D EVO TED TO THE IN T E R E ST S OF CHATS W O RT 11 A N D V IC IN IT Y .

R . M . S P U R G I N Sc C O ., P r o p r ie t o r s . O F F I C E - O v e r H a l l Sc C r a n e s.

VOLUM E IV . C H A TSW O R TH , IL L IN O IS , JU L Y 28, 1877.

FARMERS,ATTENTION !

I h a v e j u s t r e c e iv e d

th e la r g e s t s to c k o f

F n g M g r i c i M

IMPLEMENTS,E v e r b r o u g h t to th is

m a r k e t, a n d to w h ic h

I c a ll y o u r e s p e c ia l a t ­

te n tio n . T h e s to c k

co n sists o f a v a r ie t y o f

Reapers and Mowers!

O f t h e m o s t p o p u la r

s ty le s , s u c h as

WOOD’S SELF BINDER, ,J. P. Mannys Reaper agd Mower,

And the Celebrated McCormick Reaper and Mower-

I also have a large lot of the

Furst & Bradley Hay Rakes!T. H. SM ITH k CO.’S W AG O N,

and the well known

M I T C H E L L W A G O N ,

T o w n a n d V i c i n i t y

H. A. Greenwood went to Lafayette on Thursday.

Ask Marston how his Bulletin board is getting along.

Mrs. P. J . Gerhart went to Gilman yes­terday .

Dr. Van Patton’s smiling visage was in our midst Friday.

Did you see the large lightning bug lust Thursday eve. T'was a whopper, had to chalk around it.

The M. E.sociable Thursday evening at the church was well attended. Refreshments were served and a very social and pleasant entertainment was enjoyed by all.

Rev. Mr. .Kenyon will preach in the Bap­tist church Sunday morning on the Signs of the Times and their Lessons. All are invited. Seats free

The Baby’s Best Friend is Dr. Ball’s Ba­by Syrup, since it maintains the baby’s health by keeping it free from Colic, Diar­rhoea, etc. Price 25 cents.

Lost.— On Sunday last, between the res­idence of Wm Bell, and Bangs’ drug store, a large red pocket book containing valuable papers and a small sum of mooej The finder will be liberally rewarded by leaving the same at Bangs’ drug store or with N C Myers, Forrest, 111.

Lee Barner indulged in bad whiskey to such an extent last Thursday lhat he stop­ped over, and Myers run him into ’Squire Curran’s correll, where he was lined He swore he wouldn’t pay for his fun and was placed in the little tavern to sweat out his line

The following was j osted on the north wall of the depot building on Thursday evening, by Deputy U. S. Marshal Stillwell:

IN THE CUSTODY OF THE U S.Warning is hereby given that this proper­

ty is.under the control of the U. S. Circuit Cousl, Northern district of Illinois, and that any damafe done to the same, or inter ferance with the operation of trains on the Toledo Peoria & Warsaw Railway, will be promptly and summarily punished. Such is the order ot the court and the military power of the federal government will he invoked to enforce the order.

J e s s e S . H i l d r u p .U. S. Marshal N. District of Illinois.

Chicago, 111., July, 25th 77.

TH E S T R IK E R S .

I am also agent for the celebrated

NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO’SSpecials to the Plnludealer From differ­

ent Points.

Vibrator Threshers,

All are requested to call and ex amine this select stock before pur­chasing elsewhere. Come and I will make it to your interest to buy of me.

S. C r u m p t o n ,Chatsworth, 111.

The excitement is still great in Chicago. On Thursday thirty of the rioters were killed and about two hundred were wound­ed. The Chicago Journal of the 26th says: “ There is every reason to believe that the question will be definately settled to-day or to-morrow whether the city shall be ruined by a crazy mob or controlled by the friends of law- and order.”

None of the railroads excepting the Chi­cago & Northwestern are attempting to re­ceive or ship freight. No express matter is being received for shipment over the Chicago & Alton, the Michigan Central or the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy reads.

Large reinforcements of United States troops are going to Chicago and wiil arrive there to day. Organizations are being per­fected among the citizens to aid in the pro­tection of life and property

At Toledo, O., the organization for pro­tection has progressed rapidly. About 20 ringleaders of Wednesday’s mob have been arrested.

At Indianapolis, the order of the strikers is that no road can run over one train a day each way, to convey passengers i but no freight or express. m

At Albany, N. Y. all was quiet, and no further trouble is apprehended. The Erie railroad announces a strike at Hornellsville and trains are now running regularly be­tween Salamanca and New York and Dun­kirk.

The passenger trains on the T. P. & W. have been put on the road again and the freights will probably he running by Mon­day. • j

Business Locals.

A good spring wagon for sale or trade in­quire of W. H. Wakelin.

Dressmaking and all kinds of sewing done first house east of M E. Church.

Dr. T. H. Smith, of Bloomiugtou, will be in Chatsworth on Wednesday, August 1st, and every alternate Wednesday thereafter. If you have teeth to fill, pre­pare to fill them now.

Use Bangs’ double extract lemon

For choice Ice Cream and Soda Water step in to L. Mette’s.

Bangs’ King of Pain the best pain killer and liniment known.

For the cheapest oranges and lem­ons, step in to L. Mette’s.

The celebrated M arble Head Ci­gar is for sale by E. A. Bangs k Co.

Dry goods and Clothing cheap at Wyman’s

For a good square meal, step in to L. Mette’s.

Hats and Caps of all sizes, styles and prices at Wyman’s.

Bands’ neutralizing coidial willra ocure dispepsia and sick headache.

If you want a good pair of boots or shoes, or a low priced pair, call at Wyman’s.

Mow delicious the cool draught of soda water at Bang’s.

For constipation ami indigestion use Bangs dandelion / ’ills.

Bangs’ condition powders will cure hog and hen cholera.n

Use Bangs’ celebrated condition powders for horses and cattle.

Chemical paint, best made or known to the trade, ready for use; requiring no oil, thinner or dryer, at E. A Bangs k Co.

Mules For Sale.A pair of five year old mules for

sale. Enquire of Mail & Crane.

Paints bought of Bangs’ cost no more per gallon, and will wear twice as long as pure lead and zinc pre­pared by painters. 1 ry them.

MONEY TO LOAN,On improved real-estate, in sums to suit borrowers at 9 per cent interest.

C. A. Wilson & Co.

Loan Agency.Loans on Farm Lands procured

in sums of &1,000 and upwards and payments can be made by install­ments < f $500. Apply to

SAMUEL T. FOSDICK,Chatsworth, 111.

For County TreasurerOwen Fimgan announces himself

as a candidate for the office of Coun­ty Treasurer, subject to the decision of the Republican County Conven­tion.

An article of such genuine merit as Dr. Harter’s Fever and Ague Spe cific soon makes itself known lw the work it does. For sale by E. A. Bangs A Co.

F o r County C lerk .

Mr. George L. Ileipperly an­nounces himself as a candkjate be­fore the Republican, County Con­vention, for the nomination of Coun­ty Clerk.

See Here. ■(As I have concluded to retire

from business I Will scl) for cash my entire stock ot goods ot cost and some below cost for tfrd next 80 days. AH persons that are indebt­ed to me, are requested.to-call, and make an immediate settlement.

Yours truly J n o . W a l t b k .

Notice.C 1 1 atsw -kth , J uly, 24th , 1877.

There is a bridge to be built in Sec-l! tion 20, at the corner of A. Hender- , sons prsture. The bridge is to he ' let to the lowest bidder on the ground. August 4th, 77. The bridge is to be ten feet in the clear and 1 2

feet on the top and graded.L M ette ,

Commissioner Highways.

A first class two seated Democrat wagon for sale cheap. Apply to

J . 8 . Doolittle .

CHATSWORTH MARKET.R eported a n d co rrec ted w eek ly , by H all A

C rane , d ea le rs In s ta p le a n d F ancy G ro ceries H ardw are . S toves. Q u een sw u re , G lass, T in ­w are , E tc., E tc.

New C o rn ................ .................... SO a .‘17R y e ............................................................. 39<$ 40W h e a t ............................ lou(<ail(iB a r le y ....................................................... 50 @ 55O a t s ........................................................... 19 a 20F lax Meed. ....... ................................... tooa lioT im o th y S e e d ........................................ 1 3u (a- 1 45H u n g a r ia n s e e d ............................... 3o @ 40M il le t Seed . . . ........................... . 20 Of 35C lo v e r ..................................................... 9 50 @ 10 noP o ta to e s .................................................. 40(^50B u t t e r ........................ . ................... 10 @ 12L a r d .......................................................... 10 @ 12L iv e H ogs.............................................. 4 oo Of 4 25L iv e Heeves.......................................... 2 6o @ 3 ooT u r k e y s ............................................... 6 8C h ic k e n s per d o z ............................... t oo a 2 5oEggs per d o z .......................................... 9

R ETA IL .MARKET.Coal per t o n ................................. 3 oo a 4 00F l o u r —s o r in g p e r s a c k ................. 190 a 2 00

“ —w i n t e r p e r sack... . . . .. . 2 in a 2 50“ —Itu ck w h e a t per sa ck ___ 1 oo a 1 25

Corn Me.d per s a c k ............................ 30 a 35A pples per p e c k .................................. 25 a SoO n io n s per p e c k ................................. 20 a 25P o ta toes per peek .. ............. 10 a 15B eans per n e c k ................................... 50 a 75Co flee p er l b ...................................... 25 a 35S u g a r per l b ........................................... 10 a 14T ea—Yo u n g H y s o n ............................ 30 a 1 2o

“ —J a p a n per l b .................... .......... 30 a 1 20“ —Oolong per lb ............................. HU a 1 26“ —Gun P ow der per lb. ............. 50 a 1 25

S y ru p s per gal . . . . ........... .......... '»* a 1 1CO i l —Carbon per g a l .......................... Jo a 85

“ —L inseed p e r go! ........... 75 a So“ —M achine per g a l ....... ........ . an a I 25“ Neats fool per gal .................... I 2.5 a 1 40“ Danl 'orth’s F luid per gal 25 a 30

L im e per h b l .............................................. 1 »oC e m e n t per bbl ................................. '■’> 5<iS and per ton ............................................ 2 50N alls per U> ......... ............. 4 a sBrick per i n ...................................... 13 o#C o m m o n L u m b e r ................................ 16 00l a i t h p e r m ................................................... 3 soF looring per in ................................ S3 on a 3S 00Shing les , per M .................................. 3 5oS id in g ............................. ......21 o'* 1 a 22 (X)

DRY GOODS.U nb leached M usl in per y a r d ..... * a 10Bleached Atuslin p e r y a r d ...... 8 a 12UP r in t s per y a r d ............................... g a 8D en n im s per y a r d ......................... 15 a 20J e a n s per y a rd .............. ........ 12j£ a 25T ick ing pgr y a r d .............................. 15 a 60F lan n e ls per y a r d ....................... 25 a 48

“ C an ton per y a r d 9 a 25Cotton Bats p e r ll>......... .............. . 2 'i a 25Crash per yd ............................... 9 a 16

Adniliiistrator’s Notice.E s ta te of George F. D art, deceesed. The

u n d e rs ig n e d a v l ln g been a p p o in ted Ad- m ln i s e r a to r of th e e s ta te o f George F. Dart, la te ol Charlo tte , in the c o u n ty of L iv ings ton a n d Htnte of Illinois, deceased , hereby gives no tice th a t he will ap p e ar before the c o u n ty c o u r t o f L iv ingston coun ty , »t the cou r t house in P o n tiac , at th e .September te rm , on tb e second Monday in Septeml>er n e x t , a t w h ich l im e all persons h a v in g c la im s aga in s t said e s ta t e are nolWled and request* ed to a t te n d for the p u rp o se of h a v in g th e s a m e ad jus ted All pe rsons I nd eb ted to sa id e s ta te are requested to m a k e im m e d ia te pay m e n t to the u n d e r s ig n e d .

Dated th is 27th d a v of J u ly . A . D. 1877.P E T E R SH ROYER,

A d m in is t ra to r .Gedrge Torrance , A tto rney for Esta te .

Petition for Sale of Real Estate.S ta te of I l l ino is , L iv ingston co u n ty , SS.

County Court of L iv ings ton c o u n ty , to th e .1 line Term , A. D. 1 8 ,,.

F ra n k W. I >rnke, a d m in i s t r a to r of th e es> ta :e of Charles W . Drake, deceased , v s Geo. Drake. P e t i t io n t» sell rea l e s ta te to pay debts .

A f f i d a v i t o f th e n o n - re s id e n c e of G eorge Drake, defendan t above n a m e d , h a v in g been tiled In the otBee of the C lerk ot th e C oun tyi 'o u f t of L iv ingston co u n ty , n o t ic e Is h e re b y g iv en to th e sa id George D rake t h a t th e said p la in t i f f F ra n k W. D r a k e , a d m in i s t r a to r of t h e es ta te of Charles W. D rake , deceased, h a s filed his p e t i t io n In th e sa id C ou n ty C ourt o f L iv in g s to n co u n ty , for an o r d e r to s e l l th e p rem ises be long ing to tb e e s ta te of sa id deceased and descr ibed as follows tow lt:

Lot 14 In black 21, Also a p o r t io n of lo t 16 In block 22. descr ibed as follow*, tO'Wlt:

C om m enc ing a t th e so u th w e s t co rn e r o f said lot 16, th e n c e e a s t 23 feet, th e n c e n o r th 150 feet, thence w est 23 feet to the no r th w es t co rn e r of sa id lot 16, th e n c e sou th to the place of b e g in n in g . Also a p a r t of lots 12 an d 18 in bl ck 22, c o m m e n c ­ing a t the s o u th e a s t c o r n e r of lo t 12, th e n ce west 0 feel, th e n ce n o r th 150 feet, th e n c e eas t 3 0 feet, thence so u th >50 feet, th e n ce w es t 24 feet, to tht1 place of b e g in n in g . .All of sa id lots being s i tu a te d In tb e village of C h a t s ­w o rth , coun ty of L iv ings ton a n d S ta te of I l l inois, accord ing to tb e survey a n d p lo t thereof, a n d th a t a s u m m o n s has been Issu­ed o u t of sa id o u r t a g a in s t yo u , r e tu rn a b le a t t h e J u n e tevtn. A f>. 1877, o f sa id Court, to be holden on th e 2d M onday of J u n e , A. D. 1877, a t >he C our t H ouse In P o n tiac , In L iv ingston oou n ty , I l l ino is , a n d said cause h a v in g been, by o rd e r of Court, o o n t in u e d or fu r th e r p u b l ic a t io n , u n t i l the S ep tem ber

l e - m ot th i s court. Now, un less yon . the --aid George D ra k e sha ll p e rso n a l ly be an d a p p e a r before sa id C o u n ty Court o f L iv in g ­ston co u n ty , on th e firs t d ay of • t e r m t h e r e ' of, to be ho lden a t P ontlso , lu sa id c o u n ty bn tb e second M onday of S ep tem ber 1877, an d plead , a n s w e r or d e m u r to th e sa id (7pm- p ls ln a n t ' s petlHqti filed th e re in , t h e s a m e an d th e m a t t e r a n d th ings th e re in cha rged a n d s ta te d wtlj be ta k e n as oonfeosed, a n d a decree en te re d a g a in s t you accord ing to th e p r a y e r ot hbId b ill ,

P ontiac , I l l i n o i s , Ju ly 9th, 1877.G. W y m a n , GKO. W. LANGFORD,

C o m p la in a n t ' s .Solicitor. C le r k .

Just as we are going td press, we learn that Com modore Foote ana sister will give one of their inimitable concepts at Jones' Hall ou Wednesday, Augunt 1st. Nothing in the line of amusements has ever pleased our citizens so much, us the Coin. Foote Company.

Trustees’ Sale.Whereas, ou the twenty-third day of

October, A D. 1874, John Stillwell and Kate F Stillwell, his wife, did make, exe­cute uud deliver, unto the undersigned as trustees, their certain deed of trust of said date, conveying thereby the premises there­in and hereinafter described for the pur­pose of securing said John Stillwell’s prom­isor)' notes bearing date July 1st, 1874,aud countersigned by Nathaniel C. Kenyon, one of the trustees, and said’ notes being payable in one, two, three, four and five years after date, without interest until du$- Aud*whereas, default has been made in the payment of a part ol said notes due July 1st, 1875, July lat, 1870, anti July 1st, 1877, and application has been made to us as such trustees by the legal

holders of said notes to sell said premises in accordance with the provisions of saul deed of trust.

Now, therefore, we, Robert Rum bold, Samuel S Puffer and Nathaniel C. Ken­yon, Trustees as aforesaid, hereby give no­tice that in pursuance of such application, and under the powers and for the purposes expressed in said deed of trust, wc will, on Saturday, the first day of September, A D 1877, at ten o’clock in tlie forenoon, at the ofiice formerly occupied by John Still­well situated on lot two [3], Block twenty - five [25], Village of Chatsworth, Livingston County, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the premises conveyed by said deed of Trust, and all the right, title, benefit and equity of redemp tion of said John Stillwell, his wife, their heirs and assigns therein, which said prem­ises are silualed in the town of Chatsworth county of Livingston, and state of Illinois, and known and described as follows to wit: Lot eight [8], in block twenty-one [21], of the original town of Chatsworth. Lot one[1] , in block two [2], of Boise & Wyman's addition to ilie town of Chatsworth, lot two[2] , in block twenty-five [25], of original town of Chatsworth, the undivided one half of lots six [11] and seven [7], in block five [5], original town of Chatsworth. Also five acres off of the north part of the fol­lowing described tract of laud to-wit, com meucing at the north east corner of the southeast quarter of section four [4J, ol township twenty-six [2(5], nortli range eight [8], east »r the third principal meridian, thence west one hundred feet, thence south four hundred and sixty [4fi0] feet, thence west three hundred and seven [307] feet, thence south eight hundred and sixty [800] feet, thence east four hundred and seven [407] feet to the south east corner of said seciion, thence north eighty rods to the place of beginning. Also the grain ware house and elevator with tlie fixtures, belt­ing and gearing situated on the right of way of the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Rail­way on the north side of the track and south of lot two [2] of block twenty five [25] in said town of Chatsworth.

N C K enyon. )R . R xim b o lu . [- T ru s te e s8. 3. P uffer )

J o h n T K T a l t e r ,

Dealer In

H A TS and CATS,

BOOTS and SH O E S,

D R ESS GOODS,

PR IN T S, &c., Ac. n

I have the largest and best stock o /

GROCERIES!Ever brought to Chatsworth, which

I am selling extrem ely cheap.I make a specialty of all brands o f

C H O IC E F L O T O !

GIVE ME A CALL,

C H A TSW O R TH - ILL

■■■ ____ ' H. ■. 1"Well, ’tie,” said Fred sulkily.“The d«ce it is ?” exclaimed Rufus,

resuming the character *f the man of business, as he threw dowu the col-

I lars he lmd been assorting, and walk­ed moodily to the door.

Before the next store, which had been vacant for a long time, stood a heavily laden cart. Two men were unloading and carrying in boxes and cases the same shape and size as those which had contained his own goods. A tall, rather rough looking young man was superintending, and

i a boy—evidently "general utility” like Fred was darting hither and thither with a great pretense of ren­dering valuable assistance.

Rufus stepped out on the sidewalk, whistling carelessly, and becoming

I at once very much interested in an over-worked horse that had fallen across the car track; but as the horse

1 was helped to his feet by a sympa­thizing crowd, he slowly turned and came in again, giving as he passed a

i comprehensive glance at the neigh­boring establishment.

