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IN one Pennsylvania county school- flttohers receive $12.50 per month and 4tte compelled to change their boarding places every week. At the end of » year of "boarding round" in this way ^durational ideas must be thoroughly "disseminated through the community. A CATTLE dealer in Pomerania was trying to teach a calf to drink by letting it suck his fingers. In the operation the calf sacked a ring from the hand of 'the dealer, who didn't then notice the loss. He sold the animal, and a week after read that in the stomach of a calf slaughtered in Berlin his ring, minutely described, had been found. THE most economical man lives in ^Southern Georgia. He bought a flock •of turkeys, but when he found that he "Would be charged ferryage, "jest tuck them right back to the settlement and *Wapped them for gees?, so that he eould git even . with that ferryman." The geese swam the river while the -owner went over in the ferry. THE Watertown Times is responsible Jfer the statement that Paddy Ryan has 4 double who travels with him, and per- ibnates him in barrooms and on occa­ sions of conviviality, while the real Paddy sleeps and rests, and keeps him­ self in that prime condition which he lopes will one day result in his knock­ ing out John L. Sullivan, who has no •double to drink and smoke for him. & A CHERRY tree stood in the way of the Southern Pacific narrow gauge railway r extension that is being pushed at Alma- den, and the owner asked about $900 for the tree. Experts were appointed, and he then showed that it had for <(- years yielded him crops each of which sold for sums equivalent to the inter­ est on the amount above named. They finally agreed to award him $600, and I-,,, the tree had to go. |/ 4 . THE house in which Lincoln died was alodging house. John Matthews, a , . comedian, who was a great friend of John Wilkes Booth, had rooms there, s.and his room was the one in which / President Lincoln died. A few nights before the assassination John Wilkes Booth occupied Matthews' room, and it is a curious fact that he slept on the M. same bed upon which the man whom he afterward murdered breathed his last breath. ^ LOVE letters at BREACH of'promise f^its are usually amusing, but none laore so than one written by an English young man, which was of such a strain as the following: "Dearest, most charming, superlative Sally--I am long­ ing really for the time to come when I shall have you in a home, a bower o.f lovers' bliss, where we can coo and bill all the day long. We shall soon have a splash, dash-ttp wedding of our own, and then we shall take the shine out of them." i ? WASHINGTON Pont: When one looks ft the diminutive form of Representa­ tive Wheeler, of Alabama, the long, thin, straggling black hair, the bald crown, and the big beard in which the small, pale face is hidden, it is difficult fcO realize that this is the dashing, dar­ ing, clever cavalry General of the Con­ federate armies. When the General |Nuts his little soft round hat on the back of his head and hurries along with quick, short step, his head away in 1 front, the identity is still more incredi­ ble. ; "THE best preserved man in Congress tr his age is the Hon. William D. ellev, of Pennsylvania, who enjoys the title of 'Father of the House,' " says the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution. "He Iras 72 last Monday. On that day he ifalked up to the Capitol with the elastic step of a man of 40. Hi« eyes Ope bright and strong enough to defy passes; his thick, brown hair is not ®ven sprinkled with gray; his voice is One of the clearest and most ringing to * ||e heard in the halls of Congress. Few ' & his colleagues do more work." JF MARSHALL FIELD, the well-known <|}hicago merchant, is called lucky by tgis friends. A few years ago, in settling with a country merchant, he was in- ~#iced to take $300 of mining stock. He didnVwant it, and offered a big dis- *Ootmt-for cash, but the merchant didn't havethe cash, and so Mr. Field kept the stock. In seven years he has drawn ^630,000 in dividends from that stock, jKul it is said that all the money he has iver invested in mining stock, and he Mas invested considerable and with great success, was his profits on that $300 worth. IV WHAT is the natural term of a carp's life ? The question is suggested by the announcement by the Berlin papers that a fish of this kind has been taken ., from the Spree at the age of 268 years. Some days ago a fisher, was plying his Vocation when, like his olden predeces- fprs, he was favored with a mighty draught. His catch consisted of a carp beneath whose mouth a ring was found . .tfiixed. Scratches upon this ring, we are told, make it clear that the fish was placed in the water in the year 1618, or nearly two and three-quarters centuries .ago. This venerable inhabitant of the 8j>r<m weighed thirty-six pounds, and measured a hundred centimeters in length and seventy-eight centimeters M, circumference. THE longeet word in the English, or rather Welsh language, has, after along period of oblivion, been once more ex­ humed. It is Llanfairpwll gwngyll ger- trobgllgerchwyrnbyllgogerbwllzanttvy- iliogogogoch. This awful word of sev­ enty-two letters and twenty-two sylla­ bles, the name of a village in Wales, constituted the subject of a lecture lately given "by Rev. J. King, M. Aw at the museum, Berwick, in which he showed that it means: "St. Mary's white hazel pool, near the tnrning pool, near the whirlpool, very near the pool by Llantsilio, fronting the rocky islet of Gogo."