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Bite JRtlrnrg 'pnindcaler. ' 3. VAN 8LYKE, IVbijshkr, ifcHENBY, - ILLINOIS. AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. October. Thine hou 1B comt, O minstrel of the jw. The daughters at the summer, one by one, Have pasft <1 in beauty by, Fulfilling each her happy ministry-- They of the bud, the bloom, the trait, an gone, And now the sovereign gMj? ."toejis Mndly new. Beckoning to thee, the last, the loveliest, to appear. Spirit of beauty! even imperial June fides in thy presence; thongh her brow she twine With lUy and with rose. And silvery -white her bridal vesture flows. Her loveliness is of the perfect noon; Thine of the sunset, when heaven's oolon shine And flood the daczled earth with brilliancy divine. I see thee linger in the dusky wood, T^Y pensive gaze uplifted to the skies, As if in some long dream Thou hadst bef n waiting for this boor supreme. A listening hush upon (lie foregtlies. For, yet unused to this strange solitude, All nature seems to share thy rapt, expectant mood , 'king, poet of the year! The musing hours Thrill with a tender awe since (hou art near-- The very winds are still, And breathless odors waft o er vale and hill. Touch thy soft, harp to numbers low and dear, And w'lile the leaveH fall in forsaken bowers, Breathe in ffiolian tones the death-song of the flow­ ers. 'Sing of the hopes that were in springtime sweet But found no place air ong our ripeneu sheaves; Of days once fresh and fair, Now tin-, ed with gold and lit with colors rare; Fancies and visions, now like autumn leaves * Tossing in radiant hues beneath our feet-- Memorials of a past so lovely, though so fleet! And sing of thoee who all around us lie In silence wrapt, and holden from our sight Even as the frozen mold Will soon thy glorious crimson garments hold. Yet dost thou smile at winter's deathly night; Thy beauty liv*s-- an endless prophecy That death is but a sleep, and we shall never die. Tby first prelusive note is like a bell Summoning earth to memory and to prayer. Through aft our golden days Hay our full hearts in kindred tones of praise The rapture of thy minstrel spirit scare 1 Then with thy closing anthem's joyous swell. From new-found heights of peace we may respond-- fwewelL £ Around the Farm. Many farmers have yet to learn that one animal will retain twice as much good meat for any given quantity of food consumed as another; so that, while the inferior one gives no profit to the owner, the superior stock pays hand­ somely. IT is far better to enjoy life in old age with yotur children than to have slaved to leave them a fortune, while you lie down in a premature grave. Let the * » --: u , I J a TSUVIVO V* IAIUIL>IN WLTOO UO 1C/OOCUC7U, ttliu furnish abundant help for the work to be performed.--Southern Farmer. GoBSbMANN gives the following table showing the weight of a bushel of vari­ ous fooas used for live stock : Wheat 46 to 40 lbs. Corn 43 to 43 Cottonseed . i 38 to 89 Linseed..... 40# to 41 English turnips 37 to 37# .. Swedish turnips 35 to 38 Red-top hay 4 to 5 Timothy hay 4# .. Bed clover 5 to 6 GET the best hands, and keep them. When a man has become used to his work and his employer, he is worth much more than a stranger. There is a way of making men interested in their work, of satisfying their self-respect, giving them credit for success, while holding them strictly responsible for failures, and above all by paying them promptly and liberally, that will make their work worth double what it would otherwise be.--Exchange. THE " milk mirror," or " escutcheon" in cattl 3 is that growth of hair upon the back and inside of the thighs which, in­ stead of lying smoothly downward, points upward and makes several curls at the parts where the direction of the hair is changed. The shape and extent of this upward growth of hair has been supposed to denote a special aptitude for producing milk. In male animals the milk mirror is held to denote heredi­ tary tendency to transmit milking pro­ pensities to the produce. A BED sown with spinach, whicn upon the advent of freezing weather is covered with a thin coating of straw, will give tilt? ownsr znsziy an stjjoyabls mssl in ad- vuxice of any other fresh crop. Then, too, a few plants of letiuco set out on a warm, sunny slope on the side of ridges, will be ready for cutting vtry early, and will be acceptable to almost every one. Onions planted now make early greens, as two or three w^rm days after the frost is out starts them into grpwth. All such crops will be better for a thin coating of straw. FARMERS waste too muoh feed for the want of proper feed racks and proper shelter for stock. The cheapness of the feed is no excuse for the waste. Stock fed out on the ground trample under­ foot and waste almost as muoh as they ©at, if the ground be muddy. Now is the time to prepare for judicious, econ­ omical feeding, by making shelter, with mangers and racks to save the feed. By keeping the stock oomfortable, they do better on less feed, yet how often we see stock running out all the winter in the mud, knee deep, wasting feed and flesh enough to build good shelter and feed racks.