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V .1% '.-5^ ̂ " <fcA . , v. J ;? * ̂ r ̂ v * * \^cy J. », - 't f; A> «* ' J^. »„ * -„ * s/~f r 'V.. r *. • \ ifr \ ' ' •j-'-i |̂c|Krntg IPlirinfleaUt S#5 1. VAN SLYKE, M tor and NWrter. MoHENBY, ILLINOIS. Rurtrs HATCH predicts greater than thai of 1873. • <* «; m ,i , I* ii estimated in New Tort that $6 JUMBO mora purchasing power than $4 had a year and a half ago. MR. LOUIS J. JENNINGS, the World"* London correspondent, predicts the ul­ timate independence and separation of Ireland from England. He says that Mr. Gladstone and his party, without intending it, we making any other result impossible, - A BOSTOV widow married an English clergyman a few yean ago, and gave him outright half her fortune of $500,- 000. - He at once retired from the min istry, became a drunken spendthrift and gamester, and abused his wife so much ..thai.she has sued for a diTosoe. 4. wHouuAiiB liquor firm of Boston, in order to get a barrel of whisky to a customer at Claremont, N. H., where prohibition is in full foroe, labeled it kerosene oil, and painted it to carry oat the deception. Now they have been oofrvieted of a violation of the internal revenue law. . A SAD story of cannibalism comes from New Britain. A Fijian teacher's wife a&d two children set ont for the house of a Mend, about three miles distant from their residence, and the natives killed and roasted the two children pre- j^ra^ory to eating them at one ot their " feasts." The woman escaped into the bush, and was found, after roaming jdfotit %r eighteen days, a living skel­ eton. * ' ' SOMB years ago the Bank of Ireland was rabbed heavily by a clerk who absconded. The Irish and English ports were closely watched to no pur­ pose. A year had elapsed when a bank official received a letter from the ab­ sconder, dated from a leading Dublin hotel. He was asked where he had been. 'Touring among the English and Irish watering places," he said. He hadn't been such a fool as to go where the police were sure to look for him. Likely enough the Dublin assassins hs^Maken a leaf out of his book. A TBKNTON (N. J.) dentist stopped at the house of Mrs. Duffy, at Lamberts- vllle, to extract some teeth for her. When fher children saw the blood issuing from their mother's mouth they attacked the dentist, supposing that he was doing her severe bodily injury. The boy seized a poker and threw it at the doc­ tor, The doctor dodged just in time, and the poker struck the window, break­ ing the sash and demolishing the panes of glass. The" little girl grubbed the dentist by the coat-tail and nearly tore it off. Bo hot was the fight that the dentist had to get out and leave the job | unfinished. • OCT in Dakota a new-oomer from "the States" is known as a "tender­ foot " or a " pilgrim," and such an one is often made the butt of a very heart- lesihjok©. In the town of Alexandria recently the boys "put up a job," so to speak, on a pilgrim, and took him at ni^bt to the edge of a neighboring lake to hunt snipe. They gave him a light­ ed -lantern, a tin horn and gunny sack bade him blow the horn, keep the lantern in full blaze and hold his sack open. The snipe were to run into the sack. "The boys" left "tot beat up the game," and on getting out of sight weht home, leaving the poor pilgrim faithful at his post, tooting his horn at intervals throughout the nights . fr. is th£ fashion at a college boat race for the students to run along the banks yelling and shouting to encourage their respective champions, but, for obvious reasons, it has never been tried at horse* raoes. The other day, however, at West Side Park, Jersey City, a mare named Kate broke badly and was in a fair way of losing the race when Jack, a dog, which had been stabled with her, broke his chain, rushed out and began run­ ning by her side, barking vigorously pha settled into a trot and began to gain ground at once. The dog fell behind and ahe began losing ground again. As soon as he perceived this he sprang to her side once more, leaping and barking and pushing her to the top of her speed, bringing her in ahead by the length of a neck. Ladies waved their handker­ chiefs, men cheered and much enthusi­ asm was manifested. Wisconsin. Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraaka produced last year, aooording to the es­ timates of the Agricultural Bureau, 244,260,000 bushels of wheat. Recently published reports show that throughout these States generally there has been an increase in acreage, though this increase may not be great, as in some States there has been a decrease, and that the condition of the wheat is extremely favorable, so that from many localities the announcement comes that the wheat there was never in a better condition at this season. In Illinois the promise is for a harvest one-third larger than last year, and the indications in Michigan and Missouri are «§ep better relatively. If the increase i»Hen States shoiild be only one-fifth, it would amount to nearly 49,000,000 bushels. A gain of a quarter, which does not now seem unreasonable, would be equivalent to 61,000.000 bush­ els in the ten great wheat-raising States. Last year the seven States of Ohio, In­ diana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska produced 737,759,000 bushels of corn. An increase of one- fifth in this amount--and with fine weather it may exceed that--would be nearly 150,OQ05000 bushels. The ten Northwestern States last year produoed 360,782,000 bushels of oats, or 65 per cent, of the crop of the oountry, and the present indications are that the crop this year will be considerable larger than that of 1881. . ANDREW JACKSON HYATT, a White Plains (N. T.) lawyer, has an old dog named Mack, about which a good story is told. Mack is a native of Virginia, and, like Virginians, has a strong hold upon longevity. He first aaw the light of the Virginia sun in 1863, while his maternal relative was following the fort­ unes of McClellan's army. Not long ago Mack had a slight misunderstanding with a oountry dog in town on business. Mack's ear, by some unexplained acci­ dent, fbecame fastened between the other dog's teeth, and in getting it out the ear was somewhat