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I^fpewg flaradeaUt V J. VAN sum * BOH, POTMSHBBMI * ^HfcHENRY, ILLINOIS. DR. ANDREWS heard a burglar in his "Jiouse, in Philadelphia, and had no pis- , #ol "to shoot him with, so he inflated a ^jpaper bag which happened to be at hand, Slashed upon the thief with a shout, and q>!oded the bag, which made a noise '! like a pistol shot The man sank to the -floor in abject terror and begged for : mercy. AARON MCKBNHY, who died recently i|n Maine, aged 102, was a remarkable -^example of vigorous health and physical -. ectivity. Not long before his death he • "knocked down a man who had suggested $he appointment of a guardian for him, which brought on his first lawsuit, • "wherein he acted as his own counsel. He had never been out of his native town, never tasted liquor or been on a 'railroad train, and never sent or received a telegram. The number of marriages in Germany has greatly fallen off since 1872, when 423,900 were registered. PSTKB A. NASON broke his promise to marry a girl, and circulated stories against her. For this offense, he was told by her brother that he must give up his prosperous business and leave the town. He refused, and a party of women visited him at his store, threatening him with tar and feathers if he did not quit. Still he persisted in living where he liked. Finally a body of men, including the Selectmen, Justice of the Peace, and a Deputy Sheriff, waited upon him, while a mob blew horns in the street, and informed him that he must submit to banishment, or suffer very unpleasant consequences. He obeyed this time, and was pelted with eggs on his "way to the railroad station. This did not happen in a wild border town of the West, but in Georgetown, a village of enlightened and law-abiding Massachusetts. THE British soldier can at last rejoice in the fact that pipe-clay has been abol­ ished in the army. Hereafter white are to give place to brown belts, and the; • soldier's lungs are to be no longer j clogged witix dust and his heart to be no j longer worried, after a long day's march, with- cleaning material which is only to j be immediately soiled again. Another j reform is that no longer discharged sol- j diers will be seen all over England in ragged uniforms. In future, soldiers, j on leaving the army, are to receive suits-1 -of plain clothes. THE convention which nominated Lin­ coln for President in 1861 sat three days, file first two being spent in preliminary skirmishing. The balloting took place on the third day, the contest from the start being between Messrs. Seward and Lincoln, though several other persons were placed in nomination. On the first ballot there were cast 465 votes, neces­ sary to a choice 233, of which Seward received 173$, Lincoln 102, and the rest were scattering. On the second ballot Seward had 184$ votes and Lincoln 181; third ballot, Seward 180 and Lincoln 231$. These ballots were taken amid tremendous confusion. The moment the last vote was announced, D. K Cartter, a delegate from Ohio, announced the change of four votes from Mr. Chase to Mr. Lincoln. This nominated Lincoln, and was followed by a whirlwind of ex- FA.RX NOTES. very light. • Sweeten to taste. Then slice in very thin pieces one banana, and stir IN some parts erf Ktawfa farmers have | into it; or, if you choose, take two sown flax and spring wheat in the j oranges, or any kind of fruit will do. Do same field. The profit 'is said to be | not make it until just before going to greater than when either crop is sown alone. OKK of the most useful implements that can be used on the farm is the field-roller. It crushes the clodsj levels and smooths the ground, and presses the earth firmly upon and around the seed, which causes them to sprout and grow much earlier. Of course the ground should IK* dry when the roller is used. In very dry weather the good rolling of the ground will frequently cause seed to gfow when otherwise they would not have germinated. table. It is a handsome dish and de­ licious for tea. GRAHAM BREAD.--Three cups graham flour, one and a half cups Indian meal, half cup molasses, one teaspoonful of soda, two of cream of tartar, salt to taste. Wet up with milk or water to the consistency of thick batter. Bake in a covered tin three hours in a moderate oven, or steam, if preferred, the same length of time. This is pronounced ex­ cellent by every one who tries it. BOILED JELLY CAKE.--One teacupful white powdered sugar, teacupful flour, IT is said that an extensive breeder of j four eggs, whites and yelks beaten sep- Angora goats in Texas considers it a much more profitable business than sheep-raising. This persons owns 1,119 goats. It costs $1,000 per annum to provide for them, and his profits last year he estimates at $2,000. The meat is claimed to be better than mutton, and each goat yields al>out two pounds of hair annually, which is worth 55 cents per pound in this country and 75 cents in England. PROF. L. B. ARNOLD advises skim­ ming the milk as soon as sourness is perceptible, and to churn at sixty de­ grees instead of seventy, before the cream gets sour. When the butter comes in granules, enough cold water or brine should be put in to reduce the mass to about fifty-five degrees, when, after a arately, pinch salt; beat the yelks and sugar *to a cream; add the flour and salt; then the whites beaten to a very stiff froth; mix quickly; rub and butter a large roasting-pan; bake ten or fifteen minutes, according to oven; when done spread with jelly and roll quickly. MOLASSES COOKIES.