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5" % Ute JWc^pip ptaindcnla J. VAN SLYXL, ltXBLISHEJL v McHESltY, -,' - ILLINOIS. AUKICILTUKAL <k.\i> DOMESTIC. A Still Day In Aatamn. I love to wander through the woodlands hoary. Is the soft gloom of an autumnal dry, mien summer gathers up her robes of glory, And, like a dream of beauty, glides away. through each loved, familiar path she lingers, "Serenely smiling through the golden Tinting the wild grape with her dewy fingers, Till the cool emerald turns to amethyst. Kindling the faint stars of the hazel, shining To light the gloom of autumn's moldering halls, With hoary plumes th« clematis entwining, Yi" libit; o'er the rock her withered gar landfall a. Warm lights are on the sleepy uplands waning, Beneath, dark clouds along the horizon rolled, Till the slant Bun beams through their fringes rain­ ing, ./ Bathe all the hills in melancholy gold, j The moist wind breathes of crisped lea res and flowers In the damp hollows of the woodland sown, Mingling the freshness of autumnal showers, •With spicy airs from cedar alleys biown. .Beside the brook and on the cumbered meadow, Where yel.ow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow, ' The gentian nods, in dewy slumbers bound. Upon those soft-fringed lids the bee sits brooding, Like the fond lover loth to say farewell, Or, with shut wings, through silken folds intruding, Creeps near her heart |iis drowsy tale to tell, The little birds upon the hillside lonely Flit noiselessly along from spray to spray, 8ilent as a sweet wandering thought, that only Shows itB bright wings and eoitly glides away. The scentless flowers, in the warm sunlight dream­ ing, Forcet to breathe their fullness of delight; And through the tranced wood soft airs are stream­ ing, Still as the dew-fall of the summer night. 80, in my heart a sweet, unwonted feeling Stirs, like the wind in ocean's hollow shell, Through all its secret chambers sadly stealing, Yet finds no words its mystic charm to tell. Around the Farm. IF the farmer has no gravel bed on his farm to make walks, he frequently goes home with empty wagon, right by such deposits. ON a street in Syracuse (N. T.) may be seen a tree, which seems to be a sycamore at the trunk, but at fifteen feet above the ground it branches out into two great limbs, one of sycamore, the other of elm. SEVERAL firms in San Francisco at­ tempted recently to form a '• corner" in grain bags, believing that the demand would exceed the supply. They, how­ ever, overestimated the wants of the market, and made a serious miscalcula­ tion in not allowing, for the use of the bags a second time and the paper of one of the interested, firms ha a gone to pro­ test. The ring is said to have more than 5,000,000 bags on hand. IT is worthy of remark that among the hundreds of specifics and remedies used and recommended for the prevention and cure of iiog cholera, Fait and wood ashes are in almost every case leading articles--partly because swine, up to the very last stages, eat of the mixture, and partly because the concurrent testimony of ten thousand instances show results more or less beneficial to have followed their use.--Des Moines Register. OLD GRIMES'hen, whose history relates that-- "• Every day she laid two eggs, And Sunday she laid three," seems to have found a rival in a biddy belonging to a Norwich (Conn.) farmer. It is said that she began her career the last part of April by laying an egg that measured seven and five-eighths by nine and three-quarters inches in circumfer­ ence, and contained inside, beside the yelk and white, a perfect ordinary-sized egg with a hard shell. On the 4th of August she laid another one of the same kind--measuring seven by nine inches ; and since then she laid two more, the siz^s of which have not yet been pub­ lished , butVhich have the same double in­ side arrangement as their predecessors. A WRITER in a late number of the Mark Lane Express, in describing the ravages of certain insects upon the tur­ nips in England, gives an illustration of the damage insectivorous birds may do to crops when searching for their natu­ ral food. The grubs found in the roots of turnips are mucvi sought for by the rooks and other birds, but, singularly enough, however valuable their services may be at other times in devouring the larvae of noxious insects, they cannot at this particular time be permitted to alight among the plants, as their doing so would prove certain destruction to the portion of the field on which they re­ mained but for a very short time, and if allowed to come and go, without restric­ tion, in extreme cases, they would not leave a single plant. THE apple:buyers who visit Western New York during the suotmer and au­ tumn are