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»' ' - " mmmmmmpm tmmmmmmm \ . mm t: •?" i§f§f«i:g f Iainaealw i. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Publisher. ^ MOHENRY, < • _._!_ ILLINOIS. A touNo bulldog, while meandering down ti Philadelphia street, recently, espied, in front of % china store, the stone image3 of two dogs--one a bull and the other a pug. After due delib­ eration, he swooped down upon the un­ offending statues, and in several seconds had completely wrecked the pug and demolished the ear and tail of the bull- __ dog. The owner of the thick-headed canine paid $12 damages, and those who were fortunate enough to witness the fray say it M as worth it. - THE bad little boy of Rome, N. Y., has invented a machine for scaring timid persons, that he says "knocks tire window tick-tack silly." When night ; lias come and everything is shrouded in gloom, he quietly inserts the hook of a common shoe-buttoner under a clap­ board of a neighbor's house, ties a strong cord to the handle of the buttoner, and • then, drawing the string tight, rubs it . with a piece of rosin. The horrible j. rumbliug, and shaking, and groaning . that follow scare the inmatesqf the house and delight the bad boy; V .. JOHN B. SMITH, of New Britain, Conn., had more apples than he knew what to do with last fall, so he stored 400 bar­ rels in a neighbor's large ice-house. In the winter the house was filled with ioe, all around the apples, which were solidly frozen. To Mr. Smith's great surprise the fruit, a few days ago, was found to be in perfect condition. He shipped twenty-five barrels to New York, and they sold rapidly at $3 a barrel. More were called for, and now the whole 400 barrels of hard, fresh, sound Baldwins have been sold at that price. ' THERE has been some talk of doing away with the locomotive headlight. Many engineers say that if the head­ lights go they will go, too. In England the engines have only one or two small lamps in front, generally over the rails; but in that country there are hardly any level crossings, and no one is al­ lowed to walk on the track,, Here we have so many crossings tlifftit would be very dangerous to do away with the headlight; in fact, the engineers seem to be of the opinion that if any change is made it ought rather to be in the direction of using the electric light in place of the present oil lamp. JAKE BECKER, a Louisville fireman, bought two snapping-turtles and was carrying, them to the engine-house, where they were to be converted into turtle soup. As he passed a negro, one of the turtles snapped at him and grabbed his coat. Jake tried to tear the turtle from his hold, and while do­ ing this the other turtle grabbed his hand. In the struggle that followed turtle No. 1 grabbed Jake's freehand, and there he was. He ran to the en­ gine-house, a turtle dangling from each hand, and tlieir heads were cut off. Still they clung. Jake's hands were so lacerated that he was laid off from duty. • A CGRious animal of"" the cat species is owned by a Philadelphia family. It has no claws nor tail, and the hind legs are considerably longer than the fore ones. This necessarily renders it un­ able to walk or run like the ordinary cat, and its volition is by short jumps, after the manner of a rabbit. There i? nothing, however, to suggest its be­ ing a cross between a rabbit and a cat, and, though the structure of the hiud legs somewhat resembles that of the former, it does not appear to be any­ thing beyond an unmistakable freak of feline nature. It has all the instincts of the domestic cat and made its debut as a mouaer a few days ago. THE Hoango River, in China, is more troublesome than our erratic Missis­ sippi. Nine instances are on record of its making a complete change of course. It has moved its mouth from South to North over four degrees of latitude, leaving many sandy wastes and shallow lakes where populous plains had ex­ isted. Engineers have been much in­ terested in the question whether these disastrous overflows and changes of the river bed can be checked. They have been convinced for some years of the feasibility of keeping the river's erratic tendencies within limits, and in the course of human progress "China's sor­ row" may some day be robbed of its terrors. LOUISE MICHEL ..is not satisfied with the expulsion of the Princes from France. To make the policy effective she insists that all the officials of the country, from Jules Grevy to the hum­ blest village Mayor, should be expelled also. "What good," Bhe exclaims, "does the banishment of the Princes do me, while the capitalists are allowed to remain? I am choked with disgust. The most terrible thing I know of to­ day is life, and I am so tired of it that I wish they would send me to jail." It is likely that Louise Mill be gratified in this latter respect, as she is now under indictment for exciting the people to resist the law at the recent meeting at Chateau d'Eu. which had been lengthened several inches. ; y AN exciting occurrence took place recently on the farm of Z. T. Duer, near Millersburg, Ohio. The horse® were in a pasture near the orchard, where Kirk Hummeli was at work mowing weeds. He heard a strange noise among the horses that attracted his attention, and which finally induced him to go to them and see what was the matter. On nearing the horses he saw a large blacksnake fastened to the nose of one of the horses, which was making frantic efforts to get away from the snake. Young Hummeli and a dog he had with liiin made a charge on the snake and killed it. It measured over six feet in length. The probability is that the snake bit the horse in the nose, when its fangs became fastened and it could not let loose, and was being un­ willingly jerked about by the horse. KINO GEORGE, of Greece, who is said, to be tired of his throne, is one of the most popular monarclis in Europe. He is a son of the King of Denmark, and has always sighed after the climate and scenes of his northern hoiiie. For the first few years of his reign he was spec ially inconsolable for the lack of skating facilities, but finally had a roller skating-rink erected near the royal stables. Every evening at 6 o'clock he