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THK FAISSS LOVK. - ' BT KmoHwneo clabxb. la aWfat of the starry sky, Tn aouad of the rushing aw. Wito a iMetta heart aitd a tender senile, UdByanbH tonkiHBft tinner tbe soteam sky. Ck tothetbrobomcaea, With worts of lore aid tows of. faith, DM say own trae lore Mas me. 1 faae on the aa bricht sky, I hear the same lippung sea. Bnt sever aain on wth. or In heaven, . WlUmy owatreeloYekiaettw. ' True are the holy stars. True la the restless sea, Trae are tbe thoughts omy heart to him, -Botmy lcrelaferb awl 1

, oh, chanceful akv! It. oh. mntu sea!

Ye are trae to your own eternal laws,.

xtax my lore Is raise to mti Why shook the moonlit'sky. Why .hook! the meaning acay Recall- the empty dream of the past, When ay lore Is false tome? Pierce to his coal, oh, stars I Thrill to his heart, oh, a a! . . It mar be. smtt with aajidtteo. rnjr. DECEUB1 AH!) HAY OR BLUE EYES FOR TRUTH.

BY CHABAOTTB POWBB,

fCuttftll Ui) Bbe would like to have known why he bad not spoken to her all the evening, and why he had revived thai "Miss Seton," which they had dropped by mutual consent sometime prevwiislT. Well, she would have iknown if she had seen the letter he wrote to her that very night, bnt as her Nther made a burnt offering of it. she not any 'wiser for it, nor would it added to her peace if she had seen Ifter a week or two she was the of considerable banter from her n account of her gallant's nonice. ifled for Liverpool yesterday, .a," said he One morning, at iaot, smilir.g placidly at his ghter over his paper; the barque ,itania,' Capt. Hale, that's bin vesaeL ore as can be. I suppose ha has got a wife or lady-love across the water; it EJd be just like those roving fellows, know. Bu: nevermind, Cornelia," rent on, distort jj his ugly mouth with an at tempt ut a smile, "never Blind; before he retirns we will have yon married on a s ale of magnificence such as he could not approach with his jattry fifty thousand or so." 1 do not wish to be married,'' protested the miserable maiden. ' "Pooh! all the girls say that; they think it sounds romantic, but I sup? poae they dont mean one word of it. No', Cornelia," and he ambled around to where she sat and took her rosy face between his bony palms, "tell me how you would Hie to marry my dear friend, Bobert Alden?" "Papa He is alder than yon are. "Great Heaven! What matters if he is? He is worth a million of monev, ad that is never old, yon simpleton ! "I don't want him ! I don't want his sonsy! Oh, I wish I might die L" "Amen to that sweet prayer, yon obstinate young fool! I notice yon can .enjoy a drive in his phaeton very well. Now., you've got to mar

ry aim unless von wish to a

your mother and me in the poor-house! But then voull please your own sweet sell, I suppose, xd maybe it does not

snnon matter, we nave not long to lire,

tavwav."

And soy by dint of alternate scolding and coaxing, he made her life such a burden that she finally gave in, and rejoiced Ins heart by telling him she would do as he wished; and, as he had already filled the old man's ears with lying stories of how fond the shy girl had become of him, the battle was won ins very short, time, and the marriage hurried up. Then it was that Cornelia found she had overrated her power of enduranoe, and the nice grandfatherly

sua nana naato tsse tne consequences. Her indignation was like old wine all

toe stronger lor having been kept? m

For five years Capt. Hale was absent

ncm ms native city, and when be reappeared at the end of that time it was after having been driven about by a Kale in which his vessel had received

considerable damage; besides which he

was ill himself, and one of his men

who had been injured by a falling spar was in seed of treatment,

"Hodder, will you attend to Tom and see that he has everything he needs? I am afraid I cannot be of much service here while I feel so curiously

quarmisn. "Go ashore, Captain, for my sake, and have something done for yourself. Tom wfll be all right in a little while. "I am afraid he badly hurt."

"Well, supposing he ft, there is no sense in your standing by, and looking at him," answered the Captain's logical

"No, not one bit of use. If I should not come down to-morrow send me

word-how he is.

But a good many days and weeks went by and still he did not come; he was engaged in wrestling with a long run of typhoid fever, and strangely enough the Doctor called to attend btm happened to be Philip Aides. The Doctor made his appearance

oaring one 01 jrranars lucid moments, and they recognized each other at once. The young physician cordially offered his hand to the invalid. . "Hale, I sm delighted to see you at last." he exclsined.

1 suppose so," said the other, sulkily, hiding his brown paw under the counter pane and turning' his head to

the wall.