makiDg a combined effort to induce farmers to pack their, fruit only in barrels of legal size, or in flour bar­ rels. The legal barrel for apples, quinces and potatoes must contain 100 quarts, dry measure, and the flour bar­ rel holds 106 quarts. Many coopers have been making barre's of less size, holding only ninety-two to ninety-four quarts, and it is said by the dealers in fruit that these small barrels are injuring the reputation of packers and dealers. There is a penalty prescribed by an act of the Legislature of that State to be imposed on every farmer, huckster or dealer who sells apples, pears, quinces or potatoes in barrels of less size than 100 quarts. NEVER strike a 5 horse for shying or starting when an unpleasant object pre­ sents itself, nor when their fears are ex- ci'ed. A soothing word, a steady rein, and a gradual introduction to the object which excites the animal will soon teach him to confide in his master and be­ comes fearles. We have taken a horse at 10 years old, whose nerves were very excitable, and who had become unman­ ageable and would runaway at the sound or sight of a locomotive or railroad train or any object suddenly presented in the road, and after a few weeks' steady handling and kindly talking to on the road and in the stable had him stand and view an approaching railroad train quietly; a horse which no rein or bit would hold when once excited became manageable with a slack rein and a soothing word. About the HOUM< LEMON PIE WITHOUT EGOS.--Take one lemon, one teacup of sugar, squeeze the Suicides. According to the official reports just published, there were 5,617 cases of sui­ cide in France during the year 1874. This is at the rate of sixteen a day--an average higher than was ever before known in France, or probably in any other country. The favorite mode of suicide was by strangulation, 2,472 per­ sons choosing death in that form. Of the remaining cases, 1,554 preferred drowning, and 1,591 soucrht other and various routes to the grave. The Pall Mall Gazette, in commenting on these statistics, mentions--on what it con­ fesses is doubtful authority, however-- that there are but three recorded cases of self-destruction by firkin the history of mankind. The first was Empedocles, who threw himself into the crater of Mount Etna ; the second was a French man, who threw himself into the crater of Vesuvius in 1820 ; and the third was an Englishman, who leaped into the fur­ nace of a forge about the year 1811. juice of the lemon on the sugar; chop the pulp fine, add one tablespoonful of tiour, and one teacup of water; mix altogether and bake with two crusts. CELERY SLAW.--One-half head of cab­ bage, the tender part of one bunch of celery, two hard-boiled eggs, all chopped fine; mix with it two teaspoonfufs of sugar, two of mustard, one-half a tea- spoenful of salt and pepper. Moisten with vinegar^ A LITTLE knowledge of the laws of light would teach many women that by shutting themselves up day after day, week after week, in darkened rooms, they areas certainly committing a waste of health, destroying their vital energy, and diseasing their brains, as if they were taking so much poison the whole time.--Charles KingsXey. ECONOMICAL SOUP.--Into 6 stewpan put the bits and bones left from a roast, add to it a carrot cut in dice, a sweet potato cut in thin slices, a bunch of sweet herbs, a little shred cabbage, and boil till the nutriment is extracted from the meat, say an hour and a half ; then into the soup put a pint of grated corn, half a dozen fresh tomatoes, an onion finely minced, boil fifteen or twenty minutes, strain through a sieve, heat to the boiling point again, and serve. SMOOTH WHITE SAUCE FOB BOILED MUTTON OB BEEF.--Two tablespoonfuls of butter, one teaspoonful of flour, one pint of milk, a little salt, one heaping teaspoonful of chopped parsley, two hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine. Mix the flour smooth with a little cold milk. When the pint of milk cornea to a boil, add the flour and salt ; when 4>his is thickened, add the parsley and butter. Have the chopped eggs in a sauce-boat, and pour \the7 hot mixture on them. Serve hot. EGOS PRESERVED BY SILICATE OF SODA --Dr. Durand, pharmacist of Blois, has discovered a very efficient means for the preservation of eggs, viz., a solution of silicate of soda. This solution, being very viscous, is kept in a liquid state by the ad iition of tepid water. The eggs are dipped into the solution and then dried; when they have been thus treated, and are well dried, and completely cov­ ered with the silicate solution, they can be placed in any receptacle, and may be kept for a year or more without under going decomposition. To RESTORE THE WHITENESS TO IVORY HANDLED KNIVES.