dons his roller-skates, and, accompanied by Queen Olga, gives himself up to his favorite sport for half an hour. Her Majesty frequently joins him in his amusement, and excels him in skill and dash. Only a privileged few are allowed to witness this royal recreation. After their skating bout their Majesties hasten to the palace and dine with their entourage, but occa- sionallv en famille. LAND surveying in New Jersey has not arrived at perfection. Philander Brown, a' survevor of much note in the Mosquito State, was asked during a re­ cent land suit at Camden, how much land the plaintiff received in excess of wliat he was legally entitled to, and re­ sponded : "Five rows of blackberries." Court, jury, and counsel enjoyed the sarcasm cn the accuracy of the land measurement which the answer con­ tained. Judge Parker asked next what "a row of blackberries was equivalent to in inches," to which Mr. Brown re­ turned, "Seven feet in Jersey always." It was testified to that the land had been surveyed with a chain one of the links of mM IT is interesting to watch the way in which Uncle Sam's sons draw on the old man at the Capitol, says a Washing­ ton correspondent. Take the Lower House. The bank for the members is conveniently situated alongside the Speaker's room at thfe west side of the wing and is conducted as any other banking house. Checks on it are good commercial paper anywhere in the country. There are seven men con­ nected with the management of the bank, including the Sergeant-at-arms. The Deputy Sergeant-at-arms gets $2,000 per annum, the cashier, $3,<>00; the book-keeper, $1,800; the paying teller, $'2,000; the messenger, $1,300; the page, $720; and a laborer $5 a day duiing the session. There is an average of $150,000 in the safe while the House is in session. When money is needed the messenger goes to the Treasury with the proper papers, ac­ companied by the Capitol policeman, and returns in a street-car, usually with about $40,000. If there is a call for a larger sum the Sergeant-at-arms jumps into a carriage and goes after it him­ self. The pay of the members begins the 4tli of March after their election, and a check is sent them every month, unless they otherwise direct. Their ac­ counts are certified by the Clerk of the House, as there is then no Speaker. The pay of a member is $416.66 per month, but-to avoid fractions they are paid $416 for four months and $417 for eight months. The Treasurer only recognizes and makes payments. Many an old member is under the impression that his per diem is always placed to his credit, and could be drawn out be­ fore every sunset, but he is mistaken. The $5,000 per annum is divided into twelve installments at Mr. Manning's end of the line. When a member dies his pay ceases on the day of his death. The salary of the successor commences the day after the decease of the former member, though the election may not occur for several months. The new member, in other words, draws pay for time he never serves. , The members draw their money in different ways. There are probably twenty of the pres­ ent House who let their salaries run into nest-eggs. Among these are Scott and Everhardt, of Pennsylvania; Powell, of Illinois; Boutelle, of Maine; Healy, of California; Jones, Stewart, and Reagan, of Texas; Ellsbury, of Ohio; Stone, of Massachusetts; and Wakefield, of Minnesota. Scott has over a year's salary owing him--about $6,000. The other members mentioned have from $1,000 to $3,000 to their credit. There are a couple of dozen of member who always overdraw, or rather borrow from the head of the bank. Horse Biscuit. The Prussian Government, immedi­ ately after the war with France, set about inventing some kind of forage for horses which should be more profitable and nutritious than any before in use. After numerous experiments this seems to have been accomplished in the prep­ aration of a biscuit consisting of 30 parts of flour, 30 parts "dextrinated" pea-meal, 30 parts rye-flour, and 10 parts linsead-nieal. This may be varied, as follows: 40 parts of oat- flour, 40 parts of dextrinated pea-meal, 20 parts of wheat-flour, 20 parts of corn-meal, 20 parts of rye-flour, 10 parts of grated bread, and 10 parts of linseed meal. As the result of experi­ ments it is found that four pounds of these mixtures, well-cooked, possess a nutritive value equal to that of a large ration of oats of about three times the weight. So the Prussian administra­ tion of the army of occupation, taking the results observed by the cavalry officers and the veterinary surgeons as a basis, admits that Si pound of biscuits are worth 12 pounds of oats. Experi­ ments also demonstrated that horses fed on 12 pounds of oats did not sup­ port the fatigues to which they were submitted as well as those that received the 3£ pounds of biscuit's; The biscuits can be strung on wire, and rations for four or five days can easily be carried hung from the saddle. Their merits are said to have been thoroughly tested, and not the least recommendation is that they serve quite as well for men as they do for horses, and the Prussians have been obliged to adopt measures to prevent the troops from consuming their forage intended for horses. A MAN needn't make a hog of him­ self just because his name is Bacon. CLEVELAND'S HE ART LESS NESS. His Lack of Sympathy for the Union Eol- 1 fiti--Scathing Letter from ; Private Dalzell. • A variety of opinions have »been offered as to the President's motive in vetoing so many private pension bills. For one, I Jo not believe it is done either out of a desire for retrenchment and reform, or as an act of justice, pure and simple; but rather it is a shrewd trick to increase hi6 popularity at tho South, and among the Democrats at the North who hate the soldiers of the Union with a moral hatred that can never die. Its supreme object is to make the Solid South as solid for him in 1888 as in 1«S4, and to secure the renomination. It is a daring stroke of policy, and does more credit to his brain tiian'to his heart, and, I confess, when viewed merely as an elec­ tioneering move it is the brightest and most far-seeing adventure ever before witnessed at the W hite House. He lampoons the men