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vance, $3 00 will be charged. .
J. W. POTTER.
Editor and Publisher.
Thursday. August 21, 18S2.
CALL FOR STATE DEMOCRATIC CON
VENTION. The Democracy f all the conatiee in the-state of
Illinois are requested to send delegates to the state
convention, which will be held at Springfield, on
Thursday, September 7, 1882,
at 11 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of nominating
one candidate for state treasurer, one candidate for
state superintendent of public instruction, and to
transact such other business as may be proper for
its consideration- v .
The several conntiei in the state are entitled to
one delegate for each 400 vote cast for Hancock and
English in 1880, and one delegate for each fraction
thereof of 200 votes and over, the counties, votes
and delegate being as follows :
Counties.
Counties.
Adams
Alexander..
Bond
Boone.
Brown
Bureau
Calhoun. ...
Carroll
Cass
Champaign.
Christian. ..
Clark
Clay
Clinton
Coles.......
Coofc.i;....
Crawford. . .
Cumberland
DeKalb
DeWitt...: .
Douglas
DoPage.....
Edgar
Edwards ...
Effingham. .
f'ayette ,
iford
Franklin ....
Fulton
Gallatin. ....
Greene
Grundy......
Hamilton....
Hancock...
Hardin.. ..
Henderson
Henry
Iroquois. ..
Jackson . ..
Jasper
Jefferson..
Jersey
JoDaviess.
Johnson. ..
Kane
Kankakee.
Kendall. ..
Knox......
Lake ......
Lasalle
j.awrenee..
Lee
6,113
1,353
,1,273
. 851
1,655
8,655
060
1,778
'3,473
3,346
2.874
1,660
8.242
2,05j
44.302
1,917
1,563
1,578
1.845
1.689
1,229
2.S9
575
2,452
2,6i
780
1,610
4,718
1,574
3,160
1,135
1.760
3,95
765
928
2,061
2.738
2.160
1,761
2.304
2,107
2,368
2.S81
1,640
679
2,392
1.494
6,308
1.497
2,248
15 Livingston. .
3 J.ogan
3 jMacon
, 1! iMacoupin.. .
4 (Madison. . ..
7; IMarion .
Marshall....
Mason
Massac
McDononsh ,
SlMcllenry
6 McLean .
4 Menard
6 Mercer
7: .Monroe
111! Montgomery
5 Jnorgan
4 Moultrie ... .
4 Ogle
5 'Peoria
4,Per.y
3 'Piatt
7 Pike
1 Pope
6i!Pnlaskt
7 ,Putnara
Randolph
4 'Richland
13jRock Island.
4 .Saline
S!Sangamon...
3j Schuyler
4 iScott
10 Shelby
2; jStark
2 St. Clair
5 Stephenson..
7j 'Tazewell
5, Tnion
4 Vermilion
6 Wabash... . .
Sj Warren
til Washington .
2i Wayne
71 White
41 Whiteside. . .
2 Will
6 Williamson. .
4 'Winnebaco..
16 Woodford . . .
4
6 Total
4
a;
o tf
- - a
S.861 7
2.687 7
8,069 8
4,341 11
4.677 12
2,507 6
1,603 4
1,926 5
778 2
2,877 7
1,799 4
5,202 18
1.473 4
1.487 4
1.712 4
3.173 9
3,452 9
1.593 4
2,085 5
5,705 14
1.535 4
1.578 4
3,812 10
914 2
742 2
5031 1
2.614 7
1.7S6 4
8.565! 6
1.608: 4
6.196; 15
1.8371 5
1,288 , 3
8,328, 8
681 ' 2
5.877i 15
8,071 ; 8
8,367s 8
2.264 6
3.421 9
1,142 3
2.003 5
1.912 5
2,2lM 6
2,591 6
2.215 6
3,803 10
1,825 5
1,511 4
2.864 6
277,321 695
By order of the state democratic central commit
tee. D. K. Gillham, Chairman.
W. J. Mtzv, Secretary.
ELEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTSICT.
Democratic Congressional Convention at Mon
mouth, Wednesday, Sept., 13, 1882!
The Democracy of the several counties in the
Eleventh Congressional district are requested to
send delegates to a Convention to be held at Mon
mouth, Warren County, on Wednsday, Sept., 13,
1882, at 1 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of nominat
ing a candidate for Congress, and to transact snch
other business as may be presented for the consid
eration of the convention .