_^ JOHN QriNCY ADAMS, a namesake of the great John Q., struck a rich mine Somewhere down in Mexico quite by ac­ cident. While prospecting he found his haversack on fire, his prospector's glass -having focused the sun's rays upon it. As the haversack contained about a dozen poundp of powder he dropped it and got out of the way in a hurry. It fell in a crevice and a large mass of rock M as thrown up. Adams returned mournfully to gather up what might l>e left of his effects, and found a rich vein of ore which the explosion had exposed to view. He sold a third interest in his find for $16,000, and very consistently named the mine "The Nick of Time." GENERAL LOGAN S BOOK. Great CeHsplraqr--Its Orfgta aai •Istorj"--Seeessiea the Sesnlt of a Deliberate Plat. T4M> Solid Soatk, Defeated at ti»Ntani TTip Anna, Finally S«cur«i Control of the Country by Subvortlaa Bepnbilcsn Form* of vi'vi:: 4jtov«*rnxueat. gpvcm th» Chicago Great SIR JAMES CAIBD, whose recent state­ ment that there are 538,000 small ten­ ants in Ireland who will be unable ta pay any rent if the present low prices of produce continue lias attracted so much attention, writes to the London Times again on the same subject. He classifies Irish holdings under nine heads, as follows: 1. 218,000 holdings averaging £2 rentaL 196,(H;0 holdings averag'ng £7 rental. 78,000 holdiuga averaging £12 rentaL 40,000 holdings averaging £18 rentaL 47,000 holdings averaging £23 rental. 34,00.1 holdings averaging £35 rentals 14,000 holdings averaging £45 rental; 2. 4. ' 5. C. 7. 8. 24,000 holdings averaging £75 rentit). 0. 12,000 holdings averaging £200 rentil. This makes a total of 659,000 hold­ ings on which the annual rent is $52,- 085,000.- He says further that many tenants farm two or more holdings, and estimates the number of Irish bona fide agriculturists at 400,000. He states that he has learned that a majority of Irish landlords do not want to sell out, but the statement has been^r&ceived with incredulitv. THE late Dr. Samuel Wolcott, the eminent Congregationalist minister, in his later life wrote many hymns, and has left on record an account of how he began to do so. He was 56 years old, and had never put two rhymes together, and had taken it for granted that he was as incompetent to write a hymn, ox even a stanza, as to work a miracle. "However," he says, "I resolved that 1 would try to write a hymn of five stanzas, and proceeded to plan it, pre­ cisely as I would plan a sermon. I said the first stanza shall be a recogni­ tion of God the Father; the second a recognition of Christ the Redeemer; the third a prayer to God the Father; the fourth a prayer to Christ the Re­ deemer ; the fifth shall blend the two in one address. * * * A more perfect recipe for wooden stanzas it would be difficult to frame." The result was the hymn beginning "Father, I own Thy voice," and the author was much sur­ prised to find he had written what could actually be sung. Many of his hymn? have become favorites throughout tlu- country. Winning His Spurs. ,< In the summer of 1878 there "was a gathering of the executive officers of different States at Cape May, and Gov. Thomas L. Yonng, of Ohio, was among the number. He and B. K. Jamison were friends, so the latter tendered him the use of his beautiful cottage for him­ self and staff during their stay at the seashore. One afternoon a number of gentlemen called to be introduced to the Governor, who was busy upstairs playing euchre. He was "going it alone" at the time, and, turning to Jamison, said: "Wait until I make my march, and then I'll go to the reception-room with you." He didn't make his march, however, but, on the contrary, greatly to his surprise, he was "euchred." Rising from his chair he turned his back to his host and said: "Jamison, I wish- you would give me a good kick; I feel that I deserve it." His host replied: "You don't mean it, Governor?" "Indeed I do," was Tom's response. "Try me and see." The words had hardly left his lips when the toe of Jamison's boot stopped with such suddenness just where his mother used to rebuke him with her slipper, that the concussion nearly sent him over on his face. The guests were horrified for a moment, but the Gov­ ernor with the greatest good humor said: "Boys, I got off with very light punishment. Out in Ohio when a man gets euchred on a lone hand they usually take him out and hang him to the near­ est lamp-post." Then he went down jtnd received his visitors. That night, oefore retiring, the Governor said: "Jamison, do you know that you' would make a capital soldier?" "No, "* was the reply; "why do you think so?" "Because you are so obedient to. or­ ders. Obedience, you know, is the first duty of a soldier, and you have th<* a, l>, c's down fine. Will you accept a commission on my staff? It means a Colonelcy." Mr. Jamison didn't see any harm in accepting, o,nd when Gov. Young re­ turned to Oliio lie forwarded the com­ mission duly signed and sealed. Then a difficulty arose. Mr. Jamison was a citizen of Pennsylvania, mid the com­ mission required that he should swear allegiance to the State of Ohio. This provision was stricken out and then "B. K. Jamison" became "aid-de-camp on the staff of his Excellency, Thomas L. Young, Governor of Ohio, with the rank and title of Colonel." The com­ mission, handsomely framed, now hangs in the handsome residence of Col. Jamison in W est Philadelphia, and he prizes it very highly.