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V • u m \* . dh * V»* . ; *,'f I. «W SLnOE, tfltorasi NUWMT. ILLINOIS I THS Princess Beatrice, recently en- ̂ gaged to a German Prince, is said to be • fastidious and hard to please, hating | had offers from most of the eligible royal ; baohelon in Europe. *'• POOB "Jack in the Pulptt,w'of St. I Nichola», is dead. A. R. Thompson, •:i the editor of this popular column, was the a cm of a Colonel in the British army, and a most accomplished man. He lived in Brooklyn, was 34 years of age, and leaves a widow and one child. Ou> MB. HAZIJJTT, of Oregon, thought he was going to die, and, in order that : his heirs should hare nothing to quarrel over, ho burned $22,01)0 in greenbacks. ;He didn't die after all, and feels rather put out because his relatives don't seem i. to appreciate the interest he took in > their welfare and his efforts to save , them from a troublesome lawsuit; and f they obstinately refuse to assist him in getting a living. ' "l]. M i St .CANADA'S contrivance to enoourage ̂ immigration by paying a portion of the passage money is bearing the fruit that might have been predicted. Large numbers of poor, miserable, degraded •em-tares in England are flocking to the Dominion. Those-- already there are .proving hardens to the oommunitv. .Desirable immigrants, such as mechan­ ics and farmers, do not avail themselves to any considerable extent of tfte advan- , stages offered by the Canadian Govern- stent. ̂ COHOBBSSKAN CRAPO'B CUTIOUS OOgnO- ; men had, it is said, the following origin: ; In early times a French bark was I*"weeded on the Cape Cod coast, and all on board were lost save one little boy. - : Him the sturdy colonists rescued, and dubbed, because of his red hair and ̂ -^French origin, Rufus Crapaud. And from that little waif the present mem- f '(• her for the First Massachusetts district is In the seventh generation of direct • descent. t r g§- p- MX IT was in 1687 that Newton published his theory of gravitation which upsetoom- V pletely the prevalent belief that the mo- £Kt' * tion of every star and planet was due to '(•' jits being pushed and guided by an arch- dngeL The theory was resisted till ̂1759, when Clairant and Lalande proved It by calculating the retardation of Halley's oomet. Newton had then been dead thirty-two yean. Moncure D. ' ^ibonway points out that Darwin's recog- -.-JaitioB. same sooner, and is therefore eyi- t dence that the world is making progress In spite of. the doleful prophecies of '• pessimists. , A BRIGHT 10-year-old boy was on the r® traveling alone from Cincinnati to 5.;:$bhicaga He felt the importance df the " $ituat»ea, and waff subjected to a good -Heal of quizzing from some of the pas­ sengers. One young blood was especially in this, and the boy evidently read •fiim. About ten miles out of the city the | . young fellow, with a good deal of blus- ' • er, got ready his sachel and traps, and When the train eame to ahalt he sang out; 'Chicago," expecting to make the boy jump and march out. The laugh was effectually turned on the young man,. When the boy coolly turned and re- " , marked: "You are going ,to Chicago; .why don't get off and see your mother?" IN a private letter to Gen. Carnahan, «f Indianapolis, the American Minister At Constantinople describes a wonder­ ful exhibition of horsemanship which he jrecently witnessed. Gen. Wallace writes: I -was invited a few days ago by the Sultan to go with him and witness a drill of ;his household troops. The old Eleventh could beat his infantry, but Jthe performance of his Circassian caval- | i*y was something extraordinary. As a j<' ©ample: Four companies magnificently "mounted were in line. A bugle call, jand the right oompany dashed through JC to the front full speed. Another call, >-.' there was a beautiful feat. Each man preached out with his right hand, caught ithe rein close to the bit, pulled hard, «nd threw his horse flat on his left side, •dismounting as it went down* Then, . on the ground behind the horse, he be- ; jgan firing as a skirmisher. A third call, r1the oompany rose up with their horses, ^and retreated at full speed, reforming »s they went. As I had never even ^Iheard of such a thing, you oan imagine ' ̂ my astonishment" 1- ' -- . 4 Tax sudden increase ol wealth among certain classes of people during and after fffhe war set a young man to thinking ̂ how he could share in it. He noticed that many of those "new rich" were without the advantages of an early edu- cation. He therefore advertised in a *|j|New York paper that he would under- "'̂ iake to supply them. He succeeded far ^beyond his expectations. According to New York correspondent of the dan Francisco Chronicle, his plan is to give r»i'~Vr • women of the sort he describes. On one -day he reads and explains the items in '* the daily newspapers; another day he takes up the authors, poets, musician ̂ books and plays of the time; again he treats of the etiquette ol the parlor and dining-room, and so on. But every now and then some lady sweeping oat of a • carnage and laden with furs, irillra and jewels tells him she cannot read nor write, and then he has to work in earnest. He is a genius, and has to be. He writes love letters, poetry and advertisements; carries on one side of a lover's corre- spondenee and battles with rich numb- • skulls who are anxious to add Latin or ^ <jseek to their accomplishment* Taa Bev. W. H. H. Murray, onoe know* m "Adirondack" '"'v