--Wash with soaped flannel and lukewarm water; then wipe verv dry. Soak them occasionally in alum water that has been boiled and al­ lowed to cool. Let the handles lie for one hour in this, then remove them and brush them well (say with a nail brush}. After this, take a clean linen towel, dijf. it in cold water, squeeze it out, and while wet wrap it around the handles, leaving them in it to dry gradually, as if dried too rapidly out of the alum water they will be injured. If properly man­ aged, this process will whiten them, Knives, after using, should be wiped with soft paper, removing the grease, etc., then placed in a deep can or ve- sel, keeping the handles above water, luke­ warm, until washed, cleaned and thor­ oughly dried. How an Elector Once Went Back on His Party. Should Gov. Tilden or Gov. Hayes be elected by a majority of one, or even of three or four, in the Electoral College, there would be no little anxiety regard­ ing the lives and health of the individual electors, who, by their votes, are to de cide who is to be President of this great and glorious country. In connection with this thought, an historical fact of considerable interest at present is brought to mind, which shows that in the year 1821 a Presidential elector chosen by the Democratic party in New Hampshire changed his vote, went back on his party, and voted against the party candidate in the Electoral College. The Presidential elector referred to was ex- Gov. William Plummer. The candidate of his party was James Monroe, then President of the United States, who was running for a second term. In Novem­ ber of 1820 the party was successful, and the Democratic electors were chosen to a man in every State in the Union, among them Mr. Plummer from the Granite State. The Electoral College met on Feb. 14, 1821, and the vote was unanimous for President Monroe with one exception. To the surprise of everybody, ex-Gov. Plummer voted for John Qnincy Adams. The latter, in his " Memoirs," says he was surprised and mortified that Gov. Plummer should have cast his vote for him. He had thought that, of all the electors, none were more certain to vote for Monroe than Gov. Plummer. Another writer has averred that Plummer's motive for voting against the candidate of his party was, that he did not wish to have the vote unanimous for any President after Washington. No comment on his ac­ tion in the papers of the day can be found. Whatever may have been his object, it may be safely asserted that his action provides a historic precedent which would be sufficiently striking to seriously agitate a candidate whose suc­ cess depended on a majority of one in a vote of 300. Supposing, for instance, that Gov. Hayes should obtain 185 elec­ toral votes, and one of the Republican electors should take it into his head that Gov. Tilden would be a better Presi­ dent ? Would there be any appeal against his decision if he should decide to vote for the candidate of the Democ­ racy?--Boston Olobe. ILLINOIS ITEMS. AFTER THE CENTENNIAL. ',195 62,330 6,211,103 10,000,IX>0 7 254,687 Statistics of the Great Fair--The Reeetpt* and .Expenditures, Number of Visitors, Etc. ,* m, [From the Chicago Tribune.) lhe great Expositi6n has closed. The pulsations of big engine have ceased, lae lurkiph restaurant no longer dis- penseschiccory coffee. No longer through the halls roams the young man from the country. The agent for the patent ma­ chine has quitted the lair where he laid in wait for unwary visitors. The Cen­ tennial hotels are being sold off for old lumber, and will be forgotten soon by sight-seers who are beguiled into patron­ izing them, and who until their latest day will not cease to call them accursed. Gone are the sight-seers from all over this broad land, and the tourists from all creation have departed, and now the bal­ ance-sheet is being struck. Therefrom it appears that during the 159 days in which the Exhibition was open the aggregate number of visitors was 9,907,125--greater than at any of the International Exhibitions, with the exception of that at Paris in 1867, at which the attendance is claimed to have been a trifle greater than at Philadelphia. But the Paris Exposition for that year was kept open 210 days. When the drawbacks which the Centennial en-, countered in the excitement of the po­ litical canvass, the extreme sultry weather of the past summer, and the re­ fusal of the railroads running into Phila­ delphia to reduce f ares more than 24 per cent, are reckoned, the great success of the ^Centennial in point of attracting visitors will be fully appreciated. The following ti^le giving the number of visitors at each of the International Ex­ hibitions chows how in this regard the Centennial ranks : 1851, London..... 