rolling over the sidewalk «g the crowd. The bystanders helped pick the money up, and every coin to its owner. The latest mathematical genius turns ' lip at Eureka, Oa. He is a boy scarcely S years old, who d«jes not know one let- % ier of the alphabet from another, yet he ? can add, subtract, multiply and divide some with wonderful accuracy. He .gives correct answers to all mathemati cal" questions with but little hesitation. THE returns of the census taken in ~ Italy at the close of 1881 show the popu- lationof the kingdom to be 28,452,000, an increase during tbe decade of 1,650,846. .The number of Italians living in other ^ countries is estimated at 300,000. The •' only city in the kingdom'whose popula tion has decreased during the last ten ' years is Florence. - - IN his early days, when a slave, Fred erick Douglass was employed as a ship- ^ joalker. He lately received from the Chesapeake and Marine Railway and •i* Dry-dock Company, of Baltimore, a * finely wrought set of calker'a tools as a ; memento of the days when Mr. Doug lass was an employe ̂of the company, , forty-six years ago. AT the Ring Theater trials, in Vienna, , the manager of the theater oonveyed a vivid impression of the diabolical ar rangement of the structure by declaring that the passages were all labyrinths, * and that after having been there for : weeks he could never find his way to his own office, or even to the staircase lead ing to it, without guidance. v A lad of 15 years came to an extreme ly painful death in the Albany (N. T.) j Iron Works. He was snatching a few minutes of much-needed sleep upon a plank near the "train rollers," from which was issuing an iron rod heated to / | a white heat and forty or fifty feet in : length. These rods move at a speed of " fifteen feet a second, and their direction it is impossible to control or determine. This one, after twisting about for .an instant, shot toward the sleeping boy 1 'and burned its way into his body. The next moment it withdrew itself; with a cry of agony the boy jumped up, and in fitteen minutes he was dead. THX bride of a Green Bay (Wis.) wed- , ding was astounded by receiving from a friend a pair of trousers, with this mes- *7 sage : " Loaned for the part you are to ;,.piay." The'bridegroom construed the . garment as an insult, and. the guests I unanimously agreed that some decisive , vform of resentment should be shown, f While the excitement was high, the friend arrived in equal perturbation, and - .explained that the trousers should have .gone to a fellow for wear in an amateur entertainment, while apiece of silver- ' ware should have come to the wedding. He had hastily whipped the blundering ' * messenger and would submit himself to ^ ^any punishment the brid9 might inflict. < She made him wait for a kiss until every- >• body else had been served. RAILROAD building has began fti-4the far East The next quarter of a century will see Nineveh, Babylon, Damascus and the cities familiar to us through the most ancient of ancient history, within easy communication of the rest of the modern world by a complete system of railways. A road 500 miles long is now under way from the Blaok to the Gas- . pian sea.- It runs along the valley of the river of Cyrus, south of the Caucasus, and from a portion of it Mount Ararat is in sight. It seems incredible that there should be business to justify railroads in these graves of old nations, but wherever human beings live theyn^at travel, and food and clothing must be transported from <me point to another. The steel rails will soon girdle Mesopo tamia, Central Asia and Arabia, and will help to bring about the poet's dream of the parliament of men, the federation of all the nations. ful practical knowledge. College grad uates are standing on every corner look ing for work. If any person should de sire to travel up Broadway in a coach drawn by a score of accomplished ool- legians he would have no trouble in em ploying them, even if lie offered them no more than their board." A man who " had pawned his clothes to pay for his advertisement" advertises that he wants work of any kind where he can earn his board. . ' AT a recent reunion of the California pioneers, one told of the times when he lugged a gold-washing machine on his back ovef the mountains, only to find on beginning work that he had been fooled into buying a machine for washing clothes. He went into the laundry busi ness. however, and in six months made $10,000 washing shirts * at $5 apiece. Number two'said that when he arrived in San Francifeco the vigilance commit tee were so busy hanging gamblers and other rascals that he made $500 a day manufacturing halters out of a bale of homp he happened to have.' The com mittee paid him $100 apiece for* the halters. Number three said he was sleeping on the top floor of the Occi dental Hotel, in San Francisco, the first night of his arrival, when an enormous grzziy bear entered, and before he could reach his pistol threw him over, smashed his spectacles, tore out his false teeth and upset his cologne bottle. Then the bear threw his valise containing his pis- tolB out of the window. The man had ravages loxera, which have so seriously inter fered with vine growing, a French agriculturist has sought to discover a substitute for the vine, and