Every pane in the window—it al­so had only one window—shone like

| an over-grown diamond, and in each corner was already placed, on a pret­ty walnut stand, a pot of ivy, the dark green vines climbing the gray- papered wall, while the scarlet flow­ers of a flourishing geranium smiled gaylv in the sunshine.

A sign above the door, beside which the modest one bearing his name looked like a dwarf beside a giant, bore in great glittering letters the inscription, “Bright & Co.”

"Going in for combining poetry with busiuess. ’Twon’t pay,” said Rufus, referring to the ivy and gera­nium, as he slammed his own door behind him, and seating himself at his desk, took up the morning paper, but not to read. He had lost all in­terest in the political situation; all he did was to gaze vacantly at the printed sheet and think about his rivals to be—“Bright A Co.”

“This neighborhood won’t support us both, that’s sure,” he said. “It must be a hand-to-hand light until one is left victor. Too bad ! too bad! Here’s sister Fan nicely married, and mother as comfortable and happy as can be in her little rooms around the corner, and I thought I saw smooth sailing before me at last. After teach­ing school live long years away out West, besides keeping books for people and copying law documents far into the night, to say nothing of living like a miser all the time, on purpose to save money enough to start in business in my native city— to have a fellow set up right next door in the very same business, it’s too much;” and Rufus shook his head

j at the frowning face that looked at | him from the mirror that hung op­posite.

A young face, and not a disagree­able one (oil the contrary, quite an

l agreeable one when minus the scowl) surmounted by waving locks of bright auburn—some people call themred —and lighted by a pair of sparkling real blue eyes. Nose aquiline, mus­tache to match the hair, mouth large and not so very ugly, and the chin— well, perhaps if the chin had been a trifle more prominent, and the hair a shade less auburn, Rufus might have possessed more hopefulness and a better temper.

That very evening—such is the in­consistency of man—in spite of his assertion that “that Rort of thing didn’t pay,’’Rufus bought nt the near­est florist’s two Maderia vines, a smi- lax, and a spicy carnation pink, and the next morning they were sweetly blooming in his window, when the tall, rather rough-looking young man who had been overseeing the carmen the day before, came briskly in.

“Mr. Lynde ?” said lie.Rufus bowed stiffly.“Called to see if you’d let me take

a look at the arrangement of your window from the inside—capital ef­fect outside. How do you manage ? I don’t know much about such things myself.”

“What cool impertinence 1” thought Rufus. And then he said, in an icy manner and an icy tone, “I ’m afraid you won’t be taught here, sir. It cost me time, thought and patience to prhduce the ‘capital effect’ of which you speak. You must use your own brains. Mine are not at your service.”

“Oh ! is that the way you feel?” said the young man with a chuckle. “Well, I guess Bright & Co. can do without you;” and he disappeared as suddenly as he came.

And apparently “Bright A Co.” could, for in two or three hours the shop window of that enterprising firm burst upon the admiring gaze of the passer by like a whole garden of flowers.

Such a delicate mingling of shades and skillful combination of colors had never been seen in a shop win­dow before—at least not in that ave-

THE CHATSWORTH PLAINDEALER.R. M. SPURGIN ± CO ., P u b ’s.

CHATSWORTH. - - ILLINOIS■ l J L L - ■ 1 1 1 . . L - - » . !■-

A V K B1AR.IA.

UKETON LEGEND.

In the age* of faith , before the <lav W hen m en were too proiul to weep or pray, T here stood in a red-roofed B reton tow n Snugly nestled ’tw in sea and down,A ehapel for sim ple souls to m eet.N ightly , and sing w ith voices sweet,

Ave Maria !

T here was an idiot, palsied, bleared,W ith unkem pt locks and a m atted beard, H unched from the cradle, vacant-eyed,And whose head kept rolling from side to side ; Yet who, when the sunset-glow grew dim, Jo ined w ith the rest in the tw iligh t hymn,

Ave Maria !

B u t when they got up and wended home,Those up the hillside, these to th e foam,He hobbled along in the narrow ing dusk,Like a th ing th a t is only hu ll and husk ;On us lu' hobbled, chan ting still,Now to him self, now loud and sh rill,

Ave M aria!*

When m orning sm iled on th e sm iling deep.And the fisherm an woke from dream less sleep, W hile liis little ones leaped on the sand and

laughed,T he senseless cripple would stand and s ta re , Then suddenly holloa hi* wonted p ray e r—

Ave M aria !

O thers m ig h t plow and reap and sow,Delve in th e sunsh ine, spin in the snow,Make sw eet lov t in a sh e lte r sweet,Or tru n d le th e ir dead in a w inding s h e e t ;B ut lie, th rough rap tu re , and pain , and wrong, K ept sing ing his one m onotonous song, •

Ave M a ria !

W hen th u n d er growled from the raveled wrack, And ocean to welkin bellowed back,And th e ligh tn ing sp rang from its cloudy sheath , Auil to re th rough th e forest w ith jagged teeth , T hen leaped and laughed o’er th e havoc wreaked, The id io t clapped w ith h is hands and shrieked*

Ave M a ria !

C hildren mocked, and m im icked h is feet,As he slouched or glided along th e s t r e e t ; M aidens shrank ns he passed th e m by,And m others w ith child eschewed his eye ;And h a lf in pity, ha lf scorn, th e folk C hristened him , from the words he spoke,

Ave M aria!

One year when the h a rv est feast was done,And th e m ending of ta tte re d nets begun,And the kittiw ake’s scream took a w eirder key From the wailing wind and the m oaning sea, He was found, a t m orn, on th e fresh strew n

snow,F rozen , and faint, and crooning low,

Ave M a ria !

T hey s tirred up the ashes betw een the dogs, And’w arm ed Ills lim bs by the b lazing logs, Chafed h is puckered and bloodless skin,And strove to qu ie t h is ch a rte rin g chin ;But, ebbing w ith u n re tu rn in g tide,He kep t on m urm uriug till he died,

Ave M aria !

Id io t, soulless, b ru te from b irth .He could not be buried in sacred ea rth ;So they laid him afar, apart, alone,W ithout a cross, or turf, o r stone,Senseless clay un to senseless clay,To w hich none ever cam e nigh to say,

Ave M a ria !

W hen th e meads grew saffron, th e haw thorns w hite,

And th e lark bore his m usic o u t o f sight,And th e swallow out-raced the rac in g wave,Up from the lonely o u tcast grave Sprouted a lily, s tra ig h t anil h igh ,Such as she beam to whom m en cry,

Ave M a ria !

None bad planted it, no one knew How i t hail come th e re , why it grew ;Grew up strong, till its stately stem Was crow ned with a snow-white diailem —One pure lily, round which, b e h o ld !Was w ritten by God in veins of gold,

“ Ave Maria !"

Over the lily they b u ilt a sh rine ,W here are m ingled the m ystic bread and wine ; S hrine you may see in the little town T h a t is snugly nestled ’twixt deep and down. T h rough the" B reten land it h a th w ondrous

fame,And it bears the unshriven id io t's nam e,

Ave Maria.

H uncbacked, g ibbering, b lear-eyed, halt,From forehead to footstep one foul fault, Crazy, contorted, m indless-born,T he gen tle ’s pity, th e cruel’s scorn,Who shall shall b a r you the ga tes of Day,So you have sim ple faith to say,

At* M aria

BRIGHT & CO.Rufus Lynde had just got comfort­

ably settled in his new store. The window (it had only one, being—well, not a large store) was, after much thought and experimenting arranged to his satisfaction; the bright colored scarfs and cravats and neckties form­ing1, a sort of rainbow against the somber background of black ones; the packages of kid gloves, showing the tips of their many-hued lingers at the end of their guilt and white wrappers; the gaudiest silk handker­chiefs flying like jolly young flags about the dozen or two other articles pertaining to the masculine ward­robe which, in admirable taste and order, were grouped below them — when his one clerk, who was also er­rand boy and several other things— in fact, engaged for “general utility,” as they say in the dramatic profes­sion—rushed in, with a faco every feature of which said as plainly as words, “important new s!”

tvufus looked at him a moment. “What iR it, Fred?” he nsked, at last.

“One hundred and thirty-six is taken,” said Fred, pausing to give due effect to whatever further com­munication he lmd to make.

“Well?" queried his employer.“Same business as oum, gent’s

furnishing,” continued Fred.“Don’t say ‘ourn,’ and don’t say

‘gent's,’ ” said Rufus, in his surprise relapsing for a moment into his old r de ot teacher.

ntte. Dark purple scarfs and ribbons prettily entwined with those of pale yellow ; smoking caps gray in crim­sons and golds, and blues and puffs, and scarlets and green; bows of every hue, looked like a flock of gi- J gantic butterflies clinging to a car­pet of dark brown velvet; beautifully embroidered slippers: silken and

l satin watch fobs of many fantastic shapes; pipe-holders quaint and graceful in design, and fifty other things ltufus had never thought of,

: “but which women will be just fools j enough to buy aud give to men,” he said to himself, bitterly—shone from

i his neighbor’s window.Poor fellow ! That gorgeous win-

i dow completely eclipsed his own, and ho saw, with a heartache, the people pass his door day after day and enter the more attractive store of Bright & Co.

A week went by, during which Mr. Lynde refused the loan of a hammer — they had mislaid theirs—to his

| neighbors, kicked their cat (it was a | very gentle kick, and intended more

for a hint than anything else) when she chased a flying rat into his store aud under his counter, and Fred had a rough and tumble tight with the boy, “’cause ho swept all the dirt off his own sidewalk on to ourn.”

Then one uncommonly bright and pleasant Monday morning, Rufus, re­freshed by the Sabbath rest, was coming down the street, humming an old hymn tune which his mother —good old Methodist—was fond of singing, and happily forgetful for the moment of all life’s cares and vexations, his eye was caught by an unusual glare at the very top of “Bright A Co’s” building. A mam­moth sign had been placed there, call­ing attention in enormously fat let­ters of the guiltiest g ilt—large enough to be seen at least half a mile away—to the business of that wonderfully and aggravatingly go- ahead firm; and that sign trespassed at least two inches on his own premi­ses.

Rufus ceased humming, scowled, quickened his steps, entered his store, seated himself at his desk, flung hi3 hat on the floor, raru his fingers through his sanguinary lqt^s until they stood up like an aureole around his head, seized pen, paper and ink and dashed off the following note:

“Mr. Lvnde’s compliments to Bright & Co., and begs to call their attention to the fact that their last and biggest sign exceeds the limits alowecl them by law.”

This, with a snort of delight, as a war horse that scenteth the battle afar, did Fred receive and hasten to deliver next door, to return with an answer, equally conscise, written in a large, bold, but rather scrawly hand:

“Bright & Co. are sorry that the sign-maker should have made such a mistake; but unless Mr. Lynde wish­es to put up a similar sign, they are at a loss to see how so slight infringe­ment can interfere with him.”

“Oh, indeed !” said Rufus, liis face almost as fierey as his hair. “What remarkable coolness the fellow has ! But I ’ll let him see he can’t com­pletely overshadow his humble neighbor,” and forthwith dispatched another note:

“Mr. Lynde demands the instant removal of the before-mentioned sign, or Mr. Lynde’s lawyer will wait on Bright & Co. this afternoon.”

To which came the short but per­tinent reply:

Mr. Lynde’s lawyer may wait on Bright & Co. as soon as Mr. Lyiule chooses.”

But it happened that Rufus couldn’t get away from the store that day. Some great festivity, to take place that evening in the vicini­ty, sent all the boys and young men in search of masculine necessities and adornments, and the overflow from Bright & Co.’s alone was sufficient to keep Rufus and his only assistant extremely busy. But as soon as night had fairly set in and the rush was over, he sent Fred, a delighted messenger—with a communication to a young lawyer friend, and with resolution aud defiance written on his brow, and hands firmly clasped behind him, he began slowly pacing backward and forward, his determi­nation to fight it out with his neigh­bor growing stronger every moment; for, “in the first place( it was down­right shabby to set up in the very same line right next door,” bo repeat­ed for the twentieth time. • “I couldn’t ahd wouldn’t haVb'flOne it; but, no doubt this Bright 'is somy selfish, grasping, cold-hearted, un­pleasant fellow, not caring who he shoulders out of the way w , ldng aft he—” when suddenly tfxe door flow open, and the roundest, plumpest, prettiest lot of a woman flew in.

She wore a dainty white ft yfOn With a bewitching bib afld two' chaining pockets, and the pockets were adorn­

ed with scarlet bows, and the bib had a bit of scarlet geranium pinned at the left corner, and a saucy small hat, turned up on one side and trimmed with scarlet berries and green leaves, was perched insecurely on the top of her satin-smooth black head.

“Mr. Lyude,” said she in a voice that implied “I’m not to be contra­dicted under any circumstances, whatever," as she confronted Rufus.

ltufus replied, “At your service,” with a smile. He’d have been more than mortal if he could have looked at that bright face, with its frank, fearless grey eyes, cunning pug nose, dear little mouth, uud general air of cheerful independence, without sm il­ing.

“I am Bright A Co.”“And rightly named, flashed

through Lynde’s m in d ; aud then his faco betrayed tho great astonish­ment he felt, but he bowed and said nothing.

“You look surprised,” said the little woman.

“I am,” said Rufus. “I thought— I mean I was sure— that is I suppos­ed—”

“No matter what you supposed,” interrupted “Bright A Co.” in a man­ner that in any one else would have been rude, but in her was decidedly charming. “I’m Bright—and Co., and Co., and I want to know why, in the name of pins and needles, you're so awful hateful about that sign ? It cant hurt your house—if it is yours —or you, extending only that far” (holding out two tiny forefingers, with nails like wee pink shells, about half an inch from each other) “be­yond my house—it is my house—and you know, if you have one grain of common sense, it can’t.”

She paused, but Rufus said never a word.

“I suppose,” the little woman went on, shaking her pretty head so em­phatically that the saucy hat nearly slipped off, just hanging on her back hair in a manner that suggested to Rufus the days of his boyhood and the “Sailor’s Hornpipe,” “you think I have injured your business. If I have, I didn’t mean to. The build­ing next doer >vas left to me by an old aunt, and the store was stocked from the wholesale establishment of an uncle. Now. I couldn’t set up a millinery shop or a flower store, or a confectionery with shirts and socks, and collars, and cravats aud suspen­ders—and such things—could I? ”

“Of course not,” replied Rufus. “I see no way in which they could be converted into bonnets, bouquets, or candy.”

“Just so,’’.said Bright A Co., put­ting her right hand into her pocket and drumming softly on the counter with the fingers of her left. “I took the goods and thanked my lucky stars again and mv uncle. I placed ‘Bright’ over the door without any ‘Miss.’ (Rufus could not explain for the life of him why he was so relieved to find it wasn’t ‘Mrs.,’ or Christian name, beeause it looks more business-like, and I added the ‘Co.’ because it sounds well, and my small brother (the one your Fred tried to thrash the other day) is my general assis­tant, and my big cousin (to whom you refused a look at your window) helps me in every way he can, though that isn’t much, because he has his own business to attend to------”

“Glad of it,” thought Rufus. “And I have a pair of lovely twin sisters only six years old, and a dear mother and grandmother to take care of— and o h ! how can you be so hateful about that sign ?

“Good gracious !” exclaimed Rufus running his lingers wildly through his red—that is, his uuburn—curls, and causing the aureole to rise again. “Don’t say another word about it. Cover the whole of jour house and mine also—though il isn’t mine ; there, too, you have the advantage of me, as yon have in anything else— with signs if you will. I can make a living for my mother and myself somewhere else, if not here. I have no large family depending upon me, like ‘Bright & Co.’”

“Oh, dear no, Mr. Lynde, that wouldn’t please me at all,” said the little woman ; “tho ‘somewhere else’ you know. Stay right here. There’ll be room for us both after a while, I ’m sure of it.”

Rufus looked into the rosy, earnest face with an almost lover-liko smile, as Fred burst into the store shouting. “The lawyer says come to his office at 1 0 o’clock to-morrow morning, and he’ll see that the old sign comes down in*a jiffy.”

“Oh, you wicked boy I” said Bright& Co.

“Never mind that,” said Rufus. “I give you my word that the sign shall remain just where it is and seizing his hat he escorted her to the door, leaving Fred in the act of executing a brenk-down, illustrative of extreme astonishment, but too much aston­ished to whistle an accompaniment, i

An® the sign didn’t come down-~ that is it did eventually, but not un­til the next idt&y, j%nd then another, still larger and stretching twice the distance, took its place.

“Lynde, Bright & Co.,” the new sign reads, and the two small stores are turned into one large one, and “Rufus Lynde” and “Bright A Co.” are partners for life.

American Gentlemen.

I never reflect upon tho breadth and generosity ot ihe underlying idea of our system of government, with all its manly eq u ^ es, its constant demand upon its citizens fo»- the most elevated sentiments known to our na­ture, and the opportunities afforded for their exercise, that it does not appear to mo moj:e and more, and beyond all otherformB of government yet devised, the most favorable thea­ter for the exercise of all the quali­ties that dignify and adorn mankind, and that if penetrated with a true sense of the part which each man among us should bear in such a plan, an Americah citizen ought to be, in the best sense of the word, a gentle­man.

I have had good reason to realize tho exacting nature of the toil and varied occupation of onr busy strug­gle in American life, and amid what a rush of events we have been carv­ing civilization of the wi'deroess, emulating with hot impatience the results and accumulations of centur­ies of work and thought in the older nations. The graces of life—those Iruits of reposo and well-tam ed wealth and leasure—are of gradual growth and have necessarily been postponed until our temple of civil and religious liberty was erected upon secure foundations and our grand experiment of self control by a free people shall have been well tested. Art, its studies aud higher influences, I do not underrate, and the great advantages it can impart to its disciples, but peYsonal contact ha* taught me how much of that true refinement, delicacy of sentiment and sensitive consideration of the feel­ings of otlierR, which we justly regard as the best fruit of high breeding and culture, can “and does exist in the simplicity of American society, uninstructed even by that European example which to Borne of our coun­trymen seems the necessary imprim­atur of social success.

The American snob has none of the inducements or excuses of his British brother, and when he follows in his track and gilds and veneers his pettiness and vulgarity in imitation of rank and distinguished station, lie sins more against nature and the hon­est simplicity and natural dignity which ave akin to republican institu­tions, and which may well be worn by every man who lives under them according to their true and manly spirit.

It is in our power to create a stand­ard of American character and man­hood1 ns lofty as that of any age or nation, artd to compel our represen­tatives at home ond abroad to con­form their conduct to R. Tho spirit of true chivalry in all its gentleness and unselfishness,showing tenderness to the feeble and resistance to the overbearing, mercy to whom mercy was due, and honor to whom honor, can and does exist in America to-day, under the “hodden gray” of the la­borer and mechanic, the tlireadbaro coat of the clerk or the grave garb of the hard-worked merchant or man of tho professions, as truly as it ever did under the helrner and chain armor of any knight-errant in the olden time.

The American people can justly de­mand from those who are delegated to represent t#em abroad or at home a punctilious observance of honor and delicate pride in their private and public conduot, and the moral influence to bo obtained by dignified self-respect.intelligence and high per­sonal integrity sfiUfar outweigh any attempted competition with tho show And glitter of the representatives of other governments not based upon the principle of voluntary and orderly self-control, Iu truth it will be found that where American representatives abroad have drawn’obloquy and iust cen^e.<A/6o^h£jpt flpoft jJbeipeolYeH or tneir country, it has been -usually caused by some ignorant attem pt.at ostenttaiduft display, dr‘the unworthy pursuit.'of private gain, in both of which ihe dignity of their position was forgotten or disregarded, and the fault was not “Americanism,” butt-lie nlj>aonco of iU—firnatoi] I\pyard’n. Vhi lirta Kappa Address in IJarucird.