The several counties in the Congressional district
will be entitled tothe following representation based
npon the vote for Hancock and English in 1880:
COrNTIES.
Rock Island.
Mercer
Henderson...
Warren
Hancock . . . .
McDonough.
Schuyler....
Total
.... 2565
,...il487,
.. i 83!
.. . 200.3
.. 13957:
....18877'
....1937)
5
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By order of the Democratic Congressional Com
mittee, 11th district. Ch as. H. Whitakkr,
Macomb, Ills., August 1, 1882. Chairman.
Special arrangements have been made with the
C. B. Q,, Railroad, that all those alteudinsr the
convention and pay full fare to Monmouth will be
returned for one-third fare on presenting to S. C.
Dixon, ticket agent at Monmouth, the proper cer
tificate from the officer of the convention appointed
to Issue certificates to all who may attend.
DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATIVE CONVENTION-
The Democrats of the Twenty-First Legislative
District are requested to send delegates to a Legis
lative Convention, to be held at tbe Court House, in
Cambridge, on Monday, Sept., 4th, 1882, at 11 o'clock
A. ., for tlie purpose of nominating a candidate
for the Legislature, to be voted for at the Novem
ber election, 1882, and transact such other business
as may properly come before said convention.
The basis of representation will be one delegate
for every SJOO votes cast for Hancock for president.
Rock Island Co., will be entitled to 12 delegates.
Henry : . " " 10 "
Jtock island, Ang., , ish.
J. R. JOHNSTOX,
Lkvi Watermas, Mlotn,
Ezra Smith,
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
For Sheriff :
JOHN M. RE TICKER, of Rock Island.
For Treasurer:
DANIEL W. GOULD, of Moline.
For Superintendent of Public Schools :
Miss MARIA S. KENWORTHY, of Andalnsia.
The swimming contest at Boston on
Wednesday, for $1,000 and the champion
ship of the world, between Captain Webb
and Thomas Rile, champion short distance
swimmer of America, was won by Webb.
t ' According to the school census just tak
en, there are at present 197,600 children
of school age (between 6 and 21 years of
age) in Cook county, including the city of
Chicago.
Gov. Cullom has written a letter to the
authorities of Logan and Cass counties to
take strenuous measures to suppress the
lawlessness prevalent there, referring par
ticularly to the triple murder near ML
Pulaski, last Sunday, in Cass county.
The Hon. G. A. . Tucker, an English
gentleman from New South Wales, on
Wednesday visited the Utah insane asylum,
near Salt Lake, permission being granted
by Gov. Murry. He describes the condi
tion of the inmates as the most
filthy and ill-keDt he has ever
' witnessed during years of experience in
the line. . Some of the patients were per
fectly sane. One of these, named Sher
man, had been robbed of his wife by a
Mormon polygamist, and has been confined
la this place ever since, tie was fdftheriy
from the east and a gentleman of culture,
The place is kept by Dr. S. B. xoung,
nenhew of' Brishani Young, and three
Mormon commissioners. ' j I
It is reported in official circles that the
government has determined to express
willingness to join with Russia and Ger
many in protesting against the protection
of the Suez canal beinsr confided to the
British. The desire is for Spain to be ad
mitted. under the protection of the eastern
powers, to the conference when the pow
ers again discuss the subject of the canal
The majority of Spaniards, however, are
indifferent to foreign politics, feeling more
concern at the terrible drouth which has
destroyed a greater part of the harvest and
seriously threatens the vintage.;
The Washington monument is rising
steadily, and has now reached a height of
290 feet. The Washington Post says that
modern science Droposes to utilize it for
the public benefit. The signal office ex
wects to have a permanent station at its
summit, and its officers say that observa
tions of the air and atmospheric move
ments taken at an attitude of 550 feet will
be of great value. The present generation
however, may not have the benefit of
weather predictions made from that elevat
ed locality. But it seems quite probable
that the monument may be completed
before Washington is forgotten, and this
fact should diminish the ridicule to which
the work has been.subjected.
WAKREN AND SHERIDAN-
From the American, Ang 19.
It is easy to say that Warren showed a
super-sensitiveness, ana was unnecessarily
anxious to be a proto-martyr, ana to an
nounce himself disgraced, when in point
of fact Sheridan and Sherman and Grant
only looked upon it as one of the unpleas
ant ineidents.of the war. That is undoubt
ed! v their way of looking at iL and un
fortunately the tone of the press and of the
press and of the great majority of con
gressmen, the representatives of the peo
ple, and of a huge portion of the people at
large, takes the key note from those in
authority, accepts their statement, and
looks on Warren as a man with a grievance,
and Ins case as a small matter to worry
over so long.
