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ffparadealn J. TAN SLYKE, Etuxos PUBUSHES. McHE5?Rf, ILLINOIS -4 • OU it <tt tJ ITtK&+ A CMWj JPtopM^. , Dstetjr little violet! " OUrtsled to bed, Shot her tiny peepsri «&!#/•" Vr%< $ And bowed her littleIMTI ".p*' Dainty little vtolet! ̂ v Bias M the iky aba$i{ Imjfbodjr loves her i As If she were * doitfei * Dainty little violit! With her upturned fees, looking up to hearen >.••; Waiting for her j m Dstaty little violet! 7"*,. Nodded to a bee. ̂ * ; Sew who, pray, an you, air, Boating no at me? Indian Stories «f Olden Time*, *' ; la the olden time Indiana did not, M Ibey sometimes do not now, take kindly to immigrants who settled upon their hunting-grounds. Like the Anglo-Sax­ on, they loved broad acres, revered •vested right," and defended both •gainst the encroachments of white "men who held to i The good old rule and aimpletplan, That he should take who'has the power, And he shonld keep who oan. The relation between the two was sot such as ought to exist between landlord and tenant. The Inriiim looked upon the settler as a "squatter," whom it was right to eject, not only from the land, bnt from the earth. The bold "tenant at will" had to be con­ stantly on his giuurd; for a summazy •notice of ejectment" might be served it any moment by a posse of painted flfcvages* / About the fifet thing done by a band Of immigrants locating in an Indian country was to build a fort or block­ house. Then, within a mile or less of this refuge, they scattered their log huts. One of these old forts now re­ mains, though in a ruined condition, and associated with it is a romantic «jtory of frontier life. - In those Indian day* fe whioh the •tory refers, the fort was a substantial building, with brick sides in a wooden cosing. It would have been taken for the large dwelling house of a prosperous settler but for the many loop-holes out fin each side. , The family who lived in it, several lien and one woman, kept it always jjrepared to receive "company;" for no $ue oould tell when the might .Call. ••• One bright morning, when not a cloud Was to be seen, the men left* early to jprork in the fields, leaving Betty, the Woman, to attend to the fort. For sev­ eral hours nothing disturbed themonot- . $ny of her work, save her own singing of cheerful thoughts as she went to and fro on her household duties. . When scrubbing and washing of ifishes had emptied the water-pail, she Went to the well to fill it Looking down the road, she saw afar off a dark Object coming toward the settlement. $hinking it was the loaded team of jpme farmer, she went back to the fort, '/'pad resumed her work and singing. In the courseof a few minutes, moved by a natural impulse, she poked her lead out of the door to see how far the team had progressed. To her horror •he saw a band of Indians only a short distance off .making straight for the ibrt. Not a white man was in sight, for •very one, together with the women and children of the settlement, had been fated by the beautiful day into the fields. Hi an instant she took in the situa­ tion. If she attempted flight, she would fee captured before she oould run a hun­ dred rods. To be captured was death --the surrender of the fort. She would Stay in the fort, and alone fight the sav­ ages until the men, alarmed by the fir­ ing of guns, came to her aid. With a bang the oaken door swung shut, and down went the heavy wooden bar. Going from loop-hole to loop­ hole, she placed a loaded musket by each one. The terrible war-whoop startled her for a moment. Then her voice rang cut loud and clear, "Here, Jim, George, Henry, John, Bill! Don*t you hear? Bill, stand by that hole! Jim, you take that guilt" Two guns were fired, and then the toice called out: "George, shoot that big Injun! Henry, aim for the chief!" V Two more bullets went whizzing aniong the Indians. They were taken aback. They had supposed the fort deserted, save by the woman. But it was full of men. An- x Cither shout, another bullet, and this • ftaie it had hit one of them. They hes­ itated to advance. Bullet after bullet frhizzed, and two more men were Grounded. •' They then turned and fled, and, when ' the men came running to the fort, the ferave woman had scarcely strength to nnbhr the a t̂. A long time after ftifa brave defense, *>| farmer, living near the fort, started |̂ne morning to mow. As was usual in Jboio days, he carried Ida musket with him. He had a special reason