who did our lighting, the privates of the army, ridicules their diseases and wounds and cracks jokes even over the graves of heroic dead. The Merry Mon­ arch of England never sported more lightly wilh the ioibles of his familiars in that dis­ solute reign than Grover Cleveland does now with the misfortunes and miseries of the 1 nion soldier who dares to ask the Government for pension. What kind of a heart the man must pos­ sess who can find a subject of ridicule and wit in the maimed and quivering lijnbs of an old cavalryman, and who can lightly joke and laugh over ihe wasted and pros­ trate body of the victim of Andersonville and .Belle Isle, or write with playful rail­ lery ami stupid coarseness or illustration concerning the soldier sufftring from chronic diarrhea incurred in the swamps of the South defending the flag, passes all understanding, shocks every sense of propriety and decency, and makes the man who wears such a callous heart in his bosom appear as anything in the world but a statesman or a patriot, and something worse than a monster--a brute and a tiend! Such lack of sympathy with suffering humanity, such insensibility to the claims of,patriotic service; such awful and stupid, grotesque and beastly display of coarse­ ness, and such indifference to public opin­ ion, never were as conspicuously displayed in the United States before, and let us hope when this heartless man retires from the office he has thus degraded and disgraced, it will be forever impossible to occur any­ where again. If any preacher, even a Beecher or Tal- mage, if an actor or actress, or if any public sneaker anywhere in the loval States should speak or exhibit such contempt of the Union soldiers, living or dead, as this man has shown by his shameless messages, they would be hooted down and mobbed by an outraged public. No man is remitted to make ligiit of these sacred subjects, and whoever is bold enough to attempt it will soon feel the full measure of popular wrath and resentment. It requires a coarse nat­ ure, and a mean one at that, one long de­ based by evil hab.ts and vile associations, to prepare a man for making fun of the misfortunes and diseases of maukind; but ten times lower must that man descend in moral obliquity before he can find a source of merriment in the agonies, the privation aud prayers of stricken soldiers, starving women and children, and the groans of the patriotic dead! He repels the soldier staggering to the . rave under a load of dis­ ease. poverty and distress, and answers his appeal for charity with a fiendish leer aud a laugh that would dishonor the heart of lie1!. Cleveland is a dull man. He was never known to joke before. He never was sus­ pected of having either wit or humor; but suddenly he became as merry as a lark, and dashes off pasquinades at poverty, puns at patriotism, jokes at disease and death, and in the wail of the widow and the cry of the orphan finds sources of amusement and even laughter and fun. It is all a merry subject to him. and with his coat off and his sleeves rolled up he fairly revels in the luxury of enjoyment he find's in mocking misery and railing at distress. He knows what he is up to. It is a smart trick. He hates the soldier. The bulk of the House, the minority of the Senate, and all the Democrats, North aud South, liate the Union soldier. He is making himself solid w ith the solid South, and with every traitorous copperhead in all the North, by degrading aud denouncing the ciippled anil impoverished veterans of the Union. He does not reckon without his host. It is a stroke of statesmanship intended to secure the renomination,, and it will suc­ ceed. The Democratic party never goes back on the President who dares to put in words and send out officially the hatred and contempt for the Grand Army of the Republic which has so long rankled like poison in all Democratic hearts. Jefferson Davis could not do worse to us if he were President to-day. How much lower could any rebel descend than to make sport of the deceased and dying soldiers of the Union. The heart of the Duko of Alva or even of Caligula himself might well relent be­ fore it would permit such an exhibition of brutality as to make a joke of suffering, poverty, aud distress. No President ever did so before. It would have cost any one of them his Ufe or his office to have held up tbe maimed soldier of the Union to public laughter and contempt. But it has found expres­ sion at last, this intense, all-pervading hostility to the Union soldier, this con­ tempt of his rights, this abiding ridicule of his infirmities, in mam- messages of a heartless Pi t sident, who only utters what every Democratic heart long has felt. It dishonors human nature. It disgraces the American name. It will be a standing reproach to our na­ tion in all future time, that, just as the heroic baud who saved the Nation's life were trembling on the edge of ihe grave, and about ready to die, that a President of the United States mocked at their ex­ tremity and made their infirmities the sub­ ject of ridicule. Scarcely more fiendish was the cry. "Come down from the Cross now." What a savage delight that must be that can find diversion and amusement, too, in the struggle of a fellow creature? The Indians themselves, indeed, sometimes re­ lented and loosed the captive whom they were tormenting for their amusement, but this man, never. He-finds it the most de- lighttul occupation of his honeymoon to grin aud l.iugh over the deathbed of a patriot, while the rags and squalor, the misery and despair of the widow and orphan excite his risibilities, and moving men to tears, move this monster only to peals of heilish laughter.