—The Supreme Court of thq Unit­ed States holds that the several States have tho right to tax national hank stock-holders and compel thoir offi­cials to tell who the stockholders are.

BEVOfTD TflfB "STAItS, *'-----

I'llt- moon sends down hor eilvet rays,And here tuid (here * aUu 1# »cin That sparkles with a dazzling sheen;

With longing eyes 1 upward gaze,With thought iui4/aucy traverse ways

Beyond the range of fancy—far Beyond you farthest, hriglitpst star.‘ ” •* I'ftyJ'

I hoard in'childhood of fyi'lijtah . ,,A sunny clime with shady bowers —A land of fairest fruits and dowers,

Of sights and sounds aud songs sublime Beyond the boundary of Time

This land of olden story lies ;At times we oall it l’aradise.

lu that far country we are told A high Eternal City stands—A city builded not with hands

Whose gates aud walls of pearl and gold With splendor glisten, as of old

They looked and shone, ere man was made, Or earth's foundation stones were laid.

Grand is the palace of the KingWho sits upon a “great white throne,”And reigns in majesty alone,

While all his subject* tribute bring,And tkiraphigi of many wing

Before Him in the sacred place,With reverence veil their root aud face.

There is the temple of all lands,Where prayer and praise, as sacrifice,With smoke of incense do arise ;

While, clad in royal vestments, stands The Great High Priest, who in His hands

Tiie censor holds ; behold with awe,Priest, Jting and Prophet of the law 1

Oh, olay-roDed spirit, stay thy flight,Nor dare, in thought, to enter now Where, veiled, the shining seraphs bow

In presenco of the King of Light,’llul splendor not for mortal sight!

Tiiiuo eyes theso glories shall behold When Time's broad curtain back is rolled.

Buried Alive.A Y o u n g M uii’* B lood-C u rd l in g A dven­

tu re .

Seated iu the reception parlor of a board­ing-house in Clinton Place, a few night’s since, Francois Z. Bahrien related to a Merc.nn/ reporter his thrilling escape from the bowels of the grave. On the Thursdny of the third week of January, of the cur­rent year, at Ellenburgh, Clinton County, in this State, he was buried alive. His es­cape was as extraordinary as it was providen­tial.

THE VICTIM OF PREMATURE BURIAL,Mr. F. Z. Balirien, is about thirty-five years of age, aud slightly above the medium size. Of French-Canadian extraction, he studied law in Montreal, and for several years lias resided at and practiced his pro­fession in Bleurie, province of Quebec. Be­fore the melancholy misfortune to be de­scribed overtook him, he was a robust man of lbO pounds. Now, he is a pale, cadaver­ous personage, whose avoirdupois does not exceed 110 pounds. He is accompanied by his only child—a little boy of six summers.

“I would much rather escape the notorie­ty of publicity,” said Mr. Bahrien. “I feel almost grateful that hitherto the circum­stances of my lamentable case have not been circulated all over the country; but I dare say that result is to be attributed to the isolation of that portion of Clinton County iu the winter, rather than to any delicate forbearance on the part of the press. My friend hero, Mr. Rogers, however, has urged me os strenuously to break my long silence, representing that it is a duty I owe to socie­ty everywhere, seeing that scarcely a grave­yard is ever examined or bodies removed in which skeletons are not found id postures which suggest the most terrible reflections and convictions of premature inhumation, that I have reluctantly consented to him in­viting you to hear the sad story.” Mr. Bahrien spoke iu a low tone of voice, with singular fluency and grace of expression. The substance of the statement is here pre­served, and, in maiiy instances, whole' sen­tences of his exact language have’Vera’ ire- produced;* ’(! . 'tf ’<

“About the 4th or 5th of Jannitf?,-,!, re­ceived a letter from an old friend of ,ttOr family, who had removed some ten Jflhrs mnee frota Montfd&l to Clinton Y. It is hot nfloeeeery to mention his uatne. He has be«0.a*re*t n Surer iTjK>pA miito ry.gout, and about the. ,time,,hu,,^rote to me this year he was feel}ng WOfse. I re­plied to' h jp noth, promising to vtiritbtird, as he had almost perem'pWrily requested! I suspected tho object of the summons. Nor was I mistaken. He wanted me to receive instructions respecting his will. The dis­tance between Bleurie and Ellenburg is sonio forty or fifty miles, and is connected by a railroad. But when I reached the lat­ter station I had six miles to travel in order to reach my friend’s house. There were several feet of snow on the ground, and I expected my friend would have a ‘cutter’ and the nocessary ‘robes,’ as I had carefully indicated the hour of my arrival—2:46 p.m. I was therefore particularly annoyed and disappointed to find that there was neither a sleigh nor any indication whatever that I was expected. I was unwilling to remain in Ellenburg till night: it was a serious waste of time, aud I had made the journey at some inconvenience. Moreover, I was somewhat indisposed. A' nervous affection and a pressure about the

REGION OF THE HEART

had been troubling me during the very cold weather, aud I was taking medicine, al­though I had no regular doctor employed. But I fear I am growing prolix.”

The reporter reassured Mr. Bahrien on this point, and he ptooeeded nearly as fob lows: i

“Well. I engaged ap ordinary form-pro­duce sleigh for a couple of dollars, and we made pretty fair progress, though I Buffeted terribly from the cold, and the wraps were very insufficient. I was very exhausted when I reached my friend’# house. My head ached terribly; there was a painful Compression above the heart, and I breathed with diffldulty. My friend was in bed, and when my condition was reported he lasisted that I should instantly swallow a big jorum of molt whisky pnneh. I have a distinct recollection of drinking half a tumblerful of the punch, and theta I must have swooued away. Of more than this I con reoolleot nothing; but when I next recov­ered consciousness I sepmed to be bound haud and foot in an overwhelming lethal lethargy. I had no idea where I was, I had no power of motion. I could not move a muscle. I could not elevate an eyelash. I could neither inhalo nor oxhale breath through mouth or nostrils. I had so sense of feeling. I neither know whether I was cold or hot—whether I lay under the opon heavens or under some earthly ipcubHs, I had but ene sense— hearing; and even that

was partially paralyzed. But 1 heard voices around me aud I distinctly heard some oue say; “It will be a great shock to his poor wife!” Then there was another long spell of perfectly blank unconsciousness. When I next awoke, I was surprised totiud myself apparently oinioued aud

IN ' ' m i l l DARKNESS.

I had no power to stir, and yet I tried to loosen a sheet or something pi which I was apparently euveloped. My haud would not reach my head when I attempted to do so, by reason of my elboy touebiug tho bot­tom and my band the top of the iuclosuro around me. It was while making this effort and finding myself almost Dakud that forced suddenly upon me tho conviction that I had been hurried alive! You will hardly believe it when I declare that my first sensation was that of simple surprise. I was like a child aroused out of a deep sleep, and not suffi­ciently awake to recognize its attendants. When the real truth flashed upon me iti all its fearful energy. I uever can forget nor describe the unutterable thrill of horror that flashed through me. It was us if a bullet hud perforated my heart aud all the blood in my body had gushed through the orifice. I lay motionless for a time stun­ned, petrified with terror. A clammy damp­ness burst from every pore of my body. The agouy of 1, QUO, QUO years seemed to be concentrated iu ouo pulsation. Gradually 1 seemed to sink into the utter abysm of a calm and resolute despair. I began to think of death cooly aud to calculate liow long I might survive before famiue closed the hour of my existence. This oalm state of miud did uot last long. Reason soon be­gan to whisper to me that if I had been buried aud the earth had been closed around my coffin, I should not be able to respire, which I could now do with comparative ease. The freedom of respiration convoyed the idea that, after all. I was not yet carrieit forth for interment; but that I was about to be borne to the grave and that there I should be suffocated inevitably. The conviction that my funeral had not yet taken place ag­gravated my dreadful anxiety to make my­self heard from without I called aloud and struck the sides and lid of the coffin, until I was hoarse and exhausted. Tho ef­fort was in vain. A deathly silence reigned amid my unbroken darkness. I was now steeped in fearful agouy. I shrieked with horror. I plunged my nails into my thighs and wounded them. The coffin was soaked with my blood. I tore the wooden sides with my bauds like a mad dog, wearing the nails to the bleeding quick. When I was once more myself, I called aloud to ‘Agus- tn;’ ‘Agusta!’ my wife’s name—" At this point Mr. Bahrien’s voice was overcome with emotiou, and it was some minutes be­fore he could restrain himself sufficiently to proceed.

“I prayed, and I fear I plasphemed, for I knew not what I said. Renewed but ineffec­tual efforts to make myself heard were reit­erated as far my decliuiug strength would permit. I found with no great difficulty that I could turn on my side and over on my stomach. I tried by lifting my back, and, by a violent strain, to burst opon the coffin- lid, but

THB SCREWS RESISTEDmy utmost strength, for I could uot draw up my knees sufficiently high to exert the twentieth portion of the ‘purchase’ I should otherwise have brought to bear upon it. Thero was no help for it but to ruturu again to the position of the dead and reluctantly gaiu a little agonizing repose. During this horrible interval of prostration I fancied I hoard the tolling of a bell. The sound was new life to me. ‘I am not inhumed,’ I said: my coffin will be moved. Then I shall make myself heard.’ This was balm to me.I shouted anew, and struck the walls of my narrow prison with all the power left me, and ceased only when exertion was no longer possible. My temples burned and throbbed. My tongue grew drew dry. Light flashed across my wyes. My brain whirled. How long I lay in this condition of active and passire torture I can not tell. My thirst became intolerable.My mouth seemed full of hot ashes. I again groped over every accessible portion of the coffin. I could find no chink—could see no ray of light. Again I heard a bell sound like a hollow knell. Again I turned clean over, resolved in that position to die, if I must die, if I must die. Providentially I felt a hard sub­stance which I had uot heretofore perceived. It was a knot in the pine coffin plank! I succeeded in removing it. There was a lielo the size of a silver dollar, Faint enough was the light it revealed, but it was a noon­day sun of joy to me. For some time I was not able to see anything, although I tried to strain my neck so as to look obliquely through the hole. But I knew that it was day. and that there were footsteps near me.I shouted my wife's name. She was there with the sexton and my old friend. I was in

THE SMALL RECEIVING VAULTof the church, and after a good deal of dis­may on tha part of tho visitors I was re­leased. So far as this poor little fellow (pointing to his boy) is concerned, I would rather have been left to my dreadful fate. My poor wife never recovered from the shock. Joy kills just as surely as grief. She returned with me to Bleurie, and was ultimately carried off while giving prema­ture birth to a daughter, who sleeps with her mother on a Canadian hill-side, be­neath a maple tree. Of course my symp­toms were mistaken by the inexperiencedJoung snrgeon who was called in. What

e thought rigor mortis had set in; but it was the stiffness arising from syncope—not the stern fixedness of death. Mv inter­ment was hastened, and the knowledge of it withheld from my old friend, less the shock might be fatal to him, He was told I had been suddenly called away, and it was the unexpected arrival of my wife that roused him into sudden activity. I was in the re­ceiving-vault from Thursday, January 18, until Tuesday, the 23d.

“These terrible details need no empha­sizing. Whatever we may owe to tho re­mains of the departed shrieks into insig­nificance when compared with the solomn duty of ascertaining that death has actually taken place before we bury them. The bur­ial of the dead should not be hurried. No sacrifice of convenience; no danger or sup­posed danger from contagion even during time of pestilence shonlifexcuse haste."

Hero Mr. Bahrien Baid he was too fa­tigued to talk more. Thanking him, tho reporter left.—.Yew York Mercury.

—The Joliet railroad was sold on Satur­day to Jacob A. Henry, a wealthy citizen of that place, and a railroad man of largo ex­perience, for $50,000.

Russia's Future Capital.

T h e W onders , B e a u t ie s , uiul P e e u l lu r P o l i t ic a l a n d Commerc ia l V a lu e

o f C o n s ta n t in o p le .

Constantinople, well named by the first Napoleon “Empress of the World,” an in­teresting spot lit any time, was never more so thtiii at the present moment. Those who I may possess this little triangle Upon which the Moslem capital is built can, indeed, sway the destinies of Europe; can com- s maud the commerce of the world, aud dic­tate to surrounding nations. Almost from time immemorial the possession of this lit­tle spot has been the aim aud ambition of the czars of Rusia. Nay, for anything known to the contrary, some deep-laid schemes may have been laid by Austria or France aud, for the matter of that, even by Germany, whoso slender seaboard would be magnificently increased by saicli an ac­quisition. To the spectator, as hifl ejrip drop# lief anchor, ill ,$ho Golden Horn, which dividesthe apex of the triangle ujxm which the city is built, formiug a wide and capacious harbor, a gorgeous panorama is laid out. Minaret towering above minaret, gilded dome above gilded dome, the white facade of the palace of the seraglio reflected in the smooth' waters of the har-bor; the caiques glidiug from shore to shore, im­pelled by tho vigorou arms of the caichces, whose oars keep time to a melodious chant; the grand dome of the mosque of St. Sophia, the large extent of the city made more apparent from the gentle slope upon which it is built, all go to form a picture of Oriental magnificence that onco seen is never forgotten.

BUt hail a caique, and land at Topaium,and the fairy scene vanishes before a stern reality. Narrow streets, abominably paved, or, rather, scattered over with bowlders; perfumes that not even Piosse and Lubin, with all their art, can stifle; mangy, half- starved curs, who seem intuitively to realize the presence of a stranger, and attack him with the ferocity of a wolf; a population shouting, gesticdlating, begging, and howl­ing in all the glories of their unknown lan­guages, until one would fancy pandemonium hud broken loose, or that the traditions of the tower of Babel were being rehearsed, is the picture that greets you as you advance up the streets that lead from the landing to the main thoroughfare.

The city itself may oe said to consist of four quarters, viz., Stainboul, Pern, To- pahna, aud Galata rival one another in filth aud effiuviu. Peru bears the palm as to cleanliness, though—heaven save the mark —the word is scarcely appropriate. Thanks, however, to tho gentle slope of the ground upon which the city is built, much of the drainage that would otherwise make the place perfectly uninhabitable is carried off by tho waters of the Golden Horn, and the average of mortality amongst the one mil­lion inhabitants is not nearly ho large os in many other Oriental cities. There is, per­haps, no city in the world that can boast so mixed a population as Constantinople. You have but to stroll down the main street from Messirl’s hotel to the landing at Topah.ua to become at once struck with this fact. 'The portly Turkish pasha, on his long- tailed, tiea-bitten Arab, followed by his re­tinue; the Greek from the Albanian coast, iu his picturesque costume of white, red aud blue; the Jew, from the rabbi, with his venerable beard and flowing black gar­ments, to the shipsbod Israelite in a half Orieutal, half European costume, with his long hair iu ringlets, and half sandaled feet; the Circassian, proudly striding along, with all the air of UDfettered freedom be­longing to his raee; the Greek; the Portu­guese; the Spaniard; the Parseo, iu his white robes and conical black lmt; the Kurd; the Bashi-Bazouk; the Arab; the besheep-skinued Wallachiau; the French­man, Englishmnu, aiulAmerican,—all goto form a picture gorgeous in coloring and in­teresting in detail.

From wliat we have said it may readily bo inferred that the desire to possess Con­stantinople cannot be on account of its ar­chitecture, its cleanliness, or its population; the study of its situation, however, aud its applicability at once explains the matter. Mistress of the oue outlet from the greatest of European lakes, she absolutely controls the commere of the eastern hemisphere. By her commanding position on the Black sea, it is alone at her will that tho products of lower Germany, tho Moldo-YVallacliian provinces, Bulgaria, and the fruitful pro­ducts grown upon the loamy soil on tho banks of the Prnth can find their way to a western market. It is at her fiat that the rich grain-producing countries of the Dnei- per, the Don, and the Dneister can Heud their golden harvest to the Mediterranean en route for other countries, whilst on the other hand she can shut with impunity the door of western commerce, and is de facto the principal toll-gate to India. She stands a solid obstruction on the lrghway to the Euphrates and the Indus, and can affect, though only in a degree, American com­merce as well as that of every other nation. But this is not all. As if to strengthen “thisEolitical and commercial watchtower,” she

as another strait under her immediate sur­veillance. The Dardanelles receive the wa­ters of the Black and Bosphorus; they flow through the Sea of Marmora, and find their outlet into the Mediterranean through the Dardanelles. The peculiar geological for­mations on tho shores of the Bosphorus have led many to believe that this channel is the result of some gigantic volcanic erup­tion.

Iu this spot nature has indeed been lavish of her gifts. The radiant landscape now gleams in bold precipitious rocks, at whoso base shimmer and dance in a thousand sparkling lights tho waters of tho Bospho­rus; anon the picturo assumes a more pas­toral form, aud the rice verduro crops out up to the very beach, which is washed by the sea of Marmora. Fresh breezes fan the streets of Constantinople on every side, while her markets groan with tho products of a rich bearing, fruitful soil. Strong forts

and

town would make it eil»y to detfen«t> if ever such a #tap.was necessary, ft1 here ,*ro al­ready considerable works in thi#. direction, which have been, lately stragthened and enlarged.

FYoift tit* it will be seen thtattybre Russiato obtain possession of Qqnkluftltnqple it would be fatal to the b&lap^a^qf uMfer in Europe. In a few years, hwm A fified the Black Bda Into oho btige^aoefrard, she would fxMtess W fleet which'' doura^rere it so disposed, control tha commerce of the world, .whilst the, nations of Europe would

1 become simple, vassals of tyer empire.

