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• ' _ - • • „ /* •>• „ » H-'V 'ft iff, titJ .Jii " V ' V *#• ' ' . < •>*• < J - % " * " v' '• i*r. 4' ' ' . ,\ j* _ . !A«, . J^V «FT^SGMAAITEYIA<AA^FAI£^A MSS 1 *'.x, v> v r- «, *. ' r > ̂gfrgtntj ̂lainflcakt I. VA» SLVKE. editor «JM« Purtither. UMcHENRY, ILLINOIS. •m '̂ BAXVWL J. TiiiDKH Bent $250 to the ota sufferers. key, and which axe provided for in the treaty of Berlin, come up for considera­ tion. By this settlement Greece gets the whole of Thessaly as far north as Mount Olympus and the portion of Epirus east of the river Arta, which is just about two-thirds of what Greece claimed under the treaty of Berlin. 1 "A BOf tell q*er the precipice at Ho­ mester into the Genesee* river," a dear •drop of 120 feet, and was taken out of water unhurt. -|)THB barbers of Toledo have held a meeting and resolved that they will do no more shaving on Sunday. They want •one day in the week to cultivate -conversational powers. . TH« New York Herald makes out that •«tfty to be a genuine charnel house. It ^says the number of deaths during Janu- •arr, February and March was 9,105, be- 4ng an increase of 2,303 over the deaths -Gt the same months of last year. JAMES Bcraxs, of Erie, Pa., lias for -.eighteen years been a paralytic cripple, <bjn right arm remaining behind his head. Last night he appeared on the streets free from deformity, and declared that he was cured by the prayeBsnf Father Malony. " • • / y PBBSTON HOIILOWAY is 1 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 560, pounds. Andrew Walker is half an inch taller and weighs 500 pounds. These two giants got into .•& fight at Charlotte, N. C. Walker was . knocked down twice, and, on regaining his feet the, second time, he ran away .and sought the protection of the. police. A PARTY of New York newspaper men went into a drug store on Lower Broad­ way, .and took a glass of spirits and •*oda, and one of them thought** there was a queer taste about it. The clerk immediately discovered that he had given them all enough laudanum to kill - seven elephants. They were all given powerful emetics and stomach-pumps, And had to be walked around by force for the rest of the day to keep them from .going to sleep. As A railroad king Col. Thomas A* JScott has surrendered, his scepter and .abandoned his throne. Long ago he re­ tired from active connection with the Pennsylvania Central, and now, because •of failing health, he has taken $3,000,000 for his interest in the Texas and Pacific, has retired from its Presidency, and is auccecded by Jay Gould, who may be fairly entitled to~the soubriquet of king of railway kings. ' CoiiOBXD men are represented a* "having handsome farms and valuable herds of cattle in Texas. Senator Bur­ ton, of Fort Bend County, is colored, .and is estimated to be worth $50,000. He is also an educated nan. While a alave in Virginia he was taught reading 4md writing by his mistress. She was n\Hde very poor by the war, and he then 4showed his appreciation of her instruc­ tion in former days by supporting her in her adversity until her death. i _ . ACCQJUWNO to the report of the Super­ intendent of Indian Affairs in Canada, there are 105,690 Indians in British North America. Of this number, 33,787 are in the Province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territory, and 35,052 in Brit­ ish Columbia. Of the 105,690 Indians, 36,262 are resident on reserves, cultiva­ ting 73,789 acres of land. The civilized •or agricultural Indians own 7,032 houses and huts, and raised last year 62,250 bushels of corn, 65,689 bushels of wheat, 85,346 bushels of oats, 26,882 bushels of peas, 17,796 bushels of barley, and 152,- 077 bushels of potatoes. THKKB has been much ado about the medical service rendered the distin­ guished patient, the late Earl of Beacons- field. His own physician, Dr. Kidd, was reputed a homoeopath, but it was the Queen's special desire thpt the field at practitioners should be enlarged, wherefore the well-known Dr. Jenner was asked to attend the Earl. He con­ sulted some of the brethren, who were of the opinion that he could not properly meet a gentleman of another and, as was alleged, an unscientific school. Then the Queen's immediate representative, at Lord Beaconsfield's request, called upon Dr. Quain, who entered into cor­ respondence with Dr. Kidd touching the matter. The latter said that, while he would not ignore so-called homoeopathic remedies which experience had shown him were useful, he could not properly be called a homoeopath, and assured Dr. Quain that his every direction and pre­ scription should be followed. Dr. Kidd explains in a way that reached, as was designed, the unduly interested public : " Dr. Quain, upon receiving my assur­ ance that I was acting on the ordinary principle of medicine, and not homceo pathically, visited the patient, thus af­ firming the spirit of that boast of the medical profession whicli in the hour of sickness recognizes only humanity in need of succor. In this way Dr. Quain and I did not work together without being agreed ; nor did either of us sacri­ fice his convictions to effect the co-oper­ ation. On the contrary, Dr. Quain's great skill was thus made useful to our illustrious patient, and my intimate knowledge of his constitution and his disease was as helpful to Dr. Quain." And Dr. Quain is equally complimentary of Kidd. The regular school of medi­ cine has been greatly exoited, and Quain has been called before the College of Physicians for an explanation, which he gave in manly fashion. Dr. Kidd an­ nounced that he was an eclectic, or what in America would be so called, and is severe upon that form of " professional etiquette" which would let a patient die rather than cure him by any but con­ ventional methods. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. THKBB has been prepared at the Cen­ sus Office in Washington a bulletin showing the extent of the iron and steel j ing with the water about them, renders industries of the country. The whole " * A ' APES may be taught to danoe. MONKZTB never abandon each other when in peril. PARENTAL; love is a marked character­ istic of the whale family. THE rhinoceros can only see what if nearly in a direct line before him. THB canons of South Utah abound in Aztec picture-writing of a curious and remarkable character. THE game of backgammon is the old­ est we know of, and waa common 1,000 years before Christ's time. A TREE bearing thirty bushels of apples is really sustaining half, a ton of water, for water constitutes about 85 per cent of apples. THE herring will travel for weeks at the rate of sixteen miles an hour, with­ out resting. The salmon outstrips the swallow in speed, and the shark out- travels the eagle. KOLBEN says that when the lion comes up to his prey he always knocks it down dead, and seldom bites it till the mortal blow has been given. This blow is gen­ erally accompanied with a tremendous roar. THE number of spoken languages in India is said to be 243, and including dialects 549. Translations of the Bible, or part of it, exist in about seventy or eighty of these languages and dialects, but those who have a Christian literature are much fewer. SOME species of fish, auch is the hag, have the power of exuding from their bodies a certain excrement, which, mix- number of establishments in 1880 was 1,005. In 1870 it was 808. The per­ centage of increase in the ten years was 24.38. The whole amount of capital in­ vested in the iron and steel industries of the United States in 1880 was $230,971,- 884. In 1870 it was $121,772,074; in­ crease, $109,199,810, or 89.68 per cent. The total production in the census year 1880 was 7,265,140 tons. In 1870 it was 3,655,215 tons; increase, 3,609,925 tons, or 98.16 per cent Twelve States made over 100,000 tons taeh in 1880. BsoxifT teporta received at the State Department in Washington from our agents in Europe make startling dis- Gf the child; but, as the poncha or them invisible to their foes. Other spe­ cies have the power of emitting sudden flashes of light, which are supposed to frighten their enemies, and, perhaps, to dazzle their appointed prey. Still oth­ ers have long snouts, like the barrel of a gun, through which they shpot fatal drops of liquid, seldom missing their game. WHEN a young child or infant of the lower order in Chili dies, the baby, after being cleansed, is arrayed in the finest garments, and placed upon an altar in the best room in the house; a pair of wings are fastened to it, and a crown upon its head; above is hung a dove, and the entire surroundings adorned with flowers and ribbons. A guitarist is provided, who, from his seat in front, chants and sings airs, generally of a laudatory and lamenting nature, for the closures relative to the adulteration of French Wines. It appears that the wine crop in France has been greatly re­ duced in volume of late years, and that the vineyard-men and wine-merchants, in order to fill their export orders, have brought in millions of gallons. from Spain, Italy and Turkey, and have ma­ nipulated them with drugs, in order to cause them to resemble French wines driiik begins to make itself felt upon the friends who have gathered around, it then becomes a scene of mirth and glad­ ness that the child is now an " angelito" (or little angel). This generally con­ tinues for several days, until the body gives forth anything but pleasant odors. WITHIN a very near approach to truth, the human family inhabiting the earth | Im been estimated at 1,000,000,000; the i annual loss by death is 18,01)0,01)0. Now, the weight of the animal matter of this immense body cast into the grave is no less tiian 634,000 tons, and its decompo-whose bfrand they bear. Reports also show that large quantities of wine are , sidon'proth^ cubic made from glucose and beetl, and that j feet of matter. The vegetable produc­ es great deal of brandy exported to the I turns of the earth clear away from the United States is made from grain audi earth the thus generated and de- j composing and assimilating *««• potatoes. AFTER two years of conventions, com missions, arbitrations, negotiations, un­ derbidding and haggling, which almost seems lidieulotis, the powers have pinned the Porte down to an actual proposition oi what it is willing to give Greece; and, after considerable pressure from the powers, Greece has consented to take it, and the powers have contracted to waqrant the delivery. Thus all pros- pest o£ war betvfeen Greece and Turkey, which might have dragged the other powers into it, is off, and for a time the Eastern question will remain quiet--at least until some of the other administra­ tive reforpa to be made, both in the Europoirii irtif Asiatic provinces of TW FACTS JO THE FBOHT. Tfc« Aajujrte SMlhcra Oatngw Mt«- cesilr Kef erred to by 8c«M«r Daww --Statement !>> the Unwn r fmnrttn Man In iliiewfion. Who, for the Crime of Reffrlendlnff the IVcfnea, Wan Kukinv«d Out of Iiontelaaa, Hitt Property IH*Ntroycd by lire,And Hte take Threatened. them for their own increase. This circle of changes has been going on ever since man became an occupier of the earth. He feeds on the lower animals and on the seeds of plants, which, in due time, become a part of himself. The lower pnimala feed upon the herbs and grass­ es, which, in their turn, become the ani­ mal ; then, by its death, again pass into the atmosphere, and are ready once more to be assimilated by plants. The earth or bone substance alone remain­ ing where it is deposited, and not even there unless prosecuted aa a common swindler. AN Irish servant girl, a year over, was given macaroni by her mistress to pre­ pare for supper. Noticing her surprise, the lady said: "Didn't you cook maca­ roni at your last place? " "Cook it? We nsed them things to light the gas with.' Senator George's denial of Senator Dawes' story of the destruction of a Massachusetts man's property in the South because of his political affiliations is met with acounter-denial by the Boston Daily Advertiser. In the statement of the victim, Mr. Charles Heath, who is now a resident of Maiden, four miles distant