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agpSMHra - f « "» 4 " ^ c" •tof ^-XVI " "V:*'* ^,Jtliiilv -raBSWM s^yfflKWIfia: W&tm - - c % *• "J- . ; r ' 1 ^ ' ^ , r^- > rv^V' V -v ' "* : " - / , • * ' . - " * . ** ' «• I. VMTI.' McHENBT, ILLINOIS P. k Ax enormous ranch in Mexico baa jxut been puM^aa^cl for $1,000,000 by a syndicate of Pliglfsli and Scotch spec­ ulators, of -whom Lord Tweedmouth is one. It extends over 1,600 square miles. Ax Irishman who waa shipwrecked on the Gulf of Mexico lost his life in a singular way. He had a cork leg and •wfie* be fefl overboard his leg rose to the surface end held hifci head down . 'ward until he died: from rfsh of blood " ' *»**• •M-i.'i. J 1 > . IN NEVADA there are hundreds of Ar' tesian -wells, averaging leBs than 200 . feet deep, and costing, including boring and piping, less than $500. Each of them flow 50,000 gallons of water a day, and will irrigate five acres of plow ed or fifty acres of meadow land. All the wells are on top of the bed-rock, And there is shown td be a stratum of "water underlying the whqjle State. THE California ostrich fqfrm cotters "200 acres, has twenty old birds and : eighteen young ones. The proprietor is hopeful of a large profit. One-half ihe feathered product of Africa is mar keted in the United States, and the de mand is increasing. Each bird oaght -to yield fifty long white feathers twice a .y«sr.' The feathers have to be "washed and curled, and are then worth JN to f6 each, wholesale. t • 1. .i. a-L ^-J THE New Orleans "World's Fair," to "be opened next Dee ember, -was first in­ tended to commemorate the centennial •of the shipment of six bags of cotton from Charleston, S. C., to England, in 1784;Amt its scope has been enlarged so as to embrace all industries. The "buildings will be larger than those at the Philadelphia Centennial; the ma- • chinery hall alone will be 1,300 feet by $00 feet, and cover thirty-two acres. THE editor of the Kentucky State Journal wants to bet somebody that before another hundred years are past there will be trotters in this country •that will make a mile in less than two minutes. It is to be hoped that the Journal man will find some one to "take him, that he will make the sum a large one aud let us hold the stakes. There is a chance for the stake-holder *to enjoy himself before the money is .•called for. ' « THERE aae a number of women plant- • «rs in Madison Parish, Louisiana. Mrs. M. A. Gibbs lives on the Hecla planta­ tion, which she manages with great .success. Miss Lu Lucas manages a .large estate, and personally superin -tends a large force. She spends most •of her time in the saddle, and looks after her plows, hoes, drains, levees, utock, and mill. Madame Ames is re­ garded as the best woman in the parish, . owns a tract of 1,000 acres, and has 800 iiacres under cultivation this year. AT this time, when cut flowers fade 80 soon, it is "well to know that if a vmall bit of the stem is cut off and the •end immersed in very hot water, the ; ^flower will frequently revive and re- iflume its beauty. Colored flowers are * more easily rejuvenated (than white •ones, which are apt to tnrn yellow. For preserving flowers in. water, finely pulverized charcoal should be put into the vase at this season. When vines jars growing in water, charcoal will pre irent foul odors from the standing wa­ ter. , • .. , THE manufacture -bt "buffalo horn" -furniture has become an industry in Nfc' New York. The horns are not those of tho bison, as is commonly believed, but are from the cattle killed in the abat­ toirs. They are sold at the slaughter houses for a little more than what the ' .button manufacturers give, are cleaned, >dried scraped, and polished. The fost of making these horned j|oods is less than that of carved wood, but they bring two or three times more, than the latter. The new Industry is al­ most monopolized by Germans from Saxony. RECENT returns show that out of a total estimated population of 26,921, 703 in England and Wales there were 4,273,304 children on the school register last year, of whom 3,705,386 were pres- «n| at th|i annual inspection, being an :ia«#£<5# o(h the previous year of 83,692 and 162,646 respectively. The num­ ber of certified teachers was increased from 35,444 iti 1882 to 37,288 in 1883, the assistant Waehera from 10,671 to 12,390," while the number of pupil teachers was reduced from 28,285 to 26,- 428. The total cost of maintenance Tras £5,817,466, against £5,572,820 in 1882. m. p m m u w * r Mtu BSBP, a Paasian pfenist of ex- traordinftry darings has laid a wager that he will play in a cage of wild ^beasts. His selection will be from - Beethoven and Chopin. Wagner he •deems dangerous and calculated to arouse the kiags of the.forest to a sense - •of what is due them. A berceus of Choyin may lull them to sleep; such is bis hope and reliance, and a sonata of Beethoven (not the Appasionata) may •complete thf work begun by the ber­ ceuse and reduce thfte foyil blasts to a . dense degree of somnolence. Whether the trumpeting of elephants and roar of lions could be heard or not over the clash and clang of some of Wagnefs inspirations is a mooted point which Mr. Peru has not yetdeoided to his own satisfaction. ; ACCORDING to a return issued by the French Minister of Commerce the work­ ing population of France is distributed among the various branches of indus­ try as follows: Collieries (342), 106,- 415 hands; peat works-(1,035), 27,977; iron mines (353), 8,468; other metal­ liferous mines (60), 4,423; iron works «? ^359t) 57,000; china and earthern ware ^fsotoriM <412), 18,700; glass houss* "4 ' 5W , ' v-">' (IBS), 33,421, paper mill and cardboard factories (536), 32,655; gas works (612), 10,575; candle manufactories (1-57), 8,603; soap works (339), 8,509; sugar works (512), 63,526; textile factories (5,024), 353,383. Agriculture not given. Colliery and iron works stand highest,? which give employment to over sis tines as many as the iron works. f -- _ , A FARMER in Solona, California, la possessed of a peculiar fancy in regard to the feline tribe. He believes everv cat has a design on his life, and takes occasion upon seing a cat to dispatch it as quickly as possible. He visits hotels, stpres, and private houses for the sole purpose of killing his alleged enemies, and even offers a bounty as high as $5 for the possession of any feline which he cannot kill without incurring the enmity of its owner. He frequently goes about with his pockets full of cats' claws, legs, ears, livers, etc., and often laments that he cannot kill all of the "nasty varmints." His queer actions have attracted the attention of the authorities, who have taken steps to- wards confining liim in his right place --a lunatic asylum. /«. THE remains of Schubert and Betho- ven are to be removed with great pomp and ceremony from their present place of interment to the Friedhof Cemetery, in Vienna. The life work and story of Bethoven is too well known to be repeated, but the incidents relating to Schmbert are only being understood to-day. The appreciation of Schubert came late. Believed at his death to have been nothing bjit a song writer. The melodic excellence of his instrumental work was a later discovery. His misfortunes and his poverty seem to have arisen pretty much from his own fault. His early death, at thirty-one, closed i career which might have made him as great as the greatest of the musical masters, hadjie but lived to a maturer age. , QCR Northwestern farmer? haying been notified that they must expect a serious competition in wheat-growing from the ryots of