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•v pi5?" '""ffpS *yi<\ fMf ' .yrw:, S >\4 "•frvVp & -[*$; \ ' * v.rov T: • LENRU *0 ^Iiimdealet Park row and near tbe corner of North "EXPIRING PROTEST Williams street stands a small tree 1 VAN SLYKE, Editor and Publish*. MCHBUBY, - ~ - ILLINOIS. IT is tie necessity ot Keeping up a good appearance on a.amall ailaty that sometimes leads to tbe cashier's disap­ pearance. - •• • • I- . IN Buenos Ayre* the police alone lave the right of Whistling oh the .streets. Any other person whistling is once arrested. |* A LARGE emigration of negroes flroaa Mississippi to Oklahoma is anticipated. Agent* sent by them to "spy out the > lands" litkvo returned with a favorable : report THE military authorities at St. Pe­ tersburg have decreed that j in future foreigners shall cot be allowed to serve in the army unless they are willing to become Russian citizens. MRS. ANJHE HALL, who is suing for •divorce in a Brooklyn court, bases her petition upon the alleged wreck of her nervous system by her husband's habit oigrinding his teeth during his sleep. HENRY YILLABD recently gave out a t&Vsterious hint that railway operators <mght to buy sparingly of locomotives on the ground that the whole system of traction is menaced by a motive power «ven greater than steam. SOME of the advertisements in the elevated cars in New York are funnier than was intended. One reads, "Kock- roaches KiHed Kontinually" (this is in­ tended to be facetious); then it gravely adds, "Water-bugs, rats, and mice for «ale everywhere." IT is not generally known that ex­ cessive palpitation of the heart can be promptly stopped by bending doable, with the head downward and the arms pendant, so that temporary congestion of the tipper part of the body is pro­ duced. If the breath be held at the same time the effect of this action is hastened. THREE doctors at work enforcing •sanitary regulations, in the cholera-in­ fected sections of Spain have been lulled by the peasants. One was killed at Valencia by a stiletto stab in the buck; another, at Mogente, had ilis head split into wit'u an ax wielded by a woman, and a third was set upon and killed by a mob near Leeds; * AN Albion, N. Y., dispatch says: ^Twenty years ago Owen McCarthy, a leading morcliant of this place, sud­ denly disappeared. He was in debt to different parties over $15,000. Nothing was ever heard of him until a few days ago, when he reappeared in town. He hunted up his creditors and paid each •sOne in fall with interest for twenty years. He had struck natural gas." A SQUAD of Tenth Maine Volunteers, •while out scouting at South Mountain, came across an old woman biding in a log cabin. After the usual salutations one of the squad named Spaulding asked her: "Well, old lady, are you a jfiecesh?" "No," was the answer. "Are you Union?" "No." "What are you then ?" "A Baptist, and Always have been!" The scouting party was sat­ isfied. ^ SECRETARY JOHNSON, of the Indiana State Board of Charities, reports that there in in one of the institutions of that State a girl who has a face and some of the characteristics of a pig. She real- tees her affliction and avoids strangers in consequence. This is where she differs from many males, who resemble tier in the possession of porky character­ istics, which they always intrude on •trangers. ~ THE Masonic fraternity of New York State are to have an a^ium for the orphans of their members. It is to l>e located at Utica. The plans show an «difice exceedingly well adapted for the purpose in view, and as the site has been paid for and sufficient money iB in band to pay for the cost of erection, the Masonic body in the State will soon be in possession of an institution of which they may well be proud. ISN'T it about time to take some well- -considered measures for diminishing the number and fatality of railroad acci­ dents? A commission of railroad ex­ perts, with all the evidence as to the causes of the recent alarming aeries of disasters on the rail, could surely de­ vise some new and effective safeguards •for the future. The railroad companies themselves ought to be ready to take the lead in a movement of tbis kind, for tbeir annual bill of damages is growing to be a heavy tax on their dividends. I WILL never let a barber touch my face with ja sponge, and every time a man submits to the humiliation he runs a bad risk, writes a doctor. There is nothing more admirably adapted for! retaining and conveying infection than the sponge, and I attribute a large per­ centage of skin diseases to its promis­ cuous use. It is all very well for a barber to say he is careful. He may Jteep his