jl ̂ ̂ i 4 J« *»w* -v '•J. *--*?•• Oic l'̂ A\i C_ _ . , i,„.̂ .a^J!Lj*..̂ ik-S*4i.>. s( , ̂ ™i J V ̂ W > • Y*" - -. *> v • W>, 'i-'f j TH-T^ f^T-spr* , 7 «fli «Hf 3. *r-r l^ij . ii«4i': •|l|ll"i"ii* • WW1 Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty and Law; Wo Favors Win us and no Fear Shall Awe." •<• :~StS * i'lfllM1. *jfj- Xii ULi M'IIEXRY< ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 187^ i-m iH<n NO. 29. --*'!• \< *J j|(^[eirj plikiealep. Published Every Wednesday by J.TAN SLYKE Editor and Publisher. „ in Kiverside Block, Over 8mitil, Aldrieh A Hnythorn't Store. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: D*e Year, (In Ad ranee,).. $1 90 tf not Paid within Three Months, .....S 00 Subscriptions received for three or six months jn she same proportion. BUSINESS CARDS. H. T. BROWN, M. D. PHYSICIAN and Surgeon. Office in Brick J Block over F. G. Mavca Clothing Store Water Street, Mcllenry III. ^ " E. A.BEEUSM. D. "* PHVSTCIAX and Surgeon. Office at residence, two doors west or Post Office, McHenry 111. O. J. HOWARD, M D. nd Surgeon. Offici of Howard ft Son, McHenry, III. jpHTStCTAN and Surgeon. Office at the store W. II. BUCK, M. D.. HOMEOPATHIC Phytician and Surgeon.-- Office Enat Side Public Square, Wood, itoek, 111. Office hours 11 to 13 A. M., and 2 to 4 P.M. F. J. B ARM AN. Fac-fl^GAR Manufactii ror, MeHonrv III. Kj tory No. 171. Orders solicited. * W. 3. PRICKETT. ATTORNEY AT LAW. MCHENRY, in. Office second story Bishop's new Block. RICHARD BISHOP, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. McHenry, 111. GEO. A. BUCKLIN "L^TOTARY PUBLIC, Conveyancer and In- JLl surance Agent. OfHce at Bucklin & Steven's Store, near the Depot, McHenry, III. E. E. RICHARDS. HAS a complete Abstract ot Titles to land in McHenrv County, Ill;noU. Office with Hounty Clerk, Woodstock, 11L ROBT. WRIGHT. Manufacturer of Custom Made Boots and Shoes. None but tins best of material •.isad and all work warranted. Shop Northwest corner Public Square, McHenry, IlL E. M. OWEN. p ENElt^L Dealer and Manufacturers Ur Agotttirt Leading Farm Machinery. Pfkes lowjmd Term* favorable. MCHENRY ILLINOIS. GEO. SCHREINER. SALOON and Restaurant Nearly opposite the Parker House, McHenry 111. SWFlrst-Class Billiard and Pool Tables. J. BONSLETT, SALOON and Restaurant. Nearly oppoeite Owen's Mill, McHenry, III. Fresh Oysters •orved up in any shape desired, or lor sale by the Can. 49-GOOD STABLING FOR HOUSES. W. W. ELLSWORTH. BREEDER of the Celebrated Magie Hog. Also Light and Dark Brahma Fowls., Pigs flipped to all points by express. P. O. Ad- Sress, Woodstock, III., PKTER LEICKEM. REPAIRS Watches, Clocks and Jewelry of all kinds. Also Repairs Violins in the nest possible manner, on short notice and at rea sonable rates. Also Violins for Sale. Shop first door North of Riverside Block, McHenry HI. y F. KLEIFGEX St SON. CARRIAGE, Wasron and House Painting d««e on Short Notice. All work war- ranted. McHenry 111., South of the Public iquare. Poland China Swine GOOD Pigs for sale that was sired by Boars that took First Premium and Sweep- «takes .it State and County Fairs, from (10 to |15 ap iece. Wd are shipping to some of the best breeders in the country. For particulars apply to C. STREET A SON. Hebron, 111. T*7 4 XTnnT7T^ To make a permanent TV All J- iztxJ engagement with a *lergvman bavins leisure, or a Bible Reader, to Introduce in McHenry County, the CELE BRATED MEW Centennial Edition of the HOLY BIBLE. For description, notice edi torial in last week's issue of this paper. Ad dress at once F. L. HORTOX St CO.. Publish- ers and Bookbinders, 00 E. Market St.. Indian apolis, Ind. A. A. RICE D E N T I S T Has the permanently located his office at Riverside House, McHenry III. v those needing his service* Where he would be pleased to wait on all tig his services. . Full sets ot Artiitcial Teeth inserted for $8. The price of which 4 went v. None but the bestof has been fifteen and material used and gatisfactioniguaraateed. Partial plates at reasonably low figures. Gold and Silver fillings and No Fancy Prices. Special attention paid to the treatment of diseased and spongy gums, ulcerated and Irregular teeth. Would be glad to see persoM that fclve teeth that are not satisfactory. Call and have your te*th examined. Teeth extracted iu a careful and skillful manner. Ten years practice in Chicago where he has met with some very difficult cases. Gold fillings inserted by an entirely new method, by using gold wire anchors 'which pass partially throujrh the tooth making it Impossible for the filling ever to loosen.