India and the Anglo- Saxon settlers of Australia, the turn of our Southwestern corn-plauters is but a question of time. An economic society in St. Petersburg lias 'just petitioned the Czar to set aside some state lands for the scientific cultivation of a plant named epilobium, and the continuation of experiments for improving its fiber. The reason at the basis'of this petition is that certain Russian naturalists claim to have made a discovery in reference to this plant which may revolutionize the cotton trade of Europe, The epilo­ bium more popularly known as the "willow herb," from the shape of its leaves, has hitherto been cultivated solely for its flower, which grows from the top of the pod. The Russian savants new claim that this pod can be made to yield a fiber possessing many of the valuable qualities of cotton fiber. In the experiments already made this fiber has been ginned, spun, and woven successfully on a small scale. The enthusiasts who hope for so much for the plant go s5 far as to claim that the result of the discovery will be in time to avert the necessity for the importa tion of cotton into Russia. Tenin ** "Ancle" and "Aiikte." A lady who was writing a letter sud­ denly asked me, "Do you spell ancle with a c or k ?" As I could not reply with Mr. Weiler, senior, "Spell it with a weef or with Tliackery's officer about to embark, and inditing a letter to his lady-love, to say that he could not part with her -without a struggle, '"Are there two g's in struggle?" "Try three, my boy"--I replied. "I spell it .with a c." She observed: "I have writ­ ten it with a k and I fancy I am right." Webster's Dictionary was appealed to, and there the word was giveu as ankle. I then referred to Johnson, the quarto edition, aud although he gives auele, yet he refers his readers to ankle, and evidently prefers that form of spelling. Bailey has favored the c, gives ancle with the derivations from Saxon, and Danish. Cruden's Concordance to the Bible gives Shcle, and so does Mrs. Cowden Clarke in the solitary use of the word by Shakspeare. Byron writes ankle ( Don Juan, iii. 72); but Tennyson w riles ancle, except when he uses the word in conjunction with an­ other, when he writes ankle-bells, an­ kle-bones, ankle-deep and ankle-wing. This seems curious, and I am not aware if the Laureate's variation in the spelling of this word has been remark­ ed by his commentators. -- Notea ami Queries. NA8BY. ah*on the*ari74 l rr A Nebraska girl writes home frdm California that the stories about rich and speedy marriages for women in that Eldorado are pure humbug, says the Troy Times. There are more men than women, but in her opinion most of them have run away from the mar­ ital bonds elsewhere. MA woman," she says, "is of less consequence here than anywhere in the world. The Chinese do most of the washing and housekeep­ ing, and work at about the same Wages that girls and women would find neces­ sary. There is mighty little marrying and giving in marriage here. The men don't seem to be anxious about it. and the girls are so well up to snuff that they won't encourage a man till they know all about his former life and make sure he hasn't a surplus wife or two somewhere east." She is going back to Nebraska. How MANY people there are who live in the city and who know absolutely nothing about the numerous phases of its life. There are plenty of them who except for a reminder given by a stray burglar or the accounts of happenings in the daily papers, would imagine that from midnight to dawn the whole city is wrapped in slumber, whereas there is not an hour of the twenty-four but what in some part of the city, there are evidences of active life, of some kind or another. The night brigade includes all kinds of characters, from the toiler to the sport, with undoubt­ edly a large proportion of the latter element, and it is worth one's while to join the owls now and then to get a fair idea of what humanity really is in its manifold aspects. ' ' A WISE man will desire no more than he may get justly, use soberly, distrib­ ute cheerfully, and leave contentedly --Swift. Ifr. ttaibjr, mo Is in Hew Yorl on Po­ litical Business, Interviews Several , fiiffcnguished People andft»> poses a Hew Ticket. )CONFEDEBIT X ROADS I (Which la in the State uv Kentucky). > _ . Aug. 12. J I onm to No© York to attend a mectin nv the Independent Republikins, which have boltid Bi&ne and perpose to elect Cleveland, to see eg- packly vrat they mean to do. 1 wuz forchnit in my time tiv comm. tor there wuz a meetin uv em the nite I struk the Metropolis. There wuz gresent George Wilyum Curtis, Carl Shurte, the •ev. Henry Ward Beecher. and others to tejus to mention. 1 can't say they ereeted me with that corjalitv which onirht to egiat atwixt brethern engaged in a common coz, and I am satisfied that the glnooine Democrisy nv the kentry kin never work in harmony -with em. They are altogether ondesirable, wich wuz, evidently, leveled at me. Out nv deference to these liniky-men I hed bor- rored a shirt from a elozeline at 1 a m. to come to Noo Yoik In, and hed only wore it a week. Wat do they want? Wood they hev a man hev a thousand shirts? They ot to see that shirt a week irom now. George Wilyum Curtis snifed at my breth, and Henry Ward Beecher refoosed to smek to me at al. However, I don't inind trifles like that. I mingled with "em affably. The question under discussion wuz the proper method uv conduktin the campane on the part uv the Independents, and Mr. Curtis spoke fust. Mr. Curtis remarked that he hed kiled ihe Repnblikin party, originely becoz uv the de­ pravity uv its candidate, the tatoed Blaine. It wuz his originel ijee that he cood never suport a man wich hed any stane onto his caracter uv any kind. But his views hed undergone a modificashen recently. He hed originely in­ tended to eliminate pclytix from the campane entirely--and hed notified the Dimocratic Nash- nel Comity to that effeek--and tit it out purely on the soot>erior morality uv Mr. Cleveland, but his views hed midergon a serins change sence a subsized pres hed charged Mr. Cleveland with sedoosiu a widder aud L>tin the father uv a ilegitimit child A voice from the awjense--"And proved it, too." "I admit the corecshun. And proved it. I hev sence desidid that the bringin uv the persnel caracter uv candidates into the canvas is al rong. l-'or the time bein, I only a-k otishl purity uv a candidate. Wat hez the Wider Hal- pin to do with civil cervis reform? Wat he* the Wider Halpin to do with " Myself--"The postoffi-es!" "Wat hez the Wider Halpin or the child, Oscar Folsom Cleveland, to do with purifyin Amerikin politix? Nothin. Tlus campane must now be fot on them ishoos, and nono others." The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher spoke next. "Ef I sposed," sed Mr. Beecher, "that Mr. Cleveland wuz actily gilty uv the henyus sin that has been charged to him, I supose I cood not conshienshusly vote for him. A man in public life hez no rite to Indulge in sins in sich a way that it can be proved auain him. Ruthur than hev it proved atrin him he hed better keep virchus. In a matter uv this kind the onpar- donable sin is to hev it proved agin yoo. 1 kin sympathize with Mr. Cleveland, for I have bin slandered myself. Yu all r< member the pain­ ful circumstance. But I wuz sure of my ground. I wuz acmiitted. My peple all believed that, while I wuz inosent. Eliza­ beth was guilty, and I most ernestlv hope that our noble' standard-bearer is tixed the same way. We care not how guilty Mrs. Halpin may be considered, but we must doubt the gilt uv