---Philadelphia Newh. TRY to frequent the company of your betters in books and in life. Thi.t is the most wholesome society. *The Great Conspiracy--Its dffgttf "and History," by General John A. Logan (A. R. Hart & Co.), is the work of a man who is thoroughly in earnest. Others have forgotten that rebellion was a crime; he has not. Others have drugged their memories that they might not remember the delib­ erate conspiracy that caused the Civil War-- the sacrifices of that great struggle, the un­ speakable infamies and cruelties of treason in arms, and of more cowardly Copper­ heads at the rear; the pretended submission of rebel leaders at the South; the campaign of assassination by which the Constitution and the laws have been suppressed in Southern States, and the people therein de­ prived of a republican form of government; General Logan has not. Gen. Logan has been too much in ear­ nest to polish his sentences. There is no pretense of literary finish, no effort at fine writing, in this grim, soldierly recital of fact; and yet there is at times real elo­ quence of expression, ami throughout a remarkable wealth of information mar­ shaled with the power of one who feels that others must Share his own intense convictions if he can but get the same facts before them. Gen. Logan begins by a history of the origin of slavery in this country. With characteristic frankness he states his belief that the fathers of the Republic were blame­ worthy for consenting to what have been called the compromises of the Constitu­ tion. Briefly reviewing the adoption of the Ordinance of 1787, and the Louisiana pur­ chase by Jefferson, he points out the fact that'Mr. Jefferson could not have been un­ aware that the acquisition of territory thus effected insured the extension of slavery. The history of the Missouri struggle and compromise is briefly stated; and there fol­ lows in the second chapter a strong review of the early history of the country in the matter of taxation. It is shown that the first tariff on imports, "approved by Presi­ dent Washington July 4, 1789"--a date not without its significance--was, next to the act prescribing the oath used in organizing the Government, the first act of the first Federal Congress. Tne annexation of Texas, the war with Mexico, and the defeat of Mr. Clay are briefly reviewed; and it is shown that the cenpromise of 1850 was quickly followed by attempts to organize the Territory of Nebraska in violation of the Missouri com­ promise. There follows a very full account of the great debate between Mr. Douglas and Mr. Lincoln, in which, notwithstanding the author's strong friendship for Mr. Doug­ las, it would seem that the argument of Mr. Lincoln convinced his judgment. Thus he says: "But Douglas' partial victory--if such it was--so far from settling the public mind and public conscience, had the contrary ef­ fect. It added to the ferment which the pro-slavery oligarchists of the South--and especially those of South Carolina--were intent upon increasing, until so grave and serious a crisis should arrive as would, in their opinion, furnish a justifiable pretext in the eyes of the world for the contemplated secession of the slave States from the Union." Gen. Logan's work is in no part stronger than in the overwhelming array of proof that secession was the resiut of deliberate and long-meditated conspiracy, having for its ultimate end the establishment of a separate aristocratic government, in which the detested idea of equal rights should have no place, and of which free trade should be the corner-stone. Even to those who were active in public affairs in those days the recital will come like a revelation, so strongly does the author group facts which all remember, but only as isolated events--facts which many have forgotten, and other facts which are now for the first time made public. Mr. Buchanan is not regarded as a conscious tool of the con­ spiracy; of him it is said: • "But a weak and feeble old man--still suffering from the effects of the mysterious National Hotel poisoning--was now in the Executive chair at the White House. Well- meaning, doubtless, and a Union man at heart, his enfeebled intellect was unable to nee, and hold firm to, the only true course. He lacked clearness of perception, decision of character, and nerve. He knew seces­ sion was wrong, but allowed himself to be persuaded that he had no constitutional power to prevent it." The persistent rejection of every compro­ mise by the Southern leaders is effectively described; and, after showing the nature of the Crittenden and peace Congress compro­ mises, each a complete surrender of all vital points, the writer says: "To spurn Buch propositions as these-- with all the concessions to the slave power therein contained--was equivalent to spurn­ ing anj' and all propositions that could possibly be made; and by doing this the seceding States placed themselves--as they perhaps desired--in an utterly irreconcil­ able attitude, and hence to a certain extent, which had not entered into their calcula­ tions, weakened their 'cause' in the eyes of many of their friends in the North, in the border States, and in the world. Xhey had become iniplacables. Practically consider­ ed, this was their great mistake." The account of Mr. Lincoln's inaugura­ tion and his touching appeal to the patriot­ ism of the people is followed by a passage in which the deep feeling of the writer is shown: "How the great, and just, and kindly brain, in the aim shadows of that awful first night at the White House, must have searched up, and down, and aloug the labyrinths of history and 'corridors of time' everywhere in the past for any analogy for excuse for the madness of this secession movement--and searched in vain. t "With bis grand and abounding faith in God, how Abraham Lincoln must have stormed the very gates of heaven that night with prayer that he might be the means of securing peace and union to his beloved but distracted country! How his great heart must have been racked with the alternations of hope and foreboding--of trustfulntss and doubt. Anxiously he must have looked for the light of the morrow, that he might gather from the press the manner in which his inaugural had been received. Not that he feared the North--but the South. How would the wayward, willful, passionate South receive his proffered olive-branch?" The latter part of Gen. Logan's book, only two chapters of twenty-three pages in all, is devoted to the history of the country since the war and to the present situation. The thirty-seventh chapter begins thus (page 651): And now, the war having ended in the forever; and that slavery, in all its various di»gui*es, was