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tkm with a reporter the other day, he •' •P.i] ISP j^e|[ettFy ̂ UWeakr. SF WEDNESDAY, APRIL B,188S. * » Railroad Time Table. 001*0 BOOTH' •m«ft lAk« Passenger Qwtn Ute "Express Bsaeva Lake Krelffht • •• (Mt*H WO STB. BMtn Lake Krutjrht... Geneva likt Kxpree*--- fieaeva Lak«iPasseM«r...... 7:25»A. * .8:40 " * .•:« A. * .4:58 P. * «:53 " Buss. Agent. McHenry, HI : " Compositor Wanted* f A fcood compositor can lino a sltwa- ti9n by applying immedimlf at this JARLEY IS COMING. "Hidden Hand," at Rljrerside /Hall, to-morrow, Thursday eveniug,b/ itjjj^fctleiiry Dramatic Club. HON. J. O, SUEKWIN, wlH'please AC­ cept thank# for Public Documents re » anick for all time. MtRSOWAt.. jc A.-f. PABSOMs, of Lincoln, J Is visiting am one frissds t̂i lage. * J. L. GAOR. of Darlen, V rhitlng frleuds bere on Suiulflity JOHN WHKAT. OF the firm ouble & Wlieat. Druggists. Woodsttkm on our streets on Saturday. >t a GEO. WIUTSON and John Dojcan Woodstock, WM calling on frljand 'bn Sunday. i1 êr A. W. Anderson, of Senef^e Sunday, with the family of son, in this village. RKV. W. A. ADHON, of Aide paftidr of the Methodist C this vlliage<, was shaking his many friend# t» tW* *' Tuesday. lr yon fall to »ee Mrs. Jar e she cornea yon will mlsS tl treat of the season. em- B to AN unfortunate man complained ill •the New York Sun of having bad dreams. The remedies thus far recommended to him are : To put a bunch of old rusty keys under his pillow; to lie on his side; not to lie at all, but to go to bed with a •Clear conscience ; closet himself an hour with his conscience; make no remon­ strance ; listen attentively, and do as -commanded, and he will sleep the sleep of peace. He begins to think that he would rather have the bad dreams. A LICKS SB is required for marriage in Illinois. A young man's wedding day •drew near, and the road to Galena, the nearest licensing place, was in such ti •condition that a horse could not be used -on it. The distance was seventeen miles. Bte started for the license on the morn­ ing of the appointed day. It was a hard job, and he returned covered with mud, almost exhausted and barefoot, his boots having been mired and abandoned, but be brought the license, and the ceremb- aiy was performed in the evening. Rossi, in playing " Edmund Kean " at Philadelphia, upset a candlestick and caused a fire on the stage. The audi- -once was considerably alarmed, as the flames burst out frightfully near one of the flies. Rossi turned and discovered -the danger, stepped quickly to the spot, tore down the curtains, and soon smoth­ ered the fire. Then he faced the audi­ ence and said in an aside, as if taking the anxious people into his confidence : 44Eet ees all right Eet ees in ze play." -Confidence was restored on the moment, . and the play proceeded. ---- --. g, FOTTB lots, situated on the southwes •corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-fourth .street, in New York, have been sold to William H. Vanderbilt for $400,000. Mr. Vanderbilt, it is said, intends to eceot a house forthwith for one of his daughters. Two-lots on the south side •of Seventieth street, between Fifth and Madison avenues, have been sold for $131,000, the highest price paid for va­ cant lota located between those avenues. In 1874 similar lots could be bought for *$25,000 cash. MATOB HABRISON of Chicago is a 'thoughtful and considerate civil magis­ trate. He wrote a? follows on the com­ mitment of a woman to the city prison : •'The City Physician reports that the -prisoner is about to become a mother. It may be a boy. The boy might be President of the United States. Mtut he be born in the Bridewell ? Her name is Harrison--May Harrison. The boy might be Mayor. He must not be born in the Bridewell. Never ! Never !! " The woman was released. The child is *«irl. THH new United States census gives 92,653 Protestant churches, 71,662 Protestant ministers, and 9,003,060 members of Protestant churches. De- •dpcting the Roman Catholic and Mor­ mon populations from the total popula­ tion of the oountry, there remains 43,- 4304,381. This gives one church for •every 473 persons, including infants and •children, one minister for every 612 of tiie people, and nearly one professing Protestant for every five of the popula­ tion outside of Catholicism and Mormon- ism. Miss ANNA LOUISE CAST'S first lyric 'triumphs were achieved before her de - lighted neighbors on the veranda of her father's house in the village of Wayne, in Maine. She was the youngest of Dr. Cary's six children, all of whom •were gifted musically. The doctor used to say of his young daughter, " If An­ nie could so far forget herself as to ac- •quire the necessary ease and abandon when facing an audience, I think she would sing very well." When she be- her professional career Miss Cary grievously nervous and constrained. THE Ladies Literary CI at the residence of C. V setts State prison last year, only eight­ een in 100 persons were women. This is really smaller than it appears, because there are many more women than men in Massachusetts. Offenses against person and property are rarely commit­ ted by women. Their chief offenses are unchastity, drunkenness and vagrancy; and, these being their chief offenses, they are, as a matter of course, some­ what more frequent proportionally than the same offenses among men. In Mas­ sachusetts the proportion of females to the whole number of criminals is de­ creasing. VAC1B FOB m CURIOUS. "MA, the Bible says we are made of dust, but I guess I'm made of glass," said a 13-year boy of Passaic to his mother recently, after taking fifty or six­ ty pieces of glass from various parts of his body. About four years ago he stepped heavily with his naked foot on some broken glass, making a deep gash under his big toe. The wound, dressed without looking for any of the glass, was' a long time in healing, but about two years afterward he complained of a sharp pain in his instep. A bit of glass half an inch long was found in his stock­ ing. The hole by which it came out was scarcely