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FACTS OOHlnBCTlD WITH TUX rODl HUBOiCB. A DrtiBtd Aw«i«t of tba Cfrewaurtaneea Leading Dp to th* Plaataawnrtll* AHU- elnntion -- Sh*m«I«M VMiUao of the Election tmwm I>y the Stowers OMig- wiuoj »B»Oot-Box Theft A Startling 8«M»W- | lady who has a big^BANK^ac xranfc"and the Utter endeavored to make a stake i in Hi© Pan-Electric Company tlx at m muc. Endicott is another awn of wealth, while Boa M. Dickinson Is rated abont with Btjaid, bat on ao- oount of telegraph, and telephone, and oorpwatica commons "SMES to ba rapidly accumulating a large fortune. Lamarand Garland were not wealthy in one sense, but the former married a AFFAIRS IS ILLINOIS. XlTTBBBSTlftG 1TKKS OtTHEKBD VBOM VAHX0US BOTISCBS. '!» later tnmldas, gmfec .** flmiafonert {UMb Book (iik.) tolegraxn.] Qen. Powell Clayton sad Judge W, H. H. Clayton, brothers of tha Hon. John j *°uUl enable him to make a lair run nngwitb his mates. Both Lamar in Mississippi and Garland in Arkansaa- Me considered more than fairly well oft v$-Y V'C MifM. Clayton, who was assassinated the of Jan. 29, have furnished the fol- ' lowiigstatement to ths public: That the publio soar md«ttudtiieeiienn- atenoee leading up to and culmina lag tn the as- aasainatiou ofour bzotbar, John M. Clayton. we dea n over ni owa eignatnre* to make tha fol­ lowing it ataman* ot facte: All agree that this waa a political aaaaasinatloa; It wl 1 be, there. tmm wiatMMy Cor na to refar to tbe pod leal oondittoae ml oiroomstaocee surrounding it. «a do this tn no partisan apUit, bat only that . . . juattea may ba dona to the memory of our a,. bwther and that a knowledge of tbe faota which ;; 1*1 to hie asaasainatkm may iadnoa the people of thia State to correct tba avila from which this «;aadi oUM. atowi have aprung, and that, bow- em aad tba ebrmmatanoes may ba to na, bis Smartyrdom may raaolt tn mod to tba people of . thia and o.bcr htatea. Although stnoe tba eom- t-kxnwioamant of tba last political c&nasa tor State officers in Arkansas many political Crimea , have been committed in. different porta of the ^ State, in thja atatament we will confine our- ' aelves to tba limits of Conway County, within whichPlanamerville, the cce&eoi thiamurdor, ; ia_ eltnated, and oniy to thoee circumstances which in oar opinion lad to the commission of f~ - . tba crime. 5>.j" , ,• Prior to tba 8«etMaber election and during ??'•' ' tbe canvass a political club waa organized at - < Morrill ton. tho county Beet of Conway Co an' y, r1 with CEOStowers, FMHIHM Mississippi, at ITS <,Jf 'baad. Tbia dob soon after resolved itself into ; < a military company, and about 'wo weeks be- »•; ' fore tbeeWtton, at a time of profound peace in ;,v . the county, tba Hem. Simon P. HngL.es, then i > ; ; Go vernor, not enly supplied it with tate a kib, ,V ,.ibut furnished it with a full supply of ammuni- '. 'v.tlon. Ibis waa tha beginning of the troubles in e\' Conway tionnty, From this time outil the d»y of electioa Btowers, with hia armed pattiaana, sJmostdaily paraded tha streets of Morrill ton. On election day their guns wore deposited, {loaded and ready for action, in a conv. nlent T- i• , ~ , «n»B »*» mica as niaiory recoras.and tbe " ~}*c 8®?0 °f attack is the cry inoreaainp use of it in almost every city and tnat wen. Harrison will give the coun- ,»r*e town mak.-n it an industrv or no mean try a "corporation" administration as ?l?dy- One hardly realises that the frozen if it eould be mnrn <1 »n„„u f lakes and rivers ail over the country north u it oouia De more d stmctly a corpo- furnish labor for thousands who aS' . ^plaoe in the building in which the election was ri t <neld. OB tbe morning of that day the Kepnh- i lioan judge of eleetion, on his way to assume if-'J'tbedtiUee of hia ofBce, on a frivolous and pre- ^•v^i'^eoBcerted pretext, was arreeteJ, wbereapo: 7. • :8towerst with his men, marchea to tne pollt. ' ' , 'land upon his nomination and t heir voted another ...•• ."'^^peraon waa declared elected to nil the vacancy. VBy these unlawful proceedings the Election ' 5 = Bo«l, composed of oit.Lwns representing both C.l, , ^political parties, waa made solidly Democratic. k" • Whether Htowers and his men at thia t me were , , ^acting aB a political clnb or as a company of If* -V|8tate militia we are not advised, but certain it < , - is their loaded guns were near at hand. ^ While at Morrillton these things were being ' : done, tbe eltiaena of tbe 1 own of i kunmerviHe, •' -v ,?vr'10 *e*e nearly all opposed politically to our -#>iother, while those o the farming parta of the S>reoiDot wen his political Mends (the latter *" " «reatly oatnumberln^ tho former), collects at ' the voiihg place before the hour fixed for the ^opening of tbe polls and organized a fall set of • ' ; Election officers of their party, and wh n the ,>1two MepnUican judges appeared they found , Jheir places nsurped and tue election in full f *>last. The result of the September election so ' Conducted in Conway County was a complete . fbhange of political status, so far as its offlcrrs \ , " ."Were conoaniefl, hut not as to the sentimenta of , , ,, she people. Under these changed conditions, [T, - About two months thereafter, the ('ongres>i nal *' ' injection occurred, John M. Clayt-n being the :.f • 'Kepubil.an candidate and C. K. Breckenridge : , ; " the Democraii j. % IT', H»e day before this election L W. Benjamin, 4' # prominent Republican lawyer of Little Xiook ,/:and ons f» Arkansas'best citizens was sent to , " • ' Conway County by tho Kepubliciui State Com- Jtoittee, with instructions to use his best en- 4teavors to secure an honest election. Upon his *' arrival at the depot at M< rrillton he wai con- f fronted by an infuriated nvob of several hundred , Citizens, who thr.w him from the cars, as- »suited aad bt»t him, pniiod from his face , < sandfule of beard, and met all of his appeals to -\'>!'§bel* humanity w.tb kicks and cutis, finally ahooting him in tho forehead with a weapi.ti of lent force to flattea a bullet upon his skull. »rt tiuie after Mr, Benjanain died, toiling a wife before bis death that his sufferings were xetotha treatment, received at the hands of he Morrillton mobt The following day, being ths day of election at . -yinaamsrvillo, at the hour for opening tbe polls, •*3?e Wo Republican judges were 011 hand ready ^:^k> perform itislr duties, but were ignored by tue '.^jDemoeratlo fudge, "who put in nomination two • iaembere of hie own party, and on a mere _.affirmatives vote without putting the negative declared them eleuted, and they were installed. >*he Repub.lcau judges not being j»ermi tei to ...#ot, acoompanied by the Republicau United States Bupervisor, undertook to open po:is «slse- . where, nut 'iv6r® notified by l^emocnitlc ; 4eputj aheriflS, five of whom were present, that £hey would, not be permitted to do so. Under Jlbeae and other threats they abandoned their ..Mpoif aud tbe Republican Supervisor r.