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W MBP'.'l-U1.' »I1 I. VAN SLYKE. UAkk* PsMUfcsi. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. SINOB ill* death of the Duke of Marl­ borough oo money has entered the family parse excepting that which waa realized from the sale of family books, pictures, and similar possessions. Now that natural gas is being in­ troduced into Pittsburgh houses for fuel, on equitable method of charging for it is now being sought. Measure­ ment seems to be impracticable, and thus far the usage has been to fix the price for each building as nearly as pos­ sible the same as the cost of other fnel has been. This gives rise to a great amount of bargaining and dissatisfac­ tion. HOGARTH ought to be alive to spear upon the point of his pencil those creatures who break down gravestones, dig up bones and disturb the sleep all mortals undergo. His coffin plate was stolen years ago, and it is thought that the skull is no longer in the grave. But the tomb itself is now in tine order, thanks to a namesake at Aberdeen; and the urn at the top of the tomb may be seen by boatmen on the Thames. MB. WAKEMAN, the editor of the Cur- reni of Chicago, who recently disap­ peared mysteriously, seems to have acted in the main with discretion. Finding his mind becoming unsettled, he fled to a monastery, there, in per­ fect rest and quiet, to seek nxental res­ toration. Those who know the labor he bestowed upon his journal, and the constant wearing anxiety it caused him, will not be surprised atthiseaqplana- tion of his conduct. AN original portrait of Alexander yon Humboldt is in the possession of the Berlin antiquary, Herr Mai. It is woven in silk so as to resemble a cop­ per engraving, and is a perfect like­ ness. It is the work of the celebrated Lyogs portrait-weaver, Carquillet, who was without a rival in his art, and who died last year at the age of 81. All the notabilities who came to Lyons visited his workshop, which contained hundreds of diplomas and medals con­ ferred on him. HEKE is the latest remedy for a cold. It may bo good; it may be useless, but, at all qivents, hero it is: "Eat no sup­ per. On going to bed and on rising drink a tumbler of cold water. For breakfast eat a piece of dry bread as large as your hand. Go out freely dur­ ing the mi.rning. For dinner eat the same as at breakfast. During the afternoon take a sharp walk, or engage in some active exercise that will induce perspiration. Go without supper and retire early. The next morning, if the Description works, you will be nearly well." . EX-GOVEBNOB WILLIAM SMITH, of - Virginia, who on Sunday entered upon his ninetieth year, is in the full enjoy­ ment of his mental and physical pow­ ers, and personally superintends oper­ ations on his 500-acre farm at Warren- ton. His only surviving sons are Col. Thomas Smith, a prominent Virginia lawyer,.and Capt. Frederick Smith, of New Mexico. The four others are dead. One of them, James Caleb Smith, went to California in 1850 with his father, and fought a duel there with Senator Broderick in the pres­ ence of thousands of people. REFERRING to the rage among Amer­ icans for the collection of relics, a Lon­ don paper sarcastically says: "It is the American who chips off bits of the Par­ thenon, who engrosses the lynx eyes of the Swiss guards at the Vatican, who used to make -Temple Bar even more hideous than it was, and who barks ev­ ery British tree to which any tradition attaches, or from which any historical character has been suspended. Amer­ icans supply a steady market for locks of hair and old boots, and they were the chief bidders for the clippings of Thorwaldsen's beard, which were sold in Copenhagen." "IN Prince Canyon, as you ascend the Wasatch," says a Salt Lake City letter, "there is a remarkable forma­ tion of rock called Castle Gate. It is the most notable tingle formation along the whole route. Two huge ledges of rock advance from the cliffs. On the southern side the great projection, eight hundred feet high, is crowned on the top by a round turret. On the northern side a thin promontory of equal height advances its rose-red wall, which is no thicker in proportion to its height than Cleopatra's neodle, or any other monumental shaft. It is a wierd and striking picture." IT is generally known that tfa^local descriptive term for the Frpnch-Cana- dians is "habitans," but sometimes ig- . norance of the meaning of the word re­ sults in awkward consequences. A young bride who was charmed with her Canadian tour in every respect was shown the French market as one of the "sights." Not being market day the scene was not as animated as usual, and the visitor was told that on ac­ count of the absence of the habitans the market was hardly characteristic. Upon her return the bride gave her opinion of her visit. "Oh, we liked the market very much, and could buy everything we had at home except habitans. There wasn't any habitans to-day." . IT is not safe for a Boston man to take too many liberties with his pastor. One of them who found his wife and the family shepherd in a compromising position, and was indiscreet enough to make a fut s and a scandal about it, has been promply taught a lesson by being turned out of church. Such discipline will probably not prevent tho Boston man from kicking u preacher down atairs when encountered under like cir­ cumstances. but it will have a tendency to keep him owl of the reach of re­ ligious organisations in the fntur*. What this Boston churoh seems to want is only those members who have good worldly judgment and will not injur* the prosperity of the society by getting excited and raising a disturbance over trifles. "SING a Song of Sixpence" is as old aa the sixteenth century. "Three Blind Mice" is found in a music book dated 1609. "The Frog and the Mouse" was licensed in 1580. "Three Children Sliding on the Ice" dates from 1633. "London Bridge is Broken Down," is of unfathomed antiquity. "Girls and Boys Come Oat to Play" is certainly as old as the reign of Charles II ; as is also "Lucy Locket Lost her Pocket," to the tnne of which the American song "Yankee Doodle" was written. Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Where Have You Been ?" is of the age of Queen Bess. "Little Jack Horner" is older than the Seventeenth Century. "The Old Woman Tossed in a Blanket" is of the reign of James II., to whioh mon­ arch it is supposed to allude. THE following gives the total foreign- born population of each State and Ter­ ritory in the order of relative numbers: New York, 1,211,379; Pennsylvania, 587,829; lll nois, 583,575: Massachu­ setts, 443,491; Wisconsin, 405,425; Ohio, 394,943; Michigan, 388,508; Cali­ fornia, 292,874; Minnesota, 267,678; Iowa, 261,650; New Jersey, Missouri, 211,578; Indiana, Connecticut, 129,992; Texas, Kansas, 110,086; Nebraska, Maryland, 82,806; Bhode 67,993; Kentucky, 59.517; Maine, 58,- 883, Louisiana, 54,146; Dakota, 51,975; New Hampshire, 46,294; Utah, 43,994; Vermont, 40,959; Colorado, 39,790; Oregon, 30,503; Nevada, 25,653; West Virginia, 18,265; District of Columbia, 17,122; Tennessee, 16,702; Arizona, 16,049; Washington, 15,803; Virginia, 14,696; Montana, 11,521; Georgia, 10,564; Arkansas, 10,350; Idaho, 9,974; Florida, 9,909; Alabama, 9,734; Dela­ ware, 9,468; Mississippi, 9,209; New Mexico, 8,051; South Carolina, 7,686; Wyoming, 5,850; North Carolina, 3,742; Total, 6,679,943. 221,100; 144,178; 114,616; 97,414; Island, THE question, "How did the ooal beds originate?" has recently been discussed at some length in trade, as well as scientific circles, says the Chicago Tribune. The popular belief, that all coal is of vegetable origin, has been found fault with, as not accounting for the existence of good coal beds in strata which are acknowledged to be older than the carboniferous age. A writer in the Coal Trade Journal suggests the possibility of an inorganic orgin. The best authorities recognize both hydrogen and carbon as metals, and there are inorganio, Granting that these elements, in the form of hydro­ carbons, have their origin in the inte­ rior magma,it is possible to understand that combustion would result from their oxydation, setting free the hydrogen to form rain by mingling with the oxygen of the atmosphere, and allowing the carbon to combine with other molecules of oxygen to form carbonic acid, whioh will be brought down by the rain and deposited on the surface of the earth. It is claimed to be necessary to look to the interior for such material on ac­ count of the well-known fact that the earth's atmosphere contains but little carbon to be brought down to form the coal beds. The greatest objection to this theory is to be found in the belief, warranted by all the facts in the case, that the atmosphere once held in sus­ pension, or solution, a great deal more carbonic acid gas than it does now, and that the difference between them and now is pretty accurately measured by the quantity that has been deposited in the formations of coal and limestone that exist to-day. It is not difficult to regard it as probable that when this carbon treasure was most plentiful it was deposited by the operation of the forces of inorganic nature, and that afterward, as it became less abundant,it was taken up chiefly by the vegetable organism, and the result became coal in the manner which is explained by most of the geologists who have written on the subject. Government Life Insurance. The success that has attended the government carriage of letters and pa­ pers, as well as the cheapness of its telegraphic service, has led some so­ cial and political reformers to think that the same agency might be utilized for other beneficial purposes, such as postal banks, life, and fire insurance. In Great Britian there are in success­ ful operation government postal banks in which the poor are guaranteed the absolute safety of their surplus earn­ ings. and a low rate, but sure rate, of interest. The Colonial government of New Zealand has been testing life insuranee, but so far with rather poor results. Says an English paper, The Specta­ tor: "During the year 1883 the premi­ um receipts were 175,372 pounds ster­ ling. In order to obtain this receipt, not less than 31,000 pounds sterling had to be paid for fees and administra­ tive expenses. The fees alone were more than 10,000 ponuds s'erling; two medical men, 5,066 pounds sterling. Worse yet is the proportion in the in­ dustrial branch, in which we find a premium receipt of <>,217 pounds ster­ ling set off by a disbursement of fees and adm nistrative expenses of 4.094 pounds sterling. The insurance fund of this branch was 823 pounds sterling at the end of the year. Such a success cannot be called very encouraging. It would seem, from this statement, that politicians and officials had formed rings to misapply the funds, but this evil mar be corrected in time. Bis­ marck has introducad government life insurance for the working classes, and there is no reason in the fitness of things why a central authority that can manage postoffices, telegraphs, and even national railway systems, with efficiency and economy, should hot be equally" successful in dealing with savings banks, and life ond fire insur- anoo.