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mmnma, *FTW: MTUt AM TIE FUtt, EARLY 1KDIAHA JUSTICE. Aaaaainr Trial STATE I. VANSLTKE. Mbrsstf PaMMsr ^McHENBT, XLLINOia f: " • ft--' ';i:'- tr": b- 1 !&; It' ' A FEW months ago a farmer in aliiberty County, Georgia, planted a , patch of potatoes, using as a fertilizer *rasli, sand, etc., from a house infested "with flees. When he needed the po­ tatoes to eat, it was with difficulty that iie could remain in the vicinity of the patch long enough to dig them on ac­ count of the immense quantities of fleas 'there. They had actually lived and thrived for months far under ground. A STORY from Wilmington, N. €., says that a colored woman who was ridiculing another woman for singing a Ihymn suddenly felt a burning sensa­ tion in the palm of her hand. On look- ling she saw it was discolored and the •words "Church of God" were written , in blood-red capitals in a half circle on the lower part of the paltn. It is said that the phenomenon has-been seen by _ hundreds of people. The discoloration Is fading out. J THE recent shower of pine pollen at 'Washington, which was mistaken for : ;«u]phur, was eclipsed Sunday morning by a fall of crawfishes. The phenome­ non was observable at 6:30 o'clock. At that hour there was quite a heavy rain shower, and several persons standing at the corner of 10th and D streets saw a large number of queer animals, looking like minature lobsters, fall to the {ground from the sky. A close inspec­ tion showed them to be crawfishes. A SUMTER (GA.) woman owned a jguipea hen that wanted to sit; she had , |ber nest broken up. She filled an­ other and persisted in sitting, but her ,owner had determined otherwise, and bgain broke hp the nest The poor fowl looked so sorrowfully and saw her tnaternal hopes blighted, turned, with a flrooping head, walked up to the well, flew up on the curbing, and then plunged head foremost into the deep ^waters below. When they got her out the was dead. I 8>- fe'/ A WHIRLWIND or small cyolone about fifteen feet wide passed over a pond at Greenville, Ala., forcing the water up for about two or two and one-half feet Its entire width, then twisting it into a pillar about a foot in diameter. This ttem was perpendicular for about six feet, when it gradually widened until a height of about sixty or seventy feet was attained. The water then fell in a Spray. Those who witnessed it say that the whirlwind formed a huge goblet of the water, and it was one of the pret­ tiest sights tljey ever witnessed. AMONG the trees of Arkansas are Some which have peculiar properties, the Ohio buckeye, for instance. The fruit and roots of this tree are used by Indians on their fishing excursions. fThey put the roots and fruit in a bag •fend drag the latter through the water. In an hour or so the fish rise to the Surface dead. Cattle die after eating ©f the fruit or leaves. Man eats the fruit of the pawpaw; hogs won't. , Bopes and mats are made of its bark. {The fruit and bark of the bay tree are Yised for medical purposes. They are Supposed to be a cure for rheumatism and intermittent fever. HERE are a few items regarding the foyal yachts which may prove interest­ ing to the British tax-payer. The original cost of the Victoria and Albert was about £136,000, and she has since had spent on her over £300,000. The Osborne's original cost was about £106,- D00, and she has had about £112,000 •expended on her. The Alberta's origi­ nal cost was £27,000, with a subsequent expenditure of £68,000. The Elfin's original cost was £6,000, the subsequent expenditure being over £40,000. Be­ sides these interesting items the annual pay of the officers and crews of the royal yachts is close upon £50,000. A LITTLE boy in Philadelphia was fly­ ing a kite on the housetop. Another lad two or three houses away was en­ gaged in the same diversion. One opened his mouth to call to the other, and just them a flock of swal­ lows came flying by. One of them, Evidently confused, flew against the toy's face, driving his bill clean through liis cheek. In his agony the lad closed his teeth hard and held the bird fast. The swallow was partly stunned by the shock, and, with the bird sticking out from his cheek, the lad rati down-stairs to his mother. She removed the bird «nd it now occupies s handsome cage in the house, and its owner wouldn't part with it under aay consideration. DR. TALMAGE says: "I once occupied the novel position of sitting in a pew |n my own ohureh listening ta administer preaching to my own cdngregation one of my own sermons. No, not from notes. It had been memorized, and I don't imagine that the brother knew whose sermon he was repeating. Sermons go the rounds sometimes with­ out name and are taken up and preached in that way. My wife listened to one of my sermons preached ver- . "batum. The President of the Wesleyan Conference of Australia informed me a •couple of years ago that a minister had , Jt>een dismissed from the conference for preaching one of my sermons--not be­ cause it was a sermon of mine, but be­ cause he had claimed it as one of his Own." A STEAM yacht is an expensive luxury. -Jay Gould seldom cruises on the beauti­ ful Atalantaand more seldom has guests abroad, yet she costs him $6,000 a month. W.' K. VanderbiH has made •One cruise in his new Alva--to the \ Bermudas--and has planned others and | "$ie calculates that it will cost at least •P10,000 a month to maintain his steam- | "pleasure craft. William Astor keeps / «his steam yacht the Nourmahal tied up zftrartof iitaiimo <md conaeqix**tij he ?etB off more cheaply- #!,000 to *3,000 a month. The most extensive and most famous for its good cheer of all New York steam yachts is James Gordon Bennett's Namonna. For twelve months in the year he keeps her in commission and hardly a week passes when her cabin is not the scene of some lavish entertainment. Entertainments, more or less lavish, cost money, but how much Mr. Bennett spends in that way will remain a mystery. It is only known that the sum total of actual ex­ penses an the Nsmouna