A W o n d e r fu l A u to m a to n .

bunion Times: Messrs. Muskelyue A :Cooke's Zoo; the new writing ami sketching automaton at tho Egyptian hall, bears no resemblance whatever to the celebrated uu- j droids fit" (fie Swigs mechanician ho Iof thfc French mechanician Maillaril#l| #ud of the great conjurer and subtle inventor. Robert Houdiu. They were ingenious J pieces of clockwork, and nothiug more. Thus Mr. Le Droz’r figure was the size of liie. It held iu its hand a metallic style, ami when aspring was touched, so.as to re- leasu.it etcnt, the figure immediately begnu 'y (WP*, .VI**11 dutah vallum pre­viously laid under its hand. After the drawing wase xecuted oil the first card, the j automaton rested, aud five other cards j being placed iu succession, it delineated ] upon the series of six cards that number of - ditlerent subjects. Two of them were like- , nesses ot the king aud queen, and one tea- | ture of merit consisted in the precision with which the figure lifted up the pencil ip its transition from one point of the drawing to another without the slightest mistake. Maillurdet’s writing and dra wing automaton was the figure of a hoy kaeeliug on oue knee and holding a pencil in his hand. The at­tendant dipped the pencil in iuk and udjus- j ted a small sheet of drawing-paper upon a brass tablet, aud upon presssnga spring the figure began to write. When a line was finished the hand rsturned to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. It executed beautifully just j four pieces of writing’ iu French and Eng­lish, aud also three landscapes, the time occupied being about au hour. Robert Honaiu—a wonderful master of sleight- of-hanu, as well as (he inventor of various principles for working automatic and mag­ical apparatus by eleciro-maguutes, by con­cealed levers, nnd other clever devices—also constructed a drawing figure which was re­markable for its life-like imitation of the motions of the arm and in using a pencil, and for its faithful and exact execution of minute details iu sketching aud writing. But iu all these pieces of mechanical apper- atus the path traversed by the pencil point was guided by tracers against the peripher­ies ofsiowly revolving circular cans, or, rath­er, shapeless wheels or barrels, on which were made indentations and waving eleva­tions conformable to the linesof the picture to be drawn on the card. Now, Mr Maskel- yne’s automatou Zoe, while imitating the motions of an artist,s nrm with facility— holding her crayon iu professional form, striking a true line across her easel in a tru­ly masterly manner, promptly carrying her hand from one point of her drawing-board to another, carefuly yet instantaneously raising bar pencil Irani the paper, and trans­ferring it to another spot, returning to add touches and insert omissions, and finally lowering her arm and her hand when a sketch is completed—does not execute mere­ly the particular specimens of writing, fig­uring and drawing which she might be constructed and set to do. She executes anything she has a mind to, or, in other words, she can write any letters or numbers called for by the audience, and designs forftis and pictures impromptu, according to the ability of the secret operator who must cortainliy govern her movements. Herein lies the wonder of this new inven­tion of the machinist at the Egyptian hall. How is it possible that any motion at all, much less tho multifarious aud complicated movements of the arm aud hand, wide in ningo as well as well hr exact iu short strokes, while describing straight lines in any direc­tion, aud curves of any tortuous form what­ever (to say nothing of the eyes surveying the paper and different parts of the work as it proceeds), can be conveyed to a figure de- tatclied amd isolated as this is? Mr. Mask- elyno submits to the examination of the audience a small stand or table, having an oblong base or plinth of wood resting on five small knob feet, and a single wood pillar supports the thin table top, which, on its upper surface, is of silk stuffed like a cush­ion. This light stand is then placed upon the stage, and is isolated from the floorcloth by flat squares of clear plate-glass, first in­spected by the audience, and then, without possibility of substitution, laid one under each foot of t ho table, Zoe, the model of a young lady in Greek costume (of a more voluminous character than would seem or­thodox to Sckliemann), is fashioned in a sitting attitude, and if she could stand up would be about four and a half feet in stat­ure. She is carried round for any person to test by her weight the fact that she is cer­tainly a hollow doll fitted with light mech­anism, aud cannot possibly be an outside shell holding a diminutivo human being within. She is placed sitting upon tho little table, with her back to the audience; an easel, supported by a bracket from the table-top, holds upright before her, and at nearly arm’s length, a drawing-board with a sheet of paper about twenty-one inches long by eighteen inches broad, and a crayon is held between her wax finger and thumb bv means of a sliding-pencil arrangement, with a small weight which, when the crayon is applied to the paper, maintains a uniform slight prossure sufficient for distinct mark­ing. While Psycho is going through his feats of calculation, Zoe records the products and totals, writing figures about a couple of inches long (though there may be much smaller or larger at pleasure) with celerity, her facility being particularly observable in the way she addB tho bottom stroke of a figure “4” or touches off the top stroke of a figuro “5.” While Psycho is playing his inscrutable card tricks, Zoe executes vari­ous outline sketches, two, on the occasion oF our visit being original and excellent car­icature representations of Lord Beaconefield and Mr. Gladstone.

—The number of children in the State un­der 21 is 1,481,141, and 973,589 are entitled to school privilages; 5,857 of these can neither read nor write. Of those entitled to school privilages only 687,446 avail them­selves of it. To manage them it requires 22,121 teachers. The whole number of school districts is 11,563. The amount of school lands remaining unsold is 13,011 acres. Amound paid teachers last year, $4,945,193.86. Amount of school fund $5,- 094,797.32. The highest monthly wages, male, $300; female, $220. Cost per pupil for tuition, $7,19. These figures are taken from tho late report of tho Superintendent of Publio Instruction.

—At Danville, on Saturday, Jesse Dennis shot his half-brother Newton, the ball strik­ing him in the forehead. Sheriff Gregory is in persnit of Jeeae, bat as yet has failed to capture him. Tho wounded man is quite low, though the phyaHoans have hopes of his tMovnty.

(J0SSIP FOR THE LADIES,- —

T h e K l lx l r .

“Gli brew me a ixjtion strong and good Guv golden drop iu his win#

Hindi charm his sente and fire his ht+oi*-' And heud his will tomiau.”

Poor child of passion I Ask of me Elixir of death or sleep,

Or Lctht’s stream : hut love is free,And woman must wait and weep.

Kei ■if it iiln $ ole*. “ li--Tfie young man who bonstod 'he 'eoufff

marry any girl lie pleased found that he couldn’t please any.

—A girl of metal: One with silvery voice, golden hair, brass in her face, and tin iu her pocket, being lead to the alter.

- Woman’s faith is always beautiful, aud her belief that all# can get a No, 3 shoe on a No. 7fou* Is actually sublime.

The moral lesson Mother: ‘ fff Mrs.Johnson comes, Jemmy, sav I'ui uot at home." Jemmy: “O I daresay! And then yiiu ll give me a whacker for telling a story. "

It is not very complimentary theKing of Holland that he used To whip his wife; but it is urged as au extenuating cir­cumstances that she was “an exceptionally able linguist.”

—TVjiiiu growliug at lit* husband the other daT'.a J*few York iwtoman wo$- st^uejr by lightning, and instantly lulled. If yoti wish your wife to see this paragraph, cut itout aud paste it on the looking-glass.

—I was much amused last Sunday by hearing a young lady Bay to au admirer: “Hush! beware of the torpedo:” aud on his asking for an explanation, she an­swered, “Ok, it’B only our now name for mamma, because she blows us up so.”

—At a Parisian dinner-party a charming hostess privately apologised for the revela­tions of the low corsage worn by one of the ladies present. The General responded gay- ly: “Oh, never mind, Madame. We sol­diers have often seen ladies dressed in thnt style—in Africa.

—A young man who was heavily fined iu a San Francisco court for kissing his be­trothed agaiust her will didn't break up the engagement and demand the return of rings, pictures and letters. He simple wrote: “Dear Lydia: You’ll have to wait now till I can borrow money enough to pay the min­ister.’ t

—A youug Parisian artist lately painted tho portrait of a Duchess, which did not satisfy her friends, they declared it was to­tally unlike her. The painter proposed that a little dog belonging to the Duchess should be brought to prove the resemblauce. The dog was brought before witnesses, aud no sooner did he see the portrait than lie sprang upon it, and licked it all over, expressing great joy. Tho painter’s triumph was com­plete. He had retouched the picture during the night with a thiu coating of lard. The dog's nose was sharper than the critics' eyes.

—“You may kiss him for his mother,” The widow archly said,

As she sent tho little rascal,Reluctant, off to bed.

“But I think you should consider, While thus you challenge fate,

Whether it would not be better To kiss his mother straight”

An I n d i a n D esc r ip t ion of C us te r 's Lust B a t t le .

F o r t E l l i s , Montana, June 23.—Ono of Gen Miles’ scouts, an ex-soldier uamed Howard, who married a niece of Sitting Bull, iu whoso camp he lived some time, reached the Tongue River cantonment on the 17th. Howard talked with the Indians regarding the Custer massacre, and, in con­sideration of his residence among and re­lationship with them, talked to him as one of themselves. They state that many of Custer's men were killed by mounted In­dians, who ran over them and killed them with their knives. The poor fellows were huddled together here and there, and fought at great disadvantage; yet they killed a great many of their assailants, fighting des­perately to the last. Sitting Bull asserted that the battle lasted only thirty minutes, all told, ending with the death of CiiBter and a few' men and officers who rallied around him. This forlorn hope had gotten off some distance, and could have escaped; but, unfortunately, Custer changed his miud, turned, aud ordered a charge. The devoted party rushed upon the Indians with revolvers, shooting down the astonished savages right and left. Custer killed five himself, when, his pistol emptied, and the foe pressing about him, he closed with a grappling savage, and, beating out his brains with the but, was shot as his viotim fell to the ground. This doubtless true story supports the theory advanced by mil­itary men at the time of the massacre—tho idea of desperate final act receiving support from the position and location of the group of bodies about Custer—viz., that he, see­ing his command annihilated, ami fearing to face the consequences, or scorning to live when his soldiers lay dead about him, had desperately rushed to certain death.

His body was not recognized at first, the Indians thinking him a scout; bnt, being soon identified, all that remained of the famous Goneral was propped up against the corpses of two soldiers, and so loft to receive the advancing but too late troops. Poor Tom Custer’s heart was not cut out as previously reported, but he was barbarously killed with knives. Lieut, Sturgis was knocked off his horse, shot and kill, his body stripped, and thrown into the river. It mnst bis Sturgis’ death that is thus de­scribed, as the Indians tell of this poor fel­low as a yonng warrior who rode with a buckskin coat strapped to his saddle, and it is knoWn he was so equipped. They also relate that two soldiers, wno throw down their guns and surrendered, were turnod loose and advised “to return to their people and tell them all tho whites would follow Custer unlosta they would let the Sioux alone.” The poor fellows left, but tho next dav, probably crazy from fright, at­tempted to return, when they encountered some Indians who had been engaged against Reno, nnd were killed. Howard recogniz­ed many Custer trophies in the camp, among them Cook'a saddle and accoutre- merits.—Nets York. Tribune.

1877. JO H N "JTOTTlTa,

THE OLDEST HOUSE HT TOWN.A g o u i for the

N E W A M E R ICA N

SEWING MACHINES.

HALL & CRANE, BUTTRJCK’S PATTERNS.

Offer to m e P u b l ic a t la rge , one of th e best se lected s to c k s of m e r c h a n d is e l o b e louu .l in L iv ings ton C o u n ty , c o m p r i s in g In p a r t as follows-

I l l i V & l

TIN AND SHEET I N WARE,G la s s w a r e , Q u e e n s w a r e a n d C h in a ,

T O I L S '! S S ‘t S , V A S S S , S T A U T S T A N T S A T A N S T H A S S ,

H a v in g r e c e iv e d m y s tock o l s p r in g and S u m m e r

DRY GOODS.Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes,

Piece Goods, Prints,

Readymade M i n gW all Paper &c.

B I R / I D C A G E S ,A m m u n itio n , S to n ew a re , T a i n t s , O ils , V arn ish es.

>r h ite -w a sh , T a i n t , V arn ish , Scrub a n d H o r s e B ru sh es , San s , C h isels , A u g e rs , T la n e s , T i t s , Screw s, N a i l s , Horse.

Shoes a n d N a i ls , L o ck s , L a tch es , C h a in s.

Groceries Staple and Fancy.

1 a m p re p a re d to offer to C h a tsw o r th an d vl>

c in l ty , th e bes t se lec ted stock , and

t h e bes t v a r ie ty of goods, to

be h ad in tpw n .

JOHN YOUNG,

CHATSW o i n H. Ill

S to u r , S a l t , A fea l, S ish ,\G re e n , C anned a n d T r ie d ? S u i t t s .

We would call p a r t i c u la r a t t e n t io n to the*

“Woman’s Rights Cook Stove,” . | Bracket Lamps,

• i n - t h e bes t cook e v e r ottered in th i s se c t io n , H av ing sold n e a r ly tw o h u n d r e d >v * t-. j 1 u tn e a n tw o years, we k n o w w hereo f we a f t in u , w h en we.say they a re

" P a r E x ce l le n ce , A. No. I, a n u c a n ’t be b e a t , ”

Hanging L a m p s

P 1 T J S Z 8 4 S P L C J l A L l - f 9Iro n , >h,od a n d C hain . The " G o u ld 's Iro n T a m p s" s ta n d u n r iy a U c d .

a n d th e " W ins h ip H'ood T u m p ," ta k e s

1 tic le a d it) t h e .North-went, as h u n d r e d s can testify w ho a re u s iu g lUetu in tt i is c o u n ty A e get n e a r ly all o u r goods in cur loud lots, t h u s sa v in g la rg e ly in f re igh ts , w hich we

. l ° <1V!,n " U 'l < u ;i,''VhIo.Vu ;rs, 'all<l o n la rg e sa les we can afford to s i l l , an d w ill ro ft ts p rofits MJRtJAM I, b e l e lv l n g in th e o ld m o t to , “ (.Juicl: sa le s a n d sm a ll

2ST O TS.O TJB Z.E T O S H O W G O O D S ,

Chandeliers,

Gasoline Stoves,

Oil Stoves,

Street Lamps,

,°f, ,,olr we sba,U oVen ln to s < * y o u ,a m l . - o rd ia l lv i n v i t e . m , nos of f r ie n d s to call a n d see o u r I m m e n s e s to c k of goods, D on’t ,.„-get tiie place , a t '

T h e o n ly B r ic k S to r e in T o w n . *~gZ$SCooper’s Central Lamp and Oil Store,

.9 * ■

« .J t • 'MC • MR a t I i ; t * • 9Bloomington, Illinois.

D E A L E R IN

CHRIS. GUNTHER,

Lath, Shingles, Fence Posts,SASH, DOORS, BLUTDS, HAILS,

P a t e n t H n i l i l i i i f P a p e r ,

D ealer in a n d M a n u fa c tu r e r of

„LIM E, H A IR . C E M E N T ,

ter, Brick. Stone S M

/ pt i« i tv &*' ' . "Jm ' i T'An v -v- —

I > . . . I * - 'V \ . ,- ' i t V

i .. i * *■/ Li.c i i sui’N ’(ju-tt i r s l a . v r a L ; CiJ .

r i , *S<*i .V iio d W f-c G A ' .

A large stock of the celebrated

I, F. TEMPLE 8 , SON'S

P U M P S!- a * b . * * < Cl . W n W r * n f . A '

} « l y - ,# i’ - .- W-*

— A N D —

E A V E SPOUTING.Constanly on hand,

Garry the News to Mary.Great Reduction la the Prtoe of

The “ NevAmeiican” Sewing Machines.C A S H or 0 . 0 . D . tor the

NEW AMERICAN,N o . 6 .

T h e same Machine formerly____ __ _ cold a t $ M .

$45 FOB h i . I , M O P LEAF.T he sam e Machine form erly sold At $75

Th» “ Nr* A m r l u ” I. th . only fWwta* Mk Um wMtk ka. >8KI,r rilRKADINQ SHUTTLE. ' 'Th* B«l F.roUj K**1d, W»ohln« la tk* W«rM: l. aakly *• mot n t M of t rim, tml w ll do m a . work wttk k a 1*1

looraod. Labor thanl)o« IOtg«l$«tA t t h e R e d O f f i c e W e s t o f t h © D e p o t . * "I™™ j . g . M oKENNBV, M a n a g t r ,

O fllo*. 8 4 4 W i ib a a U A v e . , C h loago .

ParagrftplM of all -Sorts.Tbd com apd potton props of Tex­

as are )ii splp|)tiid concjitiofl.

Massachusetts pays out $5,6Q9,- 919 par annum for f&rm wa^es.

An admiimt ration paper is to be started at Washington

Utah farmers are harvesting their barley, which is a good crop.

The only things that go best when they are perfectly tired, are wheels.

Five hundred acres are planted in tobacco in Knox county, Tennessee.

Lady Thorn, the famous trotting mare died at Trenton, July 1.

Mr. Beecher has reduced his sala­ry as editor of the Christian Union from $10,000 to $5,000.

D A M P S and OXDS !

s u p e r io r I llwni I ,m tlng Oils an d ev e ry v a r ie ­ty ol goods p e r ta in in g to th* I .am p an d Oil Bus iness . I.argeat. a s s o r tm e n t and lowest p r ice in c e n t r a l I l linois . Large c h a n d e l ie r s for i ( lurches. H alls , S tores , Ac., a specialty , a l

115 Front stree*corner Center. Opposite New Pose Office Building.

Harness & Saddles!C olla rs , H flips, 'B rid les, d c .

REPAIRING PROMPTLY EXECUTED.

All w ork w a r r a n t e d of t h e b e s t m a te r i a l o \ n o c h a rg e . Com e a n d see a n d s a v e m o n e y .

I \ I '- 'V 'lK I II. - ILLIN OIS

Bennington. Vt., boasts of a cow that has dropped four calves at one birth.

Three acres of cucumbers on the vines near Savannah, Ga., sold this year for $1,250.

A Florida p«ach orchard yielded 1,800 baskets of peaches this season — the first bearing year.

The cane brake lands in Alaba­ma are much in favor, and new plan­tations are being opened on them.

A man and his son iu Mass., have married sisters, the father taking the younger.

Miss Thackery, a writer of nov­els, is soon to be married to a man many years her junior.

A crop of sixty-five acies of rye on the farm of Col. Reynolds near Frankfort, K y., was cut recently.

Another bank faildre—this time in St. Louis. And three more in the same place since that was writ­ten.

Three hundred convicts in Joliet prison conspired to escape last week but the plot having been discovered its consumation was prevented.

Mr. Sibley, for twenty-one years chief librarian of Harvard college, and for nine years previously assis tant, has resigned.

The Chinese leaving Hong Kong, in 187Cl for this country were 5,135 less than in the year before, and on­ly fifty-two were women.

A slaughter of dogs is threatening hut remember that every dog killed

1 eaves ten thousand fleas to he taken of and amused.

Jennie June is preparing for the American News Company a series hooks on household economy, fur­nishing, decorations, etc.

The value of agricultural pro dtacts in Kansas this year will ex­ceed that of last year by noarly $ 2 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 .

Tramps in the State of New York steal the old hats and coats placed in the fields for scarecrows, at which the farmers complain.

The United States occupies the third place on the list of hop.grow­ing countries. G erm an/ taking the lead and England ranking socond.

The wool clip of Montana is con eiderably larger this year than last, when it was about 600,000 pounds, netting the Bheap owners $150,000.

Wheat of last year is still being received at Le Sueur, Minn. Farm- eas have been holding in back on account of the uncertainty of crops from the grasshopper scourge.

There has been a temperance cftinpmeeting at Pino Bluff. R ey­nolds and Murphy were thore, and there were about as many speakers as there were people in the audience.

L. C. SPEICHBR,M s *a fa o to r« r o f ;

SPRING WAGONS1th wood Or I ro n a x ­

el m a n y m a d e , a n d a r e a*

.. __________ igntTh a r in e ra , deal w i th y o u r m e ch a n ic* a t

hom e a n d i t will a lw a y s pay yo u .

F L O W S P O L I S H E D

A n d g ro u n d m th e b *at o f sty le . Shovel* tem pered and po lU hed . S tr ic t a tte n tio n paid to re laying P low *. Old P lo w * m ade aagood aa new by p u ttin g n ew polnta, heel*

> done i tand landaldea on, w hich w il l be done in good Htyle.

Horse Shoeing a Specialty.l i l a c k sm ith ln g of al l k in d d o n e o n the )

sh o r te s t no tice , a n d W arran ted .

Give me a Call.L. C SP E IC H E R ,

Chatsworth, - - Illinois.

TH E BOSS

fW . S . W a k e lin ,

The m o s t e x te n s iv e d ea le r In al l k in d s of

FLOUR, SALT, WOODEN WARE WILLOW-WARE, CROCKERY,

GLASSWARE A QUEENSWARE.I a lw a y s h a v e on h a n d a n endles* v a r ie ty oLA M PS A N D L A N T E R N S !

I m a k e a spec ia l ty of

C H O I C E F L O U RAnd sh a l l keep th e b es t b r a n d s of W in te ra n d S p riug W heal F lour, G r a h a m F lo u r , Oat Meal a n d Ce'orn Meal, by th e sack , barre l o r car load, a n d g u a r a n te e d to g ive ea tls fac tion .The Very Best Fresh Roasted and

Ground Coffees and Spices con­stantly on hand, Give

me a (Sail.