A"* ' 1 \ - < * * % '**w\ I Murray and " Horse " Murray, has dis­ appeared feces public liew. He waa, ssys tbeCSiiosgo ftmea^titieof the oan- maawNf all the common men oeenpy- ing positions of prominenoe with whom the present generation has been famil­ iar, and the wonder is that he was able 90 long to Keep himself on a level where he did not belong. His sermons, like his lectures, were so thin and inconse­ quential than one might listen to them forever and never gain an idea. He be­ longed to the em when celebrities of any sort passed as men of profound importance. He owed his rise to the assumption of the airs of a sportsman. Occupying a Boston pulpit, and con­ tributing freely to the press, he gained notoriety as a gay-and-festive sort of preaches. The curiosity to aee him enabled him to ravage the provinces with his pointless lectures. He was do­ ing a very large business on an exceed­ ingly diminutive capital. His fall came as a matter of course. Without fixed principles, he had prospered simply be. cause he was everything which a minis­ ter of the gospel ought not to be. This miserable foundation of his fame crumbled to dust when, carrying his " peculiarities " a little farther than his flock were willing to tolerate him, he became openly and scandalously inti­ mate with his private secretary, a foolish young girl whom he had infatuated. Living a fast and not always circum­ spect life, he wasted his means and be­ came involved in debt. One day he was missing, and With him his fair secretary. A few bulletins in the newspapers an­ nounced his arrival here and there, and then he was lost sight of for a time in Texas. .This was some yean ago. A New York gentleman named Y. A. Fen- ner met him near San Antonio, the other day. His secretary waa still liv­ ing with him. Last year, it is said, her broken-hearted father, who had been searching for the fugitives since their departure, found them, and made a de­ spairing effort to induce his daughter to return to her home. His appeals prov­ ing of no avail, the old man, disgraced broken in spirit, alone in the world, and almost penniless, blew out his brains at the very threshold of Murray's door. One Sunday, recently, Murray was seen at San Pedro Springs unloading with his own hands a wagon filled with cedar ties, which he had hauled from his little place to the line of a proposed horse railroad. He was without coat, vest or collar, grimy and unshaven, and the last man in the world, apparently, to be pointed ont as formerly a prominent preacher and lecturer. Misfortune has brought many better men than ha to toil as humble as his, but in his miser­ able surroundings one may see the legit­ imate <$nsequenoes of a misspent life. Buckskin. , A prominent citizen of Janesville, who is connected with the water power, got himself very wet when the dam went out, and worked around until he got dry, when hp began to feel painful sen­ sations in his Tegs. The circulation seemed to ctop, and his limbs seemed cramped as though in a vise. He stood it for a couple of hours, when he be­ came frightened, thinking he was being paralyzed, and he went home and laid down, and sent for a doctor. The doctor listened to the symptoms, and became almost convinced that the man's legs were becoming useless, and he was frightened as well as the patient. The doctor ordered some hot applications for the limbs, and, removing the man's pants, he prepared to apply the reme­ dies, when he found the man's legs had turned a saffron color, and become as hard as rawhide, and shrunk up to half their usual size. He was about to ask for a consultation of doctors when he put on his spectacles and discovered that the trouble was all owing to. a pair of buckskin drawers which the man wore. They had become wet, and as they dried on his person they began to shrink and harden until the man^s legs felt as though they were incased in gas pipe. The doctor sent for his instru­ ments and skinned off the buckskin drawers, and the man got well and went down town and told about his narrow escape. The drawers are now used for back-stop to a base-ball ground.-- Peck's Sun. King Krupp Ordains Yaechwtikm. Herr Krupp, the great gtmsiiaker, is a staunch believer in the efficacy of vac­ cination. He recently expressed to his employes a desire that they should sub­ mit to the operation, small-pox being prevalent in the neighborhood of Essen. Only six. of the 6,000 bared-tiieir arms to the lancet, whereupon Herr Krupp issued an ultimatum to the effect that every workman must either be vaccin­ ated or leave his establishment. He made the terms of suneuuer easy, how­ ever, by promising that the-operation should take place during working hours, that it should cost them nothing, and last, though not least, that only animal lymph should be used. They surren­ dered at once, like sensible fellows. There are not many establishments in Germany where each workman has a model cottage and a bit of garden at­ tached, a pension fund, a relief fund and a dozen other funds in which he can participate in case of accident or tnnniifann :\" . i. 1 " 1 -1 DevMired by a So«arayo» - -XL A very unpleasant account is given by a Brazilian paper of the proceedings of a huge water snake called the " sucu- " wkjicli is to be found in some of - _ „ niyu an hour or a half-hour a day to men or ̂ rivers of Brazil An incident occurred on the banks of the Bio Arassuahy, owing to the voracity of one of these reptiles. A