--Private Dalzell. An Unfit Appointment. The appointment of Nathaniel H. K. Dawson, a small lawyer of Selma, Ala., as Unittd States Commissioner of Education is commented on very unfavorably here. It is considered a sad reflection on the Democratic party that there is no distinc­ tive educator in its ranks whom tue Presi­ dent could Lave appointed to this position. The fact of the matter is that the South­ ern Democrats are so hungry for office that they make a stroi:g push for every ] luce in sight. This position is under Secretaty Lamar, and as usual he recommended a Southern man. It should have been filled from a Northern or Western State, and fill­ ed by any educator. The school system of the South is exceedingly detective, and there is a general hostility to free schools that is said to be shared by the new Com­ missioner. Secretary Lamar at the head of the Interior Department, Zach Mont­ gomery, the author of the "Poison Foun­ tain" aud the most notorious hater of free schools in the United States, as the inter­ preter of all the law questions affecting schools, and now with a small country lawyer at the head of the National Bureau of Education, the outlook is not brilliant. All the educational recommendation that Mr. Dawson can bring for the position is the fact that he hjw been a trustee of on« of the little Alabama colleges. The ap­ pointment is regarded by those who have considered it as a deliberate insult to the edncators of the country.--Washington special. " POINTED QUESTIONS* latorroKatorles Propounded by Jir. Blair in Connection with Penaiun Vetoes. [Washington special.] Senator Blair, from the Committee Pensions, submitted a report upon the mes­ sage of the President vetoing the bill granting a pension to Newcomb Parker. The ground of the veto was that "before the passage of the bill the Commissioner of Pensions, in ignorance of the action of Congress, allowed the claim under the gen­ eral law," and that the President was un­ willing that a man worthy to 1 e placed on the pension rolls should be a los-r by rea­ son of a special intei position of Congress. The report submits the papers on ule in the case to show that, prior to the applica­ tion to Congress for relief by special act,, the claim haa been rejected by the Pension Office, and was only re-examined and al­ lowed after it was fouud the bill had re­ ceived favorable action from Congress. The report then comments as follows on the veto: A, "Why does the President in his message, suppress the fact that the claim had beedf formally rejected at the Pension Office, so that the claimant had no remedy but the interposition of Congress? Why "does he take pains to say that in ignorance of the action of Congress the Commissioner had allowed the claim under the present law? Why does he proceed to express his anx­ iety to save the claimant from the loss of arrears of pension by the action of Con­ gress, when such action should have no such effect--not in the least impairing his right to the allowance of the arrears-- save by force of a recent and unaccountable ruling of the present Commissioner, revers­ ing all previous practice and violating all equity, and, we believe, all legal rights, made apparently as a punishment to those who dare apply to Congress for relief, no matter what the outrage they may have suf­ fered in tbe toils of the office? Why does the President write his messages "so as to place Congress, himself, and the Commissioner before the country in a light favorable to himself and the Commissioner, and unfavorable to the Legislature of the country? Can anyone believe that the Commissioner of Pensions reversed his own deliberate action rejecting this claim without a particle of further evidence or any trace of reason, save a* the result of the proceedings in Congress, of which it is simply absurd, or worse,, to deny his knowl­ edge, just in season to enable the President to write this peculiar veto, which places Congress in the attitude of inflicting hurt to the claimant by t' eir meddlesomeness? The President could not have been familiar with the facts in this case. The Commis­ sioner decided. July 1. to allow the claim; July 21 the enrolled bill went to the Presi­ dent. Was the enrolled bill in the posses­ sion of the Commissioner before he decided to allow tlie claim?" The report then asks if it is conceivable that the allowance of the claim by the Pen­ sion Office is not wholly due to the action of Congress, and not "in ignorance" of th.it action. • -- Treasury Bnlauces Compared. The prevailing disputes aud confusion in regard to the condition of the Treasury and the amount of the surplus result from the nonsensical aud misleading changes which Manning and Jordan introduced into the monthly statement of the public debt. By arbitrarily setting aside vast sums as "unavailable" it has been possible to whittle down the great surplus, although iu fact the Democratic, administration has largely increased the amount of idle funds in the Treasury. To appreciate the changes effected by Manning and Jordan it is neces­ sary to apply the same form of statement to the condition of the Treasury at the ex­ piration of Arthur's term and at present, so as to make the new-fangled rule work both ways and avoid the blunder of using the short end of the glass at one time and the long at another. Stated according to the new form the condition of the Treasury March 4, 18S5, was as follows: Goi.l coin an<l bullion, net 5126,358,0i2 Silver coin an<l bullion, net 46,2-.'0,075 Legal-teii'lei notes, not 18,5SO.O:)4 Deposits in national banks 10,loii,o:s« National bank notes 19,85.},402 Total assets. : . • $210,tki3 At the same date its liabilities were: Matured dt bt unci interest S3,40:3 In torus t <lue and accrued.. 9,WW Disbursing cutlers' balances. 26,12s Outst'indiufi drafts and cheeks 6,24'.» Xatic.-nal bank redemption fund ..... 5.1.8H1 PostoiUce Department 3,0'14, Legal-tender reserve.. lOJ.iXX), Total Ji abilities $201,%*.>,():< l Net balance March 4, 1^85 8,701,jj0 So that according to the Jordan system of book-keeping the available surplus on hand when the Democratic administration came into power was considerably less than $!>,000,000. The same form of statement as used in the Treasury exhibit for June 30, 188(5, shows the following changes: Itold coin and bullion, net $136,793,748 Silver coin and bullion, net 96,229,53S> Legal-tender notes, net 22,8iis,310 Deposits in national banks.......... 114,435,199 National banknotes 4,034,410 Public debt items redeemed 3,8)0,535 THE BOMB-THROWERS. Lawyer Salomon's Opening Ad- ' <I*ess to the Jury In Behalf of ~ , the Defendants. 