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r-i "• ,<l . 1 J' « •>• . f ti ., . ' . ,.i. ., ..*. „+.\ V ..f4 -'r.^' f ̂ ?v«4 t -<f U|VW^' ***<??JT *t?i|-: rnv; •sivi- ;r ienrn fglxtmUaler 1. VAN SLVKE, U* ralMMnr. MOHENBY, ILLTNOia v When "LiLfle Phil" Slieridan, nftw a 0-year-o!d, is old enongh he is to have a West Point appointment. IT has been resolved to erect a monu- <>• Kent at. his native place of Eisleben to rt; the memory of Frederick Konig, the in- 5; " Tentor of the quick printing-press. p . A YotrxG farmer at Morelaad, Pa, :• lias named his cows after his various ft' sweethearts. Although he has a large herd he found names enough ,fa> go round. ^ J ; Large deposits of excellent hard ooal c':;, hate recently been discovered in Al­ aska and on some of the coast islands. The quantity is considered to be practi- «ally inexhaustible. iT ;• ' ' THE English statistics give a notable i-decrease in their convict population ; -during the last twenty years. The total number of convicts under sentence .^,,rjfcr penal servitude was 6,405 ia July; "twenty years-ago it was 11,660. Old Jimmy Ckanshaw, who resides f.' /to a lonely and thinly peopled district in Lake County, California, has what ||!:fC^ terms a "varmint farm," and makes ' his living by raising foxes, coons, ej «kunks, coyotes and other fur-bearing ^ ' f .animals. £* , . & \ . The Russian government accuses fe- t':, •' ipale physicians of being addicted not merely to revolutionary opinions but elso to "sentiments and manners uu- , •; "worthy of their sex." No woman is al- lowed to practice publicly before 40 | "fears of, age, &V' |M& 2c. So tliote Mexicans who live on the borders take advantage of our postal; system, and each morning "with mail bags of unposted letters, step across the river to adjacent American town, pat­ ronize our postoffices and eend their mail back into their own country or abroad into ours ornamented with pro­ files of Washington and Jefforson/ AT last it has come! Vengeane® has finally been wreaked upon the fiend who takes other people's umbrellas and never returns them. Dover, N. H., is entitled to the honor of making the first move toward wiping from the face of the earth the man whose conscience is like an umbrella turned , inside out by the wind. Several citizens who had been deprived of their rain-protectora assembled in a store and laid for the unprincipled thief. He came in, took an umbrella, and went out in the cold, drizzling storm. The committee fol­ lowed him and, had him arrested. He was convicted and sent to jail for three days and assessed $9 and costs. An­ other man who took an umbrella from the hallway of a private residence got sixty days in jail. This is. a good be­ ginning. Keep up the geod work, gentlemen, and your *fame will mount higher than Eiffel's tower. •. * • •• _ • • THE VIRGINIA FRAUDS. AN instance of the quick way in | tFhich some things are done nowadays. •*' - It is told that in a late divorce trial in V * * Maine, at the moment when the Judge Vr'" Was decreeing the divorce, the clerk . held in his hand a telegram from the - libelee, asking to be^informed as soon as ^ 4 her husband obtained bis divorce, as • t«he and another man were waiting to be married as soon as it could be legally ;i:,,,-.w4one. - - - - - - < M THE decision that the Tilden trust 'j/1 €annot be maintained, and that the property must be divided among the ;"v heirs, excites much attention in New • York. It does away with-the project $j" for a magnificent free library, which • ? <> *as one of Mr. Tilden's pet schemes, -••-**%nd deprives New York of other gifts. , The case has been argued at great length, and the opinion given would fill "> ' t>ages of a newspaper. | ̂ To PUT an egg into a bottle requires ; -the following preparation: You take ' f*n egg and soak it in Btrong vinegar, » " and in process of time its shell will be- J" . 550me quite soft, so that it may be ex- I, , tended lengthways without breaking; k ^ H then insert into the neck of a small i "i gv jibottle, and by poring cold water upon v . it it will resume its former figure and | V.Jiardness. This is really a complete »;«*.' curiosity and baffles those who are not £• in the secret to find out how it is ac- 'Complished. SAN DIEGO, Cat., must have'^w'jpre- /bious lot of officials, if the grand jury ^ %;'$snow what they are talking about. The / eheaiff is charged with theft, the super- gf' Visors with squandering over $100,000, and measures for their summary re- jj* ' rnoval are ordered; the coroner has appropriating illegally warn A MtPtBllCAS MAJUMXX O* »o,eoo was ovkbcomk. hoping therrtjy to «»ye from 50 to 7» ma> Jonty for the Kei>ub»k-an ticket, the po%«i- of modern Bourbon a4i'itioa being able to Ofawuge a reHabJy R^pnblicHU prfoinet, into a Demoorntic utnjoriiy pieator by 50 or 75 thw the total Democratic of the pr.'ciucl. The eloctioji lawn of Ihn .State provide for tha registration of all legal \ottrs. No persons can Vote unless they are registered. The form at registration ia such, that once a rogiHt«r«d voter always one, until the voter dien, nio^B' away, or uvkf s a tiatisfar to souie other pre­ cinct. There is no annual registration required, as in Ohio. Teu days b«?orfc th ' election th* registrar la supposed to l» at his office to logfs.i j all new voters who wrlve al the vot- ^ ^ ing aso, or thoso who havo moved into the mpaigti nuule in Vi rginial ' l>vecinct. Thia is the last ^da> of regls- |Msen appropriating illegally certain fees; the dhief of police has been black ; V ipaailiug Chicago gamblers: the mayor has been intoxicated for several weeks f . and neglectful of his work; the super­ intendent of the county hospital and ,Jhis assistant are also charged with drunkenness, and the tax collector is Ilia settlement with A : m >f. . *l>ehind $5,000 ia '•v r"1" the county. A coMPOsiTOil^ tit a ^printing dflBIsi Was ^ .setting in type this verse of scripture: ^ - *And Daniel had an excellent spirit in in liim." But he made it read: "And ^ Daniel had an excellent spine in him." jtfr. Spurgeon said it was not much of a toistake. All good men now-a-days % ^ Mheed "an excellent spine." They re- ^T ,-"<iuire to hold the truth in its integrity, to believe it upon the word of its divine ' "jt author, and then stand erect and un- ^ s, tf'jflinching. whatever opposition befalls them. This was the case with Daniel. •i'Vs.tHia excellent spirit revealed itself in L ixithe texture of his backbone. The » lions' deji confronted him, but he did ^ \ aiot yield an inch. And he went into it t > .'with far more composure than the King t~ 1 1 Vent to his sleepless bed. 1 j • Y L- ' ' ' , An officeir of the American steamship Santiago sends to the liydrographic "bureau an account of a waterspout \ , "which that vessel passed through near one of the Bahama Islands last spring. lf,< 'j,ir"He says: "The steamer passed through ' . " i 'the outer edge of the waterpool, the V J "diameter of which I judge to have been 4*-' vtfifty to seventy yards. On passing ^4 v^through the outer edge J observed that i';* "vT' *he center was hollpw, the water circling CV vfroDa west to east,, or against the sun. 