slave, with some companions, was fishing with a net in the river, when he was suddenly seized by a sucuruyu, and, in spite of his resistance, was dragged under tho water in the presence of the horrified spectators. He never ap­ peared again, and no doubt is enter­ tained that he was swallowed by the sucuruvu, who made an effort with his hinder coils to carry off at the same time another of the fishing party. It is the exception of the sucuruyu to attack human beings; but it loses no opportu­ nity of seizing deer, calves and other quadrupeds when they oome to drink. A Pm&ADXZiPHiA boy, now 12 yean olds was named for Ralph Waldo Emer- aon, Mr. Emerson was informed of the fcfft and given & picture of the child, and he sent bt>WK a, set «of his books and a •ealed letter, to be opened upon the oc Ml VAMBX POCTOB. EAT Many butchers will thank Dr. Hammondfertbis: "flatplentydf welkoooked and iKnriridqgfoocL lbe nerrea oannot be kept healthy on alofia. Gruek, panadas andte*»ieindlenon{* in their way, but the nerves require far their proper nourishment undiluted animal and vegetable food; as a rala the former should predominate. Meat-eaters axe rarely troubled with nervousness; Americans eat more vegetables than any well-to-do people, and they are probably the most' nervous' nation an the faoe of the earth." IN BABYHOOD.---A young ehQd's bones are soft and cartilaginous* and keeping a Door little thing up against a chair, when it ought to be lying onitsbaek kicking the air and atrengthening its limbs, or crawling on the nurseiv floor, is positively injurious and «wfm, it ig done with the view of teaching it all the sooner to maintain the erect attitude; but bent legs may be the result, and, however strong a bent-legged man may be, he certainly does not look elegant,- Let tiie child fcreep, then, and as soon as he finds he can pull himself up, and stand by the side of a box, he will do so. This js the only safe and natural process. Soon after this he will, if en­ couraged, venture upon what parents °all the first step. Let. Mm creep, and when he walks and crawlH laugh at him, Unless you wish to make the child an idiot, do not rush to pull ̂ 'm up. Child­ ren are not all brittle, and they ought to leara at a very early age to di?p6nd upon the strength nature has endowed with.-- Western World. CABBOMC Aero IN DIFHTHEBIA.--Dr. Z. T, Magill, of Lincoln, Mo., con­ tributes to the Chicago Medical Journal the method of treating diphtheria from which he has secured better results than from any other. He uses an ordi­ nary hose, from three to five feet long and about one inch in diameter. One end is placed over the spout of a com­ mon tea-kettle, into which has been put half a gallon of water and half an ounoe of carbolic acid. The kettle is then placed on the stove over a good fire, and, when the water reaches the boiling point, the free end of the hose is carried under a blanket thrown over the pa­ tient's head. The room must be closed. In a short time the patient will perspire freely. If persevered in at short inter - vals, breathing becomes softer, and, presently, after a succession of quick, expulsive efforts, the patient throws off a ooat or tube of false membrane. The acid vapor seems to prevent the re­ formation of exudation. Alcohol and sulphate of quinine are used in conjunc­ tion with the acid, for their supporting properties, EATABI<B8 FOB TBI SICK.--A writer in Land and Wafer cautions ntirses and attendants against the too-common prac­ tice of leaving milk, blancmanges, jellies, and other delicacies and foods uncovered in the sick-room. He reminds the read­ er that milk in the larder will keep meat from spoiling by absorbing the bacteria and atmospheric impurities which would otherwise affect the meat. This caution, is much needed. The emanations from the bodies of sick people are often vitiat­ ing if not infectious. The sick-room can hardly have as pure air as apart­ ments occupied by people m health, and the latter are too often confined and poorly ventilated. Leaving food of any description in a sleeping-room of oocu- pants sick or well, unless securely cov­ ered, is a bad practioe. If it b© intend­ ed for an invalid, it may convey the seeds of disease rather than the elements of nutrition, and if transferred to the table may injuriously affect the whole family. As a rule, artidea which havd been standing in the sick-room should be thrown to the waste. la cases of contagions diseases it is advised to bum the clothing which has been worn by the sufferer or used for bedding. When this is not done thorough disinfection is recommended. As fowl disinfection is hardly to be thought of, let all such ar­ ticles as have been exposed at the bed­ side of the sick be dumped in the gar­ bage or swill-barrel. --Dr.Foote'$ Health Monthly* Kicking a Wife. eman will kick his'wBS mftiiin she is down. It shows a vindictive dis­ position and tends to destroy that feel­ ing of confidence and respect which should always exist between two persons thus situated. Of course, there are times when a husband in a moment of passion, will knock his wife down before ne can restrain himself, but any gentle­ man would stop and think before kick­ ing her. Much of the distrust and sen­ sitiveness, that at times is found to exist between husband and wife, is caused by this reprehensible habit of kicking a wife after she has been knocked down, and we are free to lay the blame in such cases on the husband. To be