for be­ ing on Ms guard, for a certain Indian had become his personal enemy. On arriving at the hay-field, he leaned his gto against a tree, threw otf his coat, sharpened Ms seythc and began mow­ ing. As, swinging his scythe, he drew f near the lower end of the field, he saw an Indian crouching behind a row of bushes. The farmer was a cool man, *nd swung his scythe as steadily as if he had seen nothing. Looking again, he saw that the Indian 'was his enemy. In one hand he held a tomahawk, while a sopping-knife was Muck in his belt. The farmer knew that |f he attempted to run for his gun the «wift-footed Indian would be upon him Jbefore he had gone 100 f«ei. Self­ -possession was his protection. He moved up to the bushes, and then turned, swinging his scythe as if anx- ous to reach the end of his swath. Waiting until the mower had departed two or three rods from the bushes, the Indian moved noiselessly through the bushes and crept after the farmer. But with every swing of the scythe, the farmer, glancing cautiously over his left shoulder, had taken in the position of his cat-Eke enemy. Nearer crept the stealthy savage. One fitep more, and he would be upon the itnower. Raiding his tomahawk, he braced himself for the spring, and--fell on the ground, dead. The farmer, with all his strength, had swung his scythe with its point inclined up, completely around. It wounded the Indian so that he fell dead.--Pacific Methodist IiMfwn a* Not long ago, in Sweden, two girls used to watch for an old boat­ man who, in the season, would bring, up the fiord or creek, a whole boat-load of lobsters at a time. Then the girls would beg their nurse. Johanna to let them play with the queer things. Gen­ erally leave would be given, and the sisters would fetch indoors with great glee as many of the lobsters as they wanted, and stand them up all around their play-room, stroking each on the head as they did so, and thus putting it to deep. They had to keep a sharp eye on the creatures, though, and, as soon as one threatened to awake, or waved its terri­ ble claws, they had to run and tickle it on the head--when it would go off to sleep again at oncel Lizzie says it was funny to aee these play-soldiers--"marines," she calls them --standing up stiff and straight, as though they were on their best be­ havior at parade drill! Before you try this game, be sure that you have the right kind of lobsters to deal with, for it would be awkward if they should turn on you and give you tit for tat by "stroking" and "tickling" you in their fashion with their claws.-- " Jack-in-the-Pulpit," in St Nicholas for May. "MB E OXX/Y MAD CAJPITAM^n "If I only had capital," we heard a young man say, as he puffed away at a 10-cent cigar, "I would do something." "If I only had capital," said another, as he walked away from a dram-shop where he had just paid 10 cents for a drink, "I would go into business." The same remark might have been heard from the young man loafing on the street-corner. Young man with the cigar, you are smoking away your cap­ ital. You from the dram-shop are drinking yours and destroying your body at the same time--and you upon the street-corner are wasting yours in idleness and forming bad habits. Dimes make dollars. Time is money. Don't wait for fortune to begin with. If you had $10,000 a year, and spent <t all, you would be poor still. Our men of power and influence did not start with fort­ unes. You, too, can make your mark, if you will. But you must stop spend­ ing your money for what you don't need, and squandering your time in idleness.--Chicago Ledger. BBBUYIAJT MAILROAJtM. In a work recently published in Ger­ many, on the "Civilized Countries of Ancient America," Herr Adolph Bastian says of the wonderful railroads over the mountains of Peru: "The spirit of speculation was active, with the wildest prodigality, and, in order to do some­ thing for civilization, railroad construc­ tion was pitched upon without the ex­ istence of any pressing necessity there­ for." The result is a gigantic debt and marvels of engineering over the Cor­ dilleras at the height of Mont Blanc, "which do not even earn enough to pay for greasing the wheels. The roads do not, for the most part, run in the track of immigration, and, on the line between Arequipa over the Cordilleras to Puno, one train a week was dis­ patched, on which there was occasion ally an Indian with a bag of potatoes on a fourth-class car. The coat of the road was $82,000,000." THE telephone has been successfully introduced into the Breckinridge Street Presbyterian Church at Buffalo, so that the pastor can address at once two oon- two miles apart. DEATH ON A STAGE. : B* W. K. LUDLOW. • I* August, 1851, a moat starilhir dreadful pecident ocourred in the St. Louis Theater, then under the manage­ ment of Ludlow & Smith. It was no less an event than the death, in the theater, of Mrs. Blanche Kemble Shea, a member of the company. Mrs. Shea was the cousin of Mrs. Fanny Kemhle, and the daughter of Mr. Stephen Kem­ ble, for many years manager of one of the principal theaters in Sootland. It was one of those abominations of the stage wherein housebreakers, pick­ pockets and highwaymen were made heroes of the pieces; I refer to such a play as the "Golden Farmer," made popular in this oountry by flic aotingof John Sefton. The play on the occasion of which I am about to speak was the melodrama of 8 Jack Sheppard," the house­ breaker, and which was introduced by Mr. Ben DeBar, who was the stage- manager at the time, and whose taste led him very often in that direction, as was evidenced afterwards. Mrs. W. G. Jones played the housebreaker, Ben DeBar, Blueskin, and Mrs. Shea the Mrs. Wood of the evening. Mrs. Shea, I was told, had been a very clever act­ ress once in soubrettes and like char­ acters, but having reached the middle age of life, and become obese in person, she frequently performed old women. The incidents of the piece, require that Mrs. Wood should be killed in the second act, and this was really done on this occasion in the following manner: When the second act of the piece was called at the green-room door, Mrs. Shea rose from her seat, and said, "I am now going to be killed, and then I am going to watch by the bedside of Mrs. Lamar. Poor woman, I fear she will not live to see the light of another day on this earth." The lady mentioned was also a member of the company, and did die before the next morning. As Mrs. Shea* walked out upon the stage, I folloWed, in order to see whether the scene had been properly set. When I walked down the stage I observed that Mrs, Shea was stooping a little, looking through an aperture in the center of the act-drop at the audi­ ence. As I turned my back to her, to look at a side soene, I heard a crushing sound and a subdued but agonizing groan, and, turning suddenly around, I beheld on the stage the prostrated form of Mrs. Shea. I instantly sprung to her side, and, raising her head, per­ ceived a dreadful fracture of the skull, and blood flowing from the wound. Medical aid was immediately called in, but she died in a few minutes after being removed to the green-room. The cause of her death was the falling of a heavy iron, known as a tailor's smooth- ing-iron, which had been suspended above the stage to hold a oertain piece of scenery in its proper place. This weight had become entangled within the cords of some sky borders, which were about to be used, and at which the carpenters were pulling, and, the cord breaking, the weight dropped from a height of about twenty-five feet directly on the head of Mrs. Shea. A portion of the skull was driven into the back brain, and the poor lady died quite un­ conscious of what had caused her death. The audience were informed of the oatastrophe, and requested to withdraw, which they did in silenoe, and appar­ ently in sorrow. Her friend, Mrs. Lamar, died about five hours after her. Both were prepared for the grave at the same time, were laid out in their coffins in the same room, carried to the ceme­ tery at the same time, and buried side by side near each other. TMM MUM AW BTBUCTUBB. The following fine passage is from the address of President Pickard to the graduating class of the medical depart­ ment in the State University of Iowa: "What you are, not what you profess to be, will determine the esteem in which you are held. May I address to you certain motives for right living, which shall lead to an honored life? The peculiar nature of your profession shall be the first. It brings you into close relations with a wonderful struct­ ure--the human body--in to an intimate acquaintance with the human soul, up­ on which the right action of bodily or­ gans is so oft dependent. Whatever may be your thought of the origin or the destiny of the human organism, your study cannot have failed to im­ press you with the wonders of its me ehammn--the mysteries of its action-- the intricacy