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J. WITITKE, iromiin. MoHElTOY, ILLINOIS. ACCOBDTKO to the report ofa com­ mittee of the New York Board of Health appointed to examine into the recent <OMe of diptheria among some children •f Amsterdam, New York, a oat and a Ml ware mainly ipatruina*tal in spreading the dhease. THERE are 125 licensed distilleries in Scotland, no less than thirty-five being in Argyllshire alone Uampbelltown has twenty-two within its bonnds, and there are five in Islay. In Banffshire there are eleven distilleries, including the celebrated Glenlivet establishment, •of which the praise has long been sung. It still holds first position; among Highland whiskey. An exchange says: **A'lady residing in Berks County, Pennsylvania, has some painful coincidences associated with the anniversary of her birth. On her birthday two years ago her sister •died. Last year her youngest daughter -died on the same date. This year her •eldest daughter died on the sadly no­ table anniversary." She must stop liaving birthdays, and in that way -change her luck. IN French Algeria the wokfc of •exterminating wild beasts is making rapid progress. The number killed, for which rewards were paid by the •Government, rose from 647 only in 1881 to 1,656 in the' following year. Among these the jackals figure for by far the larger proportion, numbering on the total of the two years 1,969 out •of 2,303. Besides these there were lour lions, six lionesses, 119 panthers, -and 196 hyenas. EVERY one, rich and poor, takes a dip «once a day in a oaldron of hot water in -Japan. The rioli bathe before dinner and at night. The whole household •dip in the same water. Precedence is {given to the visitors, then the elders followed by the young people accord­ ing to age, and then the servants. On getting out of the caldron each bather gargles mouth and throat with cold aromatized water. They then fan each •other until they are all dry. DBS. RICHABBSON and Kerr remarked, in connection with Weston's feat of walking, that a man may take so small an amount of alcohol in a light beer that it will be of no effect one way or the other; but when he resorts to it as a promoter of strength or sustained ^physical effort, and takes a quantity 4Buch as he believes necessary for that -purpose, it is then that he will discover liis error. The Lancet says: "Whatever inference we draw or refuse to draw from Mr. Weston's walk, it remains one •of the most surprising feats that was -ever performed by man." THIS Brealaur Aerztliche Zeitscrvft :gives statistics for the German univer. -•cities for the summer of 1883: Berlin, -4,061; Bonn, 1,165; Breslin, 1,559; -Gottingen, 1.104; Greifswald, 741; Halle,1,414; Kiel, 441; KouigsHerg, 929; Marburg, 848; Munster, 318; Erlangen, •641; Freburg, 823; Giessen, 464; Hei- •delburg, 1,019; Jena, 631; Munich, "2,225; Strassburg, 834; WursJburg, 1,085; Leipsig, 3,097; Rostock, 231; Tubingen, 1,373. Of these 25,284 «tudents, 6,172 studied medicine, 9,117 -philosophy, 5626 law, 3,558 evangelical -theology, 811 catholic theology. MILNE EDWARDS, the naturalist, is giving in Paris an interesting exhibi­ tion of submarine plants and animals . found during his exploration of the Mediterranean. He took soundings to the depth of 19,685 feet and brought -up some of the most remarkable organ­ isms ever seen. They are said to have puzzled the most accomplished natural­ ists, some of them being of such a na­ ture as to make it difficult to classify them either as belonging to a botanical <or zoological species. The dregings -were on a large scale, samples of rock weighing over 200 pounds being some­ times brought up. A GIRL not yet 17, Miss Rossiter, of "West Philadelphia, is at the head of women silk culturists in the United States. She has written a pamphlet on eilk culture, which is claimed to be au­ thority. She rears and sells worms, eggs, cocoons and reeled silk. She has made meantime the largest and hand- «omeBt private collection of objects per­ taining to her occupation in the United States. Silk culture is a fascinating and comparatively new occupation for •women and children in this country. It is said that it can be made remuner­ ative and con be carried on wherever the mulberry will grow. Moat of the •cocoons in this country, however, are ^grown by women in the South. JEAXODS wife was she whom Wesley named, it is told that when Mrs. Wes­ ley wearied of her husband's liberal and unsettled life she took to playing the spy, opening his letters, following liim from town to town, and plaguing Mm in every way, openly and secretlyt that her malice could contrive. "By -lier outrageous jealousy," says Southy, "she deserves to be classed iu a. triad . with Santippe and the wife of Job as «me of the three bad wives." She , jprovt-d a thorn in the, ilesh of Wesley for twenty years, and nt last she left Itis houses carrying off his journals and papers, which die never returned, ller husband acted in a Way which may bo recommended to the attention of all %he are tried with jealous wives. He trfmply stated in hit diary the fact of Njiitriiif I will not recall her Taa Santa* authorities nffiog over the newspaper press continue to dis­ tinguish themselves by effecting the most ridiculous results. When the funeral of the lata Count Vladimir Adlerberg took place recently, the Emperor and Empress and nearly all the Imperial