance of affairs, the people elected Garfield, and he became President by a sectional vote; but'last year, however, the?same Democratic power in the cotton States controlled the election, and deprived one million voters of the right of suffrage. Whereas the vote, if counted, would have changed the result, where six million people have been deprived of all representation, not only in Congress, but in the Electoral College last year, by this combination of fraud, Cleveland was elect­ ed President. If there had been a fair vote and a fair count in the South, James G. Blaine would this day be President. That is a solemn fact, and no man here de­ nies it. I have been begging day after day, asking Gov. Hoadly, and Judge Thurman, and other distinguished men in Ohio to deny this fact, and they dare not do it. Since I made that declaration in this can­ vass,v the Southern States, by their repre­ sentatives and leading newspapers, have admitted that what I said was true. Tho Charleston Neirn and Courier, on the 15th of October, in an article ably and fairly written, said that what the white men of South Carolina did was by revolution to overthrow the order of things. They call it a re^lution. I would call it a rebellion. "Thepaccomplislied what they called a revolution, and they want it distinctly nu­ clei stood that the negroes of the South were deprived of their rights: not willing­ ly, but against their will; and then the article says this is a white man's govern­ ment. and we intend to maintain our pow­ er. although the blacks of South Carolina are nearly two to one. If this is lawful, if this is light, to deprive a majority, be­ cause of superior physical power, of their rights, then all frauds are right, and the thief, the scoundrel, the forger, and pick­ pocket may lawfully go to work and rob whom they please. There is no crime greater than this, and it was by this crime that a revolution was made last year in the Governmeut; and that crime I will de­ nounce an long as I live, and wherever I •peak. "Now. let tin go a little further. The example set by successful manipulation at the Itallot-box, which was resorted to. and every kind of interference, that successful manipulation at tho ballot-box that over­ throws the rights of the poor, and the pub­ lic among them, is uow practiced and will be practiced iu every State of the I'mon, unless the people stamp upou it and put it down, if necessary, by force. M.v couu- trymen, we had it iu Ohii>; we were going ou iu a peaceful and quiet canvass, una making speeches to our fellow-citizens. We were received with kindut'ss every­ where, and tho people listened thought­ fully to what wo had to say. Where- ever a Democrat appeared, he 'was treated with equal kindness and courtesy, and I feel bound to say that our Democratic fel­ low citizens, especially in the runil dis­ tricts, received the Republican orators with kindness and listened to them attentively. Finally, under circumstances of great dif­ ficulty and discouragement, with the National Government and the State government and nearly all the city govern­ ments against us, and with a whole army of Prohibitionists against us, who fought us tooth and nail--with all this opposition the people of Ohio, by a majority of 20,00(1, elected a Legislature that was Republican by thirty majority on joint ballott, and Governor Foraker by a majority of 1(1,000, Then the crime commenced at the ballot- boxes. The Legislature had a majority of thirty on joint ballot. s^In^X'incinndti, where they were accus­ tomed to elec tion crimes, especially a year ago, when one lieutenant of police, with­ out warrant, arrested more than one hun­ dred lawful voters on the night before the election and put them in the Hammond- street station, and kept them 'unbeno- ticed,'as Lincoln used to say, kept them in durance vile, and 'after election turned them out without accusation--that fellow was tried, found guilty, was sentenced by the judge, after strong reproof, and sent to jail for one year. Then the Governor of Ohio, the chief magistrate, the man who was sworn to execute the tfws of Ohio, came here and begged a pardon for Mullen from President Cleveland, and, I believe, upon erroneous information President Cleveland granted that pardon. That was a year ago, and Mullen was sent back and appointed lieutenant of police, and he.was set to do the work over again, and to do it te^ times worse. " Why, my countrymen, we dare not say anything about frauds in the South