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. -Tfcjv v j. v4y_., • > C J r *»«>> . c I) Y*Wi llAj1 Att* dUlt • If ' m ' flgcpearg |Pl«imiealtt I. VMSLYKE. EMsraail MclIENRYt iLLUfoia •TRSSIE SCOTT, 7 jetn of age, Is lee*, taring in Texas. She will have a hard time getting a husband if she ke^ps on at this rote. T ""^HK colony of Russian Hebrews lo- •l^&ed on a farm of eight hundred acres in Middlesex county, Virginia, proved an utter failure,.after $5,000 had been expended, and the families will be sent back to Baltimore. k 1: £ THK Rev. John Wilder (colored) has "begun suit at Pittsburgh against three Reformed Presbyterian clergymen, ask­ ing $150,000 damages, in that they ' assorted that he was a monomaniac, and -this was a hindrance to his gaining a , ;*#relihood. . V- SIR STAFFOBD NOBTHCOTK'B politieal •visit to Ireland was successful, if in f ;"|fl|Whing else, in once more giving a good stir up to the miserable antagonisms be­ tween Orangemen and Roman Catholics which had of late years so happily sub­ sided, and may very likely cost the tax­ payers a very handsome sum in the cost ' «6f a special police and troops to keep •older in Derry and Belfast. ; • 5 THE growth of tlio railway system of v3|ew York State is shown by the report of the State Engineer and Surveyor TFhe first spike was driven on the Mo- ' hawk and Hudson railroad in 1831, And the growth of the system by de- t -Cfdes is shown by the following table: * i ' )j|ile» Miles! Miles Miles . . . o n a l l e a c h ] o n a l l e a c h Tear. roads, decade. 1 Year. roads, decade. l&l..... 17 171 862 9,5®9 «73 IMi:.... 682 51211874 *.660 2,061 1852 1,92« 1,376| 1882 6,622 1,971 It- FROM the report of the Commissioner * of Police of London for the year 1882 it appears that 12,878 children under * 10 years of age and 3,961 adults were v reported to the police as lost or missing; •7,538 children and 860 adults were found by the police. The remainder returned home or were found by their friends, except seventy-four adults, who -committed suicide. The other 147 adults and twelve children have never been traced. ^ ; _ ^ IN the celebrated trial at Nyireghy- haza, Hungary, where a ntlmber of Jews :>"*'®#ere falsely accused of killing •Christian maiden for sacrificial pur­ poses, the counsel for the defense alleged that the police commissioner had by torture secured the confessions from witnesses and prisoners upon ^ which the State had relied principally l&r a conviction. The two men fought •a duel and the police commissioner was ^llverely wounded in the chest. "FF.| JAY-EYB-SEK, the fastest trotter of • il$s age the werld has ever seen, stands ffelit fifteen hands, and Robert Bonner declined to buy him one year ago on that account He liked the form and breeding of the horse, but did not be- ; lieve that he had size enough to make • world-beater. But, now that Jay-Eye- *See has trotted a mile in 2:10f, the •opinion that it is impossible to get ..Jbngth of stride for a fast mile without ^ height of 15.3 to 16 hands falls to the ground. V PHILIP GUYKR, of Paterson, N. J., lost e sum of money by theft recently, suspected an old woman in the ^ |^eigliborhood, but had no proof against her. One day he told her that at a cer­ tain hour when he repeated a prayer . for the return of the money the thief would fall dead. The hag, who was try superstitious, as he knew, left him parently very much impressed. That ttight he found the money at his door When he answered a knock, bill was there. • . THE English Ghost-HuntlstS* which has been investigating all the ghosts and haunted houses which come within its knowledge, and have abso * liitely nothing tp show for two years' labor, is becoming discouraged. It now prints a card asking all people with §iupematural affairs about them or their i,'- houses to come forward, promising as an inducement that "nothing will in any oase be printed or published with or without names, except with the full consent of the persons concerned." • I AS umbrella to cover the city of Buenos Ayres is described by a letter- writer as the newest thing proposed in the Argentine Republic. Messrs. Bournhofer and John Flackigen .y in a formal letter to the authorities that for $5,750,000 they will erect in the Jflazo de Lorca a base 674 feet in diameter and 4,500 feet high, the ribs to be of cast iron and 31 inches in cir •cumference. These ribs are to be eight feet apart. The lining is to be of wrought Janpn, an inch and,# h*if thick. • . J " THE Manitobans will probably soon ^ome to the conclusion that the true ablution of their present difficulties •"consist in a friendly and peaceful sep­ aration from British connection and a union upon equitable terms with the great North American Confederation of Sovereign States." We can point to ; fj)ominion authority in this matter. Senator McPherson, a supporter of Sir John Macdonald, held that was the femedy for the Eastern Provinces frainst their harsh treatment by the ritish authorities in 1849L question of disease by a post mortem without letting thft other know it.1 Just as the kidney doctor had un­ covered the coffin the blood-poison man drove into the graveyard with his as­ sistants, and the two disputed so long over the question of possession that they were- surprised and nearly cap­ tured by a party from the village who had been attracted by the light of the moving lanterns. VABIOCS are the methods of initiating Harvard students into the secret socie­ ties. All