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J. VjUftLYKt, Mfcr aatf ftoMiltr. HcHENBT, . ILLINOIS. ; GEN. J. W. DKKTEB, who has been iidfninated for Congress bj the Demo­ crats of the Chillioothe, Ohio, District, pits the man after whom the city of -Denver, Col., was named. He waa a territorial pioneer, and settled in Cali­ fornia some time doling the golden flays of that State. MRS. STTNDERLANTD, of Washington, is famous for her diamonds and jewelry. • She wears earrings with pendants which 'Weigh thirty-two carats, and an emerald ifring, set with diamonds, the central •tone being fully an inch long and of proportionate width. She is known as the diamond queen. - - ---- - - LAST summer Mr. Tfldwa built at <Jreystone one of the largest green- liofises in the country. There are four grape houses, four peach houses, a palm house, a stone house, a tea-rose louse, a hybrid rose house, and an aquatic house. The grape and peach houses are arranged so as to give fruit $ight months out of the twelve. They Are completely stocked throughout. > A BOY at Dover, Me., was born with­ out eyes or eyelids. The part of his face in which the eyes ought to be, ac­ cording to all precedents, is as smooth #8 the cheek. 'The boy is 14 years of Age, and his name is Stimeford. His parents have repeatedly refused offers to have the child exhibited as a curiosity. The lad's mother is very near-sighted. MR. TILDEN left only one member of fcis father's family surviving. This is llis sister, Mrs. Mary B. Pelton. The /Only other near relations are six chil­ dren, two sons and four daughters, of - 'Iris deceased brother, Henry J. Tilden; ihese are George H. Tilden, Samuel J. Tilden, Jr., Mrs. Swan, of Lebanon, 3?. Y., Mrs. Whittlesey, of Florenoe, Wis., and Miss Ruby and Miss Susau, 'two unmarried nieces who have kept bouse for Mr. Tilden for several years. MRS. MART A. HOYT, of Troy, is a %andy person to have around. Mrs. Eoyt has obtained a diploma from the American Health College of Cincin­ nati authorizing her to practice the "Vitapathic system of medicine, and also to solemnize marriages, preach the gos­ pel, and perform all other duties of a minister. She has married two couples. Mrs. Hoyt says she was graduated from the college after attending it eight Weeks. Few colleges are able to con­ fer so many privileges on such easy terms. . , THE curious question has been asked |%hy oaks ana elms are especially liable to be struck by lightning. It was de­ clared in 1787 that the elm, chestnut, Qak, and pine were the trees most often •truck in America, and in 1860 G. J. JSymonds stated that the elm, oak, ash, *nd poplar were the most frequently •truck in England. A Magdeburg rec­ ord, covering ten years, reports injuries to 265 trees, 165 being oaks, 34 Scotch Jlrs, 32 pines, and 20 beeches. It has l>een suggested that the frequency with Which oaks are struck is due to the presence of iron in the wood. MARK TWAIN was asked by a Hart­ ford base-ball enthusiast to give a sub- «cription to the local club. He sent a check for $25 and a letter in which he said there was only one thing that pre­ vented him from contributing $50 in­ stead of $25. He is not very well up in base-ball, and when he goes out to the grounds he takes a seat near Blank, •(mentioning the name of a prominent base-ball man.) "I always politely ask him to give me points on the game," the letter continues, "but instead of that he looks very hard at me, and I am afraid he will drop me over the ^rand-stand some time or another." THE hack drivers of Philadelphia are In a movement looking to abolishing Sunday funerals. The idea is that it interferes with the business of their best day. On Sunday the people are -generally bent on pleasure, and their belief is that the burial of the dead should give way to the pleasure of the living. The idea is not a bad one, and if it shall result in abolishing death for ,©ae day of the seven, it is possible tliat aome arrangement can be made to pro- "tide against dissolution on the other six days of the week, so that death will no longer terrify the living, nor interfere %ith the fun of those who have no patience with funerals on Sundaj. DR. BLISS, another of the physicians attendant upon Garfield, is reported <4|ying. A few days since Dr. Hamilton died, at the age of 70. Dr. Bliss is not a young man, and has been hurt by a fall from a carriage, but'the care, anxiety, and labor devoted to the President has probably shortened the life of both of these men. Dr. Douglas, long in charge of Gen. Grant, has not yet wholly re­ covered from the strain which that long siege put upon him. Although • the notoriety gained by a doctor in charge of an eminent patient has its Compensation in making the doetor him- telf eminent, yet the increased respon- fibility is a burden whose weight is cer­ tain to be, felt afterward if not at the time. It is, too, a much better adver­ tisement for the doctor if the eminent patient recovers instead of dying. A hundred million or more eyes on a doctor trying to save a patient may have its charms, but it has its embarrass­ ments also. FOLLOWING is a copy of a letter which %as written by Mrs. James K. Polk to Gen. C. H. Grosvenor, & the interest at securing the Grand Army of the Re­ public national encampment at Nash- fille, Tenn., next year--a movement trhich has failed of accomplishment, 8t. Louis having been selected: NASNVMUB, TKNH., July 25, 1886.