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i. 'Yfttt **~* ope, •who waa ball drank, nevei j noticed the chance. Tbo ceremony j was performed: Ju*t then Marc reap- TT.T.TSfffl 1 peared, refreshed and ready for matri- raony. But when he found out what * ! hid happened he proceeded at once to "r'A. BTJBVKTINO party ha* discovered I paint the church red. He thrashed the tgtat one of the Hudson Bay Com£«ui^'e 1 bridegroom, slapped the bride, knocked illations Is on American territory. \ • j down the father-in-law, and punched the Pope. He was arrested; but, as the IOHHIIK riSi&fc! STIWRLHO SPEECH AT THE OHIO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. •gcHENinr, SHE who establishes a woman's rcatl- %g club in an agriraltu'al district does Iftore to check tlie deadly progress of "farmers' wiven to the insane a<*yltnfli ilian all the doetors . and medical jjur- v:m* in the land. . case involves a question of ecclesiastical law, it was referred to the Czar, the head of the church. ". • • - THE correspondent of the London Telegraph supplies the latest perspec­ tive of Bismarck: "Let me try to de- ! scribe tha outward seeming of my illus- ! trio us host, as he strode firmly along '} JOSEPH THOMPSON, A well kriown ^British trrve'er, writes to a tjondon Missionary society from Africa. | tlirongh the leafy paths and umbrageous de'mVng "'e"Tei«mdiuKw.v,oI FrMricUsrub. Park, 4M» <*wbrtewr »» IV. TTtuo tbey I ^^ ̂ ̂ ^ Md Hml). i08^688' - ^1." I1U. ™j as the toughost of bis forester*, or tlie «oth come from Encrland. it t 1 *r • ^ isii hardiest of his keepers. He wore a soft, A CIRCUIT judge in Illinois has de- . broad-brimmed hat, a thick, wide nec- . 4ided that if a resident. of that State j kerchief knotted in front, a long, dark, 4ies and wills any real estate to a for- j loose coat buttoned up to the throat, • signer that foreigner cannot hold it, i gray trousers, and strong, double-soled : / fTliey evidently made a great mistake j boots. In hia right hand, ungloved, he / ^hea they 3enMhis judge to the bench carried a black stick, with a slightly Instead of to an idiot scsyluai. » AM Karneat Plea fi» Hanuony and Vaitcf Aettoji -- UMnoermqr Arr»J|»ne<| --Harri­ son, Blaine, fthsruMM audOthw Leaders tCulofiixeri. I want so talk chieflr aboat the cam- j o^MoVhem paign upon which we are entering, but I ' nave a few words to any tir-t concerning thtt of last ye«r. >\e did rot come oat of the last contest very well. We lost the Governorsti p. tbe t*enoral Assembly, and the I'ni'ea States tSenutor^hip; tbe three great objective purposes o£ the can­ vass, aud later, i.s a cons 'uut lice, we lost also the i-ieutoiiant Governorship, the control of all ti c stale lnautntious, and only time and the next election o m tail fff «aa iudo*tryJ ¥NMMrvation «f a son O whom are the peo looking, this very ho||^<$oi and a fair count Y What and po.itical equality be colored man of the South bat party end its promises? At wb»*e i re the men *ho periled their iivw this nation muht lire to receive the ;etits of pension legislation vh.tt wilt just retognit:on ot' iuvaluabio seiviCjjs? Avho is to-day. with wisa, patriotic and far-seeing >tate-«nian- nhip, binding the states of North and South America together in the bonds of co mm er ex .1 uniou'f Who settle'! the tSamoan question? Who is defending o ir int;rests in the northern seas? Who is every hour almost adding to the dignity *nd the greatness of this nation, nd lt.ftkmx more un«i more respected every­ where the Hag ot the United SlfTE LEGISLATURE. CTRA SESSION^ Held, >Legislature eonvemsd la e\tra sraafoB at , on Wednt».<*/\ inly as. 1* tha i foikrwing named persona wen» de. (for the phoe» named datini; th« Chaplain, the lie v. A. A. Bur- . Beervtarv. L. I'- Watson; SergeaiH-at- |H, StepWwt Msddox: Janitor of the cl»ak- DS. Areola Watd. Senator Daniel Hogaii, o< iski C^ajCty, tendoreU hia resignation M dor froaS tlw Fifly-flint iMRtrict. Mr. in is a I>pahli«Mi »nd was a few monlhe app<^ntp<l Onited States Collector of " Jt^Tonaa of the Thirteenth I1H- pt. and as he felt himself in- itutod tha', be oould not con- nerve as a Senator. T1 is lcavr» i but fifty Senators, and thirty- it re aocMsary tor the passage hi ie Tfouse was cal'»e<l to order by Mr i-hite fckar . EN ALOFT, Be Rail Veto* A over to fix a' definite sent hat are seali tnotlierV served tk there" ii| particular way tlio v that it is pair, anu IfoTHWG astonishes the Frewlfe1"$&>• 1 i>le more than to hear that the driver of £ vehicle in America must exercise the least care for the safety of a"pedestrian. j|n France the man who gets run over jfban he smartly fined, and they hold ^hat this is tbo only tray to make people ;^farefaL GAMBLING in the army is one of the ,hings Uncle Sam, with all his power nnot wipe out. No matter how se­ vere the penalty the soldier will take r/lbis chances, and the idea of rooting fiiitt curved handle, upon which he rarely leaned while walking on level ground. His mustache no longer overhangs hia •whole mouth, as of yore, but has been trimmed comparatively short so as to show the under lip. He bears himself in his old martial fashion, with i»ead erect and shoulders well throw# Dack. The incipient corpulence whiph made him appear somewhat over-bulky about ten years ago has etjjirely vanished." GI'ILTT M<yi'are often shielded by the eitromelv technical rulings allow- ;o, tuder the law. Justice may be he Tie. taljmost ,.leg'1 4aw *in the form of the accusation, even how many llepie^ntatives m Co«»«resB. , Sta(es? when, m a time of i eacc. It was a slanght<ir, not only for th^ te#u of the ticket tint all along the line. A j great many people got hurt who aid not | even dream of snbh a thing--who sup- ! posed they were eutirely out of hiirm'a ' way. The tax-payers who^e burdens •were being canstnntly lightened, must > now confront deluieut revenues »nd an increase of f s,OOO.UtM> oE loi- >1 indebted- ! ness alone; nndonr d^sati^tied titrman > friends of Cincinnati, who,.in the name : of personul liberty, deserted us nnd 1 fought with thetnemy, for tLeir 8midny i beer, dnd to their consternation and , amazemeDt that they have only brought • on themselves and thtir fello<v<-caueus a I famine of water. Xatnr-.lly, much has! to the causes of this of thi^ talk . has been insist ot' it Has been »ot«o It is «ratif.