The Doctor attributed Frank's snrK-

i to his painful illness and took no

oe; but after a low weeks tad

pasted and the patierfebegan to talk of getting on his sea legs, Dr. Alden tried sociability once more. "Perhaps if he finds he can go a-wooing again, it will nasteifsiua convalescence,'' mused the wise phvsician, and - aW'Oneaayhe made a.-second attempt to break the ice. "Did you ever hear any home news during your five years' exile?" . . "Hews!." said the skk man with a sour grimace; "well, no; one seldom hears much of importance from the gulls at sea." ' I suppose not," said the Doctor, smiling "and X am not sure if I can interest you on land, although I am a different sort of bird, one of tbe duck family, you know. Well, you remember Cornelia Seton that was?" "Ida What of her?"

"She is a widow." "A widow! How can that be while fou are alive r" asked the sick mastiff, pringujg op in bed, and regarding the Doeter with a curiouslT-puzzlod visage. "Oh, I forgot you did not known ins

f married my uncle. lite down now. If

I d thought you were going to rnase such a row, J would not have told you a thing about it." - "You do not mean to say she married that auperanuated " Dr. Alden's hand was over his mouth in an instant, "Oh, don't, Hale, I entreat you. Remember he is dead." "I beg your pardon ; but why did Mr. Alden marry such a child against her will?" "He did not know it was against her will. He was deceived, like you." "Why did you not try to prevent it, then?" "If I interfered it would look as if I were interested only on account of having expectations from my uncle, which was really not the case, for he had not 'spoken to me for years -on account of my having refused to go into mercan-

"Then why did you not tell fan what-

wrsD wnin iw rwi

,L -"I did, not know it in Mmq, T&a I in anoh tlwatA tnflA afloat."

"If I'd only known! If T& only known r -"Known what.?" "That her father was such an infamous liar." "Such a celebrated lawyer, you mean." ' "It is all the same thing. He told me that you were engaged to Cornelia, you remember when we last met, on the night of that abominable dinner-party." "Yes? Well, may the Lord have mercy on his guilty soul, f6r I'm afraid it is 'all the same thing!' You cannot deny that he is a very clever man, though, to move human beings about as though they were so many chessmen, and not let them find him out, either; however what do you -want?" asked the Doctor, anxiously, as Frank half rose, and then lay down again with a smothered exclamation. He was not praying. "If he were only young enough to stand it what a prodigious csstigation I would like to give him!" "Cornelia might object," suggested Dr. Alden. "Cornelia!" and he dwelt on every syllable of tbe name though he loved it, as of course he did, and its owner, too, as strongly as ever; "why dont you tell me something about her?" "Because I am afraid yon will talk too much and that will not do. You are-not out-of danger yet." "Howl should like to see her!. Is she at her own home, or where is she ?" "She and my mother have been living together ever since ; but you had better not let her see you before a little of your lost beauty returns. You are that cadaverous looking now you would terrify any woman out of Dahomey," "Yes, I suppose I am rather seedylookinsr." i "Quite so; your sunken cheeks suggest an Anderjonville among us. Any commands? I am going up to the hospital now." "Ask Tom whether he wants anything, if you please, and tell him I will see him shortly.'' "Oh! Very shortly?" "Yes, to be sure; you don't suppose that because I've had a cold or something or other I must stay mewed up here, a granny forever?" "Granny! why, do you know you are sourer than any legion of grannies it

was ever my misfortune to minister to ?" "That's right, insult me when I'm at your mercy. Please to remember I am going to rise again." "I win bring you some yeast to-morrow; good-day." In a week or two Dr. Alden's interesting patient began to get his sea legs again, as he expressed it, and then he took to studying his face iu the mirror a little every day, but the thin cheeks were very slow in filling out. "Humph ! not presentable yet, I see, " said he to himself, one morning, after having criticised himself for a while,

"and I do not want to run the risk of not -being recognized. I think that

straw would break the camel's back, but I will go and see how Tom is prospering." On arriving at the hospital the porter

told him that everybody who was able

to crawl was out of doors, and he might find the person he wished to see somewhere about the grounds. "The person I want to know about is a sailor," Frank explained. "Head tied up, arm in splints?" "Yes, likely "Turn to the left and go down; saw him take that direction a short time ago with a lady." "A lady !" exclaimed Frank, wonderingly, and the innocent porter thinking he might be shy of the sex, said, reassuringly: "Lord bless you, sir, she is the quiet