noted, when another ray of pain revealed another pieoe of glass. After this he began to shed glass from all parts of his body. A little pimple would appear and out would " pop " pieces of glass, some of them three-quarters of an inch square. Sometimes they would follow each ether ngulw s«icco«»oiou. In the course of one day twenty large pieces came out of a little pin hole iu the wrist. He suffered in health until the glass coased coming out and then he grew robust again. That boy evidently had a pane in his body. THS announcement that one of the express companies has entered into com- - -petition with, and baa underbid, the •Government in the money-order busi. ness is of a character to excite inquiry «s to the reasonableness of the charges lor postofflce money-orders. The Gov­ ernment rate is 10 cents for any money- •order under $15; 15 cents where the Amount is over $15 and under $30 ; 20 •cents where the amount is over $30 and under $£0; uud 25 cents where the •amount is over $40 and under $50. The weak point in this scale of prices is that the man who wants to send $4 pays at the rate of 2} cents on the dollar, while Jhe man who sends $50 pavs at the rate Igf i cent on the dollar. AUOCANDKB H. STEPHENS intends to letire from public life at the expiration ' The Sorrows of Singers. The lot of the famous singer is not always a happy one. From the days of Malibran, who was in America over half a cent illy ago, to those of poor Christine Nilsson, trouble and sorrow have spared none of the great singers who have been popular idols. The most lucky of these is Jenny Lind, who retired on a fortune before her voice failed, and who leads a happy domestic life in London. But Malibran when young married a rascal and although her second marriage was not unfortunate, she lived but a very short time after it. Her contem­ porary and rival, Mile. Sontag, married an Italian Count, and entered lashionable life, retiring from the stage when quite young. But lier Count was also a rascal, who squandered all her money in gambl­ ing, and she had, when nearly fifty years old, to resume her artistic career, which was brilliant to the last. But her I husband was jealous as well as a spend­ thrift, and when she died in Mexico there were suspicions that she and the band- some tenor Pozzoiini were both poisoned. Mile. Grisi, who was the acknowledged grandest dramatic singer of her time, wedded a man whom she did not love and who was not worthy of her, and she made a scandal by leaving him for the arms of the equally famous tenor, Mario. Mile. Alboni, probably the grandest contralto singer that ever appeared in Sublic, was married for the fortune in er voice by an Italian Count, but the marriage was not a happy one, and they lived apart for some years. He did not, however, squander her money, and when he died she lost no time in becoming the wife of a French subalteran officer, much younger than herself, who loves her fortune devotedly, and makes him­ self generally disagreeable to those that rent houses or apartments erf her's in Paris. Nilsson's husband, M. Rouzand, is said to have inherited iusanity from his family, and he was literally madly in love with her when he persuaded her to become his wife. He was crazy, too, about stock speculations, and, after gambling all his own and his wife's for­ tune away on the Bourse, he died in a mad-house. Another great singer, Mile. Heilbrdhn, who was a pet of Paris some {rears ago, married a French Count, and ost through him, all that she had, in the crash of the Union Generate. She is now compelled, after having lost the freshness of her voice, to return to the stage. Everybody knows how Adelina Patti threw herself away upon a poor old French Marquis, from whom she fled, after he had enriched himself out of her earnings; and how she Iras thrown herself away in another manner with Signor Nicolini. Adelina is reported by a Western interviewer, to have saiA, also, that her sister Carlotta's husband is a bad fellow, who spends all his wife earns in gambling. These are only a few examples; more might be given to illustrate the facility with which popular singers, who can earn from $500 to $5,000 a night, sacrifice themselves on the altar of hymen, who mast be a very mercenary kind of divinity.--Philadelphia Bulletin. " ASTTHIKG you see me do you can do," said Pingrey to his son. "Thank you, sir," replied the young man, "but perhaps I would like to do some of the things you take such mighty good care I aha'n t see you do." Pingrey thinks of this, and trembles every time he goes behind the cupboard door to look into the bottom of that tumbler. IT IS another's fault if he be ungrate­ ful; but it is ours if we do not give. To find one thankful man we will oblige •tt»y tbatarenotso. THIS morn* crepttotdis, one of the an- imalcul®, jus only a twenty-thousandth part of an inch in diameter. THB religions ceremonies of the Egyptians were preceoed by abstinence, and the sacrifieers were allowed neither, animal food nor wine. SPIDEBS have" been seen as small as a grain of sand, and these spin a thread so fine that it takes four thousand of them j>nt together to equal in size a single PoKtos dust, ejected from volcanoes, sometimes floats oat upon the ooean and makes so thick an accumulation that boats And it difficult to foroe i'leir way through it. Two TWINS born in Kentucky only four minutes apart will date tfieir birth-days in different years. One was born at two minutes to 12. Dec. 81, 1S81, and the other two minutes after 12, Jan. 1, 1882. INSTEAD of photographing the faces ot Chinese rogues, the officials of the Flow­ ery Kingdom take a nide impression of their thumbs, by pressing those mem­ bers upon paper after smearing them with lamp-black, A face may be al­ tered, say the Chinese, bat a thumb never changes. IN regard to distance of the sun from the earth, Prof. Young says : "Though the distance can be easily stated in fig­ ures, it is not possible to give any real idea of a space so enormons; it is quite beyond our power of conception. If one ! were to try