'The water that fell on deck was very j;ealt, and the drops as large as 50-cent J?-; -j)ieces. During the few seconds of our ^ 4 y®88®8® thron«li ^ the wind blew at the 4' Jrate of thirty or thirty-five miles per ^ , fiour- I did not observe any. calm in ffche center at all, the water arising from resembling an inverted fountain. ~ After clearing it the wind resumed its 'f t ^original force, about fifteen miles per -, • Jiotir." v ' • " Among postal oddities in the service, >, * i -the system in old Mexico is, perhaps, /r l5<fthe most curious. Under the ruling a > • ' letter can be sent from the northernmost Iq^,-Soorner of Maine to the most southern ; ;^!>ypoint of Mexico for a 2c same, but vice * versa in Mexico a resident there can not |g|rS«o:mmunicate with his next door neigh- ^||;|^bor without paying the local rate --5c h- --the same beyond the borders into the A RATHER curious illustration .of the superstitious belief is signs and omens is just seen in the opposition to the name given the new cruiser launched the other day at the San Francisco navy yard. In honor of that city it had beeu decided to call the ship San Fran­ cisco, but no sooner .was the name an­ nounced than the Navy Department be­ gan to get letters by the bushel declar­ ing that it was an omeu of bad luck, and the vessel thus named would in­ evitably go to thevbotft>m with all on board. , The soured of this Superstition nobody appears to "know. There arc no records of naval disaster on which it might have been based. Whatever it was founded on, it had no influence with Secretary Tracy, who threw the letters into the waste basket and tele­ graphed the officials at Mare's Island tc stick to the name San Francisco. The cruiser is now afloat under that name, and the cranks are probably on the lookout for the news of a great ma­ rine disaster. Scaulan as a Reforme*. vr. J. Scanlan, the Irish comedian, unconsciously acted the part of temper­ ance advocate out in Louisville last winter, and he is rather proud of the re­ sult. "I was busy at a rehearsal one day," said Mr. Scanlan yesterday, in telling his story, "when a man and a woman, plainly dressed, entered by the stage door of the theater and inquired for me. I introduced myself to them, and to my surprise, the woman becjan to envoke blessings on my head, tnd tc tell me that I had brought great hap­ piness to her family and herself. Ol course I was very much interested at once, and inquired how it was that 1 had been of service to them. " 'Last winter my husband lost his situation,' said the woman, 'and, becom­ ing discouraged, began to drink to ex­ cess. He had signed a pledge of total abstinence a year before, and had kept it until then. We had saved a little money, but he soon spent it at the sa­ loon. . He used to come home drunk every night; or, rather, every morning, for I often sat up for him until nearly daylight Last New Year's night J heard his step outside the door at about 11 o'clock, and wondered how it was that he had come home so early; but when he came into the room he threw his arms around my neck and kissed me. He was perfectly sober, for the first time in many weeks.' " 'Yc»,' said the husband. 'For th« first time in three months I reached home thoroughly sol>er. I had been to the theater where you were playing, and when I heard you sing the "Peek~a- Boo" song I began to think of my wife and little ones. I haven't drunk any liquor since then. I took the pledge, and I am going to keep it. I found em­ ployment shortly, afterward, and have been prosperous ever since.' "It's a very pleasant thing," qpntinned Mr. Scanlan, "to find that some one thinks so well of yon, and ia ready tc bless you, even before you know it. 1 visited these' people while I( was in Louisville and dmed with them, and 1 assure you I never enjoyed a dinner so thoroughly in my life before."--New York Star. Tit* Plain Troth as to Bourbon Method* in the Black Bolt of Virginia--Congre*»- mau Clie die, ot Indiana, on Mahooe Mid the Virginia Republicans. [From the Chicago Inter Ocean.] I bave thought that an impartial statement of the Issues, aisd the fasts as thoy were seen by me, of the reecnt cam tinder the lt-ndm-ship of: General Mahoiie for the Republican party, against Bourbon Democ­ racy mis.h; lie of interest to the people of the North, and might be accepted aa a link in the chain of facts which must sooner or later arouse tike nation and call for .and demand pro­ tection for the ballot, and the enfo-.c uient i t honest elections, whereby tiio majority of legal voters of "the South may be able to make their •wishes respected in tho selection of public officers to rule over them. Abraham Lincoln dec?a cd, nearly a thilH of a century ago. that, this Uovemnient cotild not long exist, half slave and half free; thpt it would become all slaw or all free. I believe that the following is equally true: This Gov­ ernment can not long exi-it with a race of peo­ ple nearly H.OOO.OtX) in numbers who have beou lt«CttHv enfranchised practically robbed of their ballots because they are negroes. Every legal voter iv tho Union will be protected in the right of suffrage, or there will be no protec­ tion whatever to the ballots of any of our citi­ zens, whether they bo white men or black men. I spent more than a month in the VirRinia campaign, ftn l availed myself of all the feel ns within my reach to learn the exact state cf iv'- fairs. and to learn all 1 could about the race problem. I wanted to see and he ar and iiiow the exact conditions as thev exist, aud for this pnrposo I made an extended canvass in the so- called Black Belt of tho State, l v as in coun­ ties where the population was largely black, and in counties where the raccs are nearly equal in numbers ; I was in counties with large Re­ publican majorities, and in Democratic coun­ ties--in comities where there are very few whit® Republican voters, and in counties wh< r » there are many white Republicans, and then I went into sections of the iSta'e whs re there are few colored voters ; so that, in my flvo weeks' campaign, I met all the different phases of Vir­ ginia Republicanism. One who visits th# colored people In the Black Belt will be astonished beyond expres­ sion first at the poverty of that section of the State, and, second, at th? devotion of the negroes to the Republican party. In the midst of the most squalid poverty seen since the war not one in fifty of the nepro voters can be bought for money to vote against the Repub­ lican party; thi s fact is conceded by Demo­ crats and Republicans alike. Their devotion to principle is worthy of commendation. The white men in that section of the State who are Republicans are heroes, every one of them. Only tho most heroic souls can with­ stand the proscription they are forced to en­ dure. No one who reads this oan have an idea of ft*, unless lie has looked upon it, and knows from personal observation just how in­ tense and bitter Bourbonism can make it. It means business ostracism, social and i< ligious ostracism. It has even invaded the shrines wliere Odd-Fellowship aud Masonry meet. It is as universal as the civilization Bourbouism talks so much about. Hence it is. that only they of heroic mold can afford to invito this spirit of hatred for opinion's sake; and from the fearless and uuyielding leader, Gen. Alahone, down to the man who merely votes the Repub­ lican ticket, there cannot be found anywhere within the Union an equal number ot men who, for the sake of opinions they entertain, risk so much and suffer bo much as the white Repub­ licans of the so-called Black Belt of Virginia. 