lest we be charged with raising the bloody shirt, but the frauds in uiy State were a good deal worse this year than ever before. They stopped the count iu fifteen precincts- in Hamilton County, just where they could manipulate them best, and held back the returns for no other purpose except fraud. They did not change these returns to an extent more than sufficient to elect the whole Democratic ticket in Hamilton County, the largest county in our State. There was one county iu the Fourth Ward --a very bad place, I know--where there were probably five or six hundred voters iu the ward, according to the returns mad;' on the election for President. Aboutoue- fourth of these were Republicans and the rest were Democrats. 1 think Rlnine got 140 votes there. They made a registration of even hundred. When the day Of elec­ tion came they tore up the registration payers and let every fellow vote as many times as he wanted. One of the judges Swore that he saw one man vote seven times; they did not quit until they got WC votes in the ballot-box, so they said. The Republican judge got hungry and went awaybut he took the key. While he was gone they broke open the box, tied it up with a rope; took it to the lieutenant of po­ lice and left it in his custody. When the final votes were counted there were only- eight Republican votes and 950 Democratic votes. They called that a fair election. That was the most infamous crime that was ever committed in the State of Ohio. Only think of from three to four hundred illegal votes cast in that one precinct. Any man who accepts a certificate of election among these fourteen ought to have the brand of Cain nnon his brow. I would not trust him with a dollar bill out of mv sight Nearly every citizen of the United States knows that that was an infamous fraud -- committed after the ballot-box was closed --bought with money. "My countrymen, about our Southern brethren and their frauds, unless Ohio cor­ rects herself, and she will if I know her, and if I don't know her I don't know who ought to; now, my countrymen, that is the condition of affairs. I am glad to see that the Democrats of the East, of the West, honest men everywhere, aro denounc­ ing these frauds. As great a fraud was committed at Columbus, at the capital of the State. Upon the return of the vote depended the election of a member of the House of Representatives. One had been so badly beaten, by about 1,300 majority-- Allen O. Myers--that they did not try to resurrect him. The next man was Young by name and young by nature. He was only beaten 213 votes. Between Saturday night and Monday morning some thief stole fnom the county record office the poll- book. ' They took these returns, and they added 300 tallies for every Democrat on the list, changing the number voting from •204 to 504. They just put a top on the fig­ ure two so as to make it a five. It was so handsomely done that I must confess I would have been cheated myse'f, They were actually about to count it, knowing it was a forgery, when a public-indignation sprung up in the city of Columbus, not confined to Republicans, but including the Democrats. One of the most prominent Democrats in the State said: "No, no; wo might be glad to see such result, but we will not bring it abont by fraud and cor­ ruption." And so, by a voice of public sen­ timent, they were prevented from consum­ mating that fraud. Cincinuati will have the mark of Cain put on its brow. In other words, to use an Irish phrase, it ought to have been boycotted, not only iu Ireland, but all over the country. "We have got to put a atop to'this. If Democrats commit these frauds much longer, are you sure that the Republicans won't find it a profitable thing to do also, aud imitate your bad example? That thing must have a remedy, and the time must come when every lawful voter shall have the right to cast one lawful ballot and have it counted. I have thought a great deal about the remedy. I shall be glad, Indeed, to contribute a remedy. One is, and I think the most effective one, the law-mak­ ing power of the great nation. It should go to work, without respect to party ties, aud frame a wise election law, and by that law regulate the election of members of Congress. "Sometimes it is said that we have not the power. It is perfectly clear that we have the power. The Constitution confers that power upon Congress, and Congress may change the lime, place, and manner of these elections so far as members of Con­ gress aud electors