Grand Dukes and Duchesses were the most conspicuous among the chief mourners, and the Emperor eveii(%ode for a short distance behind the remains in the procession, which is an honor reserved by the Rus­ sian Czavs almost entirely for deceased members of their own imperial families. For three days the Official Messenger did not publish a single word about this great pnblio funeral, and all the other journals gave their different ac­ counts without uttering a syllable as to the presence of the imperial family. They were deterred by the standing order forbidding all mention of move­ ments of imperial personages until of­ ficially chronicled in the Government Gazette. Yet the fact of the imperial presence at the funeral was telegraphed the same night to Moscow, and unre­ servedly published the next day in M. KatkofTs favorite journal. IT is probable that within a few years the storing and selling of ice will be dispensed with. By mechanical and ohemical devices a cold atmosphere can be induced of a temperature so low that artificial ice very readily forms. These are used where many ani­ mals are killed and stored for food be­ tween the decks of vessels which- take dressed meats from America to Europe, and in storage Warehouses in which are kept eggs, butter, cheese, meat, and poultry. In the St John's Railway Depot in New York is a series of some ninety rooms, covering an area of 30,. 000 square feet, which are kept at a freezing temperature all the year round by means of a pipe running along the ceiling through which the freezing mixture from the tank is sent In a great apartment house in West 23d street, in New York, there will be a cooling as well as a heating apparatus affecting all the rooms. In addition to being lit by electricity, and heated by the steam from the engine that runs the dynamos, every room will contain a coil through which will circulate a freezing mixture foroed up from the cellar. Thus on a burning hot day in July and August the occupacts of this great apartment-house can turn on the cooling air and produce ice in their rooms, if they wish to do se. Saloon and sleeping cars can be refrigerated in mid-summer, and thus kept comfort­ ably cool. The manufacturers of the apparatus say that after the first cost of the plant, the running expenses would not be 2 cents a day for each re­ frigerator, which is, far cheaper than ice, apart from the cost of handling and storing the latter. With this ap­ paratus, the heated plains and the buring sand of the torrid zones may be made not only habitable but comforta­ ble for the average man or woman of the temperate regions of the eartb1 tiough's Tact. It is not expedient for a lecturer to be so enlogistically introduced to an audience as to arouse expectations which he cannot meet. John B. Gough relates how he managed to escape from such a catastrophe when introduced to a London audience: His introducer had pronounced him the greatest orator who had ever lived, and ended a long and fulsome eulogy by telling the peop le to prepare them­ selves for such a burst of eloquence as they bad never before listened to. Gough, knowing that the best efforts he had ever made would, under such circumstances, fall far short of antici­ pation, determined to practice a ruse, and the ruse was to effect stupidity. \ He opened by stammering and hesK tating, by beginning his sentence, and leaving them unfinished, until, as he said, the worst speaker iu England could not have done worse. He soon overheard those oa the plat­ form whispering their disapprobation and censure, one man saying,-- "Oh, this will never do here, yon know. It may all be very well in Amer­ ica, you know, but in England, vyou know, it is quite a different thing." He still continued in his dull, discon­ nected way until he had seen, that he had a background for his verbal pictures. Then he gradually adopted his natu­ ral manner, and as sentence after sent­ ence rolled out, vivid and resonant from his lips, his audience grew enthusiastic, and fairly roared with applause. He had never been more rapturously greeted than he was then and there. Those who heard him declared that they had never known a man to change so after he had once warmed up. The Creoles of New Orleans. "You will not find any of the Creoles that Mr. Cable describes living in Now Orleans," said a book-seller in the French quarters of the Cresent City, to a Northern visitor. "Here he got his suggestions for characters, but he gave those characters attributes which they never possessed. His fanov painted the facts in colors they never befoj e knew. The Creole of Cable is a different crea­ ture front the Creole we know of in New Orleans. The people now called Creoles," he continued, "are fast drift­ ing awav. The Irish control their pol­ ities. The Hebrews monopolize their business, and their morals are in the hands of alien priests. Thev themselves have retired within th< ir h^mes. It is a fact, sir, that hundreds of Creoles living right around tbis neighborhood have never crossed C*nal street. They refuse to believ«* that the western part of this magnificent citv exi-ts. This is their exclusiveness. They know noth ing of modern progress. Their habits l>elong to a generation long past. Their race is crnmbling to pieces, and they are rapidly passing away." And the Northerner thonght that after all Cable had not been far away from