is said to have obtained very good resuks with a variety of red beet This beet yields a wine which is said to be equal to many of Southern growth, and the plant has the advantage of being adapted to all soils and climates. SEVERAL interesting archaeological " finds " in Europe are reported. Near Caltanisetta, Sicily, several caverns have been found, whicu are evideutly burial places dating from the period when the ancient Sicilians had already been ousted by the Italian tribes, but before the Greek colonization had begun. At Nordrup, Denmark, the remains of seven human bodies have been found under a few feet of pumace stone, numerous bronze objects, gold rings, Roman glasses, mosaics, glass beads, etc.. being also discovered among the remains. ASTRONOMICAL knowledge of the re markable ring of small planets traveling between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter commenced with the first day of the present century, when Piazzi discovered the first of these objects, which he named Ceres. Other discoveries fol- lowed at irregular intervals until, in 1845, the number of these small planets --pr aster* ids, as they are usually called--was increased to five. Since that year the list has extended very rapidly, •nd 220 have now been discovered. Nc estimate ean be found of 'the total num ber of the asteroids. They are very small, and Severrier has computed that their combined mass is probably less than one-fourth of the earth's mass. From the size of Yesta, which is esti mated to be 319 miles in diameter, they dwindle to an unknown minuteness. Herr Hornstein has communicated to the Vienna Academy the result of re- pen- tho conter, covering of punctured, „ ,. _ for the lymph to exude and to be small ivory spatul«e, much like a knife-blade. The serum, or vaccine lymph, continues to be secreted for some time afterward, and finally becomes thick and gummy, clogging up the mouths of the vessels, drying down into what is called the scale, and healing takes place. The vaccine ivory points are dipped in this lymph and dried. Those that have been dipped in the virus from two animals are marked "XX" and are good for fife days, while those dipped in the lymph of three animals are marked 41XXX. " and are warranted for two weeks s ; ̂ Workingmen W«r„ ; « War tahelT'-Oaa^ It is not many years since Simmer, standing in Boston on the Fourth of July, iu one of the finest orations on record, announced the dictrme of peace: that arbitration should take the place of war. The idea then seemed novel, and people derided it as visionary and im practical. Since then many cruel wars have desolated the earth, and the tread of hostile armies hate shaken many America have of cannon. Still been spreading, ts and philoso- it and deprecated nothing for defense exoepi a bottle of j Zlt smelling salts. Every time the bear made for him he gave him a sniff. The bear recoiled, roared terribly and fell back. The fight was kept up until morning, by which time the salts were all gone. The man rang for the waiter and ordered another bottle of salts. He was told that there was only a pound in the whole city. "Buy it at any price !" said lie. Word came that it would cost $1,0Q0. Just at this moment the band began playing and the remainder of the third speaker's story was lost. The fourth speaker said he went on shore fifteen minutes at San Francisco while the steamer stopped for whisky--it had given oat at the bar--and helped hang two men. One of them was afterward found to be innocent, but he did first n& M an example. ' . The Cherokee Rose. The legend of the Cherokee rose is as pretty as the flower itself. An Indian chief was taken prisoner by his enemies, the Clierolcees, and doomed to torture,- but became so seriously ill that it be came necessary to wait for his restora tion to health before committing him to the fire. And as he lay prostrated by the disease in the cabin of the Cherokee warr or, the daughter of the latter, a young, dark-faced maid, was his nuvse. She fell in love with the young chieftain, and, wishing to save his life, urged him to escape, but he would net do so unless she would flee with him; ' She consented. Yet before she had goAe far, impelled by soft regret of leaving home, she asked permission of her lover to return home, for the purpose of bearing away some memento of it. So, retracing her footsteps, she broke a twig from the white rose which climbed up the poles of her father's tent, and preserved it during her flight through the wilder ness, and planted it by the door of her new home in the land of the Seminoles. And from that day this beautiful flower has always been known between the capes of Florida and throughout the Southern States by the name of the Cherokee rose. that the number of asteroids, with a diameter oi over twenty-five miles, is very small, and that probably ail sucli were discovered before 1859. The num ber with a diameter less thau five miles seems also to be very small, at least in the inuer ports of the asteroid zone next Mars ; in the outer region next Jupiter there may be a more considerable num- countries. Europe trembled under the the idea of peace Statesmen, philaiv pliers have welcom* the spirit of war. The parties who in augurate war have always depended upon the workingmen to fall in