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Pledged but to Truthf to Liberty and Law; No Favors Win us and no Fear Shalt Awe.1 VOL. 1. M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1876. NO. 52. ^eir, phklMte. Published Every Wednesday by J. VAN 8LYKE Editor and Publisher. f Office in Riverside Block, Over Smith Bros. & Co.'8 Store. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:. bne Tear, (in Advance,) ,........$1 50 If not Paid within Three Months,..'. ..2 00 inbsrriptions received, for three or six Months fn the same proportion. BUSINESS CARDS. « H. T. BltOWN, M. I>. 3IIYSICIAN and Surpeon. Office in Brick Block over F. G. Mav<s Clothing Store rater Street, McHenry 111. E. A BEE llS M. D. IHT8ICTAN and Surjreon. Office nt residence, two doors.west of Post Office, McHenry O. J. HOWAUD. M D. >HT8*riAN and Surgeon. Office at the store of Howard & Son, McHenr>% Til. ; F. J. B.VRT5IAN.» CIGAR Manufacturer, McIIonry 111. Fac­tory No. 171. Orders solicited. RICHARD BISHOP, A TTORNEY AND COITNSEl.OR AT LAW. „x\. Office in rear of Murphv & Bisliop's Bank r'Korth Side Public Square, . Wooilstock, 111. t GEO. A. BUCK LIN, ^TOTARY PUBLIC, Conveyancer and In- surance Agent. OflH'l at Bncklin & Steven's Store, near the Depot, Mcllenry, III. E. E. RICHARDS. HAS a complete Abstract, of Titles to land In Mcllenrv County, Ill'nois. Office with County Clerk, Woodstock, 111. D. A POTTER, RICHMOND, ILL., Notary Public and Con­veyancer, U. S. Claim, Insurance a Collecting Agent. FR. IIEC1ITLE. HOUSE, Si en and Carriage Painter, Mcllen­ry 111. Will do all work promptly and at reasonable rates. E. M. OWEN. GENERAL Dealer and Manufacturers Agent in Leading Farm Machinery. Prices low and Terms favorable. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. GEO. SCHREINER. SALOON and Restaurant. Nearly opposite the Parker House, Mcllenry 111. 4®*First-Class Billiard and Pool Tables. J. BONSLKTT, SALOON and Restaurant. Nearly oppoeite Owen's Mill, Mcllenry, 111. Fresh Oysters served up in any shape desired, or tor sale by the Can. 4STGOOD STABLING FOR HORSES,.** JOS. WIEDEMANN. SALOON and Restaurant. Near the Depot Mcllenry 111. Boarders by the day or week at reasonable rates.. Wanii and cold meals at all hours. WGood Stabling for Horses..## MCHEN RY LIVERY STABLE. H. E. WIGHTM AX, Proprietor. First class rigs, with or without drivers, furnished at reasonable rate*. Teaming of all kinds done on short notice. W. W. ELLSWORTH. BREEDER O the Celebrated Magie Hog. Also Light.md Dark Bralnna Fowls. Pigs •hipped to all points by express. P.* O. Ad­ dress, Woodstock, 111., ranted. ROBERT MURFITT, AWATCH-M AK ER of 18 years experience, has located at Nunda, ami will give hi* atten­ tion to the Repairing of Clocks. Watches, &c. Shop in Watson & Co.'s Drug Store. All Work PETER LEICKEM. REPAIRS Watches, Clocks and Jewelrr of all kinfts. Also Repairs Violins in theliest possible manner, on short notice ami at rca- lonable rates. Also Violins for Sale. Shop jrst door North of Riverside Block, Mcllenrj III. MCHENRY HOUSE. McHenry, 111. John Karges Proprietor. Centrally located and tiie I'est Of accom­ modations furnished. Charges reasonable. RICHMOND HOUSE. RICHMOND ILLINOIS. Frank Foster Pro-prietor. Good accommodations for all parties. Samplerooms for Salesmen. Livery Stable attached. Public Hall for Lectures, Shows Jfcc., The McHenry' Brewery. King & Herbes, Proprietors. THE best of Beer Shipped to any part of the country and warranted as represented.-- Orders solicited and promptly attended to. FRED. RENICH, CIGAR MANUFACTURER, --AND-- WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST. WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS. For Sale. The nndersitriH'I oilers for Sale, me Brick Store on Water street, in the village of Mcllenrv, now occupied bv Mrs. C. II. Morev, as a Millinerv ^tore. It is 14x35, the upper story being finished off a* a residence. TERMS BEASSONAIILK. Inquire of C. II. MOREV McHenry, 111. Nov. 1st 1*75. ForSale. The undersigned offers 'or Sale his property, situated opposite the Riverside House, m McHenrv, on the most reasonable terms. There is'a good and substantial building, suit­ able for a store or other business, the upper part of which is lilted up for a residence. Con­ nected with this is four acres of choice land, a gopd barn and some fruit. Persons.contem­ plating purchasing will tlnd it to their inter est to call and look this property over. F. A 11IU11ARD. McHenry 111. Aug. 16th 1875. BUSINESS CARDS* E. BENNETT, M. D., i URGEON and Accoucher. Diseases of ) Women a Specialty. Office and Residence l Clay Street, Woodstock, 111. W. H. BUCK, M. D.. HOMEOPATHIC Phytician and Surgeon.