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Jfffcnvg flaindealet 3. VAN SLYKE * SON, jhnwJMHML -Y, ILLINOIS. THE ice drift in the temperate latitudes toC the Atlantic has been somewhat re­ markable this Vear. Several vessels have reported passing through fields of ice in the pacange from JtP ISewfdck. ' : THE college book of Harvard gfves •.statistics showing that out of 943 Har­ vard students who graduated between 1869 and 1875, inclusive, 369 were Uni­ tarians or Liberals, 217 Episcopalians, 126 Orthodox Oongregationalists, 46 .Baptists, 12 Swedenborgians, 8 other -trinitarians, 2 Quakers, 15 Catholics, 2 Jews, 1 Mormon, and 113 undecided. .Seats are furnished the students at the expense of the college at any church of their own election. ; . , " escape from punishment was curious. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. During the previous year the Legislature had passed a law defining the degrees of murder and declaring the penalty for murder in the first degree should be imprisonment for one year, after which, upon a warrant issued by the Governor, the convicted person should be taken out and executed. Under this statute Battles was sen­ tenced and incarcerated at Auburn. During his imprisonment the Court of Appeals declared the statute under whiQ& he was convicted unconstitutional, and he was released. THE CARE OF CLOTHING. B«w It may ke Preserved tor the Loaxest Time* '«* [From the New York Tribune.], Concerning the fashion of clothing and the various fabrics of which it is made, information is full and frequent. Very little, however, is said about the care of clothing, and the ways in which it may be preserved for the longest time and in the best possible condition. To those who change their garments with every change of style this is a matter of slight im­ portance, but to those who purchase a silk dress or a, broadcloth suit only once in a series of years it is a matter of interest and value. Silks, cashmeres, cloths of standard style and quality, are very little affected by the various cur­ rents of fashion. They hold their own be bantered into another bet of $25, to be decided by a jeweler's scales. Of ©OttiKSkflk^L© wop this bet, too. THE DEMOCRATIC QUANDAlf. [From the Chicago Tribune.) However perplexing the Republican situation may be as to the outcome of the Presidential contest, it is a bed of roses as compared with the Democratic quandary. The Republicans are merely puzzled to know which is the most ad­ visable of some three courses , that are open to them, and there is already a A orRXi at Enson, Dakota, was very *>dfeconsolate over the loss of a lover, but •was uncertain whether she really wished to commit suicide. In order to test the ^question, she let herself down into a stream with a rope, so that she could , either let go and drown, or hold fast and ' «ave herself. She found that immersion in the water did not make her desire to live, and she discarded the rope. But her suicide was prevented, after all, by /boatmen. THE United States District Attorney of New York city, at the instance of ' Collector Merritt, has commenced pro­ ceedings against the proprietors of fif­ teen ocean steamships for carrying more passengers than the law allows. The practice of overcrowding emigrant ves­ sels during the spring months has grown to be a gross abuse. The unfortunate immigrants to this country have been scandalously treated for several years, and it is time that some restraint should be placed on the greedy ship corpora- "W. L. Fox, a young oil producer, said to be worth $3,000,000, the largest owner of private iron tankage in the oil regions and the only producer owning an indi­ vidual pipe line of any size, recently died on a railroad train near Clarion, Pa- He was to be witness in a murder trial> 4pnd, having forgotten a revolver he was to produce and identify, had the train stopped and ran some distance to his house and back. He sank into a seat «achausted by the effort, and when the conductor came to speak with him in a |ew minutes he was dead. IKDIA is coming forward as a tea- growing country, and in 1879 furnished Great Britain nearly one-fifth of its an­ nual supply. The tea product of India is steadily increasing, having risen from 27,814,000 pounds in 1876 to 35,420,000 in 1878. The tea is stronger and cheap­ er than the Chinese teas, but is said to be not so mildly flavored. Small con­ signments which have reached this country, however, have been highly praised by New York tea-tasters. As the English statutes against adulteration are vigorously enforced in India, 7,000 chests of tea adulterated by "dust" were burned recently. Indian teas are not " faced " or colored as Chinese teas are, and the leaf presents a more irregular j appearance. The new teas as they come into use are likely to displace the Chi­ nese teas of the lower grade. a result generally desirable. PHILADELPHIA is astonished to find that it is to have an elevated railroad. The enterprise was kept a secret until very lately, and the first public inti­ mation of it was the rapid demolition of houses. The line within the city proper is to run on property owned by the company, except where it crosses streets. The projectors are the Penn­ sylvania Railroad Company, and it is to run from their present depot, in West Philadelphia, to Broad and Market streets, in the heart of the city. The job of purchasing the ground of its 250 owners was undertaken a year ago by trusty agents, and the buyers were over 100 different persons, who resold to the company