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whciA to 1881, oent. M eom- Thiadtareaee is not a»- oribed to anj temporary but to a per- *atuart CUM, which it has been found hf vain tooombat . Mawoos NMM $60 lot every man lad $75 for every woman he banged, and in the ooorae of his career as a hangman ho "worked off" more than 400 persons. -Fortunately for hispnrae. justioe is tolerable sure in England, And he vu ableto subsist on hit fees. In the United States, where the mis­ carriages of justioe are 00 commone he ifrould have had a hard time to get a • living at the same rate. Tax oomplete stagnation at the Lon­ don Stock Exchange, and tine moderate ' Amount of other business doing, are Banking both the supply and demand for money in England small. The in- orease in the bank reserve, however, Appears to remove any immediate appre­ hension from the market. On August < 13,1882, the reserve was only £11,000,- <000; on August 23,1888, it stood £13,- 400,000. Money in London is now Jlearer tban in any other principal oenter of the world. The consequence |i gold is being attracted thither. 'if MR. BKNFHKY, a civil engineer, has pought the famous Hell-Hole swamp In South Carolina, paying $10,000 Iherefor. The swamp forms part of that purchased by the infamous land com­ mission in the days of carpet-bag su­ premacy. Mr. Renfrey represents large ^Capitalists, who propose to drain the land. If the scheme succeeds 17,000 Acres will be added to the producing power of the State, and land which is tow useless and unprofitable will be­ come a source of revenue. It is stated ||fhat to drain the water from this land Irill cost $180,000. J **? < , Is* vV-' ' ̂ ^ v*; "jfe ' : PP*"* * ' '«• r** »«&§& --frt sssgsr he lived M He had never* Ma. YOUKG, United States Minister to CHuna, transmits the following informs tkm to the Government ooneerning the vexed question of the population of the celostial empire: "I have been inform­ ed indirectly, but from official sources, that the census of China, as taken last year for purposes of taxation, shows a total population of 356,000,000. This does net include the Mongolian or other outlying dependencies of the empire, but only the eighteen provinces of China proper; nor does it embrace the aboriginal tribes whioh exist in very considerable numbers in the Island of Formosa and the provinces of Kuangsi, Yunnan, Kneichow, and Szchnan. Mak­ ing due allowance for understatements due to the purpose for which the census was taken, for the aboriginal tribes mentioned above, and'for the Mongolian dependencies, which are really an in­ tegral part of the empire, it is probable that the sum total of the population of China really exceeds 300,000,000. A CLERICAL correspondent imparts to <be London Times a novel method of Circumventing the Suez Canal monop­ oly of M. de Lesseps. He called upoh , England to make a canal from the Med­ iterranean to a certain point in the des- #rt, and another canal from the Bed ®ea to another point within a quarter #f a mile of the first point. Then a • ship railway could be constructed silver the half mile separating the two fanals. It could then be truthfully . faid that no canal was constructed from the Mediterranean to the Bed Sea, and H. de Lesseps' alleged rights would not j|>e infringed. . ; ; i ' ' ' ' g ' THE Count de Paris does ildt appear • to be anxious to push his claims as a jfuccessor of the late Count de Cham- fiord. He has been officially recognized ' t>y the legitimists as the head of the ffouse of Bourbon, but he appears to |>e alive to the fact that this action does Hot quite put a orown and throne with­ in his graso. The indifference of the jfaris populace to his paste-brush pro- fiunciamiento, and the declaration from the Bepubliean authorities that he will |>e promptly banished from the country Jf he ventures to urge his claims, have r' probably satisfied him that the post of honor is the private station. - Ir there be truth in the predictions Of a veteran oil operator of Pennsyl- yani ato a reporter of the Philadelphia •Ufecorti, there is an excellent prospect that in the near future Wyoming Terri- ' tor r will be the rival of the Keystone (State in the petroleum business. The Supply of oil in that Territory is asserted be large, and the opportunities of its evelopment promising. From the " 'nature of the case, consequently, it is highly probable that one of the leading tffteatures of eastern trade will bepro- 4uoed in the west. BA how will it be if Wyoming also gets up a Standard Oil . Company? Must the bitter go with the liweet in young Wyoming, also? •£ , CHARLES A. WOLFE, of New York, in $0 fit of jealousy cut his wife, Mary, aged 17, about the neck and head. He was Indicted and would have been sent to prison, but his wife, who had been cured pf her wounds, appealed to the court ^Bor his release. In her affidavit she says: "Said Wolfe is a temperance man, but • ^of sUghtly jealous disposition. At the v-Htime of the assault for which he stands Jjradioted, he saw the deponent under 'Circumstances that incited and provok­ ed the assault, whereupon he became frenzied. The wounds inflicted were ^slight. Whereupon the deponent prays - }>jher husband be released. He will nev­ er be jealous any more, and she will fol- , 4ow his advice and not give him cause 1%;-!or jealousy." Judge Gildersleeve dis- leharged Wolfe on his own recognizance. J ONE evening recently, just at dusk, very little girl, with golden hair and ; blue eyes, toddled through Twenty- ifourth street, New York city, and sat .