1855, Paris 186'2, London ..... 1867, Paris 1873, Vienna .{........ 1376, Pniladelphia 9,907,125 In a financial point of view, the Cen­ tennial was no less a success, tbe ag­ gregate receipts exceeding those of any of the International Exhibitions by over $100,000, as the figures, giying the re­ ceipts of each, reduced to our currency, show : London, 1851.'. $2,530,000 PariR, 1865 640,500 London 1862 2,300,000 Paris, 1867 9,822 932 Vienna, 1873 (about) 2,POO,0(H) Philadelphia, 1876 ....?. 8,85i»,000 These were the receipts from admis­ sions alone. Besides, the receipts of the Centennial from sides of concessions amounted in round numbers to $1,500,- 000. Those who are disposed to heap contumely upon the humble vender of pop-corn will, perhaps, modify their no­ tion in some degree when they learn that he paid $3,000 for the privilege of selling on the grounds. For the like privilege, the lager-beer men paid $50,000, and for the exclusive privilege of publishing and selling on the grounds the official catalogue, a round 8100,000 was paid, which, of course, was more than re­ turned for advertisements. The number of exhibitors was 30,864. The following figures show how, in respect to the num­ ber of exhibitors, the Centennial Exhi­ bition comp ires with the other InterLa- tional Expositions: London. 1851 ...13 937 New York, 1853 4,685 Paris, 1855 20,839 London. 1862 28,653 Paris, 1867 4?,217 Philadelphia 30,864 But the most unexpected feature of the exhibit in that, instead of Kinking money, our Centennial Exhibition actually paid all expenses. The sole concern of the stockholders now is to make it pay the largest dividend. That can be done by gobbling the million and a half voted by Congress in aid of the Exhibition. It was a condition of the act of Congress that this sum should be repaid the United States before "any profits" were paid the stockholders--the design being that only in event the enterprise proved a losing one was the general Government to be called upon to con­ tribute. In fact, it appears that, instead of the million and a half, the Exhibition returus a profit of between one and two millions. But with that desperation with which holders stick to claims against the general Government, the stockholders stick to their claim to pocket this million and a half of Uncle Sam's money, and are preparing to go into the courts to get it. Jpalousy in High Places. An Incident which occurred here a few years ago, says a London letter, may, perhaps, serve to illustrate the jealousy which exists upon the question of precedence among the different Am­ bassadors. Musurus Pasha had the misfortune to lose his wife, who died at a ball given by the Prince of Wales. At the first " drawing-room," or recep­ tion, held by the Queen after this mel­ ancholy event, the Minister brought his eldest danghter to fill the place of the deceased lady, and, as her mother's rep­ resentative, Miss Musurus had prece­ dence of all other ladies of the Diplo­ matic Corps who were present, where­ upon the wife of the Russian Ambassa­ dor immediately left the palace, pro­ testing that the daughter of the Turkish Minister had no claim to this superiority. This created, of course, intense excite­ ment, and, after a careful inquiry into the forms and observances of etiquette, it was found that the Russian lady was in the right. However, by way of balm to the wounded feelings of the repre­ sentative of the Sublime Porte, the Queen invited his daughter to spend a iew weeks at the Windsor Castle, an honor which, it is said, had never been vouchsafed to any of his brother diplo­ mats. And so the incident ended; John Randolph. A correspondent of the Springfield Republican writes from Roanoke, Ya., that "John Randolph, of Roanoke, was a man of many idiosyncrasies, and it is in accordance with his own desire that his grave on the beautiful hill overlook­ ing the valley of the Staunton j|ver is unmarked by headstone or monument. His slaves were always well treated. He had been unalterably opposed to the Missouri compromise, by which the do­ main of slavery was restricted; he had upheld the divine right of slavery through evil report and good report; and yet in his will occur these words: 'I give and bequeath to all my slaves their freedom, heartily regretting that I have ever been the owner of one.' Further than this, he piovided for the purchase of 4,000 acres of land to be given to j these freed slaves. Thosew ho remem- I ber Mr. Randolph say that he never shaved. Once, when in England, he made an engagement to dine with a no­ bleman, but, subsequently receiving an invitation for the same time from Miss Edgeworth, he accepted the latter, and apologized to' the nobleman, saying, 'The woman tempted me, and i did IHAC«URATI0JI