at the proper time. By this plan the property was all acquired at reasonable prices. The structure is to be of brick and iron, and the Schuylkill is to be crossed by a massive bridge. Cleopatra's Needle. Our American nation, which is the youngest in the world, is about to re­ ceive from the oldest of kingdoms the gift of a monument whose companion was planted a couple of years since on the banks of the Thames at London. Think of a single stone which weighs _ a couple of hundred tons, and that would ; certain definiteness about the result, tower up twice sis nigh as most city , ... xv.i dwellings, being floated across 5,000 There ^thoso who beheve that Gen* miles of ocean to us! Surely man, ; Grant's nomination is practically as- tliough a dwarf himself in size, is cun- sured. Others contend that the third- ning enough to move mountains, and to ; termers will not develop the requisite a tag 1 to nominate iheir c^UK, on through all the year., „k1 ore ah»y. : ^ ̂ th-"t 0 defe<!t,0n ^ good, always " stylish," always suitable, i ^ if:,, 'ml U When new fabrics are for tie l,onr of rr.gn.j.1 lu E^ the pri at Tliutli- their popularity l^h-pri^d, . £. | Africa or Asia could stand against him. He even made the far-off King ef Nine­ veh pay him a tribute of elephants, gi­ raffes, gold, silver^ and horses, which standard goods sell at the standard price, and know little of rise or fall in stand' ard value. Neglect and 'carelessness deteriorate we^dSet ^Thedt^!^ wh^ • latter aHimals the Egyptians had never stead of changing her nii dress when 'I™1 "r* she passes from tie street or the church h£r kifrlipn W™ it on and takes it busy 111 slaughtering 120 elephants. with her through the various processes ! Such JJP of dish-washing, sweeping and cooking i Thothmes ^ p^e that lie nad his will soon rob it of all its nicety, wlnle engraven m a temple as The liv- she who wears her fine clothes only in places where fine clothes are suitable may keep them in good condition for an indefinite time. To dress according to one's work is good taste, good sense and economy. The careful person will take pains to preserve a new ealico no less than a new silk. We knew a young lady once who put on a nice new calico which she had taken great pains to make, and wore it through the morn­ ing dew to milk the cows. To keep her arms from being soiled or tanned by the sun, she declined the sleeves of the ing good god, lord of the upper and lower world, the lord of diadems !" 1 At his order, hundreds of men were set to work to hew two obelisks out of the hard granite rocks at Syene, in Southern Egypt, near where the Nile dashes through the cataracts. He was resolved to preserve the memory of his victories forever on the stones. Think a moment of the difficulty of cutting out such a huge, four-faced monolith (or single stone) without a breakage, and with such poor tools as ; they had then. Such feats are not ventured on in our tes'Umin t»o da.™ tl.rn™ n,."v calico : 400 ddicate M>d looked lite the rest of her dresses, dow- ] ^ they used to mark out dy slatternly unclean. We toe. an- | ,h aton()qfor tj,; whJie other young lady who lwd ».x silk , , , ,lrive metal ,V(.<fgeB (hi dresses, and not one of them was nt to ,. ° wear, tliough none of them had been | T ,• , , , made abov! a vear. They were spotted, ' fIu tlus ^ P • * draggled, tumbled, mussed, abused ! of 'months, the rocks ^wascut awav We knew another young ladV who was | on alj 81*es save °.^ . ̂ • S ,7 n , , - t , : 11 was finallv separated bv dnvuig a num-the fortunate possessor of one nice black . . • , 1 . • , ,, 6 .. alpaca dress which she wore on all occa- I of .7°od«1 1'^ fT siras the season through, and always 'i'et MU. HI,, hit viously out for them ; and then these ^ CORRESPONDENT writes that the spider which hanged a mouse at Fort Wayne recently did not set the fashion. JL mmilar performance was witnessed many years ago in Albion. A young garter snake, six or seven inches long, was discovered under an old counter partially suspended by a spider's web. In a few hours it was noticed that the anake was being gradually lifted from the floor. Whenever he struggled the spider could be seen darting about from' line to line, evidently drawing up the slack. The operation continued till the body of the snake was dangling in the air. WILLIIAM P. GILIIESPIB was on his death-bed at Columbus, Ind. The phy­ sician told him that he could not live many hours. "Are you sure I can't get well ?" the patient asked ; " I don't want you to make a mistake about it. Is there a possibility of recovery?" He -was assured that his speedy demise was absolutely certain. Then he explained why he was s® anxious to get exact in­ formation. He had murdered a man twelve years before, and had never been suspected of the crime. He desired to confess and be forgiven, if he really was going to die, but not otherwise. He died, and the truth of his statement has been amply sustained. PROF. WICKERSHEIMER, the cefebrated taxidermist attached to the Anatomical Museum of Berlin, has just discovered a liquid which, injected into the veins of dead meat, not only preserves it for sev­ eral weeks from decay, but keeps it per­ fectly fresh and in possession of its nat­ ural flavor. Having treated a slaugh­ tered calf with his new preparation, and subsequently caused it to be exposed for a fortnight to the air and weather changes, hanging in the open front of a butcher's shop, he invited a select party of scientific celebrities to partake of the meat thus tested, providing for