^jdown on a stoop on Sixth avenue. Her ^little red hat rested on the back of her jhead, and her cheek were tear-stained. ;njShe was scarcely three years old. She jpressed to her breast a small black and ^ fwhite kitten, which she had been carry­ ing, and said: "I'se faid we's lost, tPussie." By-and-by she began to cry, ISand a passing policeman, finding that «he had strayed from home, brought mer and the kitten to the Police Cen- jtral office, where she was placed in loharge of Matron Webb. • At 9 o'clock kn exoited man ran into the Central •office and said his little daughter was tost. He was sent to the lost children's Vd^artmeiit, where ho recognized his In THE last number of the Cnitury "H. H." relates how, on a recent visit to the home of Burns, she called upon two maiden nieces of the great poet. Intel­ ligent and active ladies they were, too, though their ideas of American journal­ ism were somewhat crude. They read much about the United States, they said, and had that very day "received a newspaper from America. Perhaps I knew it. It was called the Democrat." Not being able to identify it by that name, one. of the ladies hastened to fetch it to the visitor. "It proved," says H. H., "to be a paper printed in Madison, Iowa." This is very amusing, but the fun is not all due to the sim­ plicity of the nieces of Bobert Burns. H. H. innocently contributes to it by locating the Madison Democrat in Iowa. We can fancy the disgusted look of the genial Fay, editor and proprietor of the Madison (Wis.) Democrat, when he finds both his paper and his town located in another State.^-CAicayo News. , ! PETER B. Boss, of New York city, now seventy-one years of age, finds himself in possession of a fortune which he never expected. He married when young, but twenty years ago he and his wife agreed to separate, and they never lived together again. Both were well- to-do, and one of the incidents of the marriage was an agreement that Mrs. Boss should draw all interest of her es­ tate during her life, and that the prin­ cipal should go to her husband in the event of his surviving her. While they lived together each made a will be­ queathing to the other, in case of l|is or her survival, all the decedent's pro­ perty. Mrs. Boss' will remained with her husband. Three weeks ago Mr. Boss learned that his wife had died. He had not seen her or heard from her for several years, and had lost all in­ terest in her will, supposing that it had long ago been superseded. A few days ago, however, he learned that the Public Administrator had taken charge of his wife's effects, as it was supposed she had no heir. He then thought 0! the old will, and, hunting it up, pre­ sented it to the Surrogate. Letters of administration were granted to him. The estate which thus comes to him amounts to $30,000. Musk1 and G'irtllsatfon. Nothing more certainly marks the substantial progress of civilization in this country than the increasing atten­ tion given to music. America has not yet produced any great musician, but we have developed a wonderful capacity for enjoying the music of the master composers of the world. Beethoven, Bach, Schumann, and Meudelssohn, are familiar names in thousands of our homes, and their divine music may be heard almost everywhere. It is worthy of note that our University, so re­ nowned for its scientific and literary privileges, is adding the study of music to its many and varied elective courses, and, in connection with the Ann Arbor school of music, at the head of which is the University professor of music, offers to young men and women the most desirable advantages for-the pur­ suit of this study. Three years of suc­ cessful work have demonstrated that in the education of the young, music must henceforth hold a leading position. This is as it should be, for all true cul­ ture and refinement find their natural and perhaps highest expression in music. And since we are a music-loving people, it is of the highest importance that our young people should have their musical studies turned into the purest channels. Under the fostering care oi such institutions as our University we believe America will yet produce musi­ cians worthy of a great nation. The Meannegs of Bapacity. It's a good thing to get rich and to get very rich, too, while you're about it. But it's not a good thing in the process of getting rich to lose the power of en­ joying money in any other way than that of getting more money. Some very -mucli-moneyed men do that thing, and the result is they are obliged to keep on making more money because they are not able to enjoy themselves in any other way. Now, this is not a reliable kind of enjoymfent, because there is only a certain amount of money in this country, or even in this world, and when a man or a few men get hohf of it all, as from present appearances a few are likely to do, why then there will be nothing left for them but to try and skin each other, as thev have skinned the public, and even this can't last. It is said that America contains more rich men, whose only source of re­ creation is to get richer, than any coun- try in the world. Couldn't some sort of school be established to teach some of our rich men other sources of enjoy­ ment before they, with the older Dives, lift up their eyes in torment?