banished, never more to pro­ trude its hateful form upon oar liberty* loving fend. That was indeed Oka support* Hon and belief which everywhere pervaded the nation when rebellion was conquered by the legions of the Union--and which es­ pecially pervaded the South." But the old leaden soon began to recover their power, and were "unfortunately too well aided by the mistaken clemency and magnanimity of the Republican party in hastily removing the political disabilities of those leaders." Resistance to reconstruc­ tion and to the constitutional amendments intended to garner the fruits of the war continued without hesitation until "the Mis­ sissippi plan" at last succeeded in making the South solid, thus: "The plan was this: By the UBe of shot­ guns and rifles and cavalcades of armed white Democrats in red shirts riding around the country in dead of night, whipping prominent Republican whites and negroes to death, or shooting or hanging them if thought advisable, .such terror would fall upon the Republican colored voters that they would keep away from the polls, and consequently the white Democrats, unde­ terred by such influences, and, on the con­ trary, eager to take advantage of them, would poll not only a full vote, but a ma­ jority vote, on all questions, whether involv­ ing mere election of Democratic officials or otherwise; and, where intimidation of this or any other kind should fail, then a resort to be had to whatever devices would be found necessary to make a fraudulent count and return, and thus secure a Democratic triumph; and furthermore, when evidences of these intimida ions aud frauds should be Eresented to those people of the Union who elieve in every citizen of this free Repub­ lic having one free vote, and that vote fair­ ly counted, then to laugh the complaints out of court with the cry that such stories are not true, are 'campaign lies* devised solely for political effect,' and are merely the production of Republican 'outrage mills ground out to order. "This plan was first thoroughly tried in Mississippi, and has hence been called the 'Mississippi plan.' So magically effectual was it that, with variations adapted to lo­ cality and circumstances, this 'Mississippi plan soon enveloped the entire South in its meshwork of fraud, barbarity, and blood. The massacres and other outrages, while methodical, were remittent, wavelike-- sometimes one Southern State, sometimes another--and occurring in years of hot pol­ itical conflict until one after another of those States had, by these crimes, been again brought under the absolute control of the old rebel leaders." Briefly toucning on the attempt to buy, the Presidency in 1876, and upon the po-1 tency of the tariff agitation in securing Democratic defeat in 1880, the author men­ tions the result in 1884 in these words: "At last, after an exciting campaign, the Presidential election of 1884 was held, and for the first time since 1856 the old free- trade Democracy of the Sonth could rejoice over the triumph of their Presidential^an- didate. "Great was the joy of the Solid South! At last its numberless crimes against per­ sonal freedom and political liberty would reap a generous harvest. At last participa­ tion in rebellion would no more l>e regarded as a blot on the political escutcheon. At last commensurate rewards for all the long years of dishonorable waiting, and of hard work in night-ridings, and house-burningB, and 'nigger' whippings, and 'nigger' shoot­ ings, and 'nigger' hangings, and ballot-bOK stuffings, and all the other dreadful doing# to which these old leaders were impelled! by a sense of solid Southern patriotism, and pride of race, and lust for power, would come, and come in profusion. "Grand places in the Cabinet and foreign missions for the old rebels of distinction, now chiefs of the 'Solid Southern' con­ spiracy, and for those other able Northern Democrats who had helped them during or since the rebellion; fat consulates abroad for others of less degree; postoftices with­ out stint for the lesser lights--all this, and more, must come. The long-hidden light of a glorious day was about to break." Ih the closing chapter it is shown that the Northern people, because their own State Governments yet are free, fail to see that a republican form of government has ceased to exist in a part of the States; that there can be no Republic where part of the peo­ ple hold all the power, and the rest are kept in subjection by terrorism; that all lights which the Constitution intended to guaran­ tee to the people are now, and for years have been, persistently denied in certain States; and that the Constitution makes it the duty of Congress to guarantee to evety State a republican form of government, which it has not done. The closing thoughts mayv best be given in Gen. Logan's own words:* "Were Abraham Lincoln able bodily to revisit the United States to-day, how his keen gray eyes would open in amazement to find that manv legitimate fruits of our Union victory had been filched from us; that --save the honorable few who, accepting the legitimate results of the war, were still honestly striving for the success of principles harmonizing with such results, and inuring to the general welfare--they who strove with all their might to wreck the Govern­ ment were now--through the fraudulent and forcible restriction of voters in their right to vote--at the helm of the state; that those who sought to ruin the nation had thus wrongfully usurped its rule; that free trade--after 'running amuck' of panic and disaster from the birth of the republic to the outbreak of the rebellion, with whose failure it should naturally have expired-- was now reanimated and stood defiantly threatening all the industries of our land; that all of hig painstaking efforts and (hose, of the band of devoted patriots who stood by him to free the Southern slaves had mainly resulted in hiding