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mm W. . ̂ '.'•V < \ K ' ~tt; ¥i ' •••** •.. K:. ... . :t":i iiv •.:- .-•••,> . -jflS . - .»•,'>'* "'V, T-* v >'•«.:• if"mVA = V-t • S V . I . fc C-' # v%.;v • : Pledged but to Truthv to Liberty and Law; No Favors Win us and no Fear Shall Awe.'9 i* 4* M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1878. M«Hmp5 f Published Every Wednesday toy f" •* * -VJkJX SLYEfli Editor ami Publisher. Office in Old P. O. Block, * ' "-OPPOSITE RIVERSIDE HOVSBU--SR " C TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: #n« Yea*, (in Advance,) ....$1 80 j:j|f rtok Paid within Three Months 2 00 jiuhsvt'lplinns received for three or six months tttt the same proportion. >"v?V BUSINESS CARDS. % H. T. BROWN, M, It. HYSICtAN and S^geon. Ofllce ovev the Post Office, opposite Perry Martins Store, itp stairs McHenry III. r E. A. BEKRSM. D. tHrsiciAW and Surgeon. Office atresidence, two doors west of Post Office, McHenry •..W *50 . O. J. HOWARD, M D. BrsiCTAlf and Surgeon. Office at the Store of Howard A Son, McHenry, 111. S:V W. H. BUCK, M. D., vfcTOMEOPATHIC Phytic.lan and Surgeon.-- ./tl Office Kast Side "Public. Square, Wood- iftock. III. Ofllce hours 11 to 12 A. M., and 2 ;:#»4P. M. P. J. BARBIAN. IGAftlMtnufantu (-»«*, McHenry HI. Or- ders solicited. Shop North East corner Hblic Square. a A E. PERKINS. AGON Maker. McHenry, HI. General «jf V Jobbing promptly attended to. Shop, We»t of the Public Square. BIOIIAttD BISHOP, A TfORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. A. McHenry, 111. RICHAltD COMPTON. f^TUSTlCE of the Peace and Conveyancer.-- -Ill Will attend promptly to the collection of ^||ebt3. Volo, Lake County, 111. W GEO. A. BUCKLIN HOTARY PUBLIC, Conveyancer and Ih-surance Agent. Office at Bncklin A Iteven's Store, near the Depot, McHenry, III. JS. E. RICHARDS. i.S 2 complete Abstract 01 Titles to land in Mcllenrv County, Illinois. Office with ounty Clerk,.Woodstock, 111. ^tOBT. WRIGHT. anufactnrcr of Custom Made Boots and 8hoe6. None hut the bent of material sfised and all work warranted. Shop Northwest <j§orncr Public Square, McHenry, 111. E. M. OWEN. ^ENKRAL Dealer and Manufacturers JT Agent in Lendiug Farm Machinery, 'rices low and Terms favorable. MCHENRY. ILLINOIS. GOTTLEIB BOLEY. t»ALOOW an<i Ten Pin Alley, Lansings 15 Block', near the Depot, McHenry, Ul>-- Choice Brands of liquors aud Cigars always in hand, W:"V'" " GEO. SCI IRE IX tit. i;" p Al.OON and 'Restaurant. Nearly opposite . ,MJ the Parker House, McHenry 111. •'* *-tc» Otf-Firat.Class Billiard and Pool Tables. >$r J. BoNSLETT, ALOON and Restaurant. Nearly oppoeite Owen's Mill, McHenry, III. Fresh Oyster* rved up in any shape desired, or tor sale by the Can. «y«OOD STABLING FOR HOll8ES..fi» W. W. ELLSWORTH. rlrcederofthe Celebrated Poland China Hog > Also Light and Dark iirahiua Fowls. Pigs Shipped to all points by express. P. O. Ad- /Iress, Woodstock, III., % PETER LKICKEM. •IrjK PAIRS Watche«, Clucks and .Jewelry of all kinds. Also Itepilra Violins inthebest i-Msil>ln manner, on short notice and at rea- flonjhlc rates. Also Violins for Sale. Shop llrst door North of ilivorsidc Block, McHenry III. Poland China Swine GOOD Pius for sale that was sired by Boars that took First Premium and Sweep. Jtakes at State and County Fairs, from $10 to 15 apiece. We are shipping t«» some' of the Oest breeders in the country. For particulars fpplyto C. STREET A §ON. Hebron, 111. * -------- -------• • 11 • •-- \HT A TVTT,T?T^ To make a permanent ».TV iYi\ JL tu YJ enucaRement with a jllcrgyman havinar leisure, or a Bible Reader, f introduce in McIIenrv Countv, the CELK-RATED NKW Centennial Edition ot the OLY BIBLE. For description, notice edi- t»rial in last week's issue of this paper. Ad-ressatonce F. L. HOIlTOS & CO., Publish­ ers and BtKtkbinders, SO K. Market St.. Indian- tpolis, Ind. ^ Blivins' Mills or Spring Grove Grist Mill. loss & Sieiersleben, Proprietors. it Haring put this Mill in first class order, we •r« BOW prepared to do Custom Crinding Ob Short Notice and Warrant SatUfactioB« • Floar and Feed Constantly OP tiaafl And Sold as Low as any other Mill in the Oountv.' 