--New York Graphic. THE best time to eat a green apple is after it has become ripe. We give thk mformatitp on good wUhoritj.--jUutei A* authority that ticks and lioe will never be found troublesome are fat and in good condi- only attacking poorly- AH Iowa agricultural writer who has been hi the dtthyingbMness for twenty years, says that oats are one of the beat grains for dairy cows, the only objec­ tion being that they produce white butter.--Chicago Journal SMALL POTATOES FOB SEED. --Last spring I used for seed small, bright, sound potatoes. I also planted a nar­ row strip through the centre of the piece with good-sized tubers. The re­ sult was a yield at the rate of 280 bush­ els per acre. Those from ..the large seed were larger, with fewer Small po­ tatoes.--N. K. Abltott, Vermont. WIRE FENCE.--It is generally under­ stood that five wires constructed the proper distance apart will turn hogs and even chickens and when one does pot have to feno^ mgainst hogs a less number will suffice. My individual ex­ perience warrants me in recommending not less than three wires.--E. M., Stark• ville, Miss. THE Gardner's Monthly advises own­ ers of fruit trees to remember that the trees, like grain and vegetable crops, must have manure to keep up their fer­ tility. An annual top-dressing is the best. If the manure cannot be had fresh earth from ditches or roadsides spread half an inch or so deep under the trees will have a wonderful effect. A WESTERN farmer who tried wheat bran as a manure for wheat reports that the effect of an application of one ton of bran to the acre was equal to that obtained from the nsual application of bone-dust, guano, lime and wood ashes, and the difference in the yield of crops that received bran as compared with those not so treated was very great. A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural New Yorker says that those who undertake to raise seedlings from the rhubarb as a means of improving the quality will be disappointed, as the plants fresh from seed, though vigorous and healthy, will vary, as seedlings of all plants do. A choice sort once established is easily in­ creased by taking off eyes, with a bit of root in October. PROFESSOR BEAL. of the Michigan Agricultural College, who has experi­ mented in the matter of setting fence posts, decided, after a number of years, that sometimes the post " top end up" lasts longer; sometimes the piece "top end down" lasts the better, and some­ times there is no perceptible difference. He infers that where one piece de­ cayed more than the other, it was caused by some trifling difference in the sticks.. FARMERS who have large numbers of eggs to preserve, store keepers who take eggs "in trade,9 and all others who handle large quantities of eggs, depend upon lime water as a preservative. Casks of various kinds are need to bold the eggs, and some country store keep­ ers have so many that they require large brick cisterns placed in the cel­ lar, that are cemented and hold im­ mense quantities. While some immerse the eggs in simple lime-water, others hold that the addition of a small quan­ tity of salt increases its preservative qualities. Those who have had an ex­ tended experience advise slacking a bushel of stone lime and adding water to make sixty or sixty-five gallons, and four quarts of Bait. This mixture is stirred a few times at intervals and al­ lowed to settle. The perfectly clear liquid dipped off and poured in a cask to the depth of fifteen inches; then eggs to about a foot in depth are placed in the liquid, and some of the pickle that is a little milky is added. More eggs are placed in the oask, and some slight­ ly milk pickle is added for each foot in depth. When the eggs are within about four inches of the top of the cask, they are covered with a piece of cotton cloth and upon the cloth is spread two or three inches of the lime that settled after the slacking. It is important that there be always sufficient pickle to cover the lime on the cloth. The object of placing upon the cloth the lime that had settled, is to keep the water con­ stantly saturated with it. Should some of the lime dissolved be changed into, carbonate, more is at hand to be dis­ solved. SPEAKING of the difficulty of captur­ ing the codling-moth in orchards, Pro­ fessor Beal, of the Michigan State Uni­ versity, says: "In my experience with the codling-moth, or apple-worm, I have acted as though nothing had been known or proved. In all my observa­ tions I have never yet seen a codling- moth on the wing in an orchard. The insect is shy and seldom seen by any one. I w have several times tried to catch it by placing in apple trees pans of sour milk, sweetened vinegar, bottles of sweetened water, and boards smeared over with J|aolasses. I have always caught many insects, but never to my knowledge caught a codling-moth by these means. I have thrown slacked lime into trees at different times when fruit was on the trees, but it has failed to reduce the moths or the number of wormy apples. I have tried bands around the trees--bands made of straw, wood, cloth, pasteboard and soft paper. They all catch the larvse of the menths, but still enough escape to keep up a gaod :".pply of insects. The most effectual band was one patented in Western New York. It consists of a band of pasteboard two and one-half inches wide and lined with cotton flan­ nel. Professor Ceok and Dr. Kedzie have made some experiments in show­ ering the trees, when the apples are small, with Paris