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fplaindcaltt I. VAN SLYKC, EMer en« Publisher. HcHENRY, - - ILLINOIS. •"i|ry ------ lx Texas over 20,000 men and 100,000 tones and mules are employed in rail- Itoad building. The, sweeping social changes which lover over the French divorce bill may %e judged from the fact that desertion, brutal violence, degrading legal punish­ ment, or a joint petition indorsed by the •talents, is sufficient to effect the per­ manent separation of husband and wife. At Little Bock, Ark., Paul Earl and jim Young were testing the strength of iheir arms by locking fingers, placing elbows on the table, and waiting to see whose arm would bend and give way r&Bt. In one of the efforts Earl had l»ia arm broken about two inches above the elbow. . In the collegiate schools of Germany the study of Greek is now to be retarded lor one year, for the purpose of giving aaq|e room to French and physical sci­ ence; and it is indeed remarkable to see what importance is laid on the acquisi* tion of the French language. The under­ standing of it when spoken is to be spe­ cially acquired bydictation. Gnw. Fitzhuoh Lira wrote from Rich­ mond to the Committee on Invitations at Detroit reunion : "Greatly preferring the society of the ' Society of the Army of the Potomac * in 1882 to the society of the ' Army of the Potomac' from 1861 to 1865,1 regret that it will not be in my power to be present at their reunion in Detroit on the 14th and 15th inst." A man on horseback, on a moonlight night, near Dublin, Ga., felt a tremen- ' dous blow struck behind him, and his horse fell over to die, leaving him to face an enormous, open-jawed alligator. He killed the beast by thrusting a fence rail down his throat, and then shooting it a dozen times with a revolver ; but it was subsequently found that its tail had been broken by the blow which it had given the horse, or the man might not have won the fight. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has decided in the case of Jewell vs. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul tlail- xoad Company that a passenger cannot recover damages for injuries received by fiim in jumping from a train while in motion, even in case the train did not -stop at the station for which the passen- per held a ticket If the plaintiff had re­ mained on the car and sued the com­ pany for damages in not stopping for him to alight, he might have collected something, but the law does not hold the railroad responsible for broken legs caused by the passenger's own act. Herb is a snake story from the War- renton Virginian : Mr. Peter Reid, of Fauquier county, says that a few days ago, as he was talking to a fffend, he noticed a little snake about a foot long, and before killing it he turned it over with the muzzle of his gun. To his sur­ prise the snake ran up the gun-barrel and jae could not get it to come out, so he let it rem&in. As he was going home he saw a hawk flying overhead and raised his gun and fired at it. The hawk was not hurt, but seeing the snake in the air started toward it and caught it on the fly. Mr. Peter Reid is a brother of a magistrate and a church member. • Alcohotj paid into the British treas­ ury in 1874 $155,000,000. In 1881 the sum was reduced to $145,000,000. These figures the Pall Mall Gazette cites from the budget, quoting Mr. Koyle in esti­ mating the average yearly expenditure on drink of each English man, woman and child in 1875 to have been more than $29, and in 1881 to have fallen to less than $16. The Gazette attributes this, first, to the want of money to buy liquor; secondly, to the coffee house movement; and, thiruly, to the " Blue Ribbon" and religious temperance societies, notably those supported by the Catholic clergy, and the "Salvation Army." The eftect of this diminution in the use of stimu­ lants is shown in the immediate increase jn the amount of money deposited in the savings banks. In 1880 the working classes deposited $285,000,000; in 1881 there were deposits amounting to $225,- 000,000 in the old savings banks, and in the postal savings banks, just estab­ lished, over $185,000,000. All these savings, however, the Gazette adds sig­ nificantly, do not yet am6unt to 10 per cent, of the money spott in liquor. Although the farmers of the North­ west have their troubles from drought, rain, cut-worms, grasshoppers and chinch bugs, yet they are exempt from some of the torments which harass the Australian agriculturist. The rabbits •devour mu^h of- his crops and his grass; but his worst foe is the kangaroo, which multiplies with wonderful fecundity and devours every green thing. It costs the farmers $530 a mile in fencing to keep their sheep and cattle runs from these animalai A small run requires fifty miles of this fencing, and a large one three or four times that amount. Even when the fencing is up it is hard to keep the beasts out. They run along by the side of it until they find a weak spot and push through. Once inside, they will do an incalculable amount of damage, cleaning whole acres of everything on the land. The rapid increase of the animal is at­ tributed to the killing of the dingo, or native dog, which the settlers are obliged to poison because it kills sheep as well as kangaroos. Kangaroo hunting, there­ fore, is a business rather than a sport, and the slaughter is terrible, often re­ sulting in the destruction of 1,800 kan­ garoos per week. But still another ene­ my is the parrot. The parrot of Aus­ tralia has quit a vegetable diet and taken. to meat. They are destroying the sheep in enormous quantities, and when the farmer is not shooting kangaroos he is killing parrots. Where he gets time to do any farming is a mystery. The difference between a cyclone, a tornado and a hurricane, says the Chicago