sure, in isolated cases the wife may be to blame, as, for instance, when she upbraids her husband as she lays upon the floor, or throws a tea kettle of boiling water at him, but happily such instances are rare. We know it is hard to refrain from knocking the whole head off a husband who raises his hand to hurt a wife, and that the sympathies of every human being would be with her if she should take an ax and split him open from the top of his head to where his legs are fastened on, and we would like to be on a jury to acquit a woman of the charge of manslaughter who did it, on the ground that she slaughtered a dog in­ stead of a man, 'but it has become the custom for women who are knocked down to be submissive, and we suppose they always will be. They will get up and go about their work as though they thought they were abused, but all the time they have ft lurking love for the brute that hit them, as my man can find out if he interferes in such a row and attempts to chastise the beast. The chances are she would turn on the hu­ manitarian and knock the daylight ont of him. If women would show s little of the spirit that they do in defending their,, brutal husbands, in defending them­ selves from Ms assaults, there would be fewer knocked down and kicked wives, and more husbands with marks of skil­ let legs on their heads. There ought to be a boxing school for women, ai~d when a women is struck by her husband the first time she should go and take lessons in boxing unbeknown to him, and be­ come proficient, and then lay for him. The next time he assaulted her she should act scared until he had hit her a couple of times, and then Bhe should walk into the coward and maul him all over the house until he would get on his knees and pray her to spare his life. After that such a household would be happy. We are going to organize a so­ ciety to pay the tuition of women who are whipped, at a good boxing school-- Peck's Sun. The Work of Dreams. George Peckham, of Oswego, H. Y., helped to take down festoons from the walls of the Free Methodist Chapel. The nails suspending them could not be reached, as they were fourteen feet from the floor, and no ladder was at hand. When Mr. Peckham went home that he WM quite worried AA to how onaa» oo«ld Wjprtout. He went in Hope Ohapai about two pounds of naus lying on thefloor, which he had polled too® the .ceppag, having got up and gone at the |ob in the night. He has no idea how he got at the nails un- le«B he took the bfeehes used for seats and piled them M «B top of each other til] he could roach them; if so ha placed the seats back where they were before he awoke. . Ike Felly ef FaBeralj. lh the whole range of follies which fashion ordains, thsM is not one so senseless, or of sank magnitude, as the present style ol conducting funerals. At the best thsj sie indelicate and in bad taste. Often tbey are barbarous. The immediate mootikers are expected to abandon themselves_to a i«s?iry of hopeless grief. Anything like philo­ sophical serenity or Christian fortitude wul expose them air ooee to suspicion. Everything is made SB harrowing as possible. In a few&qrs, to be sure, the patience of their friends will give out. The bereaved ones will then be expected to control themselves and attend to the business of their lives like other people. But at the tine of the funeral, anything like common ^ sense and pru­ dence is regarded as heedlessness. Thtf most utter thoughtlessness is only con­ sidered as a proof of the worth of the dead person and the sincerity of his mourners. In this way has come about a fashion of funerals so disproportion­ ately expensive that no sane person but an undertaker would attempt to justify them. .Hundreds of dollars are spent at an average fanerai, which are for the most part cruelly wasted. The .only possible result is to make a show which gratifies nobody, and which is in no wise an expression of proper respect. Such exhibitions please none but vulgar tastes. They are offensive to a right minded person, if that person ia a stranger. If he is in sorrow, he knows and cares nothing about the whole for­ mality. His heart ^nd mind are too full. If there is a disfday, he is uncon­ scious of it. Wrapped in the agony of a, great loss, no outside Sight or sound can reach him. What oomfort is it to a broken-hearted mother to know that twenty-five handsome carriages follow the one she is in, to the cemetery? The ghastly, grewBome things they call " caskets," often cost hundreds of dollars. When a man spends all his little savings to put his dead wife in one, does he not know, if he be allowed to think, that she, herself, would have thought it far better that that money should be spent for the children? Can a fine funeral atone to a -dead woman for one unkind word? If in some other life she knows what is done here, would it not please her better to know that that thousand dollars has been given to some one she loved who needed it--her mother or her sister? It may be said that a very rich man, at anv rate, should not be criticised for spenaing money lavishly at such a time, but this is a mistake. He has a plain duty in the matter which he should not disregard. He has no right to sustaiu a fashion which may be a burden to his poor neighbor. Because grief is impru­ dent, and error can not count, the cus­ tom of good people should protect them and not impose on their helplessness. It may be a little thing for a rich man to pay five