-- Office East Side Public Square, Wood­ stock, III. Offic e hours 11 to 12 A M., and 2 to 4 P. M. Waukegan Cigar Manufactory, E. DEPI&1S, Proprietor. Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer -m CIGARS, TOBACCO, --AND-- Pipes of Every Description. 55 GEXESEE STREET, WAUiiEGAN, IDLL. O. W. OWEN, WATCH MAKER & JEWELER, MCHENRY ILL., Dealer in all kinds ot American and Swiss Watches, Clocks from the best factories in the country. Silver, platedware, Silver Spoons, ALSO AGENT FOR TIIE Weber and Bradbury Pianos AND THE Estey Organ ! Which we believe to l>e the best Organ in the market. We think we know that by experi­ ence, and we believe it, for it is backed up by the Besl Musicians in the World. I also se l l o ther Organs a t less pr ices , than the Kstey , but can ' t reccommend then! to be as good. " O. W. OWEN. July 23. IMJRPHY & BISHOP. BANKERS. Office North Side of Public Square, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS. TRANSACTS a General Banking and Ex­change Business. Deposits Received.-- Interest allowed on Special Deposits. Buv and sell United States Bonds, Gold, Gold 'Exchange, elc. Exchange on all principal cities in Europe for sale. Woodstock, 111. THE owi:>s Foz River Valley H. D. LUFF, Proprietor. McHenry - - - - Illinois. CONSTANTLY ON HAND. CUSTOM GRINDING Done promptly, and satisfaction guaranteed Thankful for past favors a continuance of patronage is respectfully solicited. *S"Thc Highest Market Price In Cash for good Milling Wheat. H. D. LUFF, Successor to Owen Bros. W. H. SANFORD, Merchant Tailor. In the store of C. II. Dickinson, East side of Public Square, » WOODSTOCK, ILL. A good Stock of Fine Cloth# for Suitings al­ ways on hand. Suits made to order ami a lit warranted- Give mea call. W. H. SANFORD. Woodstock I1L,Sept. 27th, 1375. MOUNT"? ROOT B I T T E R S . THIS BITTERS, for its intrinsic properties, is known as one of the Best Tonics of the Age. A s a laxat ive Liver (Meaning, Blood Pur i fy- ing Medic ine , i t l ias not i t s super ior . I t should be taken in quant i t ies f rom a Tablespoon fu l l to a smal l wine g l a s s fu l l three t imes a day , according to the s t rength and age o t the lnva- id or the degree of s ickness . For Sale by the Caso or Bottle, --]! V-- L. KAPPLER, Patentee, Woo<l»t o<*lc. 111. Village Lot For Sale. Iot 1. Block 1., West3 McHenry, containing J one a civ of land, which is well fenced and on which is an Orchard ot good fruit, is now ottered for sale on reasonable terms. It is one of the most desirable building places in the village. For further particulars inquire at the PLAIMIK.AI.ER Office. « McHenry, III., March 1st, 1876. Farm For Sale. THE undersigned offers for sale his farm in the Town ol' Greenwood, consisting of 210 acres of lirst class land, under a good state of cultivation, well watered, prairie and good Timber adjoining, good buildings, Fruit in jiood variety, in fact everything constituting a good farm'. Will be divided if desired. Terms very low, Inquire on the premisesof GEO. II. GARRISON. Greenwood 111. April I8th, 1376. . THE FACTS OF THE DEADLOCK. If some thing is not done in Congress soon to break the deadlock between the two Houses, the Government all over the country may be seriously em­ barrassed. There has been a great deal of rhetoric expended on this mat­ ter, but figures have been somewhat scarce. The deadlock arises from the fact that the House has ventured on a retrenchment which the Senate con­ siders in a great measure to be imprac­ ticable. The series of the bills passed by the House bearing on this subject are twelve in number. The Art is the Military Academy bill. That was passed on the 3)st of last January. The Senate Las consequently had five months to consider it. The facts of it are as fo|li»ws: The Department estimated that.