--Two cups and one-half of hot molasses, one cup of shortening (half butter and half lard, one teaspoonful of ginger and one of cinnamon ; dissolve two teaspoonfuls of saleratus in a cup of lukewarm water, and throw in as quickly as possible ; add some flour and stir a few minutes, as you would soft cake, then add more flour; mix as soft as you can convenient­ ly, and roll out. JAKES LYNDE, a rebel deserter, who afterward enlisted in the Fourth Michi­ gan Cavalry, is said by the Detroit Free Press to have stolen Jeff Davis' horse ! cltement, amid which State after State and money after the rebel leader's capt- ! changed its vote, and when some degree ! of order was restored Mr. Evarts, of 1 New York, who had been Seward's ure. Lynde wotfld never tell what he found in the saddle-bags, but his fellow- troopers are sure that it must have been . gold, for after the regiment was mustered -out he disappeared for a time, turning up six months later in Detroit with thou­ sands of dollars in his possession, much -of which was left after he had taken a .year's trip in Europe. spokesman from the beginning, moved, in graceful phrase but melancholy tones, that the nomination be made unanimous. little slow churning, the granules will I Something About " Roots and Yarbs." become hard and distinct, and the but- I The gathering of roots and herbs for ter lie in a condition for washing out all , medicinal purposes gives employment to the buttermilk. The salt should then j many persons in rural districts tlirough- be worked in with as little labor as pos- J out the country. A Cincinnati reporter sible, and after standing awhile it will be lately " interviewed " an old herb-col- ready to pack. i lector, and the following is a portion of SOME time ago a number of Canadian j the man's account of his business, with agriculturists met in convention and therapeutical observations interlarded: adopted for themselves the following ! "Yaller root, or golden seal, is worth NARBY, tea Ml Interview wlOi Hr. 9 JT. TlMoa, Oiurtng Wklck floittei AM Daly Set By degrees this crnne into: tramumim A LADY correspondent says she recent­ ly saw a new arrangement for wiping -dishes that saves half the risk, while the •dishes look nicer and brighter. The only outlay required is a half-bushel basket. '.Set this either in a sink or in a pan. Wash the dislies as usual, and put them in a tin pan or pail. Pour boiling water over them, rinse thoroughly, then set them up edgeways in the basket, so as to drain. The heat will dry them per- fectly, and not a streak or particle of j out t lint is to be seen. Five minutes will leave them perfectly dry. No one who tries it once will be likely to go back to the old way. AT A recent meeting of the Southern Historical Society, in Louisiana, an apron inade in the semblance of a Confederate .flag was shown, and its history told. In the spring of 1863 the Eleventh Virginia •Cavalry passed through Hagerstown, weary, discouraged, and pursued by Federal troops. A young girl stood in a doorway, wearing this apron. The sol­ diers cheered enthusiastically, and the -Colonel asked her to give him a piece erf jt for a memento. "You may have it •all," she said, and it was carried with the regimental colors into a battle on the following day. The youthful soldier who bore it was mortally wounded, but he .saved the apron from capture by hiding it in his bosom. A SINGULAR case of a lost heir came ! lately before the Court of Chancery, En­ gland. In 1838 Isaac, eldest son of John j Atkinson, a Cumberland gentleman of 1 property, disappeared. There was no j •suspicion of his death, but no news ever : reached his family about him. It now ] •appears that about the same time one : -James Anderson started in business in ; Rome, Italy. He had a Cumberland ac­ cent, and, like Isaac, was a fine wrest­ ler. This man was the lost heir. By the death of his father, in 1839, Isaac be­ came heir, but, it is stated, never knew this till 1876. His claim was then near­ ly barred, nor did he take steps to -assert it. He died in 1877, and so satis­ fied are his family of his identity that they have agreed on a compromise with his children. The Duck Hunter's Story. " Speaking of duck-shooting on St. Clair flats," sighed an old citizen, as he took a seat in a gun store yesterday. "I don't think there are as many birds up there as there was ten or fifteen years ago. Why, sir, the channels used to be just black with 'em, and they were so tame you could knock 'em on the head." Everybody sighed to think those good old days ana ducks could never return, and the veteran hunter continued: " I remember I was out one day in April. I got in among the bipeds, and how many do you suppose I counted ?" " Three hundred," ventured one of the audience, after a long interval. " Three hundred! Why, I always killed over a thousand every time I went No, sir, I counted over 16,000 great big, fat, plump, delicious ducks, and then I had only counted those on one side of the boat!" " How long did it take you?" " I don't know, sir, I had no watch with me. Time is nothing to a man counting ducks. I counted aloud, and when the ducks were small I counted two for one. By-and-by I got tired of counting and gotready for the slaughter." " How many did you kill ?" " Well, now, I suppose I could lie about it, and say I killed nine or ten hundred, but I'm getting too near the grave for that. No, I did't kill a blasted one, and there's where the strange part of the story comes in. When I began to lift that gun up those ducks knew what I was up to just as well as a hu­ man being, and what did they do ? Why, sir, about 200 of 'em made a sudden dive, swam under the boat, and all raised on her port side at once and upset her ! Yes, sir, they did, and there I was in the north channel, in