is $48,000 a year. • JOE MCLHATTOK, famous as the originator of a hundred mountainous stories, is living now in Louisville. He w a queer fellow, a successful commer­ cial traveler, one who never drinks nor smokes, and who is not worth a thou­ sand dollars. He gives aw^y his money. "He cant help ft," said a friend; "he has to empty his pockets when he runs upon any pitiable case." Mulhatton's one weakness is his fancy for telling awful lies in print. He will work for a month upon some fabrica­ tion not a quarter of a column in length until he has given it a tone of ingenu­ ousness which makes it travel. A Mr. Peters, Mulhatton's old employer, showed a letter the other day from the eccentric fellow in which he inclosed a printed slip bearing his latest story. It was of a man in Kentucky who had trained monkeys to pick hemp, and has had a great run through the press within the last three months. "They are awful stories," said Mr. Peters, "but they afford the only place where Joe will lie. I'd take his word in a business way for any amount." , * THE recent decision of the Supltittie Court in the case of Major Runkle is looked upon with interest by army officers, as it definitely settles an im­ portant question in regard to the right of the Secretary of War to act for the President in oourt-martial cases. In deciding that the action of Secretary Belknap in approving the sentence of dismissal in Bunkle's case was illegal and that he is still in the service, the Court took the growid that the Presi­ dent, as Commander-in-Chief of the army, has been made by law the per­ son whose duty it is to review the pro­ ceedings in court-martial cases where dismissal is involved. The President must himself consider the proceedings laid before him and decide personally whether they ought to be carried into effect. Such a power, the Court holds, the President cannot delegate. His personal judgment is required as much so as it would have been in passing on the case if he had been a member of the court-martial itself. He may call others to his assistance in making his examinations and informing himself as to what ought to done, but Jyjg judgment, when found, mtist be his own judgment and not that of another. How TO subdue a cat and change the midnight front portico howler to a con­ dition or meekness has been solved in Harrison, O. A careful housewife molded a panful of snow-white dough from XXX spring flour, charged with quick yeast, and with many a pat "set" the incipient biscuits near the fire­ place to "rise." Very soon two of the paddies of dough were mysteriously missing, and not a trace of their where­ abouts was found until the family cat, walking sideways and puffed out like a balloon, came in and lay down by the fire to rest. Evidently the cat had been taken suddenly and seriously ill, or was struggling in an insane delirium with some great grief. Not only her heart but her hide was filled to burst­ ing, and the trouble was that she was getting fuller, and external appear­ ances of some mighty internal trouble of the seismic kind were distinctly seen to travel her spine. Every individual hair stood on its head and her tail was carried pompadour with jher ears. Her eyes threatened to pop out, and her legs refused to do her bidding. She was carefully placed on the family fire- shovel and as comfortably placed in a cool corner of the yard among the dog- fennel, hoping the oool embrace of mother earth would ease the raging fires within. "But all in vain," as the school-girl says. Later a dull muffled report (unaccompanied by any thud worth speaking of) was heard, and the spirit of as gallant a tom-cat as ever dodged a boot-jack had gone to that bourne, etc. She had eaten the gxeen biscuits. Cheap Swells In Boston. A dealer tells me that there is a cus­ tom among certain "cheap swells" of clubbing together and buying a supply of highly-colored neckwear, the vari­ ous articles of which are worn alter­ nately by different individuals, who thus get the credit among their ac­ quaintances of being bountifully provided with Buch attire. I think it wpuld be well for our "swells" in a higher grade of social life if they did not set the example of ostentation in dress to their less favored brethren. Their imitation of English modes of dress often carries them beyond the limits of good taste, and their extrava­ gance, it is noteworthy, arises from the fact that they overdo this propensity. They put on in turn the large plaid and check patterns for suits which the Englishman reservos for the country, and thus call attention to their ignor­ ance of the proprieties of which they assume a knowledge. I am glad to see, however, that this ridiculous form of Anglomania is on the wane here in Boston.--Boston Post. A Friend of Honest tabor. "I am down on this prison labor and prison contract system," said Mr. Gun- nybags. the friend of labor. "It not only degrades honest labor by coming into direct competition with it, but the prices paid for prison labor in this country are altogether too high. Now, we import all the mats we handle from English prisons for 30 per cent, less than they can be made for in our own penitentiaries. Let us patronize honest labor.