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f§Jte$fatg fftaiiitlraler 1. VANSLYKE. Ms r aa* Publisher. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. Miss MATO Loire, who went out with her brother in the cold and snow at 1 o'clock in the morning and tramped for three hours in search of a little brother and sister, carried off by a crank, is the hero of the hour in Kansas City, and the people propose to subscribe a testi­ monial fond for her. NEWTON, L. has adopted a new method of raising revenue, that of levying a tax of $1 for a permit given at each burial in a cemetery within the town precincts, and as there are several cemeteries there in which the daily burials from New York ar<j very nu­ merous, the income is correspondingly large. From the burials in a single graveyard (Calvary; last week, ib* revenue was $700. , A BOSTON cigar-smoking doctor has established a good code of rigar etiquette. When other smokers ask him for a light he offers them a box of matches, but never his cigar. This lie does, not be­ cause his own cigar is not well lighted, but to avoid the risk of contagion from any one disease out of the dozen or more which may be transmitted by put­ ting into the mouth an article infected persons have handled. There is much common sense in the doctor's plan. IN a medical report to the Maritime Customs of China, Dr. A. Henry refers to the astonishing prevalence of suicide at Icliapg. One day a young girl broke a basin, and, being scolded, went into an adjoining room and hanged herself: On the same day a man committed suicide in the same way after an alter­ cation with his father. For a similar cause a young man attempted on the following day to cut his throat The writer says that suicide isa veritable Ichang malady; •• IN the . Island of Trinidad is a large lake of asphalt. A Scotchman who owns a small corner of this lake re­ ceives an income of $25,000 a year from it. He holds it under a grant given by Charles II. to one of his ancestors. A Chicago capitalist is negotiating for the purchase of the Scotchman's corner. A square yard of this "Pitch Lake," as it is called, is just as good as a square mile, for no matter how much asphalt is taken out in the course of a day the hole fills up again at night. THE late Lord Ranelagh left three illegitimate daughters by a woman of great beauty but obscure birth. One of them married the Hon. Mark Napier, second son of Lord Napier, remembered as a boy in Washington when his father was British Minister there, immediately preceding Lord Lyons, and who is now the very able barrister who conducted Arabi's defense. Another is wedded in Australia, and the other is Mrs. Lang- try's sister-in-law, having married Mr. lie Breton, her brother, of Jeifsey Is­ land. • "YES," said a Frenchman in Paris, recently, "I was walking in Place Ven- dome when a poor -woman with two -children attracted my attention. They were suffering. I stopped them. The husband had died that morning and they were penniless. I went to their home and there I saw the poor father. I gave them money and left the home ^of sorrow. I thought when I reached le street that I had not given them lough, and I mounted the three flights ^stairs. I knocked at the door and poor dead father opened it. I left." FEXTY years ago Henry Bergh, in ipany with Gov. John T. Hoffman, the late A. T. Stewart, and other eminent citizens, founded the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, at the Astor Place Opera House. To-day three-fourths of the States of the Union have (similar societies, and Brazil, the Argentine Republic, and other foreign countries have followed the example, while the income of the society is about $30,000 a year, and Mr. Bergh holds in his hands wills bequeathing at least $500,000. He is training his nephew, Henry Bergh, Jr., to be his successor. GEN. WILLIAM S. HARNEY, the oldest living soldier in the regular army, is now at Tampa, Florida. About 100 miles from that point the shore upon one side of a bend of the Caloosa- hatchie River is called "Harney's Run." It is so called because during the Semi­ nole war Gen. Harney escaped from his tent, during a night attack by the Indians, in his night-shirt, and saved his scalp and life by fairly outrunning his pursuers, most of whom were ex­ ceedingly fleet-footed. Billy Bowlegs, the Seminole chief, who became dis­ tinguished later on, used to say, in speaking of his fast Indian ponies, that they could besft a railroad train--"beat anything 'cept Gen. Harney." A NEW YORK shoeblack attracts trade by distributing cards that tell how moely he shines shoes !n the following simple language: "Pedal teguments artistically illuminated and lubricated for the infinitesimal remuneration of 5 cents. Antiquated teguments (pedal or superpedal) expurgated judiciously and resuscitated with expedition for nominal compensation. Of the innu­ merable foretastes of heaven enjoyed by every patron, I would simply state: From the eventuation of the operation, even to its ultimate successful comple­ tion, the patron reclines superincum­ bent to cushions, which a sybarite might ivy, in a superlatively luxurious atti- de, in which the horizontal and per­ pendicular are gracefully blended." GENERAL GRANT is now said, by a Washington correspondent, to have left a large amount of valuable papers -which would make a larger book than memoirs, and which may be pub- future. They ara in Fred Grant's possession, but he is pro­ hibited from using them at present by his contract in regard to the present book. Mrs. Grant has given Mr.' Daw­ son a large amount of personal inci­ dents and stories relating to her hus­ band. He has taken them down in short-hand, and he 1 • ; already enough to make a book of 700 pages. These incidents are very interesting, and some of them Mrs. Grant has had taken w ith a view of their preservation solely for her children. It is not certain that they will be published soon, and