to walk such a distance, sup- ] posing that he could walk four miles an | hour, and keep it up for ten hours every j day, it would take sixty-eight and a half ! years to make a single million of miles, i and more than 6,300 years to t raverse the ! whole. If some celestial railway could i be imagined, the journey to the sun, ; even if our trains ran sixty miles an hour, day and night, without a stop, 1 would require over 175 years. Sensa- j tion, even, would not travel so far in a ! human life-time." i ONE of the most remarkable instanoes ! of a cat's friendship for the feathered race is related by the late Mr. Kingston in his " Stories of Animal Sagacity," In a loft where puss was rearing her kittens a pigeon had built her nest. The bird, had frequently lost her eggs and young through the depredations of the rats; and this, it is surmised, had prompted her to build her nest close by the cat's snug quarters. Puss offered* no objec­ tions ; and in a little while the two ma- • trons became quite sociable, feeding out of tne same dish, and displaying much affection for each other. The strangest part of the matter was that when puss was absent the pigeon constituted her­ self defender to the kittens, flying at any one who attempted to approach them, and striving with beak and wings to drive the intruder away. Subse- i quently, when neither her own brood j nor the kittens required further care, she was often seen fluttering close to I her feline friend when puss was making 1 her excursions abroad. Surely no more | marvelous instance of affectiop and | gratitude overcoming the instincts of nature is on reoord. GBKAT men often fall into curious habits, which they find it impossible to conquer. Augustus Hare, one of the ripest scholars in the English pulpit, and a refined gentleman, when he had ended a train of hard thinking, would spin around on his heel a few seconds ' and then resume work again. Neandor, the famous church historian, could not lecture to his students unless he had a goose-quill to pull to pieces as lie talked, I and it was necessary to supply a second' joose-quill when the first was complete- y stripped. William Wilberforce bc- I came co pbsorbed to conversation in < evening companies as to forget himself, ! He would lift himself from his chair in : his earnestness, move forward a little, I and gradually approach perilously near to the edge. It was a tradition in : fashionable English circles that he had | fallen several times to the floor. But in families where he was loved it was the I custom to station one of the older child- j ren behind his chair to move it forward ! as he moved, and guard him against | peril. Some who afterward became | leaders in English society retained among ! the pleasant memories of childhood | recollections of the services rendered to the brilliant and eloquent oonveraer. postern gate with a nine-cornered pieoe of olive-green. Indiscretions of the Gossips. Some odious cynic recommended a wife and mother-in-law as the best me­ diums for making known the things that all the world is interested in knowing. Of course no matt worthy the name will subscribe altogeutfer to such a brutality as this. There have often been known mothers-in-law who didn't keep the latch­ key nor count the wine bottles. There are known to be wives who do not in­ voke "mamma" when the little aggrava­ tions that are bound to mar the smooth­ est matrimonial excursions intervene be­ tween the kisses of breakfast and the pouting of midnight.^ But, all this be­ ing admitted, why is it that a public place is chosen by preference for the un­ raveling of household knots or the toss­ ing about of the ball of scandal ? Why is it that when she gets her marabout feather, sealskin cloak and seven-button kids on the joy of the house carries the 'pent-np treasures of the home on the end of her tongue to shrill out to an audience of strangers in the parquette, balcony or dress circle ? During the last Empire, as well as the first, a favorite trick of the head of the police was the creation of public senti­ ment by an ingenious process, of which public gossip was the main point. Wherever crowds came together some in- I tensely respectable member of society j would let fall a remark criticising sharply j the government or its measures. To ' this open challenge a comrade, also i plethoric in a;l the outward signs of j gentility, would make an equal pointed i declaration of his admiration for the | libeled officials. The conversation j would, of course, assume the wonted I French vivacity and airy phautasy of il- 1 lustration that makes even the most ' ordinary talk of the Gallic person as ; good as a play. Of course in the end the ® imperial champion was sure to get the i better of his ortrabilious adversary, and ! the listeners were of course impressed by all they had heard from the well-in- j formed intellectual athletes. In the ma- i jority of encounters the pebble of con­ versation thrown into the pool set con­ tinually growing circles in motion, so that the whole company were soon push­ ing on the propaganda, other agents be­ ing conveniently stationed to give it the proper piquancy of personality and risi­ ble scandal. The next great original Barnum will find it for his gun to seize this hint. Who that has ever been in a theater or crowd has not marke I the proneness of women to take the world into their con­ fidence? Conversation containing inti­ mate details of domestic history is bowled out trippingly on the tongue, the discoursive gossip casting glances on all sides to see if there is an attentive circle takiDg in her enlivening confidences. Who that has sat behind personages af­ flicted with this craze at a public per­ formance that has not longed for the ancient Persian custom that forbade women opening their mouths in the presence of strangers? But the women are not the worst in these public indis­ cretions. The artless youth of the period has his confidences to make in publie and these at awkward moment when an elderly neighbor fatigued with the inanities of