green or London pur­ ple mixed with water, the same as for potato beetles. No trace of the poison has been found about the ripe fruit. The egg of the moth is usually laid in the blossom end of the young apple, where it hatches and the little worm begins to cut its way into the core. A little poison terminates its career. The arsenites may not be safe to use after the apples become large enough to hang down and have cavities at the base." -fr. Si'- SOU8EHOLD HELPS* A COMBINATION of fruits often gives a pleasant result. Current jelly is im­ proved by the addition of raspberries, as also raspberry jam by currant juice. A BATH towel that will do good servioe is made of carpet warp, crocheted in any loose stitch. It is a short task to make it, and will outlast most other towels used for rubbing alone. SALAD DRESSING--Three eggs, two teaspoonsfuls of black pepper, one tea- spoonful of salt, one tablespoon ful of melted butter, six teaspoonfuls of sweet cream, one coffee cup of vinegar; put altogether on the stove and stir until it looks smooth, like cream. When oold poor over the other ingredients. OKAHOE PDB--The grated rind and, j wee of iw»nnii|M,. w «fn **» titiuapoiMifiili o( M^air» 0|d imftitbfo- Sdwigar, add the' fce*S the rind and Juice of th* t>ranges, and lastly the whites beaten to a froth and mixed in lightly. Bake with wader crust. LDCIA PuDDmo--One large ooooanut grated and the milk; eight large Irish potatoes, boiled and mashed smooth; three pints of milk; one nut­ meg; one gill of rum or brandy; a lump of butter the size of an egg; one pound and a quarter of sugar; afit eggs. Take the w hites of the eggs and h$lf the su­ gar, whip them up well and put on the top of the pudding after it is done, re­ turning to the oven to brown. Bake about two hours. A VERT agreeable dish for dinner is made by cutting up some lamb in pieces the size you would serve on each plate at the table; put them in a sauce-pan with a large lump of butter, and cook until both sides are brown; then pour over hot water enough to cover the mJkt; let this cook slowly for an hour, then remove the meat from the stew-pan; make » rich.gravv, adding to the water in the pan au onion sliced thin, plenty of pepper and salt, any herb you like, or in place of the onion, and before put­ ting in the flower to thicken the gravy, put in a quart of green peas, and cook them from fifteen to twenty minutes; skim them out, thicken the gravy, and serve meat and peas and gravy all in one deep platter. HERE is an excellent receipt for Ba­ varian cream: Beat one pint of cream to a stiff froth. While doing this boil one pint of milk with a part of a vanilla bean in it, and half a cup of sugar should be added in time to have it dis­ solve thoroughly and yet not boil its sweetness away. Bemove the vanilla l>ean when you take the milk from the fire; then add half a box of gelatine, that is dissolved in a little cold water; add the well-beaten whites of four eggs, and let this all stand until it is cold; then stir in the whipped cream gradu­ ally. Set it away in the refrigerator until you wish to serve it. This with fresh fruit and some small cakes in a basket is very dainty to pass with after- dinner coffee; and, by the way, the cor­ respondent who asks for a wedding gift may put her doubt at rest by choosing s a pretty set of after-dinner coffee cups. These may be found in such a variety of styles that almost any taste may be Charging a Square. • • Cel. Dakin commanded one o#tl»e*ix regiments of volunteers which were raised in the State of Ohio, after the battle of Palo Alto, Besaca de la Palma. which joined Gen. Taylor's army speed­ ily. The Colonel was an old disciplina­ rian, very strict and capable, and in a short time his regiment excited the ad­ miration of even veteran regular officers, by the ease and precision with which it drilled and maneuvered. One morn­ ing the regiment was drawn up, and standing at ease, after a variety of marches, and charges and evolutions, when the Colonel took it into his head to put their discipline to a test. The regiment was thrown into a square to receive cavalry. The commander rode off a few hun­ dred yards, and then wheeling his horse, came down sword in hand at a fierce gallop straight at his men. He and iiis steed formed an imposing-look­ ing object, for he was a big man, and his steed was a big horse, and neither appeared to fear the brtetllhg array of bayonets against which they were rush­ ing. The men stood the charge very well until the horse and the rider were within a few feet, when they broke right and left in confusion, and opened a broad passage for the "cavalry" into their ranks. Of course the Colonel was wroth and the way meu and officers caught it for a few moments was by no means agreeable to their feelings. "You repel cavalry! Why, what would you havo done if a thousand dragoons had charged you as I did?" "Well, just try us again, Colonel, and see if we don't hurt your feelings," cried a number of the discom­ fited volunteers. The square was again formed; off rode the Colonel; round he wheeled, and here he came again at full speed, rushing straight at the bayonets, and looking as if he could crush them to powder under his charger's heels. The bayonets wavered not, though the horse came faster and faster, and finally, with a terrible bound, sprang at the square. The square stood the shock; and the next moment the horse wax stretched on the