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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 28 Nov 1883, p. 3

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am .1 ho* "in the §#11 "V I-'; WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28. 1SS3, "ISS ^ * t • -J, I sS^;r'-V^>' ailroad Time Table. ooiwo goDJta. •MTTI Lake Passenpfcr. 7:27 A. Jfiin Lake Express .8:22 " ^Nirs Lake Freiiht .a........l:*>3 R. n{ (•Men Lake Passenger..*. ..8:32 ' l l f f } t D R T I t . iWIT* Lake Freight.... ,...«•!» A. M 4-eaeva Lake Passenger. •* feseva Lake KxpreSA :4:57p. * [•tin Lake Passenrer fi:57 " B. Bess, Agent. Mr,Henry, III M ASOVIC _HonKWRT LOOGK. \O. 158 \ . F. and A, M.-- Itecular Communications the Saturday on or fcewre the full of the moon and every two WMki thereafter. CIIAS. C. COLBY, W. M. WCAWITR CHAPTRR TFR>. 34 H. A. M.--ttegil- ar Conversation* held nnthesenoniand fourth Fridays in eachimoneh. E. V3 AWNBRSNW.H. P. . X. D. LINCOLN will please accept thanks for two verr fine fresh flab, left at eur sanctum on Monday. LOOK out for the new advert isement of Golding Brothers, Waueonda, next wuk. ft. AGRICULTURAL. on the JUSTRN BROS., Furniture dealers have a new advertisement this week which oar readers should not fail to peruse. ' NEVIN'S Military Band, of Chicago, plajr at the Thanksgiving Party at the Riverside Hons!*, to-morrow (Thurs­ day) evening. Thwy are acknowledged t# be the best Band I n the State. CTRUS JEFFERSON, father of R. C. Jeflerson, late of Woodstock, died Franklinville, N. Y., on the 22(1 inet. Mr. Jefferson was estimated to be werth from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000. A WOMAN offered her husband at auc­ tion and no one bid. Then *ho put up a billy goat and twelve dollars were offered, Tlwrt Is nothing like an auc­ tion sale to show what a thing Is worth. N. E. SLOCUM s Orchestra play at the Thanksgiving Party at the Parker House to-morrow (Thursday) evening. It is too well known to need any eu- comlums from us, WE have received front the publisher* Eugene Hall. Chicago, a copy uf humor­ ous and dramatic recitations, which is designed for public scliool and p/lrlor entertainment*. It is a nice little work and will'be appreciated. "The Westminster." the boss coal If you don't be- jflowo, and he and If • - J * ' • HKMrfo more difference in Slfillian --f"---------- the soil they till. Place a good 7 „.. e-awake farmer in one of the most rlSKsUNALi, » » • i. * • i « promising agncnlttual neighbor- H, H. NICHOLS arrived K*8> aQd he will not only make his California on Wednsday a farm better, bnt also increase the ne of all the land in the vicinity. JOHN H. DORAN, of El^l TO washes for fruit trees, a sue- streets on Monday and 1'4 >sful grower speaks highly of strong ' MR» RICHARD BISHOPJi 1 softP> diluted with a 'little lime- sick the pust week but is teF' f® the best Lj6 ? . . j y ashes are recommended for killing ^ia better. / ; bark louse, throwing the ashes in GEO OWEN IS still under J TOP and among the branches of the care, but is reported as -lo e when the foliaee 'an<1 bark are fng> 1 ' . 1 a»p with dew or light rain. i»o f , THE red rust on raspberries is a . FEORRS IS RAPIDL^gug wbich rapidly spreads to • ng, tud bis friends hope ilthy plants. Every hill showing jilm around attending to bu us of it. shonld be rooted up and PETER SMITH IS still v« r.n®?' £ be avoided on the i_ni j * f 1T , , -leties that root from the tips by • ' ®ver- He is undt iuting only those tips grown the first or Dr Ballou. ir after setting out the plantation. * MILLIE WAITE, daugh this age all wii» bo healthy and re- Waite, Is Quite sick but m ^ [friends Jiope she may soon r° **** «rub8 from the he,ad® of ' T >ep an old flockmaster spreads half / JOHN HUEMANN, who wai inch OF tar on the bottom of a fa vicious bull a «e»k or t ugh, scattering salt over it. The yniproving slowly, He liai ieP will tar their noses in getting the cape, t, and the fly which deposits the egg „ „ _ « at produces the grub will not enter HON REUBEN ELLWOOD, ^ nostril. This is a much easier Congre«s from this Dlatrict^thod of applying the tar than to at- for Washlngtou on Tliursd^npt to do it by hand. The tar row. , puld be renewed two or three times \ |ring the season.--Chicago Journal. The Sycamore Rep'*Msa^EPARATED the soil man never slick-looking stranger appe^J148^cceeded m thriving. At best, resilip•><>«. n. i jhout it, he is a potted plant, and , - • Cliarles 0£ p0^g are miserably small, .c tool director in the tow visited many factories in New viHe, near Kankakee, la«t ]igland, and find that wherever the informing Mrs. D. that lie eratives have a good-sized garden .sistant (superintendent"reqith access to pasture for a cow, the privilege of inspecting th °Ple health7'. Son^nted .. „ -mg. Whenever this is the case the k. Mrs. D. pUiation is likely to live without cess to the book, and he co^ual starvation or extreme destitution out an order In favjor of the event of the mills being closed 870, forged the name of Dev even a very long period. When- another director to it too Br tliey are separated from the soil, $s school treasurer and drew some of our largtf^d crowded cities a . ere is squalor, demoralization ana He promptly disappeared a 9pair.