actual life seeks surcease in the mimic humors of the scene. At such a moment it really does not interest him to know down to the utmost detail the lurid amours of the callow youths who seek in the theater ah audience for their infinitesimal legs and indescribable body- gear generally, rather than the wit and wisdom of the play. It is true that dur- > ing intermissions persons who have not seen each other for some time have the social rights of the drawing-room; but dunngLsych..interr^jMnrv one is sup­ posed to be' bent on wMrtaining his or her neighbor, and the general buzz is supposed to cover any ordinary tone of voice, unless groups of lovers or moth­ ers-in-law protecting their darlings from "brutes" of hnsbandt. --Philadelphia Times. A Beggar Woman With a History. An old l)eggar woman, long known at Courbevole and the environs of Paris on that side, died recently in a state of com­ plete penury. On her arms were found several tattoo marks, and among them were the names of Marie Birou and of Petit, lovingly interwined together. These names soon suggested the recol­ lection of a strange episode long passed almost into oblivion, aud threw an un­ expected light upon the real name and character of the old woman. It is re­ corded in the annals of the French Newgate that in 1847 a man named Birou died under suspicious circum­ stances, and the wife, together with a man named Petit, were tried for haviog poisoned him, and convicted of murder. The male convict was executed in due course, but the woman was sentenced to imprisonment for life, and was in the jail of St Lazare when; in the month of February, 1848, the revolution broke out. On the 24th of that month the mob broke into the prison and let out the prisoners, and among them the woman Birou. From then she has led a checkered life, being at one time em­ ployed as a servant in a house of busi­ ness at Montmatre. Here, however, the atmosphere of crime continued still to sur­ round her, for the man by whom she was employed had a brother who was also condemned to capital punishment, and suffered death by the guillotine at Versailles. This incident caused the brother to break up his establishment and turn Marie Birou out upon the world again. She managed, however, still to elude the pursuit of the detec­ tives, and obtained an appointment at Conrdevole, where, after Bhe was too old to work, she continued to exist prin­ cipally upon the charity of her neighbors, uutil death at last revealed the secret of her identity by discovering the tattoo marks on her arms.--Parisian. The Dog lie Did Hot Like. "Yes," Athelwald replied, speaking in low, impressive tones, " yes, 1 do like dogs; I am fond of them. But I like' a ehy, coy, shrinking dog, who flies away to the "shadowy recesses of the woodshed when he hears the footfall of the stranger, and can only be won to sociability by love and kindness and patient pleading. 1 do uotlove the bold, forward, unquestioning mass of canine insolence and obtrusiveness flat comes sneaking out from behind a lilac bush when one is just half way between the gate and piazza, and nestles up to a stranger like an old acquaintance, and drags one all around the yard in a back­ ward attitude, with no thought of one'B dignity or comfort." And, with a dry, oonvulsive sob, lie turned away, and as he walked toward the neckwear department the book-keeper noticed that his fawn- colcted traossrs had been patched in tks Justice Late bat Sars. Soarates was & stone-cutter by trade, but too lazy to follow so honest a calling. He loved to talk too well, and spent his time lounging on street corners and gathering young men as idle as himself around him. His personal appearance was disgusting in the extrecae, and one has but to gaze upon the Louvre cast in the gallery of which we are so justly proud, to straightway sympathize with poor, abused Xantippe. He had a flat nose, thick lips, prominent eyes, bald headVjow, broad figure, and awkward gait, went barefooted and half-clad, was a bitter enemy to cleanliness, aud a mountebank in manners. He married a woman to whom he was attracted by her singular conversational powers, and although he believed he himself excelled all his contemporaries in that respect, yet he found that she far excelled him in the command of language. He cared nothing for the^welfare of his wife or children, left them to support themselves as best they might, while he spent the time he could spare from the curbs on seances, and wasted the treasures of his thought at the feet of Aspasia and Theo- dote, whom ho pretended to desire to convert, that he might thereby add lustre to bis own name--sly old dog--and in addition to all this, he would invite the lazy creatures who surrounded him to dine with him when there was nothing in ths house to entertain them with. It is natural that this would be very irritating to a proud spirited woman who was struggling for herself and little ones. What woman in existence could have borne her soul in patience under such provocation ?--Post- Dispatch. Too Much Competition. A delegation of Israclitish merchants called on Mose Schanniburg> who keeps a store on Austin avenue, and requested him as an Israelite and a friend of hu­ manity, to contribute something'hand­ some to a fund they were raising to help to bring over to Texas some of the perse­ cuted Jews in Russia. Mose listened at­ tentively, and then said, that nothing pleased him so mncii as to relieve a dis­ tressed Israelite, but that charity began at home, and he was in favor of the com­ mittee helping out an Austin Israelite who was a very worthy mi-n, hut in straightened circumstances, before doing anythiug for the relief of Jews in Russia. " Who is that Austin Jew wlio is suffei- ing so much 1" asked the chairman of the delegation. Mose patted himself on the breast, and said he was the suffering Israelite. "Why, Mose, what are you suffering from ?' II _ J11L J I T I »R11 " »AR»L 5 /»/! ««*%, * loo assasy "Dere vash too much competition in pishness. 