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piaicaealep. Published Every Wednesday by Mitor and Publisher. In Riverside Block, Over Smith Bros. & Co.'s Store. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION On# Tear, (in Advance,) ...$l 60 .'If not Paid within Three Months,.. 2 00 Hubscriptions received for three or six months I* the same proportion. BUSINESS CARDS. H. T. WKWS, M. I). PHYSICIAN and Snrjrcon. Office in Brick Block over F. G. Maves Clothing Store Water Street, McHenrv 111. E. A. BEEltS M. D. PBY8TCTAN arid Surgeon. Office ntresidence, two doors west of Post Office, McHenry $1. O. J.HOWARD, M D. PITSTCIAN nnd Surgeon. Office at tho store of Howard & Son, McHenry, III. (? T. 3. BARBIAN. CIGAR Manufacturer, McHenry I1L tory No. 17L* Orders solicited. Fac- RICHARD BISHOP, A TTORXEY AND COITN^KLOR AT LAW. /V Office in rear of Murphy & Bishop's Bank North Side Public Squnre, Woodstock, 111. GEO. A. BUCKLIN, TOTARY PITBI.IC, Conveyancer and In- _ surance Agent. Office at Bucklin ft Steven's Store, near the Depot, McHenry, 111. N< E. E. RICHARDS. TTAS a complete Abstract of Titles to land XI in McHenrv County, Ill'nols. Office with County Clerk, Woodstock, 111. ROBT. WRIGHT. anufacturer of Custom Made Boots and Shoes. None but the best of material ed and all work warranted. Shop Northwest enrner Public Square, McHenry, 111. 2£ Fit. IIECHTLE. USE, Riam Carriage Painter, McHen- iii. wii ble Mte 11 work promptly and at E. III". OWEN. 0ENERAL Dealer and Manufacturers Agent in T„eadin? Farm Machinery. Prices low and Terms favorable. M C H E N R Y . . . . . . I L L I N O I S . . 15. BENNETT, M. D„ SURGEON and Accoucher. Diseases of Women a Specialty. Officeand Residence on Clay Street, Woodstock, 111. W. H. BUCK, M. D., TTOMKOPATHIC Phytician and Surgeon. XX Office East Side Public Square, W<i stock, I1L to 4 P. M , , ond- Office hours 11 to 12 A. M., and 2 Home, Sweet Home! A commodious one within three min­ utes walk of the Public Square. Do You Want One Cheap ? For which you can pay in monthly or yearly installments, or in 6ne payment as you choose. By adding a small per cent to the monthly rent you are" now paying, in a few years you can have a home of your own, by applying to ASA W. SMITH, P. M., Woodstock, 111. O. W. OWEN, WATCH MAKES & JEWELER, ' MCHENRY ILL., V ' Dealer hrall kinds of "American and Swiss Watches, Clocks from the liest factories in the country. Silver, plaledware, Silver Spoons, ftc., ALSO AGENT FOR THE Weber and Bradbury Pianos AND THE Estey Organ ! Which we believe to be the best Organ in the market We think we know that bv experi­ ence, and we believe it, for it is backed up by the Besl Musicians in the World. r them to be the Kstey, but can't reocQmmend as good. O. W. OWEN, July 23. GEO. SCHREINER. SALOON and Restaurant. Nearly 'opposite the Parker House, McHenry 111. WFirst-Class Billiard and Pool Tables. J. BONSLETT, SALOON and Restaurant. Nearly oppoeite Owen's Mill, McHenry, 111. Fresh Oysters ttrved up in any shape desired, or for sale by ffce Can. 45TGOOD STABLING FOR HOR£ JOS. WIEDEMANN. SALOON and Restaurant. Near McHenry the Depot III. Boarders by the day or week at reasonable rates. Warm and cold Bicals at all hours. MURPHY & BISHOP. BANKERS. ^ Office North Side of Public Square, WOODSTdS^ ILLINOIS. TRANSACTS a General Banking and Ex­change Business. Deposits Received.-- Interest allowed on Special Deposits. Buy and sell United States Bonds, Gold, Gold Exchange, etc. Exchange on all principal cities in Europe for sale. Woodstock. III. "Good Stabling for Horses..®* MCHENRY LIVERY STABLE. H. ®. WIGHTMAN, Proprietor. First class rigs, with or without drivers, furnished at reasonable rates. Teaming of all kinds done on short notice. W. W. ELLSWORTH. BREEDER o the Celebrated Magie Hog. Also Light and Dark Brahma Fowls. rPigs •hipped to all points liy express. P. O. Ad- dross, Woodstock, 111., far ran ted. ROBERT MURFITT, AWATCH-M AKERof 18 years experience, has located at ^Nunda, anil will give his nttcn- T tion to the Repairing of Clocks. 