-- Samples of work seen at the Post Office, Mc Henry. JOS. WIEDEMANN --PROPRIETOR OF THE-- Batanrant and Boarfliit House, Near the Depot, MCHENRY,- - - ILLINOIS. The Choicest Brands of Wines for Medicinal and Family use always on hand. All the ac- ommodations of aflrst-class Boarding House, barges Reasonable. 49-Good Stabling for Horses. BUSINESS CARDS. E. PERKINS. WAGON Maker. McHenry, III. Jobbing promptly atteuded te. West of the Pnuiic Square. General Shop, E. BENNETT, M. D., SURGEON and Accowc.her. Diseases of Women a Specially. Office and Residence on Clay Street, Woodstock, 111. • ' » - V . J " -- " i DR. C. W. COX, DENTIST. Office Over Smith, Aldrich St Hay thorn's Store. Richmond, IlL • N.S. COLBY. MCHEKRY , McHenrv CO., III. Breeder of Mi-iiiio niirt'p, licrksjurt' and Poland China Swine. A choice lot of young Buck stock for sale. Please call and examine before buying elsewhere. ELECTROPATHY Dr. Samuel Sherman, . And Wife will be at their office in Weit McHenry, near the Depot, in South-east cor ner Lansing's Block, three days in each week, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, for the purpose of'treating all carable diseases. Con sultation Free, Office hours from from 9 A. x., to 4 r. M. J. A. SHERWOOD I AUCTIONEER. Algonquin, III. SALES of Stock, Farming Tools and Goods of all kinds promptly attended to. Farm sales a specialty. Terms reasonable. Post Dffice address Algonquin III. W. H. SANFORD, Merchant Tailoi*. In the «torc of C. H. Dickinson, East ude of Public Square, WOODSTOCK, ILL. A good Stock of Fine Cloths for Suitings al ways on hand. Suits made to oriler and a lit warranted- Give me a call. W. H. SANFORD. Woodstock 111.,Sept. 27th. 1875. ^ IW. ENGELN. C*TT TV - SM I T H. Scale Repairing, Grinding and Pol ishing Razors and Shears and Table Cutlery a speciali ty. Repairing of nil kinds done in Steel or Brass.-- All work warrant ed. Also dealer in Gnus. Revolver*, Table aud Pocket Cutlery, Gun and Fishing Material, Pipes, Cigars, Tobacco, Violin Strings. Ac. Shop and store near the Post Office, Mc Henry, 111. H. E. WICHTMAX, Proprietor. First class rigs, with or without drivers, at reasonable rates, ilone on short notice. . furnished Teaming of all kinds O. W. OWEN, WATCH MAKER & JEWELER, MCHENRY ILL., Dealer in all kind8 ot American and Swiss Watches, Clocks from the best factories in the country. Silver, platedwaro, Silver Spoons, Ac., ALSO AGENT FOR THE Weber and Bradbury Pianos , , AND THE ^ • , , - . V - . v , . Estey Organ ! Which we hellere to be the best Organ Tn the market. We tliuik we know that bv experi ence, and we believe it, for it is bucked up by the Best Musicians to the World. r also sell other Organs at less prices than the Estey, but can't reccommend th as good. July 23. em to be O. W. OWEN. Scott & Co., HATS CAPS & STRAW GOODS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 192 MADISON STREET COR. FIFTH AVE. And 123 Lake 8t, Cor. Cark CHICAGO, A Larger Stock of MEDIUM and FINE GOODS and LOWER PRICES than any other house in the. trade. JANESVILLE M» Kill, North Main Street. THE subscribers are now ready to exchange for wool, goods, such as plain and fancy Cassimeres, Doeskins, Tweeds, Satinets, La dies Cloth. Shootings. Shirtings, and a good variety of various kinds of Flannels, for dresses, Ac., Blankets. Stocking Yarn, Ac.-- All those goods will bo. exchanged for Wool or Cash, on the most reasonable torms. Custom carding and cloth dressing on the same terms as in former years. Carpets washed at live cents per yard. P. S.--All wool sent by express will be l>tly attended to. -Please send full or- ers bv mail. Want6dj""'™|*m exchange fbr goods eese and tall fELEU & Co. Reminicence of Old Times. EDITOR PLAINDEALER:--The ilrst of January 1839, the question of the division of the County was very gen> erally discussed. The citizens of what is now Lake County were, nearly unan imous in favor ef the division, and Dr. Richard Murphy, the Representative in the Legislature favored it; while the citizens residing in the territory that now comprises McHenry County, were opposed to the movement. Sev ern! meetings Were held in McHenry to see if some measures could not he adopted to prevent the conpurnation of a measure that would result so disas- terously to the interest of the village. Dr. Murphy advocated Fox River as the boundary line between the two Counties, which would divide the orig inal plat of the village, and which was violently opposed by the citizens of