There is. however, a'small residum of
old army officers, especially of Warren's
own Corps of engineers, where high sci
entific attainment seems to have maintain
ed a high sense of honor, and of men who
had served in Warren s Fifth corps, and
with him there or in other parts of tbe
Army of the Potemac. and of men who
were with Thomas m the West, who are
not content with any such statement as
conclusive of Warren's case. They look
on it as an injustice inflicted on a soldier
of tried merit, by one whose whole career
has been a series of brilliant good luck,
and who might, with great eredit to him
self, have exercised the small gen erosity
of acknowledging an injury done a brave
soldier and thus put himself even more in
the right. They see in it just another in
stance of the same sort of injustice that
was meted out to the Army of the Poto
mac by the authorities and especially by
the soldiers and civilians who
chose to consider the western armies
as the great and important fac tor in the
success of the Union cause. They liken
it to the preference which was given to
Sheridan over Thomas and Meade, which
made him the next in session for the high
est post in the army, while those who had
held important and independent com
mands were passed over. Thomas had
won the battle of Nashville, as Meade had
won the battle of Gettysburg, but Sherman
took all the honors and the popular ap
plause and the enduring rewards. Thomas
must be content with a place in the true
history of the war, which yet remains to
be written, while Sheridan has the place
which ought to have been Meade's. Nash
ville and Gettysburg were both good for a
marshal's baton to their winners.
But there is a still graver matter involv
ed in the question of Warren's case, great
er far that nis own personal grievance. It
is the slow but sure decay in the army
itself - of that. : nice sense ": of honor
which Warren himself vindicated by
dying more easily than living to
bear an unrequitted injury and an
undeclared dishohor. It is perfectly true
that an officer might be relieved, even on
the field of battle where he had won a vic
tory, without disgrace. Indeed, Warren
would have been fully justified in saying
that the discredit was Sheridan's for not
knowing the real condition of affairs in his
own command. Abroad it is just such a
case as would in Germany have been sub
mitted to a court of honor and, upon their
approval, the injured party would have
sought redress in an appeal to arms and a
conflict to the bitter end. Here we rest con
tent with the judgmeut of the highest in
authority and of public opinion. But the
result, in this as in other cases, shows that
both have ceased to be animated by the
spirit which ought to govern both above
and below. The set or direction thus
started has continued in steady downward
course and only recently has made itself
so painfully manifest, in the extravagant
opinion in Mason's case, that even the laity
have been stirred by such a violation of
the primary rules at the foundation of all
military discipline. ?
When Sheridan began in Warren's case
had the excuse of being done in the haste
and heat and excitement of battle a
poor excuse for a commanding dSfcer, who
ought to have full possession' of his
faculties, and no more make a mistake 1 in
the discipline of his own men than fin
meeting the disposition of the enemy. But
bad as was the offense, what followed was
the worse, in that he had the added injury
of being done after cooling time, and with
the aid of such fresh information as was
grathered from all sources. With this
fully and fairly before him. Sherdan,
backed and supported by Sherman, as he
had been by frant and, (he successive
heads of the war department, steadily re
fused the remedy which was within his
reach. Even when Warren got out his
court of inquiry, the judge . advocate, evi
dently under the inspiration : of influence
from above and without, appeared as the
prosecatorin the interest of . Sheridan, and
Sheridan on the. stand showed a bitter
ness tht was quite irreconcilable
with the calm, impartial position of
a witness to the truth. Thus, after years
of waiting, Warren, in seeking his own
vindication, was also working for the best
interests of the service and the country.
Whatever the result, whether in his favor
or against him, he is far beyond the reach
of any further interest in the issw. There
still reman those who were nearest and
dearest, to whom all that affects the de
parted hero, for such he was in their eyes,
is important, and there remain the large
circle of those who had served with and
under him, who are still sensibly affected
by all that interested their gallant leader.
The consciousness that such a life was pre
maturely shortened by a neglect to do him
prompt and full justice cannot fail to touch
the heart ot the people, still alive to the
debt due every soldier; but it is not likely
to stir the hearts or disturb the rest of
those who are mainly responsible for such
a result. It is the want of an acute sensi
of sympathy, of a nice notion of honor, of
a real love of justice, of a full aud free
recognition of what is due to risrht and
truth, and of responsibility, in those high
in office, that makes the possibility of a
recurrence of Warren's case, unless the
lesson it teaches is taken to heart alike by
the people and by all who serve them.