from Boston, the only mistake Senator Dawes made was in locating the troubles in Mississippi They occurred in Louisiana, and their recital reads as near like a chapter in "A Fool's Errand " as one pea looks like another. Mr. Heath's plantation of nearly 1,000 acres was in Caldwell parish, ten miles below Columbia. He and his brother, who is a New Orleans merchant, bought the place thirteen or fourteen years ago, and had established upon it a gin house, grist mill and repair shop, fitted up with improved machinery. For several years they ran the place under a white over­ seer, and were not seriously interfered with by their neighbors, but in 1877 or 1878, when a negro was put in as over­ seer, the trouble l>egan. Says Mr. Heath, " The Sheriff of the parish came to me and my broth­ er and said something like this: " We understand you are to divide up your land among the niggers for them to work it without a white over­ seer. The niggers are stealing every­ thing they can lay their hands on in the way of atock, even when they have a white man to oversee them, and what will they do if left to themselves ? The white people are not going to let you do it We cannot afford to do it, and you cannot afford to do it, and we don't mean that you shall start out in that way.'" The reply of course was that the brothers, having paid for the place, had a right to run it as they pleased. A ne­ gro named Harris was appointed over­ seer, and was threatened. Gov. War- moth said he did not have militia force enough to protect all such cases, and the result was that a party of masked ftien rode up to hisoabin at night, called liim out and shot him, making such wounds that he is now a cripple. Then the usual Kuklux placards were posted around ordering Mr. Heath to leave the piace, and threatening death and destruction of the property. But the real trouble began about Christmas last. At that time a young Bostoman went up to Heath's place with a view of buying him out. He represented him­ self to the people there as being a native of Louisiana. They welcomed him very kindly and said : " We are glad you are coming here to take Mr. Heath's place. Mr. Heath is a good man. We don't have anything against him. He is a good man, but he is a Yankee. We don't want that kind here, but want our native men." Says Mr. Heath: "I had been for some time trying to effect a sale and get out of the country as easy as possible. While the neighbors showed no enmity to my face, always treating me with the greatest apparent respect and friendship, they were at the same time exhibiting the greatest enmity behind my back. I had had interviews with one at two parties about selling out, and I would have sold out at a very great sac­ rifice if I could have seen a chance to get my money. I could have sold out fast enough by letting them take my property, taking back a mortgage, and letting them pay for it from the proceeds as fast as they could earn it I was holding off and trying to find somebodj that had some money. When they burned me out I had no place to stay, and I had to get out then. We had about ,200 insurance. I have nothing left there but half a dozen pair of mules and the land. The whole place, with improvements, was worth $25,000. They burned up my tools, wagons, gristmill, mill, blacksmith-shop, repair-shop, ev­ erything clean. I got out about $400 or $500 worth of goods in about twenty minutes we had to work in, and we came within an ace of being burned up alive. The only thing that saved us was that the wind blew the flames away from the building in wliich we were sleeping." Mr. Heath claims that he had been a public benefactor rather than an enemy to the parish where his property was, and can only explain his persecution by his desire to elevate the negro. He de­ tails many petty acts of cruelty, and concludes by saying: "The trouble is that the native Southerners are envious toward anybody that comes into their neighborhood, particularly a Northern man who is opposed to the solid South. They knew what my politics were, al­ though I never have talked politics there or advised the negroes, beyond telling them what I thought was for their in­ terest. I never advised them who to vote for and who not to vote for, and tried to keep aloof from politics alto­ gether. A few days before I came away the District Attorney of Caldwell par­ ish was in New Orleans, and I took the trouble to hunt him up, and had a long talk with him. 1 said to him : • Mr. Ware, you cannot afford to have me burned out and driven out of your parish without taking some notice of it' • Well,' he said, «I think likely our folks will notice it.' This was a month after the fire and more, and noth­ ing has been done. I said to him : ' I have got a letter that I received last summer from the postoflice just above me, Hogan's Landing, telling me if I returned to the parish, they would pay me a visit. I am going to mail that letter, and you may make such use of it as you think proper.' I told him if he would advise the parish to offer a reward of $100, $200 or $500 that I would offer as much more to thoroughly investigate this thing. I have made no secret of these matters in New Orleans, but have told them openly. No allusion has been made to the fire in any Southern news­ paper that I've seen. Whenever a negro is murdered up there in my parish, they take no more notice oi it than though it was a dog shot. They don't even hold an inquest. They don't. give publicity to anything of this kind. When a public man like Judge Crawford is shot, every­ body finds that out." excellent, because the anagrams form an answer, as it were, to the original word : Astronomers, moon-starers; telegraphs, great helps ; gallantries, all great sin ; encyclopedia, a nice cold pye; lawyers, sly ware ; misanthrope, spare him not; old England, golden land ; Presbyterian, best in prayer; punishment, nine thumps; penitentiary, nay, I repent. ANIMUS OF THE BOURBON SENA­ TORS. The Solid-South and State-sovereignty Bourbons see tho danger ahead when one man boldly breaks from the ranks and has the courage to stay out, spite of ca­ jolery^ and whip-cracking, and holding both in equal contempt Hence their fury. ILLINOIS LEfilSLATUBB. ^ATCBDAT, April 1®.