aspiring young men are put through, for two weeks, a series of men­ ial and humiliating drudgery and sub­ jection. One New Yorker is said to have been lately made to sell papers for week, dressed in striped bed-ticking. A well-dressed young man obediently dashed through Harvard square, hold­ ing out a long-handled tin dipper, and pathetically imploring, "Won't you give me a little something?" at the same time devoutly crossing himself. Others were fantastically dressed and placard­ ed, and sent on ridiculous errands. The penalty of disobedience is a closing of the doors of the societies forever to the candidate. Violence is not resorted to in the initiations which are curious and ingenious methods for making the candidate ridiculous. THOMAS HUOHKS, relating an expert ence' in organizing the Rugby settle* ment, in Tennessee, says there was no ordained minister among the settlers. The most suitable man was a Metho­ dist, who conducted the English Church service in the morning, and accommodated those who were other wise inclined in the evening. Hughes was rejoiced to see the denominations inextricably mingled, the settlers attending both services with perfect impartiality, as convenience might dic­ tate. This man was soon ordained by the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, who wrote in reply to Mr. Hughes; "He need not rub up his Gfeek. Of course, he must undergo examination in uie Bible and prayer book, as there are certain canonical examinations which cannot be dis­ pensed with. I am willing to go very far to satisfy the Nonconformists, an$ am willing to compromise anything but fundamental principles." LOUISVILLE Courier-Jo-wmal: • most interesting colloquy took place yesterday in the Tennessee Department at the Exposition between Dr. Qraham, who is in his 100th year, and Mr. Hurst, ifeed 85. Old times were recalled in all their glory, and many reminiscences recited. The picture of Gen. Jackson hanging in the exhibit was framed by Mr. Hurst in 1836. The frame is of hickory branches, and was fashioned by his own hands. Dr. Graham Tuesday last arose at early dawn and went out fossil-hunting more than 100 utiles in Indiana, returning, the same day. He expressed himself as feeling just as well as possible after his trip, said such jour­ neys might fatigue young men, but could not tire him. In fact, he felt just as spry as he did when he u^ent to the dancing-party in 1806 with Nancy Hanks and Polly Hobbs. All three were members of the Methodist Church, and were arraigned for breaking its rules. Poor Polly sobbed and oried ^bitterly, and begged not to be turned oat of the church, but she was a cul­ prit and they dismissed her. Nancy Hanks said she did not propose to have them direet her conscience, that she saw no harm in dancing, and that she would do it again, so they turned her out. Young Graham protested his ig­ norance pf the regulation s on that point, and promised he never would do so again, and said that he regretted his course exceedingly, so he was allowed to retain his membership. In a few months Nancy Hanks married Mr. Lin­ coln, the father of the President, and Dr. Graham attended the wedding. He tells mapy interesting stories of the days of Daniel Boone--of times when the State of Kentucky was only a back county of Virginia; of life on Corn Island and in the wilds among the red man of the forests. IN York county, Me., recently, a man died who had had one doctor treating him for pyasmia and another for Bright's disease. Each determined to settle the / Old-Time Letter Writing. It is a common but unjust complaint that cheap postage killed the art of let­ ter writing. In the last century the dispatch of an epistle was an affair of some moment.« The expense of the post was not to be incurred without consideration; and since it was the re­ ceiver of the missive who had to pay for it, every gentleman who valued his rep­ utation was anxious that his friends should find his correspondence worth the money. The knack of composing anelegautand entertaining letter was one of the first accomplishments de­ manded of a man of wit and culture. The broad pages upon «*hich he ex­ pended his pains took the place, in some degree, which has since been fill­ ed by the newspaper and the magazine; every letter-writer tried to be an essay­ ist, a chronicler of politics and business, a critic, a gossip. Hundreds of volumes of private cor­ respondence have been collected and printed in our time, which rank with the most valuable materials for history and the most entertaining illustrations of the tastes, opinions and manners of past generations; and no inconsiderable part of them possess besides a positive literary quality. It is trne that as soon as we go back to the fashionable era of letter-writing, to the time of Walpole and Pope, we find ourselves in the midst of insincerity and artifice; but these were characteristics of the society of that day, and the letters would not be prized" so highly as they are if they were not faithful reflections of the life from which they came.--New York Tribune. IF a empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge al­ ways pays the best interest.