7 Watches, &c. Shop in Watson & Co.'s Drug Store. All Work PETER LEICKEM. REPAIRS Watches, Clocks and Jewelry of all kinds. Also Repairs Violins in the best possible manner, on short notice and at rea­ sonable rates. Also Violins for Sale. Shop first door North of Riverside Block, McHenry III. MCHENRY HOUSE. McHenry, 111. John Karges Proprietor. Centrally located and the best of accom­ modations furnished. Charges reasonable. RICHMOND HOUSE. RICHMOND ILLINOIS. Frank Foster Pro­prietor. (rood accommodations for all parties. Samplerooms for Salesmen. Livery Stable attached. Public Hall for Lectures, Shows ftc., The McHenry Brewery. King: & Herbefc, 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. PATENTS. Persons desiring to take out Patents, or de­ siring information from the U. S. Patent Office should cdnsult F. A. LEHMANX,SOLICITOR OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN PATENTS, Washington, D. C. Examinations free. NO PATENT NO PAY. Send for Circular. For Sale. The undersigned offers for Sale, tne Brick Store on Water Street, in the village of McHenrv, now occupied bv Mrs. C: II. Morey, as a Millinery Store. It is 14x35, the upper •tory being finished off as a residency. TERMS SEASONABLE. Inquire of C. H. MOBET McHoury, 111. Nov. 1st 1875. THE OWENS Fox River Valley Mills. 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~The Highest Market Price to Gash for good Milling Wheat. H. D. LUFF, Successor to Owen Bros. W. H. SANFORD, Merchant Tailor. In the store of C. n. Dickinson, East side of Public Square, WOODSTOCK, ILL. A good Stock of Fine Cloths for Suitings al­ ways on hand. Suits made to order and a lit warranted- Give me a call. W. H. SANFORD. Woodstock 111., Sept. 27th, 1875. ^MOLTNTTF ROOT B I T T E R S . THIS BITTERS, for its intrinsic properties, is known as one of tho Best Tonics of the Age. As a laxative Liver Cleaning, Blood Purlfv- ing Medicine, it has not its superior. It should be taken in quantities from a Tablespoon full to a small wine glass full three times a day, according to the strength and age of the lnva- id or the degree of sickness. For Sale by the Case or Bottle, --BY-- L. KAPPLER, Patentee, Woodstock, lit. Farm For Sale. THE undersigned offers for sale his farm in the Town of Greenwood, consisting of 240 acres of first class land, under a good state of cultivation, well watered, prairie and good Timber adjoining, good buildings, Fruit in good variety, in fact evervthing constituting a good farm. Will be divided if desired. Terms very low, Inquire on the premises of GEO. II. GARBISON. Greenwood 111. April I8th, 1S76. James Robbins. MANUFACTURERS AGENT for the Champion Reaper and Slower, the Gor- ham Corn Cultivators and Dinnvond Plow, warranted to Scour in any soil, tiie Forest City Seed Plow and State Beam StuhMe Plows Corn Planters, Horse Rakes, Ae.-^Will take Cash or Good Notes in exchange ior J^uy and all of my Goods. * • Post Office* Solon Mills, III. FAILURES--WHAT THEY TEACH. The numerous failures and suspen­ sions which has made the commercial world, *<ince the panic of 1873, one of constant upheaval and change, should be utilized, by those fortunate oues who have thus far escaped disaster and ?-by those who are entering:, for the first time, the field of business life, for the l6ssons that may bfe drawn from them. Failures like every species of mishap, only follow from a sufficient cause. And usually it is one that could have easily been counteracted or avoided if the fact of its existence had not been un­ known. And it is just here that we find so many of our business men weak. In their acquaintance with their own business, they lack that complete dom­ inated, of the calling they have profess­ edly made themselves master of, whiplt alone enables one to understand ftlld avoid its dangerous points. The man who makes a study of or devotes time to an accurate and scien­ tific education in the business he has chosen, as a means for the accumulation of wealth, is now rarely found; and it seems to us that a large number of the failures of the last three years might justly be attributed to this cause. The idea seems to prevail that a business transacted on one's own account is a kind of perpetual motion, that, once started, will not only kteep itself in op­ eration, but may be drawn upon to an almost unlimited extent for the means to sustain other enterprfi&s^ The in­ ventor who spends years in ftivempting to realize his impossible machine is not more certain of failure than he who starts in business with such expecta­ tions. The