1 learned this fact as 1 know all others »ho seek the truth must learn it who will take the time to investigate the facts as I did during the late campaign. I addressed meetings In Virginia in twenty- two places, 6ix of them on County Court days, where the Bourbons held meetings at th© same time, aud I had an excellent opportunity to see and know the character of their m'H'tings and the measure of enthusiasm prevailing among the masses ot both parties, and I know that, in all sections of the State and everywhere the Bepublicans were much more enthusiastic than the Democrats. The Democratic masses were not enthusiastic, and their campaign in this respoct was a drag; while, upon the other hand, Republicans everywhere were enthusiastic and hopeful. This was truo of whites and black6. One of the elements of this spirit of enthusiasm was the constant accessions to our party of white Democrats, especially in the Black Belt. The smallest number of these changes was two, in other places more, until the number in some voting precincts would be Ave, in others seven, eleven, seventeen, thirty-seven, forty-four, and in Petersburg over'2tW, and not one precinct in the Black Belt where we did not receive acces­ sions from white Demoorats. The Republicans made an aggressive campafgn In favor of measures of btate policy which com­ manded the attention of all tho people and elicited united aud enthusiastic support from both races. State issues were ably discussed by State speakers, and thore was a universal desire for the election of the entire State ticket aud a majority in both branches of tha Legislature, to the end that reforms upon which all were agreed might be inaugurated aud carried into operation, the mete mention of the name of the Republican caudidate for Governor, General Alahone, calling forth tho most enthusiastic ap­ plause from both races at all times and in Rll sections of the State. Living all my life in In­ diana, where political campaigns are conduct­ ed for all there is in them, I am prepared by years of experience to say that I never ob­ served a greater determination* to win an elec­ tion upon living issues than was everywhere manifested by Virginia Republicans in the campaign just ended. The whit'j men in tho Black Belt and in thd white countits, and the colored men everywhere, expressed the opinion that they must bo successful, provided they were permitted to vote aud have thoir votes counted as they were cast, and the result honestly announced, and thby said they could win if not robbed of more tbau ten thousand votes. They made their campaign upon live Stato issues--the final settlement of their State debt, an economical administration of tho State government, the improvement of the free schools of the State, ttte honest and impartial collection of taxes assessed against railway cor­ porations, the expenses of the State govern­ ment having been largely increased by Bourbon rule, and taxes assessed against railroads not having been collected by Bourbons ; while their opponents went before the people upon the sole issue of personal abuso of Gen. Mahone anel the race cry of "Run, white man, run, or the nigger will kotch you sure." Tho silly claim that the white people were in actual danger of negro supremacy in a H^ate where there is a clear hundred thousand majority o* whites. Such were the conditions and issues upon which a Verdict was sought, and the papers say that the Republicans were defeated by more than 40,000 votes in a State where there is a clear Re­ publican majority of not less than 20,000 votes. Honest men everywere who read and reflect upon this stupendous fraud will wonder how it was possible to accomplish it. It doeB seem strange that m#n who pretend to bo honest, men who bow in worship to Almighty God, could become agents in procuring such a result, yet th6y did this very thing. There is one ele­ mentary fact that must not be lost sight of. Bourbon Democratic leaders do not believe that a negro has any rights w hich they, as men, or sworn officials, are bound to respect. There­ fore they do not consider it a crime to cheat or defraud a negro out of his ballot, and to do this they will even not hesitate to cheat white Re­ publicans out of thfir ballots. I have heard reputable white Bourbon Democrats say repeat­ edly that they had the count, that the "nigger" had no right to vote, and that they did not con­ sider it a crime to count him out, that they in­ tended to count their candidates in, and the re­ sult shows they did it. I take it that tho further wholesale killing of negroes has been abandoned, the Danville riot? of 1885 being of such a charac­ ter that its further repetition would not be tol­ erated by tho public sentiment of the nation, hence the change to the more peaceful but no less effective methods restored to in the recent campaign. The Legislature of Virginia Sleets all the judges in the State, Every County Judge in the State is a Democrat, and every Circuit Judge is a Democrat. Some years since the Legi slature enacted an election law known as the McCor- mack election law, in order to make it more effective. It is provided by law that there shall be no appeal from the decision of the County Jndge upon contested election cases. That de­ cision ia a fiBa'ity. Every Judge a Democrat, and no appeal from their decision. Surely no more effective legislation could be enacted to protect frauds upon the ballot. Under the provisions of the election law the Legislature selects what is known as an elect­ oral commission, consisting of throe persons, for each city and county in the State. Every member of these commissions in the State is a Bourbon Democrat. The duties of these electoral commissions is to select and appoint all judges and clerks of elections in the State It is true that the law provides that there shall be one Republican judce and clerk selected on each election beard, but tho unanimity with which this provision of the law is avoided and disregarded would put to shame a Comanche Indian. In some counties reputable judges and clerks from both parties are selected, aud, com­ paratively a j leaking, honest elections are held, but in the Black Belt, where there are over­ whelming Republican majorities and few Demo­ crats, Only such Bourbons are selected as judges and clerks as are known to be sure to follow the Instructions of the bosses. In^ne place--a city --I was /informed that the most disreputable gambler in the.city would have charge of the strongest Republican ward in it. With these unscrupulous Bourbons are selected old and ignorant nogroes, who can neither read nor write, for judges, and the work of fraud is prosecuted with such vigor that in