-Barnes Parton. trace. The game'ls a ne« . , „ , , „ • A CORRESPONDENT of Colman's Mu-school directors and their fa Westminster etove on the market. lleve It. call on K. M, will prove it to you in no time. you want a stove, will sell you one be­ fore you leave. THE finest stock of Confectionery and Cigars to be found in town, at .T. P. • • Smith's Jewelry store, where can also - fu' • he found a fine Hue of Watches, Clocks. TOppal! f _ ' ganizing for that purpose.. King IvalaH^- -c'>i t at>Ie kaua is very unpopular among his for­ eign-born subjects, who pay most of his taxes, and his little army of four or five huudred men is not worth speaking of. It would be a trivial exploit to dethrone him. , I World tells how he saves sorghum IN twenty-two years, ending with 1882, Massachusetts had 107 murder trials and 16 hangings; in thirty years, ending with 1880, Connecticut had 97 murder trials and 7 hangings; in four years, ending with 1877, New York city had 185 homicides and 4 executions. It would, perhaps, be a good idea for the States, in order to secure a con- sistant enforcement of their criminal laws, to so change them as to provide the death penalty for any person who ahall, in cold blood, have committed twenty-five murders. A COMPETENT authority estimates that new railroads will "be built in the chief countries of the world during the next few years, at the rate of 18,000 miles per annum, exclusive of railroad exten­ sions in Asia, Australasia, and the United States. India has in view a large expansion of her railway system; in Java, the roads are being annually extended ; 1,220 miles of additional road will be built in Japan; a line from Con­ stantinople to Bagdad, 1,488 miles in -gtli, has been projected, and lines hieing surveyed in Turkestan and DER is the heart of Mormon ts. At the recent Salt Lake ence, H. J. Grant expressed contempt for any man who way a superfluous wife in ge the United States Con- aid : "When a man marries neglects the woman, and leart, he should be pun- re seen many faithful wo- ing along for ten or fifteen uffering neglect. The de- leart .is to keep the eom- Lord." Mr. Grant has do well to be on theirjguar«Le.seed: When the cane is fully ripe. How does one m-inao-e tC) ?elect mJ 8eed in the field from large -i... i o" ads with heavy, large seeds, reject- paper day a.tor day? I9 a g all chaffy, small-seeded heads quent propounded. It, is jus ;ring them oA a twine through the answered. The quality.of 10m. Hang them in a dry, airy loft, used frequently disturbs that one head will not lie on another, staff or a newspaper - but tin U9 ftVO»ding mold or heating, which never. It Is infinitely more h 11 iniu™ tbe When, Perfectly . . „ . , . . . y, pack them away secure from rats, to know what to leave out. tlice^nd cricketlj. JThc damage from And out what to put In. '•*li< ickets is not easy to detect until it is key to success In journalise) i o late. The top of the head blooms good judgment. Papers pu, id gets ripe first, therefore I have ' in the degree that its edi r PP08*^ it was the earliest. I scrape what to leave out Of rthe top half of the head and reject ...oil 1 * . ie remainder. well known, that news Items had for the clipping and tl.a THRIFT* PIOI. -- a i r h e l p s to thunder is a, easilv m-nuf, ,ake l>"re >lo?f in. *he . > . . , " ' nature, builds up healthy bodies. material of the fjut-of-door pigs would not show so well <1 he.locals are picked up lit the fairs, aud would probably be and everywhere. People gelissed over by the judges and people ted with the reporters and t|k° haye been taught to admire only ers with the people Thev ft nnd helpless things, which get the from whom they can obtalRf'\ ,?UCh ^ *** fadafted t0f ^ ill lard kegp, whereas the standard of on and keeping their eyes terfection should be a pig which will it is rare indeed, 1 hat an i t«take the most ham with the least waste their notice. Probably tlirjf fat, the longest aud deepest sides, of what is told them ngver "tli the most lean meat. It should rtSfe bone enough to stand up and hold D by thfi piteous howls of a lenbnrg (Prussia) peasant ge eagle on the back of a The peasant ran to fetch a f. When the two came the hopping round, badly dis- ' shot dispatched him. The Found dead--torn to pieces, was black, with white shoul- vas was is called an imperial his left foot was a gold ring, ere cut the letters, still quite Ks. o. k.," underneath the word "Eperjes," and on side the date, 10, 9,1827." a town in upper Hungary, ar from the northern Carpa- are beginning to many here WHAT is known as "standard time" is likely to be adopted on the entire rail­ road system of the country. The man­ agers of 60,000 miles have already agreed to it, and there have been prac­ tically no negative votes against the proposition. The whole country will be divided into five divisions--the Inter­ colonial, 60 degrees west from Green­ wich ; the eastern, 75 degrees west from Greenwich; the Central, 90 degrees west from Greenwich; the Mountain, 105 degrees west from Greenwich, and the Pacific, 120 degrees west from Greenwich. Each division, it will be observed, is fifteen degrees apart, which makes just one hour in time. At pres­ ent there are fifty different standards of time in use on the various roads in the country, which causes much annoyance and trouble. By the new arrangement there will be but five standards, each one hour apart, which will greatly simplify matters. The adoption of standard time does not necessarily mean the change of the clock dial from twelve hours to twenty;iour. It is thought that suggestion will meet with little favor. File Cut File* Davy Crockett was a good sort of man to let alone, and most jokers learned to treat him that way, after a few costly experiments. The following old anecdote is good enough to repeat-- to prevent its being forgotten : When Crockett w as in Washington, he was one day in a hotel, when a Sena­ tor from Massachusetts entered. Approaching the old frontiersman the latter said, "Crockett, a large body of your constituents are marching up the street; you ought- to go out to greet them." Crockett hurriedly arose and went out upon the hotel steps, when a drove of mules caught his eye. He quietly watched them antil the last one had passed, and then returned to his seat by the stove. The Massachusetts Senator was still there, and as the redoubtable Davy dropped into his chair, asked: "Well, did you see your friends?" "Oh, yes," was the response. "They