ten feet of water, boat upset, night coming on, and I in my wet clothes." I "Well?" j " Well, I climbed up on the bottom | of the lioat, floated five miles, and was j picked up by two Indians. We towed that upset boat to an island, and here j another curious tiling comes in. Under ; the boat were 264 large, plump ducks. They had been caught there when she i upset, and all we had to do was to haul I 'em out and rap 'em on the head." I " Why, why didn't they dive down • and get from under the boat?" asked an amateur duck-sliooter. " Why didn't they, sir--why didn't they ? Well, sir, I* might have asked 'em why they didn't, but it was late, a cold -wind had sprung up, and I didn't feel like talking ! All I know is that I counted over 16,000 ducks, was upset, captured 264, and have affidavits here in my wallet to prove everything I have stated. Does any man here want to see the documents ?" No man did. They all looked out of the windows and wondered if they could lie that way when they had passed three­ score years.--Detroit Free Press. creed: We believe the soil lives to eat as well as the owner, and ought, therefore, to lie well manured. We believe in go­ ing to the liottom of things, and there­ fore deep plowing, and enough of it. All the better if it be a sub-soil plow. We believe in large crops which leave the land better than they found it, making both the farm and the farmer rich at once. We believe that every farm should own a good farmer. We believe that the fertilizer of any soil is a spirit of industry, enterprise and intelligence; without these, lime, gypsum and guano would be of little use. AFTER an orchard begins to bear, the Rural World says it is a good idea to pasture it with calves, hogs and sheep. Tliev pick up all the decayed fruit con­ taining injurious insects, and thus pre­ vent a rapid increase of these pests. Their droppings help to enrich the ground, and orchards need fertilizing as other crops. Few realize the necessity of manuring orchards. When once planted, the trees are to remain on the same soil thirty or forty years at least. They in a few years exhaust the food in the soil that they are most fond of, and then they will cease to be productive and thrifty unless 'properly fed. It requires skill and judgment to properly euro for an orchard. IT may lie useful to some enterprising American gardeners to know that the following experiment has been tried suc­ cessfully in England: Beds extending across "the garden four feet wide were planted in spring with strawberries. On the outer sides of these beds three rows of early potatoes were planted. The po­ tatoes were dug about the end of June, the ground cleared and raked level, where the strawberry runners could es­ tablish themselves and form a new row. The next spring rows of potatoes were planted, one row-farther off, or on the borders of the runners. The gardener thus made a traveling strawberry bed, which became wider each year without planting. The third vear the first plants were exhausted and were dug up, the beds thus moving slowly sidewise. A CORRESPONDENT of the Ohio Farmer says: " Oil good ground I have raised from 900 to 1,200 pounds to the acre of good broom corn, and if the season is favorable will give you about fifty to seventy-five bushels of good seed to the acre. It is good for stock, hogs, sheep and young cattle. It is best to tramp it with" horses and run it through a wind­ mill. I have known it ground with corn, and it makes good feed in this way; have known it to bring from 30 to 40 cents a bushel for feeding milch cows, and have known it to be used for making whisky. It makes a very fiery whisky. If left to get ripe on the stalk, the brush is red, and does not sell for nearly as much, and that is the reason there is not more of it left to ripen, and use the seed for feed; have known it fed to sheep all winter, and in the spring the sheep looked well; have kept stock-hogs on it all winter, without giving them any corn. MR. AINSWORTH, as reported in the American Cultivator, says: "There are usually a few weeks during each season when butter is so plenty in our small markets that it is almost impossible to sell it at any fair price, when it may be packed in earthen jars, and be kept in go<xl condition for family use. Take the butter in as good condition as I have de­ scribed; press it into the jar compactly t cents a pound. It is used fur makin' washes fur sore eyes an' mouth. Bur- wane root is used in makin' ager medi­ cine ; it's hard to git, and brings 8 cents a pound. Butternut bark brings as high as 3 and 4 cents ; that's what yerplivsick- in' pillsjs made of; jist bile it down till it gits thick, like a paste, and then roll it into yer pills ; it is also used for dye­ ing purposes. Hoarhound is used in makin' cough sirup ; it brings 8 cents a pound, although it is plentiful; some places it grows so thick yer can mow it with a scythe. Another herb is lolielia, and I git'10 cents a pound fur it, but the price is falling. If yer ever want to git rid of what's inside of yer, jist make a tea of lobelia leawes, and I'll bet my team of hosses out there it'll accommo­ date yer. I brought in a good many In­ dian turnips this fall, and got 8 cents a pound fur 'em. They are used in cough medicines. Silkweed-root is used in ager medicine, but it is scarce in my part of the country--it is worth 10 cents a pound. Pennyroyal and peppermint brings 10 cents a pound, but when dry it takes a heap to make a pound. There are a good many kinds of bark used. There's white-oak'bark, liest thing in the world to check the bowels, where it is made into a sirup. Yellow-poplar bark, used with wild-cherry