--Demorext's Monthly. A PROMINENT physician of Athens, Georgia, who had many cases of sore throat lately, made an investigation and found nearly every one of them oftWMjd by cigarette smoking. JOHN SHERMAN S VIEWS. The Ohio Senator Talks Plainly on • Suppression of in the South. The Democratic Question of "What Are You Going to Do About It?" Answered. of Hon. John Sherman, Cladantti] My friends, there are other questions of national importance--questions com­ pared to which these that I have been discussing are unimportant, because that which relates to money and prop- erty and taxes is not to be compared to these great fundamental principles of liberty and equal rights ut>on which our government is founded. * I stated in the beginning of this campaign, as a matter of sober fact, that in all the Southern States, especially in the cot­ ton States, the Democratic party of those States have subverted the rights of seven millions of colored people, en­ titled by the Constitution and laws to equal civil and political rights. General Chalmers says I did not make it broad enough; that I did not declare that they had disfranchised all Republicans, whether white or black, and that men who had served in the Confederate army were, by the violent methods which I will mention, deprived of the elective franchise. I stated that principle fairly and squarely, and fairly declared if there was any dispute about it I would prove it by document and tes­ timony as strong as holy writ; I would pile these proofs mountain high, so that every doubting Thomas in the land might know that what I said was true. What was the reply given to this by our Democratic friends? What did Judge Hoadly say when he was called upon to face this great indictment of the Democratic party ? He said Sher­ man was waving the "bloody shirt!" The only "bloody shirt" I waved was the de­ claration I now repeat--that the Dem­ ocratic party of the South has disfran­ chised by fraud and violence the whole population of the Southern States in effect; and besides that has established a system of ostracism and terror by which those colored and white Repub­ lican voters dare not hold their heads up amongst them. Where was the "bloody shirt" in that? I don't see it. But Gov. Hoadly went on, and he "waved the bloody shirt." He com­ menced by saying that I had called at­ tention--which I had not--to the bloody graves scattered all over the South, and the rebel prison-pens, which he graphically described, and all that sort of thing. He said I tried to call atten­ tion to these things only to avoid a dis­ cussion of the temperance question. When I meet in argument, if my op­ ponent don't meet me fairly and square­ ly, I pull him up to the bull ring and hold him to the issue if I can. I say now that no Democrat in Hamilton County dare take issue on this ques­ tion. These people have been deprived of their rights. And that is not all. They have not only been deprived of their rights, but these men, Democrats of the South, are now exercising politi­ cal power based upon the six million of colored people scattered over the South. There are thirty-eight mem­ bers of Congress and thirty-eight electoral votes assigned nnder the Constitution to these six million of col­ ored people in tho South; but they manage matters there so that these col­ ored people have no right to vote. They're deprived of their votes, and then these Southern Demo­ crats vote all this vast political power themselves; and by that means alone Grover Cleveland is now President of the United States; and but for this erroneous crime James G. Blaine would now be our President, and John A. Logan would be our Vice President. What answer do thev make to this indictment? "The moody shirt!" And I don't know but the time is coming, my friends, in this countrv, when the patriotic people of the North­ ern States must wave the "bloody shirt." I say to you, although my years are passing away, and I look upon the faces of thousands of bright young men, I say to you that the Republican party of the United States will never submit to the ostracism that is now practiced upon these six millions of people. And when they ask me "What will you do about it?" as Boss Tweed asked of the local authorities of New York, I say we will find a remedy; and the time is not far distant when that will be found. When we see Jefferson Davis, the arch-rebel of the country, extolled in the Senate as a patriot--and I was frowned upon with great severity when I denounced him as a conspirator and traitor--when we see the flag of our country, under which the boys in blue marched to many victories, low­ ered in sorrow at the death of Jake Thompson: when we see Fitzhugh Lee riding at the head of his Democratic cavalcade with the old flag of Gen. Pickett at Gettysburg, and with the saddle and bridle of Gen. Lee, march­ ing with this rebel cavalcade through Virginia in order to arouse the rebel passions of that population; when we see men almost without number who have been rebels representing this great Government of ours in various lands, in Cabinet positions, and hold­ ing high carnival in important offices, and Union soldiers and widows turned out to allow these Democratic partisans to come in, I tell you, my countrymen, the measure of my forbearance has al­ most ceased to be a virtue. But they say, "What are you going to do about it ?" And the only answer that Gov. Hoadly could give was that of "What are you going to do about it? You have had power in this