and fill up the ranks, it is qfae of the bright omens of the day to se$ that thib class is no longer in favor ol barbarous war. No ei'.i.sg suffer more at its hands, yet war always confidently counts upon the workingmen to fall into its ranks when it blows the fife and beats the drum. War always comes to desolate the homes of these people. They have accepted it as a kind of unavoidable necessity-- something that had to be done. Labor troubles have been pressing upon the laborers until they have had little time for other considerations. They have been trying to take from oppressive laws the stings which have wounded them. Now the laborers see that one of the great disturbers of their peace and pros perity have been the wars which have called them from their peaceful pursuits ber of these very small bodies. Most and disturbed their industrial prosperity. asteroids seem to have diameters between five and fifteen miles. The average number with a diameter of five to ten miles, discovered during the lasjf twenty •years, is about three each year; the yearly number of ten to fifteen miles di ameter is about one and three fifths. Herr Hornstein believes, therefore, that nnless much more powerful telescopes are used future discoveries will be chiefly confined to those measuring five to fif teen miles in diameter. . Declaration efa Beaten Reporter* "Oh, Herbert, is it true?" *'It is true, Ro3e. For months I have not been able to banish your image from my mind. Even in the excitement of attending an execution, as a nc^orter here in Boston, my thought* have been of you. While I have watcued doomed man mounting the scaffold with a firm step, and listened to to the conso lations of religion administered to him, at that supreme moment when he stood upon the verge of the unknown, and after the bolt was drawn heard him fall witli a dull thud, your lovely fwie has been present to my gaze. Also, when an alarm has been rang in, caused by .the discovery of a fire in the third stovjf of a tenement house, and the inmates of the doomed structure were in danger of becoming a prey to the devouring element, owing to the suddenness of the conflagration and the j absence of means of escape Irom the blazing pile, my thoughts have been of Even in the midst of Terpsichore- • « , *ATOB DAVID DAVIS do*s nol enjoy protracted sessions of the Senate when dinner is waiting. The other day, says an onlooker at the Capitol, when dinner hottr^as close at hand and no end was visible of the dull oratory of his fellow statesmen, the Acting Vice President became very uneasy. He fidgeted about in his chair as if seated on nettles, and endeavored, by expressive looks, to indium houie one to move au adjourn ment. These tactics proving of no avail, and seeing a certain Senator rise to be • gin a speech ^vhich was certain to be two hours long and exceptionally dull, he grasped opportunity by the forelock, and exclaimed : "There being no fur tj^er business before the Senate, a mo tion to adjourn is in order; the Senator from has thi floor, and moves to adjourn. All those in favor of that mo tion will say, 'Aye;' those opposed will say 'No.' Tho ayes have it, and the Senate stands adjourned;" and, before the would-be orator could recover from his bewilderment, the portly Senator from Illinois was half-way to the cloak room. ' . WHUJI a skillful workman oan get employment at good wages in New York, those who axe "willing to do anything" --which means that they know how to do little or nothing--have no chance at ; all; there are a hundred applicants for every vacancy. 41 No small number of the searchers for places," says a reporter •who has examined the subject, "MM. Lawyers, Lawyers, Everywhere. The pursuits of the members of the present Congress are told in the follow ing figures: United States Senate.-- Lawyers, 57; bankers,- 5; railroad officials. 3; professional politicians, 3: merchants, 8; manufacturers, 8; miners, 2: general biminesH. 2; farmer, 1; editor, 1. House of Representatives.--Lawyer*. 195; professional politicians, 19; merchants, 17; editor*, 12; farmer*, 11; manufacturers, 10; physicians. 5; railroad officials. 3; civil engin eers. 2; miners, 2: mechanics, 2; clergyman, 1; capitalist, 1; metallurgist, 1. Some day the people of this country will revolt at this exclusive rule of one profession. Our Congress should have a large proportion of business jnen, of scholars and especially of fatmers. Cer tainly not more than 20 per cent, of either house should belong to the pro fession of the law.