sponges perfectly clean, but . unless he boils them a score of times a day he can not guarantee them or be cure they may be used with impunity, A STRANGE and mortifying experience lives in the recollection of a typo in Athen, Ga. The other evening, after a long day's work, extending into night, he was on his way home, slightly hilar­ ious from the exhilarating effects of considerable beer. In the darkness he Raw a dog pursuing him, and deeming the animal mad or vicious, he climbed ! <tree and there remained all night, the . . dog resting quietly under the tree. "When daylight dawned the typo saw that he had been terrified by his own dog, and slowly descended a sober and thoughtful man. V ON the roof of a little old-fashioned 4wo-«tor7 home on the east aide of which oatcbea the eye of all who pass down that way on the elevated road, says the New York Sun. It has reached to the stature of six or eight feet, and has rose up from a pile of broken brick and accumulated dirt that has created there an oasis of grasses and weeds, crowned by the graceful branches of this stray ailantus tree, of the species which old New Yorkers de­ signated when first introduced as the tree of paradise. No stately oak nor towering elm in any of jiur parks, ati tracts so much notice as this vagrant of the housetops. THE amateur photographer in pursuit of an instantaneous photograph is daunted by no human difficulties. Bather than lose a good chance for a snap shot he is willing to go through perils which would appall the stoutest heart One of these persistent and in­ defatigable gentleman has just succeed­ ed in getting a good negative of the ex­ plosion of 250 pounds of dynamite. Everybody else, of course, got safely out of the way, but the amateur with his kodak stood manfully at his post, within plain view of the scene, and though badly shaken up, and in peril from the falling debris, captured a very good picture. The works of art secured by the amateur photographer are not of the very highest order, but the greatest artists have never shown a nobler zeal and courage in conquering tlie difficul­ ties of their profession. A .NOVELTY in printing has been intro­ duced into Germany, by which it is said that two colors can be done at obe impression. In addition to" the usual appliance for printing in Mack that part of the form which is intended to be printed in another color is set up from type, rules, ornaments or cuts made of porous material, such as pum­ ice, Spanish reed, or, best of all, wal­ nut root The type or cut thus made is inclosed in a holder, in which is a thin, oily ink, which it absorbs by capil­ lary attraction, thus always. presenting an inked surface ready for the impres­ sion. The upper rim of the holder has a rim of metal border slightly raised above the wood tyre, so that the pink roller passes over the latter without any union of inks. One revolution of the cylinder thus effects an impression in two colors.' . A JU STNESS man of the city, says the Co'.umbus (CM State Journal, giving employment to both men and women, upon being asked why he did not em­ ploy more women than he did, said: "I have employed women very often, and I wish I could feel more encouraged. But the truth is that when a young man comes to me and begins his work, he feels that it is his life's business. A wife, home and happiness are to be earned, and he settles steadily and earn­ estly to his labor, determined to master it, and with every incident spurring him on. He cannot marry until he knows his trade. It is exactly the other way with the girl. She may be as poor as the boy and wholly dependent upon herself for a living, but she feele that she will probably be married by and by, and then she must give up the work. So she goes on listlessly. She has no ambition to excel; she does not feel that her happiness depends on it She will marry and then her husband's wages will support her. She may not say so, but she thinks so, and it spoils her work" COMMENT ON CARLISLE'S CLOSING TARIFF SPEECH. It Must B* T«kM as a K-capitulation of Democratic Sentiment on the Subject. Md Fully Shows the Weakness of That Position--Various Political Matters. [Cleveland Leader. ] Scualor Carlisle's speech in opposition' to the passage of the tariff bill on Tues­ day may fairly be considered as embody­ ing in the strongest form the democratic objections to that measure, fop ho is the admitted champion of democratic free trade Ideas in the senate. We need look no further than his speech to see what is the best, or worst, that can be urged against the new tariff law, for he. by common consent, has been appointed to formulate the criticisms ami predictions of the opposition in regard to it. It were easy to say that his attack upon the bill was weak; it is almost as easy to demonstrate it. Senator Carlisle laid particular stress upon the alleged increase of the average ad valorem duties by the new law and the alleged increase in "taxation." The average of the old law, he says, was 45.