est girl you- ever met; never looks at

any one, and sue is here nearly every day." After a brief search Frank found his man sound asleep in a garden chair, with his head resting against a tree. The laxly was seated near him reading to herself, having very kindly read the siok man asleep. "A fathom of crape on her dress," said Frank, musingly, as he approached from behind. "Wonder would she mind giving up her chair, that a person might contemplate his crew?" But the lady with the bent head and somber apparel moved no more than if she had been dead for centuries, and the heaviness of Frank's martial stop seemed to strike deaf ears. He walked round and stood directly before her, and still she did not look up, till with the tip of his finger under the delicate chin he lifted her head. "Blue eyes for truth," said he softly, and down went tbe "British Catholic Poets" to wallow in the grass while the owner of those eyes was Bobbing in Frank's arms. . "Oh, Frank, Frank, how could you do ft ?" "Do what, my darling?" "Go off and leave me to my fate in that dreadful way." "Dearest, I had not an inkling of what that fate was to be or you never would have met it; as it was, could I do otherwise than go, when yonr father was inviting me to your marriago with another man at the same tune that vou

were singing 'Good by, Sweetheart' in my port ear? Tell me now, could I?" "No; you were misled by a auantitv

of false lights on the shore;' the best of navigators often are, it seems." "Yes, I certainly was misled or things would have gone very differently with

you, my fair martyr."

"Ob, JTrank, do not call me that! please do not." "And why, prav, may I not call you that if I see fit?"

You do not know, none but myself wfll ever know, what horrible feelings I had against my father and against that patient, good old man who sacrificed himself because of his pity for

"Sacrifice! Does a mummy sacrifice itself by appropriating a rose which has sprung up in its path ?" "But remember a rose has thorns, and what you are pleased to call a mummy had life enough and heart enough to bleed when pierced." "Child of my heart! if you go on at this rate I am afraid I will bo terribly jealous. Surely you did not care for him?" "In a sense, yes; when I found out what a King he was." "What do you mean by that, Cornelia?" "You need not frown I mean that I liked him as I think I should have liked a very nice sort of father, and he

was the only one I ever knew, for my own was a great deal more unkind than

even the generality of stepfathers. "I know he was." "How did you know?"

"Dr. Phiup has been opening my eves a litle." '"Oh, has he? Did he tell you how

was to his unole i .

o: were vou wioicea tonim t

Yes, very; I think I shall be sofry

for that as long as I live." "Mind what you are saying, Cornelia." "I am minding, but why should I? I mean why do you tell me to ?" . "The green-eyed shape in me will not brook such tenderness for an old man's

memory." "Jealous! and of the only father ever had?" "Yes, I am." "You need not be." "How do I know that?"

"Because I tell you so, of course; is

not that sufficient?"

"No, for one of little faith, it is not

It is your opinion I should not be iealorts. I say you are mistaken. I

have cause for jealousy." "What is it, pray?" "You liked him."

"With a purely filial affection. Do

you object to that?"

"WelL yes, I do. The fact that you had any 'affection for him at all makes

me a little uncomfortable." "But he deserved it."

"I do not in the least care whether he

did or not. I should not mind his hav

ing the affection of all this world and

all the other, yours excepted. (TO BE CONTINUED.

Mexican Home Interiors.

A Mexican housewife has other ideas

than ours in the disposition of her fur

niture. There are always straight rowe

oi solas ana chairs set stiffly against the wall, and around tho room. Though there are few occasions in life when so great a number of seats could possibly be requried, yet the family feels itselj poor indeed which does not possess enough to reach in an unbroken line

around the entire circuit of the sals. Into each corner of the room a triangu

lar table is fitted, and in the center u

a larger one round or oval which has

always its tall lamp in the middle, and

a row of-empty vases and china hgnres.

ranged at regular distances, straight around the outer edge. This central table is generally covered with an enor

mous crocheted or knitted spread which

sweeps the floor, and represents years of patient labor, vast expenditure ol precious eye-sight, and hundreds ol spools of fine linen thread; for the mis

tress of tbe manse began it when she was a child and finished it only in time

for her wedding. There is a noticeable

dearth of those thousand-and-one little

ornaments in which American ladies

especially delight, for bric-a-brac, easels, brackets, etc., are not within reach of all here as in the United States. Chromos and engravings sparingly adorn the walls, and the corner tables

are alwavs crowded with glass lamp

ana enina vases, wmcn are valued f oi

ornament rather than use. .At the extreme end of the sals de recibo, farthest from the entrance, is invariably seen precisely the same arrangements of furniture in every cosa a rug or square of carpet, with four or six

chairs, placed in two straight linos, visa-vis, upon it, bounded upon the further side by the sofa against the wall. To this little island in the sea of the big bare room guests are shown with great ceremony on entering, for in this particular spot the hostess concentrates all her forces, as we understand the art of doing in spiritual seances and revival meetings. Fannie Brig ham Ward,