them, however, other viands in case the prepared veal should fail to suit their palates. The professor's guests, however, found his piece de resistance so toothsome and delicate thpt they confined their attentions to it exclus­ ively, neglecting all the other solid items in his menu. appeared faultlessly dressed. She had no work to do that would specially soil her clothes. If a stray drop of anything that could make a spot fell upon her dress it was at once removed. All dust was brushed off, a sponge dipped in am­ monia water brightened faded places, and snowy collai-s arid etiffs suggested dainty habits of cleanliness. The care of clothing to be easy must be habitual. The hardest part is in forming the habit, and this cannot too early in life be formed. Most children love to make mud pies, and play in the dirt generally, and give little heed to keeping themselves clean. This is all follow which will result in the nomina­ tion of Senator Blaine. There is a third class consisting of those who think that the contest between the ex-President's adherents and Senator Blaine's following will be so close that the friends of both aspirants will-agree to unite upon a third person. All Republicans--stalwarts, conservatives and liberals--are of the opinion that, in case of a stubborn con­ flict over the two most conspicuous can­ didates, the prize will fall into the hands of Mr. Washburne or Senator Edmunds, with the chances largely in favor of the former, and there is no dis­ sent to the prediction that the nomina­ tion of either of those two gentlemeh will develop the full strength and cordial support of the rank and file of the party. The result, of course, is still doubtful. But on the general recqrd of the party every Republican is satisfied, and all is serene. The Democrats, on the other hand, are sorely perplexed by various circum­ stances which promise to embarrass them no matter what the result of their convention may be. There is a general feeling in the party that Mr. Tilden has a mortgage on the nomination. This produces the same sort of discomfort which an individual experiences who has a debt hanging over him which he is convinced he cannot pay without bankrupting himself. Mr. Tilden has given no sign that he intends to relieve the Democratic party of the embarrass­ ment of his presence. His seizure and management of the New York Conven­ tion, on the contrary, have indicated his purpose to urge his claims to the last. He is reported to have more wealth than ever before, and he demonstrated in 1876 his •willingness to employ the large cash means at command to secure the nomi­ nation and assist in his campaign. He is not willing to budge, and the Demo­ crats who are opposed to him seem to be powerless to remove him out of the be possible for him to put forward any such pretense in the fade of the cipher dispatches and attempted bribery of Electors, and no other candidate whom the Democrats can select can assume the same character that Tilden carried in 1876. Four years ago the currency ssue was conspicuous, and the Democrat® had the sympathy and support of that large class of voters who were in favor of repealing the ^Resumption law and flooding the country with irredeemable scrip in order to relieve their pressing necessities. This year there is an abundant supply of money--gold, silver, greenbacks, and bank notes--of uniform value. The soft-money Republicans have deserted the strange gods they were running after and returned to their own party, and there is no faction of Greenbackers or Fiatists whom the Democrats can hope to conciliate that will do them any good. Finally, four years ago the country was in the very worst stage of the hard times--the most dangerous of all conditions for the party in power. There was a general feeling that a change of party might LA some unexplained way bring relief to the universal financial de­ pression, and that in any case matters could not be more aggravated. All this was peculiarly favorable to the Demo­ cratic pretensions in 1876, and undoubt­ edly swelled the vote which Mr. Tilden received enormously. This year, how­ ever, the business sentiment of the country is satisfied with things as they are, and dreads a change. Money is plenty, speculation is active, prices are booming, wages are good, the factories \ ILLP01S SEWS. OMR of fhe census enumerator* |pX Springfield is a lady. THE officers of the Grand Army of lbs Republic, of this State, have decided to hold the next reunion in Galesburg. ED HUMPHRKY, of Moline, aged 43 > years, atteny?ted suicide by hangisgg through fear of being chastised for hir­ ing run away from school. DAVID CIIAUDE\\ son of Joseph Clatt- den, who resides three miles north of Pekin, was nearly kicked to death one of his father s horses last week. THOSE interested in Illinois sugar ct||U ure are invited to meet at Springfield, May 27. The product for 1879 is esti­ mated at $1,000,000, and for 1880 ten times that much. THE first Presbyterian synod that ever convened in the State of Illinois met in Hillsboro in 1831. It lias been suggest­ ed that there be a semi-centennial ob­ servance of this occasion at Hillsboro in the autumn of 1881 by all the synods ; the State. , ^ ! MR. GEORGE GIDEON, who lived in Dewitt county for thirty years, died at Clinton recently. He was an old soldier of the war of 1812, and was a prominent citizen Of the place, where he at one time did a flourishing business. • He was 92 years of age, and was born in. 1.788. THE managers of the Illinois Wesley- an University