IV. H. WAKE UN;Chatsworth, - - Illinois

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C a n ’t be m a d e by ev e ry ag e n t every rnoulb in th e b us iness we fu rn ish , b u t those w illing to w o rk can e a rn a dozen d o l la rs a d ay r igh t in th e i r

localities. No room to e x p la in her*. Business p le a sa n t a n d h o n o ra b le . W om en, boys a n d girls do as w ell as m e n . We will fu rn is h you a co m p le te ou tf i t free. The busi­ness p ay s b e t te r t h a n a n y t h in g else. We will hear ex p e n se of s t a r t in g you. P a r t ic u la r s free. W ri te an d see F a rm ers a n d m e c h a n - les, th e i r sous an d d au g h te rs , a n d all classes In need of p ay in g w o rk a t hom e, should w ri te to tyi an d lea rn al l a b o u t th e w ork a t once. Now Is th e t im e . D o n 't d e lay . A d ­dress T ruk 4 Co., A ugusta , M a ine1

The GreatesH M edlcal Discovery since the C reation of Man, o r since

the Com m encement of the C h ristian E ra.

T h ere n ev e r h a s been a t im e w h e n th e h e a l in g of so m a n y d if fe ren t d iseases h a v e been caused by o u tw a r d a p p l ic a t io n as th e

Ereseu l , I t is a n u n d is p u te d fact t h a t over a l f of th e e n t i r e p o p u la t io n of tu e globe Ire-

so r t to th e use of o rd in a ry p laste rs .Dr . M elviw’b Ca p s ic u m P orous P labters

a re acknow ledged by a l l w h o h a v e used th e m , to ac t q u ic k e r t h a n a n y o th e r p la s te r th e y ev e r before tr ied , a n d t h a t o n e o f these

Bla s te rs w ill do m o re rea l se rv ic e t h a n a u n d re d of th e o r d in a r y k i n d , All o tb e r

p la s te rs a re slow of ac t io n , a n d r e q u i r e to be w orn c o n t in u a l ly to effect a cure; b u t w i th these It Is e n t i re ly d iffe ren t; th e I n s t a n t one Is app l ied th e p a t i e n t w il l feel i t s effeot,

P h y s ic ia n s in a l l ages h a v e th o ro u g h ly tested a n d well k n o w th e effect o f C a p s ic u m . A nd I t h as a lw ays been m o re o r less used as a m ed ica l ag e n t for a n o u tw a r d a p p l i c a t io n , b u t I t Is on ly of Very r e c e n t d a t e t h a t It* a d ­v an tag e s In a p o rous p la s te r h a v e been dies covered. Being, h o w e v e r , co nv inced of th e w onderfu l cu re s effected by D r . Me l v i n ’s Ca p s ic u m P orous P l a s t k k s , a n d th e i r *n p e r lo r l ty over a l l o th e r p la s te rs , th e y now ac tu a l ly p resc ribe th e m , in t h e i r p rac tice , for su c h disease* a s r h e u m a t i s m , p a in in th e h ack a n d s ide , a n d a l l each cases as h a v e re q u ir e d th e use o f p la s te rs o r l i n im e n t . Af­te r you h a v e t r ie d o th e r p la s te r s a n d l i n i ­m e n ts a n d th e y h a v e fa i led , a n d y o n w a n t a o e r ta in cure, ask your d r u g g is t for D r . M ao V o t ’s Ca psicu m P orous PliASTKM. Y o u ca n h a rd ly b e l iev e y o u r o w n c o n v ic t io n s of i t s w o n d er fu l effects. A lth ou gh ‘p o w e r fu l a n d q u ic k In Its ac t io n y o u can re ly on Its sa fe ty

t h e h io s t d e l ica te person t o w ea r , as I t Isfor ifree fro m lead and o th e r poisonous m a te r ia l co m m on ly used In th e m a n u fa c tu re o f o rd in ­a ry plasters. One t r ia l is a su ffic ien t g u a r­an tee o f Its m e rits , an d one p la s te r w il l sell hundreds to yo u r frien d s. .

Ask your drugg ist B . A . Bangs A O©., for D R . M E L V IN ’S C A P S IC U M PO HO U8 P L A S ­T E R . and tak e no o ther; or on reoelpt o t 25 cents for one, t l - fo r five , o r |2 for a

dozen th e y w ill be m a ile d post paid to a n y address in the U n ite d states o r Canadas.

MANUFACTURED BY TUB

Novelty Plaster WorksLowell, Maas., 1J. 8 . A .,

G. E. M ITC H ELL, Proprietor,

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i )ti am i itltM- vl iv leave Clieuoa as follow

GOING I E xp ress Mail, No. I, a t Express, No. 3, a t 3 31 a No. 5, a t 11 43 a. m . Tli a t T 40 p. m. T hrough I il in. s to c k Express, sVouk Express, No. 17, F re igh t, No. 10, fit 7 15 3

GOING fE xpress Mall. No, j , a t Express, No. 4, sit 1 2 : press. No (i, a t 4 2! Freigllt, No. 12. at t! 2o o No. 14. a t 1010 p. m. Th a t 3 34 a m. Through F it. in . W ay Freight. No

.1. C. M e5 K»S. CHARLTON, Gen.

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Ki. i b i s t ru iq has It SLEEPING OAR, w ith P eo r ia to I n d ia n a p o l i s .

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t h is Is th e only ro u te wit of s le ep e rs .

If you ta k e theE B A " ONE ch a n g e o f O a ts .

A ddress th e A gent, an il New Map F o lder, g iv in g 'llow to reach .'he E ast an

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J O B F R O T T O T G ,

DJBALKR IN

Staple and Fancy Groceries!A. DAFFAN’S

Livery & Feed Stable( J. Gunsul’a Old Stand, )

/ \Call at tfie

“ Plaindealer" Office.

Crockery, Glass & Queensware,Woodenware,

CANNED & DRIED FRUIT,C IG A R S A TOBACCO, 1

A nd e v e ry th in g k e p t In a F irs t-c la ss Gro- | C h d t S W O r t h , - - J t f ,ee ry S tore.

iiu.iir-T marAw m e n K.ttj Homes boarded on very reason-able terms. Parties wishing to drive into the country will find good teams and buggies at my stable.

R em em ber th e p lace , o p p o site S ti l lw e lls , W arehouse .

My M otto I s Fair D ealing .

QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS.,L. MET TE,

* ID ealer In

F a n c y G ro c e r ie s IJU ST NORTH OF TH E DEPOT. I

A lurije s to ck ol F ru its , Nuts, C audles P ies ' C akes, Ac., a lw a y s on h a n d . A good

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0. SANFOKD,

l i n r y , M S S a l t S t i l ,I

In c o n n e c tio n . Ice C ream , L em onade an d ! S odaw nter. C igars or all th e best b rands

W arm M eals * <01 h au rs .

CHATS WORTH, ILL.

T ra n sp o r ta t io n fu rn is h e d to a n y par t of the co u n try , on qu ick t im e . Horses boarded by the day or week.

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All kinds of Job Work, such as

letter Heads, Note Heads,

F o r t i e k e t s o r f u r th e r in f o rm a t io n , ap p ly to A. F . Oshoks , Agent, c h a ts w o r t l i .A. I,. HOPKINS, Gen M anager.

H C TOWNSEND, Gen. Ticket Agt

C H I C A G O A, A L T O N R A I L R O A D .

On and liter M iv d<nii, I leave C henoa as follow*:

GOING NORTH. E x p ress Mail, No. I , a t r. 40 p. m

*:r,7 t r a i n s w i l l

E l g b t n l n gExpress, No. 3, a t 3 34 a. m D enver E xpress , No. s, a t 11 41 a . m . T h rough F re igh t, No. 11, i a t 7 40 p. in. T hrough F re igh t , No. 13, a t 1" la ,l m. Stock E xpress , No. lf>, a t 1 4a a m . j SVook Express , No. 17, a t -1 aa a, in. '1 ay J F re igh t, No. 19, at 7 1* a m.

GOING K O t'TH .E xpress Mall. No. a, a t 1 17 p. m L ig h tn in g Express, No. 4, at Id 57 a. m . D enver E x ­press. No <’>, at 4 oil p. m . Through F re igh t, No. 12. at ( i i o p . in . K ansas F re igh t. No. 14, a t 1010 p. in. T h rough F re ig h t , No. it), a t 3 34 a. in. Through F re ig h t . No. is. a t '■ on a . m. W ay F re igh t. N o .^h .a t 1 17 )i in,

.1. C. M cM ELUN. Gei|. Sup t. I d s . CHARLTON, Gen. T ic k e t Agent.

A II* ' opeHmd, T icket Agent, i

E A S T and S O U T H !TAWK TH E ,

Statements,Bill Heads, Cards,

Sale Bills, Posters,

Hand Bills, & c . ,& c . ,Executed on short notice and at

reasonable prices.

DEALERS IN

Drugs, Medicines & Chemicals,Dye-Stuffs, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Fancy Goods, Toilet

Soaps, and Powders, Hair Oils, Handkerchief Extracts, heather Dusters, Clothes, Crumb, Hair, Tooth

and Nail Brushes, Painters’ Dusters',Varnish, Paint, and Striping

Brushes, Whitewash Brushes,

T R U S S E S A H D S U P P O R T E R S .M anufac tu re r of

IIAIB OIL, PO M ADES. CAM PHOR ICE, COLD CREAM , COL­OGNE, E X T R A C T S FOR H A N D K E R C H IE F S , F L A V O R ­

ING E X T R A C T S, TOILET & TOOTH P A S T E S A N D PO W DER S,,& c.

PROPRIETARY MEDICINES!I.hiigs Ague Cure, Pectoral 'Ionic, Cough Syrup, Cough Lozenges.lJlack-

beny Carminative Balsam, Peruv. Bark Bitters, Essence Jam. Ginger, Tasteless Castor Oil, King of Pain Liniments,

White Pine Gum Strengthening Plaster,Dandelion Pills. Green Ointment,

Condition Powders forHorses a ml *

Catt le, Neurtalizing <,’ordial. Ere.We h ave th e best stock of n a t iv e a n d im p a r te d .

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W I T S T I E S -A -IsTID L I Q U O R SK\ e r b rough t to t hi* tow n , a n d sold for m e lienl use on lv . W. a lw a y s keen on h a n d

a la rge stock of

Paints , Oils, Varnishes , Glass an d Put ty ,P h y s i c i a n ’s P r e s c r i p t i o n s Accurately d ispensed at all hou rs , d ay or n igh t .

C H E W I N G AND SM OK IN G TOBACCOSI U L \ N K l»OOk>, \\ A KLK'TS, t \ \ I J< i . \ E , I * K \ s \ \ D lh PtM’K o lJ i )>, l'*EMTT*‘s‘ p n f 'K K 'l

. BoOKs. -Viso llin-Cuih*i v. c un^isi jnjr ,,f u* \ / . »u^, k M \

W A L L R ’JA Lr-R IL U ." ' ’i th ol new p a t t e r n s for s p r i n g t r a d e , W iinh.w F ix tu re s , i 'a ia r. c lo th ainM oiia- i

, u r ta in s . i ords, ' lassels , . AM p a p e r t r im m e d ady lor h a n g in g , free o f c h a rg e .

MIXTUBBS.

Female tramp* ar« the novelty in W goonsin.

Auburn prison has forty lawyers, and thrse printers.

The Michigan iron-ore shipments this year foot up 415,488 tons.

There were nine deaths in Chica­go from scarlet fever last year.

Revenue warrants to t he amount of #10,000 were sold on Friday of last weak.

Teetotalers motto— Don’t letyour spitits go down.

To get on the wrong taefc—go barefooted through a newly carpet­ed room.

PERFECTIONATTAINED AT LAST!

A TRIAL Will IN8URE ITS POPULARITY EVERYWHERE*

BOOKS, STATIONERY, TOYS,i 0 ° i - M a c h i n e .

3 DAIITST T R A I N 'S

X T o . 2

AM FOLLOW S:

L eaves P eo ria , l hi A. M; Uloom- in g to n 4 16 A M. M ansfield .*■ 42 A

M. C h a m p a ig n 8 30 A M. ; D a n v ille S go A M. A rrives. I n d i a n a p o l i s , II 3 5 a m ; C ln C l n n a t l , 4 3 0 p , m ; D a y t o n , 4 5 5 P m ; L o U i s v i l l e , v ia < r a w h .rd s . iilc 7 4 {s p rrt c o n n e c tin g w ith t r a in s for tlic h a s t

n T ills tra iu has R E C L IN IN G (.'H A IR SLEEPING OAR, w i th S ta te Rooms from P eo r ia to I n d ia n a p o l i s . 1

Notions, Periodicals, Etc.

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DIMPLES.i I will 111 nil (Free) the receipt for prepur

ing a simple Vf.cv.'i Aiii.E Bai.m that will remove Tan FBKl'KLES, PlMI’i.ES ami

| Blotches, leaving the skill soft, clear and | beautiful; also instructions for producing a , luxuriant growth ol hair on a bald head or smooth face Addiess Ben Vandelf & Co.. Box dPil. No r> Wooster St .N. Y.

WHITE SHUTTLE SEW1HB MACHINE.W h en on ce u sed w il l re ta in its

p la c e forever.WE EXCHANGE MACHINES.

Send y o a r o ld -fa sh io n e d , cu m b ersom e, h ea v y -ru n n in g , w o m a n - k i l l in g m a ch in e to ns, and w e w i l l a l lo w y o u * 2 5 for It, as p art p a y m e n t f o r o n e o f onrs.

IT IS CELEBRATED FOR ITS ADVANTAGES. IN THAT IT IS ONE OF THE LARGEST SEWING MACHINES MANUFACTURED,—ADAPTED ALIKE TO THE USE OF THE FAMILY OR THE WORK­SHOP. IT HAS THE LARGEST SHUTTLE, WITH A BOBBIN THAT HOLDS ALMOST A SPOOL ( THREAD.

THE SHUTTLE TENSION IS ADJUSTAEiL WITHOUT REMOVING THE SHUTTLE FROM I - MACHINE.

TH IS M ACHINE IS SO C O N S T R U C T G T H A T T H E POWER IS APPLIED DIREC T ' OVER T H E NEEDLE, TH U S ENABLING IT TO SEW T H E HEAVIEST M ATER IAL WITH UN­EQUALED EASE. IT IS VERY SIM PLE IN l r 5 CONSTRUCTION, DURABLE AS IRON AND STEE L CAN M AKE IT , A L L ITS WEARING PARTS CASE-HARDENED OR STEEL, A .. ' INGENIOUSLY PROVIDED W ITH M L / M3 FL ? TAKIN G UP LO ST M O TIO N , SO WE ATE JUS­TIFIED IN

Warranting Every Machine for 3 Y e a rs .IT IS T H E LIG HTEST AMD EASIF7T-FUNVIN M ACHINE IN T H E MARKE T. IT IS, AL c , T H M O S T ELABO R ATELY ORMAN. i_N I F <: PR ETTIEST M ACHINE EVER p ro L C L E D

WITH ALL THESE ADVANTAGES. IT ;■ y \_\' FROM $1 5 TO 125 LESS THAN 0THL?- FTC, ■ CLASS MACHINES.

EXCLUSIVE CONTROL OF TERRITORY GIVEN TO AGENTS.

EXTRAORDINARY INDUCEMENTS L U.e.clj FOR CASH OR ON CREDir.

SEND FOR CIRCULARS AND TERMS TOKWv*:

AT I Hi: POST-OKKICF

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\ r r iv e s , Id lU A X A I 'O B ls (I 00 p in. \)IN<T.n- \ ATI in 20 p m , Louisville , 11- lo p in, N ash ­v i l l e ,8 25 a m , D ay ton 11 16 p in, Columbus 12 45 a in, W heel ing 7 35 a m , n t t s h n r g 7 -T*. a in; B a lt im ore 7 35 p m. W a s h in g to n 11 07 p in P h i l a d e l p h i a 7 20 p in. New York IMS <'leve land 7 3o a nr, Bulliilo 1 10 p m, A lb an y 12 45 a m . B ut oiw n igh t o u t to p r inc ipa l F a s te rn c i t ies , ( f l i c k e r Mine th a n th is is NO T m a d e b y o u r co m p e t i to rs . ,,*

Leaves P eo r ia 7 20 p ni, Bloom- ■lAl U « w in g to n It 3e p in. ' lnnsf le ld 10 05 p m . C h a m p a ig n 11 40 p in. D anvil le I 24 a m* A rr iv e s a t in d ln n a p o l ls 4 20 a in , C in ­c in n a t i 845 a in. Lonlsvjrle .8 30 a m.- Nash­v ille 8 55 p m . D ayton 9 35 a m . ColutOkus, 1 2 . 3 0 p m . W hee l ing . 8 25 p m . Plttfthixrg 7 15 0 11 1. B a l t im o re 7 45 a m . W ash 1 Ora ton .9 1 2 a m. P h i la d e lp h ia , 7 36 o m ; New York , 10 35 a m . C leve land 2 45 p tn . 'Buffalo 8 p in. A lbany 0 20 a m . B os ton 2 4P p m.

rills' t r a in h as H eo lln jng C hair s le e p in g C ar w ith s ta le Rooms, w h ich ru n th ro u g h to C in c in n a ti v ia H a m ilto n . , j,,

Nos. 4 Riid m a k e close co n n ec tio n a t Dkn- v llle . reace lo g T e rra H afite , V iiieen n eb .K v - n n sv ille , L afay e tte . L o g an sp o rt, I t. W 'avne, T oledo a n d D etro it in a d v a n c e of o th e r

^Y X ^V -A -lsrT JY a-SI© - GT h e I. B. & W , Is the on ly l in e to In d tg n j

sp o ils , ru n n lu g Its t r a in s tjiro u g li to th a t p o in t w ith o u t onange . I t Is th e sh o r te s t, eon* sequen t ly m a k es th e sa m e c p n n e c tlo n s as 1$ e o m n e tl to rs w Tthhut ex cessiv e Speed.

th is U th e only ro u te w ith TW O d a lly lin e s o f S leepers.

IF yon ta k e tihet. B A XV. R oute y o u sav e ONK, c h a n g e ofjC ais

C h a t s w o r t h , III.

FiTf). Jt LY 23, 1671.