^ per cent., "and of the new law 57 per cent., although it is only 50, and the old rate was 47, not 4IS.W. But his calcula- on sugar because some parts of the conn- try cannot profitably produce cane or beets to make sugar. He says it does not "apply equally." That argument has been worn to tatters already in be­ half of the free trade theory. Some states do not produce iron; therefore, the production of iron should not bo protect­ ed. Some counties do not produce wool; therefore, a protective tariff on wool is "unequal." Some townships have no soil suitable for raising the sugar beet, therefore, it is unequal and unjust to these townships that sugar production should be „ promoted or stimulated in the others. This is a very narrow and characteristically democratic way of looking at the matter. It loses sight use of the discretionary power thus conferred The president is already constitutionally and by statute, clothed with powers susceptible of infinitely greater abuse than this. The law simply authorizes him to levy certain prescribed duties on the products of na-. tions that discriminate against our own products. That power can and will be used to promote our foreign trade; and there is no probability that its exercise would materially disturb or affect our revenues. There is, therefore, no rea­ son to apprehend danger from that pro­ vision of the law. If Senator Carlisle has presented his side of the case in the strongest possible manner, as there is every reason to be- SOME OLD FIGURES. i The Dangerous Boomerang Launched fcf the democratic PreM. / • s:; [Sioux Falls Press.] The Imbbub raised by the dem­ ocrats about "the good old days when things were cheap" is becom­ ing a rather dangerous boomerang. In­ vestigations arc being made among old account books which show the democratic claims are not only utterly baseless, but furnish strong arguments on the other side. The Press man is well acquainted with the Jesse Williams referred to in the subjoined article from the Boon)), la.. Republican and knows he is not a myth, or man of straw drummed up for the occasion. The article speaks for itself, and is as follows: On the 17th of October, 1854, a bill of goods was sold to Jesse . C. \V.tlliams, which is set out as follows: To 4 bushels of salt. ....•<> 90 1 bolt of domestic....3 97 12 pounds of coffce........«..... 2 00 1 pound of tea.".. 1 00 3 pounds of nails...20 ' 1 Vt yards calico at 23 cents...... 62% yards calico at 15 cents.. <.«. 07% 4 yards flannel at 5,r» centsi.... 2 20 3 yards flannel at 40 cents....: 1 20 1 yard muslin ' 15 ' 1 yard ttiiipham. 20 j -10 pounds sugar..1 00 . 1 scoop shovel 1 00 \ spade] •• M* 2 pairs drawing chains l iO Wasn't Quite Ready. During a revival in one of tlie Southern States, the minister noticing that a young fellow named Hank Boyd had begun to sink down under apparent conviction, approached him and asked, "How do you feel?" "Oh, middlin'." "Don't you feel that your life has been sinful, and that it is time to turn from the certain destruction that awaits you ?" "Yas, middlin'.' "Well, won't you come up now and kneel down at the altar?" [V\No, don't believe I will right now." "But now islhe accepted time. How much danger do you suppose your soul is in this very minute?" "Middlin'danger, I reckon." "Come with me," the preacher ur^ied, taking hold of his arm. "No, not right now. I'll see you after awhile." "Do not let anything stand between you and the cross, my dear boy." "Won't efl kin he'p it." "Well, then come along with me." "No, not right now." "Don't you know that it is dangerous to wait ?" "Yes, reckon thar's middlin lot of danger in it." "Then, for Heaven's sake, come." "No, 1 kain't till I do one thing. I'.ve got to whup Abe Bender befo' I kere to profess religion. After that's done I'll be on the Lord's side." "Oh, you must not think of whipping him." "Kain't he'p it when he has done me so mean." "What did he do?" "Wall, I war away frum home tuther day--off on the country road ten mile from a house, an' I wanted a chaw terfcacker wus'n a houn'pup ever wanted a hunk o' liver, an'I war powerful nigh dead an' war a slobberin' like a boss eatin' white clover. Just then I met Abe. I axed him fur a chaw, an' he grinned at me, a showin' a mouthful of long green, but 'lowed he wouldn't give me noDe. I war too weak to whup him then, but I'm pearter now, an' I think I can fetch him; an' after I have tried, w'y, I'll come into yo' flock." "My son," said the preacher, as he bit off a chew of long green, "I don't blame you, and more than that, 111 help you whale him."