> turned to where the eleetion as first organized waa being held, where ho leuiain d t |n the faithful performance of his duty until the ; polls were close J, whereupon the ejection ji.dge ty whose illegal action the board was formed, before stated, took the ballot-bos and t arried from place to place through the town foi.ow- "(•d, however, persistently by the fai hful Saper- tlsor, Cbai'les WahL At last, finding that he ; .eould not shake hon off, lie and the Supervisor SHturned about 9 o clock at night to tho po!ii;:g- 'ylace, finding no otht r judge there. Bemaiuing a few minutes he again left, attempting to cari y tbe box with him, which he only desisted from 4oIng by tbe iniiisience of the Supervisor that «ne box should be left at the polling-place with tbe other judge who was there. v;; About half an hour tluwJter tour masked jOnd armed mm rushed in to the room, and at tbe anusles of their pistols compelled the remain- fig judge and supervisor to turn their bac^s, Whereupon they seised the box and po I books W® are informed by persons that the bos ^ . . . ." - -""VMJ » IWJJW nirntsn laoor ior tnou^ands who woni-J oth- ranon aammistra ion than the present or wise be unemployed during tho greater one. It was Graver Cleveland who Portion of the winter months; that the ice signed the bill at Albany under which Jf-ade employs miliions of capital; that in , " rr , , , the revenues of the carrying trade of the a r 7 Wi t 8teal took place, United States, both foreign and coastwise, it ana.secretary \\ Intney of Standard oil rankf« next to cotton and graiti.and frequently origin was a participant in that plirn- "*cee<1s the latter? Tnat the universal prac- derincr project Hecretarv Rni»nl Ucal uee U> which it i» applu-l in the p es- whilo a wiAmW «f ^ r j ̂ 1 • arvation of meats, fruits, and vegetables has, wmle a member of the Land Claims within the last few yearn, produced an en- vrommittee of the Senate, accepted a tire revolution in the system of domestic fee of $5,000 for (Hying a favorable B00n0mF- *° saT nothing of the blessings it opinion of the title to the Maxwell land ^°,,lght *° BuiT;Yi"ff luVm«"ity '«? the "-t ir iuaxweu tana hospital} and pestilence stricken cities. t Mexico, on the value of From one of the oldest dealers in iee the which he was afterward to pass as a following has been compiled which mav be member of that committee and a Sen- aa*;"1 ttIld interesting. The winter of l«47-8 ator TVw> ^ --the year of the establishment of this in- 1 ' n JJxckinson is a corporation justry in Chicago--was open, and steam- Jawyer notning more, nothing less, boats arrived at Peru, this State, every Daniel Manning was np to his eyes in taonth in the year. There was ten inches telephone enterprises, and Secretary """" of xeee prejudioes, Marion. The firm of M. W. Westbeook * Sons, tobaooe packers, have imported a number of colored men to work in their Win* Ow- Mvlshbors Are Doing _ Mstters Tl» claim that tnwesre no or S«bm«1 aad Local interest -- H*r- i vhile men there who have had auft«ieai rtearesand Deaths--Accidents and Grimes | experience and are competent to do the --Personal rotater*. 1 work of stemming, stripping, etc. A num- TATE WEATHER BECOBD. f |jer Qf men are dissatisfied because . * 0 ow statistics in npii to they are not given work, and have sent W°a rj10, lc®> the past forty threats to the colored men, wanning them years, will be of much interest to every that if they do not u„e ̂ ten dayg they ^rBOn 18 * • * will be rou^lily handled. These threats urie8^farb^k M°^rorr/reco^s.Md1toe bein* treated lightly, some persons who are yet unknown went to the home of Logan Collins, a colored foreman in the factory, and fired five shots into his of ioe, the eokles»t weather after the 10th of February. In 1848 the winter was intensely cold in February, and si- ighing good to St. Louis. The winter of 1849-50 was moderate­ ly cold. In 1850 the canal did not close till Ueo. 22. ratinna in wicn^jno------ In 1850-51 ice formed 16 inches, but went rations m Wisconsin and for defending out in February with a flood. The winter """ " " " of 1851-2 was mil<i and open, and ice was 12 inche* in thickness. The winter ot 1852*3 Fairchild has been all his life in bank ing or railroads. Vilas is another cor­ poration lawyer, and gained his wealth by his abilitv in framing laws for corpo claiming their salari a yet, for all tha publio knows. Endiootfc was the legal adviser of an insurance oompsiy. Garland was--but everybody knows the Pan-Electric tag that is fastened to Ms coat-tail. Lamar alone was not openly fastened to any corporate in­ terest, but has always cast his rote to favor large corporations. This is just a little inkling of what might be fonnd permeating the entire administration if the persons now so anxious to discredit Gen. Harrison in advances of March 4 had the inclina­ tion to look for it. In just the proportion that hypocrisy is hateful over fair play these attacks on him will strengthen Gea. Harrison rather than weaken l»'w--New York Graphic. DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS. THIS 1LECTION OUTRAGES IN WASH­ INGTON COUNT!, TKXA8. td carried them away. abl and other cred&ble SP atotoh contained 6.i7 ballots, of which at least •72 were cast for John M. Clayton. Upon learn­ ing of tbeae unlawful acta, together with many Others in different pans of the district, he (Clay- too) felt it bis duty to Institute a contest for bis Seat in Congress, aod tor the purpose of ascer­ taining tbe actual vote cast for hiui at Plum- mervifie Pxeoinot, that he might enpaft that fact in hia notioe ot ooaieet, be em ployed a re­ sponsible citizen named Alexander, of Plum- •Dervills Pieo net, to obtain tbe namee of over A60 auob voters, when, tbe 17th of December, his work suddenly terminated by reaaon of the •vents which we now proceed to dt ta.il: Tbe 17tb of December Waul, the aforemeu Moned Inspector, was tnroigled into a game o£ r oards at night in the back room of a doctor's of­ fice in I'lujnmervillat when be was sealed in. close proximity to a glaas door, through which he WH ahot by a would-be assassin, the ball piercing tbe lobe ot hia leit ear and cuUinc a ttih in his neck about three inches long. Wahl fled to the bouse of Alexander, where he re­ mained till daylight, after which he reached his borne, and aoon after repaired to little Rock. Where be now remains .or safety. This attempt Upon tie life of Wahl ao alarmed Alexander as to cause him to abandon his work and fly from tbe fctate. For the orimes above MSitinerated no . man has bees arrea ed by iji,aw or county author- tties, nor baa any official reward been ollered. Jobn M. Clayton went to Plummerville un­ armed and unescorted. Becognizing the futil­ ity ot such jHecautiona against tbe ste&lthv aaaasaia, be believed that hie opponent. Mi Breckinridge, who was aware of the condition of affaire in this county, would be willing and able to restrain hia partisans. While passing through Uttle Book en ma way there ho said to tbe Hon. Henry M. Cooper, in response to & suggestion of : *1 do not belie .e that I w >11 be harmed, Heport of tbe Senate Comuilttee--White and MaekKepnb'icant Len'ed lb* Rl*'i«s of Citizens--Careful