are concerned. What we want is a just and honest law, to be framed by men of both parties, all to be done under the surveillance of the courts of the United States. This is one remedy. There is another remedy provided by the four­ teenth amendment If thesti people down South will not allow free and fair elections, we, can not send troop-; down there now to protect the voters, but we do say that if they prevent the ne­ groes from voting we will hot allow them representation for the negroes. There are six million colored people in the South who have just as much right to vote as you, and the law gives it to them; they have a right to it, and nobody has a right'to win- say that By the terms of our law thirty- eight members of Congress, and thirty- eight electors' votes are represented from the South; if, therefore, six millions of people are not to vote or to be represented, then the Southern Democrats shall not vote the six million. Their representation should be reduced by thirty-eight. I want te leave that upou your minds. Democrats and Republicans, and I appeal to you as patriots--I appeal to you to bear witness to what I have said. I have not laised any bloody shirt, as my friend said. In that very speech I said the war was over, and the war should cease; I said I would not hold any Confederate soldier responsible for what he did in the jrfV, but I said, fur­ ther, that I neflf, ..u^r % xluirudttf what our soldiers won for us in the war, and one thing they won for us was the right to vote. No hand dare tear down that sacred instru­ ment; we will stand by the rights of the lowliest in our land. The Republican |iarty is strong eucugh to do it. It will do it, although the remedy may be in the dis­ tant future. There never was a wrong but there was a remedy, and that remedy ^rill be had by the voters at the polls. A Railroad Congratulation. Among the curiosities of congratula­ tions that Judge Foraker has received, the following will rank high: ESCAN.AHA, Mich., (let. 17. The Hon. Joseph 13. Foraker, Governor-elect, Cincinnati, Ohio: Inclosed please find copy of supposed train order sent over our line by our chief dis­ patcher on learning; to our great joy, the result ot the recent contest in your State. For your better understanding I will say in explanation that the figure 12 just before the signature of the supposed chief dis­ patcher means "Do you understand?" The lijrure "13 order 2," just before the signa­ ture of the suppositious, conductor means "1 understand Order No. 22 and will exe­ cute." Then (). K. is piven and the sig. of the chief dispatcher. Then you proceed to execute, Thaukful that such an order £an •be given, 1 remain yours, Kepublican-ly, G. £. HA|K. COLUMBUS, 10:15. 22. Foraker, Conductor: ltun to Executive Mansion regardless of Mcl.ean with Standard Oil train. Pass Hoadly and Warwick with broken-down en- Kine at Hoodie Siding-. Northrup and Cooley will pick up the wreck. No water at Leonard rank. On arriving at Mansion take Halstead and help Sherman oVfer Joint Ballot Hill into Washington, returning as a wild train. Hoadly and McLean will work between Cin­ cinnati and Washington repairing fences. 1-'. J. G. B„ C. D. 13. Order 22. Foraker. O. K., 12:30 p. m. _J. U. B. LAWTMJ, the Georgia rebel who by declining an appointment as Minister' to llussia considerately relieved Attor­ ney General Garland of the responsi­ bility of declaring the fourteenth amendment invalid, is to be sent to the court of Austria as soon as Congress removes his disabilities. After think­ ing the matter over Lawton has decid­ ed to ask for a restoration to citizenship rather than lose an office. According to the precedents established by the Republicans in Congress all that is necessary to secure a restoration is to apply for it. Lawton was too stubborn iu his treason heretofore to do this, but now that there is an office in sight, and the Georgia rebel llnds that he can se­ cure it without apologizing for his part in the rebellion or confessing that he was wrong, he is willing to become a citizen of the United States once more. In this manner 6ne of the most obsti­ nate disunionists and secessionists in the country is to be sent abroad as the representative of the National Govern­ ment.