the truth. MATTKR in varied forms is tha em* bodiment of tha universe. rtws internal] tig 810(7 at Chief-Jostle* M»r- •hall and the Supreme Cnort. John Marshall was the greatest Chief Justice this country has ever had, and a man with but indifferent cultivation nd that chef); of a miscellaneous na­ ture. It nt at tne time John Marshall came fo ward as a lawyer tod judge it was highly necessary in the United States that there should be a breaking away from the precedents of England if * e would have our law modeled to our people. The establishment of a repub­ lican nation which had no counterpart in the institutions of Great Brttam re­ quired certain bold and skillful mind at the bar who should, so to speak, create a new law, and while Chancellor (vent did much of this in New York, John Marshall did it for the whole country. In the estimation of many persons Marshall was the best repre­ sentative of the American civil charac­ ter. It is believed that Jefferson was the only man in the United States whom Marshall disliked morally or mentally. While he was on the bench he and Jefferson had no communication. Jeff­ erson feared him more than any man in America after the death of Hamilton. He had none of Hamilton's impetuosity and Scotch-French headstrongness. The family stock of Marshall, like that of Jefferson, was Welsh, as is gen­ erally the case in names with a double letter, as a double f or a double L Tbis Welsh type was made steady by Eng­ lish infusions. The first Marshall came from Wales in 1730, and settled in the same eounty where Washington, Mon­ roe, and the Lees were born. In 1775 the country hunters and boors on the Blue Ridge Mountain went to their mustering place, and, the senior officer being absent, this young Marshall, with a guu on his shoulder, began to show them how to use it. Like them, he wore a blue hunting- shirt and trousers of the fame stuff fringed with white, and in his round hat was a buck-tail for a cOckade. He was abont six feet high, lean and straight, with a dark skin, black hair, a pretty low forehead, and rich, dark, small eyes, the whole making a face dutiful, pleasing, and modest. After the drill was over he stood up and told those strange, wild mountaineers, who had no newspapers and knew little of the world what the war was about He described to them the battle of Lexing­ ton. They listened to him for an hour as if he had been some young preacher. Thus was our great Chief-Justice in­ troduced to public life. He had come to serve, nnd found that he must in­ struct When he marched with the regiment of these mountaineers, who oarried tomahawks and scalping-knive*, the people of Williamsburg trembled for their lives. At that time the coun­ try near Harper's Ferry was the Far West. In a very little while these mountaineers, by mingled stratagem and system, defeated Lord Dtinmore, verj* much as Andrew Jackson deft ated the British at New Orleans thirty-five years later. Marshall then went with the army to the vicinity of Philadel phia, was in the battles of Brandy wine •and Germantown, and in the long win ter of Valley Forge. Almost naked at that place, he showed an abounding good nature that kept the whole camp content If he had to eat meat without bread, he did it with a jest Among his men he had the influence of a father, though a boy. > He was so much better read than others that he fre' quently became a Judge Advocate, and in this way he got to know Alexander Hamilton, who was on Washington's staff. Marshall was always willing to see the greatness of another persou, and Judge Story says that ho said of Hamil ton that he was not only of consummate ability as both soldier and statesman, but that in great, comprehensive mind, sound principle, and purity of patriot­ ism no nation ever had his superior. It became Marshall's duty in the course of twenty-five years to try for high treason the man who killed his friend Hamilton, but he conducted that trial with such absenc e of personal feeling that it was among the greatest marvels of Our legal history. He could neither be influenced by his private grief for Hamilton, nor by Jefferson's at tempts as President to injure Burr, nor by Burr himself, whom he charged the jury to acquit, but whom he held under bond on another charge, to Burr's rage. Marshall was in the Rattle of Mon­ mouth, and at the storming of Stony Point, and at the surprise of Jersey City. In the army camps he became acquainted with the Northern men, and so far from comparing inviduously with them he recognized them all as fellow- countrymen and brave men, and never in his, life was there a single trace of sectionalism. An Estimate of Seward. Seward was a favorite of fortune. He was fortunate in his gifts, his surround­ ings, his successes, his career, his tern perament, his friendships. He was pe­ culiarly blessed in the last respect by having as a life-long friend Thurlow Weed, one of the most astute and pow­ erful politicians we have ever produced, who relieved Seward of many of the burdens of politics, and left him free to work out the principles they both had at heart It was a rare chance which gave Seward such a friend, and he made the most of it, as he did all of his opportunities, after the fashion of suc­ cessful people. Very few men have made themselves count for more than Seward in proportion to their ability. This arose from his wonderful capacity