from sight the repulsive chains of enforced servitude un­ der the outward garb of freedom; that the old black codes had simply been replaced by enactments adapted to the new conditions; that the old system of African slavery had merely been succeeded by the heartless and galling system of African peonage; that the sacrifices made by him--including that of his martyr­ dom--had to a certain extent been made in vain; that all the sacrifices, the sorrows, the sufferiugs of this Nation, made in blood, in tears, and in vast expenditure of time and treasure, had, in s:ome degree and in a certain sense, been useless; that the Union,- to be sure, was saved--but saved to be measurably perverted from its grand pur­ pose; that*the power which animated re­ bellion, and which was supposed to have expired in the ' last ditch,' with the ' Lost Cause,' had, with political legerdemain and juggler}*, with violence, been regained; that the time had actually come for patriots to take bacK seats, while unrepentant rebels come to the front; that the Republic still lived, but only by sufferance, with the hands of Southern oligarchs about its palpitatiug throat--a Republic, not nuch as he expect- ted, where all men are equal before the law, and protected in their rights, but where the rights of a certain class are persistently trampled under foot; that the people of the Northern, Middle, and Western States, observing nothing beyond their own defeat, conquest, and capture of those who. j vicinage, so to speak, and, finding that inspired by the false teachings of the I each of their own States is still republican Southern leaders, had arraved themselves in its form of government, persistently and in arms beneath the standard ot' the rebel- perversely shut their eyes to the election lion, and fought for sectional independence j terrorism practiced in the solid South, by against National Union, for slavery agaiust ] v.'bich the sixteen solid Southern States freedom, and for free trade against a tariff I were and are i-olidfied by these conspiring BASE-BALL |* fh4 ftwe for Ike Stuilif of the Clubs at Ike End ef Ike Tklrd Week. The third week of the season was an event­ ful one in base-ball circles, and several important changes were noted in the rela­ tive standing of the League dabs., At the close of the second week's play Chicago led the League, but the loss of one game to Boston and the postponement of one game with Boston and two with New York on ac­ count of rain enabled Detroit te overtake and pass the champions on three signal and successive victories over the New York giants and three over Boston. The great surprise and break-down of the season so far has been the great New York nine, which by the loss of three games to De­ troit and one to Chicago has gone from a tie for first place with Chicago a *veek ago to fourth place, being led by Detroit, Chicago, ana St. Louis in the order named. The enthusiastic friends of tbe reorganized Detroits have become very jubilant over the recent success of their favorite club, aud already begin to see vis­ ions of the League pennant of 1888 passing before their eyes. It is rather eaHy in the season for any one club to become too en­ thusiastic or certain of reaching the championship goal, for which all clubs are striving, for the reason that the League race this year will be longer and more stubborn­ ly fought than ever before, and ultimate Success will fall to the club that is best capable of standing the strain and fatigue of a long pull. The wonderful success of the Chicago nine last season in winning the League pennant by the greatest percentage ever before made by a League club was due more to their total-abstinence habits, and thus keeping themselves in the best possible physical condition, than to any other cause. Man­ agers of all League clnbs seem to appreciate more than ever the absolute necessity of the strictest temperance atupng their players if they would make a creditable season's record, and it is safe to say that there will be lees dissipation among League players this year than ever before. The following table shows the standing 'of the League clubs at the close of the week ending May 15th: « Clubs-- Won. Chicago ." S New York 6 Detroit II Philadelphia 5 St. Louis 7 Bo»t< n. 3 Washington. 3 Kansns City 1 ,•* * 1,-Sr.L protective alike to manufacturer, mechanic, and laborer, it might naturally be supposed that with the collapse of this rebellion all the issues which made up 4 the cause '--the ' Lost Cause,' as those leaders would term it--would be lost with it and disappear from political sight, and we would never again hear of a section of the nation, and last of all the Southern sec­ tion, organized, banded together, sol­ idified, in the line of its own sec­ tional ideas, as against the national ideas prevailing elsewhere through the Union; that free trade, conscious of the ruin and desolation which it had wrought, and of the awful sacrifices of blood and treasure which had been made in its behalf by the conquered South, would slink from sight o*«d hide its famine-breeding front -itaSai oligarchs into one compact and powerful political mass, ever ready to be hurled in and out of Congress, against the best in­ terests of the nation--sixteen States, all ' republican' in form, but many of them despotisms in substance--sixteen States, misnamed 'democratic,' many of them ruled not by a majority but by an oligarch- ridden minority--sixteen States leagued, banded, bound solidly together as one great controlling oligarchy, to hold, in its merciless aud selfish hands, the balance of power within this republican Union; and that these confederated Southern States are now actually able to dictate to all the other States of the Union the particular man or men to whose rule the nation must submit, and the particular policy or policies which the nation must adopt and follow! Po«t- Ixiat ponod. STANDING OF THE AMERICAN A8SOCIA TION. The clubs of the American Association hold about the same positions in the race as at the end of the seoond Week. Following is the record: Games Clubs-- won. Athletic 0 Baltimore, 9 Brooklyn u Cincinnati. 