--Exchange. THKKE is one bloody shirt which should bo waved Continuou«dv. Until swift 'punishment is assured of the Democratic gangs who stuff 'or steal ballot-boxes in the large cities elections in those cities must remain a farce. There is evidence all over the coiintry* that the temper of the people has been ON ETERNITY'S SHORE. tried by these gangs about long enough. * Melbourne, Australia, the letter-car Chicago has taught the thieves one 13 ; lesson; Cincinnatti, if the honest peo­ ple are not weaJdihgs, will teach them another.--Chicago Tribune. PEOFESSOR--"Can you multiply together concrete numbers ?" The class are uncertain. Professor--"What will be the product of five apples mul­ tiplied by six potatoes?" Pupils (tri­ umphantly--"Hash!" Sudden Death of Gen. George B. McClellan at His Residence, _• Near Orange. a ' • He Is tailed in the Silent Hour% Dis* solution Being Preceded bjr Acute Agony. George Bfinton McClellan,' formerly Major General of the United States armies arjd commander of the Army of the Po­ tomac, and more lately Governor of New^harmless from a health point of' view. Jersey, died early on the morning of the It lias been tried successfully in can- XECHANTCAL. _ ^BKS you want to mark a piece of iron in order to drill a hole, and yon must mark through a deep hole in # rough casting, just rub chalk where you want the hole to be drilled, plaoe the casting over it. and rattle down some of the dirt and s'&nd with an awl or old file; then, with a center punch, you can mark the hole to drill. '• LACTIC acid and glycerine, mixed with watar in the proportion of one pound of ca«li to eight pounds of water, make a sc^aerin? mixture for tin cans in which fruit, licsh, or vegetables are to be contained, which is reported 29th ult., at his home in St. ClSftd, ou Orange Mountain, near ^Orange, N. j. THE DEATH-HEI> SCENE. Gen. McClellan returned home from an extended trip through the West on Sept. 17„..apparently in the best of health. On Oct. 1», while he was passing through the Hoboken ferry-house, he felt a severe pain near his heart. The pain was temporary, but the * General consulted Dr. Seward, his physician.1 Dr. Seward concluded that he had neuralgia of the heart, and by his advice the (ieueial gave up an extended trip with his- wife to Old Point, Comfort, '\ a., to attend a meeting of the Governors of the soldiers' home at that place. Dur­ ing the past Week he walked and drove about Orange as ffsual, but about 11 o'clock on A\ eduesday evening, an hour after he had retired to his bedroom, he was seized with another and very severe attack of pain in the region of the heart. Mrs. McClel­ lan sent for Dr. Seward, and under his treatment the pain, became less se­ vere. At '2 oclo/k iu the morn­ ing,-however, the pain returned'-with increased severity. Dr. Seward aduiinis- ntng fish, and has none of the poisonous properties of the chloride of zinc in common use. ^ ' Tr.LEGKAPH rates are extortionately high, and must be while the Western Union continues a powerful monopoly, practically controlling the business. The charge jin England has been '24 cents for ten words, exclusive of ad­ dress, for all distances, and last year this moderate rate produced receipts of $8,800,000, which gave a net revenue of $300,000. The rate is to be reduced to 12 cents. We use the telegraph much more freely, and similar rates here Would more than double the business of our lines. There is a demand for a strong opposition to the Western Union monopoly, TEN years ago a standard carload on all first-class railroads was '20,000 pounds, the weight of the car being 20,500 pounds. In 18S1 the load on most roads had increased to 40,000, but the weight of the <?ar had increased to tered morphine, hypodermically, but with- i only 2-2,000 pounds. The master car- out a\ ail. 'lha General became nncou- builders bf the Pennsylvania road have scions, aud remained so until he died at nCw adopted cars to carry 60,000 pounds, while tho weight of the cars will be very little increased. Instead of hauling more than one pound of car to one pound of freight, nearly three pounds of freight can now be hauled for one pound of car. The substitution of steel for iron rails has made the change posible. THE recent explosion of generated gas in the coal bunkers of the English war vessel Inflexible will probably lead to the court martial of several of the officers. The Inflexible seems to be unfortunate, for a similar explosion took place on her cruise in the Medi­ terranean. In the recent case it might have been avoided by propar ventila/ tion. W hen the bunker doors wejfo opened the men went in with naked lights, which, coming in contact with the accumulated gas, caused the ex­ plosion. Immediately