for dealing with his fellow men, from his robust common sense, and*from his cautious firmness. The qualities, how­ ever, which made him great were his wisdom and his oourage. and on these his placc in history will rest Apart from the military leaders, the great fig­ ure of the civil war is that of Abraham Lincoln. He will always stand pre­ eminent, not only by his wisdom and moral greatness, but by his hold upon the popular affection. He appealed to the hearts of the people both in his life and in his death. They loved him. because in him they saw a true and profoundly sympathetic representative of all that was best in themselves, and because he personified as no other man did the infinite pathos of the war. But mong the statesmen who followed and sustained Lin oln, Seward will occupy the loremost plaoe. The memory of the adroit politician may perish, but that of the broad-minded statesman will en­ dure. The subtleties of his arguments will fade, but his presentation of great principles will ever grow brighter. The champion of anti-Masonry will be orgotten, but the man who first ap­ pealed to the "high-law," and who first desoril>ed the "irrepressible conflict," will always be honored and rememWr- ed. We may read the epitah which Seward chose for himself in the simple inscription on the tomb at Auburn. "He was faithful," and with this prai e uewas content But history will also record and give high plaoe to the calm tha earns* of Senate, and stood fcH „ through all ftlta trials |H$$:jNlriis of four years of civil war --Cabot Lodge in The Atlantic. : ' ' Drndge First f "We have continually Uxgo abroad for skilled labor," said an intelligent gen­ tleman to the Senate CooUttee on La­ bor. "How do you account for that fact?" asked the chairman. "It is due to the general antipathy of young men to learning a trade," an­ swered the gentleman. The observation of those who mingle with young men confirms the statement. "1 don't care to go into that business, there is too much hard work in it!" is again and again heard from boys whose only capital for years must be their honesty, intelligence, and industry. "Show me what you can do. and I will show you what you are," said Lord Derby to the Glasgow students. That is a more stimulating thought for a boy to carry with him than the en­ ervating one: "Give me a soft plaoe and will show you what I can do!" Those who trudge and drudge to-day shall ride to-morrow. An American importer recently asked German woolen manufaeturer how it was that he could pay the freight and the nigh duty on his goods and yet com­ pete with American manufacturers. His answer should open the eyes of Ameri­ can boys, especially those who are the sons of manufacturers, as to the advan­ tage of beginning at the drudgery of a business. He said, in substance-- The German manufacturer's practi­ cal experience, which has become a seo- ond nature to him, is the cause of his ability to compete with American man­ ufacturers. He has grown up in the mill. "He may have his work in the office, but he understands every prooess of manufacturing and knows by personal observation what is going on in every department of his factory. "He educates his sons, as his father educated him, to know all about the business. They begin an apprentice­ ship, as if they were outsiders, and learn every branch of the»business by engaging in it, even the most irksome and laborious. Thus they become in­ telligent manufacturers. "If anything is the matter with the goods, he is able to tell at once the cause and who is the person to blame. Your manfacturers are good judges of the quality of goods, but they have not that practical knowledge of the various manufacturing processes which enables them to discern the cause of a fault and to detect the guilty workman. The American manufacturer is, there­ fore, obliged to go to his mill to make inquiries. Each overseer throws the blame an the other, and the manufac­ turer seldom discovers just the cause oi the fault or who is to blame." The moral of the German's words is this: Put the manufacturer's sou in the factory instead of iu the office. Let him learn to manufacture goods, then he can learn the duties of the counting- room.--Youth'* Companion. The Name of tiod In Forty-eight Lan« Hebrew, Fiohim or Eloah. Chaldaic, Elah. Assyrian, Ellah. - Syriac and Turkish, Afyh. Malay, Alia. Arabic, Allah. Language of the Magi, Orst. Old Egyptian, TueL Armorian, Teuti. Modern Egyptian, T( "Greek, Theos. Cretan, Thias. JEolian and Doric, Latin, Deus. Low Latin, Diex. t Celtic and old Gallic, JEtttf. French, Dieu. Spanish, Dioit. , Portuguese, Deoife i u , Old German, Diet. Provencal, Dion* , _ Low Breton, I>QM& , Italian. Dio. ' ' Irish, Die. Olala tongue, Deu. German, UotL Flemish, Goed. ; >2 Dutch, GodL J English and old Saxon, God. Teutonic, Goth. Danish and Sweedish, Out. Norwegian, Gud, Slavic, Buch. Polish, Bog. * Polaca, Bung. Lapp, Jubinal. Finnish, Juniala, Runic, As. Pannonian, Istu. Zemblian, Fetizo. Hindostanee, Bain. Coromandel, Brama. Tartar, Magatal. Persian, Sire. Chinese, Prussa. Japanese, Goezur. Madagascar, Zannar. .'.-.J.