49"The Highest Market Price in Cash Paid for Good Milling Wheat. Give as a call and we will give you satis­ faction, VOS3 & SIEDERSLEBEN. Blivins' Mills, 111., Aug. 27th, 1878. 1000 BOYS & GIRLS ifor the best B'JV'S and Girl's paper published In the West. Beautiful presents to subscrih. '•tors and agents. Every boy and srirl can earn Iots of monev v canvassing during leisure lours. Don't fail to send for it at once. To Introrluce it we will send to any address on trial three months, for 10 Cents In cash or 'postage stamps. Sample of paper and •particulars FREE- . Address |> D IT IT Household Gem, Cleveland, O- r n fc fc rtb 1 A(\ MONTHLY M ADE. Agents wanted l"/l/ Oountv rights given gratis f..r the ale of oeven well-known Standarfl Medicines needed in every family; reputation world, wide; established many- years; made by a celebrated physician; pij^ofs of evidence gi veti, Anl-ilustrious, energetic, person can make snn^permanent income and very liberal terms by> I IresMing with reference, 2S3 Cliestnu- treet, Philadelphia BUSINESS OAllDS. C. II. TRUAX. CARPENTER and Builder, Huhdai 111. -- Will put up buildings by the Job or d*]r, and guarantee satisfaction. E- V. ANDERSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN and Surgeon. Oltee^it {fil­bert's Drug Store, opposite the Parker House, McHenry, Itlinoic. E. BENNETT, M. D., SURGEON and Accoucher. Diseases of Women a Specialty. Office and Residence on Clay Street Woodstock, 111. DR. C. E. WILLIAMS. J^E^TIST, Algonqnin, III. All profit V?T: FRED. SCHNORR, MANUFACTURER OF ranled. feeth extracted and skillful manner. in careful DIV C. W. COX, DENTIST. Office Over Smith, Aid rich ft Hay thorn's Store. Richmond. Ill, SIDNEY DISBROW, New Store( near the Depo|^ McHENRY, ILLINOIS. Having remoteiJ to my new Store, I am now prepared to accommodate my customers in anything in the line ot Custom-Mads Boots and Shoes On short notice and warrant satisfaction. Being a workman of many years expe­ rience 1 am confident I can please all who give me a call, and as I use none but the nest of stock can guarantee as represented. •jii.-NOTARY PUBLIC and Conveyance den, 111. / g *1-- \y N. S. COLBY. "VfCHENRY, McHenry Co., 111. Breeder of ivl Spanish Merino Shoep, Berkshire and Poland China Swine. A choice lot of young Buckstock for sale. Please call and examine before buying elsewhere. ELECTROPAT HYi Dr. Samuel Sherman, An«l Wife w^ll be at their residence 1 % miles West iff the De;>ot, on the Woodstock road, three days In each week, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, for the purpose of treating all curable diseases. Consultation and Examinations Free. Office hours from 9 A. M., to I p. M. REFERENCES:--John Doran, Richard Bish- op, Martfti Welsh, Arthur Whiting, Leonard Bonslet, James Sutton, John M. Smith. F, K. <iranger, Geo. Gage, Hen. Gilbert, Horace Dweily, 11.F.Peck, Win. llutson, (ieo. Gilbert. J. A. SHERWOOD AUCTIONE ER AND APPRAISEB, Algonquin, III. SAT.ES of Stock, Fanning Tools and^ Goods of all kinds promptly attended to. sales a specialty. Terms reasonable. Office address Algonquin Hi. Give tile a call and I will try and please. ie pi ,-'s II *5"Remember the door West of Story' Place, new Block, lardware Store. one FRED SCHMQIt*- MeHenry, III., Oot^JOth, 187& Farr Post Geo, H. Stewart, Auctioneer. Richmond, III. 4 * If»a «n experience of 15 years, attt Will guarantee satisfaction in all cases, Where, sales entrusted to my care, are properly ad­ vertised, or no charge will be made Terms, i'rosn (5 to $10, according to amount of sale. " All orders addressed to Richmond, tit, will receive prompt attentiou. W. H. SANFOfm, Merchant Tailoi*. In the store of C. IL Dickinson, East side of Public Square, WOODSTOCK, ILL. A good Stock of Fine Cloths for Suitings al­ ways on hand. Suits made to order and a warranted- Give me a call. fit Woodstock 111..Sept. 27th, r. H. SANFORD. 