--Burdette, AN Arizona judge has decided tfca peace officers have no right to carr concealed weapons any more than pri­ vate ojtisns. The Propose* Return of Csptarsf Rebel Banners Severely Criti­ cised by Gen. Butler. ^ | [Boston spsciaLl #ll «f«t dinner of the famous Uufier Club was held Saturday afternoon. Of coarse the General was there, the central figure for an admiring remnant of the peo­ ple's party of 1884, with a goodly sprinkling of the warrior* in his previous campaigns. Seventy-six Butlerites in all marched in to dinner. Butler, very naturally, was the principal speaker, and no one paid much attention to what others said, although Col. Plympton's definition of the simon-pure Butler man woke up the boys. Here are the traits of the Butler man as defined by the Colonel: "Decided and aggressive views on all questions; personal loyalty and devo­ tion to the grand old man; contempt for cant and pharisaism in anything; loyalty to the principles of the republican form of government and the right of the people to rule; opposition to whatever threatens this, even if it comes in the name of reform or that Chinese exotic, civil-service reform; belief that, if the government is Repub­ lican, it shall be Republican from stem to stern, and, if Democratic, from center to circumference." * ^ Then Butler spoke, and he could not allow the battle-flag episode to pass with­ out mention. In fact, he made it the bur­ den of his speech and the text for a violent attack npon the Cleveland administration. "For one,"he said, "I think an event has happened within the past few days of greater moment and significance to the country, viewed not only as a matter of statesmanship but of loyalty and true American feeling, than any since the days of '65. I refer to the attempt, if so much it was, to take away from the archives of the Government the evidence of the vic­ tories of our soldiers in arms when they rescued the country. I have looked care­ fully to see the reasons for which it was at­ tempted to be done, and also to glance carefully into the reasons why it should not be done. I have looked also for the pre­ cedent why it should be done, and I find there is none except that some of the Northern States, when they have learned that one of their own battle-flags which had been lost by the fortunes of war had been captured, had asked that such fiag might be returned to them. And I see no reason why it should not be done. But it affords in my mind no precedent for the action that was attempted to be taken. Then I find that one of the Cabi­ net officers that comes from Massachu­ setts, to my utter astonishment, indorsed the order. For him I have the highest per­ sonal respect. But how he, as a lawyer, conld have recommended such a thing is utterly beyond my comprehension. I conld not believe it until I had seen the indorse­ ment upon the letter as published by the Adjutant General. Now, mark me, I do not at all blame the President for doing this. Where could he have gotten the knowledge in his former life not to do it? It was not his fault, but it was his misfortune, that he did not know anything upon the subject. He acted according to the light he had, and he apparently had no cabinet to give him any more. 1 speak in no spirit of bit­ terness; I have none for him. I speak, 1 trust, in behalf of the soldiers of the war upon this question. Read the letter of Fitzhugh Lee, Governor of Virginia, which he closes by saying, when speaking of these flags: * If any man tears down the Amer­ ican flag, let him be shot on the spot.' That he said last, wej^k. If h® had issued that order "years ago he would have had to execute it by blowing his own brains out. "This shows how much times have Changed. There is no danger of anybody hauling down the American flag. But we see there Uas^ been danger that the trophies or our victories shall be given up. I see Gov. Lee says those flags are of no conse­ quence now. Very well, let them alone, then, they are safe where they are. 'Oh,' he says, 'we are all one government.' Well, that government has got them; let it keep them. There is no occasion to send them to various governments. 'Oh, but,' they say, 'we must give them up and send them away because they were won in a war between fellow-citizens.' If you will go up to the State House you will find in Doric Hall two brass cannon, trophies of war, standing there, captured from Burgoyne in a war between fellow-citizens. Why haven't they been sent back? Why aren't the old drum, the old gun the old helmet that hung over the door of the Senate chamber as emblems of what our fathers under Stark did at Bennington in^a battle between fellow-citizens to be sent back to England? And I am afraid that somebody will propose it in this year of jubilee, and some mutton-chop- whiskered politician may think he can win recognition in England by moving such a £reposition; and, for one, I want to speak l advance. We have sent back to the South pretty much ail that we got from them. We have given them back all that we took from them in cotton, under laws. I don't complain of that at all. There is no sentiment there. But we must stop somewhere in this giving up everything that belongs to tho war. For, if we return our flags captured from them, I think the next thing tbey will ask will be that we re­ turn the slaves captured from them. I propose to 6top at flags, here and now." AS REPUBLICANS PREDICTED. (From the Iowa State Register.] During the campaign cf 1884 Repub­ licans freely predicted that if Mr. Cleve­ land were elected he would be found, be­ fore his term was over, truckling to the South and directing the policy of hiB ad­ ministration in a way that 'would tend to glorify the enemies and discourage the friends of the Union. It was openly pre­ dicted and as positively denied that inside of four years the Government in its most important positions would be turned over to the men who tried to destroy it It was predicted that, if Mr. Cleveland didn't actu­ ally attempt to undo the work of tbe war by direct means, he would by indirect means, and that the effect of his adminis­ tration would be to teach that the North was wrong and the South right in the war of the rebellion. This was also strenuously denied, and all of the predictions of the sort were denounced as idle talk, born of excited imagination, and intended only for campaign purposes. The history of the past two years shows that the Republican predictions were true, and in every instance have been more than fulfilled. Cleveland's order surrendering the rebel flags is the consummation ana fulfillment of these prophecies. Never have effects followed causes more surely than fulfillment has followed the Repub­ lican prophecios made before Cleveland's election. He signalized the beginning of his ad­ ministration be truckling to the South, and to the meanest, most despicable element of the South, by