$45S.470 would be required to ruii the institution for the next fiscal year, though only $304,740 was required for that purpose during the year just ended. The House cut down the amount to #231,221, which was a reduc­ tion of §206,229 on the estimates, and of $138,490 over the current year. The next is the peusion bill, but that was something upon which no paring could be done, for it is composed of fixed amounts. The estimate of the department was $29,T>33,500, and that sum exactly appropriated by the House. This bill also passed the House on the 31st of last 'January and has since been iu the hands of the Senate. The Con- sulorand Diplomatic bill was attacked with a broad ax. It passed the House on the 10th of April last. Tlicjimount asked was $1,352,485--that amount con­ ceded $022, 547,50. This is a clean cut down of the salaries of ministers and legations everywhere. . Some people think that if in the present condition of the world the whole service were abolished no great haim would be done. The consul alone are now needed and they pay for themselves--that is to say, the fees they receive about pay their salaries. The Fortification bill was. pretty much hacked to pieces. It passed the House on the 15th of February- $3,- 400,000 was asked, but Only $315,000 was given. Who shall say that' this is uot a wise retrenchment-, seeing that in the present state of military science a sand battery has greater powers of resistance than the most elaborate masonry? A couple of days bombard­ ment knocked Fort Sumter into a cocked hat. Hut out of the legislative Judical and Executive bill money was shoveled by the million. It was passed on the 25th of last April. The amount asked was £20.830,307--the amount giv­ en $13,009,801 Gl. There was expended under this head last year $18,734,225, but the country is not unfamiliar with the war. It cos^s millions now to run a Federal Jtldical district where a few -thousands used to sultice. For rivers and harbors--perhaps the most meritorious of all the items-- 814,301,100 was asked, but only $5,872,- 850 was conceded. For dcficiences $2,722,471 70 was asked, and only $071,- •$80 73 voted ; tor postoffice $47,939,805- 90 was asked, $33,739,109 voted; for Navy $20,871,666 40 asked, $12,482,855 40 voted, which would render difficult any further costly beating of the tom-tom for the frightening of foreign nations; for Indians, $5,787,005 65 asked $3,979,- 602 11 voted; for army, 33.348.708 50 asked $23,331,070 voted; sundry, $32,- 560,475 asked, 13,620,9S1 54 voted. These several items make a reduction of $64,608,627,50 on the estimates of the Departments and an actual reduction' over tlie expenses of .last year of $39,- 421,961 50. This is what the House lias -done in the way of retrenchment. If it is prac­ ticable, it would no doubt be a great relief to the overburdened masses. This series' of bills was passed by the House between the 31st of January and tlie 6th of June. In a great many of these reduction the Senate lias refused to concnr, but no official statement has yet been made of the condition in which the several bills left its hands. There has never been any pros­ pect of the success of the parties who have been trying to open the doors of the Philadelphia Exhibition on Sun­ days. The great majority of the Cen­ tennial Commissioners are opposed to Sunday opening in a way that admits of no change of judgment; and they have been made to feel that the weal­ thy and influential portion of the com­ munity was on their side. Neverthe­ less they agreed to listen to arguments in favor of Sunday opening; and on Thursday last, a number of representa­ tive men deliveredsuch arguments be­ fore them, but when the vote on the subject was taken, Friday, it was found that three-fourths of the Commission­ ers took ground, as they had always done, against Sunday opening. It is of no use to agitate the subject further, so far as the hope of practical results is concerned. Dinners 25 cents Yankee Bakery, Waodstock.. THE INDIANS. We have a war upon our hands. The entire press opinion has condemned the present peace policy of our country which perm!tssuch horrible massacres .to be made by the aid of the govern­ ment. The Sioux Indians are furnish­ ed with arms and ammunitions under the pretext that they are necessary to their hunting expeditions, while at the same time they are furnished with pro­ visions atfd clothes by the general gov­ ernment. The philosopher that would treat wittf the Indians, and especially