8chentlemens, if you get up some scheme to remove apout half of the Jews to Russia, so dere vash not so much competitions in drade, I vill come down handsome mit five dollars, so help me scltimminy gracious." The committee filed solelmnly out Into DISINTEGRATING BOURBONIS*. [From the Chicago Tribune.] Bourbon disintegration continues in the South, and in one State after an­ other the people are rising, in revolt against the Bourbon Democratic autoo- >acy. Commencing in Virginia, it has spread into Texas, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee with a de­ termination and enthusiasm which will either compel the Bourbon Democracy to adopt niore liberal platforms or turn these States over, far a time at least, to the Republican party. The Washing­ ton correspondent of the New York Tribune furnishes that paper with a mass of interesting information showing that the leaven is also working in North Car­ olina, and much more rapidly and en­ couragingly for Republicanism than in the other States named above, and he bases a prediction upon conversations with men from all parts of the South that in the Presidential contest of 1881 at least four Southern States will be de­ batable ground ̂and in more than one of thein the chanoes of success would seem to he with the Republican party. In North Carolina there is already an Independent Democratic organization in every county which stands ready to co-operate with the Republicans. This has been brought about by the dissatis­ faction of the rank and file with the ring-rule of the Bourbons which has completely excluded the young men from office and from all political honors; also by the discontent of that class of voters which has grown up since the war with the obstacles placed in the way of the material growth and interests of their State by tlie Bourbonism of the **Solid South." The prohibition folly of last year gave this element an oppor­ tunity to Bhow itself. The Bourbons championed the bill, and anti-prohibition organizations were fonned in every county, which those young and progres­ sive Democrats joined, and with the Re­ publicans they voted prohibition down by 118,000 majority. The organizations still exist and are ready to combine against the Bourbons, and a plan has already been matured, which the Trib­ une's correspondent gives substantially as follows: " North Carolina elects next Novem­ ber four Superior Court Judges and one Supreme Court Judge on a State ticket, a Legislature, members of Congress, of course, and such local officers as the Democratic rings have left the people the power to elect. It is the judgment of such Republican leaders as Congress­ man Hubbs that the State ticket should be divided with the Independent Demo­ crats, and that in every Congressional district except the Second, which is overwhelmingly Republican, the Repub­ licans should support the Independent Democratic candidate for Congress. It is understood that one will be put in the field in every Democratic district in the State. 'The Democrats who took part in the anti-prohibition movement and are ready to oppose the Bourbon organiza­ tion are expected to meet with those Democrats who did not take part in that tnftvonianf hiif wKn oyo •iyA/J />! bonism, during the coming summer, and j adopt a party name under which they j can rally all the elements of disaffection, j The name of ' Liberals* is the one they are thought most likely to adopt." The prospects of success are very flat­ tering should such a combination be formed, for it only requires a compara­ tively small diversion from the Bourbon Democracy to revolutionize the State. The State is naturally Republican, not alone among the blacks, but also among the white, whose Union sentiment isi very strong. In 1876 Tilden's majority over Hayes was 17,108, but In 1880 Han-1 cock's majority over the ' Republican and a small Greenback vote combined was only 7,208. The majority of the present Governor was only 6,237. As to the Congressional vote the Tribune'* correspondent savs: " It is expected that the whole Bour­ bon delegation in the present House will be renominated, and that every one of them will be opposed by a Liberal their boots. Mr. Brewster has been reading the evidence taken before Mr. Calkins' Committee on Privileges and Elections, in the Honse of Represent­ atives, especially the testimony given in the case of Small vs. Tillman in the Fifth South Carolina district, and his zeal to prosecute the ballot-box staffers has naturally been very much increased bv the facte therein set forth. An extract from his letter will convey an ide* of the method he intends to have his subordinates pursue. He says : •' The right of suffrage must be pro­ tected, no matter who suffers. I wish Mr. Melton (the District Attorney) to be told by you that I expect that he will prosecute forthwith the most im­ portant persons who have been con­ cerned in these attempts to defeat hon­ est elections by fraudulent or forcible means. I say the highest and most re­ sponsible people are those whom I de­ sire to be first prosecuted and first pursued. There will be no example if insignificant persons are first taken hold of. Those who stand high in the com­ muni ty and have thus venturedvio­ late the law and encourage others to do it are the very persons to be first prose­ cuted, and, if convicted, punished in a signal way." That sounds like business, And it is only to be regretted that there is not some slight hope of bringing the bull­ dozers, night-riders, intimidators and ballot box staffers to justice. But with all Mr. Brewster's well-directed zeal, and all the courageous efforts of his subordinates who have been selected to prosecute these cases, we fear that they will find themselves greatly at a disad­ vantage. These criminals will be tried in South Carolina by a Democratic jury, and conviction is next to impossible un­ der the circumstances. Their guilt is notorious, and has been publicly admitted a thousand times. Senator Wade Hampton said not long ago on the floor of the Senate, speaking on this subjeot: " We know that there have been ir- reguUrities and