scarred and disfigured. Mack felt ashamed ol himself and did not attend court--whioh he used to fre­ quent regularly--for three or four days. About this time a kind-hearted shoe­ maker invited the dog into his shop and gave the ear a dressing of shoemaker's wax. Mack wagged his tail in gratitude and went his way. The next morning he went out for a promenade and had a quarrel with another oountry dog, this time getting his foot instead of his ear ihto the other dog's mouth. The dis­ pute ended; the sagacious animal limped away to the same shoemaker, and, put­ ting up his wounded paw, whined lor a dressing of wax, which was furnished, and Mack went out apparently con­ tented. On his way home he met an­ other lame dog with a sore foot and im­ mediately stopped Mm, introduced him­ self, and, after a few dogmatical gestures and signs, induced his lame friend to ac­ company him to the shoemaker's to have his foot dressed. The shoemaker fixed up the foot of Mack's friend, and both dogs went away as thankful as dog lan­ guage could express it. NMfYVS.MIKE. HIJOH SMITH, of Denver, publishes ftus extraordinary notice in a local pa- par : I married into a family eleven yetufs ago. I left Denver so that my noble mother-in-law could have her own . way as she thought best. I have been troubled and dictated to for all the time by this Mother Cavanaugh,of 311 Arapa­ hoe street. Now, I ask these people to give me a divorce, and I will divide like a man. If they will have honor enough (as tbey claim to have) to take their daughter's name back to where it was, , with a £*** division of what money I iiavs, I am anxious to get rid of them without wasting any hard-earned dol­ lars in expensive lawsuits. If these people will give my name back and ac­ cept my proposition (and sorely it never cost them a cent) it will be a relief to me after eleven years of punishment. If these people will not give me a divorce, as above requested, and have no more business with any so-called dishonorable man, then they will have to take what they can get--but they wU tare mdl> - Distance of the Sun and There are several methods of determ­ ining the sun's distance from the earth, come of which it would be difficult to explain satisfactorily to the reader not already familiar with the subject of the terms used. The refined investigations of modern science, says Professor New- comb, have brought to light other methods, by at least two of which we may hope, ultimately, to attain a greater degree of accuracy than we can by measuring parallaxes. Of these two, one depends on the gravitating force of the sun upon the moon, and the other upon the velocity of light. And the same author says, in regard to measur­ ing the distance of the sun by the veloc­ ity of light: "There is an extraordinary beauty in this method of measuring the sun's distance, arising from the contrast between the simplicity of the principle and the profoundness of the methods by which alone the principle can be applied. Suppose we had a messenger whom we could send to and fro between the sun and the earth, and who could tell on his return, exactly how long it took him to Erform his journey; suppose also we ew the exact rate of speed at which he traveled. Then, if we multiply his speed by the time it took him to go to the sun, and we shall at once have the sun's distance, just as we could determ­ ine the distance of two cities, when we knew that a train running thirty miles an hour required seven hours to pass between them. Such a messenger is light. It has been found practicable to determine, experimentally, about how fast light travels, and to find from astro­ nomical phenomena how long it takes to come from the sun to the earth. In 1862 Foucault found by experiment that light traveled about 298,000 kilimeters, or 185,200 miles per second. In 1874 Cornu found by a different series of ex­ periments a velocity of 300,400 kilome­ ters per second. In 1879 Ensign A. A Miohelson, U. S. Navy, found the veloc­ ity to be 299,940 kilometers per second. The result of Michelson's is far more reliable than either of the preceeding ones. Combining them all, Professor P. P. Todd, in 1880, concluded the most probable value of the velocity to be 299,920 kilometers, or 186,360 miles per second. Now, we know from the phe­ nomena of aberration that light passes from the sun to the earth in about 498 seconds. The product of these two numbers gives the distance of the sun in miles. * * These two methods of determining £he distance of the sun may fairly be regarded as equal in accuracy to that by transits of Venus when they are employed in the best manner. fUi nstef «f the Snth Carolina ^ '̂̂ ICMrtefltei-ElMliMi C«n./ *-*'• fS"' Interesting Document BeimMloan OoBfmitwul Ooae mlttisfc wmltmuu*) ORAL COniRlll, > •h,D. > TBK ten States of Ohio, £ A CLERK at Castle Garden, who had been reading the debate on the Anti- Chinese bill and just finished Senator Edmunds' remarks about the necessity of homogeneity among the people of the republic, glanced up at an Irish emir' grant who was leaning against the desk and soberly asked: " Pat, are you ho­ mogeneous ? " " Divil j bit," said Pat, "I'm a Corkonian."--Brooklyn Eagle. THB dazzling efieot erf the electric arc is a source of objection to its use as a locomotive head-light by the French en­ gineers who have been trying it. I Tn vineyards of Russian Turkistan are being destroyed by a parasitic fungus ag destroyed aaerjaiple. •uudqu OoKOBBMHOHAt, WA»HI*®XON, The following statement hm been prepared by Mr. Millar, of Pransylvanis, and has been indorsed by eleven out of fifteen member# of the Election Committee of the House, relative to the oonteeted-election case whioh the Repub­ lican majority of the House am now attempt­ ing to consider, and whioh|the Demoorata an determined shall not area be discussed oa the floor of the Houaa. . JAY JL HmMMSiSa, Chairman. D. B. HXKDSBSOX, Secretaxy. VMSEY VS. O'CQNHO*. This ease anaes oat of a contest from the Second Ooocreenonal district of Sooth Caro­ lina, and was referred to the seated mb-ooaK- mittee of the Committee on Eeotiooa, oom- poMd of Judge Waits, of Connecticut; Judge Ritchie, of Ohio; Mr. MiUer, of