some of them may not be published at all. SAYS a New York letter to the Cin­ cinnati Enquirer: "Ex-Senator Tal>or, of Colorado, still lingers in New York. He has been negotiating a $500,000 mortgage loan on the property he owns on Lower Broadway. The Tabor Opera Hous? at Denver is included in the security. Tabor watches specula­ tive movements as if he were fasci­ nated, and I am told that he intends to use his $503,000 loan as a big stake to retrieve his fortunes. He lias lost con­ siderable money in the last five years, but is still wealthy ' if he would husband his property. I saw him the other day in a broker's office pocketing $150 which he had won in a small gamble on wheat. I am told he takes little flyers daily in pork, oil, and even in stocks, by means of which lie is getting his hand in for a bigger play." "NAME, name!" they shout out inthe British Parliament. Here are some of the names with which Mr. Gladstone, the "Grand Old Man," the "People's William," is sainted by his political friends and enemies, but more particu­ larly by his enemies, viz.: "Will o' the Ax," "Old Collars," "the People's Will," "Iago," "the Wizard of Wily Tongue," "Arch Intriguer," "Hydra- head,- "Bankrupt." "Babbler," "Devil's Advocate," "the Favorite of Heaven," "a Man of Cunning," "an Exploded Torpedo," "Wolf in Disguise," "Figurehead," "Robber," "Wretch," "Posturer," "Peddler," "Rogue," "Thief," "Sight for the Angels," "Vain Old Veteran," "Tree Chopping Sham," "Three Courses," "Mock Mahdi," "Fiend of Disgrace," "Muddler," and lately in the Sunday Times, not the Thunderer, "Dog and Damn." B. K. JAMISON, the Philadelphia banker, recently said: "Did I ever tell you about my first financial transaction of importance? „No? Well, it took plaoe in my native town in Indiana County. I was a little shaver of at>ont 5, and one day I importuned my father for some money with which to buy candy. He was talking with a gentle­ man at the time, but he put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a dime, giv­ ing it to me with the injunction to spend but half of it and to bring the other half home. I took the money, but how to obey puzzled me. I walked along cogitating over the matter until I ar­ rived in front of a tinsmith's, when a bright idea struck me. Entering boldly in, for I knew the tinsmith, I as boldly demanded that he cut my tenpence in two pieces. He inquired the reason for my strange request, and.when I told him he laughingly told me that I could have it halved at the candy-store with­ out any cutting. Ashamed to ask there for the accommodation I desired, I in­ vested it all in candy, and then told my father the difficulty I had experienced in carrying out his instructions." THE "Death Valley," in Inyo County, California, owes its name partly to its frightfully desolate character, being for the most part destitute of everything necessary to support life, and partly to the number of persons and animals that have perished there. The valley is 100 miles long by twenty miles wide, though only about forty miles in length and eight or ten in width is embraced in Inyo County. In 1852 a large party of immigrants perished from thirst within its limits. Its level is from 100 to 400 feet below the sea, giving it a greater depression than the Caspian* and nearly as great as that of the Dead Sea. It is probably the bed of a former lake, the waters of which were strongly charged with salt and soda. For forty-five miles in length, and fifteen in depth, along its center, it is a salt marsh, in which the Amargoza (or Bitter) River sinks, and where a thin layer of soil covers an unknown depth of soft mud. For miles there is no water fit to drink, and, although springs are numerous, they are intensely alkaline. An exploring party in 1865 found the temperature in January--the coolest month of the year --as high as 90 degrees Fahrenheit. When there is no breeze through the long canon the air becomes so dense that respiration is painful and difficult. During the spring terrible gales of wind fill the air with salt, gravel, and sand, in clouds as black as coal smoke. |:v, . V OEMS FROM TUACKK1CAY. :' -SWE forget nothing--the memory sleeps, but wakens again. THE blows which wound most often are those which never are aimed. Tis strange what a man may do and a woman yet think him an angel! WHEN one thinks of country houses and country walks, one wonders that any man is left unmarried. IF you said grace for your feast yes­ terday, is that any reason why you shall not be hungry to-day? A PERSON always ready to fight ia certain of' the greatest consideration amongst his or her family circle. THE scorn and weariness which cries valutas vanitatum is but the lassi­ tude of the sick appetite pallid with pleasure. COMPARED to the possession - of "that priceless treasure and happiness un­ speakable, a perfect faith, what has life to offer ? I SUPPOSE if one lives to be a hun­ dred, there arc . certain passages ol one's early "life whereof the recollec­ tion will always carry us back to youth again. CHINESE MEDICLMJ. Anatomy and Materia ittcdira Amoac lh« Celestials. The study of anatomy in China is something funny. This branch is taught by diagrams. The Chinese doctors never dissect. According to the charts which represent the Chinese ideas of the internal organs, which have been handed down from ages back, thfe trachea or wind-pipe goes to the heart, and from-there three tubes radiate to the liver, spleen, and kidneys. The lungs are represented as hanging to tln> spinal columu and as being white in color, pc rforated with holes fcr letting in air. The kidneys are likewise hitch >d to the backbone. The small intestines play the part of a connectu n between the heart and the bladder, while the large intestines are attached to the lungs. The spleen connects with the. stomach as a kind of ell, and the liver, according to Chinese anatomy, is an im­ mense organ with seven lobes. Sticli a thing as the nervous system is not known. Chinese medical books teach that the chest is the vital crnter, tli * seat of joy, pleasure, and hralii. In the brain is located the principle of perfection. The liver is the abode of the soul and controls the formation of schemes and enterprises. The gall bladder is the region whence comes the supply of courage. The materia medica of *he Chinese profession is something stupendous. The "Pan-Tso," their .standard work, i ; in thirty-eight volumes. It fr»s>nt; 11,890 formulas into the make-up o; which over 1,900 substances enter. A favorite remedy is known as "the tinc­ ture of five poisons," made by steepin.: scorpions, snakes, and other venomou j creatures in samsliu. This is given fo • fever, rheumatism, and catarrh. In some parts of China it is considered th-i very highest degree of philanthropy f<v the rich to place this tincture at tliei.