Kevle.on of the Mee- tica txwi Sttgguted by tho iav»sti(«> tors. Senator Evarts, from the Committee On Privileges and Elections of the United States Senate, has m >de a report to that body of the results of the investigations into the alleged eledion outran in Washington Connty, Texas, of which the following is an abstract: The first conclusion the committee teaches is that tho averm nt of the petitioners aa to thsir situation in tbeir homes in Texas, nnd the oc­ casion ot' their being comp lle.l o fleti from them, are In tubata ce ana ©fleet sustained by the evidence. As t > the aup iression of tbe vote at the Chapel Hill districts, tbe committee thinks it is chargeable to the leaders of the ^position ticket, and in their interest, with he motive to discourage ana suppress the Re­ publican vote there, aadl to the oolored Repub­ lican voters being unwilling to expose them­ selves to the fate which was visited upon tbe colo.ed judgea of election at Chapel Hill. In 1NJ1, at the Llewellyn polls, Dewees Bolton, who headed a raiding par.y that enicre I the po ling prec no:, in disguise for the purpose of destroy.ng the ballot-box, was shot and killed. The report saye : All in the room fled at once in dismay, and the dead man wns eft alone, uncared for, as he lay, a 1 ni 'ht . the lamp burnin : bright­ ly. Toward morning Presiding Judge Robinson persuaded an a-ied colore I man, a neighbor, Al­ fred Jonee, to ienvo the sick bed of his wife and go with him to tbe scene of the homic de, on the Elea that he wa» afraid to go alone This man ad no knowledge of the bloody occurrence un­ til informed of it by Kobinson, but their visit to tat man who vo.ed for nte believe that I was o elected, aad eodo I; and I will go there, even at tbe risk of my lite." And aohe went. After having engaged for several days in taking testimony, about 9 o'clock fc m. of Jan. <9, whiia in his room at his board tag-house in the act of sitting down at atable near a window to write to his motherless chil­ dren, be was ahot tbrough the window by oon pealed assassins a tew feet from him and In­ stantly killed. We were unable to remove bia body unta p. m. of tbe next day, op to which time tbe Sheriff of tbe county bad not appeared, being, in tbe language of bia deputy, engaged in tbe more important Voainesa of collect.ing taxes. Wor bad aay oittien of tbe town made tbe aligut- aet effort to traoe or apprehend hia murderers. The tangoing facts we stand ready to aub atantiate la every esaentlal particular, every on Of wbMb we believe to be a material link In the eaatn of etroomstancee surronnd ng and leading ^"ietb* lahqpian maadar of our brother, John II. CRaytcm. POWEU, CCATTON. W. H. H. CUITON. such organizations in the courts. Ho and Dickinson have been salaried rail- ., .. . roa£ attorneys for years, and may be ofMarch! 0pen: ° 0anal opened 15th " " The winter of 1853-4 was cold and dry from Christmas to Feb. 20. Ice formed 24 Inches. The winter of 1854-5 after .Tan, 1 wAS one of the coldest ever known here. The winter of 1855-6 set in Dec. 6 with plenty of snow, and the railroads were blocked up otton nnd greatly damn ed. The winter of 1856-7 was intensely eold up to Feb. 20; tho ice was very thick and much damage w.w done upon the breaking up from that date. The winter of 1857-8 was open until Feb. 15, when we had cold weather until March 15. The winter of 1858-9 was open and ice formed only 8 inches. The winter of 1859-60 was intensely cold from Dec. 2(! to Jan. 10. Navigation opened on the Illinois River Feb. 26. The winter of 1860-1 set in Deci. Swlfh av­ erage cold weather to March 1. The wiuter of 1861-2 wo had cold weather and good sleighing from Deo. 15 to Feb. 1. Ice had formed 24 inches in February. The winter of 1862-8 was ono of the mildest ever known; only 6 inches of ice formed. '1 he winter of 1863-4 set In Dec. 20; heavy snows were frequent, and Jan. 1 the meroury Indicated 34 decrees below sero. The winter of 18S4-5 was an average eold ona, with mueh rain. Th" winter of 1865-6 was rather op>n; we had two weeks of cold weather in January and intensely eold in March. Tho winter of I86H-7 was mild till January, and very cold In January and February. Tho winter of !«67-« set in Dec. 23, aad was clear, eold, and dry to March 4. It*-" winter ot 1868-9 set in Nov. 20, the weather cold to Jan. 10, and then mild to Feb. K wish extreme eold to March 22. Thr. wintor of 186^-70 was an average one. Tho winter of 1870-71 set in Dee. 1, and was stendy cold, with few storms. The winter ot 1871-2 set in Dec. 8, and was dry and cold. The winter of 1872-3 set in Dec. 1 with plenty of snow and extreme cold weather. Tho winter ot 1873-4 set in Nov. 15. and was on tho wholo n moderate one. Ice formed only eight inches. Tho winter of 1874-5 set in Nov. 20. There was much snow and very cold weather to April 20. The winter of 1875-6 was very op*m and mild, except three weeks injjTanuary. Ice formed 8 inches. The wintor of 1876-7 set in Nov. 26, and we had heavy snow and cold weather to March 20. There was ninety days of sleighing. The winter of 1877-8 was open, and only 6 inches of ice formed. The wintor of 1878-9 set In Dee. 1 with a fall of 12 inches of snow and very cold weather to Jan 6. Ioe formed 28 inches. The winter of 1879-81 was open, and ice was shipped from northern paints after Jan. 20. The winter of 1830-81 was very severe. In December the merculry indicated below zero all over the Northwest. The winter of 1881-2 was open. All streams were open the first part of January, and Ice had to be harvested at northern points. The winter of 1882-3 was cold, with plenty of snow. At Bismiirck, Dec. 8, the mercury indicated 57 degrees below iiero. The winter of 1883-4 was severe. Feb. 1 the mercury indicated 15 below zero. The winter of 1884-5 was very eold; iee formed 16 Inches. January 18 the mercury indicated 35 degrees below zero at Wiscon­ sin points. The winter of 1885-6 set in early, with plenty of snow during the season. It con­ tinued severe weather and ioe formed 24 Inohes. The winter of 1886-7 set in the last of De­ cember and continued cold to middle of February. The winter of 1887-8 sot in Deo. 15 and there was no break up till the following M trch. Ice formed 18 to 20 Inches. The winter of 1888-9 so far has been a most peculiar one; scarcely any snow, and the temperature has only onee or twice neared tho zero point. --William FW, of Palatine, Cook Connty, died recently of hyd ophobia. He was bitten by a rabid dog about seven weeks ago. --The following table shows the as­ sessed and equalized value of property in this State from 1870 to 1888, iuelnsive. The figures include real end personal property, rai?roads, and cnpit il stock of corporations assessed by (he State Board: Tear. Ateessmant. Year. . Assessment. 18/0. $450, tkl lHS ) i,391 1871 . 48),OW,COI;18H1. 79.^,8:8,568 1872 . 6i0,88'>.<>8.i'l882......... 8J9,!»5,8I5 187 3 1,355,401,317:18*1, 817,90',,721 187 4 U'.H.l*i,4f>l 1SH4 8<9,1G9 8J3 1875... 1,035 53!*,Hjfi,1885 79H,4l-'2,823 187 6 1,0,1,123,Ui)f 188i>......... 