--To HON. 4X«. Gaosvmw*, *. Wshii^tmv fib ft. •tit W8«41ng on your recent visit to this city (Mmmgn me to Address yon on a matter very near my heart Eighty-three years of a not unhappy though eventful life have I lived. In the course of nature bat few more can be allotted to me. Before I die I would that mine eyee could me the grand reunion of my beloved country in the city where my dear husband lies--see the veterans of the North encamping in amity where they onoe did in anger, and thoee who wore the gray shaking hands with their fellow-countrymen in the fellowship of a common destiny. I cannot but think the meeting of the Grand Army of the Repub­ lic in Nashville in 1887 would be a grand tarn- ing-point in the complete reconciliation of the land my hnsband presided over, and whose unity is dear to my own heart. God grant that the veterans may oome once more. Yours, in fraternity and old-fashioned loyalty. Mas. JAMBS K. POIX. PEOPLE have often wondered that a man of Mr. Tilden's vast wealth, domestic tastes, and political promi­ nence remained a bachelor all his life, says the New York Star. Bumor has it that during his college days, at the New York University, he met and loved the daughter of one of the leading Democratic statesmen of that time. She was a beautiful girl, charming alike in the graces of her person and of her intellectuality. Her beauty and wit at­ tracted many suitors, but Mr. Tilden's culture and rare qualities of mind cap­ tivated her. He was a brilliant conver­ sationalist, and l^d lofty aspirations, and the evidences of his ability to achieve prominence were so marked that the beautiful girl pledged her heart and fortune to his keeping. They were engaged to be married in the spring of 1847, the year after Mr. Til­ den had become a member of the State Legislature. She accompanied her father to New York to spend the win­ ter of that year in looking after Gov­ ernment matters in which he was inter­ ested. While there she was a great favorite in society, and entered heartily into all its pleasures. In the month of March she was stricken with brain fever which left her a hopeless imbecile. IF any evidence is wanted as to the continued and growing popularity of diamonds as ornaments it would be fur­ nished alone by the statistics of the United States Treasury Department. In 1867 the total valuation of precious stones imported into the United States was $1,318,617. In 18^, five years later, the valuation had nearly doubled, being $2,350,731. In 1880 it was $6,870,000 i in 1884 it had reached $9,139,000; in 1885 it exceeded $11,000,- 000; and when the figures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, are given to the public, it will be found that there has been a still larger increase, the aggregate coming close to $14,000,000. The diamond is to precious stones what gold is to metals. It is indestructible. Further than that, it is a convenient form in which to consolidate wealth for storage. Many leading jewelry houses enter into special agreements with their customers, agreeing to pay in cash the full amount paid for the jewels less 10 per cent, and the cost of the settings, upon the return to them of the diamonds within one year from the date of the purchase. They furthermore agree to pay a fair proportionate price for the settings if in good condition. In times of financial uncertainty the diamond business always enjoys a boom. THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS. CHILDREN ate the flowers of existence. CHEERFULNESS is the weather of the heart. C CONVENTIONALITY is but a form of conceit. *• HE who begins and doet not finish loses his labor. SLEEP is the best stimulant--a ner­ vine safe for all to take. THERE are men whose friends are more to be pitied than their enemies. ADVICE is like castor oil, easy enough to give, but hard enough to take. WEALTH may bring luxuries, but luxuries do not always bring happiness. HE that will not look before him will have to look behind him--and probably with some regret. EVERY man throws on his surround­ ings the sunshine or the shadow that exists in his own soul. ^ IN matters of generosity a woman acts first and reasons afterward; a man reasons first--and generally forgets to act. FOR drunkenness, drink cold water; for health, rise early; to be happy, be honest; to please all, mind your own business. SOCIAL and intellectual culture change with the mode and the locality, but moral culture is the same for all people and all time. THE wise man seeks the cause of his defects in himself, but the fool, avoid­ ing himself, seeks it in all others be­ sides himself. IF a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge al­ ways pays the best interest. LIFE has no wretchedness equal to an ill-sorted marriage--it is the septdchre of the heart, haunted by the ghosts of past affections and hopes gone forever. IT may be that luck goes up and down the world calling on men and women, but the name has been spelled Pluck on all of her cards that have come un­ der our eye. TESTIMONY is an arrow shot from a long bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow from a cross­ bow, which has the same force whether shot by a man or a child. IT contributes greatly toward a man's moral and intellectual health to be brought into habits of companion­ ship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. She Forgot That Dress Coats Were Outre. "Mrs. Uppercrust, I am ashamed of you 1" "Why, George, dear, what hare I been doing ?" "The idea of talking before all the company in that effusive, flirty way with that yeung, baldheaded "Husli, dear, that is Lord Liom" ' "No, it isn't: that is the head waiter." --Chicago News. A BOSTON professor is lecturing on the "Uselessness of Profanity." Did he ever hit his thumb nail with a hammer? N0N. KN HARRISON. The Indiana Senator's Vigorous Ar­ raignment of the Party of ' feetension* V Speech Delivered Before the publican State Convention of Indiana. St­ and Fellow-citizens: I sincerely thank yon for thia lack etfffesaion ot your confidence and good-will. I have many times before received expressions of your con­ fidence and kindness. I cannot make yon any return, to-day, except that which I have always endeavored to give back to yon--my own re­ spect and confidence, and my hearty fealty to the party you represent. I have never known any other political allegiance than that to the Republican party. I waa bora Into my political manhood with its birth. I have followed its triumphs with enthusiasm; I have given to its success all the powers with which I have been endowed. I trust yon will bear me witness that I have not asked to be pnt on parade by my party. If there lias ever been a duty so arduous suggested for my perform­ ance that I have shrunk from its execution, I do not recall it and I do not think you do. A few weeks ago there was assembled in this hall--filling the Beats in which you are sitting-- a convention representing the Democratic party of Indiana, and I think I might 6ubmit, it