are looking remarkably well, too." "Did you ascertain their destination ?" "Certainly." "And where are they going to in such a solid body ?" Crockett turned to the Senator with a quiet, calm expression, and replied: "Thev're going down to Massa­ chusetts to teach school." In Prospect. "Father, do they call you the Hon. John Johnson because yon have been in the Legislature?" "Yes, my son." There was a long pause, says the Wall Street Xews, as the father finished and sealed letter, and. then ho suddenly asked: - " Wliv. mv son?" "Oh, I didn't know whether it was "because you had been in the Legisla­ ture and held free railroad passes, or because you got a job building a $10,- 000 county jail and made $13,000 out of it. The next boy who says you are 'Hon.' because you stole $13,000 is go- ing to get licked!" " itself to food, and carry with it the evi­ dences of health and natural develop­ ment in all of its parts. Pigs which run on a range of pasture have good appetites--the fresh air and exercise q;ives them--hence they will eat a great variety of food, and much coarser than when confined in pens. Nothing need to go to waiste on a farm for need of a market. They will consume all the re­ fuse fruit, roots, pumpkins and all kinds of vegetables, which will make them grow. By extending the root patch and planting the fodder corn thinner, so that nubbins will form on it, by putting in a sweet variety, the number of pigs may be increased in proportion. The pig pasture will be ready the next year for any crop, and ten times the ad­ vantages accrue to the farmer than if the pigs are confined to close pen&, for, as the pigs are usually managed on a farm, but little manure is ever made from them.--Swine Breeders' Journal. PERSPIRATION ; EVIL CONSEQUENCES OF ITS SUPPRESSION.--Many of the dis­ eases of horses and cattle are caused by suppressed or checked perspiration; the various appearances they assume depending, perhaps, in a great me ;s- ure^pon the suddenness with which the discharge is stopped, and the state of the animal at the time it takes place. Thus, if a horse, after being heated and made to sweat by exercise, and then suffered to stand still, be exposed to a cold wind or rain, a fever, or inflamma­ tion of some internal organ will prob­ ably be the consequence; and the dis­ ease thus produced will be still more serious, if the horse's exercise has been such as to produce considerable fatigue. If, on the other hand, a cold current of air l'e admitted a to horse's body, as he stands in a stable, it will often cause a catarrh or cold. Cattle often suffer from being keep in cold, Itleak situa­ tions, particularly in the early part of spring, during the prevalence of a northwestly wind. In this case the sup­ pression of the perspiration is more gradual, and the diseases which result from it are slower in their progress, consequently more insidious in their nature; and it often happens that the animal is left in the same cold situation until the disease is incurable. It seems probable that, in these cases, the per­ spiring vessels gradually- lose their power, and that at length a total and permanent suppression* of that neces­ sary discharge takes place; hence arises consumptions, decayed liver, mesenteric obstructions, and various other com­ plaints. How necessary, therefore, it is to provide sheltered situations for the stock. How many diseases might not be saved, not only in perserving the lives of the cattle, but in avoiding the expense (too often useless, to say the least of it) of cattle-doctoring!-- Fra irie Farmer. Put all into a pan and until it boils up, tfteaMtlte off in tho soda. Boll thin and quickly. BEEF TEA.--Cut raw beef into small pieces, cover with cold water and set on the back of the stove, where it will not boil, until all the juice is extracted from th^beef. When wanted for use skim oft all the fat, strain, season, andc let it come to a boil. BAKED FISH.--Stuff it. with plain dressing; put in a pan with a little wa­ ter; salt, pepper, and butter. Baste while baking. A fish weighing four pounds will bake in an hour. Garnish with hard-boiled eggs and parsley, and serv e with drawn butter or egg sauce. OMELET.--Beht the yelks and whites of eight eggs separately until light, then beat together; add a little salt and one tablespoonful of cream. Have in the omelet pan a piece of butter; when the butter is boiling hot pour in the omelette, and shake until it begins to stiffen, and then let it brown. Fold double and serve hot. . TOMATO CHOWDER.--Slice a peck of green tomatoes, six green peppers, and four onions; strew a teacup of salt over them. In the morning turn off the wa­ ter, and put them in a kettle with vine­ gar enough to cover them, a teacup of sugar, one of grated horseradish, a table- spoonful of cloves, allspice, and cinna­ mon, each. Boil until soft. BEAN SALAD.--Cover the bottom of your salad-dish with cold boiled potatoes, sliced thin; over this spread a layer of cold baked or boiled beans, and above this a layer of onions, sliced very thin; salt and pepper each layer; heat a piece of butter the size of a wal­ nut in sufficient vinegar to cover the salad and pour over it while hot ROLLS.--Flour, two quarts; sugar, one tablespoonful; butter, one table- spoonful; one-half cup of yeast; one pint of scalded milk, or water, if milk is scarce, and a little salt. Set to rise until light; then knead until hard, and set to rise, and when wanted make in rolls. Place a piece of butter between the folds and bake in a slow oven. BEEFSTEAK PIE.--Cut the beef in slices, and slice a little raw ham; put both in a frying pan, with some butter and a small quantity of chopped onions; let them simmer together a short time on the fire or in the oven; add a little flour and enough stock to make sauce; salt, pepper; add also a few sliced po­ tatoes, and cook together for about twenty minutes; put this into a pie- dish, with a few slices of hard-boiled eggs on the top, and cover with a layer of common paste. Bake from fifteen to twenty minutes in a well-heated oven. DRIED AND CANDIED FRUITS.