- doors, to be used without cost by th • poor. Gunpowder, termed "fine drug." is used as a vermifuge. A sensibl» remedy, which is of comparatively re­ cent introduction among more enlight­ ened people, is the gizzard of the com­ mon fowl, prescribed for dyspepsia. But the great cure-all with the Chin is ginseng root. The resemblancn which the roots often bear to the human form, either as the result of natural growth or skillful trimming, is given at' the reason for the Chinese faith in th i universal efficacy of this drug. Larg<i and choice specimens of the root ar i carefully preserved in embroidered coverings, and inclosed in cases of varying sizes, the whole being locked in brass-l>ound chests. An extraordi­ narily fine specimen is worth $500. Thi hunting of these roots is pursued with all the ardor of gold-seeking--Cor. St. L&ui$ Globe-Democrat. Alexander Hamilton: Alexander Hamilton was born Janu ary 11, 1757, on the Island of Nevis in the West Indies. His father was o Scottish merchant and his mother wa? the daughter of a French Huguenot. He was sent to New York in 1772 and entered Kings College in 1773. On tin outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and the Colonies lie adopted the cause of the latter warmly, and in 1775 wrote a series of ancles defend­ ing the patriots so ably that it imme­ diately brought him into favorable no­ tice. In March, 1776, he received s commission tis captain of artillery.| served with distinction at the battles ol Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton, and was aid-de-camp tc Gen. Washington, with the rank,oi Lieutenant Colonel, in March, 1777. He was Washington's special friend ami adviser all through the war. He tooli an active part in the battle of Mon mouth, and was highly commended foi his conduct there. In 1780 he marriei; Eliza.a daughter of Gen. Schuyler, ami in 1781, after the battle of Yorktown, lit left the army, and, going to New York began the study of law. In 1782 ho waf elected bv tlie State of New York tc the Continental Congress; in August. 1788, he resigned his seat, and l>egar the practice of law in New York City: and by his remarkable talents imme­ diately rose in the first rank of the pro fession, In 178G he was elected a mem berof the New York Legislature; ir 1787 was one of the delegates to the convention which framed the Federa Constitution. He was a strong sup porter of the Federal party. On the es­ tablishment of the new government with Washington as President, Hamil ton was made Secretary of the Treas ury. To his admirable management oj the finances the success of the new ad ministration was largely due. He re signed his-Office in January, 1795, ant returned to the practice of law in New York. When the army was reorganized in 1798 Hamilton was made a Majoi General at Washington's special re quest, and on the death of the latter ir 1799 he became Commander-in-chief but the army was soon after disbanded In 1804 Hamilton became involved in t jK)litical quarrel with Aarou Burr, which unhappily terminated in a duel, wherein the former received a wound o' which he died on the following day July 12, 1804. His death was greath lamented. Hamilton was unquestion ably one of the ablest statesmen that ever lived. Talleyrand, the renownec French diplomat, said, "I consider Na­ poleon, Fox, and Hamilton the tliret greatest men of our epoch, and without hesitation I award the first place t< Hamilton." Hamilton's widow died ii 1854 at the age of 97. His son, John C Hamilton, wrote his life and compiled his works, and published them in 1861 --Inter-Ocean•. THE MONGOLIANS. President Cleveland in a Special Un­ safe Denounces the Anti-Chi­ nese Biots. CMgress Asked to dire Earaest Covslfl- eration Immediately to Reme­ dial Measures. Humor In Congress. The supply of Congressional humor­ ists is rather short at psesent. Horr. of Michigan, failed of re-election, an«i so did others of lesser pretensions. Humorists, somehow, do not flourish ir Congress, which, whatever may be itt capacity, likes to assnme an air of wis­ dom. Of course an exception must bt made in the case of Sunset Cox, whe held his district until he threw it awa\ of his own accord; but he was a favoritt of Tfunmany without being a real Tam manyite, and, besides, he was not funm all the,time. The humorists, as a rule, fail in politics; and yet they ought tc succeed. They must have tact and n keen sense ^f the absurd; and they doubtless hftve sense as well. They do not get credit for the real ability in them, because they make jokes. The solid man has the same contempt for them that a savage has for a ma the- nmatician. He despises because he doefc not comprehend; and solid men, or at least stolid men, are awfully in the ma­ jority in any community.