­ Peruvian, PuchocamaJe, An Anecdote of Jenny tlnd. As an illustration of the constant anxiety of artists concerning their pow­ ers, Mrs. Reeves tells how one famous prima donna refused to sit down at all on a day when she was to sing: "No, she walked about the room, talking* perhaps, singing perhaps, sometimes even busy with her needle and thread, but never sitting down the livelong day until the performance was over." "Why, I remember well enough how one day, on the morning of a perform­ ance, Jenny Lind (Mine. Goldschmidt), Mr. Reeves, Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, and myself were in the room, and through the morning Jenny Lind and her lias- band were never still, passing one past the other, with music in hand, singing and practing, and intent on their work before them. 'Why, Jenny,' said Mr. Golchchmidt, 'vou must have sung those songs many times; surely there is no need for all this.' But the remon­ strance was in vain. 'You are a fine musician,' said Mme. Goldschmidt, in her quiet, decisive manner to her hus­ band. 'but Mr. Reeves and I are sing­ ers, and know what is best for us. Leave us alone.' Suppose you had called to see Jenny Lind on a day when she was singing. She would probably come into the room with a bundle o» music in her hand, put it on a chaii and sit down upon it; talk away pleas­ antly for a few minutes, become ab stracted. rise, take up the music, turn to a passage in one of the pieces, and hum it over. Having satisfied herself of the correctness, she would replace it and sit down again as calmly as possi­ ble and resume the conversation at the point it was left off"--Pall Mal{ Budget. ^ THERE are many who despise half the world; but if there be any who de­ spise the whole of it, it is because tha other half despise them.--Col ton. HOT Sf Gen. Jahi .L IvttMia.Btah. FUs to UM MM ( Notwithstanding the "seaturn" that a few days since somewhat chilled the po­ litical atmosphere in this vicinity, the next President of the republic will be James G. Blaine. Still, in one sense, Massachusetts is a doubtful State, it being doubtful whether she will give ::0,0l>0, 30,000, or 40,000 for Republican principles and the Republican ticket in N o v e m b e r n e x t . * * ' I i THE FIRST SHOT STRIKES S9STON When men prate about not wearing about their necks a "Republican collar," hear them out, and say, "Nobody wants you to." But when any one, ca.led by whatever political name, attempts to put the Democratic collar around the nation's neck, vote him down on the spot SPIKING THE ENEMY'S MTTD BATTERIES. A man cannot live among his fellows for a generation and have his children pass into mature years, while all his ways are under constant watch, and stiil retain the loyal affection of his lo­ cality, and he be a man. Put that down as something settled. CHEERING THfc MEN WITH A LITTLE 6ROO. When a learned college President ex­ postulated with a female crank for wearing trousers, by saying "It was utterly reprehensible and unladylike and unscriptural to do so," the female in male attire quietly remarked: "Well, President, it is with me. trousers or nothing." " Mtrcv," said the good Pres#lent, "anything but that last ex­ tremity. The bare possibility is re­ volting. " The bare possibility of the return of the Democratic party, the last resort of the Independent, is too re­ volting an alternative. INTO THE BOLTERS' POWDER MAGAZINE. When the Senate ot the United States unanimously confirmed James G. Blaine as Secretary of State did it stultify and perjure itself by giving high place to a person of low and objectionable public morals? A LITTLE MORE GROG. No matter how much a bad boy sings "I want to be an angel," it is wise to put the jam on the top shelf and to lock up the step ladder. That is our receipt and treatment at all times for Democratic misconduct and innate cussedness. JEERING AT THE DEMAND FOR A SUR­ RENDER. Before we deliver Faneuil Hall over to Tammany Hall; before we surren­ der Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill to a solid South and a political party stolid at any price for national domina­ tion; before we place a Democratic President to succeed Abraham Lincoln and U. S. Grant, we require some­ thing more convincing than the hack­ neyed phrase that political candidates, like Cesar's wife, must be above sus­ picion. THE ENEMV'8 MAIN-MAST GOES. This canvass will tnru on the one fact whether the party that has made this Republic what it is shall now give way to a party the triumph of which at any election in thirty years would have been a calamity of the first magnitude. RUNNING Ul* A FREE-TRADE FLAG. From Lexington Common and Con­ cord Bridge the rank and file of the Republican army will once more clash with the British forces that temporarily occupy Boston in the interests of free trade under the banner of independ­ ence ; and there will be blows to give, as well as blows to take, in the canvass. V A HIT AT THE HOME GUARD. Gen. John A. Logan will have the vote of the l»yal soldiers as no one but Grant ever had it. The brave officer who, in the face of death, carried the flag, will not be deserted by the "boys in blue," because his grammar is not up to the mark that meets the fastidious taste of Mr. Congressman Lyman. THE FLAG OF THE OLD SHIP STILL THERE. To the East, where among its pine- clad hills our standard-bearer lives; to the West, with the hearts of its people as big as their own prairies, the West that demanded the selection of our can­ didate ; to the North, whose countless lives of toil are now trembling in the waiting balance of events; to the South, with its dusky millions pleading to Al­ mighty God that the only national friends they ever had may not be swept from power--to one and all of the Re­ publican hosts we send greeting, that the State holding beneath her sod the ashes of Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson and John A. Andrew will never betray the cause of freedom and prog­ ress, but will cast her fourteen electoral votes, every one for James G. Blaine, of Maine, and John A. Logan, of Illi­ nois, for President and Vice President of this Nation.