-- Western Agriculturist. About the House. SWEET APPLE PIE.--Stew till soft, having peeled and cored them, strain through a colander, add a little cream or milk and two eggs to every quart of apple. Season with lemon peel, stewed with the apples, or with nutmeg or cin­ namon. Bake with only a thin under- crust, like custard pie. CENTENNIAL SPONGE OAKS. --Two cups of sugar, two cups of flour, four tea- spoonfuls of baking-powder, four eggs, one cup of boiling water. Mix the eggs, sugar, flour, and baking-powder thor­ oughly together, add the boiling water ; stir quickly; put into pans and bake immediately. If desired to be very moist bake in a quick oven. THE number of horses in Great Britain felt from 1,461,061 in 1869 to 1,276,444 in 1873; but the number has since in­ creased, though not yet equal to that of 1869; in 1875 the number was 1,340,129. In Ireland, horses rose from 527,248 in 1869 to 540,745 in 1872, but fell to 526,- 160 in 1875. The total of the United Kingdom for 1865 was 1,866,289. GOOD MINCE PIES.--Six pounds beef, five pounds suet, five pounds sugar, two ounces allspice, two ounces cloves, three- fourths of a pound of cinnamon, half a pint molasses, one and a fourth pounds seedless raisins, two pounds cur/ants, half a pound citron chopped fine, one pound of almonds chopped fine, two oranges, one lemon skin, and all chop­ ped fine; two parts chopped apples to one of meat, brandy and cider to taste. STEAK should be turned repeatedly, and when firm to the touch should be taken UQ. laid on a hot dish on which one and one half ounces of butter has been melted, less than one-half tea- spoonful of salt, a pinch of white pep­ per, and one teas poonf ill of chopped parsley, well mixed; lay the steak on one side, and then on the other. •To PRESERVE EGGS.--Dissolve some gum shellac in a sufficient quantity of alcohol to ilixke M, tilux vaXuxah. Give each a coat, and after they have become thoroughly cbflp pack them in bran or sawdust iu sum a manner that they can­ not shift about. After you have kept them as long as you desire, wash the varnish carefully off and the eggs will be in the same state that they were before packing, ready either for eating or hatching. * Or.nm HABERE writes: "When yon once eat of macaroni as ic is prepared in Italy yon find it like the Turkish coffee-- something the soul delights in. Why don't we have macaroni cooked in the same way? We have an insensate way Of tumbling a handful into a basin of soup, which comes out pasty stuff, good for nothing. I took the pains to get an authentic recipe for cooking macaroni, and for ali who wish a most delicious, easy, cheap dish, I write itTake three pints of beef soup, clear, and put one pound of macaroni in it and boil fifteen minutes, with a little salt; then take up the macaroni--which should hate ab­ sorbed nearly all the liquid--and. put it on a flat plate, and sprinkle grated cheese over it thickly, and pour over all plentifully a sauce made of tomatoes, well-boiled, strained, and seasoned with salt and pepper. Some people prefer to only put the cheese on it, but I prefer it with the tomato as welL If anybody don't like that when it is done it is be­ cause he don't know what is good." A Missouri Pigeon Roost. Pigeons have come into this part of the country by millions. Of evenings the sky is darkened with them. They have made Dodson's farm their head­ quarters, and at nights the trees and underbrush are loaded down with multi­ tudes. A little before sundown large armies of pigeons are seen coming from different points of the compass, but each army passes onward, as if they intended to change their roosting-place. After a while they return and settle on the trees around the roost, not many of them nearer than a mile of the place. They make sudden flights from these trees, and the sound of their wings is like that of a great storm. There is a constant roaring in the air as myriads of the birds fly to and