time when money could be made by ignoramuses*,arid when wealth could be liacValmost for the taking, has fadedfsff"*away into the dim past; and an era of strife and struggle has dawned in which only those who have most1 carefully prepared themselves for the warfare can hope to succeed. It is not luck that makes one man fail and his neighbor succeed; it is not fickle fortune that brings clouds of difficul­ ties upon one while another has ap­ parently plain sailing. It is some­ thing far more certain in its operations than either of these. It is skill and a perfect command of his resources that enables one man to advance where another can make r.o progress ; and these two qualities are posessed only by those who have made their business the one thing they must become perfectly fa­ miliar with. The world is not yet so crowded that any need go to the wall to support the rest. There is room for all. and an abundance to spare. The great want is for more men who are well qualified for work, and who will put their shoul­ der to the wheel and pusli. Any per­ son who is determined to win,.pud who unites with this perseverance sense enough to know that success comes only to those who deserve it, by the pa­ tience and skill with which they toil, has before him an inviting Held for labor, and may enter it with the issu­ ance that, if his efforts are rightly di­ rected, they will meet with a sure re­ ward. Newspapers at the CcstcsnlaL The Special Correspondent of tho London Times sayg it would be difficult to find an apter illustration of the big way in which the Americans do things than that furnished by the uCetitennial Newspaper Building," in the Exhibi­ tion grounds. Here you may see any one, or, if you like, all of the 8,128 news­ papers published regnlarrly in the United States, and see them, one and all, for nothing! You are not only permitted as a favor to see them, but invited, nay, pressed, to confer the favor of entering the building and calling for what paper you like. It is about as cool and agreeable a place quite apart from its literary attrac­ tions--as a visitor to the Exhibition could wish to be offered a chair in. He Way at first wonder how, among €,000 papers, among them such mighty sheets as the New York Herald, he is to get at the small, loved print of his home, thousands of miles away, it may be, over the Rocky Mountains. But the management is so simple that, by con­ sulting the catalogueyor even without the aid of the catalogue, any one can at once find whatever paper he wants. They are.pigeoned-holed on shelves in the alphabetical order of their States or Territories and their towns, the names of which are clearly labelled on the shelves. The proprietors of the Centennial Newspaper Building are advertising agents, the largest in all America--Messrs. G. P. Howell & Co., of New York. Their enterprise will cost altogether about 020,000, or £4,000 including the building and the expen­ ses of "'running1' it for six months. The 8,000 and odd American newspapers are declared, by the same authority, to ex­ ceed "the combined issues of all the other nations of the earth." --mm r«ILACEUlIIA XJSTTKR. ^ Ptm.ADKT.nrrA Ang, », WW. Tiie Boating (Regatta, of which I 8^*There is scarcely a newspaper published from one end of the year to the other, that will not. if critically considered, give offense to somebody in the community. The politician ob­ jects to the way his speech is reported. The buyers of one set of shares are of­ fended because the money column re­ ports another set as going up or going down. Gentlemen who find themselves in the hands of the police are grieved at the lesenoe of the press, which re­ ports their arraignment and trial among the police proceedings. The sympa thizer with France is offended at letters from Berlin1 and the believer in German unity mourns over dispatches from. Paris. The newspaper thus offends some one, just as the weather--rainy to-day and sunshiny to-morrow--is sure to annoy somebody. The common 6ense view is that the newspaper is the histo­ ry of yesterday writen to day; that it is the mirror of the time, and that those who conduct it accordingly care noth­ ing for individuals, except to do them justice. Gen. Custer as a ladies' Man. Gen. Custer was very fond of ladies' society, but was never