Journal, is that the cyclone literally sucks into ruins whatever it strikes; the tornado is a terrific wind-wave, and a hurricane is a modified tornado. The cyolone blasts as well as demolishes whatever it comes in contact with, while the hurricane prostrates whatever it strikes that is not strong enough to re­ sist its fury. The cyclone generally makes a clean sweep where it fairly touches the earth, while the hurricane and the tornado leave behind them tracks of broken trees, damaged build­ ings and prostrate fields of grain. The cyclone appears to have its origin in mid-air, and to be the result of atn&es*^ pheric and electric conditions and com­ binations after a period of very high temperature in the spring, early sum­ mer or late autumn. The laws of or­ dinary storms are still imperfectly un­ derstood, and the laws of cyclones are at best conjectural. Were these laws bet­ ter understood, perhaps some ways or means could be devised to guard against them. All that iB definitely known of the cyclone phenomenon is that it comes in the shape of a black, funnel-shaped cloud, with the small end of the funnel furiously dangling and writhing below the main body, and that wherever this strikes it sucks up every movable ob­ ject, and either scatters it into frag­ ments or deposits it along the edges of its track. The progress of the cyclone is attended with a great roaring noise, and its movement is exceedingly rapid. The only suggestion to the inhabitants of this mundane sphere, as a precaution against being taken by surprise by one of these disastrous visitations, is to heed the warning when they see dancing in the air a black cloud, shaped somewhat like a flattened balloon, and whose ap­ proach is signaled by a great noise like that of the rushing of mighty waters. When you see and hear these " signs in the heavens," seek shelter in the wind­ ward part of your cellar, if you have a good one, that having been found to be the securest place of refuge at such a time, even if the house should be carried off over your head and be scattered into fragments. During such a visitation no place within the course of the storm is positively safe, but, according to all accounts, the cellar seems to be the safest. , The American's Motto. g The following story is related of an immensely wealthy American in Europe, who had made his fortune suddenly, and suddenly found out that it was the correct tiling to have a coat of-arms on his car­ riage. So he ordered one. The cele­ brated advertising heraldic stationer was a bit of a wag in his way, and took the old fellow's measure at a glance. " What you want is a crest and a motto, sir," said he, politely. "I guess so.'* He was requested to call next day and see the design, and promptly went. The crest was a mailed arm holding a dagger--"something uncommon," the heraldry man said--and the motto, Sem­ per nobilis omnibus benignus, which means, he explained, translating freely, " Always noble and kind to everybody." The old man was delighted. " Now, the latest style of printing mottoes," pur­ sued the shopman, " is initializing the words after the fashion 6f the old Roman motto : Senatus populus que Romanu -, which the ancients abbreviated into 8. P. Q. R. Of course you'd like yours done like that, sir !" " Most assuredly," replied the living gold mine, and he forthwith ordered reams of note paper and envelopes to match, stamped in- stanter, in gold and silver and every known hue. Well, he and his wife used the stationery a month or so, writing to every one they could think of, when one line morning, while studying with more scrutiny than usual the beauty of the decoration, it suddenly dawned upon them that the caption of the sheet to which he had been daily and hourly af­ fixing his valuable signature was noth­ ing more or less than 8. N. O. B.-- Gal ignani. Harboring an Untamed Stag. This phrase is sometimes applied to dangerous experiments, as is that other saying "nurturing a serpent in one's bosom." Harboring is a technical term, used by English experts in wood-craft, for which there is no substitute. It means simply the task of tracing the noble beast to his lair amid some dense thicket of the far-stretching coverts that clothe the steep hills and deep combs of the wild and picture-que country in the West of England. This has to be done not with the aid of keen-scented hounds, but merely by the highly trained intel­ ligence of'a single man, who has devoted many years of his life to the study of the red deer and their habits. The har- borer begins his work hours before the earliest of those who take part in the more exciting scenes of the chase are out of their beds, and few among these habitual followers have any idea of the toil that is undergone by this man in providing the means of pleasure for them, or of the patient skill displayed by him in pursuit of his calling. A Cool Dress for Horses. Few horse owners, perhaps, take the trouble to give their horses a cool sum­ mer dress. Most harnesses are cool and airy, but the tug and heat are concen­ trated at the collar, and there is no rea­ son why the collar should not be co J and airy. In the State of New York, near Cayuga lake, there are miles of meadow, or swamp, in which catkins grow in rank confusion. In progress there for some time has been the indus­ try of making from the leaves of the catkins, or flags, horse collars. They have been made of husks and straw, but the flag collar is more generally used. A flag collar costs but $1.25, and the amount saved in horse-flesh by its use cannot be estimated. The collar adapts itself to'any neck and shoulders, pre­ vents galling, or cures galling, and is light and cool and cheap.