to the impartial judgment oi those who have looked upon both conventions, that this one, assem­ bled here this morning, is made up of men equally respectable, equaJlv intelligent, and equally entitled to the exercise of the full rights of citizenship. I have a habit of always understating my propositions, you know. My fellow-citizens, the first thought that occurs to me this morning is that this body of men as­ sembled here to-day is not the equal in politi­ cal power in Indiana, man for man, with those who composed the late Demo­ cratic convention. We are laboring under partial political disfranchisement. The appor­ tionment for legislative and Congressional pur­ poses made by the last Democratic Legislature has robbed every Republican who hears mo of part of his political power. The same process for disfranchisement for political ends which has made the South solid, which has kept the freep?ople of Dakota from participating in na­ tional affairs, and which has attempted by fraud to rob the people of Ohio of their representa­ tion in the Unitod States Senate, has invaded Indiana, and we are to-day confronting, first, the question how shall we recover our political equality. I do not desire to make a declaration of principles, but I cannot refrain from saying that the dominant, controlling, and overmas­ tering question in this campaign in Indiana is how we can recover our political rights. I would have you bear in mind that this disfranchisement does not operate only upon Republicans, It affects a majority of the peo­ ple of the State. A Democratic minority has usurped the control of affairs. The Nation­ als have been stripped of a part of their power, and the Prohibitionists also, by these outrageous acts of the Legislature, intended to keep the Democratic party in power against the will of a majority of the people I think we may call upon all in this campaign to unite in an effort to restore an equal ballot. I say it is the first question in the campaign, because we cannot accomplish our wishes iu State legislation, we cannot accomplish our wishes in the House of Kepresentatives at Washington, until we re­ cover our political rights as electors. We may desire that State legislation shall take this form or that, but we have no power to give it any di- reotion until each voter of Indiana is made equal in his political influence. I appeal, then, to all, that if there be differences as to what we severally wish to accomplish in the Legisla­ ture, or at Washington, we put this quostion to the front first, and recover our power to do any­ thing before we divide as to what shall be done. For twenty-five years the Democratic party has asked to be judged upon its pretensions It was a party of pretensions. It made its cam­ paigns upon declarations of what it would do if it got into power, and now, for the first time in a quarter of a century, we are able to lay its pretensions alongside of its performances. We could not discuss Democratic performances heretofore without going back into ancient his­ tory. Now, my fellow-citizens, what was the argument of the last campaign V Well, they said they wanted to look into the books, The books have been open to them some sixteen months. Their most intelligent men, I sup­ pose, have examined them, and I ask where­ with here and there a trifling exception--they have discovered, in the cpnduct of our officials, that evident* of corruption and maladministration in office about wnich they talked so much. You will remember tnat their desire to look into the books related solely to the books that had bean kept by Republican Officials. It was demonstrated in the last Legis­ lature that they did not care to look into the books their Democratic State Treasurer had kept. An investigation affecting the question of the safety of the people's moneys was practi­ cally suppressed in a Legislature" elected upon the declaration that they Wanted to enter into bookkeeping, They said they wanted to turn the rascals out, but I have the imnression that, by some chance, the ends of that procession have been reversed, and they are marching left in front. They said they would reduce the surplus in the Treasury. Mr. Hendricks, whose untimely death we as citizens mourn, pledged himself to the people of Indiana that, if the Democratic party was intrusted with the control of the National Treasury, they would distribute what he claimed to be an enormous and unnecessary surplus stored in the Treasury vaults. The honest Democrats of Indiana believed him as they had been wont to do, and doubtless, if the Democracy of the West had been allowed to select a President for their party, some such policy would have been inaugurated. But, as you know, New York captured their convention, and I aver that never in the history of the United States Treasury have the views of Wall street been so the roughly intrenched in the Treasury as they are to-day. The Secretary, Assistant Secretary, and Treasurer are all New York men. They represent the view of Mr. Cleveland and of Wall street in regard to the suspension of silver coinage. Thev are greatly alarmed at the accumulation of silver. What have they done toward reducing the sur­ plus ? Why, my fellow oitizens, that surplus about which Mr. Hendricks talked has been in­ creased over eighty millions under Democratic management. The money that was to go out among the people to stimulate industry and to restore that which had been taken by taxation, as Mr. Hendricks so eloquently promised, has been hoarded in the Treasury. During the sixteen months of Democratic administration they have paid nearly one hundred millions less of the public debt than we had averaged every sixteen months for the four ureceain:; years. They said good times would come, the price of wheat go up, labor would be abundaut and its rewards satisfactory to the laborer. Have we ever had a year of more depression, more strikes, more turmoil and discontent? They have held the threat of their free trade ideas and tar if) reduction over all industries, and the iron trade did not begin to revive until the Democratic Congress adjourned. They said they woald be economical, but ap­ propriations have been increased. They said