NVK CLAIM r o K THE IMPROVED

WHY IS THE

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Still they come ! Senator Couklim> will be iu our mulat the corniuj,1 week. He a tirrn friend of Geueral Grant. Thomas A. Hendricks is ulreudy here and in not back­ward iu hie addressees to Geueral Grant. Zach Chandler is here also, but from Paris where he has been ••shopping,” Ex-Gover­nor Warmoth will be hero in about ten days. Mr. Edward Atkinson will be here it about the same time. Mr. Washburn may also put in an appearance from Paris, too. And, “why should not a meeting like this make amends, ’ as l oin Moore sings, tor the many long years they have gone astray? Yes! Stranger things have happen­ed to the Presidency of the United States.1 can very well remember a very curious one, and I make no breach of faith in now repeating it for the first time before the public. When Mr. Buchanan was minister at the court a plan was arranged here for his becoming President of the United States. That plan was originated and drawn up by Mr. 1'ernardo Wood, and put into details by Daniel Sickles and the late James Gordon Bennett. Here is one main feature of these details. All the arrangements were perfect­ed in Loudon. Mr. Wood was to get Vir­ginia to lead in the southern van for Buch­anan. To this end Mr. Wood- was to go Co Richmond ostensibly to deliver a Ipcture on •Alexander Hamilton and his Tipies ” Ac­

companied by Mrs. Wood and Dan Sickles they journeyed on the wny by slow and ensy stages, stopping at lthihulelphia, Baltimore and Washington, gathering political honey from every opening Democrat. At Wash­ington it was arranged thatall of Mr. Woods addresses should be forwarded intact by mail to the New York Herald, set up in type and be ready to come out on then ext moru- uing after its delivery iu Richmond. Being oue of the party to this project, I speak from the chair. We all went to Richmond, and were followed by a charming army of newspaper reporters. An immense aud ie-uce assembled to hear Mr. Wood who, almost, there stood on his native heath. Virginians came from all parts of the State

men of power iu those days. The lec­ture, admirably worded to soothe tee south was delivered; New York correspondents Hew to the telegraph office; but the absence ot the Herald man was noticable, and com­ments grew loud and curious. “What was up ? Mr. Fernando Wood, the mayor of New York, and favorite of the Herald, Dan­iel Sickles, a great favorite of Mr. Bennett’s and no oue to represent the American Thunderer?” That night Mr. Wood met the leading Virginia Democrats, and it was decided upon a delegation being committed lor Mr. Buchanan, and as Virginia went, so the south would go. The deed was done. The following forty-eight hours, and Vir­ginia was flooded with nearly sixty thousand copies of the New York TZendd, with three •’ides ot it lull of Mr. Wood’s address on “Alexander Hamilton and his Times !" The whole south rang with it and its points, Rnd Mr. Bennett announced it as one of those journalistic as well as political roups he so much delighted iu. Now would it uot be less strange if London should once more be the meeting place to discuss, mold and shape another candidate for the presidency .it the present Mr. J. G. Bennett be an aider aud abettor, as ho is now in London? May not the triumphal entry of" General Grant into England be the means of an extry- triumphal entry to the White house one* more ? 1 didn’t know if there was a prophot :u my family; if there was I have not profit­ed b v him,but I am strongly urged to predict that the third tirrn of Geueral Grant is not a buried theme, and the overntions of royal­ty may arouse the pride of republicanism, aud the man who once more may make the occasion ! Worse could be done. I am no political!: don’t know how to begin; never iuld or wish to hold office; but methinks there are wider guesses of the truth of this visit of General Grant to Europe than my above predictions. Is see many little straws that indicates the way the wind blows across the atlamic.—London Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.

widowers, aud more than one marriage. In case marriage resulted, the 7hues stood ready to fulfill each and every pledge it had made iu regard thereto.

The committee iu charge of the general distribution were requested to tuko charge of the drawing, aud soon both wheels were iu lively motion After the snbscriberti' aud the premium tickets were mixed thor­oughly the distribution commence. The name and residence of each gentleman who won a prize was auuouuced. The Chair­man, from the photographs before him, se­lected the picture of the lady who was won, aud, without giving her name, gave a brief description of the lady as she appeared in her photograph, also reading some portions of her letter descriptive of herself, but iu no case revealing the name of the lady,

The novel drawing was throughout apleas- aut and decorous affair. The name of the fortunate gentlemen will be found in this issue. The 'limes will to-day notify by mail each of its fair special premiums of the gentle me u whose dame fortune has linked with her own; aud will also, when authorized by the ladies, forward their pho­tographs and letters to the lucky bachelors aud widowers. — Kansas City 'limes.

T h e Suag d i a l Soothed th e D y in g P i a n i s t .

A death which has occasioned much com­ment in Paris was that of the countess Potockt. She was a sister of Madame de Beauveeu aud Count de Komar, aud also the devoted wife of the old Count Potoki, a grand seigneur, well known in Paris. She was not, however, the mother of CouBt Gregory, who was killed at the seige of Paris by a small bombshell, or of Count Mellon.

The Countess was a remarkable woman; she consecrated her whole life to art, and it is probable that had she been poor instead of being the possessor of millions, her name would have ranked with those of Malibrun and Sontag. Her friendship for Chopin is woll known, anil the musician at this time was not then considered the master he is to­day. In 1840 she heard that her beloved friend and instructor was fatally ill, and she at once prepared to make the long jour­ney neceseary to see him beol're he should breathe his last.

Weary with fatigue she arrived at the bedside of the then dying man. Alas! he had already lost consciousness; the stupor of death was upon him. She knelt beside him and prayed for One last look, one last word. Alter a time the dying man’s eyes opened; he fixed on hern long, earnest look. Finally, a light came over his countenance, and at last ho recognized her. He smiled faintly aud murmured, “Sing, sing !” Sadly his noble visitor com­plied, and going to the piano sang indeed with team in her voice. When she stopped, the dying man, whose face was fairly illum­inated, only said, "Sing ! sing again !” Aud she sang the music the master loved. Could auything more touching be imagined than the friends of the dying man kneeling be­side the bed of the dying musician, while this noble dame, this great artist, sang with an inspired voice a psalm of MareeJJo--er cantisto of the Virgin ? Ouco again she stopped, and turning his eyes towards her, the poet murmured, “It is beautiful,” and with these last words the spirit left the body.

It is supposed that he was about thirty years old at the time of his death, for he had no record of his birth nor any data to go by. except a watch given him by Catalain, and on the case was this inscription: “To the little pianist, Chopm, at the age of ten years.”

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The great special premium distribution for unmarried gentleman snbscribeis to the Tunes came off yesterday at the Opera House, as announced, and was a genuine success. Between 2 aud 3 o’clock the audience at the Opera House was largely increased by the presence of many ladies and gentleman, attracted thither by the matrimonial draw­ing set for 3 oclock. Every face wore a look of pleased expectation, and shortly after 3 o'clock the general premium distribution was announced.

Mr. Frank Allen, stepping to the front of the stage, said that, in behalf of the Times, he would state that the drawing, though itartlingly novel, was a genuine one. One hundred and sixteen young ladies from far and near, had requested the Times to place their names on its list ol matrimonial prem­iums, and with their requests had sent let­ters. descriptive of themselves, their age, looks, accomplishments, etc., and had at the same time sent their photographs and the consent of their parents that theyshould do so. In addition to this number there were many young ladies who had asked a place on the special premium list, but had uot as yet sent their photographs. From the mass of letters received 124 had been selected, aud their writers would be termed list No.2, those who had sent photographs forming list No. 1. The list No. 1 would comprise 119 young ladies, and the list No. 5 would comprise 124 young ladies, com­mencing with premium No. 200, anil con­tinuing to premium No. 325. Nearly 1,000 gentleman subscribers to the Times had ap­plied for tickets in the special drawing, each one of whom had over his own signa­ture stated that he was an unmarried man, and desired to participate in the distribu­tion.

Mr Allen added that the Times was authorized to transmit the photograph and accompanying letter of every lady premium to the gentleman who won their numbers, with the exception of some few young lad­ies who desired to hear from the 7lines in regard to the gentlemen before their photo­graphs could be sent to the fortunate bach­elor or widower. It was expected that a good many friendships would result from this interchange of correspondence between the fair premiums and Txmes bachelors and

W i t h o u t a ! tew «;iapcr.

A contemporary thus strikes the key note, and reaches the truth in this matter in the following: Nothing presents a sadder com­mentary upon the present condition of so­ciety than the large number of families, both in town and country, but more espec­ially the latter, that subscribe to no paper of any kiud. Hundreds nud thousands of families are thus growing up utterly ignor­ant of what is transpiring iu the world around them—ignorant of the mighty events of the day. But who can tell the vast amount of iujury that is being inflicted upon the vising generation—those who are to take our place iu the busy world at no distant day—growing up without any knowledge of the present, or any study of the past, this ignorance, too, being imbued into them by tke sanction of those who should, and doubtless do, know better, did they only think of the inlurious effect of their insane course, Let the head of every family think of this, aud place in the hands of th*se for whom he is responsible the meftns of acquiring some knowledge of the moving panorama in which we act our diff­erent parts.

ATairy Story.A trewehdous scandal in high life

has recently set all London to tat­tling. The dataila thereof have ouly reached Paris within the last few days. Possibly, they may nyt have crossed the Atlantic. Of course I could not think of giving them, but will tell you, instead, a pretty little fairy story.

Once upon a time a lovely Princess came out of the North to marry a gallant young Prince, whd was heir to the throne of a great nation. Now the gallant young Prince aforesaid was not quite so steady as his dotiug mamma aud his future subject might have wished, but everybody said, “O, the Princess is so beautiful and gen­tle that he will be sure to love her very dearly, and then everything will bo sure to go on right.” But, instead of devoting himself to his charming wife, who was so good and gracious that there never was anything seen like her, the Prince went a what-you- may-calling after strange goddesses, and was not a bit better after his marriage than before. At last ho fell very sick aud everybody was sorry for him, and the Princess nursed him tenderly, and everbody said: “Now he will be a better man forever­more.” But, like another potentate of a very hot country, who, when he fell ill, resolved to enter a monastery, and, when he got well, renounced all thought of monastic seclusion, the Prince soon went to frolicking a lit­tle worse than before. And so it chanced that the Princess, his wife, happened to drop in to pay him a lit­tle visit, found one of the strange goddesses aforesaid installed in that innermost shrine which she had con­sidered consecrated to her own image. Whereupon she thought it would be a good idea to take a little trip to see hei brother, who was King of the Isles of Poesy (the same where Sap­pho loved and sung), with intent to journey onward to her own Northern home, and never, never to come back any more. So she went away in a very great hurry, and everybody said, “Why is the Princess in such haste to go and see her brother?” How­ever, the trouble was soon found out. But the poor, pretty Princess was not suffered to return to her own home, and take refuge with her fath­e r and mother, as a wife of meaner degree, who had been so insulted, Height have. For the royal mamma and her husband, and the Ministers of the Court, ami all others in auth­ority, so begged and prayed and commanded her to return that she came back at last. Aud the Prince met her in Babylon the Great, and they were seen at the theater togeth­er, aud went home together to the capital where the Prince’s mamma reigns, aud of course the Prince will recommence the same game at the very first opportunity.

It is wonderful what curious things do happen in fairy land sometimes.— Lacy Harper's Paris Letter to Phila­delphia Telegraph.

H ow to Chonae P ic tu re* for I loom i.

Most people know that light colors make rooms look larger than dark ones, though it is probable that few can entirely realize the wonderful difference between them un­til they have seen walls painted^ dark or the reverse. A light picture by the same law makes a room look larger, and a picture darker than the wall it is hung upon will reduce the size of the room, unless the lightness of the frame is sufficient to com­pensate for the difference. Perhaps the present decided taste for li^ht picturos is partly due to this. A rule in the arrange­ment of interiors may be deduced from these observations, which is, that when a room is smaTOrir than we should like it to be, we ought to hang very light pictures in it, and when it is uncomfortably large we should reduce it with dark ones. But there are other things to be considered. Pictures which represent narrow interiors do not enlarge rooms very much, because they convey a feeling of confinement; but land­scapes with vast distances enlarge rooms immensely. In engravings aud water-colors the margin has an important effect. The whiteness of it may beamplo compensation for the darkness of the print itself.—Ilam- erlon .

In a moral point of view the life of the agriculturist is the moat pnre and holy of any class of men: pure, because it is the moHt healthful, and viop can hardly find time to contaminate it, and holy because tt brings deity continually before bis view, giving him thereby the most exalted no­tions of supreme powor, and the fascinat­ing and onuearing viow of moral benignity. —[Lon! John Rnskin.

Kelieion in Lee’s Army.Rev. .1. William Jones writes in the

Philadelphia Weekly Times: As the great cavalry chief, General J. E. B. Stuart was quietly and calmly breath­ing out his noble life, he said to Pres­ident Davis,who stood at his bed-side: “I am ready and willing to die if God and my country think that I have ful­filled my destiny and discharged my duty.” Colonel Lewis Minor Cole­man, of the University of Virginia, who fell mortally wounded at first Fredericksburg,and lingered for some weeks in great agony, uttered many sentiments which would adorn the brightest pages of Christian experi­ence, and among other things, sent this message to his beloved chieftains: “Tell Generals Lee and Jackson that they know how a Christian soldier should live; I only wish they were here to see a Christian soldier d ie!” Not many mouths after vurd Jackson was called to “cross over the river and rest under the shade of the tree,” and left another bright illustration of how Christian soldiers of that army were wont to die. Colonel Wilie Pe- gram, “the boy artillerist,” as he was familiarly called, left the University of Virginia at the breaking out of the war as a private soldier, rose to the rank of colonel of artillery (he refus­ed a tender of promotion to the com­mand of an infantry brigade), upon more than one occasion elicited high praise from A. P. Hill, Jackson and Lee, and at the early age of twenty- two fell on the ill-fated field of Five- Forks, gallantly resisting the over­whelming odds against him. His last words wore: “I have done my duty, and now I turn to my Savior.”

—Tho fortune-hunter of our -day does not dig in the mines. H e mar­ries the widow of a California forty- niner.

No Literal Resurrection.There is absolutely no authority

whatever in scripture for the doc­trine of a literal resurrection of the buried flesh and bones. It is un- philosophicul unscientific, irrational unscriptural. It has nothing to commend it except to those who de­light to approve their faith by believr iug tho imponailie. It sprang his­torically from a low materialistic con­ception of tho spiritual world. It belongs to an intellectual condition that buries the tomahawk and the bow and arrows with the chief, that he may have them to use iu the spirit-land. It belongs to a mate­rialistic philosophy that indentifies the soul with the body, aud denies the existence of the one except in the braiu of the other. It is directly repudiated by Paul, by John, and by Christ. Animal nature is inherited in the body. In the spirit world there is neither marrying nor given in marriage. Weakness, weariness, decay, are essential characteris­tics of matter. In the spirit world there is no night, no weariness; aud no death, for no disintegration and decay. The body is flesh aud blood. In the spirit world is neither; for flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God.

The resurrection of Lazarrus aud other analogous cases throw' no light on the resurrection for the spiritual life.

Nor does tho resurrection of Christ indicate a literal resurrection of bod­ies which have been devoured by the earth aud mingled with clay. Christ arose from the dead in his own earthly body. It was the same body in xvhich be lived and which was crucified. His disciples did not be­lieve this at first; he demostrated the fact. He invited them to handle him, to fell the nail-print and spear- wouud; he took food and ate before them. But at the same time he dis­tinctly declared to them, “A spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have.” 'Whatever the spiritual body may be, we have Christ’s own words for it that the body in which he appeared to them w'asnot a “spiri­tual body.”

Our correspondent asks what be­came of this terrestrial body. We do not know, but we can venture an hypothesis. Paul tells us (in 1 Cor. xv.) that those who are living at the end of the world “shall be cliangod in a moment, iu the twinkle of nil eye.” “This corruptable must put oil iucorruption and this mortal must put on immortality.” It is per­fectly conceivable that this myster­ious change, which living bodies must then undergo, Christ’s body underwent at the moment of his as­cension; that be was thus both first- fruits of them that slept and of them that will not fall asleep, but shall still be waiting when the Lord comes. We do not assert this to have been tho case. We are not wise above what is written. But when one wiser than we aro asserts the repulsive dogma that the minutest particles of the decay corpse, disintegrated and taken up into vegetable and animal matter, and so scattered throughout the globe, are sought out and, by a mir- acolous sifting and sorting process, brought together again into a reju­venated and transformed body, and then cites as a triumphant demostra- tion of his hypothesis the fact that Christ rose from the dead in flesh and bones such as “a spirit hath not,” liis evidence is as unsatisfactory as his conclusion is unwelcome.— Beech­er's Christian Union.

A Walla Walla Child Claimed to be a Second Christ.

It is not generally known perhaps that there is a religions sect in Nevada which is styled the Morrisites. It is an off-shoot from Hormouism, and flourishes to considerable extent iu Carson valley of that State. The Car- son Valley News states that the last Summer an ancient pilgrim with long disheveled hair and disgusting ap­pearance. who olaimed to be the Prophet Daniel, preached to the Morrisites in Genoa. He informed the credulous Genoese of the second coming of Christ in the person of a child born in Walla Walla, W. T. This tale of the Prophet Daniel made such on impression on R. J. L ivings­ton, an old resident of Genoa, that he has sold all his property and has left for Walla Walla, that he mtff hereafter live au4 die by Christ. Jit appears that Livingston is not the only one in Carson valley who is in­fatuated with thffcfbelief, for recntly a great exodus from here to W ash­ington Territory lias taken plaoe. All of them say that they want to live and die near this new Christ.—Bed Bluff ( Cal.) Sentinel.

1 - ’ Hea?ta of the’ L6wly. . ' * "One day, three or four weeks ago

a gam in,'who ireenied ’tcu 'hwvo bo friend* in the world, w4s run over, by a vehicle on Gratiot avenue and? fat­ally injured. < After he/ had bee* in the hcepithl for a* week, a boy about his owh'Wge.and!sine; and looking Mr friendless and forlorn, called to ask about him and to leave an orange. Ho seemed much embarrassed, and would answer no questions. After that ho came daily, always bringing some­thing, if no more than an apple. Last week, when the nurse told him that Billy had no chance to get well, the strange boy waited around longer than usual, and finally asked if he could go in. He had been invited to many times before, but had always refused. Billy, pale, and weak, and emiciated, opened his eyes in wonder at sight of the boy, and before ho realized who it was, the stranger bent close to his face and sobbed:

“Billy can ye forgive a feller ? Wo was alius fighting and I was alius too much for ye, but I ’m sorry! Fore ye die won’t ye tell me ye haven’t any grudge agin me.”

The young lad, then almost in the shadow of death, reached up his thin white arms, clasped them around the other’s neck, and replied :

“D on’t cry, Bob—don’t feel bad ! I was ugly and mean, aud I was heaving a stone at ye when the wagon hit me. If yo’ll forgive me I ’ll forgive you, and I ’ll pray for the both ’o u s!”

Bob was half an hour late the mor­ning Billy died. When the nurse took him to the shrouded corpse he kissed the pale face tenderly and gasped:

“D —did he say auything about— about me ?”

“He spoke of you just before he died—asked if you were here,” re­plied the nurse.

“And may I go—go to the funeral ?”“You may.”And he did. He was the only

mourner. His heart was the only one that ached. No tears were shed by others, and they left him sitting by the new-made grave with heart so big that he could not speak.

If, under the crust of vice and ignorance, there are such springs of pure feeling and true nobility, who shall grow weary of doing good.— Detroit Tribune.

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How Virginia’s Whisky Law Works.

It may interest some to know just how a late law enacted by the Vir-* giniu legislature regarding the sale of liquor in bar-rooms operates. What is called a rigistcring appara­tus was provided for in the act, and is described as follows by the Lynch­burg Virginian. On one side is a crank, and on another dials like those of a gas metor. The bar-keep­er turns the crank round at every sale of a drink, a bell strikes, and the dial registers oue. The object of the device is to determine the amount of tax to be colleotod, at the rate of one cent on every drink. Although a heavy fine may be imposed for neg­lect to use these machines properly, or for tampering with them in any way—aud there are officers whose duty it is to detect such offenses— the belief is that they will not answer the purpose, because drinkers will generally connive at violations of the law.

—A San Francisco correspondent writes as follows: “ Under Mexican rule in California swine were a tab­ooed animal. But times have chang­ed, and the porcine now furnishes a meat which, prepared as hams and bacon, is largely consumed. It is a favorite meat of tho Chinese.”