Pennsylvania: Mr. Moulton, of Illinois; and Mr. Davis, of Missouri. The parties, m they stand on the record, are E, W. Maokey, contestant, and M. P. O'Connor, eontestoe. At the general elec­ tion held the M day of Norstffrwr, 1880^ tbsss two parties were voted for, and the State Board of Canvassers of Um State CfiSonth Oirollna, act- iog ufou returns mads tpttaem by the ooonty can- vaMers, declared Mr. O Connor elected, and the ecrtiflcate of election was aooordingly issued to him. Mr. Machqyat ones commenced this contest and the parties in doe time proceeded to take the testimony, whioh i< ©tmtained rathe printed record. After the testimony in chief on either side had been completed Mr. O'Connor, on April 28, 1881, died, and on the 23d day of May, 1881, the Governor of Booth Carolina, sasoniing that a vaoaucy was oaiued in the representation of the State by Mr. O'Connor'* death, ordered a special election to fill the name. At that special election Mr. Dib­ ble. the sitting member, w&a t oted for and re­ turned elected, receiving but 7,844 votes in a diKtnct that on Nov. i, 1880, Mr. O'Connor claimed gave him 17,568 votes. The Repub­ licans of the district, claiming that Mr. Mackey and not Mr. O'Connor had been elected Nov. 1 1080, and the death of O'Connor had created no vacancy, refrained from voting at said spe­ cial election. On Jan. 34, 188i, the print­ ed record was reoeived from the printer. On the same day Mr. Dibble filed a protest with the Committee on Elections denying the said ooiumittee had any Jurisdiction to inquire int* the right by which hs held his seat on the floor of the House, and alleging that the death of O'Con­ nor, the contests*, bad abated the contest, of Mackey-O'Connor, and that there was no con­ test pending to his (Dibble's) right to the neat This protest was argued before the sub-com­ mittee by eminent counsel on behalf of Mr. Dibble, On Jan. 27 and 28 and on Jan, 81 the subcommittee submitted s report to the full committee overruling the protest and the mo­ tion of Mr. Dibble to dismiss the contest, When Mr. Dibble watt made aware of the setton of the sub-committee he made a request that his protest and memorial be argued before the full committee, whioh request was granted, and on J?eh, 3 the same was re­ argued by counsel of Mr. DibbU. sad after due consideration the action or the sub­ committee was sustained by the full com­ mittee by a vote of 12 to 8. On the sums day--Feb. 8--the clerk of the committee, in acoordance with the rule relating thereto, issued an order to Mr. Dibble to file his brief within twenty days, the tuns fixed for all con* testees within which briefa were to be filed. After notice on the 17th of February, Mr. Dib­ ble filed a second protest with the Committee on Elections, reciting the fact that bad been notified by the clerk to file his brief within twenty days from the receipt of said notioe, again reasserting that the oommitlee had no IurisdiotioE to inquire into the right t^r which te held his seat, that the contest of Maokey vs. O'Connor had abated by the death of O'Connor, that he was a member of the House regularly sworn, against whose right to the seat there was not at the time of his being so sworn in a single paper of sny description in the posses­ sion of the House or of the Clerk of the Hoose questioning his ri ht to a seat, and' that he would not consent to any assault upon his right as suoh member, and that be was com­ pelled, fer rasuus sat forth in said aaemoml, to protest against being served with a notice to file briefs ia the said case of Maokey vs. O'Con­ nor. This memorial was also argued on said Feb. T before the full committee, his protest over­ rated, »ud, by m vote of the committee, the clerk was directed to notify him to file hit* brief within the time prescribed by the rules. This gave him until Feb.. 28 ia which to file his brief. On the 21st of February, seven days before the expiration of the time in which he was directed to file his brief, Mr. Dibble filed a third memo- mi with the sub-committee, setting forth that, without waiving any of the objections hereto­ fore raised by his protest, he alleged and charged, first, that Mr. Mackey had willfully, surreptitiously, fraudulently and corruptly al­ tered and perverted the testimony of the witnesses who were examined in the said case of Mackey vs. O'Connor; second, that the testimony iil6d with the Clerk of the House of Representatives in the said case was not the testimony r* the wit­ nesses as given upon their examination in the said case. He closed ills memorial by request­ ing the committee to make an investigat on of these matters, and to ask leave of the House of Representatives to summon the witnosxe* whosa disposition accompanied his communication, together with such other wituesses as might be named by Mr. Mackey and himself touching the truth of the charges therein contained in the cane, if contestant denied th« sai'l i or to take such other mews as may be fair and lawful to ascertain the same, and that the testi­ mony on file in the case of Mackey vs. O'Con­ nor Ke striken out and declared to be fictitious, unreliable and void. This memorial, it will be observed, oontained three distinct prayers. At the time said mem­ orial was filed it was supplemented by the affi­ davits of E. H. Hogarth, the notary and stenog­ rapher who took tfas grsatar part of the testimony for both parties; of C. Smith, who had been a clerk to Mr. Maokey; of W. A. Zimmerman, a witness in the case; of Robert Chisolm, James Whaler, and Malcolm J. Brown­ ing, all of South Carolina, snd who were attor­ neys for Mr. O'Connor; of William & Earle, attorney for Mr. Dibble, and Ohsrles E. O'Con­ nor ; of M. P. O Connor, who also acted as one of the attorneys in the ease, Ou the 1st of March, eight days after this memorial and these affidavits had been filed with the oom- mittee, the sub-committee in charge of the oattb met in pursuance of notice to Mr. Dibble. He was asked whether or uot he required any additional time to file any further er-parte affidavits corroborating his charge of alteration of the record, and without objection ou bi§ past the close of that day