Mr. Cleveland. And, after al, I shel vote for him anyway. Hez the Holy Scripters, "Let him wich is without sin cast the lust stone.' To forgiv is divine. We all need forgivenes. Sposen Theodore hed succeeded in liuntin me out uv my pulpit wat wood Brooklyn, and the Independent Republtkin organizashen, and the world hev lost? When the purifyin uv the polvtix uv this great, kentry is under considera- ahen it is idle to take into account sich a trifle ez the seduckshcn uv a woman or the abduck- shen uv a child, or trifles like that. We shood keep our eyes Axed stedily onto wot we sot out to do--the establishment uv richusnis in poly- tix, Not wun uv us kin vote tor a man like Blaine, whose caracter is smirched." It was my turn to chip in, wich I did ez fol­ lows: "My friends and co-workers," I remarkt, "I bring yoo glad tidlns uv grate joy. The charges made by a venal and subsidized pres agin Mr. Cleveland don't affect the Dimocrisy uv the Cor­ ners at al. That feend, Joe Bigler, sposed it would hev sum efeck upon the Democrisy, and he sposed that we wood denouns a man for such misdemeanor, and demand his retirement from the tlktt.' We held a meetin to consider the mater and Josef fixed to put us to confusion, wich Is his prlnsiple business. He gathered together a hundred or more mulattoes, the most of em over 30 years nv age, bein the sole reminders uv the old patriark system wich the liepublikin party destroyed, al uv em barein the honored n»mes uv I'ogram, McPelter, Gavit, and Guttle, and al uv em resemblin the Pograms, Gavitts, McPelters, and Gutleses to a wonderful degre. He gathered together these niggers, and brot em to the meetin-hovse, and intendid to spring em on us jist after we hed pased a resoloo- shen denounsin Cleveland for lievin bin the Sflther uv a ilegitimit child! Did lie put us to confooshun! Not any. I quoted the passage uv skripter wich my lrend Mr. Beecher jist quotld and we resolved, ez yoo are doin, that this cam- pane must be fot out on the grate prinsiple uv reform in polytix, and that in sich a lite the privit caracter uv our candidate hed nothin watever to do with it. It is entirely proper to assale the privit caracter uv the Republican can­ didate, becoz the Republican party lay dame to respectability, but it is not proper to assale the privit caracter uv our candidate, becoz we don't make no sich a clame. lncsmush ez Joe Bigler kin git together a hundred niggers who be»r the noses uv a skore uv our best Dlmocrats shel we condem Cleveland, wich is only charged with a half dozen? Dimocrisy must be consistent. The charges agin Cleveland will make votes for him in the Corners. Ez we sympathised with Mr. Beecher some years ago. so we sympathise with Cleveland now. Indeed wer it not for the reccord the grate Hendrix made, ez an unflinch- in oponent of a crooel War wich deprived us uv our privileges we shood insist that he resin from the tikit that we might substitoot the name uv Henry Ward Beecher. "An now that 1 think uv it that is wat we want to do. We want a hvmetrikel tikit. Grover Cleveland is best known by the peple uv the Yoonited States by his conexions with the Wider Halpin, and Henry Ward Beecher by his con­ nexion with the Tilton family. Let us make the tikit svmetrikel. Let it l>e CLEVELAND AND BEECHER! "Ef we succeed in electin' em, the peples idea nv jestis kin be don. Mrs. Halpin and Mrs. Til- ton, both uv wich are in stratened circum­ stances, km be given posishens in the Treasury Department, and they will be pervided for and everything made lovely. "This wood be a symetrikel tikit, and a well- balancrd tikit, a tikit both ends of wich wood come together, like a snake with its tale in its mouth. I move that tte Democratic Nashnal Committy be advised uv the ackshen uv this meetin' ane rekested to make the change towunst." The matter wuz taken under considerashun, and we meet tomorror evin' to deside unto it. May wisdom guide their councils. I don't like to see Hendrix shelved, but the war ishoos are old, and noo ishoos hev arizen. We shel remem­ ber his services to the Confederacy with grati- tood, but everything must be sacrificed for auc- cess. The postoftiees is our goal, and to sain them we must run faithfullv and stronglv. ,... PBIUOLBUM V. NABBY, <Manan«B) ' SENATOR EDMUNDS. TM Defeat of the ipeinoeratic Partjr Uin One Paramount Ifeed. (Burlington <VtJ special.] The most notable rally of the week in Ver­ mont took place here to-day. in the City Hall, which was ] acked to overflowing. The speak­ ers were Congressman Horr, of Michigan, and Congressman Stewart of Vermont. Senator Ed­ munds presided at the meeting, and spoke as follows: "Gentlemen: I thank yon for the compliment implied in selecting me to preside on this inter­ esting occasion. As you have come here to lis­ ten to <tistinguished gentlemen who have not the felicity oit residing in Burlington, and some of them not even the comfort and safety of liv­ ing in Vermont, the pole star of sound politics, it would be both ungracious and cruel is me to occupy the time that has been devoted to our guests. I must say, however, that a very close study and observation of the professions and practices of the Democratic party in Congress and in the country, that the generous confi­ dence of my fellow-citizens has enabled me to make for a long period, has demonstrated to my mind that the safety and welfare of the people of the United States continue to demand its exclusion from power. Whatever doubts or difficulties may embarrass our countrymen, here or elsewhere in the United States. It seems to me that in the present attitude of political affairs the defeat ot the Democratic party is a need fairly paramount to any other. I recog­ nize fully the liber y of belief, of opinion, and of action that belongs to citizenship. It is a fundamental part of our creed, and none of us can fail to feel the ereat responsibility that re­ sults from that freedom. Under such responsi­ bility, and looking at everv aspe( t of the public weal, the people of the State of Vermont are attain to express their opinions of the princi­ ples, the methods, and the purposeo of the Dem- ocratio pa> ty. It has been wrong tor more than a quarter of a century, and, I fear, will continue so for a long time to come. In the recent peri­ ods, when it had control of one or the other of the houses of Congress, it demonstrated its un­ fitness for government in respect to nearly all the important measures it proposed or resisted, and every succeeding year seems to decorate it with a new folly. But I must return to the duty I stated at the outset. I have the pleasure of presenting to you Congressman Horr, of Michi­ gan." The condition of Senator Edmunds' private business, and the ill health of his family, have consul red to retire him from publicity this sum­ mer. He is at present closely engaged in prep­ aration for the trial of an Important telephone suit. ' feed, and every one of its 33,00u mem­ bers is relied on to win over a Republican to the Democratic and saloonkeeper cause. The money will be ready for use the 8th of 'September, and thereafter will be freely scattered where it will do most good. The icampaigu will be fought by the Democrats mainly on the liquor and barrel issues and on the still-hunt plan.--Chicago Tribune. SENATOR HOAR. ' Rk * « " A Letter Effectively Meeting Mr. Carl Schuiz's Charges Against Blaine. THE Democrats are determined to make a desperate effort to capture Ohio in Octo­ ber. The brewers have already contributed $350,000 to be used as a campaign fund in that State, and other large contributions NFC. TOBON says that the election of MR Maine will be a declaration by the American people that honesty will l>e no longer one of the re­ quirements of government. 