Theater Yices, The stage has its vices as well as the audience. One of the worst of them is the slovenly enunciation of many of the actors of the present day. They do not pronounce their words with anything approaching distinctness: they do not take the trouble to speak loud enough to make all the audience hear. They mutter and mumble and shuffle off their words as if they were in a hurry to get through. Probably the "combination" system, with its demoralizing sameness, is largoly responsible for this, though it is sometimes seen among tho younger members of established stock companies. It is a refreshing contrast to this slipshod work- when a well-traiued actor very often a young actor appears, articulating his words distinctly and speaking in a tone, whether low or loud, that entries them to every pari of tho house. These careless players ought to -remember that they are neglecting a detail which is one of the first requisites of success. Another little stage vice which seems to be in vogue now is that of actors reappearing to acknowledge applause after an exit during the progress of a scene. This completely destroys the illusions, and is in violation of all the rules of ort. Yet it lias been seen during tho past week in one of the best of tbe few stock companies in New York. As for the vices of audiencGS, their name is legion. The oojIe who come in late, the people who talk loud, the people who talk in a sibilant whisper that is worse than talking aloud, tho womon who wear big hats, the men who go out every time the curtain drops, climbing over a whole row of persons to do it, and come back with bar-room odors clinging about them; the people who take the seats they aro not entitled to and cause confusion and noise when they must be turned out these are some of the criminal eliisscw in a theater audience. New York Tribune. Tho Sparrow Pest. A few years ago great efforts were made accliinat .o sjiarrows in South Australia, and they have proved successful to s most inconvenient extent, as tho birds have lately increased so mi.ch and have inflicted such serious

damage on wheat, vegetables aud fruit crops that a reward of sixpence per dozen has been offered for their houds by the Government. Chisago Time.

& 1882, in Engla-.d alone. 7:8.(100

paupers received public relist

HUMOR. From Texas Btlttngs. Strength ami health go together with the exception of butter. Beechsr allows tho use of his autograph on a soap advertisement. That is one tho cleanest things Beeoher ever did. There is marked similarity between a beefsteak and a printer's " take," At times both are unusually "fat." M. Woiith, the Parisian fashion king, is bald-headed. Thafs what happens to a man who makes so many feminine misfits. Rev. Db. Talmage says the sermon of the future will be sensational. If Talmage's sermons of the present are not sensational, heaven help posterity in the future. A Texas horse-thief is said to have recently been riddled with shot. Speaking from pure, personal experience, we candidly declare that this is much heir 1r Abail Jjeiflg sbol with riddles. , The Pinchbeck family, of Austin, is considered one of the meanest, stingiest and close-fisted of any in Texas. One night a new baby made its expected appearance in the Pinchbeck family, and when Jchnny Fizzleiop heard the news, he said : "Golly ! won't that baby be surprised when it comes to And out what kind of a stingy crowd he has got in amongst!" From Carl pretzel's Wcekly.l Something to Altar Girls. Something to halter Horses. A carpenter hod his chest cut open by robbers. They hammered away at it until they saw it successfully accomplished. It was plane that their efforts would augur no good, as there woa nothing in it An officer had riveted his eyes on them, and when he axed them what they were doing they attempted to file off in different directions. He caught them and put them under lock and key, and the next morning the Judge chiseled them out of all the money they had. Patient to a physician "Can you relieve my suffering?" "I can cer." "Why do the wild waves murmur?" We suppose it is because they run up against the "bank" and get broke. A hard-hearted landlord took the bones away from a delinquent boarder. The bones belonged to an end-man in a minstrel show.

John Henry first paxed on a gas-light Jet, When he entered the bed-room assigned htm, Ee blew from his rangs a farm-yard blow, And now U a bright little cherubim. From Feck's Sun.

Some people never lay by anything for a rainy day. They can't even keep

an umbrella.

They used to call it matrimony, but

a crusty, disappointed old bachelor

calls it "Matter o' money." Well, ii

may be, sometimes.

A Muskegon young man has married his &unt. Now let some paragraphei

begin calling the man uncle to himself, brother-in-law to his own mother and

son-in-law to his own grandmother,

That will do as ' a starter to a family complication.

An exchange says "the Prince o!

Wales is learning to play the bones. Wonder if the Prince is going into the minstrel business and coming over te this country to reap American shecklet to help liquidate his $3,000,000 indebt

edness?

A man in Winchester county, N, Y..

aimed a gun at a rat, and riddled hi; 300 pound wife with shot. If that man

had only aimed his gun at his wife, the rat would have been sent to kingdom come. It is strange how persistent some guns are in shooting in some othei direction than that which they are aimed. Yale college has added a course ol study relating to railroads, and all about them. This is unfortunate. The

graduates will now expect to take posi

tions as general managers of railroodt as soon as their time expires at college, and they will find it is necessary to commence pumping a band-car, be promoted to shoveling on a gravel train,

and work up gradually to a freight and

passenger train before they can run $

railroad. A xaie graduate would mu up a narrow gauge railroad twelve milei

long so it would take a good railroad

man a year to straighten it out.

