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IHiiilftilfir P AAUVvtivra WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28, 1887. J. VAN SLTKE. Editor. THIS PAPER *r.bte GKof ?? COWlM' * OO.'S Newspaper Advertising &SMMI (10 Spruce Street), where advertising SSWr.VKNEYV YORK- MrrBuiter ruled active Monday at Elgin at 261 (^27 cents, closing firm at tHe outside figure. 00*Congressman Rowell, of Illi&ola, has presented to the House tbt certifi­ cate of Logan's physician, who has attended him for the past twelve years, which states that Logan died from rheumatism contracted In the army, and for which ha hat bws treated ever since. 1%"- f The first annual dinner of the fBbpublioaa Club of N»w York City |<lok plaoe at Dalmonico's ^Saturday •vening the 12th. The dinner was flv*n in commemoration of the birth Of Abraham Lincoln, aud brought to­ gether a large number of Republicans ? from all parts of the country.- (©"Of the seventy-six memBtft ilf the United States Senate, there are Only seven who fought on 'the Union tide during the late war, while there •re sixteen who bora arms under the Confederate flag. Of the fifteen re­ publican senators who will be sworn in On the 4th of Maach next, four wore the Confederate gray. Th^will leave the Senate with twenty ax-Confeder­ ates and only three ex-Federals. SflTAn old Iowa Democrat, A. J! Kewter, writea the Courier-Journal: •Let Watterson 'lay it on' thit 'Oscar Wilde' administration. For twenty- flre years ha*e I stood by the party in Iowa, advocating Democratic princi­ ples is an apparently hopeless State, trusting to see a Democratic adminis­ tration in power once more. I watcb- od and waited, and gray hairs have in tlhe meantime appeared. But if this administration is a specimen of Demo* eratie government, the party will, and ahould go out of business in 18S8," CLFCTKLAND S F.AST VETO. Preeident Cleveland has thrown a very large tub to the voracious Con­ federate whale, In his message vetoing the dependent soldier's pension bill. He has also made it a vehicle for ad­ ministering a tedious and insulting lecture to Congress. It. this document Mr. Cleveland astonishes the world by setting himself up as a verbal critic. He has only emphasized and repeated in the mass the arguments whlcfc he had previously made in debate In ve­ toing numerous bills pensioning indi­ vidual soldiers. To this extent he is consistent, at least. While it was hardly tO %o expected that Mr. Cleveland would evluce any sympathy for the soldiers of a war in reference to which he was either an indillerent spectator, or an open or Secret enemy of the cause .in behalf of which It was waged, it is the veriest clap-trap to refer to the later period at which the country began" to pension the dependent soldiers, of 1812 and ol the Mexican war. The condition of the. country now is vastly different from what it was at those earlier periods. Then the country was poor and its treasury empty. Now it is rich and 11% treasury overflowing. Theu it could scarcely afford to be just, now it can afford eten to be'*generous. while it owes a debt to the defenders of the Union that can never be fully repaid. Mr. Cleveland's veto may enhance his popularity among those who fought to destroy the government; it cyi on­ ly excite the indignation of those who estimate the services of the Union sol- dier at their true value, and believe it the duty of the Nation to protect all veterans from suffering. Thu answer made to It ia the Democratic House on the evening of its delivery, by the passage of thirty-five special pension bills is significant.--JEe. A SRCSBT AND CRDRL DBSI'OTISM, The tyranny of the secret despots who order and mar.ago the labor strikes of the country fs greater than that which capital ever attempted to exercise over 1 ibor. It is a lawless and Irresponsible use of power that imposes idleness on a ttOndred labor­ ers, robs them of their wages and plunges their families into distress for the purpose of redressing the alleged grievances of a single man. If an employer seeks to give a little job to a starving laborer who is not under the coutrol of the secret labor despot, hundreds and .thousands of men who want to work, who have no wrongs of which they complain, who are well paid and have easy tasks, are ordered away from their employment, lose the wages that they might have earned, depiive other employes in turn of their right to work and pro­ duce a period of general hardship and distress. They punish themselves and the labor class a thousand fold and more because an employer gives work to a needy applicant as good as they are in every way, but not one of the slaves in their organization. Intelligent labor must itself at a time not far distant in the future, re* volt against this secret, lawless, reck­ less despotism, whioh is more cruel towards labor and inflicts more dis­ tress upon laboring men than all the combinations of capital and corpora­ tions that have ever existed.