Government; you did not find a remedy, and there­ fore no such wrong exists." Well, we did have the power, after the war was over, in a kind of a way. When the war was over, did we show any feeling, of hostility or want of charity? No! No nation was more liberal to extend emancipation and to make easy their coming back to their relations in the General Government. We do not want to oppress them now. No blood was shed. No property was confiscated. In all human history there is not an­ other such example of kindness and forbearance to the party that had been overcome in war. But no sooner had Gen. Lee taken the parole and surren­ dered to Grant at Appomattox than they went home, and at once tried to reduce their colored people to quasi slavery. When that was resisted to some extent and the measures of reconstruction were passed that secured civil and political rights to all people, then they resorted to other outrages, such as the Ku-klux. j They met in secret places and armed I and disguised tli mselves--some of them j reb^'l soldiers--to frighten the Repub- ! licans, and in some cases committed j murder. This was kept up for some i time. General Grant tried to suppress j it. Congress sent committees of in­ vestigation. Wo saw no roaedy. Koue seemed to be at hand except again to call out the boys in blue. That was the only remedy,| and we didn't propose to do that. We waited for the coming of the time when the clearly acknowledged rights of the people would be yielded without further bickering. But we waited in vain, until finally the Demo­ crats got possession of the House; and these Democrats associated with and combined with the Southern rebels to keep up this ostracism. Governor Hoadly asks, "What will you do about it ?" I will tell you what we will do about it. There is in every one of these Southern States a Republican party now springing up, composed of rebel soldiers, white men and black men, and they are now fighting the battles that ought to have been fought long ago. Governor Wise --Governor, as I hope he will be, unless they kill him before that time- is now fighting the battles of the Repub­ lican party in Virginia, with our prin- 1 ciples engraved on his banner. Liberty and equal rights to all, protection to American industries, the development of our industries, and diversity to our employment. This is our creed and motto.* He is fighting that battle. Shall we desert him? [Cries of "Never 1"J Shall we Republicans of Ohio, by the election this fall, say, "We don't care a cuss for you!" Shall we join the Democrats ? [Cries of *No!"j There is one remedy. The time is not far distant when in every one of these Southern States there will be a party that will redress this wrong. In Ten­ nessee, at the last election, Judge Rfeid was almost elected. North Carolina will soon be carried bv the Republi­ cans if they be given anything like fair play. In Virginia, Louisiana, Missis­ sippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, and in every Southern State, there is a Repub­ lican majority under a fair election. The Republican party is a brave party --always brave. It has never under­ taken to do anything yet that it has not accomplished, and it will accomplish this in due time if you will only stand by it. There are two other things yet I want to talk about before closing, as I have spoken now longer than I in­ tended. They turned us out of office. Well, sir, whenever the voice of the people says to the Republican party, "Surrender your functions and turn them over to the Democratic or any other party," we obey, because it is the voice of the people. But why were we turned out ? what was the argument that led to the Republican party being turned out of office? «They wanted a change! What kind of a change have we got ? Are the times any easier ? Mr. Hendricks, when he was going around last summer, said: "If you turn these Republicans out and scatter the money now in the Treasury you could buy two barrels of flour for every family." Have you got your barrels ? They said they wanted to count the money; and they have counted it, and found every dollar there, even to the last cent. They wanted to examine the books. They said an examination of the books would put a lot of Republican officers on the road to the penitentiary. They have examined the books, and not one single defaulter or criminal has been found in the Republican ranks. They said: "Turn the rascals out!" and they're turning the rascals in. Cleveland now has more trouble to get rid of the peni­ tentiary birds that have come in under a Democratic administration than with all the Republican rascals that were ever found there. They were going to distribute that $400,000,000. But they haven't distributed a cent, and day after day, for nearly six months, they have hoarded more money in the Treas­ ury than was ever hoarded before, They said they would reduce the pub­ lic debt, and they haven't paid a single dollar. They have not done a single thing for good. What measure has been adopted or has been proposed by the Democratic party that would tend to relieve the people. They broke down John Roach--that gal­ lant and noble Irishman, who built up our navy--they broke him down by a system of chicanery, of legal chicanery that surpasses even belief. They have as a fool|ii stupidity j credit. ' * "" • A Few Questions fbrWÎ Kn. 1. Does the Democratic party I'Tta you better than the Republican party does? If so, why. 2. From '61 to '65 and from '65 to the end of time, did the Democratic party approve of your acts while suppressing a Democratic rebellion ? If so, why ? 