half-masting the Union flag in honor of Jake Thompson, the man who plotted the assassination of Lincoln, planned to introduce pestilence and con­ tagion into every Northern city--this man who represented all that was fiendish in human nature and devilish in human wickedness, who did not dare stay in the country that he had disgraced by his birth. This thing was held up to honor and praise, and the Union flag was hung at half-mast to show respect for his memory. That was a beautiful way for a Democratic administration to teach loyalty, encourage patriotism and show a decent respect for the bravery and gallantry of Union sol­ diers! But this was only the beginning of the work of a Copperhead President in rewrit­ ing if net remaking the history of his coun­ try. Mr. Cleveland instituted the policy of sending abroad as representatives of this country men whose lives and words must inevitably misrepresent the true spirit and genius of American institutions. So anxious was he to take np the old disloyal element of the South, that some of tie most im­ portant appointments to the diplomatic service were of men who had never had their political disabilities removed. In his eagstn-- to reooggisa the Bonbons of the past* he took Bits Lawton and Jatiksoft, who hat M*«f aand enough for the favor of the Government to ask the pardon whkh it had offered to give,, until they found the disability a bar to their offioe-seeking ambitions. But those were of the type of men whom Mr. Cleveland selected to Xpgissnt the majesty 0f the American Union, and the dignity and loyalty of American citizenship. Wher­ ever they might go abroad their presence, mute though it be, would tell the story that, in one oountry at leasts treason was re­ warded with the eonfldenoe, the favor and the honors which most nations reserve for those who needed not to be transformed from traitors to loyal subjects. Not,only this, but for every Union soldier appointed to office at home Mr. Cleveland appointed three men who had been rebel soldiers or rebel sympathizers. Instead of showing at least equal honor to the men who wore the blue, he turned out the old soldiers of the Union, and turned in the men who wore the gray. The greater part of the general offices in the department* at Washington, as well at in the foreign service, were filled from the South, as a Copperhead's tribute of honor to the 'Most cause." Thus again Republican predictions ware fulfilled in a disgraceful and disheartening chapter of American history. Following the same policy of directing public affairs so as to make the Southern and not the Northern idea of the rebellion tbe one for public notice, the administra­ tion next advised the Temoval of the plate bearing the names of the Union victories that was set up as a memorial at the Nor­ folk Navy Yard. The ex-rebels had be­ come tired of seeing the mute suggestion that in certain memorable contests, the men who fought for one flag and one na­ tion had beaten the men who fought for another flag and a divided nation. And so, to conciliate the sentiment of those who insisted that the "lost cause" was the right cause, the memorial plate was torn down, and the Union colon were again trailed in the dust. That was a beautiful way to guard the "jewel of liberty," and teach the youth of -the land that there was honor in loyalty, and shame and dishonor in dis­ loyalty, but that was the way that this ad­ ministration took, and manted the fulfill­ ment of Republican predictions. Then came the pension vetoes,-and the brutal and insulting language <in which Mr. Cleveland referred to Union soldiers. The Democrats had said that the election of Cleveland would make no difference in the nation's treatment of the men who had saved its life, but it did. Republicans warned the country that if the Democratic party put a Copperhead in the White House, they would inflict a Copperhead, Union-soldier-hating policy upon the coun­ try, and they did. One hundred and nine­ teen tijies did the President differ with Congress on the treatment to be given the Union soldier and these dependent upon him, and always to the misfortune of the victims of his brutal indifference to the just claims upon the nation. Not only did he refuse the pittance whitfh would have gone to thousands of needy sufferers, but he went out of his way to insult with low jibe and indecent jests the survivors df the Union armies. Never in the history of the country had there been a parallel to this disgraceful and degrading exhibition of the coarse wit, the consuming egotism and the brutal indifference to suffering and the utter disregard of the claims of patriotism and loyalty. Now oomes the crowning act of this pol­ icy of Southern aggression and Northern humiliation, in Cleveland's order returning the rebel flags. Taken without warrant of law or precedent, the property of the Gov­ ernment, the seals of a nation's struggles and triumphs, he proposes to return to the South, to be flauqtea in tbe face of the world, tbe flags thatfypify all the wicked­ ness of secession and disunion. No won­ der that, like an electric shock, a thrill of indignation went over the country from Maine to California, and compelled even this stubborn and Belf-willed President to call a halt. When arrested by the tremen­ dous upheaval of public opinion, he pleads that he finds no legal authority for the pro­ posed surrender, arid thus creeps out of the predicament in which, his lack of law and not of inclination would have placed him. So in each crowning act of dishonor and betrayal of the nation's convictions and sacred sentiments, this Democratic administration is fulfilling Republican pre­ dictions. They confirm the wisdom and the truth of the solemn forebodings with which patriots anticipated the election of Mr. Cleveland, and if the country is not lost to all sense of a decent regard for the opinion of mankind, they will prove an ef­ fectual warning against the election of an other Copperhead President. Plain Facts of the Tuttle Episode. The Iowa Grand Army posts woald