McHonry. Discussions on the subject was an every day occurence, until at last it was agreed in one of the>meet ings to raise a flind and send Dr. C. 6. Wheeler to Springfield as a lobby member to oppose the division, or rather, the power invested in him was, first, to oppose a division of the Coun ty; second, if it must come, to get range five set off or attached to Boon County and insist upon the line being established as far east of McHenry as the eastern Hue ef range nine, and thereby keep the County Seat at Mc Henry. He went on his mission to Springfield about the middle of Jan uary, found Dr. Murphy and told him what he was there for, and Murphy replied that it would not do him or those that he came for any good, for he intended to introduce a bill for a divi sion, and to establish Fox River as the line. The matter rested a while until the bill for a divisiou was drawn and about to be introduced, when several of Wheeler's friends waited upon Dr. Murphy and induced him to agree upon the line established, aud the Act for the division passed and was ap proved the 1st of March 1839. The writer of this remembers well a speech made in one of the meetings, in which the question of.attaching range five to Boon was dWussed. made by John Digging, father of Orson Diggins the Chairman of the present Board of Su pervisors, in which, after denouncing all in favor of the measure and showing the injurious effect it would have upon the people residing on that tract of country, he closed by beggiiig the citi zens of Slcllenry 44 for God sake not to commit an act so cruel,for if they did tie was a gone tuckerDr. Murphy afterwards was a candidate for Con gress, but could get no backers in Mc- Heury County. After the division of the County failed to see the smiling faces of Uenry B. Steele, who was the Sheritl; Charles 11. Bartlett, John G. Ragan, and others who were always present at our courts and other public occasions, and some of them, I think, after that, never made their appear ance iu Mcllenry until the first Old Settlers Meeting. On the third of May of that year a trial in the Circuit Court was had that ^excited a good deal of bitter comment «^d which, if lynching had been as citnmon thcn-,as It has since, the par ties .would never have had a trial in a civil court, and undoubtedly the count ry would have been greatly fceneflted if they had been treated in that sum mary way. It was the trial of Ston- tenburg and Wallace, lor robbing a Mr. Smith, at Coral, iu this County, of about $800. The evidence in the case was this, the two went to the house of Mr. Smith in the evening and demand ed his money, and upon his refusal they knocked him and his wife down, took a young Miss Smith by the arm and compelled her,under threats of her life--holding a pistol to her heart--to show them where the mouey was, which she did, and by that means they obtained it. Wallace was sentenced to eight years in the Penitentiary and Stontenburg five,who, while the Sheriff was taking them to Chicago, escaped, and Wallace served out his time. How much better it would have been to have hung them on the first tree as soon as arrested and rid the couutry of such desperadoes. There was another case that came there to be tried on a change of venue from Cook Couuty, in the fall of that year, that excited great iuterest and that was the trial of Otis Allen, who was charged, aud undoubtedly guilty, of forging caual checks to a very large extent. The case was placed up on the docket and then continued to the next term, the result of which will appear in my next cemuiufucation. S. S. Greenleaf, now of Waukegan, this year built a shoe shop of a good size and opened up a place to manufac ture, and also kept a pretty general assortment to sell. Other buildings and business houses were erected and the village assumed quite an impor tant position as a business place. Christy G. Wheeler erected quite a commodious frame hotel on the place now occupied and owned by the Hon. R. Bishop, aud also a small building on the opposite side of the street, which was rented by the several Caunty Officers and occupied by them until the Court House was built. Amury Thomas, the first lawyer that located in McHenry, also kept his library and office there, and in addition to its be ing the place where the official and le gal business was done, it was the only Church in the village, and as the officers of the county were not partic ularly sectarian in their religous views, It was thrown open on Sunday to Pres byterians, Baptists, Methodists