--Demorest's Month- " you. an festivity, though I seemed ta watch the giddy throng tripping it on the light fantastic, to the music of the efficient I peace will be possible. Now they see that war is a wrong, bar barons and cruel thing, and they pro pose to throw all their influence against wars. At the great Trades' Union Con gress, recently held in London, the President, speaking for the Congress, after alluding to the obstacles which press upon industry, said : "First oi all there are the artificial laws which hamper industry, aud of these none are in ore important than those relating to the land. After what has been passed this session in regard to Ireland, we can not be silent upon the subject in reference to England and Scotland. Next, the most important of all, is the question whether we are going again to tolerate this country waging war against other people for the sake of increasing or per petuating an empire? What interest have we, workma^^h întMesI have the people on war for the sake of empire? If our po sition as workmen is one of independ ence, we ought to recommend the inde pendence of other workmen and of other nations. It is not merely that these wars do untold misery to the poor and to the working classes by the actual mis ery they cause, by increasing the insta bility of industry and employment, which is unstable enough without any addi tion, but these wars are profoundly de moralizing to the country engaged in them, aud are crimes of the worst kind." These sentiments were warmly cheered by the congress of workingmen. When the men who work aud the men who tight in the ranks make up their minds that they will no more go out to the wars to be butchered and shot down like hogs, We gladly hail and well-trained orchestra, my thoughts have been far away irom the giddy level and with you. It has been the same at a surprise party, when one of our most prominent fellow-citizens has been watched or caned. It has b^en with this movement of the workingmen in i England. Will the workingmen of I America imitate, them, and oppose all j projects looking towards unjust wars? j The men who form the great body ofrthe armies of the world must assert them- difficulty that1 I could withdraw my i selves against the barbarisms of war, thoughts from yon a 'sufficient length of time to enable me to make intelligible They must come out aud fight down the ambitions of generals, diplomats and notes of the neat and pointed address j rulers, who are ever ready to plunge a nation into war for some paltry ob]ect. The lust of ambition, the greed of power, the desire for fame, anger or revenge are usually the unholy motives which bring wars and all their calamities upon the d ! people. The workingmen of England i- have done wisely in protesting against war.--Indianapolis He* aid. with which the presentation was made,. or the brief, but well-chosen and highly appropriate response of the recipient, who, although completely taken by sur- {>rise, was equal to the occasion. Simi arly in the courts: As I have watched the hardened criminal receive his tence with sullen indifference, my thoughts have been of you. The same , at the concert: When I have heard a ! v ^ Fancies In StatiaMry* j song rendered in such an efficient manner j Designs in illuminated bronzes are as to provoke a recali, I have been ! the latest and most popular novelties, thinking of my darling. Even when ! and in them very beautiful effects are Jewels of 11M Fa tare. One of the applications of electricity which has not as yet attracted general attention is the magnificent effect which it can produce when employed as a means of personal decoration. A neck- law or a bracelet of diamonds of the j majority of first water could not compare for brill-, j country, and ascertaining the particulars of accidents by which men have sustained injuries which it was feared would terminate fatally, your sweet browu eyes have haunted me. In view of these facts, I ask yon, Rose, ean you doubt my knfe?" iancy with the effect of a string of crys- | emigrated from New England. tain, each containing a tinv filament of carbon heated to incandescence by an electric current supplied from a wrndl Faure battery, which might easily be concealed on the person. At the Crys tal Palaoe there is a diminutive breast pin which can lie illuminated by r. two- inch Faure battery carried in the pocket ! and in of the wearer.--Pali MalV Gazette. Boston's Debt to the Coantry Boy. A writer in the Contemporary Review calls attention to the fact that a very few of the leading men of New York city were born in the city. The great born in the large proportion not only true of men whose names are j familiar to the public, but it is also true of successful business men whose names are not so well known. We suppose it ' is true of other cities as well as of New i York. An examination of the leading 1 men of Boston in the learned professions business will show that a ! majority of them came from the coun ! It is evident there is something j country training which develops energy I of character. Country bovB learn at an | early age to contend with opposition want. They industry and cities need to be recruited blood from the country. Therapeutical Advice. "Won't die in the house," says a re cent writer on therapeutics. Well, well. , We presume it is necessary for some i an<^ work for what they people to keel over on the sidewalk, or j naturally form habits of step out into the woodshei^ or wander • economy, and these tell in the off into the woods for tne purpose of ! °' t™6 the world dying; it makes it interesting for the newspapers. But we are still in favor of the old-fashioned, quiet method of dying in the house, with the undertaker auxiously waiting around the oorner.