--Pittsburgh Dis­ patch. To Catch the Wolf. Friend of the Family--What in the -world are you setting that trap on the front steps for?" Young Hopeful--To oatch the wolf. Pa said that if ma ordered any more of those California peaches we should have the wolf at the door, and she's gone and done it, for I heard her. --Burlington Free Press. THE Governor of Chinese Turkestan has resigned his post in order that he may attend on his aged grandmother 4>ho test of her life. | I € R0TECTI I 1 HAN THE STRONG RIGHT ARM OF PROJECTION. tfou takes/no acconntof tbe many articles on which, like sugar up to No. 16, Dutch standard, the duty is reduced 100 per cent.--abolished. The needs of the gov­ ernment require the collection of customs to the amount of about $2**>,000,000 an­ nually, and the smaller the number of articles on which duty is collected the higher, of course, the rate must be. The new law levies a higher ad valorem rate oil the articles remaining on the dutiable list, but it reduces the ad valorem rate on all imports. Seeing that the net decrease in customs revenues will be about $40,000,000 it could not be other­ wise. The average ad valorem on all imports under the old law was about 30 per cent.: under the Mills bill it would have been 28,'* per cent.; on the basis of last year's imports it will be :27 per cent, under the new law. That is the right way, and the only right way. to figure the true ad valorem rate. If all the du­ ties were entirely swept away except that on rice we should have a 100 per cent, tariff, for that is the tariff on rice, according to Mr. Carlisle's method of calculation. The new law, Mr. Carlisle says, will reduce the revenues but increase tax­ ation. This paradox he seeks to explain by saying that it will increase the prices of certain articles more highly pro­ tected than heretofore by an amount far greater than the net reduction of the revenues. He aflirms that there will be a heavy increase in the prices of articles in the iron, wool, cotton, and flax and linen schedules, owing to higher protec­ tion. and that this increase will aggre­ gate many times the £40,000,000 net re­ daction in the revenues. Mr. Carlisle's whole theory, it will be seen, is based upon the assumption of a large increase in the prices of such articles. If they are not so increased--not for a month or a year, which is possible, but permanently, for a term of years--then the whole foundation will be knocked from under his argument. To prove that prices will not be permanently in­ creased by the higher protection, a hundred Illustrations could be given. The one instance of wire will snail suffice. The duty on wire nails was more than doubled in 1883. when we did not pro­ duce a pound of them. The price was then $6 a keg. It Is now less than $3 a keg. Mr. Carlisle lias put himself on record as predicting results from the new law that will not occur--predictions that will return to confuse and confound him. and all his free trade associates, within live years. Senator Carlisle objects to the bounty whole country, and of the fact that the protective jwlicy equalizes its advan­ tages by affording protection to tho iron in one state, the wool in another, and the sugar in a third, thus creating a di­ versification of industry a#d an case and rapidity of exchange beneficial to the whole country, and impossible under other conditions. The final objection of the Kentucky senator to the new tariff law is in regard to the so-called reciprocity provisions. He says the law does not provide for rec­ iprocity at all. but for retaliation, and that it clothes the president with unwar­ ranted power to levy duties upon the sugar, tea, coffee or other articles from entirely of the general welfare of the oountries that in his judgincut do not treat us fairly in the exchange of pro­ ducts, It is gratifying to know that Senator Carlisle does not like the kind of "reciprocity" that is provided for in the new tariff law. That is proof enough^hat thero is no f£ee trade reciprocity in it, and tho stated ground of his objection does not appear very formidable when carefully examined. Congress is in session every year and can change the law if the presi­ dent's course is disapproved. Nothing that he can do under the provisions re­ ferred to can have any seriouslv damaging effect, at the worst, and thero Is no