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. 4 - v""$* cswtwn J. VAN SLYKE, McHENBY, ILLINOIS. ^PRESIDENT ARTHUR is said to have a Hfpnderful memory, for at v one time he trej^le^na Aflroawl car for a lev toifea *4Sfch a physician who was carrying a brother to an asylum. Seven years af­ terward he met the doctor, called him by name and inquired for the brother. VIVE different patentees of cooling *jipar»tu4 are contending before the House Comttnttee on Expenses attend­ ing President Garfield's illness for re­ muneration for the use of the devices that kept down the temperature of the loom in which lie lay at the WMte House. - t~"T : •• THE little* children at the Metropolitan Hotel in Washington have discovered tbpt the Hon. Proctor Knott is some­ thing of an artist, and so he is kept busy betimes in drawing horses and other animals lor them. Qe ia as good- natured *s he is learned, witty and pro­ found. , . f ' ? _ A TWKiiV*-oimc* mountain trout was %ttight lately in the Feather river, Cali­ fornia, above the mouth of the Yuba, tlia Jfe regarded as remarkable ̂ because no trout, have ̂ been taken in the lower fM^ohpf f)he. Feather river sinne hy- 'orftulic mining began. The river has become ahjtost clear again, owing to the Cessation of operations in the principa liydraulic mines above. A PROFESSIONAL mesmerizer found great difficulty in persuading any one to oom<t on the stag* finally one young xoAn concluded to riqk ft, and the first Experiment was with a glass of water, the youth being made to believe it was alternately brandy, whisky, champagne, 'etc.,aiii driifldng it w t̂h great gusto. Ia five minutes thirty-seven men were on the platfoym to bp mesmerised.-- Philadelphia 'New*. --•* „ 1 J ^ j •*» #alna|i-|ufiEktig< )̂efit!<3ffter» gfVe as an inducement to be allowed to vote the fact that there are 25,000 more women ̂ Uan men. in New York, and 18,- 000 more in Boston ̂ and that if they •were enfranchised they could vote down t̂ e horrid males, take possession of: those two great cities, aad " ran" them to suit themselves, asking the beastly men if-they didn't like it what they pro­ posed to do about it ? jTv T s ̂ • »» » e <r« • *Ar Oenterville, Ajk., wfcera there is ntK Bergh society, a wager was made as tq t̂lie endurance of a ̂Je^pn mule. 'The trial drew a crowd, and the betting was heavy. The tread mill of a thrash­ ing machine was used, the mule being fastened in it and compelled to walk without rest Whenever he was inclined to stop, he was goaded to keep him moving. He was not allowed food or water. For over three dayt̂ the beast walked, and when he finally fell down it was to die. PBOF, ̂ A.' PROCXOR, THE Ijjnglishas- ironomer ̂Vh0 was Recently credited with the prediction that "somewhere about the year 1897 this earth will be dissolved by fervent ĵ eat," desires that "those newspapers irhjch have spread the news of my supposed prediction would explain that I believe the world is more likely to last 15,000,000 years than to be destroyed in fifteen." Those timid persons who have been nnecessa- rily alarmed by the alleged prediction of the eminent astronomer will now, no doubt, breathe easier. ~ ,-v jA nv is|e|m torpedo boat, 100 feet long, 500 horse-power, has lately been tried in England, the officially recorded maximum speed attained being twenty- six miles an hour. This is believed to be the fastest vessel afloat. The vessel is able to .carry coal and supplies enough to steam 1,000 miles and remain at sea ior a week. She has two bow tubes for delivering torpedoes. With a fleet of such boats in readiness for action it would seem to be not a difficult task to defend maritime cities like New York and Brooklyn from the moat powerful invading fleets. WHI&B the state dinner to theDip- lomatio Corps was in progress at the White House on the evening of Feb. 16, numerous telegrams came to Washing­ ton pleading for a respite for s man con­ demned to be hanged on the following 'day in New Mexico. One, addressed to Attorney Genera! Brewster, waa in his absence opened by his wife. Their little aon "Benny," teeing it, waa much Seizing a card, he scrawled upon it in childish characters, "Give the poor man a chance," and sighed it "Ben*" The card, with an explanatory note by Mrs. Brewster, was sent with Jfce telegrHpi to the President's Secre­ tary, and 9# the next day a respite of thirty da/ft for the condemned man was annouaoed. THB French officii! statistics 'lor the year 188! confess to no fewer than 47,- OQO.OOO gallons of " wine" made in Jfirance fr<% sugar, and 51,000,000 ipore made frpn ̂ raisins, while the imports of Spanish and Italian wines for " blend­ ing" amount to 154,000,000 gallons. These together are equal to just one- third of the actual yield of the French -vineyards Jast mason, or to one-half of the yield ot 1879; and no account is here taken of tike large* importations from Greece, Syria, Asia Minor and the Levant islands. The phylloxera lis nn- -fortunateiy spreading with vast rapidity. In 1880 only 92,000 acres of vines had been attacked; this year 250,090 are re ported as infected. The oidium, too, is increasing, and the seasons continue un­ favorable." The vines promised well last spring, but frosts in May, the prolonged great heats of summer, and constant rain ^Jppi»t§inber and October, reduced the yield of the 1881 vintage to 748,000,000 gallons, or only 70 per cent of the aver­ age of the last ten yeata; although this yield was much larger than that of either 1880 or 1879, when it was only 638,000,- 000 and 550,000,000gallons respectively. THE dhrrettt year is to be one ©f great political importance. New representa­ tives in Congress are to be chosen under the Apportionment bill which has just become a law. The added number of Congressmen is not particularly mate­ rial, except in so fir as it necessitates geographical changes in the districts. The House of Representatives is now so closely divided that a spirited con­ test of the Congressional elections may be looked for in 'all the States. In April, Rhode Island will elect a Gtover* nor and Legislature. Tjie election' in Oregon, which will be held in June, is of more than ordinary importance, be­ cause the Legislature then to be chosen will elect a Senator in place of Graver. In August, Kentucky will elect a Clerk of the Court of Appeals, att event Of no importance save to the immediate con­ testants. Tennessee and Alabama will elect Governors and Legislatures in Au­ gust. ' In September will occur the Maine election, differing from its prede­ cessors, in that the Governor then chosen will hold for two years instead o one, and regarded , as especially impor­ tant in the State, because the Governor, so chosen, will have the appointment of four members of the Supreme Court, who will hold for seven yean. Vermont and Arkansas will atop elect Governors and Legislatures in September. In Oc­ tober, Ohio and Iowa will elect certain minor State officers, commencing with Secretary. In the same month Colorado will elect a Governor and a Legislature, while the election ix> Wiest Virginia dur­ ing the same month willbe confined to the choice of Assemblymen. Indiana is no longer an October State. In Novem­ ber it will choose Legislators. The Illi­ nois election is important, because upon the Legislature depends the election of a •accessor to David Davis. , lb tfce sense of Presidential forecast, the November election in New York, wliiohwill include the choice of a Governor, is of more im­ portance than that of any other State. The First Ritilrond West of the "Alle- fhenlea r To Kentucky is the country indebted for the first railroad west of the Alle- ghenies, and one of the first built in the United States. The road from Lexing­ ton to Louisville is one of the oldest rail- roadn in the country, End was ch»rtsrcd by the Stale Legislature on the 27th of January, 1830, as the "Lexington and Ohio Railroad."* Its name was after­ ward changed to the "Lexington and Frankfort, "then later to " Louis­ ville, Frankfort and Lexington," «nd later Btill to "Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railroad," by which name it is now known. It was intended that it should be built in the most substantial manner. Instead of wooden cross-ties, stone "sills" were laid lengthwise, to which the iron rails were to be soldered. The first stone aill was laid on the 22d of October, 1831, in the presence of a large concourse of people who had as­ sembled to witness the ceremony. The imposing ceremonies attending the com­ pletion of the Union Pacific took place on the 10th of May, 1869, near the head of Great Salt Lake, where the Central Pacific, chartered by California, and the Union Pacific, starting from the Missouri River, met, and were, in the presence of an assembled crowd, "the last tie--of polished laurel wood, bound with silver bands--was laid, and was fastened with a gold spike furnished by California, a silver one furnished by Nevada, and one of a mixture of gold, silver and iron furnished by Arizona." The wires ot the telegraph were, by a preconcerted ar­ rangement, connected with the same sledge used to drive the last spike; and, says a correspondent of the press, "the intelligence that the country had' been spanned by the railroad was known at the instant of its accomplishment in San Francisco and New York." But this grand climax to railroad progress, away out on the great plains of the far West, presented a project which, in our ex­ perience, was of far less magnitude than that inaugurated fifty years ago amid the strains of martial music and the thunder of artillery--the laying of the "first stone sill" of a railroad design to run from the little Tillage of Lexington to the Ohio River. The latter was looked upon by many as an insane project and beyond the power of human enterprise to aceomplisn; the former as but the "culmination of railroad growth" of the period.--Louisville Omrier^Jiamrntdr- Tke Future University. It is plain that by the steady expan­ sion and improvement of the elective system the American college is to be gradually converted into a university of a new kind; not an English university, because it will not subordinate teaching to examining, or enforce any regulations by means of bars, gates and fines; and not the German university, because the elective system does not mean liberty to do nothing, and no American university has absolved itself, as the German uni­ versity has done, from all responsibility for the mural training and conduct of its students; but a university of native growth, which will secure to its teachers an inspiring liberty and an unlimited scope in teaching, oiler its students free choice among studies of the utmost variety, maintain a discipline adequate to the support of good manners and good morals, but determined by the quality of the best students rather than of the worst, admit to its instruction all persons competent to receive it* while jealously guarding its degrees, and pro­ mote among all its members a produc­ tive activity in literature and in scientific research.--President Eliot, of Harvard * Draaght Horses. ~ It in rapidly becoming an established opinion among breeders that it costs no more to raise a Clydesdale or Percheron than to rear a scrub, for which it is dif­ ficult to get half the pri6e. As this idea becomes general, the heavy work horses of this country will improve. The pre­ vailing opinion which existed fifteen years ago, that these heavy draught animals were unsuited to this country, is rapidly disappearing. The heavy Scotch and Norman horses have estab­ lished their superiority, and it is now considered a desideratum among breed­ ers of work and team horses to secure a cross of the European draught horse, in order to secure the characteristics for which they are renowned.--Chicago Tribune. ILLINOIS FAME, Of the A*er«aw Valime* rntacu ia ihk( Suu«--Dis- trlkmlva *f Hmn, Canto, H«|m K*" --*--r" •-- --rt ft--i SMaocaNk la tfc* W«rM. [Prom UM Cktawa TrikM] *' The report soon to be iaraed by the Plate Da- pertinent of Agriculture will oontain consider­ able interesting information concerning the cereal and wheat production In Illinois, in ad­ dition to that already published. The prom­ inent position occupied by this State in breeding and feeding Block, and growing crops and the vast surplus of meat and grain prodaoed an­ nually w ill not mtrpnse the reading public, lie average value per sere of the leading crops grown, and the annual nhtf of meat animals for the several counties in the State give a very correct idea of the section of the state best adapted to the production of the several wops or kinds of otocs. The information contained in the report has required considerable time and research for its preparation, and will be