was given him for such purpose. At the sams time the Commis­ sioner gave Mr. Mackey until the evening of March 8 to file each counter affidavits as he might desire to file, and expressly stated to the parties that, unless objection wss mads then and there, no further time or delay would be given to either of them to file further affidavits. Within the time specified Mr. Maokey filed with the clerk of the committee his own affidavit, but Mr. Hogarth, the notary aforesaid, de­ posed that he had examined the deposi­ tions of fourteen witnesses &• contained in the printed volume of the testimony: that he had compared them with the original stenographic notes of the said depositions in his possession, and that the depositions cor­ responded in every particular with the original stenographic notes of said depositions; also, the deposition of G, M. Magrath, who deposed that he was employed to assist in writing out much of tbe testimony of Mr. Mack&r in the case, and that the depositions of such wit­ nesses were correct copies of the originals as read to him and transcribed by 3|r.„jfog&rth ; also, the deposition of T. A. Huguemn, who was one of the Democratic Board of County Canvassers in Charleston county, and a very material witness for Mr. Mackey, who deposed that he had read his deposition in the printed record, and that he was sure there had been no garbling of, or alterations in, or additions to the said deposition; and he further swora vthat the same wag true in every particular; also, the affidavit of the said C. Smith, the same witness relied upon by Mr. Dibble, and the only one that charged alterations of the record, that he had read the printed record of his testimony, and that to the best of his recollection it wa« & correct copy of the same; also, the affidavit* of eighty-four of the ninety-four witnesses called by Mr. Mackey originally, all of whom deposed that they had carefully read their depositions as contained in the printed record, that they well remembered the testimony tbey had given, and that there had been no garbling of, altera­ tions in, or additions to the above, and that they again made oath to the truthfuluau of »aiB dspostoms in «nry pwtlsalarTff n» «k of Mnok ww agreed « eab-eoamtttss far tte tasiing of --idmsnwnsl. On Mid date, in r »PO» by the argument on aid aotto, the iab^oinmittee metthsoartii? and MteJWbbla psnoMd to the comaK ̂ SS«SSSS5?s. Mr. DMhy loat he was well acquaints with rr™ to signed te «Od affidavit, and Chat he personally *Su,t̂ Jto^V0uld neither re«* wnung nor Wttte nis name, althomrh the affidavit appsued to be signed bvX person making the same, and that if the same * as filed hsdesimi umo to file others. ^RTUMA OF M?. Maokey. but stop»T stated that he knew nothing about the affidavit sseept that he had received tt by mafi. The mib-oo®mitt« took the affi­ davit, esaminod it, found that it qqj. ea_ mulSive, that Mr. lPibble had had it in hi/own prissdsslnn forfoor days, but had given no notios to the committee of the same, that it threw no additional light oa the affidavits alreadr filed ruling limiting fee time of filing «-parte affidtwitsto MarohS. °f, I2bbltaad ***** restive to the alleged alterations and perversions of the reo- ord, and an adjournment bad until March 18. In the oommittes the majority members of the sub-oommittee with great care examined not only the ex-p&rte affidavits submitted by Mr. Dibble and Mr. Macler, but also the testi­ mony in tbe printed reoords which was alleged to be forged and altered. In the light of the Ar­ gument of ooonsel ou sitter side, printed and oral, on March IS, after ^11 argument by the several members of the sub-committee at a meeting called expressly for the purpose, they decided to overrate the motion of Mr, Dibble to strike from the reoord all the depositions heretofore taken by Mr. Mackey, and ho was further ordered to forthwith file hi* brief ia tbe case, tbe 20th of March being agresd upon for final argument The sub-committee met on the 20th ot March, and during that <lay and the day following heard able and exhaustive arguments on the"part Ol Mr. Dibble by Gen. H. E. Paine, on© of tbe ablest lawvers in elec­ tion cases that has appeared before the com­ mittee during the presest session, and who for man; ymrs was a nranber of Congress and Chairman of the Eleetioas Committee, and b* Judge Wilson on behalf of Mr. Mackey. The brief submitted by Goii. Paine is in print, and contains twenty-seven printed pages. From first to last it discusses the dis­ puted question of the forged and changed tes­ timony, and is one of the closest arguments that can be made upon that aide of ttte case. Judge Wilson's argument on behalf of Mr. Maokey was equally exhaustive, tat oral, and is not tn print, The facts of the case hmhlag thaeleotkm of Mr. Mackey or Mr. O'Ooanor were not oontro- verted or argued oy either Mr. Paine or Mr, Karla. who appeared before the oommittee for Mr. Dibble, nor by Mr. Dibble himself. No a# aertion was ever mads to the eommiUee by oiem, or any one of then, that, in aooordanoe with the evidence in tbeease, Mr. Mackey was uot clearly elected. After argument, the ma­ jority of members of the sub-oommittee, after uonsultettoa and ajoaiefal review of the evi-' denoe submittal to them and a foil and oareful consideration of the arguments of Gen. Paine ;and Judge Wilson, con­ cluded that the charges of forgery and alter­ ations of the reoord made by Mr. Dibbie were utterly and wholly unfounded, and that the refutation of said charges by the affidavits sub- mittsd by ME. Maokey utterly dispelled any doubt or shadow of doubt that had been at­ tempted to be oast upon it by Mr. Dibble, and, farther, that the evidence of Mr. Mackev's ©section in acoordsn--with the returns made py tbe preoinct managsn on the night of the elec­ tion of Nov. 2, 1880, was incontrovertible, and that the returns dearly showed that his majontv was 879, counting it as it had been minted by the said Democratic preoinct man­ agers. The majority of the sub-oommittee re­ quested Mr. Miller, of Pennsylvania, to block out a report and submit it to thorn. This same was put, in print, sach member of the majority tal* lug a