--SKH&TB. --Only sixteen Senators were prasaul, and no bxuineaa was transacted. HODBE. --Considerable routine BUSINESS was done in the House, though no qaoram was by carefully avoiding a roll-oalL Nothing at importance could be how­ ever. MOXDAX, April 18. --SZXATK. --Fifteen Sen­ ators waa considered too snail a number tor the transaction of tmriim--. and nothing was [From the Chicago Tribune.] The treatment of Senator Mahone by his Democratic associates is a revival of plantation manners and insolent per­ sonal bulldozing of twenty years ago. The determined attitude of the North in Congress, the resolute stand made by the Northern people, the War of the Be- I Hoes*.--There were forty of the bellion, and title respect which that war | tower house present, who tried to engendered for the Northern mudsills, cooled down this Southern insolence, and the crack of the whip has not been heard for a long time, nor the bombastic threats of the chivalry. The same policy of intimidation, bulldozing and ostra­ cism has been brought to bear upon Senator Mahone, and with more than ordinary insolence, because he happens > __ _ to come from that section. The whole i making the necessary appropriations for policv of the attack, commenced bv Ben i _ ®futllora Illinois Normal University Hill Mid followed up so swiftly and GmtM- fiercely by the Bonrbom h» beea to smirch his personal character. The at- ! Senator Memtt'a biU requiring hfo^nsvu-wice tack has not been made upon political j c10_u^PBnl< B 40 deposit securities with the State routine business, but objection was made to proceeding without a quorum, and the House adjourned. TUESDAY, April 19.--SEWATZ.--The Committee on Miscellany introduced a bill providing for the institution of a board for the inspection of butter and cheese, the Superintendent thereof to be appointed by the Governor of the State. The Senate General Appropriation bill was read a third time and passed ̂as wua sSso the issues, nor has any argument been ! made upon the differences of opinion. | The Senate has always been regarded j as the forum where great national ques- | tions are discussed coolly anddispas&ion- j ately, and where courtesy in debate and j polite treatment of political opponents always obtained. Nothing of this kind has characterized the treatment of Sen­ ator Mahone. He has challenged them to a discussion of the issues, but the only rejoinder has been the foulest per­ sonal abuse, commencing with the charge of venality, covertly and conse­ quently cowardly, made by Ben Hill, and ending with the refusal to allow him a pair, which is tantamount to personal ostracism. There has not been such a cracking of whips, such an indecent dis­ play of plantation insolence and bom­ bast, such a torrent of foul personal abuse since the days of the slaveholders. It has not been lessened by the fear of the Bourbons to stand up in a manly fashion and make the charges squarely to lus face. They have dealt in innuendoes and indirect allusions, always the ready resort of cowards. They have cracked their whips about him, but have been careful not to hit him. They hardly care to directly provoke a man who has proved his courage upon the battlefield, but this does not lessen the infamy and dishonor of their course. The game will not work, however. Times have changed within the last quarter of a century. Men have changed during the same time. The old race of timid politicians who ac­ cepted the lash without complaint, or obeyed Southern dictation to escape it, has passed away. The war not only emancipated the negro from slavery, but the North from the slaveholder's whip- lashhig. The day has passed when North­ ern men can l>e coerced by intimidation, by personal threats, or by blackguardism. Senator Mahone has held his ground patiently, and yet without allowing any imputation to rest upon his personal courage. Much as the Southern Bour­ bons would like to provoke him into a duel, if they were sure they could take his life, it is very doubtful whether they Auditor on a S pes- cent, basis was read a third time and failed to pass. Senator Bice's bill permitting non-residents to insure in township insurance companies wan pas^od. The rosola- Uon providing for afternoon sessions was tabled. Senator Arcner'u bill legalizing as testimony copies of the booka showing sales of swanut lands was read a third time jiissnil Hocsx.--Bills were passed : To amend the Mechanics' Lien law; requiring hotel and boarding-house keepers to placard their gas brackets with plainly-sprinted directions as to the proper way of extingaishinj; the ligbt ; re­ quiring physicians and aoeouetiei* to register, and to come to time with ntetis'tica of births and deaths, and requiring the use of burial permits in all cities of not less than 8,000 in­ habitants; providing that no judgment shall be confessed or enterwl until the note of indebtedness is actnally due; appropriations tS,000 to pay for tho prepara­ tion of tho Illinois Geological Keport*; to make the official abstracts furnished by the Auditor to tho several counties, together with the Recorder's transcripts of the same, prima facie evidence of the entry of public lands; amending the Medical-Practice aet so as to in­ clude itinerant practitioners; amending the Garnishment act m as to require a defendant to a garnishment proceeding to answer as to the property of the original debtor which may come into his possession or control be­ fore the return day of the summons; to facilitate the operations of the United States coast and geodetic survey ; authorizing a ma­ jority of the stockholders in incorporated com­ panies to change the number of directors from even to odd; providing for the election of County School Superintendents on the Tues­ day after the nrai Monday in Novem­ ber, 1882, and every four years thereafter; making it the duty of County Treasurers and all other persona paying money into tho hands of Township School Treasurers for school pur poses to notify in writing the Presidents of Boards of School Trustees and the Clerks of the school districts of the amount BO paid and the purpose thereof ; providing a penalty lor Assessor^ who fail to administer tho oath to persons listing perxonal property, lb. Chafee introduced a bill, the cbject of which ass formally stated, is to enable counties, townships, cities and villages to take steps to remove obstructions from streams, to acceluiate the flow of water in certain river*, to declare obstructions hereafter allowed to accumulate to be nuisances, and to punish the owners of land for permitting the same, and to make an appro­ priation to assist in the work of removing the woot obstructions. WsimnnDAY, April 10.