DAY. Something About that Presidential Inter- rejfrihm. The next Prudential Inauguration day--March 4, 1877--falling upon Sun­ day, it has been suggested by some that for this day alone--when neither Mr. Grant nor his successor-elect would seem to be President--a new man be selected as President pro tern, the selection to be made by and from the United States Senate. In this connection the name of Senator Blaine has been proposed, but his selection would be an impossibility, since the term which he is filling by ap­ pointment will expire at noon on March 4--leaving him entirely outside of the Senatorial candidature for this brief Presiedntial honor--this little His Ex­ cellency "for a cent," as one might say. If the plan suggested above is to be carried out at all, it must be bv the choice of some Senator whose term will hold over. Such an one could be thus appointed by the resignation of Senator Ferry some day previous to March 4 (when Mr. Ferry's Senatorial term will also expire), and the selection of the " hold-over" Senator as President of the Senate, which would also include the Presidency for the one-day term under discussion. 1 j In relation to this matter, there are many who feel that no principle of mor­ ality would necessarily suffer should the President-elect take liis oath of office on the day set by the constitution, whether t hat day fall upon Sunday or week day. Besides any other objection which might be offered to this, however, is the prin­ ciple of law which regards the Sabbath as dies non, when considered in auy business transaction. Then, also, we have two precedents in our national his­ tory as authority for permitting this day to lapse without action in Presidential inaugurations. In 1849 Mr. Taylov was inaugurated on Monday, March 5--the regular day having fallen on the Sabbath --and in still earlier history--in 1821-- the same conditions prevailed in the in­ auguration of Mr. Monroe. The almanac-makers must have been consulted in the choice of the date, March 4, as the time for Presideptial in­ augurations. Perhaps the venerable Franklin himself figured out and selected this date, realizing that on no other would Inauguration day fall less eften on Sunday. In this century this day has fallen upon Sunday, in 1821 and in 1849, and will fall thereon once more next March 4, being in 1877. We shall not be troubled with this conjunction again during the nineteenth century, but such as shall live long enough to " lap over " and " go through" the next century will witness the same coincidence at the in­ auguration of Presidents in the years 1900, 1917, 1945 and 1973. The Mississippi Jetties. We learn that for some time past the channel between the jetties at the mouth of the South pass has been everv where more than 200 feet wide for "a depth of "20 feet at an average flood tide, and that in the middle of this wide channel the depth is equal to from 22J to 23 feet at the highest tide at the South pass, when a range of 3 feet tide, with a channel depth of 10| feet, for from 80 to 100 feet in width, is usually reported at Southwest pass. Therefore it is seen that the jetties have given, although in an incomplete state, a mag­ nificent channel across the South pass bar to the sea, twice as wide and several feet deeper than has ever been obtained across the Southwer t pass bar. We are informed that the works re­ quired to confine the flow of water from the main river, above the common head of tbe passes, into South pass, so as to secure a like deep channel entrance to South pass over the river middle ground shoal above its head, are being energet­ ically prosecuted, with every prospect of early success. Already, notwithstand ing the low stage of the river, the one- dipper dredge-boat at work there to expedite the cutting out of a deep chan­ nel entrance has succeeded, as we are assured, in obtaining a depth of inlet of from 20 to 22 feet across this shoal, which the tidal current suffices to main­ tain and widen. Soon, we are told, two more powerful dredges will be put to work there, and, with three boats work­ ing together, an entrance channel across this hard sand middle-ground shoal of sufficient width and depth for the largest class of ocean steamers, even at the present low river stage, may be expected ai at an early date. With the river at the height it was three months ago we would have even now a clear and unob­ structed channel of more than 22 feet in depth, from New Orleans to the through South pass. This long looked and hoped-for desid­ eratum, " an open river mouth," seems at last to be near of accomplishment, and we take pleasure in congratulating the merchants of our city on the pros­ pect of the revival of their business in­ terests which