--We will give the rule for candying and drying cherries. The same process would be followed with other fruits. Candied fruit is prepared until it has cooled in the syrup. It must then be taken out washed in lukewarm water and dried in the mouth of the oven, not too hard; the syrup is then returned to the fire and boiled until it reaches what confec­ tioners call the "blow;" that is known when, by dipping a skimmer in the boiling syrup and blov ing through the holes, little sparkling bubbles are formed over them; the fruit is then put into it and boiled until it again reaches the "blow;" the preserving kettle is taken from the fire; the skimmer is rubbed against the side of it until the sugar begins to "grain"--that is, to grow white: the fruit is then dipped in that part of the sugar, taken out with a fork and drained on a wire grating |>vet a pan; the fruit dries quickly, and ia then ready for use or preservation by packing in boxes between layers oi paper. ISSUE. Senator Mahone's Address to the Public on Ytiginta Politics* The Results of the Recent Election-- How They Were Brought About. A War of Raoes Inaugurated, and the Old Shotgun Policy Renewed. HOUSEKEEPER'S HELPS. COOKIES.--One cup of butter, two enps of sugar, two eggs, one teaspoon- ful of saleratus dissolved in a cup of milk or water, a grated nutmeg, suffi­ cient flour to make stiff to roll out. EGG GRUEL.-Beat the yelk of one egg with one tablespoonful of sugar; pour one teacup of boiling water on it; add the white of the egg beaten to a froth, with any seasoning or spice desired. To be taken warm. GINGEK SNAPS.- -TWO cups of molas­ ses, one cup of butter, one teaspoonfnl of ginger, one-half teaspoonfnl of soda. Comparative Happiness. A hard-working Stammer met an honest Corn down at the seashore during the hot days. "And wh-wli-wii-what have you been dud-dud-dud-doing with yourself all su- su-su-summer-summer ?" he asked, de­ liberately. The Corn waited for the end of the procession with beautiful patience. "Oh," he said, with a laugh that sounded like a mocking groan, "I have had lots of fun. Early in the spring, when the weather was damp, I settled down on a fat man with the asthma. He couldn't get down on his knees without crying, and I pre-emptied a claim a little 011 the other side of his off toe, on the outside range. Every night when he got down to have a cateh- weiglit rastle with me, I laughed till I was nearly dead. He used to lie on his back, hold his feet above his head, and slash at me with a razor. You never saw anything so funny in your life." "Oh, dud-dud-dud-dud didn't I, then ?" replied the Stammer, slowly. "You wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wait a mum- minute. I fooled-fooled-fooled around wuh-with a tut-teacher of elocution nun-nun-nearly all wuh-winter, and then right in the bub-bub-busy spring sulx-season I cuc-cuc-cauglit a down tut- tut-tut-town auctioneer bub-by the chuh-chuh-chin, and th-throwed the cuc crowd into cuc-convulsions suh- suh-six tut-times a week. Oh, nun-no! I dud-dud-don't h-have no good times. I lu-lu-ln-look solemn and I tut-talk slow, but I ain't so s-s-slow as I ln- look."--San Francisco Argonaut. Indian Coqjurers. The performances by the Davenport brothers and other spiritualists are clumsy compared with the arts of the far Northwest Indians. The conjurers are legion that will permit themselves to be bound, not merely hand and foot, but the whole body swathed with thongs, withes, ropes and rawhides, and afterward tied up in a net, and then re­ lease themselves almost instantly on being placed in a little "medicine lodge" of skins constructed for the purpose, the bonds being thrown out through an opening in the top, without a knot apparently disturbed. Dr. Archie Stookwell writes that he saw a medi­ cine man go through with a long series of incantations, drummings, rattlings of gourds, etc., for the relief of a con­ sumptive, lying in the centre of an or- dinafy lodge. Suddenly he announced that he had discovered the spirit that afflicted the sufferer, and thereupon, plunging his hands beneath the single blanket with which she was covered, drew forth the carcass of a full-grown wolf, and flung it with great violence against the door, greatly to the delight, mystification and satisfaction of the be­ holders. He now assured the friendf of the speedy recovery of the squaw but she died the same night, neverthe less. ' • IF you wish to know whether you art an honest man don't ask your mother, for she will be partial and blind, and don't ask yourself, for you are a verj poor judge, but seek the candid opin­ ion of the man to whom you have sold a horse, and yon will surely get at the bottom facts of th* case. Senator Mahone Addresses a letter to the Readjuster party of Virginia, In which he sums up the results of the last election aud reviews the history of the party of which he is the acknowledged leader. He recites the condition in which the people of Virginia stood at the time the Readjuster party came into power, the status of the State debt, the embarrassment of the people in the way of taxation, the absence of schools and the violation of the laws, and says that the right­ ing- of these wrongs, the correction of these evils and resistance to the old Bourbon intolerance, made a new party in Virginia necessary. A GLANCE AT THE RECORD. This party in 1881 carried the State by a majoiityof 12,000, despite the grossest mis­ representation and the disqualification of a capitation tax. For two years this State ad­ ministration has been in power and has been true to its pledges; the State debt has been settled without a taint