1 think Mr Schurz is entirely mistaken here, also. It will »c a declaration oil the part of the American people that they do not agree with him in his estimate of Mr. fUaiiic. It will be a declaration that they do not find in Mr. lU&ine't* conduct and letters what Mr. Sclmrz thinks he finds there. It will be a declaration that they agree with Dr. Clark when he paid Mr. Blaine his glowing tribute of admiration and honor, when all these facts were treah and familiar. It will be a declaration that Mr. Curtis, who declare! that Mr. Ulaine s \ indication ot the principal charsc against, him was triumphant. It will be ^ declaration that they agree with Mr. Blames neighbors, of his own district and of his own State, with the repre­ sentatives of a vast majority of the Republicans ot the country, who have tnree times, since all these charges were made, declared for him as tneir candidate for the Presidency. It will be a declaration that they agree with "the Governor and the Legislature of M ine when thev twice in succession ma ie him Senator. It will l>e % declaiation that they agree with Garfield when he made him Secretary of State, and with the almost half Democratic Senate when thev. without an instant's hesitation, continued him for that high office. Mr. Schurz says: "The friends ot Mr. Blaine say his oflense lias been condoned." Thev say. no such thing, 'lhey say he has been triumph­ antly acquitted, lhey find him not guilty of these foul and injurious charges. Thev'say that in this complicated matter these repeated tokens ot public confidence and affection ought to outweigh a million times the breath of rumor and of slander, or even the possibility of an ad­ verse interpolation of the meaning of a single phrase. He says that our answer is only the cry of party. I think him mistaken in this also, 'our party is but the instrument by which free­ men execute their will. Hut it differs from other instruments in this: It is an indispensa­ ble instrument. It is an instrument made up ct men, and, practically, of all the men who wish to accomplish the things you wish to ac­ complish, and deem vital to the prosperity, honor, and glory of your country. It Is an in­ strument itself possessing intelligence, judg­ ment, conscience, purpose, will, A majority of that i>arty must necessarily de­ termine its plan of battle, and the commander under whom it will tight. And when you sepa­ rate yourself from the partv whose principles and purposes are yours, you effectually abandon those principles and purposes. You might as well say, when the army of the I'nion was aliout to engage the enemy at (lettvsburg or Lookout Mountain oc Five Forks, that vou didn't approve the plan of battle, or didn't like the general, and that, for that day only, you would go over to the enemy or tight in another place. Vou cannot do it without being a deserter. No matter whether you dislike Grant or Meade or Sheridan. The battle on which the hope of I'nionand humanity hangs is to be fought there on the lines they form. No man knows this letter than Grover Cleveland. "I am chosen," he savs, "to repre­ sent the plans, purposes, and policy of the Dem­ ocratic party." If elected he will do it. James G. Blaifie is selected to execute the plans, pur­ poses, aud policy of the Republican i>arty. And he will do it. You may not like the general the commissioned authority of the Ilepublican party has selected. But you fight, on the Democratic side, with the Democratic party, auainst the Re­ publican, on everything on which the two parties differ, if you vote for Grover Cleveland. If you elect Cleveland you abandon further hope of civil service reform for this generation. You take the side of free trade against protection. You bid farewell for a lifetime to honest elec­ tions in the South. You suffer the great Mormon cancer to spread over the breast ot the republic. There is but one thing ot. which (trover Cleve­ land has unmistakably planted himself. That is, that if elected, he will he a party instrument. What he said in his speech of acceptance, he echoes in his letter. In that feeble document, which, as compared with Mr. Blaine's, is as a mole-hill to the Allegheny Mountains, he de­ clares that when "the party has outlined its policy and declared its principles, nothing more is required of the candidate than the suggestion of certain well-known truths." Is he tor pro­ tection? Nobody knows. Do s he wish to put down Mormonlsm? Nobody knows. Is he in favor of repealing tne tenure of office law? Nobody knows. There is not a single question at issue before the people In regard to which you have any warrant of his action, except in his avowed purpose to carry out the will of his party. Mr. Scliurz further says that If anybody here­ after charges that the opposition to Mr. Blaine is a free-trade movement it will be a lie. Hither­ to it m >y have been a mistake. But since he has reminded you that they jvere ready to sup­ port Mr. Kdmunds, you will lie if you repeat the statement. Well, it is true, they favored the nomination of Mr. Edmunds, who is a pro­ tectionist. But is it not true that every news­ paper and every prominent man who lias come out against Blaine, leaving the Republican partv this year, has a strong leaning to free trade? Do you think of an exception? The men who love, honor, and support Mr. Blaine have quite as lofty an ideal of purity and in­ tegrity in public station as those who oppose him. They make no distinction between pub­ lic and private virtue. If a man be not con­ trolled by the law of right and duty in private life, he is not to be trusted amid the temptation of public office. We will vote for no corrupt or unclean man for President. At the same time we do not mean to help any party to gain the Presidency by crime. I said in 1876, just after the Belknap trial, that there had been not only less corruption relatively to the size of the country in the twelve years that followed the rebellion, but less absolutely than In the twelve years of adminis­ tration of Washington and John Adams. That is equally true if we compare the last twenty years with the first twenty under the Constitu­ tion. The Indei>endent address enumerates- some recent cases of dishonesty In high places. In some of tht m retribution has been tardy. In some there has been a natural, but indefensible reluctance to accept evidence of guilt against political associates. But In the main these are cases where dishonesty has been detected and remanded to public life by Republicans them­ selves. The party has l>een growing tjetter and better. It was better in '68 than in '64, better in '7« than in '»>8, better in '84 than in '80. Atten­ tion is called to the fact that there are unworthy men still conspicuous. I think it likely. Wher­ ever a victorious army is on the march you will see these vultures flying in the air. The com­ pany of men who have formed a hasty and un­ just judgment of Mr. Blaine contains many persons whom I love and honor, many of whose friendship I am proud. They have been honestly misled. But in the main the honesty, purity, education, strength of the nation is in the Republican party. The men who saved the nation are more patriotic than those who tried to destroy it. The men who abolished slavery iove freedom and labor better than the men who struggled to preserve it. The men who paid the debt are more honest than those who tried to repudiate it. The men who kept the currency sound are better financiers than those who tried to debase it. The men who stand for fair elections in the South are more fit to l>e trusted than the minority who are booing to seat their man in the Presidency by murder and fraud. The purity of the American home, with­ out which there can be no purity of health any­ where, is safer with those who are trying to ex­ tirpate Mormonism than with those in whose eyes Grover Cleveland is the standard of per­ sonal excellence. The men who have achieved the independence of American manufacture, whose policy has called our vast industries Into life, and who would exert every force which Government can rightfully wield to keep up the rate of workmen's wages, are wiser and more tar-seeing than those who would put these great interests under the heel of England again, and let the prloe of American labor be determined in the* British market.