of its relations to its subtle essence developed in reason, in imagination, and in fanoy. To me it speaks of a power above and beyond roiMowmn mr wild mommy* We are informed that Jack Bryant, a very respectable colored man, who lives three or four miles from Long creek, in Pender county, out down a bee tree on Saturday last, and found therein a Con­ siderable quantity of honey. Our in­ formant states that all the family, ex­ cept one of his daughters, partook of the wild sweetaCM. She waa engaged in cooking dinner, and, by the time they were invited to the repast, they were too sick to respond. George, a grown man, died in a few minutes, and the remainder of the family are still eiefe from the effects of their indul­ gence, though it is believed that, under good medical treatment, they will re- oorer.--Wilmington (N. C.) Star{ A CHKRRFUX. W1WB. Better than gold to a man is a cheer­ ful wife. But he must do his part toward making her cheerful. It is easy enough for a man to marry a happy woman. But the bride expectant, when she thought how happy she would be, never contemplated the picture of a husband coming home cross as a bear, and going to bed without speaking to her; she had never thought of the long evenings when he wouldn't come at all ; or his bringing some one home to din­ ner without warning or preparation; of his awful profanity over so trifling a matter as the gas bilL She had no idea, in fact, that there could be any­ thing but happiness in married life, and she had determined to be happy and to distribute her happiness to those about her. It is not often her fault if she doesn't succeed. Men, as a rule, do not exert themselves to secure their wives' happiness. They know that it requires a constant and a great effort to possess property and be secure in its value in the midst of oonstant commercial change*. The cheerfulness, the happy, hopeful character which every woman displays at the beginning of marriage is not so easily lost as a fortune; it re­ quires but a small share of the atten­ tion, and yet so often does not get that little share. Therefore a word to the girls in this connection is in order; be­ ware of a man who doesn't know enough about cheerfulness to understand its value in daily life. Such a man would improve the first opportunity to grind the cheerfulness out of his home, to frighten a sunbeam into a shadow, and then wonder what is the matter. Such is no better than no husband at all; and when you want a husband, go fidn somebody else, somebody who mil give you at least some chanoe to be hippy far into the life beyond the honeymoon. AT THB BBBINNItrB, Nothing is learred without a oertain amount of drudgery, and boys who un­ dertake to learn a trade must be pre­ pared for work of all kinds. A boy from a wealthy family was received into a large establishment, but found no royal road to business advancement. He had to begin at the bottom of the ladder just as the poorest in the store did. He often wondered why his em­ ployers kept him two long years assort­ ing shoes and handling great sides of leather. But when he became a sales­ man all was plain, for he was able at a glanoe to tell almost the exact worth of a pair of shoes, or the quality of a side of leather. Thorough knowledge only ooiLes by practioe. Repetition makes the most difficult matters easy and seems almost to add a sixth sense. The old tellers in banks can count off with the greatest rapidity vast piles of coin, casting aside, as if by intuition, all the light pieces. Their fingers have learned to weigh like the nicest balance., Hard and oonstant work is needful before per­ fection can be reached. . MLirPBB-THBOWIWG. *Fh@ ancient oustom of throwing an old slipper after the bride as she leaves her home is still in many places be­ lieved to bring luck to the happy couple. But it may be questioned whether the old shoe was thrown for luck only. It is stated by Holy Writ that "the receiv­ ing of a shoe was an evidence and sym­ bol of rejecting or resigning it." The latter ia evidenoe in Deuteronomy, twenty-fifth cnapter, where the cere­ mony of a widow rejecting her hus­ band's brother in marriage is by loosing his shoe from off his foot. And in Buth we are told that "it was the custom in Israel concerning changing, that a man plucked off his shoe and delivered it to his neighbor." Hence the throwing of a shoe after a bride was a symbol of re­ nunciation of dominion and authority over her by