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/,r '-xrj'" 1 |T'V* -#/. -V ; K • ypss , • J - .*/'. ' » ' ' "* r^fietttg |!laiutlcalcr 1. VAN 8LYKE, E«tw t» - • . •• » i4 PuMishar. McHENRY, ^ - ILLINOIS. A LONDON paper reports a case of almost unparalleled meanness. A sew- "s--jlng machine company that had sold a tnachine on the installment plan to a "poor woman sued to recover the prop­ erty under the clause in the agreement* that if all the payments were not made it should be returned, and whatever had been paid should be forfeited. The bal­ ance doe was half a <yrown,.„or say 60 •cgnts. It is acomfort to know that the fudge denounced the document as Vmost infamous," and non-suited the plaintiffs, refusing to allow an appeal. THE old story about the man who, having only money enough to pay bridge toll as a pedestrian and not as a donkey Tider, got off, picked up his donkey and •carried hipi across, was enacted in a new fashion at New Haven the other • flay, where two young men arrived at a •bridge with just money enough to pay . for the passage of one. The bridge- It eeper would not listen to their plea of •poverty, but admitted that one person v?ritli a btmdle could go over for one .fare. At those words one leaped upqn V the back of the other, who ran off with . liim before the keeper could stop him. ORSXM A. - HIOKOK drove Mr. Frank "Works's fast team, Edward and Dick Swiveller, a mile over the track' of the Gentlemen's Driving Association, New York, in 2 :18. Mr. Hickok weighed 151 j pounds'--oijie and a half pounds •overweight and the horses drew a JToad wagon weighing 120 pounds with­ out the pole. The quarter was made in $2, the .h^lf it). 1:Q5£, the three-quarters In 1:40, and the full mile in 2:18. The lierses trotted well together, and virtu­ ally without a break. The time made tinder the circumstances is considered remarkable. THE old question of getting school- boofks at cost is coming up again in vari- 'Ousparts of the country. The jobbery involved in the frequent changes of text- ~T)ooks of schools is acknowledged by all iair-minded people; but it is not so easy ..to discover a way to stop it. The San Trancisco Bulletin is in favor of putting the publication and sale of all school - l>ooks in the hands of the State, which would allow publishers in general to -get up editions of their own, but uni­ form as to size and type. ."The State," it says, "might have a depository of text-books in every county. When these books are furnished at cost, there will be no more school-book wars, and Uliere will be fewer reports of scandal­ ous proceedings in the plain and mat­ ter-of-fact business of supplying text- public Education." SAM LAKE Herald: The granite pyr­ amid erected by the Union Pacific Company to the memory *of Oliver and Oakes Ames is nearly completed. It is f lrix^y feet sqtmre at the base and sixty feet high, laid up in undressed red granite, in a style calculated to last for Icenturies. On the west side is a medal­ lion bust of Oakes Ames, nine feet high, with the date of his birth and death. On the north is the inscription: "In memory of Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames.* ' Qn the east side the bust of Oliver Ames haB yet to be placed. The top is rounded off, and does not make an acute angle. The cost is said to be •nearly $90,000. It is placed on the liighest point bear the track, and will |ln*t as long as granite will hold to- <g£ther. No citizen of the United States ever had a more Enduring monument erected to his memory than the one jnearly completed. PHILADELPHIA Record; , The United "States mini; in this city has just re­ ceived over two tons of 3-cent silver, pieces, which, by act of Congress, have l>een abolished from the national coin­ age. This is, however, only about one- -jjfifth of the quantity of these small coins which are to be brought here from the various sub-treasuries in the country, there already having been redeemed more than ten tons. These 8-cent pieces now in the mint would fill three large wagons. They are to be recoined into 10-cent pieces, as the 3-cent nickel pieces are to take the place of the old 3-cent coins. The Treasury Depart­ ment Is redeeming the small coins as fast as possible, and in a few years they will entirely disappear, and only the nickels will be in circulation. The coins have lost a very considerable per •cent,?of'their intrinsic value by usage, in some cases amounting to as much as 25 per cent. In fact, they are rapidly wearing out. This is one reason why they were abolished and the harder and "more convenient nickel substituted. rats in the same manned, and with the same result. Of all the animals easily influenced by music, or, rather, by rhythmio sound, rats are the most susceptible. I have known rat-catch­ ers to earn $800 in a single season, by using their weasel alone, and the man I mentioned to you who used to flute is now retired from bnsin^|^MMLoxtts & house in Chicago." ' JOHN BT RNS, of Scott county, Va., while slightly xtbder the influeriee of liquor, went to visit a lady of^ whom he was enamored. He had in his upper vest pocket a revolver. The lady let her handkerchief drop upon the floqp-, when Burns, wishing to dp the gallant thing, hastily arose and stooped to pick it up. As he did so the pistol fell from his pocket, and, striking the floor, ex­ ploded, the ball hitting him just above the right nipple, and, passing in the ) region of the heart, inflicted a womfcr from which he died in a few minutes. The scene was heartrending. The lady, Miss Rebecca Turner, hastily raised the b'fc ding body of her lover to a sofa and started to run for a physician, but he called her , back, saying he was conscious he could live but a few minutes. He asked , her to put her arm around his neck. The weeping woman did it, and thQ poor fellow then breathed his last in his sweetheart's arms, and told her that was the way he wanted to die. When members of her) family came in the room afterward they found Burns dead on the sofa and Miss Turner lying in a swoon over his body, her hair and face bathed in the blood which flowed from his wounds. v ELWOQD COOPER of Sapta the leading olive-grower of California, says that he lias trees 8 years old that have produced 2,000 gallons of olites to the aorfe. This would be equivalent to 250 gallons of oil to the lacre, and the oil finds a market at $5 a gallon. The yield of one acre would thus be $1,250, which for a 100-acre ranch would be a pretty fair income. But these figures are not represented to apply to any ex­ cept the very- choicest trees, and an un­ commonly good year. But, even comput" ing profits of olive-culture at as low a figure as one-tenth, a twenty-acre ranch would support a family very comforta­ bly after six or seven years of waiting. One of the great advantages of olive- culture is the fact that irrigation is not needed. -In a climate where there, is often such a scarcity of rain as in Cali­ fornia, this is a matter of much import­ ance. The olive tree also, grows very old. There are trees in Asia MinOr that are known to be over 1,200 years old, and are still in full bearing. In con­ sidering the profits of,fruit-culture, how­ ever, the dangers o^insect pests, dis­ ease and overproduction must be kept in mind; and these are usually passed Kj V/jthoilt monf.inn in tlm Soriptions of Southern California. THE professional rat-catcher keeps the bodies of., bis victims, skins them «nd sells the skins for mink and ermine fur. One of the craft tells a reporter •of the New York Mail the following about the business: "I knew a man in New Jersey who had a very peculiar way in which he captured his living. He was in the habit of carrying a flute "with him when he went on his business. He would go into tW^room where the rats were, and set his weasel to work. Then he would play on his flute. The rats that escaped fronf the teeth of the weasel would run toward the man, and, apparently charmed by the sound of the music, would nestle beside him. Then the cold-hearted fellow, taking advantage of their innocence, would set upon them and kill them on& by one. I know another man who sangto the bad boy." (To the judge)r: "But ex­ cuse him this time, your honor; - he is a very good boy." "So you want to see if you can keep the boy at home in future?" said the justice. "Yes, your honor; he is my only boy." (To the boy): "Remember, this is the last time, you serpent, whom I have warmed in my breast!" "How did lie happen to run awav?" "I had sent him out in the morning to buy a loaf of bread and a jug of milk. After he bought them, I saw liiui going down the street after a band of soldiers. I waited an hour--two hours--all day. You can imagine my feelings. At last, in the evening, he came in with the milk and bread and put them on the table, and only said, 'Here they are!' So I caught up the long roll of bread to chastise him, as he deserved, but just as I brought it down he fled through the door, and the bread flew out of my hand arid knocked over the milk and then rolled into the street. So he did not dare to came back. But lie always means Well, poor boy! (To the boy): You little rascallion! Just you wait!" "Well, you may try to keep him in order. He is given up to you during good behavior." • "Yes, your honor; I will care for the little lamb! (seizing the boy by the coat collar). Now, villain, come home. We will see who is master The spectators laughed. The woman's "bark" was evidently worse than her "bite."--Youth's Companion. The Wise Father. A worldly fatfier, after the style of Lord Chesterfield, is giving good ad­ vice to his son, who is about to enter society. "And, above all, avoid flirtations. But if you must'flirt or fall in love, sir, be sure that it is with a pretty woman. It is alwavs safer." "Why?" "Because some other fellow will be sure to be attracted and cut you out before any harm has been done."--Lon­ don Post. x A WOMAN was lately induced in Eng­ land for causing the death of her child bv denying it adequate nourishment. Investigation showed, however, that the mother had fed the child regularly on corn-starch, mixed with a little* milk, ignorant of the fact that starch is unable to supply the necessary nutriment to young children. Under these circutn- stivces the woman was of course ao- quitted. , "GIVE US a rest," was invented by Archimedes when he offered to move the world with his leva®. The Paris Gamin. Ever since Victor Hugo told the Btory of Little Gavroche in "Les Miser- able.H," there has been great interest in the "gamins" of Paris. These little fellows often leave good homes and wander in the streets in poverty, in or­ der to gain what they call "liberty." But their adventures are often amusing. An urchin of this class was brought into court in Paris the other day. charged with being a vagrant. His mother appeared to make an appeal for 'him, and the following dialogue en­ sued : "Your boy was found sleeping in one of the parks last night," said the justice. "This'will never do," "You hear," said the mother to the , . ., , , bov. "That will never do! You are a<'™and 1(>r ? tariff with incidental pro- FSEE TRADE AlWfSEE BUM. [From tbe New York Tribune.] The sentiment of the Democratic party seems to be slowly but surely sol­ idifying around two great issues--free traide and free rum. Wereach this conclusion after a careful study of the various platforms which have been adopted by the Democratic State Con­ ventions of the present year. There is no more accurate revelation of the sen­ timent of a great party than these State platforms. They are a much-safer in* dilution of the real opinions of the masses of the party than a national platform ever is. The latter document is usually constructed to conceal as much as it reveals. It never deals wih local issues, and these are often of more importance as indications of the drift of a party than broader natioual issues are. In short, a national platform is usually constructed to display the views which a party thinks it safe to pretend to hold rather than the views which its mem­ bers actually entertain. This is very likely to be the case with the next na­ tional Democratic platform. The only issue which that party has been bold enough to take a ttand upon in its na­ tional platforms of recent years has been free trade. The disastrous effects of that declaration in 1880 were so pal­ pable that it is not likely to be repeated in 1884. Yet, as wo shall presently show, the sentiment of the party is strongly in favor of free trade. Democratic Conventions have been held since June 7 last in eighteen States. We have examined the declara­ tions of principles put forth by these various bodies for the purpose of ascer­ taining the position taken by each on the two leading questions of the day, free trade and" free rum. Reduced to tabular form this is the result of the investigation: FREE TRADE. ° • Openly in favor .. I In favor by straddling.. 8 For tariff with incidental protectiota..... 9 No expression. 5 For protection..«•, 1 Total ... ;...» .48 FliEE HUM. Openly in favor & In favor by straddling 3 Views the question "with.alarm"^. 1 No expression...........i. ... # Squarely for temperance......................., 0 Total * 18 The most significant fact revealed by this tabulation is that contaiued in the final entry under each heading. In only, one State has there been a decla­ ration in favor of protection, and in none lias there been any in favor of temperance. It is an old and sacred truth that those who are not for a cause are against it. An analysis of the tabu­ lated statement wili be sufficient to show that this truth is applicable to the Democracy. The seven States in which the Democrats are openly in favor of free trade are California, where they reaffirm the aational platform's decla­ rations in favor of a "tariff for revenue only;" Illinois, where they favor "tariff for revenue only;" Iowa, where they call the protective tariff "an outrageous scheme of plunder," and sav that in "principle and detail it violates every Democratic principle of right and just­ ice;" Maine, where tliev cali for "tariff for revenue only;" Missouri, where they repeat the same call, and denounce the "iniquitous protective system;" Michi­ gan, where they almost precisely re­ peat the Missouri utterance; and Kan- BHh, where they declare that "every description of industry shall stand or fall on its own merits." All these States, with the exception of Mis­ souri, are Republican, and the Demo­ crats were not afraid, therefore, to de­ clare their real sentiments. As soon as we reach the doubtful States the clum­ sy operation of seeming not to favor free trade by straddling the tariff issue develops itself. The Ohio and Indiana Demjgcrats' lead in this performance with declarations which mean nothing, and those in New Hampshire follow tliem closelv with a demand for "imme­ diate revision" of a tariff system which they pronounce "unequal and oppress­ ive." It is evident enough that in these three States the Democracy is in favor of free trade but afraid to avow its sen­ timent. North Caroliua and Vermont Democrats are united in the absurd de­ ll is tolerably clear, therefore, that if the national Democratic platform of 1884 accurately represents the popular sentiment of the party it will be com­ posed largely of a terse and stirring declaration of this sort: Resolved, That we are in favor of free trade and free rum. That would insure a very interesting campaign. Still we doubt if the party will have the courage of its No Use for Rifle dabs. It ssifl that ex-Congressman Ack- len, of unsavory reputation, is the au­ thor of the new election law in Louis­ iana. The ittVentor, whoever^ he may be, is entitled tb the credit of having distanced all competitors in the great Southern struggle for the best ma­ chinery to prevent a free ballot. Ack- len's plan is far simpler than brutal and troublesome bulldozing and intimida­ tion, or fussy stuffing of ballot boxes. The new Louisiana election law pro­ vides that no ballot shall be received or counted unless printed on paper of a pecular quality, tiiit and thickness, to be furnished by the Secretary of State after due form of application. This is simplicity indeed. The Secretary of State is a Democrats He controls the precious material of which an alleged freeman's ballot is composed. He de­ cides from this time forth who shall cast a vote in Louisiana. Should this plan be adopted throughout the South­ ern States rifle clubs may'be disbanded, night riders be permited to sleep at home, and the use of tissue-paper bal­ lots be abandoned. In effect, a partisan officer will cast th«$vote of each entire State, and a solid South be once more made secure.--York Times. Some Figures for the Democrats. We commend these figures, given be­ low in detail, to our | Democratic brethren, and hope that they will keep them standing in good, legible type at the head of their columns, that people may see under which political party tliieVes flourish and losses to the Gov­ ernment increase: . * officers for the ensuing year: Grand Chancellor, Wales R. MeCbrmick, Quincy; Grand Vice Chancellor, A.J. Wemple, Urbana; Grand Prelate, Frank M. Burroughs, Clinton; Grand Master of the Exchequer, John Gabriel. Chica­ go; Grand Keeper of Records and Seals, H. P. Caldwell, Chicago; Grand Master-at-Arms, M. Pollock, Chicago; Grand Inner Guard, E. M. Danger- field, Elgin; Grand Outer Guard, G. W. Patterson, Joliet. Iff pursuance of law, Auditor Swigert has certified to the County Clerks of the State the rates of State tax for exten­ sion against the equalized assessment of all property in each county for the year 1882. These rates are computed by ascertaining the amount of revenue aequired to be raised during the year and the rate which will produce that rmount upon the equalized valuation of property in the State. For this year the rates are as follows: For general State purposes, 2.1 mills on each $1, or 21 cents on each $100 valuation of taxa­ ble property; for school purposes, 1.4 mills on each $1, or 14 cents on each $100; for State military fund, .1 mill on each $1, or 1 cent on each $100. These aggregate 3.6 mills on each $1, or 36 cents on each $100 valuation of taxable property. Last year the total rate was 48 cents on the $100, divided as follows: General State purposes, 35 cents; State school purposes, 12 cent*; State milita­ ry fund, 1 cent. THE commissions of 143 niinois Post­ masters will expire during the coming winter. Following is the list, together with the salary and date of expiration ; Post office. '•i" S| BK c rrruL-TioN. . " 'J ! ij | . . JQ m O , i.. L ADMXKISTBATXOX. _ V ? 3? (3 s s ii l\ CC 0 0 *3 .e c 0 Eh' 0 2 *5 c a id Wnshtntrton....'.... $ 3.72 1 a.HH-t .60'* 2.'>2 Adanis, John * .91 2.6! 4.35 2.B9 Jeflferson 2.65 3.9 2.87 2.75 Madison 'It 1.10 7.01 7.27 4.1 i A onroe 8. 3.52 11.61 13.20 S.5B Adams, J. Q........ 4' 3.40 6.02 5.2S 4.:<9 Jackson 81 5.53 1. 8 10,31 7 51 Van Bur£n...^„r.,^ f 3.01 2.83 2 .15 U 71 Harrison { ' | Tvler i ) ......... 41 S.«8 .14 10.37 6.4' Polk .f| .08 .15 8.34 4.08 Taylor 1 .f| Filmore j, 4 1.30 1 9 7,f4 4.19 lMeree.- 4 .75 6.91 5.86 3.56 Hnchanan.......... i. 4 3.02 6.OR 3.81 l-.in.-oln ;... 4 .10 1.91 1.41 .76 Johnson 4' .63 2.06 .48 .67 Grant 8i 1.34 .31 •94 Hayes........ 4! I .01 .01 Average 1 * .49 $ 2 07 t 1.61 t 1.07 --Burlington Hawkeye. tection," though in one the declaration is worded a little different from the regular formula. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Texas Democrats are silent on the question, and Pennsylvania is the only State in which the Democracy is openly committed to protection. Ob­ viously, after this analysis, nobody can deny that the Democracy is at heart in favor of free trade. On the question of free rum, the record of the party is scarcely less con­ clusive. Of the five States within the Democracy avowedly in favor of un­ limited whisky, California should be placed first. The Democratic platform contains a sweeping declaration against all sumptuary and Sunday laws. An eft'ort was made in the convention to have the denunciation of all laws de­ signed to promote a peaceful and Chris­ tian? observance of Sunday stricken out, 1 >ut it was voted down by a large ma­ jority. In Illinois the platform declares prohibition to be "contrary to funda­ mental principles of free government." In Indiana, as our re ders know, the platform contains a Hendricks straddle on the question, but its gifted author has since confessed that it was con­ structed to deceive, and that his party is opposed to giving the people a chance even to vote on the issue. The Iowa Democrats declare the recently-adopted prohibition amendment in their State an "obnoxious measure," and pledge themselves to use all legal means for its elimination. The Ohio Democrats con­ fined themselves in their platform to a gnarded declaration against sumptuary laws, but in their canvass they are fight­ ing not against prohibition, for that is not an issue in Ohio, but against taxing the sale of liquor and against a law for­ bidding its sale on Sunday. They are, therefore, emphatically in favo^of tree rum. North Carolina, Missouri and Kansas are against temperance and manifest their opposition by various forms of straddling.- The Missouri Democrats voted down a resolution against sumptuary laws because they were afraid that would commit tlife .partv too opentyT They merely de­ clared in favor of the " largest personal libertv." The New Hampshire Demo­ crats took the novel position of "view­ ing with alarm" the spread of intemper­ ance. In Alabann. Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Michigan. Pennsylvania, Tennes­ see. Texas and Vermont, the Democrat­ ic pi at for As are siletft on this great que-tion. We search in the platforms of all the eighteen conventions for a ringing declaration of temperance, but fail-to find it. Obviously, so far as the [Democracy has taken any position on this, issue, it has been in favor of free fum. " ILLINOIS NEWS. DKLAVAX, in Tazewell county, intends holding stock sales every thirty or sixty days. EFFINGHAM county treasury is said., to 1 be empty and $2,000 worth of county or- I nntotftnrljnff . ! [ A HKAVY fog preViflid at'Quincv the 1 other morning, and ice formed in sever- j al localities in the city. | THE Woman's Christian Temperance | Union of Peoria made $363r63 on their I coffee and lunch-room this year.' j A COAL vein four or five feet thick i and of the finest quality has been struck ! at Wenona at a depth of 333 feet. THE Peoria Turnverein are agitating the question of the erection of a hand­ some Turner Hall,, to cost $25,000. AT Avon, Fulton county, an effort to enforce an alleged Sunday ordinance has resulted in a mortifying failure. SEVEN HUNDRKI> dollars has thus far been subscrilied to the Moline monu­ ment fund. About $500 more is wanted. THE rates of taxation ou property in the city of Peoria will aggregate $5.76 on each $100 valuation for the current year. SOME of the farmers in Limestone township, Peoria county, are feeding rye to their fattening hogs, thinking it cheaper than corn. £ Z SEVERAL young m6n in Kickapoo township, Peoria county, have cut thir­ teen bee-trees this fall, securing nearly a barrel of honey. ONLY about 400 gallons of molasses have been made this season at the Kap­ pa cane mill, in Woodford county, the sorghum crop being almost a failure. THE promoters of the Springfield and St. Louis railway scheme are much pleased with the prospects, and say it is altogether probable that work will be soon commenced. I TEN years ago the real and personal- I property valuation in Peoria was ab'sut ' $4,000,000, and is now $6,210,568, which ! latter figures indicate a true value of J over $18,000,000. * \ | A COKN-HUSKER b«p> beeik invented, j it is said, by a Peoria man, that will perform the work of eighteen men. It I will be made to pass through a field of i corn, gathering one row at a time. { THE telephone line is now up be- | tween Petersburg and Springfield, and I there are fifty-six subscribers in Peters- I burg. Connection will be made with Tallula, Greenfield and Sweetwater as soon as possible. THE Illinois Central railroad, will at once proceed to make valuable improve­ ments in Bloomington. They will erect a round house for their engines with seven stalls, together with a turn-table, and will also put down six or seven more side-tracks, W. J. JACKSON, of Glassford, Peoria county, while out hunting, stopped to load his double-barreled shot-gun. Un­ fortunately for him one of the barrels was loade 1, and while he was ramming the charge into the empty barrel the loaded* one was discharged, and the bones of the right hand were badiy shattered. THE wonderful copper mine on Pan­ ther creek, near Secor, Woodtord coun­ ty, of which the Bloomington papers have talked such exciting strains, turns out to have been produced from a rail­ road wreck of a few years ago, several cars having gone off the bank at that point and been consumed. The rich­ ness of the mine Consisted in melted brass and Babbitt metal. THE Illinois Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, at its recent session at Springfield, elected the following Ahitigton Anna Atlanta Brardstowii... Bu.sitncll .... .. Cairo Carrol I ton Chenoa ......... Danville !! Decatur Dixon Dnquoin Earlville Edwardsville.. Eimwood.. Postmaster. A.B. Cochran |J. B. Miller. C. B. Crinsby N. Pearsons E. K. Westfall G. W. McKeaift Charles Lynn O. D. Sanborn C. N. Orefcorv R. P. Lytle J. Z. Camp J. M. Nceley Samnol Lynn J. W Coventry E. R. Brown Galva ......LA. K. Miller Gibson City.., J. M. McClure...... Havana O. C. Easton Ha velock J- H. Anderson.... Highland ..*... G.Rutt, ,Ir Joliet William Dougall... Kewanee ...... N. H. Pratt Lanark (Henry Foultis, Marshall. Delation C»le Mendota ......jW. H. Livers Monmouth ....iJ. M. Tnrnbull.... Monticello Frank Clcndennin.! 2,loo Feb. 4 Mount SterlinK R. S. Kenn. I 1,10.' Jan. SO Mount Vernon. R. H. Hinman ! Dec. 19 Nat.Stock-y'ds Samuel Bncknell.. 1,400 Jan. '£1 StiCy I Erpr't $1. oojjan. 16 1,900 Jan. 2* l,aoo Fob. 7„ 1, Mm Feb. 14 1,«00 Fi b. 7 ,10<> Fob. 1 1,700. Feb. 1 1,100 Fob. 1C V,60 >'Feb. 4 2,500 Doc. 2,<W: Dec. n I,6go : ?an. -23 1,00'VJan. l.SDoi Dee. is 1,2 ' Feb. 4 1,800 Feb. 22 1,100 Dec. 19 l,fiinkFob. 10 1,100 Jan. J3 1,100 T m. i:i 2.5ini Fob 27 1,8 o Feb. 23 1,600 Fob. 4 l,8t>> Mar. 3 2,101' Dec. 20 2,100 Jan. IS Normal. Paris Pittsfield Polo ' ... Pontiac Princeton. Roekford She'livville.... Btroator Warren Whitehall Winchester.... Woodstock E. J. Lewis W. B. Sheriff Miss Lizzie Gilmer J. W. Cintoo J. M. Goff J. W. Templeton.. O. G. Lawler 8. H. Webster F. M. Ryan H. C. Gann 8. D. Chapin Mrs. Mar vH. Harlan Q. 8. Soutliworth. • 1,700 Feb. 22 2, 00 Dec. 20 1,700 Feb. 4 1,700'Apr. 1 1,* o Mar. 3 2,00". Mar. 3 2,00'> Feb. 21 2,000 l>ec. !C 2,:«W Dec. 2G 1,300 Feb. 4 1,300 Jan. 2i l,loo Dec. 1C t/.oo Mar. 3 The Spare Bed-room. "On sundry occasions," said the Jes ter, "I have been sentenced to pass one night in solitary confinement in the modern chamber of horrors known as the spare room." The passengers all .groaned in horrible chorus, and closing the car windows moved a little nearer tihe stove. "Yes,w said the tall thin passenger, "it is on the first floor next to the roof, and the cold, steel-blue star­ light glitters in through the dormer window, aud sometimes between the shingles." "And you can reach out of bed with your hands," said the man on f iiie w w»u-i»i>x,t iinu *cr»pe <eiiough irurft off the walls to make a snowball as big as a turnip." "They won't let you have a light," the sad passenger said; "the old man says there is a heap of lumber and trash in the room, and they're afraid you'll set fire to something." As you grope your rayless way across the room," said the jester, "you bump your head against all manner of tilings you don't know the names of; bundles, and bunches of seed things, and weeds and 'varbs' hanging up to dry, sift withered leaves down your back every time you strike a bunch, and this makes it mighty comfortable for you while you sleep. And about half way across the room to the bed, you black your eye and knock yourself down/with an ear of corn, hard as Hint and twenty- two inches long--took the first premi­ um at the county fair eight years be­ fore, and the old man's had it hanging from the rafter ever since/' "And if you sit up right suddenly in the night," said the sad passenger, "you run a scythe in your eye, that hangs over the head-board." "The sheets are not so thick as tin plates," said the tall thin passenger, "but they're a great deal colder." "And no matter how long or how short you are," said the jester, "the blankets are always altout six or eight inches shorter than you are. And if you tuck them around your neck and under your chin, your feet stick out all night." "And in that house"' said En- dvnion, "they eat breakfast fti the night every time. You hear the old man about two o'clock in tho night shouting at the family to get up and eat. You think there is a fire somewhere, and you want to run and jump into it, so you make a rush for the stairway, miss your way, walk out of the dormer window, slide down the snowy roof, and land down among the cattle." "It's all right, though," said the brakeman, "for the cattle toss you right back through the window again, and you go down stairs all right. When you find the alarm is only for breakfast, you say you believe you'd like to wash your face aud hands before you eat." "All right," they tell you, 'you'll find the trough right by the well, over in the twenty-acre piece, down by the timber.' That's a mile and a-half away, and the snow knee deep. The first man who performs his ab­ lutions breaks the path for the rest of family." "You find a to>vel," said the cross passenger, "about, six feet long, leaning up against the end of the smoke­ house. You bang it against the corner a few times, tb make some breaks in it so that you can fold it up and carry it under your arm, like a piece of bark. You start, awav, but you come back and say you'd like a piece of soap. 'All right.' They give you a gallon of soap in a stone jar two feet high. You say you prefer toilet soap, and tliey give you a bar threefeet long, and hard as an ax-helve." But here the whittle blew long and loud, and the passengers hurried away to a hotel^full of solid comfort:.--Burdette. - • ; :-- The Effects of Yellow Fever. , It's an ill wind. It must have been in Memphis. Moses, the younger, sat in the store reading the evening paper, and all of a sudden he called out: ;'Fadder! Fadder!" "Vat ish it, my son ?" "A case of yellow fever only six miles away!" "Moses?" "Yes, fadder. "Pegin to pack up dem coats und wests! By to-morrow dot yellow fever vliill be in town, und vhill be telegraphed to New York, und by der nex' day we inns' fail und offer to pay twenty cents on der toller. I vhas looking for it all BECEHT LEGAL IHCISI058. [TMi Hndttnaft] To nranrx an attachment of personal property the affidavit must show the ex­ istence of Mtual facta 'within the knowl­ edge of the affiant; that he believes the faots exist is not sufficient, in the opin­ ion of the Virginia Ooort of Appeals, in Sublet vs. Cary. A CONFB88ION made by an accused person, while he is in prisou, to a police officer, may be given in evidence against him when neither threats nor promises were offered by the officer to induce a confession, in the opinion of the*Supreme Court of Louisiana, in the State vs. Alpbonse. IK order to maintain an action against the trustee of a corporation for a debt of the corporation on the ground that he has Bigned a false report, it is necessary to Bhow bad faith and intent to deceive ou the part of the trustee, in the opinion of the New York Court of Appeals, in Bonnell vs. Qriswold. A MABBLB slab put on a oonnter for the purpose of ornamentation is not a fixture unless there is an intention to annex it to the freehold, and, therefore, it will not pass to the purchaser of tbe freehold by a Sheriff's sale, in the opin­ ion of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl­ vania, in Harmony Building Association vs. Bergar. A BILTJ in equity asking for an ao- eount of profits and an injunction loir the infringement of a patent, which showed upon its face that the patent had expired when the bill was filed, will be dismissed'unless there are such circum­ stances in the cause which render an action at law a difficult, inadequate or incomplete remedy for the complainant, in the opinion of the United States Cir cuit CourL/fct Trenton, N. J., in Camp­ bell vs. Wvtd. AN informer against persons violating the internal-revenue laws, under the In­ ternal Revenue act of Jan. 6, 1872. and the circular of the Commissioner of July 31, 1873, is entitled to such a percentage of the net amount recovered as the Commissioner shall allow and the Secre­ tary of the Treasury approve, in the opinion of the United States Court of Claims, in Green vs. United States, de­ cided in June. In this case the inform­ er claimed 10 per cent, of the sum re­ covered, which was $87,050.23 , he was allowed $5,000. CAPITAL stock was issued to an amonnt in excess of the limit fixed by the char­ ter of the corporation, and, the corpora­ tion becoming insolvent, its creditors sued the stockholders to recover the amount due them from the corpora* tion under their statutoary liability. Among the stockholders proceeded against was A, who held Bome stock which was an overissue and some of the shares which were within the chartered limit. In this case, Scovill vs. Thayer, the Supreme Court of the United States, in April, through Mr. Justice Matthews, decided that the stock issued in excess of the amount limited was unauthorised and void; that the holder of such stock was not entitled to any of the rights or subject to any of the liabilities of a bolder of authorised stock; that a stock­ holder of both void and valid stook could not Bet off the installments which he had paid on the spurious shares against any unpaid balance due upon the authorized shares held by him. A FBNCB was built across a street in 1852 by a railroad company, and in 18S1 an owner of one of the houses on the street filed a bill iu equity to enjoin the company from maintaining the fence, on the ground that it was a public nui- anive. Tuo bill whs dismissed on two grounds : 1. A oourt of equity will not protect a person against a public nui­ sance unless he shows that he suffers some special injury ; if his injury is that only which is suffered by the public gen­ erally, he cannot secure an injunction. 2. In this case the defendant has con­ tended with the condition of the street for thirty years, and he has slept so long upon his alleged injury that he cannot find relief in equity. To fail to assert a right promptly is to forfeit the privilege of enforcing it in equity, and that alone is sufficient to deny the relief asked. The complainant appealed to the Su­ preme Court of Pennsylvania--Cox's appeal--who affirmed the decree and dis­ missed the bill with easts. • > less in two hdrses, the*! blacking-pot and brush, polishes' hoofs until they look like er boots, all four exactly then comtemplates his werk wi&'siitia-** faction. In his own words, he ha» "turned out a finished job of it."--Good Words. IX 0. MP» Hew York % Old Scottish Servant*. ' A century ago in many of the Scotch families of the better class, it was cus­ tomary for servants to spend a life-tiine in the servicejpf one family. As might be expected, ^sucli long associations often made the obLacsrfCnt pert, and, at times, insolent. Dean liamsay gives some amusing incidents of this effect: At a dinner-party,, a Mrs. Murray, a neighbor, and a woman of large estate, was among the guests. She was not, however, a favorite with Thomas, the old and spoiled servant of the family. During the dinner the hostess noticed that her guest was looking for a salt- spoon. Thomas was told to pass her a spoon. He paid no attention to the or­ der, which was repented in a preemptory manner. "Last time Mrs. Murray dined here, we lost a salt-spoon," re­ plied the old man, coolly. An old coachman in a noble family became so troublesome that the lady gave him notice of dismissal. It was useless, for he promply replied, "Na, na, 'my lady. I druve ye to your mar­ riage, and i shall stay to drive ye to your burial." Yet spoilt though they were, these old servants would have died rather than any member of the family should sull'er injury. They were like the man whom (Ten. Cameron once rebuked for abusing Senator Tom Benton. "He is my brother, sir," retorted the man, "and I'll abuse him as much as I please. ̂ But I want you to understand, sir, ttiat I don't allow anv other man to do it." • : . • The Horse and the Man. The man has cut away the frog be­ cause he thinks that the animal will be injured if the frog touches the ground. He has then cut a deep groove at the base of the frog. This is to give a " well- opened heel," as he is pleased to call it. He has scooped away the sole to "give it spring." He has scored a deep notch in the toe for the purpose of receiving the "clip" of the shoe. This is evident­ ly a conservative relic of the time when nails were not used, and the shoe at­ tached by three-pointed clips hammered over the edge, one in front and one on either side. Then he has improved the whole of the ou£er surface oi the hoof. As the Creatofhas furnished this part of the hoof with a thin, hard, polished plate forming a sort oftvarnisli which is impervious to wet. the farrier, as a mat­ ter.of course, rasps it all away up to the crown. And as the Creator has placed round the crown a fringe of hair which acts as a thatch to the line of junction and throws off the rain upon the w ater­ proof varnish, he cuts this away with his scissors. Lastly, the Creator having given to the horny hoof a mottling of soft, and partially translucent, brown, gray-blue, yellow, black and white, never exactly the same m two nweh The "new departure" in furrtmMn^ combined with luxury, is seen to every , possible advantage in the house of Mr. a D. O. Mills. The library, panelled in carved mahogany to the frieze, is a superb room, which has coet sixty thousand dollars. The chimney-pieoe is much accentuated, as in all intern^ decoration. It is in three compart­ ments, adorned with shelves and vasoa and clocks and plates, and the fire­ place is filled with fine brass and tileap mirrors are set in the frame-work of the cliimney-piece. A fine bow-win­ dow, hung with gold-embroidered maS-^ lin, and also shaded with heavy plufcV curtains, commands the ever-varving * gay panorama of Fifth Avenue. Large library tables, and superb lounges and chairs covered with Eastern stuffs, give this room the easy and inhabited loofc which its splehdor might efface. The grand salon of this superb houpe is in the white and gold and carvetl work of the days of Napoleon I. The chimney-piece, with its little Corinthian pillars and capitals heavily gilt, recalls that picture of the great Emperor nurs­ ing on his knee the sleeping King of Rome, as he looks at a map of the world that he has recently conquered. The * ceiling of this gorgeous room is'Vene­ tian, in the style of the famous one ia the Doge's palace. 7 " Stones of deep red color, like glow? ing carbuncles, are let into the gilded' wood-work, and Limogfs enamels or­ nament the walls. ... The chairs are w'.iite and gilt of the "Empire" shapes, covered with mo«(t. exquisite pale satins, embroidered with; here and there a rose, which looks as if: Flora had just Hung it down, and again with patterns in gold emlwoidefy; all - the colors are delicate and refined. The' boudoir, or first drawing-room, is liuaig ill velvet, of most delicate crimson, em­ broidered where it meets, the frioze with gold and colors, to imitate preci­ ous stones. The wood-work of thnT. room is dark. The hangings aare at crimson velvet--not a high, but a pale , erimsonr ftnd tbe ceiling is frescoed) with the colors of spring flowers. Fine paintings ornament the Malls. The chief charm of this- interior ifc. that, in spite of its magnificence, it has a home look. The chsiirs ore easy, the curtains are hospitably drawn, books and photographs and engravings lie around on tables; and although one is breathing the heavy air of luxury, there seems tobe nothing too good for a hiunaai! l»eing, which is the perfection of artL- This is perhaps the key-ndte of the modern school. The decorators str&W to efface themselves, just an persons, pf the highest, breeding possess the sitae plest manners. One is conscious of beauty, of tbe serenest loveliness, hot it is toned down to one;, harmonizing chord. The addition of valuable oil-painting^ so fashionable now in internal deco'iH* tion, finds expression in a frieze at thifi magnificeut house; it is the frieze in the gold drawing-room, which painted in Paris by the best frieze- painter of today. This is simply sever­ al hundred feet of tine picture, with classical subjects, nymphs, fauus, and oilier dreamy creatures.--M. E.V Wi SHERWOOD, in Harper's May mint, Bnddha. " Even in the full middle ages we jil Marco Polo writing, "Had he beeft* Christian he would have l»een a great saint of our Lord Jesus Christ, so holy and pure was the life lie ledwhile ia our day the professed opponents of hit system, whether,Catholic or Angoli. n prelates, Wesleyan or Baptist mission­ aries, agree in the judgment of M. Bar- thelemy Saint-Hilaire, one of its sever­ est and least fair critics, that "with the sole exception of tli« Christ there is m> more touching figure than his amonff the founders of religion," so entirely ia he without spot and blemish," "the finished model of the heroism, the seif- renunciation, the love, the sweetness, be commands." Nor, however doubtful many details of his life may be. is these any reasonable room for skepticism to its main outlines? We know that, of royal lineage and heir to a throne, lie gave up father and v ife and children tr» iiecome a religious mendicant, and tliat years of heroic mortification aud fierce interior trial culminated iu tkat gietkt night under the bow tree upon the bank of the Nairanjaia, when, as the Buddhist author expresses it, "he atttained su­ preme enliglitment," and "alofle worksd the salvation of the three worlds and overthrew tho whole army of the Prinqe of,Evil." We know how he then ca­ tered upon his high task to pre-acli ti)e gospel of pity, to found a kingdom of righteousness, of which enfranchise­ ment from worldly desires, nnivefrtfd brotherhood, and spiritual equality were the great laws: | To (rive licht to them enshrouded in darkne«*_ And to open the gates of immortality to men. We know how during the forty yeaSni. of his public ministry he went up and .down the country watered by the Gan­ ges. occupied like One greater thau he, of whom he may without irreverence be deemed the precursor, in doing good,re- ceiving all who came to him without dis~ tinction of rank or caste--his law,he was wont to say, was "a law of grace for al V* but especially calling to liim all that la­ bored and were heavy laden,the poor,tfie sorrowful, and the sinful, who weje above others dear to his pitiful heart. So much is luminously clear through "the mists of fabling time" regarding this great teacher's life. But in truth the fables are not less valuable sourcts of information regarding him than the facts themselves. It is a profound sabr­ ing of Plato, *and very pertinent to thw subject, that poetry conies nearer vitat , truth than history.--The Nineteenth Century. How Moses Ri*sented the Insult. "Dot vos a mean man which went shoost now der door oud," said Moae Fuhrman to a friend who dropped intfr - his store. ' ; "Why so?" inquired the friend. . "He inshult me mit niv own store." "Well, what did lie sav?"- "He say dot bile uf bants ud ina*£ .i goot miluek strainers mid a geese fa©- tory." ( " Why didn't you talk back to him?* / t "Vv didn't I? Bed your poots I ilid.** "What did you say?" /•> "Vat did I zav ? I dbld\ him to con* o hell." . \ THK widow of Baron Solomon ^dla: Rothschild is one of the handsomest brunettes in French societv. She livea alone with her daughter, the richest of all the Rothschild heiresses, in abeautiv-- ful house in the Faubourg St. Honor% ,5sf vs$5&" V.