3. Who now control the Democratic party ? What States pnt it in power again ? Was it the old loyal Stales of the North or the solid South"1 If the solid South, do you feel that your coun­ try is in better hands now than it was under Lincoln, Grant, or Garfield? 4. Will the Democratic party take better care of your widow or your chil­ dren than the Republican ? If so, tell why. 5. Will the Democratic party give us more liberal pensions? If so, why? 6. Will the Democratic party be more apt to save, cherish, and defend what it attempted to destroy when you threw your life between it and destruction? If so, why? Tell me, why? You know better, my good comrades, than to trust a party that has never loved you or your glorious cause. Whatever the Democratic party has done for you has been forced upon it. All that the Republican party has done for you was born of profound gratitude and deep appreciation of your noble services. I appeal to all good citizens to stand by the Republican party. Its flag is the flag of the Union. Under that flag the gray-haired pa­ triarch should stand. Under it should fight the citizen who revels in the wealth of matured phys­ ical and intellectual powers. The young man, just entering the wonderful field where the citizen be­ comes the crowned sovereign, should make no mistake. Let him not enter a party that is weighted down by the darkest political crimes of the century. Let each and all stand by the party, holding as its political faith the Consti­ tution of the United States; the party of freedom; the party of the poor man; the party of the laboring man: the party of an untrammeled and a truth­ ful l>allot-box; the party that caught the inspiration of "Yankee Doodle," preserved the perfect melody of the "Red, White and Blue," and made a nation ring with "The Union Forever, Hurrah, Boys, Hurrah." For that par­ ty's support--the Republican party-- before my Maker and the shrine of con­ science I appeal to all.--Comrade D. It. Henderson, at Iowa City, Iowa. , ILLINOIS srr ATX Democratic Figure Tricks. The new administration has been in charge of the finances of the Govern­ ment for seven months. During that time there has not been a single t>ond call made. Reductions in the national debt have been claimed from month to month, but upon analysis of the state­ ments put forth these alleged reduc­ tions have proved to be tricks of fig­ ures whereby necessary payments of interest were made to appear as reduc­ tions of principal. The grand total of indebtedness has really been diminished by less than $1,000,000 under Demo­ cratic management, in contrast with the $10,000,000 reductions which oc­ curred under Republican rule every six weeks or two month. The surplus in the Treasury, about which Mr. Hen­ dricks and other Democratic campaign­ ers talked, has been steadily increased since their party came into power, al­ though the hoarding of money is dis­ guised by a new form of debt statement which sets aside over $30,000,000 of fractional silver. -- Washington dis­ patch. A Partner of Tweed. The evidence which appears in the New York Tinwand Tribune that Gov. Hill was at ono time a partner with Tweed in the c wnership of a news­ paper seems to be conclusive. ~ Docu- r~\ 1 7; - 1 ments are given which show that in taken away the carrying of the mails 187() wl a £Ir Hm was a j share frnm A nionnan ohnta niin fnimoH r ham _ _1 _ . _ 0 _ from American ships and turned them over to English ships. They have done nothing whatever to relieve or lighten the burdens of the people or to make times easier. I trust times will be easier in the due course of events, but it will not be so through any act or agency of the Democratic party. Let me ask any Democrat--and I hope there are a few here--what object has been accomplished by bringing the Demo­ cratic party into power? You have tried it in the city, you have tried it in the State, and now you are commencing to try it in the nation. But I think you will find the experience the same all the way through, so that when the sweep­ stakes come three years hence you will all be willing to turn back the Repub­ lican party into its place of power and dignity. There was never in the his­ tory of mankind a party that did more good for their people than the Repub­ lican party of the United States. It preserved our country against Demo­ cratic rebellion; but,whatever else may be said, I do not wish to say one unkind word of the thousands of brave Demo­ crats who fought in the South under our flag. Stili, the controlling element of the Democratic party is the solid South, which is now governing the Democrats in the North, who waged the war of the rebellion, which the Re­ publican party put down by force of arms and the valor and heroism of the Union soldiers. And now to continue the record: We gave you the highest credit that was attained in any government of the world; our bonds are worth more in the market than those of Great Britain, or France, or Germany, or any other country in the world. We gave you a sound national currency that was ac­ cording to the desire of patriots, but until the Republican party came into power it never was realized. We se­ cured to the landless the homestead law, for while the Democratic Presi­ dents prevailed no homestead law could pass, and the last Democratic Presi­ dent--himself a bachelor like Grover Cleveland--vetoed the homestead law. It was not until Abraham Lincoln was elected that we got the benefit of a homestead law. Another thing we did: We brought about a