AFTER THE BATTLE.

Tall Men and Short. Fair men may derive some satisfac

tion from being told, on the authority

oi oir xtawson ana ine anthropometric committee," represented by him at the meeting of the British association, that the greater number of criminals are ol

dark complexion. But dark men may

triumph in their turn when Sir Bawson

goes on to say that lunatics are for the most part fair; a truth which the late

M. Fetoher had probably in view when!

he determined to present Hamlet in a wig. Tall men, again, will be interest ed to hear that criminals and lunatice classed together are two inches shorter that the rest of the population; and against this there is nothing in the way of consolation to offer short men except what in most cases they already knew that tho people of Spain, Italy and France are shorter than those

of the northern countries. That tail

men, however, are not absolutely perfect is suggested, if not absolutely

proved, by the fact as alleged by the

spoKesman or uie anthropometric committee, that among the tallest tjeonlein

Europe are the Irish. Tho tallness of the Irish is out of harmony, moreover, with the argument that the shortness of short people is to be accounted for by their having been insufficiently fed, clothed and housed when young. The facts and figures put forward by the anthropometric committee are very confusing; and no reasonable conclusion can be drawn from them. This con fusion would be "worse confounded," if, instead of dealing with races the an

thropometric committee were to deal with selected individuals. Tho German Emperor, Prince Bismarck, Count Moltke are all tall, and many of the superior officers of tho Prussian army are giants. The Duko of Wellineton.

on the other hand, was rather below the middle height, while Nelson and Napoleon were decidedly short. St. James' Gazette.

The greatest beautifler of a woman is

notoriety. The eloped, the abducted, the victims and the victimized of the fair sex all continue to bo "remarkably handsome" or "extremely beautiful."

It is t'cldom that one is marked down so h-w as "uncommonly pretty." JBo-

wn jueraia.

Piude. ill-nature and want of sansn

are the three great sources of ill-manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill fnr vflnt nf viim.i.n m wliof in 11..

language of foola, is called knowing it 1.1 f. 11

W WUflU. BWlfh

A. Glance at the Result of tbe November Elections.

Mahone's Defeat in Virginia and Butler's Overthrow in Massachusetts.

Republican, Democratic and Independent Newspaper Comments.

ELECTION ECHOES. New York. The plurality of Carr (Republican) forSeoretarof State, is 18,000, and Chapin (Democrat) for Comptroller, has 111,000 plurality. Maxwell, Treasurer, runs 5,000 behind ChapIn. The pluralities of tho other Democrat io candidates range from 13,000 to 14,000. Iu twenty-six counties Maynard ran behind his ticket 2a,(W0. Ho was especially slaughtered In -Now fork and Kings counties on account

rof his positttJon on tho quostiqn of a uniform

liquor isw in tuo state, in new torn city the Democrats elected sixteen Aldermen and the Republicans eight. The light In New York city was very bitter. Tammany secures three Senators, the country llemocraey ono, Irving hall two, and tho Republicans one Thirteen Democratic Assemblymen were elected and eleven Republicans. Tho total veto polled was 155,000, of Brooklyn polled 97,000 votes, of which Low, tho present incuuiusnt, received 43,320 for Mayor, and his Democratic opponent, Joseph C. Hendrlx, tho Sun reporter, received 46,791. Tho voto was very close,-Low pulling through on 1,539 majority only. A Domocratto County Auditor, Distriot Attorney, County and Supreme Court Judges, and a Republican Supervisor were elected. I'ennsylvanta. Official returns from fifty-seven of the eixty-eevon counties in tho State and estimates of tho others give Miles 10,361, and Llvesay 17,501 majority. Nebraska. Returns from three-fourths of the counties in tho Slate and unolDoial estimates from the remainder indicate tho election of Reeso (Republican) for Supremo Judge by 8,000 majority. The Board of Regents aro elected by 15,000 majority. Crawford (Domoorai) la elected Judge of the Seventh district. The others, excopt Broaty in the First district, are Republicans. There is a Republican gain over tho last election of nearly 10,090, taking tho voto forjudge as a basis.

Virginia. As the returns come In f ram Virginia the Dcmocratlo gains increase, and Mahone's defeat becomes more overwhelming. Tho Democratic majority in the Sonata is at least eight, and In the lower houso of the Legislature twenty-sorcn, and on joint ballot thtrty-flve. Tho popular majority against Mahone In tho State will reach 30,000.

Mississippi, A Jackson telegram to the Chicago Tribune says: The Domocrats have swept tho Stato, losing only three or four counties which were contested by Independents. In many counties there were fusions between Democrats and Republicans, all of which were successful except in Panola county, which was carried by the Chalmers element by some 300 majority. Chalmers is buriod beyond political resurrection. Tho estimated political status of tho Legislature is thlrty-ilvo Democrats and two Republicans In tho Senate and 100 Democrats and twenty Republicans and Independent Democrats in the House, which includes fusion Republicans.