--Prank' tin. Welford To# laefc Per Pry. At the close of the war old Wolford settled down in eastern Kentucky, and became a Democrat, and most of his men did the same thing. When the Democrats gave him the nomination for Congress last fall the Republican State Committee sent General Speed Fry up into his district to counteract the influ­ ences of old Wolford's war record. Fry started off intending to remain in the district six weeks and speak wher­ ever Wolford did. He was back in four days. "What is the matter, Gen­ eral ? asked the Chairman, in surprise, as he stalked in, black as a thfender cloud. "Matter? Why, matter enough. If you want a man to go into the Eleventh district to talk against that old scoundrel, Wolford, you will have to find somebody besides me. I'm done. When I agreed to stump the district I supposed 1 would have sensible men to talk to. Instead I find them all a lot of damned fools and liars and scoundrels." "Didn't they treat you right?" "Treat me right. Oh, yes, they treated right! They treated me like a prince. When I reached the first town old Wolford met ma with a cor­ dial welcome, and, to my surprise, gave the opening and closing of the joint discussion. I spoke for one hour and a half on national issues--the tariff and finances and standing of the parties-- and dwelt with special emphasis on the magnanimity shown by the Federal Government in its treatment of Confed­ erates at the close of the war. About half of my audience had served in the Confederate army, and I saw I was pro­ ducing a good impression. . "How, what do you suppose that old hook-nosed rasoal of a Wolford did. Why, he got up and begay talking, never paying the slightest attention to what I had said on National issues, but, after a brief introduction, took up my good will plea. 'Don't you believe a word General Fry has told you about the magnanimity of the Federal Gov­ ernment and the Republican party,' he shrieked. 'It's a lie. What did they do with General Lee after the surren­ der of Appomattox? Why, they took him out and hung him right between the lines in plain v ' " 'Hold on,' I shouted, that is not true General Wolford, you know you are perverting facts.' "Instantly two or three of the old Second Cavalry boys sprang to their feet and swore that they had been on the ground and seen General Lee hung, one of them remarking, with a swag­ ger, that if anybody questioned the statement he would have to chew on the barrel of a six-shooter. " 'What did they do with Jeff Davis after he surrendered?' continued old Wolford. 'Why, they tied 1,800 pounds of iron to his legs, threw him into dungeon and starved him for eight months, and then took him out and hung him. That's what they did with "him. A h--1 of a magnanimous Gov­ ernment that!' "I interrupted to say that Jeff Davis was alive now and healthy, but two or three Second Cavalry liars stood up and swore they had seen him him hung, and if any man disputed it they would make him. eat his words or six inches of cold steel. And there the old scoundrel stood, hanging Alex Ste phens, Longstreet, Joe Johnston Hampton, aap every Confederate of prominence Be could think of, and proving what he said by eye-witnesses of the Second Kentucky Cavalry What show did I have talking to such a crowd of Ananiases as that ? I quit then and there. If you ever me get up there in those mountains again you may shoot me."--National Republican a day. Now, If that cat had a long tail* don't yon see I would "hurts to lose so much time waiting for the tail to go out and iu, whereas now I have only to wait for the cat. A tail is of no earthly use to a cat. and especially to this cat, so you will see I have the cat just the same, and only the time in letting the cat in and out, thus saving all that time that would be lost in letting, the tail in and Providence Journal. •-CJ: - , * .||,,| •* * Jacob* and JUche'* is a good deal of argument Mark Twain's New Game. "For the time that has elapsed since I came here, I've a day's work to show for every working day. I'm not suffer ing in any way that I know of, exoept the old difficulty--only twenty-four hours in the day and not days enough in the week." In the intervals of his work Mr. Clemens has invented a new game of which he gives the following account: "Day before yesterday, feel­ ing not in condition for writing, I left my study; but I couldn't hold in--had to do something, so I spent eight hours in the sun with a yard-stick, measuring off the reigns of the English kings on the roads in these grounds, from Wil­ liam the Conqueror to 1883--calcula­ ting to invent an open air game which shall fill the children's heads with dates without study. I give each king's reign one foot of space to the year and drive one stake in the ground to mark the beginning of each reign and make the children call the stake king's name. You can stand in the door and take a bird's eye view of English monarchy, from the Conqueror to Edward IV.; then you can turn and follow the road up the hill to the study and tfeyond with an opera glass and bird's-eye view the rest of it to 1883. You can make the sharp difference in the length of reigns by the varying distances of the stakes apart. You can see Richard II. two feet apart; Oliver Cromwell two feet, James II. three feet and so on, and then big skips; pegs standing 35, 40, 50, 55 and 60 feet apart. (Elizabeth Victoria, Edward III., Henry III. and George III.