reason to fear an unwies f lieve he has, tho republicans ought to be as well satisfied with the intellectual, or argumentative, as with tho legislative resfllts of the tariff controversy which has deeply agitated tbe public mind for four years. THE IDAHO VICTORY. TIIOM In a Position Most to Appreciate It ltejoice the Most. ^ ~ | Salt Iv.ike Tribuno.] We cannot express too much ifty over the result in, Idaho. We . cannot too much congratulate the men of that young state over their acts. *We do not look upon it as a great republican triumph. It is a triumph of right; and we know by looking over the returns, keeping in mind the character of the men in manv of tlie districts, that hundreds of men who have all their lives been democrats, who expect all their lives to be demo­ crats, this year voted the republican ticket as a protest against the position of their party on protection, and on two or three other issves that specially concern Idaho. Such results as were obtained in Idaho cannot but have their effect on con­ gress. It will give congress notice that, while there may be extremists in con­ gress who wish to crowd the protective principle too far, still the sentiment of the country is that resonable protection to American industries is just and right, and that it must be maintainedt Again, by the vote the men of Idaho gave congress notice, that they believed the republicans, in passing the limited silver bill, were on the right track rather than those who advocated so extreme a measure that they knew it could not become a law, and hence cast a doubt upon, their own sincerity in working as they did. Again it will be a notice to the whole country that the Americans of Idaho, bv a large majority, endorse fully the test oath which disfranchises Mormons in Idaho. And the thoughtful men of the country will not fail to recognize that where a great state, where the majority of the voters in a great state declare that this is just. and that they are grateful that Congress has ac­ cepted their petition for statehood with that clause: that they, being on the ground, and knowing what they are about, must have the right on their side. And when the people of the United States, generally shall, in a pro­ nounced way, give the saints notice that, while there is no disposition to persecute them, or to withhold from them the privileges which Americans generallv enjoy, they must, before ask­ ing for full recognition under the laws, come under the laws themselves. They must give up their idea that two or three of their leaders have a right to dictate how they shall vote in this republic. In other words, they must give up the idea that in good government the church is tirst and the state nowhere, and that so soon as thev do that there will be no more Mormon question any more than there is a Methodist question or a Bap­ tist question; that the people do .not care what God they worship, or what forms of religion they adhere to, so long as they keep-their hands off the sovereign power of the state, and so soon as they shall break the chains which they have put upon the consciences of their own people. It is a very glorious result In Idaho, and we congratulate the strong men who have led the campaign. We congratu­ late the level-headed men wbo, by their ballots, have vindicated theiFown man­ hood and the honor of the American home. THE democratic candidates for tho legislature in Illinois are pledging them­ selves, against compulsory education. They could not do otherwise and expect to retain the confidence of their party, which thrives -most where there are fewest school-housA. 1 oiHTjr comb.»*.. l«-. '8*4 yards linsey at 30 cents 2 62% % pound cotton batting. 10 Mr. Williams is now living on section 24. Marcy township, and if he should come to town to-day to purchase these same articles we guarantee that his $«7.141*, to which his bill amounts, would purchaso two bills like the fore­ going. These arc the figures of the good old democratic days--the days of low prices for grain and stock and high prices for all the farmer bought--and we are of the opinion that the farmers will not be willing to return to them of their own accord. These are the days when the school teacher taught six days in a week, eight hours per day and twenty- six days for a month at $13 to $15 per month. Farm, hands received $12 to $14 per month. Ilogs were sold dressed never to exceed 4 cents and from that down to 1 cent per pound. When there was a good crop of corn it was valueless, and all other grain sold at very low figures. M'KINLEY AND ALDRICH. The republican party, and, in fact, the whole country, owes a debt