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^t|iifnrg flainflealn I. VAN SLYKE. E4 I i 1 i MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. ' A W«8T VIRGINIA man has patented ** postal card with a pocket attachment io inclose a stamp for reply. FIVE American expeditions are hunt­ ing for the North pole. Unless the pole Is exceedingly cautions it will be caught. THE late Judge Clifford's law library, which was left to his three sons, is re­ ported to be the finest in the country. It is insured for $20,000. THE wheat crop east of Cascade mountains, Ore., will be nearly 100,000 tons. The surplus for export will be flom 30 to 40 per cent, greater than last year's. MB. JAMXS G. FAIR heads the person­ al assessment roll in San Francisco with $42,200,000. Mr. J. C. Flood is assessed at $36,500,000 for himself and $20,500,- 000 as trustee for J. W. Mackey. Mr. Charles Crocker is assessed at $20,000,- 000. ______ A BEMAKKABLB structure is just about oompleted in New York, to be called the "Home for Homeless Boys." It cost $300,000, and was erected by means of a subscription, no one person giving more than 25 cents, and therefore represents the contributions ol 1,200,000 people. ligious belief, there are now in Ireland 13,951,888 Roman Catholics and 1,168,842 Protestants. The Catholics are, there­ fore, rather more than three to one over the Protestants Previous to the great famine of 1847 thev were six to one. THB exports of the United States were valued at $715,895,825 in 1879, and at 1841,500,388 in 1880, while for the year ended June, 1881, they were $902,319,- 000--by far the largest yet recorded. The imports of last year, on the other hand, had been twice exceeded and 1880. Their value is estimated to be $642,593,000. While there has been a gain of some $60,000,000 in exports, the falling off in imports has been so decided that the volume of trade both ways is some $50,000,000 less than last year's totaL To this extent the balance of trade has turned in our favor. We have sold to foreign nations $259,000,- 000 more of merchandise than we have bought from them, and the balance has come to us in gold or bonds. England, Franco and Germany are the only na­ tions which now report a larger foreign commerce then the United States, and the margin between the two centinental nations and this country is so slight that it may easily be wiped out. Louis LEBLANC, a convict in the peni­ tentiary near Montreal, spent fourteen days in cutting a hole through a three- feet wall into an empty cell, using a bit I per cent, of iron from his bed. He then descend­ ed to the ground floor and jumped through a window to the yard, where he scaled a twenty-five-feet wall with a scantling torn from a shed. MR. EDWARD RICHARDSON, of New Orleans, is said to be probably the wealthiest cotton-planter in the world. His possessions are estimated at $8,000,- 000. Mr. E. J. Gay, a planter and own­ er of a sugar refinery, is another rich Louisianian; he has from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000. These are the two wealth­ iest men in New Oi leans. A PENNSYLVANIA railroad gave an ex­ cursion into Delaware, and some of the excursionists helped themselves to a farmer's fruit. He didn't rush out with a shot-gun or rush tor a ooustable, but brought suit against the railroad com­ pany which brought the marauders to his place, and, strange as it may seem, he got judgment for the amount of loss incurred. THB British census shows that the in­ crease in the population of the kingdom has been unexpectedly great. The per­ centage of increase has been rising in recent decades. The rate of growth de­ clined continually from the beginning of the century until the decade ending in 1851, when it was only 2| per cent. Since then it has been slowly increasing, and the rate for the last decade was 10 J The rate iu the United States is nearly 30 per cent. -Nearly all the increase in the United Kingdom is to be attributed to England and Wales. The gain in Scotland almost exactly balances the loss in Ireland. The increase in the former was 374,352, while the decrease in the latter was 252,538. In England the density of population has increased in the towns, manufacturing districts and cities, while it has decreased in the rural regions. It is a noteworthy fact that Great Britain is gaining relatively upon France. Early in the century the populations of the two countries stood in the ratio of 10 to 15; they are now iu the proportion of 35 to 37. Ia Three Hundred Tears. An English author named Willis D. Hay has given to the world a verv re­ markable book, entitled "Three Hun­ dred Years Hence." Hay's work indi­ cates his possession of a wonderful imag­ ination. He has endeavored to tell something of the world and its popula­ tion in 2181, aud his attempt bristles with startling ideas aud wonderful theo­ ries. He describes the rise of Socialism and predicts that the Land League agi­ tation will involve Great Britain in a civil war, which will destroy her commerce and pave the way for her downfall. 