fro. About dark they fly toward the roost, and for a long time fly round and round, and have the ap­ pearance of bees swarming, although the vast number and the tornado-like roaring they make surpasses anything in the power of man to describe. After a while they alight on the trees and bushes, and the limbs are bent down­ ward, often are broken off. The pigeons keep up a constant chat­ tering, which can be heard for miles away. They are never still during the night. So far as sleep is concerned, such a thing is out of the question with a pigeon. They are disturbed by them­ selves--such throngs assembling in a spot that none can be still for a mo­ ment, and the incessant discharging of firearms among them causes them to change their location almost constantly. This roost is visited every night by crowds of men, some with guns and ethers with poles, which they use in thrashing down the pigeons which hap­ pen to be at the point struck. Hundreds are killed every night, but when light appears the vast armies again go forth with apparently as muoh vigor as ever. Pigeons have been killed in New York with undigested rice in their crops, which they had evidently gathered in the rice-fields in the Carolinas. From these and other circumstances, it has been estimated that a pigeon flies %t the rat* of a mile a minute. Lnagiue, Lhen, uiilliuiiS upon millions cf these birds all on the whig at the same time over a scope of country not more than two miles square, and a faint idea of the noise they make may be ob­ tained. But no one can ever fully im­ agine what a pigeon roost is, or how much noise they make, until one is seen and heard. There is an abundance of mast here now, and we suppose that the pigeons will remain here until it is all gone. One curious circumstance is that in the neighborhood of this pigeon roost we never see a pigeon from the time they leave of mornings until they return of evenings. They are not eating the mast here at all, but somewhere they are all feasting luxuriantly, for they are all fat.--Southland {Mo.) Rustic. Land Office Decisions. Copp's Land Owner for November reports decisions by the Secretary of the Interior in effect as follows : The filing of a declaratory pre-emption state­ ment before settlement does not in­ validate a right in the absence of an ad­ verse claim. All ex-parte evidence filed after the close of a hearing in a con­ tested land case, before local land officers, must be rejected except as a basis for an application for a new hear­ ing. All documents and exhibits filed in a case after the same has passed be­ yond the jurisdiction of the General Land Office must be passed upon by the department proper, and no paper thus filed should be rejected by the General Land Office. School Grants.--Where a party set­ tled on land in the fifteenth or thirty- sixth section long prior to the survey thereof, but has exhausted his pre­ emption privilege, he cannot, by a home­ stead entry, prevent the tract from pass­ ing under the school grant. # Swamp Lands.--To settle upon lands of a swampy charaoter would raise such a doubt of the settler's good faith as upon proper application to justify an ordet for an investigation. Ac such hearing the character of the land at the date of settlement should be determined. When notice of selection of a tract by the State is received at the local land office the State should be notified before proof and payment is made by the set­ tler thereon, but where patents have been ifesu^a under former rulings of the Interior Department the will be considered rez judicata.. ILLINOIS ITEMS, , CASE has brought suit against the town of Winchester for injuries re­ ceived by him at some pitfall in the streets of that place. He broke a leg, and lays the damages at £10.000. MRS. SMITH, an Ohio evangelist, ere ate J a great sensation at Decatur, one morning last week, by preaching a tem­ perance discourse in front of Dan Bren- man s wholesale and retail liquor store. It was fearfully invective, and was list­ ened to by a large crowd. IN Peoria, at an early hour one morn­ ing last week, an alarm of fire was sounded, and the Peoria woolen w>illa| owned by Chas. Raymond, discovered to be in flames. The building was an old frame affair, and burned like tinder. The loss is estimated at $20,000. . Gov. BEVEKIDGE has made the follow­ ing appointments: John Allison, of Gardner, Grundy county, trustee of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, vice G. W. Hollo way, resigned ; Thomas S. Ridge way, trustee of Southern Illinois Nor­ mal University, for