they would cut down the civil list, and yet al­ most every head of a bureau at Washington last winter was demanding an assistant that had not been given to the bureau before. The civil list has been increased. I defy any man to point to one of those pledges made during the last campaign that has been faithfully kept by this administration. You cannot find a Dem­ ocrat in Indiana, outside of those fortunate few who have been appointed to office under this administration, who is wealthier, happier or more content than he was under a Republican administration. At the late State convention the Democrats indorsed Mr. Cleveland in a platform resolu­ tion, but I venture to assert that if the most ac­ tive and vigilant constable in this city were started out with a search-warrant, he could not find an Indiana Democrat who approves Mr. Cleveland s administration, in his heart. And yet, they ask the members of that party, men who have been disappointed in everv promise made to them, to indorse this administration by electing the Democratic ticket in Indiana this year. The soldiers' lot has been somewhat like that of the policeman in the comic-opera, since this Democratic administration came in--"not a happy one." But, my fellow-citizens, I do not intend to keep you longer from that important work for whicli you have assembled. The issues upon which we will make an appeal to the people this year are issues that will touch the reason and intelligence of our people. We go into the campaign partially disfranchised, but with the resolution to overturn this iniquitous legisla­ tion. We appeal to the honest Democrats of Indiana who do not desire to be endowed with political power stolen from their Republican neighbors to undo the wrong. We appeal from the politicians who terryu)andered these dis­ tricts in the interest of political pets ; from the -men whose auib.tions nud hopes of success could not be safely submitted to a fair^oteof the people. We make our appeal to the honest and intelligent people of Indiana to set thi thing right, and I believe they will do it. thank you, gentlemen, again, for your kind­ ness, and take pleasure in announcing that this convention is now ready to procceJ to its busi­ ness. mm. ILLINOIS Mr. Morrison the Democrats to e bill went into BOOM, and tho first imposed a Mil and practically agree to oommittee.When the committoe tttoa* suggested ttu* iron and coal should be pat upon the free list. Mr. Bandall, who lives m Pennsylvania, was interested in coal and iron, and he got enongh Democrats to oppose the bill to de- Having called attention to several local industries which would have been ruined by Democratic tariff measures, Senator Frye said: "They put Wool on the free list. They can raise wool in Australia for ten oents per pound. You can't raise it for less than twenty-five cents per pound. They can get their wool into Liverpool for four cents a pound. They can get it into New York for two cents more per pound, making sixteen cents. They have got 60,- 000,000 sheep in Australia, and in less than five years they could supply this mar­ ket. The sheep business in this country would be destroyed if wool should be put upon the free list. Under that bill you would not have 3,000,000 sheep in this country in five years, instead of 42,000,000, as now. We put ten cents duty on wool, and you can thus raise wool."--Sen­ ator Frye'8 Maine speech. BED-HOT CANNON-SHOT. fke Many False Pretenses of Democratic Party Exposed to Tlew. , the Address of Congressman Gannon Before the Illinois Republican CW> - " wntion. . V i r Democrats and the Tariff. When the Democrats came in'o power, you know, the fir.^t thing done was to revise the tariff. The moment they do that busi­ ness goes into the air. While I was on the committee of ways and means I found out what they meant by revising the tariff. It was putting things on the free list. They report d to the Honse the worst bi'l ever rought before that body. The bill was Mr.Cbalr n*an and gentletftwr vention, far the seventeenth time the Repub­ lican party of the State of Illinois meets in gen­ eral Convention to-day to take counsel with each other and to make a declaration of prin­ ciples and to nominate candidates to be elected in November next. Since 1S.>6 Republican executives and generally Republican State officials have held power in the State of Illinois. During that time--over a generation--extending through the most troublous period of the Na­ tion's history, no State official or Governor has failed to perform his whole duty or done aught to bring the blush of shame to the brow of the party. During that time the Republican party of the State of Illinois has furnished two Chief Executives, who have been twice elected as Presidents of the United States--Lincoln and Grant. Measured by the events which they shaped and their achievements, they are ac­ corded and will be through the ages among the foremost men that the race has produced. I need not recount the achievements made under the lead of the Republican part v. I see men beforo me who helped to make them, and all people know the magnificent historv of the Re­ publican organization. Suffice to su'v, by way of remembrance, that during all these years the Reimblican con vention never assembled in Illi­ nois or iu the nation but it announced its principles and platform, and, when given the power, put them into the Constitution and enacted them into laws. After twenty-four years of Republican power, so far as the national administration is concerned, the Democracy, under the forms of law, elected Grover Cleveland. They oame into power under various war cries. One was the Republican party had been in power so long that it had become corrupt, and the money should be counted and the books examined. The books were examined, and the money counted. After an expenditure running up to multiplied millions of dollars, every cent was found and turned over to our successors. Another cry was that the taxes should be reduced. They came into power with forty-three majority in the National Honse of Representatives. Under the Constitution revenue legislation can only originate in the House of Representative. Now, have taxes been reduced one