resumption of specie payments, and made our notes as good as gold coin. My friends, the Cincinnati En­ quirer said it could not be done; that while I was trying to carry it out that way, every corner grocery that failed was "Shermanized." My friends, let us stand by the old Republican party; let us stand by it in the city, let us stand by it in the State, let us stand by it in the nation. We holder in and the President of the El- mira Gazette Company, Tweed was in­ duced by a common friend of himself and Hill to buy 200 shares of the pa­ per's stock for $10,000; that he paid in the money and held the stock for about a year, selling it back at the end of that time, at a greatly reduced price, to Hill, that the friend, Col. Patrick, who arranged the sale to Tweed, was a thor­ oughly disreptuable politician, who was in the Assembly from Elmira in 1H69 and 1870, when he was a complete tool of Tweed; that when Tweed had become a partner with Hill the latter appeared in Albany as the successor of Patrick in the Assembly, and that throughout the memorable session of 1871, when some of the most infamous of Tweed's jobs were put through the Legislature, Hill was the willing ser­ vant of his partner. The New York Ticket. The Buffalo Express thus speaks of the Republican State ticket: Davenport, Carr, Wads worth--if any State ticket was ever framed with three such acceptable candidates on it we don't happen to recollect it. If any three names could have been brought together giving a fuller representation of the whole party, or a fairer promise of union and harmony, we are not able to think of them. If we can't win with them it is because victory would have been impossible tor the Republican ticket this year under any circum­ stances. We have not space for speak­ ing at length upon the merits of the other candidates. Nor is it necessary. If the other names were those of weak and insignificant nun, the three already mentioned would still have weight enough to make a strong ticket. But the}r are not. In all its parts and as a whole the Republican State ticket is a strong one, worthy of the party's cordial and unanimous support, and, we hope and judge, sure to get it. That is the only thing needed for its elec­ tion by au old-fashioned harmonious Republican majority. IF it be proved that no appeal .to the people of Southern States can be heard, or that their voice can find no expression through the ballot-box, it will be necessary for the people of Northern States to put aside all other questions, until they can brine about a free expression of the popular will, and to unite as they have never united before to resist the Bourbon conspiracy against free government The future of parties largely depends upon the I result of the election in Virginia, and have Amor Smith for your city; give j the industrial future, alike of the us Foraker in the State, and in due North and of those Southern States in time you will have a Republican j wbich the development of manufactures President. j jias recently been promising, clearly IF you become discouraged yon are | depends upon the same decision.-- apt toMUfttp » fool of ipftgipif, whioh, j Neic York Tribune. i or irjjL CivUnM HUlfl Intercut In Combats ii •„ BaAipeMi Nation*. It must, we'*faar, be admitted that, except wi|h* few men upon whom the feminine aide of Chriatianity--the side which preaches resignation--has taken a strong hold, or who realize with pain­ ful thoroughness the horrors insepara­ ble from battle, war, as snch, has for cultivated mankind a distinct intellect­ ual charm. It attracts them as nothing else does, until iu its presence they can­ not turn their .eyes away, and every other subject of thought becomes com­ paratively insipid, and this even if the war is not one in which they are per­ sonally concerned. Of course if they are their absorption is easily explained. The results of a war are so tremendous and far-reacfiing, they affect all inter­ ests so deeply, and they may involve the future of a country so inextricably, that it is impossible for men who have any patriotio or political imagination at all not to study its progress, and even its minute details, with concentrated attention. One big blunder in war may prostrate a nation. Even when, as is rarely the case, invasion is out of the question, the incidents of a campaign, the conduct of the troops, the capacity or imbecility of the Generals, become matters of personal and vital interest --a victory seems a pleasure beyond all others, a defeat a cruel and individual catastrophe. Men's interests, their hopes, their virtues, their -foibles, and their fears are so involved in a war in which the nation is engaged, that every turn of fortune is an event of personal moment, and the excitement becomes as intense as if the onlooker were him­ self engaged. Men have been known to go mad with joy after a great victory, and to sticken mortally of the grief produced by a great defeat, and this in case) when, as it turned out, neither victory nor defeat lingered long in the general memory. There is nothing to be explained in that kind of interest, but the intellectual charm of war ex­ tends.much further than this. Wars which are not ours interest us nearly as wars which are. Scores of thousands of Englishmen followed the great American Civil War with an attention which missed no detail, and the Euro­ pean world watched the duel between France and Germany with a gaze which waa almost painful in its intensity of watchfulness. The journals, which al­ ways reflect the popular curiosity bet­ ter than