the Sioux,through the scheme of mor­ ality presented by most of the theo­ rists, would, if he were present to par­ ticipate in making peace, which is too seldom the case, find himself scalped and stretched out on the plains. Those who take a practical* common-sense view of the situation from a natural love of life friends and his race, readily concludes that the best method to save precious lives will be to annihilate the warriors and cease to furnish arms to hostile tribes for the purpose of self- destruction. The sickly sentimental pcace policy of the government has. in the death of General Custer, and the destruction of his command, received its just rebuke, Members of Congress no\y see the lull force ot tlie Indians power for destruc­ tion, and seeing are not loth to take an active part in remedying the evils whice have proven so disastrons to the lives of our soldiers. KISHWAUKEE CLUB. Club met pursuant to adjournment at the residence of Osgood Joslyn, on the afternoon of Jtdy 12, 1876. The best methods of securing hay and grain crops were quite fully considered, and it was the general opinion that grass should be cut when in full bloom. Cut when free from dew. sav from 9 A. M. to 1 r. M., and put the same iu small bunches before 4 p. M. Hay thus treat­ ed can be pul in barn or stack much sooner than.many believe. If a trifle damp, and considerable green use sladeil lime sparingly. Salt recom­ mended to restore color to bleached hay. Grain ewt free from dew and be­ fore quite ripe, shocked and capped, recommended as the best method. The subject of the Club experiments came up 'incidentally, one member stat­ ing that thus far iu the season, an acre of on which was sown one barrel of stfper-phosyhate, stands ahead of a like acre on which was spread twenty loads of barnyard manure. This subject will have some attention at tlie next meet­ ing, to lie held at the residence 6f L. W. Sheldon, August 16, one o'clock p. M. The subject to come under discus­ sion at this time is, 'The best,methods of securing ami-disposing of the crop." G. W. Dictz, J. Frink and I. Boies will open the discussion. The Committee to report September question consists of L. W, Sheldon, Z. Goodrich aud O. Joslyn. Tiros. McD RICHARDS Pres. ttgrMr. Wm. D." Robinson who for thirty-two years has been Cashier of the New York Custom House, and has received and paid out over six thous­ and millions of dollars, died last week in New York. His opportunities for speculation were boundless but no breath of (suspicion of his honesty ever tarnished his fame and not one cent was ever lost to the government through him. In the midst of numer­ ous defalcations it is pleasant to think that ninety-nine out of an hundred of those to whom great funds are intrust­ ed pass through life as guileless as he. flgsf Twelve months since there were two couples married in this city at precisely the same hour; a child was born to each at the same hour; last' week both children died at the same hour, and were buried at the same hour in two adjacent sections at Oakland Cemetery. The parties are in no wise related, and, we learn, are not even acquaintances. Mutual friends have observed and reported these re­ markable coincidences.--Atlanta (Oa.) Common wealth. ffsg^Congress has granted a pension of $50 a month to Gen. Custer's widow and a like sum to his father aud mother. This is well, and it will be still better when suitable pensions are voted to the widows and orphans of the brave fellows who fell with Custer. These deserve pensions, and probably need the generous aid of the Government more than Mrs. Custer, or the General's father and mother. It Is understood that the committee will report a bill for the purpose at an early day. The sooner it is done the better it will please the people.--Post &Mail. J^"An Irishman went to the theatre for the first time. Just as the curtaiu descended on the first act an engine in the basement exploded, and lie was blown through the roof, coming down in the uext street. After coming to his senses he asked, "An' what piece do you play nixt.?'