MAHONE.

Hli Defeat Overwhelming. Richmond Telegram to Chicago Tribune. Mahone's defeat is one of the most overwhelming known in Virginia politics, and surprises oven his opponents. His former strongholds have all gono against him. Tho excitement was unprecedented in Virginia, and greater than during the uprising against carpet-bag government in reconstruction days. The whole State was literally under arms, and such was the explosive condition of affairs that the slightest jar would have caused riots ail over the State. In Danville whlto men 70 years of age wont to voto with shotguns on their shoulders. This state of affairs was largely duo to campaign speeches, tho whites warning tho negroes that thoy would be enslaved if Mahon was defeated, and the colored orators threatening the burning and sacking of bouses and murdoring of women and children while the whites were at tho polls to voto. This roueod the people at Danville, and many sent their wives and daughters to Richmond and other cities and moved about llko walking- arsenals ready for the expected emergency. Mahone Jubilee. The streets of the principal cities have been thronged, and impromptu meetings gotten

up at what was callod " A matinee juoiieo." Io Richmond the crowd forced Mr. William L. Royall to speak, and ho said: " I thank God that Virginia has been freed from tho turkey-buzzards who roost in her sacred places, and, by the gods, these same turkoybuzzards in thatCaoitol had bettor under

stand that tho people aro not to bo tritiod

with, aud will stand no more counting out. What the Defeat Means. This election moans not only tho present overthrow of Mahone's power in Virginia, but his defeat for re election to tho United States Senate two years bence. Rlddleberger. The result of tho election, It is understood, will cause Itiddleborger, Mahone's colleague, to act with tho Democrats. Ho has been silent for several uiontbs past, and, while ho put forth the plea of ill hoalth. It Is evident that ho understood the meaning of tho charges in tho Southwest. Washington Opinion. Washington Telegram to Chicago Inter Ocean.l Tho situation in Virginia has attracted much attention in political circles here, and the view has been advocated by several prominent Republicans hero that the best policy will be to reorganize the straight out Republican party in tho State. It is not thought, however, that tho Preaidont would favor such a oourso at this time.

of 150,000 votes leads blm to think that he will be successful.

Who Struck Hilly Mahone ? William Long, a Petersburg tobacconist, says ho Is tho person who hit Gen. Mahone in the face during the scufllo at tho polls on election day. Long explains his action as follows: Being pressed by tho crowd, ho (Long) raised his band to dear himself and got out, and as ho did so soino one struck him violently on tho right hand, which caused it to striko Gen, Mabono lightly in tho face, which ho hoiies did tho General no serious injury. Long says ho had no Intention or deslro to do Gon. Mahono porsonal injury. As to his (Mahono's) offer of $100 to know tho scoundrel or assassin who struck him, ho (Long) is tho responsible party, and hopes tula statement will bo satisfactory.

BEN BUTLER.

SUU In the King-, Though Sadly Dlsflgured. Tho Pittsburgh Commcrctal-Gascllc telegraphed Gon. B. F. Butler for his views on tho result in Massachusetts and asking for his programme fos tho future. Tho following characteristic reply wasrocoived: An answer to yonr qnestion is easy. Last year 1 had 134,000 votes. The larcoat vote ever polled was in the (larttelil election of 1830 OarlicUl, .S5,000;Ilaucuck,ir2.000;total, 2T7.0O0. This vear the rote is 3l3,noa, of'wluoh I have 163,000. 'lhla enormous increaxe has boon caused by tho frceost use of money and by tho fraud and corruption by my opiwnenUi. More votes hare been cast than will bo in the next Presidential year. The 8,00ti or 9,00 plurality of my oppouont wa more than lost in the city of Boston. Massachusetts is. therefore, surely Dem

ocratic it I inako another State

canvass without better Bain. Wlion a

man has ino cased the Democratlo voto from 1 l2,uo to 162,000 iu three years, is there any need of an answer to yonr question as to what my programme will be? I am pleased with the result, and had ratber have my vote than to be elected by 13S,O00. In that cae It would then bo said Massachusetts is a Republican Stato and

tuatsuo nas a large reserve voce, wuicu m s Pi-GBidontial election will oomo out. Now wo havo bad them all oat and measured them, and in the next Presidential election, with a ludioious

platform and iwpular nomination, at least we (should keep all tho Republican men and money at homo to take care of Butler, Instead of sending both into Ohio and Indiana to corrupt those States. liENJAMIN P. BUTLEB.

The Boston Herald states that Gov. Butler

told a member of his Council that ho should run for Governor next fall. Tbe compliment

EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.

BBaYE KATE SHELLY.