and imiversalisis, aud on one occasion, the lale Bishop Chase (Episcopalian)* preached there. The Choir before mentioned attended all of the meet ings aud gave them some of their best music, and were always highly compli mented for their skill in the execution, especially by the Methodists, who used' to put it on pretty thick, many of us thought. Lake Coutny having become organ ized in AugUst of that year by the election of their officers A. B. Wyn Koop the Clerk of the Circuit Court re signed and was appointed to the same place in Lake County and was succeed ed by Isaac G. Wilson then a resident of Kane County, much to the surprise of the people of the.place. He never attended but two terms of Court when he resigned and went to Har vard Law School. He was a highly educates and very capable young man and before he left the place had very many warm personal friends. He has since presided in this County as Cir cuit Judge in a very able, impartial, and efficient manner. J. H. Johnson now of Woodstock who had been depu ty both under him and WnyKook and who had done pretty much all of the business of the County in that office, succeeded him. At this time McHenry had two hotels, one dry -goods and grocery store, one boot and shoe store, one blacksmith shop, one saw mill, one carpenter and joiner shop, one lawyer, one doctor, one minister and "one tailor. This year Henry W. McLean sold his interest in the Village Plot to Doct Haines of Bloomington, who used to visit the place quite often to look after his interest, and on one or two oc- occasioas was accompanied by David Davis Esq., then who a practicing law yer in Bloomington but who has since, occupied very high judicial positions and is at present a United States Sen ator from this State. lie was then a jolly whole souled fellow, weighed about one hundred and eighty pounds and would engage in any of the trials in our high Bogus Court with as much interest and zest as any of us. We all took a great fancy to hiui at that time, and I presume that none of us have cased to admire his great judi cial abilities and sterling independence of chijractef since Auld Lang Sind certainly has not. Nothiug more transpired this year of tany particular importa^M that 1 now think of. AULD I.AKG SINE; fl@Tl am sorry to be convinced by the unreasonable, vehement and incoherent antagonism to silver as money, in vio lation of all sound principles of com mercial and monetary science; in dis regard of the plainest lessons of histo ry; in manifest opposition to the interests of this nation as a debtor and a producer-of silver (more in debt than any other nation, aud a greater producer of precious metals than any other); in derision of the clearest laws for the interpretation of contracts that can be found upou the statute-books; in contempt of popular rights; and in disrespect of the losses and suffering^ of the people,--I am regretful to be convinced by the?e things, that there is iu this country a power great and uuscroifyulous, arrogantlj' asserting its divine right to rule over the people in the name of the financial integrity that it misconstrues and brutally dis regards. The gold policy is not good for America. Between Europe, repre senting gold, aud Asia, standing for silver, it is excelled that this conti nent should have the double standard. The double standard is the world's true standard, and we should stand for the world and for the people who do the world's work, against the enemies of silver,--the poor man's 44 old relia ble " money, good though all the banks break and nations fall. The abolish ment of silver as money would be a disaster of inconceivable proportions; and America, the producer of silver, and overshadowed by debt, would be idiotic to aid in dragging upou herself her greater share in so prodigious a misfortune to the people at large and to the industries of mankind.--Murat JIalstcad. Uncle Sain's Harness Oil fills and closes the pores of leather, effectually preventiug the entrance of dampness, cfiVSt, &c., and rendering the harness soft aud pliable, while at the feauae time increasing its durability. 4 V. THE 81LVKK QUESTION. AB ft question of the future public policy of the coitntry, the silver re monetization problem is not in any sense a party issue and cannot be made BO upon any line by which parties have ever been divided. It is, however, a question of the broadest statesman ship and of very grave importance to the industrial interests of the couutry From the English standpoint it seems to us that its policy of the single me tallic standard of values, and that met$4 gold, IK as sound as sound cau be- We can't see how to successfully ques tion it. But from the American stand point it seems to us that the bi-mecal- Hc measure of values--gold and silver --is the only sound oue for his coun try. And in this view let us look at a few facts. Half the coin of the world is silver.