are chuckling over a piaA '1 of grand attraction at the annual com­ mencement exercises, which includes and Jv wooden wedges were saturated with water, so as to split the stone by their expansion. The next step was to transport such a massive block a distance of 500 miles to Heliopolis or On, the City of the Sun, * ... I near the delta of the Nile. So the stone j way, notwithstanding their numbers and was moved across inclined platforms to i then: distribution over the entire coun- a raft, which had been brought to the i try. They feel that they cannot elect edge of the quarry through a canal, and | Tilden, but their conviction is almost then it was floated down the Nile during j equally strong that they cannot elect an inundation. I anvbody else without Tilden s active co- Some scholars believe that large be conveved all the rj, „ , the presence of Grant, Washburne, are running on full time, railroad build- other notables, and a sermon by Rev, T. ing exceeds all precedent, merchants De Witt Talmage or- Henry Ward are busy, the mining, transportation, agricultural and industrial interests are all thriving--and the proffer of a change in parties, which is all tlie Democrats can hold out to the country, is the very worst promise they could possibly make. Altogether, the Democratic managers will be put to their wits' end first to settle their own family troubles, and then, if they succeed in doing that, to convince the American people that there is any sufficient reason for experiment­ ing with their doubtful oapacity for gov­ erning the country. PRESIDENTIAL. monoliths had to way by land, on sledges and rollers, j well enough at times, and they should Snch » gigantic task must have occupied I be indulged in their mud pies, provided j sey^ral yea1'8-., | they are di-essed for the work. But it is! On itsarnvalin safety the granite i J . . . . w a s c a r e f u l l y p o l i s h e d . N e x t t h e f i g - ] ures and inscriptions selected were skill- j fully inscribed by the court sculptor, yet j slowly, on account of its extreme hard- ness. The base of the obelisk was then i set within a groove in the pedestal, and j the entire monument was raised to the j perpendicular by building up a ridge of earth beneath it. Our special obelisk and its mate stood as guardian deities before the grand en­ trance of the Temple of fhe Sun at On. They were symbols of the rays of the | rising sun, as the pyramids to the west- | ward were of the slanting or setting rays, j In that idolatrous age they were even j worshiped as divine images, and obla- i tions were offered to them CURIOUS AND INTERESTING. " poor-foiksy " in the last degree to al­ low a child to play in the dirt with nice clothes on, or to permit a young person to dress inappropriately while at work. It is vastly easier to change a good coat for a poor one than it is to restore to its pristine condition a soiled coat. It is vastly easier to put on a pair of overalls than it is to sponge thoroughly a pair of pantaloons. But the worst of it is that those who neglect to change the coat and to put on the overalls neglect, also, the sponging and cleaning processes, and let dust and spots re­ main. A clothes-brush, a wisp broom, a bot­ tle of ammonia, a sponge, a hand-brush, a cake of erasive soap, a vial of alcohol, should form a part of the furnishings of every toilet. After all dust has been re moved from clothing spots may be taken out of black cloth with the hand-brush dipped in a mixture of equal parts of ammonia, alcohol and watej.% This will brighten as cleanse. Benzine is useful in removing grease spots. A MILITARY small-arm manufacturer at Wurzburg has invented a simple appara­ tus which will enable any ordinary breech-loading rifle or gun with central ignition to be used as a saloon rifle, thus allowing men to be exercised at target practice in the drill shed, or even in their rooms. The invention consists of a tube of cast steel of the same length as the barrel of the rifle with which it is to be used, but of very small caliber. This tube is fitted with brass rings about an inch wide, which enable it to be pushed into and pulled out of the barrel of a THE weight of the average male adult is 140 pounds. THE full capacity of the lungs is about 320 cubic inches. THE human skeleton consists of more than 200 distinct bones. ABOUT two-thirds of a pint of air is inhaled at each breath in ordinary res­ piration. THE weight of the heart is from eight to twelve ounces. It beats 100,000 times in twenty-four hours. AN amount of blood equal to the whole quantity of the body passes through the heart every minute. THERE are more |han 500 separate muscles in the body, and an equal num­ ber of nerves and blood vessels. anybody operation. Even if it be conceded that the oppo­ sition to Tilden inside the Democratic party, assisted by the two-thirds rule which governs that party, shall prove adequate to his rejection, then the Dem­ ocrats are all at sea. They do not seem to be able to get one strong man out of a number of commonplace or weak men. The aspirants for the nomination are almost as numerous as the party itself. | The "dark horses" include every va- | riety of shading, but every one of them I develops, on examination, some blemish j that makes him unavailable. Hancock, ! who is commended as less open to objec- | tion than the other candidates who are i prominently named, will not have his | own State to back liim in any case, and I that will be regarded as » fatal ofyjoo- ' tion. The party will scarcely dare to run a