1 g-o Upon the ruins of crumbling empires 1 will be founded a world-wide republic. A Yankee will invent an annihilating machine which will make wars impossi­ ble. The disappearance of armies and forts will make the universal republic stronger. The new force is discovered. By means of this, man walks on the floor of the ocean and forces his way through the bowels of the earth. Great caverns are discovered at enormous depths, and as the surface of the earth becomes crowded colonies are planted in these, and mighty domes shaped like diving bells, built upon the bed of the ocean and running up above the level of the water, afford temporary and permanent abodes to thousands. They cultivate sea weeds, and vegetables, aud fibrou submarine plants for textile fabrics and dyes. Later the internal fires of the globe are made available for heating purposes. With their aid the frozen regions around the poles are rendered tropical. The vine aud banana flourish there, and the long arctic night is made brilliant with electric lights. In time the population of the globe becomes so dense that the Ecumenical Council, the head-center of Government for the States of Humanity, decides that the four or five millions of ,;acrea covered by the habitations of men must be brought under cultivation. The population of the globe betakes itself to cities built upon piles in the seas, houses are de­ molished, and every inch of the earth's surface is cultivated for food. The Cap­ itol wherein laws are made for the world is located at Terrapolis, a city of 10.000,- 000 inhabitants, built in the South Pacific Sea. It is ornamented with a few of the most remarkable buildings in the ancient world, including the Cathedral of Cologne, the Tower of London, the Vatican, and the great Pyramid. A book of this character ought to make fascinating reading. How much of truth there may be in it the reader alone can determine. The predictions which Hay makes are founded upon scientific data. It is a pity that we cau't live to see the wonderful changes he has in his mind's eye. their progress is slow as compared with those of London. One company has a municipal monopoly and owns" all the lines. The omnibuses on the several lines are of different colors, and the lines are lettered from A to Z and from A B to A Z. In 1875 there were in Lon­ don about 1,500 omnibuses, employing nearly 7,000 persons. The numlH r was formerly much larger in proportion, for, in 1844, one company employed 1,40.) omnibuses. But a large part of the city and suburban travel is now carried on tramways and undertrronud railways. In New York city one was made in 1830 and run upon Broadway. In 1853 the number ot these coaches employed upon various lines was 429. This was a con­ siderable reduction from the number of former years, owing to the construction of horse railroads, and by 1873 the num­ ber was reduced to about 200. What of tfce INSURANCE law seems to have as many vagaries as " Crowner's 'quest law. Two recent decisions are of interest to those who leave their houses unoccupied dur­ ing the summer vacation. In the first case the insured had a policy which pro­ tected his summer residence unless it should " become vacant or unoccupied." He was in the habit of residing in it with THK experiment of running a locomo- I his FAMUY from Ma? to November, but five without brakes has just been sue- j winter it was left to the care of oessfully tried by the Delaware, Lacka- *** farmer- who lived near bJ- He him" wanna and Western Railroad Company. ^^d it, also, about onoe a fort- The locomotive is of ordinary pattern, ni«ht- to 8e® that i4 was &n riKbt A but has an extra pipe leading from the ! ?ear *8° lt was burned» and tho Nfew boiler to the steam chest, by which J York Court of Appeals sustained the in- power can be applied against the piston, checking the engine, and enabling the engine to reverse without " hauling over." aurance company in its refusal to pay the loss because the house was " unoc­ cupied." In order that a house should be occupied, the court said, there must be human beings in it using it as their A HOBDR of sacrilegious youths j customary place of abode. The other amused themselves by engaging in a I case was upon another policy on the match game of base-ball in a Philadel- i same property. But, in this case, the phia graveyard, and, without any regard policy provided that the company should for the sacredness of the resting-place of not be liable if the house " became va- the dead, the players did not hesitate to j cant or unoccupied." The court held utilize the toppling and as e-worn tomb- j the company liable on the ground that, stones for bases, and one grave served as while the house was unoccupied, it was a brace for the pitcher's right foot. The not "vacant" as long as the furniture catcher stood in a half-sunken grave to ! and cooking utensils were in it. The play his part of the game, and the field- j moial evidently is, read your policies men seemed to take an especial delight through carefully. in seeking positions on graves and tomb­ stones. THE postal card came into use in this country very rapidly. The issue of cards was authorized by an act of Con­ gress iu 1872, and the proposals for furnishing them were published in the following January. The estimated num­ ber required f >r the first twelve months was 100,000,000, but 11,000,000 more were actually used. The following table shows the number of cards issued by the department each year since their adoption: For the year ending June 30,1873, (two months on'y) SI,091,000 For the year ending June 30, 1874 l»l,07!(.00<) For the year ending June 30, 1875 107,(>16,000 For the year ending June ao, 1878 1.0.UCO.OOO For the year en-'in^ June 30, 1877 170.000 0 >o For the year ending J line 80, 18 8 v0'.>,630,iHJ0 For t e year ending June 30, 18711 2ii,7s*7,oi<0 For the year ending June 30, 18-0 369,754,000 For the year ending June 30, 1881 308,9t)8,u00 P DURING the first quarter of the year 1881, 2,228 marriages occurred in New York city. Of the 2,2M men ocly 1,003 were natives, leaving 1,225, or 55 per cent., of foreign birth. Of the 2,228 females, 1,218, or 54 per cent., were na­ tives. Of native males 844 took native wives, so only 37 per cent, of the 2,228 oouples were natives on both sides. Of the native-born brides--1,218 in all-- 844 took native husbands, 204 married Germans, 47 English, 41 Irish, 9 Scotch, 9 West Indian. 