hundred<lollara for the burying of his dead child, bat it is a cruel thing for him to make the poor man next door say in the bitterness of mourning, "He loved his child no heller than I loved mine: now no difference hard W< _ _ for years to keep up a; smafiltfe insurance and has died clinging to the thought that his wife and babee, at Isast, had a few thousaud dollars to live on. Six months from that time the mourning clothes, the monument and the under­ taker's bill will have exhausted the last dollar of it. The. influence of this fashion joa the lower classes of society every observer knows to be simply destructive. The colored people in particular go to great lengths in this direction. With an ex­ treme desire to do as white people do, and much impressibility of feeling, they spend all they have and lay heavy bur­ dens of debt on themselves which they are unable to carry, and then, in turn, as paupers, come on the community at large. It is the duty of a good citizen to use his influence against this folly, and while it is hard to lay down an exact rule, it may be said that in regard to the fitness of things, few funerals should ooet more altogether than a hondred dollars.--Indianapolis Herald. A Carious Clock. A jeweler and watchmaker of Mid l̂e- bury, Vermont, has constructed a curious clock, which acts out to perfection the assassination of President Garfield. The machine is a common cuckoo clock, under which is miniature depot. At the window is a ticket agent dealing out tickets, while at another a telegraph op­ erator is seen busy at his work, and trackmen, porters, train dispatchers, etc., are all flying around as natural as life. All of these figures are of wood, about two inches long. At the end of each hoar the cukoo announces the fact, and immediately Garfield appears on the platform on which the scene is enacted, accompanied by Blaine. Guiteau is seen to follow him, having just alighted from a track wagon, ana as he fires at the President the latter falls, Just then a train of cars comes dashing in, and in the confusion all the principal acton are carried into the de­ pot out of sight, After the train dis­ patcher has given the signal and the train has gone, a small 'door at the left opens and a priest appears, book in hand, in the act of reading a- funeral service, while at the same time another door at the left opens and Guiteau ap­ pears on the gallows. The priest retires, and shortly after the gallows disappear with Guiteau, and the doors close. This is acted oat st the endof eaoh hour, and takes about three minutes.--Bottom Globe. • Miss. FRANCIS POWKB COBB, who is opposed to vivisection, called on a Lon­ don doctor to endeavor to persuade him to quit the business. He looked her over m moment and said: "Madam, charity begins at home; when you have given up wearing ostrich feathers, which are plucked from the living bird, causing the most exquisite pain, and birds of paradise, which, in order to en chance their beauty and lustre, are skinned alive--when you ha^e abjured the use of ivory, because you know that the tusks are cut out of the dying elephant's jaw --then, and then only, come and upbraid me with the cruelty of my operations. The difference between us is, madam, that I inflict pain in the pursuit of knowledge and for the ultimate benefit of my fellow-creatures; you cause cruelty to be inflicted merely for your personal adornment.** ^ Tax «oas reoeipts of the Amwican Patent Office for the year 1881 were >,665.80: the gross expenditure waa tartar s net profit of |348t 111s cniid no newer man 1 lovca now they are .desAr there shall be si THB roUTICAli OUtUMt. •t OauTftaf dfeetotiie^r Bison this . of ths record snd "irfcs® The managing politicians of the Dem­ ocratic party profess gretft oonfidenoe in their ability to carry the fall elections, which include several important State tioketa and the choice of everywhere. Too many different ibsues enter into the various State and local elections to warrant a discussion of that phase of the subject in detail; but it i* pertinent to inquire the conditions which have inspired the Democratic leaders with the new faith that is in mSm as the OoagrejMional elections are urn- eerned. The political* complexion of the pop­ ular branch of Congress was changed at the last Congressional eleotion. The Democrats had been in oontrdl of the national fionseof Representatives dur­ ing the preceding six yean, snd during four yean of that period they had also controlled the Senate, Their majority in Congress was, so large that It was al­ ways in their power to repeal or amend existing laws snd psss new laws. The veto power was used in one case to de­ fend the rights oi the Exed&trve, when the Democratic Congress refused to vote appropriations forithe army unless th» Pieskfent would assent to a virtual re­ peal of the National Election law, and" in another case to detest % law which proposed to coerce the national banks to subscribe for a certain class of Govern ̂ ment securities. In both instances the Democratic majority exhibited ex­ treme and perverse partisanship; it was unwilling to pass useful public measures unless itootud secure thereby what it believed to be party advantages. Aside from these instances the Democrat* had full Bway over national legislation. They exercised this power with so little judg­ ment and patriotism that the people turned against them after a fair trial, and they were only able to secure a strong