A MATTER OF BUSINESS.
"You were out late last night, dear,"
said Mrs. Breezy, taking her seat at the
breakfast table ami fumbling uneasily with
her fork.
"Oh, no, said Mr. lireezy, "It wasn t
late. You sea, darling you were . asleep
when I came in, aud
"No. Mr. Breezy, I was not asleep, but,
as you say, it was not late for you. . Noth-
g would convince you that the clock
struck three as you closed the hall door.
Of course business detained you, my dear.
It is wonderful how much business a man
will find to transact after midnight, but
of course we women can know nothing
about such things. We can . never under
stand you men, can we dear? We are al
ways imagining all sorts of horrid things
when you stay away a day or two without
sending us even a line. Women tire so
nervous, are they not, dear? What silly
creatures we are, to be sure. If we would
only go to bed, and go to sleep, it would
save us a world of trouble, wouldn't it,
dear? We might know that you great
strong men can take care of yourselves.
If you are obliged to sit up uutil 2 or :i
o'clock in the morning talking business
with your customers it is really ungrateful
for us to complain, for, of course you
have the Worst of it, don't you. darling?
How it must have bothered you, ami how
tired you must get, and think that it is all
for our sakes. . When you come tottering
home so tired tlat you can hardly get up
stairs, and throw yourself on the bed with
out even the strength to remove your
boots, we should appreciate your devotiou
in thus laboring to support us. Now. last
night, dear, when vou stumbled over tlte ;
rocking-chair, and found yourself obliged
to cling to the headboard to support your I
weary form, you presented a really sad ex
ample of the overworked husband and
father. When vour shattered nerves
caused you to upset my fresh bottle of co
logne, and scatter the contents of my work
basket on the floor, vou really looked the
typical martyr of a married life Of course
you do not remember it, dear. Vou were
too tired and worn out with that. horrid
customer to remember anything. What a
dry, stupid time you must have talking
business up to 3 o clock in the morning;
and you look so sleepy and used up this
morning I would really imagine you had
experienced a severe illness if I didn't
know it was one of those terrible racking
business cares which pull you down so. 1
see you have quite lost your appetite,
dear. You havn't even touched your
steak. Now, dear, this will not do. You
must not apply . yourself so close to busi
ness. It is killing you, and Sirs. Breezy s
mouth curled Into a decided sneer as she
dug a tablespoon into the fried potatoes.
"But, .my dear, said Mr. lireezy, mak-
ng a heroic effort to swallow a little ot
the steak, "it was a most important N en
gage " . '.
Of course, it was," said Mrs. Breezy,
as she poured out a cup of coffee with a
trembling hand.; "Of course it was, love.
Your engagements are always
importanL They will never keep
over until morniug, never.
What if these engagements these very im
portant engagements ilo occur five or six
nights out of the week. . It is a sign of
your prosperity. Should I com plain if you
find yourself obliged to meet your custom
ers at theatres; and concert halls, and
at poker parties in an out-of-the-way hotel?
No, dear, you are obliged to adapt your
self to your customer's mode of life. It is
all in the way of business, and we short
sighted wives are very unresonable to sup
pose for a moment that you frequent such
places of choice, when every instinct
should teach us . that you would
mucli prefer being at home in
the bosoms of your families.
You dear, abused husbands! How patient
you are. to De sure, with us tidgety, un
reasonable creatures," and Mrs. Breezy
pushed back her chair with a jerk and left
the room. Brooklyn Eagle. ,
gate the aflaifs of the Australia, her out
standing bills, tic. The Davis arrived ia
Chicago late on Sunday night. The re
porter, first .visited the" Australia, where
she lies on the north side of Hie river, op
posite ithe lumber market. -The mate,
Peter McKeever, the cook,
and another man are "keep
ing slkip," and have been doing so sinc e
Thursday, Aug. 10 nearly three weeks
when Captain Green disappeared. It was
hoped to meet Captain Barnes on board,
but he had been there twice during the
day aud gone away again. Mr. McKeever
informed the reporter that nothing had yet
been heard from Captain Green". When
he left the vessel Aug. 10, he said he. would
return in half an hour, but he has not been
seen or heard from since. It was certainly
very mysterious. That he had bet-n about
paying the vessel's bills Mr. McKeever was
certain, for he (McKeever) had seen a gro
wer's receipt for $o0, paid the day before.