\iug, tLere- M at we have now reach* Luck is luck," says the^sol<K^ tick is chuck-a-luck." "'and ^." '•t KM though the criminal may be plainly guilty. This has led certain State legis- laturei to declare an indictment to be sufficient which "contains a statement of the acts constituting the offence in ordinary and concise language and in such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended." We give two extremely technical rulings: An indictment charged that the accused mordered the deceased with a double-barrelled shot­ gun loaded with gun-powder and leaden bullets. The proof showed that the accused shot his victim to • death with a double-barrelled shot-gun under cir­ cumstance* that made it a cold-blooded murder, and the jury convicted the de­ fendant. But the Supreme Court qu&f-hed the conviction and eet the de­ fendant free on tbe ground that the in­ dictment did not inform the defendant how he used the shot-gun to murder his victim, "whether it was used as a fire-arm or a bludgeon, or to frighten him to death with it." Precedents can be found to support the decision. In another case the defendant was con- • icted of murder by BtabbiDg his victim to death "in the left breast," and the court set the defendant free because the word "breast" was spelled "brest" in | the indictment. The decision puts an end forever to phonetic spelling and the disuse of mute letters in judicial pro­ ceedings. A Cracker Koniance. Last Friday morning, bright and early, two men stepped into Heinson & Dow's saloon and got a drink of gin. They - stood at the bar and chatted with Mr. Dow a while and took more gin. By this time the oldest of the strangers began to feel eDthused and became quite communicative. He told Mr. Dow he was a widower, but had got tired of his widowhood, and had advertised for a wife, who was to be here from Con­ necticut that night. His bride-elect wanted liim to meet her half way be­ tween Florida and Connecticut, but he wrote her he could not venture further north than Kmimmee.so she had to come "IT may come to pass," saiffA British j here; he made forty miles of the dis- lecturer lately, "that some African may, tance and she made 1,500 miles of it. » centuries ,o c^e. point out ho* a '^To^' tte drinking turpentine gin and talking of 5rts of country life is be not far iffmi an old grist mill, here ongi^able to get the old-time, JnpiieV'crisp Indian meal, ground fresh sfrom the corn and subjected to no kiln- ried processes. These exhaust all its avor, though they make it more con- eniecit for the grocery-man to handle. A LUTHERAN Bible. 221 years old, : ,was recently deposited in a bank in ^Montreal for safe keeping. It was un- '• . |earthed a short time ago whiie making eome excavations in a French quarter of the town. It was a Bible published in " . -t Amsterdam, by a profe-tsor of theology . ^in ono of the universities of Holland, in J16G9. • JESSIE CAKSON, a plucky girl, has for several years been driving a stagH be- *'tween Osage and Park Rapids, Minn. She makes three trips a week, winter and summer, rain or shine, cold or hot. "When the roads are bad, she drives four . horses from the box with the fame : easy ^race and Hank Monk abandon that slip drives two. »V: 1 A FARMER near St. Louis has a nest in his, barn, and they keep it ! iS lree from rats and mice. The birds lay up provisions at night for the next day. The farmer marked the bodies of the |§ mice he found by cutting off one foot 5f| with a pair of scissors. At night all i|! tiie marked mice would he gone and the next morning there would be a % • fre^h supply. f % A PORTABLE house ot paj«r lias been t recently constructed in Hamburg. The ; walls consist of double layers of paper, of which the interior one is" impregna­ ble against fire, and the exterior one against moisture. The ro'om is fixed in • frames, which can easily be attached to each other. The house is intended to serve as a restaurant, and contains a dining-room ninety feet long. been sau| defeat, f© profitably 1 than proMl fore, tj real ed a poist" ej?®ftts when it !•« our duty to quit look toa backward From now heui eforward i let every Ivopubliean look to the fiout. j Tho last jfAnipaign should be remember- j ed only in ho far as it teaches lessous of benciit for tbe fntnra. All connected with it thut may be tbo cause of criticism ; or mttetncsH of feelicg should be forgot- j ten, but if thsre be those who must have a victim, tho-e whose ininas are so con­ stituted that they cau not be satisfied j without definitely iix ng fault, to all • such I have an appeal «o make. My np- peal is that you place the blame upon me. Whether it be ju->t or unjust for me to do so, I shall not stop to question. Neither shall I utter a word of complaint, but, on tbe contrary, bear most gludly nil that the bitterest eaerny can e^en imagine us had we to deal with grav6r matters, and- wuen had we meater isitceass or mon capable lenders? Wueu did the couiitr have a more careful, patriotic, moral, aai h gb-mim1ed Chief Magistrate than l>e: j'luiin Hairiso >V When since our go ernment founded had Americ i terests a bet er defender, or Eepubl;. ism an abler uu«t more brilliantrepre tntivj than IN James <i. Blaine? \V WHS there i* sturdier advocate of the r an i justice o oar ciw#e inthech tho hpeaker of the House of Represi ti^es th»n is Thooias 1$. Keed" when nmoasj iho great men of the cidthe Republican "bepiesentativj Ohio fit md "higher th»n they do In aU the Senate no man overran' Sher.uan, an tin the House of ltt; tati« es our party never h^d auioro gifted, more c.p.ibie, or a more successful leader ih*n is William McKinlev, Jr., Fstt i DyH8 Baker, ikt> progress of tune and ( an(j 1i;, ;caiior Qf his party erer hafl abler iictti'taats than arj his colloagnes from tms State. The truth ^""-Republi­ canism never was more important, and Ohio Republicans never liad greater cause to bo boi'h proud and satisfied. To