the popular thought, were full of nothing else, and the excitement was felt as keenly by men ordinarily devoted to study as by men who has been sol­ diers, 01*--a curiously oommon case in a nation so devoted to civil pursuits-- were soldiers by inner prepossession. It is usual to ascribe this attraction to unconscious self-interest, a desire that one or the other side should win; but we do not think that has very much to do with the matter. The onlookers in a war take sides, no doubt, often en­ thusiastically, and with a persistence which it is not easy to explain; but it is not because of their hopes or fears that they become eo absorbed. They are hardly less attracted by the wars of history, which they ought to regard without passion; and there may be keen excitement, though they fail to decide which side they wish to win. The En­ glish people in the Franco-German war swerved distinctly from one side to the other; but they watched Gambetta and Chanzy with as much interest as they had watched Bismarck and von Moltke. Moreover, invisible wars, though they may strongly effect the interests of men, do not exercise this attraction. The war waged by France in Tonquin has hardly been watched at all, while the two great Chinese wars of our day have hardly received anything beyond a casual mention, and never, even when in prog­ ress, excited the slightest popular at­ tention. Yet the war in Tonquin was in many respects the most important colonial war of our time; and the two Chinese wars were, in the strangeness of their incidents and their awful con­ sumption of human life, among the phenomenal occurrences of the century. --London Spectator. Indian Grave* to Order. So determined, indeed, are some of these fabricators of frauds, that the fol­ lowing incident is worthy of being pub­ lished, to show the ingenuity they ex­ ercise in their peculiar calling. To discover an Indian grave is, of course, a red-letter day for the arclncologist. Now, Indian graves are manufactured to order, it would appear. At least the following recently occurred in New Jersey: A Philadelphia Flint Jack se­ cured a half-decayed skeleton from a potter's field in the vicinity, and placed it in a shallow excavation on the wast­ ing bank of a creek in New Jersey, where Indian relics were frequently found. With it he placed a steatite to- bacco-pipe of his own make, a steatite carving of an eagle's head, and beads; with these were thrown numbers of genuine arrow-heads and fragments of pottery. The earth was blackened with powdered charcoal. This "plant" was made in November, and in the fol­ lowing Maroh, during the prevalence of high waters and local freshets, he announced to an enthusiastic collector that he knew the exact location of an Indian grave, and offered to take him thither for $50, tho money to be paid if the search proved successful, which of course it did. The cranium of that Philadelphia pauper passed through several craniologists' hands, and was gravely remarked upon as of unusual interest, as it was a marked dolichoce­ phalic skull, whereas the Delaware In­ dians were brachycephalic!--Dr. Chas. C. Abbott in Popular Science Monthly. Colonial Head-Dresses. The dressing of women's hair kept pace with that of men. The "com­ mode" or "tower" head-dress rose to a great height in the days of Queen Anne, and then declined to rise into a new deformity in the years just pre­ ceding the American Revolution. In 1771 a bright young girl in Boston wrote to her mother in the country a description of the construction upon her own head of one of the coiffures, composed of a roll of red cow's tail mixed with horse hair and a little hu­ man hair of a yellow color, all carded and twisted together and built up un­ til by actual measurement the super­ structure was an inch longer than the face below it. Of a hair-dres-er at work on an another lady's head, she says: "I saw him twist and tug and pick and cut off whole locks of srray hair at a slice for the space of a hour and a half, when I left him, he seem­ ing not to be near done." One may judge of the vital necessity there was for all this art from the fact that a cer­ tain lady in Annapolis about the close of the colonial period was accustomed to pay $600 a year for the dressing of her hair. On great occasions the hair­ dresser's time was so fully occupied that some ladies were obliged to have their mountainous coiffures built up two days beforehand, and to deep sit­ ting in their chairs, or, according to a Philadelphia tradition, with their heads inclosed in a box. --A luge wolf lu been shofnear Mac. •hall. --OoL Ed Joslyn, a well-known lawyir' of Elgin, died after a severe illness. --William Bo^es, a Democratic politi­ cian of #Quincy, was thrown from his baggj and killed. --J. H. Durran. a jeweler of Aurom* committed suicide by takingstrychnin*. He was dissipated. --To wipe out the roller rinks, the (% Council of Freeport authorized an ordia- ance fixing the license on those establish­ ments at $500 per annum. --The creamery of Tom Mate on at South Elgin burned Tuesday night. The build­ ing wa? worth about $1,5C0. Total loss, including material, $3,000. --Ladies shopping for cheap goods say: "My girl, or my maid, wanted me to look her up something nice and cheap." Codfish aristocracy!