--Speech before the Middlesex Club of Boston. ' ' The Political Pharisees. The forthcoming struggle for the Presidency between tho two great parties will be too serious to allow the little discontented cliques in New York and Massachusetts who hang on to the Republican party in calm weather and desert it in the storms to masquerade as "Reformers" or Independents any longer. Their only idea of reform is not to make any change within the party by aiding it, but outside the party by assaulting it. Provided some man is named as a candidate who is ac- ceptable to them, they are ready to re­ form the party, if only they do not have to associate with it. If the candidate s not acceptable to them they go over to the Democratic party, whose , only doctrines are spoils and State sov­ ereignty, and vote for candidates who they know will reform nothing. There is but one title which fitly de­ scribes these gentlemen, and that is, political Pharisees. Like the Phari­ sees, they assume to "sit in Moses' seat." Like the Pharisees, they "say star. -"iHl̂ s. says that little tilf iron he put in his pocket and went home; fiso Stom won, the good little boy wanted to have his marbles back, and to play the game over again. Like the Phari­ sees, they assume to mondpoliM all the virtues, which have proved to be of such a Democratic sort that in 1876 they supported Tilden, in 1880 they supported Hancock, and a year later they supported Butler in Massa­ chusetts. One would not have to look far to find that Mr. George William Curtis is the chief rabbi among the Pharisees, and wears the biggest phylactery. In May, 1876, he examined Mr. Blaine's record, and pronounced it spotless and satisfactory. In 1884 he refuses to support him, on the ground that his record is not good, though no new charge has been fabricated by his enemies. In 1882 Mr. Curtis quoted Mr. Blaine's speeches in favor of civil- service reform. In 1884 he opposes him on the ground that he has not ad­ vocated civil-service reform, and now he crowns his hypocritical record by declaring that "Blaine was doubtless the choice of a large majority of the Republican partj ," and, by refusing to support him after taking part in the convention, sets himself up as above the laws of honor and as knowing more than the Republican party, and being better than its majority, which is Phariseeism personified, and repeating itself in the old "I thank Thee that 1 am not as other men are.*--Chicago Tribune. HON. JAMES O. BLAINE. BeoepUon by ClUitens of Lowliiton and Ai- burn-- Spoecli by Mr. Blaloe. , > [Lewiston (Me.) dispatch.] James G. Blaine arrived in Lewiston this evening, and received an ovation from the crowds assembled at the rail way station. He at once drove to the residence of Col. Drew, whose guest he is during his stay here. After tea a procession, composed of local military organizations, and the reception com­ mittee in carriages, went to Col. Drew's residence, where they received Mr. Blaine, and escorted him to the hall, which was densely packed. When Mr. Blaine stepi>ed on the platform he was greeted with tumultuous cheers. A. W. Savage, on behalf of the committee on arrangements, delivered a brief ad­ dress of welcome, and Mr. Blaine Re­ plied as follows: Mr. Chairman, and Ladies and Gentlemen ot the Hster Cities of Lewiston and Auburn: 1 am deeply moved by the cordiality of your reception. It is a great addition to the com­ pleteness of your reception that it is outside and beyond the line of party division, and that I am perm tte.l to meot you simply ae old friends and follow-oiti/ens of the f-ame Sta:e «hch I am irotul to claim as my home. In tho last tliirty years I have, in put lie station and in private lite, known and appreciated your city and citizens, and have co-opera.od with them in many ways for the IH ne:it of our oint constituents. 1 attended a public meeting in lewiston thirty-two yeais-i'tro. Then it was a small village. When I sec the suierk city which now welcomes me, and meet this vast assemblage of your peop'e, I am more than ever impressed with tho energetic character and magnificent en- terpri' e of the Amork an people, Kepublicans and Democrats alike, and 1 can say with pride, quoting1 almost literally the language of Jetfcrcon. that upon such occasions as this we are ull Democrats and nil Republicans. I ean not close without again thanking you most profoundly, ladies and gentlemen, for the cordiality with which you have greeted me, and, w.ehing to each and nil of you, and to your two beautiful cities, a continuation of that abundant prosperity in the luture which you have enjoyed so richly in the pust. At tho conclusion of his remarks, Mr. Blaine held an informal recep ion, and many embraced the opportunity to take him by the hand. To-morrow Mr. Blaine will attend the exercises at Bates College. Logan and the Southern Seldler. In the dark days