71)3,563,498 187 7 931,199,:I08 1887 707,752.888 187 8 857,235,76211^68 784,911,874 18TO 784,623,550| A glance at this table will show that thSre was an enormous jump in 1873, and then a steady falling off till 1880, since whioh time the assessments have been p DeaMritfc Criticism Is BragUy v Handled. - One phase of discussion of the BOW -•ekuowledged decision of General Har- . tisonf to put John Wanamaker in the Cabinet, Is a Demo.ritic hne and cry that the mourning administration will be made np of ii>jh men. Tha JefTer- aonian Democrat abhors a rich man--if he is a Republicsii. The "first Demo- Cratie Oabtnet in twenty-five years" is • flagrant example of how the lines of Democratic practice are sej a rated from Democratic preaching. {Secre­ tary Bayard, the Premier, is worth a qnaiter of a million, which in the State Of Delaware, from which he hails, is Sinai to a million in New York. Daniel aiming, the late Secretary of the Treasury, was worth half a million. Bis euoctss ir, Mr. Fairchild, is • worth not less. Seoretary Whitney lives in a $760,000 Fifth avenue pala<e@, -when he is at home, and spends $60,000 • year for living expenses. Seoretary the dead body, wh ch had been tiutouohed, the inspection or the corpus delicti, and observa­ tion of the scene of tho transaction, cost him his lite. 'Ibis made h m a witness of the dis­ guise and tbe murderous weap it of Bolton and the manner of his fall. When afterward an at­ tempt was to be made to make out Bo'ton as unarmed and undisguised, and an iunooent and peicetul visitor to tbe polling plao •, and slain Uv unprovoked violence ot the colored men, Al­ fred waa arretted, put in jail, and hung upon no conceivable incentive but to make away with his testimony. Aa to the murder of the two Joneaea and Fol­ der by a mob, who took them out of jail at Branham aad hanged them, theiommitteeaaya, af er reviewing the teatimony: " l'bese murders were each committed upon the motive and in tlm inreraat of the policy and purpose that bai <• uutenanced and caused tbe ra ds on tbe bal- lot-ooxea at that electioa. Xae sacrifice of these worthy and blameless lives was data&».!-« ed for tbe suppression of «heir evidence, which would have demonstrated ths death of Bolton aa befalling him in the act of a preconcerted at­ tack upjn tbe badot-oox at Llewellyn K to de­ feat tba election of the KepuMioan ticket. The co rmittee cannot find any escape from this conclusion upon the whole body ami weight of tbe teatimony. The wbole eiitlenee before the committee shows that no attempts were made by the authorities of the county of Waehingion or of the S ate of Texas to bring to ndictmeot, trial, or punishment any of the actors in sev­ eral frauds on the ballot-Doses at the election of 1886. No sueh a. tempt has been made in respect of the,outrage on the ball.it-box and the sb ot- ing of the colored judges of election at Chapel Hill in tbe election of 1884. The wratn of this community was all excited and was all visited upon the white and c.'ljred Kepublicaus, who had striven at tho polls to assert the will of the majority to decide by tbei votes and the can­ vass of them the p niiing elect ion.". In conclusion, the committee says: "This aetaalcuse presets , s not unfairly the features that illustrate the political disorders which afflict portions of ..our country where tbe popula­ tion la at alt nearly divided between white and coiored oUiceoS. Imeae d'aord-jr* do not alone disturb and^tbieaten the good lame and security of tna neighborhoods wbtre they ou:ur. a >r of tbe States within whose borders theaediaaatroua mischief a pass unchecked, unredressed, and un~ condemned. They tend to weaken and aet back the sincere desire of the country at large to ob­ literate alldiatinctione, as between ceographical or political divtaions in the prevalence of jus­ tice, peace, good-will, and equally of right in discueetng and solving all the problems which affect the welfare ot thl-, great p ople. No greater element for the foundation of a sound publio opinion can be supge -r od than that & wider and ' wider spread ahould be given to a knowkdge of and interest la tba real nature of this and similar proceedings wherev«rithey may oecur. Brought Into 'the Ibht where a thou sand Intel- ligeaeea may b ra upon it' the tru^hwlu surely force these evil* an * dangers, anywhere In Lh a country, and their conseqnen es, upon tbe con­ science the responsibility of the whol-3 peo­ ple. Many miscarriages, many shortcomings m reaching complete success in the effor a of house. Collins returned the fire, but none of the shots took effect. Threats have been made to burn the factory and run every colored man out of town. Mean­ time the factory owners declare tnat they ; will retain their colored help at all haz- ! ards, and serious trouble is fe ved. I \, r--Wesley Morgap, a wealth farmer of | Sangamon County, went insane on religion ! and attempted to kill a friend, cutting him in the face with a corn-knife. --The safe in the post office at Edwards- ville was blown open and several hundred! dollars in money and the contents of reg­ istered packages were taken. --A call has been made extended to the, Bev. Frank S. Sice, of Chicago, to the j pastorate of the Presbyterian Church at' Hanover, Jo Daviess Couaty. This church society is a large and influential' one. . V: A":' --Tha aiMmive and oaoe magntfioent palatial residence erected by ex-Governor Joel A. Matte son over thirty years ago on Fourth street, Springfield, opposite the Governor's mansion, is about to be de­ molished. It was built out of the pro-i ceeds of Governor Matteson's fraudulent reissue of State Canal scrip, which was the great public scandal of Illinois polities during his official administration. The great mansion referred to, costing ovexj $100,000, was built of brick in the middle of a sightly tract of ground, and has been! one of the most conspicuous architectural piles in the State capital. Governor Mat- teson never oocupied it, but members of his family resided in it for some years. In 1883 a fire ruined its interior, and the walls stood as a ruin for several years, when Mr. Charles Bidgeley, Senator Cul- loin's son-in-law, purchased the premises for a nominal sum and repaired the build­ ing. Recently he sold the property to Mr., Maguire, of Springfield, who has disposed of the big buildiug for $1,500, on con* dition that it should be torn down and the debris removed. • Mr. Maguire intends to ereet three or four smaller residence buildings on the grounds, and thus will pass away one of the "vanities and vexa- tibns of spirit" in this State. --The annual report of the Board of Live Stock Commissioners for ths year 1887 has been issued, The report covers the action of the board in the pleuro­ pneumonia excitement in Chicago, and reviews the whole history of that epi­ demic. The record of the cattle slaugh­ tered is as follows: Btaugh- Month. tertd. November, 1M .2,860 December, 1880.606 January, J8-7.77 February, 1897...., £33 Mar.ii. lfW7....I 833 April, 1S87.. 1,708 May, 18J7 1,578 June 1887 1,110 July. 1837 417 Au.uat, 1887 384 September, 1883*........... 