have been open to severe censure if they had indicated that they would excuse the act of any person offering an indignity to the President at the President at the St. Louis encampment. Nor could they with good grace have based their objections to a re­ view of the parade by the President solely on the ground that Mr. Cleveland in exer­ cising his official prerogatives had vetoed pension legislation in which many mem­ bers of the Grand Army had a personal pecuniary interest, but which, neverthe­ less, was denounced by Grand Army nien themselves as ill-guarded, wasteful and mischievous. Such, however, is not the truth respecting the action of the Iowa vet­ erans. The facts are: 1. Mr. Cleveland has not been and will not be invited to St. Louis by the Grand Army or any one authorized to speak for it, but his invitation comes from a citizens' committee which asked him to attend the Mississippi Valley Fair, which occurs in St. Louis about the same time as the en- cam pment. Certain Missouri Democratic politicians attempted to take advantage of the presence of the veterans and foist Cleveland on them and inveigle them into a semi-partisan demonstration in his honor, contrary to the rules and regulations of the G. A. R. 2. Inside the Grand Army organization all members, whether Genaras or privates, stand on the same footing, but an outsider, whether a private citizen, Governor, Sena­ tor, or President, cannot be permitted to participate in its proceedings, review its parades, or accept its honors. That Mr. Cleveland is President makes no difference --he is not a member of the Grand Army. The rule excluded Mr. Blaine at the Port­ land encampment two years ago. 3. It follows from the rules of the organ­ ization that Mr. Cleveland ean be repre­ sented at the encampment only by proxy, but he may. as has been suggested by tbe Des Moines Post, "send a substitute, and if possible the. same person who repre­ sented him in the army." 4. The veterans are not disposed to set aside tbe rules of their organization in Mr. Cleveland's favor. His course in ousting Union men from office, punishing loyalists, honoring rebels, preferring the rebel to the Union soldier, ordering the return of rebel flags, and glorifying Calhounism, has won him the hearty detestation of the Grand Army. The seed he has been sowing since Marth 4,1885, is beginning to bear fruit. 5. Fervently aRthe Grand Army men de­ spise Cleveland for hie truckling to seces- sionism and copperheadism, they respect the office he holds, and if the President at­ tends the St. Louis demonstration he will receive no indignity from any of the vet­ erans wbo may happen to be there at the same time. Very few of them, however, will consent to appear in a parade to be re­ viewed by Cleveland. If they can avoid it in no other way they will remain at home. Indications are that owing to the stupidity of the St. Louis Citizens' Committee m at­ tempting to foist Cleveland on tbe Grand Army in opposition to the rules of the or­ der, the demonstration will prove a failure and very few veterans will be present. If this be "disloyalty" Democrats and mug­ wumps will have to make the moat of it.-- Chicago Tribune. ... ..ii'ki few foreigners df ditftiil fefee honored with equally as warm a reception on visiting America as has been extended the editor of United Ireland, In Wfcfoh able Law Was )*rodnc«d. [Cor. Cincinnati Knquirer.J lit the early history of this section of the West many incidents connected with the primitive administration and execution of law occurred which are worthy of observation. The first Justice of the Peace in Milan, Ripley County, Indiana, had a peculiar experi­ ence in the first trial before him, which was a dog case. The plaintiff owned a yellow dog, which was killed by the de­ fendant. t The irate owner immediately went to Versailles, the county seat, to obtain a lawyer to prosecute a claim for dam­ ages. Court not being in session, all the attorneys were off on the circuit ex­ cept Stephen S. Harding, a young man who was afterward Governor of Idaho and Chief Justice of Utah, whom the plaintiff employed to bring his suit. The defendant, hearing that a lawyer had been secured by his opponent, also repaired to Versailles, and not finding any barrister, he retained Judge Test, then a clerk- in the Clerk's office, where he spent his spare time in studying law. The appointed day for the contest came, and the opposing counsel started for the scene of conflict together. They found the Justice surrounded by his attend­ ants and friends, among them Constable Capt. Shook, an old Revolutionary soldier. The case being called for ti ial, the justice ordered the constable to read tho law to the people, where­ upon Capt. Shook, with great dignity, read a section of an old Indiana statute, which in stisbstance provided: "A Justice of the Peace shall have power to preserve order by a fine not exceed­ ing 75 cents, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed twenty-four hours, if there be a jail in the county, otherwise in an adjoining county." At the conclusion of the reading the Justice put on his tin-rimmed spectacles and reread the provision, emphasizing it with his purpose to carry out the law, if the people, who were there from long distances in their hunting-shirts and home-spuns, did not keep order, and the lawyers were also admonished to beware of any infraction. Mr. Test arose to argue a demurrer, and the Justice wanted to know what a de­ murrer was. Gov. Harding had to come to the relief of Test with an ad­ mission that the proceedings were regular before the Justice would allow Test to go on. The plaintiff's attorney supported the argument by a quotation from an ancient copy of Blackstone and the only law book in the court The law was to the effect that dogs were fieri nalura, wild by nature, not sub­ jects of larceny, therefore not property. During the argument the Justice glanced at Harding in a severe way, as much as to say: "How dare you bring any such a suit in my court ?" Harding then stood up with