overwhelming Republican precincts Democratic majorities are returned larger in numbers than the total Democratic vote of the precinct. At former election the county of Halifax, where REPORT ON TliE AMY. AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. *EBM1!L RECRUITS. FIGURES AN|> RKCOMMKNDAfJOKg OF SKCHKTAKY PROCTOR. N«t to Be Moved. When Anna Dickinson was traveling about the country in war time to fulfill her lecture engagements, she was abun­ dantly entertained ifhd bored by the pertinacious questioning of many a chance acquaintance. One man, wjio insisted upon talking with her during a railway journey, ended their interview with an astonishing proposition, begin­ ning with the leading question: "Lecturin's your trade, ain't it? You make your bread and butter by it, don't you?" My tired head nodded what served for an assent to his inquiry. j "Well, now, alFs grist that comes to , your mill, then? One fellow's stamps are's good as another's, hey?" j I was forced to admit the very self- evident proposition. , j "Well, now," growing emphatic and dragging out some bilLi and currency, "look here.* You'll never lecture in our town; it's too snail. But I'd like to hear what you can do when your steam's up. There's a dollar'll pay you for a good square talk and all the lixin's." I made it manifest to him that it would not, and once more held my peace. / "What! Not for a. dollar? Well, then, it'a pretty steep, but I don't mind just for once going*$2." Not even for $'2 could I toe wrrand* up and made to go, and his forbearance was exhausted. "Well, I never did *ee your beat! Yon won't be sociable, and yon won't make a square trade. You're not the woman for my stamps," putting back bis currency. "I wouldn't talk to you if--w«ll, I'd as lief talk to a stone wall. Perhaps you'd like your own company ?" As I did not contradict him, he gath- lilc ered himself up and re-planted himself onafair votathereis not ieJssthan l.oooBepub- for a slow roast by the fiery dragon of a stove; but evidently he bore no malice, for, getting out at a lumber town in the woods, he paused near me, and said: "If you ever should speak anywhere round, Fll come to hfear yon." Opponent--Yes, I recollect. Yon carried it in u Knights Templar jcoces- ?•' - liean majority, by tho proofs above referred to, j- a Democratic majoritv of 2,900 was returned. I Upon reflection, lhe Bourbon managers reduced it to 1,100. stating they hpd made a slight error I In adding up the totals. An e^ror of 1,800 in a small county was, ia the opinion of the Bour­ bon leaders, a slight one I remember one vot- j lng precinct, Aspinwall, in Charlotte County, I where there is a registered Democratic vote of 135. The usual Democratic majority re­ turned la from 175 to 200. Oar people thfa year wen seriously considering xhe withholding their votes, J J .2.11 trat|on for the election, and unless regis­ tered no ono can vote. Persons can be transferred cither upon verbal request to* the registrar or by written request to him. This voar thousancls of negroas found themselves transferred from their ) '•pn.l voting precincts; M'hore tranferml and by whose order only the B lurbon bosses can ever t-ell. The negroes only kuow this, that they have been illegally transferred, without their knowledge or con­ sent., and that they were thus prevented from voting at all. lhe Republican ticket lost tbou- pauds of votes from this fraud, which was gen­ eral nil Ihrough the Black Belt. The law also provid >s tha* the registrar can give notice that on a ceitaia day ho will purge the list of voters ly striking off the names of certain voters from his registration list. The law requires that he shall make out a list of the names to be stricken off, and post it up in some public place, the object being to give notice (o lhe voter that his name is to be stricken off the list. This year in Rich­ mond -2,51X1 namas were stricken off the lists; in I.yiX'h'ourR, 2 300 names; in Norfolk, 1,8-JU names ; and in the Plate not less than '20X03 names. These remarkable facts have beeu dem­ onstrated. Not one of *Cu th«3 thousands whose names were stricken off ever caw or heard ol the list of names beiug posted pursuant (o law, and every name so stricken off vas the name ol a colored Republican. The colored voters who had properly registered found on goii>g to the polft to »'ote that thoir name* nad been stricken off the list without their knowl­ edge or consent, and that by this fraud they were prevented from voting, because there is nojlegal process in the State by which they can have their names restored in time to vote. Significant fact, indeed, that all names so stricken off should bo of colored men and Re­ publicans, and that not one Bourbon Demo­ crat was thus disfranchised, but, iM.OOO Republi­ cans were thus fraudulently prevented from voting for Mahone and the Republican ticket. If any notices were ever posted they must have been i>osted in the night, time, and at once taken down and destroyed, because not one notice was over seen or heard of. Tho frauds at the polls, and in tho counting of votes, were in such varied forms that thsy ean not be enumerated here. One of the principal ones was to permit all Democratic voters to vote without delay or hindrances of any kind, and to delay and pre­ vent negroes from voting by every scheme that Bourbon ingenuity could suggest, with this uni­ versal result. When the hour to close the polls arrived all the Democratic votes liad been cast and were in the boxes, while in the State thousands of negroes were standing in line at thefr precincts, waiting for an opportunity to vote, with a ltepublicau ticket in their hands. Bourbon managers claim that it is inucli easier to thus prevent negroes from voting than it.;is to manipulate the votes after they are in the boxes, and count them in favor of Bourbon candidates. I ask in all candor, if it is strange, that, in the face of such frauds as these, bouibonis m has over 40,000 majority on the face of the election returns in Virginia. And now the question suggests itself: What, if anything, can be done to prevent a repetition of these frauds upon the ballot, and the dis­ franchisement of tho majority of the legal voters of Virginia? I am satisfied that the masses of the Democratic voters do not favor these frauds--the Bourbon leaders there do, aud they will resort, to any and all measures that will enable them to retain control of Vir­ ginia, ahd in fact, all the other States in the S >uth. Bourbon loaders are so strongly en­ trenched in power that they do not. ftar opposi­ tion in their own party. We know that year after year the same men are returned to the United States Senate and House of Representa­ tives. Forty members of Congress and forty votes in the Electoral College for President are based upon the negro voters of Virginia and tho South, and these voters disfranchised and nullified by frauds, intim­ idation, and murder, which inot one Slate gov­ ernment in the South under Bourbon rule trios to prevent; and these same methods, in less repulsive forms, have invaded tha North. Here in Indiana we know that, by a gerry­ mander made for the