administer this country's affairs, to maintain her riizbts, to extend her com­ merce, to preserve her peace and maiu- tnin her hoi or through nil this coming growth of physicll and volitical power, is a duly worihy of the best days of tfce R >publican party. In a special sense thirt duty i# ours. If we tail to fully and successfully discbarge it we shall disap­ point tho just claims of both our fathers and our posterity. We must not fail. Our opportunity is here. This is the startiug point. Are we ready to meat this issue and answer the demands that appropriate to to laid Upon my shoulders, { r(J.t upon n9? fhe man who does not it thereby I can in the slightest degree promote the common feool of our com­ mon cause. What happens to me or to any other individual is of no consequence in a political sense to anybody, but what happens to the Rieat Republican party is of the hightst concern to all. No matter, theiefoie, what m»y have been the causes; no matter who mny have been at fault; no matter what Republicans may have voted for the Demoer.ttic can- 8ny "yes" is not a Republican; the man who says "yes" rnil tben sulks in h's tent bei'mse he doesn't lit J a candidate, or doesn't like a committee, or doesn't like some otber thing of the Liud, is false to his party, fulse to his country, and falsa to his conscience. Let ns tben close up the ranks and go torwaid with ooura^e and confidence. Let us lift our banuer higher this year then ever before". Let us hete aud now determine to be satisfied war time victory, such as will strong heir and cheer our'eause everywhere, m ike the way ea-y for the redemption of tho Sta'e nest year, and enable us to lead, the column in lbD2. , • • ' • A Muckery of rriindllw. The bitter Democratic opposition, in and out of Concress. to a Federal elec­ tion law is easily understood by contem­ plation of the followina: totals of votes cast in the Con^ress oaal elections of 188(5 iu three Bout horn states: ^ &OOTH CAItm.lNA. DUtriotu Firut Second....... Thtni......... Fcuvlll....... Fifth Distrisi. • Firs t . . . . i . . . . Second.. Fourth Fifth,...... !-<** Disrict. Firot Second.. -- Third.. Fourth Filth Sixth.. I i^t-iot, ^ixt.h Sev with... Voti" . 3,hi1; . 6,li3 . 4,-W: . M7C *,7ol ississir1'!. Total. ...v4;.i**|9,07; iSf- t»'.' ' ~ %. I --' fev- race of Englishmen once dominated the West Indies, $ud were improved off the face of the land." Such fears are real enough. Iu 1658 there were in those islands 4,500 Europeans to 1,500 Afri­ cans. In 1800 the numbers were 30,003 Europeans and 300,000 Africans. In ^he last census the figures vere 14,438 Europeans, 109,946 colored, or mulat- toes, 444,186 Africans, and 12,240 Asiatics. ;. SINCE the notorious vandalism of the Harvard studeuts the public have been expecting information of thsir detection «M»d punishment; but commencement h» come and gone, and nothing of any deeisiveness seems td have been done aboufit. When Josiah Quincy was President of Harvard, he said on a eomewhat similar occasion: "Where flagrant outrages are committed against persons or property by members of the University withia its limits, they should be proceeded against, in the last resort, Kito any other citizens, before the courts of the commonwealth.* dida e, it is nil of tbe past and only heait- j nothiut? less than i'u old-fashioned burnings und dissent n< cau t>e the re- • suit of choiishing Hnc4(. reccllectioas. Away, tbou, with bitterness; away with animosity; away with prejudice; away with rivalry; aw..y with everything th>t stands between our puty and our party's triumph. Let our minds be filled ratner j with the truth that Unr-- is a gieat duty : rest\ng upon us. We are in the jirescuce j of the enemy. Th* Democratic party is ; in power, it mu>t ba turned out. It c. n be and it will 1 e, if every Republic in | does his duty. It can not be ami it won't j be if wo do not rally as one man and go forward with our whole strength. If we 1 had nothing more involved than tho elen- j tion of our etaudard-bearer tho result j would bo of eutficient importance to ; justify this almonition; for when Ohio 1 next speaks, she must, reg irdles* of the I occasion, proclaim tbat she is still a Re- j publican State. j To elect again this year, r.s we did last, the head of toe Democratic t oket, wouli be inexcusable, touch a defeat could r.ot bo attributed to accident. It could not be set down to petty malice or jealousy. It would be an unmistakabie encourage­ ment to Democracy and to Democr itic ideas and purposes, and a corresponding discouragement to the cause of Republi­ canism. It would ba mo 10 than t'.;at. It would be an indorsement not only 'of Democracy, but, according t6 even Dem­ ocratic testimony, it would le tn in­ dorsement of ono of the worse fo ms of Democracy that we have ever been afflict­ ed with in tlrs State. We tave still more at stake in thin contest thun thesa moral effects. There are some highly im­ portant practical results to be worked out that must not bo lost sight of. We choose tnis year not only State officials but also monit ors of Consress. On this account our nest election line reference to national as well as State affairs. The vote of Ohio next November may deter­ mine political ascendeui-y in the National i House of Representatives, and on con- ' tinued Republican a-cendency there de­ pends, in no small degree, tbe success of the administration of President Harri­ son. No matter how capable, how patri­ otic, how devoted may be tho occupant of the White House, be can accom­ plish but little unless supported by the co-ordinate branches of govern­ ment. Our tight is, therefore, not only for Ohio but for the whole nation; nnd on measuring our present duty, we must recognize and appreciate that ii is as broad as the whole country. Conse­ quently it will be in order for you to give expression hero to-day to the sentiments of Ohio Republicans, with respect to all questions of a national character. It will be your duty, in fact, to heartily in­ dorse and approve the splendid record that has been made by tbe House of Representatives, aud to express tbo hope that the Senate will not fail to make one equally good. 