six years, from Sept. 30, 1875; as his own suooessor. A LATE Springfield special says : " The trouble over the Douglas county returns of the Senatorial vote between Bundy, Republican, and Jones, Demo­ crat, is understood to be ended, and that the State canvassers will accept the amended return and declare Jones to be elected Senator, Jones undoubtedly reoeived a majority of jthe votes ; but, by a clerical mistake in the original re­ turn, Bundy was given twenty votes too many, thus showing him to be elected. This mistake is now corrected, and Jones will be given the seat" MAJ. J. B. YOUNS, one of the oldest citizens of Scott county, and his wife celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their married life in Win­ chester, the other day. The tffiuV was regarded as the' social event of the sea­ son there. The ceremony was graced by a brilliant assemblage of the first people of the city. Numerous relations from abroad were present, and the presents were numerous and many of themoostly. Maj. Young is 80 years of age, and his wife a few years younger. They proba- bly nnmber more descendants than any couple in Scott county, of which the Major was one of the first settlers. TEN liquor dealers were brought be­ fore Judge Bailey, of the Winnebago County Court, at Rockford, a few days since. They were charged with selling liquor without, a license, as RooVford'" Common Council granted no licenses this year. The argument set forth by defendant's counsel, Mr. C. M. Brazee, was that the dram-shop act of 1874 was unconstitutional and an absolute nullity. The counsel produced de­ cisions from the Supreme Court of the United States and of this State show­ ing how section 1, article 9, Of the con­ stitution had been construed by those courts. The law must operate uniformly upon the class for which it is intended. After some further argument the State's Attorney asked for a continuance until March, 1877. The ten cases were ac oordingly continued. These suits in­ volve an important question--the legal­ ity of the dram-shop act; and the ques­ tion will be brought up in the Supreme Court of this State. FOUR highway robberies were com­ mitted at Galeeburg on Wednesday night. Mr. E. Ward was the first at­ tacked. He yelled lustily for help, and passers-by came to his assistance before the robbers had time to go through him. He received, however, a serious blow in the face. Mrs. F. A. Smith, Public Librarian, was the next victim. She managed to make her escape without loss or injury. About 11 o'clock, L. R. Norton, the baggageman on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, was attacked on Prairie street. His mouth was tied with a handkerchief, and he was then carried to a stone-yard and robbed of $20 in money, a revolver, and other minor ar­ ticles. He received no injuries. Tbe fourth unfortunate was a oolored man named W. Somers, in the employ of the American Express Company. The vil­ lains, finding nothing in his pockets, took his boots off his feet and the studs from his shirt bosom. The perpetrators are known to be two men and a boy, but the police have made no arrests yet. IN August last, within a few miles of Gridley, McLean county, the dead body of George Murphy was found lying near the road. The back of the head was terribly smashed, as if by an ax or gun­ shot. He had been traveling westward iu a wagon with Maj. Meredith, and the latter was suspected of the crime. Next day Meredith was arrested at Chatsworth and lodged in the McLean county jail. Meredith and Murphy were young and ignorant men, aged about 30, hailing from Niles, Mich., and were making their way to Texas or Kansas, swapping horses, and stealing as they went. When arrested, Meredith had a gun with one barrel discharged, and had blood stains on his clothes and on his wagon. There were also many other facts making a complete chain of circumstantial evidence under whioh a jury last Saturday night found bim guilty ol murder in the first degree, and fixed his penalty at death. Meredith received the verdict with composure, neither blanching in color nor quivering a mus­ cle. As this is the first time the death penalty has ever been decided upon in McLean county, there is much excite­ ment and comment on it. There have of late been many murders in McLean oonnty, but no severe sentences until this. AT Belvidere, one day la&t week, Mrs. Belle Moulton Darneille committed suicide by taking strychnine. Mrs. Darneille is the daughter of Mr. Moul­ ton and granddaughter of Cephas Gard­ ner, old and respected citizens of