frauds. I admit it. But I plead as justification the cruel wrongs inflicted upon our people. Life aud the State itself were at stake. My unalterable determination is to rectify as soon as possible these wrongs which I have admitted." The leading and mostvwidely circu­ lated Democratic paper in South Caro­ lina, the Charleston News and Courier, in defending its Senator, said: " The people will not put up with this kind of work any longer. The Demo­ cratic masses cannot be whipped or spurred up to the point of taking the chance* of the Albany penitentiary." It was one of the editors of that pa­ per who naively said to a member of the Teller Investigation Committee: "I have told our people that we must quit killing niggers, in order to carry elec­ tions. It's bad policy, and ought to be stopped." People whcThave read the testimony taken by the investigating committees, sent by Congress to the different South­ ern States during the reconstruction period, to look into alleged cases of fraud, need not be told that South Caro­ lina wnijld not be represented in Con gress to-day by a solid delegation of Democrats, if the elections had been free , and the count a fa i r one . Af td the election cases that are to be tried in Charleston will end in smoke, because the dominating influence in South Caro­ lina has determined that, in spite of all theories to the contrary, this is a white man's Government, and that the whites shall rule in that State at whatever cost. --Chicago Journal. •<v4v «•?•«.. ' •"•ptaf" tnm atoety.«T» t»( j^y°^Penftof «***» aMM* «* as ir. paying the ovdinarj expenses of th») tnal School, which was r<aad ttto teat I Aaaembtj on March?* 1«•*-" 4 • Very tittle berfMts hoow of thaO&eral The Senate mmkm bat fifteen minntea., , Mr. Evana a nntadioa leqaeataq; 0M > President to pardon Suceai* .Mason." wW*lJ5S ««'d over nnd«r the roue, Mr. Bbedlas iotr<>duc«d a hill to provide for the expenses of It the special Rension, which went to tbe Oonmfe- tee on Appropriation* la the bill to give the HUte Not ahonld h»v« got at the Honaa, the Hon whet it « www mmmm O hllfe Aw ft' clerical error came back with a favwaUe n- port from th« Committee on * &F. Wright, of for the at. penses of the extra Hmman. Paanon, of Madfc- •on, Chairman of the Goaomarional imvtiM. meat Committee, reported the adontioaa '̂ • resolution by that committee anmrinr the " sentiment of the " ̂̂ jTj on the anbject of anpartioniMBL with ':3 the statement thai the reeotation was offered ' bv a Democratic member of the 7 Mr. Kelley, of Perrr, offered a reeotaUOn qnmtim of Fnaideot Arthur the pai*m oL ISergt. Maaon. Mr. White, of Cook, raiaedthe - * ? "a. point that the naotatioa waa oat of order not ^ being included in the aubjecto emrawrted f II tha Governor'a call Hie Speaker aaptained,- • ,r the point of order, citing the language of tbe * - * t' constitution, which prohibit* the Legiaktor* . ' ' ' entering apoa any bnaneee". not in- tj from a Democrat supported by the Republi­ cans. Of the seven Democratic mem- j wuich the Htssmte adjourned to meet next day bers from North Carolina, only two had at 10 o'clock. Prior to adjournment, Mr. ILLINOIS LEEISLATULS. Ihs TWrty t̂eth_Q^a«ral Ap'euMy of the State of """«»• met in extra aeaaioa at Spring­ field on Thursday, March 23. The Senate waa called to order by Lieut Gov. Hamilton. When the roli was called forty-three Senators an­ swered. A rtMoluiion wm presented and adopted providing for the striking from the Semite pay-roll of about forty names of em­ ployes not deemed necessary for (he extra Behgiott The Governor, being informed that all thing* were ready for business, sent in his message by hie Private Secretary. The messagu was read and referred to a committee for tbu I'oiiriideration of itn suggestions, after a majority of more than 2,000 votes, and in one of these cases there were two other candidates, but no Republican, in the field. The majorities were as follows: Latham, 506; Shackelford, 1,839; Cox, 1,316; Scales, 1,934; Dowd, 4,035; Arm- field, 1,948; R. B. Vance, over a Green- backer and an Independent, 6,519. A change of 4,000 votes properly distribu­ ted would have defeated five of these Congressmen. North Carolina gains a member under the new apportionment, ! °^ntedr and the Democratic Legislature will, of on Bi course, gerrymander the State. The best arrangement they can make, how­ ever, would seem to leave them at the mercy of the new movement. An analy­ sis of the majorities in the districts which they intend to make shows a Re­ publican majority in one of 6,000, and Democratic majorities in the other eight ranging from 900 to 2,500. A change of 6,000 votes properly distributed would defeat every Bourbon candidate." The Liberal movejnent in the South is , evidently making great headway, and should it continue in anything like its present progress for two years longer it will have to be considered as an import­ ant factor in the contest of 1884. The young element of the South does not share the war prejudices of their elders. They are anxious for the growth and prosperity of their seotion, and they are satisfied that nothing can be gained in that direction by keeping up a solid South any longer. The change is a natural one, and it cannot but affect politics. Even should it not change the political complexion of Southern repre­ sentation by the next Presidential elec­ tion, the change is sure to come before .another. There are good grounds for hope that it will be manifest by 1884. The Sooth Carolina Bailst-Box Staf­ fers. The bulldozers and the inventors of the tissue ballot in South Carolina are just now on the ragged edge of despair. Jauiea H. Paddock, the old Secretary of the Senate, recognizing that he held over from the regular to the called Heeiuun, tendered his resig­ nation. The House was called to Older % Speaker Thomas, 116 members renpouding to roll-calL The seats ot Bepreseatatives Koser, White and Moore, d«ed since the ad­ journment of the regular session, were draped m mourning. A resolution was adopted pro­ viding for the