'J he country tiem nds a settlement of tariff agitation and the silver question, and 'he Congress cannot afford to adjourn v.ntil these ends have been accomplished, lint beyond tariff-- bevond silver, and beyond all else--we demand legislation tnat will secure hon­ est and fair elections throughout the whole country. In makiug this demand we ask for nothing more than the en- ' forcement of the Constitution and the protection of every American citizen in the free exercise of his right of suffrage. More than this we huv* never asked; 1 with less than this we will never be sat­ isfied. Yon cannoi do better than to speak out, in your platform, upon this subject, with lenguage so plain that ev- . ery Democrat and every mngwuniD and every member of the Senat&of tbe United his bride. By the middle of the afternoon he was the ceuter of observation and the topic of conversation, for he had pretty well advertised his business in town, and had invited quite a crowd to go with him fp meet the train aud see his bride. At the hour for the train to come there were sixty of the boys at the de?)ot, and when the train pulled in he made a rush for the first passenger coach, where he saw several ladies, but not seeing the red bow on left shoulder signal he thought she had not come, and hallooed to his friends, "Boys, she has not come," but at this moment some one told him she was in the wait­ ing-room, and he called again, *"Boys, she's come." Some one suggested he get a carriage to take her to the hotel, but he said, "No, bring my ox cart around she cau ride in that." After they all had arrived at the Wisconsin House some, one of the crowd asked him if he had a marriage license. He said no, but would like to have some of them go for it for him. After being told the price, he pulled out $2 to pay for the license. Judge Johnson per­ formed the solemn rite, and the crowd dinpors 6^1* The boys kept sympathizing with States will understand exactly what you him, for during the day he drank about mean. a trallon of gin and had carried a four- I After referring to t.OTernor Campbell ° _ 0 . . . • < « • _ . 1 . 1 J I U . v t i **U|6 ^!1 J?. THE people of Schuyllerville, N. Y., bare been very liberal wuh the tele­ graph and electric light companies in _ tlm matter of poles, but they draw the j p^nj[ bouquet on the lapel of his coat and the iniquitous Democratic line at the village graveyard. They („,a signal for hisbride tc.know him X-hwrongs as these, to have said nothing when the companies by), aud^ about ll jx m.^tl^y^tnoi^ght oUt 0f power such a party as this dug holes in their lawns and back yards ' and put up their poles, but when they by), aud about 11 p."m. they thought he might be getting "dry," so they went to his room and rapped and asked if he did not want a drink. While'standing that every Republican in Oh o is this day summoned to battle. Under such circumsttinces, every:hiug that stands in the way of party zeal and party fealty LUC -C -- must be put to one s-ide, and every Re- that the companies desisted. The J ning off bim ̂ they presented him witha d^ubt! to grumble, growl, and whine is, like open treachery, a polit'.cil crime that no Republican c>»n auord. No matter, there­ fore, who carried razors last year, s^e to it that you do not carry ono this year. If any man did le-s than his duty last vear make him ashamed of himself by Uoiii'g more than your duty this. Show him that you are for harmony and victory when von aw wot personally interested as well"as whew you are. Do not punish him at the expense of the Republican partv, but at the expense of the enemy, by setting a better example than he gave. Such is our duty. Great men and great qnest ons are not all dead. We do not need to live in the or on the p int. The Republican undertook to plant pole9 in the cenie- j -u ^jie doorway, with his socks, cuffs, tery they made such a vigorous «esist- and collar on with the perspiration run- ance that the companies desisted. The ning off bim, they presented him with a little town must be credited with a pint bottle of gin, of which, after invok- . . . . . ̂ t t 1 1 it onm. ins: a blessing on them, he drank nali. notable victory. Usua j, ge wag out early next morning prepar- panies wanted to put their poles m » I ing ^ take his bride to her new home burying ground, or run their wfres over j in tjie wag0n he had brought alligator the tops of the tombstones, they would ] hides to town in. w Vote. 1! intrtot. ,.v 81b7 s-ixtb .>'«»« .. 4 Seventb... ̂ |||M .... 6!W • .... 1,0i : Total itfetci/n^-^Vote, ...... i,u7s;Seventh--. .V^j. 0,08ti . . . . . 3,4tl Eighth Vi». I,Till!Ninth !2,3GG s.-sy.Tt'utb V-H '2,9!M 1,7-ii Total...........27.1'2C Now, the total of votes c st in the sev. eral Congrsssional districts of New Jor s&y as au instance of a close Northern State, ranged in the same year from 26,t.OO to 37,001). In New York they ranged from 23,000 to 49,000, the average bain j greater than the tot il vote c^st for s;ven Congressmen in South Carolina or ten Congressmen in Georgia. _ Indeed, there is not a Northern State in which nearly as nmiy *otes were not cast in each and every Congressional district; to elect one tAn ressman as were cast in either of these thiee States to elcct entire delegations of sevon and ten members. Ihe Congress of the United states is presumed to be a rep eseutative body, but these figures show beyond question that it is not representative. A few men in Southern States exon iBa Beven to ten times as much power in Congress as the same number of citizens in Northern States. It is to equalize this disparity that a Federal election law is necessary. The franchise is made a mockery in the South to the distinct disadvantage of the voters of Northern State*, aud requires Federal supervision to make a single vote count the same everywhere iu the Union in Federal elections.