Captain Barnes had examined lite vessel's
books and had found ihem a'l straight and
the vessel not behind to any extent on his
bills. Though freights had' been very bad.
Captain Given had 'vhaken the Vessel
up" and had come out advent deal Ixlter
than many other liim! --carrying vessels
of the same dimensions, lie was a "push
ing" Capta'n. and always did at least as
well as his competitors.
Mr. McKeever was then a.-ked if the
river had been drasrtred near the vessel for
the body, and he said no. He continued
that he did not hi l;ev anylhitur had !;;;;
K-ned to the captain, and for that reason
the river had not been dragged. He de
scribed the. captain as about live feet -ix
inches in height, dark hair, growing -ra v.
and clean shaved. Ho wore neither mous
tache or whisker. lie was dressed in dark
clothes, and wore a silver watch with a
heavy gold chaiu. "lie wasn't the num."
continued McKeever. "thai crooks would
try to get away with. lb- look a drink
now and then, but never drank to excess.
and was always able to take care of him
self. He always went armed. I don't be
lieve, either, that he had much nmnev wiih
him either of his own or the owner's. I
don't believe anvthinir has haitucncd to
him."
The reporter suggested that he tai-'ht
nave been attacked suddenly in ilu: dark
or have been druiriced, or mi-diJ. bv a mis
tep, have fallen in the river thai rdnh!
when eominc aboard.
"Did you know.'' pursued the mate.
"that a vouii'' 'rirl is also inisii)rV"
The reporter answered in the negative.
''Well, there is a vouiiicuirl also mls-intr.
She disappeared the same day the captain
ltd. She came over here from Muskcon
ou the Lyman Davis. I saw (.'aoiain Green
tnd her talking losreJ her aboard the Davis.
Is she married? Well, I don'.t know. She
had a little boy wiih her. her son. ami l
understand the boy is deserted. At ad
events, the irirl is missing and the child is
eft. I always understood until lately that
Captain Green was mat rie.l and had a grov. a
family, but I hear now thai he was i
married at ad. - while ago lie mlnulik o,l
me to a young lady he ha.i with him. and
told me at the time that she was his daugh
ter. (Here the male stuiied detish elv. I
Ennniiig a Locomotive.
"Well, I've- had a little experience in
running an engine,'" sniil a long' speei
l.i: a of the gem;.- Yankee, putting one
elbow on the, bar counter and holding
his whisky straight up to the light, "and
if it would ain!ife you Til give you a
yarn or two."
"Stave ahead. " said Ins companion,
"but I've been there myself. I iwd to
run nn engine from New York to Phila
delphia."' "On, you did," r-:-id the Yankee.
"Well, that just amounts to nothin'. I've
been a spec::.! engineer for the last ten
year, ami then- ain"t mile of track
otween In re and 'Frisco I haven't travel
ed over. You see its specials are obliged
to be ready f r anything at a moment's
notice, and when we travel we just go
right over the ground, and don't vou
forget it."
"I've made some pretty good time
myself," said the second engineer. "I
took a train through from New York to
Philadelphia in eighty minutes."
, "Oh, that's child's play," said the first
engineer. "Why, man, I've made that
run myself, and with oris; piston-rod
gon,! f t that. I'd btst got back from a
special nn u; through the coa! regions,
when word crime that one of the big'
gne.s of t!," company wiMied to start at
once for I'.iiindeljifua. I knew what
t!::;f meant, so i jumped aboard long
legged J im. hitched it construction car
behind, tic tender, and a drawing-room
eoaeh behind that and reported for duty.
1 knew my engine, ami I ran up forty
pounds of sleaiii jnore nor she was mark
ed to carry. When the word came I let
everything slide and the old ioy just
jumped in the air. Then he settled
down to his work. Everything was c lear
in front of us. and I let him out for all
he was worth at the start. In less 'en
ih t 's tm couldn't a counted the
t, .: ;-7-ap;i o-.U-s they tiew by us so fast,
i had two iiret.ien uu' I just made 'em
earn their passage from the word go.
O'd dins niust have e d up two ton o'
co:l inside of ten.miies."