her father or guardian, and the receipt of the shoe by the bride­ groom, even if accidental, was an omen that the authority was transferred to him. " • . TMM £4X1 MOMACM GMBB6M& This weakness of Greeley was well known, but there were few who had any idea of its extent. He was unable to say "No," unless it was on a point of principle. Even when articles of a pal­ pably unsuitable character were pressed on Ms acceptance for the Tribune, he never uttered an open refusal. His reply would be, "Call in to-morrow," and as soon as the visitor left the article would go into the waste-basket. He lent money incessantly,,but chiefly in small sums; and yet, in one instance, a medioal quack of utterly irresponsible character got $5,000 from him, which, of oourse, stands unpaid.--Cincinnati Gazette. • CUBA is onoe more revealing within her borders the sharp corners of soeial •ad political discontent, , ̂ f SCIENCE, 4» A MACHHOE for cutting stone of all kinds rapidly, «Ad capable of striking 6,000 Wows per minute, has been pat­ ented. A SERIES of experiments has estab­ lished the fact that chloroform neutral­ izes the action at strychnine upon the human system. A GEBMAIT chemist says frozen cab­ bages or plants lose none of their nutri­ tive qualities, because the frost trans­ forms the staroh in the vegetable into sugar. To raw, a diamond from a gem, look through the stone at the point ot a needle or a small hole in a card, and if there are two points or two holes the stone is not a diamond. THE black sulphate of silver, which forms on plated and silver wares, may be removed at onoe by wiping the sur­ face with a rag wet with aqua ammonia, and without the trouble of rubbing. MILK is found to be an antidote to lead poisoning. The Journal de Medi­ cine states that after each operator at some white-lead works received a quart a day, no oolio or harm to health oc­ curred. AN account is giving in La Patrte of a new invention in railway signals. The description is very vague, but gives the general idea that mirrors are to be so set as to reflect 100 miles of road to a mirror at a oentral station, which in the present set of experiments is at Mar­ seilles. The statement is made that in the oentral mirror all the movements of trains on 100 miles of road oan be seen, and any danger of collision will be perceived in time to prevent acci­ dent. The mirrors to be used are spok­ en of as "telegraphic mirrors"--what­ ever they may mean. It is quite obvi­ ous that the purpose oould not be sub­ served by ordinary mirrors. « TMM ALOB. Perhaps the most remarkable in­ stance of rapid vegetable growth that has been heard of since the famous bean-vine of Jack the Giant-Kilier is one whioh has been related to us by Prof. Stowe, of an aloe, or century- plant, now growing on the grounds of one of his neighbors, at Mandarin, Fla This aloe, during a period of several weeks from the last week of April to the latter part of May, actually increased in height at the rate of twelve inches a day--or half an inoh an hour, night and day--until it attained a height of forty- two feet. Having reached that height, the tree (for it is nothing else than a tree) leaned over on a neighborly orange tree to take a rest. When Prof. Stowe left Mandarin, the last week of May, the flower stems had oome out, but up to the end of June it had not yet blos­ somed. The American aloe, according to the " English Cyclopaedia," has a period of from ten to seventy years, according to olimate. "When fully mature it pro­ duces a gigantic flower stem, forty feet in height, and perishes." In Florida one sees many of these plants, in vari­ ous stages of growth; but we think there are few cases in which the growth is so rapid as in this one related by Prof Stowe. t BAD LITBBATtfMB. Interview with J. H. Smart, Illinois Statef Superintendent of Education: " What is the chief agency in the degradation of our young people, so far as it occurs?" " Well, J should say that bad litera­ ture is the devil's most powerful weapon in this work." " Then an education means a goori deal more than the mere acquisition of information?" " Yes, sir. Our best teacherfe under­ stand very well that taking out a ohild's brains and stuffing the vacuum with a few books is not education. As has been well said, if you train a man's body only you make a magnificent brute; if you train his body and his mind you make a magnificent scoun­ drel, and if yon train his body, his mind and his