candidate like Bayard, of anti- | Union antecedents, though he is the man they would naturally turn to if he These monuments may have been ! Were regarded as an available candidate. Cel. Scott's Successor as President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Thirty years ago George B. Roberts, then sitting at his desk in a surveyor's office, and serving the Pennsylvania railroad as a rodman, is reported to have said that he had rather be Presi­ dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad _ | standing at On when Joseph became ; Vizier over Egypt; and married a ! daughter of the Priest of On. It is a | nearer certainty, however, that they I were in their place when Moses was i being cultured in all the learnings of the i Egyptians; and he may have often ! looked ui>ou their faces when a student. After the Romans had conquered i Egypt, centuries later, these two obe- i lisks were removed from On to the city of. Alexandria, on the coast They ' were then set up before the new tem- i pie erected for the worship of Caesar of j Rome, the sovereign of the world. | This happened in the reign of either the Emperor Augustus or Tiberius, and Company than of the United States. In ! more than 1,800 years ago. It was also THE skin contains more than 2,000,000* division on the siunmit that included openings, which are the outlets for an equal number of sweat glands. A MAN breathes eighteen times a min­ ute, and uses 3,000 cubic feet, or about 375 hogsheads of air per hour. EACH perspiratory duct is one-fourth of an inch in length, which will make the aggregate length of the whole about ; nine miles. j EVERY adult man has 1,400 square feet j of lungs; or rather the mucous mem­ branes lining the air-cells of his lungs, if spread upon a smooth, plane surface, little more than a month he will attain his ambition, for his succession is al­ most absolutely certain. He has been close beside Col. Scott for many years. He first entered the service of the com­ pany, five months later than Col. Scott, as rodman in the engineer corps. Dur- Last year's election in Ohio disposed of Ewing and Thurman at one blow. Hendricks is no longer seriously consid­ ered as a candidate for various good reasons which it is not necessary to re­ count. Then there are a score or more of comparatively-obscure men like Jew- ett, Paine, Groesbeck, Morrison, En­ glish, and Randolph, who are looked upon only as a forlorn hope. Thus all is chaos in the Democratic camp. H it be assumed that the Democratic party, after going through the most des­ perate throes of parturition, shall , at last be delivered of a candidate who will not excite any active antagonism in the party, then the managers will be con­ fronted with dreadful obstacles in the Names of Person* Who Have Been Voted tor (or President and Vice President. Below will be found a complete list of all the persons who have been' voted for for President and Vice President since the formation of the Government. The table also includes all persons voted for by the Electoral College. Many of them, of course, were not candidates be­ fore the people. The names of the suc­ cessful candidates are printed in italics : TBESIDENTS. VICE PRESIDENTS. 1878-- (irory Washington. John Adams. John Jay. li. H. Harrison. John ltutledge. John Hfincock. George Clinton. Samuel Huntington. John Milton. James Armstrong. Benjamin (incohu Edward Tclfnir, 1792--George Washington. John Adams. George Clinton. Thomas Jefferson. Aaron lhirr. 1796--John Adams. Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Pinckney. Aaron Burr. Samuel Adams. Oliver Ellnworth. George Clinton. John Jay. James Iredell. _ George Washington. John Henry. 8. Johnson. Clias. C. Pmckney. 1800--Thc.iiia.i Jefferson. Aaron Burr. John Adams. Chan. C. Pinckney. John Jay. 1804--Thxnnas Jefferson. Geo. Clinton. Chas. C. rinckney. Rufus King. 1808--James Madison. George Clinton. Chills. "C. Pinckney. llnfun King. r:W GecwgoClinton. 1813--Jame* Mfttlhon. De Witt Clinton. 181$--jSiu's Mojtroe. Rufus King. 1820--James Monroe. John Q. Adams. the last Queen of Egypt, whose wicked wiles ruined herself and her kingdom. I In after years, the Egyptians set ! afoot a tradition that she had conveyed ! these monoliths to their new station, and so it chanced the name of Cleo- to the road, in March, 1851, he became assistant engineer in charge of the rifle without in any way injuring the in- j would cover an extent of 1,400 square terior of the piece. The cartridge used I *eet' is of steel, and is so designed that none •of the gas generated by the explosion of the small charge of detonating substance used to propel the bullet can escape to injure the bore of the rifle. THX curious fact that a bullet fired into a person loses weight, although un­ accountably so, has just been made evi­ dent by Prof. Lewis Balch, of Albany, N. Y., in the progress of the Billings murder trial. Defense laid great stress upon the point that the bullet which caused Mrs. Billings' death weighed fifty- five grains less than the bullet carried by Billings' carbine, with which he was j jm.id to have committed the deed ; but j Prof. Balch testified that he had shot two bullets through two heads and found that each weighed 221 grains before they were fired, but that afterward they weighed 169 and 159J grains each, al­ though, after taking every precaution, he could only find one particle of lead •which weighed less than one-seventh of a grain. IT is said that Martin Battles, who, twenty years ago, murdered a man through jealousy in