621 Total $29s, 197,756 At the same date its liabilities were: Matured debt and Interest.. $ 9,928,465 Interest due and iuvri:ed 12,860,314 Disbursing officers' balances 2i',75.S,4'.»i Outstanding drafts and checks.... 1.. H,O'-fl National bunk redemption fund 70,09M,>-20 Postottice Department 5.372,'2S."> Legal-tender reserve 100,000,000 Total liabilities Net balance Junj 30, lfcWfl. $223,00',640 75,191,10;* In his report under date of Dec. 7, 1885, Manning said in so many uords that be­ tween March 4 and that time "the balance in the Treasury had been increased by the sum of $58,H53,702." And it is clear that since then nearly $10,000,000 has been added to the surplus. According to M;m ning's system of figuring, the surplus i over seven times what it was when lie went into office, aud yet for nearly a year he per­ sisted in his refusal to follow the Republi­ can policy of monthly debt reduction, but went on paying interest on overdue bonds while the funds for their redemption re­ mained idle in the Treasury.--Chicago Tribune. The Pusillanimfta* Bayard. The captain of the schooner Thomas F. Bayard, which arrived at Gloucester re­ cently. reports that he was ordered out of the port of Bonne Bay, on the northwest coa^t of Newfoundland, and was notified by the officer of customs that the presence of bis vessel in the harbor was a violation of law. It would naturally be supposed that this outrageous treatment of a vessel bearing bis own name might arouse the ire of the Secretary of State, hut it does not seem to. He still retain* his calm indiffer­ ence, and rests under the new outrage so serenely that one wonders if the Secretary himself were insulted by n Britisher wh'.tb< r he would hit lack. 'Under the cir­ cumstances, one cannot help wishing the Gloucester schooner had carried the name of "James G. Blaine" on its stern, and that her namesake were at the head of the State Department. There would be some talking tack that would be heard in Bonne Bay. The present English Secretary, however, doesn't know when a vessel bearing his own name is treated like a pirate. If the Gloucester skipper has any of the true Yankee grit he will ask to have the name of his vessel changed, or sail another that will not constantly remind him he lias no re­ dress against outrage.--C'hicqpo Tribune. OFFICE-HOLDERS know that the Tresi-, dent's proclamation was all for buncombe. He was made President of the United States by the legging ot' State and National officials; and this year and next year, as now, Democratic officials will be the prime movers in every political wire-work. He has already been notified of hocdreds of-' cases, but that will be the end of iL---lntetr: Onean- Jit He Practically Concedes Everything Charged by the Prosecution--Oapt .jiWiaack's Clever Work . > * : [Chicago telegram.] * Aft"r the presentation of some purely formal evidence as to the time and place of Officer Degan's death, and the reading of various incenuiary articles from anarchistic journals, the State closed its case against the bomb-throwers on Saturday. During the reading of the articles, which grew more virulent as the 1st of May approached, the red aud black tlags a?.d imlammatory banners of the socialists were presented to the jury. When the State had rested, the attorneys for the defense moved that Oscar Neeb" be discharged, and followed by a motion that all the defendants excent Spies and ischer be dismissed. These motions were argued at some length, but were over­ ruled by the court, which held that where there is a general advice to commit murder, the time and occasion not being foreseen, the adviser is guilty if the murder is com- mitted£ Mr. Salomon then made the ' opening statement for the defense. His effort was not remarkable in any way except in that it practically admitted very much that was claimed by the prosecution. His chief ar­ guments centered upon two points: First, there cannot be accessories without a prin­ cipal; second, the defendants did not throw the bomb. Upon the first of these points he held that the State must prove that somebody was a principal in committing the murder before it could convict the defend­ ants as accessories. The manufacture of bombs, the intent to use dynamite, and the preparation for a revolution by force were admitted by Mr. Salomon, who made fully as many points for the State as for his cli­ ents. The jury came in for a large share of utaffy" in the opening remarks of Mr. Salo­ mon, after which he reminded them that tliey were not to convict the defendants be­ cause they were socialists or anarchists. He claimed that Mr. Grinnell had not ma le a fair statement of the case. He said: Mr. Grinnell failed to state to you that he had a person by wfcoiu he could prove who thtew the bomb, and he n»'ver expected to make this proof ui'tit he found that without that proof he was unable to mainta-n this prosecution against these defendants ; and itTvas this case neared the lirouecutinn end of it that tho prosecution suddenly changed their front and produced a profestiioniil tramp and a professional liar, aa we will show you, to prove that one of these.de- fendants was connected with the throwing of the bomb. . The counsel then read the laws of mur­ der and accessories, and endeavored to show that no case under them had been made against his clients except so far as Gilmer's testimony might be accepted. He also quoted Wharton's Criminal Law as re­ gards all accessories, and cited the cases of < >gden vs. The State of Wisconsin and of Jones vs. The State of Georgia. In the last-named case it was held that where tho principal in tbe first degree was not con­ victed the principal in the second degree could not l:e held responsible as accessory to the crime, the connection of which with the principal iu the first degree, whose ac­ cessory be was charged with being, had not been established. Mr. Salomon went on to eulogize the de­ fendants as philanthropists who conse­ crated their lives to the betterment of their fe!low-men. Warming to the subject, he declared that twelve men, or 1,200 men, or 12,000 men could not stamp out anarchy nor root out socialism any more than they could democracy or republicanism, because it lay within the mind and within the