-- Nev) Haven Register. ) MR. LABOUCHKKK says: "A French writer would be regarded as an ignorant person were he to make a fault in gram mar, whereas an English writer would be looked upon as somewhat of a purist were he not often to do so. I remem ber when I as a boy, was taught En glish composition I was told never to finish a phrase with a word of one sylla ble, and never to put ttiiroo wwd* of me qrllable together. V 'A sH-' Yaccine Yinis. The method of obtaining vaccine virus frotn the cow is as follows : The most available parts of the milk glands and parts adjacent are first closely shaved and sponged off clean. Then with a sharp lancet the shaven surface is cov ered with scarifications in the form of small square spots al>out half an inch square. Into these small cnts a quanti ty of warm fluid lymph taken directly from an animal close at, hand is quietly but thoroughly rubbed until the opera tor is satisfied that the operation has been successful. The animal is then re produced by various combinations of metallic colors--.such as silver, brass, gold and bronze--and rich tints of blue, green and cardinal. The fancy for gro tesque designs is very pronounced, and that design is likeiy to be the most songat after in which the element of whimsicality does not predominate. In response to this prejudice in favor of what is o;ld. and unconventional, creep ing tilings have been given a place on pauer and card. Snakes col themselves on letter paper, lizards in relief, colored to the life, deport thenseIves on dinner cards; prosaic field vegetables,-«»Jress-;d in the r liver.v of green, iliuminiae-t^e • ««»rtiers of n -te-heads, whilu storks and ! owls peer down irom cjiitnpey tops and 1 telegraph wires. Fishes and inseetw are ! ul.so mvssed into decorative serview, and i tulao'txi or uresented hi utter realism, j tUfcj look out from letter heads and • cards. The dragon design in bronze and ! green, aud that of the stork, in which ^ this much portrayed £iwl is brilliantly ; presented in go!dand bine, wita beaks | and.daws tipped with red, show pretty j combinations of tints. s In dinner cards small circular ones -' : fchow the usual floral designs, with nur- j prising udditions from the department j of natural history. Realistic frogs, tur- KJ* fr/Toh ties lizards, lobsters and dragon-flies in ] relief, shown in metallic colors tinted ' after--immediately after--nature, Stretch their lazy length across the cards. For cardboard silk is sometimes substituted, and a painted marine design, with the large X struggle ver tlat bronze^ /••V.v" with fins, gills and tail in red, card in his m< showed with background of CiBUU) ice between a natural fool and an edu cated fool, replied, "Just about the difference between you and me, I sus- wsa neve^ aide [Washington leiegrmm to Inter Ocean.] The daily attitude of the two parties in the House grows more and more sig- The Republicans are faying to id Randall and his Dem ocratic followers are desperate efforts to retard business. As explained iu these dispatches some time ago, the plan of Randall and the Democratic leaders was originally to make this a do- nothing session. The Republicans have had the majority, and have been crippled by absenteeism. They have managed, however, to secure the co-operation of enough Greenbackers with the two Re- adjusters to defeat the procrastinat ing tactios of the other side. In this way the reapportionment, the polygamy question, the Chinese emigration problem, the tariff and the Geneva award, have been dis posed of in succession. It has for some tim0 been tried, too, to make this Con gress amenable to the charge of impa tience. Now the fight has come to a struggle for an hour or a day or a part of a dajj. Every measure is fought, for a day or two, or a vote is put over till the next day, or an afternoon is spent in filibustering or some pretext, in a des perate effort to UB6 up the time inch by inch. Such has been the course on the tariff, the Geneva award and the . Bank bill. The Republican leaders decided upon one of several courses suggested, which is to bring forward and dispose of bills of general importance first, such aS the Agricultural Department, Geneva Award and the Bank-Charter bills. They can rely upon the neces sary appropriations to hold Congress for them, and they think that party spirit may with equal safety be relied on to keep Congress here for the election cases. Now, Randall's struggle to kill time is Bimply to save the election cases. He relies upon hot weather aud the ap proaching contests for re-election to dis perse Congress without unseating the fraudulently-returned Southern Demo crats. Here comes the battle. The Re publican leaders realize that it is of vital consequence to the organization of the party in the South to repudiate the frauds this session, or no hope of gains in the Forty-eighth Congress need be indulged in. They do not intend to ad journ until these contests have been disposed of. They have told Randall that his course will result in but one thing, the protraction of the session, because they control the committees, and they do not intend to let the appropria tion bills come in ontil the election cases are disposed of. It has come to a ques tioh of endurance, aud both sides are The Democratic Polley of Hard Times. The opposition of the Democratic party to the measure to enable the na tional banks, whose charters are expir ing, to renew their existence, is only one of a continual series of hostilities of that party to the business of the country. In the parly lingo this course is called