after a serious calamity oi this kind four years ago, stringent regulations as to ventilation and the use of naked lights wer§.issued. nored on the Inflexible ONE gallon of varnish weighs about eight and one-half pounds, and this should bear out well on a fiat surface measuring 100 square yards. Crystal paper varnish will not always do*this amount of work. In hot weather, when, of course, varnish is rather thin, it will sometimes cover 120 square yards, but in winter time ninety yards is about the average. But this varnish is by no means the only one upon which natural temperature acts. All varnishes are more or less influended by heat or cold, and, generally speaking, it takes more varnish to cover a given space or area in winter than it does in summer. Varnish should always be stored in a dry room, with the temperature as even as possible the year round. 2:-15 o'clock in the morning. Mrs. MeClel lan, Miss Mi\v McClellai], jind Dr. Seward were in the room. The only other mem­ ber of the General's family, George Brin- ton McClellan, Jr., is a senior in Princeton College, and could not he reached in time. Gen. McClellan's mother is still alive, iu her Noth year. She is au invalid, ayd in the beginning of the summer she was not expected to live until atttnmti. During the summer she has been at Drifton, Pa. The General reflirued from visitin^ her 'there just two weeks before his death. PrilLIf SYMPATHY. The following executive order was issued at Washington by order of the President: As a mark of public respect to the memory of this distinguished soldier and citizen, whose military aoilitv and civic virtuts have shed lus­ ter upon the history of his country, it is or­ dered by the Presi'Unt that the national flag be displayed at hall- mast upon all the buildings of the executive departments in this city until after hi;( funeral ^hall have taken place. Secretary of War Endicott issued the fol­ lowing general order: v With profound regret the Secretary of War announces to the army the death of Gen. George U McClellan, formerly maior-general __ _ commanding the armies of the I nited States, i nu„" „ The name ami fame of this distinguished sol- | They seem, howe^er*i$o nave been ig- dier and citi?en are known and honored * ~~~ " T " 1 throughout the republic. ,As the organi/er of the Army of-the l'otomac he made it eapable of accomplishing great deeds. The lessons he gave it were never forgotten, and the spirit with which lie animated it continued through all its eventful "history. Subsequently as its leader he rendered great services to his country. His pure and noMe character, his un- ; selfish devotion, anil the duty he performed in ! the hour ot peril w.ll cause his meinorv ever to be clierishe i with pride by the people of the • United States. j A special from Washington to the Chi- j cago Tribune says : " '1 he death of <ien. McClellan was a great sur- j prise here. It was not known that he had been j ill, and the President had directed that a letter be written to-day tendering him the position i on the Civil-Service Commission to be made ; vacaut bv the retirement of Mr. Eaton, (ten. j McClellan had already refused the Russian mis- ' slon, and it hardly^-as expected thar he would j accept a Civil-Service Commissionership, the I duties of which are so onerous and the salary of which is so small. Hut the President, in'his endeavor to induce prominent Democrats to acccpt thi.; place, had determined to offer it to lien. McClellan. A New York dispatch says: As soon as the news of (ten. McClellan's death spread throughout the city great sorrow was expressed at the sad event. The Hans on pub­ lic buildings were placed at Imlt-mast. The (irand Army Post called a meeting to express their sorrow and oifer a body-guard for the re­ mains. CONDOLENCE FROM THE PRESIDENT. To Mrs. (teorge 11. McClellan, Orange, N. J.: I am shocked by the news of your husband's death, and, while 1 know how lutile are all human efforts to console, I must assure you of my dee;) sympathy in your great grie; and ex­ press to you my own sense of atlliction at the loss of so good a friend. (TIIOVEK CLEVELAND. CONDOLENCE FliOM (iOV. AHUET. To Mrs. George II. McClellan, West Orange, N. J.: Mv WEAK MAHAM : I have just learned with ' profound sorrow of the death of your distin­ guished husband. I ;-i>eak not only for myself but for all the people of New Jersey, who will join in the universal mourning for the loss of a pure and upright citizen and a great soldier. I wish most earnestly to take such proper official action as will do honor to his memory. I have directed Adjutant General Will to ascertain your wishes, so that the action of the Executive may be in full sympathy with your own feelings. 