--Xcic York Press. Free-Trail© I hliaitttnopy, Illinois Branch American Protective Tariff League: If the asseverations of free-trade attorneys are to be believed, these gentlemen should bo crodi ed with a larger sb«re of philanthropy than is allotted to the average man. While per­ sistently demanding the reduction of all such duties as they dare not i ope to have r6pe»led, they insist upon being credited with tbe desire <o help o .heri rather than themselves. Statistics are distorted, market quotations are garbled, facts but partially stated-in short, inquirers who are honestly seeking information are purposely misled--to bring about a re­ versal of the popular belief that legisla­ tion for tho pro ection of the* labor and industries of this country is for the general good. All thiB for the benefit of others tban those spending their time aad money in advocating free foreign trade! , , . , Millions of voters, now employed in' manufacturing here in the United States, at better wages tban are paid in any other country in the world, ore asked to sup­ port a policy that must inevitably result in one of two alternativ.-s: either to turn over to foreigners the pririlege of manu­ facturing for this country, or compel American workmen to accept the same w.tges that foieigners now work for. Ana in the plooituda of free-trade philanthropy it is insisted that all the writing and preaching to this, end is to promote the welfare of those who work for wages. - Before giving oar to such fallac ons pie-(dings it will be well for workingmen now engaged in those industries tbat for­ eigners cease to supplant, to look around, with the view to discover wbat equally remunerative employment the free-trade preachers are likely to bare ready for them. On this point the preachers main­ tain a silence that is pecu iarly sug­ gestive. Bide, who noailaatcd for tein- K'lwin A. DoolitUe, of Greene he was elected by acclamation, of i-peiker was then jKoeetxied Ra]>ublicaus nominated Wliliaiu of Moultrie, and tha Democrats Crafts, of Cook. Tho fi rmer received the latter 71 votes, aad Mr. Coch- !ee!»«Hl elected. .skopf introduced a resolution declar­ es the eligibility of Messrs. Wilk of «ter of Sangamon, and McLaughlin of as member;* of this Hon so bad been HueBtfon, a special committee of five inted to consider their eligibility, this to confor with the Attorney General to the HOUBP. I^ester and Wilk are of the Federal Government ami Mc- 'in has tor some time been residing iu i!,i. This motion was bitterly opposed Republicans and a long debate en- Mr. Meyer of Cook stated that he O'd the Democrats hail y>ret>ared a itional protest ngftinst the vot< s of Ijea- 'iik. and McI.nugHiin being recorded for r, aud he asked th it this protest be en- u ih» jrurnal, as was tha right of the minority, tt was BO ordered. , « The resignation of Chief Clerk John A. Reeve wfr.3 read, and Co">rge T. Buckingham was elect­ s'! in his stead Chief Clerk ot Hie Mouse, aud the other'employes select *d by the lt'.'pv.blioaii caucus v,rro also regularly elected. Gov. Jr'i;er communicated to both houses the following me^sago '• " Y'iu tin ve assembled for the purpose of con­ sidering matters relating to the World's Colum­ bia" Exposition to bo held in the cit y of Chicago in 18»:l. With unity of action this exposition < an be ma le the greatest the world lias ovor known, nnd its location by Congress at the (Treat metropolis of our State casts upon that city and the people of the commonwealth of Illinois a grave responsibility--a responsibility that I sometimes fear Is nob fully rt?ali7.®>'. Into .the hands of our people has Inen com­ mitted, in a large measure, tho success of this ar. at enterprise. Illinois can not afford to havo it fail through any lack of interest on her part Chicago and this State will have the world s attention for the next three years and more, and, should the fair prove a failure by reason of any fault on her part, the fact will be < *,nck- lv noted, not only by our fellow-countrymen bat, by all the civilized nationBof tho world, and in that event the great International Ex­ position, instead of being a benefit, would prove an incalculable injury not only to the city of Chicago but to the entire State. The people of Illinois have in the past proven equal to every emergency, and thev will, 1 feel sure, prove equal to this, and adopt a wise, liberal, an<t patriotic policy respecting the Exposition a policy that will justify the wisdom of Congress in locating It within our borders. •It was believed thit without this special ses­ sion to enact needed legislation the manage­ ment would be !»tid the success gered. It is made nece»sary gross providing for the Exposition that the smu of $10,0*) O X) l e litHed to be used iu tho aid of the entorpriso. About sW.OOO.OOJ ot this amount lias already l>eon provided for by subscription tuid it is believe I that little, if any, more can »>o rat sed by this moans. The city of Chicago lia < t!nougli its municipal authorities expressed a willingness to raise by getteral taxation the re- ntaiuing S"I,<XK>.00(> of the amount required to be tr.ised hv said act of Congress, but the u iebtcd- iless of the city being now up to the constitu­ tional limit, and there being no funds in the treasury that c.^i lie appropriated to the purpose, it bjoou'ies necessary, therefore to adopt an Rin<ndment to the Constitution of tin State authorizing said municipality to incioiso its bond< d indebtedness in the sum of jC;.0)0,0 >0, and also authorizing the procetds of said bonds t i ba used for tile benefit of said exposition. A resolution submitting an amendment of this character to tho electors of the State for adop­ tion or rejection is one of the subjects included 'n the call under which you havo assembled, nnd which will. 1 doubt r.ot. receive your care­ ful and favorable conei leration. If the cnter- piisinR and patriotic citizens of tbe city of Chi­ cago desire to tax themselves in order to raise the 95,thM.000 yet to lie provided tor, the rest of tho State should not and I believe will not ob­ ject. "The celoction of a suitable site lor the fair has been a «i«e>-t'on of great difllsulty, aud at the time the call convening you was issued it va» not known what location would he finally a^roed upon. Tliat part of thtV-all relating to the site was therefore made general, and it will be seen that you are empowered to pass such legislation as may be nee: asary to authorize tho ns ; of any public ground, paik. or aieator the location of tho exposition that may ijeloiig to or be under the control ol the Btate of IHicois, the city of Cbicsgo, or anv of the several boards of park com­ missioners of said city. Just wha". 