1875. srA Bi.jP *1 / H. K . W l ' i I I T . M . V X , P r o p r i e t o r . First class rig<, i! h or without drivers, furnished «t reasonable rates. : Teaming of all kinds done on short notice. m. E N Q S L N - GU?{. SM I TH! / Scale Repairing, Grinding nnd Pol- Ishinjr Razors and Shears and Table Cutlery a speclali. ty. Repairing of all kinds done in Steel or Brass.-- All work warrant­ ed. Also dealer in Gnns. Revolver", _ . ' Table and Pocket Cutlery, Gun and Fishine Material. Pipes, Cigars, Tobacco^ Violin strings, Ac. Shop and store near che Post Office, Mc­ Henry, III. Scott Sc Co., WHOLESALE AND HBTAIL HATTERS! S. f. Cor Fifth Ave & Mafa BRANCH STORES S. E, Cor. Clark & Lake St's., & S. E. Cor. Haisted and Harrison Sts., CHICAGO. PIMPLES. I will mail (Free) the receipt for a simple Vegetable llalin that will remove Tan, Freckles, Pitn pies and blotches, leaving the skin soft, clear and beautiful; also instruc­ tions for producing a luxuriant growth of hair on a bald head or smooth face. Address, nclosing3ct. stamp, Ben Vandelf A Co., 20 Ann St., New York GRACE'S CELEBRATED SALYJB Is A VBOETABLE PREPARATION invented in the 17th centurv by Dr. William Grace, Surgeon in King James' army. Through its agency he cured thousands of the most serious sores and wounds that baffl­ ed the skill of.the most eminent physicians of his day, and was regarded by all who knew him "as a public benefactor. PRICE 25 CENTS A BOX./ * ^ GRACE'S CELEBRATED SALVE C U R E S Flesh Wounds, Frozen Limbs, Salt Rheum, Chilblains, Sote Breast, Sore Lips. Erysipelaa, Ringworms, Callages, Scald Head, Chapped Hands, Burns, Cancers, Felons, Scalds, Sores, ' ^Ulcers Wounds, Stings, -r Shingles, Festers, Wens, Sties, Piles, Abeess, Freckles, Bunions, Sprains, Boils, Bi tes, Cuts. Whitlows, Warts, ^ Blisters, Tan, Pimples, . Corns,v Scurvy, Itch, Ingrowing Nails, Settle Rash, Mosquito and Flea Bites, 8pider Stings, And all cutaneous diseases)and eraptioiTs generally. For sale by all druggists, grocers, and at all country stores throughout the United States ;oW i>--i prjC0 by 30 ct#| and British Provinces. HURRAH FORTHE HOLIDAYS M. Engeln, Next Door to the Post {MBce. nas just put in his store a large and wall selected stock of Good* for the HOLIDAY TRADE, Consisting In part of Toys, Candles. Nuts, Jewelry, Musical Instruments, a full line of Notions, consisting of Pins, Needles, Sus­ penders, Handkerchiefs-Stockings, Ac. Alsoa tull line of Pocket and- Table Cut­ lery, steel Violin Strings, (something new) Hunting and Fisbiug Tackle, Revolvers, Ac. These goods were all bought for cash and will be sold lower than ever before offered In this sounty. ^olck Sales ol wfl Prolts," Is mv motto. The choices stock' of Tobacco a|^Cigars in town.' Call and see my goods and learn prices be­ fore purchasing. M ENGELN. McHenry, Nov. 17th 1878. C, & N. - W. LI>ES. THB OHtCAOO A HOBTH.TK8TRiy<AltV41 Embraces under one management/tlie Great Trunk Railway Lines of the WEST and NORTH-WEST^ and, with Its numerous Branches and connections, forms the Hiortesl and quickest route between Chicago alyl all points in Illinois, Wisconsin, Northern Michi- gan, Minnesota, Imva, Nebraska, C%lif(\rnia and the Western Tci^itories. Its Omaha and California Li Is the shortest and best route between Chi^l go and all points in Northern Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, China, Janan and Australia. Its Chicago* St Paul A Minneapolis Line- is the short line between Chicago and all points in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, and for Madison, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Du-| luth, and all points in the Great Northwest. Its LaCrosse. Winona ft St. Peter Line Is the best route between Chicago and La­ Crosse, Winona, Rochester, Owatoima, Man- kato, St. Peter, New Ulni and all points in Southern and Central Minnesota. Its Green Bay & Marquette Line Is theonly line between