must result therefrom. -- New Orleans Picayune. sea, THE trial of Msj. Meredith I for the murder of George Murphy, near Grid- ley, in August last, began in the Mc­ Lean Circuit Court, at Bloomington, on Monday. Meredith and Murphy were fellow-travelers, making a raid across Illinois in a wagon. At Gridley Murphv was found dead, with his head beaten or shot to pieces. Meredith, who is scarce­ ly sane, was snspected, traced to Chats- worth, and there arrested. They were from Niles, Mich. The entire case is wrapped in mystery. A GERMAN named Oharles C. Kreamer committed suicide a few days ago by hanging himself, near Nameoki. He had been boarding in St. Louis, and was driven by suspense and want of meaus to the rash act. Her left a letter giving his name, also the names and place of residence of his parents in Germany and the reason for his suicide. It appears that he got on a tree that had been broken off by a storm, attached a rope to the tree and to his neck and jumped off, breaking the rope and his neck at the same time, as he was found dead at the foot of the tree. ONE of the boldest, most daring, and successful burglaries ever perpetrated in that vicinity occurred at Belvidere on Friday night. The burglars effected an entrance into the dry-goods store of George B. Ames by cutting out a pane of glass and unbolting the door.f They had a wagon, and leisurely selected their goods, discarding all cheap stuff, and carrying off a large amount of fine beavers, shawls, and fine dress goods. As it rained a little during the night, the direction of the burglars wap easily ascertained, and the probabilities are that the thieves will be captured. The night-watch goes off duty between 3 and 4, and many suppose the burglary was committed after that time. Fully $1,000 worth of goods were taken. The General Assembly. The following is a hat of the Senators hold* ing over and the Senators and Representatives elected in this State. It is possible there are soaie errors in the list, but it has been pre­ pared with. great care, and is believed to be correct. It is proper to note that of the Sena­ tors holding over, Bnehler in the Fifth and Plnmb in the Seventeenth were eloeted as In­ dependents in 1874, and were so classified in all reports of the Twenty-ninth Assembly, but it is reported, on what seems substantial au­ thority, that they have joined the Republican party, and they are now classified in aooordanoe with that report: SENATE. 1st District... ,J. C. Haiues........ Independent. 2d District...„D. N. Bash.,.., Republican. 3d District.... M. Kehoo... ........Democrat. 4th District....F. A. Riddle Republican. 6th District John Bnehler Republican. 6 th District.... M. A. Delauey....... Democrat. 7tti District .. M. W. Robinson Democrat. 8tli District.... M. L. Joslyn Republican. 9th District ...John Early Republican. 10th District....R. U. Mc> 'lelian..... .Republican. 11th District....H. A. Mills..........Republican. l'Jth District H. D. Dement Republican. 13th District.... M, R, Cast!?;Republican. 14tli District....J. Ma>br>rne Republican. 15th District.... A.. O. Marshall Republican. 16th District .. J. P. Boufield Republican. 17 th Dixtricjt... .F. Plumb ...........Republican. lfith District J. P. Fosdiek Republican. 19th District L. D. Whiting Republican. 20th District....H. J. Fruutz Democrat. 21st District... .E. 0. Mod-rweil.... Republican. 22d District B.C. Talliaferro R< publican. 2^d District... .J. f. Morgan Republican. 24th District... William Scott Democrat. 2rtn District.... Robert Brown....... independent; 2*>tu District.... J. S. Lee .Democrat. 57th District.... j. W. Robinson Republican. 28th District.... J. M. Hamilton Republican. 'i9th District....J. H. Harroli Independent. 8<)th District... .C. P. Davis Rcuublican. 31st District.... George Hunt Repubiioan. District.... M. Jones Democrat. 33d District xnomas brewer Democrat. 34th District E. Southworth Democrat. 3.1th District....W. E. Sbutt Democrat. 31th District L. Dearborn Democrat. 87th District B. Arntzen Democrat. 38th District .. W.R.Archer Democrat. 3ltth District C. D. Hodges Democrat. 40tU District....O. W. Herdman Democrat. 41st District .. W. H. Krome Democrat. 42d District F. E. W. Brink.......Democrat. 43d District....J. Thompson Democrat. 44th District....Robert Hanna Democrat. 45tli District....O. V. Smith Democrat. 4«th District D. E. McDowell Democrat. 47th District.... W. H. Parish Independent. 48th District....D. A. Hoerner Democrat. 49th District J. Rainey Democrat. 50th District... .Jesse Ware-- Democrat. 61st District S. M. Glassford Independent. SUMMARY. Democrats 34 Republicans ...32 •J. it. Ho'.ie:,. A. J. R^aviile. 46. Thus. Cou nelly. n hos. J. William*, 47. J. M. Wathbam, T. M. Monaghan. 