--Chicago Tribune. WHICH, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and dissapointed ? To have, and be forced to yield, or to sink out of life, havirg ;played and lost the June? „ Tha President sent to the Senate and House of Representatives, on the 2d inst,, a message on the subject of the outrages committed in the West against the persona and property of Chinese residents, and with- it a note from the Secretary of State to the Chinese Minister containing an exhaustivp statement of the whole Chinese question. The President's message is as follows: f To the Senate and House ol Representatives: It ia made the constitutional duty of the Preii- dent to recommend to tho consideration of Con­ gress from time to time such meflstires & he shall judge necessary and expedient. In no matters can the necessity of this be more evi­ dent than when the good faith of tho United States under the solemn obligation of treaties with foreign powers is concerned. Tl,e ques­ tion of the treatment of tho subjects of Cliina sojourning within the jurisdiction of the United States presents such a matter for the urgent and earnest consideration of the Executive and the Congress. In my first annual message, upon the assem­ bling of the present Congress, 1 adverted to this question. I The President here quot< e the pas­ sage from his message upon tho Chinese ques­ tion.] At the time I wrote this tho shocking oc­ currences at Rock Springs, in Wyoming Terri­ tory, were fresh in the minds of all. and had been recently presented anew to the attention of this Government by the Chinese Minister in a note which, while not unnaturally exhibiting some misconception of our Ft derail system of administration in the Territories whil'< they, as yet, are not in the exercise of the full measure of that sovereign self-government pertaining to the States of the UniQi, presents in truthful terms the main features of the cruel outrage there parpetratcd upon inoffensive subjects of China. In the investigation of the Roek SprlngB out­ break and the ascertainment of the facts on which*the Chinese Minister s stat -ments rest, the Chinese representatives were aide<> by the agents of the United Statis, and the reports submitted, having b>en thus framed and re­ counted facts within the knowledge of witnesses on both sides, possess an important truthful­ ness which could not fail to give them great inipresBivenoss. The facts, which so far are not controverted or atfectod by any exculpatory or mitigating testimony, show tho murder of a number of Chinese subjects in September last, at Rock Springs, the wounding of many others, and the sj-oliution of the j roperty of all when the unhappy survivors hod been driven from their habitations. There is no allegation that the victims, by any lawless or disorderly act on their part, contributed to bring about a collision. On the contrarv,it ap­ pear* that the law-abiding disposition of these people, who were sojourners in our midst under the sanction of hospitality and express treaty obligations, was made the pretext for the attack upon tlx m. This outrage upon law and treaty engagements was committed by a lawless mob. None of the aggressors, happily for the national good fame, appear by the reports to have been citizens of the Unit.-d States. They were aliens, engaged in that remote district as mining laborers, who became excited against the Chinese lal>oreri as it would seem, because of their refusal t( join them in a strike to secure higher wages. The oppression of Chinese subjects by theli rivals in tl:e competition for labor does not differ in violence and illegality from that applied to other classes of native or alien l&ltor. All are eijuall? under the pro­ tection of law, and equallv "entitled to enjoy" Jthe benefits of assured public order. Was there no treaty in existence referring to the rights of Chinese subjects, did they come hither as all other strangers who voluntarily resort to this land of freedom, of self-government, and of laws, here peaceably to win their bread and to live their lives, there can bo no question that they would be entitled still to the same mea­ sure of protection from violence and the same free forum for the redress of their grievances as any other aliens. So far as the treaties between the United States and China stipulate for the treatment of the Chinese subjects actually in the United States as the citizens or subjects ol the "most favored nation" are treated, they cre­ ate no new status for them--they simply recog­ nize and confonn a general and existing rule, applicable to all aliens alike; for none are favored above others by domestic law, and none by foreign treaties, unless it be the Chinese themselves in some respects. For, by the third article of the treaty of Nov. 17, 1881), between the United States and China, it is provided that if Chinese laborers, or Chi­ nese of any other class, now either permanently or temporarily residing in the territory of the United States, meet with ill-treatment at the hands of any other persons, the Government of the United States will exert all its power to de­ vise measures for their protection and td scour* to them the same rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions as may ba enjoyed by the citi­ zens or subjects of the most-fav'ored nation, aud to which they are entitled by treaty. This arti­ cle may be held to constitute a special privilege for Chinese subjects in the United States, us compared with other aliens, not that it creates any peculiar rights which others do not share, but because, in ense of ill-treatment of the Chinese in the United States, this Government is lound to "exert all its power to devise meas­ ures for their protection," by securing to them the rights to which equally with any and all ott er fmeigners they are « ntitled. Whether it is now incumbent upon the United £ tat s to amend its general laws or devise new measures in this regard I do not consid( r in the pres< nt c< mmunication, but confine myself to the pa: ticulsr point r lined by the- outrage and mcs mere at Hock Springs. The net s of the Chinese Minister, and th < documents which ac­ company it, give as its belief an utiexaggerated statement of the lamentable incident, and