--Letter in Worcester (Mass.) JEFF DAVIS WASTS A CHANCE. He Says Southern Soldier* Ban M Much Bight to Pensions its Union Men. [Forsvth iGa.) special.] The Confederate soldiers of Monroe County have just finished a reunion at which memories of the war were freely interchanged. Among the incidents was tme reading of a letter from Jefferson Davis, in which he complained of the pensioning of Federal soldiers as discrimination, lie savs: "Though the States are again reunited and all contribute to till the Treasury of the General Government, the funds there collected are only appropriated to provide for the ex-soldiers of the Northern States. The Southern soldiers disabled in war and the widows and orphans of those who died can only hope for retttf from a second tax, which may be voluntarily paid by the people for whom they fought and who suffered with them. It is not the least of your meritorious manifestations that you meet this discrimination without complaint and brace yourselves to bear the double burden with no ill feeling to the Government for this offensive favoritism. Under all the severe trials to which you were subjected it is equally honorable to vou that vou have accepted the consequences of defeat and thereafter gone shoulder to shoulder with all who are striving to secure the welfare and promote the prosperity and preserve the honor of a common country. anxious Democrat asks the New York Sun for Mr. Cleveland's views on the Mor­ mon question. They are exactly the same as Mr. Cleveland's views on the tariff. His expressions on these topics may be stated in aline. Something like this: ------ SENATOR SHERMAN. The Past and the Present--The cratJc PoHqr in the South. Senator Sherman recently delivered a speech at Ashland, Ohio. The Senator began by stating that the older he became the freer he was from partisan pride. He then briefly reviewed the his­ tory of the Republican and Democratic parties, and said: "Those of us who have lived through the; period ot this struggle and growth can realise by a single glance of memory from the present to the past the great and beneficial change which has been produced in the United States since the Democratic party was in uower, but those of you who are about to assume the reins of government will appreciate this change more by reference to some figures taken by me from the statistics of the last census. From 18Gi> to 1880 our population increased from 31,too,ooo to to 5i,ooo,ooo, more than 58 per cent. The num­ ber of manufacturing establishments increased from 140,000 to asa.wo. The capital employed in manufactures increased irom $i,oo9,coo,wo to $2,70 .•,000,000, or nearly three-fold. The number of hands employed in manufactures increased from l,3H,ooo to 2,738,000, or more than double. Tne wages paid to laborers increased from $379,000,000 to $9*8,000.000, or nearly three-fold. The value of material used in manufactures in­ creased from $1,031,000,000 to $3,:n>6,oon,ooo, or more than three-fold, and the value of products from $l,8S5,000,000 to $o,369,000,000, or about three-fold. "But this enormous improvement in onr con­ dition is not confined to manufactures only. It extends to agriculture and other pursuits as well. The numl>er of farms in I860 was 2,041,- ooo, while in 1880 it was 4,<KW,ooo. The numl>er of acres in farms increased during that time from 407,000,1100 to 5:tt>,ooo,ooo, and their value increased from $«.6u>,ooo,ooo to $U|,i'.)7,ooo,ooo, while the products of farming increased from $•24(5,000,000 to $40(<,000,000. "In 18W) we had :io,i»sr> miles of railway. In 18*0 we had 84,:»3 miles, and now we have 1*27,000 miles. Our exports of domestic prod­ ucts during the last year amounted to $80*,- 000,000, while in 1800 they amounted to $873,- 000,000. "Our national debt, once an object of ^pro­ found alarm, is being paid off at the' rate of $100,0((o.ooo a year, the excess of taxes being so lightly borne that no considerable portion of the people complain of them, and no general demand is made for the repeal of any of them. Indeed, it is a marvelous feature of our condi­ tion that to repeal taxes is more unpopular than to retain them, aud some ot these taxes are themselves a means of prosperity, and not a burden complained of by any." The Senator then spoke of the triumphs of the Republican party m the past, and declared the Democratic party totally unlit to govern the country. Concerning the Democratic policy in the South he said: "The Democratic party is In oomplete control of all the Southern States. In this way they claim to be secure of 153 electoral votes, need­ ing only forty-eight from the North to give them power to elect a President of their choice. And yet we know that in perhaps a majority of the Southern States, if there was a legal, fair elec­ tion, without fraud or violence, the Republican party would be in the majority. We also know that they gained-power in those States by crimes so revolting that when described in the mildest terms, good, quiet, honest people in the North doubt the truth of such statements because they are not capable of l>elieving it possible that such crimes would be resorted to. It has got to be somewhat out of fashion to talk about South em outrages, but no correct view can be had of the condition of this country unless we are will­ ing to look at the exact situation of the rebel States. "Bv the policy Adopted in 1875 in Mississippi the Republicans, white and black, were either not allowed to vote, or, if they voted, the count was so made as to reject their votes, and, in many cases, to count them on the other side. This fraud and violence was open, palpable, and scarcely denied. It was proved by witnesses by the hundred, whose testimony is recorded iii public documents, now open to the inspect ion of any citizen. That fraud and violence was con­ tinued in 1876, and would have defeated Presi­ dent Hayes but for the power conferred by State Legislatures upon returning boards, a device of their own contrivance,which enabled the return­ ing boards in Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina to return the electoral votes of those States for President Hayes. Sonn times this has been a matter of complaint, and it has Iwcn denounced as a fraud. Yet I happen to know, from the most careful examination of these cases, that in each of these States, If there had been a fair election, the majority would have been overwhelming for the Hayes electors, and that the returning board* were not able to rei a r all the wrong done, but did lawfully and properly reject the returns of counties and parishes where the fraud was most i>alpable and gross, and thus secured the