heart you have a magnificent specimen of manhood. Bight educa­ tion will make manly men and womanly women. The school plays an important part in this work, but there are other agencies of just as much importance and with whom the respcmaibiljî certainly be divided. A BXTBA WOMB1T. In some mysterious way, girls ac­ cumulate faster than men. What be­ comes of the surplus women ? Certainly they do not all fit into the ranks; they do not all marry; hundreds and hun­ dreds must exist in some way outside and beyond all domestic tics. The in­ equality and consequent pressure is far in excess of that which might be ex­ pected, judging only from the mere nominal disparity, the mere numerical difference. It arises from the obvious circumstance that while, practically speaking, every woman is competent to marry, the men, having provided homes and the necessaries of life, can only be said to present a few who are eligPbie. There is always hope for a man; some chance may at any time give him a lift; but it is to be feared that to very many women there cornea a time, and: that early in life, when, though without vanity tliey way 4tttl themselves handsome, the hard feete of existence crash out the hope of fulfilling their natural destiny. Som# ' "r bear their fate philosophically, and coi>> ; , trive to extract enjoyment from life; » \ 'i!f, while others go on their lonely way, •iotims of disappointed hope. ILLINOIS LKEISMTTFTE. BATUKDAY, May S. --SEN ATS. -Senator Haste MU providing for the appointment of whool dmwtowaad member* of tfasBosidof Idtws- tioninoertaiamamwaa pawed....BOMBUOs were read a fiist time, and the bill ndoetnaflie SKdarieeof Circuit and Supreme OoorWwkos in Oook county to *5,000 went tottdMMMHfe after coneiderabledJMiMsion... .Senator ̂ fattS1! Mil in retard tortstwinglapeedmemberaOt tbe Poiioe and Fira Deputoneota to the bene- floiary fond want to a third reading; elsoUlp die's bill for taxing bridges aerom navfeataMl etreaois on the borders of the State. Houss.--Only sixty-nine members of thai'- ' House were in their seats, and, alter a little parliamdhtary skirmishing, a call of the House was ordered* and the body adjourned to Mot- day. • - Mom>4T, May 5. --Samara, --There was Jjfcf etcfell ttttfcndnEoe In the Senate, and little aril dono The bill to re-«asot the Personal Ex­ emption law of 1878 was reooounittsd to th» J% dicwy Oommittss... .Bill* to five fits Oissibul Court of Oook ooim ĵuiidMMB of bastardy oases; to authorise cities and Tillages to con­ tract together for water and sewerage, and sev­ eral relating to game were advanced to a third reading without amendment....A number of bills were oalted np, andj ̂ f- •Vt V'": $$3 ' Mi; • » - < ) ' « •-•=<•--V'- ̂ b-A • } ' i :1 v] * ^ ?. ",,V "3 it, sant i Houss.--In the House only forty membefS were present. All bills on their first reading were disposed of, when a oall of the yeas and nays npon an amendment to the Druggists' bin disclosed the want of a quorum. TOTMDAT, Hay 6.--SENATE. --The Senate spent the morning in reading bills a third tim% _ , "yy '-l and bills were paesed t To require twO'da^!|:%|̂ ^;f||#;';!| road-lftbor in OOTID ties wot tinder township OIK % ganization; to prohibit the loaning of ptihilfl , v A '/; moneys in the hands of Treasurers; to pro­ hibit the keeping of rooms, etc., to record 6sti| wagers and pools in; to amend the ItodNp Entry and Detainer act by striking ool t h e c l a u s e t o g i v e t h e a c t i o n f o r p o » » * • f - • " session of land sold under trust deeds; \' amending the law of evidence: creeling C • 'hi Bureau of Labor Statistics... .Lost: IVamenS ' the Insuranoe law; to amend the law relating --f* il | to Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners! , ~ requiring life-insurance oompanies to depodtt • < ̂ bonds with ths State Treasurer; requiring rait- A road oompanies to pay their employee for work »... over schedule-time pro-rata wages for sach ,-M labor; the Insane Commitment hill; to ptd> , hibit any life-insurance company frwa doing business in the State which. Is organised end# / ' tbe laws of a State that does not nsmlt sock company to loan Its money in tills 8tst% / HOUSE,--Mr. WUson* bill to Ngtdats fta* * % practioe of pharmacy was amended by exempt lag druggists who are now in business froMS , ' • M the necessity of examination, andetdsfsd toe Ibf: third reading... .Bids pMSea: To snttiorise ttas ' - j issue of a garnishee writ hy another