1 have the honor to be, very respectfully yours, LEON AUBETT. liIO(ili\rilICAL. George Brinton McClellan was born at Phila­ delphia in 1SJ6. His father was a distinguished physician, a graduate of Yale College, and rounder of Jefferson College. At West Point McClellan had the reputation of I eing an in­ dustrious but not brilliant student: but he graduated second in general rank in the largest class that had ever lett the academy, and first in the class on engineering. His military rank wjien he left West Point In ls-it; was second lieutenant of engineers. He served as such'in the Mexican war. In the spriug of 1H.-.5 lie was appointed to a captaincy in the First Cavalry Hegiment. The same year he was one of a commission composed of three officers sent by the Unite 1 States Governmeut to make observations in the Crimean war. He resigned his commission in the army in 18r>7„and became Chief l:iigiueer of the Illinois Central liailroad. In 1 wi he re-entered the ariife'? As commander of the Federal forces in , West Virginia he gained the victories of Kich Mountain and Cheat lliver. A few I'avs after til;-battle of Hull Kun he was appointed commander of the army at Washing on; In November, l^Cl, he assumed command of the armies of the United States. His victory at Fair Oaks, May 31, lsr.j, was fo lowed by ac­ tions at Mechanlcsville, Savage's Station, White Oak Swamp, GainesvMill, and Malvern Hill. ' '1 he result of the campaign was the retreat of his forces and the abandonment of his plan to take liichmond. Gen. Pope was appointed to supersede Gen. McClellan, who was, however' rec - lied to the command of the army September •J, isiiv>. His victory at Antietum was gained about a fortnight aft-r this date. In the follow­ ing November he was relieved of command. In 18I14 he was nominated for the Presidency on the Demoera:ic ticket, and received a popu­ lar vote of In 1H77 McClellan was clected Governor of the State of NewJeisey, a position w.nich lie tilled until 18«1. Since that time he had lived in New York City. His learn­ ing and abilities as an engineer gave him lead­ ing and remunerative business in his pro­ fession. A WOMAN was discharged from the County Hospital at Milwaukee because 6he laughed. The authorities are afraid cheer- fuluess mig&4 cure some of the patients. SENATOR STANFORD is a leader in a movement iu California to raise $250,000 for a Grant monument in Ciolden Gate Park. ' Mns. LANGTI.'Y is repoited to have painted lier hair a kiiul of reddish color, which is becoming the fashio.i in Paris. LORD TENNYSON has been elected President of the Loudon Eibraty, in suc­ cession to the late Lord Houghton. A Queer Way to Get Fresh Water. . In the Persian Onlf is a place called Babrin, where men go a-lishing for drinking-water. So, at least, a sailor Mrho has been there told the writer. "I don't know who discovered the fact, but there are numberless springs of ice-cold water at the bottom of the gulf near the shore, whore the water is about sixty feet deep. This must have beeu knkjwn when they first set up the town, of course, or it wouldn't have been started there. This fresh water gets salt enough, though, before it gets from the bottom, and so they have to send down after it "When a man's wife calls him to go after a pail of water, and be quick about it, over in Babrin, he grabs a goatskin bag, yells at the first neighbor he sees stretched out in the sand, and the two jump into s:.^k!5 ! a boat and row out a short distance. The man who is after the water wraps tho goatskin around his left arm, with the mouth of the bag in his hand. Then he takes in, his other hand 'a heavy stone. This stone is tied securely to the end of a long and strong line, for stones are valuable property there. Without them no one could go out and fetch a pail of water, and they aro very scarce. With the stone firmly clutched in his hand the man dives into the water, and down he goes to the bottom. When he reaches the cool, fresh water gushing up from the sand lie open„s the mouth of his goatskin bag. drops the stone, and floats upward in the strong current. The bag quickly fills and the mouth is closed again. When the man reaches the surface his companion lifts the bag iuto the boat, and the