--Providence Journal. TBI FAULT DOCTML TffR discussion of the value of a dim­ ple skim milk diet in Bright's disease has been revived. The Hartford Time* is one of the journals which publish tes­ timony concerning the effects of the treatment; and it says that a banker of that city who used nothing but thor­ oughly skimmed milk has fully re- oavered. The actual constituents of beef tea and its physiological eftecta are being tested abroad. Mr. Masterman's an­ alysis shows it has a chemical composi­ tion similar to urine. Dr. Neal's analysis shows similar results; that it contains only about 2 per cent of polid matters and they <ire mainly products of mus­ cular and blood decom, osition ; and Dr. Launder Burton questions whether beef tea may not under some circumstances be really - poisonous. It is certainly merely a stimulant and not a food.-- Dr. Foote'g Health M'mthly. According to the Practitioner a sim­ ple and effective remedy for removing the pain of wounds caused by burns or scalds is a saturated solution of bicar­ bonate of soda in either plain or cam­ phorated water. To apply the remedy, all that is necessary is to cut a piece of lint or old soft rag, or even thick blot­ ting paper, of a size suflicient'to cover the burned or scalded parte, and tokeep it constantly well wetted with the todaic lotion so as to prevent its drying. By this means it usually happens that all Earn ceases in from a quarter to half an our, or even in much less time. When the main part of a limb, such as the hand and torearm or the foot and leg, 'has been burned, it is best, when prac­ ticable, to plunge the part at once into a jug or pail or other convenient vessel filled with the soda lotion, and keep it there until the pain subsides, or the limb may be swathed or encircled ruth a sur­ geon's cotton bandage previously soaked in the saturated solution and kept con­ stantly wetted with it, the relief being usually immediate, provided the solution be saturated and cold. Salt fob the Throat.--In these days when diseases of the thro.it are so universally prevalent, and in so many cases fatal, we feel it our duty to say a word in behalf of a most effectual, if not a positive, cure for sore thft&t. For many years past, indeed, we may say during the whole of a life of more than forty years, we have been subject to a dry, hacking cough, which is not only distressing to our self, but to our friends and those with whom we are brought into business contact. Last fall we were induced to try what virtue there was in common salt. We commenced by using it three times a day, morning noon ana night We dissolved a large table-spoon­ ful of pure table salt in about half a small tumblerful of water. With this we gargled the throat most thoroughly just before meal time. The result has been that during the entire winter we were not only free from coughs and colds, but the dry, hacking cough had entirely disappeared. We attribute these satisfactory results solely to the use of salt gargle, and most cordially recommend a trial of it to those who are subject to diseases of the threat Many persons who have never tried the salt gargle have the impression that it is un­ pleasant, but after a few days' use no person who loves a nice, clean month, and a first-rate sharpener of the appe­ tite, will abandon it.--The Household, Poisons.--We all have a great horror of being poisoned, without exactly un- derstandmg what it is. Poison is a dis­ organization of flesh and blood, or both. Poisons are of two kinds : one, the re­ sult of medicinal agents taken into the stomach or circulation, the other the re­ sult of bites or stings of living creatures. I will now state two ideas, which, if generally known and remembered, would save thousands of lives every year. If you have swallowed a poison, whether laudanum, arsenic, or any other thing poisonous, put a table-spoonful of ground mustard in a glass of water, cold or warm, stir and swallow quickly, and instantane­ ously the contents of the stomach will be thrown up, not allowing the poison­ ous substance time to be absorbed and taken into the blood; and, as soon as vomiting ceases, swallow the white of one or two new eggs for the purpose of antagonizing any small portion of the Kison which may have been left behind. st tlie reader remember the principle, which is, to get the poison out of you as soon as possible; there are other things which will have a speedy emetic effect, but the advantage of mustard is, it is always at hand, it acts instantaneously, without any after medicinal effects. The UBe of the white of an egg is that, al­ though it does not nullify all poisons, it antagonizes a larger number than any other agent so readily attainable. But, while taking the mustard or egg, send for a physician; these are in order to save time, as the difference of twenty minutes is often death Bonner's Investments. While the name of Robert Bonner, of New York, has not a familiar sound to the ordinary patrons of the turf, he has invested more money in trotting horses than any two purchasers who can be named. 'While fault has been found be­ cause he retired such trotting marvelA as he took from the turf, when the belief was tha*; hardly one of the list had done its best, all gentlemen admit that no one h«m done more than he to forward the interests of those engaged m the ad­ vancement of the trotting standard. A brief history of the splendid animals purchased by Mr. Bonner from time to time will be of interest to all classes of readers: Year of purcA's We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture which we axe willing to give the advantage of a good light.-- Emerson. I860. 1860. 1860. 1861. 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Trial* purch'm a.» a. 17* 3.39 'a.aii,' a.aix 3.ai& a.ae* a. 2s* a.aa a.si S.37X 3.18 a.ux a.aa* a 19* i.as 6.