"What:" ejaculated the second en
gineer. 'Sure!" said the f;rst engineer. "And
we hadn't been out of the station fifteen
iiiiniii.es nciore every uiasicu uouer
tune
was red hot. and we had to keep Hood
ing the cab with water to keep from
burning the darn thing up. Oh. we was
just gc'.lin there, my boy, and I didn't
let tip a pound. Every time we took a
curve the outside wheels would he at
least a foot up in the air, and once or
twice the"., ruler jumped clean on tothe
ties, and old dim would yank her back
:igain. and - "
v-"m"t viim l-inn nf stivtelii no i i.i .inf 9"
a-ke 1 the second engineer.
oi a tui oi ii, sunt tne nrsi en
gineer. "Why. afore we was half way
h
No. sir I don't believe that anvtimi
lappcneil to the captain."
The reporter hunted up the i
Davis and .went abo .rd. but f.died !
Captain IJarncs. he having gone a -In
short tune. According to what
McKeever said, however. Captain
knows nothing mere tisan is sj::te
though he may have different thee
may not confiim the woman st.iry.
Mr. Davis, the owner of the Au-tralia
and Davis, is on his way home from Cali
fornia, anil the Australia will lie idle where
she is until his arrival.'
man
see
v for
Mate
Iiarnes
above,
es. and
to i'hi
was d
hud to.
ba
e er 1 i
delphia, both o' those stokers
u on their knees praying, and I
con
vctilh
lison.
POLITICAL.
Lkmaks, Aug. The democrat!
gressiou.il convention for the Eh
district to-day nominated .lohn P. A
straight out democrat, of Sioux City, by
acclamation. -
Des Moisks, Agg. 2:5. The democrats
of the Tenth. district, in convention to day
at Webster City, uonnnaicd tie Hon.
John Clcggget, of Mason City, for Con
gress.
Jackson, Aug. 2-i. The democratic
Rtfete- '-convention chose G. C. Goodman
chairman. -Committees were a
recess taken. It is understood
backers want, to head the ticket
delegates think this price of
high, and are disposed to :
straight ticket. An effort a1 fusion will,
however, be made.
Guano liu-ms. Aug. 2:i. The State
Greenlwiek convcniion elected Y. D. Ful
ler chairman and appointed coiniiiiltccs.
Two-thirds of the convcuiiou favors fit
). Muled a
I he green -and
many
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THE MISSING MARINER.
Inter Ocean, Ang. 22.
The following dispatch was received
yesterday from a member of the family of
Mr. C. S. Davis, the owner of he , schoon-
Daniel Green, also of Muskegon, is miss
ing herein Chicago:
'Mdskkgon, Mich., Aujj. SI. -Nothing
is known of Captain Green. ; lie is - not
supposed to have run away. Mr. Davis,
(the owner of the Australia) is away from
home. See Captain Barnes, of the schoon
er Lyman M. Davis, for further particu
lars." ;.. -
The; Lyman Davis is alsoT i the property
of Mr. Davis, and Captain Barnes had
been instructed to inquire into the myste
rious disappearance, and to also investi-
sion with the Deiuoctats, the remainder
violently oppose. There is lively tele
graph correspondence between here ami
Jackson, where the Detm ends are holding
a convention.
Caiho, Aug. 23. At the Democratic
convention held at Mound City, Illinois,
to-day to nominate a State senator and
Representative, Youngblood, of Frankliu.
received the nomination for senator,
Spann, of Johnson, and Lodge of. William
son counties, for the Slate Legislature.
Toi'EKA, Kas., Aug. 2;J. The Green
back state convention met at -J r. m. and
elected II. M. Phillips temporary chairman,
R. O. Montgomery temporary secretary,
and appointed the usual committee, after
which the convention adjourned till even
ing. ;
Winkemac, Ind., Aug. 22. State Sena
tor Arnold was nominated for Congress to
day by the Democrats of the Tenth dis
trict. Jackson, Aug. 23. The Republicans of
the Third Congressional district to-day re
nominated E. 3. Lacy. , -'
Portland, Me., Ang. 23. The inde
pendent republican party announced .the
following platform. - - -..
Opposed to machine politics, boss role,
political assessments, bribery and fraud in
controlling elections and conventions:
faithful execution of the laws in all parts
Of the state, including the liquor law and
laws for the observance of the Sabbath;
temperance without hypocracy and pro
hibition without drunkenness, also a
general reduction of taxes. The leading
men of all parts of the state were consulted
upon the above platform for the indepen
dent republican party. ; .
oii:o ieeuitig mvseu until 1 swore
k to their .senses again. Well,
iugwcM well the first two thirds
o' the run, and 1 was just a whistling to
ili;. over I he record I was piling up.
u hen i here c.-tme a report like a ritle.
and 1 knew one ot the blasted piston
rods had busted. There was nothin' to
do but stop, and 1 lost ten minutes tix-
c.r up. The big gun left the coach
ami came down te set; wnat was up.