hostility to capital and corporations, in the demagogue pretense that warfare on capital and business corporations is to help the workingmen and the masses. It is on this damagegism of warfare on the i&terosts of the people that the Dem oeratio patlgr lives, aodsjwavs hat lived. The charters of eighty-Feven national banks will terminate during the next eight months, and of 393 during the en suing ten months. To refuse an exten sion of the charters is to put them into liquidation at a rapid rate, withdrawing their loans and circulation, aud this is to make a great monetary revolution, whose effects can not be fore gathered. All persons of ordinary intel ligence are aware that the chief effect of money disturbances comes on the laborer. They who lived in the credit panic, brought on by secession in 1860- 61, and in the credit panic of 1873, re member that the industries were pros trated and workmen thrown out of employ. This is the working of all money disturbances.' The Democratic party which, when greenbacks were issued to carry on the war for the Onion, declared them unconstitutional, has lat- terlj adopted the theory that a plentiful greenback circulation is a special bless ing to the workingman ; but its opposi tion to this bank measure is making inevitable a violent contraction of the greenback circulation. The expiring banks have to deposit with the Treasurer greenbacks to the amount of their cir culation, in order- to receive their de posited bonds, and the treasury has to hold these greenbacks against the bank notes, until they come in, which is a slow process. Thus is Democratic hos tility to the country's welfare ordaining a violent contraction of the greenback circulation. All this to no end, as to destroying capital or the banks, for th-.»y can reor ganize $new without any additional leg islation, but they must go through the process of liquidation, which includes the redeeming of. their circulation, which must be provided for by deposit ing greenbacks or gold with the Treas urer. During the next five months the winding up of seventy-two banks would call for a withdrawal of about $2,250,000 of greenbacks a month from the circu lation. Here is a Democratic provision for a violent contraction, and this is to continue at an accelerating pace. And with this there is to be an export of gold to add to the contracting forces. Other elements are at «ork--the short crops of 1881, the reduced exports, the large imports, and the hiffh price of 4* per cents, already inducing banks to de posit greenbacks to get back their bonds to sell, which, since the 1st, has with drawn 81,500.000 in greenbacks--with which the Democratic hostility to the ltanks is combining to create the con ditions for great monetary stringency, if not for a first- ^lass panic. If the banks are to be enabled to go on, tliey should have the assurance now to stop their preparations for winding up. At the best .there will be some monetary dis turbance, but the earlier the enaoHug net, the less the disturbance will be. lint the Democratic party was always at war on the interests of the people, under the demagogue profession of a friend to the people, and its resistance to this en abling act is preparing the conditions for hard Commer cial. id the If there is a prospective scrimmage that the Republicans of the country can approach in that serene and disinterested frame of mind with which the old woman contemplated the fight between In? hus band and the bear, it surely must be the impending conflict between Chalmers, of Mississippi, and his Bourbon neighbors. He has been holding a seat in Gbngreas regard to get a seat in the House by novel method of being elected and the anger of Chalmers is some- thing terrible. He says that he has talking for the Democracy for full thirty years--he might add that he has been fighting for it some part of the time--but that in spite of all this the " Lamar Democrats " who con trol the party iu the State have deputed from the true faith and have attempted to throw him overboard. He will run for Congress, however, against the Bour bon champion, whomsoever he may be, and will also stand on his record favor ing the standard silver dollar and op posing the national banks, favoring a tariff for revenue, but willing to permit the present tariff to stand for a few years to see if it will develop manufactures in the South and raise revenue enough to pay off the national debt and destroy the banks. The chief plank in his political raft, however, will be the protection of the Mississippi lx>ttom lands from over flow. The veteran of Fort Pillow has not lost his senses yet. His appropria tion doctrine will be the strongest hold any man can have who wants to get into Congress from Mississippi, Arkansas or Louisiana any time in the course oi the present yeai.