7 Austrian, 7 Russian, 5 Canadian, 5 Bohemian, 5 Italians, 5 French, 4 Danish, 3 Swiss, 3 Spanish, 2 Belgian, 2 Hollandish, 2 Norwegian, 2 Swedish, 2 unknown, and 1 each of Welsh, Portuguese, Turkish and Aus­ tralian. IN every national exodus men move more rapidly than women. The result of forty years of emigration has been to leave a great excess of women over men in Ireland. The census returns of the present year show that this is the com­ mon effect without regard to religious denomination or geographical distribu­ tion. With the Roman Catholics the proportion is 1,936,058 males to 2,015,- 833 females ; with the Episcopal church it is 275,608 to 302, *<85; with the Pres­ byterians it is 234,951 to 250,552; and with the Methodists 22,792 to 24,877. Beside a f.-w of other denominations and some who refused to give their re* Curious Growths In Old Nevada Mines, A gentleman who recently had occa­ sion to explore the chambers, drifts and caverns of the old deserted Mexican and Ophir mines says that fungi of every imaginable kind have taken possession of the old levels. In these old mines, undisturbed for years, is seen a fungus world in which are to be seen a counterfeit of almost everything in our daylight world. Ow­ ing to the warmth of the old levels and to the presence in them of a certain amount of moisture, the timbers have been made to grow some curious crops. Some of the fungi ill the old chambers are several feet in height, and, being snow white, resemble Bheeted ghosts. In places are what at a little distance appear to be white owls, and there are r* presentations of goats with long beards, all as white as though carved in the purest marble. The rank fungus growth has almost closed some of the drifts. The fungi are of almost every imagin­ able variety. Some kinds hang down from the timbers like great bunches of snow-white hair, and others are great pulpy masses. These iast generally rise trom the rocks, forming the floor of the drifts, and seem to have grown from something dropped or spilled on the ground at the time work was in progress years ago. These growths have in sev­ eral places raised from the ground rocks weighing from ten to fifty aud «eveu 100 pounds. Some of the rocks have thus been lifted more than three feet. In the higher levels, where the air i£ comparatively dry, the fungi are less massive in structure than below, and are much firmer in texture. Some resemble rams' horns, as they grow in a spiral or twisted shape, while others, four or five feet in length anil al>out the thickness of a broom-handle, hang from the cap timbers like so many snakes suspended by the tails. One kind, after sending out a stem of the thickness of a pencil to the length of a foot or two, appears to blossom--at least, produces at tae end a bulbous mass that has some resem­ blance to a flower. In all the infinite variety of these underground fungi it is somewhat strange that not one was seen at all like those growing upon the sur­ face in the light of day. Nothing in the nature of toadstools or mushrooms was found. " AN ALDERMAN of Ottawa has made a living-machine which is somewhat less of a failure than most inventions of the sort Starting from an el.'vat ion of filty feet he was able to keep in the air for a distance of about a quarter of a mile. '1 he contrivance has wings worked by a crank. A Qneea In Her Own Right. _ What is pride ? Pride is the posses­ sion which constantly urges u* to rise above our fellow beings. Pride is the chief oause of the rise and fall of thrones, of feuds among families and friends, of wars, of duels, of discords which we would never witness were it not for the odious sentiment, pride. Pride of wealth and fame, of beauty and accomplish­ ments, of ancestry, all these are differ­ ent kinds of false pride. Pride of wealth heads the list. What is not done to obtain riches ? Even in this enlightened era, m my would sell their souls to the legendary fiend of mediaeval limes, if possible, to obtain more wealth than their neighbors. Fame comes next. What horrors are not passed through in order to beoome Eotoiious, in order to leave to posterity a name covered with glory; to attain the eminent higlits of power and domineer over nations ? Then comes prido of beauty, which, though seeming les-» powerful, is stronger yet than all other kinds of pride com­ bined. A beautiful woman's aim in life consists in lightening her style of beauty, in becoming the belle of society and airing her accomplishments. A1 her better feelings are sacrificed to pride. Last, but not least, comes the foolish pride of ancestry, a doting hobby of narrow-minded people who prefer the man with a pedigree to an honest one. Are not all honest men equal ? Thrice blessed be America, my native laDd, where the fixger of soorn is not pointed at a man not descending in direst line from barons of the feudal times. My dissertation against sinful pride does Rot imply that we should be entirely devoid of honest pride. We must, on the contrary, be very proud of an un­ sullied name, of a pure career, of a life of goodness and of all honorable act­ ions and virtues. A Kentucky girl, most beautiful and accomplished, the reigning belle of the fashionable circles of New York, New Orleans and Washington, while visiting Rome, was presented to the Pope. "Kneel, my daughter," said he, as