what Is called a *' married flirt." He enjoyed the socie­ ty of ladies because they were pretty* or bright, or intelligent. He was too true to his wife ever to have been a flirt. He visited the house of a young lady friend of mine very frequently when he was in New York; they had known each other ior years, and were the best of friends. The waiter, Wil­ liam, being a new hand at the door, evidently took Gf n. Custer for a beau of his young mistress, aud to her great amusement, always announce *the general" in the most confidential whis­ per, and just the faintest suspicion of an approving smile. Gen. Custer said that his manner to him was that of a servant to a probable master. One day at the dinner table the young lady asked particularly after Mrs. Custer, when she was coming to New York. Well bred servant that he was, William al­ most dropped the dish he was passing, and his coin plexiou from charcoal turn­ ed to mahogony. I think he was very much disappointed, for he greatly ad-* mired the brave cavalryman, and from that day out lie announced in formal tones, "Gen. Custer P' as though there had never been such a person as "the general" of bis dreams.--Boat/on Ga­ zette. fiST" Where is the Cooper and Cary ticket now? For that matter, where are Hayes and Wheeler, or Tilden and Hendricks? The next dispensors of the patronage of this government are to come from California. Listen to this: Chauucy Barnes, of California, has nominated himself for President, and Caroline Brocklies. of the same State, for Vice President. His platform as announced in a printed circular, is as follows: "No salary ; no rum, whiskey, or tobacco to be used at the head of Church or State; and every man to have his wife, mother, or sister to act and sta^d by him side by side, to coun­ sel with upon all subjects pertaining to the welfare ol our Government and Hu­ manity." "Roll swiftly on ye wheels of timfc &c." ggT'The will of M. C. Kerr devises In substance that all the law books of which he shall be theownerAt tlufcfime of his death, and used b£hift&ijp^law library, shall be held In trust by his jwife for thr use of his son, Saml. B. Kerr. He leaves all of his property, real and personal, in trust with his wife, during her life, and at her death, if the son shohld survive her, the prop­ erty will be bequethed to him. He also provides that his mother and his wife's mother shall be provided for so far as his wife's ability may permit her so to do, and he concludes by most earnestly beseaching his son to cherish always a most sincere love of justice and truth, and to make all his aims in life consist­ ent therewith, and they cannot fail to be high and noble. He makes his wife the sole executor of his will. The pa­ per is dated May 27,1865. NEEDS MUST.--They have produced a playinParis, the heroine of which is Madame Godelot, who has never said the word "Yes" during the whole course of her life and she prides herself on this peculiarity. During the marriage ser: vice in which she necessarily took part before becoming a wife, when aske'd if she would take Godelet as her husband* she made a scandal by answering "Needs must," and she obstinately de­ clines to depart from her rule of never agreeing in opinion with anybody. fl6?"The most rampant and highest blooded Bull in this country is the chief of the Sioux. If this'government would offer to border men as much for his carcass as a Duke brings at a Short­ horn auction, he would be corraled be­ fore snow flies in the mountains. As it is, it seems likely that he will again prance upon the plains when grass comes. spoke a short time since* has begun, and has attracted immense numbers of people. The course on the river ex­ tends from the Schuylkill Falls to Peter's Island, and is all that can be de­ sired. The races thus far have been very good, but they differ in no essen­ tial degree from those which everyone has seen. The Committee have decfd- ed that those crews, which have been maintained in training, and their living and training expenses paid for some time prior to the races, are "hired," crews, and the/efore not eligible to the amateur races. The attendance to the exhibition is gradually increasing so as to average about 31,000 a day, but with the open- ing of the animal show, this number will be very largely