10 Louisville 10 Metropolitan..., 5 Pi'tsl urc 10 St. Louis ....j... 15 Oa>nes lost BASE-BALL NOTES. THE Philadelphias are looked upon as the dark horse in the League race. No SCKDAY games, liquor selling, or gambling are permitted on any League grounds. THE Chicagos are big favorites. in the Siessing now going on at A. G. Spalding k rother's. MB. SUNDAY, of the Chicago nine, is the fastest runner in the League, though Kelly of the same nine, stauds at the head of base-runners. THE rumor that the professional ball players have struck for eight hours is offi- ciallv denied. They are content to libor two hours per day and receive forty-eight hours' pay. THE National Lengue has been organized just ten year?, and in that time Anson has played in 702 games, in which he has been at bat 3,353 time*, and made 1,163 base- hits. He heads the list. " N. E. YOUNO, of Washington, D. C President of the National League, was an old-time base-ball player in the amateur days before professional ball playing was known, and ranked as one of the best. A. C. ANSON, captain and first base­ man of the Chicagos, is 34 years old, stands <> feet 3 inches in height, weighs 220 pounds, has played base-ball profeBsion- i.llv for 17 years, and is worth $30,000 to $40,000. THE longest hit on record in St. Louis was recently made by slugger Thompson, of the Detroits, reputed to be the tallest inaa in the league. He knocked the ball over the fence at the south end of the park, the first time such a thing was ever done. DETROIT is playing great ball at the bat and doing almost faultless fielding. Ben­ nett, who has caught nearly every game to date, is a wonderful catcher, a good batter, aud an excellent base runner. If an acci­ dent should happen him, who have they to take his place? J UMPIHE BEN YOUNG, of the American Association, after being abused in Cincin­ nati and St. Louis, and nearly mobbed in Louisville, has resigued, aud accepted the SiUne position with the Southern League, where be served'last year. Jimmy Clinton "will Succeed him. IT is estimated that 5,000,000 base-balls have been made and placed on the market for the present season--one for every ten of the .entire population of the country.* There would be less dyspepsia and kindred dis­ ease* if one-tenth of the population actually participated in the game. DVN1>ON, the deaf-mute pitcher of the Nashville Club, was recently presented with a mammoth floral pyramid, the gift of Indy admirers. It was presumably because of his gentlemanly conduct on the field. Some of the players, we know, would never earn such a tribute unless they were par­ alyzed as well as deaf aud dumb. CHICAGO htfd a "big four" in 1878, com­ posed of White, Spalding, McVey, and Barnes, and through their efforts the League championship was transferred from Boston to Chicago. Will Detroit's "big four" of 1886, consisting of White, Brouthers, Rowe, and Rich'ardson, be equally as successful in transfeiringthe championship from Chi­ cago to Detroit? THAT tbe base-ball fever permeates every grade and condition of life is evi­ denced by the fact that we have Board of Trade nines, newspaper nines, garrison n:nes. mechanic nines, trade nines, and even church aud Sunday-school nines. In the English national game of cricket an annual contest between Lords aud Com­ mons is a regular feature. Why cannot 6nr Senate and" House of Representatives in- du'ge in a contest at America's national game?- Many members of Congress are regular attendants upon every game Dlayed at the national capital, and it will b" no £i"ater an unbending of dignity to partici­ pate than to be a spec) a'or. By all means, let our national Represelitatives take a hand in out national game. IN speaking of the League season the New York Sun says, editorially: "Themain question involved--th it of the effect likely to be produced by taking in the two new clubs, those of Washington and Kansas City--has already been answered satis­ factorily, since both nines, in the few gnnies they have plityed, have shywn themselves worthy to compote with the older organiza­ tions. This is a matter that concerns not only them but the League as a whole, since nothings more likely to destroy genernl in- 'erest in the contest than too great dis­ crepancy in the relative playing strength of the clubs. So far as can be judged this danger will be avoided, and there is reason to expect as prosperous a season in the pro­ fessional orgamzitior.8 as during any pre- casing years." pREsipmnrUL SPOKTS. The Relaxation thm CKBrial ftnttmkj T»- rlouH CkiafExccntivM. President Cleveland is the only Presi­ dent in our history who seems to have no amusements whatsoever. George Washington was noted for his muscular development. He was fond of jumping, and to the last day of his life kept a pack of hounds for hunting. He could dance upon occasion and was careful enough of his health to go to bed every night at 10 o'clock. Jefferson was a great horseback rider, and he rode throughout the country altout Wash­ ington daily during his Presidency. He usually spent two hours in the saddle, and he was fond of mixing with his feP lows. At home at Monticello. he paid great attention to farming, and he often walked about the streets of Washing­ ton while in the White House. When Cleveland was inaugurated the press was full of wonder at his getting up for breakfast at 8 o'clock in the morning, and the whole nation patted him on the back for it, as it were. Still Washing­ ton got up at daybreak, and Jefferson crawled out as soon as the light struck his chamber. John Adams, who was as fat proportionately as Cleveland is,used to take a