«1* a.3»x 'a.'is aiaix risji 3.30 3.10 3.19 "a.ai" 3.17* 3.18* 3.a»x 3.10H 2.34 3.2T* 3.18* 3.18* 3.17 •3.26" 3.14* 3 11* 3.32 a.38 a.«3* Price paid. *382,1100 *T®am. tWagon. grandmother wear : her hands were in­ cased in mita, a ruffled cap and an an­ tique bonnet covered her head and she carried a Email reticule. " Will you please give me 10 cents to get a cup of tea ?" she asked. I gave it, and with a polite " Thank you/' she passed on. Somewhat curious, I followed and watched her. Pretty soon she stopped another gentleman, and I saw his hand thrust deep into his pocket, coming forth with a coin; another soon executed the same movement. Every one she en­ countered fell a victim, while if she had been poorly clad it is doubtful if the re­ sult of her negotiations would have been one-tenth so much.--Boston Courier. 9 »,oo« IflOQ 6,5j0 5,500 3,000 40,000 13,000 35.0OT l5,imo 10,0(J0 275 20#(*J0 10,000 20,008 10,000 2,000 15,000 5,000 15,000 6,000 8,500 12,0u0 3,000 2,000 4,000 8,600 9,500 10,<00 3,0J0 3,0 J0 16,000 36,000 4,000 4,000 7,0»J» 3,000 4.0J0 4.000 Very Acute Strategy. One day in Summer street a very neatly-dressed and venerable lady ap­ proached me. Her dress was an old- fashioned silk, such as I had seen my 11m Hewer Arltknetle. -tames has six apples and divides one among his five brotSurs and sisters. How many has he left ? If*a quart-bo* of strawberries holds a pint and a half, how many boxes will it take to make a peck, and now quick can a tramp get away with them? If a farmer can mow six acres of grass in one day, how many liars will it take to mow thirty-eight acres of grass in three days? A guest at the hotel pays the porter 25 cents to take his trunk up stairs; 10 cents to a colored boy to briug him a pitcher of water; 25 cents to the waiter to bring his dinner; 25 cents further to the porter to get his truuk down stairs; 50 cents to the omnibus driver, and $3 to the landlord as the regular rate of the house. How much has he been swindled, and what is he going to do about it ? A coal dealer has a driver weighing 185 pounds, who is weighed witu 750 loads of cool during the winter. What would have been the gain to the consum­ ers had the driver only weighed 150 pounds ? If a policeman on night duty sleeps ah hour and a half each night tor thir­ teen years, how many years of such ar­ duous labor will it take to reduoe him to a walking skeleton ? In each county in the United Stites are seventy inhabitants who believe they would make good State Governors. Of this number only 2 per eent. ever get to be even a constable. What is the exact number of con­ stables, and how many lawsuits can a wide-awake officer provoke in a year ? A grocer has a horse which he asserts can trot a mile in 2:40. He puts him on the track under a watch and finds his best gait to be 3:28. What was the dif­ ference between the grocer's estimate and the watch, and why did he wollop the poor horse all the way home ? A father at his death left $12,500 for the benefit of his only son, 14 years, 8 months and 12 days old, the money to be paid him when 21 years of age, with interest at 6 per oent. How much money did the lawyers leave for the boy ? A merchant who has a stock valued at $8,000 advertises that he will dispose of it at one-fourth off. How much does he make? A citizen has a cow which gives six quarts of milk per day, while his sales foot up nine quarts. There is nothing for the student to find in this case. Sim­ ply turn on the water. A grocer buys a chest of tea weighing eighty pounds. He sells twenty-seven pounds of it as "my unapproachable 60- cent tea," and the remainder as "our splendid 40-cent Oolong." How much did he receive in all, and how much did he have to give to the heathen that year to quiet his conscience ? A plumber who does 16 cents' worth of repairing desires to charge for four pounds of solder in his bill. Please sug­ gest how it can be don&without injury to his system.--DetroiTlfree Pre**. The Old Fashioned Banker. The old-fashioned banker used to go to his office so punctuallv that you might set a town clock by him. When he dined at the club or hotel he used to ob­ serve the manners of his customers, and, if he thought them extravagant, he showed them little meroy in " the shop" or the "sweating room." He would stay in the office till the accounts were balanced; and we have known of clerks being kept up for hours until the e ror of a penny could be rectified. Old Sim­ eon, of Cambridge, gave a man £20 to detect the error of a penny in his accounts. The old-fashioned bankers were the men who kept up co the last the powder and pig-tail, the top lx o s and knee-breeches. The half-holiday was an institution totally uuknown, The country bankers sent up to town heavy parcels by Pickford's van, a guard with a blunderbuss keeping watch over- them. In those days of expensive post­ age it was a great object to send le'ters by private hands. A Manchester bank calculated that it saved the pay of two clerks by this system. If any of their customers were found to have booked places at the coach offices it was soon arranged that they should take letters to town. Sir Rowland Hill's innovations have nowhere been more efficacious than in the province of banking. The banker in old times never concerned himself with literature. He would be regarded as going to professional perdition. He would be looked upon as the Cambridge candidate for honors who falls in love or betakes himself to poetry. When the news came to Lord Chief Justice Ellen- borough that a young banker named Rogers had just published a poem on "The Pleasures of Memory," he ex- j claimed, "If Old Gozzy"--alluding to j the respective head of the firm with which he was banking--"ever bo much as says a good thing, let alone writing, I will close my account with him the next morning !" An absurd story is told of an old banker, of a single pint of porter being invariably placed at the bottom of his staircase for his laundress. In course of time the pint was exchanged for a pot. A customer forthwith remonstrated with him: " I must say, sir, that if you go on doubling your expenditure at that rate it may be time for your customers to look after their balanoes."