1 'gtslation will be ueaied on that subject I am not fully advised any iroro tha'i this, that it will no doubt become necessary for you to pass au act •iuth-."flziug iho Ufio of sumo of the pui'lip grounds in tho city of Chicago a3 a site Tor the fair. You nhould, it would seem, bo willing to do what ca-i bo done in this direction to aid the management of tho exposition, having always in view, of course, a due and careful regard for ih" right s of the general public. "It may or infty not become necessary for the city of Chicago to exercise the power of emi- u< nt domain in aid of the Exposition, and aB to ,h i necessity of this much will depend upon tho siti that is ultimately agreed upon. It might bo well for you to vest the city of Chi- with this power, as it may become neces­ sary to exercise it in preparing for the Exposi- tion. "The expense of this spccial session must be provided lor, aud you will, of course, make a necessary appropriation for that purpose. In conclusion, gentlemen, 1 feel confl SB it you will l>e able to comple e vour labors at an early day, and that you will do lionor to our Slate by the passage of wiso measures that will aid the ex- unaitiiiTi and promote the public welfare. -JOSEPH W. FIVER, Governor." AFFAIfiS I N •foctric line* mn njf «p to the roof • prettj i-ertain and Somebody's ĉ T> before1 any stairs letting ubwn is quite a iiair of stairs is ob- >\vnward these "get n't apt make any f it is the same stair- The chances are tice away from that ii through come- body's living rooms, where the sudden addition of a lineman to a family circle would create about the same commo­ tion as did the surprise party which visited Josiah Allen's wife's husband. The linemen who look oat for trouble on the tire alarm telegraph wires are a jolly set of men, who lave to spin a goodly lot of yarns of a wet afternoon when they can light their pipes and gather around the stove in the station One of tho tn named over to me this catalogue of curiosities he had seen dur­ ing a somewhat eventful experience: "A small boy getting spanked; a aaotber watching her child die; thirty- six peop'e liviug ia one room; one baby spilling water over another; a stack of chips and a man with four aces; some chaps from Apponaug being fleeced at a game of poker; a husband watching the weighing of his baby; a drunken man lmying wine i'or three giddy girls; a husband lying abed white hi-» wife builds the tire; a young fellow kissing a girl behind her' father's back, and Biddy fr<>m the kitchen tryiug on her missus* dresse*. ' Is that tu 1 I've seen ? Isn't it enough ? Do you want the earth? Well, I'll.go on. In one place was a sick girl nurs­ ing a rose bush on a tenement window. In another was a cat jumping on a canary's cage. Blame me if I don't love a canary, and as there was nobody in the room I yelled, and the bird was saved. In still auother place I noticed a cat just about to be hit by an empty bottle coming from an tipper window. Once a parrot had hold of a dog's tail with its beak, and the dog howled like tun. Then I've seen a woman trying to force castor oil down a boy's throat, any quantity of people coming out of a bath, a father, mother, and four children making a meal off of a boiled soup bone and three potatoos, a pitcher of water on its way down to a sereuader who was playing*"My Lady Sleeps," on a gui­ tar,' aud durii me if a fellow didn't once try to duck me with a basin of dirty water. I dodged, and never could quite make up my mind whether he did it on purpose or whether he was near­ sighted, and didn't observe me as he poured out his water after his ablite- shuns, a» I believe you reporters call them. "One of the commonest sights we meet with after dark is young folks courting, and if you could only go up with me you'd be writing a book on the way people court. Some of them oc­ cupy one chair together, and others sit iu two chairs, placed side by t-ide, and facing one another, so it is a mighty easy matter to lay their heads on each other's shoulders, and put their arms about each other. Then, of course, the good old-iasliioned sofa comes in for a share of usage." "Do you see that man over there with curly hair and an all broke up walk ?" j said another cf tbe guild to me. "He's a lineman aud about a month ago he had been following a troubled wire around a lot of streets, and wasn't pay ing much attention to where he was, when, without knowing it, he weat up a pole that looked in hii own back win­ dows. He came hack here looking as white a* a slieet. He didn't tell what was the matter, but they say he ain't been back to see his wiie sin?**' Frovidence Evening Telegram* Frsttd OU VA CATtlE O W What <W*hr Kjdtfftibon Aw or General md Interest -- K«r-» r Sages an<l P5«*lh«--AceMeat* aad CrlmHm* --That t'D» principal «' opa of tl»QK' nois Centra! Railroad are tote rf from Chicago to Clinton there is ao :v longer any dasbt. The pries land ii *f Chicago is too hi >b for tbe saiJroad com- > - paoy to sutfara shop* with n tbe city rj? *3 limits. What gi ownd is already «c |nire<l by the company!!* seeded for other pur­ pose i than Rho>p room. Clinton ii pecu­ liarly situate 1 for the crnstruetion an# repair department* of tbe road, as threap, lines cross at thit point. When it !»&:%.;yK 33 came known thtt the Illinois Central wa« i^ looking for a site en wh ch to locate the ^ main shops of the company several am)*' > ^5 bitious villages in tbe interior of the " *y Stite offeied the ground free. Blooa|| ' ^ in, ton not only offered ground, bat . ;j| agreed to don te Targe sums of money if ",t„ t tbe road wonld bsing the shops there. < ? Owing to the favorable location of Clife* ton it was chosen as the best point front which to move equipments. The citizens of Clinton have raised a subscription of ;; nesrly $20,0(H) with which to purchaee ISO acres of land adjoining the present repair shops of the company. The re*.