diver follows. The stone is then carefully drawn up, and the men go home. "The water is cold and refreshing when it conies up from the depths of the'sea, but it soon gets flat and warm. The more you drink of it the thirstier you get, but the natives can get along on a few swallows of it now and then. The requirements of the climate keep the divers at work in the sub­ marine springs for all they are worth, and the shore is lined with their boats all da> long. Those springs are said to be the outlet of large natural aque­ ducts in in a range of mountains more than ')00 miles from the coast, but I guess they would have a hard time to prove that theory if they were called upon to do it.--New York Sun. THROWING two letters for the servant girl into the tire cost a liochester (N. Y.) wom-m riers are clad in Bfcarl«jU,gpats,~waistcoats, and trousers. Republics of Andorra and San Marine. The Government of Andorra, on the south slope of the Pyrenees, is a mix­ ture of Monarchy and Democracy. It is vested in twenty-four Consuls elected by the whole population. Its constitu­ tion was, until 1^4^, subject to the "severeignty of the king of the French and the liishop of I'rgel,and under tho protection oi the (^ueen of Spain. Tho inhabitants, mostly shepherds, speak the Catalan language. The independ­ ence of this little State dates from Charlemagne in T.'O. The Legislature of the ancient Republic of San JIarino; in liaiy, is it Senate of &u\.l\ members "elected for life equally from the ranks of nobles, citizens, and peasants. Since 1847 the Executive Council of twelve /rmembers has been popularly elected. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS, "r" ' • .-r --Beatty Bros., men's furnishers, £!gin, have failed. --Hon. John B. Alley, of fhls city, vested $100,000 in real "estato at Chicago, yesterday.--fioston Traretl r. " - -Henry Gilniore, a well-known farmer, living ueir̂ Centralia, died re^gptlĵ jp the ̂ flog cabiu where he settled in 1819. --In an altercation between William Mpr- • ris and William Beirv. at Coffeen. Berry 8tabbed Morris in the breast fatally, th»n escaped. --Chicago buildings come fcigfi, bat most have 'em. The successor of the old "rookery will have a height of thirteen sto­ ries.---Inter Ocean. --Charles^. James, of Lincolji, the ac« credited<^author of a lurid romance. "Znra Burns; or, the Fatal Step," was arrested for bigamy. A warrrjat had been previously issued against him for the larceny of an umbrella. ^--Ed Whist, a brakeman on the Spring- nfeld Division of the Illinois Centrnl Bail- road, fell from the top of a box-car at Birkbeck. and was so badly injured that he died soon after. Whist's' home was at Springfield. v '§ --In the Mattoon civil-rights case--Frank ' Hopkins, colored, against Austin Perry, also colored--the jury found for Perry, whose refusal to shave Hopkins was based 5 on the fact that he came into his shop after - closing hours. - ^ --Mrs. Mary Gurly,-sixty-seven years of . age, of Bock Island, was killed by the .cars. She was walking along the track, and in attempting to avoid an approaching train >; threw herself in the way of one coming on. another track. * : --Mormon elders operating in Lawrence ; County have induced thirteen persons, to leave Dennison Township for Salt Lake. * The expense of the trip was defrayed by a widow named Dean, who sold her farm to carry out the transfer. --It is expecfed that the corner-stone of the Schiller monument in Lincoln Park, in Chicago, will be laid on Nov. 10, the anni­ versary of the poet's birth, and that (he completed work will be unveiled May 9, the date of his death. --A new summer resort is to be started during next summer at Western Springs, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Koad. The village stands about 150 feet above the level of Chicago, and a little to the west of it is a rise of ground on which a hwge summer hotel is to be erected. Thi rd are good mineral springs in the vicinity, and a Chicago physician has built - a large sanitarium near the place. The site commands a very pleasing prospect, ]' including a view of the village of Hins dale. The hotel will be controlled by heirs of the Peck estate, who, with shall Field, din most of the land village. --Fifteen years ago (a special Tolono says) the famous Kansas Benf&r family were residents of Champaign County, living upon a farm in COlfax Township, about eight miles west of Tolono. Their dwelling was a small one- story structure, and s beaten monument to