--London , Society. - , About Elephants. j Thick as is an elephant's skin, no living creature suffers more from flies, mosquitoes, leeches and other vermin than he. The pores are very large, and gadflies, mosquitoes, etc., worm them­ selves into the hollow and suck to reple­ tion. Thus the whole day long they are constantly throwing up dirt, squirt­ ing saliva or water to get rid of these pests, to the great annoyance of their riders. Thev snore a good deal when asleep, and f have often seen them rest­ ing their heads on an outstretched foot when lying down. They are very human­ like in many of their ways, They get a piece of wood and use it as a toothpick. They scratch themselves with the tip of their proboscis, and if they cannot reach the place with that they take up a branch and use that. Natives say they plug up bullet holes with clay, but I never knew aninstance of it myself.--London Field. Edwabd Kelly, a Pennsylvania min- 1 ister, lias eloped with Miss Carrie Mnore, a school-teacher. His wife and children were left behind. It was as much as he could do to carry off the schoolma'am. His wife did not ask him to Carrie Moore. • Tennessee Repudiation. -"-'wo years ago a minority of the Dem­ ocratic Convention in Tennessee were " low-tax" Democrats who withdrew and put up a bolter's ticket when they fonnd they were too weak to control the action of the regular organization. Both of the Democratic factions were beaten and Alvin Hawkins, Republican, was elected Governor. On Wednesday last it was the " debt-paying" Democrats who went out of the convention and took measures for nominating a bolter's ticket, leaving the "low-tax" men, repudiators and re- adjusters in possession o! the party machine. Such is the progress made by the Democrats of Tennessee on the road o! dishonesty since 1880. The ytnte debt amounts in round numbers, with interest, to .$39,000,000. The Legislature elected in 1880 passed a bill, chiefly by Republican votes, \ which was approved by the Republican Governor, called the 100-3 bill, for the settlement of the debt by the issue of bonds for the full amount of 100 cents on the dollar with interest at 3 per cent. The Democrats procured an injunction against the issuing of the bonds and the case went to the Supreme Court of Ten­ nessee which gave a partisan decision last winter declaring the law unconstitu­ tional because it made the interest coupons receivable for taxes. Two of the five fudges dissented. The creditors then made a proposition to settle by taking new bonds for 60 per cent, of the amount due, with j interest for the first five years at 3 per oent, and afterward increasing to 4, 5 ! and 6 per cent. An extra session of the j Legislature was called and the 60-3-4 5- 6 bill was passed as an acceptance of the bondholders' offer, and this bill in turn was approved by Gov. H iwkius. It was earnestly hoped that this action would be accepted as final, and the most anxious men about it, unless it might be the bondholders themselves, were the intelligent Democrats outside of Ten nessee. They saw clearly enough that their party could not afford to make an issue on the settlement as agreed upon or keep up any further agitation in favor | of repudiating the debt. The outside | leading Democratic newspapers, too, 1 notably the Louisville Courier-Journal, j took the same view and urged the breth- ] ren to drop the bond quarrel and go to 1 work in harmony to whip the Republi- j cans. But physicians were in rain for the j Democrats of Tennessee, and good ad­ vice was thrown away. The call for a j State Convention was cooked up by the wise'old nurses oi the party and signed by the Chairman of the " low-tax" com­ mittee and also by the Chairman of the " debt-paying " committee. A full con­ vention assembled at Nashville with the expressed purpose above all things else of curing the breach in the party and working together in the campaign. But the repudiators would not subside. They made a platform in condemnation of the 60 3-4-5-6 settlement, which they will manage to keep from going into ef­ fect until after election, and fell back upon a compromise among themselves in favor of paying 50 per cent, of the | debt in new bonds bearing 3 per cent, j interest. I Of course the Democrats who retained! ; some sense of the obligation to keep | agreements, to the extent, at any rate, j of respecting a compromise that had al- i ready received legislative sanction, could ! not countenance this breach of faith, ' and so they withdrew and in conference I resolved to oall a nominating convention of their owu for July 11. The Republicans will undoubtedly nominate Gov. Hawkins, and his re­ election in November is tolerably cer­ tain. In 1880 he received 102,9i59 votes ; to 79,191 for Wright, the regular or j " debt-paying " Democratic caudidate, j and 57,424 for Wilson, the " low-tax " Democratic candidate, the plurality for ' Hawkins being 23,778. j Bate, the regular or "low-tax " Dem­ ocrat, and his " debt-paying " fellow- | Democratic candidate will hardly poll j more votes this year than the two Dem- j ooratic candidates received in 1880, and ; there is good prospect that the people of ; Tennessee will enjoy the advantage of a | full Republican administration for an- I other .term.