appreciated by producers, dealers and con­ sumers interested in the rapid development of the agricultural mionrwe of ike lea&nar *«W«tal Stat®. The eataaots fasw given wmjha lband of general fetsreet: AvaaAOB VAI.O* ar FAJB* CBOSS wrf adta m . . „ * cou*w*a. Awrtiing to th* late ceases Xlftnofo leads aH the other States in the extent of her production of corn, wheat, rye and oats and is exceeded oalv by three States in the amount of potatoes and hay. The productive capacity and the advantages of soil and other conditions favorable for the production of crops in the several comfties in the State may b© approximated by the follow- mg showing, which gives the average value of 'arm crops realised per sore in 1851. The following crops arc included in the esti­ mate, viz.: Corn, hay, winter and spring wheat, oats, pastures, orchards, rye, barley, Irish and sweet potatoes, sorghum and flaxseed. The average vaiua per aero of the farm crops named is found by addiug together the values of the several crops and dividing the snm by the total area of tht- county, including the wood­ land, pasture, uncultivated lands, as well as the tillable lands. Menard county makes the best showing, the value of the crops named averaging $11.82 for each acre in the couuty. In DeKalb, Kendall, Lw, Logan, Madi­ son, McLean and Morgan, the average value per acre of the crops named is between 99 and $10. In Boone, DeWitt, nnox, Livingston, Macon, Ogle, Stark, Stephennon, Warren and Wood­ ford, the average value per acre of the crops named is between $8 and S9. In Douglas, Ford, Iroquois, Kane, McDon- ough and Winnebago, between $7 and $8. In Adams, Bureau, Carroll, Champaign, Cook, tJenry, Jersey, La Salle. Maeoujna, Mercer, Monroe, Peoria, Sangamon, St. Clair, Scott, Tazewell and Will, between $6 and $7. lu Christian, Du Page, Hancock, Jo Daviess, Kankakee, Lake, Marshall, Piatt, Patnain and Whiteside*, between $5 and $6. In Brown, Clinton, Edgar, Fnfton, Greetfe* Grundv, Henderson, Montgomery, Moultrie, Pike, liock Island, Schuyler and Vermillion, between $4 and $5. In COHH, Coles, Effingham, Mason, McHenry, Pulaski, Shelby and Union, between *8 and f4. In Bond, Calhoun, Clark. Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Gailatui, Jackson, Johnson, Law­ rence, Massac, Pope, Randolph, Washington and Williamson, between #2 and IS. In Alexander, Edwards, Fayette, Hamilton, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Marion, Perry, llioh- •'and, Saline, Wabash and White, between $1 and $2. In Franklin and Wayne the averaga value of the crops named is less than $1 per acre, r&T CATTLE, HOOS 1X1) BHKEP IN 1881. The capacity of the several counties in the State for producing fataattl* abeep and hags is given below: The prominence Illinois has attained as a livii-biuck, i>i«euiQg ieeuiug oiaie is demon­ strated in this showing, which gives the average returns in 1881 of the total value of fat hogs, fat cattle and fat sheep marketed per acre, in the several counties in that year. The counties are arranged according to the extent of the average value per acre of the products named and marketed in 1881. In Mercer couuty the value of fat hogs, fat cattle and fat sheep marketed in 1881 av­ eraged $3.07 per acre for the total area in the county. In Carroll, DeKalb, Da Page, Henry, Jo Daviess, Kane, Kendall, JEnox, McDonoagh, McHenry, McLean, Ogle, ^reoria, Bock Island, Stark, Haogamoo, Stephenson. Warren and Whitesides the average value of these products was between $2 and $S per acre. In Adams, Brown, Boone, Bureau, Cham­ paign, Cook, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Fulton, Hancock, Greene, Grundy, Jersey, Henderson, Iroquois, Schuyler, Lake, La Salle, Lee, Livingston, Logan. Maoou, Macoupin, Madison, Marshall, Montgomery, Morgan. Moultrie, Piatt, Pike, Putnam, Scott, Schuyler, Shelby, Tazawell, Vermillion, Will, Winnebago and VVoodiord the average value of these pro­ ducts was between $1 mid per acre. In Alexander, Bond, CaJhoun, Cass, Claris, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Cumberland, Coles, Edwards, Effingham, Payette, Franklin, Galla­ tin, Kankakee, Jackson, Hamilton, Hardin, Jefferson, Jasper, Johnson, Lawrence, Marion, Mason, Massac, Monroe, Perry. Pope, Palaski, Kandolph, Kichland, Saline. St. Clair, Uuiou, Wabash, Washington, White, Williamson ana Wayne the average valne of these products par acre was less than $1. in fuissia and Jo Daviess counties the meat products and farm orops of 1881 amount to 52 per cent, of the full equalized value per acre for all lands in those counties, including wood '.and uncultivated as well (as tillable land ; in Calhoun aud Union counties to 51 per cent., in Gallatin to 48 per cent., in Ford to 47 per cent., in Lee to 46 per cent., in Menard to 45 per ceat, in Livingston to 44 per cent., in Massao and Stephenson to 43 per cent., in Do Kalb, Iroquois, Pope and Williamson to 42 per cent, in Carroll. Johnson and Kendall to 41 percent., in Ogle to 40 per cent., in McLean aud Morcer to 38 per cent., in Scott and Warren to 37 per cent, in Monroe and Woodford to Stf per cent., in De Witt, Douglas, Jackson and Logan to 3S per cent, in Effingham and Metgan to 84 per cent, in Boone, Blown, Heuderson, Kankakee, Macon, Schuyler, Stark and Winnebago to 38 per cent, in Cumberland and McDonongh to 82 per cent., in Champaign, Henry,'Jer­ sey and Bock Island to 31 per cent', in Hardin and Knox 30 per cent, in Alexander, Bureau, Christian, Marshall, Saline, Will aud Wnitesides to 29 per cent., in M'idison, Putnam aud Piatt to 28 per cent., iu Clinton, La Salle, Moultrie aud Shelby to 27 per oeut., in Clark, Hancock, Kane, Macoupin aud Tazewell to 20 per cent, in Edgar, Gruudy, Jefferson, Lake, Peoria and Pike to 25 per cent, in Adams, Fulton, McHenry, Sangamon and Vermillion to 24 per cent., in ftoles, Crawford, Greene and Montgomery to 28 per cent., iu Clay, Fsy- ette. Lawrence and White to 22 per cent,"la Hamilton to 20 per cent, in 'Bond, Marion, Perry and liaudolph to 19 per oent, iu Frank­ lin, Ilichland and Wayne to 18 per cent., in Du Page, Jasper, Mason and Washington to 17 per cent, in Cass and Ed wards, to 16 par oent, iu St Clair and Wabash to 14 n Cook to 8 per cent uvc STOCK. Illinois, according to the late oensos9 te sn- titled to the foremost position among the States in the Union in the'number and valu^ of the various breeds of horMs, cattle^ sheep and hogs. The increase in the number of horses has been quite uniform from year to year, and the official return for 18SI, of 981,909 head, shows nearly 5",000 more horses ia the State than in anv prev ous year. According to the latest returns, there ar* over 7o,000 (72,764) oolts foaled annually, aud about half that number (36,087) of horses of all ages die each year of disease in the Btnte. There were not as many moles and asses in the State in Hay last as during the preosding six Tears. The number (1,058,544) of head of sheep reported for the year 18-S1 is larger than in any year since 1870, with the exception ot 1878, when there ware 3,560 more sheep returned than in 188L Tiiere is a wide range in the number of hogs reported from year to year, which may be pav» tially gocountea for in the floctn»tion of pnees "for pork products, the serious losses from dis- and the abundance or scarcity of the fctunply of corn. The late assessment would indicate the full value of live stock for 1831 to be as follows : Horses, 836,620; cattle, $41,056 692 ; mules and asses, $7,U73,836 ; sheep. $2,806,704 ; hogs, *10,709.6 *0 ; total of $112,488,452. This large amount is much below the actual value of the several classes of live stock named* owing to the incomplete returns made by Assays ore. Tne quality and value per head of the live stock in thin State has improved from year to year, and the redaction in values from 1873 unty be accounted for iu the lower valuation by the State Board of Ea'ializatiou. The topographv and character of the soils have largelv influenced the distribution of s:ook; and made what is known as the Military Tract noted for the number of horses aad hogs, to tip square sniie, while the counties further north, extending from east U> west across the B|»iei have soriaad water ana aifriff gnnjjtinas So favorable te daky husbandry tbat thb eeo- ttpn of the Stake Has the credit of ha vine am cattle to the sqtttt* mlM than any other ptffttoa of the State, ike aorthsn tier of ooaotoes has long been noted for the large flocks of sheea MM the number of shaen to the square mils is larger then to any o&er section of the State. The sod, cDmate, aad quality of thtf Donga Slants of the Stale are so admirably adsptedto one-bneding that Illinois will, at no distant date, make a much mora favorable showing when the many new horse breeding farm* be-' come well established. The late United States census gives Illinois the credit of having more horses than any other State in the Union; and m number and' excelienoe of draft horses this State is not approached bv anv like extent of territory. The interest taken of late years ia breeding superior KMufrtsr and saddle horses by a large number of aoeqgsttc and experienced breeders of large resources gives assurance that this State will, at no late .date be the reoogniaed headquarters for this clSfc* of harass. The average number of horses for each square tnile in the State is twenty. For con­ venience of referenoe the counties are grouped according to the number of hones to the square mile. In Cook ooonty there are 41 horses to the square mile. These hones an principally owned in theaity of Ghioafro, and am not osed for breeding purposes. In Knox and Stark there an » horses to eaoh square mile; in La Salle and Warren, Si; in Ds Witt Henry and Mcdonough, 33; in Kaue, Kendall, McLean and Ogle, 22 ; in Livingston, Maooau Mercer, Peoria. Piatt and Hangamoa, 21; ta Boane, De Witt, Mcoltrie, Stephenson, Ver­ million and Woodford, 20; in Oolec, Douglas, Da Page, Grundy, Haanaok, McHenry, Bock Island, whitesides aad Winnebago, 19 ; in Bu­ reau, Champaign, Christian, Fulton, Iroquois, Logan, Macoupin, Marshall, Montgomery Pot-' asm, Tax swell aad WiB, 18; m (krroll, Edgar, Lee and Shelby, 17: in Bond, Hender­ son, Jo Daviess, Madison, Schuyler and Scott, 16 ; to Adams, Edwards and Favette. 15 ; in Brown, Cumberland, Omn& Jersey, t and Marion, 14 ; in Clarke, Ellngham, Jeffer­ son, Lawrence ana Pike, 13 ; in Clay, Crawford, Ford, Hamilton, Jasper, Kankakee, Menard, Morgan, Randolph, 8t Clair, Union, Washing­ ton and Whit®, 12 ; in Clinton, Ilichland and Wabash, 11 ; in Cass, Gallatin, Wayne and Will­ iamson, 10; iu Franklin, Mason,' Perry and Pope, 9; in Alexander, Calhoun, Hardin, Jack­ son, Johnson, Massac, Monroe and Sahne. 8: in Puis ski. 7- GJlTTUL Including milch cows with tht ntunber of oxen and other cattle, Illinois is entitled to a foremost position among the States. In the superior quality and number of export cattle produced, litis State is not approached, and in the extent of dairy products Illinois takes the lead. The rapid development in the dairy interest in the State is keeping pace with the enlarge­ ment of the business of breeding and feeding a superior quality ef beef cattle, and there is no apparent reason why the annual supply of dairy products and number of beef cattle should not be largely increased in the near future. * In K*ne county there are eighty-nine cattle to the square mite, largely dairy cows, arhile a number >>f counties have as lew as sevra head to ©ach square mile. The number of cattle returned by Assessors in May, 18S1, is used as a basis for making the following calculations: The average number of cattle to each equate mile iu the St ite ie thirty-eight head, or 123 per oent more cattle than horses. Iu De Kalb county there are 74 head of cattle to each square mile, in McHenry 72, in Boone, Du Page and Ogle 70. in Carroll C9, in Jo Da­ viess aud Stef henson 66, in Mercer 65, in Win­ nebago 61, iu Kendall 60, in Whites des 59, in Pvoria 56, in Henry and Knox 55. in Warren 54, in liock Island 53, in Lot and Will 52, in San- f'«mou 51, in Cook, Douglas and Stark 50, in i'.ireau and La Salle 48, in Edgar and Mc- Donough 47, tn Hancock and Vermillion 45; in Coles and Grundv 44, in jruiton 43, in McLean 42, in Christian. Lake and Putnam 41, in Schuyler 40, in Henderson and Moultrie 3!