cent? The last appropriation orig­ inated in the House of Representatives, and it not only equals the expenditures of the year ending June 30, but leaped 164,000,000 beyond it. If this increased expenditure had covered Bome great improvements that we were all cogni­ zant of, we would oe satisfied, but it does not. The navy of the United States was not provided for. Tilden implored his Demo­ cratic friends to make liberal appropriation for our fortifications, and yet a bill was passed by the Republican Senate,which fell still-born and dead in a Democratic House, and to-day thoee fortifications upon our great seacoast are unpro­ vided for, and we stand powerh ss before the powerful nations of the earth, only able to bluster and threaten one little natien upon the globe, Mexico. But tifcat waa not all. The* pledged themselves to reform the civil service. Grover Cleveland in his message and in letters to George William Curtis and others announced with a flourish of trumpets that a new order of things had been assured, that the spoils system was to be abandoned, and Republican officials who performed well their duty were to be con­ tinued in office; yet three months had not passed by after the inauguation before his sec­ retaries gave confidential information and after­ ward public notice that ex parte charges could be made against the conduct of Republican officer-holders. Instead of removing them in a manly manner the administration placed a premium upon j>erjury and hvpocr sy, and set the slander machine into full motion in every township throughout the length and breadth of the country. The surplus in the treasury was to be distributed, thev said. Was it distributed? On the contrary, there i s to-day £70,000,000 more money in the treasury than when Cleveland was inaugurated. When Congress passed the famous resolution directing the surplus to be paid out for the nurpose of reducing the public debt, Cleveland put the resolution in his pocket --a pocket veto. The debt should bo paid and our surplus put in the channels of trade. ;Thev said they were going to revise the tariff. Yet with forty-three majority in the Democratio House of Representatives,"Mr. Morrison brought his tariff bill in the House after it had been sounded from every stump that the tariff would be revised, and they refused to even consider his bilL There is nothing so timid as capital. Men were afraid to enter upon any enterprise because they did not know what was going to be done with the tariff. They would not make contracts, and thousands of men were idle. Randall in hie district to-day is advocating tariff revision, and Randall in Pennsylvania is eulogizine the ben­ efits of protection. This is the inconsistency of the Democratic party. I read the other day the platform adopted here by the Democrats of Illinois, and I find it the same old platform of 1884. Platform laws and principles are nothing unless they have back of them men who have the courage of their convictions. The Republi­ cs Senate, under the load of that able, vigilant, and industrious Senator of ours, Cullom, passed the interstate commerce bill, a wise and con­ servative bill, and sent it over to the House. The House refused to pass it, and there was no legislation upon that important subject. Men from the Pacific coast came with petitions asserting that the present regulations prohibiting Chinese immigra­ tion were being violated, and asking that more rigorous laws be enacted. The Republi­ can Senate passed the desired legislation, and it slept in the House for two months without ac­ tion, and sleeps still, and will sleep forever. The Senate passed a bill to enforce more vigor­ ously the laws against polygamy in the Terri­ tories, and the Democratic House refused to even consider that bill. I might stand here for a year, if I had strength and vou had patience, and recount the sins of omission and commis­ sion of that party. I can sum it up no better than by saying, "It is a party that learns nothing and never dies. The Republican Senate, under the lead of that other gallunt Senator from Illi­ nois, Logan, considered and passed a liberal pension bill. Because of the great difficulty in obtaining proof to establish pension claims, this bill provided that every soldier who served three months, and was honorably discharged, should be pensioned according to his present disability. That bill sleeps its eternal sleep on the cal- end'ir in the House of Kepresentatives. The South elected Grover Cleveland, and I tell you to-day in those States the vote of one Demo­ crat is worth the vote of two Republicans throughout the North. By intimidation or fraud they carried those States. No man who wore the gray likes the blue as well as the gray. Why, only two weeks before adjournment that man from the South whose eloquence ex­ cels all others, declared on the floor of the House that not only was the manhood of the Southern soldier equal to that of the Northern soldier, but that in the eye of God and in the eye of future posterity the same honor would be accorded to the man who wore the gray as to the man who wore tne blue. I grant you that they were perhaps equal in bravery and equal in honesty, but the principles for which the Southern soldier fought were wrong then, wrong now, and in God Almighty s chancery eternally wrong. During the last House session petitions In defective pension claims were presented to the House, and many bills granting pensions were passed by Congress, yet Grover Cleveland re­ fused his signature to 102 of these bills. A sol- j dier served >n tlio war, contracted heart disease, and returned home. Threatened eviction by a heartless landlord, ho started out to find another roof to cover hit wife and children. He was found dead in the snow a dny later of valvular disease of the heart. Congress pussed a bill allowing that widow a pension of Sl'2 u month, and Clevelavd vetoed it. What was his motive for ih^sc actions? The solid Sovth does not want any more pension legislation, and Cleve­ land heeds the wishes of the men who elected him. I thank you, gentlemen, from the bottom of my heart for the greatest compliment I have received during my life, that of presiding over the deliberations of the Republicans of Illinois. Now, gentlemen, I awuit your pi asure. Games lost as JW £ 11 78 1 Llrtly Race Between Ckfeago and Dotroit for tke Leagse ' PuuuBt* . i. ' ifv" ' ' i i 11 ?"