bark, prickly ash, dogwood bark and walihoo, is good for the consumption. Slippery-elm bark is ground up and used for poultices ; good to take out fever ; it's worth 10 cents a pound. Then there's ehler bark ; take it, tieeswax, mutton taller and a leetle resin, and it makes the best kind of a salve for fresh cuts. Boneset is an herb that grows about three feet high, with leases of a milky color; it generally gtfows in old pastures; it is used for colds, and is wdrtli 6 cents a pound. Old field balsam looks good deal like bonesfeL only it don't grow so high ; it is used* for the same purpose. I've sold lots of catnip to these drug­ gists, but what it is used for, more than ter nourish babies with, I don't know. I sell these fellows here all sorts of roots and herbs, even to mullin and plantain leaves, which they* make salve out of. Why, even these old gympsum weeds bring 3 cents a pound, and even sun­ flower seeds. Wliv, a couple of years ago I sold two bushels of sunflower seeds fur $21. They buy pumpkin and water­ melon seeds, also, ter make kidney med- iiine out of." KITTY KILDEY was ill, at Stony Creek valley, Pa., and the country doctors failed to cure her or to find out what ailed her. John McClain had the repu­ tation in that region of superstition of being a successful antagonist of witches. He examined Kitty as an expert, and de­ clared that she had been put under a •spell by Mrs. Boyer, an old German neighbor. He gave the girl some med­ icine, and she immediately, recovered. But it was not long before she was sim­ ilarly ill again, apd this time McClain . said that the effectual way of relieving her was to kill Mrs. Boyer, which he Enough for Condemnation. On one occasion, while Lieut. R. was conducting a pack train from one post to another in Arizona, he was attacked by Indians while moving along the side of a very steep and rocky mountain. The Indians were above the command, and the attack consisted in rolling large rocks down at the troops. Lieut. R. gave his horse to an Irishman to hold while he was engaged deploying the men to dislodge the Indians. During the af­ fair the horse was struck by one of the rocks, knocked off the trail and hurled down the side of the mountain. The Irishman had hold of the bridle at the time, wliicli was broken by the sudden shock, leaving a portion of it in his hand. After the affair was over, and the undertook to do by filling a bottle with j command was about to resume the . ,. ., , ». . .. .march, he came up to Lieut. R., saluted decoction of herbs and breaking it with ' i„-.„ „V..i - a hammer. Mrs. Boyer did not die, however, and has had McClain and the Kildeys prosecuted for slander. The Human Race Running to Brain. If there is to be so much head work, what will become of us all ? If both men and women are to develop more and more their brains, we shall soon l»e not far from the realization of the words of Diderot, who said: " We walk so little, we work so little, and we think so much, that I do not despair of man ending by being nothing but a head." Figure to yourself civilized man 100 or 200 years hence, when manual labor shall* have been entirely replaced by ma­ chinery, and when tne dreams of So­ cialists shall have been realized, and man, even in the lowest grade of society, ! shall be able to gain his livelihood by j working say three or four hours out of i the twenty-four. The tendency, you will observe, is constantly to reduce the hours of labor. In many parts of En­ gland, for instance, the hours of labor are little more than half what they were fifty years ago. Imagine, then, the movement spoken of by Diderot , t I j _ r con- in a layer three inches in thickness; cut stantly progressing, and man walking a piece of cloth of the size of the jar, wet less and less, owing to the increased fa­ it in strong brine, spreading it over this ! cilities of communication and locomo- first layer; repeat the process with each j tion, and working less and less, owing layer until you have reached the top or I to the constantly increasing use and per- witliin three-quarters of an inch. Now j fection of machinery, and thinking more make a strong brine, to which add three table-spoonfuls of granulated sugar, one teaspoonful of powdered saltpeter; set in a cool, dry cellar; keep it covered with the brine until wanted, and it will cut and more out of pure distraction and out of the ennui of civilization ! Im­ agine woman, thanks to the realization of the projects of Mr. Camille See, and to the establishment of Girton Col- out smoothly. But if butter is to be | leges all over the world, imagine worn kept for a better market, I would recom mend putting it up in any sweet pack­ age or jar, direct from the churn in the granulated form, covering it with strong brine, and when wanted take it up and work it over like new butter." HOUSEHOLD HELPS. ACCORDING to the German imperial statistics for 1878 of births, deaths and marriages, just published, the estimated -population being 44,200,000, the mar­ riages numbered 340,000, the births, 1,- 785,000, and the deaths, 1,228,000. In France the number of births, was 936,- 400, and of deaths 839,000, so that the births exceeded the deaths by 87,000. In Germany the excess of births was ,557,000--that is to say, that horse, but I have enough to presint to the Quartermaster for condemnation, surf"--Harper's Monthly. A Sew England Romance. Way back in the early part of this cent­ ury, one of the loveliest girls of the town of Norwich became engaged to a dashing young Englishman, apparently of great wealth, who claimed to have been a naval officer. He went away os­ tensibly for a short visit to Ejigland and was never heard of in Norwich again, al­ though tradition has it that he was a pirate by profession and that he was hung as such soon after leaving Norwich, while in i However the truth may have been, his .. -la™ affianced bride was faithful unto death Prance the population increased in 1878 j and believed ^ the last, when she «t the rate of 0.27 per cent., it increased j failed away, a very sweet, gentle, sad old in Germany at the rate of 1.25 per cent. J lady.