—It has been made against the law for a postmaster to give a man’s letter to his wife. But the thing musn’t stop here; now we want a method to prevent her from sorting over the contents of his inside pocket and perusing his various correspon­dence while Morpheus is holding him in his arms.

—The blackberries are about ready to pick in Oeorgia, North Carolina and other Southern States. The lit­tle tow* of Salem, N. 0 ., containing scarcely 2,000 inhabitants, has ship­ped during three years over 3,000,000 pounds of blackberries, receiving for them new ly half a million dollars.

—The Indianapolis Journal says : “Lafayette P. Thompson, a young man who, owns a farm in Huntington county, Ind., near Antioch, walked into the Home for the Friendless at Fort Wayne, Sunday, and said he wanted to look at the girls there with a view ot choosing a wife. The girls were trotted out, but the first chosen wouldn't have Thompson. He then seleoted Annio Lysher, who gladly accepted him.

“Smohalla, the Dreamer,” the Prophet

The original, cans© of dispute with the Nefc Perces may be Bald to date from the treaty which Governor I, S. Stevens, of Washington Territory, made with the Nez; Perces and other tribes in Julie, 1857. At that time Governor Stevens refused to recog- nizo the hereditary chief of the Nez Perces, and practically elevated Law­yer, a cunning tractib^j Indian, to the chieftainship. The Nez Perces were then and are yet the most num- etyue ^ f £ uy.' of k ie tribes of that 'whole"region. They aro generally peaceful, and live quietly on the line aud extensive reservation on the Suuke and Clearwater Rivers, near the town ofijuawiston. Thqy culti­vate 'largo1 farihs, have inntiffidrable herds of horses and are generally a well-to-do people. But some of their tribe are “wild” Indians, and, instead of believing -with the majority of their brethren in the policy of a some­what civilized life they prefer to fol­low after the traditions and habits of their savage ancestor*. Among the chiefs who v^ry reluctantly signed the treaty of 1857 waft Joseph, the father of the chief of the same name who now heads, the outbreak. Old Joseph was not a Nez Perces. Ho was aCJayisachief. Yet be claimed the Wallowa valley and was recog­nized us a leader of the people. Some of the Nez Perces who were dissatis- lied with the treaty, but more with the conduct of Governor Stevens ele­vating Lawyer to the chieftaincy, measurably sided with Joseph, and the disaffected of still other tribes joined them, so as to swell the num­ber to somewhat formidable numbers. Before that time a very ounning In­dian bad begun to evolve a now faith or superstition among the Indians. He was known as Smohalla, or “The Dreamer!” 1 He had been taught by missionaries, and he turned what he had learned to account in a way he had never intended or expected. Of all the bible-lessons, the one ho most and particularly set store by is that which is contained in Judges vi and vii, as to Gideon and his band, re­duced from many thousand to only three hundred, overcoming the Mi- dianites. Smohalla preached to his tribe the doctrine ho derived from hie text, and inspired them to believe that, ’although the whites, or Midiun­ites, were powerful in numbers, yet could the Lord’s own people,Gideon’s band of three hundred—the Indians themselves—triumph over them and drive them from the land. During the Indian war of 1858, when the lateGeneval Wrighfcseverely whipped the Indians of that upper country, and obliged them to sue for peace, he put a stop to Sinohalla’s preach­ings and influence by keeping him a close prisoner. But after General, (or Colonel, as lie was then) W right made-peace, he allowed 4ho misehev- ioufc ‘YlreameF’ his liberty, on condi­tion that he should cease his efforts to propogute hiis' peculiar incendiary doctrine among the Indians, and un­til General f r ig h t woe called away from there, duringiour own civil war Smohalla found in ad v isab le to re­frain from openly seeking converts.

When ubout lihlf way, he met a fine looking mun, dressed in plain home- spun and driving u pair of mules. “Aui I on1 the road to ih e plantationof General Williams?” asked the messenger. “Yes, sir ; it is about a mile further on,” was the reply. “Is the general at home?1' ~ “No, Sir.” “Whore is he?” “I am the man.” “Don’t deceive me. I have an im­portant letter for Gen. Williams. If that is your name,” said the doubt­ing messenger, “here it is,” handing

letter to the general.Mr. Williams opened the letter,

and found, to his utter astonishment that, without his knowledge or con­sent, he had been elected governor of South Carolina. Ho took the mes­senger home, and entertained him for the night and named a time on which he would be in Columbia, the messenger returned. On the appoint­ed dav, n few minutes before twelve a man dressed in homespun and on horseback, rode iuto town ; hitching his animal to a tree, he made his way to the capitol, where he found a bril­liant concourse of people.

But a few knew him personally ; still there was something command­ing about him. Ho took his seat in a vacant chair ; and when the clock in front of the speaker had struck the hour of twelve, the general arose and delivered the most masterly speech that had ever been delivered there. The farmer-statesman entire­ly electrified the assembly. Ho made an excellent governor. This thing conveys a beautiful idea ; here was a farmer elected ; he accepted, and from the plow went to the governor’s office to preside, in a stormy crisis, over the destiny of a sovereign state. Long live his memory!

Expansion and Contraction Elucidated.IJohn Henry was with Julia the

other evening, when she observed:“ John, dear, wha tis all this talk

about contracting and expanding the currency, and which do you be­lieve ?”

“ Well, my sweet,” said John, pul­ling up his collar, “ that depends upon circumstances. In some coses I should advocute contraction of the currency, and in others an expaneion of it. It is according to the circum­stances—that is, the condition of things.”

“But what is the difference between the two, wid how do circumstances j affect them ? That’s what I want to know, John.”

“ Oh, that’s easily explained,” said John, in a tone of great cheerfulness. “ For instance, when we are alone wo both sit on one chair, don’t we ?”

“ Yes.“ Well, that’s contraction. But

when we hear your pa or ma coining we get on two chairs, dont we ?”

“ I should say we did.”“ W ell my love, that is expansion.

So you see it is according to circum­stances.”

“ John,” said she, very softly, bur­rowing under his ear, “ we are con­tracting now, ain’t we?”

“ You bet,” sai$ John, with increas­ed cheerfulness.,— Danbury Ninon.

A Modern Cincinnatua. 0 (Those who bkve read of the old

Roman who left his plow, and ruled the nation, returning again to his humble ^rm,Ynhst.be proud to think

i how mnnjy instances o.f the same kind dtir own history futnidhes. W ash­ington was a Gincinnatus, and here is an account of another.

At the session of the South Caro­lina legislature jjv JL8J4, the members were perplexed for a suitable man to elect gorepnOA The- ’difficulty did not arise fjw m iny scafcjfay <jf candi­dates, " ibt^lnOT, as ndvf, fllfch were ambitious, but from a waut of the right sort of man. The matter be­came worse as the time wore on, and the election of som e' objectionable Candida^ seemed ih^vitlible.

One day, however, as several of them wefe conversing lip<4ii the mat­ter, Judge O’Neal then a young man, and.preaoatby invitation said, “Gen- tleanen, trot elect: funeral David,

• t E+ WiUiauia V”’ • ‘•‘Jjtovid B. iWttliaMfe![ ! oliti Hikii-diels tb4'( they

all exclaimed, as they began toi scatter to tell the new». The day of election can*e on, and General Williams was eleoted by adWjTafe-vote? • i "

A messenger) was at once dispatch­ed ■with ft toinform the.general of hie elftciion, rtP questing his acceptftnce, (iqVf W ping lie would name the^day oinwbicn he Wduld take AieMnth or ofm>^ After a long ride the messenger 4tojpped at the general's r e s id e ^ , in MhrlbOro, district, we believe, and inquired if

’* • * '* in- - S l m M & Mr-lifthis Was over at Ins plantation. The gentleman said that, lie! wciuld ride over, as he lmd ft note to deliver to him as soon as possible.

iniriie eqd liiV morning nap. Avoid vnousdusical waste of strength and gymnaptic feats before and during tl\e march; and play no practical jokes' that will make the day’s work) more bard^nsome.—- Froin " Going a-Oypxying,” St. Nich­olas, July.

Hints About Camping Out.Don’t try to carry more than twen­

ty pounds apiece, or to go more than ten miles a day on foot. This is fully hard enough work if you wish to enjoy yourself without risk of illness.

The roll is easier to carry than is the knapsack, and is readily shifted from shoulder to shoulder or taken oft'; tlieu, too, you can ease the bur­den a little with your hand. Besides this, you save carrying the weight of the knapsack. But, if you take a knapsack, let it have broad straps. A haversack of course you must have.

Beside a rubber blanket, half a shelter tent, and ropes, you must have a good stout woolen blanket, with a lining sewed to it along one side but buttoned on at the ends aud other side. You can dry it, when wet, bet­ter than if it were sewed all around.

COOKING.

You can do a great deal of good cooking with a frying-pau and a cof­fee-pot, after a little experience. Have a coffee-pot with a bail as well as a handle, and with a lip rather than with a spout. Of course you will know enough not to put your pot or pan on the burning wood, and not to use pitchy fuel or to let the handles get hot or smutty. Study a good cook-book, and practice well at home as long as you can before start­ing, or you may have to go hungry when you least expect it.

You will have to guard the food you carry from rain, fog, dew, cats, dogs, and insects; and you will find it best to clean your cooking uten­sils at once after every use you make of them.

THE MARCH.

Start a short time after breakfast, while the day is yet young and cool, but don’t hurry or work hard at it. On the march, it is well to rest often for short spells, say ten minutes out of every hour. Drink good water as of­ten as you Teel thirsty, only don’t take large draughts of cold water when you are heated, and bear in mind that often you can stop thirst by merely rinsing the mouth.

Bathiug while upon the march is pqbg 9 pd if you are tired or have

salve,skin

reached by sun and air; and, to pre­vent foot-soreness, treat the feet ilentifully in the same way, and keep

The Lords of Creation.

A correspondent of the Pittsburgh Chronicle reads the following lecture to the husband of the day:

Why don’t somebody tell the hus­band of the day that he must come home to his wife with a smile instead of the inevitable scowl upon his face? That if he will be about half as polite to his wife after as before marriage, she will be grateful aud astonished. That lie must not be too tired to do a little thing for her if she asks him pleasantly. That it would not hurt him or his “dignity” to take the baby in his strong arms for a time while his wife rests jher weak and weary ones. That he must spend less niouey in the purchase of cigars and chewing chewing tobacco and— something else, so that there may be more saved, or expended upon home comforts. That if the mutton chops happen to be not quite to his liking, he might consider that his wife was probably so busy with something equally or more important as to have been unable to attend to the chops, and if he would pleasantly sayr, “My dear, I suppose you were to busy to look after the supper—I know it is all right when you are not,” they will be all right next time if such a thing is possible. That he must learn to eject tobacco juice beyond instead of upon his shirt front. That a mous­tache dripping with cream or coffee is not the most artistically beautiful sight in the world. That he must once in a while, say twice a year, or three times—I don’t want to startle all the married men into appoplexy —offer his wife a reasonable amount of money for personal expenses. That when an amiable man loses his amia­bility over a cruet stand, or a key, or a shirt, or a table-cloth, or a mus­tard-pot, he ought to be—well there ! Who ever saw an “amiable husband ?”

vulgar hut good-natured face of his victim, with its waxed moustaches, had looked hundreds of times on the spectacles on which he lavished so much time and money. Some of the people in the gallery caught sight of Stokes behind t lie blue satin curtains of the box, aud, true to their allegi­ance to the memory of the big-heart­ed Coluaul of the 9th, hissed him rouudl^ He glared defiauce, as he well can do, for he is as handsome as e.ver—the frost on his hair and moustache and goatee giving his ap- pearence the distinction it needed; lie is well-dressed, too, and looks as though he found many things in life worth living for. “ This is a free country,” said ono of F isk’s old friends, “ but it won’t do for Ned Stokes to show his face too often in that box in the Grand Opera H ouse!” —Ijfttcr to Washington Capital.

Statesmen at Poker.

The late Judge Pettit is said to have been a most earnest admirer of poker and billiards. Congressman Ewing once related that at one time when Pettit ex-Chief Justice Lecomte and himself were going through Mis­souri to attend Court, they stopped at St. Joseph and played the usual game. About midnight a dispute arose between Pettit and Lecomte as to whom had won “the pot.” Pettit insisted that his hand was the best and that ho was entitled to the money. So did Lecomte, In the midst of his dispute and his wrath, Pettit arose, seized every bill on the table, tore them in pieces, and threw them out of the window. Lecomte was very much chargined, but not disposed to give it up. It was a rainy night, and there was only mud around the hotel but Lecomte went down stairs and into the mild, feeling for torn bills. The search was fruitless; he returned a sad man, but Pettit and Ewing's laughter had no bounds. It turned out soon afterward that each man had bet all their money, and when they came to pay the hotel bill in the morning, they had to ask the for­bearance of the landlord.

T H E NtfOtKHSfOIf OK HIIMMKR.

BY W. H.

T hrough the resp lendent portal of the m orn, The rosy goddess guides her car again.

The shining ateeds, subdued, of passion shorn , Press onward with tho richly burdened wain.

Crouched a t the Goddess' feet in flowery chains, A lusty captive now her th o u g h t im plores,

And wants the answer to his a rden t strains.Along the ruddv vault the chario t soars,

To stay anon w ithin a fragran t bower.Now, now her lips the ready answer fram e :

O vouth, once joyous Spring, near is the h o u r— T he hour that part# thee from a po ten t nam e.

W ith the response, behold from out the n ig h t. Of gracious aspect and of noble mien,

A presence come to charm his ravished s igh t And pay an hom age to the m orning queen.

A urora folds her in a close em brace,And, tu rn ing from the suppliant s earnest

gaze—F or thee alone I may th is crown displace ;

Be th ine tho care of thrifty , fru itfu l days! T hen o’er the p ro s tra te boy she lingering bend-

E re from his locks the changeful crown sin tears,

And to h is gaze h er laden hand extends ;T hen to a beam ing fra n t the bauble hears.

T he strip ling veils his grief, accepts the vow — T h u s was young Spring despoiled to deck

fair sum m er's brow.

F A R M A N D H O M E .

— “Well Doctor,” said a man with a bouncing toottyoohe who hod be^p standing in a dentist’s office for an hpur aud a half (pi hiHturn ^y.oome — “Well, Doctor, you keep your pa­tients waiting a good while, don't you?” “Oh, yes,” replied doctor, mgfiiffedntlV junglihjr Ills' forceps, “hut then the old adage says, ‘a pa­tient waiting is no loss,’ you know.”

Garroting a Woman in Spain.Prudencia Saint Vera, a woman of

Sacedon, Spain, was lately garroted in Barcelona for murdering her child. On the day previous to her execution she was singing joyously in her cell at an early hour when the sheriff en­tered. She listened with tranquility to the reading of the first part of her sentence, but trembled nervously as he proceeded, and as he closed she fainted. Sisters of Charity restored her, and she was conducted to the chapel of the prison. She struggled violently, protested h«r innocence, screamed and rolled upon the ground in convulsions. The night was passed in the chapel with similar manifesta­tions, but toward morning she slept through exhaustion. On waking she listened to the moss with haggard eyes, confessed unemotionally to a priest, and mechanically took the communion. Prudencia was then tied in a wagon, and followed by a gloomy procession of penitents and monks, sue reached the scaffold. Bo-

,jng lifted into the fatal chair by the -executioner's assistants, a few seconds sufficed for the fatal collar to choke her. For the rest of the day, accord­ing to law, the corpse, with the tongue blackened and projecting, sat exposed ip, i^s black robe of execution.

* J „ , tH

Indulging in Beminiaoenoe*.r/" Ned Stokes, murderer, did rather [■ k bnitefl thing the other night at the Grand Opera House. He actually occupied Jim Fisk’s private box, sit­ting in the Kutue spot from which the

Russia and Turkey.At a late meeting of the statistical

society of London, M. E. G. Raven- stein read a paper “On the Popula­tions of Russia and Turkey,” which gave to Russia 84,584,482 inhabit­ants : to Turkey, 25,958,868, or in­cluding Egypt, Tripoli, and Tunis, 43,408,900 ; to Roumania, 4,850,000 ; and to Servia, 1,3518,000. The popu­lation of Russia was said to iucrea.se at the rate of 1.1 per cent, per an­num. No data showing the increase in Turkey are accessible ; but it is probable that there is no increaso of the dominant race owing to vicious practices amongst the women and the losses by war. Throughout Asi­atic Russia, aud iu a considerable portion of European Russia, the male sex predominates. The same fact exists in Roumania and Greece. In Russia there are 100 Slavs to every 50 persons of other nationalities, and 100 Christians to every 16 Moham­medans and Pagans. In Tuckey there are 100 Turks to 197 members of other nations, and 100 Mohamme­dans to 47 Christians.

0, How Sweet.The doors of the church stood

wide open; the houee was crowded, and the sinners must have felt con­siderably worked up, who were seat­ed in the pews, broke out in a sweat all over, and listened to the minister telling how hot hell was. Just about the time they felt their clothes scorching, and they smelled brim­stone, a man shoving a little cart came along stopped in front, and, after giving several blasts through an old horn, yelled, “ice cream !” and the sinners breathed free as they wiped the prespiration from their anxious brow. The minister switched off, and took the side-track on a cool­er subject, aud left the impression among the “fretful” that old Gabriel had started out in the ice-cream bus­iness; and was going abont the streets Sunday morning, selling “ice-cream!” to encourage ’em.

Tli»* I l o i u e h o l i l .

O n io n S a u c e .— Peel four small white oni,ons and boil then until soft: drain and chop them up fine; mix them up with a cupfull of hot milk, and two teaspoonfuls of butter, a lit­tle salt and.pepper, then boil all to­gether for one minute; serve hot.

H uckleberry Cake.— Two cupfuls of sugar, one of butter, five eggs, one cupful of milk, one teaspoonful of soda, one small lemon, a little nut­meg, a wine-glassful of brandy, three cupfuls Hour; dredge a quart of huckleberries thickly with flour, ami add the last thing. ,

S w e e t C l o v e r O in t m e n t . — Take the clover and boil with lard. Ift liere he any positive virtue in the plant the hot grease will extract it. An al- cholic tincture of the plant would ex­tract its virtues, and evaporated down lard might be added,

B lackberry V inegar.— To thi-ee quarts of berries put one quart of vinegar; let it stand for three days, then strain it, and to one pint of juice put one pound of sugar; put it into a kettle over a slow fire; skim it as it boils; let it boil for half an hour cool and bottle for use.

B lackberry Mush.— Take a pound of ripe blackberries, and first bruise them aud add a very little salt; put in J porcelain or earthen\V%re pan, and add one teacupful boiling water; stir in a bowl two heaping terspoon- fuls of sifted flour, with just enough cold water to make perfectly smooth; add to the berries and stir quickly until thickened; take off immediately else will burn. Eat cold with sugar and cream.

To C an P ineapples.— Pare and cut in small pieces, take out the core (or center), then fill the jars with the fruit; to each quart jar dissolve a tea­cupful of white sugar in a teacupful of boiling water, and pour it on the fruit, which should fill tho jar; then put the jars in a boiler of cold water (putting a nail under each jar), in which they should stand with the water a third from the tops of the jars; boil twenty minutes, and seal quickly. This is also an excellent recipe for canning peaches, Bartlett pears and cherries.

—A curious result of Arctic expos­ure was observed in the case of those who were absent from tho Alert for the long sledge journey. The hair on faces bleached nearly white. The loss of color was gradual, and, al­though noticed, was never alluded to, each one imagining tnat his compan­ions’ hair was turning gray from the effeots of hardships and anxiety. It was only aftor their return to tho ship that those possessing beards and mustaches discovered the change of hue in their own hair. The color gradually returned in three or four weeks.