election of President Haves. You all rememl»er that even then bribery and fraud In Oregon and other States was attempted, and the cipher dispatches, a disgrace to the history of our elections, showed that bribery was at­ tempted in >-everal of the Southern States. I affirm without fear of contradiction that in every one of the cotton States a fair and honest vote, free from fraud and intimidation, would place all these States on the aide of the Republican party. "The occurrences at the recent elections In Mississippi and Virginia, known as the Copiah and Danville outrages, show that this policy is continued now, and the newspapers inform you that it is the openly announced and avowed purpose of the Democratic leaders to resort to the same frauds in Louisiana and Mississippi, and, perhaps, other States. The success of the Democratic party is only possible by crimes that in former times would have so shocked public opinion as to have led to the punishment and disgrace of every one who i>articipated in them, and yet this is the way, and the only way, by which there is a possibility of the Democratic party succeeding at the present election. *. * * I have often thought and believed that if the honest, good Democrats of Ohio could appreciate, as I do, the nature of these offences, and the danger to our Institu­ tions growing out of election frauds, they would revolt against all affiliations with the Demo­ cratic party. I concede that, as citizens and neighbors here, they are as peaceable, as order­ ly, and in the main as patriotic as we arc, but I cannot but think that, they are so blinded and misled by party zeal that they will condone and take advantage ot crime and fraud to secure party ends, or a still more charitable view, that they cannot be persuaded, even by evidence, of the truth of charges so disgraceful to their liarty and their associates in the South." The Senator then considered the tariff ques­ tion, the duty on wool, and urged liberal pen­ sions for soldiers, closing with a eulogy of the Republican national candidate. Deceiving the Irlnh. ' The average Irishman Is taught to believe that the Republicanism of to-day is the successor of Knownothingism -- that the rutfiau mobs of Louisville, St. Louis, and other American cities who mobbed the Irish forty years ago by some unexplained metamorphosis have converted themselves into the respectable and liberty- loving men who compose the rank and file of the Republican party. The truth in this regard is that this Knownothing story is clearly, calumniously false. What became of the Knownothlngs may be an open question. They may have gone to heaven or hades. I will not say that they went into the Democratic party; but I do say that they are not in the Republican party, for the party is not composed of that kind of men. Ruffianism will assert, itself, and it does not assert itself in the Republican party. The Knownothing party was a South­ ern party, its home was in the slave- holding States. There were five Know- nothing votes cast south of the Ma­ son and Dixon line, for one vote cast in the Re­ publican States of the North; yet for thirty years this infamous falsehood has been the false pretense on which the votes of Irishmen were obtained for the Democratic party. While parties have risen and fallen, while individuals have acted with regard to living issues, for thirty years, the proud place assigned to the Irishman has been a post beside the tomb­ stone of the putrefying past, hugging the ghost- story of Knownothingism. I find no fault with Democratic principles, these principles are mine; nor am I prepared to say that it is an Irishman's duty to abandon the Democratic party and enter the Republican. What I do say and shall keep saying is that he has the right to think, and that he must not be stigmatized for a thought or an act that runs counter to the Democratic party. That if any wish to secure his vote they must appeal to his reason, to his sense of right, to the manliness and honor of his character. But it is written, and the flat has gone forth, the hour Is at hand when his vote cannot be held by any claim in the nature of a chattel mortgage, nor by an appeal to his prejudices, nor by the vicious and calum­ nious bug-a-boo about Knownothingism.-- John Jtrenuan, in the Iowa Times. Reformer Cleveland. The Albany Evening Journalis dealing sotrie trenchant blows at Cleveland from the stand­ point of his pretended devotion to reform. In one of its recent chapters of State history it shows that he approved a bill which took $121,- ooo from the pockets of the taxpayers of the State to pay for rascally old claims which had been rejected both by Gov. Robinson (a Demo­ crat! and by Gov. Cornell {a Republican) after full examination by both of them. The claims grew out of work performed by contract on the Elmira Reformatory in 1871. During its prog­ ress it was discovered that the work was done in the most extravagant manner. Accordingly an act providing for a change in the plans was passed. The contractors then put in a claim for $121,000, as the profits they would have made had they been permitted to go on until thecom- Sletion of the building. Two Governors, as we ave said, one Democratic and one Republican, refused to approve the claim, but Cleveland ap­ proved it without any delav. The affair is local to New York, but it shows the humbug of Cleveland's pretenses of reform and how close­ ly his sympathies are allied with ringB and Jobs. ____________ CLEVELAND'S ideas of economy and re­ form were shown by his charges for attend- ance at court in Buffalo when he was Sher­ iff. There were three courts, and he bronght in bills for 863 days' personal at­ tendance in a year at $3 a day. The way he did was to visit each in rotation for thir­ ty or sixty minutes each day, and then charge the taxpayers for fall day's work. Bat this same Cleveland thought twelve hoars' labor too*shaS""fibr a da^T*a£k on the fooibeatd by MKven; hi»l^*i»«s that sixteen hours Was wont nghf for (hem and thirty minutes for himself. GOV. PORTER. „.j ... ,, . ... ^ .it- . . ^ : A Rousing Speech Before a lag in Indiana. ' « <Ind.) Cor. Chicago TriboaaJ Gov. Albert O. Porter addressed, to-night, an immense Republican mass- meeting and deliv­ ered a lengthy and able speech, most of which, however, was taken np in dlsctttttng questions relative to the State. He presentfd a scathing arraignment of the professions of the Demo­ cratic State Convention, vindioatiag Republican management of public institutions, and com- meuding some valuable suggestions to the com­ ing Legislnture He showed that the hepubll- can party in Indiana deserved credit for taking measures toward securing mechanics by a first l'< n upon work done for wages therein per­ formed. and he recalled in the same connection that Grover Cleveland had vetoed a mechanics' lien bill, and was fnlfy sustained In it bv his party friends The speaker suggested that as the burden of taxation fell upon the farmers and the owners of small beaaestehds it wo ild be well for experienced men chosen by the people to meet in convention and dischre measures of reform. Touching the general issues of the campaign he said: "My objection to the Democratic party in recent years is that It is a party without con­ victions. It has had no settled belief upon anv public question*, it has repeatedly approved and pledged Itself not to distttrb measures achieved by the Republican party, against which it had waged the fiercest party warfare. It is always asking that its past mav be fbr* gotten. Its enemy is memory. The