purpose of disfranchis­ ing Republicans in Congressional representa­ tion, the rights of the p* ople have been so com­ pletely disregarded that it requires more than 13,100"less votes in the Sccond. Third, and Fifth Congressional Districts, which are re­ liably Democratic, U> entitle them to a member than it does in the Ninth District, which 1 have the nonor to l-epresent, and which ft reliably Republican. Th - outrages in legislative repre­ sentation are in many instances equally as great ni they are in the Congressional districts referred to, "and we are told that over in Ohio, where the coal-oil g uig won in the late election, there is to be a complete disfranchisement of Republicans in lioth Ooiif.r.'9H and Jjt gislature. The experiences of the past tell u« that we shall, not be in the.least- disappointed, for the'leaderB' Annual Review of th* Operations of the Department of War--Colored Troops and Desertions -- Statistic* from the Axlit* ants or Postmaster Graaral Waniia- maker. [Washington telojrram.l Secretary of War Froctor hat prepared his annual report on the workings in his department. It is as follows: The expenditures ot appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1849, were as follow. Salaries and eon tHi stent expenses.! l.JB3,01515 Military establishments 1 24,314.®7 38 Publlo works, including river and harbor improvement^,Tiyp....... 18,181.835 00 Miscellaneous obJecta.v.Uk.u.i... «,«M.574 2i> Total WK654.12174 The appropriations for the current fiscal year endingaJune 30, 1H90, are as follows; Salaries and contingent expenses.I 1,0^,680 00 Miiitary establishment. Support of the army and military acad­ emy 34,333,33948 Public works, including river and harbor improvements....... .. .'a,5fi3.634 00 Miscellaneous objects.............,. ;4,110,765 72 Total. J33.<»8J).20018 The estimates of the department for the next fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, are as follow*: Salaries and contingent ex­ penses...... t 2,013.659 00 Military establishments.......... 25,4(X1.148 86 Public works, 'U,190.i:i4 74 Miscellaneous'objects.-.V.a,55l,040 as - Total v 144,357.9^ 95 The Secretary recommends the reorgan­ ization of the artillery branca of the army and the addition of two regiments, one or both of which might be of colored men. The infantry and cavalry arms of t£ie service have each two regiments of negro troops, of whom h% says that their record for good service is excellent. They are neat, orderly and obedient, are seldom brought before courts-martial and rarely desert. The secretary reccommend? that the limit of the retired list be increased to 450 from 400, the present figure. Secretary Proctor says that the public impressiotl that desertion is on the 'ncrease is erron­ eous. The total of desertions for the fis­ cal year 1889 was 28.3 of the enlistments 1 and 11.0 of the total strength of the army. The causes assigned include restlessness under the restraints of discipline, disap­ pointment at the details of the service, and of itslacK of inducements, dissipation and in some cases ill-treatment. Investi­ gation does not disclose that ill-treatment prevails to any appreciable extent. The employment of enlisted men in ordinary labor undoubtedly creates dis ontent The pith of the wholo question is to make the service worth seeking, and then enough good men will seek it and be glad to stay ia it. It is a fact that the soldiers in the colored regiments rarely desert, whereas the percentage of desertion in the rest of the army is so largo. Their previous condition in civil life largely explains it. To the colored man the service offers a career; to the white man too often only a refuge *There is but little incentive for young and intelligent men to make a pro­ fession of soldiering. The hope to achieve a commission is but slight, but even then they receive less compensation than the private soldier who is placed upon extra duty. The distance between the highest grade of non-commissioned officer and the com­ missioned officer is far too great in my judgment. To a considerableexteut, how­ ever, the rerredy lies with congress. The value of the National guard to ^he country is fully recognized by the secte- tary. To enhance its elliciency and pro­ mote the interest of the young men of th country in it, he recommends that mem­ bers of it, ijpon passing some proper sys INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. What Oar Xeiglibors Are D»lng--Matter* of General and Local Interest -- Mar- rtages and Deaths--Accident* and Crimes -fcraoaal Pointers. --The following Illinois pensions have been granted: i .J?1'1?'!"1' Invalids--Jno. W.McBr'de.LawTence- vllla; Edwin Williams, Downer's Grove; Henry H. Durham, Beardstown; John T. West, Oak- I land ^Edward Trumble, Watseka; John Gordon | mavyl, Galatia; .tan.es Oliver, Spriue Garden ; Jerry G. Gardner, Areola; James,W. Keller, Chicago; Italphus Treman, Chicago; John .Joyce, Decatur ; Alfred W. Chanontth, Atlanta; Charles Goodrich. Chicago ; Raines H. Lumbrick, Chai 1 .'ston ; Mortimer F. Davis, <"hi< a^o; liobert H. McI-oskey, Monmouth; Hiram Cobb, As­ sumption; IJenry C. Wyllie, Pvatt; John T. Addis. Hnmletsburg; John J. Vincent, Frank­ fort ; Nathaniel Kolaiul. Oakland; Will. D. Nance, Cowden; Cary Marvin. West Union; Hiram Easley. deceased. Benton - John H. Hubbard, Chan a ; Peter Hobbs, Hatchtomn ; I,e> Dinsley Fairfield; ,lohn W. Wood, Wer.ona; Martin m'. Eddings, Itio; Samuel Hazel. Golcomla; Jacob D. Koyer. DudleyviU,e; Flank Bahling, Wauke- gan ; Cbanncey Miller, Aurora; Simeon Spencer, Council Hill Station; Joseph C. Shannon Plymouth. ' Restoration ana increase--Thomas Bedwell, Newman. Inert ase--Alexander J. Spears, Trenton; En- gene H. King, El Paso; Cdell Tolbert, Ixmis- ville; Wia. F. Hyatt. Bantonl; Jaeop Bishop, McHenrv; Michael Mornn, Mt. l'ulaski ; Henrv H. N ance, Dushnell; Donald Siiiklev, Chit ago ; John Newberry. Morris; Christopher l.i.ht- liait,, Sheldon; Win. O. Mrrgan, Danville; John B. Hurr, Gilson; Gustav Seydier, Chicago; Thos. Ellison, Vandtija; Geo. IS. Scullen, Men- dota; Giles J. Irvia, Areola; Thos. Campbell, \Voodburn; David Keister, Lanark ; Patrick Ford, Vienna ; William Ellis, Savanna; Iteutxn F. Eth<rton, Elba; Klston Wright, Bell Air; Eli T. Trickle, Bantonl; Joseph oinkiuson, York- ville; Geovjre E. Bauson, Caledonia; Owen T. Chambers. Pierson ; Samuel W. McKee, Salis­ bury ; John D. Moore, Knoxvillo; William B. Greenup, Pennington Point; Edward Mowrey, Mill Creek; David W. Hilsftbeffk. Fairbury; William Duster. Patters? n ; Joseph T. Cham­ bers, Sparta; Job Phillips (ravy). Lake View; Samuel Chapman, Mill Shoals. lit issue--Harvey Isaacs, Corinth; Wm. Hin- ton, DamiUe. Original Widows--Mary Jane, widow of Helm Noo, Ijeviston ; Cynthia A., vidow of Montgom­ ery Hickman, Vand&lia; I'.cuisa A. McKeynolds, former widow of • Wm. Walker, McTieaiisboro ; Maria T., widow of Martin Stock. Fayetteville; Mary A., 'widow of Harrison Shannon, lioss- ville; Jennie, widow of Wi'liam F. 33. Stutes, Lewistou. of modern IVmocracy North and South are ; tem of examination, be made eligible to actuated by similar motives, and are