pre­ sent impressively th') r gretai le circumstance that the proceedings in the name of justice for the asc riainment ot the crime and fixing tlie responsibility therefor were a ghastly mockery of justice. So long as the Chinese Minister, under his in­ structions, makes this the basis of an appeal to the principles und convictions of mankind no exception can be taken. Rut when he goes fur­ ther, and, taking as his precedent the action of the Chinese Government in past instances where the lives of American citizens aud their property in China have been endangered, argues a reciprocal obligation on the part of the United States to indemnify the Chinese subjects who suffered at Rock Springs, it becomes neces­ sary to meet bis argument and to deny most emphatically the conclusions he seeks to draw as to the existence of such a liability and the right of the Chinese Government to insist upon it. I draw the attention of the Congress to the latter part of the note of the Secretary of State of Feb. 18, 18HG, in reply to the Chinese Minister's representations, and to invite especial consideration of the congent reasons by which he reaches the conclusion tnat, while the United States Government is under no obligation, whether by the express terms of its treaties with China or the principles of inter­ national law, to indemnify these Chinese sub­ jects for losses caused by such means and under the admitted circumstances, j et that iu view of the palpable and discreditable failure of the authorities of Wyoming Territory to I ring to justice the guily parties or to assure to the sufferers an impartial forum in which to seek and obtain compensation for the losses which those subjects have incurred by lack of police protection; and considering further the entire absence of provocation or contribution on tho part of the victims, the Executive may be induced to bring the matter to the benevolent consideration of Congress in order that that body, in its high discretion, may direct the bounty of the Government in aid of innocent and peaceful strangers whose mal­ treatment has brought discredit upon the coun- .try, with the distinct understanding that such action is in no wise to be held as a precedent, ia wholly gratuitous, and is resortod to in a spirit of pure generosity toward those who are other­ wise helpless. * The correspondence exchanged is herewith Submitted for the information of Congress. Grovkb CLEVELAND. Executive Mansion, Washington, March 1, lStft. THROUGH A HOTEL SKYLIGHT. Oe»B ej O'Hara Rendered Crmmy by Ds- jirium, Leaps to His Death. [Chicago' telegram.] The loungers in the rending-room of the Palmer House were startled yesterday morning by a crash of the skylight over­ head. The next moment a human form, i clad in night garments, fell on the table at which one or two of them were wiiting. The man did not appear to be much in­ jured, foi he was soon on his feet, exclaim­ ing: "Two of these Pinkerton men tried to kill me, but I got away from them." He was meagerly attired in a niglit-shirt, and his eyes glared as he utter defiance of im­ aginary foes. The attendants at the hotel at once recog­ nized him as Geoffrey O'Hara, Assistant Superintendent of the Chicago Division of the Pullman Palace Car Company. He had been suffering from eiysipelsy. He was attacked at his office last Thursday, and was placed in charge of two colored attendants in a room on the sixth story of the Palmer House. Yesterday morning he arose, threw one of his attendants from him, and. rais­ ing. the window, got out and began sliding down a water pipe. When he reached the fourth story he gave a jump into the air. His fall was partly broken by contact with two skylights covered with wire netting. He suffered bruises and cuts from broken glass, and died last night from internal in-21 juries. OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY. «n«u. s, is om Senator Jatnrn K. Jones, of Arlcjti Hon. James K. Jones, of Arkansas, is one of the youngest members of the United States Senate. He was born in Marshall County, Miss., Sept. 29, 1839, and is there­ fore but a little more than 46 years of a e. His father emigrated to Arkansas in 1848, and the son received his education at se­ lect schools and under private tutors. He was a private soldier during the "latA unpleasantness" on the losing side; lived on iiis plantation after the close of the war until 1873, when he commenced the practice of law. He was chosen a member of the Arkansas State Senate in 1873, to till a vacancy; was re-elected in 1874, and was made President of that body. In 1880 he was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty- eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. J-Ie was recognized as the ablest member of the Arkansas delegation. He was elected tg) the Senate to succeed James D. Walker, and took his seat March 4, 1885. His term of service will expire March 3, 1891. Captain Emmet Crawford. A resolution was recently inttodteoed in the Senate of the United States direct­ ing the Secretaries of State and War to in­ quire and report to the Senate the facts con­ cerning the killing of Capt. Emmet Craw­ ford, of the United States army, who was slain Jan. 10, 1886, by Mexican troops. Should it be proved that the Mexican troops intentionally attacked the United States forces, the matter will at once assume a serious aspect, as so gross an insult could never be passed without full and ample ex­ planations. Capt. Crawford was born in Philadelphia, and in the early days of 1861 enlisted as a {irivate in Company F of the Seventy-first 'ennsylvania Regiment. He was honorably discharged July 2, 1864. He immediately after this again entered the army as First Sergeant in the One Hundred and Ninetv- seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, and sub­ sequently served as Lieutenant in the Thir­ teenth United States Colored Regiment. In 1865 he was brevetted Captain for bravery, and