increased. One of the Philadelphia papers has estima­ ted that the exhibition will close about 33,000.000 in debt, and this Is not far from correct. On the south side of Machinery Hall is an annex, for the exhibition of Hy­ draulic and Pneumatic machinery of all kinds, and in the center of the annex is a tank or basin, that is 146 feet long, 60 feet wide, 8 feet deep, and which holds about 500,000 gallons of water. All around this basin are arranged pumps of every imaginable kind, from the smallest hand pump up to those run by steam, and which raise nearly 30,- 000gallons a minute; blowers, for forc­ ing great volumes of air; hydraulic rams;w&termeters; and mining ma­ chinery. All of those pumps which are driven by steam draw the water up from the tank and then discharge it back again over the edges, either al­ lowing it to quietly fall from a consid­ erable height, or forcing it through nozzles, which send the water high in the air as from a fire engine. The con­ stant falling of thousands of gallons of water creates a aoise that completely drowns the roar of all the machinery iu the adjourning Hall. When one Is hot and tired, a more pleasant place than a seat by the side of this basin can scarcely be imagined, as the air is kept constantly in motion by the blowers, and is always delightfully cool. Among these pumps there are two that deserve especial mention, one for its immense size and the fine display it makes aud the other for itsn intrinsic worth. The first is known as the Nt agara Pump and its name is fitly chosen It consists of two immense rotary pumps, which elevate about 30,000 gal Ions a minute 32 feet high, and then discharge it back into the tank in one broad steady sheet about 30 feet wide making as pretty a mi nature water­ fall as was ever seen. These pumps re­ quire 100 horse power to run them, and are capable of emptying the main basin of its 500,000 gallons in 16 min­ utes. The other pump, and which in my opinion is quite a wonderful inven­ tion, is known as the Huffer Steam Va­ cuum Pump. It cvasisls of two or more chambers, into which the steam is alternately admitted so as to vacuum, and into these vacuums the wa­ ter is forced by the pressure of the at mosphere. Instead of requiring live steam direct from the boiler to oper­ ate it, it is to bo run entirely by ex­ haust steam, that is, bv steam that has already done Its work in driving the main engine and is then allowed to es­ cape into the air. A pressure in the steam of a pound or two is as good as a pressure of many pounds, so that a per son who runs an engine, howtfver small, can also run a pump that will iraise any desired quantity of water without the expense of a single pound of fuel ex­ tra. In Machinery Hall is one of the fin­ est exhibitions of sewing machines and fancy needle work probably ever seen together. The merits of the different machines are to well known to the pub­ lic to need mention here, so with the exception of a single one that is so new that 1 have never seen it before, I shall speak of the displays made by each Company alone, without auy reference to the machines themselves. The new machine is called the "Little Wonder," and well it deserves its name. With the exception of a little handle on top of the left eud of the table, and which connects underneath with the feeding device, the machine is evidently of common make. The operator takes this little handle in the left hand and tnrns it around, back and forth, and by this means the feed is turned in any di­ rection desired, so that by a slight movement of the work in and out from the needle, the most.intricateembroid* ery can be made as rapidly as the most common work. All that the operator has to do is to form the pattern in his mind and then turn this little handle back and forth, and the machine lays the work on with an accuracy that is almost mathematical. How mueh practice it takes to do this I cannot say but the ladies who run these machines appear to scarcely give their work a second thought and yet they write and t embroider as rapidly as if they were running straight seams. Wheeler 6 W ilson have quite a large space anrf have their machines enclosed in ele-~ gant frames, and as a sample of what the machines will (to, they have Alargw case of boots and shoes and other leath­ er work