Minted copy thereof. Another meet lag of the majority of th© anb-oommittef was held, this printed report was carefully supervised by the three gentlemen oomposing the majority, adopted by the three, and then reported to the sub-oommittee, and it was adopted. On April 5 this report was submitted committee and discussed at length bers of tbe sub-oommittee. The Visifc to the full *7 same allegations of forgery and alterations of the reoord whioh had been originally raised by Mr. Dibble were again gone over, and Messrs Moulton and Davis, members of the sub-com­ mittee, both argued at Meat length to the full oommittee that the i iiflMg nfjtbe subcommittee should not be adopted Utofhofy the members of the sub-oommittee, bat other* of the full committee, who had in the meantime examined the same question, took part in said discussion, and, after an exhaustive argument aui investigation on the part of the full oommittee, the report of the majority of the sub-oommittee was adopted hp a vote of 11 to 8, again affirming the dedans tion that the testimony in this ease had no* been forged or altered. Mr. Miller was ordered to report the case to the House, whioh he did on the 10th of April, and ou the 12th of April Mr. Moulton, on behalf of the minority of the full oommittee, submitted a minority report recommending that the contest of Mackey against O'Connor be dismissed. In that minor­ ity report of twenty-five printed pages, sixteen of those pages are token up in the discussioa of the ease in an effort to demonstrate that the testimony had been forged and changed, estab­ lishing beyond doubt that this question had not only been examined fully by the sub-oommit­ tee, but also by the full committee, aim passed ou by them. From April 5 to May 15, n period of one month and ten days, ho step had been taken by Mr. Dibble, .but, it being publicly understood that the case was to be called up in the House early in the week, commencing May 15, Mr. Dibble on May 15 filed In the House & memorial recharging the forgeiy and alteration of the printed record, and asking that the case of Mackey vs. O'Connor be recommitted to the Committee on Elections, with instructions to investigate as to the genuineness and authen­ ticity of the said testimony and charges made by him concerning the alteration and perver­ sion of the sanu; by Mr. Mackey. This me­ morial was referred to the Committee on Kleo- tions, and on May 16 was discussed by the members of tbe oommittes for over three hours. Hie whole case wss again gone over, the several memorials which Mr. Dibble had already filed wore again inquired into. The same ques­ tion which had been twice discussed before the sub-committee and once before by the full com­ mittee, and which had been argued at great length, not only by counsel for Mr. Dibble, but by members of the sub-oommittee, was thoroughly sifted. The printed testimony was examined,the evideaoe of every witness upon which the majority report of the committee was founded, was carefully compared with the affidavit of Mr. Hogarth, heretofore referred to, and also their non-ex- parte affidavits filed as aforesaid by Mr. Mackev, and it appearing to the oommittee that the tes­ timony of all these witnesses had never been changed in any particular Vhateve , that their genuineness and authenticity was clearly and irrefutably established, th* memorial of Mr. Dibble was overruled by a v»te of 11 to 3, but a single member of the full committee being ab­ sent It will be seen, therefore, ia recapitula­ tion, that the question of the alteration of the reoord raised by the Democratic members of the House, and which they charge has never been investigated by tM Committee on Elections, is utterly unfounded; and it has been argued at gnat length by counsel on either side before the sub-commit­ tee, twice nasMed upon by tbe sub-committee, i twice by the full committee, fend exhaustively reviewed by the minority of the Elections Com­ mittee in its report filed in tbe House April 12. In arriving at the conclttston that Mr. Mackey was elected by e. majority of 879, that commit­ tee accepted the returns precisely as counted by the precinct managers of the three countios composing the district, every one of whom in every precinct in the district was a Democrat. It is & noticeable fact that at no precinct in the district was a single Republican connected with the election board. In order to overcome this majority of 879 the County Commissioners of Charleston, all of whom were Demo­ crats, threw out seven precincts which gave an aggregate vote of 8,577 for Mackey and 265 for O Connor, and changed the vote at Haut Gap, which was counted oy the Demo­ cratic precinct managers as 1,037 for Mackey and 46 for O'Connor, to 19 for Mackey and 1,032 for O'Connor. The Board of Canvassers of Orangeburg county, all of whom were Dem­ ocrats, also threw out four precincts in that county which had given an aggregate vote, as oounted by the Democratic precinct managers, of 1,445 for Mackey to 230 for O'Connor. The result, as above stated, at these twelve pre­ cincts, was not disputed by a single witness or the contestee, neither was it disputed by the attorneys of the contestee, or by the attorneys of Mr. Dibble, the Bitting member, at any stage in the consideration of thus case. The only al­ legation for the throwing oat of said precincts was fonnde4.PQon the charge that the oolored Republican voters had intimidated persons who desired to vote the Democratic ticket, but an jm eoataalMl evidence, whkh ' ' V' " by the Contestee and by Mi wett. The sub-oonmittee further found going beck of the retains of the Democratic prednet maaagersaad eoutting the vote as it was actually cast by the electors of the dis­ trict, Mr. Mackey's nil majority was 9,278. To overeoaas this atajority the evidence di»- o loses the'most outrageous frauds ever perpe­ trated ia tap election contest A staigfo poll will iitastrate the character of these frauds : At Hope Xngin»>Hoaae poD, in the city of Charleston, the poll-lists kapt by the Demo­ crats managers, by the United States Democratie supervisors, and the Republican United Btates supervisors all three agree, and show that