--Detroit Pust. or the courage to bring in a verdict el guilty on that charge, though the evi­ dence of guilt was overwhelming. The Bourbons argue that if they broke the law with impunity once they may again, since no jury can be fonnd in the State to convict them. The leading Bourbon organ of the State speaks of the conduct of the Marshals as " monstrous," and calls the recent attempt of the Govern­ ment to enforce its. authority in the State " high-handed." The whole tone of its comments is to assert the authority of the State above that of the nation, and to defy the nation to help itself if it can. The situation is at once astound­ ing and pathetic. What is to be the fu­ ture of a State in which the conscience of the people is so dumb that dishonesty in politics is hailed as virtue, and defi­ ance of law is treated as high service to the commonwealth? Sooner or later South Carolina will see the blind folly of her course. In the meantime whatsis the Government going to do about it ?--• New York Tribune. Wanted, a Policy. Congressman Morrison, of Ulinofe, •ays a Michigan contemporary, is a very !!imH were pj^-od in nomination, rare being for a Democratic politician. He has vagrant ideas in number, that is a necessity of his party associations. But he has an occasional spasm of sense, and it is that which distinguishes him above rot"u the leaders of his party. While the last gtratSia1" visiting spasm was strong upon him Mr. BMe.. •cess fLLIHOIS BBPUBLICAH*. ^ ' ^ Nmrnarf mt the iProoenil*gm mi WK Stale r* SprlafttMM* |J| TKMFORART OBOASIZATIOV. A. E Jone# called the convention to the Rev. Parker, of Springfield, offered and George Hunt, of Edgar comity, wu nuuie temporary Chairman. The latter made * ring­ ing speech, full of timely remarks and happjr hits. Daniel Shepurd and K. L, Btokee waiiT" made temporary Secretaries afler which tlie usual Committees on Credential*,, fieaolntioa% etc., were Appointed, eowwMng of a detogtH .: from each Congrowknal district. . , pf.hmahutt oaaasnsanoK. The Cammittae on Femunat determined the question of pern in a short time, making George Hoot Cbai*» man and Daniel Shepaird and Jamas JBL F*A» dock SeoreUunee HOMISATIOlfB. js' Aftear the usual formalities pmlimlaaiy to tip nominations, it was nin«d tbat the ChairmeB of the different coontia* to be allowed to ca# the entire vote of the counties reepect!»eljt With a faint show of objection on the part of some the motion carried. Gen. John C. Smith and Mr. Daniel D. Pan# Iran then plawci in nomtaatiim for 8t»m Treasurer. It was a walk-away for Smite, wb* received 664 votea to 128 for P«rry. For Superintendent of Public Instrnet^ .̂' Hon, Charles Strattan, of Monnc V«rnois. car­ ried off the honor. Hollowing is theraooltaf the ballots: First ballot -- Blade EKrattas... - 'KA 1. I# •il - m .... w ... TO ra*u a» M Long ]» iiiKginai .§ . tfipike a Morrison said : " To ask the people to Infhird try us instead of the Republicans is non- 8W|Pow»b....,a§ sense. It is only office-seeking on a large *5iij .*'MV." *? scale. We must have a policy." ^ . * Fourth balk*-- Strattan, 408; Blade, S€L STATS CaHTBAI. OOlOnTTKE, The Committee on the ts>a e Central Oooaa^>. j tee reported the following as members of |(Ml* body: ^8 '» First district--W. J. CamDbeO, el Oook. Second--Phihp Haas, ot Oook. Third--Chris Msmtr, of Cook. •rr Fourth--John J. Healy, of 1 Fifth--C. A. Partridge, of Sixth--A. M. Jones, of Warm. Seventh--E. C. Modei-well. Eighth--J. R. Corbus, of La Stile. 8*™r; The South Carolina Plaa. There is something very much like rebellion going on in South Carolina. The officers of the Federal Government are openly defied by the local Democratic officials, are resisted in the performance of their duty, and are forcibly ejected from buildings which they visit in order to discharge the duty which the Govern­ ment imposes upon them. This seems incredible, but it is the plainest possible statement of facts actually existing. The defiance is made openly, with the old Tweed tsunt: " What are you going to do about it ?" .Registration under the new State law has been in process for some time throughout the State. The law, as we explained at the time of its enactment, is as infamous as Bourbon intolerance could make it. Its first and chief aim is to disfranchise the great mass of the negro vote, and thus make bulldozing and ballot-box stuiliiug unnecessary here­ after. The Supervisors who superintend tlie registration were all appointed by a 'Democratic Governor, and are animated by a common zeal to carry out the law in ?the spirit of its enactment. They take every possible means to hinder the registration of negroes and facilitate that or white men. This plan of procedure was carried to such ex­ tremes in Charleston on Tuesday that the United States Deputj Mar­ shals protected, and demanded their right to stand near the registration of­ ficers in order that they might inspect their work and prevent their unlawful oonduct. To this the Supervisor ob­ jected, ordered the Marshals from the room, and, when they refused to depart, called the police and had them ejected When they reported to the Marshal he had the Supervisor arrested and taken before Chief Supervisor Wallace on the charge of obstructing and hindering a United States Marshal in the discharge of his duty. Bonds were given for his release, and he returned and reopened the registration in the snme unfair man­ ner. The Deputy Marshals again pro­ tested, aud were again ejected. Where­ upon the Supervisor was arrested a sec­ ond time and released after giving bonds. He returned again, and proceeded in the same way as before. On Thursday Dep­ uty Marshals were treated in the same manner by another Supervisor, who was subsequently arrested, and on the same day the Bourbon State authorities had the Chairman of the Republican 9State Committee arrested because he insisted that colored voters should have the same rights as white in