>. iu Marshall 38, in De Witt 37, in Macoupin, Taze­ well, Edwards and Woodford 36, iu Macon 85, in Piatt and Shelby 34, in Greene and Logan 33, in Brown. Iroquois and Morgan 32, in Champaign 31, in Livingston, Montgom­ ery aud Soott 3vJ, tn Adams and Richland 29, in Cis*, Kankakee and Pike 27, in Clav, Menard, Effingham and Wayne 26, in Fayette and Law­ rence 25, in Cumberland, Jasper and Marion 24, m Band, Jersey, Wabasb. Washington and White 23, in Clark aad JaMHna SHL in Craw­ ford 21, an Ford, Madison iad BandoQih 19, in Gallatin and Union 18, in Clinton and St. Clair 17, in Massaa and Pope 16, in Alexander, Cal houn, Hardin, Jacksou and Pulask in Perry and Saline 14, in Mason and Williamson 13, iu Jcbnson 12, in Franklin, Hamilton and Mon­ roe. 11. Illinois, according to .he lata United States census, had the largest number of hogs of any State in the Union, and the superior quality of pork product* of the swine bred and fed in tins State is conceded in all the home and foreign markets. It will be seen from the following report of the distribution of hogs throughout the Stste that the counties north and west of the Illinois river have the greatest number of hogs to the square mile. The number of hogs returned by Assessors in May, 1881, is used as a basis for makiug the following calculations : The average number of hogs to each square mile iu the State is 53 head, or within 2 bead per square mile of the number of horses aud cattle combined. lu Stu k county there are 109 head of swine to each square mile, in Henry and McD >nough 96, in Warren 89. in Mereoi 85. iu Stephenson 83, Fulton aud Kuox 78, in McLean 75, iu Christian, Macon and Sangamon 74. iu Carroll and Woodford 72, iu Bureau and Kendall 70, in De K iib 69, in Marshall and liock Island OS, in Ogle, Peoria and Scott 67, iu Hancock, Jo Daviess, Logan and Schuvler 66, in Adams, Browu and Livingston 65, in De Witt 64, in Coles aud Vermillion 63, in Shelby 61, in Heu­ derson 60, in Jersey and Pike 59, in Boone 58, in Montgomery aud Piatt 57,in Champaign,Doug- la*, Macoiuun&nd Wtiite«Kies55, iu La Salle and Madison 54, in Kane, Moultrie and Putuain 53, in Edgar aud Tazewell 51, iu Winnebago 50, in Ed vards 48, in Cumberland and Union 47, in Menard 46, iu Groene. Iroquois and Pope, 45, in McHenry and White 44, in Du Page, Ford and Hardin 42, in Crawford, Fayette, Gallatin, Jasper, Lee and Morgaa 41. iu Jeffer­ son and JohtiHOu 40, in Massac and Williamson 38, in Bond and Calhoun 37, in Clay, Lawrence and Sahne 36, iu Alexander, EQinghNm and Marion 34, in Clark, Grundy, Handolpb and liichUuvi 38. in Franklin, Hamilton, St. Clair, Wabash and Will 31, in Jackson and Mouroe 29. ia Wayne 2tt, in Cass and tihataa 27, in Washington 26, in Pulaski 25, in Lake, Mason and PSiTj' 24, iu Kankakee 18, and ia Cook 17. SHEEP. Sheep-husbandry in Illinois has not kept pace with the increase in number and improvement in .Quality of other kinds of farm animals of fete years, and the laok of interest in this class of stock by the general farmer is to be re­ gretted. There are many flocks of the several recog- ateed breeds of sheep owned in this State which •re widely aad popularly known for their su­ periority. There should be four times as many sheep ia the State as at the present time, and with proper legislation for the protection of sheep from dogs, and the thorough drainage new being rapidly done on the low, flat lands in the State, sheep-husbandry will at no distant day become an important iudustry in Illinois. The average number of sheep to each square Kile in the State is 20 head, or 17 per oent Bore sheep than horses; 121 per oent less sheep than cattle, aad 166 par cent less sheep than bogs. Tsui number of sheep returned by Assessors in May, 188L, is used as a basis for the following calculations; In Lake county there are 139 head of sheep to the square mile; in McHenry, 84; m Boone, 67; iu Edwards, 53; in Douglas, 48 ; in De Witt, 42 ; iu Vermilion, 37; in Kendall, 34 ; in Craw­ ford and DuPage, 33; in Sangamon. 32; in Wiunebago, 31; in Edgar and McLean, 30 ; in Clav, Macoupin and Stark, 29; in Brown, Ful­ ton and Scott, 28 ; in Knox, 27; in Montgomery and Shel .y, 26; in Bond, Hamilton, Kane auci Movgan, 25 ; in Fayette, 24 ; in Cole.*, De Kalî Greene. Maoou, Marion, McDouongh and Rich­ land, 23 ; in Pope and Stephenson, 22 ; in Jef* fer.-on, Jo Daviess, Lawrence, Menard, Moul­ trie, Wayne aud Williamson, 21; in Adam% Ciark and Saline, 20 ; iu Christian, Jersey, Mar­ shall, Randolph and Wabash, 19; in Piks, Schuvler and Tazewell, 18 ; in Jasper, 17 ; ia Log an, Madison and Warren, 16 ; in Clinton, La Salle, Ogle aad White, 15; in Champaign, Cumberland, Hardin, Johnson, Peoria and Piatt, 14 ; in Bureau, Lee and Put­ nam, 13: in Franklin, Mercer and Union, 12 : in Carroll, Whiteside and Washington, 11; in Gal­ latin, Perry and Woodford,, 10; in Bock Island 9 ; in Hancack, Henry, Jackson, St Clair sod Will, 8; in Massac, 7; in Cook, Ford, Ornndy, Henderson, Kankakee and Livingston, 6; in Alexander, Cass, Iroquois, Monroe aad Pulaaki, 8 ; iu Calhoun,«4; aud in Mason, L TJOVK is a sentiment ao delicate that a lover should never know he la loved but 1*7 it* .w , ROSEC1U.N8 (From the Chicago Tritmn*.] Geo. Bosecrans has had nearly twepty rears in irhich to prepare a defense 6t his dilatory campaign in Middle and Southeastern Tennessee, and yet the «©ly excuses he can make (o-day in his numerous interviews are so weak, tri- flling or untrue as to fully confirm the wisdom of Gen. Garfield's criticism in his private and confidential letter to his friend Secretary Chase. At the time Bosecrans held out against the wishes of President Tiifinrdn the Secretary of War and the univeroal clamor for an advance and the express orders of Gen. Halleck, then Comman­ der-in-Chief, to that effect, on the ground that his cavalry were not prop erly mounted. Now he says he was "waiting for the corn to grow," as though, with abundant' supplies from the North, he was not in a tetter con­ dition to advanoe with his 70,000 men than Bragg was, with 43,090 men and without supplies, to resist that advance. Finally, Roeeerans adds that the reason he delayed striking Bragg was because he thus held Bragg in Tenuessee and prevented him from reinforcing John­ ston, who was harassing Grant's rear at Yickshurg, or Longstreet, who was raid­ ing Pennsylvania/ < •' Mark, now, how plain a tale afcall put down" that specious pretext 1. Gen. Garfield's letter to Secretary Chase was written July 27, 1863, The battle of Stone River was fought Dec. 31, 1862. Bosecrans did not attempt to follow up the advantage that battle had given him till the latter part of June, 1863, when a movement lasting nine days resulted in'driving Bragg from his position. Again Bosecrans rested. It was three weeks later that Garfield's letter