--Chicago Journal. --Leading bnsiness men of UrbanahafO entered into a contract to prospect for cOsl when the necessary mineral right is Ob­ tained. Thirty thousand* dollars have beat subscribed. ' --Arthur Nettleton, who killed White, one of a charivari party, at Pa^ recently, was found guilty of manslaughter at Dixon, and sentenced to twelve yean* imprisonment --At Geneva, Kane Comity, ; Towner, one of the oldest settlers, wis standing on a step-ladder trimming a tree, when he lost his balance and fell back­ ward, breaking his nsek.He was 80 yes**"- old. • r, --The Quincy reporter who committed suicide, leaving a well-written account of his death as he desired it to appear in the papers, was particular to state that the caliber of the revolver used was 32. There is no doubt of his having been a reporter. --F. 3. Walsh, a student in the Chicago University, took the first prize at the an­ nual oratorical contest between representa­ tives of Illinois colleges, at OarlinviB#. The theme of the oration was the "Mission of the Anglo-Saxon." There were eight contestants. --In a chat with Mahlon Chance it is learned that Emery A Storrs, who was at one time a hard drinker, said to him: "Chance, I never come to New York and start down Broadway, even in cold weather, without getting on the shady side of the street.H "Why, what is that for?" asked Chance. Btorrs responded: "This town is confonndedly demoralizing, and I daren't walk in the sun for fear my shadow will ask me in to drink." ' --A woman cannot be insulted with ipt> punity on the Streets of Chicago. Every right-minded man would rush to her res­ cue, without asking whether she was right or wrong. Bat in some of our courts of justice a man or a woman can be insulted by a shyster lawyer, and the legal ruffian and not the witness will receive the pro­ tection of the court. A personloses no rights when ascending a witness-stand. If an attorney insults him, and he appeals to the Court for protection, he should have it. Cross-examination is one thing and bull­ dozing is another, and in view of reoent developments in Chicago, it is high time that the line should be dfeawn.--Inter Ocean. --The Collector of the Port of Chicago gets $7,000 a year salary and has the ap­ pointment of eighty-three subordinates, including a Chief Deputy at $3,000 m year, two deputies at $2,200, one at $1,800, one at $1,600, an Auditor it $2,200, a Cashier at $2,200, an Assistant Cashier at $1,400, Assistant Auditor at $1,800, Chief Entry Clerk at $1,800, As­ sistant Entry Clerk at $1,600, seventeen clerks at salaries ranging from $2,200 to $1,000, Chief Weigher $1,500, Assistant Weigher $1 per day, one ganger and one cigar inspector at $4 per day each, thirty- four inspectors at salarits ranging from $3 to $1 per day, Deputy Collector tit $30 per month, three messengers at front $720 to $900 per annum, two watchmen at $2.50 per day, four laborers at $2 per day, seven storekeepers at from $2 to $3 per day, three examiners at salaries rang­ ing from $2,000 to $1,600, and a clerk si y ' >$jjka(l Offlre Decision. ,* ifft'ashlnxton apeoiaLI ,v --Assistant Secretary -fenks, of the ID- terior Department, has decided that Edna Rose Ward, the little daughter of Fred Ward, of Chicago, who was killed by a mob at Devil's L:iko, Dakota, April 22. 1883, is entitled to the quarter section of land tor which her father lost his life. The decis­ ion vindicates the Ward brothers in their right to this claim, and is important as a precedent in similar land cases. By this decision it is established that an alien who has not declared his intention of becoming a citizen acquires no rights by settling on pnblic lands; the wrongful removal of a settler's house by an adverse claim­ ant does not affect his rights, and the guardian of a minor heir of a deceased pre-emptor can tight a declaratory state­ ment and complete the claim. It will be remembered that John Bell, who was not a citizen of the United States, settled on the claim in question. The township plat was tiled Sept. 29, 188a Bell filed on the claim that day, alleging settlement July 1, 1882. E. P. Ward, the guardian of Fred Ward's child, filed a pre-emption declara­ tory statement Dec. 21, alleging the settle­ ment Feb. 21, 1883, nearly eight months later than Bell. The testimony showed that Bell was on the land in June, 1NS2, and built a seed-house. In February, 1883, he built a frame house, and he had broken five acres of land at this time. Fred Ward put a shanty ou the claim Feb. 21, and in two liours*a mob of twenty men removed it April 7 Bell filed a declaration of his intention to become a citizen. April 22 Ward pnt another houso in place. That night he and his brother were shot and killed. The decision of the department is that while Bell was still an alien, Ward placed his honse on the land. His action was not a forcible intrusion upon the laud. Bell, at that time, was dis­ qualified from acquiring lands. Ward in­ itiated a valid settlement The re­ moval of the house could not destroy his claim. The land was unsnrveyed and nninclosed. The law was ample to protect Bell's rights, and there seems to be no ex­ cuse for the violence which caused the death of the Ward brothers. A careful examination of the testimony fails to show that Ward did not make his setttement in good faith, and the peculiar circumstances attending the removal of hi< first -hiaty, taken in connection with the facts surround* ing his death, would seem to furnish sutS- cient excuse for his absence from the lan# in the interim. 'J he land is now of cousidp. erable value, and will prove a fortune for the little child whose rights have now been established beyond appeal. It was under* - stood at the tirue that B ll was acting form syndicate of speculators. --Lightning-rod shnrps have been vic­ timizing faraiers in Vermilion County. W A! L ,'% '