980 October, 1887 093 ' Af- Nw-il- iecteJ. footed. 1,951 8,515 upon by the an indulgent temp r„ the Kxecutive Government for the protection of theeleo lve frimohis® may be looked t people of the country with an ind But the absence of such efforts, or a languid prosecution of them, will not long be tolerated by public opini n or left unvisiwd by political condemnation." , . Tbe committee recommends the careful re­ vision of tbe existing laws regulating elections of members of Congress, and im exam nation of the propoaed legislation jieriinent to the same subjects, which haa been pr jpo <ed in Congress, with the view of providing for a more complete proteotion of she exercit-e of the elective franchise by act of Congr ss and more erlieieiit provisiona for the punishment of offenses ftgrl--1 it, Aotolntlon idoptdd by thfl oonunittoi to enablt It to carry into effect tbe ncommmdap lions of tho report accompanied it. Ifa BRECKINRIDGE can appeal to the bar of pnblio opinion for an acquittal if he desires. .Let him refuse to toko a seat whose title has the blood-stems of political tragedy upon it, and ask for another election. Then, if he wins by fair and honest means, he can take the seat without compromising his honor. No man ought to want a com­ mission that is stained with the blood of a fellow-opponent, who was stopped by death from proving his own prior claim to it.--Iowa State Register. slowly rising and falling. --A Galena telegram says that the Ad­ jutant GeneraTs Department at Spring­ field refuses to grant the resignation of Captain A. A. Farr, tendered in November last, on the ground that certain prop­ erty in charge of the comp my, and for which he is personally reponsible, is unaccounted for. Captain Farr has moved to another State, and no election to succeed him can be held until the mat­ ter is straightened. It is thought that a satisfactory settlement will soon be xeaehed. --An ofEcer reached Springfield the other day from Des Moiues, Iowa, having in custody one W. C. Oigan, who is ch irged with having robbed the store of G. M. Gordon, of Springfield, on the nigbt of Jan. 24. About $600 was taken. Organ has heretofore been above suspicion. He is a railroad man and a member of the Springfield Commandsry of Knights Tern* plars. --Captain Asa Haile, an old and prom­ inent citizen of Galena, died, aged 70 years. He was a contractor and bnilder, and in early t mes ran on the Upper Mis­ sissippi as a steamboat master. Tota« 10,460 In addition to the above, 107 animals died with contagious pleuro-pneumonia lgetween Sept. 18, 1886, and Dec. 1, making total number of animals involved 10,573, and total number of diseased 2,058. The above includes all the cattle ordered out for slaughter by this Board, and inspected by the veterinarians, as shown by the slaughter record of the State Veterina­ rian. A statement is given of the pay­ ment made by the State to the owners of cattle slaughtered, which shows that 2,899 head were killed, appraised at f78,635.41, for which was paid $68,923.06. The net amount received from the sale of healthy carcasses was $35,398.78--with the defi­ ciency $9,712.35 between the appraisement and the amount paid to owners of cattle, due to the slaughter of the animals by tbe owner, the State was saved $50,325.21. The United States Government Depart­ ment slaughtered 985 cattle in the State, appraised nt $33,354.50, of which tho State paid $16,486.99, nnd the United States $16,867.51. The glanders in horses was also epidemic, and 204 diseased animals were quarantined, and also 434 which had been exposed. There were 201 horse# slaughtered, for which the Board paid the owners $3*040. --Another rich discovery of lead ore has. been made near Galena. Some miners! accidentally broke into an opening while, prospecting in a shaft that had been abandoned for more than forty years, and exposed a large body of cube mineral of, the finest quality. Upward of 10,000 pounds of or* is said to be in sight, and, it is believed by experts that the total yield of the mine will reach 1,000,000, pounds. Tbe new mine is close to the Bachelor and Viitue lead, discovered lately, and from which several Utoufynd pounds of ore is being taken daily. --An accident occurred at the bridge that is being built over the Oh'o River at Cairo for tho Illinois Central Railroad Company. Men were engaged in riveting the iron work aud one of them, a young man numed Cook, of Cairo, stumbled and fell over the side of the bridge to the water seventy feet below. He turned a somersault in midair, struck the water feet foremost and disappeared. A little later he CJ me to the surface and swam ashore with no other injury than a general sore­ ness. --Charles Belden, of Greendale, Marion County, was arretted and taken to Salem, charge! with a heinous crime. The evi­ dence was sufficiently conclusive to war­ rant the justice in holding him to the Grand Jury. --Edward P. Peck, hotel reporter for the Chicago Tribune, died of pneumonia after a short illness. Mr. Peek wa* one ot the best known interviewer* in the country. He had a wide acquaintance among pullie men and was universally popular. His remains were taken to his father's home in Central Hew York for in- teiment. MAtmOCT MEM?OKIES. Who Coitld R«ad tho Olobe Thraa^t OaMaadThm Write It All Oat Without Hesitation. Mr. Stanton, the United States War Minister during the great civil war, had a very retentive memory, and was es­ pecially well up in Dickens' works. One evening in the early part of 1868 Dick­ ens, then on a rending tour in the States, was dining with Charles Sum­ ner, when Mr. Stanton and some others were present. The War Minister was put to the test, and when started could repeat from memory a chapter from any of Dickens' books, showing a much greater knowledge of the works than their author could boast. Mr. Stanton accounted for this intimate knowledge of Dickens by mentioning the habit which he had formed during the war of invariably reading something by the au­ thor of "Pickwick," before going to bed at night. " The late Bishop Prinoe Lee, first bishop of ^Manchester, was similarly gifted. It is related of him that being once at an evening party, started by a lady with a line quoted from "Mar- mion," he went right on with the poem from memory, and could have recited the whole. As a further test the same lady quoted a few words from a conver­ sation in "Ivanhoe," whereupon the bishop repeated the whole chapter oor- rectly from memory. But greater than any of these was Lord Macaulay. From a very early age the retentiveness of his memory was ex­ traordinary. When only three or four years of age his mind mechanically re­ tained the form of what he read, so that, as his maid said, he talked "quite printed words." Once as a child, when making an afternoon call with his fa­ ther, he picked up Scott's "Lay of the Last Minstrel" for the first time, and quietly devoured the treasure while his seniors were engaged in conversation. When they returned home the boy went to his mother, who at the time was con­ fined to her bed, and sitting down at the bedside repeated what he had been reading, by the canto, until she was tired. Later in life his wonderful memory was always a subject of interest to his friends, and occasionally was put to searching tests. Ono day at a board meeting at the British Museum Macaulay wrote down from memorV in three par­ allel columns on each of four pages of foolscap, a complete list of the Cam­ bridge senior wranglers, with dates and colleges attached, for the 100 years during w hich the record of the names had been kept in -the university calen­ dar. |' "On another occasion," says Trevel- yan, "Sir David Dundas asked, 'Macau­ lay, do you know your Popes?' 