she stood erect in her imperial grace before him; "all kneel to me except the daughters of sovereigns." "I am a princess in my own right, your Holiness," she replied. " How can that be, when you are an American born ? " "In my country the people are sov­ ereigns, and I am a daughter of the people." The Pope smiled a gracious assent, saying: "Then receive an old man's blessing." The Irish Highwayman. An Irishman, finding his cash at low ebb, resolved to adopt " the road" as a professional means of refreshing the ex­ chequer ; and, having provided himself with a huge horse-pistol, proceeded forthwith to the conventional "lonely common" and lay in wait. The-no less conventional " farmer returning from the market with a bag of money," of course, soon appeared, to whom enter Pat with the regulation highwayman of­ fer of choice, "your money or your life !"--a remark fortified by the sinm - taneous exhibition of the fire-arm in the nsual way. The farmer, who was a Quaker, essayed to temporize. •' I would not have thee stain thy soul with sin, friend; and didst thou rob me of my gold, it would be thett; and didst thou kill me, it would be murder. But hold ! A bargain is no sin, but a commerce be­ tween two honest men. I will give thee this bag of gold lor the pistol which thou boldest at my t ar." The unsus­ pecting amateur Macbeth, yielding, perhaps, to the Quaker's logic and solici­ tude for his spiritual welfare, m ule the exchange without a moment's hesitation. "Now, friend," cried the wily Ephr&iui, leveling the weapon, "give me back my gold, or I'll bio# tliy brains oat!" "Blaze away, thin, darlint!" said Pat. "Sure there's niver a dlirop of powthor in it 1"--The resuit was a sold Quaker.-- Chambers' Journal. The Omnibus. The long coach called an omnibus, with the entrance behind and the seats along the side, facing each-other, or igi­ nated in Pans in 1827, and in 1831 it began to come into use in London. In large cities it is found the most econom ieal form of carriage, except those run­ ning on rails, for conveying the largest number of passengers through the streets. In Paris the public omnibuses are numerous and commodious, though the Indents Tkovght Moon. Nor is it to be marveled at, when we consider that this planet was t e most brilliant and changeable, as well as the nearest and apparently largest celestial body that presented itself to their night­ ly view, and that m the clear, exqu.site ether of Arabian skies, and the calm nights of India and Egypt, it shone among the heavenly host with a luster unknown to dweller® ia the crowded cit­ ies of a northern clime. But the children of these tropic did something more than gase, speculate and admire. With supreme patience they reared lofty towers and grand pyra­ mids, and invented instruments which have led us step by step to the transit instrument, the micrometer and the tel­ escope of to-day. A college of astrono­ my was founded by the priesthood of Egypt, the worship of the moon growing out of their frequent use of her pictured or carved image in making their meteor­ ological announcements to the people ; as, for instance, when the Nile was about to overflow, warning heralds were sent through the streets bearing aloft th°> fa­ miliar symbols of the river go idess and a gilded figure of the moou in the phase it would present at the date of the ex­ pected rising. In the course of time, the significa­ tion was forgotten, the symbol was worshiped, and finally what it repre­ sented deified. Tiie moon no longer ap- peured^to the unlettered populace as merely a brilliant lamp suspended from a revolving dome, and shining uutil ex­ tinguished by the wateis of the ocean, I but now was looked upon with awe as a region of sublime mysteries. This veneration of the moon gradually spread with population to all parts of the world. We nave records of ancient Chinese ceremonials, relios found among Druidical remains in Western Europe, accounts of astronomical picture-writ­ ings of a religious character, and lunar calendars of gold, silver and stone, dis­ covered in ancient temple-ruins in Mexi­ co, Central and South America. Among the builduigs devoted to lunar worship may be mentioned the wonder­ ful IV mple of Diana, at Eyhesus, built at the combined expense of the nations of Asia, and the magnificent mansion of the moon, adjoining the Temple of the Sun, in ancient Cuzco; this building was in form a pyramidal pavilion, with doors and inclosures completely incrust- ed with glittering silver. Within, on the southern wall, was a painting in white, presenting the moon as a beauti­ ful woman; on either side, along 'he eastern and western walls, on massive t rones of silver, were qpafced the dead Queens of Peru, embalmed and arrayed in regal splendor.--Popular Science Monthly. Onr Tobacco Production. The fifteen States of Kentucky, "Vir­ ginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, North Carolina, Maryland, Connecticut, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana, New York, Massachusetts, Illiuois, aud West Vir­ ginia, in the order named, still produce, as iu 1870, more than ninety-nine per cent, of the tobacco of the United States, though it is reported in twenty-two other States and six Territories. Of these fif­ teen, only Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Masachusetts produce less than in 1870. Kentucky produces thirty-six per cent of the total product of the oountry. Vir­ ginia holds the second place ; Pennsyl­ vania has advanced from the twelfth to the third ; Wisconsin from the fifteenth j to the tenth ; and North Carolina, Con­ necticut and New York have each gained one point in the rank of tobacco States. Those that have not retrograded in rela­ tive production are Massachusetts, Mary­ land, West Virginia Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Tennesee. The apparent increase in production during the decade is 80 per oent., which exaggerates the real advance iu tobacco cultivation, as the preceding census crop was a small one and the fear of taxation may have operated to prevent a full cen­ sus of tobacco in 1S70. The crop re- Sorted in 1880 was one of medium pro-uction, not in exoess of the present re­ quirements of home consumption and exportation. The average vield per acre is 731 pounds, as shown by the totals. 