of repudiation, and the State and the people saved frog* liability for $13,(KM,000 of falsely created principal and $33,000,000 of interest. When the Bourbons left the treasury there was $23,000 therein, with a floating debt of nearly $-*,000,000, of which $1,500,000 was due the public schools. The KoadjuSters, after two years of control, have extinguished the floating debt with the exception of $715,000, and now have a million and a half in the treasuiy. The cost of maintaining the State Government has been reduced 30 per cent., and the burdens of the people have • been lightened by the reduction of the rate of taxation from 50 to 40 per cent. Reforms have been made in the various branches of the State 4iovernment; the whipping-post has been abolished; the capita­ tion tax, which prevented the exercise of the right of suffrage by poor people, has been re­ moved, and the laws of the State have been administered without discrimination. THE PUUI.IC SL'HOOI.S. In the matter of public education the fol­ lowing statement exhibits facts which in a 1 time to come will reflect honor on the Re­ adjuster party, and. what is still better, will advance the State in thi> general enlighten­ ment which makes civilization possible: Comparing 18T» with 1ST1 the Funders by their unfriendly legislation un<l administra­ tion, reduced the number of public schools from 3,047, of which 70it were colored, to 2.491, of which but 80 were colored. They re­ duced the pupils from 131,088, of whom 3S.- S»T6 we; e colored, to 10<,0T4, of whom but 5,1208 were colored. They reduced the teachers from 3,084, of whom 501 were colored, to 501, of whom but 5)4 were colored. They re­ duced the expenditures from $587,472 for the year to $511,902. Now, compare the Roadjuster ru'e of last year with the last yeaf of Itorbon rule, and the books show the Rcadjusters have in­ creased the number of FC'HOOIS from 2,491 to 5,5s7: the number of colored schools froin 8!i to 839; the pupils from 108,074 to 257,382; the colored pupils from 3,03 to 4,538; the teachers from 2,501 to 4,538; the colored teachers from 04 to 614. The expenditures, from $ >11,902, were increased to $1,157,142. The establishment of the first State Normal school for colored teachers in the United States is another milestone planted by our party on the road of progress. The railwaw mileage In Virginia has been increased 43 per cent.; the in­ crease in freight carriage has been 82 per cent.; the increase In the number of pas­ sengers carried 78 per cent., and the gross earnings of the railroads in the State have in­ creased 88 per cent, within the last two years. This has been secured. Senator Mahone claims, by a liberal and honest policy of ad­ ministration and by the encouragement of commerce in the State. He then passes on to the recent outbreak between the races and says that when the Bourbon convention assembled at Lynch­ burg, in July last, the adoption of the color line was openly favored, and that such a plank would be introduced into the platform seemed probable until the last moment. The Chairman of the convention addressed him­ self to the white people of Virginia, and the newspapers recommended the platform adopted as a white man's platform. They made the race issue the only one of the campaign, arid brought to the support of the Democratic party all the white Hepubli- cans who were prejudiced against negro ad­ vancement. In September the leading ed­ itor of the Bourbon party announced that the Democratic plan of campaign was "to buy all the voters they could and bully the re­ mainder." This plan was carried out. As one of the prominent speakers ex- • plained, "By the gods, this is a white man's couutry, and white men shall rule or the rivers will run blood." Everything was done to arouse and inflame race prejudice, and it became necossary, as the excitement grew in­ tense, to carry out what had been intended and intimidate the blacks. The Senator then says: Arms began to pour into the-south side re­ gions, the supply of small arms in our larger cities was exhausted, and the demand ex­ tended as far as Baltimore, until one Demo­ cratic headquarters within twenty miles of Richmond had forty stands of tnuskets and the Danville region was a walking arsenal. The cry that "white men should rule or die," the announcement that a war of races was upon us, swelled in volume ami ferocity. Threats of the lives of our leaders became more common than any other argument. Murder in cold blood began In Madison county. Days before it was rejieateil In Danville, rumors of the shipment of arms filled the air, and, during the fair w eek at Richmond--long before any outbreak oc­ curred--the knowing ones were heard to whisper and mysteriously predict what 111'ght be expected at the proper time. In due time it came. With what premedi­ tation and design it came, let any impartial man who read the Bourbon press and heard the preparations made for it judge for him­ self. Who provoked it.' Who perpetrated it? Let the Bourbon " journals themselves testify. With what purpose it was |>erpe- trated let the thousands of lalse circulars turning it to political account, spread broad­ cast by the Bourbons almost IK'fore it oc­ curred, and the effect they produced, gpeak as no argument can. The massacre in Danville is dignified by nourbonisin with the name of riot. The facts, as gathered Iroin all sources, are that upon Saturday evening preceding the election, just after the Danville negroes had received their weekly pay and were buying their Sunday supplies in a crowded market-place, a white man appeared, had an altercation with a ne­ gro and whipped him. The fight was ended, and no other negroes came to tho rescue of the punished man. * But the programme was interrupted by this circumstance. An armed gathering of the "best peoplo" of the "best and bravest" was conveniently