'No,' was the answer, 'I always get wrong among the Innocents.' 'But can you say yOuf archbishops Of Canterbury V 'Any fool,' said Macaulay, 'could say his archbishops of Canterbury back­ ward,' and he went off at score, drawing breath oniy once in order to remark on tlie oddity of there having been lx>th an Archbishop Sancroft and an Archbishop Bnncroft, until Sir David stopped him at Cranmer.'v Macaulay once said that if by any pos­ sible chance all the copies of "Paradise Lost" and the "Pilgrim's Progress" in existence were destroyed, ho oould write out both again complete from rec­ ollection. When O'Connell made his motion in 1834 for the repeal of the union Mr. Tennant, member of Parliament for Bel­ fast, delivered a speech lasting for three and a half hours, full of figures and cal­ culations entirely from memory, in which he trusted so completely that he sent the manuscript of his speech to the newspapers before he delivered it. His confidence was not misplaced, for the oration was spoken without a single mistake, or even a momentary hesita­ tion. Another Irish M. P., Robert Dillon Brown, member for Mayo, had the same useful faculty. He would dictate a speech to an amanuensis, and twenty- four hours afterward, without looking at it or thinking of the matter in the mean­ time, could repeat it word for word. Woodfall, the editor of the Morning Chronicle and brother of Junius', pub­ lisher, was able to report accurately iu the morning the debate of the previous evening without taking any notes. In some cases the mental action in­ volved in feats of this nature would seem to be quite mechanical and unin­ telligent. In the newspapers of Jan- nary, 1820, there are accounts of an ex­ traordinary man, who was known as " Memory-corner Thompson." This man, although he could hardly remem­ ber anything he heard, could yet re­ tain perfectly the names and descrip­ tions of large collections of objects that met his eye. He could take an inven­ tory of the contents of a house from cel­ lar to attic merely by surveying them, and could afterward write it out from memory. He could draw from recol­ lection accurate plans of many London parishes und districts, with every alley, Btreet, public building, public house, etc., duly noted, down to the minutest topographical details, such as pumps, trees, bow-windows, and posts, all oos- reotly marked.--Welcome. *' A Romance of Central Illinois. On one of these beautiful bluffs, Julia," said the young lover tenderly, as he patted the little hand that rested confidingly on his arm, "we will build our home. We shall never weary of looking at this busy city of 50,000 souls nestling at our feet, the lovely sheet of water beyond, and the forest-crowned hills on the Tazewell shore that stretch in either direction aa far as the eye can reach." It is surpassingly lovely,Harold," she murmured, and in dreamy ecstasy she' looked at the enchanting landscape and softly signed. "It will be an earthly paradise to dwell amid scenes like this and watch the seasons as they oome and go--the opening spring, the ripening summer, the mellow autumn, each transforming the glorious picture into something still more glorious, and glad­ dening our eyes with a never-ceasing panorama of fairyland." "And to watch the play of the moon­ light on the silvery waves of yon beauti­ ful little lake," responded Harold, his eyes kindling as he pointed with eager gesture toward it, "when its surface shall be plowed by the commerce of scores of prosperous cities along the banks of a stream made pure, swift, and navigable by the abundant inflow of water from Lake Michigan " "Mr. High wine!" exclaimed the young woman in an altered voice, "do you mean to say that you look with favor upon the scheme of turning the sewage of Chicago into our nol^e river?" Why, Julia," he expostulated, "it eomes down here already, and the only way to render it harmless is to let the pure water of the great lake flow unob­ structed - - took her hand frost his aria, ton from her finger a ru^lrith a glfitexiag gem, oast it at hia last wiih superb sootn, and flashed a withering glance at the petzi- fied youth. "Goto Chicago and seek a bride in the clasaio shades of Bridge­ port! Never speak to me again. Wo are strangers!" And the proud Julia Saatbluff went down the slope of Quality Hill and dis­ appeared from the hungry gaze of the wretched young man. He had madt the mistake of a lifetime.--Chicago Tribune, Ike Prevention or Diphtheria* Diphtheria is a disease which might be stamped out; it is kept alive by condi­ tions which practically result from neg­ lect. The actual exciting cause of diph­ theria is held to be a poison, a germ, which must always be present in order to bring the malady into existence. From whence comes this poison is not known. Some physicians believe that, for every case of the disease, there must be a previous case to furnish the poison, as in small-pox, scarlet fever, and measles. As many more, however, feel that the poison in question may originate in foul air, arising from drains, decomposing fiah, etc. The lat­ ter theory seems the most reasonable. The poison of diphtheria may be con­ veyed in the air, or in the water, or other similar beverages we drink. . Car­ ried into the mouth or nose, the poison attaches itself to the lining membrane, either of the nasal passages or throat, and, undergoing the necessary changes, developes diphtheria. This poison is unlikely to fix itself to the membrane in question,.if the same is perfectly healthy. It is much easier for it to at­ tach itself to it if the membrane is irri­ tated. In other words, if a child, per­ fectly well, is exposed to diphtheria, it far less likely to "catch the disease" than it would did it have a cold in the head or sore throat. It matters very little whether the irritation is recent or long standing; chronic nasal catarrh, or old throat troubles, such as enlarged tonsils, etc., offer favorable conditions for the poison. For the first two or three days after the poison has located itself in the nose or throat of a person, it excites trouble which is purely local. After a certain time, however, it works its way through the membrane, and, being taken up by the blood, the whole system becomes poisoned. It is then that the disease becomes constitutional. Knowing the cause of diphtheria, it ought not to be difficult, as a rule, to escape it. There is