weeding out of attaches and a lot of employee. & resolution providing for the dis­ charge of the old committees and the appoint­ ment of new ones to consider only the euojecta included in the Governor's call was pre- and sent to the Committee Bales, Mr. Herfington, of Kane, presented a resolution, which was read and referred to the Judioiary Committee, providing for the submission to a vote of the people or au amendment to the separate section of article 14 of the constitution, so as to make it read as follows : "The Iliinoh and Michigan canal shall never b@ sold or leased until the specific proposition for the ni@ or leaae shall firat have been submitted to & vote of tbe peo­ ple off the Stat® at a general election, and have foec approved by a majority of the votes polled at such electioii: Provided, however That the State may transfer to or enter into a compact with tbe United States for the use or improvement of said canaL The Gener­ al Assembly shall never loan the credit of the mate or make appropriations from the treasurv thereof in aid of railroads or canals: Provided, that any surplus earnings of any canal may be appropriated for its enlarge­ ment or extension. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Martin, of White, introduced, a Joint resolution declaring opposi­ tion to the proposition made to cede the Illinois and Micuigan canal to the Federal Govern­ ment, or any corporation Ttda was re­ ferred to the old Canal and River Improve­ ment Committee. The Governor's message was then read, which being regularly disposed of the House adjourned. But little progress was made by the Legisla­ ture at II# session on March 24. In the Senate an eloqn«nl prayer was altered by Rev. T. A. Parker, of the First Methodist Epwcopal Church, Springtield, after which, by resolution unanimously adopted, he was made the Senate chaplain for the session. The resignation of Secretary Paddock was aooepied, and Oeoig* Terwilliger, first assistant, was promoted by be­ ing elected to fill the vacancy. Mr. Kelly (Demo­ crat), of Adams eowxty, offered a Congressional Apportionment bill providing for eleven Repub­ lican Congressional districts and nine Demo­ cratic. The bill was referred to the Committee on Congressional Apportionment. Mr. Secrist introduced a bill providing for the appropria­ tion of one-half the interest on the college and for fear that they are about to be visited by what Mr. Beecher would call " a sec- j seminary fund for the ordinary expenses of the tion of the Day of Judgment." The new ~ * x -> Attorney General of the United States, Mr. Brewster, was requested some time ago by the United States District At­ torney at Columbia to send him a law­ yer who was a Democrat, to aid in the prosecution of the election cases, which has jiOATI done, and the cases will he tried in April. •. A Democrat was wanted to enter the case as of counsel for the Government, the trials of the appearance of being prosecuted on account of partisan zeal, rather than to vindicate tbe law and ob- ^ tain justice; and so a Democrat, Mr. the street, and Mose will not be again Dallas Sanders, has been sent to hap to requested to help bring over any more Israelites from Russia.--Texas Siftings, Tn effect of cruel words last lOBfar Illinois State Normal University at NorinaL Reierred to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. Fuller presented a joint resolution pro­ viding for the appointment of a committee of five members of this General Assembly to revise tho criminal code and report to tbe next Gen­ eral Assembly, they to be paid $5 per diem and expenses. A prominent membtr sug­ gested that it ought to be $10. Ha thought a Criminal Code Commission composed of $54awTera would not amount - u an.-- waa fwfijnsMl fn W U1UUU. XUO IVDVIUMVU the Judiciary Committee. In the House. Mr. Harrington's Illinois aud Michigan canal • • resolution was increased inimi'orUnct' by being because it was thought it would divest ordered print«i that tbe members might be ' ' ! able to read it more readily. The Speaker laid before the House tbe resignation of First A: sistant Clerk H. W. Roweli, who has obtained an appointment at Washington. Mr. Underwood offered a resolution request­ ing the Illinois Congressmen to secure prepare for the trials. One of Mr. Brewster's letters of i»- atruction to Mr, Sanders has recently found its way into print, and its perusal rn.fi" appropriation for the Illinois levee*. It was immediately ruled out of order by the Speaker on tbe ground that it did not come within aiBll usued by the Governor. 11M reports ®t tha Committee oo Contingent In­ cluded is the call, and the matter was dropped. The Senate barely had a quorum when ill * m e t , o n M a r c h 2 7 , a n d r e m a i n e d i n s e s a o w . ^ " / f - only ten minutes. The following bills wewT **' ' presented: By Mr. Whiting, for &a act. ceding " ^ *'• the Illinois and Michigan canal to the United" - if !k i States. This bill is substantially the Springe# . t bill now pending before Congress. The bil$ ' ' was read a first time, and referred to the Com-. • '*1' £ mit tee on Canals and Rivers. $y Mr. Adamt* « to provide for the revision of the laws of thi^ * State relating to criminal jurisprudence^, It provides that the Governor shall'" ' , appoint three persons learned in the law t<| ; - prepare a revision of the !aws reJatmg to enro» f ' luhl jurisprudence, and report to tl.e next Gen. ? eral AsHembly ; these persons to be paid $10 p-t34 "* day tor their services, tbe same not to sK^ri *• gate in all more than $500 for each person, i-n<|. - 1 ^ not more than t500 shall be paid for clerk hiie|. ~ ^ t and for these purposes the sum of §3.000 i«ap ̂ , oropriated. The bill waa referred to the Comfc,-. " t mittee on Judiciary. Senator Lewis rirnM ntc <| •- a resolution of the Supcrvisorsof La Salle couu J.