• t • T&e Chicago and Detroit Base-Ball Clubs are having a neek-and-neck race for the coveted championship pennant of the National League. The present champions have a slight lead at present. The follow­ ing table shows the standing of the eight clubs at this writing: RATIONAL LKAODK. Games Clubs-- won. Chicago. ... ..74 Detroit 7® New Yorfc.......,4J.. 61 E W ^ E I P H U . . . . . . . . ; " S 6 Boston 4 4 * St. Ijouis m Kansas city;;;;; Washington V. .15 The St. Louis club has a long lead in the contest for the championship of the Amer­ ican Association, with Louisville, Pitts­ burgh, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York following in the order named. Chicago has drawn another prize in the Joung catcher, Lewis Hardie, who comes from the California League. He is a fine catcher, sure thrower, good hatter, and fast runner. Kelly, Anson, and Brouthers are having a close contest for supremacy at the bat in the League. They lead all the other bats­ men, and are so close together that their positions vary almost every game. Almost as much interest is taken in the result as in the contest for the championship. The Detroit club is fast earning the rep­ utation of being the worst kickers in the League against the umpire. They have adopted the plan of talking to each other about decisions, but in such a tone of voice that the umpire can hear just what is said. Dunlap is said to be the originator of this "sneaking kick," as it is termed, and Um­ pire Powers fined him $70, on the home grounds for indulging in it. The New York Club claims that it will dose the season upward of $100,000 ahead of expenses, Boston will make $50,000, Chicago, Detroit, and Philadelphia will all make big money, while even the "tail- enders, St. Louis, Washington, and Kansas City, will have fair sums on the credit side of the ledger, and yet we hear the cry every once in a while that "base-ball is played out." Denny of St. Louis leads the League third basemen in fielding. In forty games he has made but ten errors, having put out sixty and assisted seventy times--an aver­ age for these games of .928. His average to date is .901. In three successive games with New York, in Chicago, Ryan, the young left-fielder of the Chicago club, made a home run, bring­ ing in two runs besides his own in each case. Iiyan, besides being a great batter, is a brilliant fielder, and promises to make one of the greatest ball-players ia the country. *EV. G. C. HADDOCK. Sketch of the Temperauoe Advooate Mur­ dered in Sioux City, Iowa. BO*. George 0. Haddock was bora In Watortown, H. Y., in the year 1831. He received a fair education at the Black Biver Institute, of that place, where he was an industrious and exemplary student. After learning the printing business, he worked as a journeyman in various places for some years. He then settled down at Beaver Dam, Wis., where he pub­ lished a paper. This was in 1855, tow years after his marriage. In 1863 he en­ tered the Methodist ministry at Port Wash­ ington, Wis. He subsequently filled sev­ eral appointments in Wisconsin. In 1880 he was appointed to Burlington, Iowa. After serving in that charge and at Fort Dodge, in October, 1885, he removed to Sioux City, where he was so foully mur­ dered. He was a man of powerful physique, and had on several occasions proved his ability, when opportunity was given, to defend himself against brutal attacks. Mr. Haddock's only child, a son, is practicing law at Oshkosh, Wis. THE IRON HORSE. i The Enormons Bail way Construction of tlie Present Tear. I VERY careful of his lite--the malefactor, mmm ilkd. Mr. Morrison got up a new scheme, ^ hanged next day, wh§ wanted the w ,ieh was to ci.t a piei-e off from every^ a,rt^/'1,i S 2ilTei unnh£ktt0??c- hrn;'. Wit , ihe help of a few Democrats ' He wâ f,dfvth# St:lte te iucrJ" «ntlre >o Republican* struck out the enacting re8P0118 , * ̂ _ U*K,. "J:*** . this [ MAO-MO-W-A--who said ake wi The railway construction for this year is something enormous. During the first eight months of 1886 there have been laid 3,475 miles of main line track, not includ­ ing sidings, etc., in thirty-six of the forty- four States and Territories, upon 163 dif­ ferent lines of road. During 1885 there were onl> 3,131 miles of road built in the entire twelvemonth. This year the average has been, since July 1, nearly 30 miles of new track for every working day, and on 95 of the 165 lines mentioned work is still in progress. In addition to this, tracklaying is about to commence on a number of other lines which have the grad­ ing about completed. It is estimated that the total mileage for the year will largely exceed 6,000 miles, or nearly twice that of either 1884 or 1885. Kansas leads the van in activity in railway building this year, some 600 miles of rails, on eighteen differ­ ent lines, having already been laid, and the work continuing with unabated viator. Texas has built stfrne 300 miles, and Wis­ consin 3*25 miles. Nebraska has put down 272 miles and has enough roadbed in a nearly completed state to add several hundred miles to this before the new year. Dakota has 240 miles J of new liiaes, and will triple or quadruple this be­ fore snow flies. Florida leads the Southern States with a new mileage of 225 miles of track, which will be largely increased. The Railway Age has the following interesting table, showing the number of miles of track laid in the various States and Terri­ tories from January 1 to September 1: Miles.) Hiles. ,.... ^.Minnesota' 117 .... 90 Mississippi 68 .... 25|MiH80Urt 48 . . . .120 Nebraska 27* . . . , H N e w J e r s e y S S ....240 New York 29 ... .225]North Carolina 85 ... 51 Ohio 18 .... 10Oregon 8 ... .189 'Pennsylvania 68 POPULAR IT was found by exact that a chimney near MarseaUeo, France --115 feet hign and four feet in diame­ ter at the top--reached a maximum os­ cillation of twenty inches daring a high wind. THE latest accounts state that the Alabama Arizona Arkansas,....^.., California........ Colorado Dakota Florida. Georgia Indian Territory. Illinois Indiana. Iowa 135 Kansas....... 