Chicago and Janes- ville, Watertown, Fon du lac, Oshkosh, Ap ple.ton. O.reen Bay, Escanaba, Negaunee, Mari{iictte, Houghton, Hancock and the Lake. Superior Country. Its Freeport & Dubuque Line Is the only route iKUween Chicago and Elgin* Rock ford,' Freeport and all poiuts vii Free- port. Its Chicago & Milwaukee Line Is the old Lake shore Route, and Is the only one |>assing between Chicago and Evanston, Lake Forest, Ilighlnnd Park, f*raukegan, Racine Kenosha and Mil waukee. Pullman Palace Drawing Room Cars are run on all through trains on this road. This is the ONLY LINE running th9*e carl between Chicago and St. Paul and Minne­ apolis, Chicago and Milwaukee, Chicago and Winona, or Chicago and Green Bay. Close connections are made at ChicAgo with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Mich­ igan Central, Baltimore and Ohio, Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne, A Chicago. Kankakee Line and Pan Handle Routes, for all jMtints EAST and SOUTH-EAST, and with theChicajfo and Al­ ton and Illinois Central for all points SOL TH. Close connections are also made with the Union Pacilie R. R., atOinaha for all far Wesl poiots. Close connections made at junction Ipolntf with trainsof all cross points. 1 Tickets over this route are sold bv sll Cou­ pon ticket agents in the United States and Canada. Remember youaak for your tickets via the Chicago A Northwestern Railway and take none others. New York Office. No.415 Broadway; Boston Office, No, 5 State 8treet; Omaha Office, 243 Farnham Street; San Francisco Office. 122 Montgomery Street; Chicago Ticket Offices. 62 Clark Street, under Sherman House; 78 Canal, corner Madison StiwtV Kinzie Street Depot, corner W. Kinzie and Canal Streets; Wells Street Depot, corner Wells and .Kinzie Streets. For rates or information not attainable from your home tic,ketagents, apply to A CKEDITOR NATION. Th«* New York Tribune shows that the United States Is rapidly becoming »creditor nation In the world's ex* changes. Only a few years ago it was estimated that this country owed fif­ teen htindred million abroad, And was increasing its debt on trade accounts two hundred millions yearly, Now the government debt held abroad has been so reduced that it is very difficult to get together in London the bonds desired when balances to this country are to be pftld in bonds or coin; its corporate and other indebtedness to foreign countries has been greatly reduced; and the official return!* of commerce for ten months endlug October 31 at, show that we are paying foreign debts at the rate of over two hundred mil- Hone yearly. The balance of mer­ chandise account in our favor is $237,- 000,000 for ten months, the exports of merchandise reaching the enormous aggregate of $599,000,000. Moreover, imports of specie exceed exportsjn the month of October by $2,096,807, and during the ten months by •3.416,261.-- It Is not unreasonable, in view of the delay in moving the cotton crop from the Mississippi Valley to presume that the export?7or~NT>v«4iiber and Decem­ ber will compare with impTn-trequally well, and if so, the apparent trade bal­ ance for the year will reach about •287,000,000. Tills surprising change has been made by the concurrent influence of several powerful causes. First among these must be ranked the vast progress In our industries, not merely in quan­ tity of products, but in reduction of the oost of them. Free labor is better than slave labor, and therefore cheap­ er in the end; we produce more cotton with free labor than was ever grown under the slave system, and it can be sold at a lower rate with profit. ing on a large scale, and by the all the marvelous inventions years, lias brought us not only crops of wheat than were ever in tills country before, but at a production so low that Western ers make haste to sell, although are lower than they have been for about thirty years. Our manufactures, on the other hand, have been so great­ ly developed in the direction of econ­ omy of production