registering. It is easy to understand why the Bour­ bons feel safe in following tnis coarse. The offense is the s tme as that which was charged in the recent election trials --obstructing and hindering a Marshal in the performance of his duties. No jury was found which had the horn-sty _ In that utterance there is the history of many Democratic defeats. They have begged the people to try them instead of the Republicans. But why try them ? That is a conundrum which no Democrat could answer, and which was past finding out. Try us! Such was the beginning of their vocifer­ ous appeal. And for why and wherefore, they only answered the same thing, "Try us. Of course they were told, and it was pressed upon them with the sledge-hammer logic of defeats, "Ton must give a reason for trying you." But when they sought for reasons they were compelled to turn back in despair to the one vociferous appeal, "Try us." All of which Mr. Morrison has discov­ ered was vain, as we have all known it was this many years, and foolish, which nobody has denied. And now he tells the brethren who for twenty years have in vain appealed to " try us" that their appeal was nothing more than "offioe seeking on a large scale." This they will hear without turning color. But when they read a little further and dis­ cover that Mr. Morrison advises they must have a policy, they will rise up with a feeling of mixed disgust and despair. Policy indeed, we, the Democracy, have had too muoh of it already. We have been on all sides of everything. That is why it is ever thus, and in their disgust they will denounce Mr. Morrison as a blind guide. As they will be right. It is not a policy the party needs. One ounoe of prinoiple would' do more for it than forty tons of policy. Bat this has never occurred to Mr. Morrison or an otiier would-be guide of Democracy. Snake Charmers. Some years ago, when Cairo was the Cairo of the " Arabian Nights," and not the disreputable-looking second-rate French country town it is now, we in­ quired for any possible successor to the old snake-charmer whom old Anglo-In­ dians may remember to have seen play­ ing with his cobras before Shepherd's 'Hotel. (Was he not at the Zoo iu the wonderful year 1851, and did he not promptly decline, without thanks, our oftVr of two or three lively capellos then in the collection?) After some trouble we lighted on a furtive Arab caitiff, in the ^ great nalloual dootnue8 of theptflyj iiniial long blue shirt, girded about the , xnd to tbo^e it is committed still. waist to form the upper part into a I 2. Under the wise and patriotic adminletr#' species of spleuchan or sporran. In I tion of our State affaire the debt of the Stata| this he seems to keep his dirty pipe, his I »*•«» honestly paid and iU credit aUuds of froualy tolLco, | <%SZZL 'ASSSSAHSSSt small portable property he had »?qutred | party Gf the State of 111 noia is entitled to the more or K ss honest!v. With hiin we 1 confidence of the people of the State, and will ri s >rted to divers ancient stables aud receive that confidence. 8. That, with all MboTir-lwring men ft aft women of the world, we deplore the death of onr late President, James A. Garfield, and with all patriots we renew our devotion to the priii ciples of liberty which the fool hand of Ninth--R. D. Sherman, of KankakejL**' j Tenth--Frank Hitchcock, of Peoria. ̂ * *» ' I Eleventh--J. C McAllister, of Warren. tf B, j Twelfth--William Garland, of Scott j Thirteenth--Jonathan Merriam, of TaaeweB?^ Fourteenth--Chester P. Davit*, of Piatt. • P-Ht Fifteenth--Jan. H. Clark, of Colee. , / Sixteenth --Thos. W. ssott, of Wayne. • ' I Seventeenth--J. ML Truett, of MoittgosMtJl* < Eighteenth--Daniel Hay, of Wadhiugtoiv Nineteenth--Jan. S. Martin, of Marion. : " j Twentieth--B. O. Jones, ot Massic. ! Members-at-Large--John W. , field. I Jobn R. Tanner, Louisville. - , Jesse Spalding, Cui&igo. „ • , a ! P. & Post, Massac. ' ' j J. M. Bradley, I lock Island. »«u.i j ^Martin Howard and H. UqO«^ of MetrofXft*;^ j The report was adopted by a unanimous votifcp' j THB RESOLUTIONS. ' 1 The Committee on itesolutiooa reported tK| . following platform : | Wheukas, The Republicans of the State et Illinois, iu 8tate Convention assembled, reccg^ nize now the necessity for the continued a A .. | continuing perpetuation of the Republican - ty. The best interests of civil liberty upou this j continent, tlie highest con -ider.itious ot natiott> al honor and integrity, lha freedom of tife I ballot, the purity of the oallot-box and the . pronwrity of our industries all demand this;' then-fore, .. . 1. That the policy of the Repubtt> can paity of the natiou and State is uncban^ej^" , and to that policy the Republicans or the St&tp of Illinois commit themselves--fair elections j and honest count* No. tli and South ; the honest j treatment of the public debt* and the putotti j creditors ; a reduction of taxation : the encoiw* j agemont, fostering aud protecting of all Anior> i ican industries, aud a hearty approval of the » '{If I policy of the Tariff Commission, ,#h>eh ! ahall regard all interests and conserve then ^ 1 all; such a practical reform Of the civil service a* shall relieve the 1 Executive from the pressure of hordes of officpr j Bei-kers, and as aha I, by providing some intellt- ! gent method of appointments to oihoe, enabM our representatives in both branches of the ' •%!?• ; national Congress to turn their attention te f I matters of national conoern; such a system dt* internal improvement by the great water wa^ • ! cither natural or artificial, as will afford cheflt' |1 1 and easy outlets to the sea of the enoiluulfc k | products or the great West ; the n--unim ' Cs ! nient of frtendly and cordial relations between T all wwtions of the country--these are among' Lyini* outbuildings in the suburbs, aud con­ jured him to find a tsnake. Placing a small wooden pipe between his lips he toot ed quaintly an old Arab air, now ; low. but imvdlv soft, and now high aud > amation can never reach, and we extend te j loml. Tl.