of gratitude to Wm. McKinley, chairman of the house ways and means committee, and Nelson W. Aldrich, the Rhode Island senator, who relieved the venerable Chairman Morrill of the senate finance committee of the most laborious work that had to be done in connection with tho tariff bill. Both of these conscientious states­ men havq acted in a very different spirit from that implied by the abusive adjec­ tives of tlie free trade press, ijj handling patiently tho enormous number of details which have had to be considered one by one, by somebody. Ours is a respectable gov­ ernment, a government in which respon- sibiliity is often delegated and redelO- gatcd and again delegated, until one man sooner or later treads the wine press alone because the duty can be delegated no futher. A committee refers its work formally to the sub-committee, and the sub-committee informally refers it to a man, or rather the man very often refers it to himself so that he may feel safe in the assurance that it has come up to his standerd of exactness and fidelity of principle. In the house this man was McKinley and in the senate Aldrich. History will do justice to their sincerity, their industry and to their marvelous success, as will be shown hereafter.-- New York Prcxx. POLITICAL NOTES. A German Geography Ltiwm. Dr. Boyesen, writing in the Chr istian Union of the educational reform in Germany, is of the opinion that tbe Germans are disposed to over-educate tbeir children; that they pay too little attention to the development of the body, and too much to that of the mind. Making due allowance for this tendency lie finds much that is admirable in the instruction of tho primary and second­ ary German schools, and relates some of his experience in the best schools of Berlin. • He one day obtained a permit to be present at the lesson in geography in the lowest class, the Sex fa. The pupils were all boys about eight or nine years old. This was the seoood or third lesson of tbe school year, and ac­ cordingly very elementary TJie teacher, a man, called np a small boy and asked him pleusantly where he lived. The boy replied that he lived in Bitter Strasse. "Where in Bitter Strasse?" asked the teacher. "Number 171." "Mark on the blackboard the place where your house is. Right. Now, when you started for school this morn­ ing, in what direction did you walk ?" Tbe little boy looked for a moment perplexed, and the teacher said, "Did you walk north, south, east or west?" U1 don't know." "Then let us try to find out. Was the sun shining when you started from home ?" "Yes." "Did you have.the sun behind you or in front of you, or on your right or left hand?"' "For a while I had it in front of me." "In what direction did you then walk?" "Toward the east." "Right. And how long did you walk toward the east? Or did you continue to walk toward, the east all of the time?" i "No: only mi til I turned the corner of I'rinzen Strasse." "How long was that?" "About five minutes." *Put down the ecrner ot Prinzen Strasse on the blackboard, and bear in mind that the direction from your house was eastward, and the distance was as far as yon walked in five minutes. In what direction did you walk after liav- ing turned the corner ?" And so on. This boy was made to describe and then to delineate his course; and then another boy was taken. There was a constant appeal to the child's intelligence and experi­ ence. The first boy had been made to draw a correct map of the road he took to school. The second boy, who lived in a different part of the city, was made to do tbe same, fining his lines and distances correctly to those of the first. A third, fourth and fifth pupil were called up and required to do tbe same, and in the end the blackboard exhib­ ited a rough but fairly correct map of a considerable part of the city of Berlin. Spotting it Kent. I was walking with the night-clerk in a Cinc nnati hotel when the 'bus backed up and a late passenger got down and cams in. He had on a silk hat and a tine suit of clothes, and carried'a hand­ some portmanteau. I sized him up for a diamond agent, and from the way he carried his baggage I believed there ytras quite a. load in it.* "Good evening." "Good evening." "Will you place this bag in your safe and give me a receipt for it?" "No, sir." "What!" • "I said no, sir." "Do you mean to say that you won't care for my property ?" "I do, sir." "This is. an Insult!" choked the stranger." "Yes." "And if you were out here I'd knock you down for your impudence!" Tbe clerk opened the gate and walked out and hit the strauger on the ear and then kicked him out. The satchel fell to the floor and the shock opened it, and out rolled an old shirt, a pair of socks, three or four brick bats, and an ancient papev collar. The clerk threw it after the man, who picked it up and dusted. "Who was it?" I asked. "A professional hotel beat." " How did you know it ?" "By his trying to make himself solid before he had registered. All the high- rollers work the same line. He'd have squeezed us for about $30."