--/ourna;. "The postmasters' bill now pond* ing before Congress with probability •f becoming a law, provides for a re- adjustment of salaries by which the first and second class offices suffer re­ ductions which is given to the offices of the third and fourth class. There are 51.000 of the latter and only 2,000 of the former, so that the bill is apt to have some consideration on account of its political bearing. 16?*The condemnation of the Presi­ dent by the members of the Grand Army of the Republic for his veto of the Dependent Soldiers' Pension Bill has been general and emphatic. There Is not the slightest doubt that uine out of every ten ex-soldiers, whose circumstances are likely to preclude thd necessity of their ever seeking aid under the measure if it should be en­ acted, also join in this condemnation. The insinuation in the veto message that veterans are either beggars or thieves, ought to be promptly rebuked by Congress. And the most practical and effective way of doing this would Jbe to pass the bill over the veto. •The Presidenj, in his Texas deed veto, jocosely remarks: "Though the people suppoit the government, the government should not support the people." People, however, notice that i t pays $50,000 a year to support Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, and as much more to keep the President's house and grounds in order. He also tells how Congressmen cau relieve needy Texans, by distributing to them their perquisites. Now how would it do for the President to spend a thousand or so in the iaoae way, and set a good ex­ ample? l9*ThO editor of the National Trib­ une writes an open letter to Grayer | Cleveland, President of the United , States, in which he says: "SIR: There is now before you for consideration a i bill which passed both houses of Con­ gress by a majority quite unusual in legislation of that kind. If it receives your signature it will become an act of national justice of higher merit and farther-reaching in its beneficent ef­ fects than any legislation which has gone upon the statute- books for a long period of years, etc." The bal­ ance of the letter is published in the National Tribune of Feb. 3, '87, which •very soldier and his friends should road. U; IVA bill tor an Act to incorporate the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind, which was introduced in the House, by Mr. O'Conner, Jan. Uth, is attracting considerable attention at this time, and justly too, we think. From the Bill we learn that the object of said corporation shall bo to promote the welfare of the blind by teaching tbem trades and affording them a home and such employment as shall best tend to make them self-support­ ing, and consequeatly independent, using thereby the best known means and appliances, ftTbii is a question that should not be pas sod over lightly. We'believe it to bega just and equit­ able measure, and we trust our Sena­ tors and Representatives at Springfield will look at it la this light and promptly give it the seal of their ap­ proval. We shall speak mere at length in relation to this matter in the future. rWe bold this truth to be aelf-^, evident, that whenever a man who served this country in the war of the rebellion, suffers hanger, needs proper raiment, is vnable to provide himself, or his family, with proper food, fuel, clothing, medicine, or any necessary or minor comfort of life, such suffering being the result of incapacity to labor, --occasioned by wounds received, or diseases contracted, or by disease which is the result of service, the whole Nation is disgraced. We hold that too minute inquiry as to the prox imate causes of disease is not always humane or just. We neither palliate vice nor plead in mitigation of intem­ perance, but we do say that the camp was a rough school of morals. Habits sometimes were formed there which men of stalwart courage and general high morality were not able to shake off when the peaee which they helped to win returned to bless the country We are far giving every good soldier the benefit of a doubt when he applies for a pension.--Inter Ocean. MoHEHKT, .. "Ts.w ^ • .v , . '< - t Waived mvoi<j& A R R I V E D Having purchased the Hardware Business of I. N. Mead; in West McHenry, would inform the Buying Public that he has just put in a full new stock of EW SUITS OF KINDS- Purchased will admit an For both C< short I will McHenry con my line and Tinner, and a] >r Cash, all of which will be sold as low as the market furnish First Class Goods. "LL LITE OF D«nofSuk«*, A dispatch from Mount Vernon, II).