minority in the present Congress by the. fraud and terrorism practiced in certain districts of the South. What him occurred sine© the last Congression­ al elections to revolutionize puhlie sent­ iment in favor of the Democratic party? It is pretended by the Democratic pol­ iticians that the country will resent what they call the sluggishness of the present Congress. This is simply beg­ ging the question. As s matter of fact the present Congress will have aooom- plisbed more by the end of its fint ses­ sion than the Democrats achieved during the entire si* years of their Congress­ ional dynasty, A mere mention of some of the important messures will suffloe to prove the statement. The polygamy question was not new. It has been for many years a disgrace to American civilization. But the Democrats devised no measure for the suppression of polygamy when they dominated Con­ gress. The Republicans have passed the most practical legislation ever sug­ gested for the oontrol of* Mormonism, and have succeeded in the face of Dem­ ocratic opposition, which was based on no higher ground than a desire to cater to the Mormoa vote. The Chinese question was not new, but the Demo- crate had never brought forward a com­ prehensive and satisfactory measure for treating it It was left for a Repub­ lican Congress to agree upon a scheme for restricting Chinese immigration; and when the President interposed the veto power the republicans did not sulk snor seek to control the Executive pre- , soaative by coercion, but adjusted the t#nns of the law in audi £ way thai the President oould not refuse his approval of the amended bill., which, neverthe­ less, secured the policy of suspending the importation of Mongolian ooolios as effectually as the fint mil did. The Presidential-count question was not new. The Tilden-Haycs contest had furnished a terrible Warning of the dis­ aster that might come as a result of the defects in the law governing the count of the electoral votes; but the Democrats pushed the perplexing prob­ lem to one side, and preferred risking Mexieanization rather than surrender an opportunity for fraud of which they might possibly avail themselves. 'The Senate of the present Republican Con- fpresshas passed a measure which makes the Congressional count purely minis­ terial, snd reposes in every State the authority to determine any dispute as to the electors who have been chosen to cast its votes. This measure will un­ doubtedly be passed by the House un­ less the rules of Congress adopted by a Democratic majority of the last House shall present its consideration. The overcrowded condition of the Supreme Court was not new, but it was treated with neglect and indifference by the Democratic Congresses. The bill introduced by Senator David Davis an old Republican, establishing nine Courts of Appeal for final adjudi­ cation of the minor litigation of the United States courts has passed "the Senate in the faoe of bitter Democratic opposition, and will become a law by the concurrence of the House unless the Democrats manage to defeat it on the nar­ row partisan ground that it will neces­ sitate the appointment oi additional Be* publican Judges. The question ss to what should be done about the national-bank charters was not new. But the Democrats al­ lowed the original term of twenty years to expire without providing for any suc­ cession. Indeed, had the Democrats taken up this question while they were in power they would probably have re­ pealed the National-Bank act, and de­ prived the country of the manifold ad­ vantages of a uniform system of bank' ing under the restriction of national laws. The Republicans of the House have agreed upon a wise measure tor prolonging the life of this useful fiscal system by twenty years, which assures i» permanency, and the flsnate will cer­ tainly ooncur. The tariff question was not a new one. The Democrats had been posing for years as free-traders and revenue-reform­ ers par excellence, but were unable to agree upon any scheme for reducing sud equalizing the customs charges. They made a miserable botch of it. The Re­ publicans have at least provided for the appointment of a commission to consid­ er and report upon the question, which is much more than the Democrats did. The work of reform may be slow under the present procedure, but the Demo­ crats did absolutely nothing. If the present Congress shall accom­ plish no more than the completion of the legislative work we have mentioned, the final passage of which has either been achieved or is fairly assured, it will have a better record for industry and business judgment than can be shown for the two preceding Congresses, which the Democrats controlled absolutely. The Democratic pol­ iticians cannot take the stump this fall and convince the people that the ^Republican Congress has rendered the country no service. They oannot institute a comparison between the work oi the present Congress and that of its Ppmoentie which ought to have been. done ware not* But the omissions will due to a set of complex, con- rales which w«re invented and adopted by the Dsmoorati when thev wer* in the majorifef, and which were designed to impede 1(11 legislation except that which vofesd away the people's money, and which the Democrats of the present Congress haws sustained as ob­ stinately that repoal or essential modifi­ cation has not twenpaaetioable. II the re­ sult shall prove that extravagant appro­ priations have been voted at the fMseut session it will be found that the tm total has been swollen' by DsasootaUu greed trading with Republican gned. There is no politics in raids upon the treasury. The oonfidenoe which the Democratic managers pretend to fed in their ability to eaiTy the elections thin fall fa simply assumed, as it always is a fiew months before election. There is no warrant for it. Nothing has occurred to change of heart among the Greed for office will be the only upon which the Democrats can to public support. Their legislative Ca­ pacity was tried and found wanting, there have bean no mistakes or omia- skms during the present sessions of Congress to induce the country to retain to Democratic in--*i«rv THE DEAD-LOCK* - - ...- •teaifeMis In CVIKNH ruibaitciiaf tm BcUtia Their Stolon SMUH. [From tha Datrcdt PoaS.] The action of the Democratic repre­ sentatives in their caucus on Wednesday last clearly foreshadowed the oourse they took on Saturday, when the South Car­ olina contested-election case came up for consideration. Earlier in the week a memorial from Mr. Dibble, who is the real contestsnt, was referred to the sub- Committee on Elections having the Mackey and O'Connor contest in charge, and after having considered it in a stormy session of three hours the sub-committee decided to take no cognisance of it what­ ever. It related to oertshi develop­ ments alleged to have been made in the course of the reoent eleotio ̂ trials at Charleston. It was then made known that the Democrats were determined that the ease should be put over until the proofs oould be retaken in Sodth Carolina, or tfeat they would enter upon a oourse of psriiamentary filibustering to stave off a decision to the latest poa- sible moment, and this intention was embodied in a resolution offered by Mr. Kenna, of West Virginia, in the caucus, which w^s adopted; so their plan of re • fusiiyg to vote, thereby leaving the House without a quotum did not come before the Republicans unexpectedly, though they had been unable to provide against it by reason of the absence of so many of their memhen from Washing­ ton. The «R8i> will probably be disposed of before any other business is trans­ acted, but how long it will last cannot be foretold Much will depend upon 'the suooess of the Republicans in call­ ing in their absentees, and upon the in­ genuity of the Democrats in blocking the legislative wheels. The election frauds out of which the Mackey-O'Connor contest grew have fre­ quently been referred to in these col­ umns, but their present bearing is so important ss to justify a ntalriinwrnt somewhat more in detail. ̂ Mr. E. W. M. Mackey, the Republi­ can contestant, was elected in the Beoond Sooth Carolina di^netin 4880 tea ma­ jority _©f 9,784 voles over Mr, JUL T. O'Connor, the Democratic oandidate, but he was counted out by the "tissue ballotfraud, which consisted in depos­ iting a dozen, more or less, of Democrat­ ic votes printed on rmall strips of tissue paper, folded in a Democratic ballot of the usual size. Of course the ballots when they wire counted greatly out­ numbered the registered voters, and so a certain portion had to be thrown out to make the tally even. One of the judges, blindfolded, did the throwing out, but it was not difficult, even without seeing, to distinguish the tissue ballots from the others and leave them in the box. The poll at the Hope engine house in the city of Charleston may serve to illus­ trate how the work was done. Only 1,218 persons voted there, but 1,683 Democratic ballots were found in the ' box, and, after the drawing-out process was gone through with, O'Connor was declared to have a majority of 1,200. The perpetrators of the fraud were not convicted in the recent trial, for the rea­ son that it was impossible to fasten the crinve upon any particular individual. That the crime was committed bj some­ body there never has been any question. Concerning the poll at another place, the Congressional committee givt, the tO Mtt ol twajter the ctoaa WithvafcdprScTc much frsud in would be tended el be certainly an iilMia fcoye to undertake to ••dkwtor' which showed' everything flu ed in his fsvor, and/wnatarvcr Charleston trials have shown or r, they oertsinly hate pot any doubt upon the fact that committed. ILLDIOBI XBW&» llllnete] Kotkmg ago a resolution was adoptii by Congress calling for a ststament of the number of persona drawing pension* in the United States, by oountiea and States, and the amounts paid. The fal­ lowing is the statement so far as ft re­ late* to Illinois. It will be found of great interest, ss it shows the number of pensioners residing m each count* of the State, and the amount of money dis­ bursed fur pensions in esch county; Da hp Oo niMriot ChkMRo ohi-l ne|t!M,siT ungpis oago, P*rtof Chi- 14,5 <9 ItoHaarv Winnebago. Okrroll Ogle StepbenFcm. Whitc*l<)<» Bureau Henry Lee 85,381 Clark. Cfmwfortl &U 4 Edgar. *,748 MUM* StMiby Bock Uland O E La StOle.... WW Ford Clay Cantos Uvt&gaton.. ManbAU Woodford.. Fnlton. Knox. horii. Stark Ba&occk. Vexauder.. licDoactigh Mercer. Bohoyler„ Warm.. Adama.. Brown... Calhoun... •raa.. Qalistin... Hardin,. Pike Oaaa 17,404 Morgan.... Sangamon. • * ! -r : 4 following report: I " That at Haut.Gap voting precipct, •in the county of Chaneston, l,p37 votes were cast for the contestants, sn$at the close of the election the said votes were duly counted and canvassed; -and that the*ballots cast at the election, together with a statement