first sen­ tence in its recent platform shows its soreness aliout the past: 'The Democratic party of the Union, through its representatives in national convention assembled, recognize that as nations grow older, new issues are born of time and progress, and old issues verish.' Why remind the people anxiously of the old issue having perished? Raoquo perished, but his ghost took a seat at the bahquet table, and the ghost was a hundred times more harrowing than Baaipio had ever been himself. That is what is the trouble. It is these memories connected with the old issues that will not 'down,' that haunt and pester the party. The Repulican liarty has no ghosts of memory, con­ nected with past issues that put it in dread that the past will be referred to. A vast territory--mother of ninny States--preserved from the presence and taint of unrecompenstd labor; an enemy overcome by the sword vet more Ijeneflt ed by war than it had ever bcen'by peace, by being ridded of a destructive svstem of labor and of having had opened to it,: s by doors flyine wide apart, an enlightened system of free and diversified industries; a national credit, through the exercise of an undeviating good faith, unexampled in the history of na­ tions; a currency, since the issuing of which no billholder has ever lost a dollar; an arbitration of a great nat ional dispute, through which, as a national redress for wrongdoing, there was wrung from the most warlike nation of Europe$l5,080,» ooo of treasure; a tariff system which, at the tie- ginning of our great civil strife, by setting on foot « vast system of munufacturing industries, spanned the darkest clouds of war with the rain­ bow of promise. These 'past issues' have left no ghosts to terrify the Republicans. We never beg that they shall not be remembered." The speech was received with creat. enthusi­ asm. particularly the closing tribute to the Re­ publican standard-bearer. "If Mr. Cleveland lannot tell," s»id the speaker, "where he stands upon this great question, there is one man whose trumpet has never given forth an uncer­ tain sound--its notes beintr ever clear and reso­ nant. You know very well whom I mean. James G. Blaine answers to the description. Be­ ginning life in the humble occupation of a schoolmaster, he has, by the force of his talenta, by the strength and vigor of his character, bv his personal intrepidity, by his irresistible social charms, by that combination of high and sym­ pathetic qualities which belongs to rare anil fine natures, made himself one ot the best known and best beloved of all the public men in our history. As Speaker of the House of Repre­ sentatives of his adopted State and of Congress, distinguished always for the fair­ ness and unerring clearness ot his decisions; as a debater on the floor of each House, when­ ever he entered the lists his plume shining In front of the combat; as a statesman, long known for the surprising breadth and accuracy of his political knowledge; as a writer, depict­ ing the incidents and scenes of a long public life, in which he has borne a most conspicuous part, rich and perspicuous in Style, copious and accurate in information, just and generous to every one with whom he has ever crossed a sword; his home the abode of domestic bliss and hospitality--Its hospitable doors open alike to friend and foe --the bittereet adversary in his warm and joyous presence forgetting his feud and dissolving into kindness; a citizen of the United States, broad-minded and just toward the whole world, yet his whole being pervaded and burning with the American instinct; so frank and open that he is transparent as the air --this is the man whose banner is in our front, whose plume nods at the head of the column, and under whose leadership We expect to move on to victory." Examine His Record. Democrats who affect to sneer at Mr. Blaine's record on the civil service q' estion had better study his record. While he has never posed be­ fore the country as a civil service reformer of loud professions, the fact is tlint during the only period of his public life at which he had aontroi of any considerable amount of patrouage, his course was that of a supporter of tho principles recognizcd by the advocates of reform. A cor­ respondent recalls the circumstances attending the resolution of the House of March ;t, )87», vesting the appointment ami removal of the of­ ficial reporters of tlie House in the Speaker. At that time nearly all of these reporters were Democrat*; and had Mr. Blaine, as Speaker,fol­ lowed Democratic example, ho would have bean excused for removing them. Instead of this, however, he actually constructed the resolution of the House so as to limit his own power, and that removals could only be made for cause. Careful study of Mr. Blaine's relations with the officeholders of his own State will also develop some facta that will surprise his self-appointed and Ignorant critios.--Council Bluffs Nonpa­ reil. Temperance in the Campaign. The fact is, the temperance question is not an issue in this election. It has no place in a Presi­ dential contest. A President can do nothing of­ ficially to promote the cause of temperance. He may, as Hayes did, exclude spirituous liquors from the Executive Mansion, and it is not a bad example for the Chief Magistrate to set to the people of the country. Beyond th s the President has no power or influence. The Federal authorities have nothing to do with the subject of the liquor tratttc, and all efforts to make capital out of the tem|>crance proclivities of the candidates are but subterfuges. It is true Mr. Cleveland made an open bid for the German vote in his letter ot acceptance in re­ ferring to "sumptuary laws," but the Germans have too much good sense to be influenced by any such clap-trap. They know that if St. John should be elected he could not, if he would, interfere with the manufacture sale Of lager beei.--JiujFalo Tiuwu. Mr. Hendricks' Record. Mr. Hendricks' record is longer than Mr. Cleveland's and more consistant. In fact, Its consistency is the most aggravating featnre of it, for from first to last he has opposed the great principles upon which national honor and pros- jierity have been built up. Mr. Hendricks advocates the repeal of the Missouri compromise. Mr. Hendricks opposed the lepaal ef fur­ tive slave law. Mr. Hendricks opposed the constitutional amendment abolishing'slavery. Mr. Hendricks opposed the war for the Union and gave moral aid and comfort to the rebels. Mr. Hendricks advocated inflation and re­ pudiation. Mr. Hendricks is opposed to the protection of American Industry ana the prosperity of Amer­ ican labor. A Cleveland Belter*: The Hon. Edward F. McDonald, .who was nominated for Presidential elector by the New Jersey Democrats, and declined, publsihes a card stating his reasons for declination. He says that under no circumstances could he vote for Cleveland, because be considers him men­ tally, politically, and otherwise unfitted for the office of President. He would have supported Bayard, Thurman, Randall, or Butler. Avail­ ability was the only qualification the Demo­ cratic convention sought, be says, and they have not found it. Mr. McDonald Is in for smashing the Democratic rings in New Jersey. The ballot- box stuffers must go before the Democrats will have anv chance of success. Mr. McDonald predicts that Blaine will carry New Jersey by 20,000 majority. COL. JAMES KEIGWIN, of New Albany, Ind., one of the best known Democrats in Indiana and ex-State Senator, has declared for Blaine and Logan, and says this year he is an independent