48. S. P. Mace. John Boyd. iJ. A. S. Wilderman, J. M. Whittaker. SO. F. E. Albright. * lu -Linusey. Xoas Graham. Peter Phillip*. % T. Fountain. 4* W.WaU*. W. A. Woodward. J. H. Phillips. 61. E. B. Watkins. W. 8. MorrS. A. D. Peace*. _ BUMMABY. Democrats and Independents Republican Independents HOU8K OF KEPBXBENTAT1VC8. Democrat* and ' Dist. Independents. 1. M. Wcutworth. 2. J. E. Smith. 3. M. Bhindan. T. J. Hickcy. 4. 3. J. Kearney. 5. M. W. Dunne. 6. A. Vosa. A. O. Sexton. 7. J. H. Skelly. Republicans. W. H. Thompson. C. L. Easton. Sol Hopkius. J. W. E. Thomas. J. B. Taylor; ° E. B. Sherman. Geo. W. Reed. P. Kiolbasso. J. A. Roche.-' E. A. Sittig. ..m The Grave Bobbers. A special from Springfield, dated Sat­ urday, Nov. 18, says: " Elmet Wash­ burn arrived here at 4 a. m. to-day from Chicago, bringing with him Mullen and Hughes, the two men -who arc charged with the attempted violation of Lin- oolu d tomb on the night of Nov. 7. These men were lodged in the Sangamon county jail, where thev are closely guarded. Mr. Reed, State's Attorney of Cook county, came here with Washburn for the purpose of prosecuting these men. The Sangamon Cirouit Court is now in special session for the purpose of finishing up business which was ad­ journed from the week of election. Mr. Hamilton, who was Prosecuting Attor­ ney of this county until after the late election, has been superseded by Eobert Hazlett, who was elected on the day the crime was committed, and who has since qualified for the office and entered upon its duties. Reed held a consultation with Hazlett to-day, and the result is represented as being entirely satisfac­ tory, though the decision is, for obvious reasons, withheld from the press. Mr. Reed is here to aid the prosecution at the instance of prominent citizens of Chicago, and has to-day met Hon. John5" T. btuart, Hon. O. M. Hatch, J. Bunn, and other members of the Lincoln Monu­ ment Association. It is to be regretted that Hon. J. K. Dubois, Vice Presi­ dent of the Association, is so seriously ill that he is unable to aid in the councils held for the purpose of bringing tbe real erim iuals to justice. To-morrow a motion * will be made before Judge Zane, of the Sangamon Circuit Court, for a Grand Jury, and if this is granted the effort will be be made to have Mullen and Hughes indicted for conspiring to break open the vault containing the remains of Lincoln, for which crime, if con­ victed, the accused may bi sent to the Penitentiary not more that three years, or fined not more than $1,000. It is also proposed that they shall be indicted for an attempt to steal the casket and coffin containing the remains. If they are convicted of this they may be sent to the Penitentiary not exceeding five years. The State statute provides as a penalty for violating a grave a fine of not more than $li000 or confinement in the county jail oi not more than one year; but, this statute is considered en­ tirely inadequate for the offence charged. Washburn says he has no doubt of a conviction under the evidense which he will present, but ho is as reticent as ever." Later information is to the effect that Mullen and Hughes, the two men ar­ rested on the charge of attempting to despoil the tomb of Abraham Lincoln, have been indicted by a special Grand Jury of Sangamon county for two sepa­ rate crimes--attempted larceny and con­ spiracy--and each was committed in de­ fault of bail in the sum of $11,000. This looks like a " job," and a very se­ rious one, for the two resurrectionists. J. S. Bierfeldt. J. H. Kedzie. F. K. Granger. W. A. James. Jno. liudlong. a. U. Hollester. J. 8. I'axK&rt, --- Tyrrell. Jkmes Shaw. EAH. Nevitt. 12. Bernard H.Truesdell. A. Powers. F. M. Tice. 8. E. M. Dennis. 0. A. Ashton. 10. E. L. CronkritO^ 11. J. M. Stowell. Man Proposes, But One of our Nevada ranchers sent his wife East to see the big show in Phila­ delphia, and followed in about three mouths himself. The worthy couple stayed with their relatives, about ten miles from Philadelphia, for six weeks, and, upon returning to the land of sage­ brush were asked for particulars in re­ gard to the Centennial. "Well," said he, 44 I'll tell you how it was. My wife was visitin' round afore I went, and didn't git to the city, and when I got there brother Jim was jest thrashin' his buckwheat, and they kep' us so darned busy helpin' 'em that I didn't git to the show at all ."--Reno (Nev.) Gazette. Wise Caution. Two Seniors, diligently ponying Plato's "Apology," met the sentence, " To fear death is nothing else than to seem to be wise when you speak not." First Senior, inquiringly--"What does that meant" Second Senior, thoughtfully--"Well, I don't see; but we had better not fool with it, for it may lead to Pantheism for all we know. Let's go on."