always danger in fonl air. Safety demands that our apartments should never be overcrowded, and that the ventilation be good. The drainage should be faultless. Wherever there is filth, there we must expect the poison of diphtheria to be liking. S'», ju aud around our Louies, there "uiusi be perfect cleanliness. Tho air Of densely- populated districts is less pure than that of a thinly-settled country; hence, it would be better for all to live in the latter. But many must reside in cities and towns. None, however, should ha.'e homes in narrow streets, where they are denied fresh air and sunlight, and are packed in, as it were, with too many others. For the Bake of being "handy to their work," a great many people sacrifice every other considera­ tion. Children who take cold easily are naturally ailing, and hence, are more likely to contract diphtheria. Such children are, as a rule, kept too much in the house; and tho only way to over­ come the difficulty is to have them much in the open air. Greater importauoe should be given to throat affections, even if they are but slight. A child with a sore throat should be kept at home until it is well. In many instances, the diphtheria is con­ tracted at school, and it is dangerous to Bend a child there while its throat is irritated. The disease ilfc question is easily transmitted from one person to another. Therefore, exposure" must, when possi­ ble, be avoided. Many of the diseases of childhood are "catching." They are seldom recognized in the earliest stages; so whenever a child is taken ill, it should be isolated until it is determined that the disease is not contagious. Were even these few simple rules ob­ served by every one, as they certainly ought to be, diphtheria, instead of be­ ing, as it is now, a common disease, would be very rare, irnleed.-- Blade. ---- - - The Honnd of Thunder* One of the best descriptions of a oom* mon natural phenomenon is that re­ cently given by Mr. Him, in which he says that the sound which is known as thunder is due simply to the fact that the air traversed by an electric spark- that is, a flash of lightning--is suddenly raised to a very high temperature, and has its volume, moreover, considerably increased. The column of gas thus suddenly heated and expanded is some­ times several miles long, and, as the duration of the flash is not even the millionth of a second, it follows that the noise bursts forth at once from the whole column, though for an observer in any one place it commences where the lightning is at the least distance. In precise terms, according to M. Hirn, the beginning of the thunder-clap gives us the minimum distance of the light­ ning, and the length of the thunder­ clap gives the length of the column. He also remarks that when a flash of lightning strikes the ground, it is not necessarily from the place struck that the first noise is heard. Again he points ont that a bullet whistles in traversing the air, so that we can, to a certain ex­ tent, follow its flight, the same thing also happening with a falling meteorite just before striking the earth. The noise actually heard has been compared to the sound produced when one tears linen. It is due really to the fact that the air rapidly pushed on one side in front of the projectile, whether bullet or meteorite, quiokly rushes back to fill vacuum in the rear.--Iron. ILLINOIS LAW- i'»a>li «c *»M«» Cu«MM»'aMB«ar af vills«e« or toflKM* cr |» | " poratc d ciUaa, awTienaor V MU w. re reported Melt i Senate, on the 1st * passage, tana port of tbe U Si her with tbe < a caauDbitioB, aad #rtated in order that the > be thoroughly informed of mine managers and nntaWda ̂ to provide for the or^anisa lost 0(' datone Which may l<an ftwuw *a jewKii. weariug appare , or otbvr pnaonaffraMr" " ehargemtcreat for the same at not a < p r»nt par month; expngrtasi lion for tbe State Normal School at to t nabla ohnrcbee - and ." «bar. j bodios to form corporations f»- the of receiving beqneata flit nal estate sir p opercv-; inakitjg app opdattees for the ns.iintions ftw tbe ffaaane bad tbe bttai aa JacKfon ville. To permit tbe forma ion ofaaait. ty ^tod-storm inenranea oogapjjriae; a ea^ <HMH to suppress aelliog, lending, d fcu MM or howinu ta any minor child aay p pet or iwB cKtion priDGipaltodtovafttd to iftaa£2fia*et2*- Bcr b ug immoral deeds. To (*qfiir*.ih» p-J- ment of v.-.ws in lawtal meaty. TMi h taa ana-truck bill in.rodoeed ia'theBettMrVf to*, esentativ© Mooney. To CttattvStVN talMR Or impose a iicenso on wheeled vehiAM*. 'tClla is idea i &i with the bill in radnaed la 1 tty lu-pi-. sent'it ve Joaea, of fin or the inhowiag ohaiwesar *«• thj House: Amending the tH re tion a:t. To an holre th* leaiiUfWl: Of gravel, rock maiadam, or other hart t'rovid iu that when Mty of real property shall be etutun niort ago trust, deed, or o. oar Ilea. lheO« _ sbail be eu.itteii. when lifting the aaaae(aft|HbX- aifon, to a reduction in tbe lot v* nattMB^So- port iocste to the amount of gat 1I«K thereon. Providing that in ait vbere parts of tbe sawe iiailding or .aMHMe# r.re leased to or occupied by •iifiervnt teaM&a er occupant a. it shall be the "duty of tt to Keep In repair el> parts at ee3d l are for tbe common us» ot sueh taaaate; i bill amending the law in relation to tm appeal bonds in justicea' ooasrta by MniapiMg that the Court may, at any time after uataft se of the appeal, bear and determine all iiiillti in as to the foftn and sufficiency of the bind, •""* may. in e&ae the bond la late mat or laweffl cient require the appellant to |d«e a sufficient bond wltbia a teaeoM may dismiaa the appeal in eai shad not be complied with: SiaO.tO ,• for the ordlaary aad' expenses of the Iblnoia Na. tonal QwL and S25.0C0 for tbe purchase aad IMWITI meat of a permanent camp and itte naa tar tue Illinois National ttnanL to be saleataS aad located in tbe nor .beta part of the Mat* by a board of three coqimlaaionad ottan aad the approval of tbe Commandar-in-i bleC. Alee a bill making numenma ainiwIaaaiiU telbe mili­ tary code. Providing that any meaner, 1mm agar, <KMatone*of aay properly agffelaMI any court of tbe State m»y he eaed m wmm of any act or tmuMttoa of bis b tbe buaineae connected with e without tbe prsvioua leave o( tbe < ^ eaid receiver wae appointed, bat nm eaMtsiu be mbjeet to the giaaral equity JurisiMN* said court ao far aa tbe same may fc«a* to the enda of juatie* OF tbe 158 members of tba Elaaaa lag! body only *> wan pnaeat wbaa the convened en tbe id inst. After the raai the journal Mr. Hainee, of la<<«,: around at tbe vacant aaata ead ra membera of the House e.ldeatff leaad ifc cult to be present at tbe Capital on Mr. Haines moved that when tba r it adjourn untU Tuesday, which w Whitehead pri sentedtbe following : which waa adopted by aoolamatioa: The matter of providing for tba of the eity of Chicago and its v paramount impor ance; therefore, I each member of theHoaaemay be welt taMmnadl ther on, be it resolved, that tbe ffiniiilaij «t Rata ba and he ia repeated to bavaat suae V siSvO coptes ot " 'ubo i>iil si9 hb Siie* port of tbe special committee tie «arn« " The House thcr. sdjsnnssJ. Tbe taib was not in aeaslon SBKATOB FtTULXB presented eevnral pillllens In relation i«> kepeaiing the pharmacy law lath* Senate on the 4u» Inst., which ware refoaiedta the t ommittee on License and Mfaaellaagr. Bills were introduced as followa: ftiaeadlllj tbe la Btimnce law so aa to provide that all toeeee bw lire ahall be paid tn rail to aa aiemmt aot«*> ceeding tbe face of the pbliey, notwitbetaaiiag any co-inmiranee claaee in tbe poUoy to tbe contrary. Providing that all money paM tar liquor licenses in cittee, towna aad vtOajM abalt go into the county treasury, i roviong^hst membera of the tieneral A-a ̂ mbly abaU bepeM at the rate of SS per day for t" each session and at tbe rata each day of the session In exeeee of 1 each member ahall have deducted a fell day*e pay for every day he la absent without leave. 