near, and In a moment a murderous throng poured out of the building where they were assembled, opening a murderous fire upon the unarmed, defenseless, and Hying negroes. How many were killed no one knows, and no one will probably learn the truth, for the condition of things still in Danville is such that the truth cannot be learned. That they were shot in the backs like dogs while run­ ning away; that no pistol shot was fired by a black man; that no white man was injured, save by his own friends; that for days the poor victims were found dead in alleys, in warehouses, and under houses, like poisoned rats that had crawled away to die; that the negroes fled to the woods, to the State of North Carolina, to the four winds of heaven; these are a few of the facts of this bloody, wholesale murder, which was telegraphed far and near by Bourbons as an insolent upris­ ing- of the blacks against tho whites. Simultaneously with theee occurrences the crack of the Bourbon weapon engaged in political murder resounded, and the Bourbon knife sunk deep in the counties of Charles City, Halifax, Hanover, Fioyd, Augusta, Lee and elsewhere, mingling with Sabbath day sympathies from the Boi rbon capital, and the race cry was shouted with brutal ferocity intense enough to make Virginia the rival of any Southern State in her record of bloodshed and lawlessness. These, fellow-citizens, were the means re­ sorted to. The effects were all that the bull­ dozers could have hoped for. Murders, deliberately planned and executed with remorseless malignity, were presented to the remote and ignorant whites of the valley and southwest as the unavoidable self- defense of these wolves against their lamb assailants. Without the means of informing themselves of the baseness of these false­ hoods, thousands of our party, deluded and deceived, yielded to an impulse of generosity so foully played upon, and In the region where these felonies were permitted, the murderers themselves paraded the streets, armed to the teeth, under the pretense of preserving order, until, ia the city of Dan­ ville. where Cameron received n 1884 votes numbering 78V, and Wise in 1882 received 841 votes, and where 1,379 Readjuster votes were enrolled, but twenty-six votes were cast for the coalition candidate, whose life was threatened, and whose coffin it is said had ,been actually made and paid for by the party of'henor and intelligence. In the counties of Halifax and Charlotte, adjacent to Pittsylvania, the policy of pup- chase as well as rioting prevailed, and while the methods were a little leas violent, they were none the less corrupt. Thus it was that Halifax, with a colored voting population of 3.814, against 3.054 whites, after giving .lohn S. Wise 548 majority in 1882, gave the Bour­ bons 250 majority in 1883. And Charotbe, with a black voting population of 2,055, and a white population of 1.W8. after giving John S. Wise 7H2 majority in lf^'3. gave a Bourbon majority of 300 in 1883. That, these majorities were honest no sane man will Imagine. How they were brought about will in due time be made apparent. The above ifre only samples of the methods resorted to by the Bourbons. Bribery and corruption appear to have«been the order of proceedings generally throughout the State. In the history of polities in this State the recent campaign is, thank» God, without precedent, and to the forbearance and long- suffering of the Rcadjusters--to this alone-- is due the fact that this State is not now bathed in blood. In summing up tho results of the cam­ paign, Senator Mahone says: That the re­ action will come, and that swiftly and com­ pletely. is not a matter of doubt. It is true that Bourbonlsm has gained a triumph upon a campaign of falsehood and deception, by appeals to passion and by a barbarous re­ solve to shed as much innocent blood as was necessary to its success. It is true that by fair means and by foul it has procured a temporary majority. And yet it is equally true that the majority of our people are con­ servative at heart and abhor falsehood and violence. In conclusion he says: The scope of the Readjuster party has enlarged with its age and growth. It originated In an issue local, and to some extent Improper. With time, and the changing issues which time brings, it has widened Its sphere, and while its origi­ nal object has become less prominent, issues of nationalism, of human rights, of liberty, of peace, of manhood, of republican govern­ ment, have been forced upon it by the fierce onslaught of Bourbonlsm, until these issues are broad enough to be national, and it has the sympathy of every man in the nation who loves liberty and abhors the proscription and bigotry of caste, class and race prejudice, which is the life of Bourbonlsm. For myself, as your Chairman from the out­ let of this struggle, I have conceived that the true duty imposed upon me by *,he spirit of our party was to wa«e undying war upon Bourbonisin: not only as it opposed the debt settlement: not only as it is the enemy of ed­ ucation; not only as it is imbecile, heartless ar.d wasteful in administration; not only as it is the enemy of free su1 r u e; but as it is the enemy of that true Democracy which means that the humble and .weak shall par­ ticipate in and'be protect* d by the adminis­ tration of the government as well as the powerful and strong. In the effort to perpetuate caste, class, and race rule by crushing out by force, fraud. Or otherwise, the weak and unprotected in this State, tho Bourtons have made a gulf be­ tween themselves and the Readjuster party which shall yawn forever, for they oannot bridge it, and we will not. Let the fight proceed. If wo are to be in the minority in the future, it is a minority strugurlintr for principles as strong and holy as when they were backed by a majority. The manhood which sustains them in defeat proves a