fear and trembling, and, under great embarrass­ ment, tried to answer Test's argument. Suddenly opening Blackstone he saw the date on the title page was A. D. 1623. Having a fertile imagination, with great emphasis he brought this fact to the attention of the court, say­ ing that he was astonished that any lawyer would use such an authority"; that Blackstone contained the laws of England to overthrow which our fore­ fathers had spent their lives and their treasures; that the grinning skeletons upon the bloody fields of Saratoga, Cowpens, and Utah Springs were pro­ testing against that despotism wiuch threatened our liberties. After this flight of fiery eloquence the Justice turned to Mr. Test fieroely and said: "The court will forgive you this time, but if ever you do that again 1 will fine you not exceeding 75 cents or send you to jail for not exceeding twenty-four hours, if there be a jail in the county, and if not, in the adjoining county. ~ This settled the case, and a judgment was given for $10, the estimated value of the dog. And It Came to Pass. How, in these days, the yonng man goeth about over all the land, seeking whom he may stand oft for a spring suit, and he sayeth to himself softy: Now, verily, will 1 arrav myself in gaudy raiment, even in apparel like unto the apparel of the dudes and Pharisees; yea, even in a decollette vest and pat­ ent leather shoes and a white necktie. And, Verily, will I not cut a swell ? And there wHl be no flies on me! And the young man liieth him straightw^y unto the shop of Jacob, the tailor,, and he^ delivereth himself up to him, and into his toils fearlessly, for he sayeth unto himself: Here is where I fool Jacob, for will I not do him up for that which he selleth unto me ? Yea, verily 1 And Jacob saith nothing, but lie thinketh mightily; and when the young man findcth the cloth which pleaseth his fancy, Jacob asketh him cute questions, saying: Where now hast thou the shekels which thou owest me for last winter's overcoat ? Now the winter is gone and summer waxeth warm apace and you say: Jacob, you will get it when you get it, and I wot not when that time is. Then the young man humpeth him­ self and he getteth down to business, and he talketh well, and he telletli Jacob he will surely pay him on the in stallment plan, five trade sheckels every week, and, verily, he lieth when he says it, for he clerketh in a saw-mill and he getteth only three simoleons per week. But, notwithstanding this, he maketh a great talk and he spread eth himself. But it availeth him naught, for Jacob winkotli his eye and he putteth his finger upon his nose and openeth his mouth and dropped forth wisdom after this wise: Now, I would gladly do this thing which thou asketh, but since the Inter­ state Commerce Bill has passed,I can­ not do anything for nothing, therefore, get thee hence. And the young man goath forth and bewaileth, and lifteth up his voice and saith: Where will I find one who will hang it up for me, now Jacob giveth me hooks ? And he searcheth diligently, and there is not such a one in all the length and breadth of the land, aud the young man is much cast down and he weareth upon his face a look of woe, and on his back the pre-winter coat of last year, and verily he is in hard luck exceedingly Selali.--Tije Tailor. M A Funeral Picture. According to the Detroit Tribune the painting, "Last Hours of Mozart," lately purchased by Gen. Alger, of Michigan, is so realistic that it affects people to tears. Mist Alger says: "Ever since the picture has been in the house it has seemed like a funeral. I don't think anybody has smi!ed, and as for a hearty laugh, anything of that kind would seem to be altogether shock­ ing and out of place. It seems as if'the great Mozart is actually dying right here in the house, and yet never really dies." It must be a cheerful sort of a picture to have about the house.-- Chicago Tribune. MECHANICAL. - TH» word temper has two distinct meanings among steel nnUra Ap­ plied to steel not hardened, ue temper is said to be mild.̂ mediqm, or hlgh, ac­ cording to the - iliffiunt of carbon the steel contains; we recognize and use daily in this Cfucihle-steel business tempers, each so d&hy& ̂ ppnt the other in the fractured ingotvthat there is no uncertainty in their selection and separation. THERK is a djfferenpe hi the driving effect of a light hammer when com­ pared with the blows of a heavy o^, s or a rusty machine boit) would not main to be riveted all out of shape, when a six-pound sledge would take everything before it The driving ef­ fect from any source seems tcr require time to act in order to extend a great way into the material. This iB noticed in heading up a rivet, where the metal can be worked down into a cone-shaped head by the upsetting effects of a sharp blow, which Will be ̂ rippled at once under the crushing' foTce , pf a 'sledge hammer. WHEN a piece of metal requires hardening and tempering At one part only, heat the steel behind tbe part to be tempered to redness, and dip the article so as to harden the required part, and leave sufficient heat in the contiguous metal to raise the tempera­ ture of the hardened part enough to temper it This plan is usually fol­ lowed in the tempering of lathe and planer tools, flat drills, etc. If, how­ ever, the method of dipping is to hold the steel in the water at an even depth after the immersion, tho temper color will be very narrow, while if the steel be raised and lowered in the water, the color band will be broad.--Builders' Seporter. , IF there is one thing of whioh Ameri­ can manufacturers may justly feel proud it is their reputation for furnish­ ing exactly what they contract to fur­ nish, both as to material and workman­ ship. With no intention to boast of this, the belaborings which English technical journals are giving manu­ facturers for their shortcomings may well lead us to a little pride in the matter. Chains, we are told, are made in England with an occasional link only of good iron; articles of hardware are sent abroad which are so abominably bad that trade is ruined thereby. Textile fabrics are about as bad as bad can be, and so on through the list We should be sorry to give English manufacturers so poor a character as they get from their own technical press.