Justice . < . than he before whom the judgment was had in certain esses; to require warehouse of Clasa A to make anneal reports of ths klni and quantity of grain received, delivered ani on hand, and to permit the issue of oount* bonds ss small ss £25; to provide thatSoetn Chicago shall remain a town, ss now, foe park purposes, and for tbe submission of the ques­ tion of forming park-tax districts of the Norm and West towns to the people; paying ths com­ mittee investigating the dams at Henry and New Haven; m regard to voting for oountp bonds; in regard to the destruction of cockle-bum; requiring railroad oompanies to fenoe their lines; relating to flshwaye; in rela­ tion to fees ani salaries; in regard to practice in courts of record... .Appropriationbuls weie made the special order for Wednesday... .Bills lost: In regard to practice before Justices Of the Peace; repealing the Scalpers' act; Frew's Cockle burr bill; to stay judgment*, executions and decrees. WKDIOMDAT, May 7. --SBNATB. --An order fqr t two daily sessions was sdopted ... .4 motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill to sinsad the law for the detention and commitment of lunatics wss lost, was carried, and the bill was passed.... A lane number of notaries pablls were confirmed In executive session, se waa the appointment of Thomss & Brown as Justioe of the Peace in Chi­ cago; James C. Oonkling as Trustee tif tbe Illinois Industrial University, snd Milliard as Adjutant General... .After i debate, the vote by whioh Mr. South worth's 1 to fix toe liabilities of oonntles and towns for falling to keep roads and bridges In rqpalr waa lost, was reconsidered, and the bili waa uasssfL ... .Ths remainder of the sesrfon was taken nfc in reading the Drainage bill of Senator Hani HOUSE.--Several bills were returned from committees and advanced to a seoond reading} me « Henry akHUt th'sbal among them was the bill tojprohlhit the of the labor of more than fifty oonviots in sop particular trade... .Bills were passed: Toxe» quire the South Park Conuniseionsra to make itemized reports of receipts and expenditures to the County Commissioners, and tonfriA the Lincoln Park Commissioners to make similar repflrts to the Muer of Ghloago.... A long debate was had on Mr. Sherman's msaM lution to amend the oonstitntien to limit sessions of the General Assembly fori legislation to once in six years. Mr. £ offered a Hubstituto, providing for annual sionti -those in the even years to be devoted' . general legislation, and tnoae in the odd yaaie to appropriation bills. Both were ssut to the Judiciary Committee... .The bill mr#. hibiting the employment of children under in manufacturing establishments was killed.. The appropriation bills, k#Mka Speg4 order, were worked npon for tab balance ef tte day, sad most of them advaacsi to » ibi reading. On a email private bill wss killed. : _ THUESDAY, May S.--8SHATB--Senator Xnjk, * kendn.il> bill to amend ths Feee and Salari# v act, and the Sny Carte Drainage bill, were o*v d e r e d t o a t h i r d r e a d i n g . . . . T h e b i l l I n r e l a t i o n i - i - to leases, bailments and conditional sales cc ?, railroad rolling stock was made tbe special o»- : * der for to-morrow... .Nearly the whole mqmr ing was spent considering tne bill to oompleta ~. the Southern penitentiary, ths amount apprd* priated being rednoed to $150,000, which WHI ordered to a third reading....A han£ some gold watch was presentee to the Secretary of the Senate, Mr. Paddock* Senator Herdman being the spokesman on the i occasion... .Bills passed: Extending the Beg*' try law to oounty and nunkipal elections; during the salaries of Oook County Judges amend the sot in regard tot police and firemen. HOUSE.--A motion to suspend the rakp and take up Mr. Hinds' Temperance bill w ĵp defeated, and tbe bill was made the special o»- * •Mm BODY snatching, not ior medioal lml for political purposes, is sometime* practised in Busaia tmder the authority of the Government. Recently a Nihil* ist, who had just been released from "•* prison, died in his own house, and his relatives made preparations for th*vjiv burial, wmoh was to take place nex&; morning. In the night, however, th# body mysteriously disappeared from tMt house; and it was ascertained that it hat been surreptitiously seined the authorities, who apprehended * Nihilist demonstration at the funetaL ̂ AHQBY words and scornful looks tap . 7 7 . ' : „ - r . . , - 7 " " ..iWv