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1 fWcfUiug fJlarafieaU* McHENBY, ILLINOIS. THE APPROPRIATIONS. A Comparison Between Demo- oratic and Republican Expenses. w The Charge of Republican JExtrava- gance Refuted. fYrttm the Detroit Post and Tribnne.l The party of Southern frauds and the "Chinese letter forgery" open the .campaign, of this year in their usual •n ay. This time they have selected the appropriations made by CoBigress for the expenses „ of the Government, and by a process of deceptive and -very th inly-disguised figuring.-iliey attempt to prove that the Republican Congress of the present year ha^been wasteful and extravagant of the public moneys as compared with the Democratic Con­ gress of last year. That this statement has no foundation in fact, they know. And we here give the figures to prove that the charge is conceived in the same falseness and wickedness which conceived the Morey letter, and contin­ ued to publish it to injure the lamented Garfield, after its fraudulent character was fully established. The following table gives'the appro­ priations of the Democratic Congress jf 1881, made to cover the expenses of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, and also the appropriations of the Re­ publican Congress made to cover the expenses of the fiscal year ending June 30. 1883. ' The figures are those given by Mr. John D. C. Atkins, a Democratic Con­ gressman from Tennessee, and Chair­ man of the Appropriation Committee in the last Democratic House, and we print them as he gives them; except as bo one item, "Miscellaneous accounts for 1883," which he places at $5,520,- 585, but which other and better author­ ity places at $5,342,700, a difference of about $180,000. As to the other items all authorities, Republican and Democrat- agree. ̂ *. - • ...........Si., . ~- r " ' 5 V , < r : a' CURIOUS of Colombia,' SO per cent Miscellaneous and re- 1,734,163.23 i eonsana re­ liefs, 3,280,426.59 Total Republican Congress. 1.696,096.04 S,845,700.59 $165,923,065.00 Total Democratic Congress...... 153,367,983.00 Difference. $12,555,062.00 By comparing the expenses of these two years it can be seen that the Re­ publican expenses for 1883 exceed the Democratic expenses for 1882 in the following items and amounts. Legislative, executive and judicial. Sundry civil Pii-itil service Military establishment. ....'J.... Ri vers and harbors. .* .......... Military Academy. Consular and diplomatic . Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous and reliefs.......^....,. Amount o f Excess: .$ 1,644,536 8T.t,Hfi6 .. 1,293,117 60,200 .. 7,902,575 13,122 27,182 3 #1,780 3,062,274 Total...., $13,358,652 The River and Harbor bill was in no sense a party measure. We have al­ ready explained that it was vetoed by a Republican President and was after­ ward passed by Democratic votes. And whether people agree that it was all entirely wise or not the Republicans are no more responsible for it than Democrats are. The appropriation should therefore be deducted from the general excess. Deducting this the ac­ count will stand thus: . Total Republican excess................$13,358,652 Deduct river and harbor excess........ 7,302,375 Net Republican excem....$ c,053,077 ' The Republican appropriations en­ acted for 1883 were less than the actual Democratic expenses for 1882 on the following itfOSfr;. Amount Account, of Saving. Naval scrvice.-v. . ....$175,2C8 Indian service . . . . 399,274 District of Columbia..... 29,065 Fort* and fortifications 200,000 OBJECTS OF APPROPRIATION. [legislative Military Academy....... Irmjr favy , i.... Indian .1 'ostofiice service........ lohsular and diplomatic. Inndry civil fortifications Mvors and harbors... scellaneous fend re- ^^liefs 1. District of Columbia.... icultural Total .1213 2. gssif S5# o="!9 la •-<» ^ "a ^ ! o S s * '17,7'7, 97$ 322, ' 2 ",687,800 14,? 66,037 4,587,8156 40,95 ",432 1,192,435 22, 92,.94 575.000 11,547,800 1,128,006 1,689,008 335,500 2»,210,090 33 ,5V7 27,258,(HJO 14,816,176 5,229,374 44,643,900 1,256,055 25,589,358 375, IXM) 18,743,875 5,342,700 1,695,008 427,280 $143,478,910 $165,923,063 It will be seen from the foregoing ;hat the appropriations for pensions uid deficiencies are excluded from both {rears. And, exclusive ol ikeae, the ap­ propriations staneh ~ epnblican, year 1882 $165,923,063 )emocratic, year 1881 ..... 143,478,910 Excess of Republican appropria­ tions $22,444,153 In 1881 the Democratic Congress ap­ propriated $5,124,046 for deficiencies of lie preceding year, and we have . not harged it to that Congress because it >elonged to the previous Congress. In ;lie like manner the late Republican Congress appropriated $13,248,193 for tlier than pension deficiencies in the appropriations made by the last Demo- ratic Congress, and we have not harged it to the Republican Congress. A.11 that deficiency was for work, ser­ vices or material of some character fur­ nished under existing laws and for which the Democratic Congress of 1881 ought tp have made appropriations. It was rendered necessary by the insuffi­ cient appropriations which the Demo­ crats made for last year's public service. The United States courts cost $253,- tt56 for witness' fees and mileage, Mar­ shals' fees and the like, more than was appropriated for them, a sum over which Congress has no discretion or control whatever. And the Republican Congress was bound to pay the bill be­ cause the Democratic Congress failed to provide .for it. There was another deficiency of $865,000 in Government printing. The last Congress only ap­ propriated $1,700,000 for this purpose, though the previous Congress had ap­ propriated $2,100,000. And all the work done through which the deficiency was created was by .direction of the last Congress. Another deficiency of $80,000 was caused by the failure of the Democratic Congress to carry out treaty stipula­ tions with the Cheyenne, Arapahoe and other Indians. The total of these defi­ ciencies, as already stated, exclusive of pensions amounted to $13,248,193, and they were all equally binding on the Government, and equally necessary with these items mentioned. The following Are the principal de­ ficiencies which the Democratic Con­ gress were bound to provide for, but which they left to be paid by their Republican successors. Evidently they hoped bttliis action to secure a cheap reputation, and unmerited for economy: DEMOCRATIC DEFICIENCIES. Amount Object. deficienL Pay and mileage of Congress ,.,..