--ttnUTB.--T%e Appro­ priation Committee reported a number 0>* bills spread of contagions diseanea among cattle, and to establish the office of State Veterinaiy was amended so aa to apply only to plearo-pnea- nionia among cattle. The Ull was made the special order for next Wednesday. On third reading, Mr. Allen's bill in relation to city taxes was passed with the emergency clause. It authorizes cities, villages and towns whose ppeci&l charters do not allow them to levy fates of taxation equal to 1W per cent, to levy Jsrach a rate hereafter, and legalises the levy w such rate made by any such corporation for tho year 1880. Mr. Oarr's Hedge4ence bill WM lost, as was the bill to appropriate $30,000 for the improvement of the Ltttk. Wabesh at New Haven. The resignation of Mr. W. B. Taylor as Clerk of the House, who has re­ ceived an appointment as Special Agent of the Treasury in Alaska, was read, and compli­ mentary remarks were made by several fhn%- tors. FBHJAT, April 22.--SaxAT*.--A Senate MB appropriating #250,000 for the ordinary ex­ penses of the Chester penitentiary came up yesterday and was passed. This marnina a motion to reconsider the vot® was made earned, and the bill was sent to the Committee on Appropriations. A communication was re­ ceived from the Governor relative to the Are at th® *fe9thern Insane Asylum. An appropria­ tion bill giving the Jacksonville Blind Axvimn $47,500 was called up and passed. Senator Art ley's bill, giving Aldermen a salary of $1,500 per annum, was token up on third reading, debated at great length and killed. A Senate bill giving any gas company power to lay its pipes in the streets on tho petition of a majority of the property-owners abutting the streets was read a third time, argued at length, and killed. Senator Bell's bill punishing the keepers and frequenters of houses of prostitu­ tion on land or of floating bawdy houses '>u the " hijjh seas " by a heavy tine "and in the penitentiary, was rfead a third time and passed, as was Senator Wilson's biil requiring ineur&noe companies to refund a pro-rata amount of pre­ mium paid in excess of the adjusted loss. HOCSE.--The several assistant clerks were moved up one peg apiece, Mr. John A. Reeve, of Cairo, succeeding the late Clerk, Mr. W. B. Taylor. Mr. Durfee called up the proposed new rule, offered the other day, which requires a constitutional majority to reconsider a vote by which a bill has passed the House, and is was adopted, A communication and bill were re­ ceived and read from the Governor, officially informing the House of the destruction by tire of the north wing of the Southern Insane*Asy­ lum at Anna, and requesting an immediate ap­ propriation of $12.0(M) to put up barraefeB, or temporary quarters, for the accommodation of the patients who were burned out. Bills were introduced: To appropriate $125,000 for the erection of an asylum for the incurable and dangerous insane, to be located at Shelbyville; providing that Courts of Chancery may cor­ rect any error or mistake made in describing any propi rt;- devised or bequeathed in a will or a codicil iu tho same manner and under the same conditions as mistakes in the description of property in contracts ; to make it easier to provide for releasing sureties on the bonds of guardians, etc. ; to declare vacant the office of any public servant of the State who may happen to go daft, and be so adjudged by a court The Little Wabash Improvement bill was reconsidered and made the special order for next Thursday afternoon, llr. Sullivan's biU providing that aa administrator of an estate snail give bond of double the value of the personal property only, and, when it becomes necessary toseO the real estate, shall give one in double the value of the real estate to be sold, was read a third time and passed. i»i PITH AID rounr. will go to that length with .a man who 1 appropriations to contractors on the courageously defies the whole howling < recommendations ° .... i „ -" ' that they be tabled. The reports were ton- pack. Much and assiduously as they cured ^ The Senate bill appropria have striven to intimidate the Repubh Anagrams. A story is told of an English lady, Mrs. Eleanor Da vies, who imagined her­ self to be a prophetess, and fancied that the spirit of Daniel was in her because she could transpose her name into "Re­ veal, O Daniel." Her anagram was faulty, however, lacking an s and con­ taining an 1 too much. Her surprise aud consternation was great when one day she saw an anagram of the same "Dame Eleanor Davies," which read 'Never so mad a ladie." Here are a few example* of anagrams. They are can side, no white feather has yet been shown. The ranks are unbroken, and the Southern bombast and braggadocio and insolence are wasted upon the air of the Senate chamber. Meanwhile, these Democrats who so violently object to Senator Mahone's action with the Republicans, make no objection to Senator Davis, who represents a great Republican State, because he acts with them, and Senator Davis, once a Republican, and owing all his political elevation to Re­ publicans, is treated with > ourtesy and enjoys friendly intercourse with the Re­ publican side of the Senate chamber. No whip is cracked over his portly form, no taunt is hurled at