--by the way, third's a lucky number for length of days, isn't it?) Yes, sir, bv my scheme you get a reali­ zing notion of the time occupied by reigns. The reason it took me eight hours was because with little J--'s in­ terrupting assistance. I had to meas­ ure from the conquest to the end of Henry VI. three times over, and besides I had to whittle out all those pegs. I did a full day's work and a third over yesterday, but was full of mv game after I went to bed--trying to fit it for in­ doors. So I didn't get to sleep till pretty late; but when I did go off I had contrived a way to play my history game with cards and a cribbage board. --a Letter to a Friend. Time is Honeys There lives in Pawtucket a man whose whole existence seems to be con­ ducted similar to a piece of machinery. His movements and transactions are always "on time;" in fact, his hobby is time. "Be on time and save time" is his motto. At the same hour every morning he gets out of bed. A few seconds later his right boot is on, and then his left, breakfast is finished in a separate time, and he is seen at his place of business just at the stroke of 7. He is constantly enlarging on the im­ mense quantity of time that is wasted and thrown away by every man and woman every hour. He illustrated his hobby one day in a rather amusing and indisputable manner. A friend pre­ sented him with a very fine-looking cat. Calling the next day, he found the cat without any tail, the tail being cut off as close to the body as could be without cutting the tail off behind the cat's ears. When asked why he had done this, he remarked: "I have to let this cat in and oat of this store a good mauy times There among young and old people as to the propiety of young people making each other's acquaintance without a proper introduction, old people claiming that any acquaintance, made without an in­ troduction, is improper, while many young people claim that there are times when an acquaintance can be made without the aid of these forms, which is liable to be a valuable one, and lead to much happiness. Bat such things are looked upon as flirtations by many people. An acquaintance thus formed is often looked upon as productive of no good. Young people cannot be too careful about meeting strangers, though they should use some judgment and not give themselves away. They have a pre­ cedent for getting acquainted without the aid of outside friends, in the case of Jacob and Rachel, the particulars of which flirtation can be found in the good book. It is not alleged that Jacob was a masher, like many of the Jakes of the present day, but, according to re­ ports, he captured Rachel quicker than a wink. It seems that Jake was at the well of Haran, after water, and Rachel came along with her jug, after some wa­ ter. They had never met before, and Jacob was gone the first time she aimed her eyes at him. According to scriptural authority, "It eame to pass that after he had drawn water at the well of Haran for Rachel, Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice and wept." What he wept for is not stated, but the best of 'em are apt to be over­ come with emotion in trying times. The action of Jacob toward a total stranger, in these days would subject him and her to comment. Suppose, at one of our Bummer resorts, a Rachel should go down to the spring for a dose of liquid liver cure, and a young fellow should draw the water for her, and hand it to her, and then kiss her, and begin to cry. They would call a policeman, and the next day, or the ddgr after, when the policeman got around, they would Vave the crying kisser fired out of the grounds, and Rachel's mother would take her up to the hotel and take her across her knee and .box her ears soundly. Probably that was %e way they did business in the oldeik times, but it would lie a laughable thing to see now days. Suppose a young Jacob and Rachel, strangers to each other, living in adjoining houses in Chicago, should both take tin dippers and go out to the milk wagon for the supply of alleged milk for their respective families, and Jacob should take Rachels dipper and have it whitewashed inside with the stuff the milkman exchanges for tickets, and then Jacob should kiss the Rachel and lift up. his voice and weep. The milkman would faint away and fall off the seat, Rachel would swat Jacob over the head with the dipper of fresco material, people would stop on the streets to see the row, and a policeman would come along and pull both Jacob and Rachel for disorderly conduct, and they would be sentenced to thirty days in the house of correction. Tlu&«6hojrs what a difference there is in the practices of the days of Jacob and Rachel and now. If a latter-day Jacob wanted to get acquainted with a Rachel, he wouldn't stand around a well waiting for her to come after a jng of water, neither would he stand at the corner grocery -waiting for her to come after 2 cents worth of yeast, and kiss her and weep. He would raise his pancake hat to her, and say, "pleasant day for a stwoll, you know, by jove," and if she wanted to "stwoll," she would say, "Well, I should assimilate," and that would settle it, but if she didn't want any foolishness she would tell him to go and walk a match with himself.