that foreign goods have been in a large degree excluded from our markets by the superior ex­ cellence aiid cheapness of domestic products. With these concurring change*, it is natural that we buy less and sell more, and so extinguish rap­ idly the Indebtedness accumulated in the years when we bought much and sold little. Farm- aid of of late larger grown cost of farm- prices Movement to Kegulate Presidential Elec­ tions. Senator Edmunds,of Yermont.callcd up in the^Jnited States Senate his bill providing a ^ay for the election of President andYVice Pre&ident which shall avoid the\ damages and excite­ ment consequent to the election of 1876. \ Mr. Edmunds* Dili, which was re­ ported last May from the Select Com­ mittee, to whom the subject was re­ ferred, provides the Presidential elec­ tion shall be held on the first Tuesday In October, and that the electors shall meet in the diflerent States on the sec­ ond Monday In January following.-- This gives more than three months to decide questions of disputed elections in the States, and the bill provides that each State shall regulate for itself the manner in which snch disputes shall be determined, aud that the determin­ ation made according to such regula­ tions in each States shall be final and conclusive. Ccngress is to meet on the 6ecoud Monday of February to open the electoral votes and count them, and the bill provides that where there is but one return from a State It shall not be rejected without the concurrent vote of both houses, while where there are two or more returns only that one shall be counted which.is. received by the concurrent vote of both houses.-- That is to say, both houses concurring may reject the vote of a State, if ob­ jection is made for cause to its recep­ tion where there ts only one return, but if there are two none can be recei­ ved without the concurrence of both houses. Cyclopedia of Krtglli.li Ltterattue. Brief biographies of ail noted au­ thors, Brl tish or American, who have written in the English language, from earliest times to the present, with specimens from their writings, the whole comprised In eight handy vol­ umes of over 3,000 pages, making a work not only thoroughly entertain' ing and useful to all Intelligent read ers, but well nigh indispensable to peo­ ple of culture. The first edition of this work w at published by Oh ambers, of Editiburg, in 1843, and in various editions since that time it has had a very wide sale, and established a rep* utntion that makes present commen­ dation of its merits superfiuons. The great attractions of the present newly-revised edittou is its convenient form, similar to that of the famous "Tauchnitz" and"Little Classics" pub* licatlons; its clear, bold type, excellent paper and its low price, which Is cer­ tainly extraordinary. The entire work is furnished, free of express or mail charges, for $2.00 in paper, 93.00 In cloth, or $4.50 in half morocco. It is published by the American Book J5r- change, New York, in connection with their Book Exchange Weekly, slid the principal reasons given for its l<w price are, that it is intended to s$rve as a means of making their paper more widely known, they sell only to pur­ chasers direct. Instead of giving the usual fifty oralxty per cent, discount to dealers or agents to sell for them; and, further, that they ofier it to early subscribers M an extra reduction, which tard^ purchasers will have to "pay an extra profit to compensate. Volume one will be issued before the holidays, in time for those who de­ sire to give it appropriate use at that time, and the remaining volumes will appear, one or two each month there­ after, as rapidly as it can be Issued from the press. Specimen pages will be sent to any one. at Gnce, on request by postal card, addressed to the AMKRICAN BOOK EXCHANGE, 56 Beek- man Street, New York. MABVIX HUGHITT ticneralSupt. W. H. STINNETT, Gen'l Passenger Agev t&"A most remarkable railroad ac­ cident happened not very long ago on tiie No/thwestern