ground, covered with stabs and with brdken bayonets in his side, and his limbs quivering in the death agony, while his stout rider lay with his foot and knee caught, and him­ self unable to rise. > Not a man moved; the square was silent, steady, and unbroken. In an­ other instant the Colonel was on his feet. He replaced his sword in the scabbard, looking gravely and coolly at the dead horse and at the firm array ol soldiers, and said, in his usual quaint way: "Very well done, boys; both the horse and the square did their duty. Now you're ready for the lancers." The men cheered not a little; and, when the regiment met a charge of the Mexican lancers at Buena Vista, they did not for­ get the lesson. Intelligent Dogs. Among dogs the poodle and the colley have always been conspicuous for gen­ eral intelligence. Other species devel­ op particular faculties iu extraordinary degrees, like the St. Bernards, which can find men buried in the snow where reasoning beings fail to do so, the New­ foundlands that can be trained, as on the Seine, to act together and without human supervision in saving drowning persons, the pointer, the setter, and so forth. Preeminent, however, for a sa­ gacity that approaches human reason more nearly than any other is that ol the collv or shepherd dog; for it is a fact too well established to be challenged that these animals are not only capable of being trained to do their master's usual duties with unvarying efficiency and punctuality, but that when unfore­ seen circumstances arise to make devia­ tion from the regular rounds neces­ sary, they recognize the necessity and 'act" upon their own discretion with amazing judgment. Fable, it is true, tells of demoralized shepherd dogs that have wickedly connived with wolves against their master's interests. But these are fables, and merely point to the moral that even the wise may not be uniformly sagacious and that a Homer may on occasion nod.--London Stan­ dard. The Bee No Respecter of Persons. The Prairie Farmer says: Prof. A. J. Cook, a close observer who, each summer during several years, has work­ ed in the Michigan Agricultural College apiary, with a class of from 20 to 40 students, all entirely unused to bees, says he has found no proof of the state­ ment that bees know their master and are more likely to sting strangers. been 1 complete revoin- tw® :jtel Democratic sentiment within three years in reference to the star- router Dorsey. When he was ap­ pointed Secretary of the Bepubliean Campaign Committee in 1880onaoeount of bis special knowledge of the politics of some of the Southern States, which the committee at the time determined to make an effort to carry for Gen. Oar- field, the Democratic organs bitterly assailed him. He had been what they called a "carpet-bag" Senator from Arkansas, and this circumstance alone furnished the Bourbon editors and stump-speakers with texts for many a slashing editorial and many a wither­ ing speech against Stephen W. Dor- Bey. The Democrats have now changed their opinion of Dorsey. They have forgotten apparently that he was a "carpet-bagger." They have welcomed him as a prodigal. He is the best saint in their calendar. His statements are implicitly believed by them. The man whom they denounced as a liar and a falsifier in 1880 is now the embodi­ ment of truth. His slanders of dead men whoee reputations have stood among the highest in the nation are ac­ cepted as infallible Democratic tiuths; his charges against the living,* though contradicted and proven false, are re­ peated by Democratic journalists and speakers as if Dorsey's character for veracity had never been assailed. The incarnate Bepubliean fiend of three years ago is now a Democratic evangel­ ist and prophet. What has caused the change? Since the close of the campaign of 1880. Mr. Dorsey has ln en charged with being a member of a star-route ring which swindled the Government out of a large sum of money. Strong circumstantial evidence has been given that he was a member of that ring. The evidence was enough to justify the President whose election he aided to direct a ! >rosecution to be instituted against lim. That President was not diverted from his duty in this matter, though Dorsey threatened to make public the circumstances of the campaign, and to circulate stories, if the prosecution was persisted in, which might create a bad impression. President Garfield, moved only by a sense of duty, and being con­ vinced that there was sufficient evidence on which to proceed against Dorsey, undeterred by threats of any kind and conscious of his own rectitude, directed that the prosecution should Ik? pei sist ed in. President Arthur, though his political association with Dorsey was closer, when he became the Chief Ex­ ecutive urged the prosecution also, and Dorsey and his confederates were in­ dicted and brought to trial. The pros­ ecution was vigorously pushed; the evi­ dence was strong, but Dorsey was saved on a quibble by a jury consisting of eight Democrats and four negroes, on whose sympathies Mr. Ingersoll deftly played. Notwithstanding the action of the jury, the Government yet propose if possible, to make Dorsey disgorge the money he may have stolen. He has been acquitted of "conspiracy;" he has not been acquitted of theft. Two Bepubliean administration prosecuted Dorsey, because they be­ lieved him to be a rascal and dishonest. In revenge for this just prosecution Dorsev has, since the trial