this rlace. She had a fine home, a loving husband, and, as far as could be seen, was leading a very happy and desirable life. She went out shopping in the morning, and appeared to be in her usually jolly spirits. Going home about noon1* she must have immediately taken the fatal draught, without hinting it to any one. In a half hour she was a corpse. Before she died she uttered the words, " Strychnine--I am dying." She died in five minutes after medical aid arrived. It was found that she had purchased . some strychnine, for the ostensible pur­ pose of poisoning rats. The community is divided in sentiment as to whether the act was premeditated or accidental. Many knowing her love of live, and that she had everything her heart could wish for in this world, believe it was purelv accidental, while others think it was purposely done, although unable to give any reason for the rash act. Her hus­ band, who is a member of the firm of moulton .V Darneillo, prominent grocers of the place, has tbe sympathy of a host of friends; in his affliction. The Vote of Illinois for President. oosnrants. oovkrmok. 4,271 1.234 1 290 1,69 Adams.. Alexander Boud ........ Boone Brown Bureau....' Osilhotm , Carroll 4. u- •• Champaign Christian.... ........ Clark...'.,... Clay C l i n t o n , . . . . . Coles Took..., .... Crawford........ Cumberland........ ReKulb Dc'Vitt............... i>OMglaas..--....... OuTage. Edgar;...... Edwards Kainshain Fayatte .. Ford Franklin F u l t o n . . . . Gallatin .. Greene Oruucly Hamilton.... Hancock Hardin.. Henderson ••nry Iroquois... .. Jackson Jasper...;'.':." J- fferson Jersey... Jo Daviess Johnson.............. Kane... r..I' Kankakee Kendall Knox I*ke LaSallA | B,(XH1 5,865, l.oaoi 10f'8| 288 i F&ESIDEXT. 830j 1.86 1.867: 8061 3,229 m 1 962 1,137 1,268 3,792} 2,058 2,2511 2.729 1.7U6I 1,797 l,*76j 1.384 1,213] 1.877 2,645 2,488 28.791I31.41R 1.178] ),14' 1,110! 1,2* 2,962 6'7 4,9!S3| 6,308 1.2191 1,980 1,52*4 1,142 1,738. l,M4j 1,5-1 2,288 871! 1,087| 1,725! 1,236 960| 3,511| 8771 1,875 1,229 871 2,317 4H) 1,714 1,82 822 1.143 3,22>- 1.150 1,869 2,256 1,581! 750 886 3,099! 426 1,204 3,673 8,n96 1,857 917 1,340 1,198 2,639 1,154 4,610 2.5?2 1,618 1,268 3,884 487 9»4 1,679 1.81* 1,578 1,121 1,786 1,537 2,114 564 1,728 976 899 1,966 950 3,719 441 2, 1.2"9 4,530 2,.MU l,8t8 1.416 1,329 ?,9%7 i 36,893 1,S5S l.»4 4 3401 1,981 2,226 875| 364 1,497 2,218i145 900 0 918. 111 1.618 74 8,1981604 3,287 j -07 2.197'286 1.541 112 1,989,132 3,82S'07 39,046'276 1.S63 3* 1.407 129 3 679' 1,4':V 1,931 1,174[746 1,762] 1,418 94 2,K9 1,276| 25 Lawronce 1,118 Lee ! 2,687 Livingston. | 2,062 Logan ! 1,905 Macon . 2,721 Macoupin 3,064; Madison 3,451 Marion 2,058' Marshall 1,540 Mtaon | 1.8721 Utwao 1.0l'4 McDonongh 2,800| MeHenry 2,898; McLean 5,812 Menard..... 9391 mercer.'..... .r. ...'; i,9m) Monroe 4141 Montgemery 2,20«i Morgan 2.728 Mouttrie 1,002 Oslo 3.108 Peoria 3,72? Perry...... 1,4>7 Watt i 1,443 Pike. I 2,638 Pope. 1,17.V Pulaski I 1,047 Putnam | 624 Randolph 1,863 Uichland 1,318 Rock Island 2,881 Kali no. Sangamon Schuyler Scott Shelby Stark st. Olair Stephenson.... Tazewell . ? Union Vermillion Wubaah wecrn.. -- Washington Wayne White Whiteside.. Will Williamson Winnebi Wood for 1 111 4,171 l,4!i9 917 1,891 1,217 3,818 t>a«o >rd .... • 4,2*1 1,142 1,374 3,153 2,4^8 2.441 3 869 4.050 2.379 1,209 1,675 714 2,7H 1,104 3.453 1.194 T.163 1,786 2,636 2,584 l,2?f 1,317 4,040 1,125 l.oos|! 2,929] I en I 7121' 356 1 1.989' j 1.38411 1,9351! 1,0901 j 4,488 j 1,679;i 1,130 I 2,757|i 665! j 4,4Mll! 2,7'5 970 1. 45 1.881 1,601 966 4.1R7| 70S ,6'»f 1,996 627 3,496 310 1.315 4,177 S,768 2,040 941 1,346 1,849 2.9(17 1.967 5,298 2,627 1,869 5.23S 2.6)9 6,278 2,883 160 466! 61 2,265' 43 2,4211 57 74 < 204 1,3-2 391 4.669| 88 I i»0i282 : lco j i 1,143 108 1,433 77i» 4,207! 39 6111134 1,0'5' 1 1 928:340 2,578 249 2,(71 '106 1,4411111 •1,667 >'47 2,176|268 2,2"6;'04 893 61 2.8501172 1,361|126 524 301) 2,n32 141 1,647 55 6 00 514 1.198, 1,82*; 27 I 3,087' 2,080 !100 ; 3.547 j 2,134] 27 ! 2,788 ! 2,5951 39 I 3,1201 2,7851-268 ' 3,567 , 4,076,114 ! 4.554 4,7301 39 I 2,009 2.444 209 ! 1,553j 1,430,(35 ! 1,556) 1,939| 86 ! 1,231; 793: 30 I 2,952! 2,81 1847 ! 3,465; 1,874 j 34 6,363 4,410'518 | 1.1161 1,6571 10 I 2,209i 1,4281 92 8461 1,651! 7 j 2,486] 3,013 201 l 3,069! 