Chautauqua county, 3St. %, has lately become insane through remorse, imaginiiig that the ghost of hia victim continually follows him. Bis THE changes in the color of the sea have attracted the attention of seafaring men from the earliest times. They struck with wonder the Phoenicians when first they ventured out of the Med­ iterranean into the Atlantic; they ex­ cited the astonishment of Columbus and terrified his companions, while in search of the far-famed Indies ; and they are no less a surprise to the modern navigator, to whom the march of discovery has left few unexplored regions in store. One of the most remarkable and most widely distributed contrasts of color is that which is known to exist between the in­ tensely blue seas situated between the tropics and the green seas of higher lati­ tudes. It appears as the result of recent observations, and more especially of a series of experiments made on board the German frigate Gazelle, that there is an intimate relation between the color of sea water and the proportion of salt held in solution by the latter. On comparing the specific gravity of green water with that of blue water, it was found that the latter is always heavier than the former, and, therefore, at the same time more salt, the two differently colored waters being supposed to have the same tem­ perature. In other words, the greater or lesser intensity of the blue color of sea water may be taken as a direct index of its saltness and of its specific gravity, so that when we observe the color of the water successively change from deep blue to a bluish green and a dark green, we may conclude that the water has be­ come at the same time less salty and less heavy. < ing the summer following his accession j patra's Needle was thought appropriate. 1 ' "* v In the lapse of centuries, one of these obelisks fell prostrate, and this latter is the monument which now adorns the Thames embankment. Cleopatra's needle has stood erect throughout the entire period of the Christian era, though a part of its base has gradually worn away, and the col­ umn has required to be kept in position by inserting loose stones. The inscriptions on the east and south sides have also been defaced in part, either by the action of the sea-breeze, the rays of the sun, or the steady cutting by winds laden with sand from the desert, or probablv by all these causes com­ bined. Still, considering its age and re­ movals, the obelisk is in remarkable preservation. Cleopatra's Needle testifies to-day, as it may for many hundreds of years to come in our own land, that those ancient the great tunnel. In 1852, in the fall, he left the Pennsylvania to become as­ sistant engineer of the Philadelphia and Erie, and, during the years that fol­ lowed, he was actively employed in building railroads. He was an engineer on the North Pennsylvania, which was opened in 1855, and on the Northwest­ ern. On the Allentown, the Maliony and Broad Mountain, and the West Jersey he was Chief Engineer, and filled that office when they were com­ pleted. In 1862, on May 28, he was called to the position of assistant to the President of the Pennsylvania railroad, on account of his engineering skill and ability as an administrative officer. Seven years later, on May 3, 1869, lie was made Fourth Vice President, and March 26, 1873, Second Vice President. When Col. Scott was elected President, June 3, 1874, Mr. Roi>erts sucoeeded him as First Vice President^ a^d, during Col. Scott's absence in Europe for a year and a half, he was acting Presi­ dent. He has for many years occupied a prominent position in the boards of roads controlled by the Pennsylvania, and, as has been stated above, has al­ ready succeeded Col. Scott in most of the Western boards.--Philadelphia North American. shortly after the death of Cleopatra, j w Qf making up a platform. Tlicy • jia^e no 8trollg national issues to seise upon. They stand upon State-suprem­ acy ground, but they will hardly darnto proclaim it as the basis of a Presiden­ tial campaign after having failed to vin­ dicate it in a four-years' war. Timers is no greenback sentiment for them to pro­ pitiate, for silver remonetization and the success of the resumption policy have eliminated all practical dispute as to the currency. The proposed repeal of the national Election laws is but one feature of the State-supremacy policy, and the experience which the Democrats had with this issue after the extra session of last summer has not encouraged them to make it prominent in any future ap­ peal for popular votes. The records ^ of the present Congress will not furnish any guarantee of Democratic capaoity to commend the party to the confidence of the people. The Democrats have no past within the experience of the great mass of the present voters which they can summon to their aid with pride or effect. They are in great trouble to find a suitable candidate, but even if they should settle their difficulties in t.ViiH respect they will be in a still worse John Langdea. James Madison. James Monroe. E(bridge Gerry. Jared Ingei'sotL J). I). Thompkins. John E. Howard. James Ross. John Marshall. Robert G. Harper. I). I). Thompkins. Richard Stockton. Daniel Rodney. R. S. Harper. Richard Rush. John C. Calhoun. Nathan Sandford. De Witt Talmage or- Henry Beecher. WILLIAMSON county, in this Stat^ seems likely to regain its former bad reputation. Two fanners named Stocks and Russell, who have been at enmity' . for some time, met on the public road, and after a few angry words Russell shot Stocks, killing