from February, 186B, till May, 1867, served as Lieutenant in the Thirt3*-seventh United States Colored Regiment. In 1868 he was made First Lieutenant of the Thirty- ninth Infantry, and a year later was trms- ferred to the Twenty-fifth Infantry. In 1871 he was assigned to the Third Cavalry, and in 187*J was made Captain. He had for years served under General Crook, and was considered one of the most efficient Indian fighters in the service. He was for some time in charge of the Apache Reservation. The affair in which he was killed took place on Mexican soil, about two hundred miles from the border line. The Mexicans lost several men in the engagement. - «• r- v JONES How to Kill Noise. There are a multitude of sufferers from tjie noises of their neighborhood who endure what amounts to agony, ex­ citing their nerves to abnormal action and their pulse to fever heat, when it would do them no injury to use a simple means of obviating the whole thing. The clangor of machinery, the ringing of bells, the cries and laughter, the yells and roars, of a hundred or less children at recess or at ball-playing, the passing of heavy drays--all or any of these and other things are sometimes fatal to the health of the invalid and to the w ork of the thinker. Often it is utterly impos­ sible to move into a region where no heavy drays pass, no bell-ringing is al­ lowed; and then there is hardly a re­ gion to be found not invaded by the whistle of the steam engine, or where boys do not shout at their games; and even where there are no cocks to .crow, or dogs to bark, or birds to sing at un­ seemly hours before dawn, there is al­ ways some other sound to torture the sensitive ear. If now, the sufferer will take a bit of spermaceti ointment of about the size of a pea, tie it up in a small square of fine linen, and place it deep in the ear, working it round till it takes the shape of the ori ice, leav­ ing the end to hang out, not a murmur of sound can be heaid; the atmos­ phere is sweet and serene, the nerves are quite at rest, all exasperation is subdued, and when the noise is over, or the necessary season of quiet has been had, the litle plug can be removed, the murmur of the world allowed to return, -and no harm done.--Harper's Bazar. How the Speaker Makes His List. Ia it not a wonder to any one who thinks about it how the Speaker is able in a week or ten days to assign 335 to fifty committees without giving one man too much or omitting to employ somebody. The work is done so sys­ tematically, however, that it is only by a gross blunder that anybody is al­ together omitted in the distribution of places. Tne Speaker begins by set­ ting up a chart ruled one way for fifty places, and at right angles to those lines are 335 others corresponding to the number of members and delegates. As a man is assigned a check is made in the space and over the name, and a committee line inserted. As the work progresses the Speaker can" see at a glance who has been chosen and who is to be provided for. Wht-n & change is made the chec ks are rubbed out and the transfer made by more checks in other places. While membe s are not supposed to ask for places, they do it, and tlie expression «f preference, though not quite proper, in a strict sense, is helpful to tlie Speaker in fur­ nishing members with congenial occu­ pation. A certain degree of caution is obser ed in refusing to pnt men on commitees when they are too seemingly concerned about pet schemed to com* before them.--Exchange. The Great Georgia Revivalist Starts In oa His Bevival " '4 , ° ix. Chicago. Three Sermons Listened To by than Fifteen Thousand * . People. •ere Rev. Sam Jones, assisted by the Rev. Sam Small, began his revival work in Chi­ cago on Sunday, the 28th ult. He spoke to more than 15,000 people, delivering three discourses during the day. The following is a report of his afternoon sermon, ad­ dressed to an audience of 6,000', in the Casino Skating Rink: Mr. Jones stood for a moment glancing over the throng before him, and then launched at once into his discourse. He said: I want to get aa elose to vou all aa I can. 1 am a man juBt as you are. 1 baT e as many in flrmities, as many trials, as many oar«s, as you have. There may be many here who have weak consciences, and we want to treat them tender­ ly. I am always for the bottom dog In the fight, and when we And a weak brother we want to do aU we can to hold him up and support his hands. Mr. Jones then road his text, it being St. Paul to the Galatians, vi., 9: , "Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not." He said the first duty of every Christian man was to crucify and ignore himself, and that if there was anything that Christianity would not tolerate it was selfishness. "I am sorry," said Mr. Jones, "for a man whose only work is to look after 170 pounds of concen­ trated selfishness. The grandest man in Chicago to-day is the most unselfish man, the one who cares the least for himself and the most for God and others." Mr. Jones here made a digression to tell of "a little old preacher in a little circuit in Georgia," who, he thought, was tho grand­ est man he ever saw, because he aid not care for himself any more than he did for a dog, and hin sole object each day was to try to do something for others. * "If you make it your object to look after everybody else to keep them straight you will find that {on are keeping yourself straight," said fr. Jones, and continued: There isn't much difference in members of the church. There is Brother A, who wean aa outraged appoarance, so to speak, regarding dances. He tells the preacher he must not allow them, or he will leave the church. Yet this sanctimonious old brother is loaning his money at 30 per cent. Brother B has no money to loon, but strike in a trade and hell clean you up in short order. Now don't offend these. brothers, for if you do they wont come back any more aud we'll miss so much--in a horn. There is