3,174 109 I 1,24-" | 1,672 28 3,833 1,921 8 6.44H 95 1,383: 48 1,816:117 NOTES OFTHEJLELHOM. they will not materially thee. - . ! AomMB T1; 1 . Tildpn'n mainritw «* si-w » ignres. Tilden's majority shows an ia» g«3 Majority in Alabama ie crease of 60 per cent over the Demo* crafcic rote of last year. CongreRaion The official majority for in reralte we reported as follows : Pirs| T District--Boone (Dem.), 10,994; Turner (Ind.), 8,154; Houston (Rep.), 5,221. Fourth District --J. Proctor Knott, (Dem.), 15,735; Lewis (Rep.), 8,98?* . bixth District--Carlisle (Dem.), 16,404; --The American people are troubled Ll?ndrum (Rep.), 8,133. Seventh Bis- with a large amount of good sense, and i ^ct--Blackburn (Dem.), 18,844; Shack- tnis is an excellent thing for expounders • (Rep.), 9,384. Eighth District-- of the constitution and nervous citizens j j^arham(Dem.), 15,482; Bradley (Rep.), New Jersey is 12,475. --Illinois is the banner greenback State. Peter Cooper reoeived 16,000 votes in the State. just now to make a note of. Tiio vote of Rhode Island is as fol­ lows: :*•••• TUden. io, 6M . 4,974 w,iso 49,410 ........ ..384,148 ..366.204 .. 7,204 .. 1,318 2.8401 2,240I 2,346] 2.178 861 1,789 8,40f:| 1,901 7941 966 MMi 1.A8B) 1,658 1,368 1,624| 1,7,9 1,930 3,2011 3,9501 1,338 3,802 1,551| 1,797 1 337 3,300 1,406 1,093 1.820 4,665 1,541 1,807 3,055 1,819 1,013 64* 2,357 1,410 3,912 9'. 9 4.847 i,r>22 914 2,069 1,440 4.708 3,198 2,8r.0 978 4,372 650 3,706 1.961 1,570 1,297 3 851 4,770 1,672 4,511 1,738 4,040 800 74? 459 2,589 1.552 2,838 1,077 5.847 l,8i >4 l,26i> 3,5' 3 786 5,891 2,758 3,17 2,1551 8,031' 93« 1,981 1,671 1,751 .<•,067 2.13' 3,999 1,644 l,(i6-> 2.105 35 50 41 13 2 55 27 641 79 108 182 344 96 99 26 45 3 288 207 139 39 482 469 133 67 41 70 237 1876--Hayes. Tildeu. RECAPITULATION. .276 360 .258,347 Hayes over Tilden Cooper 18,013 16,122 Hayes over Tilden and Cooper 1,891 187 J-- (3?lf Bby 237,774 Kaerner '.rt 197,084 Otfl»sby over Koerncr 4ii.69i) M76--H»yei£ 276,360 T.lden 258.347 Ooper 16,122 Total vote for President 550 829 Vote for President, 1868 449,436 Vote for President, 1872 42:»,076 Vote for Jcvernor, 1872. .*•137,013 Vote of H7C over Frc»lu»iat, lSS3.,.^......,>ii,593 Vote of 1176 G vcr President, 1872 121.751 Vote of 1176 over Governor, 1872 = 113.786 The lighest vote polled in Illinois be fore 1873 was that for President in 1868 The increase is that stated in the table, There vere given some 300 votes in the State, nit included in the above, about equally livided between the candidates for Preudent of the Prohibition an*1 Anti-Secret Society parties. Hayes* majority --The result in Wains: Hayes TUden .V.7.7 !!!.'!!'* Whole number TiiTIun Republican majority lt^Tao --The official vote of Pennsylvania is as follows: Haves lilden "...7.7.7.7.7*" Cooper.'.... ***•"•*?* smith, .77**;* , ~T*Le officii returns for Minnesota show Hayes majority to be 24,000. The three Republican Congressmen are elect**! by the following majorities • Dunney, 7,945 ; Strait, #,730 ; Stewart,' --Official vote of Cook oounty, I1L. embracing the city of Chicago : Total vote Tilden Hayes 7.7.7 S'RJS Cooper..... '.77.7.7.777^ 277 TUden's majority ^ --" Now yon see it and nowyon don't" is a pleasing and exhilarating perform­ ance for a few seoonds, but when it is applied to politics and repeated inces­ santly for two or three weeks, it be­ comes monotonous. Joseph Jorgensen, Congressman- elect from the Fourth District of Vir­ ginia, has entered suit in the Circuit Court of Richmond against the propri­ etors of the Riohmond Dispatch for alleged libel, laying damages at $10,000. --The official vote of New Hamp­ shire is : Hayes, „ TUden " * * ] Scattering Hayes' majority 3,999 --Votftof Ulinofo-* rotal vote 552,660 276,876 o00^ ' 170B7 Scattering Hayes over TUden .77 18 316 Hayes over all 102 41,522 12,654. Five additional districts Democrats, but the vote is not yet officially reported. --The official oanvass of the Wiscon­ sin election shows the following result l Total vote ol tbe State . «=• Hayes -....77.777 . TUden ... ...17 * * iMt '.....7.77.77 ajS Hayes'majority over TUden ^©41 The vote by districts for Congressmen is as follows : First district, C G. "Will­ iams, 18,206; H. G. Winslow, 12,478. ^ Second district, L. B. Caswell, Republi­ can, 15,073 ; Harlow S. Orton, Demo­ crat, 14,745. Third district, George O. Hazelton, Republican, 15,639; H. A. Orton, Democratic, 13,034. Fourth dis­ trict, Wm, H. Lynde, Democratic, 17,- 653; Win. E. Smith, Republican, 11,952. Fifth district, Ed. S. Bragg, Democratic, 19,544; Geo. W. Csrtor, Republican, 14,031. Sixth district, Gaba Bonok, Democratic, 20,623 ; A. M. Kimball, Re­ publican, 19.847. Seventh district. H. L. Humphrey, Republican, 20,702 ; M. R. Gage, Democratic, 13,223. Eighth district, Thad. C. Pound, Republican, 