1 The variation in yield, from 1599 in Massachusetts to 471 in North Carolina, is pronounced by Mr. Dodge, statistician, due in differing degree to the use or neglect of fertilizers, the habit of growth of different varieties, aud the vicissi­ tudes of the seasons. In Masachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the seed-leaf varieties are mainly grown, and high fertilization practiced, always resulting in compara­ tively heavy crops. In Ohio the yield is above the average, the Ohio seed-leaf being extensively cultivated iu the Mi­ ami Valley, while the Burley, a vigorous grower of a less productive class, is al­ most exclusive in its promiuence iu the Ohio River counties, Kentucky, produc­ ing many grades of cutting and shipping tobaccos, upon an exhausted soil of great original fertility, make an average yield. In Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia the yield is better than the general average. The low yield in North Carolina is a necessity of the production of the fashionable yellow " bright" grade used for plug wrapper, grown on a poor soil.--Little Rock Gazette. The Ups and Downs of Life. The frea's of fortune are rarely more painfully illustrated than in the position which one of Pr sident Garfield's old educational companions now occupies in au apartment iu the City Infirmary. This oompanion is an old lady, eighty- one year old, a Miss Davidson, who years ago was a teacber ia Hiram Col­ lege, a teacher when President Garfield was a tutur. Miss Davidson knew Gar­ field well. Her positi >n, was then supe­ rior to his. Wuile her former inf rior, as President of the United Slates, occu­ pies the marble ^ halls of the White Hou-ie, she, as a pauper, is happier w thin the stone walls of our Cify In­ firmary. Miss Davidson is a bright, in- t lligent old l'idv, aud talks cheerfully of herself, and as an enthusiastic ad­ mirer of the Pr« sident. Sie is <>ne of the mo t industrious inmates of the in­ firmary, always using her needle mend­ ing or sewing for her unfortunate com­ panions.--Cincinnati Enquirer. L Practical loks on the Ohio Demo* crats. The nomination of Mr. Bookwalter for Governor by the Democrats of Ohio is gradually taking on the appearance of a practical joke. When he was nomi nated he was known only as a wealthy monopolist and manufacturer of Spring­ field, Ohio, who had a political bee buzzing in his bonnet and was willing to pay handsomely to have it out. He had nothing but his money to recom­ mend him to Democrats. But that was enough. The purchaseable Demo­ crat#) wanted nothing else, and they made him their candidate amid " great enthusiasm." The newspapers immediatelv began to look up Bookwalter's record. The. first discovery they made was that he' was extremely unpopular in his own town. Though he had amassed a large fortune in Springfield, he had not the reputation of being a public-spirited citizen. His name was never con­ spicuous on the subscription lists, and lus acts of private charity, if there were any, were kept so ex remely close that his townsmen were in total ignorance of them. It was next learned that Book- waiter, who was nominated on an anti- monopoly platform, had made his en­ tire fortune through a monopoly, and that, while he was put forward as the representative of free-tniders, he is himself an ardent protectionist in theory and practice. But the most laughable discovery was yet to come. It was known when book- waiter was nominated that his Democ­ racy ww of comparatively recent origin, but it was supposed to date at least from the Greeley schism of 1872. This idea is now shown to be wholly erroneous. It appears from the letters addressed by Bookwalter himself to the Democratic newspaper at Jerseyville, 111.--the Cour- j ier--that he never voted a Democratic ticket in his life uutil last November, when he voted for Hancock. Though he pretended in 1872 to be in sympathy with the Greeley movement, we have his own word for it that he voted for the re-election of Gen. Grant in that year. Republican candidate for Mayor last spring because he wasn't a man it. liked, and succeeded in turning enough Re­ publican votes to elect the Democratic candidate. It is now compelled to de­ nounce him, and is very much disgusted at his administration. The editor of the Gaz( tie has been in politics long enough to know, without this experience, that the worst Republican makes a better of­ ficial than the best Democrat. ILLINOIS NEWS. No MORT! cigars will be made at the Illinois State penitentiary at Joliet THE Rev. Dr. Thomas, of Chicago, is to be tried for heresy early in Septem­ ber. SENATOR LOGAN has sold fourteen lots in Cairo to Judge Mulkey, of the Su­ preme Court THB female barber of Homer, Cham­ paign county, has married a rich farmer of Vermilion couuty. BY cutting through the wall ten pris­ oners escaped from the jail at Murphys- boro, Jackson county. A QOTNCY