o! reconstruction,We think it was in 1866, the month of June, three gentlemen sat on the porch of a private boarding-house on Michigan avenue, Washington City. As they sat together in low and earnest conversa­ tion, an old man in worn but once re spcctable garments, lame and hobbling on a crutch, paused directly in front of the trio, and glanced searchingly in the faces of all three. , There was an ex­ pression in the upturned countenance of the old man too readily defined--a look of weariness--an a r, in fact, of present poverty, that could not be mis­ understood by the group. "Can I do any tiling for you, my man ?" asked the senior of the trio, at­ tentively regarding the stationary figure in his front. "I think not, sir," was the quick re­ sponse. "Where did you get that lame leg?" inquired the first speaker. "At Chick amauga." ^ "On what side ?" "Your side, if you are a Southerner," rejoined the old qian, leaning wearily on his crutch. "Not mine, friend," said the gentle­ man. "I belonged to the other side," "That makes a big difference," re­ marked the crippled stranger.. "I was about to ask you a favor, but you live on the wrong side of the house." "What can I do for you, old man?" still urged the gentleman, with quiet gravity. "I may as well tell you as any one else. I am a stranger in this city and trying to get out of it. I have a home in the far South and enough to live on when I get there. I ran out of money in Baltimore and was brought here by the kindness ol the conductor on the train." "Have you no money now?" "I expected a remittance of $25 from home when I reached this place; but it has not arrived." "Well! you shall not go home on your crutches if I can help it," and the gentleman produced his pocketbook and counted six $5 bills in the palm of of the stranger. , , . „ ^ .• i "It is too much 1 I dislike to take it 1" and do not. When Mr. Curtis arose exciai,ne(j the old man, grateful and as- m Moses Beat he said he and his clique i were honorable men or they would not be there as delegates to the Republican Convention, but they are not acting honorably. LUte the Pharisees, "make broad tneir phylacteries" that the people may imagine they alone carry the Republican law and gospel on their breasts and that they are the tonislied. I "Keep it--you are welcome toil," j persisted the gentleman. | "I thank you--a thousand times!" 1 said the old man. "When I get home I will return every cent of it. Your name --for I want to remember it and honor it as long as I live." Never mind that, old man. If you . .•. , i .. . t , i ever luisa iuai, out miui. it vuu only guides whose counsel it is safe to ' h h ag VQU to Hve in fallow. Like the Pharisees, thev love . " v , _•< fallow. Like the Pharisees, they "love he uppermost rooms at feasts, the chief seats in the synagogues, and greet- ngs in the markets." Like the Phari- 4ees, they make their own opinions and iass them off as law. Outwardly they appear righteous ind within they are full of hypocrisy nd iniquity. "I thank Thee that I am ot as ot er men are," s their motto, ot being as other men are, they ha e o honest atliliation with other men, no common basis of action with other men, nless the other men condesccnd to fol- iw their lead and accept their de­ mands, which is in i'self the essence of ypoorixy. They are like the moral ibtle boys who played marbles with winery Storia--when he was a young- your far-away Southern home, and if you should ever meet in that home a boy in blue in such trouble as you are to-day, just hand him the little amount I give you now and say no more about JL_ The man who sent one of our own dear boys--a poor Confederate--on hi- way rejoicing was Gen. .T ohn Alexander Logan, noted, if some of our exchanges are to be his judges, for merciless treat­ ment of the Southern soldiers! Natchez (Miss. > Ci usader. THE President and the members o" hu Cabinet will earnestly suppor Blaine and Logan. There » no trutl in the report that the Independent* offered Gen. Arthur a nomination. •W«. Bay, fh* oldest Mstlkaa'toi m Onmdy County, died at Morrie ; ̂ aged eighty-four. -\f --The diiecton of the Chicago Beard <4 Trade elected George P. Stone Secretary, al^f*/ a salary of $4,000 per annum. --A rattlesnake was killed near Maniigo the other day that measured? feet in length, ^ and had twelve rattles and a button --Near Shelbyville the residence of James Hodson, a farmer, caught fire from 5 a defective flse and was destroyed. Ifowrf $2,500. --The city of Elgin nttw clafrn^ a popnla-. tion of 14,65(), as indicated bj its W • directory. ' , ' . ; "V* ^ --Dundee is .shipping about 600 oans of ' milk daily to Chicago,andCarpenter»rilW\ ^ 2 5 0 . . . / , ' . • - , ? - A / M / » • ' « --Charles Larson, aged 9"yea*s, got be- ~ ^ , < yond his depth while bathing at Boek Island, and was drowned. , ^ --Mrs. Phebe Vennum, of MorriSon, * * ^ celebrated her 100th birthday at th^t placeK recently. She was born iu Morxis County, ^ New Jersey --The Illinois State Veterinarian visited^ , ^ Elgin, and caused the shooting of throe horses afflicted with glanders. Mrsl Soren- son is dying from the same disease.' * ' • ̂ i 1 --Peter Bloom, a farmer near Bode Island, spent several days in settling uphfc •• ^ business affairs and then hanged himself. >• * He was suffering from disease, which prob- JJ ably affected his brain; ^ \ --A well at Walton was t>umt>ed