-- Cast out silver from the metallic cur rency and gold would be nearly doub led iu value-- Its purchasing power nearly twice that it is now. This pro position no sane mau will dispute, nor the conclusions from it, that such de monetizations of silver would nearly double the amount of industrial pro ducts which debtors would require in" order to liquidate their debts. Euglaud is a creditor nation. She also produces half the annual gold pro duct of the world from her Australian and New Zealand mines. Her states men, with characteristic fchrewdness, saw that as a creditor nation the more, she could increase the purchasing power of gold| the more of the industrial pro ducts of our nations she would get for interest and principal of debts they owed her. Then too her gold mlues would In the same ratio become more valuable. This being the situation, there was no more efficient method to put up her idol^ gold, than to debase its rival for currency, silver. Accordlugly that has steadily been her policy to put gold up and to put silver down. She has per suaded Germany and the United States to join her in this crusade against sil ver. The roMilt has been to knock silver down 13 per oeut. iu live years. And this fall in price has had another good cffcct for the British government. It has 160,000,000 subjects who use noth ing but silver. It needs large amounts •f silver then, and can now buy from ^up that silver at greatly reduced rates. England has been sharp! Was it sharp in the Americau Congress to be lioodwiuked by specious arguments to play into her hands ? Now let us look at the other side.-- The United States is a large producer 0i8ilver. Half the annual product of the world, and more, cotnes from our niiucs. We are a debtor natioa. By aiding to degrade silver we make a great mining productless valuable, and we make needful a large Increase of the amount of other products required to pay iuterest and debt. Aud this is not all. We desire to extend the mar ket for our products. Mexico, Central and South America and China afford the most favorable openings for closer commercial relations. A11 these peo ples, (save those of Brazil, Chill and the Argentine RcpublicXuse only sil ver coin, and they number 450 millions. We shipped almost 18 millions of silver (917,819,040) from San Francisco to China and the East Indies last year; while our exports of geld from the same port to the satae coijutries was less than half a million (#393,685). These facts show that it is just as clearly our interest to hold on to silver as coin as it is for England to got rid of it; and we undertake to say, that if we had 95 of silver in our currency for every person in the United States or $255,000,000 (as we might have had if Congress had so directed in 1873, in stead of demonetizing silver) specie payments, if not established before this, would now be safe and easy, and could be maintained with far greater assurance than it evei can be without a large element of silvtr coin. The great difficulties whioh now sur round the silver question have cotne because ef the demonetization in 1873; and the authors of that demonetiza tion are chiefly responsible for the present agitation. But these difficul ties are not insuperable. They can and will be overcome, a great wrong aud error corrected, and the true Amorlc^n policy of a double coin standard adopt ed and as firmly maintained by us as it has been by France during a finan cial struggle the most remarkable and the most successful that has ever oc- cured in the world's history. Germany demonetized silver to break down France financially, as completely as she had broken down her armies in the field. But she couldu' do it. France paid the thousand millions of gold in demnity and with the aid of her silver coin she is now suffering less industrial depression than her conquerer. Silver was not so easily killed. The bank of •f France now holds as m part of her 450 million reserves more than 300 Mil lions of silver, everv dollar of which contains grains less of silver than the dollar of our father* which eo many now take pleasure in denouncing as * "swindle." Spain, Italy, Belgium, Netiieriancfc and Switzerland also havo half their money in the same French silver dollar--the dollar of what Is called tl>e Latin union. Why ace n#t these countries, including France, the second commercial cation of Europe, dcsonncsd as hsnin«tef"?" Is if net tmje for our people to step and leek f o r f a c t s ? -- C h i c a g o G r o c e r . ^ . < WASHINGTON CHMSFIRSPOXNIESCAS!