him instantly. The mur­ dered man's Mends threaten to retali­ ate. HENRY THOMAS, a much-respected gentleman living about a mile east of New Canton, Pike county, was killed the other day by lightning. His team was killed at the same time, and his barn set on fire and destroyed. His wife was a witness of the dreadful event, and was just able to drag his body from the barn in/ time to save it from the flames. Mr. Thomas was in the act of hitching Iris span of mules to a wagon when the lightning struck the barn. THE Twenty-second Illinois State Sun­ day-School Convention was held last week at Galesburg. The Executive Committee reported, through B. F. Ja­ cobs, that all the counties have held conventions, and that the total number of conventions, county and township, is a little less than twelve hundred. The work during the year has been thorough. The six districts, of seventeen counties each, have held conventions and a grand advance is noticed. The following officers in part for the coming year were nomin­ ated : President, not yet named; First Vice President, Rev. John O. Foster; f? Second Vice President, B. W. Smith; Third Vice President, C. M. Taylor; State Secretary, H. S. Vail; Statistical Secretary, C. M. Ames; Treasurer, B. F. Jacobs; Executive Committee, Ja- < cobs, Hazard, Tyng, Demott, Griffith, Thompson and Nesbit. The usual work- erswere present--Moody, Jacobs, Ha­ zard, Whittle, Porter, McGranshan, ^ Case, Mortem, Reynolds and , ^ Severe Stmrtoa* . i"; The thriving little village of jtlsey, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincv ^ road was nearly destroyed by a fearful windstorm which swept over it at 7 p. m. jrA on Sunday. It was preceded by a heavy; rain, accompanied by terrible thunder and lightning, and those who were watch- ; ing the sky noticed the black clouds coming, one from the north, the others from the southwest. A short distance ( from the town they seemed to meet, and the wind swept in a narrow path through • . | the place, demolishing everything in its way. It lasted only about three minutes, but long enough to render the town af scene of destruction and desolation. < people did the best of handiwork, and j plight to agree upon any basis for cdn- that honest work of all kinds will live to i vikcing the people that their party prove its true value, 1824--John Q. Adams. Andrew Jackson. ffm. H. Crawford. Nathan Macon. Henry Clay. Andrew Jackson. Martin V:m Buren. Henry Clay. John C. Calhoun. Richard liusb. Win. Smith. • Martin Fan Buren. John Sergeant. Henry Lee. Amos Ellniaker. \Vm. Wilkins. Ig3(5--Martin Van Buren. R. M. Johnson. Wm. H. Harrison. Francis Granger. HuK'h I,. White. John Taylor. Daniel Webster. Wm. Smith. W. P. Mangum. 1840-- Wm. H. Harrison. John Tyler. M. Van Buren. R. M. JohnsOTu James G. Birney. L. W. TaseweU. 1828--Antlreir Jackson. J. Quincy Adams. 1883--Atuirew Jackson. Henry Clay. John Flovd. Wm. Wirt James K. Polk. Geo. M. Dallas. T. Frelingliuysen. I The First Man a Black I The primitive preadamite man, ac- j cording to Prof. Wincliell, lived in a j , country lying between the present Afri- | i can and Asiatic continents, and thence | he dispersed himself over the earth, j He was essentially a black man, as dis- j tinguished from the white man; not an African negro, but of dark leathern skin, ; like the native Australian races. The Two Bete Lost. native Australian is inferior in structure Two members of Congress disputed and intelligence to the African negro; one day as to whose chain was the heav- he falls as far below the negro as the ier. Each one bet $10 his chain was | negro below the white man, and is more the heavier, and they settled it by j nearly related to the primitive man than weighing the chains in the scales at the t any other race. The black races now in House postoffice. A few days afterward j existence are the Hottentots, the ne- the winner of the bet was in a jewelry | groes, the Australians and the Papuans, store, when he saw his brother Con-j the latter of whom are dark-skinned and almost black, occupying New Guinea and some smaller islands north of Aus­ tralia. Primitive man also gave birth to the brown races. These are now found in the islands of the Pacific, and of them the Sandwich islanders are specimens. They crossed to tiie American continent and their descendants are the Indians of North and South America, from Green­ land to Patagonia, and, on the Asiatic continent, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Tartars, the Turks, the Malays, the Burmese, etc. gressman's chain in a glass case. He remarked that he had seen that chain before, and waft told it had been left there to have two extra hnks put in. " Smelling a rat," he immediately went to a rival jeweler's and ordered three extra links to be put in his own chain. Some days passed, and one day he was approached by the other Congressman, who declared the House postoffice scales imperfect, and believed his chain would be the heaviest " on a fair weigh." The former winner pretended to protest tk&t the scales were all right, and let himfilf should be intrusted with supreme con trol of all branches of the Government. The Democrats will find the campaign of 1880 much more serious work HI any event than waj that of 1876. The North is now fully warned of the attitude of the " Solid South "--a warning that had not been impressed upon the country four years ago in a party bearing to the same extent as now. Since the South­ ern States have virtually declared that the Republican candidate shall not re­ ceive a single electoral vote from that whole section, the North will put forth additional efforts to protect itself from the menace of aggressive sectionalism. Four years ago tlie campaign followed the exposure of shameful scandals and serious abuses under a Republican ad­ ministration, which the Republicans could not defend and found it difficult to explain. The campaign this year will follow a Republican administration which has been singularly free from offi­ cial scandals, which has made far more Civil-Service reform than 1844--James K. Polk. Henry Clav. James G. Birney. 