walk from the White House around the Capitol before his break­ fast, which, by the way, he took as early as Cleveland, and his son, John Quincy Adams', was wont to go down to the Potomac and take a swim l>efore he ate his morning meal. Both of tli3 Adamses were great walkers, and while John Quincy Adams was President he used to walk out to the race-course, two miles from the city, and back again when­ ever any great sjwrt was on hand. An­ drew Jackson was a hard worker, but he was a democratic fellow, and he liked horse-racing, cock-tigliting, and a good social smoke. He often attended the cock-fights on Washington Heights, above Sixteenth street, and at one of the great races of the days of his Pres­ idency lie had a horse of his own admit­ ted in the name of his Private Secre­ tary, Major Donelson. President Har­ rison M as a great walker, and he did much of his own marketing during his short stay in the White House. He would get up and go to market l>efore breakfast, and, though he was an old man, he often went about without an overcoat. Frank Pierce was another great horseback rider, and he was ac­ customed to gallop through the streets of Washington at midnight on a fine blooded steed. Buchanan was a great Iteau socially, and he did some walking. Lincoln drove about somewhat, and it was not uncommon to see him on the streets. He liked the theater, and a IK»X was always reserved for him. Grant walked up and down the broad pavement in front of the White House for an hour or two every morning, and his love of horses and driving amounted to a passion. He was not averse to having fellows call upon him in the evening, and he partook of much social enjoyment. Hayes' reign was a great one socially, and Arthur kept his house tilled with guests, and took a long drive in the country daily. -- Cleveland Leader. Pocket Oold Hunting. The pocket-hunter is a comparatively new comer in the California country, and only made his appearance during the last year and a half. He, too, is a prospector, but he despises quartz. He prospects for gold only, and does not desire to find a little of it in huge masses of flinty rock. He expects to dig a hole in the earth tlfo size of a barrel and take therefrom a .fortune in . the pure article. His hopes are neither groundless nor without precedent. A number of pockets and seam deposits have been found, some containing a few ounces and others thousands of dollars. I was shown a hole a yard square from which $2,700 was recently taken. The deposit was found within a foot of the surface on a hillside. These pocket deposits are found in various forma­ tions, and "scientific fellows" don't suc­ ceed well in locating them, either. They are usually found in decomposed quartz, in clay seams and sometimes in wash gravel. The mode of prospecting for pockets is simple, but it, too, requires hard work and faith. The pocket-hunter selects a section where extensive placer-mining has been done and where the yield was rich. He con­ jectures that the gold came from some­ where, and he follows the gulches up stream as far as they have been worked, and there takes pans of dirt from the surface and hillsides. If he obtains a "color," or speck of gold, from the sur­ face it is a fine prospect, and he follows the trace carefully, taking the next panful of dirt to be washed from higher ground, and so on until the prospect fails; then he digs for the deposit. Oc- casionallv it is there. Indications are often found where weeks of panning fail to locate from whence they have been washed or thrown; and again, pockets are found by mere accident that have thrown no trace to the surface. A good prospect mav l>e obtained from every spot on a hillside, and yet nothing be found beneath the surface. A pocket-hunter will carry and wash dirt for days without obtaining a color. When he obtains a speck of gold, how­ ever, and if it is the rough, unwashed pocket metal, his chance is fair of find­ ing a deposit--perhaps a fortune. The winter season is the most favorable for prospecting in this manner, as every gulch then contains sufficient water for panning, while during the summer the prospector must either follow water­ courses or carry dirt long distances to springs or streams, and there pan it. There are those who frequently find pockets, and, even though the deposits are not large, they find them often enough to prosper moderately well in the un-ertain occupation, and appear cheer­ ful, confident and always possessed of a little money. I am inclined to think, however, that, considering the number engaged, the fortunate ones are few, and for the amount of labor performed I am forced to believe that both pros­ pectors and pocket-hunters are scantily paid.--Son Francisco £jruminei'. A Remarkable Dog. There w as once a remarkable dog in Austin. It knew its master's step and his habits and would never bite him. His owner loved him aiuUsaid he would not take SolX) for him. d)ne night his owner came home perfectly sober and three hours earlier than usual. The dog, not having been notified of this change in the programme, mistook him for an intruder and bit him in nine­ teen places. Next day the owner had •he dog executed by a policeman. All efforts to obtain a commutation failed, and yet it was a clear case of mistaken identity, and the dog had an unprac- ticed mind.