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* * » * x i * : '/SV^ "v"-', v s? S, 1. VM SLYKK. E* hrsafMMMr. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. OHE hundred jommg h&m hvn been married from the Tiaaaiuj Department •dazing the last four months. Evidently some mam don* believe the ynrna shout that department. : Itoantssns wires are brought up to know who runs the house. One tried to drown herself the other day because afce had broken a platter and was afraid to face her old man. TKN years ago the Wyoming dtoek. Growers' Association was organized with 10 members representing 25,000 cattle, worth $500,000. The member­ ship now numbers 100, representing 1,000,000 cattle, worth $30,000,000. Last year 200,000 head was sent to market, ..netting the owners about $1,000,000. „To KEEP an appointment to be mar­ ried, George "Warrell, of Bapid City, Minn., swam the flood-swollen Spring creek with a rope around his body, and, 'With the help of men on the bank, drew his clothes and two saddles (one for the lady) over on a raft. The horses were "then towed over with a rope. The pro­ cession then formed again, and moved •On to the bride's residence. THE first Spanish woman who has ; <^fer gained the degree of medicine and * surgery in that country is Dona Mar­ tina Costello, who not long ago re­ ceived that title at the College of San |Carlos. She has taken honors in Lat­ in, mathematics, history, physiology, hygiene, and has already distinguished herself in anatomy, therapeutics and surgical pathology. Moreover, she is declared to be as lovely as she is .4fi#rned. - % As enterprising but very indiscreet i jeweler of Baltimore displayed gilded nickels in hisf show-windows for sale, and among his customers were a Dep­ uty United Statesi> Marshal and a secret service detective. The jeweler, when arrested, said he sold the gilded coins for watch-charms, but as the sale could hot carry with it any obligation on the part of the purchaser to use the charm for that innocent purpose, Uncle Sam was not satisfied with the excuse. OLIVE LOOAN, writing from London, •aye that two ladies were refused admis­ sion to the Queen's drawing-room be­ cause they wore the fashionable tan- covered Swedish gloves instead of the Regulation white or black kid. The Queen has frequently expressed the opinion that she "cannot understand jcolored gloves," and she is obdurate in her insistance on the letter of court regulation, which, specifically mentions white or black kid gloves as the only A SCHENECTADY policemen tried to break up public bathing on Sunday by ^carrying off the bathers' clothes; but all !but one swimmer managed to get home Without much exposure. A tall man, however, had nothing but a collar and {a pair of shoes left. He found near the river an empty barrel, out of which he knocked the heads and thus appareled he made his way across the fields, hold- fog up the barrel as he walked, but dropping and sinking into it whenever anyone appeared in sight. Half the dogs in town detected his predicament iMid formed a howling escort. THE Mayor of Ludlow, Ky., courted e widow of Rogers, to the great dis­ gust of his daughters. They summoned several Aldermen to their assistance, iKpd went to the widow's house one even- *jhg intending to publicly rescue his Honor from her wiles and escort him home. But he fled at their approach, and left the widow to be captured--a fate from which, by reason of in toxica tion, she was quite unable to save her- self. She was arrested and arraigned feefore the Mayor. Although bus daughters were the complaining wit- ' nesses, and be was believed to hold them in terror, he gallantly discharged • the prisoner in the face of the most di­ rect and positive evidence. ̂DB. LINTHEE, New York State Ento­ mologist, brings a serious indictment against the English sparrow. The ^pliage of the shade trees in Albany is being devoured by a small caterpillar. 1 *fhese worms attack the horse chestnut, elm and the maple. Dr. Lintner, being interviewed on the pest by the tlbany Journal, states that the visita-on was chiefly owing to the presence iif the city sparrow, which had driven way the robins, the Baltimore oriole d the black and yellow-billed cuckoo, e birds which fed on this caterpillar, he worms and moths, in the absence of these birds, having got the start of parasites which destroy them, now tourish to an alarming extent. Nothing i left of the foliage of a great portion . . iff the trees but the veins of the leaves. tjl WHILE at the Grand Hotel in Paris iwo years ago, Mr. Hiram Maxim, the electrican, was robbed of $2,000. He s : determined to find and bring the thieves to justice. He disoovored who they were, but was unable to apprehend them. A few days since, on the road • from Paris to Dieppe, he discovered live men at the Rouen Station, two of , jprhom he recognized as the thieves. ' t~$Le seized one and called for the police, ' 1 but before the officers arrived the four 1 Others entered the train, which started. §'aimer, the man he held, slipped him-elf out of his coat and rushed for the departing train. "I pursued him," says * Maxim, "and caught him on the foot- aboard. {Ie made a desperate attempt to throw me under the carriage wheels «r beat me oft I succeeded in GAINING a film foothold, and, passing on* arm through a window, I held on to the thief with the other hand. The train ran rapidly into the tunneL Many passengers looked oat of the window and screamed. The great confusion caused a signal to be given to stop the train, and when the speed was sufficient­ ly slackened I jumped off the foot­ board, dragging my prisoner with me, and, notwithstanding his exertions, forced him out of the tunneL At the station two policemen put in an ap­ pearance; but I did not relinquish my hold of the prisoner until he was safely handouffed. The only injuries which I received during this fierce and pro­ tracted encounter was the turning back of three of my finger nails, and tearing the sole from one of my boots." It would probably be pretty safe for any man to promise to pay another man $1,000,000 on demand whenever you could walk on the bottom of the river just above the Falls of Niagara. But, unless a Buffalo man is quite out of cut­ lery and has not so much as a little hatchet in his possession, this happened in the spring of 1819, and may happen again. The river began receding, until for nearly a day there was absolutely no water flowing through the rapids, ex­ cept a small stream in the very middle of the river bed. Somebody remem­ bered a tradition that there was a gas well in the river channel. A few men obtained an old iron kettle, turned it upside down over the well, put a pipe thi'ough the bottom of the kettle into the well, and fastened a lamp on top. The gap blew the lamp into fragments, but the gas con­ tinued to burn from the end of the tube, making a brilliant light at night for a long time afterward, and until the tube was carried away by ice. Some Btout poles to which flags were attached were taken out into the river a short distance above the falls and the sharpened ends driven into the crevices of the rocks on a line with the apex of the Horseshoe (proving that the • channel must have been nearly dry). A large quan* tity of old guns, cartridges and camp equipages, which was diQnped into the river during the War of 1812, was also brought to light and recovered. This curious phenomenon was caused by an ice gorge at Buffalo which kept back the water. An Elephant's Reasoning Powers. An elephant belonging to an engineer officer had a disease in his eyes, and ha i for three days been completely blind. His owner asked Dr. Webb, a physi­ cian, if he could do anything for the re­ lief of the animal. Dr. Webb replied that he was willing to try on one of the eyes the effect of nitrate of silver, which was the remedy commonly used for similar diseases of the human eye. The animal was accordingly made to lie down, and when the nitrate of silver was applied uttered a terrific roar at acute pain which it occasioned. "But the effect was wonderful, for the eye was in a great degree restored, and the ele­ phant could partially see. The doctor was in consequence ready to operate similarly on the other eye on the fol­ lowing day, and the animal, when he was brought out and heard the doctor's voice, lay down of himself, placed his head quietly on one side, curled up his trunk, drew in his breath, like a human being about to endure a painful opera­ tion, gave a sigh of relief when it was over, and then by motions of his trunk and other gestures gave evident signs of wishing to express }ns grati­ tude. Here we plainly see in the ele­ phant memory, understanding and rea­ soning from one thing to another. The animal remembered the benefit that he had felt from the application to one eye, and when he was brought to the same place on the following day and heard the operator's voice he concluded that a like service was to be done to his other eye. The Prefer Position for Sleeping. A German, Baron Reichenbach, has occupied many years studying the art of bed-making, or rather bed-placing, and maintains that improperly placed beds will shorten a man's life. If a mere magnet exercises an in­ fluence on sensitive persons, the earth's magnetism must certainly make itself felt on the nervous life of man. In whatever hemisphere, you may always sleep with your feet. to. the equator, and let your body lie "true as a needle to the pole.* The proper direction of the body is of the utmost importance far the proper circulation of the blood, and many dis­ turbances in the organisms have been cured by simply placing the bolster in a different point of the compass from that it had occupied. Let such as have hitherto been in the habit of sleeping with their heads where their feet ought to be take to heart the example of the late Dr. Elschwester, of Magdeburg, who died recently at the age of 109 years. The most unhealthy position, we are told, is when the body lies due east and west. Some observers assure us that to sleep in such a posture is tanta­ mount to committing suicide, and that diseases are often aggravated by devia­ tions.from the proper postures. --Lon­ don World. Piano Making. A piano passes through almost a dozen in old-fashioned shops, and through thirty or forty in the monster establishments of later date where fifty or sixty instruments a week are turned out. The wages paid to workmen vary from $10 to $30 a week; the highest paid mechanic is the "tone adjuster," who gets from $35 to $->0, and whose work is most delicate, difficult and im­ portant. A "kit" of tools sometimes costs as much as $50, but only when the owner is proficient in several branches. The majority of those employed are Germans, Danes or Swedes, native-born Americans being at a discount, as they will not work for the amount of wages the foreigners "are satisfied with, and besides, as a rule, have not learned their trade so thoroughly. The pres­ ent system of the subdivision of labor renders those who have learned their trade at one shop useless at another, in case of a strike.--New York Tribune* "CABRIAGES and other conveyances, including a first-class hearse," are among the attractions offered at a Scotch hoteL - * PALMISTRY. LIm* and The principal lines of the h&bft are easily remembered: The life line, which runs round the base of the thumb; the line of the head, which be­ gins alongside of the line of life ( some­ times joining it), and crossing the mid­ dle of the palm; and the line of the heart, which goes from one side of the hand to the other at the base of the fingers. If the line of life is of a ruddy color, long and unbroken, extending nearly or quite down the wrist line, it foretells good health and long life: if it be broken in any point it denotes severe sickness; if short, early death; if double; it shows remarkable strength and vitality. The lines encircling the wrist number the years of life, one line marking thirty years. - If a character like the sun occurs on the life line, it denotes loss of an eye or blindness; and each cross or knot means some misfortune or difficulty, (treat or small according to the size of the mark. The little lines are the lesser cares and troubles. Wavy lines in the ends of the fingers or elsewhere, foretell death by drowning. A crescent- shaped mark below tiie little finger and below the line of the heart denotes in­ sanity. A well-defined short line join ing the life line indicates marriage. If no such line appears, the person will remain single, unless there be a short line or lines on the side of the hand be­ low the little finger, as these also denote the number of times married. The lines extending down between ttie third or ring finger and the little finger to the 'jline of the heart, number the loves of a lifetime. If but a single line is visible, and that is deep and clear, the person •will love faithfully and warmly. A long and well-defined line of the head prom­ ises intellectual power, but it may be too long; as, if it extends quite to the jsdge of the hand it indicates too much calculation, craft, meanness. It should (snd under the third finger or there­ abouts. If it is forked or double toward the end it denotes deception and double- dealing, though, in a hand otherwise good, it may mean onlv extreme retic­ ence or shyness. When this line is Very short and faint it shows stupidity, foolishness. If the line of the heart is long, ex- ! ending from the edge of the hand be- ow the little finger up between the irst and second fingers, it indicates an affectionate disposition, and, also prom­ ises well for the happiness of the pos­ sessor. If it sends down short lines toward the head line, it shows that af­ fection must be founded upon respect; but if these small lines go upward, love is more a passion and impulse. When the line of the heart is broken, it de­ notes inconsistency. But judgment must not be formed from any one ap­ pearance or line of the hand, and there are many things to be considered. We should look in the left hand chiefly for honors, riches, loves and mnfortunes, and in the right for what­ ever pertains to health and length of days. All lines, if pale and wide, tell ,the absence of the quality attributed to that line, or the existence of the other quality. For instance, a pale, wide line of the heart indicates coldness or even cruelty. When the lines of the left hand are clearest and ruddiest it pos­ sessor resembles its mother, both men­ tally and physically. In the practice of the art of palmistry some knowledge of physiognomy is of great advantage; indeed, the two sciences go hand in hand, one supple­ menting the other.. This is why the shrewd gypsy fortvme-teller scans the face almost more closely than the hand of her patron. A few set rules in re­ gard to the features and characteristics of the human race may well be added in this connection. And first of all, the soul dwells in the eye and the ability to understand its language is inborn with most people without having to study it; but a few words in regarjl to it may not be amiss. Very quiet eyes that impress and em­ barrass one with their great repose sig­ nify self-command, but also great com­ placency and deceit. Eyes that rove ,liither and thither while the possessor speaks denotes a deceitful, designing mind. Eyes in which the white lias a yellowish tinge, and is streaked with reddish veins denote strong passions. Very blue eyes bespeak a mind inclined to coquetry; gray eyes signify intelli­ gence; greenish,, falsehood and a liking for scandal; black eyes, a passionate, lively temperament; and brown, a kind, happy disposition. Of the nose--A Roman nose denotes an enterprising, business-like character ; a long nose is a sign of good; a per­ fectly straight nose indicates a pure and noble soul, unless the eyes con­ tradict it; a net retrousse signifies a spirit of mischief, wit and dash; a large nose generally indicates good mind and heart; a very small nose, good nature, but lack of energy. Thick lips indicate either great genius or great stupidity; very thin lips, cruelty and falsehood, particularly if they are habitually compressed. Dimples in the cheek signify roguery; in the chin, love and coquetry. A lean face is an indication of intelligence; a fat fac6 shows a person inclined to falsehood. < Irascibility is accompanied by an erect posture, open nostrils, moist temples, displaying superficial veins, which stand out and throb under the least excitement, large, unequal, ill- ranged eyes, and equal use of both hands. A good genius may be expected from middle stature, blue or gray eyes, large prominent forehead, with temples a little hollow, a fixed, attentive look and habitual inclination of the head.--Belle C. Green. shall teach him better; shall bring home to him the terrible, crushing force, the truth that hell hath no fury like a woman's corns--like a woman scorned, I mean"--and with a twirl of her taper fingers, she chucked the pow­ der-puff into its box and began a long, wearv search for the hair-brush. -- > - . M m . . jS-.. • • • • PfHOCnOD rnBWIIf • JWw Ifn Her Vengeance was Satisfied. "Give me the bandoline." The soft, mellow tinkle of bells oame floating over the hills and dales to the Lady Cecil Mulcahey that June even­ ing as she stood before the glass in her boudoir, beautiful articles of virtu, choice bits of fancy-work, and all the new corn remedies that were scattered around in graceful profusion, giving to the room an air of refined beauty that one so seldom sees outside the precincts of Naples or Kokomo. "Yes, Madame," replied Nannette Stiggins, the French femme de chant* bre, handing her mistress the required article. "And does Madame wish her vinaigret ?" "No," replied Lady Cecil, a cold, cynical smile passing over her features as she speaks. "Lord Reginald de Courcey Short will yet rue the day on which he laughed my apple-pie to scorn," she continued, speaking softly to herself, "and told me, with a cruel sneer on his lips, that he would, ere the ruddy glow of autumn faded into the snowy whiteness of winter, wed simple Ruth' Redingote, the humble cotter's laughter. He may think that I have Forgotten his words, that I have choked iway the grim wolf of despair that has been gnawing a*-my hear^ bui tiam Summer in Chicago. Up from the pebbly beach that is kissed by the laughing waters of the great lake come the sensuous zephyrs of a perfect June night.. The merry shouts of the chil­ dren as they start out, skates in hand, for an evening of riotous fun, mingle with the low, sad sough of the wind as it sighs among the deserte diee-wagons, and over all there is a brooding silence that sometimes awes even the lightest hearted of the merry crowd that throngs the streets. Ruth Redingote and Reginald Short are walking arm in arm down the prin­ cipal thoroughfare, and the gas-light falls with fitful flicker upon the pure young face of the girl as her compaction looks down to her with a smile. She lias come in from her happy country home in St. Louis, and sees for the first time the strange sights of a great city. Regi­ nald thinks, as he gazes fondly upon her. that there is none so fair as this woman, none that could so securely bind his heart in the silken fetter of a pure, holy affection. He feels that without the sunshine of her love life Would bis MI evil waste whereon would lie the .whitened skeletons of Hope and Ambition. And so, feeling thus, it seems to him that he cannot do too much for her, cannot make his yielding to her every' wish too plain. And so, bending over her, his bright young face aglow with the kindly light of a deep affection, he asked her if inhere is any­ thing she would like--any delicacy in the brilliantly-lighted windows that* en­ viron them on every side. "Yes," answers Ruth, a pleased look in her deep, luminous eye, "I would like something." "What is it, darling?" and as he speaks the last word a bright crimson blush suffuses the girl's cheeks. She hesitates and instant, and then, in clear, ringing tones come forth the words "Lemon pie!" A low, fiendish laugh breaks upon the night air. Reginald turns hastily,, and there before him, more beautiful than ever, stands the" Lady Mulcahey. "Lemon pie!" she hisses fiercely. "And this is your chosen bride--you who are so cultured and refined. Mv vengeance is satisfied," and with another mocking laugh she flies away into the darkness. --ithiaago Tribune. From Pig to Pork. Of course I went to see the Stock Yards of Chicago, and my visit, as it happened, had something of a special character, for I saw a pig put through the performance in thirty-five seconds. A lively, piebald porker was one of a number grunting and quarreling in a pen, and I was asked to keep my eye on him. And what happened to that porker was this: He was suddenly seized by a hind leg and jerked up on to a small crane. This swung him to the fatal door through which no pig ever returns. On the other side stood a man-- That two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, #nd smite no mat*. and the dead pig shot across a trough and through another doorway, and then there was a splash! He had faMen, head first; into »vat oft boiling water. Some unseen machinery passed him along swiftly to the other end of the terrible bath, and there a water-wheel picked him up and flung him out to a sloping counter. Here another machine seized him and with one revolution scraped him as bald as a nut. And down the counter he went, losing his head as he slid past a man with a hatchet, and then, presto! he was up again by the heels. In one dreadful handful a man emptied him, and, while another squirt­ ed him with fresh water, the pig re­ gistered his own weight as he passed the teller's box--shot down the steel bar from which he hung and whisked around the corner into the ice-house. One long cut of a knife made two "sides of pork" out of that piebald pig. Two hacks of a hatchet brought away his backbone. And there, in thirty-five seconds from his last grunt--dirty, hot­ headed, noisy--the pig was hanging up in two pieces, clean, tranquil, iced! & The very rapidity of the whole pro­ cess robbed it of its horrors. It even added the ludicrous to it. Here one ruinuta was an opinionated piebald pig making a prodigious fuss about having his hind leg taken hold of, and lo! be­ fore he had even made up his mind whether to squeal or only to squeak, he was hanging up in an ice-house, split in two! He had resented the first trifling liberty that was taken with him, and in thirty-five seconds he was ready for the cook! • That the whole process is virtually painless is beyond all doubt, for it is only for the first fraction of the thirty odd seconds that the pig is sentient, and I doubt if even electricity could as suddenly and painlessly extinguish life as the lightning of that unerring poniard, "the dagger of mercy," and the instantaneous plunge into the scald- I ing bath.--Phil Robinson. A Drummer Taken In. "Will I have time to step off and get some refreshments ?" asked a drummer on a Texas railroad, of the conductor, as the train stopped at a station. "You will have plenty of time." The drummer stepped off, and the train went on without him. The next time the drummer saw that conductor he took him to task very severely for his conduct, complaining that he had to lay over at that station seven hours. "Well," replied the conductor, "you asked me if you would have time to get some refreshments, and if you couldn't get all you wanted in seven hours, it seems to me you are a hog." Verdict for the conductor, J£id po Through dissatisfaction with the re­ sult of Arthur State Convention 100,- 000 Republicans voted with the Demo­ crats in New York last fall on a plat­ form of "economy and reform," there­ by electing that ticket by an over­ whelming majority, inoluding Gov­ ernor, State officers, and a majority of both branches of the Legislature. For the first time since the war these pro­ fessed reformers had coritrol of all branches of the State Government and had abundant opportunity to put their platform professions of retrenchment and reform into practice. They prom­ ised freely and frequently and loudly what they would do. One hundred thousand Republicans voted for their ticket On the strength of these vocifer­ ous professions. The Democrats have now been in possession nine months, and their Legislature, after a ix-months' session, has adjourned, and what have they done to redeem their pledges? Have they acted on their promises? Have they cut down expenditures; abolished useless offices? Have they retrenched ? Have they acted in the spirit of economy and reform? They have not. On the contrary, they have acted in a spirit of extrava­ gance, waste and robbery in direct con­ tradiction to their loud-mouthed prom­ ises. They have created new offices to provide for election "worker?" and "strikers" at public expense; they have increased salaries instead of reducing them; multiplied expenses instead of cutting them down. They have acted in strict accordance with Tammany no­ tions. They have plucked the taxpay­ ers for the benefit of the taxeaters. To maintain a State Tammany they have despoiled the State. Tbe following table showing the rate of taxation for various purposes in 1882 and 1883 will indicate the increase: For general (and. For schools Canal 4 •v'-V- y 1883. Mill*. .1.134 • . . .U i l r . ........ • 1.07S 1.047 1882. Mills. .93 1.10 .42 appeal.--Texas Siftings. The Other* "Moses, I heard that your brother in Chicago has been burned out ?" "Yes, Isaac vlias all purnedout." "And I hear that the fire did not start in his own store?" "No; it vhas next door.* * . "Well, that's strange."! § "Strange! How vhaa d0t?"' * "Why, that the fire shonld start next door." "Vhell, I doan' see it«dot vhay. Der peesness next door vhas shust der same, und der man who runs it vhas njy odder brudder, Abraham !* THE growth of the dairying interest of the United States is indicated by the figures below, which are taken from Government compilations: CWH.NO. Butter, lbs. Cheese, lbs. 1850 6,385,094 313,343,306 109.583,893 1860 8,585,736 *59,681,372 108,366,927 1870 8,?35,332 162,927,882 igoa . incite ftfimiT'l fl71 11S1B7 tftfi ^I^V.2.**bat '- T-vv., -- Total la* for 1888 3.25 lor 1881,2.45 Increase of 1883 over 1882,.80, or 8-10 of a mill. The valuation of the State is $2,783,- 672,587. The increase in the amount raised by taxation this year over 1882 is therefore $2,226,946 (two and a quar­ ter millions). This is the result of nine months of Democratic "economy, retrenchment, and reform" in the Em­ pire State. It is curious to note that only on the single item of free schools has there been a reduction of appropri­ ations. How the $2,226,000 have been spent may be gathered from the following, which indicates some of the increases made by the Tammany Legislature in the expenses of the State. The addi­ tions to the salary-list are: Board of Claims, $:30,80J (three Commis­ sioners at #5,0U0, three Commission­ ers' expenses at #500, ll.'OO; ckrk, stengrapher, |1,50J; messenger, |8oQ); Emi­ gration Commission, f 12,SCO (Commissioner, frt.OOO; first deputy, 14,000; second deputy, f2,50i>); Captain of the Port of New iora, 93.50U; eleven Harbormasters at $27,500; Bureau ot Lnbor Statistics, f.4,700 (Commissioner, clerk, #l,au)j; New Capitol Commission, I Hi,500 (Commissioner, Governor's expert, estimated. $2,WK); Treasurers clerks, #4.000); Public Buildings Superintendent, #2,50i>; Court of Appeal clerks, Total, $H5,(K0. Certain appropriations not in this list will make the amount about $100,000. This is but a specimen of the extrav­ agance which has led to the people of the State being plucked to the tune of $2,226,000 lor having been so foolish as to believe Democratic professions of economy and reform. The Democratic "thieves and rascals who have broken into the New York State offices and made off with this $2,- 226,000 of public money, are of the same breed and variety as the "thieves and rascals" who are trying to break into the national offices. They are now preaching economy and reform and re­ trenchment with the same fraudulent purpose. -But once they get a chance they will do with the nation as they have been doing with New York. They have plaved the part of wolves in that State. They will play the part of wolves with the nation if they obtain possession of it. The honest sort of people should guard well and prevent them from breaking into the National fold and preying on the tax-paying sheep. The "thieves and rascals" should be kept out at all hazards. It is in their very nature to prey. They live by plunder. It has been their record. In every city where they have control extravagance and corruption have been the rule. Keep them out. Kick them out, when the opportunity offm.--» Chicago Tribune. The Republican Party. Judge Foraker, the Republican can­ didate for Governor in Ohio, recently made a speech at Cincinnati, from which we make the following abstract: The first and greatest achievement of the Republican party was when, in spite of Democratic hostility, obstruc­ tion and opposition, it is established as a fundamental proposition that, in the sight of our constitution and laws, per­ sonal liberty was the right of every man, and that equality of rights was the common heritage of American citi­ zens everywhere. And in view of such declarations, it is eminently fit and proper that we should remind our Democratic friends that the Republican party not only abolished slavery and gave personal liberty and equality of rights to all citizens, but also that it was the Republican party that sup­ pressed the rebellion, maintained the Union, preserved and perfected the constitution, and made the flag of oar country symbolical the world over, not only of nationality and power, but also in an absolut8 sense of those great principles and truths that are em­ bodied in the Declaration of Independ­ ence. This tariff question is one of the gravest import. It is what may be fittingly termed one of the ever-present questions. It is part and parcel of the every-day life of the Government. You cannot move and go forward in the ad­ ministration of national affairs for a single hour without giving application to it in some form or other. It is a question of the most vital importance to every kind of business and to every kind of employed labor in this country. Every artisan, every mechanic, every merchant, every business man is inter­ ested in it. It affects the development of our resources, it affects all the in­ dustries and enterprises of this great country. It is a question of such vital importance that both parties ought to have well-defined positions with respect to it. The Republican party has. No­ body needs to be told what that posi­ tion is. It has been defined by all the years of experience that the Republican party has had while it has been in power. The Republican party has acted upon the idea that American balor ought to be protected. The Republican partj has acted npon | c thoidea that the labour _ a fair day% warn for i dayli work --thatheoug&tobe able, not only to procure for himself and his nooeasariee of life, but lo pWflWe means to educate them and toadvaace, in the social scale and make better citi­ zens oat of themselves. The Repub­ lican party has had the idea, and has acted upon it, that the laboring men of this .country ought not to bo required to work in competition with the work­ men of other countries, who are ground down bv bad government and get only from 27 to 37| cents a day. It is the idea of the Republican party that this oountry ought to be independent in all products within its capability. It has also sought to bring about a diversity of occupation and employment. The wisdom of this policy of the Repub­ lican party is attested by the unex­ ampled prosperity all the time it has been in power. The political growth of the country has been unexampled during the administration of tfafli R°- publican party. i-, „ A Beastly Doctrine. It is clear that the Democratio lead­ ers are involving themselves in more dangerous meshes by their advooacy of the saloon interest throughout the United States than they did by their advocacy and quasi-defense of slavery in 1860, which damned them most effectually for twenty years. The Pres­ idential election for 1884 is approach­ ing, and, thinking that they have a good chance of success, some of the most eminent leaders of the Democracy are advocating doctrines which are ab­ solutely beastly. S. S! Cox, of New York, who is so prominent in the House of Representa­ tives-elect that his partisans are push­ ing him for the Speakership, like many other Democratic politicians, seems to have come to the conclusion that the saloon party in 1884 will rule the peo­ ple of the United States. Cox, in or­ der to render himself conspicuous against restrictions on the liquor traffic, has written a ..letter to Judgo Hoadley, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, who is canvassing the State against the Scott License law--$200 for whisky- saloons and $100 for beer-saloons. In that letter he declares in favor of "elemental personal liberty." What he means by this doctrine he more clearly explains by saying: "No statutes to make, or cure, or regulate appetites." Now look at the full beastliness of this doctrine. If a man gets crazily drunk, totters along the street, and raises a row by his inebriety, if by law he is arrested, according to this new doctrine his arrest is a violation of "elemental personal liberty"; if an in­ dividual commits acts of licentiousness or lust on the street, however flagrant, and he-is arrested under a statute pro­ vided for such cases, the arrest is a violation of "elemental personal lib­ erty" ; if a profligate man commits a rape, and is arrested therefor, that is a violation of "elemental personal liberty"; for this great mogul of the Democracy openly declares that any statute which restrains and punishes such excesses of human appetite is a violation of "elemental personal liberty," and is at war with sound Democratio doctrine.--Milwaukee Sen­ tinel. Da. BAocat,eCtke Is in New Orleans taekttg ait* matters. m poultry show of the W< Association will be held in 14 -.4; Political Notes. *THK fool in office unc^r Whom the Btar-route thieves grew fat," is what Mr. Dana says Judge Key is and was. Key was and is a Democrat. Is not Mr. Dana rather hard on his political brethren? THE only progress that the Demo­ cratic party has made within the last quarter of a century has been that of a cat dragged across a carpet by its tail. It may be that it is about to turn and dart the other way, like a flash of light­ ning; but it is not in the nature of things to suppose that it will, and if it does the progress will be too rapid to be of any use. THIS is the way John Kelly's organ, the New York Star, defines its position on the tariff: "No tax on American products, and no duties on foreign im­ ports save such as are required for the support of the Government, levied so as to encoarage American industry.'" Mr. Hendricks will have to bestir him­ self in order to equal this kind of politi­ cal fence-straddling. REFORMERS onght not to want office; it is their part to see that the work of the Government is well done. They ought to be content on those.back seats which give them the best view of the "circus." That is the way to harmony. But, above all things, they ought not to shock the public sensibilities by com­ plaints that their friends have not a share of the spoils.--New York Her­ ald. THE fact is that the charge of cor­ ruption will not lie against the Repub­ lican party in the minds of people who are at all familiar with Governmental matters. It is the dominant party into which rascals endeavor to insinuate themselves, and in the nature of things may succeed. It is the promptness with which the party repudiates such men that gauges its virtue. Exposed fraud is fatal to a Republican states­ man.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat. THE people understand perfectly well that the character of the men in office is quite as good as it'would be likely to be if the Republicans were turned out and Democrats put in. Their interest in the eleotion will cent* r npon prin­ ciples and a polior, pot uport men. They demand a reduction in taxation, economy in expenditures, a relief from unjust tariff discriminations, a reform in administrative methods, prompt*? and better legislation and purer poli­ tics.--Boston Herald. THE Republican apostate Judge Hoadly is receiving oold encouragement in his race for Governor of Ohio from the Cincinnati Enquirer, the leading Bourbon organ of the State. The con­ ductor of that journal has discovered a letter written by Hoadly in whioh the Judge says that if he had been in the Senate he would have voted for the Pendleton Civil-Service bill. This is gall and wormwood to the Enquirer, and it is not making any effort to con­ ceal the fact from the Judge.--Chicago Tribune. THE Kentucky Republican* begin their campaign with a not fire npon the Democratio position. The pariys State Central Committee has issued an address to the voters trenchantly, re­ viewing the results of Bourbon rule in the State as oompared with the results of Republican rule in the nation. The contrast is evident to the dullest com­ prehension. The Republican leaders do not weaken their statements by boasting that thev will carry the State. They do expect, however, to materially reduce the Democratio majority, and the conditions seem to flavor that claim. ' - r V ' " ' V ; - * .4 JL. A BUHAWAT horse leaped into the river at Chicago, with a boggy two boya and two giria. One lad drowned. AN inmate of the Insane Aifhua at Anna hanged himself, u*lng a quilt for the pur­ pose. His name was Boee, and bo wse front Johnson county. A MON8TEK camp-meeting is being held bt • •« Jacksonville. Harrison, the 'boy pteacbir " who remains a boy in spite of years* i the chief pulpit attraction. » ' *'; Ax Burnt rrairie, near Carmi, Dongja* Dowdy and Buck Williams, brothoKS in fair,' fought with knives, Dowdy beinjf tabbed to the heart and Williams fatally weuiodbd.;. THE City Council of Havana has voted TO^ - . ̂ appropriate f8,009 to build a town ball. 1 They sought, a short time ago, to bay, s| A bridge over the Illinois, bnt as that WO^I®* j have bonded the city beyond the constttut; * „ ̂ tional limit it had to be abandoned ̂ ̂ TH* State Tetarinsrian reports glanders prevalent among the horses in counties in the State. He claims to been prevented from killing animals afflict1 * i>l ed, attorneys contending that heoonid oniy ̂ resort to this measure after the Qsittttuf , had issued a proclamation declaring 0aad ̂ ^ >4fi ers epidemic. Tna Attorney General of Illinois has given . ;i the State Veterinarian an opinion to the ef« J feet that he can order quarantine of any ̂ premises where he finds horses alBkJte«|:^-|i?|; with glanders, .and such animals can b4 r . ̂ slaughtered on the certificate of a p*actict!||!f||| ing physician or of a consulting reteri. narian. , THK surviving members of the One Hun dred and Twelfth Illinois volunteers will ' hold their eighteenth annual reunion , ̂ camp at Toulon, Stark county, Aug. 16 an<|' t 17. All Union soldiers are invited to attend ̂• to bring their muskets and blank cartridges for a skirmish drill, and to sit around the ,• *<# - camp-fires and renew the friendship# formed in Dixie. ,, *j A TRAMP, who refuses to give his namev ̂ called at. the residence of John Kester, in Boss township, Edgar county, and .asked - I for old clothes, Mrs. Kester, who is in a deli­ cate condition, was sick in bed imd stonet She told him they had none, when he rushed ̂ at her. threw her back in bed, and oommit- ,f i ted a Irutal outrage on her, the woman be. ing too sick and helpless to offer mush re­ sistance. " - EAST 8r. LOOTS is worried with alt pee .t« cent debt of #506,000, on which the interest-,;' - (| has not been paid for some time, and which the city is trying hard, but so far with poor » ̂ success, to compromise. If the new High License law is properly enforced the cifcjr* s - which Has a superabundance of saloone, wiS- collect thousands of dollars of Rddlllcfesr revenue, and repudiation Will be tauaeoef sacy. .' i A soJbauum preacher named CL A. Obena» ham, who deserted his wife at Honnt 8te*» ̂ ling and went to Schuyler oounty and be* ̂ came leader of a pilgrim band, gave tt on* to his new friends that his "poor, dear wifsT > was dead His wife hearing of what hO salt started one Sunday with his two (iMMtifl and surprised her weeping husband, who was preaching in a tabernacle. He did not ̂ , stay long to embrace his "poor, dead wife,* bnt struck out to the woods and has noK , ' been heard of since. ̂ THK Fish Commission will at ones begin its labors of distHbatfaur native ft* focthe Season, beginning simultaneously it pefaltp on the Mississippi river, including Qofney. Hamilton, and opposite Louisville, Ma The fish-ponds are full of croppy, bas% hpUWo ̂ and cat-fish in excellent condition for tsaaffc portation and transfer. Last year the Com mlssioners distributed about 3,000,000 fish, and they expect to place from 7,000,000 to - 10,000,000 this season before cold weather < sets in. THE State Entomologist reports that thft Hessian fly to now in a donnant oondition (the so-called flaxseed state), and lying low down in the stalk of the wheat that it It left in the stubble when the grain is cut. Careful investigation shows this to be true of the whole southern part ot the States The Entomologist and two competent as­ sistants are extending investigation* through Central and Northern Illinois, and if the same condition is found circulars will at once be issued detailing plana far a gen, eral onslaught to destroy the pest as seonaa jthe harvest is gathered Burning the stub* Die fields is no doubt the method that w% be advised. MABY MCDONALD, the young woman who was brutally assaulted and outraged fiv» weeks ago by a gang of drunken heodlanMI in the house of Mr* Mary Blaney, in <liw» go, left the County Hospital for the first time since her removal there, flip earns to the Armory Police Court to testify against John Maloney and Dan Hanley, two of the men arrested for the crime. Maiotfqr was charged with assault to kill aad rape, sad Hanley with rape alone Miss MeDonald said she came to Chicago five weeks ago to look for work, and met Mra. Blaney by chance. The latter invited her homa, and in the evening Hanley and Maloney cam* there. The men bought a lot of beer, and finally a gang of five or six more came ia. The light was then put out, and the witnes% after being choked nearly to death, wis ravished by four or five of the men. Thai she was thrown from a second-story win. dow, one of her arms being broken in two places by the fall, and after that she was dragged across the road and left lying un­ conscious on the prairie all nignt. AU of her clothes had been torn off. She pos£ tively identified Hanley and Maloney astn* of her assailants FOB the past two yean a oigar-maker named Beichter and his wife have lived ift Chicago, and only attracted the attaatida of the neighbors through an occasional row and the fact that Mra Beichter was fnlJr ten years older than her husband. Omi morning recently, about 10 o'clock, £e.chtec ̂ who was looked upon as a worthless, shift* less, drunken sort of a fellow, was asen to leave the house, and later in the day some neighbors who chanced to call at the house were horrified to find Mm Betohter lying dead across her bed, her hand grasping n cup containing the dregs of a grayish mix­ ture. What made the discovery all tip more startling was the fact that the corpse was arrayed in the costume probably wo*» by the unfortunate woman on her usiMtag day. There were bio--own in her hair, t veil hung away fkom the pale f< and the yellowish-white staff of ding-gown clung closely to the limbs, a ghastly shroud Aatftnlektr sapee* Bible the police were notified and a eareM search of the premises made. The drageha the cup were put aside to be analysed. letters or notes were found until an chanced to find an open book in an ing room, upon a leaf of which was in a scrawling German hand, *My wife 1MM voisoned hersstf and X am ofl for Fa*In* y- Nothing else of importance was found abeufc. the house 'fifes 'M