--American Machinist. THE process of making car wheels at the St. Albans foundry is a very inter­ esting one, and the facility with which the molten metal and the wheel itself are handled during the operation im­ presses the looker-on as being quite re­ markable. The process lias been ren­ dered much more speedyand satisfactory by J. C. Leslie's invention of a device for pouring, shaking out, and pitting the wheels. This useful machine is a crane constructed to be run either by hand or steam power, according as the process demands, the necessary steam being conducted from the pipes which heat the premises, thus obviating the necessity of any separate apparatus for this purpose. The crane is, most. in­ geniously constructed, is operated by one man, and does its work safely, promptly, and efficiently, as anybody can see who watches it in operation. By means of it more wheels oau be handled, and much easier at that, thau by means of tho old liand-Vower crane ; and the desired power is concentrated "Within a comparatively small compass. --Messenger. ; He Saluted Hi*. 1 Two officers out at Fort Yates re­ cently had a fight to settle the point whether or not tbie eecond. lieutenant should salute the first lieutenant. This matter of precedence in the army is a very delicate point, and it isn't the first time that it has made trouble in military circles at territorial forts. " A number of years ago right here in Sioux Falls, at old Fot't Dakota, it made trouble. The officer who took care of the horses in one stable insisted that the officer who took care of the mulep in the same stable sho&ld salute him every time he raised np while using the {>itchfork. The horse ojBScfer was the arger, and he made the poor mule officer salute him till his arm was lame. But one day the mule officer was feeling cross on account of one of his command having kicked him through the ladder that went up to the haymow, and when the horse gentleman came in he saluted him over the head with a four-tined pitchfork, and then he jabbed the tines into him in miscellaneous places and chased him all around the parade ground, jabbing and pounding. It was one of the most rapid and ex­ citing military movements that lias taken place in the army for years. You never in your life saw a force so anxious to get at the enemy as was that com­ pandor of the mules. It was the most active campaign ever carried on by the United States army. That officer was just wild, and the way he swung that pitchfork and combed the other down the back and jabbed it into him was simply awful. He acted as if he was driving a mule team up hill. And the language that pursuing force used! You might go to West Point forty years and you wouldn't hear any­ thing like it It was the strangest kind of talk to use in an important military Operation that you ever heard. And so much of it seemed to reflect on the officer that was executing the masterly retreat. He seemed to have a grudge against him and raked up old personalities and family affairs that you never would have thought of. But he kept right on saluting him with that pitchfork just as if he couldn't hardly show him enough respect. He yelled and hooted and made up a lot of new names that nobbdy ever heard before to call him, and kept up his salutes with that rusty old pitch­ fork till he broke three tines off, and the officer of the horses didn't have more than about half his clothes left on. At last he tired out and fell back to the stable, and went right on asso­ ciating with those mules just as if nothing had happened. He was the funniest man you ever saw that way-- he didn't seem to be a bit stuck up about his victory. And after about six weeks the com­ mander of the horses got back again and told the other he guessed .he had saluted him enough to last ior about two hundred years, and that he would suspend his order that the male officer m u s t s a l u t e t h e h o r s e o f f i c e r . < ^ ' He said this homage and Hfming'et inferiors got„to be perfectly sickening when they put it on as thick as that fellow did out on the parade ground.-- Dakota BelL JUDGE no man because the disposi­ tion of his mind is ndt tike your own. -^A'tMM ^farch *!!! shorty 4e " by the ChilrtUp JjtizeBs of -Mi*-j|||l|iMlr, an oMnai&mt of Elisabeth, fell down stairs and was killed. ̂ . --A large amount of merchandise of various sorts has been stolen from Illinois Central cars side-tracked la Galena of late, and every effort to bring the guilty parties to justice has foiled until two young men named Charles Jackson and Ben Gould- rick, df Galena, were apprehended while : coming out of a ear with goods in their arms. The former, the supposed leader of - 8*Bgf escaped. Goaldrick, a mere lad, was captured, and held to the next Grand - Jury in default of $500 baiL The potiee are on tbe track of Jackson, and his arnak / is expected to follow. --The following is the conspiracy bill as it passed both houses of the Legislature, and is now awaiting the Governor's ap­ proval: , SECTION L Be it enaoted, eta, That If two or more pereone ithill conspire to do an un­ lawful act, dangerou* in its character to hu- taan life or person or property, or if its ac­ complishment will necesearuy or probably require the use of force and violence which may result in the taKing of human life or in­ jury to person or property, every party to such couapiracy shall be he.d criminally lia­ ble for whatever offense any one or mere of % his co-conspirators shall commit in farther- , • »noe of the common design. 