controlled by the same considerations in all their political movements. . The American people can not longer disguise the fact that they are confronted by an issue of gravest importance, and of the most fav-reaoh- ing results to the life and spirit of our Govern­ ment. Frauds and outrages innumerable are openly perpetrated against the ballot, andtheBe frauds and outrages change t he honest, lawful, and proper expressions of the majority at the polls, so that the result of elections held do not give expression to the wishes of the major­ ity of legal voters of the State, and there is an abridgment of their constitutional and legal rights as citizens. Tho plain and simple question is: Can the Federal Government enact laws and enforce them, K'bich will guarantee to and secure the majority of legal voters in the enjoymtmt of their constitutional and legal rights as" citizens at the republic V I have no doubt the Govern­ ment can. At least 1 would make an honest and determined effort in that direction. The ltepublicau party is in power, ardit must stand just as resolutely by protection to the ballot at tlys lime as it did by the nationality of the Union from 1861 to l'Ai5. Thero wore doubting Thomases then who declared that the Union could not be saved by force of arms. The Re­ publican i>arty said it could and must be, and it was saved. The cry was raised at that time that to put forth heroic efforts to Bave the life of the Union would be "unconstitutional." Heroic measures were used, and the result was that both the Union and the Constitution were saved. The cry will no doubt go forth at this time, and from the same people, that it the Federal Government shall enact laws to secure honest elections in the South, all such laws would be "unconstitutional" (modern Democratic leaders consider all laws that tend to enforce the letter and spirit of the Government "unconstitution­ al") and an invasion of tho sovereign rights of the States. I have thought it must be a unique judge, iudeed, who would hold upon an Interre­ lation of the prerogatives of the Federal Gov­ ernment, to secure to all the .people by every knowh means or by the exercise of any known power, honest elections, whereby th > wishes of the majority of legal voters of a" State might be ascertained and carried into illegal eifect, could, under any of the known rules of interpretation be held to be an invasion or infringement of the rights of the States, or could be tortured into a violation of the constitutional prerogative of the Federal Goverpmont. The highest duty of the Federal Government, I tako it, is to protect its citizens in the full and unrestricted enjoyment of all their con­ stitutional rights, and tho right which lies nearest tho hearts of all the people is the right of suffrage--the right of the citizen to vote for the candidates of his choice, and the right to have his vote counted as it was cast, and there- suit honestly announced. This is the most sacred right of American citizenship--in fact the one distinguishing feature of our citizen­ ship. I shall not enter upon an argument to prove that the Government has tho right to use any and all means that may be re­ quired to secure to every citizen who is a legal voter the right of suffrage. No argument that can be formulated could make the right plainer f Man it is. 1 hold that it is the duty of the Government, yes, its highest duty, to secure to all its legal voters this price­ less right. The ballot is the zenith of power in our government policy. Upon it rests the whole theorjr of our Government, and the vital question now is : shall the ballot be (protected North and South, that thero can be and will be honest elections, and the wishes of the ma­ jority of the loral voters can thus be definitely determined and ascertained? The letter and spirit of the Constitution andcensensus of pub­ lic opinion d"liiand that all elections be honest and fair, and the measures required to secure them will meet with hearty apjjroval by honest people in all sections; and they must re­ ceive liberal construction and interpretation from the courts, because all such laws would be in perfect harmony with the theory of our gov­ ernment, wlileh is~"a government of the people, for the people, and by the people." Those frauds upon the ballot strike at the source of authori­ ty, at the life of the government, and at the dearest rfghts of the citizen. They are wrongs and crimes which cannot Ihj compromised; they must be removed and prohibited. This temple of constitutional liberty has cost too much in blood and treason to permit such wrongs to menace its peace and prosperity. We shall be justified in doing anything, in • resorting to the most heroic measures to eradicate and prohibit these frauds upon the bal­ lot. The remedy I would suggest would reach every yoting precinct, meet every phase of the question, and remove every vestige of fraud and proscription from elections. It is a I national election law, with provisions to carry it into execution that would, if necessary, place blue coats and the flag at every voting precinct where frauds and proscription are practiced against the humblest citizen, white or black, in his right of sulfra re. The Kepublican party abolished human Blavery and made men equal before the law. It must now abolish fraud and ; proscription in elections and make the ballot froe, free from frond and proscription as it ' made labor free from tho cur so of human sla­ very. To falter in the discharge of this impera­ tive duty will be a blunder. To long hesitate in the presence of such outrages against the ballot would, in my opinion, be a crime. J. B. Cwmtm.n Fbavktobt, Ind. commissions in the regular army as eecond lieutenants. The exposed condition or our seacoast 1* next dwelt upon and the necessity of defensive work urged. The principal commercial ports should he at once placed in a position to resist attack, and the j work continued until every Vulnerable ^ point on our coast adequately ! guarded. Once built the cost of their i maintenance would be light. There are now on hand 2, MOO muzzle-load ing guns available for their armament, and defen­ sive work begun in July, 1^90, could be equipped the following year with with 8- mch breech-loading suns. The secretary recommends revision of the articles of war in regard to military punishment, which at present are ill- defined. Neither Is it certain, and there {p nothing to prevent the heaviest punish­ ment for the moet trivial offense, and vice versa. Mr. Clarkson, ia hit annual re­ port, shows the number of - postofllces es­ tablished during the year ending JunA HO, 1880, to be 2,770, a decrease over the previous year of 1,090. The number of postoffices discontinued was 1,147, a de­ crease of 498. The whole numiier of post- offices in the country is an increase of 1,0^3. The total nnmber of postmasters appointed during the year was 20,010. The total number of free delivery offices is 4l'l, an increase of 48. The total number of letter-carriers ia 8,257, an increase of 1,M1. He recom­ mends the extension of the free-delivery service to all places having a population of 5,000, and