- hat s to oe doner said ho. 'I ve got
one piston nnl left,' says I, and I'll
take you through on time.' He knew me.
and he just lit a fresh cigar and walked
back to the coach as contented us a
lamb. Well, I just set those , praying
liremen to work lor all they was worth,
and 1 had her up to sixty pounds over
the limit in less 'en no time. Then I let
her slide. Lord. Harrv. 1 thought old
Jim would jerk the stullia1 out of every-
iniug ucinnu mm. tie just piaveu nop
scotch. :iud I don't believe we touched
the rails more nor four or live times a
nun-, l knew u was a ?iw check or
nothin'. and 1 was after that cheek.
ne. I, tnose liremen got to praying worse
'en ever, and I had to swear I'd throw
cm overbo:rd afore they d come to
time. 1 tell you we was iust inovin'
Why. the towns got runniu' all together.
ami we had no more en got a sipuut at
one station uloru we was live miles past
the na one
"Hear! hear!'' said the second en
gineer, "that's laving it on too strong."
"True as you re here," said the first
engiueer. I'd introduce vou to the pray
ing liremen, but thev cut the business
after that run, and I kinder lost sight
of 'cm. Well, we got within ten miles
of Philadelphia and I begun to stop
her.
. "Stop her?"
"Yes; 1 knew I couldn't do it inside
o' ten miles, and I'didu't iuite fetch it
thing I should do "-Would be to advise
you to sign a temperance pledge!"
The court roared, ami the counsel, u
if convinced the doctor was pursuit .
legitimate and respectable vocation pro.
ceeded with the regular cros3-examina
tiou.
An Unbeliever.
"Dar's no use ob talkin', sar," said
Brother Washington, slamming his hat
down on a chair in front of him.
yer spirit bus' ness am all prostrus non
sense, sar." '
"Well, Ps not so sure 'bout dat,"
said Brother Johnson, tipping his chair
back against the wall, and feelino
around in bis overcoat-jiocket for a fresh
chew. . "I jus' tell you, chil, I has saw
some queer tings iiC my da)-; Yes, sar
some queer tings."
"Go 'way, nigger,V said Brother
Washington. "Dar's nothin' in de uq.
amverse what ain't 'cord in' to nature,
sar. All des stories 'bout spirits am de
'ventions ob wickid posters, sar; but da
can't scar dis nigger for a cent, no sar.
Ps a tearalist, lam. Don't believe hi
nuflin' I don't see, sar. Honest, now,
Mr. Jonsin, hab you ebber seen aspirit?"
"Yes, sar," said Brother Johnson.
"Mister Johnson, if I wasent a gent'l'.
man, I should call you a liar, said Broth
er Washington.
"I t's berry lucky for you, Mister Wash
ington, dat you am a'gen'l'man," said
Brother Johnson. "But let dat pass.
Dar am such things as spirits, for I bab
seen 'em, sar. Yes, an' hear 'em talk
too"
"Iok yer, nigger," said Brother
Washington, gazing around him uneasi
ly, "you needent tink you'er goiu' to
skare dis chil. Go an' tell, dem lies to
de white trash. Da is too dephafanus
for educated colored pussons."
"Can't help it," said Brother'Johnson.
"I tell yon, sar, jus' after my uncle died
I seen nim jus' plain's I see you now.
sar. Yes. sar, dar he was at de foot ob
de bed."
"Shut up," cried Brother Washington
half rising from his chair, and looking
toward the door. "I say dar am no sirJ
ting as spirits, and what you see a
jus'; a lucamnation. Don't you trv to
scare dis rugger, sar. You" jus'. Waste
y ou'er time."
"Yes, an' dat am not de only spirit I
ebber see," said Brother Johnson. "One
time I was sitting up with a corpse, aud
de fus ting I knowed dar was de fellow's
spirit lookin' at nie from 'cross his own
body."
"Stop!" cried Brother Washington,
springing from his chair, and looking
suddenly behind him. "L)on?t you tell
nie no more ob dem lies, 'cos I . won't
stand it," .r ,
"Dem ain't lies, said Brother John
son. "What I tell you, chil. am de truf.