•'$£ moval of the shops will swell the popu':*- J . tion ef Clinten by something more thMk . 2,000 people. , --Springfield dispatch: The ewMrtttM;' enumerators of the country districts of tbe Sixth Illinois Census District may be said to be on a strike. They met sad passed resolutions calling on Superinten­ dent Porter for more pay for work they have done. The compensation has been all per capits, and the enumerators find after working ten to fourteen hours a. day that they will only get from $1.50 to S3 per day, and all rre demanding that tfce * sum be increased to the maximum figus, Their petition is indorsed by Centra* Supervisor Whee'er and wa? forwarded., --The Secretary of State has chartersd the St. Lonia, Springfield and Chicago Railway Company, which proposed to build a line of Toad beginning at a point near Springfield, and ttence to run in a northeasterly direction through Sanga­ mon, Menard, Log 'n, Woodford, Tele- well, Marshall, Livingston, LaSalle. Grundy, Koadall, Will, DuPage aad Cook Couuties to tho city of Chicago. The princioal business office is to be es­ tablished and maintained at Chicago. aud the capital stock is $3*000,000, di­ vided into 30,000 shares. Thi* is. with­ out doubt, the extens'ou of one of the short lines between Springfield and St. Louis. Just who isba tk of the enter­ prise is not yet known, but the details are expected to be m wie public in a tsw days. The mileage will, it is understood, be considered reduced. --Mrs. McMain was korriWy mangled in the Chicago, Eock Island and Pacifie yards at Peoria. She was passing be­ tween two cars when she WJS ca'ight be­ tween the bumper*. --At Buffalo, Sangamon Ceenty, the battle of Atlanta was being ce'c ed, a general 4ght occurred in whl* men were seriously wounded many others injured. "! -Weekly bulletin ef ^t£e weather crop bureau: The temperature of tha laat SPOKANE FALLS NEARLY WIPED OUT. do it. % <§&. STrsrsiNG and decidedly sensational finding occurred in Odessa the other day. Marc Pogorezky led his blushing Bride to thf altar. /While the Russian or Pope, as lie is called, was preparing ^perform the ceremony, Marc went out to get ft drink, saying that he would return in a few moments. In his absence, however, a hands-ome young stranger approached the \,ride sad offered liimself as a substitute. By 8 o'clock they were rolling out fox his home at Green Pond, Polk County, with provisions enough for the trip.-- Osceola News. Prison Cliit-Chat. Hangman (to condemned murderer] --Good morning, I have noose" for yon Condemned Murderer -- What < choker you are. You'll be the deatl of me yet. Work me off easy, won1' JOO? -- - so^ 'I'll do it as scaffold's I can. tumble?' Pitiable. There is nothing more pitiable than the faded and broken-down society -woman who attempts to pose as a beauty. Occasionally a Congress­ man's wife--a woman without educa­ tion and, indeed, without refinement-- has herself written up as a beauty when, in fact, she has not an attractive feature; and, strange as it may seem, Incendiaries Start a Fir® Which Tlireatuncil the Cltv. Incendiaries came near laying the city in ashes enrly this morning, says a special from Spokane Fulls. As it was. they started a tire that destroyed $200,000 worth of property on Monroe street, in­ cluding tho new bridge across tbe river which co-t $40,000. The tire department was rendered altno-t helpless by the lack of water, cne of tbe mains bursting. Several hours later two sua ill fires broke out, but were quickly extinguished. Five suspects have been arrested, nnd nrmed guards patrol the city. The chief losers by tbe fire were tbe Cable Hoad Com­ pany $50,000; Monroe Street Bridge Company, ?40,000; H. W. Greenberg Company, fl^.tiOO; Bonne & Co., $12,0J0. Crows. - /qErery crow thinks ite own young the whitest" is an old proverb. The Chinese have a saying, "There is only one good wife in the world, and every fellow thinks he's got her." The smartest boy, the handsomest girl, and tbe "prettiest baby in the world" are as common as families themselves. The "belle of the town" is quite like the belle of any other neighborhood, and the baby is so like millions of other dinner-hunters that only an expert, or its mamma, can tell it from others. Yet that was a wiee provision of Nature that every crow should think its own youDg the whitest, though leally all crows are so nearly alike that you can­ not tell one from another.--Pullman Journal. liigH Flyli)*. The most remarkable balloon ascen­ sion on Record was made in 1794 by Blot and Gay-Lussac, of Paris. By this enterprise they endowed science with a> series of new and important facts, questionable before that time, as they carried with them a complete set of suitable apparatus, aud, moreover, an uusurpa$«ed knowledge of observa tion and experiment. They ascended to a height of 12,000 feet, and observed that at 8,000 or 9,000 feet the animals they had taken with them iu order to observe the effect of the rarefied air and cold upon them, did not appear to suffer any inconvenience. In the meantime the pulses of the two experimenters were much acceler­ ated; that of Gay-Lussac, otherwise always slow, sixty-two beats per minute, was cight.v; and that of Blot, naturally rapid, seventy-nine beats per minute, was 111. At a height of ll,000[feet aipigeon was liberated; it dropped down, whirling through the air as if it had been a stone. The air was too thin and too ratrefied to enable it to fiv, Three weeks later Gay-Lussac went up alone and attained a height of 22,- 000 feet (four and one-sixth miles), or 2,000 feet hiprher than the top of Chim- borazo Mountain. The barometer was only 13 inches high; the thermometer 18 degrees Fahrenheit below the freez­ ing point, while at the surface of tho ground it was 80 degrees. He left the court-yard of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, in Paris, and, after an aerial voyage of six hours, descended near Rouen, 100 miles distant. The result of this ascension on Gcy- Lussac's heal tli was very injurious, par­ tially bv want of air for respiratiou, combined with sudden cold, but chiefly by the absence of the acoustomed press­ ure. At the extreme height of 22.000 feet his face and neck were swollen enormously, his eyes protruded frum his head, blood ran from his lungs by vomiting; in short, his system received a chock from which he never fully re­ covered during the reit of Lis life. -- j\'eio York Ledger. ' J£xcur»l»n of • Limit. The following history of the travels of a draft is from a pamphlet issued by the Waso (Tex.) State Bank: A firm doing business in Louisville, Ky.,madea draft on a firm in Bal- linger, Tex.' The Louisville firm de­ posited it for collection with its bank; Illinois •y.