-- Peck'sSun. CIVILIH6HTS. In view of the enormous Democratic majority in the House and the close di- visiou of parties in the Senate of the fWeseftt Congress, it may not be possi­ ble to obtain the necessary two-thirds vote to submit the civil-rights amend­ ment for the protection of the blacks proposed by Senator Wilson, of Iowa, or any other similar in purpose. But it is nevertheless the duty of the Re­ publicans to urge the amendment earn­ estly i-nd make it clear to the public that the Democrats stand in the way of a complete vindication of the United States Government's power to protect all its citizens in the exercise of their rights. The constitutional amendments adopted after the crushing of the slave- ho lders' rebellion were undoubtedly in­ tended to repose in Congress ample au­ thority to pass all laws necessary to that end, but they have proved inade­ quate in many particulars, and the late almost unanimous decision of the Su­ preme court of the United States has served to rivet public attention to that fact. But it is not only in order to give Congress authority to pass such a law as that which the Supreme court has recently set aside as not authorized by the Constitution that a supplementary amendment is necessary, but still more to take measures for the protection of citizens in the exercise of political rights which are denied in certain States by mob force and partisan vio­ lence, and also to establish the broad and essential principle that the United States Government may extend the same protection to all elapses of its cit­ izens everywhere within its jurisdiction which other nations enforce in behalf of their subjects. Tht> amendment proposed by Senator Wilson is brief and comprehensive. Its full text is as follows: Home Coaifiwrt.V r There are certain principles fo b# ob­ served in a room if it is to impress the visitor with a sense of comfort or beau­ ty. For one thing, there must be a va­ riety in it. It is not necessary to buy a whole set of furniture alike, but there should be one prevailing color, a solid basis on which to build. There should be also care taken to furnish the wall spaces. It is an admirable plan to pull a sofa out, but if in doing so a great empty space is left, the room is made bare. In such a case the sofa could be* turned so as to break the stiff line, nnd yet remain against the wall. But the great secret of comfort and of giving an immediate effect of pleasant living is in the making of corners. What does an open fire amount to if an easy chair does not stand in front of it, or a lovely view from the window if the cur­ tain has to be drawn up and the visitor stand to look out? No, what we want is the chair by the fire, the light on the table'and the lounge pushed near it; the easy seat by the window, where a good light falls, all ready and waiting. It is all in vain to put baskets of bright wools about, magazines or portfolios of engravings, to give a "home look," if the convenient and comfortable seat is not added. U?he visitor who, coming in finds an easy chair by the fire, and near it the little stand with the magazine, can endure waiting a few moments, be­ cause he feels that his welcome lias met him. The chair by the window, the fan ready to be picked up, the bench under the tree, the seat on the porch, are the successes of hospitality. It is not given to ereryone to appreciate .pictures, or to feel color, but everyone delights in being made comfortable.-- Louise Stockton, in Ontinq. Taming an Eagle. "A workman," says the Spanish jour­ nal El Dia, "who has acquired a cer­ tain celebrity by his fortune in the hunting field as well as for his success in training wild birds and animals, had succeeded in domesticating an eagle so far that the bird would come down from the greatest height in answer to a sim­ ple sign or a slight whistle. The eagle flew about with the pigeons, causing no little consternation among them at first. It used to fly long distances, but came back two or three time a day to take its food out of the hands of its master. Af­ ter a few' days, however, a flock of eagles were seen in the neighborhood, and their domesticated fellow disap­ peared with his friends, never to re­ turn." IF there is any good in a man, it ii bound to come out; but it should not come out at once and leave the man empty. Consress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to protect the citizens of the United Sta es in the exercise and enjoyment of their right*, privileges, and Immunities, and assure them the equal protection of the laws. . This sentence expresses precisely the aim which the later amendments to the Constitution had in view, and it will ap­ ply to the protection of naturalized citizens when abroad as well as to colored citizens at home. The intimi­ dation so widely employed in the South and the construction of the amendments adopted by the Supreme* court have made it necessary to attach a clearer and more explicit expression of the purpose to the Constitution. The Wilson amendment will complete the conversion of the United States from a league of independent sovereignties, according to the old Calhoun doctrine, into a nation--a revolution which began with the substitution of the present Constitution for the original articles of agreement, and ought to have ended with the rebellion war. The authority of the nation has been vindicated by a successful defense of the Government against treason and armed rebellion. The nation now exercises the right to declare who shall be citizens of the United States, and it is a solecism that its authority to protect such citizens in their rights and privileges should be de­ nied or even questioned. Yet there are to-day 500,000 citizens in the South who are denied a right to vote whenever they attempt to vote against the Democratic party, and the nation's hands are tied in such moaner that it cannot come to their rescue. The constitutional amend­ ments which were designed to enable the Government to protect