From tho Chicago Daily News.! In 1861 an Iowa young woman named Kate Shelly performed an act of bravery involving so much of sclf-saorlflco that it at once elevated her from tho commonplace to tho borolo grade, Near her honso, and visiblo from her window, was a railway bridge. It was night and suoh a night I Tho wind blew ttorooly, and it rained heavily. Above tho noise of tho elements sbo heard tho rumblo of an approaching- train, and looked out only to sco it crash through tho bridge. Sho was alono. Tho stream crossed by tho broken bridge was

swollen. Yot she managed to reach It, and. In answer to her calls, ono voice, that of tho sole survivor of the aeoiuent, was heard by hor through tho darkness Imploring hor to stop the express train that would bo duo at

the bridge shortly. no mauo nor way nomo, nroeured a lantern, and set oft to reach tho

noarost station, to got to which she had to oroes a high trellis-work bridge. Arrived at this bridiro. hor llcht wont out. Weary as showas

footsore, torn by brambles, drcuohed and

balt-blindcd by tno driving storm sno yot succeeded In crawling from tie to tio across tho trestle. Then she raado her way to the

station, told her fearful story, aud then, like a truo woman, she fainted. It was no mas

culine miss who bad dona all this, but a woman of tho gentle kind, whose ovonfrung nerves gave way as soon as tho powerful strain on them wbb removed. Just as she fainted tho express thumlored into tho station, and Its passengers wcro saved from a horrible death.

Iowa did well to award tho heroic girl, by an

act of the Legislature, a special gold taodat that shall forever romiud her of a people's gratitude. It was piosontcd to her last wook by a commltteo of tho Legislature. Hi. ch is Kato Shelly 's story. 1 1 is the awry of fl lliave girl, the recoi-d of a hcroio deed, t

Journallstlo Comments on Butler's Enfeat. New York Herald. Considering Butler's advanced age, this disaster winds up his political career, to far as the 8tate of Massachusetts at large in concorned. Onco off the track pf success there in a State election ho never can get o s again. But if he should wish to renew bis reputation as a disturber of the peace in tho popular branch of Congress, his voto indicates that thoro are several districts where ho could And an opportunity. We deem it probable that Gov. Butler never will make an attempt aga.ln to carry tho Massachusetts State-house by assault, but will apply himself heroaftor, in combination with Mr. Wendell Phillips and other agitators, and very likely with his friend, our own John Kolly, to got up a new National party on the "capital and labor" issue. Springfield Republican.! Peonlo respond "not aruiltr " to tho Infa

mous charges of Gov. Butlor. Let alt tho 1

world take notico that Massachusetts hits not had a loose, dishonest, extaat-agant or corrupt administration. Massachusetts is not yet given ovor to tbe domination of ignorant, f oreign-bomor foreign-fathered. Massachusetts cannot be permanently hold is control by any party which makes clap-trap appca's to ignorance, prejudice and etupldity. Tho attempts to-exeito feeling ttgaWst.t ho Republicans as tho party of aristocracy, blue blood aud capital have miserably failed. Boston Journal. What Appomattox was to the Confederacy tbe election of yestjrday was to Butlor and Butlerlsm. Both the man and tho thing havo been annihilated. For such a result decent people, not only of Massachusetts, but cf both parties throughout tbe country, should bo profoundly thanklul, because tbe ono man in this country who could rally about him the ignorant and vicious elements has boon cast down for the last time. (Boston Herald 1 This finishes Butler. Massachusetts has spoken In earnest and with a full voice: "Never more bo officer of mine." It is truo ho has not been able to permanently Injure

Massachusetts, for his power is limitod and ;

her institutions aro strong. The disgrace was ;

in cioctmg mm. tuo atato win survive ana look back with shame upon this wild Butler frolic when Butlor Is dust. Boston Post. Gov. Butlor Is defeated with a year's record behind him and his choice of campaign methods. Ho cannot accuse his commltteo and other workers of bad management. He has assumed the part of absolutism with respect to the manner In which his campaign should be conducted, and his assumption has not been challenged. Butler has been Command-cr-iu-Chiof and Supremo Executive Magistrate In his own behalf from tho time ho was inaugurated Governor till his defeat on Tuesday, and he alono is responsible for his failure to obtain a re-election. I Boston Advertiser. Butlcrism is dead and buried. Let it not bo

exhumed. fXow York finn.1

Gov. Butlor has gone. The sweet singor of Chicopeo proved too much for him, and an interesting and humorous figure is thus withdrawn from the boards. Tbe defeat of Butlor might have been predicted, for he had made himself very disagreeable, as men who toll tho truth often do. But tho forces which made hltn successful for one year in a State

that had been in tho fore-front of Republican-

Ism do not die with him. If eo Irrepressible a peisonage can be said to die politically. We

shall live to see tho State Democratic, but act

llutlerito. OPINIONS AND COMMENTS. The Newspapers on the Result. (Now York Tribune.