tobacco house is filling an order from the Sandwich islands for 50,- 000 pounds of plug tobacco. HARVEY KA.BR, a farmer near Shirley, McLean county, killed fourteen rattle­ snakes while cutting corn. THERE are twenty physicians practic ing medicine in Sangamon county, who are under 30 years of age. A TRACT of 280 acres nf land, just northeast ot the city of SfKngfield, Was sold, the other day, for $36,125. v JAMES A LOCKS, President of the St. Louis, Jerseyville and Springfield rail­ road, died at Jerseyville, of congestive fever. THE Chicago bakers have raised the price of bread 1 cent per loaf, of calves 2 cents per dozen, and 2 cents each on pies. THE internal-revenue collect ions of the Peoria district for the month of July, just closed, were §953.411.47, against $907,428.02 for the corresponding month last year. As lately as September of last yew he I ' f x T* was masquerading in Illinois as "a - t Lewisto\. wealthy Ohi, Republican" who had ! W ^IT^gamong his stock, wealthy Ohi» Republican" who had seen the error of his ways. Moreover, he says in a letter dated Sept 30, 1880 : " I have yet to cast my first Demo­ cratic vote. I did not vote for Tilden for reasons sufficient to myself." The reasons "sufficient" to Bookwal- tor for not voting for Tilden are pre­ sumed to be that the latter was a Demo­ cratic tree-trader. Gen. Hancock, on the other hand, believed the tariff to be "a local issue," which came up onoe in his native town in Pennsylvania, and Bookwalter cordially subscribed to this opinion. These letters put the Democrats of Ohio in a most embarrassing position. No Northern State, unless it be Indiana, contains more moss-backed, dyed-in-the- wool. " never-say die," la-t-ditch Bour- bon Democrats than the State of Ohio. It is wounding these patriots in the tendercst spot, insulting their intelli­ gence, and trampling on their dearest prejudices to ask them to support a Gubernatorial candidate who voted the straight Republican ticket all his life until last November, and only then cast his first Democratic vote, just nine months ago. The confession of Bookwalter is com­ plete and exhaustive! He said emphati­ cally in his published letter of Sept 30, 1880: " I have yet to cast my first Democratic vote." He was then in Nebraska, and did not return to Ohio for the October election. His first Demo­ cratic vote was, therefore, cast Nov. 2, 1880, for Hancock and English. Until th< n he had never voted onee for a Dem­ ocratic State, county, city or Congres­ sional ticket. He did not vote for Til­ den for President, for reasons, he says, best known to himself, or for the old vet­ eran, Bill Allen, or Uncle Dick Bishop, or Gen. Tom Ewing for Governor. He has borne none of the Iniat or burden of the day; yet. he expects the friends of men lie never supported to support and make him Governor. The nomination of Bookwalter is an affront to every Democrat in the State. It is public notice that fidelity to the party, long and faithful service, and un­ compromising belief in Democratic principles do not constitute a title to ad­ vancement in that party; that when the Democrats want a candidate for a high office they must go outside and take an apost ite Republican l.ke Gen. Ewing or Bookwalter; and that the party must continually apologize to its candidates for its past record. Accord­ ing to this theory > he newer the convert the better, for the less extensive then is lus personal responsibility for the mis­ deeds of Democracy. But this is a view of the case that consistent Democrats will not be likely to subscrilie to. It looks very much as if the nomination of Bookwalter was a farcical trick played upon the verdant Democrats by a lot of wajgs brought to the convention in spe­ cial trains. Thousands of Democrats will refuse to vote for this " fresh" young convert, who has not yet served his probation. He will be withdrawn, either l»efore the election or after it, and his political career will be as brief as it has been inglorious.--Chicago Tribune. »w York Senators--No Democratic Contest. Inquiry of Democratic leaders here, as to whether any protest or contest will l>e made against admitting Miller and Lapham to their seats before organizing, shows that, if any such action is con­ templated by New York Democrats, the party leaders here have not been in­ formed of it. A very prominent Demo­ crat, who is associated with the national management of his party, said to-night that he did not believe there would be any objection to seating Miller and Lap- ham promptly ; that no charges of any­ thing wrong had been made in connec­ tion with that election, and that the ouly basis for any sort of objection would lie in the tact that at one day's balloting less than a majority of the State Senate was present in the joint assembly. He did not think the contest would be made on this point, and beside, he said: " If the Democrats inaugurated that kind of warfare in the Senate the Re­ publicans could, and no doubt would, retaliate in the House, where so many Democrats' seats are contested." A prominent Democratic Senator says he will not sustain any objection to seating Miller and Lapham, if any is made ; that the constitutional provision, that t lit ̂ ) sh all not be deprived of her representation iu the Senate, will forbid him doing anything eise than vote for the prompt seating of both of the New York Senators.