that have been very fanciftilly embroidered. The Weed Companf have not such a fine exhibition of frames, but display a large picture of the battle of Bunker Hill, that was worked entirely by one of their ma­ chines, and took the operator 49 weeks to finish it. Each figure is solidly worked .in with some colored silk, ami at a short distance away looks like an oil painting In which rather glaring colors have been used. The Wilson Company has a very fine large exhibit, both of machines and samples of workt that are beautifully embroidered with vines and flowers, in many different colored silks. The Howe Company has about as fine an exhibit both of ma­ chines and samples of work, Ml anjr other Company. In order to show tho wonderful difference between what his machines are now. and when flrst pat­ ented, the model that was used when he applied for his first patent, has been taken from the Patent Office, at Wash­ ington, and placed on exhibition. Tho machines as flrst made were very small and were intended to bet screwed to the top of a table, and operated entire­ ly by hand. The fly-wheel and treadle are a later application, and were never dreamed of at that time. Instead of the needle being straight, and working vertically up and down, iii his model the needle is curved, and secured to*'an arm or lever, so as to pass into the work from the side, the work being held in exactly the opposite position from what it Is now. His idea, as it then existed, was rather a mechanical curiosity than a practical success. At­ tached to some of his modern machines are arms that are attached to the needle-bar, and which have a palm leaf fan securcd to ou6 end. As soon a» the needle bar begins to work up and down the fan is set iu motion and fans tho operator fast or slow, according to tho speed of the machine. The Singer Company is not represented in this Hall, but have built one of the finest buildings on the grounds, just back of the annex to Memorial Hall. In one* room are a large number of machines and show cases that are filled with dresses that are enough to drive an or^ dinary woman crazy, and make a maw swear until the air is blue. The second room is fitted up very elegantly as a parlor, and is free to all visitors. To Singer, more than any other inventor is due the perfection to which the mod­ ern machines have been brought. In­ side of ten days after he heard of Howe's success in sewing by machinery he invented his flrst machine, made a model, and applied for a patent. Ho took Howe's imperfect idea, and pro­ duced the first really practicable sew- 1 H$^ftehinc tjiat was e ver made. Q BAD l&'The Albany Exprttg revive*an interesting chapter in our political his­ tory. Ten years ago to-day President Andrew Johnson visited that city ao- companied by Secretary Seward, Ad­ miral Faragut, and Gens. Grant and Custer. To-day Gen. Grant, President of the United States, is the Only survi­ vor of that distinguished party. Pres­ ident Jehnson wasjwelcomed to the city by the mayor, and to the state of New York by the then chief magistrate, Gov Fenton. In the evening the President was entertained at a sumptuous ban­ quet at the Dele van house. Toward midnight Mr. Johnson was called out by the crowd, and addressed it* % BSuHoratio Seymour was nointiialod by the democrats last week for gover­ nor of the State of New York. Ho promptly and emphatically declines. His physicians tell him that he most not assume the excitement and caW of a pollltlcal campaign. Mr. Seymour has been a great politician in his day but his best work for his state and country Is the encouragement that he has been able to give to the development of tho dairy interest. S^Now w# have it. Gov. Hayes has been accused of cheating » soldier out of 8400 bounty money, and GOT, . Tilden has not only absorbed several railroads' but has stolen an entire canal», water, tow-path, bridges and all. TliO great issues are new "in our midst,"' as it were. CIDER CIDER. J. W. Freund, at Owen's old Plain­ ing Mill, will be prepare d the last of this week to make your spare Apples into Cider on short uotice The Mill; has been repaired iu the best of ner,aml all who briug their Appjes cap* rest assured of getting their CM#-" Pure aud Clean. Remember the plaet* Owen's old Cider Mill, near LalTs Gffe|%- Alill. ' P" %