another brother of whom I may ILLINOIS STATE HEW& --The new electric lights at Decatur said to give great satisfaction. --Fred Hses, a coal miner, was Viriod ; in the Abbey mine at CollinsviDe. --The Dixon city election passed of quietly, license having a large majority. --Rev. L. D. Temple, pastor of the Fiiit s t. Baptist Church of Aurora, has resigned 19b charge. --Hugh Galbrath. a turner living twenty miles south of Danville, committed suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun. --Dr. Peabody, of Champaign, is con­ sidering an offer of the Presidency of the Rose Polytechnic Institute, of Terr© winrtt. Ind. --The old fionring-mill at De Kalb, whiek is being refitted with roller machinery, will, when completed, have a capacity of fifty barrels daily. --In a row near Wilmington a named Bohart was accused of stealing $10 frOBS another named Cashen. In the row Casben was fatally stabbed. --Mark Boatmen's barn, near Paris, been burned. Thirteen head of horses and two cows were btirned, together with all fta, grain and hay stored in the barn. •---Messrs, Semmelroth, Heinfelden Jt Metchan, Belleville, publishers of the Zeit- vng vnd Stern, dissolved partnership. Mr. Heinfelden has bought out the firm. --The Rev. W. H. Lilly, for seven* years pastor of the Lutheran Church of Hillsborp, has received a call from the Lutheran Church at Nokomi% - and ac­ cepted. ly you can take a demijohn and tow him to ell with it. Take your church members, put 'ein in a ba;;, shake 'em ut), and it is hard to tell which will come out first. Aa long as one sins as we do we put up with him first-class, but when he goes and does something different we want to jump ou him right away. One of your minis­ ters said to me only this afternoon : "You don't believe in this, you don't believe in that; now, how do you e.xj>ectto be saved?" I told him that I expected to be saved as a iieiiitent sinner, and that was the only route I knew to the good world. Mr. Jones thought it was no wonder that more SOUIB were not converted in Chicago when the churches did not care for those they already had. Don't you know that God could convict every man in this city at four o'clock this afternoon? Why doesn't Ho do it'? Why doesn't He Btrike ev­ ery sinneT stone blind at four o'clock? It is (tod's mercy. Why, there would not be enough men who oould so * to lead the others home. I know preachers who marry the living and bury the dead, and thut is about all they do out of tho pulpit. The evangelist said he never saw a church which had revivals at stated periods but that it was, on the road to the burying- ground. On any of the railroads an en­ gine, after a trip, was taken into the round­ house and rubbed and oiled, and tho machineiy and bolts tightened up. He had ridden on an engine in Georgia and had re­ marked to the engineer that it seemed kind of rickety. The engineer replied thnt the engine would have to be sent into the shop, and that all engines were sent to the shop to be overhauled from head to foot when­ ever they could not make schedule time. That was the way with Bome church mem­ bers. They went to church Sundays aud to prayer-meetings week-days, but finally they Kot so they could not make schedule time. It' God did overhaul them from head to foot the devil would overtake them whi^e they were putting on their boots. 8ome of the Methodist brethren he knew of could not make schedule time, but could only blow a whistle. He (old of a little steamboat he had seen on a Georgia river which had a whistle as big as those on double-deckers; and whenever the whistle blew the l>oat stopped, as there was not enough steam to blow it and propel the boat. "The trouble with the large majority of Christian people." said Mr. Jones, "is that they not only can't make schedule time, but that Ihe devil has side-tracked them and torn up the track at both ends." He went oh to say that they turned the new members over to the pastor, but it was impossible for one man to take care of 500. "I have often seen a poor, little, old preacher between the shafts, with his tongue lolling out," said Mr. Jones, "and the whole congregation in the wagon going to the charity ball, others to the base-ball, but all driving tho min­ ister." He hoped that the ministers would get some of their congregations hitched up some day. The preacher couldn't do tho work; he must have help. Mr. Jones told of a drunkard who had been taken into the church, aud some of the members had expressed tho fear that he would disgrace them. Temptation had come in his w.iy and he had yielded. Two of the brethren liad passed him as he lay in the street and remarked that they knew that he would bring repro ich on the church. Con­ tinuing, Mr. Jones said: That man lying Boaked with rum was a b?4ter man tlian thoso wlio panned hiin by au 1 reviled him. What we need in this world is sympathy between man and man. May God help us that are strong to bear the infirmities of the weak. I want a got>pul full of the milk of human kind­ ness and of broth trly love. Tear down the fences between the d« nominations and let the Metholist browse oi tho tou'h Presbyterian grass, and let the Frcsbyturian feed ou the tender Methodist grass, und lot all of the lnmbs get down in the Baptists' pool. Mr. Jones told the stoiy of a poor young man in Rome, Ga., who, when dying, had requested the minister, in preaching his funeral sermon, to sav to the members of the church that in all the time he had been a member they had never said a kind word to him. and to urge them in future not to treat in that way other poor souls like him. Mr. Jones said: From all these churches souls have cone to' hell to whom we have never given a kinn word, and yet they have the impudence to ask for naorj converts. When I was a boy I used to play town ball. I have never played ball since 1 became a man. I think tho most crn^iupt- ible sight in the wtrld is a bewbiskered, long, burly man running after a ball. Baae ball! If there was ever anything appropiiately named it is that. It is the worst liaui this side of hell. Th<*r->, that wiH (jive the anonymous scr.b'»lers for the newspapers some- tuing to sharpen tligir penuiU ouLet me say ' to them : *ll yo i wi 1 »if;n voi r own nni^'.'