--Springfield Republican. SALEM DESSERT.--Peel and slice apples, stew till done, then run through a colan­ der, sweeten and season. Beat the w hites of three eggs to a stiff froth, and just be­ fore serving whip them into a quart of , , the stewed apples. Eat with cream and him, and, holding out the portion of the call for more. bridle, said: " Jjeftinant, I haven t j/er FRIED BRE BREAD PUDDING.--Take a stale loaf of baker's bread ; cut in slices; beat up six eggs, stir them into a quart of milk ; dip the slices into the milk and eggs ; lay them upon a dish, one upon another, and let them stand about an hour ; then fry them to a light brown in a little butter; serve with pudding Bauce or sirup. SAUER-KRACT.--Take a nice piece of pork, two pounds to one quart of sauer­ kraut ; wash the pork and cover with boiling water, and boil one hour ; then take your saner-kraut,"press all the wa­ ter from it, and place it around the pork, and boil another hour. When done, serve the pork and the cabbage in sep­ arate dishes, with mashed potatoes. MOONSHINE.--This is no relative to the an walking even less than she does now, working less, and thinking more and more! What shall we come to, great Darwin? Does not the theory of evolution point to the inevitable reali­ zation of Diderot's words ? Will not our legs wither away and return to the rudimentary stage like our tails ? Will not our arms and Ixxlies diminish, and muscles for which there is no longer any use up, and their elements l>e absorbed by the brain and head, which will acquire the phenomenal proportions of a caricature ?--Parisian. Fastidious Ladies. " It-has lately been chronicled of one of the London beauties," says the Wash­ ington Star, "that she is so fastidious in regard to the dleanliness of anything she touches that she has gold or silver coin scoured before putting it into her purse. The late Mrs. Gales, of this city, was similarly eccentric. Her old friends say that if she dropped her handkerchief on the floor she would not use it again until it had been washed. Immediately on returning home after a walk or drive she would change every article of her clothing. An Admiral now living here related that, when a young Lieutenant, he once offended her by riding on horse­ back to Eckington (her country seat) to attend a dinner-party to which she had invited him. In the rebuke which she pProm ttM Toledo Blade.] Noo YORK, March SO, MM. 1 am at present an inmate uv a con­ venient but very cheap Hotel in the vi­ cinity uv Gramercy Park, the residence uv the great Tilden, wich wood hev in­ vited me to stay with him, but nn- fortoonitly his house wuz full uv Demo­ crats from all parts wich cum to per­ suade him to save the kentry by con- sentin to run for the Presidency. In the kindest manner, however, he is payin my board here (I bein a delegate-elect to the Cincinnati Convention); lie makes me a fair allowance for my prinsipal ex­ penses, wich is the bar uv the House. I hed a interview with the great man yisterday, wich wuz entirely satisfactory. Indeed, the close uv it wuz more than satisfactory, ez I kin now git not only a noo soot uv cloze, but kin approach Baa- I com for six months without askin credit, pervidin the influx uv drummers from Looisville keeps up, and they display ther accustomed liberality in imkin the whole house up to drink. Mr. Tilden remarked that he did not now, nor never hed desired the Presi­ dency. Ef he knowd hisself he wuz a siniple-mindid m&n wich desired to pass the reminder uv his days in peace and quiet with his friends, and not to be worried with pollytix or biznis. But wat cood he do ? The Kentry was his wife and children, and they aemandid Uiat he take the seet. They demandid in 1876, and he yeelded then, and he spozed he shood hev to now. "In wat wav, Mr. Tilden, do you per* pose to meet tliis almost yoonammus de­ mand of the Amerikin people for yoo to accept the nominaslien ?" " I shel do everything that in me lies to meet the wishes uv my fellow-citizens. I shel start out with the pint that a great fraud wuz committed four years ago, when I wuz swindled out uv the Presi­ dency after investin' three milyuns uv hard-earned money in a buyin' it, and that--" " Will yoo hev Cronin, uv Oregon, in­ terviewed, and the cipher dispatches re­ published ?" "That wuz the work uv my nevew Pelton and other enthusiastic but indis­ creet friends uv mine. I am a innosent and gilelis old man, and liable to be im­ posed upon. Ef the cry uv fraud don't move the Convenshun, my nevew Pelton will gently intimate that ef the Dimecri- ?r don't take me they can't carry Noo ork, and without Noo York a Dimocrat can't be elected. That will hev its ef- feck upon them as desire posisliun in the Postomce Department and the Custom Houses, and will doubtlis, to yoose slang, fetch 'em. It is a pint." " Spozen that fails ? " "In that event, only one thing re­ mains. We must hev a pure Govern­ ment, with a pure man at its head. Ef these two consideraslmns don't inflooence em, I shel take the heads out uv two or three barls, and buy the entire conven­ shun. The country must be saved. And then--" The gilelis old man's spare figger seemed to dilate ez does a warrior's when he meets a