$ 138,5!H> Internal revenue, Including salaries.... 380,ooO Mints and assay offices 55,318 Land office 25,000 Pension office. 73.900 Patent office.. ....- 44,911 Department of Justice 11,237 Public printing and binding jP65,(ioo "State Department 32,328 Public buildings 32,970 "Revenue cutter service 25,001 Expenses United States courts.......... 255,056 Fish and fisheries 82,000 Current expenses of public buildings.. 172,216 Public lands service 26,12*» "Interior Department . 9,530 Exi>enses tenth census 620,000 "Departments of Postofflce, Agriculture and Justice 281,056 Compensation of Postmasters 1,192,206 "Transportation of postal matter 1,120,000 Military establishment. 520,000 Naval establishment 425,407 Indians 1,040,781 •Consular and diplomatic ,:.... 38.000 Agriculture and District of Columbia.. 34,377 Charging to each Congress the ex­ penses made by it exclusive of pensions the account stands thus--as stated by Mr. Hiscock, Chairman of the Appro­ priation Committee of the House: Democratic Republican Congress. Congress. 1881-2. 1882-3. Legislative, executive and Judicial.: $18,565,554.16 $20,210,090.65 Sundry civil 24,715,492.75 25,689,458.06 Postal service 43,350,783.23 44,643,900.00 Military establish­ ment 25,207,800.00 27,258,000.00 Naval establishment. 14,991,444.59 14,816,176.70 Rivers and harbors... 11,441,300.00 18,743,875.00 forts and fortifica­ tions •. 575,000.00 375,000.00 Republican saving $803,507 The items for which the Republican appropriations for 1883 are in excess of the Democratic expenses for 1882 are every one of them made necessary by the growth and development of the country or to carry out the laws now in force. " Of the $1,644,536 excess for legisla­ tive, executive and judicial expenses, $1,264 620 goes to pay the extra force of clerks which are necessary to clear off the applications for pensions in the pension office. Another item is $34,000 .added to the patent appropriation. This was neces­ sary to pay for additional clerks in the office required by press of business. But this addition of help benefits the treasury, because the Patent Office is self-sustaining, and the more work it does the more money the Government receives from it. This addition is, therefore, a gain to the treasury instead of a loss. The Department of Justice takes about $130,000 of this excess, and the. Treas­ ury Department $168,000. Both of these items are maide necessary by the increased business of the Government. The Adjutant General's office receives $140,000 of this excess to employ tuddi- tional clerks to hunt up the records of pensioners and expedite pension busi­ ness through that office. The Surgeon General's office receives $253,000 for the same purpose. . • Thus it is seen that a very large part of the excess found in this appropria­ tion goes to pay the clerical force neces­ sary to clear off the immense number of pension applications, and so remove the complaints of delay that many who are entitled under previous legislation to pensions or pensions arrears have justly made. In the sundry civil list the Repub­ lican Congress made great savings over the Democratic Congress in many items. Republican economy in Sundry Civil bill: » Democratic Republican Subject of Ajp- expense, appropria- propriation. 1882. lion, 18*J. Botiinical garden $ -*19,927 $ 10,650 Public printing and bind-' ing 2,579,600 2,377,650 State Department 120,348 106,500 ltcvcnue cutter service. 1,050,000 966,000 Fish and fisheries 316,001 229,000 "Washington buildings and grounds 973,000 658,000 Signal Service 475,000 320,000 Navy yards and stations.. 870.000 650,800 Publiq-land service. 1,170,929 403,800 $7,574,205 $5,722,400 Democratic expenses, 188 • 7,574,205 Republican appropriation, 1883 5,722,400 Republican saving on the above 9 items..$1,851,805 There was also, a Republican addition of $1,433,531 friade to erect public buildings in Detroit and other places in the country. The Republicans made another increase of $76,600 to build new lighthouses and repair old ones, and another increase of $35,000 to keep up lighthouses and provide thein with im­ proved lighting apparatus;' and there was another increase of $17,000 for coast surveying, every doll.ir of which helps to cheapen transportation of West­ ern products to tlie markets of the world and so directly benefits every far­ mer in Michigan. An examination of these items shows that the Republicans saved where it was possible to save, and only extended ap­ propriations where patriotism, human­ ity and public interest required, it. The postal service excess of $1,293,- 117 is really a measure of economy as well as being necessary to meet the growing wants of the country. Grow- j a natural eonsequene ing cities and towns and new villages arising all over the land require exten­ sion of the postal service. This the ap­ propriation meet*. Last year the post­ al department came within a little over $2,000,000 of paying expenses. And, though $44,000,000 is, appropriated for the present year, the service will turn that much money into the treasury, at least such is the present estimate, and that service