but 1,318 persons had voted. No person had had aooeas to or control of the bal­ lot-box during the day except the Democratie managers. At the dose of the polls and when the ballots were oounted, it was found there were 2,289 ballots in the box--1,071 more bal­ lots than there were votes. It was also found that there were 1,683 Democratic ballots in the box--44(5 more Democratic ballots than there were votes all told, Republican and Democrat­ ic. It is in evideaoe in this oase, and was put in proof by Mr. Dibble himself, acting as at­ torney for Mr. O'Connor in the conntv of Orangeburg, that the BepubHcm ballots, owing - to the peculiar appesnmoe of the ticket, which resembled a play­ ing card, oould be recognised across th« etreet The Republican supervisor states that be was in plain view of the voters during the entire day at Hope BnginorHouae poll, that he saw every Republican ballot cast, that 993 electors came to the polls with a R^publicac ticket, folded diem up in the presence of the Democratic managers of the polls that they might see that they voted but one ticket, ana that these 593 Republican tickets were put in the box that day. This would leave but 62ft Democratic tickets which should have been cast that day. In acoordance with th© hw of South Carolina, when an excess of ballots is found ix the box, it is the duty of one of the manager! to draw out said excess. One of them was ao­ oordingly blindfolded, and in drawing out this excess of 1,071 ballots he drew out every Republican ballot but five, and when placed on the stand by Mr. O'Connot he admitted on cross-examination that the rea­ son he did not draw out the remaining five foal lots was because he could mot find them. At the dose of the poll the vote was returned by the Democratic precinct manage™ as 1,200 for O'Connor and five for Mackey. It was so counted by the Democratic County Canvassers of Charleston county, again counted in the same manner by the Democratic State man­ agers, and also counted in the same manner bv the Committee on Elections. It Was by tuwh frauds as these at every poll in the district ex­ cepting nine that the Republican majority of 9,278 was reduced to a Democratic mMjoritv, as found by the Democratic managers, ot 879. but the committee accepted this count of the Dem­ ocratic managers, as there was no dispute re­ garding the correctness pf its return to the Oountv Canvassers. It is to consummate a fraud of this magni­ tude that the leaden of the Northern Democ­ racy, at tbe bidding of the {Southern Democrats of the House, have for eight days and without preoedeut since tho organisation of the Gov­ ernment, obstructed public business and re­ fused even a, consideration of this case or a discussion of the same upon the floor of the House by resort to revolutionary and unconsti­ tutional methods, and demand that the case be recommitted t« the Committee on Elections without debate, hoping thereby to keep in his seat Mr. Dibble, the beneficiary of the tissue* ballot frauds of the Second' South Carolina Let the country judge. HEALTH INTELLIGEHGB. # fF»» Br. Foote'i Health KoalUf.] KITBB wash raisins that are to be need fa sweet dishes. It will make the pud­ ding heavy. A OAS> is related of delirium tremens of a peculiar character caused by the exoeseiva use of tobacoo. CITY people who fly to the farm-houses for summer rest and recreation should drink plenty of buttermilk. THERE is a greenness in onions and potatoes that renders them hard to digest. For health's sake put them in warm waiter for an hour before cooking. TWENTJT-FIVK women physicians of Russia who took part in the military operations of 1877 have been decorated with royal honots. Tho number «f fe­ male medical students in Russia Is said to be rapidly increasing; NBWS from afar reports that a German chemist residing in Russia "has discovered a method of solidifying petroleum so that it may be more conveniently trans­ ported snd afterwards liquefied for us^* DR. M. LOWEN, of Paris, has been ex* perimenting with coffee and sugar to determine their effect upon digestion. He concludes that coffee impairs and sugar favors digestion. Therefore if you must drink coffee, sweeten it liberally. A SATURATED solution of bicarbonate of soda is recommended as a local ap­ plication for burns. A cloth can be laid over the burned part after being soaked with it, and if wetted often enough to keep it moist the pain will soon cease. IN NOBWAV, where fish is prepared with much ingenuity in many wave, they make flour of tbe flesh of the fish ground to powder. It is used instead of mse and potatoes, and the biscuits made from it are said to be extremely nutritious. A PHYSICIAN who has been practicing " pulmonary gymnastics " l^jr systemati­ cally inhaling deep breaths and forcibly distending tlie lungs, has increased his cheat measure from 37 to 46 inches. He cautions others against doing this In "raw" cold air. The temperature should be above 60°. CHEMISTS have long been searching for quinine or an equivalent substitute from some other than the usual souree-- bark. The nearest approach to this is tiie discovery of chiuoline, which has powerful antiseptic properties, and has already been proved to have a good effect; in cases where quinine is indicated. AN ENGLISH prisoner who had bean bitten by a cat tried to simulate hydrophobia and obtain an opportunity to escape. He crawled on the floor, barked like a dog aud became furious when approached; but the physicians of the hospital to which he was taken could not be duped by these tricks and frightened Mm into confessing his folly by talking of testing him with a large electric battery. WOMEN'S PITFA^I* Aim AmjUBemrnts THEY MIGHT DETECT.