1848--Z. Taylor. Millard Fillmore. Lewis Cass. Wm. O. Butler. M. Van Bnren. Chas. F. Adams. 1852--Franklin Pierce. Wm, R. King. Winfield Scott. Wm. A. Graham. John P. Hall. Geo. W. Julian. 1856--James Buchanan. Jno. C. Breckinridge. J. C. Fremont. Wm. L. Dayton. Millard Fillmore. A. J. Donelson. 1800--A. Lincoln. Hantiibal HaniKn. J. C. Breckinridge. Jos. Lane. John Bell. Edward Everett S. A. Douglas. H. V. Johnson. 1864--A. Lincoln. Andreic Jonnson. Geo. B. McClellan. G. H. Pendleton. 1868-- U. S. Grant. Schuyler Colfax. Horatio Seymour. F. P. Blair, Jr. 1872-- U. S. Grant. Horace Greeley. Charles O'Conor. James Black. T. A. Hendricks. B. Gratz Brown. Chas. J. Jenkins. David Davis. 1876--7<. B. Hayes. 8. J. Tilden. Peter Cooper. Henry Wilson. B. Gratz Brown. Geo. W. Julian. A. H. Colquitt. John M. Palmer. T. E. Brainlette. W. S. Groesbeck. W. B. Machen. N. P. Banks. Wm. .4. Wheeler. T. A. Hendricks. G. C. Smith. TH* Fanny May Variety Companv'ad- vertised to give, in Topeka, Kan., " the finest entertainment on earthbut the t audience, which was large and mascu- i line, soon found that it was exasperat- I ingly poor. They pelted the perform- with eggs and vegetables, drove Nineteen or twenty buildings were either totally or partially destroyed, but, fortunately, no lives were lost. One of the heaviest losers is Thomas Roberts, whose fine new brick store and agricult­ ural warehouses are a shapeless pile of brick and timbers. Loss about $8,000. Two warehouses belonging to.. H. M. Hunt, of Whitehall, also are in f ruins, one being blown completely to,:^**| pieces, the other losing the roof from ^ ! one portion, the main building being- 'i, twisted around on to the railroad track. • & A large two-story frame was lifted from • , ^ i t s f o u n d a t i o n a n d s e t p a r t i a l l y a c r o s s ^ the cellar. One small frame was carried , entirely awav and distributed along the ( streets. At" the tile factory owned by Neal & Ruffer the kiln full of tile was destroyed, and part of the engine torn ; • away. Loss about $500. Other build­ ings had the roofs blown off, windows smashed, and walls cracked. George - Ebey lost about $1,500 in his pottery warehouse and two dwelling-houses. The total loss is estimated at between $14,000 and $15,000. A. forty-acre field| # of wheat across the railroad is coverecll with the debris of buildings. J. T. Cur-t tis' house, three miles south of Alsey,R|v bail the roof blown off, and the orchard^ was totally destroyed. Some damage isr reported in adjacent towns. At Woodlawn, six miles from Jack-* sonville, on the Jacksonville and South­ eastern railroad,, a tornado tore dowi^ the station-house and wrecked other' houses. Mr. Bekman's house was de­ stroyed, his right thigh broken, his 5^ year-old daughter instantly killed and" his wife fatally injured. The house of Jerry Cox was destroyed and his wifet and hired girl blown away. They were found next morning a quarter of a mile; from the site of the house--both dead. While thecyclone which passed over the vicinity was m progress the small ham­ let of Guthrie, composed of four houses ; and the depot, belonging to the Spring- field division of the Illinois Central road, was struck by lightning, and tlie. entire settlement burned to the ground, involving a loss of several thousand dol­ lars. No one hurt The wind blew a,;'.,£ at the time. The most fearful cyclone that has ever been known in McLean county swept across the eastern part of the county about 9 o'clock at night, doing damage to houses, barns, orchards, fences and trees to at least $100,000. In Arrow* smith township twelve dwellings wer4 utterly demolished; an orchard of 16® trees all gone; but one tree left. Th# son of Mrs. Rainey was severely v Millard Banks was dangerously hurl, : Mrs. Bane and child were burned very severely. In Empire township tlie ilaiifr* progress in ers witn eggs , , - - - , ^ , them from the stage, chased them into age was nearly as general and any of its predecessors, and which has (their cjregsin„ room8> ^ were about to I The home of Edward Reese was commended itself to the average public ( march tbem through the streets iu their ; ished, and Mr. and Mrs, Reese in sentiment by its respectable conserva­ tive management of national affairs ana the triumph of the resumption policy. Four years ago Mr. Tilden came be­ fore the country distinctively as a re­ form candidate, and his previous career as Governor of New York gave a strong color to his ; this year it will not fanciful costumes when the police arrived i bed were lifted and carried a quwplwr of and quelled the riot » mile and set down in a wheat _ -- -- child of Mr. Iirietss had its skull tmet- The bright red of this season's fdsh- | ured and will die. The track of th* ions has reached Texas, where steers! cyclone was three-quarters of a mife run wild and fierce encounters between i wide. In Normal two horses were killaaL belles and bulls are common. I by lightning., % - * *