him, no charge is made that he sold out to the Democrats, no Republican refuses to pair with him. The cause of this devilish treatment of Senator Mahone is not difficult to find. It is because he has dated to break with Bourbonism. They are determined to maintain the solid South and its corner­ stone of State sovereignty, and that no Southern man shall appear iu Congress as a Republican without losing his social status aud being branded and maltreat­ ed in such a manner that life in the South would be intolerable and his in­ fluence would be lost This is the ani­ mus of the attack upon Senator Mahone, and that attack has been all the more virulent because Senator Malione has not cowered beneath it. Without .pro­ claiming himself a Republican, he stands opposed to Southern Bourbonism, and will not accept its bribes or notice its threats, and in that position there is even more danger to the solid South ihan if he had declared himself at the outset a Republican. It is an old. old game the Bourbons are playing, but at mat they find it does not work. The New York Tribune very aptly character­ izes the situation in the following para­ graph : " It is just this Bourbonism that Sen­ ator Mahone and his party in Virginia have attacked in its citadel. It is Bour­ bonism that stands at bay to-day in the Senate of the United States, obstructing the regular order of proceedings and de­ laying public busiuess for the sake of putting down the only formidable insur­ rection that has evar arisen in its own ranks. The Bourbon Senators have a very clear comprehension of the situa­ tion and of the peril to their power that it involves. Up to the present time they have had no difficulty in putting down any symptoms of a rising against them. When an individual protested against continuing the control of the politics of the Southern States in the hands which had brought so much mis­ chief upon them, and were working in the same direction with purposes un­ changed, they have either brought him back, as Senator Brown, of Georgia, virtually confesses that they did him, by making it uncomfortable and unsafe for him, or they have simply labeled him as a Republican, with the implication of renegade and traitor which they have contrived that the name sh;tll carry--as in the case of Longstreet and Mosby--and destroyed his influence. They have apparently settled one tiling, and that is that no man can as a rule be safe in the pursuit of his business, or have any social rec­ ognition, or stand as a reputable citizen, who is known as a Republican, or who votes the Republican ticket." The question of readjustment long ago passed out of the controversyIt is now a qaeetiod of Bourbonism simply. appropriating (8,000 for the purchase of 1,600 volumes of Edward J. Hill's digest was tabled. The Senate bill appropriating #60,000 for ana expenses of the Michigan canal for the ensuing two years was read a third time and passed. A Senate bill appropriating #250,000 for the ordinary expenses of the Southern Peniten­ tiary at'Chester for the next two years was called up and passed. Senator Filer's Bail- road bill was read a third time. It gives local authorities the power to tax all real estate be- louging to railroads excepting a main lino ten feet it> width for single track and twenty feet for double track, which is to be ansessed by the State Board of Equalization. The bill was made the special ordw for to-morrow, and lbs Senate adjourned. UOUSK.--An error was discovered in the jour­ nal this morning which, when corrected, put Mr. Richardson on the record as voting tor, instead of against, the Witness-Fee bill, which ' failed to pass yesterday by just oue vote. The result of the correction was tho passage of the bill. The Committee on Rules sat down on the resolution providing for beginning work at 9 o'clock in the morning, and another limiting speeches to ten minutes. Tho committee also gave notice of a couple of proposed new rules, one requiring a constitutional majority --77 votes--to recousidor a vote, and another, designed for the next Assembly, providing that bills introduced for the purpose of amending existing laws shall be so drawn as to indicate wherein the amendment consist**, and be print­ ed so as to show new matter in italic, ana mat­ ter dropped out by a dash, inclosed in brackets. The Committee on Education reported in favor of the revived Dentistry bill, and of Chafee's constitutional amendment allowing women to vote on school questions. The latter was made a special order for a week from to-day. The License Committee reported a substitute for Ooodspeed's Anti-Treating bill. A bill requir­ ing officers having in their custody public funds to prepare and publish an annual state­ ment of the wet-ietrt and disburse­ ments of such lunds in their county newspaper caused some little discussioii, but was finally passed. Tho bill does not apply to township Collectors in counties under township organization, and the cost «.f publication w re­ stricted to #1 per 100 words. Mr. O. 8. Cook's Park bill, transferring the power of appointing Park Commissioners from the Judges of the Circuit Court to the Governor, was called up by its author, and tailed, but was reconsidered and passed later in the day. A bill permitting counties, cities, towns and school districts to buy land at tax sales, %nd acquire the same rights as individuals, was passed, as was also a bill requiring Town Clerks to transmit to the County Treasurer and i-x-oftieio Collector a certificate that the Supervisor or Treasurer of the Board of High­ way Commissioners has duly qualified, and one changing the terms of court in Moultrie county to January and August Another Farm-Drain­ age bill was sent on its way to the (Senate. A bill giving County Courts in coun­ ties where there are Probate Courts, con­ current jurisdiction with the Circuit Courts, was passed. Mr. McMahon, of Cook, called up his bill for the regulation and inspection of tenements, lodging-houses and other places of habitation, otherwise known as the Fiumbing bill, and had it passed. A bill appropriating $5,000 for the expanses of the special and standing committees of the two houses went through without opposition. THUBSDAT, April 21.