14,838; George W. Gate, Democratic^ 13,849. ' PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. Tenth Annual Meeting of the Nstlsaal Grange. The National Grange of tho Patrons of Husbandry held its tenth annual ses­ sion at the Palmer House, Chicago, last week. The session was an entirely secret one; but the enterprising report­ ers obtained from the minutes of Wm. M. Ireland, Esq., of Washington, D. C., an honorary member, some interesting figures. Mr. Ireland has for ten years been considered one of the most prom­ inent men in the order. The following figures, illustrating the progress of the Grange, were furnished by him: --Official President: Total vote.... Tilden Hayes vote of Connecticut for 122,156 SI,934 59,034 Coop«<j <j74 Smith 878 Tilden's plurality 2,900 Tilden's majority 1,748 --The official vote of Missouri has been canvassed, and foots up as follows: Total vote 350,583 Tilden 202,687 Hayea 144,398 Coopar 3 498 Tilden over Hayps ;.. TUden over Hayes and Cooper --The complete official returns of ali the oounties in Iowa show the following result: Uraiiyea. JmcctpU. hxuenditurta. 2*7.19 216.4S-- 1,065.15 1,341.47 3,30U.77 1,706.45 2,158.50 11,941 216,981.02 178,517.27 76,003.54 24,290 102,143.07 Hayes Tilden Cooper Anti-secret society..., Hayes over Tildeu Hayes over all ..171,327 112,099 .. 9,001 26 . 59,229 . 60,201 CmsumptioQ of Cotton. The d«mestic consumption of ootton in the Ulited States increases year by year. lefore the rebellion the home consumjtion was about 600,000 bales. Last yea: this country took of its own cotton 1356,598 bales, in spite of dull trade, .o nearly 150,000 bales more than in ^1874-6, and 50,000 more than in 1873-4. The consumption of Great Britain IAS also increased, however, by 46,000,0)0 pounds, over 100,000 bales ; but thatis, proportionate to their total consumjtion, a very small advance to that of he United States, although it is nearly poportionate on a basis of popu­ lations. The total domestic consump­ tion of Great Britain and Ireland is about 1000,000 bales. Great Britain mauufacures more cotton goods than ali the rest if the world put together. The numble »f "spindles" in that country is 39,00(000; all the rest of Europe has only 19,00,000, and the United States 9,600,001. Speaking of the supply and demand.the London Times says : " Basag their calculations on past experienes, and on figures which we need no detail, Messrs. Ellison esti­ mate thl, in spite of these stocks and the surjus of unspun cotton on the oontinec, Europe will next year require 2 241,00,000 pounds of cotton, of which 994,000,100 pounds will go to the conti­ nent, oi say, in all, 5,602,500 bales. Now, th American ootton prospects are said notk) be so good as last season, and the tew Egyptian crop is not ex­ pected 5 be equal to the last. The East Islian may not be much better than las, while Brazilian cotton is com­ ing in lee and less quantities to Europe. Altogetfer, therefore, it is estimated that thejupply next season may be less than thedemand by 145,000 bales, and that the tendency of price3 may be to harden. [ THE lorse and stock columns of two of the few York papers are edited by women. Total 292,453 --The official vote of Maryland for President and Vice President is as fol­ lows: Tilden, 91,780 ; Hayes, 71,981; Tilden's majority, 19,799. The official majorities of Representatives to Con­ gress, all Democratic, are : M. Henry, First District, 3,382; Charles B. Rob­ erts, Second District, 3,019 ; William Kimmell, Third Distriot, 5,659 ; Thomas Swann, Fourth District, 2,531; Hiii J. Henkle, Fifth District, 2,731; William Walsh, Sixth District, 14, --The following summary of the Oc­ tober and November votes in Ohio wiU show at a glance the result at each elec­ tion : • Fi*r I'rMident, 1876. , For Secretary, 1876 Hayes (Kep.) 380.698 Tilden (Dem.). ..828,182 Cooper (G'baok.).. 8,057 Smith (Pro.)...., Walker (A. M.).... 76 Total vote 658,649 Hep. plurality 7,516 Rep. majority..... 2,747 Barnes (Hep.) 318,176 •Bel), Jr., (Dem.) .311,220 Chapman (Pro..).. 1,363 l,636j Total vote 631,'i59 "" Itep. pluraUty 6,9S6 Itep. majority 5,093 "denominated. --The following is the vote of the State of New York on President and Gover­ nor : Total vote for President .1,011,497 TUden 822* 35 Hayes 489,362 TUden's majority over Hayes 32,773 Total vote for Governor .1,009,283 Robinson 519,783 Morgan 489,500 Bobinson'e majority 30,283 Cooper, Greenback, and Smith, Pro­ hibition, have each polled about 3,000, which will make the total vote in the State for President about 1,017,000. --Official vote of Kansas, with the ex­ ception of Barton and Pratt counties : Hayes 77,510 TUden 37,471 186 9 187 0 187 1 1872.. 