ended, de­ voted himself, as was to be expected, tot e task of blackening the character of his prosecutors and slandering those, living or dead, who were instrumental in bringing him to trial. Straightway the Democrats have dis­ covered that there can be virtue in a carpet-bagger. They have taken this political blackmailer and prosecuted star-router, with his damaged reputa­ tion and his faithless character,to their hearts. The columns of their journals are open to him to assail the memories of the dead, the character of the living. They who denounced him when his only known sin was that he differed from them in politics proclaim him a men worthy of credit, whose word has to l>e taken as against the words of inen dis­ tinguished for their patriotism and probity. They have induced him to publish letters which were not his; and now they set him up as a political saint. This is nothing new with the Demo­ crats. The Democratic paity is the refuge of Bepubliean rascals.--Chicago Tribune. "The Prohibition Party." The Democ ratic papers seem to de­ light in applying to the Bepubliean party the name which heads this article. Well, in view of the splendid line of Inhibition measures which the Bepub-ican party has adopted and enforced in this country, the name is not so bad sfter all. See what the Bepubliean party has done: 1. It has prohibited slavery. 2. It has prohibited discrimination in the civil and political rights of citi­ zens. 3. It has prohibited treason and re­ bellion from disrupting the republic. 4. It prohibited the Southern Democ­ racy from repudiating the will of the majority of the people of this country as expressed in the Presidential elec­ tion of I860. 16. It prohibited the Demotintfepet- ioy of requiring the pioneer tnfNIf for his Lfarm on the public landa, and en­ acted the Homestead law which gave every man a home who would settle on the public domain. 17. It prohibited the Democratic policy of excluding colored children from the benefits of education, and made ample provision for all. And now it proposes to prohibit the legalization of saloons in Iowa, and to provide for the protection of home. It proposes, to prohibit the legalisation of the temptations which the dramshops-- once denounced by the Iowa Democra­ cy as "public nuisances"--place before the young men of the State. It pro­ poses to prohibit the abandonment of that doctrine of the National Demo­ cratic platform which declaree: "Ab­ solute acquiescence in the will of the majority--the vital principle of Bepub- lies. So you can go on, gentlemen of the Democratic press, and call the Be- publican party "The Prohibition Par­ ty. " You used to call us "Blade Re­ publicans," because we were fighting against slavery and for the rights of men. We accepted the name, put it on our flags and banners, and, under it, drove you from power, and made this country in very fact "the land of the free and the home of the brave." The moral forces and convictions were against you then, and they are against you now, and no cry of the " Prohibi­ tion Party," nor all* the aid that all the saloons and saloon-keepers of Iowa can give you, will save you from a repeti­ tion of the disaster that overwhelmed you when for slavery you fought as you now fight for the saloons. --Fairfield (Iowa) Ledger. ' Political Ketes. THE Spiingfield Republican treats the conduct of Southern leaders and newspapers in their sudden change from hostility to a caressing of Ben Butler under the general head of "Burying the Spoon." IT would be worth millions to the Democracy if they had no Speaker to elect this winter, and no committees to frame. That majority in the House of Bepresentatives is the weight which will drag them down in several ways in 1884.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat, THE report of the State Auditor of Ohio shows that the revenue collected during the last fiscal year under the Seott Liquor law. which the Democrat# are seeking to repeal, exceeds $2,000, 000. The money was devoted in the localities where collected toward the support of paupers and thw payment of policemen. THE Democratic State Committee off Iowa has determined to test the efficacy of money in the lively political contest in progress in that State. A large cor­ ruption fund has been raised, and is being distributed in sums of $50 and $";0U "for use on election day. " There is little danger that the canvass ean be influenced in any such disgraceftd man­ ner.--Chicago ^Tribune. THE Bepubliean party cannot help the negro over the obstacles of preju­ dice and ignorance at one bound. No party can. That problem lies above the possibilities of a party. It will be solved when the negro is fused into the citizenship of this country by means of education and the accumulation of wealth, intelligence and power. In I this, as with the white race, the mani­ festation of success must be through individuals. The ignorant negro can­ not advance with the educated and re­ fined of his race. The poor cannot be as independent as the ricn.--Louisville Commercial. EVERY Bepubliean State Convention held this year has cordially approved of the administration of President Ar­ thur. Both factions of the party unite in honoring him. Probably he is not liked by the leaders of either faction, but they are all conscious that his course has the approval and confidence of the people at large, and they dare not, in the face of dangers pressing on the party, leave out that expression of prai-e whioh the rank and file of the party demands, and which Mr. Ar­ thurs wise, conservative, patriotic and honest course as President eminently deserves.