foeman. " And then will come the struggle. I will hev my literary buro sendm out ready-made editorials to all the Dime- cratic press, promisin every seckshun every thin--I am not seckslnmid, and hed iist ez soon buy the Electral vote uv a Northern State ez a Southern one--I shel parsel out the offlses, I shel buy men where I kin git em. John Morrisey Is ded, but there are others to start pool­ rooms, to inflooense the waverin. I shel put all the old machinery to Work, with a lot uv new that I hev recently invented, and this time I shel make no mistake. I know more about Presidenshel eleck- shuns than I did then, and besides that I hev made a couple of millions uv dol­ lars in the past four yeers, and in the in­ terest of a pure Government I will spend every cent uv it buyin the eleckshun to influence free and independent voters. I will do it this time shoor." The sage and patriot then gave me di- reckshuus ez to Iiow to manage the Ken­ tucky delegashun, and promised that I shood be his agent in buyin up stubborn ones, and that I shood be on the com- mittv wich shood parcel out 'the offises for Kentucky. Uv course the postoftis at the Comer wuz to l>e mine, tho the sage and patriot did hint that ef the Kentncky delegashun wuz yoonanimus the Looisville Collectorsliip wood be mine. He Bpoke definitly on this pint. "My dear friend," he remarked, ez he prest my hand at partin, "remember the Looisville Collectorship, and whisper to yoor friends that my barl is the only one that will be opened. A wink is ez good ez a nod to a mule." Uv course Mr. Tilden is my candi­ date. He kin apprerihiate patriotism, and is the first candidate that hez ever promised me anything better than the Corners postoffis. I shel go home to la­ bor for him with all my mite. PETROLEUM Y. NASBY. (For Tilden firnt, last, and all the time.) P. S.--I don't know alxrnt Tilden, after all. Another Kentuckian wich is atoppin at the same hotel remark t to me, confidenshelly, that he esteemed Mr. Tilden the greatest patriot of modern days. And he went on to say that the great and good man hed desired him to see that the Kentucky delegashun wuz yoonanimous for him. " The fact is, Nasby," Bed this man;* "ef Tilden is nominated and electid I am promised the Collectorship of Looisville, and I kin give you a nice lierth in it. I'll make it to yoor interest to support him." This wuz encurridgin to me, for I wuz about to make him the same offer. P. S. No. 2.--Later last nite two other Kentucky Dimecrats come to me with the same proposishun. How many Col­ lectors does Looisville need ? P. S. No. 3.--An enemy uv the gileles patriot hez caused Mr. Tilden serious trouble. He caused it to cirkelate pri- vitly among the Democrisy that the great and good Tilden desired to meet, personally, them upon whom he ex- pec tid to confer appintments, on the 19th inst., at his house. The streets wuz full for five blocks with a perceshun ez long ez a St. Patrick's day. Among em wuz exactly 38 statesmen wich hed each bin informed thet he wuz the gilelis states­ man's choice for the Vice Presidency, and who hed bin promised that his in­ flooence shood be thrown for them. It ! didn't annoy the gilelis man at alL Ez he blandly remarkt to me, " These gen­ tlemen are all committid publicly to me, and they can hardly go back on wat they hev told their constitooents." Mr Tilden is a great, ez well as gile­ lis, man. from India. general use. _ The oldest l>ook in which there is men- ( T™1 mother ofthe late Gea. Giles A. tion of sealing-wax is a treatise of one ! South died at Btoomington a few daya Garsias de Orta on Aromatics and' a8°- Simples, published in 1563; and the first j JOHN PKBKT, a Stsreater laborer, baa letter known to have been sealed with 1 lately received back pension amounting wax is said to have been written to Fred- j to 12,100. erick Count Palatine, by a French gentle man, sent on a mission to the Ckmrt of Weimar. Wafers made their appearance some­ where about the same time. Adhesive envelopes were invented and first used in England about 1848. It seems very strange that so simple a device was not thought of before. Bv slow degrees the most conservative abandoned sealing-wax and wafers; but they were long retained in those strong­ holds of conservatism, the English Gov­ ernment offices. Sealing-wax-makers' occupation is now nearly gone. WHY HE LEFT. A Leatiiana Colored Jlan Show* dM IlelpletesiteKK of Ills Baca Afalaat Southern RufMana. [Washington Letter to the New York Timea.] The Exodus Committee met this morn­ ing, Senator Vance presiding in place of Senator Voorliees, who was ill and un­ able to be present. Philip Joseph, a light mulatto, appar­ ently an unusually well-educated man, and editor of the Mobile Gazette, testi­ fied, in response to questions by Senfiior Windom, that he had lived in Alabama all bis life until the last three years, which he had spent in Louisiana. The first concerted movement that he knew of among the negroes took the shape of a convention, held at Montgomery in 1874, at which committees were appoint­ ed to seek a favorable spot in the West to which the negroes might emigrate,, and find happier homes ; to collect and diffuse information concerning the con­ ditions of the race, and to prepare an ad­ dress of complaint to Congress. The address, which was drawn up by Mr. Joseph and embodied his personal knowl- THE city authorities ai Paris, Edgar county, compelled the May Fiske blondes to leave town. AN American eagle, near eight feet from tip to tip, was shot lately weal at Peru, La Salle county. IT is claimed that Joliet township has expended between $10,000 and $15,000 on paupers in the last year. A scnPFiiY