road between Lon­ don aud Liverpool. A man and his wife Arere traveling in a compartment aloije, when, the train, going at the rat£ of sixty miles an hour, an iron rail projecting from a car on aside track cut to the carriage and took the head of woman clear off and rolled it into liiisbaud's lap. He subsequently lie company for damages, and d great surprise in court by giv- age as thirty-six years, al- his hair was snow white. It it turned from jet black by the r of that event. ' COLL TllR HRRM If any class of farmers need "line upon line" to induce them to see the' road to success, it is the dairymen. They keep cows for the supposed profit they bring, and they live in blissful ig­ norance that they are doing this labor for amusement. Yet they seldom make an inquiry into the actual perfor­ mance of individual cows. They make no efiort to separate the good from the unprofitable. We have known several herds that paid so poor a return that the owner became discouraged and concluded that dairying must usually be carried on without reasonable profit; but by testing the individual yield and quality of these herds It was found in one case that the loss was made on three cows otit of eight, the five pay­ ing a reasonable profit, while the three poor ones sunk this: in another case eight cows sunk the profit on twenty. There is seldom a herd of twenty cows that does not contain some that pay a good profit: a few herds, compartively, of that number that do not contatii one or more that are kept at a loss. The selection of cows should be considered one of the first practical principles of dairying. |&*The sage barrens of Nevada are found to be excellent for the raising of Cashmere goats. A single herder near Carson has a flock of over 3,000, and is making money from them. In the summer there is plenty.of grass among the bitter sage-brush to feed unlimited numbers of these animals, and, when the winter comes, the frost at once sweetens the bitterness of the sage and turns It, Into pasturage quite as nourishing and pleasant to a goat's palate as the food he finds in the sum­ mer. By this provision of nature these animals are kept at little or no expense. Their fleeces are-sald to ex­ ceed in fineness and silkiness of texture that produced 'n their native country. Heretofore the barrens have been re^ garded as almost worthless.. ®SrMDo you think." writes a young student of human economy, "do you think the human race is decaying?" Not at all, not at all. Part of It isn't decaying because ft Is yet alive, and the portion of it that is dead doesn't decay because the medical student don't give it a chanoe. Oil no, the hu­ man race was never, in all its history, so well protected against decay as at present. Be thankful that you live in an age when the grave has been to shorn of its power that 11 can't hold a man so long as a sieve would hold a spooiifull of quicksilver. fg^It iobks as though Canada was becoming ekt^vagant If not reckless. Although now deeply in debt, she has just put a new loan Of 115,000,000 upon the London market. She may be high­ ly favored In leaving distinguished Governor-Generals, but this^ruubing so into debt has a bad look. W NO. 22. V gp •m WASHINGTON COiUtKSPOMJJ NCJIS. WASHINGTON, D. G. Dec. ifith, 1878, The President remembered every­ thing in his message, although many complain that be passed over some things with leas emphatic mention than they deserved. Bui the moat fault-finding give him credit, at least, of forgetting nothing--from the appro­ priation of 325.000 tor Attorney Qeitl, Devan'a use down to the omelioratlon of cruelty to unfortunate animals an<$ to the mitigation of Washington's quite as unfortunate river-front. That river-front question was considerably agitated last summer when every mail was^ingingus such heart-ren­ ding tidings from the plague stricken districts In the South. Men said that the coudition of the " Potomac front was such as to invite a similar pesti­ lence to our city and that