And dar was annudder time after a nig
ger was murdered dat I seen de poor
fellow's face all covered with blood an'
a great lash" But Brother Washing
ton bolted through the door, and cut his
friend's acquaintance for an entire week.
at that; for when we ran Into the station
we smashed in the bumpers and ripped
up about twenty feet o the platform be
lore oia long-ieggea Jim would agree
the run was over, but I got the check,"
and the Yankee engineer thoughtfully
drained his glass, as his friend ordered
the barkeeper to "set 'em up again.
Jlrookftn L'agk. ,
His Prescription.
Up in New Hamjishire is a well known
ecienfric individual, a self-constituted
curer of all ills: a sort of universal pan
acea, "body and soul, head, heart, and
conscience doctor," who, with all his ec
centricities, has a fund of actual wit that
,i hard to bcct.,1 Kot long ago t he "doc
tor" was culled" upon the witness-stand.
The opposing counsel, who is said some-'
times UhinduTge in "liquor-piaen," know
ing the doctor's peculiarities, ventured,
in cross exarninifig hiru, to show him up
a bit. The result will be appreciated.
Vhat is your business?" pompously
inquired ,the counsel. -
"My business is to do what little goxl
I can do to my fellow-men, modestly
replied the doctor,.
'!ut that doesn't answer my ques
tion," grutl'y remarked the counsel.
"How do you spend your time?"
"Why. squire, it takes about all my
time to do what I said."
"But 1 want something more definite;"
stoutly demanded the counsel. "How
do you go about j our business?" '
"That depend.? ujon circumstances.
according to the nature of the case, " ex
plained the doctor. "For instance, if 1
were going to begin on you, the first
Jumping from the Brooklyn Bridge.
Robert Donaldson, a Scotchman in
New York, wants to bet that he can
jump from the East River bridge with
out harm. He told a Sun reporter how
he performed such a feat. "I crouch,
with bended knees," lie savs, "and hoy
olF with my elbows nearly a foot from
mv sides, with my forearms and the
palms of my hands flat in front of my
breast. I work mv hands a little like
the. flutter of a bird's wings. The first
fifteen feet I drop like a shot, then the
air catches me under my hands, my
amis, arm-pits, chin and even my ears.
It takes four seconds to drop 10U feet.
I breathe while I am descendins, and
clap my hands over my chest and press
my elbows to my sides just as L stnke
the water. - All my vital parts are pro
tected. My knees guard my stomach.
I believe I could drop safely a distance
of l.tXMJ feet if 1 could be sure of strik
ing feet first in my crouched positiou."
A pretty Philadelphia girl, on being
ked why her engagement had been
broken off, replied, "You see, he canw
to nie one day with an album in his
pocket, and proudly displayed the auto
graph of Charles J. Guitean, which ho
went to Washington on puriose to tret.
I was not anxious to marrv a born fool.
so we parted."
Komance of Arithmetic
The following storv about Mohammed
Ali and the camels is not new, but it ii
interesting:
A Persian died, leaving seventeen
camels to be divided .among his three
sons in the following proportions: the
eldest to have half, the second a third.
and the youngest a ninth. Of course
camels can't be divided into fractions,
so, in despair, the brothers submitted
their difficulty to Mohammed AIL
"I'll lend you another camel to make
eighteen, and now divide them your
selves."' The consequence was, each
brother got from one-eighth to one-half
of a camel more than he yvas entitled to,
and Ali received his camel back again;
the eldest brother; getting nine camels,
the second six, and the third two.
The Dangers of Careless Surgery.
It is related that one distinguished
surgeon lately left a sponge, and another
a pair of forceps, in the cavity after an
abdominal operation. Yet another would
have left a large seal ring in the same
place but for a gentle reminder from a
fellow-practitioner. , It seems hard that
surgeons should run the awful risk of
losing jewelry and instruments by sew
ing them up in the vitals of their pa
tients. It is due to them to say, how
ever, that the rule is to carefully count
the sponges and instruments during the
progress of such operations. luis is
welL It would be a dreadful matter, ior
instance, if sL man should have a couple
of chairs or a house and lot grafted into
him while be was being treated ior a
gunshot wound.
Texas received 250,000 immigrants
last year. j ' f s
A wire four hundred feet long can be
j made from one grain of silver, touch a
wira is finer than human hair.