of the mineral known to commerce as tripoli, of a good quality, has been discovered near La Salle. THE Warden's report shows that there were 1,530 convicts in the Joliet peni­ tentiary April 1, twenty-two being fe­ males. BISHOP BUROKSS has jmrchased the delightful residence of Mrs. Selmes, oat Maine, near Fourteenth street, in Quiucy. f CAPT. TINNEY and wife, of Pekin, who have resided in that city forty-eight years, celebrated their golden wedding last week. COL. GKOBGUI SCMOOGB, proprietor of the Champaign Gazette and Consul at t Bfomburg, is expected to return to y Champaign from Florida, about May 1. / A CARROLL county man in sawing^ fifteen cords of wood, a few weeks ago, s counted sixteen species of wood in the fifteen cords.. He has twenty kinde on his farm. - JAMES M. BUTLKDOK, a pioneer of Uli- nois, died at his residence, near Kills-" boro, Montgomery county, a few days ' ^ j a g o , a g e d 8 2 . H e c a m e i n t o t h e S t a t e . | from the South, in 1825. ' DrarsG the year preceding Feb. 20, '"^i| the total of losses by fire in Springfield" 'ft" were $7,'532, on which was $6,132 insur­ ance. During the same period it is, probable that $50,000 to $75,000 waa^ paid out for insurance. ' , THE report of the Southern edge, set forth that as a race the negroes , . _ had never more than partially eiljoyed i penitentiary^ at Chester, for the month their political rights, and cited the facts > March, is as follows : Convicts on supporting this assertion. Ill-health j hand Feb. 29, 311; received during the- prevented the witness from maintaining an actual connection with the movement thus started. He soon after went to Madison parish, La., and went into business there. The negroes in that parish were well treated by the whites until the November or De­ cember elections in 1879 for State and local officers. On the Sunday night pre­ ceding election day, armed bands from other parishes, of whites, raided through the parish, killing David Armstrong, a negro, wounding other negroes, and in­ timidating the whole colored population, | ^ veIy remunerative, the res/ilt being that the Democratic j m of s ticket received about 3,000 majority,1 committee of a though in 1876 the Republican ticket against 332 for the month, 19; discharged during the month, ̂ - 20; on hand March 31, 310. WATER-WORKS will be built for Joliet, ';'4 by Eastern contractors, at an outlay of $200,000, for which the city will pay|fj $7,000 per annum, and private parties * " graded rate per annum according to thtf quantity used. f « MEMRBRS of the Alton Horticultural Society are unanimous in the opinions that tnere never was a better prospect for fruit of almost every kind than aj|,i present. It is feared that prices will noli- supervision appoint# j j ed to select a site for a new countjf" jail, at Bloomington, h*m made their Be** lection from thirteen lots offered, fof? ; j which the county is to pay $4,500. Th% ; • plan for the jail is not yet decided onk?'. but the building is to cost at least $40,i- 000. ; A FELLOW calling himself " Prof " D. James, a piano tuner and muskiaap has been playing hob in the wester®, part of this State. He worked upon thi| affections of the girls in that section^ confining his affections principally t|f schoolma'ams and milliners, engaginjf' himself to half a dozen at once. Ha was overhauled for some financial crook­ edness, and now languishes in the Will county jail. ,s..' Tax romance of Mike Muloek is flafcrf" he secretly married a Streator girl ana went to Nebraska to establish a home, while his wife continued at school* teaching. When Mike returned to claim his own he found that the girlla parents had hid her, but love proved sifc* preine, and Mike found Mrs, Mulock at Valparaiso, Ind. The compromise thett established was that Mike should remain, a citizen of Illinois and grow up witk . the country. : THE military department of Agricutt̂ ; '? ural University, at Champaign, has beejjl reorganized under the direction of LienC William T. Wood, of the Eighteenth United States infantry, who liV* been -/t tailed to act as professor of military act#1 ence and tactics, in place of Lieut. Dii|« ' widdie. The battalion is divided, as t*§| fore, into six companies, the oommi4» sioned officers being chosen from thit Junior, and the sergeants from the Sopb» omore class. The era of good feeling has returned and the faculty' and dents are working with their i harmony and enthusiasm. ... »•?. Illinois School Dedaimn* • James P. Slade, the Superintendent dl Public Instruction, has just issued a ci§» cular letter in which he renders somii important decisions on school pointy from which we condense the following!'. Directors shall hold regular meetings 6t fetated times, and special meetings aft the call of two members of the board. No legal business can be done except at these meetings. It is not necessary for the third Director to be present at spa ̂ cial meetings, nor need he even be nol||r fled of the meetings. It is the duty of the Directors to keep a book in which shall be recorded an ac­ count of all meetings " in a punctual, or­ derly and reliable manner." This law is imperative and must be obeyed. ^ - The School Treasurer must transmit to the Board " two days after the first had 2,521 votes, Democratic ticket, and the witness knew of hardly a dozen Democrats among the blacks, who outnumber the whites by four or five to one. The natural effect, the witness continued, of this and sim­ ilar outrages was to intensify the desire of the blacks to leave the parish, but they found it difficult to get away, more especially on account of the unwilling­ ness of steamboat officers to incur the