--Neiv York Sun AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS.! MM TEMS GATHERED PROM VARI­ OUS SOURCES. (That On.' Neighbors Ape Doing--Mattoife ' of General anil Local Interest -- rlages anil Death* - Accident* and filnnj' -- Personal Pointer*. TIIK .State Hoard of Equalization h®£ , concluded its long and t. dious session at Springfield. Thi» net capital stock fl# the -corporation* assessed in the State figures up The property; other than that of corporations Is given' as follows: , AMHMrd. Personal I 5Ul.9il.017 Lan<is. :H5,75u,0>» :m>,S13.98f Lots 4i7,»a 1.198 'i-i Railroad paroonal...«. Httt.67.1 Railroad landa........ 369,144 342,13» Railroad lots... 912 1.0i5,ltti Tctal «T«,5W.«» •7»Ae46,SO The following show the rate per cent. • of addition- to, or deduction from, the assessed value of each class of property - named in each county in the State otlter ' than railroad property: ' - I TOW** UB- cm tts PESON I ipaor •a !*S ; 2 £ § LATER reports show that the republi­ cans made large gains in Idaho as com­ pared with the election in 1888. The re­ publican party seems to be doing very well this year. TEX years from now, under the opera­ tion of the new tariff law and the natural increase of population, the agricultural products of this country will barely suf­ fice to supply the home demand. THE new tariff law may not be a per­ fect measure, but it is good enough ta provoke general denunciation from the democrats, and that is sufficient proof that tho republicans can afford to en­ dorse it. THE house neglected to pass a resolu­ tion of thanks to Speaker Reed; but tho omission counts for nothing in view of the fact that such resolutions have beeu passed by all the republican conventions of the present year. THE "straight on," democrats of South Carolina, are going to nominate a candi­ date for governor in opposition to Mr. Tillman, and the latter will accordingly be again placed in danger of assassina­ tion for political reasons. THE amount of reduction in the bonded debt of the United States during the past month--542,310,240--is a good thing to keep before the people as an illustra­ tion of the republican idea of the proper way to apply surplus revenue. A •lama............ Alexander.. Pond .;« I. Boono... . . . . . . . . . Brown. Bureau ............ Calhoun........... Carroll...... Cass l hampaign..'........ Christian.......... Clark.... Clay... Clinton.. . . . . . . . . . Coles. Cook Crawford.......... Cumberland De Kalu Do Wilt Dougl&o.. Du rn<$o lCd^at Ed « ards Etlingham. I'ayi'it* Voird L'laiikdn. Fulton liallatin. Ciretne. Grnndy Hamilton....... .. Hnncoek Hardin Henderson ......... Henry Iroquois* Tack sou Jasp«i" leflersou •)cr?oy Jo l>aviM3. Johnson Kane Kankidtee ... KemlnJl ..." ... Knox Lake Iji Sail©. I<awrokioe.. Lee Livingston Logan Macon Macoupin Madison Minion MergftaU Masnu Massac McPoaough. McHonry McLean Mcnar4 ,.r.'7Vr:??r r Monroe Montgomery Morgan Moultrie. Ogle Peoria .7,TTT.>1 Perry....;.,.. Piatt Piko Pope Pulaski Putnam Randolph RiciUanl ItocU Island........ Salin* Sangamon.... 8<'hujl«r Soott............... Shelby . Star!; St. Clair Stapheqaon......... I'iKoweli ....... Union. VtrmUliou. Wa)>ash \\ arren Wabhiugtou........ Wayne Whit« Whiteside.......... win Williamson Winnebago Woodford Life of a Sailor. Once a sailor always a sailor. When the average sea captain bids good-by to his ship and comes ashore to end his days, lie feels that there is little pleas­ ure left in life for him. The writer, a correspondent of the New York Tri­ bune, met an old follower of the sea the other day who had become a sailor wheii he was IQ.years old, and fead usi left the sea until after he was CO. He had been a whaler, he had when a boy shipped on a man-of-war, deserting his vessel in Soulitern California, when Mexico governed that part of the coun­ try. He had worked on a ranch, living with Spaniards, but had invariably drifted back to the sea. He had traded in Australia and China, and mined in South Africa, but never for a long time, in any one place. After gold was dis­ covered in California he went as first mate of a vessel to the Pacific coast. Leading his ship he became a gold seeker, and made $40,000. With this lie bought a fiue bark which was lying idle in San Francisco for the reason that every one was crazed with excitement over" gold. He fitted up his vessel for a whaiing voyage, shipped only half a crew, all he could get, and sailed to­ ward the Behring Straits. When he started back eighteen month later he was a rich man, having had wonderful good fortune on his expedition. On his homeward voyage he was wrecked, and lost every dollar which he had. He was picked up and taken to the Sand­ wich Islands, where he was sent out as master of a ship. Henceforth he com­ manded fherchaut vessels, acquiring a comfortable fortune and buying a big farm in New York. But at sixty-three, after nearly sixty years of storms, mis­ haps and adventures, he was bemoaning his lot and regretting that he had not waited until he was an "old man" before he became a landsman. He Would >"ot Be Blufltod. "You would love me just as much* would you not, George, if I wasn't a rich man's daughter "Sure," said George. "Well, I ain't." "No?" "Father has failed," said the beautiful girl as she watched George closely. "He has failed and has placed all his property in mother's name, and now I am a rich woman's daughter." "I call all suoh bluffs as that," so­ liloquized George an hour later as h* walked home bathed . in the glorious light of the full moon.--St. Paul PiO' neer Pre**. 33 . 0 4 1 'A •• V . i 10 t.... I JO .... .... »!.... I2T --|T 0 50 ....J Hi 0 0 iol 0 1 io .... 0! 4 ... 30 51 ... »> 5 6 "i "*8 2 "ia a 10 li .... .... 10 $4 1 4 i:::: 4 1? !.... 17 "6 I 17 0 l 21 " t "o 0 ... . « 1 t 8 £2 IS i 5 'is "io " <; 62 39 64 .... "is 14 ... . * 9 . . . 27 0 0 ' 25! ..J 9 24' * A-#® % > " ^ H * i '"Cj V -^§s< •>* THE Census Office has issued the fol­ lowing statistics for the Sixth Illinois District: 'iti Counties. Pop. 1830. Inc. Das. Adams ,.61.856 3,731 ;.... : Brown 11.937 ..... um Ui 'Jalhonn 7.64H 170 Cass...... .14.947 1,454 U.'.a' ' Christian 30.493 3,966 Greene W.787 777 y Jersey 14,764 Macoupin Menard 40,3*8 K«o Macoupin Menard 13,115 91 i. Montgomery.. M.flflG 1.84S Morgan W, 553 1,088 ' iiii- Pike. 30,963 2,788 Scott .....10,i«6 The total population is 384^652: In :'-Y4 'M •*is 18S0 the population was 368,609; •rease, 10.043, or 4.35 per cent. tn- Cities. Pop. 1800. Inc. Par ct. Tacksonville 12,357 1,430 13.0V Terseyville 3.204 310 10.71 Tiitcbfteld 5,798 1.472 34.08 t'aua 8,067 2.068 68.30 Petersburg....... 2.337 5 .21 ^uiney 31,478 4,210 15.44 springfleld 21.852 5.1U) 25.88 TIIK population of the counties and towns of the Fourth Illinois Census Dis­ trict is as follows; ••V J:' „ '?j ' v A.** " Counties. 1830. Champaign 4S,llW Clark 21.878 COLES 30.090 Cumberland DeWitt.. Douglas.... Edgar Ford Iroquois. .. Macon Moultrie.... Piatt........ Shelby Hamilton.. Sangamon.. 16,'Jll 17, 96.7-18 16.964 35,157 38,04'J U,4&» 17,080 31,18* 49,804 . 61,042 1880. 40,863 21.W4 37,(H'2 1S.759 17,0U 13, 25,499 15,009 96,451 30,665 13,606 15,583 90,370 41,583 De- sa 84 1,776 W 7,384 A- In- % 'ease. 1.M6 3,088 l.«8 1,299 1,806 Totals 373,534 344,275 U.iSH Per cent, increase. S.30 A QUKKR accident occurred on Peoria Lake, at Peoria, in which a family party ~>t sixteen miraculously escaped death. The river steamer Hold Eagle burst her boilers while in the middle of the lake, and both boilers went throusrh the bot­ tom of the boat. No cause can be given, as the boilers were almost new and them was only 110 pounds of steam pressure at the time. THK proprietors of the big Chicago store known as "The Fair" have let tho* contract for their new edifice, which is to be built on the site of the old one. Jt will be. when completed, the largest commercial structure in the world. ]| is to be sixteen stories in height and will cost about $3,000,000. SAMI'KI. K. TH O M A S , one of the most prominent and wealthy men in Mont­ gomery Count), is dead, uged 60 years. SIXTV-'TJK.I K ritorsAXO buildings have been erected in Chicago since the great fire of 1871, on which was expended 8339,000,000. SI'RixuriKi o dispatch: There have been copious rainfalls throughout Cen­ tral Illinois, which have been of great benefit to the farmers in making th« pasture* grow and supplying stock with water. whi=-h had .ceased to run, and In briBjrinsr up the'fail crops. Much of tho grot:rid was too dry to sow wheat, and that '*hvh<was sown did not come up in some p'uees. Fanners had commenced to !Ved their stock on account of the scarcity of yrass. Tax pttpo'N have been signed trausfer- rliis th* iwo street railroads betwee* A'u;;. »ud I pper Alton to the Holmes sy.vtiMkfw. The new company will also buiio a «ew line to North Altoo and oparal* ail three by elactrieHy. v. l::. a