--Amherst Student, 13. A. D. Clover. 14. Jas. Herrin^ton. IB. D. H. Plnney. 16. D. C. Taylor. 17. G. W. Armstrong. 18. E. C. Allen. 19. J. J. Herron; 20. O. Fosbender. E. V. Baley. 21. R. M. Orinnell. 22. A. M. Brown. 23. C. H. Whitaker. 24. G. P. Walker. J. J. Reubourn. 25. C. F. ltobinBon. W. T. McCreery. 26. R. S. Hibb. N. C. Gay. 27. W. A. Moore. 28. Thomas P Rogers. 29. S. S. Jack. 30. 8. H. Bussey. 31. R. L. McKinley. 82. R. Heffernan. 8. Oarmon. 33. N. P.lt'>biu80I»» T. J. Kritts. 34. W. E. Morrison. B. Phillips. 35. D. W. Smith. John M. Palmer, Jr. 36. W. L. Vaudeventer. C. Rourke. 37. H. 8. DavK J. H. Hendrlokson. 38. 8. R. Powell. J. B. Hall. 39. W. P. Callon. L. King. 40. W. \V. Wall. J. N. English. 41. 8. A. Buckmaster. F. M. Pierce. 42. G. F. Berry. 43. T. E. Merritt. 3. H. Hogge. 44. O.D. Ramsey. P. H. Lott. W. M, Byers. J. G. Wright. H. H. Evans. F. Itonka. C. H. Goodrich L. Secrist. J. A. Koplin. J. B. Crock IT. S. M. Heslet. G. B. Gray. J. H. Collier. C. Balilwiu. D. J. Hurd. G. A. Ranncy. J. T. Browning. John T. Fox. A. D. Curtis. J. F. Latiruore. C. W. Boydston. E. K. WestfaU. O. F. Gile. H. A. Leeper. J. A. Wood. J. C. Ross. D. C. Smith. Thomas F. Mitchell; John F. Winter Thos. J. Abel. W. L. Chambers. R. Bower. E. C. Bartholow. A. Gilbert. J. H. Oakwood. N. A. Neal. G. Monahan. D. H. Zipp. John Foutch. 3. Wheeler. T. O. Black. A. C Matthews. I. L. Morrison. R. Bowott. John 8. Dewey. Richard Turney. Wm. Evans. F. Reenan. H. H. Chelsey. W. B. Wilkinson Illinois State Debt. The following proclamation has been issued by Gov. Beveridge in reference to the payment of the State bonds: EXECUTIVE DKPABTMEKT,) SPRINGFIELD, 111., Nov. 14,1876. F By virtue of and iu accordance with the provisions of an act of the Legislature of the State of Illinois, entitled "An act in re­ lation to the payment of the principal and interest of the State deBt," approved February 22, 1859.1, John L. Bevetidge. Governor of the State of Illinois, do hereby notify ail whom it may concern, that on the firnt Monday of Jan­ uary, 1877, at the American Exchange National Bank, in the city of New York, the Treasurer of tiie State of Illinois will pay the bonda of the State of Illiuois hereafter particularly designated in this proclamation; and, by virtue and in pursuance of said law, I do further notify all whom it may concern, that the interest upon each and all of said bond* will cease from the time of payment specified in this notice, to-wit: to _firat Mon­ day of January, 1877, viz.: ihiriy-nve bonds, issued in pursuance of the act above named, and tnown as the '* liiujois six per cent, refunded stock" bonda, of $1,000 each, registered and numbered aa follows : 3, 4, 5, 6. 7. 8, 9. 10, 17, 84. 25, 28, 35. 36, 37. 60. 53. G2, 63, 69, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 94, 95, 102, 104. and 105, dated July 1, 1859, and payable at the pleasure of the State at any time after 1876, in the city of New York, with interest at 6 per cent, per annum, payable on coupon notes, semi-annually, on the fir^t Mondays of July ana January. In testimony whereof I have hereto Bet my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of State. Done in the city of Springfield, this 14th day of November, A. D., 1876. JOHN L. BKVEBIDGE, Governor. By the Governor: GEORGE H. HARLOW, Secretary cf Bute. The South. Comparatively few people in the Uni­ ted States have any adequate conception of the territorial prea and productive capacity of the South. The area of the former slaveholding States is about 815,000 square miles ; but in all of this territory there are only a little over 100,000 square miles in cultivation, a surface merely equal to that of Alabama and Georgia. Louisiana, with a surface of more than 26,000,000 acres of land, over 20,000,000 acres of it tillable, has never cultivated 3,000,000 acres. Mis­ sissippi has never cultivafed but about 5,000,000 acres, and has an area of about 30,000,000 acres. Alabama has never cultivated 6,500,000 acres out of more than 32,000,000. Georgia has cultiva­ ted about 8,000,000 acres, and has an area of 37,000,000. Tennessee has cul­ tivated less than 7,000,000 out of 29,- 000,000 acres. Arkansas less than 2,000,000 out of 33,000,000 acres.-- Pittsburgh Commercial. A SPECIES of tmde tyranny, the cus­ tom of " standing a footing," still pre­ vails in England. At a London polioe court some plumbers were arraigned for half hanging a fellow workman, who steadfastly refused to stand a gallon of beer. A LARGE circle of relatives and friends will be grieved to hear that there are no Smiths left in the British peerage. Consolation may be found in the faot that the Smiths outside the peerage are still numerous and increasing. I