* 05th RE-UNION. I'he re-union of this gallant old regi­ ment takes place this year at Geneva Lake, Sept. 4th. As the time is draw­ ing near, the various committees will need to be looking up their work in or­ der to report at the next meeting at Harvard, on the first Tuesday in August. At the preliminary meeting held last November, the following committees were appointed: Capt. A. S. Stewart, Lt. Walker, Q. M. Southworth and Sargt. Early were appointed a committee on tents, aftd ordered to make requisition oil Lt, Gen. Sheridan for the same, Capt. Nish, Lts. Southworth and Walker were appointed a committee on grounds. Maj. Loop, Capt. Beck ley, Lt. Wood, Col. John M. Southworth, 8th Cavalry, and Col. Oilman of the 15th were ap­ pointed a committee on correspondence aud invitations. Lt. Col. Avery, Lt. Wells and Capt. Tryon were appointed a committee on music. Committee on Finance--Capts. Nisih, Skellenger, Sarg. Iloren, Lts. Hoffman, Barber and Sarg. Randall. Committee on Hospital and Hospital Stores--Surgeons Green, Merritt and Groesbeck. Committee on Rations--Capt. J.Kddy^ Lts. Cutter, Alderman, Sarg. Andrews, Lt. Kecler, Lt. Geo. Eckcrt, Lt. Wedg­ wood, Frank Packer, Sarg. Reynolds* and Sarg. Bosworth. On motion it was resolved that each one be requested to furnish themselves with beds and bedding, blanketsv etc., and also rations. EA9TEKN WOMEN. The only news received from the theatre of war in Europe since our last review of events is more romantic than political. Though it seems now pretty certain that one of the three Servian army corps has been defeated by the Turks, the military aspect of the ques­ tion remains yet unaltered, and a big fight is daily expected in the neighbor­ hood of Niseli. But we are told of a quite new feature in Eastern warfare. Women in the East, and especially Turkish women, were wont to im­ itate those Corinthian spinsters who threw tiles from the roofs of their houses upon Pyrrlius's troops trying to force their way through the streets of the Grecian cftv, and who even suc­ ceeded in killing Pyrrhus himself. It is said now that the Turkish women fired from the windows with revolvers on the Servian troops, when the latter entered the town of Belina. On the other hand, the Christian women have not yet followed the example of their Missolonghi sisters who killed cach other rather than fall alive into the hands of the Turks; it is stated, iu fact, that the latter have'violated and after­ wards killed all the Christian women of a captured Bulgarian town. We hear, besides, of flvo and six thousand killed and wounded, at the same time; and this war threatens to'be as bloody as that of 1827, and those carried on by AH Pacha, the ferocious "lion of Tebe- len." flfcy'The report is repeated, from Indian sources, bnt still needs confir­ mation. that Sitting Bull, the chief of the hostile Sioux, was among the killed in the fight which resulted so fatally to General Custer aud his command. The same report states that two other chiefs were killed at the same time, together with about 400 of the Indian warriors. JBfcg" How little things reveal the real greatness of some men. When Sam Cox called Chairman McClernand a sneak and a coward, Mac's Adam's apple rose aftd fell like the craw of a puller pigeon, but beyond that he made no sign.--Brooklyn Argus. SfSiF'There is a good deal of consola­ tion just now in the thought that a man who droj)s a fivedollar bill into the contribution box sufifers just as much from the heat as one who puts in a counterfeit quarter and takes out a couple of good ten-cant pieces for change.--Norwich Bulletin. OUK WASHINGTON LETTER. WASHISGTOK, I). C., July 20th, 18NI One of our Sunday papers very hap^ ^ pily expressed how intensely hot tb# weather in th's city is by saying, that his Satanic Majesty had come hereon a visit, but alter staying * few hour* had been compelled to return to thW regions df bliss below to cool off. Onf last Saturday and Sunday, there werflf thirteen cases of sunstroke, uearly all of which proved fatal. The massacre of General Glister and his command, instead of uniting both of ihe political parties in Congress to . at once take steps to prevent the re­ currence of such an aftair at any time : in the future, has served as the means of rather widening the breach be­ tween them, and been the cause of bit­ ter recriminations. The Republicans say that the slaughter is a powerful ar­ gument against the reduction of the Army as proposed by the Democrats, aud that they will now oppose it more bitterly than ever. The Democrats re­ tort by saying that if