will cost the Government nothing. In each of the last three yean of Democratic administration the expenses of the Postoffice Department exceeded the revenue as follows: recommended. And Republicans voted for of expenses in the mis­ cellaneous and reliefs includes the fol­ lowing items: The public buildings in Detroit and elsewhere for which new appropriations were made. . ̂ he expenses of President Garfield's sickness and funeral. Relief t*r President GarfieldV,widow. Relief tg, the widow <of Abraham Lin­ coln. ( Compensation to soldiers for private property destroyed by fire. « One year's salary to widow of Gen. Kilpatrick, A large number of drawbacks to im­ porters who were compelled to pay du­ ties which the courts afterward held they were not bound to pay. Refunding internal-revenue taxes il­ legally collected from Detroit House of Correction. Another item is for the relief of the Mississippi flood sufferers, amounting to $400,000. Printing report of Commissioner of Agriculture for the benefit of 'farmers. It also includes all the private claims and relief bills passed by Congress. In addition to other appropriations the last Democratic Congress appropri­ ated & >0,000,000 for pensions. And the Republicans found a deficiency in the Democratic appropriation, of $ 6,000,- 000. This was the amount., of pensions and pension arrears due applicants under existing laws, which had been awarded by the Pension Bureau and for which the Democrats failed to make an appropriation. The Republican Congress also appro­ priated $100.0(H),000 for pensions, which was $50,000,000 more than the Demo­ crats appropriated, and $36,000,000 over the Democratic appropriation and deficiency. They took the J#w as they found it. And after .examining the pension applications on file and the es­ timates made by the Commissiofier . of Pensions they made the appropriation. These e-timates were made from the laws as the Commissioner found them on the statute l>ook. And after his es­ timates were examined by Congress the appropriation was passed bv unanimous consent. Np Democrat nor Republican voted against it. .They could do noth­ ing else. They appropriated to pay all the arrears of pensions that will be ad­ justed, and they made appropriations for sufficient clerical force to adjudicate these claims in a reasonable time. After a careful examination of all these appropriations, seeing where the Republican Congress has saved and where it has overrun the expenses of its Democratic peedecessor, we are bound to say the Republican Congress has made the most judicious and economi­ cal appropriations, and in the language of Democratic Congressman Blackburn, speaking of the principal appropriation bill: "It is a clean bill, and not open to objection." And putting aside the River and Har­ bor bill, which was not a party meas­ ure, and a few of the appropriations for public buildings, about which there is and always will be difference of opin­ ion, it can safely be said of all the other appropriations, as to every dollar of them, they are justified by public neces­ sity and they are as economical as the wages and current prices of the coun­ try will admit. No man who respects the obligations of the Government can pick out one single item in the list to which an excention. can be thev would have their fan later. Cash and Carter then left the stand to repair to the hotel in another part of the town. There was no unseemly demonstration over their departure, and the crowd betran to diapers# gradually. A prominent colored politician named Crockett, who stood near the stand during the speaking, and had been loud ih his applause throughout Cash's speech, was approached by three Red-Sliirters, who simultaneously attacked him with sticks, one having1 a drawn pistoL Crockett was badly beaten, and several colored men who came to his assistance were put to flight During the melee the whites fired five or six shots, two colored men receiving slight wounds p "The negroes fled precipitately and did not return the lire of .their enemies. Crockett, fearing he would be killed, went to the upl per part of town, and, with fifty or sixty men who lived in the country, waited sev­ eral hours, when the party mounted their horses and started for home. W hen ccming down the principal street, they were con­ fronted by a large force of armed Red- Shirters. One of the party drew a pis­ tol and shot Crockett dead. Many weapons now flashed from both sides, anil there was a lively skirmish for several min­ utes, during which five negroes were killed outright, and not less than eighteen wounded, one of whom has since died, and the early death of several others is expected. It required several hours to fully restore order. The report that two white inen were wounded is not true. Not one was hurt. My informent vouches for the" accuracy of the above details. He opines that a repeti­ tion of the Lancaster massacre may occur at any day. Andrew Jackson w& b<*rn at Lancaster." - ^ V - THE MOREY LETTER. V The Author SaM to B« H. H. Hudlry, m ! Kmploye of tit* National democratic Committee. The Chicago Inter Ocean prints a special dispatch from New York pur. porting to give the inside history of the celebrated Morey letter on the Chinese question, whose publication carried California against Garfield in the last Presidential election. The dispatch is to the effect that John L Davenport has been at work for twenty-three months in an endeavor to ferret out the authorship of the forgery, and that he -At the Oxford University observatory a survey is in progress of the relative brightness of all stars visible to the naked eye in the northern hemisphere. The work thus far accomplished indi­ cates that this part of the heavens oon- tains about 500 stars brighter than the fifth magnitude. IT is said that an area of 93,000 acres has been planted with trees in Kansas, under the new law relating to agricult­ ure. The cotton tree was largely planted on account of its rapid growth, and (50,000 acres were set with walnut trees. The expectatiSB is that this will operate, in course of time, to relieve the climate of its extreme dryness. A. MESSER, of Berlin, claims to have prepared the best furniture polish in use. He dissolves three kilos of shellac in from fifteen to twenty litres of alco­ hol, mixes this with 100 grams of gun cotton dissolved in as many grams of high-grade sulphuric ether, to wliich he adds fifty grams of camphor and enough 90 per cent, alcohol to dissolve the mass. This polish is finely rubbed up with linseed oil. To 100 parts of it, five parts of a saturated solution of camphor in oil of rosemary are then added. A very dilute solution of" benzole is used for polishing off. THE Laplander's sledge has no run­ ners, but, like himself, is covered with reindeer skin, and is in shape some­ thing like a canoe. Harnessed to this sledge, the reindeer starts oft' with al­ most the rapidity of a steam engine, going fifteen or twenty miles an hour. The reindeer is not, only the Lapland­ er's horse, but his cow, and, during the time that it gives milk, he is freez­ ing large quantities of it, to be used when no more is to be obtained. Then he breaks off a piece, warms it out, and has again a good article of nlilk. The deer is also his food, large herds of them being kept in some parts of the coun­ try. From its skin the Laplander makes the roof and floor of his house, his bed, his shoes and stockings, his finally got the whole story from its con­ ception to its execution, together with j clothes and cords and strings for his a confession of the forger, and that he j l»ow. Without this animal the Lap­ is about to publish the facts in pam-; lander would be in a deplorable condi- phlet form. The man who forged the | tion. document is named H. H. Hadley, a j THERE are now twelve manufactories renegade Republican in the employ of of artificial teeth that produce everv TWnprftt.m TWinnal • year 10,000,000 teeth , or one to every five WHITE-LINERS. Facts Concerning the Horrible Onslaught on South Caro­ lina Republicans. The Affair Was a Massacre, 8uch as the Apaches and Sioux Delight In. Six Colored Men Were Killed and Eight­ een Wounded--No White Was Hurt. [Lancaster (8. C.) Telegram to Chicago Tribune.] The Woody riot which occurred here oh the 27th was the legitimate sequence of the aggressive policy of the South Carolina De­ mocracy against free speech. On several occasions durinjr the past two weeks, serious rows have occurred at Greenback and Re­ publican meetings, for which the Democrats can alone be held responsible. Yet the lead­ ing newspapers of the State, notably the in­ fluential and powerful Charleston X'-irx and Courier, commend the red-shirted Democra­ cy in breaking up these political meetings. At Winnslioro last week a Greenback meet­ ing was crushed out by mounted and armed Red-Shirters, and the Greenback nominee for Governor. J. Hendricks McLane, an in­ offensive and respectable gentleman, was shamefully maltreated. It is asserted by a prominent citizen of Columbia who was there that it was the evident purpose of the infuri­ ated Democracy to murder McLane on the spot As a matter of f|S$; he barely es­ caped with his life. The XV* on,l Courier, which claims to mold public opinion and lead the people in South Carolina, actuallv applauded the disgraceful proceed­ ings- of the Winnsboro bulldozersr Of course this encouraged repetitions of these-political disorders, and the Lancaster riot followed as •r. Thus far only Dem­ ocratic versions of this bloody affair have been published, and these agree in casting Upon the Greenbackers and Republicans the r nf rho SinpA the Democratic National Committee, and some leading spirits in that body were cognizant of and approved the for- gerv. The story told is to the effect that Hadley, as the professed leader of a certain body of voters in New York, wrote Gen. Garfield, asking an explana­ tion of and answer to the Credit Mobil- ier charges. The letter was answered by Private Secretary Rrown, inclosing the manuscript of Gen. Garfield's speech on the subject to his constitu­ ents in 1873. He thus got Gen. Gar­ field's autograph. The dispatch con­ tinues: "Hadley was an expert penman, and he spent several days studying and practicing the handwriting and auto­ graph of Gen. Garfield. stores were ransacked to similar to that used at Mentor, and then Hadley wrote the famous forgery , j An envelope was prepared s imi lar to tha t j which Hadley received f rom Mentor , and j was put through a process to make it look sealed and worn. When it was finished, Randall, Hewitt and several other reputable Democrats wra* shown it, and they had had no doubt of its JGESUINENESS.^^^X^ The dispatch concludes with the statement that an electrotype fac simile was offered the Sun, which refused to publish it. It M as then taken to Truth, and therein published. A special train was chartered to con­ vey copies of the paper to California. It is said Davenport not only has Had- ley's confession, but a number of his practice-sheets and the final copy from which the fac simile,was made. The Way Democrats Treat Greenbackers In South Carolina. The Hon. J. H. McLane is the Green­ back candidate for Governor of South Carolina, and between him and his par­ ty and the Democrats there is no cor­ rupt and bribed fusion as there is in Michigan. McLane was billed tp speak in Winnsboro, S. C., on last Monday, which fact excited the ire of law and order (?) loving Democrats of the little j burgh, and they prepared to welcome | the Greenback candidate with true | Democratic hospitality. The local re- j port of what occurred runs thus: ! "When the train arrived on which j McLane Was expected there were 400 •j bulldozers in red shirts awaiting the ar- | rival of the train. They had a large i supply of rotten eggs, with which they i intended to pelt McLane until he left ! the town. McLane did not happen to j be on the train, but came on by the : ne^t one, and, being informed of the . reception in store for him, he went through to Charlotte and did not j stop or speak at Winnsboro. 4 Red- 1 shirts' are being organized all over | South Carolina, and the campaign is being made hot for the Greenbackers." j In South Carolina a Greenbacker speaks only at the peril of his life. , lied-shirted Democratic ruffians and ] would-be murderers assail him with i rotten eggs, and threaten him with j shotguns. And Democratic leaders and i newspapers applaud while liberty of •' speech is stifled. And while these crimes against liber- persons in the United States. Half this number are made bv one firm. The ma­ terials used are feldspar, kaolin and rock crystal. The coloring is platinum, titantium and gold. The process of manufacture is delicate, and has many interesting details. In the earlier his­ tory of the art dentists carved the teeth which their customers demanded, and apprentices were often made useful ia that way. The amount of gold used annually in filling teeth is $500,000. Lead was used from 1778 to 1833. There are dentists in New York who give, or say they give, diamond fillings, and in Paris they advertise to use dia­ mond pivots and emerald plugs. This . country makes dental instruments for Stationery j t]ie w orld where dentistry is known, find paper j An ordinary outfit of instruments dosts $500. ONE of the most interesting computa­ tions which have engaged the attention of scientists is that relating to the amount of force imparted to the eartli by the sun's heat. According to some of the French investigations there is re­ ceived in one minnte • enough heat to raise the temperature of five and a half cubic miles of water one degree centi­ grade. Crmparing this with the amount of work done by. a given amount of heat as utilized in a steam engine, it would appear that the heat sent to the earth in the sun's rays during the space of one minute is equal to the accomplish­ ment of as much work as could be done by 2,000 steam engines of 100-liorse power each, working continuously for the space of 4,000 years. By far the larger part of this heat force, of course, expends itself upon the earth in actual work, only a small portion of it being radiated into space. Necessarily the result thus accomplished--such as the maintenance of the temperature of the earth, ocean and atmosphere, the stimulating of aftimal and vegetable life, etc.--must be the equivalent of the power retained by our globe, but a vast amount remains unaccounted for. entire responsibility of the bloodshed. Since ! ty and these assaults upon the rights of matters have quieted down different^ ac- Greenbackers are made by the Demo- ' crats of South Carolina the Democrats of Michigan are wooing Greenbackers In 1S.W the excess of expenditures over receipts was. $ 5,235,678 In ls.")H the excess of expenditures over ; receipts WHS 3,489,599 In JSfHt the excess of expenditures over receipts was... 1 10,652,543 During the last year of administration the Democrats ran the department $10,- 000,000 in debt. During the present year, under Re­ publican administration the receipts will equal expenditures. There is where the economy of wise expenditure nn- der Republican administration comes in. Among the appropiations of the pres­ ent year is one of $1,485,279 to the Dis­ trict of Columbia. One-half of this is a loan to the District at 3 per cent, and is for the purpose of enlarging the water works of the city, which is absolutely necessary both for the protection of the property of the United States and for the preservation of its inhabitants. Of the excess in the River and Harbor bill over $6,000,000 goes to the Missis­ sippi river and its tributaries. This the counts have been circulated. The follow ing is the substance of a prominent white Republican's statement concern­ ing the riot: "Several days before the meeting, word was sent-out to the Demo­ cratic clubs throughout*the county to come to town prepared to break up Cash's meet­ ing. Before CoL Cash assumed the role of Greenbacker he was very popular in Lancaster, but as soon as he announced himself an Independent candidate for Con­ gress he became a target for abuse, and immediately lost the friendship of many Srominent citizens of his district. But espite their enmity and malignity Cash de­ termined to make the canvass and to be heard on the stump. He advertised to hold a meet­ ing here on the 2fith, and a large crowd of colored and white Greenbackers, Repub­ licans and Independents flocked to hear him. He made a fearless speech, in which he de­ nounced the Democracy for violating the pledges made by Hampton. He cenRured them for passing unjust and grinding laws, originating a scheme to cheat the colored voters at the polls, attempting to suppress free speech, and for corrupt practices gen­ erally. During his speech there was no loud disturbance; but it afterward transpired 'that a party of bloodthirsty and hot-headed Democrats'had premeditated jerking Cash from the stand and beating him with sticks. The vigilance of several trust­ ed friends of Cash, who were ap­ prised of the intended outrage, pre­ vented its execution, and thereby probably prevented a much' deadlier fight than actually followed. Cash, having finished his address, said he would accord to any Demo­ crat present the privilege of replying. Mr. David Carter, editor of the Lancaster Ledger, who had sat near the speaker taking notes, rose to reply, and made a short, good- humored speech, in which he attempted to refute the charges made. After Carter had spoken a few minutes some of the Demo­ crats commanded him to/ come down and not take part in the meeting; that to fuse with them.--Detroit Post. Sarah Battle and Whist. I never in my life--and I knew Sarah Battle many of the best years of it- saw her take out her snuff-box when it was her turn to play; or snuff a candle in the middle of a game; or ring for a servant till it was. fairly Over. She never introduced or connived at, miscel­ laneous conversation during the pro­ cess, as she emphatically observed, cards were cards; and if I ever saw un- mingled distaste in her fine last century countenance, it was at the airs of a young gentleman of a literary turn, who had been, with difficulty persuaded to take a hand; and who, in his excess of candor, declared that hei thought that there was no harm in unbending the mind now and then, after serious studies, in recreations of that kind! She could not bear to have her noble occupation, to which she wound up her faculties, f considered in that light. It was her business, her duty, the thing she came in the world to do--and she did it. She unbent her mind after­ ward over a book.--Charles Lamb. No TEXT books in arithmetic and ge­ ography are put into the hands of pupils during their first three years in the pri­ mary schools of New Haven. The oral method is chiefly used. The result is said to be encouraging. . A Case of Spontaneous Combustion* "That," said the occupant of an up­ town New York studio, pointing to a blackened, charred hole in his old fash­ ioned sofa, "that"--"that is the result of a cigar stub," interrupted a friend. "No, sir," replied the Artist with dig­ nity. "That is a case of simon pure spontaneous combustion." While the artist was taking breath his visitors examined the hole. It was evi­ dently a serious case of burning. On one arm a nearly circular spot five or six inches in diameter had been eaten through. The lire had"burned through the outside cloth covering, through half an inch of curled hair, and through per­ haps an inch or an inch and a half of solid wood. An intense heat had evi­ dently been applied in this peculiar spot, evidently by means of some sub­ stance that would retain heat and fire long enough to burn through the wood. This was the story that the artist told of a genuine case of spontaneous conu bustion. "The other afternoon I was engaged in staining the wainscotting of my studio. I took a piece of cotton cloth to wipe the wood-work with, but as it was growing dark I used the cloth very little,--not enough to soil it past using again. The preparation I li^d been using was a mixture of Prussian blue and black, boiled oil and turpentine. I thought I would use the cloth which was only slightly stained with, this prep­ aration, again next day. So I rolled it up in a piece of burlap and left it on the arm of the sofa. Then I went out to dinner, and as the studio wasn't quite ready for occupancy, , didn't come back here until the next morning. When I entered I noticed no .especial smell of smoke, but on going to get my piece of cloth I found it a mass of charred cinder. A hole was burned through as you see. Therefore I call it an undoubted case of spontaneous combustion. Tins had happened at night, and the sun could in no case have reached the cloth. There had been no fire in the studio, no matches, no mice, nor anything that I know of to cause the fire, except this bit of cloth with • its stains of Prussian blue and black, boiled oil and turpentine." California Wines. Ten million gallons/is the average annual production of wine in California, and of this about 2,000,000 gallons are shipped East, given a foreign label and readily sold as imported goods. Even connoisseurs hav often been • de­ ceived into pronouncing a fine brand of California excellent French wine. Cal­ ifornia champagne is sold in Boston, properly labeled, at $1 per quart bot­ tle, which only pretty good experts would know by the taste to be not the imported article. The time is coming when California producers will not be obliged to give their wines a false label in order to secure as good a market as any of the imported wines find here. Coat of Scotch Shooting Grounds. An "intending offerer" must decide first on the rent he proposes to pay; next what kinds of game he wants to shoot; whether he desires to fish, and, if so, salmon or trout, or both; then as to the accommodation he will require at the lodge. Rents vary from £190 up to £5,000. Small places will afford plenty of amusement, and, even if the bag is not large, there are the pleasures and benefits of entire change of air, scene and mode of life. But nothing can begot under £400 if plenty of sport is desired; and to the rental must be added the wages of keepers and collies. If both deer and grouse are necessary, a rental of at least £1,000 will have to be paid. Black Mound Forest, in Ar- gylesliire, wliicli is leased by Lord Dudley from Lord Breadalbane. ex­ tends over 80,000 acres and affords every description of shooting and ex­ cellent loch fishing. It is offered at £3,000. Balmacaan, Lord Seafield's forest, in Inverness-shire, has been let to Sir Henry Allsopp (who rented Black Mount last season) at £3,000. It extends over 28,000 acres. Moy (Sir John Ramsden's), on the shore of Loch Laggan, is let at £400, with 5,000 acres of moor, last year's bag being about 180 brace of grouse; but the lodge here is exceptionally good, and the fishing is capital. Lord Middleton's forest of Applecross, in ltoss-shire, which ex­ tends over 60,000 acres, is let at £2,500. The six great sporting counties of Scotland contain over 8,000,000 acres of shooting ground. The shooting rentals of Inverness and Perth are each larger than was paid for the whole country at the commencement of the present cen­ tury. Sir John Ramsden receives near­ ly £6,000 for his Badenocli shootings retaining the great forest of Ardvorikie in his own hands. Sir G. Macpherson- Grant receives £5,800 pounds for three forests in the same district, and Lord Seafield's rental exceeds £12,000. The principal shootings of Forfar be­ long -to Lords Dalhousie and Airlie; the sporting rental of the former ex­ ceeds £6,000, and he keeps a large ex­ tent of ground in his own hands. Per­ haps the finest "all-around" sport in the country is obtained in the Island of Arran which belongs to the Duke of Hamilton, and is a vast game preserve. Shootings are generally let for four months from the middle of July, but sport ou the grouse moors ceases, as a rule, early in September, and, although the season lasts till Dec. 10, it is rarely that a lodge is inhabited after the be­ ginning of October. The prospects of the grouse harvest seem to be tolerably favorable in most districts, and almost everywhere there are excellent accounts of the deer. The old calculation that each brace of grouse costs a tenant a sovereign, is perhaps-now rather below the mark, and the reckoning of £50 for each stag is certainly not too high; but of the 1,700 shootings which are to be found in Scotland, few will be unoccu­ pied next week. old •w, •r~yT~: V; ILLINOIS SEWS. THE Through Ma il is the new society paper at Bloomington. THE State of Illinois has a colored .^. population of 46,720, of whom 13 687 "* were of voting age in 1880. ' ' ' THE internal-revenue collections in r the Peoria district for September amounted to $1,195,547.11. ^OLOAMATT, a respeotable fanner living near Peoria,"Was la-" Unexpected and Improbable. When Thackeray startled all England with "Vanity Fair," it is said that a friend remonstrated with him on the ex­ travagance of one of the characters in it. "Sir Pit Crawley," he said, "mv dear fellow, is a monster. He is simply im­ possible." '"And Sir Pitt," retorted Thackeray, "is the only portrait in the book painted from life." Publishers often warn novelists that tally beaten by Enoch Noble and his son. Two YOUNG Poles, named Scholinski "" and Consava, were killed by the falling walls of a burning residence at Lemont, * Cook county. ^ ^ MAYOR HITCHCOCK, of Peoria lias for­ bidden base-ball games on Sunday " ^3 has ordered his oolicemen to arrest all a Sabbath-breakers. ™ - T S ? s a . v s w o r k i n g - ( • men of Peoria deposit over SIO.OCO monthly in the building and loan asso- i * ciations of the city. * ' PLANS are being matured for light- - ing the Chicago river tunnels and new r . City Hall with electricitv, at a cost of - . $10,000 for apparatus. THE attendance at the public schools • # in Rock Island is nearly 1.800, which " ' -' number is not quite as large as at the same period last year. *' Manufacturing in Quincy is very ac- -- *"--'Hr" - tive. The lumbermen, the coin-planter ;' works, the stove foundries and tobacco factories are all unusually busy. " ; : THE soldiers and sailors of Macoupin '•; county held their fourth reunion at Car- v : linville, speeches being made bv ex-Gov. * Palmer, Gen. Rowett and others. THE lumber interest of Quincy ia ^ steadily increasing in magnitude and importance, and that city will soon be * the largest shipping point on the river.' JOHN KEEN AN, who was sentenced TO * * be hanged in Chicago Nov. 17 for the ^ murder of Pierre Hensley, has been • granted a new trial bv the Supreme « a Court. ' n PEORIA has nine cemeteries, covering au area of about 400 acres of land, of 8 which Springdale Cemetery alone has 1 280 acres, and another is now talked of being started. • . * SEPT. 1, 1882, there were 1,494 in the \ » State prison at Joliet--1,469 males and v twenty-five females; and in the State , prison at Chester, 502 prisoners--494. _ males and eight females. THE niinois Methodist Conference* * found Rev. H. O. Hoffman guilty bf t f bastardy, fornication, forgery and false-# ^ hood, and recommend his expulsion*»*"¥' ; from the church and its ministry. ^ WHILE excavating for bridge piers at F Arrowsmith, McLean county, the work-1 men unearthed a bushel of bullTsnake^ eggs. The little snakes in them were from two to three inches long. " f A NEW corporation is the Garde*t * City Steam Supply Company, of Oh*-1 cago, with a capital stock of $3,000,000, ? for the purpose of producing and de- . livering steam for heating, domestic - and mechanical purposes. LEANDER MORBITS, an old farmer liv-: ing in the southwest corner of Crawford 1 county, shot his wife through the br&ast, , ^ inflicting a mortal wound. The woman T ' ' was Morrits' fourth wife, and their mar- ^ A; ^ 1 ried life has been quite stormy. / ^ THE Masonic Grand Lodge of Hlinoia laid the corner-stone of a new school house at Centralia. In the procession; which marched to the school-house- " " grounds were 800 children, and several ** Masonic lodges and othet organizations. > y THE Grand Jury at Qtiiney had been: V - '•< instructed to return indictments against. • the owners of property rented for houses - ' of ill-fame, but when the keepers of such , r 1 were arraigned they each and all pro­ of tn ,, . A , . , dueed evidence of a purchase -- their stories must have an air of prob- j lw.ejUises on the monthlv-installment ability about them; yet if some of the facts of every-dav life were transcribed, every reader would adjudge them to be, like Sir Pitt,--impossible. In the matter of odd coincidences, for example, such as improbable meetings ami discoveries, upon which Miss Edge- wt^i'th and the old school of novelists usett to hinge their plots, take the fol­ lowing : Two ladies met for the first time in an East Indian outlying settlement during the horrors