^:' ^ WASHING TOM. B. C. Felt «tb. W7& Ben Butler said, during the Sbcfra Session; that lie had a bat full of bricks iu reserve te hurl at and in the present Congress; and he threw out one of them a day or two ago--» scriptural brick as his brother Con gressman laughingly called It, for It is no common thing to hear a bluff, rough, BuMer quoting scripture. Th* occasion of it was the presentation of a memorial from the Norfolk Confer ence ef Unitarian Ministers of Mass, earnestly protesting against the pas sage of the Bland Silver Bill as derog atory to the honor of the country, and requesting all o( the Massachusetts members to vote against it, After the memorial was read, Butler asked for the Bible from the Speaker's desk, marked a passage and requested that the Clerk should read It. It was • part of the 2nd Chapter of John, the last sentence marked being uTbe zeal' of thine house hath eaten me ap." Bertha Von Hillen has been taking another walk in this city, accomplish ing one huudred miles in 28 hours with- uot sleep. The hall In which she per formed was crowded with spectators, many physicians, ministers and other professional gentlemen with their ladies being present. When the young pedestrleune finished Iter task, eleven minutes ahead of time, she walked again arouud the track amid great appeause. aud was then crowned by the members of the city press with flowers. The second snow storm of the season visited us yesterday, turning Into sleet and rain before the day had far advanced. No dandelions for us till Spring I fancy--we were beginning to think we should have them all the year. The newspapers of the couatry artj||> ways containing paragraphs auditeiil relative to "Society at the Capitol/* "SoqUity d'uties,"&c., and It is a fact that™ istom is more arbitrary on that poiut in this city than in any other place In this country. We can only deprecate the people who allow them selves thus to become the slaves uf usage. Of course, this refers only te what is known as the highest class In Society, which means the Presidential, Cabinet, Diplomatic aud CongresstOtt- tamilies,who live in bonds of aflUcttoa because of the demands of Society which they feel bound te meet. The mistress of the White Hoese receives one afternoon of each week and the public generally attends, with out ceremony or cards, and of course she knows not nor cares whom she re ceives; but the other official lndPes-- who also give regular receptions--feel obliged to return the calls they receive; and hence conies this eternal round ef calling and receiving that goes to the makiug up of a "Capitol Season." On some afternoous as many as six, seven or eight hundred calls are made at the house of a Cabinet Minister, whose lady must return them all, net only by card but iu person. Mrs. Robeson kept an account of the matters and said that she paid $40 a season for visiting cards alone, aud one of the Cabinet ladies the other day said that the names and addresses of calls te be returned (which excludes those of gentlemen) covered 16 pages in her visiting book-pages about the sixe ef roolscap paper. If this isn't slavery ef the absurdest sort, what is? The only reason they give for it is that they wish to do as far as possible in thla matter what their predecessors bvn done. r Gail Hamlllon (Miss Abagail Dodge) is here, receiving and visiting with Mrs, Blaine, meeting .and chatting * with high officials as Innocently as If Tribune letters were thiugs unheard ef. She is a most animated aud at tractive conversationalist and is never without a host of listeners. OLIVE. Disease and Doath, when they reach our own households, are too serions for jesting, \V© use our best endeavors to drive off the dread messengers, aud are only happy when wo feel that they are at a distance. At the first tpproauh of that fell destroyer, Consumption, in the shape of a cough or slight cold aa well as more severe Bronchial or Oa» tarrh Complaints, we should at oneeuse Eilert's Extract «f Tar and Wild Cher ry. It has no superior tu such eases. Every bottle warrauted to give satte* faction." Sold by all Diugfct** : «f • - T'tC1-