-- Washington telegram to Inter Ocean. It Don't Pay to Bolt. The experiment of electing a Demo­ crat to office to secure "reform" has been unsuccessfully tried by the Cincin­ nati Gazette. It refused to support the was kicked by his horse and almost in­ stantly killed. REV. WILLIAM J. RUTLFDQK, of Jack­ sonville, who was Chaplain of the Four­ teenth Illinois infantry during the late war, has been appointed Chaplain of the Joliet penitentiary. CYRUS N. W^LLS, of the Paris Re­ publican- licaeon, visited Chicago on business, since which time his relatives have had no trace of him. He had $1,- 150 with him, and it is believed he was murdered and robbed. WILLIAM WALTEIIS, aged 19, shot and killed his sister, aged 11, iu Kickapoo township, Peoria county. The boy was I>olishiug a revolver by rubbing it on his pantaloons, when the weapon caught in the cloth aud was discharged. A COMMISSION house in St. Louis, which has managed the corner in July oats, states that it acted as agent for a syndicate of Peoria merchauts, which has controlled oats in both St. Louis and Chicago and formed a combination in New York. THB excavations for the new Uniotl Depot at Peoria are nearly done. All roads running into Peoria, except Chi­ cago, Rock Island and Pacific, Rock Island and Peoria, and Chicago, Bur­ lington and Quincy, will use this depot. A PARTY of young men were engaged at Galesburg for some time in procuring subscriptions for books, papers, etc., and getting some of the money in ad­ vance. After taking about 400 subscrip­ tions the citizens found out they were being swindled. THB report of the expenses of the Thirty-second General Assembly will be out shortly. The clerks in the State Auditor's office are now preparing a tabulated statement From what has been prepared the following is gleaued: 41,0411 1» 2<~>,6'2D. 00 21,705.0.1 21H.N0 10,545.50 3,573.61! 13,000.110 Per diem of HOUHC member* $123^137.80 Per diem <1 Senate member* HOUM? oflicMin and employes Semite officers aud employes HOUM' temporary organization Janitors, Secretary of State Committee expeneeo Incidental expenses (about) Total.. $231,118.30 To this is yet to be added tho expenses of printing, binding, postage, stationery, copying, and distribution of laws, etc*., which will probably amount $40,000 more. THBEB murders were committed in Chicago in one day. Near the corner of Twelfth and State streets, Jerre Milli- gan, colored, killed Dennis Mahoney, a switchman, and fatally wouuded James O'Mara, the alleged provocation being insulting words addressed to Milligan and a woman accompanying him. J~hn Hanners, a stevedore, went to the saloon of Lizzie Cleveland, at No. 1,621 South Clark street, and shot her dead, the cause being jealousy. The same even­ ing, in a riotous outbreak on Rebecca street, in which several roughs fought the police, Tom Cahill put a bullet through the left lung of Officer O'Brien, and stiot Officer Ray in the hand. A policeman then shot Cahill in the left breast. FBOM the Peoria papers we glean the folowing particulars of the recent hor­ rible catastrophe in that city : When the Wooluer Brothers' distillery was burned several weeks since something like 80,- 000 gallons of beer, from which the spirits were distilled, was left on hand. Subsequently permission was obtained from the Internal Revenue Department to "run off" or distill the beer. The 1 ill tubs are about twenty-eight feet high and eleven feet in diameter, divided into four compartments. All the stills were more or less burned and weakened by the fire, but one of them was repaired for the purpose of running off the beer. The beer is vaporiztd by means of steam conveyed to the still, by a four- inch copper pipe, fr« m four immense boilers. The still contained about 6,000 gallons of beer, which it was necessary to heat to vapor, when it passed through warm pipes and condensed into alcohol. On the morning of the day that witnessed the explosion steam was applied for the first time. Nothing unusual occurred uutil about 6 o'clock in the evening, when there was heard the rt - port of a " terrible explosion," followed by the noise of escaping steam. The place where the still had stood was com­ pletely enveloped in it, and for some minutes it was impossible to enter the inclosure, but when the hastening help­ ers were able to do so a horrid sight ap­ peared. Under the debris, head down­ ward, was the lifeless body of Max Woolner, the son of one of the proprie­ tors, Abraham Woolner. Scattered about in every direction were scalded men and boys piteously crying for help. Forty feet distant lay the engineer, blinded by the steam, and his leg broken. Within twenty-four hours of the explosion, ten men had died from the effects of the horrible scalding, and one or two haw since died. #ITH AND ponrr. ian wk° leads a dogV fife ably barks for a clothing house. SOMETHING that will keep, but aok desirable to have on hand--a wart A PROFESSIONAL beauty, though two words, is really only one silly Ijeile, « WHEN* a bald-headed man bujs a duster, mohair would be most appro­ priate. A CONNECTICUT woman was appointed constable, and the first thing she said was: " Now I shall catch a man.?V WOUI.D'ST hear t?»e pun tbat Hero ; > Embracing on the sand her Wet Jover ? 4i Sweet Tii-Iip*he ttidj wi ** And she cried: 0 Launder I" A HARTFOBD divorce lawyer ?aid to his minister : "You and I live in the right State for one another--what yo6 Connecticut !'* „ WE know a cat that was drowned in the creek. Next day the cat appeared at the back window, with the creek in its back.