--To remove loath­ some matter from pores of tbe face only requires pure water and exemption from skin powders. It is an error to consider flour and magnesia harmless. They fill the pores, prevent perspiration, make seeming flesh-worms, and in large degree have the effect of worse paints. To pursue powders and dissolve clogging matter with acids is a deathly process. Health and beauty cannot be preserved or gained under it, or under either alone; and Dr. Unna should have been woman's friend, and so stated when recommend­ ing the acids. Apparently every device militating against woman's health, whioh is her beauty, has been in vogue; and still titles that ask for credence throw out snares preventing her thinking and acting reasonably. She seems to feed on loving words and pictures, and breathe chloroform, not air, into her diminished lungs. Could she arouse to the disposal of disabilities in her control she would soon gain denied liberties and aid man in freeing himself and the world.--M. E. TiUotson. FACTS FOE FAEMEBS. A Wittirt f the Rrnakcr aad OM> dlUea «C Farm taiish •«»«- The report oi the IDinots Department of Agriculture gives a rather gloomy outlook far the future meat supply. It will be seen in the following extracts that there is a limited number of farm animals in most of the counties, when compared with the same date last spring. The inferior condition of stock is reported as the result of the partial failure of crops last season, and consequent high prioes erf hay and grain, which have induced fanners in many sections to feed sparingly during the winter, with the expectation that pastures would be as good as usual in the early spring, and that stock would soon regain flesh and be up to an average in condition. The cold, backward spring, and partial fail­ ure of grass, owing to severe drought last year, in Central and Southern fili- nois, have disappointed feeders as to obtaining the muoh-needed ttupylff of grass for stock. I! There is ah increase in number ol hones reported in three oounties, and the same number as May 1, 1881, in six­ teen counties; 5 per centv less in fifty- one counties ; 10 per cent, less in nine counties; 15 per cent less in fifteen counties; 20 per cent, less in five oonn- ties; 25 per cent less in fcwo counties; 35 per cent, less in one ooonty. Horses are reported above an average in condition in four counties; up to an average in thirty-two counties; 5 per oent, below an average in seventeen counties; 10 per cent, below an average in nine counties ;. 16 per cent, below an average in fourteen counties; 20 per cent, below in eleven counties; 25 per cent, below in six oounties; 80 per cent, below in three oounties; 86 per cent, be- low in th®e© counties. MTORS. Four oounties report an increase of 5 per oenl in the number of mulea, as con.pared with May 1, 1881; thirty-four oounties report the same number as last season; the number is 5 per cent, less in twenty-three counties; 10 per cent, less in nine eountiea ; 15 per cent, less in fourteen counties; 20 per cent, less in seven counties; 25 per oent. less in nine counties, and 80 per oent. less in one county. In one oounty mules are reported 10 per oent. above an average; four ooun­ ties, 5 per cent, above an average; in thirty-seven counties, 5 per cent below an average; in seven oounties, 10 per cent below an average; in thirteen counties, 15 per oent. below; in eighteen counties, 20 per cent, below; in one oounty, 25 per cent, below; in seven oounties, 30 per cent, below; in two oounties, 40 per cent below. CATTIiB. day to day, as tbe frequent miMvoaMl admit ofwork. The following table ahows "•asr, The aakmt of portion® ot the State fc not a falrlndi- cator ol the relative returns per men flair the products raised. The wages paid for labor are the tovb it in cratn-nrodae&Mr eoontiaa. and am ut UtSe^Krfaffi SSrMettona^ est: but little higher in tbe daily i The highest wages are paid farm­ hands in counties wtwre tlie hmding and feeding of stock reeeives madb at­ tention. The wages paid in the three grand dt> visions of the State an as follows, aad show that farm-laboceca ana paid beat in northern portions of the I , the farmers in central oounties ] er wages than southern, counties: Kortharm.. Centra!.. SonUMrn.. Avermjje. I SI $1.05 .65 m .tn *1 n* $ 1.40 I.JO .90 m.m toMs $ 1.17<Sl8.m|0» 89 The limited amount paid, m Southern Ulinoia ia partially the result of the fail­ ure of crops in that section of the State in 1881. There is not that continued • for labor in sections where grain is ] cipally grown, and the services of hands are required for a brief period during seeding time and harvest. In Northern and Oentfal lllinois there is a more diversified system of farming, which necessitates oontinaed we*vices <£ men having experience in dairy fans- ing. stock breeding and feeding. WAS» gjUP TO 9JMM HAWK, BKMMQm MML BOOM Bnre*a..,.:. Carroll.. Cook........ DeMtak.... DuP»«a» Orimdy. Henctafeoa Henry. Iroquofe... Jo ]>av Kane Kankakee KeiuiaU........... . Knox, Like..., LaSdUe Lee Livingaton MsruJjalt. McHaary Mercer tl.10 $ 1.45 92.00 19.0.1 21.00 ai.eo 21.75 --jjsslfti an* in Furniture than was ever before bred In this comity. Tltls fa no hum- THB' oountry postal cards a year, day, or several ten hours. 800,000,000 . This is a million a tons every twsnty-four THB discovery of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two moat important objecte of philosophy. _ nw hum* IH»2,and if you want Furniture of aitv ITiml cheap now is the time to bur II and examine my stock ami learn price*. I am confident 1 can make It There is quite a decrease in the num- nn object for you to coine tw«m v miln> ber ol cattle in the State as compared F " " with May 1,1881. Only eleven oounties report as many cattle on hand as one year ago. In twenty counties there are 5 per oent, less than last season; 10 per less in ten counties; IS per oent leqs in nineteen counties; 20 per cent, less in sis '.counties; 25 per cent, less in tea oounties; 30 per oent less in six coun­ ties; 85 per oent. less in eleven oounties; 40 per cent. 1ms in one county, *nd 45 per cent, less in three counties. Oattle are not up to an average te condition, There is less complaint of disease among cattle than usual. In seven oounties th® condition is reported above an average; an average in fourteen counties{ 5 per cent, below an average in thirty-nine oounties; 10 per cent, below in twelve oounties; 15 per cent balolp m twelve counties; 90 per cent, below in eight oounties; 25 per mat. below in seven oounties, and 85 per oent below in three oounties. DAIRY cows. There is an increase in the number of oows when oompared