and anti-Clevelaud Democrat. He is dissatisfied with the silence of the Cleveland and Hendricks letters on the tariff, likes what Blaine said on that subject, and believes that the Dem­ ocratic party has not shown a disposition to act fairly with Union soldiers in'the matter of pensions. CHICAGO Tribune : A prominent Michi­ gan Republican ridicules the boosts of the : fusionists that they can carry that State against Blaine. In 1880 Garfield secured 34,795 more votes than Hancock in the State. This year the Republicans of Mich­ igan are enthusiastic in support of Blaine, and they are united. This gentleman esti­ mates tllat Blaine will poll 200,0(H> vfttes this year. The fusionists cannot poll more than 175,000. ... . THE Republican party has recently ra» duced the revenue by $9%000,000 a jean "Turn the rascals ont." ' ' > , * * • ) ? -' • r ay-., j ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. j, -TViOrtioli^^at Mount PalasKi > tdemolish their old church And erect a tsteifn me in its stead this fall. § -^-It is said that' the ojiera-house at Springfield will be one of the best in the State wjien opened again to the public. \r f --Jonnthnn Depletlge, who died at Inek* • ^KOO allc last week, fought at the battle of , V Waterloo Iteke of Wellington. ^ |T* ---Richard H. Mead, of Illinois, has been appointed, under the civil service rules, (9 ^ a $1, 2(10 clerkship in the tension Bureau at Washington'. % j : ' " --Miss Seely, of Centrklh, who recently ; went blind in an hour, without apparent Wafcon, walWkO* Ww ^ J: reAoration of her sight. ^Christopher Boehm, a German deaf mnte employed in the Sentinel bindery at •. S':%!• Centralia, 111., has fallen heir to * through the death of an uacle in Ger- . \\ many. < ' , , Tbe dwelling, of 'William Zetgler, a ' German farmer living half a mile south of. Cartui. was struck by lightning and de- ~ stroyed. Mrs. John Haffa, Jr., who WOT* r visiting at the house, was instantly ki'.led. 'v; --The commission men and pork-packeM 'A- of|,Chicago have agreed on a basis cf settle- . went of the shrinkage question. Pnblic ia- . ^ i^pectorsare to be appointed, whose find­ ings will be subject to an appeal to an arbi- " 'S tration comntij^, m case of objection.. ^ | By the falling of a scaffold iu the main hall of the new Board of Trade edifice, Chi­ cago, three men were precipitated to floor, a distance of eighty feet. Two of » them were instmtly killed, a-id the other , was miraculously saved by catbhing on * scantling in the descent. if, • jap s* --An accide1aVoc6iiit^ af<tW !C6riitbini * - - mine the other morning which, had it hap- . > pened a few hours sooner, would have mada sad several homes. The south cage, wheat * at an altitude of about 100 feet, fell with * • \ loaded car to the bottom a total wreck. The- . . , escape of the employes from injury seemed providential, as the same cage had lowered the men to their work only a short time be- - fore. "TT --Chicago people are expected to re- ^ / joice because telegraph wires are to be laid ;* underground in that city. Telegraph posts and wires are unsightly, but so are streett ; which af6 continually torn up, and tha ?" latter are much more inconvenient. With electric light wires, telegraph wires, gair K ^ pipes, sewer pipes, and other necessities of modern life laid under the streets, aP» fortune awaits ths man who will invent k • durab'e and adjustable pavtiuent whiefc " J " can be tftoVed and replaced without di#- commoding a whole city full of people. --Qen. John Breckinridge Cattleman, ojt * Kentucky, is one of the interesting charac- { '; '« teis at Old Point Comfort, Va. He likes to •*1"' show an autograph note by Mr. Lincoln, 'u written In 1863, when its present owner was , v under sentence of death for trying to liber- 5 ate the prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, ur!'* The nbte runs: "When John B. Castleman is sentenced to be executed, delay proceedt ings until further orders. A. Lincoln.8* This clemency w»s dhe to> the interpositicki '1 s •* of Gen. Casttnnan's broiher-in-tvw, Mi?, ft' Breckinridge, of St. Louis, a strong Unit** ' . s man, and the sentence was finally coinmnta^'«f* to imprisonment for two years. f .r' ' --Prof. Swiug.Ju)a beett_tbuikiug aboiit J the cholera, and gives the following sensi-^ ' ble advice: "Most physicians now concur in the opinion that persons lighting disease should consume more food than usual if of v moderate habits, but the food should be off "> . the lies! and most healthful quality. Tlie/' law iiot Id go into niarshy ground or ague 4 regions before a good breakfast applies to cholera. Meet that enemy after breakfait* and after a good dinner, and he is youttf' ! v often, instead Of your being his. Man is af ^ poor thing before dinner. But he is a poor thing if he makes his dinner off at cabbage and green corn. Such an enter ' - never had a dinner in his life; he has sim--- • ^ ply had bis fill of something. But when A human being has had a good slice of' >"<• mutton, or beef, with well-cooked potattv ' ' accompaniment.' and attended by peas * ;* only two hours from the garden, and has added to these luxuries a quarter of ^ blackerry pie, he may be said to have dined. sisH The diseases in their jonrneyings look at » the face of this man, and pass him by tfc "* search for a path of less resistance^* : •• • -- - * Counting Chicago's BuiinMt FITCM* i>- • ^1 The business of Chicago is transacted by * 32,000 firms and corporations, engaged " BOO different trades and occupations. Th$ . _ • residents get their food from 1,900 grocer- J" ; ies, $>0 meat markets, 400 milk depots, ami: * • 866 bkdeeries. They are fed at 800 board?*"*;' irig-houses, ^320 restaurants, and 188 h<J-', tels. The Harper law has infringed o^ ,* 1 their drinking conveniences, there beinj^, ... but &,lft0 saloons now where there wei»>- /• ..; 3,997 last year; but there are 1C0 places" where they ma get their jugs filled at , "i* wholesale rates. The popular mind is sub-,,. ject tp the combined influences of newspapers and publications, issued by 29® v, pubHsheiS, and sold by 125 book-sellerK, ' ^ and I jO schools and academies. ^ • The young man who desires to make aat, ^ impression may have a suit of clothes from the stocks of OtM) drapers, 342 merchant-'* U - ; tailors, and 190 retiil clothing establish- "'.A ments. H^ can secure a pair of shoes fron* ^ i 770 retail stores; have his mustache waxed. • at 6:)6 barber shops; his linen done np at 50# , laundries, 200 of which are manned by France's present foes; buy a cigar ai 720 re* -> tail tobacco stores: then go and get his pho- " , tograph taken at 127 galleries; and hie hiua v." away to the impressed inamorata with a box t of caramels selected from 400 confection- ery and fruit stands. In case he is sue* cessful, there are 690 real-estate agents who ^ " will sell him a lot. and 300 contractors and builders who will build a house, which hat can have insured at 320 agencies. If a di­ vorce should prove desirable, there aril 1,500 law firms ready to get it without pub* licitj. There are 1,150 physician who give prescriptions to be filled at 360 drug > ifcv j stores.' The ladies can get their dress pat- - terns at 280 retail dry-goods stores, and' V* ^ have them made by 750 dress-makers, while ^ ^ 214 millinery establishment add the com- ^ plement of female happiness. The abov« h 4 figures are obtained from the annual report-* * V oi the tenement and factory inspectors.--* GhicvgQ Ihulit fleira. > ; '• ' ' it i --Sewtlet frying iPKMr ' i»mt isMDIUM.-'v ->r* ; J ' » t: • • - i Mv • , , •/ 51