heart. Continuing, he said of the Haymarket meeting: When this meeting was in progress the police, with a devilish design, with a fiendish design, as we expect to prove, came down upon that body as ihey were peaceably assembled, with their revolvers in their hands and in their pockets ready for immediate use, intending to destroy every" life that stood ui>on that market. That seoms terrible, gentlemen, but that is the information we have, and which we expect to show you. We expect to further show you, gentlemen, that the crowd did not tire, nor a single person in tho crowd fire a single shot at tho police officers. At this stage of the case a brief and au­ thentic record of the clever work of Cap­ tain Schaack and his assistants will be of iuterest. Captain Schaack lias only six detectives in his district or under his con­ trol. These are Schuttler, Lowensteiu, Whalen, Hoffman, Stiff, and Rehm. These are the men that gathered the evidence that hung Mulkowski, and it was these same men who gathered practically all the evi­ dence ag iiust the anarchists. Acting under the general direction of Captain Shaack, they worked night and day and left no stone unturned until every fact was laid bare. The morning of May 5, the day after the massacre, Captain Schaack had a Con­ sultation with Chief Ebersold. "I want to work independently in this case," said Shaack; "I want no help from the Central Station. Your detectives here can work by themselves, and I and my men will work by ourselves." Chief Ebersold agreed. At that time Lientenant Shea, chief of the de­ tective department and its force of thirty men. had arrested Spies, Parsons, Schwab, Fieldeu, Fischer, and several others openly identified with the anarchists or connected with the anarchic publications, and had seized the stuff in the Arbeiter- Zeitung Building. Schaack called in his 6ix men and gave them their instructions. Tbe second morning afterward (May 7) he hid learn­ ed of bombs having been made in one or two houses on Sedgwick street, and also in a certain place in the lumber district. In those two days, it might be stated, the whole city was practically scoured by those six men in their search for a bomb factory. The work had not been completed, but had merely narrowed down to certain districts and had resulted in certain pointers from which that information of May 7 was gath­ ered. Schuttb r and Lowensteiu and some officers in uniform were sent to the two houses on Sedgwick street, one of which was Seliger's (No. 442), and the other a few doors off on the opposite side of the street. Oppenheimer, the escapcd inform­ er, said that when the officers were going toward Seliger's he and Lingg were stand­ ing on the opposite sidewalk and that they di -cussed the feasibility of making a rush for the house and getting in in time to arm themselves and kill the officers in case they were actually bound for Seliger's. But the unconscious officers were too quick in their movements and got to the house first. Then Lingg said he would hide, and in­ structed Oppenheimer to send his trunk to No. 71 West Lake street in case the officers did not take them away. It was then that Schuttler syid Loweustein found the Lingg- Selifjer arsenal aud all the infernal machin­ ery for bomb manufacture. The officers held possession of the place until every­ thing ' was taken to the station. Seliger was found at work at Meyer's carpenter- shop the same evening, and was lodged in the East Chicago Avenue Station. This was the first arrest of importance as lead­ ing directly to the conspiracy. That night Thi -len came to see what his friend Seli­ ger was arrested for, and he too waB put under lock and key. It was then that Lingg first was heard of. Thielen was the first informer, but it was some days before he willingly told anything. His talk the first night, however, regarding Seliger's lodger, Lingg, and Seliger's talk on the same subject, led Schacck to believe that Lingg was an important factor in the case. Schuttler and Lowenstein then bent all their energies to Lingg's capture. They tracked him first by an express wagon*he had hired to deliver his tool-chest at Twelfth and Clark streets. Then they traced him to Canal street, and then to the lumber district, frequently losing the trail and then catching it again. Finally, the 14th, they located him in the little cottage on Ambrose street, where they arrested him. Lingg was an unconscious informer. He was defiant; he desired to conceal nothing regarding himself, and in his reckless moods ho disclosed many things that were valuable. Then Thielen suuealed. LAB0B AND LABORERS. Cooperative Schemes in the W«st- ilding Boom--Extensive Paper Contracts. •opera lii Celebration of "Labor Day" --Various Vfttes of Iuterest Jo Employed .•./* and Employed. Co-operative schemes are still looming up. A Chicago man has gone to Pittsburgh to raise $40,000 for the purpose of estab­ lishing an iron mill in Missouri. A Mou* tana speculator is endeavoring to induce Monongahela miners to go to that Territory to develop a tract of coal land containing a bed of coal from four aud a half to ten feet thick. The Co-operative Stove Foundry at Beaver Falls will resume operations next Monday, after a shut-down, with plenty of orders for the fall. The Penn Bridge Works at that place are having a 40x260- foot addition built. Old nail machines are being taken out at several Western nail fac­ tories, and machines of greatly improved make will be substituted for them. Contracts for supplying the New York daily papers with paper have been given put as low as 4^ to 4-A cents per pound. Several New \ork and Boston papers are giving very heavy contracts, finding that by so doing they secure very large discounts." A number of manufacturers of paper iit New England expect to lay out large sums of money in increasing their capacity, and numerous extensions are projected. A movement, is on foot to shut down the pa­ per-mills from Saturday afternoons until Mondav mornings. The manufacturers in­ dividually are iu favor of it, aud the only uncertainty is as to concerted action. The makers of paper-mill machinery have heavy orders on hand, and to all outward appearances