sincerity and devotion which in due time must and will be crowned with triumph. But whether future triumphs come or not the blessings we have,,secured for Virginia are fixed and Indestructible. Our enemies stand before us. We know that they are our foes and the fees of the Commonwealth; that they have in the past paralyzed her energies, robbed her treasury, defrauded and dwarfed her free schools, strangled her suffrage, brought na­ tional hate upon her, adhered to no principle, and made terms with any renegade or prosti­ tute who would aid them. And that they have at lasl triumphed by murder and blood­ shed that have dissrraced the State. „ We know that we have asked for and given no quarter in the past, that we will accept none, and promise none now. We Know that with Bourbonlsm before us we have an enemy to fight, powerful and dangerous to the interests of the State. We know that, masquerading in the stolen livery of Democracy, It is no true representative of Democracy, either in principle or personnel, and I believe the Readjuster party will, when it next meets in council, unite cordially and thoroughly with our friends, State and na­ tional, and make common cause with them against the Bourbons, their aiders, coun­ sellors and abettors. State and national, by whatsoever name they tnav be designated. I repeat, therefore, that the struggle against Bourbonlsm is to be renewed forth­ with, and to the death, and, as your Chair­ man, I call upon every loyal Readjuster In Virginia to rally to the standard and reform to fight a new battle against their old Bour­ bon foe in the national campaign of 1884. Bearing in mind the old watchword of a free ballot and a fair count, we have a right to dem-tnd and expect support from the State, and if need be from the Federal Government, in behalf of the rights of man, guaranteed by both Governments, and put at stake to procure the ascendency of an un­ scrupulous party that sticks at nothing to ac­ quire power. WILLIAM MAHONE, Chairman, PKTEUSBURO, Nov. 14,1883. ILfcKrOIS STATE NEWS. P. H. CI.AKB; Principal of the high school at Aurora, is dead. -1. A jroaTomca has keen established afcf BrookSlde, Madisoh county. . HENRT\ HODGE, a fetieeman at Sterling,' Jealousy. ;N was drolufetli) tlnsfok-'<- lng of a shanty-boat near Cairo. OR their farm f-oiitb. of 8andwich 3. M. ; ; J. W. Hall are laying lfet rods of ten-inch tfle^ and the cut in some places istwelve feet fouPv;J*|r inches. BY the premature explosionof a Slwt in the v coal mines at Nilwood Henry Tee pies aM Fa* ' Cullinane, two miners, were horribly t and burned. A JOINT discussion on future punish men has been arranged between Rev. L B. Grandy ̂ « and EldCr T. L. Stipp, to begin Jan. 8 alj^ |3{* jr Hoopeston and continue four days. ; » HAVANA is to have a foundry erected be- ^ tween now and Jan. 1 for the manufacture ot ^ ^ drills, etc., a company having been organ* ized with $60,000 capital, one-half of which paid up. THE average depth ot dttek necessary drain Nigger lake, Mason county, is five six inches. Tho probable cost is estimated act $4,400. The contract will be let on the 3d o%iri ^ December. - f IT is claimed that £00 people of Danvilkfetj# have been converted through the instrument- , ,. ,, { ality of the Harrison revival meetings. grand jubilee service to celebrate this victory^ -V was held at Kic.ber chapel. » * J , - Ki "• j^l; •5 Lincoln was discharged owing to an accumu-> lation of coal. Three hundred tons can btffV11^*' raised In ten hours, but at the presenttim4 <"•* not over 200 tons are being hoisted. AT present 600 cans of milk are DAILJ^ > , shipped to Chicago from the Dundee an^ "*;"^ Carpentersville depots. The largest Individ* , • 4. ual shipper furnishes sixty cans daily. lit ^ the vicinity of the two places named the dallj|i:; f product of milk is 1,600 cans, or 15,000 gal­ lons. ' HARMON POST, NO. 115, Grand Army of the. J Republic, will hold a grand fair at their hall in Hoopeston during the entire week preced-®^ '• ing Christmas, the proceeds of which will placed to the credit of the relief fund. Great preparations for a grand time are already (<&', ; being made. ^ ' BILL LUCAS, of Lincoln, better known, per* ^>'f| haps, as "But-cut" Lucas, on account of stubby bnild, it is asserted by his friends, hafk^ t-- the largest family of children of any man li" ....'jf Logan county of his age. He has nine chit* " i* dren and is not yet 35 years old. He says Is very difficult to tell whtoh is the large#., . - , bill, flour or tobacco. i THE Illinois Board of Railroad and WARES; 'FIA:< house Commissioners have received a letter from General Superintendent Andrews, of the ... « Wabash railroad, saying that the work of ^ putting in new ties, improving bridges anlt ' ^ laying steel rails will be pushed on the Cairo ' J division until stopped by cold weather, an*' •• \ that its condition will be made 100 per cen& better than It was last winter. ALBERT SOMBEHO, aged 10 years, an ent,'>i } ploye at F. Reibling's paper mill In the north part of Joliet, met with an accident that ref ' . suited in Instant death. He was standing ; near a large belt when his hand or clothlntf i f" got caught in some way carrying him aroynlr '• a large pullev with great force and killing him instantly. ^ GCR ADAMS, a well-known farmer, DIE* a| his home east Of Elgin, aged about lit" "Uncle" Guy, .as he was familiarly knowii^ " » had an extensive acquaintance, and wtfi-- »if greatly esteemed by all who knew hioe,- M Deceased came to that section from Catta ̂ * ; ^f raugus county, N. V., in 1S36, and made v a Government claim to land on which be rf*. sided till his death. : ' f'W Homes In Washington. There appears to be so much fatality about building houses in Washington, esj>ecially adapted to entertaining, that it ought to cause a superstitious feel­ ing among those who contemplate doing so. Building