--New York Herald. THE Des Moines Register says: "As thrilling a scene as ever occurred in the old Opera House, where so many thrill­ ing tilings have occurred, was the re­ ply of Gen. Harrison to the Democrat in the audience who interrupted him with the cry of 'the bloody shirt again.' The reply of the General was so mag­ nificent in manner and so electrical in effect that the reporters all stopped to listen to it and to look at the General, and never took down the splendid burst of a little speeoh at the time. We give this as nearly it : He was speaking of the war and its issues, and was going along quietly but strongly, when a voice rang out from the dress-circle, 'The bloody-shirt again." The Gen­ eral's eyes flashed fire at the words, and, springing forward to the foot­ lights, and holding his right hand 5. It prohibited the arrogant and toward the person interrupting him. he aristocratic slaveholders of the South from owning the husbands and wives, the workingmen and women of the South, the parents and children of the lowly and oppressed slaves, and from appropriating the earnings of the labor of the workers to the use of the op­ pressor who would not work. 6. It prohibited the suppression of the freedom of speech and press in this country. 7. It prohibited the suppression of moral force which pushed forward the anti slavery discussion until it drove the slavery from the republic. 8. It prohibited the extension of slavery into the Territories of the United Stat s. i>. It prohibited the slave-drivers of Missouri and other Southern States from making a slave State of Kansas. 10. It prohibited the Democratic party from continuing the administra­ tion of the Government in the interest of tie most godless oppression that ever disgraced a rt-publif. 11. It prohibited the application of the old doctrine of kings and despots from applying to our naturalized cit­ izens that "Once a subject, always a subject," is a higher law than the one which confers on persons of foreign birth the dignity and rights of Amer­ ican citizens. 12. It prohibited the Democratic party from destroying the public credit of the United States. 13. It prohibited the Democratic party from repealing the resumption of specie payment act which has given to this country suoli unprecedented finan­ cial stability, prosperity and success, 14. It prohibited the Democratic party from continuing the rotten State and local banking system, and estab- said,with a n onderful,electrifying power which swept through the audience like a storm, 'Yes, the bloody-shirt again! I have seen thousands of them on the Meld of battle, wet with the blood of loyal men--and I would a thousand times rather march under the bloody- shirt, stained by the life-blood of a Union soldier, than to march under the black flag of treason or the white flag of cowardly compromise.' The effect was tremendous, and the audience cheered the inspired little speech again and again for over a minute's time. The Democrat knows now what a cyclone is. He knows, too, what a roused lion is." Beneficent Despotism. Czar Nicholas was a frank, open des­ pot, who occasionally made a good use of his despotic power. He knew how to deal with "cranks," especially those who peril their lives in order to coax money from lovers of the terrible. The following illustration of Nicholas' be­ neficent despotism almost makes one wish for a similar display in this coun­ try : Looking out of his window one day, the Czar saw a large and interested crowd on the bank of the Neva. H< sent an officer to find out the cause, and learned that a man had bet 6 rubles- about $3.75--that he could run across the river on the ice, which was then in that treacherous, half liquid state caused by the commencement ol the spring thaw. The man performed the perilous feat, reoeived his arables, and then Nich­ olas had him arrested and flogged witl a hundred stripes. "For," said he, "a man who will risk hi& life for such a sum, is capable ol A nurr-oBowaa fcatvmltas ids sixty acne « eraaa Ooloonda to Ban*, te A90 ®o*», of Taykanrm* Qw (Store City outage, is CArtCilfli Smn; Of Chicago, after hsvh« boss tried twice Mr kitting Joh* SchtunalM; sdisobaigedbrJndB* ROBERT] 90 as a died recently, after 1 ft THE openHnf in ClUnagji ofc ilfs Grand Lodge of Illinois was attended by S*. representatives. Grand Master W. at Brown. WABNDCO IS given of tbe the Joliet penitentiary notorious "crook* who hm operated biflH principal cities of tbe uuuatij. WEST JAMKSON was aasaalted at Dees**- by Thomas Cow aa, wttk a katak#..*!