4. SEC. 2. If any person r-nall, by speaking to any public or private assemblage of people, or in aay public place, or shall by writing, printing or pnblisning, or causing to be writ­ ten, pnuiiehed or circulated any written or priuted matter, advise, encourage, abet, or ' incite a local rtvolut on, or the overthrowing or destruction of the existing order of society by force or violenc •, or the resistance to and destruction of the lawful power and author­ ity of the legal authority of this State, or of auy of the towns, cities, or counties of this State, or resistance to tue same by force and violence, or by any of the means aforesaid, ' shall advise, abet, encourage or incite the i disturbance of the public peace, and by tnch | disturbance attempt a revolution or destruc- vV tion of pnbhc order, or resistance %• to such authorities Bhall thereafter ensue and human life is taken or any person is injured, or property is destroyed by > auy person or by any of the means employed ' * to carry into effect the purposes so advised, encouraged, aided, abetted, 6r incited aa aforesaid, every person so aiding, advising, encouraging, abetting, or inciting the same & shall be deemed as having conspired with the person or persons wbo actually commit the 'v crime, and fhall be deemed a principal In the f perpetration of the same, and punished ac­ cordingly, and it shall not be necessary for ' the prosecution to show that the speaking was .> heard, or the wr.tteu or printed matter afore- said was read or communicated to the person /*. or persons actually committing the crime, If ^ such speaking, writing, printing, or publish­ ing is'shown to have been doao in a puhUo manner within the Htate. HEC. 3. If two or more persons conspire to overthrow tho existing order of society by force or violence, or to bring aboat a local revolution by force, or to destroy or resist and ovorcome tho legal authority of the Htate, or of any county, city, or town thereof, and a human being is killed, or persons injured, or # property destroyed by any of tbe persons en- 1 * gaged in such conspiracy, or by any one who >" may participate with them in the unlawful « design and purpose, in furtherance of tbe ob- % ject of such conspiracy, then all persons who niay have con-pired together as aforesaid, to- , S getner with &11 persons who may actively par­ ticipate in carrying into effect their common design, shall be deemed guilty of the ' crime committed by any one or more of ' such persons so conspiring or acting with such conspirators in tbe common design, and shall t>e punished accordingly, notwitnetand- | _ in? the time and plaoe for the bringing abaot of such revolution or overthrowing of public L order, or the destruction or overcoming of - sifch authorities, had not beon definitely dgr«ed upofj by such conspirators, but was y loft to the exigencies of the time or the judg- n\ent of the co-conspirators, or some1 on* or 4A more of them.: £EC. 4. Hereafter it shall not be necessary " in order to prove a conspiracy as aforesaid . ' to prove that the parties char/ed ever came togetber and. entered into agreement, combin- atton, or.arrangement to accomplish a crimi- < nal or unlawful purpose, but it bhall be suffi- cient if it appears that the parties charged were actually pursuing in concert the unlaw­ ful purpose, whether acting separately or to- i q-other, at the same or different times, by the •ima or different means, providing that the ;f acts of each were knowingly tending to the " same unlawful result. !f SEC. 5. Nothing in this act contained shall -- bo construed as repealing by implication otherwise any law in force m th.s State. . , Postmasters* Salaries. The Postoffice Department at Washing- top is now adjusting the salaries of post­ masters, based, except in a few large offices, where the salary is specifically fixed by Congress, upon the gross receipts of the office for the year ending March 31 last. In Chicago the receip'B for the year ; were $2,180,b0i), aa increase of $182,303 for the year. In Peori i the gross receipts • w^re $69,909, a decrease of $1,401. In Quincy the receipts were $10,843, an in- >; crease of $3,511. Rockford becomes • an office of the first class, the receipts amounting to $40,300. The offices at Oak Park and Pekin change from third to see- ond class July 1. The postoffices at ;4< Griggsville and Havelock drop from third •; to fourth class. One interesting thing is < -; the large increase of postal business aa H shown by the increase in the Postmasters' • salaries in the suburbs of Chicago. For example, Grand Crossing, Maywood, Oak $ Park, Bavenswood, and« in a smaller de- : gree, Englewood, South Chicago, Waake- gan, and Wheaton. • Tbe following is a list of Presidential postoffices in Illinois where the salary of ; the Postmaster will he either raised or re- duced after July 1: ̂ • Present Beadjusted • . salary. salary. 4b ..51.000 Sl.tfO ' 2.000 8,100 a ; Abingdon. Alton..,. .< Anna.. Anna ... i, Areola.̂ w....£... l; •v Aaburn Belvidere Braid wood........ Bunker Hill.. Bashnell.... Ciuiton Car bondale 1, Carlinville Canni Collinsville Deli alb D wight East 8t Lonis^.,.i.. Edwardsviilo Klgin KluiUurst Englewood........... Eureka. Fairtield ttwiners City......... Franklin Urovo Freeport Galva Genesee... ...... Geneva Grand Crossing.. Giiggaville....... Havana Havelock Highland Hoopeston........ Jacksonville...;. Kuikakee........ Kewauee. Lai ou I.uke Forest Lanark J.oc-kport. Macomb Maywood Mendota Monticello Morris Mt. Morris Mt. bt rling . Murphysboro Nashville J.MOUis 0.^00 oak park..vSSfjy 1.009 1,700 1,*» 1.900 1,300 1.700 1,400 l.aao rfl.liw "<>2.600 >.•1,009 1,000 1,300 ],*X> 1,000 1,»» lass 1.400 4th class 1.100 100 1,301V 1,600 l.OOOf i,7oa;^'^;8jo i,aoo|A"^ J,3oo 1^0Jt,H.. | a.300 1,3001-'V A a.300 1,000,;/ . \ .;a,aw -a.**) .... ^'1 Ou&rga. l'fkin Peru Piano Pontine. Bavenswood. hockford Hock Island..... liushvilie.,.. Savanna. South Chlcsjfd#;..... S p a r t a . . . ; V . Sterling. Stroatqr Yuii-.lalia .m, Vinien v irgiuia -. W aahiagtas..U.t i..i W&titka..................... Wankegan. Wheaton Whitehall.....,..., Wright's Grove.... .yi-w"--' 1,100! .. 1.80ii ~ *. •• :: 1:2ft .. l,10JsA .. 3.SM) , . .. a.300 .. 1.300 ' .. 1,4001 .. 1,700? .. I,i00 .. 2,100. .. a, wo .. 1,300 .. 1,100 .. L.*X> .. 1,100 .. 1,300 . 1.7i«0 .. 1,001 . 1.900 . 1,600