was written. Bosecrans' army was still kept inactive by his orders, and continued so till September. But Vioks- burg was surrendered to Grant July 4,' and the same day Longstreet began his retreat from Gettysburg. Rws^crans now says he was holding Bragg by his inaction in order to protect Grant, who had several weeks before captured Vieksburg, and Meade, who had at the same time won the battle of Gettysburg. Bosecrans continued to " protect" Grant and Meade so long after the vic­ tories that Johnston had time to join Bragg from the vicinitv of Vieksburg, Buckner from Kentucky, and Long- street from Virginia, and combine a vast quadruple army against him, which re­ sulted in the disastrous battle of Chicka- mauga and the subsequent oooping-up of his army at Chattanooga till Grant came to its relief. If the present apology Bosecrans makes is to be accepted, then he was " protecting" Grant's army in the South and MeadeV army in the East, not only between December, 1862, and June, 1863, but also several months after both these Generals had achieved decided victories, after Pemberton had surren­ dered and Johnston had been, defeated and after Ijongstreet and Johnston had both moved to combine their armies with Bragg's against the Army of the Cumberland. 2. Accepting Bosecrans' latest theory o* his Tennessee campaign as the best defense he can devise after twenty years' study, it convicts him not merely of in­ excusably bad military judgment, but also of the grossest insubordination. He arrogated to himself the functions of the President, the War Department and the Commander-in-Chief. He was ad­ vised of. the plan of -the campaign, and informed that Gen. Grant would take care of himself, and that the Army of the Potomac would protect Washington and the North. It was desired of him that he should strike Bragg aud cripple him about the same time that Grant's success was expected at Vieksburg and Lee was driven back into Virginia. Gen. Halleck, as Commander-in-Chief, gave express orders to that effeot. But Bosecrans assumed to be a better judge of the situation, stubbornly refused to carry out his part of the campaign, and delayed and dallied until a junction could be made by the right and left wings of the Confederate army with tho army of the center. Then he was foroed to fight Johnston's, Longstreet's, Buck- ner's and Bragg's combined armies, in­ stead of Bragg's alone--94,000 men in­ stead of 42,(KMI. What military prin­ ciple justifies such insubordination am this ? Success would have hardly miti­ gated the offense; failure only served to aggravate it. 3. Bosecrans' fear of driving Bragg to the support of .Johnston, if he ever en­ tertained it, was entirely without war­ rant. If Bosecrans, with his greatly su­ perior force, had attacked Bragg and whipped him in May, when he ought to have done so, Bragg's shattered and de­ moralized army would not have been a powerful auxiliary to Johnston, even if it could have joined him several hun­ dred miles away. As a matter of fact, however, Bragg would not have dared to jqin Johnston in the Southwest. In or­ der to do so he would have been obliged to make ̂ a long march across Alabama and Mississippi to Vieks­ burg, and he would have left all Georgia exposed. Bosecrans, in such a case, would have had a short and easy march through an undefended country to Atlanta, which was the railroad cen­ ter of the Confederate supplies. He could then have made an unimpeded progress into the very heart of the Con­ federacy, and could have aeoomplished one year earlier all that Sherman sub­ sequently accomplished, and at an in­ finitely less cost of life, property gad effort, for when Sherman marched on Atlanta the next spring the rebels had powerfully fortified every defensible position between Chattanooga and At- lanta, and, surrounded the latter city with a strong cordon of forts aad in­ trench men ts; aud Sherman had to toro6 his way over these fortifications, defended by Bragg's and Johnston's combined armies. It is not reasonable to snjmoee that Bragg would have abandoned Georgia as an easy prey to Bosecriyis in order to join Johnston on the Mississippi fiver, and Bosecrans' suggestion of s'aeh a theory serves to expose the weakness of his mind, his unfitness for command and the lameness and falsity of the de­ fense he now makes for one of the greatest errors of the war, which proper­ ly led to his removal. Bosecrans stands convicted, out of his own mouth. One of the reasons he has given for the long and almost-fatal delay in attacking Bragg was that " he was waiting for the corn to grow " in order that his cavalry might be supplied. But in another interview, in which he under­ took to broaden aad strengthen his de­ fense, he contends that Bragg's mission was to hold him (Bosecrans) in Tennes­ see, and that to that end " the Confed­ erates had also Sent over from the State of Mississippi a large cavalry force tinder Van Dora to winter on the com of Ten­ nessee." Now, if a large Confederate force of cavalry could winter on the oorn of Tennessee, couldn't Boseorana' Union cavalry also winter en the oorn of Ten­ nessee without waiting for new oorn to grow, especially as Bosecrans held two- thip^a nf nication with the North, and had addi­ tional supplies from that quarter? Bosecrans seems to have the failing 0f never opening his mouth without put­ ting his foot into it It was an unfortunate day for Bose» crans when his vanity beteayed him into challenging the statement made by Mr, Blaine in his recent memorial address. It was that oircumstanoe which has led to the new discussion of his Tennessee campaign. The publication of the Chase letter is a mere incident, which may have been designed by those who unearthed it to injure Garfield, but has really resulted in giving the American people a higher idea than they ever had before of Garfield's military genius and in reviving popal&r indignation at Bose- crans* incompetence and perversity which cost the country so dearly. The eagerness which Bosecrans has shown to traduce the memory of the one man who has apologised most effectively fox his military failures has been justly punished by the result of that dastardly effort. It needed only the absurd de­ fense which Bosecrans has made for himself to fully vindicate Garfield's judgment at the time and Lincoln's re­ moval of Bosecrans a few months later* Bosecrans cuts a