#*; butchex^knife. Jameson was but not fatally, injured, aod hisasMdSanf was IV- rested. - v , A TIUUBU hone Masgtag to WflHaiO Fritz, near Joliet, was sttaeked with hydco- phobia. He bit several other in one of his fits plunged ment, breaking his neck. THK question of stthttfitMag to a vote'li proposition to remove to tte eonttty seaMf- Bond county from Greenville to 8arithbozt£ * was decided by County Judge A. G. Heray: iu favor of the former {dace. JOSEPH COOPEK, who was shot hyPoMef man John Adams, at Decatur, on Sept dead. Cooper wss a wealthy fMrmpr,and' •such indignation is felt at thsoOoec, itW tng claimed that the shootii% was voked. Adams wss arrested. TBE Illinois State Fair reatfced shoot! *»• 000 from tickets and #8,000 from pit illegal" The expenses will be about lwitng ? handsome surplus, forcing the uflcwi to esMfn the wisdom of permanently locating the fair in Chicago. j,,-« THE Supreme Court oC Illinois has decided^ that the Military tund does not l«pSffc||e the treasury until Oct 1. The Ooyernpr and Adjutant General are directed Ut ej£, amine just claims, and with their apfHrovw the Auditor will issue his warrant THE Secretary of State has lieensed the* following: South Chicago Best Bstats Im- ' provement Oompnny, cspttal #50,000; the Northwestern Orocer Publishing flfUlianj. Chicago ̂capital 91(\000; the fiotaS Deils* -̂- Protective Association of Chfc>sg«s capital tio,ooa T. L. BATTEKTT, who disappeared pom" Lookport two yesra ego, and whoee .sagN* posed remains were brought from 8t XjOidtf' and interred, tsortted up just as his wtfi tM# ' about te aany again, aswi inmedUMd ̂ took full chsige of his epouao and lMt* property. -- A VERT peculiar traveling eeaspaay patMd through Deoatur recently whioh sti»anled.- much attention. It wasa wagon drawn Jqr two yearling calves. The wagon wasloadl^l. with a tent and cooking utensils, Mrssl)tubs ̂ .etc, and in it was a family of ten pSksOai^ the youngest a child of 7 months. COUNTY SURVEYOR BOWMAN has just com: plsted and delivered to the ComaolssMfners of Highways of the town of OakwOsd; tB Vermillion county, the plans and qpsatBsa-" tions for a stone and iron .bridge acroat Stony creek, at Muncie, of ninety feet spmL to be built this fall and to cost 9l»500l A man giving his name as Fred Walaly whose conscience has evidently been troubling Aim a great deal, called at a Chiosgo police-station and aaked to t* looked up, He explained ̂ttet, last ruary, he stole ft? Croat a fins in Pa, and osase to Chiosgo Having that a man named Ricksrt had been sent to jail for the theft, he (Walsh) decided tode the square thing. He was looked up, and the Beading tirm will be notified MBS. MART DAVIS, 27 years of ape, ooin- ] mitted suicide in Chicsgo by throwing h ̂' self from the window of her rooass 'en- tft" . fifth floor of the Hantaon Honse, to the pavement Tbe distance is ssianty Ust Inaddition to a fracture of the light h| above the knee she sustained Internal in­ juries of suoh a nature thaMhndMwmili fifteen minutes after being taken tolsr room. Her husband, a painter by ttfada ̂ was absent st the time. Deceased hadhiRpn in ill health for some time, sod had leekirt herself in her room. It is •mnioaml jiM a-- suffering from a temporary astnek of msolRlri sberrstion. .̂ THE north part of Danville was thrown !«{*., to excitement over the .abduction of ftt-ffmi, • the 5-year-old daughter of J. C. Campbell, the grocer, by a tramp The little giri waa playing with a neighbor's child, two dootav north of bet home, when they wOre Sg '̂ proached by a dirty tramp, dressed in a dMAf • suit of jeans and wearing a light ootarod cap He prevailed on Stella to go withhkt. and, lifting her over the alley feaoe, stsstfd iu the direction of Spring Hill cemetery. 1 neighbor saw part of the proceeding, $Pt supposed the man was % country relative But the more she thought about tt the matt she became convinced thalr something wan wrong, and she immediately informed Mfefc Campbell, who, upon receiving the fnfonna- tion, became frantic, and, screaming at the top of her voice started in pursuit She was joined by several others, and, as they cai^e in sight of the cemetery, overlooking a deep ravine, they saw the tramp and little therein. The tramp, finding he wss hotj|y pursued, jumped into a corn-field and dis­ appeared. A posse of citisens was organ* ' lzedand a search was made for the afeh ' ductor, but without sucoesa This ia that f third attempt st kidnaping la that clip, ̂ within the past two months QUITS a sensation was produced at Jersey*. Title by the passage of a large balloon gohgt ̂ east It was witnessed by many of tha «ttl- ; " s e n s , a n d s e e m e d t o b e r a p i d l y n e a r i n g t h f t ' . ' ground. A basket swinging back and forth appeared to contain no passengec Ttay*' soon the news came to town that the bai» loon lauded in aeasnfieUl abent -fear ntitoe:*r southeast of that place on the fans of HSf Spencer. Mr. William MoBrida assured It after cutting the eanvss aad allowing the , ea* to escape In the basket be fennd,n * flask of liquor, lemons, and advavtWlip . cards of a clothing-house in St Charts*, Mi Tbe balloon was forty feet in diametscaiHi fifty feet frosa neck to top. In the evtoCag < the celebrated aeronant ChireUa BftJlMk** • the owner of the balloon, came to He stateil that he leit St Charles, M*, voyage with th e balloon at half-pest 1 p ui., tutnl was driven rapidly across theH* eissiyfA river, where he lesehed an sttftode of dhont four miiea. After ttavsUag la thirty minutes a distance of twenty slAas he endeavored U> effect a landtag On alargs prahie south of this city, bet upon neaxtpg the ground the basket was t»oeked |)getast- 4 a treetop on the farm of Mr. Sunderland, about one mile east of Delhi. bruising, and somewhat stunning 1 1 balloon suddenly rose sgain, but ' down at bpeneer's as above 1 tolled" the "best paper ever committing any sot of for |i A FBcrr-yBowKa of Johnsenvitte to possessed by a people. ' - 1 similar eanaiderafaoii. ^ • I harvesting hi* sixty aeresoC apfMfc ^ ; •>&..« j*.?' .-w* 'Jx 4^ . . V- 1 >>'; ^ ' "W 1 i/Z - "'-J* .sifc. ..... AlsA.j'v.t I >>