1 MMBDiATXr.Y after the reeding of tbe Jowast in the Senate on the 5th inat., th* spanUl imlas 't^ing Senator Crawford a resolution (or aesa* stiiuiional amendment in rshnlea |a ika g*i eminent of Cook County. Mr. Giawfocd oflaired a substitute resolution, and Its considerattea was made a special order lor Thureday. A shower of petitions for local optleae. for,(e|ie*l- int: the pharnmcy law, and (or rape 16^ tbe game law, were presents BIJa ware tntro- <.uced as follows: Appropriating S30.000 for a niouiinitnt in Jackson Park, fmleage. to She tut mory of John A. Lena; to re­ peal the pharmacy law; to t<goiate tbe natal charges for the use of telephoaea. In tbe TBiiwa. tue Speaker announced that be bed amwtatM Messrs. Hoppin end O Toole as a l&Mooal aaaaa- tiorn of the Committee on Drainage. The Ttinaa s « ck yards bill, which problblte aay ?**HHTWa- tion from disposing of dead animate to taodar-. ing establishments, rcdaoee tbe charge for oar- ing for Btock fr JIU -/n to IS oenta, aad iatpoeee a ktavt' fine for ovur-ohargee. waa ordered to n Hccond reading. Billa providing for r tteftrat 100 dayeod driv ways in Incorporated oitiee, viUagee, towns, and anthcrinng cities, towna. aad vU- lnP«» -M M taakb woiali providing that elty » two-thfida of tha& "Say no more, Mr. High wine," said the loyal Peoria girl, freetgingly, aa she Sea Temperature. In a reoent paper before the London Soeiety of Telegraph Engineers, Mr. W. Lent Carpenter mentioned that the temperature of the Mediterranean was found to be 54 degrees F. at a depth of 2,000 fathoms, while in the Atlantic, at no great distance, 36 degrees was met with at the same depth. Other instanoes of thermal differences between partially land-locked seas and the ocean were given, among them the Bed Sea, iu which the minimum temperature is 71 degrees. In the Sulu Sea the lowest temperature was found to be 55.5 de­ grees at 2,550 fathoms, while the tem­ perature wae 32 degrees to 38 degrees at the same depth in the Indian Ooaan. --Arkamaw Traveler. POLISH helm a man in aociety, but not when it M on hia C©a*.-r-2togfo» Courier. lagca to appropriate aurplua fund< arlataK I liqu' r lictnaa to tbe eld or aonoola withta their oorporate limits, were ordered to a annnai reading. A SHOWXB of petitions in relation to tbe i law, local option and pbarmaoy lew, tall \ the Bon ite on the stb inat. Bills were i duced aa follows: Exempt'ag tbe Coaaty 4 from liability when hai»eaet a Uoaaee to marriage of a minor, when eaid Uoense is cured by a false affidavit; alao a UU i atlng t9,00l) for tbe relief of the V. Aditerdale, who waa killed ia thediaehMoae of bia duty while in tbe aerviee at tbettatea* Chester in November. IKS; etnsndtng tha law in relation to elect iona and the aagUisatlHB at • vo era; to enable oities to levy a tax of t aK on i he tfluO valna ion of tiiakb for sewage purnost-s, and co jnei B may, by a vote or membt r«, levy a tax not to txoaadS »'"* on the @10 valuation of taxable property tiui same purpose; providing that the mem' of lioxrds of Supervisors in *008.188 town bw organ! ation be divided tab class s by lot, and that the t rmaof tberaneet- ive classes be one two, and three years, but the successors of meiMbera of each otaaa ahall all be eleo.ed io 8»rvs three yean. Wbaa tbe House met. Mr. Mooney'a bill provldiat florafe> torucy's fees when mechanie-t, ar ts aa, minara biborerj. < r tu>rvan a nre compelled to aa* Ifcr wtifiei, wns taken up on second reading. ThisblB. as finally ordered to t inl rundinit. ie aa follows: 'Th it whenever a mechanic, i r.tsan. miner, la- b irer, s rvant. or employe ahall have eaneetf i r ng suit for his or her wa»?es earned and dueaaA owiufj according to the term a of the employ­ ment, and he or she shall eetab'iah by tbe de­ cision ot the coiir. or jury that th* amoaat Mr wlii.:h ha or ah< baa brought aait li jaatly and owi ;g, and t bat a demand b a bee in writing ibreeda«s before tbe suit ia for a sum not exceeding tbe amoant ao 1 due, an i owinj.', then it shall be <lutv «.f tbe court before whloh tha caxo shall be tried to allow to (ft* plaintiff, when tbe foregoing lhnte reasonable ait rney'a fee tn _ am nut fouu<I due and o* inj for waflaa, aaA toa justiie court such attorney'e Cava MaOjM |a less than *••", and in the i ounty or ~ not less than tio, to be taxed aa suit." The bill oiderrd to a third lation to iiquor business was THE Senate was again delagad wi b game ha. biMkMC . •A;;-; '• prohibition, i>nd other petitim,*alfeiaVlikM£ > t A number of resoln ions were iatra>maaA aip| ; laid over. Bills wtw uitroditoed. as Mwaatn contr.d ia eign :.rc iasiuranc* e*u^paataas V amending tee game laws sad appate lag gHaa - wardens, to amend the law in teta^iea to tfea debasing of femalt s by pro tiingthattn pMba> cn. ions for violations of tbe law it eball aot ha r necessary to p.ore tbe previous good nlMwrartar *U of the minor I- male ao deba.ed. Bltta at tk* > f»l owing chara -ser were i urodaoed ia th* House; To establish tt e valid ty of contracted wberein one or both of th were s evea at tbe time, aud to tue ie itimscy of tbeir offspring, aa io tbe to inherit j roi arty. 1'rovid ng for tbe N tion o' electors, tbe eond- ct of eieoKwe, a «e Mining aud declaring tbe raealt MM this lit ate. Keducing the taauri<« of the < of the Jol et Penitentiary, ic a>ea the a of Commissioners at SJ O p r annaat; a •2. U <; deputy warden. l.Btf <; «haplaie, i and phyateian, SI, Prohibiting fei ret sons the feeding of cat 1 > at dli.ll i breweriee between April 15 Appropriating *io.O.kt to purcbaae and to erect a nxmaauat on the batttefleM of Gettyslmnt to tl of lliinoia soldiers. To prohibit thai distillery, brewery, sta ch factory aidj t actor v and o.ber offal in o aay waier < lake or pa d Prohibiting the maxmfaetura i sale of - dul. erated Mqa ra. bavmg as a " foundation, in whole or in part, aiowhoi epiii K, or bighwin«e Pruvtliag ties no. under township wgautw arising from liquor lictnsee shal for tbe benefit of highways end " A Bay »r Solar A ray of solar light is compaaad ft an undetermineu muuber of varioiiijr colored rays, which are d.strtbaete4 i>l> grompa, termed red rays, orMft n|% yellow rays, green rays, ad%o rays and violet raja> li, %