dl? 4a find the body of a colored woman named - Cook, for whose murder her husband ha$f ^•v , , been arrested. Her throat had been cut,; . ^ and furnace doocs Were tied to herfe#^ ) ' --Complaint is made that the grocers an<t ' • fruit-dealers of Chicago are selling berried--- at extravagant prices. The berries are put into boxes which do not hold the averager _ » quantity, and those at the bottom of thtt- - box are not what they are represented to be, --A Morgan County former who had been / left the charge of lus baby while his wifa ^ ^ went to town took care of the youngster id!' a very novel manner. He nailed a' box iii ? the top of the plow-beam an^_ in^ this 1h» ' ^ f S little fellow was placed. He Beemed to en^ joy his all-day ride immensely. ^ ^ f| ^ ' * --Henry Hawes, bookkeeper fw the^V v wholesale grocery house ot Henry Horner„ . ( & Co., of Chicago, started to deposit in the ^ International Bank $1,303 in cash an<^tj several checks. He sent back the checks,, t >. by mail, but nothing can be heard as whereabouts. • ^rv i* * --It is stated that an engineer on the Illi« nois Central has been offered $47^000 fo^J { the patent on an attachment to a steam cyl-a^*^ », * inder which condenses the Waste from th*V- '* steam-cock on starting the engine, thereb^N * averting that hissing noise which is «b dis«** agreeable to the ear and Buefe a tertor tok.Jt horses. ' --John Duffy, a Chicago burglar, serving'* a fifteen years'.term, sent down far his sec-^* ond time in November, 1882, has been par-* doned from the Penitentiary. ,>*4:! m a man s arms. . • "I if D u f f y h a s ' 4 - V H . . . . • • • • < been very low with consumption for som^,^ . t 4 J weeks, and Gov. Hamilton gianted tho par* don that he might be taken home to di»'> among friends. The pardoned man was &£' weak that he had to be carried' to the tra?|t*'**,? * --Alexander Anderson and Ifrank Lewis^,; of a trio of colored desperadoes who bur­ glarized a oar on the Cairo Short Lin^ Railroad about three months ago, and, iu,*** ^ i resisting arrest by a posse, wounded Ald^.,,*, Greer, of East St. Louis, in the knee^,^ * „£ i from the effects of which he died shortly, ! ^ ^ J; a f t e r w a r d , p l e a d e d g u i l t y , t o a c h a r g e o f . , » ? \ ! manslaughter iu the Circuit Court at. Belief {* - J <1 <j ville, and were sentenced to the. Chfste^ Penitentiary for fourteen years each. V • --At Nokomls, In MontgomsiT County, ^ , " bov# ^ - • -- -gMS Js4 : A ,hT< Paris Hubert and Harry Lent, two aged 12 years, were arrested for stealing/' money from the safe tn the office of Mr. Bentz. They were held to bail in the of $50 to appear at the next term of the cuit Court. They are members of a ganjp*! of youngHters who have for a long time been*"*-' pilfeiiug small articles from Btores, some whom have been detected in the act, but note •<* prosecuted on account of their youth. - --The Lakeside Annual Direotory of th#~yj. City of Chicago for 1881, compiled b^ ' Thomas Hutchinson, and just published b#*{* the Chicago Directory Company, contain^' ** several features of interest as regards th4* l m remarkable growth of the city during th<| ^ last year. Compared with the Directory^ * for 1883, it gives evidence that the wealtftfM* and population of Chioago have increase# "-" in the last twelve-month at a fester pact***: than during any year of the previous deci V" ade. The Directory for 1884 contains l,43ife / - pages, against 1,1^43J in that for 1883; and ^ ~ there is an increase of 13,500 names, whicli is estimated to mean an increase of abM»" 45,003 in population. The number of im portant business firms and enterprises likewise increased at an unpreceden rate, causing the addition of twenty-se pages to the business portion of the Di-h i % rectory. , . *s« ^ --July *5,1888, » negro named Nelson' >» ' . 1 Jj j Howard was taken from the Mound Citjf 1 » J! Jail by a body of masked men and hangtdfc^? ; i to a tree. His crime was the unprovoked ; > i murder of a white man named John Kane,». > - -tl| a bridge-builder employed by the Wabaslfci £ -It j Railroad, the crime being committed on at^,> • excursion train as it neared Mound City Stan q J - tion. The lynching was so quietly accom** f $ j plishedthat the most rigid investigation,* ; ^ \ failed to locate the perpetrators. The Cor-f^ ' oner's jury remained in session a week, antl^, , 4 the excitement among the negroes was suol| m ,' ' • ? that for a time all Wabash trains were rui% » - ' -w' slowly through the place and stronglj, •> ~JjH guarded. Recently, however, a youtig mail named Theodore Kettle, a resident ot "* Mound City, made an affidavit wherein h#n sfi -j implicated himself and a well-known rail* ' •' road man named Alexander Milbnrti as be-*1 ' ing among those prominent in the lynching^ ' .. ; - j| J party; and claiming to have the names of • * sixteen others comprising the entire band! *;,«•_)' ^>1 <! A reward of $200 is offered for the arrest ot '* ' , ' *,2 ^ each man engaged in the affair, and Kettle*#,» ^ J demand for the whole amount, about $3,600,'^ i in case the right parties are apprehended uponr* * his information,will be contested. Milbum'® ; -• j friends claim his ability to prove his iiuMH* j . Jj <| cenoe and that tiw whole thing is a --'1 "" ' " to extort money. --Three houses were wind-stona at Amboy. -/ " ' „ , * . * • • 1 !f •• " •. •, •••. >•' ^ ,*?. • \ .. ....