* says that there is much excitement there over the discovery of snake dens the northwestern portion of the county. Several attempts have been made to exterminate the entire collec­ tion. The den is in a stony bluff, and iarge crevices in the rocks are worn smooth by the multitude of deadly,, poisonous serpents crawling In and out. There are hundreds of themtand of as many varieties as possible There are rattle, moccasin,copperhead, adder, garter, black, chicken, blue racer, and several other breeds. Up to the present time there bave been about 450 killed. The largest rattler killed was 5J feet long and had 21 rat­ tles. The longest wa9 a chicken snake, 11 feet 4 inches long. There is a party of about forty men ready to go as soon as thft weather permits, to clean out' the bluff. They bave 100 pounds e dynamite and 200 pounds of blasting powder, and are determined to de- troy the snake rendezvous If possible 11 and Wood, of the best makes, always on hand. In *ep everything in the Hardware line, to be found in |ty. Do not fail to call when in want of anything in pee what can be dome. I have employed a first class NCJ AND KMPAIRINGr Will be dot specialty of j respectfully si icitcd. on short' notice and Itter Factory work. Satisfaction Guaranteed. A A share of public patronage & W. P. STEVENS, JL: rNouirc: CLOTHING, -J J*- GREATEST VARIETY, / " V . By the pounds in pails and^ half barrels. Large, Fat, Family MacM, , - "• - « ' • -?i-v Lowest Prices VERY fm&Ti -AND r ! order to make room for the laTgest stock of Spring and Summer Goods ever brought to Woodstock, or U AUCTIONEER Is prepared to attend to all Sales of Stock, Farming Tools, Household Furniture, or Real Kstate. Terms as low as the lowest and Satisfaction guaranteed. Pos>t office address Vy EST McHENRY, and residence one mile west of the McHenry depot. j H. C MEAD- at ; i IMVHOB. A. J. Hopkins seems to rep- Ifcieut the people of tha Fifth Con­ gressional District to the complete satisfaction of Its people. We have searched in vain among the newspa­ pers published in the territory for any thing like fault finding with his course and have been surprised at the words of high commendation from his pollt teal opponents who occupy influential positions. Every time be speaks he shows good, hard, practical common sense, and a thorough acquaintance with the subject under consideration. He indulges In no fine talk, for the purpose of drawing attention, but states plainly and clearly the reasons which govern his action. No advooate could state his case before the Su preme Court with more care, and draw his conclusions more logically than he did in his speech on-the Inter-State Commerce Bill, and the more carefully 1( is read, the more convincing it proyes. A few more years or such work as ho is now doing, will give Mr. Hopkins a. national reputation which will make him a power in the land. W* are glad that lie is what he is and that the peoplo of the district so thor­ oughly apprej&fcU MM*--£wbvich •i-r.yi',-' Oglesbjr's Syst«m of Coast he tense, Governor Dick Ogiesby, of Illinois is one of the surviving war governors but there is all the innocent and on military simplicity of a Quaker elder in this remark oi his, pronounced the Republican Club's banquet: Don't be too uneasy about seacoast defenses. Don't tremble at the navies of Europe. Behind you are 80.000.000 people in the Mississippi Valley who will see that you are not hurt. We fear Goyernor Ogiesby would find even the rapid services of the several Chicago limited expresses in­ adequate to bring his 30,000,000 men, women and children to the front in time to prevent the destruction of New York city by the big gups of a foreign ironclad. Nor do we believe that among his 30,000,000 patriots there is a single in­ dividual--not even the crack catcher of the Chicago nine--capable of stop­ ping and handling a 1,800 pound ball delivered by an Armstrong gun from below Brighton Beach.--N. Y. Sun. (THE NEW KASKINE.) Nok No headache No nansea No iiH ears Cms pici Pieasantpre A POWERFUL TONIC. That the most delicate stomach will bear. A SPECIFIC FOR MALARIA RHEUMATISM, NERVOUS PROSTRATION And aU grerm diaeasses. Bellerue Hospital, New York City, "Uni­ versally successful." r "Every patient treat- St. Francis Hospital,! ed with Kaskine jtytcHenry County, I w; ill, for the next thirty days, sell my Fall and Winter Stock AID' SHOES, Greatlyb Reduced Prices as 1 must have the room. N. B.--House established in 1865. W. H. DWICHJ. ISP"Corner Maine Street and Public New York City, has cur- \ been discharged ed." The United States Examining Surgeon, Dr. L. it. White, writes: "Kaskine is the best medicine made." Dr. I., U. Glcssner, 360 East 121st ft., New York City, has cured over 390 patients with>» Kaskine, after Quinine and all other drugs had failed. He says: "It is undoubtedly the bent medicine ever discovered Prof. W. F. Holcombe. M. D. 54 East 25th St., New York City, (late professor In New York medical college) writes: "Kaskine is superior to Quinine in its specific power, and never produces the slightest Injury to the hearing or constitution." Itev. James L Ilail, chaplain Albany pent tentiarv, writes that Kaskine has cured his wife, after twenty years suffering from ma laria ami nerrom dyspepsia. Write him for particulars. Thousands upon thousands write that Kas kin» has cured them after all other medicines had failed. Write for book of testimonials, Kaskme can be taken without any special medical advice. (1 per