the paper-making industry is on a solid basis. The architects throughout the 'NVest gen­ erally report improving activity in building operations, and an increasing demand for their services. A large number of contracts for public buildings are about to be given out, and bidding is quite spirited among the architects. Throughout the East some complaint is made of dullness, but the leading architects in all sections are having their full share of work. The building trades, according to latest reports from Eastern aud Western centers, are prosper­ ing. A great deal of building is being done in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and Iowa. Little towns are springing up, and building material, from lumber down to hardware, is active. Labor is satisfac­ torily employed, aud country labor is being sought for to hurry forward pending work. It is probable that a great deal of work will be projected during the current mouth, to be crowded to completion before winter sets in. Th» labor holiday idea is gathering strength in all parts of the country. There has been a great deal more picnicking this year than last. Several new lecturers, male aud female, are to be placed in the field, and tho South especially is to be well woiked. New liuglaud is very well orga­ nized. Schemes are to be |>erfeeted at the October Convention by which the interests of lnbor can be centralized, and induce­ ments of a permanent nature held out for membership. The leading Knights recog­ nize the fact that the objects of organiza­ tion are a little too general, and that the benefits of unity must be brought home more nearly to each one. They are there­ fore nevising some schemes of practical ap­ plication to this end. Steps are being taken to establish the or­ ganization of the Knights of Labor in Great Britain and Europe. There are sev­ eral very enthusiastic members of the order now explaining its principles aud purposes and endeavoring to secure the co-operation of the leaders of labor organizations there. This will be very difficult, if not impossi­ ble. The trade uuion spirit iu Great Britain is very strong, and British working- men are very stubborn. In Europe the or­ ganization of the Knights of Labor is con- - dered a wild sort of Yankee invention, i hey have nothing similar to it there, and there is not intelligence enough among the working classes to take hold of and appre­ ciate it. Machine-shop labor is better employed now than for many months. Tho railroad companies, as a rule, are doing a great deal of repairing. All the railroad machine- shops are running with a full force, par­ ticularly west of the Mississippi. A good­ ly number of orders for locomotives have been given out recently, of which about futy have come to this State. New Jersey, New York, and New England locomotive- builders expect to secure orders during the current mouth. Uailroad managers are more inclined to increase their rolling- stock at this time than they have been for a year or two past. The leading car-builders report business good. Several car-shops no.w have orders ahead for ninety days. Wages have under­ gone no change, and the teu<-hour system is generally recognized. Where employment is to be had it is given to those who are willing to work ten hours rather than to those who iusist on only nine hours, and where discharges are to be made the nine- hour men have to go. The quiet opposi­ tion of employers is being generally brought to bear against the nine-hour rule, and labor feels it. but is at a loss for effect­ ual means of resistance. The "Knights ot Industry," who have formed a ne w labor organization, with Bos­ ton as its headquarters, are endeavoring to build themselves up something after the manuer of the Knights of Labor. They do a great deal of talking in public, but do not seem to be gaining much headway, ow­ ing to the fact that tho3- are looked upon as being imitatois, aud also because the Knights embody everything in their organi­ sation that the true interests of labor re- i ire. committee of three of the Knights of or recently went to Washington to en- . avor to secure favorable Congressional legislation, and has reported to its supe­ riors the promises made, liy whom, and the general spirit of Congress with regard to labor. The report is not as encouraging as was expected. Congressmen deal liberally in promises, but prefer to legislate "some other session." The coal miners throughout some entire sections are half-starving for want of em­ ployment, aud aie living under the store- order system, aud compelled to run up bills at high prices, which it will take months of hard labor to liquidate when work becomes more plenty. Employers prefer to see their miners thus dependent, thinking that in this way the striking spirit will be les­ sened. Throughout the Southwest a great many assemblies of the Knights of Labor have Lean recently formed. The negroes ate • ouiing into the order rapidly. They mike g.iod members, are prompt in paying their dues, and endeavor to c irry out the prin- c.ples of the orgauizatiou as they under­ stand them. TThe same spirit of organiza­ tion extends throughout Texas and tho Western Territories. Tbe Hope ol' Labor Orgulut*. [From the Brooklyn Union.J The*organizers of workingmeu who hope to see every wage-worker a member of one great organization, which shall be as per­ fect a piece of machinery as an army, may find discouragement in the quarrels of the different organizations. But they ought to be regarded as evidence that those who are developing the American Labor Union from its crude state into au association of reason­ able and independent men have sufficient courage to diifer with their fellows. By such differences of opinion and such differences of metbod the development of these organizations is takiug a much more wholesome direction than it would take if there were but one plan, but one method, but one set of leaders. It is the discussion, and the independence born of discussion, that are the surest guarantees that these organizations will become all that their best builders wish them to become--educator# as well as weacons of wage-workers. ILLINOIS STATE NEWH. --In a fit of jealousy, at Charleston, George Beasy cut his wife's throat from «r to ear, and escaped. ' ---A hint to the police when the anarch­ ists are around: "Now is the time to get up clubs."