--Whitehall Timet. JONKS, getting up from his dinner in a quiet way, remarked to his landlady that he had found. everything on table cold except the ice-cream. SAM KEABN'KY, of Illinois, killed hip wife because he couldn't make her sit down in a chair. He didn't begin right If he had told her to stand up she would have sat down. " I WOULDN'T care to be the prettieet girl alive," simpered a strain as he sat in a drawing-room. "Indeed! Why not ?" was the response. " Because," said he, " I'd rather be next to her/' " Toiorr, did you hear your mother oall you?" "'Corse I did.** "Then why don't you go to her at once?" " Well, yer see she's nervous, and itvd shock her awful 'fi should go too sud- dent" SOME one has formed 1,061 English words of not iess than four letters in the word "regulations." This may be a pleasant kind of work, but it is not ao profitable as killing potato-bugs one at a time. A I-TTTTB boy was asked if he knew where the wicked finally went tow He answered: "They practice law lierea spell and then go to the Legishiture." It was a painful operation lor that boy to sit down for a few days. - " HALLOA I" With this exclamation the hunter came to ' an abrupt halt (The concluding chapters of the thrill­ ing and absorbingly interesting st >ry of " The Scout and the Indian*' will ba found in onr waste-basket) - BASH. When all the world is young, lai, Ami all the trees are green. AND every goo«« a Rwmi, lad, . t Aud every lass a queen. Then hey for boot and horaa, lad, Aud rouiui the wor.d away. TOUOR blcxxl muai have it* coorK,lad, And every dog li s day. NEVER marry for wealth, but remem­ ber that it is just as easy to love a girl who has a brick house with a mansard roof and a silver-plated door-bell as one who hasn't anything but an auburn, head and an amiable disposition. : WHII K wallzing 'round the bail-room fajL ^ Made bright with ighu and mirrors She turned her fa»-e from hie away. " Fray, whut a the matter, darling minit HUM what I aaid given lhee offeuae; >1-' lias aught I've done estranged thy hearfT,' Turn not from in* your Bweet laee heuoetk w I cannot, cannot from thee part J" • ! M How fooiiah, Fred I you know I'm fond; And as we, pass yon p.er-giase bright, I only Jook from yon beyond ' To aee if my new dre.-« hangs right." LAST summer she was eating green corn by gnawing it from the oob, when her teeth became entangled with corn silk. " Oh, dear," she said, impatiently, " I wish when they get the corn made they would pull out the haatiiig threads!" A HUKLINOTOK shoemaker, according to the Hawk-Eye, got tired of his trade and began to practice medicine. The only startling feature in the new doo- tor's practice is his habit of plunging a crooked awl into the patient's foot a couple of inches, to see if he is sound. "WHERE are yon going?" said a young gentleman to an elderly one in a white cravat whom he overtook a few miles from Little Bock. " I am going to heaven, my son. I have been on my way for eighteen years." " Well, good- by, old fellow ! If you have been trav­ eling toward heaven for eighteen years, and got no nearer than Arkansas, "l mil take another route." A FUNNY story comes from the seaside, in connection with the decease St a well- known hotel-keeper, who was more famous for his good heart and pride in the liealthfulness of his hotel than for his adaptability to modern ideaa After his death, a woman, who had often visit­ ed the hotel, made a call of condolence upon the widow, who received her cor­ dially, aud was much pleased to talk of her husband's good qualities, her own loss, etc., but suddenly, wiping her eyes, she exclaimed : " But it is a great com­ for t to me, Mrs . C. , that poor --died, in such a healthy place." ' A Paradise for Householder ,̂' Utopia, from the rate payer's point of view, has at length been discovered^ It is a small town, situated in the very heart cf the rich and fruitful Rhebish Palatinate, and its brief, umomantio name is Schopp. Recently the munici­ pality of this ideal burg, finding its re­ ceipts largely in excess of it - expendi­ tures, resolved to dispose of the cash balance at its command by presenting to every householder within the civic pre­ cincts the handy little sum of £ti 10s. A similar reparation of surplus income took plu -e a few years ago, npou which still more propitious occasion each rate paying citizea received a bonus of £1 from the town exchequer. Onr German contemporaries, the Frankfurter and Kolni*chv Z>'<tungmt in recording the above-mentioned facts, with justiiia >le pride and exultttioa point out t iat the solution of life's rao^t difficult problem- how to eat your cake and have it to»-- has obvi< >us*ly been attained in ScUopp. That s the place, thev ol>serve, in which the heart that is humble may hope to achieve perfect contentment The Co­ logne Gazttte concludes its reference to this fiscal paradise. " the happiest spot npou our earth," with an exhortation to its readers, couched in terms as stirring as they are terse. It runs as follows: "Up and away to Schopp." This irre­ pressible cri (iu ctear wid doubtless find an echo in many a breast throughout the length and breadth of the fatherland.-- London Telegraph. THE New York Graphic reports that "an old angler, who is vouched for as being 'as reliable as any fisherman ou the river,' claims to have cung'it five glimpses of a mermaid in the Ohio, near Marietta. He says that it comes to the surface, looks about it and then gradu­ ally sinks, leaving its beautifully loug and glossv black hair floating for a mo­ ment ou tne water. He represents it as having the face of a woman, and says that he didn't shoot the strange creature because he feared that if he did he would * get into some sort of a murder trial.' When asked whether th-> mei^ maid carried a comb or look-ins; glass, he resisted temptation aud answer**!: ' u might have, bat I didn't Me any.