bottle KASKINE COMPANY, 64 Warren St., New YorkOity. Lincoln's Campaign Expenses. ID Its admirable "Llf* of Lincoln" the Century tells bow he ran for Con­ gress: The campaign,was carried on almost entirely without expense. Mr. Joshua Speed told the writer that some of the Whigg contributed a purse of $200 which Speed handed to Lincoln to pay hi3 personal expenees in lhe canvass After the election was over the sue ceg»ful candidate handed Speed 9199.25 with the reqnest that he return it to the subscribers. "I did noa need the money," he said. "I made the canvass on my own horse, my entertainment being at the bouse of friends, cosi me nothing; and my only outlay was 76 cents for a barrel of cider, that some farm hands insisted I should treat them to." * . 111 'XSN3H3H •OSPUG UOJJ.EQ; .IBOJJ ouiOH s^o^ooi SHaiszo J.V3IAI jdllOS .(Sapoi,, --AADIIIIXS TIVP'I A nuiA ar- •inossiomanv xaa* 'HXUVa Np X83S "AdttVO- L CAS On Feed. BRAN, per Ton $12.75 SHORT.S. per Ton.. 13.75 SHELL CORN, per bu.. 40 eta. By the Single Ton. s.axooT xva Dissolution Notice. NOTICE is hereby given that the Co-part­nership heretofore exist ing betwen J. V. Pitzsimmona and Jonn Evanson is this day dUolvcd by mutual c.onsont, and that J. C. ifitzsiinmons is hereby authorized to collect and sign the Arm name in liquidation oC accounts. J. C. FITZ8TMMOWS, JOHN EVAN SON. McHenry. Feb. 1st, 1887. In pursuance of above notice all parties knowing themselves indebted to the firm of Pitzsimmons & Evanson are hereby notified to settle at once. J. C. FITZBIMMONS. Mrs. Schumacher* Visits Chicago every week and will take io your orders and furalib 1 •I the lowest Chicago prloea, } S4lERAfll9 SODA Best intheVforll E" Administrator's Notice. 18TATE of B. H. Kcnnebcek, deceased. I The undersigned having been appointed Administrator of ttie Estate of B. if. Kenne- beck, deceased, late of the County of McHen­ ry. and State oflilino's. hereby gives notice that he will appear before the County Court of McHenry County, at the Court llouse in Woodstock, at the March term, on the third Monday in March next, at which tune all persons having claims against said. JCgtate, are notified and requested to attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All -persons indebted to said Estate are requested fo make immediate payment to the under­ signed, f Sate4 this 12th day of January. 1887. J»K IONIAN, Administrator. CARLOADS Quoted fipon application. W. A. CB1STY. At the Pickle Factory ia West Mc eury. To-Night and To-Morrow Night. And each day and nlglit during thi week, you can And ao Geo. W. Besley' drug store Kemp's Suppositories, ac­ knowledged to be the most successful treatment yet introduced for the cure of piles. Old suderers from this die streising complaint are at once re iieved and in a short time a permune it cure established. Check the disease in time by using the most effective remedy. Price 50c. Send address for am phlet OQ plies. Box 296, Le Roy OATS! OATS 1 OATS' 1000 to 1200 bushels of good blaok Oats for sale. To be sold ingots of fronrSO to 1000 bushels. To be sold within three weeks. For sale by P. J Clary, one mile south of Bishops Mill McHenry, Iliiaols. NEWEST STYLES. 4 Button Cutaways, 1 Button Walking, Squats Cut Sacks, Bound Cut Sacks. Clothing1 for all ages, and more to follow. Bought for Cold Cash* Columbia. Rivsr Salmoi -O F- Dress Goods. DOMESTICS, - NOTIONS, I Foot-Gear, C* #. Fargo's euetom made, all warranted, spring styles, agreea­ ble prices. GENTS CONOIcESS, *2.00 FENTS BUTTON, #3.00. OENTS FRENCH CALF% #6.50 GENTS HOOK LACE, #3.00. --IVJB SELL THE- Badger State INDESTRUCTIBLE Best Fitting - Warranted And Shirts* for, Best iftade, most satisfies eAeryone. loot New fall Papir, Borders, Largest Stock, t Trimmed Free. HATS. AND CAPS, GLOVET. GENTS FURNISHING GOODS, ROCK FORD WARPS, ROCK- FORD FLOUR, ROCK- FORD HOSIERY. G l t O i J E J M K H , Always Fresh* always Good, always Ceenp. CROCKERY, Lustre Bau'd Ware, English Decorated Ware, Englisa White Ware, Rackhimgham Ware, Yel­ low Ware, Glassware, Stoneware TRUNKS & VALISES, Window Shades, Shade tures, Curtain Poles, VJSBT TMULY YOVBB Fix- BONSLETT * STOFFEI* -NEW- Holland -IN 4m- Portland fionuil Shore Herring, -AND-- LABRADOR HERRING, In quarter barrels. Smoked Herring, Halibut, and the Bes| Codfish In the Market. We have bought bought a iarge quantity of Fish, all new packed, and sell you at Bottom Prices. EUB11BS Mens, Womens and Misses Rubbers. Best goods at lower prices than anybody quotes them. Also full line of Good Rubber Coatea. Try a pair of Henderson's Famous School Shoes. This kind of weather is a good test for them. ' They will stand the water and mud better than any. We warrant every " pair. Qur Ladies 8 2 S Wo e Is taking immensely. Both the Kid and Goat. See them. We have our usual large stock of WALL PAPER -AND- In, and wil soon be on the sam­ ple boards. Missed Faints, White Lead and lis, BRUSHES, ETC. \ ' All kinds of Canned Goods and Fresh Family CALL AND SEE U& PERRY & QWER»