* ' *.i favoiiiig the ceding of the Illinois and Michigan! j, " canal to the Federal Government. In Honse, Underwood got in his ret-olution in re» * lation to the Illinois levees, previously ruled Yi s out of order by tbe Speaker, by tacking on tb#t. . •; '4 recommendation of the Governor to cede thf,._ Illinois and Michigan canal to tho Federal Gov» ̂ erument. The resolution was referred to thf,1 * - Committee on Canal and River Improvement ̂ , - 'nr Mr. Dysart offered a bill to appropriate §1,<M)C ,' to pay the contingent expenses of the special, : . s session. Mr. Cronkite offered a bill, whic% • „ , ^ went to the Congressional Apportionment Com. mitiee, to provide for the apportionment ofth*: ; State into twenty Congressional dutrtots. Ths bill divides the three first districts into four isf >* • the mmb manner as the 8enate bill of ths®1:" ' flS regular session divided them. Tbe other die*! 1 trm i>] fbe State are unchanged. v, . . Mr. Whiting introduced resolutions in th|-- Senate, on the 38th ult, asking Congress t^C . ^ provide for a canal from Hennepin to Boe%.» * \ I s l a n d . T h e r e s o l u t i o n a s k i n g t h e P r e s i d e n t t # K : ̂ pardon Sctxt. Mason WM passed by a vote of" . • J S3 yeas to 15 navs. In the Honne, the threene#^*~ ' members--Messrs. Bayne, Tioe and Andrew»~* , « elected to till the vacancies caused by the deaths ̂ " :• £ of Messrs. Moore, White and Baser, wens' • sworn in and took their aeata. Mr. Morns, c# '> Hardin, offered a resolution iMtraatini Congressional Apportionment: Committee to re^s i i port a bill giviuw; Cook oountv the extra Ooi* - . ' 4| gressmaii whioh it is entitled, and leaving tfajl remaining districts outside of Cook county aj|V. they now mint, Beferred to the Comtteasioai' al Apportionment Committee. Mr. \ LiwS» « gar, of Alexander, introduced a J res# ̂ Iution callmt; on the Illinois delegation hi Coi£i"' gress to procure an appropriation for the Mm#*, issippi river improvement. Sent to Com mitt at on canal and Kiver Improvement. TribatSft were paid to the memories of the dsoeasod members of the House, Messrs. Moore, WhitS : and llftser, in the shape of eulogistic speech ̂ Snd memorial resolutions. ̂> The session of the Legislators <m the am*,' nit. was extremely brief and unimportant TM» : 1 only thing the Bom|s sras to 4mm Chaplain's ptayor and pass Dsns tor Whtaafs memorial to Congress urging the oooMructii* by the Nationsl Government of tte flimsiO canal. In the House, the Appropriation Caa»*~ niittcv reported favorably upou the bills to ap­ propriate the sum of *10,000 to pay the co#" tingent expenses of the present special secwio^ and pay the members and officers of the As»%:',„ sembly." The report was adop ed, and the bill* sent to second reading. A roiolmion provMii* for the adjournment of the Assembly on April 22, was eent to the Committee on Boles, '^h||^^'4, report of Mr. Dui fee, from the Committee oSi Utiles, recommending the addition of threat* members to tbe Committees ou Coogre^eionSl;- and Senatorial Apportionment was adopted . The Senate had another very brief session oj|t'H the 30th ult It ordered the Appropriation bills to a second reading, and adjourned aftcj£ having been in session only about fifteen mi% utes. Iu tbe Home the Jndicury Commit made a majority report declaring any revision of the criminal code. Mi Gî g, Sumner and McWilliams, also of Judiciary Committee, presented a mino report iu winch they nay Uiey do sot the report o f the major i ty , "because we be l ie v s , that in many respects the criminal code ahotUC,: be amended and revised." The question beiolr upon the adoption of the minority report, £•, lengthy ducusoica followed Mr. Collins, of Cook, stated that the question demanded a fi ' and full discussion, and he moved that the reports be printed, and that the matter be set down as the spatial der for Tuesday, April 4 After further debate the motion prevailed. After some further do> •> bate upon the adoption of the suWHtnte, oft»V fered by a l ie minor i ty o f the wmnHtwy Oi l Home adjourned. * - , ^ it Si! •••j n . - • IT -1L- L-LL1..J.!L •--? -JJ-1 •= - s ** Hew the Chinese De at HeiM» The chief characteristic of the China#v' man is industry. The Emperor and his* corps arise at midnight and the oourj^l audiences are held at 5 a. m: Th$ schools are begun at sunrise, and with brief intermission continued uutil 5 p. nv ' , . vj T h e r e a r e n o S u n d a y s a n d o f h o l i d a y ^ , ^ there are less than a dozen in a year, ^ The Chinese labor from sunrise unU|£r *•. -- sunset; and in the evenings the streets >'" are deserted; but the Chinaman' works-, moderately and never frets; he live# \ frugally, eating little meat aud drinking, ' ; no alocoholic liquors, and hence he lia*' great enduring and recuperating poweij and lives to a green old age, unless perl adventure he falls a victim 'to the nsj|| tional vice--opium smoking. He Bevetse^1 the past, and such is his innate cone* servatism that he is tilling the soil witli the implements that were used 1,000 years ago. He rejects innovations, ye|;" ' J.f, Europeans have successfully introduced; ? glass to take the place of paper, anl" s owing to its cheapness some kinds of t kerosene have been accepted as a part \; ; the domestic economy. The wages o| • f la'oor are low, but in some parts of Chiu#; a family of six persons iuav live a montlf on |4. The Chinaman is elaborately ; ^ I polite, but he is not a truth teller. H#'. is not aggressive; indeed, he is a peace* * maker and has a profound respect fof constituted authority, but wants hi* ' government to govern him as litU^ ' 'r as possible. The condition of women ii|* China may be inferred from the fad i that Confucius viewed Iter as a necessary evil. Like the American w*»man, she i# fashion hut Cbix;ss|t philosophers hold that squeesiug feet uutil they are no more th«a thre# inches in length is not so injurious sft tight lacing. Women in the flowery kingdom are practically nonentities, an$_." yet for twenty years preceding hat yesr*.- when the Queen Dowager died, women were regents, ana nvr tke M|7 gency is held by a woman. ^ ^ * * Gm me the monnr that few spent in war, and I «ul nwokMe • &;yi: beewrj m M m, T':v - ! - vo- -,: & he. ' Ai ! j ' . . V ̂ J Jt. * „fe,.«*. i