more ridiculous figure than ever in his assumed role of protecting Grant several weeks after Grant had captured the stronghold of the enemy he had attacked! A Psif itating Search for an Issue. The Democratic search after an issue is proceeding with ({rums and bugles and electric lights ̂ Like 4)be boy who was hunting the woodchuck, they are cocksure they will find, the object of their search, for they are " out of meat." And yet the hunt is not without its dis­ couraging aspects. Just now they are keeping their eyes on a "vigorous for­ eign policy ; " but after they have spout­ ed on it in Congress lor a few days they will discover tha% th«r |teOple in "general care fio nbOfe*febout tba jRonth »<nti Cen­ tral American complications than for the traditional .o^nflicts before the walls of Troy--nor so mudh. There is no burn in that powder. The Democrats can't make an isstte of Oonkliag, for a major­ ity of their Senators voted for his con­ firmation. They can't--but what's the use ? Supposing they do find pu issue, what warrant is there that they will back it up for BIX months, if they think they can make more by deserting it t They had an issue in "a tariff for reve­ nue," but abandoned it at the first broad­ side from the Republicans, as they have abandoned or shifted ground on prettv much everything felse they have favored for the past fiftmn or twenty years. If they will tie np to a few sound princi­ ples, bearing the stamp A. D. 1882, and possessing some real interest for the people, the " issues" will make and take care of themselves.--Boston Her­ ald Kind.) : »• A Hnnstrous Marriage ̂ , In spite of ridioule and denunciation.,, women whoso emotions are stronger than their heads continue in iQ parts of the country to visit murderers in their cell* and pet them as if they were heroes 1» distress. They find a strange, pleasure ble excitement in carrying bouquets to wretches whose hands are red with blood. * An extraordinary incident occurred in San Francisco a short time ago which will attract renewed attention to this singular class of women, who alternately amuse and disgust their moie healthy- minded fellow creatures. George 0. Gottung, a house painter, thirty-one years of age, murdered his wife with a dagger, the motive being his belief that sh<^ was unfaithful .to him. She had an infant in her arms at the moment he plunged the knife into her breast. He was found guilty and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in San Queotin. During this interesting person's incarcer­ ation in the San Francisco jail he was frequently visited by Mary E. Willis, a member of a highly sethetio association of females known as the 8 '.Fruit and Flower Mission." The you^g woman, aged twenty-four years, is th#*daughter of a well-to-do and respectable house and sign painter. Besides taking flowers and tracts to the murderer, Miss Willis was ia the pious habit of singing hymus with him. Immediately after sentenqq had been pronounced upon Gottung, th,e, young woman hastened to the County Clerk s office, procured a license, ob­ tained an order from the Sheriff to admit her to the County Jail, induced a Juatioe of the Peace to go with her, and actually married the murderer! Whether this amazing occurrence will have a tendency to cause such sentimen­ tal women as biave any lingering sense and self-respect to keep themselves out of the way of the fascinations of murder* ers, or whether it will result in a matri­ monial boom throughout the jails of the country, nobody can tell. It is said that the father of the San Francisco female idot ia distracted. No wonder. He should, however, restrain his natural and decent inclination to brain the monstrosity of which he is the parent, and ask the Commissioners in Lunacy to send her to an asylum.-- Vir- giniar(Nev.) Chronicle. - AKabjle Woman's Weavlag. We sat down at the entrance of 'a dttfrk, sndky' room. The busy- fingers were alone distinct, the threads of the loom forming a thin veil before her figure. Thehumble^miiided artist, was weaving a dress with elaborate patterns; yet she1 had no design be/fore her to help, and moreover had to manufacture her own machine and arrange the threads. I was astonished at the simplicity of the loom; the warp was fixed in an upright frame made of canes; she used no shut­ tle, but passed the woof from side to side with her fingers, and jammed it home tight with a metal hand-comb---a most laborious method of weaving. But because the mechanical means were rude, let not the reader imagine that the work was so, for exactly the reverse is the truth. She brdngbt ase an bid drtta made some years before, much used, but most beautiful in workmanship, desigp and color--indeed, as a piece of oolof, it excelled all other woven cloths that we saw in that part of the country. She was pust middle age, and strength aud eight seemed to be failing; she had lost the sight of one eye, sitting, ever work­ ing in that smoking atmosphere. A young and comely woman, probably her daughter, tending a sleeping babe, gently swiuging its cradle slung from a beam" in Ihe roof. As I watched the fig­ ure of the weaver, distinct or half Icq* according as it approached or receedefl from the web before it, while the busy fingers peeped out--now here, now there, moving ceaselessly, I waa reminded of the description of the hand^maids in th* Palace of Alcinous: Home plv the loom ; their busy fingers move • Like poplar leaves when Zephyr fans the grove. I could not help contrasting her with those ladies at home who take part in the movement for art needlework. I un­ successfully attempted to learn the nature of the dyes employed, and waa shown some mysterious snbstancca.-- in FHTH A TIB POIHT. TALK is oheap--unlasa a lawywdoM the talking. THB wont Mod of rheumatism ia the spare roomatism. PRIVATE DIUIU Is color blind TT« n thinks his communications are read. - , Danbury News. • -V \< If*"" IT is the hardest thing in Ibe world to~. find a man to run for office in Turkey. ̂ j The Government has nothing left to \"i 1 steal. . ̂ *»* PATRICK comes to the morgue to claim f( ̂ alost relative. 