neglectof Its Improvement was m* Mij «riost- nal but suicidal. ' Congress has little time to waste this session. Hundreds of bills are on its hands atid time given to political dis­ cussions and party debates is so modi taken from the country's business, the settlement of which really needs all the allotted time. But notwithstand- IngTthe speechifying on Blaine's reso­ lutions, the manner of choosing U. S. Presidents, exchanging silver dollar* for trade dollars, &c., Congress has been unusually industrious thus tar, the House having passed no less than 4 appropriation bills in five days, with a promise from the Committee of the disposal of two more before the holi­ days. But should any number of the 60 working days before the Forty-fifth Congress be devoted to recriminations and personal contests the disgraceful result must needs be, as Mary Clommer / | says, "talnee! talkeel flghtee! fighteeI with the legal tender, the Congres­ sional library, the river front, to say nothing of trade, Indnstry, agriculture, and the animals left to their fate in the inglorious rear of the patriots who love their tongues so much more 'than their country. ' In long sessions# however. It la a noticeable fact that three-quarters of the time is utterly wasted and then, at the end, important matters are often greatly hurried and"jumped." So the accomplishment- of as much necessary legislation is possible in three months as in six or ten. Society is quiet yet. The season does not really open till New Yean Day is over, Several sumptuous din­ ner parties have been given--bat only to gentlemen--among prominent peo­ ple, politicians mostly; but the round of receptions, dancing parties and simi­ lar entertainments, which last? trom New Years to Lent, and which com­ promise what is known as the "Capi­ tal Season" Is still in the prospectlve.- It begins just at the time that the fine weather, which we are now enjoy­ ing in all its fullness, leaves us. Up to the very door of the New Year these lovely, lovely days--tardy loi­ terers in retreating Summer's wake- come back and throw their balmy sun­ shine into Winter's very face. The investigations recently madehjr the Senate Committee on Territories have developed some remarkable facta 4o which Congressional ottention will •oon be called In connection with th# proposed organization of the Indian Territory. It is not generally known but it Is nevertheless true, that there are now more than 9,000 negroes in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations cwho were formerly slaves and who si nee the emancipation, have been in­ vested with none of a citizens rights and privileges but on the contrary, are bebarred from voting, holding office or obtaining education. It is for their advancement and benefit that the In* fluent* of Congress will be peti­ tioned* OUT*. v*#fT2 i •' <i < !v>if. ? -i J0rThe business prospect hopeful and encouraging, if bnngllng intermed'Uers at Washington would consent to let well enough alone. We have sent to foreign lands during the ten months ending Nov. 1, $237,000,000 worth of goods more than they have sent to us, which iR $72,000,000 better then we did a year ago.instead of sending our gold and bult|i|l4»ist of the country, as we have been wityig.. ft is now coming back to as from abroad.-- It Is most hopefnl that economy and thrift are taking the place of wild ex­ travagance, and the stimulus given to our manufacturers, enabling them to compete in the markets of the Old World with those who have long held the monopoly, opens new fields which their enterprise will be sure to cultl- -yate..:^, f: • •rWi*1 . ; . 'wV J . - j . serAltrany JnurAal: To w$ont Tlr may concern: The undersigned paid that $5,500,000 for mackerel to John Bull, not because he either thinks him­ self a sardine or Bull a whale; but for the sole and only reason that making the award were bull-heads. V * 1 * .•* i i * • - i 4, 1' « * * . "v ' vpSewi .w"; V- I J > • $ * *'i & 1 * -• !&*•*<•; v .ti.*:' • r ; a#