these citi­ zens, and all whose privileges are abridged, are directed against the States, and the States set up that they have passed no law denying the politi­ cal aud civil rights of the freedmen. It is the mob which does all this by means of trickery and violence; the States in question will do nothing to discipline the mob, and the United States Gov­ ernment has no authority to deal with it. It is only at Congressional elec­ tions that the United States has the right to appoint challengers, who are generally helpless where their services are needed; citizens are excluded from the polls, swindled in their contracts, denied the civil rights which adhere to citizenship, and there ii no remedy for it. When these discriminations are Sracticed and an appeal is made to the rnited States Congress and the United States courts the answer is, that the outraged citizen must look to his State and its agents for his re­ lief. Getting none there, he finds himself a citizen of the United States merely in name. The Government which was able to put down rebellion in nearly one-half of its political dis­ tricts, to free 6,000,000 of people who were slaves, and to declare that they should become citizens of the United States and of the States in which they reside, has still no power to guarantee the full and free exercise of such citizen­ ship by its own legislative, judicial and executive agents. The abridgment of the social privileges bf the blacks which Congress is powerless to prevent under existing constitutional amendments is chosen by popular delegate fitaia ootf ventions, called on not less than twenty days* published notice, and h«!d not less than thirty nor more than sixty days before the time for the meeting pi the National convention. The Repub­ licans of the various Congressional dis­ tricts shall have the option of electing their delegates at separate popular delegate conventions, or by sobmvisions of the State conventions into district conventions; and such delegates shall be chosen in the latter method, if not elected previous to the meeting of tne State conventions. All district dele­ gates shall be accredited by the officers of such district conventions. Two dele­ gates shall be allowed from each Terri­ tory, and from the District of Columbia, similarly chosen. Notices of contests may be given to the National commit­ tee, accompanied by full printed state­ ments of tne grounds of contest, which shall also be made public; and prefer­ ence in order of hearing and determin­ ing contests shall be given by the con­ vention according to the dates of recep­ tion of such notices and statements by the National committee." At the meeting of the committee in Washington, this rule was modi­ fied so as to permit Louisiana and Oregon to hold district and State con­ ventions not longer than ninety days prior to the National convention. War on Southern Boarbonism. Gen. James S. Negley, the President of the Union League of America^ has just returned from a meeting of the Executive committee of that organiza­ tion in Washington City. He says the speeches made outlined the campaign for 1884, and were such as he has rare­ ly heard; that while they expressed op­ position to the further flaunting of the bloody shirt, they were permeated with the idea that the rights of Republican voters in the South must be guaran­ teed them. H ' intimated that some at­ tention would be given to the fact that in no Southern State has there ever been enacted a law to abolish the abuses which have been so conspicuous a part of every political campaign. It is evident that, after all, the bloody shirt will be an element in politics next year.--Pittsburgh Telegram. When the Bloody Shirt Will Be Buried. So long as inoffensive men are shot down at the polls for the sin of pro­ posing to vote the Republican ticket, just so long will the bloody shirt be a factor in politics. When the Democ­ racy of the South cease to carry elec­ tions by fraud and murder, then will the shirt be buried, and not till •frp" Clay County (Jnd.) Enterprise. : ! Tmii WasM Wkwm mvHimmi ttttopsd FresMeat AitHHNitMji oflee to Mn. OSoip, to suoesed fcsfc.i band. Air entf rpriah» eUtfaaa «*, invented a wa«o**a#iM«Mk!aiL _ away the soft oom tsf istei la VI while being hnsHsC SINCE the dsath of James L Ouapw efj Dixon, which occurred reeently, OoL Clerk K. Carr, of Galesburf, is the oldest in continual scrvice west of the. THE City Council of JoUet pa--ai mm Ortor allowing the policemen of the city eacti with which to buy an overcoat. Oat of spits, it is said, the order was then uneaM so tha* every employe on the pay-rolls of the dtf lP given a douceur of tlO. ' THE mother of Gen. W. A. C. Kyaa, who was shot in Cuba, Nov. 4,1873, to free that island from the Spanish yoKSu and his brother, OoL J. 6. Byan, of ChieasStj have had made a handaone medallion as ai memorial of the fallen hero. Foil the second time Conrad Sofaoenle, at Decatur, aied 47, havlngva Jatge family. A Scene In Court. The following is reported to have occurred not a thousand miles frota Canyon City: "Prisoner, stand up and reoeive your sentence." The sou^d of trampiug feet was immediately hushed. Men stood still in awe. The prisoner had violated , i the lawB of the sovereign State of trifling by comparison with the prac- Oregon; had been tried by a jury of tical denial of political and civil rights hia peerg ttlld founa guilty; he is now The Law of Trespass. There seems to be a great