. auil it you aro anvthiir; t>;.t a t'st c dog, wo ui'l put you through tho mill and show what kiiid of a f' Mow you r.re." Well, aa I wao saving, I used to 11 iy town bull, aud wheu'a striker fulled to hit the ball with tiie paddle and the catcher caught it he was out. The devil appears to bo playing town bull with Christians aim is catch­ ing them out ou tho first bounce. Mr. Jones in conolusiou said it was suffi­ cient for him that people were converted, no matter how they were converted. If a big Newfoundland dog should come to him with a tag on him signed by the Chicago minis'ers that he had saved 1.000 t-ouls to Christianity he would,allow that dog to lie on the best mat in house in front of jthe parlor fire, and would feed him with his own hands. He begged his brethren to wo;k for others as though they went paid by the day to do ib --While crossing the Chicago and Eajj* ern Illinois Railroad at Alvan, with a team and wagon, Michael Flynn, of Hedrick, Ind., was struck by an engine south-bound# and instantly killed. --Alfred Jaeger, of Jacksonville, eo«a~< mitted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Despondency, caused by suffering from a disease he contracted in the anay, was probably the cause. --Scarlet fever is almost epidemic at ledo. The public schools have been closed, and the Circuit Court was adjourned pre­ maturely by Judge Jones to avoid spreading the disease as much as possible. --Charles Anderson, sent to the Peni­ tentiary from Clinton for forgery, one year ago, was, immediately upon his release, re­ arrested and brought back, upon the saMM charge, but for a different crime. --John M. Wallingford, alia* Dr. Wal» ters, went before J udge Hyde in the Coun­ ty Court at Freeport and entered a plea of guilty to nine separate charges preferred of practicing medicine in the county without a license. He was fined $50 aud costs (MS each count, in default of which he wSifc back to jail. --In the case of Julius Hartwig, who was on trial at Joliet for assault with a deadly weapon, the jury found defendant guilty on the first two counts. Hartwig resides inthe town of Plainfield, and was charged with having broken his grandmother's arm by hitting her with a stick of wood. A nwttm was entered for a new trial. --At the Waukeoran city election Powell, Republican, for Mayor, received 475 vote* to 345 for Werden, Democrat; Dawstfor Treasurer, and Barnett and Lyon for Su­ pervisors, all Republicans, about 130 ma­ jority; Aldermen. Melody, Democrat. 54 majority; Taylor, Republican, 21 majority; Cornish, Republican, 10 majority; Bean* £ Republicau, 150 majority. '* " :;A --The tax-payers of Marion-County are indignant at the work of Fome of their ju­ ries. Alxmt two years ago John Halbert, it is alleged, broke into a store in Alma and stale a small quantity of peanuts and a slice of cheose. For this offense Halbert has four different times been tried in the Circuit Court, and each time the jury hung. Recently tlie case was tried, and the jury, afterjiaving wrangled fifteen hours, failed to agree. The people will again be com­ pelled to pay the piper, while the jurati dance. > --Last fall Mr. Knight, of Armstrong, was the proud possessor of a sleek and fat- porker that mysteriously disappered. His fate remained buried in obscurity till a few days ago, when he was found imprisoned within a large straw stack that had toppled over upon him 110 days before. During this long period of retirement from active life he was without food and drink, and it is gratiying to learn from a correspondent " that his appetite since his release has been good, and that he can use three of his legs. Though not just now a fit subject for the slaughter-house, he is doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances. --At a meeting of the County Board of Supervisors of Marion County it was * developed that on one of the coldest days of January a girl, 14 years of age, walked three and a half miles with only a calico dress, a thin skirt, and shoes and stockings to protect her person. She had been staying with a distant relative, whose ill - nil 1 she had incurred, and he sent her from his house. Both legs were frozen, and she had been under the care of Supervise* Phillips of Iuka Township, and is now in % fair way of recovery. During the session of the board a great deal of merriment was created when among the pauper bills there was one read showing thit a half cord of wood had been furnished John A. Logan. Upon close inquiry, however, the individual proved to be a colored citizen of Marian ? County and not the distinguished Senator. --Of the many severe snow blockades oc­ casioned by the recent blizzard perhaps the most keenly felt was that which afflicted a little village in the southern part of ti|ft t State. Not only was the weekly papea . forced to issue au edition printed on wall* paper and minus its patent plates, bnt th* stock of provisions in the grocery was al­ most exhausted and the solitary saloon ran entirely dry. After liiuch deliberation witti his customers the saloon-keeper dispatched a wagon to Cairo for a barrel of whisky. The journey was slow and tedious b«t finally the wagon with its precious freight came in sight, and a Score of thirsty loung­ ers sprang forward to unload it. But constant jolting had loosened the hoops, and as the barrel through careless unload- •, ing fell to the ground, the head was driven In and the contents gushed out on thesnotf, A wail of disgust arose from tbe astonished spectators, but serenity was restored when the bar-keeper procured a shovel and begaa to dole out the sweetened snow at regular t bar prices. \f , •*" f&'M,