--SEXATK.--Mr. Fuller's bill to abolish the printing of the schedules of the Railroad Board in the Springfield papers was sent to a third reading. Two hours were spent in discussing Fifer's Railroad Tax bill, unfinished yesterday. The debate was--a great part of it--an attack upon and defense o( the State Board of Equalization. The bill was finally defeated by a vote of 24 to 17, and a motion to reconsider laid on the table. The Apportionmeat Committee recommended the passage of Mr. Clark's resolution to pro­ ceed at once to make the Congressional and Senatorial apportionment--the Congressional ou the basis of twenty districts. Mr. Shaw moved to amend by making nineteen districts, which was lost, and the resolution adopted by a vote of 28 to 15--nearly a straight party vote. HOUSE.--The House took up the Road and Bridge bill, prepared by the Committee on Roads and Bridges, which revises the existing laws relating to roads ant! bridges, being the substantial re-enactment of the law of 1877 with an attempt to combine therewith the main featurtsa of the law of 1879. The bill pused-- 1 ayes 91, noes 29. Mr. Smith's hill to pmaql tfcs The Habit fit Thrift. The habits of thrift are defined by the London Globe as facts of self-denial for the sake of some object in the future, and it is just such acts as these which people in all cities find it extremely diffi­ cult to practice. It is a matter to a very great extent depending on natural dis­ position which varies just as much in one class as iti another. There are some who by nature are endowed with the accumu­ lative propensity oi the squirrel, the bee and the ant. They find a keen and ab­ sorbing pleasure in hoarding what they get; not, perhaps, for its own sake, but as a measure of successful action, and as a kind of reserve of power which they have at command should they choose to exert it. Others seem to have nothing of this in their composition. The power that money gives seems to them dormant and useless until it is put in action. They are sanguine as to the future, rarely „„„ foresee trouble, and are gay and light* the repain 1 hearted in the present; whereas the ac- Illinois and ! quisitive individual will usually be found apprehensive of the coming time, and very apt to meet his troubles half-way. These two types of character are as marked and distinct as any two possibly can l)e, and the extreme of each can scarcely be considered amenable to mod­ ifying influences to any extent. More­ over, they are confined not to one class but are found in all. Education is com­ monly regarded as the proper cure for thriftless habits, and, to a certain extent, no doubt, it is. But education cannot eradicate the constituent traits of in­ dividual character. The accumulative and foreboding will always remain more or less so, and the sanguine and free­ handed will always feel the passing day to be the one really important point of time. Moreover, although education implies self-restraint and thoughtfulness, it, of course, has a tendency to expand the view and to create desires which may or may not be of a simple and inexpensive kind. The habit of self-restraint is the one point to which education must tend if it is to develop thrift; and looking around on society generally it is difficult sometimes to discern the existence of this control of individual proclivities in one class more than another, though the nature and direction of those proclivities may vary considerably. His Stomach. A Detroit surgeon whose reputation is first-class was seated in his office, when iu walked a stranger who was followed by a dog. Without any fooling around, he began: "Doctor, I have the dyspepsia." ••Yes, sir." "Had it twenty-six years." "Yes, sir." "You can't cure it." "No, sir." - "But you can make an exchange of stomachs between me and my dog." "I believe it could be done, and both live." "Will you guarantee that I won't have a hankering for old bones, if I trade stomachs? "No, sir." "Will I want tochase rats?" "Very likely." "And snap at tram pa?" "Quite probable." 1 "Doctor, this is business." "Yes, sir." "And the exchange of stomachs is de­ clared off." "Very well." "Aud I bid you good-day." "Good-day, sir !" Aud the man whistled to his dog and walked out, without looking to the light or left Frrzwooi>iJt was out hunting again last Sunday. He came back very tired, and without any game, but he said he had lots of fun, and was going again soon. " What did yod shoot ?' asked Gilhooly. "I shoot a rapid--von ob dem dings what gets avay so tam quick. He vos sitting on de ground ven I clioost let him have it, first mit der von barrel and den mit de ouier von." " Tore him all to pieces, didn't you?" "No, but py schimminy graslius, but you should nave been there clioost to see dot beest ran."--Qalvetton A IIIOHT affair--A L""R IxraTm bitterest simmon. NKVEB fear to bring the sublimes! motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. THE proper remedy for a young lady who is short of stature is to got mi l „ * j; > soon as possible. » ; J> %;>• A WOMAN has bees anested ia Nev<» # York for abducting a Utile bey. Kert * * time shell know to tan a bk one. im • % THE Secretary of the Navy ̂ something about one ship, anyhow. Hb *v* * refer to courtship. He lias had four*- .,,,•• Aernuxcom in Si Looia, thinking 1M reeoguisKcd his coat on the bade of a pe-;- ' ">f-' destnan, shouted, "Stop thief!" about thirty of the inhabitants suddenly disappeared down a side street WHAT would the country have been without corporations ?** inquired JlJ i Gould. "Whatwoald the world have! been without navigation?" Oapi. Kidd •>,^ m i g h t h a v e a s k e d w i t h e q u a l o o g e n c y . % ' • ? ? : , : A CLIENT gays to his wine-dealer who ' proposes to sell him a brand of new • " wine : "Tell ma, now, this wine is not-' ̂ too heady ?" Wine seller, with alacrity •« V,ag H e a d y f W h y i t ' s n o t e v e n w i n e f ' J * J AN old bachelor, who particularly h a t e d l i t e r a r y w o m e n , a s k e d a a a u t h o r * ' * ess if she could throw any light can kjss- ing. " I could," said she, looking archly Is ̂ •' at him; "but I think it's better in tb»M ' J" dark." A SCHOOLBOY being set to write a com- ^ »> • i „ p o s i t i o n o n t h e o x , a f t e r a l o n g s t r u g - , > - 4 1 gle, produced the following: "An ox 1 does not taste aa good aa an oyster, but,. . J; can draw a bigger load, and ran twice"'*' fast." A WESTERN ODB. • I am watting la (he wildwood with a sMfew ' I'll UMI you 'cwixt UM gloaming iod (ha dHfc: ' " ri! hit yon witft my weapon's biggest nilb, * Aud knock you pretty much across (be psifc. J'- •[ A thousand shining atan you'll aoon dtoootar, --- 5 And pyrotechnics tlli you csnnot rent. . 4 Oh ! come and let me hit you for yownoUMCt ' My taagie-beadod poet of flu --Chicago JWbun*. DEAOON JFLT.T remarked to a penuri­ ous companion that the kingdom of Satan was to be destroyed, and asked him if he wasn't glad of it. "Yea,"ha replied, "I suppose so, but it aaanaa pity to have anything wasted 1" " WHT did Gen. Washington cross tb# Delaware on the ice during the storm of an awful night ? " asked a teacher of her young class in history. "1 reckon,** piped a small voice in answer, "it was because he wanted to get on the other side." STRONO-HIXDXD wife--"Eh, Jamas* you are gveat on langnagea; what is the difference between exported and trans­ ported?" Submissive husband--" Why, my dear, if you should go to Europe you would be exported, andî -well* I ahoold be transported I " . £*'» .yf t As THB family of a very orthodox di- 1 vipe were gravely discussing why the baby was so naughty, a boy of 12, who had just commenced to study the steam engine as well as the catechism, asked, " Papa, as we all inherit the sin of Adam, and the baby is such a little fet- ; ; low, is there not a greater pressure of sin to the square inch in the baby than in any of the rest of us ? " " DID you serve in the war, uncle ?" jj£:S ** " No, sah; I was a cowardly niggah. I *' **" * was a Kentucky niggah. And what did I want to 'list for ? " Were not the white men fighting /or you?" "8'pose».^f?t dey was. Dat was no sign why we.~'§% should fight. Massa, did you ever seefgi *' two dogs ilghtin' over a bone ?" " Well, what's ihat to do with your fighting?"®**- "A heap, massa. Did you ever see de bone fight ?" The questioner left, amid a general laugh.--Cleveland Leader. A GOOD parson, who had the happy ^ faculty of suyiug a kind word for everv-s'fe body in whose behalf one could possibly ^ r bp said, recently officiated at the fimeral 'L of a farmer who was known as the mean- " ^ \ est and most miserly man in the neigh- borhood. Instead of execrating the de- * ceustd lor his extortionate and niggard- J® ly habits,' this kindly disposed clergy- > man simply spoke of him as " the l»est - arithmetician in the country."--Catukill*' Recorder. * THB wild storm still raged fnriously. ; ̂1 v Ever and anon the vivid lightning, a.*; ̂ f a n t a s t i c s h a p e s , i i l n m i u e d t h e d a r k s o m e ^ and angry heavens. At last our young hero, making a sudden, strategic move- ^ . ment, surrounded the band of fifteen' ^ howling red demons, and with no other '* weapon than a seven shooter, a cavalry sword, a dime novel, a Remington rifle, deck of cards, a bowie-knife and a pair ̂ of brass knuckles, he mowed down hiatjf pursuers like grain before the scythe of! ; the reaper; then, seizing the fair Ethd-F inda around the waist with one arm and*- "; v :- plunging a bayonet into the breast ol a. lusty Indian who exhibited signs of returning consciousness, he vaulted into the saddle of the swiftest horse in the Territory, and cried, in a delirium of! triumphant JOT--"To be oontinoadi*. our next."--Jforristown Herald. *' Whe First Discovered Amerles. Some jearsagoan eminent antiqua­ rian, Prof. Bala, published a book show-)' im that UieNorthmes, or Scandinavians*^ undoubtedly visited the shores of Nortkfi America about the year 1Q00S and thalF thej probably entered Narragaxisett Bay. This suggested to some America, anti­ quarians that the old tower at Newport,, & I., might have been erected by HUM* hardy adventurers. Considerable stress was laid upon this, coupled with the fact that about a thousand years ago these Northmen settled Iceland, and it is known that a colony waa sent from there to Greenland, while a glance at the .map 'will show that the distance from there to the North American Coast is not so great but it could have easily been reached by these early rovers. It is also recorded • in the Norse traditions that the North­ men in sailing West actually arrived at some country beyond Greenland. The Norse narratives describe a mild clime in ? - lie country they visited, and mention ' having found wild grapes, which is thought to refer to Rhode Island, where there are plenty of these grapes on ths . Islands in the Harbor, or to Nova Sooba, where the climate and fruits are similar to those further South. There have also been found an inscription on s rock, near Dightou, Mass., which it was once be­ lieved revealed some words in the Noise ^ language; and the brass breast-plate, ' ' which was dug up at Fall River, Masa.,; aud it was thought this might be the to- '? m*ina of a Norse Viking. Longfellow wrote his "Skeleton in Armor" about relic. The name of Yinland, or Vine-„»..2j^ land, was given to the country visited. Nearly all the historians mention these-? earlier discoveries, and speak erf the voy- ; ( ages of Erie to Greenland, and the£ traditions which remain of the first visiteR^^ff! of these explorers to the new Chicago Inter-Ocean. ABTHTK is good at ringing a ©using •eng. Well, wheeler ana Wilson have both been Vice-Presidents, and it is to give Singer a chance.--Detroit Press. Yes; but we're tired erf ma men in the office.--Boston Pwt. A-IBB!: Is that sew? What a feller you •»?--- Syracuse Standard, Baste yo« alL You are to© funny tor mj use.-- W* r- i-V1 1 a!