of the result and the poll list at the close of the4fcnvasa by the managers, were put inUte box, the box covered with ptiper and sealed with wax, and delivered to J. H. Wilson, one of the managers ̂ to be delivered by him to the comity ; that the oaid manager brought the box, with the seal unbroken, ana delivered it to the county canvassers; that at the time of said de­ livery to the county ea?vaasen it con­ tained the ballots as oast; that subse­ quent to its delivery to the oounty can- vassen the said box was'violated, and, when publicly opened, the return could net be found; that the ballots had been changed and other ballots fraudulently placed therein, and when so counted by the oounty canvassen they announced 1,061 votes for Mr. O'Connor and 19 votes for Mr. Mackey." Mr. Mackey immediately after the election commenced proceedings in the State oourt to compel an amendment to the returns, but it is needless to say that he could make no headway there. He then served notice upon Mr. O'Connor that the seat would be contested, and proofs were taken in support of his claim. A little over a year ago Mr. O'Connor died and a new election was ordered to fill the "vacancy. The Re­ publicans took no part in it, claiming that Mr. Mackey had already been chosen, and Mr. Dibble, the Democratic oandidate, was declared to be duly elect­ ed and took the seat, which he still holds. He received about 7,000 votes in the district where O'Connor claimed to have received about 17,000. In February last a man named G. Smith made affidavit that he was em- ployed- by Mackey to copy testimony in his behalf in regard to the frauds at the election, and that the reoord had usee been tampered with, whole pages having been inserted. On the strength oi this iff* Dibble demanded that the testimo­ ny then file "be stricken out and deolared fictitious, unreliable and void,' but Mr. Mackey. being , .fisii -VV • • S v"- >?.:• * T* :;,a • • FAUX of 190 acres near Lincoln re­ cently sold for #4,000. * MATOR Hmnox, of Chicago, 'wfU speechify at Kankakee, July 4. Ton municipal estimates for the fiscal year in Alton amount to $53,000* A PBOJYCT is on foot to connect Alton and Highland by a railroad passing ^li^TiifMs II if 1 11 11 1 • NBA*I»T etery bridge ia Scmora to^B> ship, Hanoook county, was washed away by the reoent floods. HON. WH. H. BJBKSOK, of Spriqg- * field has announced himself as a Deuy>- orotic candidate for the Legislature. A Totmo lady, named Wells, waa buried at Warsaw, anda fetr nights later an attempt was made to steal the bo^y. A MISS SPSKCK, of Ifanningfcm, Ful­ ton oounty, went out the otaer mern&lc to get sdme meat for hmakfnst, ana eloped with a railroad mat named : THS increasing distillery capaeto .cf Peoria will give employment to a huge additions! force of men, over what has been employed in sueh establishments, heretofore. A cow's head, farmed nearly likethat of a human being, was brought to Monnt Steeling, the other day. The head has a skull exactly like that of a num. with the earn and month of a honej The colt died at its birth. -• * UHOLB THOMAS Hicks; a resident of Fayette county for over fifty yean, haa passed away. He leaves a widow and a numerous family of children, g-nad children and great-grandch3dr«&, numbering nearly 100 in all. S. Irtwa, of Ottawa Center, with fcb wife and two children, slept in one bed. During the night the younger of the childreB. a baby, crov father and brother, and was si baing found dead by the mother in the morning. Son*; one had been stealing corn frdgs Joshua Barlow's cribs at Farmingtob, Fulton county, and he concealed a gun in a crib with a string attached to pull the gun ofFwhen the crib door opened* Next morning the crib-door was open snd the gun shot off, but no desd man wasfouqi an the vleiaity. ' JOHN DANHKB, of feasant lowndik Fulton oounty, had about one hundred sheep drowned in Otter creek during a terrible rain storm. Otter creek, it is said, was the highest ever known. Sin sheep, which were running in a pastun field along the creek, got oonalea ia an indosure and the flood rose so rapidljp that there was no escape. * IN the Criminal Court of during a murder trial, counsel lor fense created a sensation by > ¥ V * : % ' • W&A V'rY * ' ' f1 that the widow and three children of thje murdered man be removed .from Haa room, as the cry of a babe always an­ noyed him, and as he believed they we^ present to influence the jury. Tits State's Attorney sent the trio into Ms private office. THE annual reoeptkm given to gettlers of Chicago by the Call of that oity was attended bir neariyjMB persons. Letters were read from niav. Jeremiah Porter, Joseph ML Balestwf} and several others. Medore Reaubtefc gave some sketches of the frontier no0k 111 1813. John Weatworth presented# tomahawk and pipe belongmg to CaptL Wells, who was killed by TII^M with6l the city limit* of Chioago. • t'4 MR. GEORGE W, CHUDS^ ef the PfcUP. delpliia £edger, while on a recent visit to Chicago, said to a Tri bum reporter that he " had more faith in Cliiosgp tkaji any other city in the country. Tske a altogether there was no eity Hke it in tike world. In point of solidity asl architectural beauty its boaiMatffeiife ingi excelled those of Paris and even. Its residences wen more varied aa a daaa,. and more regard to taste, elegance and edî fort than those of any ... .v.' .; r ' . V . t * V' ? V;_ ; M s- k J"! V" r ; • - ;̂ i,' f " il' ujj , "VysK.f 4 'tr I. *• - * •• t-v ,