11 Has he any peculiarity *• by which he can be recomizcti?" *• YeSL t i he is dumb." ' rr',* \ - ii "THB Unseen Hand" is the title of _ new book. Probably the other follonf^ ^ didn't have anything better than a pair o f t r a y s , a n d d i d n ' t d a r e , t o c a l l . -- ! ton Post. J "THKB^I have it!" exclaimed Jonea, it - who had been looking at Slapdaah's < painting. "The trouble is ha' r '< uses too much ochrei." "Ye®." said' . ̂ Fogg; "medicra." ! . •;! v; A PR1B8T once asked a condemned * 4 ^ criminal in a Paris jail, " What WnA of ' ; a conscience have you J" 'f It'# M good •, *' as new," replied the prisoners; "forlv.. have never used ft." Ill SSI SxtTDRNT (not very clear as to his les-y^^i ami)--"That's what the author savs,s 1 * anyway." Professor --"I don't want * ̂ ̂ the author ; I want you f" Student (d»-r*[-. , ̂ \ spairingly}--" Well, you've got me." ̂ ̂ A BROOKUTK man received #12,500 , damages from a street-car company fors $ the loss of a leg, and now the drivers "7 ̂ have to stop their horses ovexy few 'v blocks to pull enterprising citizen*t off tho rails. •' A TOTTKO man ill g^e&t rage fold two'** friends that he had just had his faoe^-i s slapped. "Ha!" said the friends, "we^ " will rusk off and demand satisfaction." (,, , ^ "What!" he said, "aduel, too? Not,tr, much. Doy t you call having your face * H' . _-H slapped enough Y'--^Paris Figaro. ' * BUSINESS is business -- " Doctor,***. asked Brown, "Why don't :you Penderson an a dose diet F Ddft't YOQM think it would be a benefit to him ?"** , ^ "Undoubtedly," replied the d«»otor-y:, ' " but it would be no benefit to me. IT "S, might lose a patient, and when I lose a* ' . , i patient," he added, "I prefer to lose® \ nim in the regular way." A FARTT of vegetarians who warn.-] 'K boarding at a water-cure establishment,', while taking a walk were attacked by a;] '. - • 1 bull which chased them furiously out of;^v, * "• ; his pdsture. "That's your gratitude, is-f4""9.-.; it, you great hateful thing?" exclaimed ' % one of the ladies, panting with frigh# V' ani fatigue. "After iliia FU eat beetle three times a day!" A USEFUI life -- " Sometimes," marked Fo? "I wish I I had died in childhood" 'He pamw^ away for a moment or two and thenadd-iu * ed, with something like his ^ cheerfulness: " Well, well, I have not... • : altogether lived in vain. I have madA - X fairly-good husband for Mrs. F., a worn, an who never could have got ami elae to marry her." • Do TOU know tilts Utart ores*, Mary Anil, Mary int ' . >•" Doyouknow the lataet emae, ityfMfSjv • Hwr^aat 1 , It ie to «p«nd your day* - t, 'i " 'Nietb a big (sunflower'*rcya, .•« '.L- 5 Or to git up with 6 lily, ? Mary Ann. ' \ SOKE one was telling Horace Smith of̂ . t ̂- his having given a late royal Duke an|% account of an accident he had met with{^« '1 ̂ when he had been run away with, andc î ' f, of the Duke's exclaiming aloud to him- self, when he heard the narrator had'̂ jumped out of the carriage, "Fool fool I" " Now," said the narrator to hi*< r auditor, " it's all very well for him to .̂, -, „ call me a fool, but I can't conceive wtar|||̂ . he should. Can you?" " No," replied^* ; ,; the wag, ae if reflecting; " because helf * could not suppose you ignorant of the,iV , „• fact." HKRBEBT SPBNCKR says that it is "an# • } illusion " to think " that at each moment ':#r-. - the ego is something more than the ag­ gregate of feelings and ideas actual nascent which then exist." There are^" ' j ' moments when we can scarcely realise >t«V. " that this is so. One of these moments . '• a is when the gasman presents his quar- ' ̂ terly bill. At such times the ego does*'; • seem something more than the aggre-?- gate of feelings. Several dollars and a,>"«£. \ half .more at least--NorriatowmMumUk • BAI/IiADINK. She waa tfee prettiest girl, I ween, That mortal eye had ever seen; Her nauiA 1« Annabel CbiiKtiBa, Her bangs were curled with baudoHae, Her cbtffeo were smoothed with vaaeUa* Her teeth were brushed with fine rtiQHll Her lace was washed with coallne, Her gloves were cleaned with ic>>nllaa. She wore a dreaa of grenadine. Looped over a skirt of brlllUutiM; Her petticoat was bombazine, ^ Her foot was >-liod with a kid bo~ tine, ' ̂ , ' iv L ': Her wounda were healed with cceaaoMM^, ^ 3 'f$' ** She railed away f rom Muscatine *» v ^ lu a skip tbey called a brfgantine; • ,, She Misled with a gay marine «.£<»' *f Tiil they reached the Republic AlgantlML ,, * VtMi they were married by the Dean, 7ASL.. • /• „ " • ' U * , ; Aad Ifred on oleomargarice. M K' Boys and Thlmbtoa. No man can, like the writer; live|P sixty years without often wishing heji# had learned to use a sewing thimblei! well in his early boyhood, especially s if he has gone about the world much. Buttons will come off, stitches will break,' • f and how handy it is for boys at school,'. for men at a hotel, at a friend's house, indeed anywhere away from home--to,. •" * be able to whip on a button, stop a starting rent, and do many other little sewings, witHWt calling on a woman, - or perehnnce Sendiiig for a tailor belei» being able to appear at a hotel taMa.̂ ] ̂ One seldom, if ever, learns to use thimble if this part of his education has been neglected in small boyhood. The *' * I writer has traveled a good deal, and at" a rough gness has broken threads at least i ' . • 1 500 times in attempting to work a noodle %*/ ^ through a button or garment without a V thimble. Boys, take our advice, andfl? every one of yon learn to use a thimble j\ well before you grow up. Do it thiafg very winter; It is not feminine to do so. ^ Du* it and if you live long you will miti\y times thank us for this adv^Mk--'-- , American Agriculturist. ' * * >3 > PS fbe Neves Wise XM. Those generally given are Solon Gtuk, ; Pittacus, Bias, (Periapder (in place of ̂ ̂ whom dome give Spimeoides), Cieobulus, and rhaJ<*f Tliey were authors of the '•* ^ V celebrated mottoes inseribed in later' . • ^ ̂ lay;* in the Delphian Temple. These , s mottoes were as follows: »> • •* Know thyself."--Solon. , <<•; • Cou&ider the end."--Chilou . ' ,u; '•Know thy opportunity."--Pittaous. "Most men are bad."--Bias. > " Nothing »• impossible to industry.**--- ' *3 Pstinnder. -1 ' Avoid excesses "--Cleobolu* 4 ,i v V Surety ship is the precursor of i . 5 --^thuies. ^ j * > HERR EmQuiiu, of Berne, altar m *•: series of experiments extending mm s. several vears, lias suooeeded in pcuduo- - 'v, " ; ing artificial mother-of• pearl undistin- 4 guishable in every respect from the mat- ural article. It can be aokMin any shape, produced in any color, la imper- ' ̂a vious to heat and cold, and its prioe will be much leaa than thai of ordanaqr „ 1'