where the postoffice hu an annual gross revenue of j^.OOO. The ap­ propriation for the service for tbe present fiscal year is $S, 000,0'X). The estimate for the next fiscal year, oommencing July 1, 1890, is$!),0«;9.4S,>. The aggregate es­ timate for the compensation of postmasters, clerks in postoffices, rent, light, fuel, mis­ cellaneous and incidental items for the Presidential and second class offices is 9ft7,.r>00, an increase of $1,237,420 as com­ pared with the previous yea*. --Early last spring the Illinois Stato Grange, through its Executive' Commit­ tee, and seeking relief from the extor­ tions of the Twine Trust, offered $ 10,000 for a successful and practical machine attachment to bind grain with straw. For the information of the general pub­ lic the following report is submitted'* We have received applications from persons wishing to compete for this prize from every State and Territory in the Union; also from Canada and Scotland. The committee met Aug. 20. and for three days carefully looked over and minutely examined the models, drawings, and specifications then submitted by foriy in­ ventors, many of the models showing much thought and Inventive genius. July 8 had been intended as a day of field trial of 6traw binders, under this offer, bnt at that time not a single machine was ready for field work, and only one working model of full size. However, as letters and applications continued to arrive daily on the important invention, the August meeting was adjourned without action, and a final meeting was held Oct. iS) and HO, when the committee decided that tho full-sized model above men­ tioned filled the bill,'under the offer, and ac­ cordingly tendered the $10,000. The inventor, however, declined to deed his straw-binding device to the State Grauge for this amount, of money, having had much larger Offers for his machine and its patents. We have seen this machine bind grain, aud it does the work much finer and better than can bo done with strawoands by hand. It has an extra attachment for short straw or grain that can be set in motion by the foot of the driver. This binder seems perfect in all it a. parts, more simple and tasier to operate than the twine binder. The knotter is not as delicate in construction, yet does not -take up more room and is not as heavy as the twine binders. We c< nsider this a matter of great im­ portance to all grain-raisiug farmers, for they will not hereafter be subject to tlio trusts and 'combines of the twine men, having plenty of binding material richt at hand on the tarm. The patentee is arranging to bring out His machine in February,-1A)0and will enter the grain fields of the Southern States, thence following the harvest Horth. ,T. M. Thompson, IXastor Illinois State Grange, Joliet. J. K. Shavek, Ottawa, I G. K. Tatk, Smithton, J. H. Vana.bkdai.e, l'fcoria, Executive Committee. STANLEY'S WANDERINGS. The Explorer's Story of His Hardships. At London, a letter has been re­ ceived from Stanley by the Emin com­ mittee, written at Kafurro, the Arab settlement on the Karagwe, datod Aug. 5, 1889. Stanley describes the return march from Albert Nyanza, the sufferings of the people from famine, tha revolt ot Emin's Egyptians, the arrival of the mahdists, and release of Emin. The letter also says that Jepson had much difficulty in gotting Emin to leave the equatorial provinces. A letter written at Marston under date of Sept.' M, 1883, says that Stanley liad su ered a terrible illness, lying helpless for twenty-eight days. On the march to Kavelli the party were. subjected to terrible privations. Small-pox broke out and caused the death of*many of through l^e city of Centralis. Emin's men. For eight dsys the party --^ire at VjiwonioTiiia riarf of almost absolute btarva- --Father JRyan, of St. J oseph's Cat ho lie Church, Springfield, who disappeared, from that place, is with his motherat Camp Gro^e, near Peoria. He is in poor health. He will spend the winter in the West. --Jndge Tuley, of Chicago, in ft o ase brought before^him, decided that a Board of Trade deal was gambling, pure and simple, and threw the case out of court. The decision caused great consternation among the Board of Trade operators. --The apple crop of Marion County will approximate 1,000,000 bushels. --The Jacksonville Southeastern road has jtst received twenty carloads of Steel rails for the extension of the line into St. Louis. --Quiney was flooded with counterfeit silver dollars one day last week, thirty or forty of them being passed on as many storekeepers. The bogus coin is a vety clever counterfeit of the issue of 1878. United States Deputy Marshal Whiting arrested two men at Camp Point on snspicion of being the crooks. They gave their names as A. £. Webb, of Wallace, Kan., and J. E. Gregg, of Wiohita, Kan. - --The fight between the State Grain Dealers'Association of Illino is and the Chicago Board of Trade on the question of weights and grades of grain in the Chicago market, that has been in progress fpr about two months, is now before the Bailroad and Warehouse Commission for settlement. The country shippers say that cars loaded with grain are not swept clean, and the reweighing makes them a loss of from three to five pounds on each ear, which the consignees* take. They also allege that under the rules of the board of trade whont which they class as grade No. 2 is graced No. 3, and they complain of discrepancies in inspection by means of. which the price of tho same grade of wheat is radically varied. --An application was refused by Judge Burroughs, at Salem, for an injunction to restrain the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Consolidated Railway Com­ pany from using the traces of the Jack­ sonville Southeastern Bailroad Company were in a state tion, twenty-one trembjrs dying. The survivors finally reached Fort Bodo, where succor was obtained and stores for contin­ uing the journey bought. The party then resumed the march for Kavilli, which was reached Jan. 18. Here Stanley received a letter from Jepson, in­ forming him of the revolt of i min's troops and stating that it was instigated by Oflicers. The rebellion occurred at JDufile durftig the previous August. Emin was held a close prisoner. Jepson determined to take a regiment of 1,5!)0 mahdists aad make an effort to suppress the revolt. They captured a regiment of rebels, the remainder taking to flight Many ofiicers were killed in the engagement. The sol­ diers then insisted upon Emin's release. Jepson intimated that Emiu Was undecid­ ed whether he should return. Stanley insisted that there should be no hesitation and declined to wait any Jon gee. Jepson reached KawilU «n Fib. 6, Lmln arriving a week later. Edward sville destroyed Keh- lor Brothers* mill, elevator, and ware­ house, a Saloon and dwelling, a black­ smith's shop, and a store and tenement building. ' The loss is figured at $30©,- 000, and the insurance at $150,000. --The Mount Pulaski dynamite sensa­ tion, heretofore mentioned, turns out to have been a very Btupid and probably fa­ tal practical joke. There was no explo­ sion, and the supposed dynamite was only sawdust, but the sight of the ma­ chine