the three or four thousand troops spred all through the South,for political purposes, were only sent to the frontier, the Army would be amply large enough even after the proposed reduction; and that the re­ cent changes iu the militarjr depart­ ments of tfre South is simply for the purpose of more eflectively using the Federal troops to insure a Republican victory next fall. The ten days extension of the fiscal year having elapsed, another extension of ten days has been made, so as to -keep the wheels of the Government in motion, but little hopes are felt that the dead-lock will be broken even when this extension is up. Both parties have been so loud in their boasts of what thriy would aud would not do, that neither one now feels that it can consistently "eat crow," and recede trom the stand which they have taken. If the Lord, in his divine goodness and mercy, would only send the whole' troop of them out to grass for seven years, as he did Nebuchadnezzar, of old, we Wasliingtonians, at least, would bow in meek submission to his will and heartily say, amen. We have again been called on to en­ tertain a Royal visitor, in the person of^ Don Carlos, the late would-be King of Spain. Unlike Doni Pedro, he doef not make the slighest attempt to go" sight-seeing, or to study our InstitiH' tions, but spends his time prineipalljr in smoking and trying to keep cools Although able to^ stpeak English, he re­ fuses to do so, but is willing to converse in Spanish, French or Italian. His whole policy seems to be summed up in the short sentence "Let me alone and mind your own business." It issaid that he is being closely watched by tb»' Spanish agents, as he is suspected of being on his way to Cuba for the pub»" pofe of raising an insurrection there. The Impeachment trial is still going on, but bids fair to be much shorter than was expected. Thus far no materially new evidence has been adduced. Ao»" cording to the story of Marsh, the chief witness far the presecution, he patd1 Belknap regularly a portion of what he got tor the Fort Sill Tradership, but* had no regular, agreement with him £ but, although he had no regular agree-*' ment, either Belknap or his wifo w%- always around when the money wof* due. M?s. Belknap lorded it with a fcfgfr hand in society, and snnbbed Mrs*- Marsh because she was only a **Post Trader's wife." Mrs, Marsh knowing' that her husband bought many ©f the fine feathers that helped to make Mrs. B. a fine bird, said "A Port Trader's' wife it every bit as good as those who' take bribes from Post Traders,** and from that one remark comes all this ex* posure. PATEKTO. jggg?* A Chicago surgeon called in the night to perform an operation, pntthe necessary instruments in a bag and started. A policeman stopped him, examined the contents of the bag, re­ fused to believe that they were not burglar's tools, and arrested the sur­ geon. jjgfThe future pitcher and catcher of some champion base-ball nine were observed yesterday practicing with a half brick done up in an old stocking. This is what may be called the ragged edge of the game. % j®*The use of the editorial ^we" prevails in the South, as will be seen bs the following remark in the Pvris (Tenn.) Intelligencer: "If we escape the hog cholera this season, there will be a large surplus of pork next winter." asr "Doctor," said a lady to her phy­ sician, "don't you think the small bon- nets that the ladies weAr nowadays havh a tendency to vroduee congestion of the brain ?" "No, madam, where you sec oue of those bonnets ffUMUSftaJAi. . . . ^ : no brain to congest. I r A well known saloon keeper at Albany made a bet of four dollars on Friday that he could eat a fried eel weighing eight pounds, with soda- cracker accompaniement, at one sitting, and wash down the little collation with a gallon of cider. He wo* the bet, and is actually looking for another' victim. . IQrPhifSheridaii thinks the regu­ lars can attend to Sitting Bull without calling out any volunteers. Nevertbe-* less, wouldn't it be better to make nv sure thing of it next time. General# fgg^"Xo objections to spending few weeks with the family at Saratog* or Long Branch," concludes a recenjf advertisement of "Situation WantedJr How obliging Bridget's getting to Uf Fancy Note and Letter Paper, wltifc envelopes to match. Tory neat stylM* At O. W. Owen's. . d'*,: