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gtPetmi f laittflealei [«.«<* --•' . • fttetvte* J. VAN 8LYKE, Editor ami PrtlifhW. IfcHENRT, ELLINOia \ ItnrooXiH was shot on the anniversary the fall of Fort Sumter, and Garfield 4ied on the anniversary of the battle of Chiokamauga. ; r •* ' GKOBOBR GATHBB is the weather prophet tof Alabama. He aaya that a fery rough winter may be expected in country and Europe. I after a war. After the Revolutionary our army was almost wholly ob- met*ted; »»diaie mtm'Ttomg ffucurwfl after the war of 1812. As to the present force, the privates, Lieutenants and other officers, so far ast I am a judge of ' Men, are equal to jfhlatf taiyjuday-^a the faoe of the earth. |hl8 « THM ringing of factory bellB at out- BBgeotusly early hoars, or for a protract­ ed time at any hour, has been practical­ ly decided to be a nuisance by the Mass­ achusetts Supreme Court. ; ROFCBBT ETTBOPE, an influential colored man of Mobile, boasting 4>f his capacity for liquor, drank a pint of whisky which a white man gave him for an experi­ ment, and next morning was found dead In his dooryard. ' Ths wheat crop of Dr. Glenn, of Colusa, Cat, this year was only 100,000 •neks, against 400,000 sacks last year. Of this year's crop the doctor will have to save 35,000 sacks for seed, so that he has only 85,000 sacks to market. AMONG the wedding gifts of Annie Soott, daughter of W. L. Scott, of Erie, Pa., who was married, were a $250,000 block of buildings from her father, a •uperb solid tea-set from her mother and * $25,000 diamond necklace having sixty-five stones. A NEGBO went home from a Georgia camp-meeting in a state of ecstasy, de­ clared that he was going to heaven by Hie way of a tall tree that grew in the dockyard, climbed to the height of aeventj feet and then undertook to fly the rest of the journey. The fall killed him. x A MAN who died in Nashville, Tenn., left directions to send his body to the lie Moyne furnace, at Washington, Pa., for cremation. . His wife refuses to have it done, and has placed a guard over his grave; but his two sons are determined to carry out his wish, and have begun a lawsuit to get possession of the remains. THE International Railway and Hotel Guide seeks to make itself "solid" with the fair sex by advising railroad agents.. to sell tickets to ladies, when j on horseback, and 'was accompanied by husband,* father or 1 1 brother, at one-quarter or one-third thp regular rates. Statistics show that four out of every five passengers are males."' AT a dance given recently in London by Lady Julia Wombwell, the Prince and Princess of Wales were among the guests. Sir George Wembwell present­ ed the Princess with a magnificent bou­ quet of the choicest flowers. Nestled amid the rosebuds in the cefcter was a mechanical bird, which sprang on* by touching a spring and perching upon a leaf warbled several pretty airs. • • A DEPUTATION of pions Hindoos from Stenares are preparing to visit England to persuade Parliament to prohibit the slaughter of cows in all portions of British Ihdia. The eipeiises \>f the mission are to be defrayed by the Maharajah of Benares. They will rep­ resent that the great objection on the pact oL the Hindoosttf> British suprema­ cy ia India is the s|augUtei$of cows that are regarded as sacred*. They will show that' it is impossible for a religious peo­ ple to entertain a high zbapeot for a na­ tion that daily and in almost all parts of the country permits a .portion of the inhabitants to commit sacrilege in the presenoe of devout worshipers. They will declare that British rule in India will be rendered easy if a prohibi­ tion be put on the slaughter of cows, and that the Hindoos will with one ac­ cord become loyal subjects of Victoria. f " : OF the domestic life of the Garfields at the White House, the ̂ veteran Ben': Perley Poore writes to the Boston Jour­ nal as follows : "The short time that the Garfields occupied the White House before the assassination was a continued scene of domestic enjoyment. ' Grand­ ma' Garfield had, until she returned to Mentor, an hqnfired place at the family table, at ner son's right hand, and was always waited on first, whoever else might be present. On the other side of the President sat Jamie, who was his father's pet. Harry, the oldest boy, al­ ways sat next his mother, and then Mian Mollie, who is approaching womanhood, Irwin, and little Abram, who is but 9 years of age. Mrs. Garfield is a believer in good fare, and there was -always an abundance of wholesome, nutritious food, With food toffee, tea sqid milk. Flowers frojb the conservatory. ̂ dorued the table every meal. After dinner Pres­ ident Garfield used to engage in a game of billiards, having promptly restored to its place the billiard table banished by Mr. Hayes. Occasionally he would in­ dulge in a cigar, and he was not averse toa glass at fhampqgae, o| Rhiaewine, or lager beei, althoti|jh ite <tr£uk" tem­ perately and without hypocrisjr. He liked as night came on to take a gallop ridcrt" ii ft evad&il tutors. J J ! IN a speech at Newborn, Senator Vance stated that North Carolina fur­ nished to the armies of the Confederacy no less than 82 regiments, 10 battalions [Carson Appeal.] A number of men were sitting in front of the Ormsbv house discussing the big mining suit in Eureka between the Rich­ mond and Albion. Gen. Kittrell, W. W. Bishop, Sine Barnes, Johnny Moore, and others were interesting the crowd with recitals of the suit they had seen. Bish­ op and Kittrell insisted that of late years the atmosphere of the courts had been purer than in the earlier days. "That is," said Barnes, "thinner and weaker; in other worflB, Jurors cost less than formerly." (Both the lawyers Agreed thai coin had a 'potent influence.* When the law was all on their side and the jury on the other, they could only explain it! on a coin hypothesis. At this point an old frizzly-bearded man who had been listening eM upland remarked: ' * ^ ' ' "Minning suits ain't what they used and 14 unattached companies, number- lng altogether 122,000 men, being more t to be. There has beenncTreal"five lit-' in number than those furnished by any igation to speak of sinofe the Raymond other State. Not only more in propel lA Ely suit with the Hermes in .P&»he." ^ f "Were you ih town?" j "Well, rather; I traveled four hundred j miles on a iiule togertf in a jury . bo*. I I struck the town about Go'ckfe* at night, I and walking iuto the lead bar-room, in­ quired if the suit had begin. Inside of ; half an hour a man came ftp and asked : me what my name was. * He" wrote it i down on his shirt cuff and then he said: | 'Pard if you want to stay and see the j suit, let me see you through on your ! expenses;' and he handed me $500, re- l marking that he thought the B. & E. Jiad the bulge on the law*. I said that I thought that myself, and then ;• I saun­ tered off. Iaabout an hour a man came to me and told me I was drawn on the jury. I said I didn't mind, and agreed to 6tand in. About 9 o'clock a man tap­ ped me on the arm and handed fne $500, j remarking that the Hermes h&d about all the law and facts on their sidfe that was neoessary. He thought I might need a little money for expenses. Of „ tion to population, but more, absolutely, than any other State inf the Confeder­ acy. THE Japanese authorities have a very troublesome question to face. It is the '"custom in Kuikui to disinter and wash the Skeletons of the dead on the third anniversary of their decease, but Kuikui was decimated by the cholera in 1879, and it is feared that opening the graves of the victims will produce another epi­ demic. "Yet,"says the Japan Mail, "to forbid the thing by an edict would have pretty much the same effect as to make waking corpses a criminal act in Ireland." " A QUAKES happened to be on board sliip which was attacked by pirates, and one of the pirates was trying to get i course I took the money, he seemed so up the ship's side by means of a rope dangling over the side. The Quaker said: ' Friend, if thpu wan test that rope thou shalt have it.' He cut it, and the pirate dropped into the water." This is the good story told by one of the Man­ chester cotton manufacturers to illus­ trate his advice that the mill-owners should cldse down and let the speculator who cornered the cotton supply have what ha wanted so badlv. THE English papers contain now an unusually large raunber of advertise­ ments of farms to rent and sales of ]>ve stock by farmers who are retiring from farming. In the Mark Lane Express there are farms advertised for rent cov­ ering 20,000 acres, and these farms are of the highest class. In the same paper there are advertised numerous herds of the finest breeds of sheep, to be sold be­ cause of their owners going out of the business ; also, the sale of choice dairy animals, working horses, herds of catt'e, farm implements and machinery. The local papers throughout England are crowded with similar advertisements, showing that there is a large amount of land which the tenants decline to rent again. anxious to get rid of it. and then I slipped into a back room, put on a pair of false side-whiskers, a thin silk duster I had been carrying under my coat, and I was a changed man. , By 10 o'clock I was on a good liorfee tliit I paid $300 foi\ and started off op a prospecting trip. I couldn't bear the idea of holding the scales of justice in a case like that."' I was fearful for further corruption, you see. But on the trial I was represented by a proxy. On the road I met old Bill Damen, dead broke and discouraged. I put him on the lay, and he started double quick for Pioche. He struck the ledge rich, I guess, fqr when I next j heard pi him he was tlririn.' a stmnkin' enjej/lngj lif4." ? ^ _ A Card Player's Sermon. Man's life is a gaiAe of cardn. First it is 'eribbage.' Next he tries to'go it alone' at isor£of. 'cut, Itnd deal* pace. ; Then Jthfe 'vaidSi* the 'deuce' when his mother 'taki's a hand in,' and contrary to Hovle, JiK-ats thu little joker with her five.' Wy'51 with his 'diamonds' he wins tlie/jnjneen of hearts/ Tired of 'playing u he expresses a desire to 'assist' his f»iir 'partner,' 'throws out his cards' and the clergyman takes a^eu u,vlli»r bill out of him 'on a pair.' She border* him up' build the fires. Like a 'knave* he joins the 'clubs'where he ofteh gets' 'lii^h/' which is 'low,' too. If h- k«.;e>>-. 'straight' he ia oftentimes 'flush.! Ho grows old and 'bluli,* fcek a 'deal* 6f trouble when at last tie 'slmffl< off liis' mortal coil and 'pa^sis in his ciircks and he is 'raked in' by a 'spado,' life's, fitful 'game' is ended, and he waits the As FOB the army of to-day--said Gen. Sherman, at a late banquet--all of yoa Imow its history. It began before the* Re­ volution, but only one company now in j summons of Gabriel's 'trump,' which service dates from that time. That com- '"rAor l"m ' pany, the Second artillery, we are verv proud of, and we wanted to send it to Yorktownat the coming celebration, but, unfortunately, Uncle Sam is too poor and even one company cannot be spared. The army is very small, as it always is 'order him up.' 'f • IN A MS. calendar of the time of Henry VL is one vellum page, filled with a list of unlucky days upon which it would be " perilous to take any sick­ ness, or to be hurt in, or to be wedded in, or take any journey upon or begin any work on, that he would well speed." WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS. t A Stirring Address by the State Com- { _ mittee. • _•••" , airr, has issued the following addreas : The Republican State Central Committee de­ sires to call tlie attention of the electors of the State to the importance of the present f-nnvjui and of toe election with which it will close. It is tine no sharply defined overKliad' -wing igenes now present themselves such as we have had to ifcect in the past; no <gne*tionH of, so Vaach moment as tliooc relating |jto slavery, Itc the defense of the Ufa'on against rebellion, Ho the recoustnfttlnn of the States, or to the great contest for the nntiomilfi ei'.it and a sound cur­ rency. But it s not during the stoim, amid waves and windsand clond*. thru the si ips on the ocean make the greatest progress in thei1" voy­ ages, neither is it during thfe storm iit political contention that the ship of state may make the greatest progress. As it u in the fair weather, when the sea ia calm and still, that the ships move on their Jt;urnevs with the greatest speed, safety and profit, so it is when the waves of politic*! passion and contention are still that the nation should make the most progress in the development of what is best and noblest in its political and national life. He is an unwise or illogical patriot who makes the very conditions that give him the greatest opportunity to render nseful service to his couatry his excuse for doing nothing. There has never been a time when the future welfare of our country and Government more earnestly demanded united and faithful action on tile part of Republicans than it does to-day. The State Conviction, meeting in the midst of the gloom cast over the land by the death of our beloved and honored President, nominated a ticket CGraposed of well-known and worthy citizens. It adopted a platform embodying the liberal and progressive views of the national Republican party, si platform upon which every citizen can stand who believes in fostering a vigorous National spirit, in maintaining free and honest elections, in encouraging and protecting American industry, in keeping the public credit unimpaired, and in averting the right of the, people, through the legitimate channels of leg­ islation. to secure themselves against undae exactions and abuses on the part of corpora­ tions, For this ticket and platform we invite your cordial support. Ajjamst the gentlemen who are noifiinated on either of the tickets opposed to us as Re­ publicans this committee has nothing to say. Against the principles and theories they repre­ sent it is not necessary to say more than will briefly define our difference from them, and appeal to the intelligence, judgment and hon- eetv of the people urf the arbiters of these differences. a j The Greenback party was firstj§in the field with a platform and in favor of a theory that has been fully discussed, passed upon and rejected by the American people--and nowhere more .emphatically than in the State of Wisconsin, where, when approved and commended in the most authoritative manner by the Democratic organization, it only drove intelligent voters from ttiatjparty and led to its overwhelming defeat. The prognostications of evil to result fiom the tri­ umph of Republican principles during the cur­ rency discussion have not been fuifiUod. "onr enemies themselves being the judges." On the contrary, it is almost universally admitted that thb country owes its unprecedented prosperi­ ty to the firmness and faithfulness of the Re­ publican party's devotion to sound financial principles and national integrity and honor. Having examined the witnesses, argued the questions involved; submitted them to a jury of the whole American people and received the verdict in our favor, we shall not reopen the case on the currency question* The Temperance or Prohibition party is in the field asking your rotes. The Republican party claims to be! and is, the friead of tem­ perance, sobriety, good morals and good or- d«r. The -Prohibitionists demand that an amend­ ment to the State constitution, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of spirituous and malt liquors, be submitted to the people. That is a question which belongs wholly to the Legisla­ ture, If a majority of the people desire the submission of sucli an amendment, they have the power to elect, a Legislature which will ex­ ecute their wilL But there is a large number of Republicans wTho do not believe such an amendment it desired by the majority of the people, who consequently think it would in­ volve useless labor and expeuse, and who, judg­ ing by the experience of other States, and tak­ ing into consideration the character of our population, firmly believe that prohibitory leg4- ihlg tion iu tliia would xxittnipliah notiuiig to abate the evils of intemperance, but would lv.main ft dead letter upon the statute fcook. They sis qpnlirmed in this opinion by the fact that bfat few localities avail'themselves of the existing local-option law, and that in manyi n- slances where it has been tried it h* proved nearly a total failure. They hold tl^i^.legisla­ tion, in order to be effective, must conform to the convictions of a large majority of the peo­ ple, and they know that, (;ven if a majority of the vofcer#*i# the State favored prohibition, there arts exfPtiSlve fltotriet* wliere Vgroat ma­ jority of the inhabitants would regard ii an outrage upon their personal liberties. I< -nee the Republican party iu this State ha?'from the beginning steadily refused to make pro­ hibition an article of its political faith. It has left its members free to entertain their own Convictions on tlus subject- The last State convention took no new departure, but adhered to the established policy of the party. The evils of intemperance are no greater now than they have teen at any time since the party was organized jin 1854, the necessity for prohibition is no more urgent. On the con­ trary, it is believed that, in the last twenty years, through the efforts in part of the temperance organizations employing only moral agencios, and in part through the gen­ eral social progress made, there has been a maxkod improvement in the habits of tbe peo­ ple in respect to the immoderate use of in­ toxicating drinks. Hence there was ho rea­ son why the last Stats Convention should abandon the policy hitherto pursued on this subject, and practically oon- vtrt the Iienublioan party in Wis­ consin, established Tor the promotion of great national interests, into a local prohibitory- liquoi-law organization. It will doubtless be urged that the Republican Convention was not asked expressly to approve prohibition; what it was asked to do was to affirm that it is the duty of the Legislature to propose a prohibitory amendment. The difference between 'direct approval and the conn-e proposed is merely the difference between frank, manly and straightforward con­ duct ani a cowardly uttempt 10 recch the same end by nhnfthng and evasion. No Legislatnn would be justified ii» proposing an amendment which, in its own opinion, would be injudicious and mischievous if adop.ed. When it submits fin amendment, by that very act it recommends its adoption. ; The Democratic party is slso in Mie field with ti ticket--or part of one. Itf platform and it* ticket, as presented, are ad'rttioual evidences of the old fact that it has no principles of Its ow n which it is willing to avow, though its stealthy pvrpose is easy to detect. It wants office and power at any sacrifice of lndeix-ndcuce, con­ sistency or niuni.ood. And the real issue is still between those two groat parties--the Re­ publican and the Democratic. One urtt.e other of these parties we know must control the Gov- trmuent of this nation. Which of them can we >est afford to trust V To whicti of th' m can we 1LW afford to give our support? These are tile questions for every vot r to'irfU himself, ni)ii ansver and act according to the l.gnt of reason, sense and urmience. The great orator Of the American Revolution said: "i here is no way or judging tbe future bat by the past; and ju lging by the past," he asked, " what had there been in the conduct of the British Ministry and Parliament to jns- tifv the hopes of better treatment of the colo­ nies w ith which gentlemen had been pleased to HOi&ce themselves and the couatrv." And so we say it is true--th< re is vet no way of judging the future but by the past, and, 'judging by the past, what has there been in the conduct of the Democratic party, forth* last fifty years, to justify the nope tiiat its return to. power vsould be anything but a disaster to all the best and highest "interests ot our Government and country ? It was the friend of slavery and oj>- pression ; it was the friend of treason and se­ cession : it was the friend of inflation and re­ pudiation. Where would our country be to­ day if the Democratic party's position on either of these great icsues" had been in­ dorsed by the American people? We would have slavery, a divided Union, and a repudi­ ated debt, with ali their dangers, disasters and disgraces. Can the judgment and sense of justice, and ad be trusUtl1 iu the inlnreV Thi policies most earnestly advocated by the Demo ritic parly and with wuioh its uame is identuied are al­ ready the shiilie and1 disgrace of American history. OQ tifc other hand, the whole record of the Republican party is the giory of our history. And the great contest that shall fix the destiny for weal or woe _ is still waged between these two great parties--the repre­ sentatives of liberty, Union and progress on the one haad, and slavery, secession and re­ pudiation on the other--and (not till all the ftmte of the long contest have been secured and free schools and a free ballot are a» well Protect^ Soothe 0»>e, as Republi- oam, afford to IOM sight of the cause for which so much blood was shed and to much treasure expended. The solid Sooth is beginning to > break under the discouragement of repeated w-feat Let the ItepabUoM North show porse- «2^™uce and fortitude--no yielding, no trifling, and this relic of the bloody past, the last foe of mn vers ill liberty in the republic win soon pass away. Then, but not till then' Ii wll' be t™e to f°rget the past Meanwhile Hie Republicans should keep their organiza­ tion intact While remembering the pa<t, they will not disregard the present or the future. The party will continue, as it has done, to keep step with the march of progress. It has not and will not fail to meet promptly all great political questions as they arise, and to array itself upon the side of equal rights and exact justice to all. In the hope and Assurance that our lines will not be weakened, nor our ranks decimated by desertions under whatever banner or pretext, until this final consumma­ tion is accomplished, the Republican Commit­ tee makes this appeal to the Republicans of the State, once more to rally in the cause ef their country and their duty. Reedatioiig of the National Repabllcaa Committee. At an informal meeting of the mem­ bers of the National Republican Com­ mittee, in New York, the following resolutions were adopted : Resolved, That the RepublicaoNational Oom-, mittee in the death of President- Garfield real-" izes the loss of a chosen and trusted leader, whose intellectual qualities, correct principles, progressive impulses and aspirations for good government made him an appropriate repre­ sentative of the patriotic Republican party in the highest national office. Resolveti, That we recognize in President Arthur a life-long and fearless advocate of the Republican principles enunciated by the con­ vention which unanimously plactd b'ioa in nom­ ination, and that he is entitled to the confidence and sympathy of all Republicans and to the cordial support of all patriotic ciizeus. aketotaf vj*eaerthe -house stooa twenty- ILL1XOIS NEWS. THEKK are almost 100 groceries in Peoria where spirituous liquors are Bold at retail. , THE coal prospectors lit Eure ka Woodford connty, have readied a depth of 272 feet. THB total product of OCN(1 in Peoria county during the fast your foots up 219,800 tons. * T • THERE ar<e21,S90 pensioner in Illinois. During the past year $5,000,000 has been paid out to them. GEOKQE SIIIVA, a native <tf Bombay, India, took out his naturaliattion papers at Peoria, the other day. IT costs Peoria county about $35,000 annually to keep its paupers < and about $30,000 for its criminals. JUSTICE HARLAN, of the Ulited States Supreme Court, will be unable to hold a term at Springfield this fall. THE sugar refinery at Hoopeston is in full blast. This year it had 500 acres of cane, and oontemplates plaiting 1,000 next year. THE receipts of neat eettle at the Union Stock-yards, Chioajo, during September exceeded all records, being 154,993 head. HON. J. G. CANNON has purchased the Corbley farm in Chanpuign and Vermilion counties, for which he paid $30,000 in cash. ALEX. RAMSEY was at the Ipottem of a sixty-five-foot well, near Moufet Pulaski, when a pig tumbled "in tipon him and nearly killed him. SINCE 1851 there have beer 871 per­ sons sent to the Peon county poor-house. This is not a bal showing for a county the size of Peorit QUITE a sensation has beer. created at Sandi'iuge, Menard county, ever the dis- «(Tery of a hunuui - - - old Wativins school- five years ago. THE famous Roberts-Ricamondbreach- of-promise case at Pekin was settled the other day, when Richmond paid the judgment and interest, amounting to $4,596.35. A IIAJI in Downs township, McLean county^ who boks^d thit he did not need neighbors, died for the want of care, although he owned 300 acres of land and had $2,000 in money. ILLINOIS has five postofficos of the first grace: Chicago, Bjoomington, Peoria, Quincy and Springfield. These five offices are also the only ones in the State having the letter-carrier system. ST. JOHN'S Catholic Cliuteli, on the corner of Eighteenth and Clark streets, Chicago, one of the most spacious and handsome ecclesiastical strictures iu the United States, has just beeuj dedicated. Rev. CHARLES ATKINSO^T, an aged Methodist minister, has atiliis own re­ quest been sent to the cobnty jail in Spring^eld, as a vagrant. :He will be cared for there until other arrangements can be made. PIIINEY B. FULLER, a widower with a grown family, was Btruck by a freight train near Barry, Pike county, and torn to pieces. Of his head only one ear was found, and his limbs and body were scattered along the track. He was very intemperate. BY a mistake in orders on the Indian­ apolis and St. Louis, two freight trains collided, near Paris, completely demol­ ishing two engines and fifteen loaded cars. Three cars of alcohol and spirits caught lire, and the engines, oars and contents were burned. SAMUEL CARNAHAN, an employe at the Springfield watch factory, left Ireland for this country in June, 1848. Three months later he had a brother born, who in due time was christened David. The latter reached Springfield a few days ago, fond lost no tune in hunting up his brother Samuel, whom he had never seen. The meeting was a joyous one. THE assessment of Chioago is $117,* 000,000. Under the constitution of the State not more than $2,340,000 can be raised by taxation ou that assessment. The appropriations call lor $2,800,000, and the city business so far has been carried on on that basis. Where the $460,01)0 deficit is to come from is what is puzzling the authorities of that city. ILLINOIS ranks first of any State in the Union in the amount of meat packed, lumber traffic, malt and distilled liquors, miles of railroad, and corn, tflieat, rye and oats raised ; third in the amount of coal mined ; fourth in iron and steel manufactories; fifth in printing and publishing; fourth in potatoes and hay, and twelfth in barley aud tobacco ; first in horses and hogs; third in mules, fourth in cattle, fifth in milch cows and eleventh in sheep. THE State Board of Equalization has assessed the railroad property of Illinois at $51,379,932, being an increase of $7,000,000 over last year's assessment. The capital stock of the railroads is as- Bes-1 CaH ,tU»n /!f^^a;h^iafianciioned ^ssed at $2,183,737. The assessed value patriotism and honor tnat sanctioned ... , ' , , - , , , 'dVocnted these things in the past of city and town lots,in.Cook county has ' been fixed at §104,6-31, o84, an increase of $1,013,034 over last year's assessment The personal-property assessment of Cook county has been increased $1,119,- 593, and is now $28,670,448. The aggre­ gate assessment of the southern coun­ ties, where the drought has prevailed during the past season, was reduced 10 per cent. HANDLING MUOSS A DAI •«*» BFOW YMRIFC OMM -H«W BATKM MI IAPWTI AM PAM Rc. (From HM K«W YOA Trflnfen] In a small room on the ink floor pi U# Custom House and occupying MM> Bouthwest oorner of it, the cashier, with a force of fifteen clerks, receives all the money for duties levied by the Govern ment on imports, exoepting the «««ll amount assessed on peeeengere * bag­ gage, which is oollected on the wharf. Some idea of the amount of business done in this offioe may be gained when it is stated that the ihoney received in a single day has several times lately amounted to $1,000,000, and the num< ber of entries made has exceeded 1,000. Hie manner in which this large amount of money is handled is as follows : The merchant or broker's clerk, after first making out his entry in the rotunda of the building where the amount of duty is calculated on the entry by the entry clerks, takes his place in the line before one of the receiving clerks, and deposits the amount of his entry in a small box, and with it a ticket on which he has entered the merchant's with the date and the sum inclosed, whether in gold, silver, notes or certifi­ cates, Gmtta-percha boxes are used to pre­ vent unnecessary noise from the clink­ ing of the coin. The receiving clerk takes the box of money and hands it to a teller to count from the entry in a blot­ ter. The teller does not look at the cash ticket until he has counted the money and marked it on the back of the ticket He then turns it over and if the count is correct he checks it and returns it to the receiving clerk, who then signs aperrnit for the delivery of the goods. The entries then go to the book-keepers who enter the amount on " sheets," and at the close of the day the money is counted and compared with this reoord of the book-keepers. So carefully is this system earned out that there is rarely a variation of a cent between the money and the accounts, and the office has thereby gained the reputation of being more exact than any other similar institution in the country which handles such an amount of money coming in so many different payments, from $5 to $5,000. Should any discrepancy occur, the olerks carefully compare both sides of the tickets with the clerk's blotter; and then the blotter is checked off with the book­ keeper's sheets. By some of these methods the error is oertain to be dis­ covered. As account is kept of each kind of money separately, the tellers can see at a glance if a mistake is made in the gold, silver certificates or notes. When the coin has been counted and put into small canvas bags it is placed in boxes holding $20,000 in gold. These boxes are put in a hand cart outside the building and wheeled to the sub-treasury, which gives a receipt to the Custom House for each deposit Nearly a ton of coin has to be trans­ ferred daily in this manner. An officer fully armed accompanies the porters, and there are al»o armed men in the. cashier's office. The cashier, clerks and tellers are men of efficiency, and the responsibility of the office makes their po­ sition more permanent than that of the average Custom House officer. The tellers acquire great skill in detecting counterfeits as well as in rapid counting. Some of the ways of counterfeiting which come under their notice are curious. The Chinese in San Francisco are ex­ pert enough to split a $10 gold piece, cut out the center, fill it with bnse.metal and join it together so nicely that only an expert could detect the fraud. The pa­ tient Chinaman also finds it profitable to ,r s#eat" gold by shaking the coin in B bag and gathering the gold dust which accumulates from the abrasion of the metal. Another device is to file gold coin across the edge, thus destroying the raised milling. All the silver and nickel coins are counterfeited, from the 3-cent piece to th<} legal-tender dollar. Thev are first stamped from base metal ancl then plated with silver. Even this the counterfeiters do not buy, but obtain by immersing silver coin in acid, which re­ moves from the coin enough silver for the counterfeiters' use, while the " sweated " silver can still be passed at par. Tile cashier's office performs only a small portion of the work of the Custom House in all its branches, but, as it is one of the main resources of the public purse, it is perhaps the most interesting. As one passes along the dingy corridor, he catches sight of the three lines of men cramped and crooked around in the jit- tie room, boys and gray-haired men, with their little gutta-percha boxes full of gold ready to be emptied into the capacious pockets of Uncle Ham. Grandpa. The grandpa iz a individual, aged sumwhare between 50 and 100 years, of a promiskious temperament, and iz a common occurrence in all well regulated familys. Next to a heltliy mother-in- law, they have more aktive bizness on hand than enny other party in the house­ hold. Thev are the standard authority on all leading topicks, and what they don't kno about things that took place sixty-five years ago, or will take place for the next sixty-five years to cum, iz a damage for enny one to kno. Grandpas are not entirely useless, they are handy to hold babys, and feed the pigs, and are very smart at mending a broken broom handle, and sifting coal ashes, and are good at putting up the clothes line ou washing days. I hav seen grand­ pas that could churn good, but i kon- sider it a mighty mean trick to set an old fellow ov eighty years to churning butter. I am a grandpa miself, but i won't churn butter for no concern, not if i understand myself. I am az solid on this konklnsion az a graven image. I am willing to rok baby all the time while the wimmiu folks are bileing sope, i am willing to kut rags, to work up into rag karpets, they can keep me hunting hens' eggs wet days, or picking green cur­ rants, or i will even dip kandles, or kore apples for sass, or turn a grind stun, but, bi thunder, i won't churn. 1 have ex­ amined miself on this subject, and i will bet a jak knife, so long az he remains in hiz right mind, Josh Billings won't churn. Az a general thing grandpas are a set of konsaited old pliools who don't seem to realize that what they kno themselfs iz the result of experience, and that younger people hav got to git their knolledge in the same way. Grand- Ss are poor help at bringing up chil-en, but they hav got precept, and kat- ekism eliuff, but the young ones all seem to understand that grandpa minds them a heap more than they mind grandpa.-- Josh BWings. Putting' a Hoop on a Barret Putting a hoop on a family flour bar­ rel is an operation that will hardly bear an encore. The woman generally at­ tempts it before the man comas home to dinner. She sets the hoop up on the end of the staves, takes a deliberate aim with the rolling-pin, and then, shutting both eyes, brings the pin down with all the force of one arm, while the other one instinctively shields her face. Then she makes a dive for the Camphor and unbleached muslin, and when thf man comes home she is sitting; back of the stove thinking of St Stephen aid the other martyrs, while a bmKt dinner and the camphor are struggling for the^1 mastery. He says that if she had but kept her temper she wouldn't have got hurt. And he visits the barrel hfmntf aud puts the hoop on very carefully, then adjusts it so nicely to the top of every stave that only a few smart raps apparently ere needed to bring it down all right. ^ And then he laughs to him- self to think what a fuss his wife kicked up for a simple matter that only needed a little patience to adjust itself; then he gets the hammer ami gives the hoop a small rap on one side, and the other up and catches him on the noae, filling his soul with wrath and his eyes with tears, and the next minute the barrel is flying across the room, accompanied by the hammer, and another candidate for camphor and rag is enrolled in the great army that is unceasingly marching t o- ward the grave.--Danbury New*, A Fatal Thirst. •i k°ndon "Lance! w© leam nat many years ago a case was accord­ ed by Dr. Otto, of Copenhagen, in which four hundred and ninety-five needles passed through the skin of a hysterical girl, who had probably swallowed them through a hysterical paroxvsm: but these emerged from the regions below the di- aphram, and were collected in groups, which gave rise to inflammatory sweU- ings of some size." It would seem from the cases on record that needles in the system rather assist in the digestion and promote longevity. For instance, we will suppose that the hvsterical girl above alluded to, with four* hundred and ninety-five needles in her stomach, •uiould absorb the midsummer cucum­ ber. Think how interesting those • • **AV»«BAT. Gjod-bye, d«v ttad, good-fty»| The hours an (wring fleet-- ... ,, c Mends often change or die--. ' > ".^#1A • And life is hitter-swart. Qood-bye, my frtend, Good-liyl Ctaod-bye, dear one, good-bye/ " My best thoughts fan>nr7ttKr IM not OUT friendship die,* B«t grow more straw end *fc(B„ TW we most sar good-bye. , •«•* v. II otte of us should die, • uf\ Let death from shore to shon , „ Send one last, fond good-bye! . \ m •JL-L1 jg» • nv. *1$^' • ; ^ nni AID VMMU * ALMOST every country has its n*tr"l melody, but the waltz Is the music of the whirled. THXBS ia a limit--Prmt young LADY: " I could sit here forever." Second dit­ to: "And I till lunch time." Why is wine that has been botSfed for fears like an unmarried lady of advanced tge? Because it IS DDMAI^ AND' BOOS the worse for it DB, JOWNSOTI once, speaking of, a Iju&rrelscme fellow, said: "If he two ideas in his head they would Ml out srith eftch otheT." EICEBSOH says "a man passes far whai ae is worth." No, he doesn't, he passes for the sake of getting a new tmmp - Itowell Courier. IF you judge of Brown's oharaoter by the umbrella he carries, you will form a vety poor opinion of for s it is Smith's umbrella. WHEN a man tells a story he THINKN jg , .,,<vIs 'iityTSi I".' s? V<* ' r We can imagine the cheer- | his face falls, naturally. It Is affected by the force of gravity. promoter. fill smile of the cucumber as 'it enters the stomach, and, bowing cheerfully to the follicles standing around, hangs its hat upon the wails of the stomach, stands its umbrella in a corner, and proceeds to work. All at once the cucumber looks surprised and grieved about some­ thing. It stops in its heaven-born colic generation, and pulls a rusty needle out of its person. Maddened by tlie pain, it once more attacks the digestive appara­ tus, and once more accumulates a choice job lot of needles. Again and again it enters into the unequal contest, each time losing ground, till the poor cucum­ ber, with assorted hardware sticking out ui all directions like the hair on a cat's tail, at last curies up like a caterpillar, and yields up the victory. Still this needle business will be expensive to hus­ bands if wives once aquire the habit and allow it to obtain the mastery over them. The woman who once begins to tamper with cambric needles is not safe, bhe thinks she has power to control her ap- petita,but it is only a step to the madden­ ing thirst for the soul-destroying darning- needle, and perhaps to the button-hook and'earpet stretcher. We once knew a sweet young creature, with dewy eye and breath like timothy hay. Her merry laugh rippled out upon the sum­ mer air like the joyful music of bald- headed bobolinks. In a thoughtless moment she swallowed a cambric needle. This did not satisfy her. The cruel thraldrom had begun. Whenever she felt depressed and gloomy there was no­ thing that would kill her ennui and melancholy but the fatal needle-cushion. Prom this she rapidly became more reel; i?ss till there was hardly an hour that she was not under the influence of needles. If sho could not g»t needles to assuage her mad thirst she would take haw-pins and door-keys. She | gradually pined away to a mere skele- i ton. She could no longer sit on one foot and be happy. Life for her was | tilled with opaque gloom and sadness j At last she took an over-dose of shoep- | shears and monkey-wrenches one day. j and on the following morning her soul j had lit out for the land of eternal sum- j mer. We should learn from this to shun the maddening iffeedle-cushioa, and never tell a lie. , Carious Applications for Dlroree. ' Qen Mullet, a colored man who culti­ vates cotton and drinks whisky, came into Little Bock, Arkansas, and, tho United States Judge, said: "I's got a piece of business fer yer to trnnsact" , "Well," replied the judge, "prooeed." "I's arter a divorce." "I have very little to do with such eases, but why do you wish to sever the tic* that bind you to a companion who, in all probability, is much too good far yon?" "Knse I can't get along with jedge." "Him?" , "Yes, sah--him!" "You didn't marry a man--did yeu?" "No, sir! I married ez likely a cullud 'omaii ez yer ever seed, and I don't want no divorce frbm her. I wants a divorce from my son." "From your Bon?" "Y.ih; ko9c dat boy is a monst'ous Bight ob trouble, an' speu's ebery nickel he kin git his han's on." "There is no such thing as a divorce from a son." "Dar may not be in de law; but dar is wid nitt. What's de law fur, if it ain't to perfect a man? Any man can git a divorce from his wife; but gittin' one from his son is one ob de fine p'ints." Say, now, jedgb, de law on de p'int of technicalsts kin do any tiling. Can't yer make dis a technicality, jest ter obleege de ole man what driv a team en­ during de wall?" "You haven't enough sense to drive a team. Go away!" "I's tried de law, an' now 111 tnr ds gospel. An' ef dat preacher down in da bottoms can't fix up de papers fur me, I'll take de nature ob de case into xaj •wn han's, an' break dat boy's naikt" Double blazing. A writer in the English Mechanic points out some of the advantages of double-glazing in promoting the health of homes in winter. Skylights, he says, ought never to be put up unless double or double-glazed. Double-glazing an­ swers perfectly if the sashes are grooved out for glass on each side, and are then glazed with an air space of one-half inch or more between the panes of giass. The glass must be put in with its inner faces perfectly bright and clean, and the glazing should be done on a cold, dry aav, so as not to include waterv tapor, winch in cold weather will condense in­ side the air space, and cause mistiness. This double-glazing with an air-space makes a window almost as warm as a brick wall, and not only keeps up the temperature of a room in winter, and saves fuel, but it keep* the room cool in hot weather, and it makes the tempera­ ture more uniform throughout the apart­ ment With ordinary thin glazing in winter, the inmates are always being chilled on that side which looks toward the window, and baked on the side which is toward the fire. Double-glazing our window sashes would save all this troubte. NOTWITHSTANDING the &sclamation «f Prohibitionists, a rubiennd-visaged friend of ours asserts that a " sling^ in * the hand is better thana hand in a sling. 'L.' **,•, --Cambridge Tribunei' ' ^ vgJfc-'-l A WITNESS was on the stand in an it W legal liquor-sale case. The tMfelfMel iras'?r' ' trying to find out in what kind'of a glass the liquor was handed to the witness, <•»*. and at last exclaimed: What kind of a "ly looking glass was it ? " " Begorra, sor, " ~ it was not a looking-glass at all; it was a tumbler." THB English word "luggage" is creeping into American newspapers, and without reason. Luggage is derived from lug.--Philadelphia Mews. En­ tirely right Trunks we not lugged in the American system. They are smashed. Smashage is the word.--indianapoffe ^ News. '*v '• '•> .*'-«§?#«! PROF. HARRIS, a Boston scientific! ^ sharp, says: "There is a coming of the macrocosm into the mieroeosBk" ^ Well, what of it? If the microcosm ia (j larger than the macrocosm, and the mar- t crocosm wants to go in, and has got a ticket, we don't see what is to prevent • it Give ns something new,--Peck?* Sun. „ » gt "j;, " WHO'S that frizzly, black-haired woman talking to my husband on the ottoman?" "She's a Mrs. Cardogan." -j "Indeed! she's good at flattering peo- pie, I should Bay, and knows how to lay v it on pretty thiok." "Ah; you infer that, no doubt, from her attitude and expression ?" husband's.'" " Oh, dear, no! from my E**; A COUNTRY girl at a fashionable hotel- "j in the city noticed that <U1 thif guests^*- ̂ used their forks only in eating pie. Up-^ , ' , oa her return home she reported theV"| fact to the old ladv, who comforted her^' f^X ' *; by observing: "You shouldn't mi$d^ - 'em, Jemima; it's all because they're top" 1" i ' x it-2. i • 9f T lazy to use their knivea. STBANOE impertinence. Paster--SOS "Yes, Mrs. Brown. Taking into' con-K;-' V alteration the fact that the Smiths -hard-; i ly ever pay their pew-rents, it is strange-" x. ly bad taste on theft part to sing so loudly and throw such unction into their < " prayers." Mrs.' Bibwn--" Quite < top ' jhl# terribly shocking !"--L<mdon fun. » AT Chautauqua a little girl was asked » if she was a Methodist^ "Oh! no!",w she replied. "I am a Brethren, and * , my mother is a Brethren, too." These were of the United Brethren. At Mon- treal one of the Plymouth Brethren waa -• i*r-. aaked why they never spoke of the if -. Plymouth sisters. " Oh !" was hia an- ' swer, "the Brethren embrace the sisters." ' A BOSTON man took occasion to re- « mark to his wife: "My dear, the infinite • is always silent 'Tis the finite only f W > that speaks." She was a dull woman, who didn't take hints, but she never for­ got the remark, and long afterward, when some friends expressed a wish to visit the deaf and dumb asylum, she turned to her husband and asked: " What days, my love, is the asylum of • »,•* the infinite open for the reception of ^ A; ' v"* &#,"V finite visitors ?" DEE-POT--DAY-PO*--MP-POT. .. Said Master Jonee, "Sow moat We fa, Without delay to the dee-pot." ^ • Laugheti sweet Mise Jones, " I should Miff Mi^ Let's start at once to the day-pot" '""J1 • :.W£V' " Smiled Mrs. Jcaiea, "In quick step, ;i||W We'll ail run down to Un- dep-poti" . "w Groaned Mr. Jones, "lt'e mighty ho* To drive you all to the dee-pot.^? 1 -i '-i'r ,. . * These conflicts of pronuneistion \ H ould not be if UMj'd «aB it "attflaa.*.' • '"" Htra'd. ' & J* L THB BUTTERFLY AN1> THB FOKT. , ; [The Butterfly.] ' , , ^ * ; On gorgeous wings he fl ^ateth along; ^ Little for this workl eareth he, if Save (or the wild bee'x K<>iuuo!e.iit aong. And the sweets iu tho fiouera that bej, He slppeth to-day from the 'ily's bell-- To-morrow he loveth the roee as well. * [The Poet] OB gorgeous dreams ho floatetli along: Nothing for this world eareth he, Sara for the maiden*' laug'ttcr and sonf And the sweets their lips thai be; TOrda; blonde Edith he loveth seU-- „ Tomorrow 'tis brown-eyed IwiboL Who and Whom. A too frequent error ia the use- of the objective " whom " instead of the nomi­ native " who" in such expressions a* " the men whom he says were present." This sentence should read: "The men who he says were present." Who ",ia not governed by the verb " says," bat ia the subject of " wers," Mid should be Ht the nominative. *' Whom" is a stiff »ad clumsy word at the best. It it very litr. • tie used in conversation, even by hi; cultivated people. It has a flavor- oif pedantrv and affectation. The tAfua)' substitute of "whom" is-"that/- aa "the man that I f*awr" or it may.ba omitted altogether in many cases. No­ body of any taste would think of using such sentences in conversing as " Of whom are you speaking ?" " Whom do you mean?" These phrases may be grammatically correct, but they are de­ cidedly inelegant. The easiest way to deal with them is the best. " Who is it you are speaking of 7" or " Who is it you mean ?" are equally good English, and far more graceful forms expression.-- N. V. Star. _ j**. •m 4 HIDAOK, in former English days,, waa a royal aid of attribnto raised in su&» a proportion on every hide of land. Tbe hide of land, or Plow land, was as much aa Qtt& fktm ooaMi aallavato i