L ove and P otato B ugs.— There were two of them hanging over the front gate the other night. She was standing within the yard and he on the sidewalk outside, both leaning on the top rail, and apparently as happy as two pigs in a corn field. He was saying, “Now, my own little dar­ling, sweet idol of my soul whose image is ever on my heart”—when he saw the old man coming down the front walk, and continued in a differ­ent strain: “These potato bugs haven’t destroyed our crops so much since we purchased Paris green, and you will find also that cabbages can be raised better on a richer soil." The old gentleman heard it, and turned back, saying, us he entered the house: “These young people take more interest in agricultural affairs than people generally suppose.”

How to Set a G ate-P ost that W on’t Sag.— I will suppose tho gate whon shut to hang on the* west side of the post—opening southward; dig the posthole at least three feet deep; flatten the east and west sides of the post (the part in the ground); nail a short board, say 10 by 12 inches, on the east side even with the bottom of the post; put in tho post, placing it where you want it; fill in the dirt and beat it down thoroughly till sixteen inches of the top; then take a two-inch board, 15 by 24 inches; nail it on the west side of the upper edge even with the top of the ground and one like it on the south side, 16 inches long. F ill up and paok the dirt well, and my experience is that your post will not sag.— Cor. Indiana Farmer.

CHATSWORTH PLAINDEALER.SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1877.

Take Notice.Local noticed In ser ted u n d e r th is h e a d in g

w ill be ten c e n ts per l ine. Special ra te s will tie m a d e w ith r e g u la r ad v e r t ise rs

Town and Vicinity-

Did you see that match game of hall.

The Town Board did not meet this week.

Joe Naegele visited Fairbury en Tues­day.

L. Mettie went to Roberts Wednesday on business.

Piper City Guards went to Peoria Thurs day morning.

Mrs John Timm has returned from her visit to friends in Indiana.

W. D. Botsford, of Fairbury, visited our town and Piper Wednesday.

S. D. Webster attended the tax sales in Pontiac Mouday and Tuesday.

Allie Hall and George Wilson took a trip to Sullivans farm on Tuesday.

Mrs. VanPatton, of Peoria, is here visit­ing her brother, Mr. Blackwell.

B<11 Doolittle has accepted a position as clerk in a store at Strawn and started for that place Monday evening.

Jas. A. Smith returned from Ottawa, the first of tlie week, where he had been visit­ing relatives and friends.

Fred Seibold says that if the man who stole his cucumbers last Sunday morning, will call on him he will buy him a bushel.

’Squire Scars and Jas. S. Doolittle took a trip to Fairbury last Tuesday. While there they witnessed a grand buffalo chase held on the Fair Grounds.

The T. P. & W. Railroad Co,, have raised the wages of the men ou their road and the probabilities are, that there will be no disturbance ou their line.

L — -------------------- *The Catholic parsonage is being fitted up

for the new Catholic priest, Rev. Mr. Moy. in hail The furniture is first class, and w as purchased of \V. S. Hall.

In another column will be found the an uouncement of Mr Owen Finigan as a can didate for the office of County Treasurer. Mr Finigan is well known in tlie county, and if elected would make a faithful and competent officer.

The Piper City Guards have been ordered to be in readiness to march to LaHogue to suppress the insurrection that is liable to break out at any moment. We need not feel alarmed while we have such well dis­ciplined men as the Piper City Guards so near at hand

Mem from Society Journal. “Miss S— appeared to positive disadvantage because of cloudiness of complexion and—must we write it?—Pimples spoiling an otherwise beautiful countenance ” [She should by all means procure and use Dr. Bull’s Blood Mixture. Rep.]

It Wns Reported.“ It was reported” yesterday, that twenty

live car loads of dynamite had been receiv­ed iu the night by communists in Sullivan Township to be used to blow up the city of Sullivan Center It was also reported that the mayor of that place, had.issuod a pro­clamation to the effect that all the dogs be unmuzzled, and held in readiness to quel! rioters.

“ It was also reported'’ yesterday, that a number of tramps had taken possession of one of the largest steamboats and was sail­ing down the Vermillion River, with the intention of burning the T. I’. & W. Stock Yards at this place. The rumor w as false. The stock yards are still there, and smell as sweet as ever.

“ A reliable citizen” started the rumor on xesterday hat thirteen car-loads of breech loading shot guns and ten Gatlin guns had been unloaded at Piper City, and in For­rest But we have succeeded in tracing this rumor back to very unreliable sources.

A man walked in from Strawn last Wed­nesday, and said that he saw, with his own eyes, sixteen of the railroad officials of the Clmtsworth branch of the Chicago & Padu­cah railroad piled up in a heap near Oliver’s Grove. We don’t believe everything we hear

"It was rumored” that the clock hands at True’s clock works wens on a strike yes­terday. It is high time that business was wound up.

“ It was rumored” that the rioters had tarn np the dirt road between Forrest and this place

Bob Carr bus been to Joliet. He return­ed Tuesday night, driving seventy-five miles iu 12 hours

The ladies all over the county are bus) getting their quilts and other fancy needle work ready for the Fairbury Fair.

The utmost reliauce can be placed on Dr Harter’s Fever and Ague Specific, both as to its innocent nature and its cura­tive properties. For sale by E. A Bangs & C'e

$ “Dr. Dunham says he has decided to

board We were saying we wanted to go to a wedding.

8. A. Hoyt &0o., are having an “ boats’ house built in the eastern part of the city.

C. L. Coyuer went to Fairbury and kept “ Straight” ever Sunday.

Rev. Eigness delivered an excellent ser­mon in the M. E. Church 8uuday, to an at tentive audience.

N. C. M yers is preparing to move—this time getting nearer to his store.

Boland’s Aromatic Bitter Wine of Iron is the best spring remedy for impoverished blood, physical prostration and impaireddigestion. Ladies troubled with ailments i T. ^®rr W,IS *D town Monday and is theincident to delicate constitutions will find 8&me °'d fellow that he used to be.it invaluable. E A. Bangs & Co., I __ . ~ _ „ 77** , , •. . We notice L. Bullard has a stock of pur-Agents. \ , . . , ,ses for hard money—we are coming to it.

The railroad strikers are taking the atten tiou of our citizens now, but they as well as everything else will sink into insignifi- c&nse in comparison with the interest that will be manifested by everybody at the Fairbury Fair ou the lltli, 12th, 13ih and 14th, of September next.

Hadley the piano and organ carpenter was in town this week “tuning anything he conld find tb tune."

How it is Done.The first object in life with the

American people is to “get rich*’; the second, how to regain good health. The first can be obtained by energy, honesty and saving; the second, (good health) by using Green’s August b'lower. Should you be a despondent sufferer from any of the effects of dyspepsia, liver complaint, indigestion &c , such as sick headache, palpitation of the heart, sour stomach, habitual cos­tiveness. dizziness of the heap, ner­vous prostration, low spirits Ac , you need nor suffer another day. Two doses of August Flower will relieve you at once. Sample bottles IU cts regular size 7o cts. For sale by E. A . Bangs k Co.

Ooyner says that the miD who th inks 1 he writes fo r the P l a in d e a l e r i* as badly j fooled as T hom pson’s colt when he swam

the river to get a drink.

O. F. Peterson says he is a great admirer of lace, but Wal—lace is his favorite.

Mrs. Myers returned home Sunday from a few days visit id Chatsworth.

Miss Ada Jennings is at Streator visiting her mother.

Miss Eva Hogobone received her new or­gan last week. It is pronounced a goodone.

CHURCH AND SOCIETY DIRECTORY.

C.L. ('oy ner, says he don’t care what kind of a Heifer others may bold, but as for him, give him a black one, or give him death.

Dr. Duckett's little girl has been quite sick for the past week. We hope she may soon recover.

C H U R C H E S :C a t h o l i c C h u r c h . —Services every two

weeks.B a p t i s t C h u r c h —Services every Sab­

bath. Morning services at eleven o’clock, evening at 7. Sabbath school at 1 p. m. Rev. Mr. Kcnywn, Pastor.

E v a n g e l i c a l G e r m a n C h u r c h . —Ser­vices every two weeks, Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Rev J Schafle, Pastor.

M. E. C h u r c h .—Services every Sunday, morning services at eleven o'clock, evening services at seven o’clock Sabbath school at half past nine a m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening Rev. Samuel Wood, Pastor.

P r e s b y t e r i a n C h u r c h .—Services every Sabbath both morning and evening at the usual hours. Sabbath school at half-past nine A M. Prayer meeting

One of our butchers took to himself a wife last Friday eve. Where the knot was tied we were uuable to learu. Wish them much joy.

Mrs. Munhall bus returned from her visit to Gilman ana reports a pleasant time.

Mr. Pawley and wife had the ordinance of Baptism administered to their little girl last Sunday at the M. E. Church.

James Galbraith, as we all know, is nev­er contented with what he has, hut always wants more. Now he is more greedy than ever, he wants El— more.

All the boys in Forrest are going to the show at Fairbury, if they have to borrowthe money.

Wednesday evenings. Rev Dastor.

Mr. McAfee,

S O C I E T I E S .

MASONS.C h a t s w o r t h L o d g e . N o . 539, A. F . &

A. M.—Meets on the first and third Friday evening of each month, over. Shroyer & Taylor’s storeroom, at 7 p. in. All visit­ing members are invited to attend.

R . R u m b o l d , W . M .Win. Gingerisch, Sec’y.

ODD FELLOWS.C h a t s w o r t h L o d g e , No 339, I . O .O .

F .—Meets oh Monday evening ®f each week, at 7 o'clock, over Wakelin’s store.

O R a d i n b k i , N. G.P. J . Gerhart, Secy.All visiting members arc cordially invlt

ed to attend.L i v in g s t o n E n c a m p m e n t , 123,1. O. O.

F .—Meets at the above place on first and third Tuesday of each month. W . O n g , P. J. Gerhart, Scribe C P.

Every m a n , boy, girl or woman Hays that Myers can t play croquet, for they all swear they have beaten him, and it is no doubt a fact that he has “played” them all.

H. H. Gratton writes back from Ohio to take good care of his little granger, mean­ing A1 Delatour. Some one is feeding A1 well for he is getting fat lately.

L. Bullard tries to keep the best cigars iu town, the only reason he don’t, ia the boys buy them so last, that six days in a week is not sufficient time to keep stocked.

Pose Divine says he hus’nt got the chills or the ague, but that the ague has got him.

Forrest Locals.

School commences the last Monday in August H H. Grafton takes charge of the High School, Miss Lucy Pbilbrook of the Primary We believe it is not yet de­cided who has charge of the Intermediate.

Mrs. Merritt, of Penn., who has been visiting her sister, Mrs Munhall, for some time, left last Mouday to visit another sis ter at Gilman. From there she intends to return to her eastern home. She did not think much of our light wind and rain storms we had while she was here

The moonlight croquet party at I. J. Krack’s on Monday evening, was enjoyed by all who attended.

Mftu Libbie Jennings gives Music lessons to her class of pupils in Forrest ou Mon­day and Thursday of each week. She de­votee one hour to each pupil.

Dr. Rayburn was In town Again Monday and swears that she did not say that sho wouldn’t marry a tooth carpenter.

Oscar Peterson told Walter Gum to tell Gus Munhall to tell Jim Wilson to tell the corespondent of the Plaindealer to tell the editor that Chris Kerck didn’t spoil one of his best razors on his mustache—but that he went to see her last 8unday he don't de­ny- ____________

W. H. Fergusou makes a good looking granger and goes to his work singing, “Oh were you ne’er a granger, and did you ever feel, the hot Bun shining on your back, and a blister on your heel,” with as much knack as an old time Methodist preacher.

Some of our “Good Templars" have the misfortune to be quite sickly this summer, in consequence of which they say, their doctors recommend them to drink wine and lager beer We think they are their own doctors for that prescription. It is hoped they will soon recover as they do indeed begin to look very poorly.

Miss Lucy Pbilbrook has been employed instead of Libbie Jennings to assist H. H. Grafton to teach the Public Schools next year as reported last week. The other as­sistant baa not been hired yet instead of Mrs Fellows.

J. L. Spoor's little boy while playing a week or two ago threw his elbow joint out of place, and his father being away from home the arm swelled so much that he did not notice that It was out of place until the sw elling went d*wn, When lie had to have the little fellow cloroformed in order to get to work at it. The doctors, Duckett, and Barnes of Fairbury have made it all right.

CHARLES L. COYNER,

A ttorn ey at L aw ,

And Collecting Agent.

Office over Hiuman A Delatour’s store.

FORREST, ILL IN O IS .

Sheriff’s Sale.tty V ir tu e of a Special ex e cu t io n issued

o u t of th e C lerk 's office of th e C oun ty Court ol L lv in t s to n oounty . an d s t a t e o f I l l ino is , au d to m e d irec ted , w h e r e b y 1 a m o o m m a u - ded to m a k e th e a m o u n t o f a c e r ta in Ju d g e , m e u t recen tly o b ta in e d a g a in s t J o b u A. B ar­th o lo m e w e t a l , In favor of Horace A.G re e n , wood o u t of th e lands , t e n e m e n ts , goods a u d c h a t te l s of th e s a id J o h n A. B a rth o lo ­mew, 1 h a v e levied on th e fo llow ing p ro p e r ­ty to -w lt: The n o r th e a s t q u a r t s / , [%] or the sou th w est q u a r te r . [%] o f sec tion tw e n t y , th re e iS3]. Iu T ow nsh ip tw e n ty - s ix (26), n o r th range e ig h t (8), ea s t o f th e t h i r d p r in c ip a l m e r id ian . Therefore, accord ing to sa id c o m ­m a n d , 1 sha ll expose lo r 8ale, a t P ub l ic Auo- t lo n , all tb e r igh t , t i t le , a n d in te r e s t lu the u a m e d J o n n A. B a rtho lom ew lu a n d to th e above described p ro p e r ty , ou M o n d ay , th e 6ili day of August, 1877, a t 2 o 'clock. P. M,, a t th e f ro n t door of th e Post Qffice In Chats- w o r th . 111.

Dated a t 1’on tlac , th is 16th day of duly, 1877.

BKNJ. E. UOUINKoN, S her iff o f L iv ingston co u n ty .

George Torrance, A tte rn e v for P la in tiff .

E. A. BANGS. ( .{ ! .• . A . BANGS.

E. A. BANGS Sl CO.,

C H A TSW O R TH , IL L .

Collection* Made at Lowett Hate*.

A tietenl Bukiig Btuieti TrunrtW.

Chab. A. W ilso n . R. B. M. W ilso n .

0. A. WILSON At CO.,D E A L E R S IN

Notes and Mortgage Bonds,

Collections of all Kinds a Specialty.

DR. C. K. WILES,HOMOEOPATHIC

P h y s i c i a n & S u r g e o n ,Will a t t e n d calls day o r n ig h t . Office o v er

F e lk e r ’s h a rd w a re s tore.CHATSWORTH, ILL.

D R. O. THTJSLOffice a n d R esldenoe In th e house fo rm er ly

occupied by Dr. l iy lng ton .

C H A TSW O RTH , ILLINOIS.

W R IT E TOMARQUAM & BAKER,

B l o o m i n g t o n , I I I . ,For College P ap ers aud

C ircu lars of the Evergreen City Commercial

College.

10 THE WORKING CLASS,We a re now p repa red to fu rn is h al l c lasses

w ith c o n s ta n t e m p lo y m e n t a t h o m e , t h e i r w hole tk n e , o r for t l ie lr sp a re m o m e n ts . Bus* iness new, l ig h t a n d profitable . P erso n s o f e i th e r sex eas ily e a rn from 50 c to $6 a n e v e n ­ing . a n d a p ro p o rt io n a l s u m for d e v o t in g all th e i r t im e to th e b u s in e ss , boys a n d g ir ls e a rn n e a r ly as m u c h as m e n . T h a t al l w h o see th is n o t ic e m a y send th e i r ad d re ss an d te s t th e business , we m a k e t h i s u n p a ra l le le d offer. To such as a re n o t well satisfied we will send o ne d o l la r to pay1 for th e t ro u b le of w ri t in g . F u l l p a r t ic u la rs , sa m p le w o r th $7 to coiffinence w o rk on, a n d a copy o f H o m e an d F ireside , one of th e la rges t a n d b e s t I l lu s t r a ­ted P u b lica t io n s , all s e n t free by m a l l . Renti­er , If you w a n t p e rm a n en t , p rofi tab le work, ad d re ss G e o . Ht i n s o n & Co., P o r t l a n d , Me

Oswego STARCH!

Is th e BEST a n d MOST ECONOMICAL In th e World. 1 ' ,Is pe r fec tly P U R E —F re e from a c id s a n d

o th e r fore ign s u b s ta n c e s t h a t in ju r e L in e d .

Is STRONGER th a n a n y o th e r —requlrfffg m u c h less q u a n t i t y In using.

» . . tIs U N IF O R M —stiffens an d finishes w ork a l­

ways th e same., > . 'i ’ • 1 ' *' •

Kingeford’s Oswego Corn Starch1 * ! i I

Is the m ost delic ious o f a ll p rep aratio ns for

T udd ings, D tanc-M ange,Cake, Etc.

A. C. ROBERTS,

A ttorn ey at

And Collecting Agent.

C H A T8W O R TH , - IL L IN O IS.

G ~ T O R R A N C E ^

A ttQ rn e j a t L a w And Solicitor in Chancery.

W ill p rac tice lu a l l C ourts of th is S ta te PirtietUr Atteitiei Given t« Collections.

Office o v er the Uostoffice, CHATSW ORTH 111.

SAMUEL T. FOSDICK,(Sieeeuor U Feediek A Will***.)

ATTO BIB a n C m m E L tt IT u v ,C h a ts w o rth , - - Ills .

W ill p rac t ice In L iv ings ton a n d a d jo in in g coun ties . All legal bus iness in t r u s te d to m y ca re w ill rece ive p r o m p t a t t e n t io n .

J . H . M E G Q U I E R ,Justice of tbe Peace,

Real-Estate and Collecting Agent,Office over Post Office,

C H A TSW O R TH , - IL L IN O IS.

W . W . S E A R S ,

Real Estate and Collecting Agent,

A N D A U C 2 1 O N E E D .. r+Office near the Depot.

CHATSWORTH, IL L IN O IS ,

P E T E R S H R O Y E R ,D ea le r In

Hard and Soft Goal!CHATSW ORTH, IL L .

O rders so lic ited a n d p ro m p tly filled .

— JOHN TIMM'S

MEAT M ARKET!JU S T EAST OF TH E BANK.

A ll k in d s o f Fresh and B a lt M eats co n stan tly on h an d, a t th e low es t m a rk e t ra tes .

H ighest cash price p a id for fa t C a ttle , Sheep, Hogs, H ides and T a llo w .

C H A T8W Q R TH , - - ILLINOIS.

BOBBBT EUltBOLD,

GENERAL INSURANCE A6ENT!i , ,1 'if: *

CHATSWORTH, ILL.

I am agkfnt tbt th e HOME), o f N . T ., H A R T -

JSBk&f*”'' T n g 3 “ -«Si.S:-

the o ld re lia b le Aetna Insurkn oe O W U pany.of Hartford, Conn j ;

e x c h a n g e h o t e l .. i .

WM. A. MILLER, - - - f H ^ k r o s .

Junction C. A A. and T., P. A R’sl

(Jh e n o a , I l l i n o i s .