of the mutiny. One was a native Indian, the other a French wo­ man. They parted and never heard each other's names, till they found themselves sitting side by side in a street-car in New York! Here is another. Ten years ago a company of about fifteen persons chanced to meet in an obscure little sea* side resort on the Atlantic coast. One gentleman, after a week's stay left the house, declaring that the society was dull and commonplace? Yet one of the guests at that time is now a famous artist; another is in an in­ sane asylum; one of the men--a quiet gentleman, and most affectionate son and husband--committed a wholesale assassination, blowing up himself and half of his kinsfolk; another of the guests has abjured civilization and is wandering, among the Himalayas as a Buddhist priest. If this is the outcome of one little cas­ ual group, that has been developed as the years pass.--what a world of melo- draiua is our daily life! j plan. AT NATJVOO, a little child of Mrs. Brown, while playing around the yard, fell into a well. Another child, wit­ nessing the accident, immediately gave the alarm, and the mother, realizing the danger of the little one, without a word let herself down by the rope to the water and succeeded in saving her child. JEALOUSY l>etween two brothers named Rausch regarding a young girl of 16 led to a tragedy at Moline. Both men, who were partners in a butcher- shop, and old enough to be the girl's father, were rivals for her fa;vor, and, as she seemed to prefer tfie younger of the two, the elder brother, aged 45, fired tlie'oontents of a shotgun into the face and lungs of the successful suitor, in­ flicting wounds which must prove fatal. Asm«iii«nt of Illinois Railway Property. The following statement shows the assessment of railroad property in the State of Illinois by the ̂ tate Board of Equalization for 1882: Rate Asmtf. o per Miles all prbp- * mile of ertyby asd. oil main St. Board. When it is Ten O'clock! We may think this Xn me nfcohipany. main. Bait., Ohio and Chicago.f8,oou Belleville and Carondelet 6,two Howlcville Mining 2,750 Chicago ami Alton 7,230 Chicago and 111 Uiver.... 4,230 e, «.& Q «i3oo Cliicauo and East. Ill 4,000 Chicago and G. Trunk... 6,«»» jciiicaijo and lit. South... 4,000 Chicago and Iowa...; 67250 Chicago Mil. and North.. 1,500 Chi., Mil. A' St V 4,250 Chicago anil Northwest.. 5,750 CM., l'ekin andS'thwest. 4,000 question easilv j £•..R-1 iVr , . . 1 . . , i i C h i c a g o a n d > \ e s t e r n 4 . 0 0 0 answered by saying, It is ten o clock Chicago and West. Ind..i5,oo» just sixty minutes after nine, and just) Cin., Lat. and Chicago . 4,000 sixty minutes before eleven." Not so and Ohio R! a!o«0 thought an eminent judge of New York K. St. L. and Carondelet. s,ooo State. He was very strict-- and justly j .'.' S so--in requiring jurors to be in than [ Fuit<m Co. Extension seats in court when the clock struck j G. Tower• Carbondale. 4,aoo ten, and the panel was called. A tardy j st^l^Coai.*.*.*.*.'.*.' ?ooo juryman was invariably reproved and j ind., lit. and lo»av a,5oo -- "- Ind.. Bloom, aud \\ est.. . 4,000 Indianai>. ami St. L 6,300 Jacksonv. aud Southeast. 8,000 Kank. and Southwest 3,000 Kankakee and Seneca S,0U0 Lake Erie and Western.. 3.200 Lake Shore and M. 8 16,000 Louisville, N. A. and Chi Louisville and Nashville. 3,800 Louisville.E vans ville and St. Louis 3.500 Michigan Central 10,000 Moline and Southeastern 1,000 Ohio and Mississippi 4,300 Peoria, Decatur and E... 3,300 Peoria and Farminaton.. 3,000 Peoria and Pekin Union. 4,500 PeoWa and Springfield... 3,500 Pennsylvania Comi>any.. 21,000 Pittshurich.Cin. aud St.L. 7,000 Rapids City 2,500 Rock Island and Mercer County 8,000 Rock Island and Peoria.. 4,00ft St. Louis, Alton and T. H. 5,010 St. Louis and Cairo 1,5 0 St. Louis Coal 3,000 St. Louis. R.I.& Chicago 3,750 Terre Haute and Indian­ apolis 7,500 Springfield. Eftingtham and Southeastern 1,600 Sycamore and Cortland.. 2,500 Toledo, Cin. and St. L... 1,900 St. Louis Bridge and Tunnel.... Wabash, fined, Once, a few days after having re­ buked and fined a delinquent juryman, something occured to prevent the judge from being in his seat at the appointed hour. Court and jury were obliged to wait for his appearance un­ til long after ten o'clock, When he finally arrived, the jury­ men who had been fined for tardiness a few days before, with more boldness than discretion, rose and asked for the remittance of the fine he had paid "As," he said, "we all see that circum­ stances may occur which unavoidably detain even the presiding officer until after ten o'clock." But the judge rose with great digni­ ty and said, "I wish this jury, and this juryman in particular, to understand that it is never ten o'clock till the judge is on the bench!" The unlucky juror was not convinced, but he cer­ tainly was obliged to submit to the amusing assumtion of the irritated judge. It used to be an old custom on ship­ board for one of the officers to call out "'leven o'clock!" when that hour arriv­ ed, and another to respond, "All right! make it so!" which meant assembling the crew aft for their daily grog. track. 5 16 -5 562 34 825 147 25 ioi 10 305 450 85 234 "35 33 111 77 » / » • ' "si 147 21 41 198 1S5 53 101 4a 81 f *m 63 34 7 371 m » 10 s 14 » I K 90 121 146 50 282 1SS2 $»s«00 82,525 20.332 5,814,070 109.935 9,411.~!*1 l,0l>4,S4H 231, 2: 9 1,8*0 fwT.y. 1 20.4(4 1.&6M.-2 3,912,9) 6 433, SHU 4,55o,U'Jo 9,*15 943,305 446.901 171,802 97,77 s 43,485 61.365 159,iis 638,117 398,317 139,388 1,128.202 1,729,979 198,175 371,2<n» 144, 84 367,132 iOO.SIR §41.910 887,908 513,^>5 12,170 V>94,:«-t 898,528 74,958 153,)*)7 - 42,354 863,356 *10,353 4,189 law 4»>,3.<5 82 ,085 SM.173 202,917 1,44^,436 159 1,692,163 M « '3T,»1 St. L. (H. R. 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