odium resulting from taking them as passengers. In Ouachita parish the ne­ groes had the same difficulty in getting away that they had in slave days. If it became known that they intended to go to Kansas, they were killed, or, if they got started, were sometimes tracked down by bloodhounds. The witness described the changes, in­ jurious to his race, made by the new constitution of Louisiana, prominent among which were two. It prescribed the precinct at which a voter should ap­ pear and cast his vote, thus obliging a negro employe to pass under the eyes of his employer and expose his ballot, should the employer choose to be there and compel it. This was a form of in­ timidation, since the employe dared not offend his employer by casting a vote against the latter's party. Under the old constitution,^ registered voter could choose his own precinct, and thus evade his employer. Under the old constitu­ tion a voter, on being challenged, could s&ear in his vote, and the inspectors were obliged to receive it. Under the new one the challenged voter must find two men in good standing to identify him to the inspectors. White men standing around the poll did not care, under the circumstances, to acknowl­ edge that they knew him, and the in­ spectors did not admit the good stand­ ing of colored indorsers. Since the Dem­ ocrats obtained control of the State, in 1874, the fund available for education had been reduced by $350,000. Colored schools were kept up in the larger cities, but in the country districts were not open' more than four months in the year on an average. The witness thought the emigration movement would spread and grow unless some change occurred whereby the laws should be impartially enforced and the black men given the rights and immunities of citizenship. There had not been a colored man on a jury in Mobile since 1874, and not one negro out of a thousand could get justice at the hands of exclusively white juries. Mr. Vance said that in Madison parish, according to the witness' figures, there were eight colored men to one white man, and asked: And yet you think the Gov- ernment ought to interfere by force of i Monday in April and October" a detailed arms and protect eight black men against one white man? Witness--I believe the Government should protect every man, let him be black or white, in his rights. If the statement of their account with Mai. These statements for the entire year must be posted on the door of the room where the election for Directors is held. The Directors must also make out for ight in that county should dare to raise j the voters a detailed statement of their their hands against.,the one white man-- A -- 3 : Mr. Vance--He would swallow them immediately ? receipts and expenditures for the previa ous vear.. When a teacher is employed to Witness--No, sir ; but he has many a ! by the month, a calendar month is un­ sealing Letters. A Dutch journal gives the following information about the different methods which have been used in sealing let­ ters : . For a long period ordinary beeswax white man back of him in other coun­ ties and States--men who are better prepared than the colored men are to move around; who can travel by rail­ road and steamboat, and in every way. It is as much as a poor devil of a colored man down there can do to earn his meat, and he has no money to invest in six- teen-shooters, and all the latest improved """The witness asserted that the negroes were kept perpetually in debt by the cheating of merchants. In reply to a few closing questions by Mr. Windom, the witness said that if the negroes at­ tempted to carry Mr. Vance's idea of self-protection into execution they would be instantly arrested by the whites; "and," he continued, "if Mr. Vance should go through that country preach­ ing that doctrine to the blacks, the whites would soon ornament a lamp- post with his head." derstood, and he is entitled to his pay st- i the end of the month, if he has deliv­ ered his schedule. Directors can also t make contracts with teachers to teach at so much for a month of twenty or twen*t- tv-two days, or can hire them by ^ day or week if they choose. His s^> ules should always be made out »* '.v.,™ close of eaeh month, and he is Swwir lose any time for legal holidays <ild. Goat days granted bv the Directors. Lan .MM. He Turned the Tabk ••*** There is nothing like pw»s%, *anwm» after all. One dark, raii£AQg» Dr. Botts, who lives on JAMES H. SHAFER, of Belief ontaire | I Ohio, had a wife whom his brother,1 ! George M. Shafer, loved. The upshot j i was a transfer of the woman by means | | of a divorce, and James received in pay- j | ment a mortgage for $1,500 on Gorge's j 1 property. This bargain, made several enue, San Francisco, ward when he discover ing dogged by a burl, intent on robbery, ly part of the just at his heels, toning his coat turned back and "Please, sir, something to whisky, indeed thing to "Great pad, re] found "honey-moon," notwithstanding it is J brought the very nice. Beat the white of two eggs 'clothes to her table. was the only material employed. Toward ; years ago, was kept a secret until lately; • piping was replaced by sealing-wax, introduced i carried the matter into court. 1 inek to administered to him she implied that he WHO ««= --r---x----.'-- --., . - , " ' i *-» -* odor of the horse in his ; the middle of the sixteenth centurv this ; but a quarrel over the mortgage haaj And mafia* t*| «* t «f any utiwr Call a air! K Bnam miwii * pra Ith PvMh OjttUN mi tt* r the €a»«r lttsK at '-al^ it w ttvaainft. My kw« m* cwiqr It 1*4 tip* I a**) lighted, ami n* patafl >dto|&a»* all vlmiaMl. aad kwp at tta#' r«vtionerj. Give me a calk