599 Kentucky. 39 Louisiana...... 9 Maryland 81 Msasachuase ŝ...... 9 Michigan. 77 10 ;a8 45 South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia Washington Ter.... .118 Weat Virginia 1* WUoonain Wyoming. Total in 88 States and VMiitottta. 4,<7I new island which has lately sprung tip in the Friendly group, in the Sooth Pa­ cific, is about nine square miles In area, and rises from 200 to 300 feet above the level of the sea. The volcanic eruption which produced the island threw up a column of water and steam fully a mile in height. A GERMAN writer remarks that the compound known as "zeiodelite," dis­ covered by Simon, has not been used so much as its peculiar advantages would seem to suggest. It is prepared by mixing twenty-five to thirty parts of powdered glass with twenty parts of melted sulphur. This may be shaped into any design, and it cools into a stony hardness, resisting boiling water and the strongest acids. It can be united at a heat of 400 degrees. IT has been found by Dr. Tait that the ear in women can perceive higher notes--that is, sounds with a greater number of vibrations per second--than the ear of men. The highest limit of human hearing is somewhere between forty-one and forty-two thousand vibra­ tions per second. Few persons have equal sensibility to acute sounds in both ears, the right ear usually hearing a higher note that the left. The lowest continuous sounds have about sixteen vibrations per second. A FRENCH geologist, M. de Lappar- ent, lately called the attention of the Paris Geological Society to the effect that gravitation has in heaping up sea water about the land. The continents are thus all situated at the tops of hills of water; and in crossing the Atlantic ships have first to go down hill, then to cross a valley, and finally to climb an­ other hill. The calculation has been made that in mid-ocean the surface may be more than half a mile (1,000 meters) below the level it would have if the continents exerted no attraction. THE volume of the sun is about 1;- 330,000 times that of the earth. To give some idea of this difference let us make a few comparisons of familiar ob­ jects. For instance, let the sun be represented by a man weighing 190 pounds. There are 7,000 grains in a pound avoirdupois, and this multiplied into 190 gives us 1,330,000. Now a grain may be represented by the kernel of wheat, which was in fact the original of the grain weight. So you have on the one hand the sun represented by a large man, and on the other the earth by a grain of wheat. THE common theory that clouds are composed of vesicles, or hollow spheres of condensed vapor is now combated by a French scientist, who assumes that every solid body, whatever may be its diameter, retains around it by adhesion a special atmosphere of the gas iu which it is plunged; that the thickness of this atmosphere is nearly independent of volume of the solid body, and that the attraction which retains it is within the domain of the molecular forces, and is manifested only within very short distances. In this way the difficulty of completely removing the air from a tube which is to be filled with liquid is ac­ counted for. In the case of a vesicle surrounded by its atmosphere, the thermal absorption of the water is much greater than that of the diatliermanous afr; the atmosphere of ftho vesicle ia consequently expanded, and the par­ ticle with its atmosphere floats by dis­ placing an equal volume of tho circum­ ambient air Gold Pens. The manufacture of gold pens is a very interesting one. A bar of gold, fourteen carat generally, is rolled and pressed out into a long ribbon about two inches wide, and about the thick­ ness of a sheet of blotting paper. This is then cut up into what are called blanks, each blank being about half an inch in width, and with one end taper­ ing to a point. In the process of manu­ facture each of these blanks develop into a beautifully finished pen. The points are first notched in order to re­ ceive the iridium, without which a gold pen would be useless. Iridium is one of the so-called noble metals; it is very hard, white in color, and exceedingly heavy. The supply comes from Siberia, and as it is a very rare metal it is very expensive, the price ranging from $20 to $200 an ounce. When the iridium point has been placed in position it is subjected to what is called the "sweat­ ing process;" by means of a blow-pipe the point is brought under the influence of a ray of fire, and the iridium and g >ldare indissolubly welded together; the black surface anil discolorations are then removed by immersing the blank in a vitriol bath. It is then passed through a succession of operations by which it is rolled out into the required length, cut into the proper shape, and the name of the manufacturer, number, etc., stamped on it. It is now tempered by a system of hammering and burnish­ ing, which also gives it elasticity. The pen has now reached one of "the two most important points in its develop­ ment, that is, the grinding, which is done on a copper lathe, with the aid of fine emery flour. Next follows the, by far, most important operation of the whole process of manufacture, the sit­ ting, which has to be done with the most delicate accuracy, the entire value of the pen depending upon the nicety of the operation. This is done on a very fine copper lathe, which saws through the interior point and into the pen the desired distance. The pen is tiien polished and the point scratched to. facilitate the flow of the ink; it is then tested, and if found perfect is ready for sale. His Best Girl on a Strike. "More trouble about capital,"saidthe train boy, diving into his chest for a last summer's Sunday magazine to sell to a granger. "What now ?" asked the brakeman, putting back a daily paper and lifting a kiln-dried orange. "Best girl's on a strike," replied the news agent; "demands shorter hours, Saturday night, 8 to 10, with fifteen minutes intermission to take breath and listen for the old man at 9 o'clock, extra caramels for over time, no new girls to be taken on without consent of the present force of employes and a half day off for the matinee every time a new dude comes