a fine house here, which ovinced a rapid accumulation of wealth, largely contributed to the defeat of Mr. llobeson in New Jersey. Mr. Windom experienced the same fate in Minnesota from the same cause, and both Sena­ tors Pendleton, Cameron and Blaine appear to have been injured in their respective States by building homes in Washington. The inference to be drawn is that men are envious and do not like to see one another progressing too rapidly or comfortably in life. Mr. Seward once gave the following piece of advice to a gentleman who was just stepping out of office here, and who proposed to settlo in Washington and practice law. Said Mr. Seward: "Don't do it, unless you are willing to become a nobody. Never give up your citizenship in your State, especially as you cannot acquire it in Washington. It is right that there should be no citi­ zenship here, for the Government pays half the expense of the city and district, and local government would make the system complex and unsatisfactory,and, as there is no citizenship in the District, every man can retain the privilege of voting in his State."--Cor. Courier- Journal. r Plantation Philosophy. A bald head ain't al'ers de sign ob sense. De turnip ain't so scund airter yer cut off de greens. I has know'd tender-hearted men dat would stan' and lissen to a tale of dis­ tress an' cry, but at the same time da hil a mighty tight grip on a dime. I owed a man onct an' when I spoke ter him about it he said, "don't think ob that, fur it's all rite," but I noticed dat airter I quit thinkin' about it, he tuck it up an' thought about it till it worried me powerful. Ef a man thinks dat he's done suth- in' funny, an' yer laugh, it pleases him mightily, but ef yer laugh at him fur doin' suthin' what ain't funny he doan like it. All through life a man want's his frens ter look at his own an' not aa own pleasure. De pusson what is only smart in one thing may make a big success ob hisse'f, but he oughten'ter think hard ob people case da gets tired ob him, for we think more ob de inockin' bird, not becase he can sing better den any udder bird, but becase he's got so many different songs. --Arkansato Traveler. Kmo SOLOMON'S Lodge of Masons at Charleatown, is the oldest Masonio in­ stitution in this country. A FREIGHT train came into Monee frost the north with a car on fire. The car was filled with sawdust and shavings and loaded with bottled beer. Over the teer was a" quantity of hay, which, it is supposed, todt flre from a spark from the engine. The oir was ordered north of the village, where the citizens with buckets of water put out the fire. , MR. LOUT, who llvee alone about six miles northwest of Coleta, put $150 in his pocket ' pay for some stock ho bad bought and we|& out to feed his horses. While so doing he was struck three times by a robber and left UB-- conscious. His daughter found him later where he had been hurt. His son-in-law has been arrested for the act, bail being given bp Mr. Lout's son. ••T : -nSi - am THE Rev. ,C. W. Frink died at his home ̂ South Elgin, aged about 60. deceased wasV. superannuated minister of the Free MethO dist church. He was a prominent and zedC ous worker in tho Fox River "conference foir twenty years, during which time he has minlstrated all through the Northwest. He was put on the retired list a year ago on a|f^ count of poor health, and has since lived . retirement. ^ ̂ THERE was another sensational feature the Mooney murder case. The defending lawyers and several medical experts weitji taken to the county jail and given an inter, ."** view with Mooney. They hoped by thi|' " means to plainly show that the man was ii|J^®'fx "v> sane and not responsible for his actions. When the prisoner was admitted to the roosts * he was closely examined by the experts measurements were taken of his head. * • was then subjected to a rigid questioning which disclosed the fact that there could tw no doubt but that the man was pos?esse« ' , with eccentric ideas, but aside from the^kn; there were no evidences of insanity. By hlS' own testimony the murderer snowed that no " w case of insanity had ever been known in his <' family. He got mad when he found out thep* ;/ - were going to try to prove him insane andu' cursed like a pirete. i SEVERAL persons residing in the Westerg^^4. p a r t o f C h i c a g o h a v e b e e n s w i n d l e d b y a m a | ^ giving the name ot King, and described ai»" being about 60 years old, neatly dressed, an# wearing a dark-blue suit. He called on Mrflk 'J Faulkner, a washerwoman restding on Owasc|f'*Kv4« street, and said he wanted washing done " the amount of $8, for which he proposed tet*'-! ~f»- pay in advanoe. He said he had no changf. - smaller than a $5 bill, and when the wom»|^ I f,v produced the $3 change required, he discov­ ered he had left his purse at his lodgings^ and asked her to send her child there with the $3 and be would send the $5 bill back with % the child. The child accompanied him to th%f ;f> | next street, and he there took the $3 from i| and decamped. He called on a schooltna'ajfc in the same district and arranged to send q|>j- child to the school and pay $5 in advance fo^*_ its tuition, saying he would be away foi • several months in the country. Of course h|jf * had nothing less than a $10 bill here, and ha4 forgotten his purse. The schoolma'am s?nt a child with $5 to accompany him to his alleged lodgings and bring back the $10 bill. He too%;, the $5 from the child when on the street on plausible pretext, giving it a letter to dellvef to a lady who he said would give it the $1111 Neither the washerwoman nor the schools teacher have seen him aince. It is rumore«| that he swindled other parties in the taiae district in a similar way. JOHN HOLTXTUN, of Spr'n ?Seld, oautttaA luicldi by hanging in his barn. kfik'

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