-M- IT is strange that so many people find it impossible to learn that water- j having a correspondent in St. closets connected with a system of1 - - - - the pretense. sewerage pipes are not the places for throwing old stockings, dish-cloths, broken crockery, cast-off .-hoes, and other insoluble articles. The entire cost of digging up sewers to remove stoppages comes from such inexcusa­ ble carelessness. Among the rubbish removed • from stoppages of drains, knives, forks, and spoons are almost always found. Terms of censure are not strong enough to describe the con­ duct of people who will deliberately, clog her husband looks complacently upon t^V ui ness - --*---<•> The woman who loves & - >re than sh Louis who took their items at par, sent it there. St. Louis, having the safne facilities in Kansas City, sent it there. Kansas City, enjoying the blessing of having a correspondent in Galveston willing to work for nothing, sent it there. Galveston, having considerable busiuess with Dallas, where most of the banks enjoy the same privilege, sent it there. Dallas sends to Mexia, Mexia sends to Waco, Waco sends to Temple, and Temple to Balliuger. Think cf it-- what a delightful trip! But it arrives after r.iatuvitv. The firm failed. Draft past or on the p .HI. too uepnoncan the pretense. The woman who loves --°* ®P«»«» ". V~ - - " party to-day, as much as ever before, rep- , V .. m__e tlia.11 she-does her 8e"Ker ^article* that t-DC) know will protested; $8 protest fees; eight bank<4 resents the highest aims, t tie purest pur-j home an£ cj|y^eDj Wasn't as much soul do great harm ana entail heavy coat to ont postage, stationary, timn *n,i postage, 3SPP .s • above the" normal throughput the 11 v*rage amount of sunshine has b*a_ Kxcept iu the northern eouu ita M the rati'toll of tho last week his seasonable average, aud has alie»t«4 t»f favorably. In some counties the ht*vjrl and high winds injured the com some' Extracts from observers' repofts: , , ,w Bond Coantv--The corn and pastures celved the showers are much ref>Mh«l, Is s some sections no rain hai fallen for SOWM time. and tbe corn is about dried up. Walwfail, .Sfc> of . an inch. . v Coles--Hay crop coming in; looks fln». « S Thrashing jnst commenced. Rainfall, inches. . Champaign--Oats being harvested; quality fair. Potatoes a poor yield. Bainfall, .9/ of an inch. Douglas--Most of the oat a aad" meadows out. Corn looks well and is tan days eatlier |l»n. ordinary season. Edwards--Wheat and oata harrostad. one-half crop; oits almost a total fa PaBturea aud meadows suffered badly ;'. , ,, killed "out; rain will nelp ont. Rainnll, O Frauklln--Badly distributed ̂ wpragglp our corn crop. Large com. <md «it«^ --S? planted, and ir season Is favona^. jMp., •» j well/ Potatoes almost a failure. Bwuk^ 1-W "e i n c h ; . . . . . Fulton--Since last re per, w» iuches of rain, which has improved the corn crop very much. , 'T Hamilton--The drought *u broken Imt' J"?;'# week, but corn is greatly injurad. some past v help. Hay crop badly dried up. KatataTl" M incne3. Henry--No rain this waek. and oom will sooa be ruined. Pastures dried np. Potatoes al­ most a failure. Iroquois--Corn tioing well. Oats Mtttiy a failure. Potato crop light. Wheat fairly good in placas. Rainfall l.*0 inches. La Salle--The aosouce of rain Is a£Te3tiaK«am * i and grass unfavorably, so that the 1 , % for an average crcj1 are poor. * M Menard--The rains of late week have aMafttt' ; corn very favorably. Pike--Wheat nearly all cot; good quality, 1 not much of it. lorn doing well. Rainfall of an inch Pope--Corn sr.fferinf? for rain. ing up. Bainfatl .'23 ot an inoh. - Rfchlaiid--Kain oi last week favorably. Farmers report 11 it is badly fired or dried up. M Randolph--What littlp rain 1 eftcial to corn. Seme partac sideiable rain felt. Kainfall,. Sangamon--Cond.ti >JIS MI Farmers busy thrashing. Rait Stephenson-- Cora suffering drought. Cat s ripeuina fast; tatous will be a failure it it Pastures are also suffering. Scott--Rain of last week fair C1Taz®w ell--Oats being entawi cf the wheat thrashed, ltaiufalt. Schuyler--The heavy rains of have ^aveci the corn. oar>lens will hut potatoes will not be helped son late crop. --Chicago Tribune: It >• oertain ^h»# the school eensas ntvns eesspistsd will give Cook Coonty a population of l,295,i)93, instead of 1,W»,<W0 as Censsa ̂ Superintendent viilbort has it. Whs& ite apportionment is consilered in Congress and in the General Assembly it will ap­ pear to have 105,030 less population than it really has. Thi* will not affect fts rank. But it will aff«ct its Congressional t and Senatorial represent ition. The de­ fective census mean?? tha loss of two Senatorial seats anil one Congressional --Gen. John McN^lta. of Bioomtngtoa, „y^ who was colonel ft the Niiitty-fourth Illinois Volunteer-", and who participated % in the battle and si^ge of Lexington, Mo., announces that a} meet ng of ft* sur­ vivors of the war,; both Union s^ll Coe» federate, who weA in this,noted «igage> s £ meat wiU be b^ld at the t atUe-proWid Sept. .16, IT, »mW & ' --The Census Pnperr i|or«the 8«k« district has ma/fie a rejiurt whlak.jjlm" the population ft the pi^c^al Marioa County p>s follows; Centralla, 4,« 55?; Salem, tm; Klamoady, i,«8; W .. Z' .. . •?.. .. j. *. j. ..'Pt. .. %>.. .3, € i ... 1., .1 .. J.t. Ai .. . ».-k * ' >" /r'iv'W v. ; ^ . ." . .V..' &•*' fc * » ., . t > .4s. iii'J '4 i*'