--DetroU Pont. 1 " f », • " ILLINOIS INSWAP" • ;V';. IXtbiHOis has 2,200 postoffiaM* * Two mm> dogs were recently killed in Galesburg. AT Bloomington twenty Sheriffs ol this State held a meeting to consider the Criminal law. A NUMBER of Springfield business men have discovered that bogus trade dollars are floating about. MCLHAW county will furnish at least twenty appeal cases at the. next' sitting of the Appellate Court. W. J. MCGABIGUS, Chief of Police of Chicago, has gone to Europe on a leave of absence for six weeks. THE 11-year-old sou of Andrew Kil- Eatrick, living near Hillsboro, was killed y the kick of a stallion. MRS. LUCT B. MCMELLEW, of Mount Sterling, announces herself a candidate for the office of County Superintendent of t rown county. FOURTEKH students attending the Lin coln University iu Lincoln have been suspended lor visiting saloons, playing billiards and drinking. Two YOUNG men left Cairo the other day for New Orleans, intending to go the entire distance in a skiff thoroughly equipped for the purpose. A JCRYMAN at Danville refused to sit because he had acted as a juror within a year. The Judge ruled that the point was well taken, and the juror was dis missed. THS Directors of St. Maty's Catholic Training School, Chicago, have pur chased a farm of 440 acres near Des- plaines, upon which buildings will be erected to accommodate 1.000 boys. IN the Macon county Circuit Court Brook Deardoff, who two years ago had his left foot cut off by a Wabash railroad car in the yard at Decatur, was awarded $1,800 damages. He sued for $5,000. A PKACH-TRKB twig from Irving, Montgomery county, contains on a sec tion two inches in length seventeen young p achea. Evidently Southern Illinois will have peaches to sell tho coming season. WM. JOHNSON, the old negro who dug the grave at Alton, in November, 1837, for the interment of Elijah P. Lovejoy, the abolition martyr, is still alive, and distinctly remembers the circumstances of that funeral. INSUKANOK returns for the year ending Dec. 31, 1881. show that there are 100 companies doing business in Illinois. The total premiums ou fire and marine amounted to 86,718,074. The expenses were $5,004,571, and the apparent profit $1,708,503. THE Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Health has addressed a letter to the Governor of Louisiana concerning the action of the New Orleans Board of Health in ignoring the requst for a con tinuance of the river-inspection service during the yellow-fever season. It re mains to be seen whether Gov. McEnexy will countenance such action by his board, in view of the certainty of New Orleans commerce being practically shut out of the Ohio and Upper Mississippi upon the first rumor of yellow fever. CATALOGUES of the summer short-horn sales in Central Illinois are beginning to make their appeaarnce. Judging from the cattle to be offered, there is cer tainly a revival at hand in this trade. The lists present the names of many in dividual members of the best-known Durham families, and the attractions for buyers have never been more numerous or of better quality. Illinois is now ac corded the leading position a sales State, and ber breeders are men of intel ligence and practical knowledge, who are disposed to extend their reputation. THE "Jumbo" of tho Senate, onr David Davis, lately had his third break down since he became a member of that body. "The trouble with the Illinois Senator," says a Washington correspond ent, "is that he forgets an ordinary chair cannot sustain the 400-pound mass of flesh which belongs to him. He ought to-iollow the example of the late Senator Dixon \H. Lewis, and only use chairs specjully Constructed to stand the strain. Judge Davis, who had pat an other Senator in the big, strongly- braccd chair which he occupies as pre- oflicer of the Senate, had been around the chamber to stretch his legs, and passing by the chair which belongs to Senator Brown, of Georgia, and is abundantly able to hold his weight of 125 pounds, he took a notion tb rest himself. He sank into the chair, and the chair sank to the floor in broken pieces, which we!re strewed all over the Judge as he lay sprawling. As he scrambled to his feet with a sense of in jured dignity fresh upon him, he saw that Senator Butler, of South Carolina, who occupied the next seat, was smiling broadly, and his ear caught the whisper of some one on the other side styling him the ' Jumbo' of the Senate. He was f-o indignant tbat he stalked around the Senate Chamber several times, and then, becoming a little more compot-ed, he selected another chair after a critic*! inspection and deposited himself in it. Senator Butler went over to Lim for mollifying purpo-.es, but the Judge waved him off and declined to listen to him. On the last occasion that he bursted through a chair, Mr. Conkling, who was then in the Senate, chuckled audibly, and he would not take any no tice of him for a week after." shaver of five or six years at school one day, he came upon the passage, "Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from guile." Master Hopeful drawled out, " Keep-- «»y- Kirakttn.... Benton..........Oat i S2S"®- Omton .8flA.ia.2J. i ZStSt* fr* .itaptn-u. ? --Bh*wnc«towa....An. |§ OetliSl MdU«a«bcro... .Oct 1»-UL Hancock... Turn gmt £4. • • • * l**botfctowu_. .Bapt. X7-M. HeadWNB. B-cgmhle. gent. IX i Henry Cambridge, Sept. t-%. J*ck*oa..........Cutooiida]e Oct l-It Jackaoa..........Murph7sborc...8ept 2T-ML *•9** -£""5°" s*Pt' ' J«ffersoa Mt. Vwra .Sept. lt.ll JtrmyM. Oct. 10-14 Jo D»vi«M.......Galena Snpm. ..Sept. 1S4& Knukifca*....... .KantaJW Sept. 1% Kendall........ ..Bristol .. Sept. iMt X. .Kncx*riD»....,..S<n>t. \ W..akflgaa. Sept. 2MB, Meedote 4-ft. livinffstOtt PonUae 2% Snai £ *•> " 7. J.ninR-tQB... Fairbory ..Sept. 4-T, Lincoln Aug. 28, 1 JiOgan .....Atlanta. Seot 64l iMueon... ...Decatoir S«pt. ,JMa«inpin ...Corliiivilla......Sept. S-a V.UHOU... HIGHLAND *#• IfeH ^ ; Ceutra.ia Sept. 27-90k . Saletn...........S«jit. 2S-'SL .Wcno!;.»..., Sep:. 1&4SL .Hamna ...Sept. S-i. .3tctropoJta......Oe.t. 1U1A . Woods-ta^k Sept. UMS. . Mai-engo Seiit. Id^tk .A'edo .....Sept. 19-S9L ..Hiiisbo^O Set t 2S-». ,, . .JackPoi Aug. 23-S8. .Sullivan...T^C...Sept. . "1- Mat*- Fair. Sejw. 38, Oat U1*'/. 1 H&laiion VMHIJOM ........ .•jjMci shall....... •Mnsvn ...» Wicsac ... . • .4. Alt Ileury Morcer Montg mMy... Morgan Moultrie.... .. Peoria......... £?r,,y Pmeki:oynl»e....Oct. 3-<£ P|att Moi.ticeUo Aug. i4-l& Pike PitWfield Sept. 26-1K. P o p e . O o c o n d a . O c t . 4 - T . Raudo ph. Sjiavta Sept. 3T4NL Rai:tV>aiti.. Cluster. Oct 17>)Q, Rock Island. Po:t Byroa Se, t. Ml Saline El Dwradm.......Sept Sa.iue .Hirtifcburg Oct. 1(1-13. * Batigamo*.......SpriugileUI...*..Sept. Sohujiet. Ktishvitte Sept. 1ML Shelby Skelbyvflfe...*..Sept. 3MH -F Stark Wyoming Sept 111#. ^ Stark....,-.'. To«iOt> .,..Sejt» r# TazoweOi.,...,..Di:lavaa ...Sept. lf-ag, fuw" Jonesbowu Sept 12-tT £niot>-- Aug. 59, Sept 1 \«>rn 11 lJon. Ho,-,]>&-too. Aug.'2&S pt Vermil ion. Cat Jin.... Sept. ^ WarreE Momisowk......Sept M. St' White. Carmi. Sett 84k 7 Whitet-idCb Swriiuju Sept. 1&1K & Wblletfdck. Morrisao..Sopt 8*. .v «a Albany .....Aug. 2341 *•; +"4, ' < , t ,r A- ; ? Whiteaid V" "'•IS ' t < , * « Winnebago.„...*Roekfor<j[i*! Woodlord El Paso Sept .Sept Ts ChU far the UUaois ItepabUeM gtalft Convention. 1. HUDVUIIIM RKPCBT.IC.LK STATB ^ Couuixrt.K, CHICAO \ May 15. }>' The Republican voters oi Illinois are reqae||» ed to send delegates to the Bepiiblican Stat* Convection to be held 111 the City ot Spnagfiel^ Wednesday, June 28, at the beur of 12 m., for the purpow* of nominating candidates to be . voted for at the November election of 1332, to till the 2 olio wing ofiieos--to-wit: State Treas urer aad Superintendent, of Public Ibatraetioo. The basis "of revresentatiou will ht (be vofet cast for the Republican IVe^.d-'ntial Slectpc* in 1880--to-wit: One delegate for «vt>ry 400 VOt«% and one for caoU fraction of 200 vote*. " Tho followmp fhowa tUo number of votqr cast and the number of delegate* emeii comty and Seu&toml disUut will beiuuutt&d to mod-- i , Amnna Aoaius .... Alexander.. Koiid....... Boone....... Brown...... Xim'au...... Calhoun.... Carroll...... Cai-n Oil ampuls*.. Olinsaan.... Cars Ci»y . . c:iutcu Co;e»....,.., CooSt-- Firt-t Sen.. Second.... Third j Fourth.... Fifth Sixth.., Seventh... Crawford. Cumberland. Do Kalb.... D o W i t t PmiRla® J)n Riigtv.... Edgar, •Env.-ai-itd.... Favi'tte. I.... I'OJtl. . ..X... »> nklin X... I'd I ton Qaiiutin Gieeue G i ' i u i d y . . Honiitoa.... Huucocfc.... Karilin...... Hui'li-n-on.. Htury IiO'tuoia..... Jackgju...... Jasper Jefferson.... Jersey....... Jo Duvieaa... .To!,;-sou..... K.'TN- .... KanXukefL... Kcmit.iL Knox........ lake l,67t> 2,ass 1,262 4,7'Ai J,5SS Conmn, 6,1ft' 11,048, 6,04< 0.244 7,218 T,206 8,463 1,641 1,368 4,m 8,011 1,918 3,3'27 8,834 1,177 1,361 2,138 1,85' 1,'J86 4,168 1,090 1,885 8,087 1,002 a,t.io 484 1,279 4,460 4.1® VM, i,m 1,700 1,348 %094 1,521 Al*> 8,301 1,084 4.H&J 1884 12! 1* 8alie... 4; hvwveon.. 4jl.ee 6 ,I>iv.ac8ton.. 8 W&.. lujillaoou.. jUaoonpln... Madit«>n... Marion. [MarUutU... [Mason IMawao. ! MvBonough. IffHemy., M<J>8B...,. Mo:,and.. Meroer.. Monroe...... Montgomery Morgan. ..." ltijfMoiiitrfe... Itf |Og!e. 21 j | Peoria.' 4! Perry. i> 1- j Piatt l(ljiPike......... 6|IPope 5 PnlaJsU-.... e.ijt'iitcsm 7i:Kun<tr.lpt! ... SliKioKand ... 3;!Keek lalaad. 5'I.-• it Une 5{:S:il!v'a!Mtn... SijScbuyMV.... li! [Scott.. 31 .-.hi'lby 6 1 stark Aj St. Clatr SiHtopht-nao*. (tusewall Union... Vtrolioo .. Wabaafc... Warreo.'... Washington ̂ Wayne White. WLitesidea... "SjjWi'l if Williamson.. Total.... 318,037 Signed byState Central Ooqff-r mittee. A. M. JOSBS, Chairuaaa. > DANyM, SIIKPASP. Secretary. ,, f 11 iV trt Bell. Mount Carmel; John W. Bun% Bpr-ngleid; W. F. Calbouu, Clinton: M. % ; ThompsOn, Utbaui; George T. W.ltianw, Ct* ens j; ({. I,. Taylor, Stre&tov; Jotiu H. CSouglfc Chicago; Georwe D. Swift. Cliie<^o: H. HL Ttic-MAO, CNK'AGQJ,;M. 32. Citstle. Saudvicb: A> M. .lo'ies. Warrei'i; J, M- Be&rdfley. 15'>ck Isp» . and; L. B. Itav, Morris; E. A. Wtlcos. Mi norm, Fr>uik Hitcbcock, Peoria: H. F. McAlluitM^: Oqtmwka; E. J. Pierce, WUitehall: Joan " Kiel o'-on. Beardstown; Jonstban Mfirisnfe; Spi iif;3eld; JwtiesH. Ciark, Ma'tooti; H. YiUk Si-'lt i. rarif; John R. Tanner, I-ouisvilW; Wf ." P. Edwar^fntlH-; Dan-e! i.'ity; Ti,oiai)< \¥. A fashionable shoemaker t«IIs little story that wads well ev<?n it may be a cunningly devised lie. Hi* work is exclusively in ladies' foot-wear* and to an inquisitive reporter he said, •'Last vear I matle a pair of shoes lady who had as pretty feet J fashioned. It was a make the shoes, when I put them in the very conspicuous p view them at my lei nicely dressed gentleman began viewing Presently he entered ed if they were for sale. that they were for one c He looked surprised, and asked name. I would not pw satisfaction, but told 1 lived, however. I prised to learu af calling at the house, and still when the lady, mi gentleman, called at Biouths la then, m 11