187 3 187 4 1876..'. 1876. The National Grange consists of the Masters of the several State Granges and their wives, the officers who were elected last November, at St. Louis, for three years, being also members ex officio. The following table shows the num­ ber of subordinate Granges and paying members in each State at the date of the last annual meeting : State*. Oranou. Membera. Alabama.... 67B 17,440 Arkansas 694 30,471 California 268 ° 14,228 Colorado « 69 2,098 Connecticut M 480 KAACA DELAWARE 98 808 68,389 Florida 148 3.804 54,791 Georgia. 70S 17,828 Illinois 1,692 39,838 Indiana..... 2,088 «0,998 Iowa 2,004 51,389 Kansas 1,378 40,381 Kentucky ,....1,618 52,488 Ior.isiana 318 10,071 Maine 189 8,347* Maryland 158 5,635 Massachusetts 100 3,835 Michigan 809 33,198 M innesota 548 16.61T MigHiHsippi 889 30,797 Missouri 3,084 80,059 Nebraska 830 8,17T Nevada 15 378 New Hampshire. 69 3,538 New Jersey 96 4,498 • New York 354 11.738 North Carolina. 540 10,188 Ohio 1,216 63,327 Oregon 186 8,288 Pennsylvania 615 22,471 South Carolina S57 10,923 Tennessee 1,097 37,581 Texas ..1,210 37.619 Vermont 207 10,198 Virginia 1 670 13,888 >Ve«T*Virginia 34'J 5,990 Wisconsin 514 17,238 Territories, Qranaea. Member*. Dokota .».66 1,178 District of Colombia 1 45 Idaho 16 890 Montana .36 948 Indian Territory 15 450 Wauhington 66 1,189 There are now in operation about 27,000 Granges, with a total member­ ship of about 1,100,000, or, say, 400,000 families. The following table shows the re­ ceipts and expenditures of the National Grange for the last year: HKonrm Cash on hand $ 3ft,7^1.63 Charter Ims from new Granges... 8ii,Oi:5,o7 Dues from Granges 42,9>>2.50 Sales of manuals, etc Y.LHKJ.frtii Interest 3,3S0.82 Total $102,143.07 •XFENDITCaXS. Salaries and expenses $ 4S.091.S4 , Printing and stationery. 5,699.06 Regalia, tools, and boxes T;RMI,19 PIWTAGE, telegraphing, and expreaaage... A,614.61 Kent, gas, water, fuel, and insurance.... 961.15 Furniture and miscellaneous 444.73 For patent of a harvester 690.06 Donations to State Granges 10,065.47 Loans to State Oranges...... 35,360.00 Hayea' majority 40,039 The majority of Anthony, Hep., for Governor, over Martin, Dem., is 22,663, and over all candidates, 16,245. Tho majority of Phillips (Rep.) for Congress in the First district is 12,382. Haskell (Rep.) for Congress, in the Second dis­ trict, receives 5,270 majority over Goodin (Dem.), and 5,208 over all candidates. Ryan (Rep.), for Congress in the Third district, lias a majority of 12,575. --The official vote for Presidential electors in Virginia shows the following results: For Hayes, 95,565; Tilden, 138,671. Tbe vote for members of Con­ gress, compared with the result two years ago was as follows : 1876. 1874. Total % 96,003.54 At its last session about $55,000 of the accumulated surplus in the treasury of the National Grange was distributed amor.g the Stage Granges in the ratio of $2.50 for each subordinate Grange borne on the rolls. ' College Fan. Soene--Recitation in Political Econ­ omy, related by the Williams Anthen- seum. [Large dog enters and lies down at feet of B .] Professor--" It's re­ freshing to Bee the lower nnimala so desirous of instruction." [Class lahgh.] Professor continues--"But I can't see how the instinct of the brntfc should err so greatly as to lead him to B [Class yell. | That big dog has strayed into the Greek recitation room also. The Professor remarked to tho freshman who introduced him : " Mr. P., I like large, handsome dogs, but I'm afraid he will have the same effect on the class as Mary's lamb did, so please lead him out.;' The dog vanished. A FARMER passing over Monocacy bridge, in Frederick county, Md., the other evening, was beset by a footpad, aiul defended himself by uncorking a 9,859 t bottle of whisky and throwing a portion 8a>62 i of the liquor in the robber's face, who --Official returns from 101 counties ii: f inc mediately sought safety in Hight. . Kentucky, says a Louisville dispatch, i Comment upon the quality of whisky give TUden 60,100 majority. Sixteen r carried bv Maryland farmers is soper- counties are yet to be heard from, but1 fluous. " Dist. Rep. 1 10,9*0 2 14,989 3 18,480 13,93H 5. 9.842 6 11.127 7 6,250 10,175 9 4,791 Dem. 14,228 16,885 1S,SH6 12,593 15,146 16,425 17.143 16,660 15,127 Rep. 10.488 19,521 10,710 14.E83 7,723 6,707 3,214 9,291 1,821 Dcn>. 10,783 13,390 13,323 K.201 10,221 10.7M8 9 260