and the belief that an attempt was made to murder her husband prostrated Mrs Benser, and it is believed she will die. ( --The Southern Illinois Medical Asso­ ciation was in session in CaTbondale last week. The Association is composed of about 175 members, but only twenty-oight vara ih attendance. I, x*i< I Jk « ' ,• «» taftor of Tnuurorintaff tit*, IgMMMIt ' Peasant Lad* Into Soldiers. '•> The greater portion of the recruit* " oome to the regiment raw in every re- spect, bodily, morally, and mentally; no inconsiderable number of them have al­ ready been in prison. The recruit is, *• as a rule, neither good nor bad; tho greater part of the nation is, at the of 20 years, moraliy and intellectually, at the standard of a child of educated parents at 10 years. There are evdti some individuals who are beneath this. I have had recruits who foitnd great difficulty in pronouncing the number 34. Z a$ked one of them to const. Hjs pca'e of numbed went np to 11; he had heard of 13 and 17, but he did not know what they meant. This was a German ; the Slavs cf the Fatherland are still more difficult to educate, since they do not understand German. They are further accustomed to an almost in­ credible amount of roughness in their intercourse with their parents and as­ sociates. I remember a recruit who could only speak Polish, of whom I, ae a Lieutenant, had to undertake tho training, and who did not understand a single word that I said, and stood star-* ing vacantly before him. I told another of the recruits who could speak Gevmmtt and Polish, to translate what I was say­ ing. This fellow went np to him and gave him at once a tremendous bcx on the ears. "When I reproved him fat this he met n e with the startling argu­ ment: "Oh. yoa must let me do lit, Lieutenant; 1® understands much bol­ ter now." Tlie box on the eaV in their society answered the same purpose aa "Do you hear?" does in Berlin, or aa the touch on the shoulder, which many meft use to draw attention to their words. What patience is required to make such men understand all that be­ longs to their duty in the field, to order, and to discipline, without even usee knocking tl*>m down#lie only can know whose forbearance has thus been put to a practical test. From the moral point of view also many recruits are as back­ ward as a child 10 years old. Among many of them no trace can be found ot the feeling of duty, of religions con­ science, of patriotism, or of honor, while there is a proportionately small percentage of them who have any idea of good or evil. The great mass only kuow good from evil from the fact that the latter is punished. "I will not do this or that, because if I do I shall be put in prison or in the house of correc­ tion." Many recruits hear first of duty, honor, or patriotism from their In­ structor after they have joined the army. Many of them, even from parts of the country where Get man is spoken, know nothing of the history of their Father­ land. There is a sort of figure of speech which we use when some one has said something which everybody knows: "Yes, old Fritz is dead." By meana ot this I discovered that many of my moo had never heard of Frederick the Great. I asked one of them once, and he an­ swered: "Yes, I beard that he died yesterday. "--Prince Kraft tu Hohenr L o h e l n g e l f i n g e n . i t . Effects or Wheels on Boaib. ; The character of the vehicles which are used upon a roadway has a great influence upon its endurance to the beat of the wheels. "With the same burden a two-wheeled cart does fai moro damage to the road than one ol four wheels, and this because of tbe suddenness in the motion of the wheels and there irregular, twisting movement in the trackway. Whore the axles an short and the wheels close together, tbe damage to all, save turnpike ways, is greatly increased, for the reason thai there is no chance for the growth oi grass between the treadway of the wheels and the footway of the horses. This principle appears to have been rec­ ognized in some parts of the country. Tlius in the neighborhood of Boston, where the ways are made solid by mac­ adam or other rubble, the distance be­ tween the wheels is generally about five and one-half feet, while in the sandy road district of Cape Cod the length ol the uxie is usually half a foot greater. The greatest defects of our American-, carriages is that for a given weight of carriage and burden the tires of the wheels are extremely narrow. It is true-that on ill conditioned and muddy roads a narrow wheel tread is advan­ tageous, for the reason that the thick mud has a less extended hold when it wraps around the felloes and spokes; but with this arrangement the inter­ ests of the roadway are sacrificed to the convenience of the individual who drives upon in. These narrow wheels, with tires often not more than an inch in diameter, ctit like knives into the road bed and so deepen the ruts. If we could require that no vehicle have a tire less than an inch and a half in diameter, and that all springless car­ riages should have tires at least two inches iu diameter, increasing in width with the burden, we should secure our ways against a considerable part of the evils from which they suffer.--Prof. N. & Shaler, in Scribher. • J . , (Joantrell's tJuefrillag, ; / ^ It is said the Guerrolla chief, Quan- trell, was orriginully a mild-mannered and humane gentleman. It is certain that he was a school teacher aud a very good one. His brother was killed by Kansas men, and he became a devil. Bill Anderson was a slow-motioned, quiet, modest, country boy. His mother was whipped and his sisters ravished by Federal soldiers, and thereafter he murdered all who fell into his power-- twenty-live in one squad were shofby his gang. He litterally gloated over the murder of a bluecoat. On the first raid of Quantrell's band thirty took part. The gang was at its greatest strength when it perpetrated the horrible Law­ rence massacre in, August, 18t>3, and many volunteered for that expedition alone. The vote was unanimous to burn the town and kill every man in sight, and it was rigidly carried out. The band carried a small, square black flag, and in the eeuter of it, emdroidered by a woman's hand, was the word "Qtian- trell." Many of the gang bore cruel scars, and Cole Younger had around his neck a deep purple mark, the effect of a rope when lie was drawn up into an oak tree bv some playful Kansas "Red Legs.** ̂heu a question casiE up ss tc sparing a prisoner, if it was a Kansas man Cole silently pointed to thai mark and the prisoner's fate was sealed. After the Lawrence tragedy the band fell away rapidly. The border counties of Missouri were depopulated and order was restored in the rest, so the g&ng dissolved in the far South. Quaatretl died iu Kentucky, clasping the ii»u« « a Sister of Charity and reapoudiag m long as able to her prayers. --Jac&Wtir ville Times-Union. THE people who complain about the bad ventilating of churches are ofteft the very people who declare that th* preacher give a them nothing but vM. It is hard to satisfy everybody. * , " T " :: N ; * '*#;v * iasf f v l-r ' li. 1 .< f i K , f' ' : •. • ' ~ . V : • v feili