who inhabited it. - X it, and only a hro wheat, or oat fields surroun eler on the Wabash. St Louis and Paeifie Railway can clearly d'scem it, only a few rods nortli of the track, nearly midway between ^Hodorus and Ivesdale Stations. The property is now owned by T. M. Salisbury, one of Tolono's heaviest land­ holders. No changes have been made about the exterior of the building since the Benders left it. Kate Bender was well known in this vicinity as a dashing countiy lass, and was not the leist popular of the rural youth. The old man was regarded as an ordinary farmer, and but little was known of the old woman. When they left Tolonq for the West they took their departure between two days, and neglected to settle numerous little store-bills, which still adorn the books of our merchants. t Tlx' Matter of Drainage. ; fFrom the Chicago Tribune.] There are now over GOO tile factories in the State in operation. The average ex­ penses of each of these factories, including real estate, is over $3,000,, making the total investment less than $2,000,0110. The fac­ tories employ about (5,000 men seven months in the year. The average wages paid the men, boys included, is about $30 per month, making the total disbursement iu the State for wages over $230,000 per annum. The diily capacity of the average tile factory is a half a mile of tile, and they work on an average twenty-five days a mouth. The total output is over 56,000 miles per annum. The average price for laying tile is about '2a cents per rod or about $<S0 per mile, making it cost for each year about $4,500,000. To lay this number of tile will require an army of t ditchers numbering over 9,000, to say nothing of the teams and men to haul the tile from the factories to the ground where it is laid.- Figuring the average wages of a ditcher at ?4h0 per year, added to the amount paid the tile maker, makes the amount invested in this indus- try over S5,000,001). The following table, showing the num­ ber of feet of drain-tile laid in each coun­ ty of the Sfete during the year 1884, is taken from the reports in the Department of Agriculture, the last of whieh has just been received: 173,259 La Salle....... 2,012,132 150,«1 Lawrence. 18,683 60,31" La/?... 321,316 24,048 Livingston.... 7,85:4,375 Logan 1,084,866 l.T'V Alacon. 3,710,120 1,067,UJ Macoupin..... 613,646 66,7.17 Madison 72,800 942,011 Marion (MO 6,652,3:!- Marshall 881,257 Hancock Brown St. Clair.'.;:... Boone Adams Bond Bureau Carroll Cass Champaign Christian 2,106,'JVJ McHenry ..... 72,(h'i4 McLean. 1,4.HI Menard 8i,yo" Mercer 1,2*5,58S Monroe. 322.'-!"" Montgomery.. Clark -.. Clay Clinton... Coles Cook Crawford (, umber land.. De Kalb l,S40.4"<; Ptoria l)e Witt 1,474,'*-'4 Piatt. •3,917 ItlMOT 700.000 377,644 1.300 S2.181 THE Marquis of Bute's now castle willv-Two capitani regt-nti, or Presidents cost as much as the Capitol at Washing­ ton--$15,000,000. SPCBGEON, the great London preaoher,.has become'a vegetarian. .. u : THEODORE TILTON'S home in Europe is presided over by his eldest daughter. are chosen . every six months, and justice is administered by a foreigner appointed for three years, and incapa­ ble of re-election more than once. Two legal functionaries and two Secreta­ ries of State are the other public officers. The military consists of eighty men, who form a guard ior the regency. 119,-7;> Moultrie 1,687,041 53.1 6 Oirle 674,179 87'.', "y 1,487,667 47,330 4L'1,028 D.583 1C5,*S8 £7,918 2.024,42* «4,5ol 153,163 1fc!,075 ST\t'.99 . 5".',464 N74«-.J7rt 9.&.'.«33 #.'.'.'78 Douglas 4,47W,-S'-- l ike. l)u Page. 43i>,7-.'5 Putnam I'M car.; 2,241.II chlaud Kdwards.. 15,'J2" Kock Island... Kttinifham ll.l-'o Valine fayi tte. * Sanaamon Koirvir 1,03®,'-11 Scuuyier Fulton 1,205.144 t'cott Gallatin. 40,i5•.< Sliclby Crecne..'....... 38s,i.">l Stark tirnudv 1,760,176 Stephenson-- Ha:din ». 4,' •'< Tw^il . .. Henderson ... 178.533 Vermilion.-- Henry 580,806 Wabash Iroquois.,..../• 1,858,V arrexi. • l,tM..133 Jackson ... j,00>» Washington... 1.761 Jasper 7s,9.s» Wayne . . . . . J e t t e r s o n . . . , 7 * 0 W h i t e . . . . . . . . $ 4 , 7 8 1 Jersey......... 21,5'^ Whiteside..... - ®J,1W Jo Daviess. 7,--t Will... ..... 2,C8f,6JT Kane ^ I,442.;»-U Wimiebairo 36,620 Kankakee. -'. 875,s:i Woodford..... Kendall 1,025,26s S Knox....;:.... 837.910 Total........$0,f Lake 266,517, The total number of feet laid to date la " 201,»53,93tf : 2i, 130,478 in 18tW; 27.400,393 in 1881; 46,557,625 in 1882; 60,975,784 ia ; 1883- • 'X V.