difference of opinion in regard to the laws of trespass and the right possessed by the owners of property. Some people think that one has the right to shoot a dog, a cat, fowls, pigeons, etc., coming upon his premises; but he has no such right. His remedy is to go to the law for damages, and he has no right to take the law into his own hands. Some time ago a person in a neighboring county poisoned a trespassing dog, and was arrested. He freely admitted do­ ing it and attempted to show that he had the right to do so. The court and jury disagreed with him, and, as he had no money, he was sent to jaU for three months. Another case occurred a number of years ago. A neighboring sporting citizen was hunting partridges with a fine setter dog on which he placed great store. Tne dog was shot by a non- sporting farmer while hunting on his premises, and the act, being proved, the defendant undertook to show that the dog was unknown to him, and at best was a nuisance. But this was quickly disproved, and after a trial of two or three days the defendant was beaten, the jury adjudging the full value of the dog, about $40. The case at the time created a great deal of interest, as both parties were well known and respected in the community. This was the last case we heard of within the limits of Philadelphia county. How much better, all things consid­ ered, to settle all these neighborhood questions amicably. With a disposi­ tion to live peaceably and kindly in the same vicinity, and by simply bearing and forebearing in all the little happen­ ings of daily occurence, it would soon be found how oasy it was to be always friendly with everybody, and how pleasant it was to know that there was not a single person among all your ac­ quaintances with whom you were not on cordial terms of friendship.--Ger­ man totvn Telegraph. by the controlling elements of Southern society who hold tht^in«lvt»s independ­ ent of governmental authority. Tine- people of this country are still bound up in the logical results of the war which established the supremacy of the United States government, and are still determined that this supremacy JUST REPLENISHED. I have just received a new supply of lens, boys mid children*especlal- shull be used to insure equal protection Jlje holiday trade about to receive the sentence whose ful­ fillment will vindicate the. nja.iesty of rttest.market quotation#. " fclied on application. to all citizens. Tf the constitutional amendments already adopted are not sufficient to enable the Government to exercise the National function the peo­ ple will be in favor of extending and enlarging the constitutional powers of the Government. The agitation in that direction comes properly from the Re­ publican party. If the Democratic party shall use its temporary advantage in Congress to check the progress of Nationalism it will have to answer to the American people for its interfer­ ence.--Chicago Tribune. O. O. COIBT, Nunda. The Election of Delegates. On the fourth day of the Chicago ^ THIRTY DAYS, I will rnaks very low prices In Clank* •olmans ai d Shawls--a large stock to Jcet from. O o. cor.tfr, Xanda. FINE SHOES. liUdtn* will find the liest Assortment line shoes in Ihe county at O. c. >lby's. N nnda. been declared violently insane he is in trouble about money. After eight' years' treatment at the Jacksonville asylum he was discharged froa that years ago. A LADT passenger on the east-bound Den­ ver train on the Chicago and Alton rottf gave birth to a healthy toy near Pontile. Conductor Loomls cleared the parlor ear fer the use of the new passenger, who, with the. assistance of some ladles, came safely through the ordeal. Tax clergymen of the several churches in Joliet held a meeting and resolved against the issuing of Sunday papers, regarding it as an infringement of the Lord's day, and ad­ vised all Christian people to neither adver­ tise in nor take nor read aay paper Issued Sit Sunday. THS Chicago Evening Journal announces that the entire control of the Republican Na­ tional convention, to be held in that city next June, will be in the hands of a special com­ mittee of the Republican National oommtttee. who will take exclusive Charge of tfep issuing of tickets of admission aad the arrangement and protection of the Kxposition building do. ring the session of the convention. The au­ thority or interference of no local ooamittee will be recognised. THE Bloomington Turnveretn, a very large and wealthy German society, have completed a magnificent hall at a cost of SS0.000, and dedicated it with imposing eeressoaies. At building Is built of brick, is TfaM feet, snd three stories high. Ihe main hall has a seat­ ing capacity of 1,500. It has a stage and theatrical paraphernalia. The building con­ tains three store-rooms for mercantile use, and is provided with gymnasium, parlors,' dining-room, kitchen, and other oonvonieat apartments. Ma. Jons COOMBS, who has a well-tilled; farm in Macon township, has Just finished gathering and cribbing his corn off seventy acres, whioh yielded fifty or sixty bushels to the acre. He sorted his corn before placing It in the cribs, snd all of it is good. He had * tot of extra tiling on his farm that be wfll use next spring, and as an experiment he placed it in the cribs to carry off the sweat. Some of the corn is yet soft, but' it is in no apparent -danger of molding. Mr. Coombs says it is getting to be pretty tough when a farmer has to tile his land to grow com wad then tile his cribs to save It. B?t It Isn't alj ways thst in way Macon county.