with May 1, 1881, in fifteen counties ; the same number in twenty-five counties ; 5 per cent, less in nineteen counties; 10 per cent less in aeven counties; 15 per cent less in eieven counties; 20 percent less in nine couneies; 25 per cent less in seven counties; 80 per oent less in four coun­ ties ; 35 per cent less in one county; 40 per cent less in two counties, and 45 per cent less in one county. Cows are reported above an average in condition in only four oounties; an average in twenty counties; 5 per cent below an average in. thirty-four coun­ ties ; 10 per cent below an average in fifteen counties ; 15 per cent below an average in fourteen counties; 20 per cent below an average in eijrbt coun­ ties ; 25 per cent below in three coun­ ties ; 30 per cent below in two counties, and 35 per cent below in one county. One county makes no report of number or condition of dairy cows. HOGS. Only one oounty in the State reports the same number of hogs ss May 1, 1881; the number is 5 per oent below in six oounties, 10 per oent below in ten oounties, 15 per cent below in twenty counties. 20 per oent below in fourteen oounties, 25 per oent below in eleven oounties, 30 per cent, below in five counties,35 per cent, below in ten counties, 40 per cent below in seven counties, 15 per cent be'ow in four counties, 50 per cent below in eleven counties. Three oounties report condition 5 per cent, above an average, eighteen counties an average condition, 5 per cent below an average in thirty counties, 10 per cent, below in sue oounties, 15 per cent below in nine oounties, 20 per cent be­ low in eight counties, 25 per cent be­ low in fourteen counties. 30 per cent, be­ low in three counties, 35 per cent, below in six counties, 40 per cent below in four counties and 45 per cent, below in one oounty. SHKBP. There is an increase of 25 per oent ss compared with May 1, 1881, In one county, an increase of 10 per cent in two counties, 5-per-oent increase in six­ teen counties, and the same number in twenty-five counties, a decrease of 5 per cent in twenty-eight counties, 10 per cent 1ms In seven counties, 15 per cent less in eight counties, 20 per cent less in eight counties, 25 per cent less in two counties, 30 per cent lesa in one county, 35 per oent. less in two ooun­ ties, 40 per cent less in one oounty and 50 per cent less in one county. In fifteen counties the condition is 5 per cent above an average, in forty- eight counties an average, 5 per oent below an average in twenty-seven coun­ ties, 10 per cent below an average in eight counties, and 15 per . Vi|fw , an average in four oounties. • ~ A Review of tlie natMr •f t* flic Men Who Do tbe Jlaaaal •n Illinois Farms. The State Department of Agriculture reports that the supply of good farm hands is fully up to the demand, and wages are not as high as in the past The season has not been favorable for spring work, and farmers have been re­ luctant to make contracts for the crop season, and in the vicinity of towns a much-larger proportion than usual of labor fcaa bean engaged tan *1-40 KU.40 &&7> 1.15 1800 XS.W LIS 18.00 MM n,m Zi.00 28.68 25.4® •M.W 9J.S0 29.50 19.00* M.7t 25.W SU.-Q $4.50 ML a u« 17.01 19..V) » i.30jm<»j«9M« 1.13 ltsn! 2LOO 1$.«0 35. SO 14.00 2D.O0 1425 31. J4.8»» »>.30 16.001 •H.m 17.00/ 23.60 14.78 8S.0S LAOO 19.80 14. IS 'J0.7S 13.751 18.0* l.ior 14.1X1 13.40 2>.<W !4.M> 39.ee 114.65 inng* Central Din'tit*. Adams. Brown Calhoun OM..4 Champaign <Jh iatUa Clark Coles Cnmberiend............. DeVtrltt Dooglaea................ Kdgar F01* Fnltoa. Greene Hancock. Jersey... Log»a Maoon. 1 Xaooupio............ I M--OB WJDonooRfe......... Htleu...'....,.... Menard 5S5T^r-"-""r Moultrie liatt Pike. Saiigamao.... Schuyler Scott. Shelby Tazewell Veruiittoa.............., Ave rag* .... Southern AMMN. Alexander Bond ...... Clay.......... • . .... C lntoa...... Crawford....^., Edward*... ............ KffluKham.... Fayette ........ Frauklia Oa. latla. Hamilton.. Huniin. .......... Jackson. Jaeper.......... ........ Jtfforaofc John BOB Lawreiiee....u. Madison.... Marion Ma«t>ao Monroe Perry.. Popt? .......... Pulaxkf. Randolph ,i... Kiohxstftf. Saline.... St Clair Union Wabaeh Washiugtoa Wayne........ White Williamson.... •; JPepMH-- el Hw Wills Tbe State Department of Agriculture has reports upon crops in uie Btate, from which the Secretary makes deduo- tions that are not calculated to inspire increased confidence for anlpverage crap. Cjora. planting has been delayed by fre­ quent rains and cold weather, and muoh of the early planted seed has rotted ia the ground, m that considerable replant­ ing will be necessary. Chinch-bugs are reported in large numbers in various por­ tions of the State, and II is surmised that if a season of dry weather should set u before harvest the number of insects now threatening would be apt to prove seriously damaging. The army worm has made its appearance much earlier than usual in some* of the southern counties, and in such numbers as to cause mu -h uneasiness oonoerahig the grain and grass crops, The departments dispatches confirm the danger resulting to winter wheat from the army worm ia Union and other southern oounties, where the blades, in many fields, have already been stripped from the stalks, and the worms are now eating off the heads of late aad tender varietiee oi wiwafc ̂ jsr ' ~ _ ^ -U, tj? Nickel Coins* The ttTrtall coins of the German em­ pire are the finest in the world. Every­ thing from a 5-pfennige pieee--which is the equivalent of an American oe&t or aft English ha'-pennv-- to a half' mailt, which is 50 pfenniges, is of nickel, pave and bright almost as silver, far purer than the American coinage. A prcjeii is under consideration at the Freitfh Ministry of Finances for abolishing pjk together the bronze coins now in UM. The substitute will be nickel, which Ia already in use in Germaiij *ad la giurn for coins of small denomination. The peculiarity of the French coiife, however, will be that they will bo of o©- tagonal shape, in order that thev may not be confounded with the silver piedaa now current. Models of 5, 10 and "SD centime pieces in th© new style have " ready been struck. •m i.*- ' j | ' '<<!