--Chicago Rambler. --About fifty farmers, residing In tho Ticinity of Walnut Hill, have organized a colony for Oregon, to start in September. --The only Chinese convicts--but two-- ever sent to Joliet have become insane* Here is a pretty little problem for the psy­ chologists. --Charley Strawn, of Lincoln, last week sold a team of 3-year-old horses. He re­ ceived the suni of $800. < They were bred on bis farm. --Chicago physicians have pfesented bills amounting to $0,528 for attending vic­ tims of the Haymarket slaughter at the County Hospital. --Aaron Blanchard, o9e of the early set­ tlers of St. Charles, was instantly killed by being thrown from his buggy. The deceased was 82 years of age. --Conrad Wiseman, residing in Hanover Township, was at Galena the other day held without bail for kicking his 12-year- old boy to death for a trivial offense. •--Miss Black, of Washington, daughter of U nited States Pension Commissioner John C. Black, is a fine elocutionist, al­ though she never took a lesson in her life. --The assessment of railway property in Cook County is $1,260,000. The commis­ sioners have fixed upon $2,000,000 as the amount to be raised by taxation next year. --In an engine house, at Galena, Stephen Doonan stabbed a fellow fireman, Daniel Loosy, in the neck, inflicting a dangerous wound. Doonan has disap­ peared. --Conrad Wessner, alias Wiseman, who was in jail at Galena charged with killing his child, was found dead in his cell. He had refused to partake of any food, starved to death. --The water-works tower on Lincoln Hill will be the tallest concern in Lincoln. It is to be one hundred feet high, and, when completed, it will afford one on the top of it a view for many miles. --The Secretary of the Illinois Board of Agriculture has received the medals for­ ward ed by the Clydesdale Horse Society of Great Britain to be awarded at the Chicago horse-show in September. --A woman chained to a tree in front of a farmer's house near Hallsville attracted the attention of excursionists from Lincoln recently. The chain was about ten feet long, and was attached to a leather collar about the womau's neck. She was insane. --New Orleans Slates: There is a rumor afloat that Chicago is going to build an­ other large brewery in honor of Miss Rose Cleveland calling that city "the Venice of the Western Adriatic." The Chicagoans did not know what Miss Kose meant, but they knew that she saicfr something nice, and they determined to do the handsome. --Bees have for some years held undis­ puted posse-siou of the Christian Church, near Oakland, Coles County. The citizens gathered and tore off the siding from the foundation to the roof, disclosing a mass of honey sixteen feet in height. The honey was carried away in wash-tubs and pails aud divided among the neighbors. --It is a grand achievement for law and order when men guilty of the atrocious crimes'committed at the Haymarket Square. Chicago, get a fair, honest trial before a court and jury, instead of being strung up to lamp-posts, The defendants aud tho city are to be congratulated for this, as well as for the admirable method in which the case has been prosecuted.--Inter Ocean. --The tobacco crop of Galena County, it is said, will be unusually short this season, unless rain falls in the near future. Should the late crop fail it will make the entire production but one-fourth that of the crop of 1885. .Green worms are reported nu­ merous, but hoppers are scarce. A fair crop of hay has been realized. There has been a fine yield of rye, oats', and barley, ltain is needed to develop the corn crop. --An Edinburgh Presbyterian minister, on one occasion, happening to visit a resi­ dent of his parish, asked what church he was in the habit of attending. The man answered that he had belonged to a ceitain congregation, but that he and others could not assent to ceitain views which were ac­ cepted by the malority, and they had there­ fore formed a secession. "Then you wor­ ship with these friends?" "Well, no; the fact is I found that there were certain points on which I could not conform, so I seceded. "O, then, I suppose you and your wife engage in devotion together at home?" "Well, not precisely. Our views are not quite iu accord, so she worships in that coiner of the room, and I in Chicago Living Church. --The statement being prepared by this Internal Revenue Bureau, at Washington, which is intended to show the amount of revenue collected in various States during the fiscal year just ended, will make the following exhibit for Illinois: "Tax on spirits distilled from apples, peaches, and grapes, $10,030; on spirits distilled from other materials, $20,892,513; special tax on rectifiers of any quantity less than 500 bar­ rels, $8,116; on rectifiers of 500 barrels or more, $840; on retail liquor-dealers, $370,- 671; on wholesale dealers, $23. $08; on manufacturers of stills, $26,250; tax on manufactured stills, $300; stamps for dis­ tilled spirits intended for export, $1,885. Total collection on distilled spirits, $21,004,738." Tax on cigars and cheroots of all descriptions, $550,- 325; on cigarettes, $31,826; special tax on manufacturers of cigars, $7,321; tax on snuff, domestic and imported, $7,055; on chewing and smoking tobacco of all sorts, $690,750: special tax on leaf tobacco deal­ ers, $840; on dealers iu manufactured to­ bacco, $7,842? on manufacturers of tobac­ co, $171; on peddlers of tobocco, $56,900; total collection on tobacco, snuff, etc., $1,- 341,382. Barrel tax on fermented liquors, $1,256,058; special tax on brewers who manufacture less than *500 barrels annual­ ly, $1,050; on brewers who nanufactnre 500 or more barrels annually, $9,491; on retailers of malt liquois. $16,&M); whole­ sale dealers, $l),670; total collections on fermented liquors, $1,288,161. Unclassi­ fied collections, $6,583. Penalties for via* lations oft revenue laws. $6,51)8. Gran# total of internal revehne collected IK Illi­ nois during the last fiscal year ended Jmto 30. $23,852,255. : sSi m