-i-£e«Sttir puMiean. 1 Miss 8AMK RAV, who killed theYafcte. waiter, Kingsley, for defaming her, is stnftn Jail at .Chicago, and has received a number of letters from different parts of the country* written by ladies who offer their support aad sympathy. One writer, at Frankfort, Mich., characterizes her act as a brare one, and says that she did nobly in defending her good, name, even if she did get into trouble. Miss Bay said she did not know sny of the writers, but was thankful for their expressions of good will. Never baring been in a prison or Jail of any kind before, Miss Bay does not like her present position, but contents her* self as well as possible under the circum­ stances, and hopes for a speedy release. She hss strong faith in the ability of her counsel to present her case properly before the court, and thinks, when all the evidence is heard, an intelligent jury will not convict her. In view of the experience of the last Be. publican convention in the Exposition bniM- when sweh an immense crowd was pres. ent that it could not be oontrotled, one "applause" lasting an hour and another an' hour and a quarter, a reporter asked Mr. John P. Reynolds, Secretary of the company, what be would suggest to prevent a similar' Interruption of the proceedings. "I really don't know what the committee proposes to do," he replied; "whether they want to acooes- modate the delegates and all the citizens ofl Chicago or only the delegates and a few of our people. They can adapt any part of the south half of the building to their purposes- Theodore Thomas used but a third of it, and seated 8,000 or 4,000. He had an elegant auditorium. The muslo could be heard by every one. An audience-room could be put in thai will accommodate 4,000, and eveiyj one of them could hear an ordinary speaker J There was room the last time for 15,C0i). The! number could be reduced one-half. The' committee can get a perfectly lighted and. ventilated hall, no matter what arrangement they make. Tbey can adopt the annphi-the­ atrical form, and have galleries on the sldej or put (fits on the floor for A,000, i Chicago Tribune. ^ *k- • Farm to Rent. A farm of 120 acres. on*»fc*]r lie south of Fox Lake. It Is well led witli wood and wafur. On It nrv Od buildings, meadow land.*, and •mhilig desirable. Terms ensy. MKS. JA U K S MCHAVICK. Fox Lake, 111. convention of 1880, on motion of Mr. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, the follow­ ing order was adopted: "The National committee shull, with­ in the next twelve months, prescribe a method or methods for the election of delegates to the National convention to be held in 1884, announce the same to the country, and issue a ca^l for that convention in conformity therewith, provided that such methods or rules shall include and secure to the several. c s . Congressional districts in the United >Honry, 111., Antrim i*r. isss, ° States the right to elect their own dele­ gates to the National convention." Acting upon this, the National Re­ publican committee met on Jan. 17, and adopted the following: "The Republican National conven­ tion of 1884 shall consist of four dele- gates-at-large from each State and two delegates from each Congressional dis­ trict. The delegates-at-laree shall be OUSE AND LAND FOR SALE, 'he undersigned ofb*rs f«»r sale his •se and ono acre of land, situated in village of MoHenrv, near the pnh- siiihowl building OH The premise# good barn and outhouses, nud ill 1 ruit ot all kinds. Will gold i»»able and on easy terms. I li­ re on the premises. ^'"ffihirtVriiiiVr'YnnTi- 1 Illinois Blank Um. A tabulation has just been completed la he Eecretary of State's oSoe of the vote lpon the adoption of the Illinois constitution >f 1848 and upon the two articles submitted leparately at the same time. This tabulation tas never before been made, and it records tome curious facts in the political history of he State. The first of the separate artidas , lubmitted was the one requiring the LegiSla ure, at its first session after the adoption of be new constitution, to "pass sueh laws a* rill effectually prohibit free persons of color rom immigrating to and settling in this tate; and to effectually prevent the owners ' f slaves from bringing them into this State jr the purpose of setting free." ThlS; rticle was adopted by a yote of 50,341 for to gtn 1,308 against, and upon It the famous Black* He iws of the State were based. The votes upon w i 'by some of tbe more populous counties are yoi uriously suggestive. A few of them aife for elected, in illustration, as follows: ' Countfca. For Ag'st.! Counties. Par. Ag'tt.* ....1,400 as well as that produced by the baking of the dough, lies the whole art of the browning and the success of the "sem- mel."--Notes and Queriea. AN Albany, N. Y., butcher figures he has sawed seventy-eight miles of bone in thirty years at his block. j iiowB. inrsao. 383 *'» Wss Ml am took 440 It'ii Trawford-- » I r JeKalh IU A,r >« Page..... 899 rnlton 1,887 lardin t Hancock i,xoi Jo I>avisas.. 1,046 Knox «« La Sails..... e» M9 Maoonplm... 846 744 Madison..... MB* 138 Marion 634 433 McDonoogh. S3S as McLean. TO> 1.4T9 Morgan 1.11T us Peoria 830 39? Pike 1,833 6ss!Pntnam 198 463 Rock Island. 410 933 Sangamon. .1,483 250 St. Clair 9.U66 411 Stephenson. 934 4fS White 614 870 Whiteside ao wiu m 191 Winnebago. 1ST H* 90! 414 OHXCAOO has hotel MjWfl gussts ..s