™ hi ...dered, 1 | £ j furtive, and we following and expectant. ; tereet of good KOvm,ment At last, arriving at an old half dark, - * -• - evil smelling stable he appeared to get excited, gave veut to still wilder squeaks and squeals, circled round and round under a big palm tree beam, and at l«st, with an ear-splitting note, he squatted suddenly down, dashed his hand appar­ ently upward, and clutched a big cobra, which he evidently intended us to believe had been charmed from above. I Bay apparently, foi* I am certain that he lost 4. Bel'eving that all divisions and dissensioBB amoeg Republicans can be honorably and <-at|l factorily healed, we also believe that now the time to bury our past differences and uni again under the old flxg. Snch a union meajpf the triumphant success of the party now aud in 1884, and that success means the continued prosperity and happiness of the couutrv. 5. That the Republican party now, as In the pint, is in favor of Kuoh just laws as shall pre* tect the agriculturist, the manufactiuer and the workingman from the oppression of monup- the brute out of the "bosom" of his ©lists. . ^ blouse. Now this was very pretty, but! The following was offered by A'deruiau D-xo% of Chicago, and uuammouxly adopted: a Jienoivtii, That we extend our hearty ijri patliv to the oppressed of all nations iu fU honest efforts to establish liberty and a repub­ lican form of government, and that our ecpae- itil sympathy is extended .to all lawful efforts hardly satisfactory; so, instead of giving our charmer "backsheesh" (having a man in authority among us,) we promised him bastinado if he did not capture a snake in tlie open. Very limp about ; now;,ei^g Q^de to establish republicanism the loins aud very yellow did that Arab TrPia,1(|. caitiff show through his brown skin, but i we were relentless. "Cobro or Toko!" i and so he searched with the greatest care--not to find what, in fact, he did not want to find. At last one of us spied the I tail of a good-sized snake protruding | from some unuamable rubbish. "Now, j my friend, catch us that snake, or"-- , He tootled not-- tlie " or " had taken the j music out of him--and, overcoming with j a visible effort his shuddering horror, he caught the tail in one hand and rapidly ran the other up the body till he reached the neck. Pinning this between hie finger and thumb, he caught up the tail of his blonse, and forcing the brute to close his jaws upon it, tore it out rapidly, again and again, evidently with the in­ tention of tearing out the poison fangs, which he did at last, to a certain extent, to his own satisfaction; but he was wary to the end, aud, instead of putting it into his pouch with his old friend, he knotted it up in a rag. And so he went his way and we weut ours, with a gentle feeling that if we had been "done" we were to a certain extent aware of the fact. By the way, unless my memory has utterly given way to my imagination, I distinctly remember seeing in 1851 the cobras striking and drawing blood from the arms of the old Arab snake-charmer and his clever boy. Many wonderful things he did, such as producing a cata­ leptic rigidity in the snake, as easily I removed as produced--things I should lilro to gee again.-- The London Field. A pbominknt citizen of Houston, who happened to be at Austin, was invited to take tea at the house of Coi. Jim Blaine. On the visitor entering the Ireland. Before a motion for its adoption wtfs made, the Hon. D. H. Harts, of Lincoln, qffecfl the following as au amendmeut: RetolcM, That the Republican party is in favor of submitting to a vote of the people ef the State of Illinois a constitutional ameaft* ment prohibiting the manufacture and sale it intoxicating liquors as a beverage. ! This was snowed under by an overwhelming vote. It had previously been offered to tw Committee on liesohrion", with several othen of * similar character, abA by them rejected. • Hon. John H. Thomas, of St Clair, preeeap* ed the following: StfaofvtO, That tho right of fee people to bap their eaaaea in the ooaru tried in the vknnaat where the litigants reside ahoold be abridged as little aa possible, and the present laweonoem- ing the removal of oaoses from the State to the Federal mute ahonld t» m amended as to pr ̂ vide thai corporations doing business in say State shall h® deemed to ha citissns thereof and compelled to try their suits in the courts thereof. This was met with a whirlwind of opposition and met the fate of the temperance plank. IAUOTRAWXTHT, NO. V A toTUitC vote of thanks was teodeted Up ' Chairman and 8eoretanes for their ssrvieqt the convention adjourned, Cored off LittgatlM. The perusal of the following poettoel epistle is said to have put an end to a lawsuit: An opulent farmer applied to an attor­ ney about a lawsuit, but was told he could not undertake it, being aire&dy engaged on tlie other side ; at the same time, he gave him a letter of recom­ mendation to a professional friend. Tip farmer, out of curiosity, opened it and read as fallows: 7 Here are two fat wetfcaca, fallen eat tugathar; - If yon'il fleece on«, 1'U mm* the odwr, Aud make em a^rse like brotht r ind brJthec. r Thxbb are over 5tM,00J French CAMG|̂ dians in the New E lglaud States anH reason you came to Austin was you had an ax to grind."-- Texas Siftinos. Biow gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. --Shaktpeare. Old, clean newspapers are excellent for laying under carpets. Put a ligllft layer of straw upou them. The du^ will no* arise when sweeping is but will pass through into the papuL -mmm- £ •0