to town." "What's capital going to do about it?" "Hard telling," said the news agent, with a weary smile; "I'm holding out just now and offer to take her back and sign the old schedule and no questions asked, but there's a surveyor's party camped right outside of town, a 'Mi­ kado* company makin' a four nights' stay at the opera house and a Salvation Army storming the town, and the girl holds the key to the situation. Beckon I'll have to give in and sign the new w j i rmdmr* --A deaf mute ataRied at Indianola. --The Blackhawk paper mfli, 0 Island, was destroyed by fire. Lai#! --John Byan, an engineer on I Road, fell dead ia Ms orib ̂ while Boodhouse. --John A. Logan, Jr., son of I Senator, has a real estate i Washington. --A 22-year-old horse waa frightened ta death at Jacksonville by the noise of a thrashing machine. --The hog cholera is spreading in County. Hundreds of valuable animals are dying every day. --The Moline Stove Works Cowpuy have made an assignment, the liaUlitfsa aggregating $15,538. --The reunion of Southern Wisconsia and Northern Illinois veterans at Lake Geneva ended with a bean banquet. --Frank Boss, a farmer living neax Jol- iet, fatally shot Frank Kruger, whom la found in his garden stealing grapes. --A mule belonging to Mr. Bireher, «f Grantfork, catches and eats chickens aaldl ducks. It also eats fish with great rd&dbu --John White, working for a fanner a few miles south of Mattoon, fell in front of a heavy iron roller and was instantly killed. --An explosion of natural gas in a' at Warsaw killed one man, fatally won a second, and frightfully burned two < --James Lumsdeu, Boadmaster of th» M Springfield Division of the Chicago & Alton J; Bailroad, fell Into an open welt at KH&iittt :"1| and was killed. > :.J§ , •/ •' tf --A wild man has been captured isi that * vicinity of Oakland. His raiment cansHtoftx^* of a pair of pantaloons and a long, bsM^ / beaid. ;• --Glanders has broken oat ia the neigh­ borhood of Brocton. Three horses hum been killed and a number of others are in quarantine. --Mrs. Ella Jansen, of Danville, mg/i she has been cured of a two-years' sick- p ness by sprayer after her physicians had ̂ given her up. ^ - Colonel B. G. Ingersoll is reeoVMiotf || from his throat trouble, and in ottMtr re- spectsis pronounced by his physician to 'v; be in perfect health. /I --Mrs. Thomas Lynch, of Jacksonville* ventured too near a bonfire, and her cloth­ ing was set on fire. Her injuries jun serious and she will die. -- Two little boys at Patoka were mada insensible by a stroke of lightning, task soon reoovered. The same stroke knoeksd over a score of geese in the dooryaid. --The largest family in Ch>mps%)j -| County is that of Mr. and Mrs. Theodosft Latch, who have fifteen children. Ska Mitt ij] tire family was photographed in a gKMfk ^ the other day. --In a skiff-race of forty miles on the Mississippi, from Alton to Grafton wad re- turn, L. Ashlock defeated J. Mora by ; • twenty-three minutes, making the trip ia* •? ; side of six hours. - 1 --At a spirited session of the TradM Assembly, of Chicago, the Stone Cutters* Union announced its withdrawal, on ac­ count of dHBcu% >wMh Mddaj«a» several points. --Mark Dunham, of Oaklawn, is prepar* ing to send to Rosa Bonheur a wild hone from the plains. The horse was captozedin Wyoming. The great artist commissioned him to procure her such an animal for a model. --The printing-press which was tlmfa into the river at Nauvoo in 1845 is how In. Chicago. The press lay at the bottom ot the river for two years. It was then taken out and was used for two years in printing various Wisconsin newspapers. --William Waite, living near Danville, went coon-hunting one night. He sat on the ground holding a torch and several dpgs while his companions chopped down a tree in which a coon had taken refuge. The tree fell on Waite, breaking his Ml shoulder and his left thigh. --A little son of Mrs. Quinn, of Gen- eseo, forced his small sister to drink the contents of the family kerosene can. A doctor saved her life. Not long agotha boy made his sister lie down on the floor, and then, getting a hatchet, he prepared to cut her head off. Their mother appeared and spoiled his plan. --Frank Mauzhardt, of Carbondale, went to the bottom of a well which he had bee^ walling with bricks. The wall began to crumble, and he was soon buried under the bricks. He was a close prisoner for mom than four hours. When he was released ft was found that there was scarcely a bruise on his body to tell of the accident. --In the wire-mill at Joliet prison Fore­ man Burroughs was assaulted with a red- hot poker by Michael Mooney, the convict who murdered his cell-mate in 1881 Mid was twice sentenced to the gallows. Ty wretch was nearly choked to death by a colored convict, and he will certainly be sent to his grave if the prisoners caa. gel an opportunity. --This city is greatly oppressed by Jehtt, says a writer in the Chicago Journal. Thai is to say, the drivers of light vehicles, especially of hansoms, cannot be made to understand that pedestrians always have the right of way, not only on the comer crossings, but in the very middle of tho street. It seems to do their very souls good to see an old ° man and a woman with, a baby in her arms run for their lives, to get out of their way as they dash, lilta lightning, along the crowded down­ town streets. They seem to enjoy themselves most at the crossings, where they never slacken their speed, but are able to follow up and run down a pedestrian who is trying to get out of their way, but cannot tell which way they are going. This evil exists in all large cities, but it is an unnecessary evil all the same. However rapidly Jehu may drive along a block, he ought to be com­ pelled to walk his horse over a erossiog, at least in the heart of the city, 'it weald take all tbs police in Chicago to esfsreo snoh a regulation, but it can be enforced an automatic device. Where two down- , towu streets intersect, the whole roadway should be slightly corrugated. This weald not b® felt in ordinary driving, but wenld smash Je. u's sptings. The only objeeftatH would be that the Fire Department intgjhif be incommoded, and I do not kno* ft » that is an objection either. * ,