--Texm Sifting*. A FRENCH physiologist has ascer­ tained that highly poisonous principles --known as crvptomaines--may be de­ veloped in edible mushrooms under certain conditions. maKOIN STATE NEWS. /I --KanevOle anticipates the advent of * railroadimsistoorttime. -'V'r-' -4i --Nathan G. H. Moisill,. wbo mpind •>' Dixon, was alt one time th* owner at tti site of West Diaon.. ' * - / i --The Republican Congressional Coo- * vention; in. the Sixth Illinois District war*' be held afcFreeport, July 6. » u, : --Among tfce Illinois pioneers who diafi '<•' last week were Horatio T. Ellis, of Quin^, * and M. H. Swift,, of Ottawa^. ' ' * --Edward W. Brewster,, a former resi- 'i dent o£ Chicago* and one of Dopqge County's oldest settlars, died at Wheat aged 93. --At Shannon Marshal Raddingteo waft killed w ith, a ra?er by a barber named Chas. Lnshelle, whom he attempted to arrest lor drunkenness* The murderer was captured in a grove near Lanark. --Rev. James Kay Applebee> formerly of Chicago, who has so long filled a pastorate at Parker Memorial Hall, in Boston, has removed to Marblehead* Ma«s., in response to a call extended by th» Unitarian Society of that place. Mr. Apptebee is one of ti* most eloquent of pulpit orators in the Lib- •eral Church. --The United States Agricultural Depart­ ment mnkea a very encooraging report aa te the crop outlook in Illinois. Wheat waa unusually well protected by snow during most of the winter^ and with favorable con­ ditions through the entire month of April shows a high percentage. Winter rye and barley are looking well, with about the same condition as wheat. Oats in the central and southern divisions of the Stale are well advanced, with a promise of good yield. --The remains of Mrs. John Block, a widow, were fonnd Sunday night , hvf farm dwelling, near Frankfort. By her side lay Albert Wiler, aged 2ft, who was un­ conscious. The* woman had been shot through the heart and the man through the head. It appears there had been criminal love between the couple, and the sons of the woman making the discovery led to the double suicide. Wiler was removed to Joliet and died there Monday night- Mr*. Block left a letter asserting her innocenoe, and desiring that she be buried by the side of her husband. The family of the woman are left in possession of several fine farms. --Among the important interests and ac­ tivities of Chicago base-ball is a trivial matter. The city is not moved by either the triumphs or defeats of the base-ball players hired to play ball for the pecuniary profit of a few Chicago gentlemen who think it a good investment. But in New York base-ball is a very serious affair. The "giants" appear to have gone forth to sub­ due the West with the united prayers and best wishes of the whole city. Their de­ feats have been taken greatly to heart. The New York Tribune says "New-Yorkers have every reason to be chagrined at the record of their nine," and, except in the improb­ able event of its regaining its lost place in the championship race, Qotham will refine to be comforted.--Daily Times. --Already this spring at least three great benevolent orders have held their State meetings in Chicago. These orders or so­ cieties represent constituencies of not far from 35,000 persons in the State, all heads of families, or representing those direetly or indirectly related to and dependent upon them. The last order which has held ita convention here is the National Ubion. The order called the National Union is a na­ tive of Ohio, where it was established May 11, 1881. Already it is flourishing in eighteen States, and it has reached over into the Dominion, where large branches are maintained. Mansfield, Ohio, is the headquarters city of the order. Its growth has been rapid and at the same time sub­ stantial, with a Viry favorable future awaiting it. The organization has in round numbers a membership of 12,000, and Illinois alone has about one-fifth of this great and constantly increasing constitu­ ency. In a short time this State will have 2,500 members, which will entitle it to an­ other representative in the national or su­ preme body. There are now thirty-four councils in Illinois, of whieh Cook County has twenty-three, representing a member­ ship of 1,874. --In addition to the stakes previously announced the State Board of Agriculture offer the fol'owing inducements to the owners of fast horses to exhibit the ability of their animals at the St its Fair in Chi­ cago next September: Illinois Stake, $500, for colts and Allies, of any age, tared in Il­ linois; to be trotted Friday, Sept. 10,1886; mile heats, three in five, in harness. Chi­ cago Stake, $500, for colts and fillies, of any age, bred in Illinois; to be run Friday* Sept. 10, 1886; mile heats, three in five, in harness. Chicago Stake, $500, for colts and fillies, of any age, bred in Illinois; to be run Friday, Sept. 10, 1886; mile heats, two in three. Grand Pacing Stake, $1,200, to be paced Thursday, Sept. 9, 1886; mile heats, three in five, in harness (barring Johnston); conditioned that at least three of the following-Lamed horses enter and start: Richball, Fuller, Jewett, * Toledo Gill, Newhope, Minnie R., Silvernail, Sailor Boy, Lottie P., Jordan, Marlowe, Mike Wilkes, Westmont, Gossip Jr., and Georgetown. Grand Trotting Stake, $K- 8(K), open to all horses eligible to the 2:15 class, to be trotted Friday, Sept. 10, 1886; mile heats, three in five, in harness; condi­ tioned that at least three of the followiug- uamed horses enter and start: Clemmie Q., Edwin Thome, Wilson, Phil Thompson, •« Arab, Jerome, Turner. Adelaide, Catchfly, Billy Button, Felix, Patron, Hiuda Rose, Fannie Withe-spoon, Harry Wilkes, Majol­ ica, Phallas, Jo Daviess, and Bonnie MteK, Gregor. « --She was walking down StateatoM* > , With evident pride, «With a haughty o^i-r©salon Ar.d st.iUe, Ar.d her sacque was of Her hat of th« suaie, :. -.- , And her ears and h >r ftng^gj With gtms were aflame.,^ i But she suddenly halted And strw>ped to the gTOu^i, Aa if hut ting tor something- Around and around. ^ ^4 t When a dndo saw h.-r stoj)y en& . V • * Presumed to be kind, 4 ' And to ask !en» to help hit* The lost thing to fijJ. * • >. J ^ ,4 ' '4 Tea are frdsh, sir." she anawawft- Her oves ou tho irrjund ' , <^Tj Her oyes on the ground *Sach a uia^h to bs making At on? little bonnd. I wilt n«e<l no anaistance; ; fl e r^asoa I stopped-- If a ehuuip must be t >H--3d My chewlcg-iJum aiioo&j Jotcrnal. " 'I