The result makes HopubJIcan success posslblo in tho next Presidential contest. If Now York, Mast achusotts and Pennsylvania had all followed Ohio in going Democratic this year, fow would have been hopeful enough to believe that so overwhelming a current could

havo been turned back in a single year. Now,

everybody can see that righting ground ia loft; that tho Republicans can fairly hope by good conduct and good fortune to carry every Stato thoy had in 186; and that, as against a party so prone to blundor and with so many chances to blundor as the Democrats, their

prospect for carrying enough of thorn ja more than fair. New York Herald. Although the result throushout this Stato

was practically a revolution for a Democratlo majority reduced from 190,000 to 30,000 or thereabouts implies an over

whelming change yot tho Republicans can hardly congratulate themselves upon all their voto as legitimate gain for their parly. Thoy must not count It without consideration

of thoir friend John Kelly. There is no doubt that a largo part of the voto cast lor Re

publican candidates represents tno treason or Tammany hall to tho Democratic candidates. New York pastes into

the category of doubtful States in the Presi

dential election oi issi, ana tno managors or tho Democratic party have nobody bub themselves to blame for it, INew York World. Tho result reaches further and rises higher than a more victory of Democrats ovor Republicans. It means 1864. It means a change at Washington. It means that the people ore tired of the ruling parly. It means tho vindication of popular self-govornmont. All attempts to divert attention from the fact that yesterday's contest was tho decisive skirmish

iu tho Presidential battle rauea. uno maritea feature of the Democratic victory In New York is the evidence it afordsof tho total failure of tbe Republican attempt to hoodwink the people on tho tariff issue. Tho effort to dra the tariff into the canvass was abortive bore, as in Ohio. Six months ago tho Republicans were jubilant over tho thought that thoy had fixed the Issue on tho Democracy, and that their opponents were on the wrong side of tho question. Tho election in New York shows plainly that the drift of tho ttdo is with tho Democracy. In Ohio tho Republicans declared that tho liquor interests contributed to their defeat. In this State tho liquor interests were in their favor, and did their best to defeat tho Democratic State ticket. (New York Morning Journal. New York still retains her place in tho column of Democratic States, although, of course, by a majority far below tho phenomenal uno which carried Mr. Cleveland into the Governor's chair a year ago. Whilo Republicans have made enormous gatns all over the State as compared with tho results year ago, tho Domocrats have done as well as If not better than thoy expnotcd. Twenty thousand majority is not very largo, but it is enough. St, Louis Giobc-Democrat.l A suddon change has come over the political prospect of tho country within tho last twenty-four hours. Where there were doubts and ominous shakings of tho head as to the future there Is now cheerful confidence. Tho freaks of the elections of last year stand rorth in their truo light. Thoro was no permanent strength in tho obullitlou which raado Butlor Governor of Massachusetts and gave Cleveland the astounding majority of 200,000 In Now York. Those wore not evidences that tho people wore ready for tbe change which would place tho country under a Domocratio administration. They Bipniflcd nicroly a dissatisfaction with the methods adopted by certain Republican managers.

Interesting Figures from Report of the Commissioner of Education.

The Status of Education in the Northwest.

INDIANA STATE NEWS,

KOVRBS TOOK 1MB COMMlSSIOintB'S REPORT. The report of the Commissioner of Education for 1681, embraces the following, as to the condition of education in Northwestern States; Illinois shows an increase in receipts, ex. penditures and rate of teachers' wages, and a decrease in enrollment and attendance. Yet 78 per cent of tbe school youth were enrolled, and the average attendance was 60.7 percent, of tho enrollment. Indiana has lost heavily In onrojlment and daily attendance, but still is in good educa-, tional condition. Progress has been made as regards school-houses, graded schools, and receipts and expenditure. Michigan hid noarly TS per cent. Of her school population enrolled in the publla schools, mi increase for the year of 13,073 In school popfifation and at 8,187 In pabtta school enrollment, with 93t more In private schools. There wero 175 more publlo schoolhouses, school property valued at fW,857 more, and 17,891 more volumes in publicschool libraries. There was an increase In the number of teachers employed and in the number attending State institutes. The permanent school fund was 1159,241 more, and $307,073 more wore expended on public schools, although tho average pay of teachers decreased slightly and the average term was four days longer. Wisconsin has an increased school population, a slightly inorcased enrollment, and a decreased daily attendance. There was improvement in tho quality and length of schools, and in tho annual expenditure and permanent funds for them. Other facts fur-! ther Indicate a steady and healthful advancement. Minnesota is imperfectly reported. A small decrease in enrollment and a heavy gain in school property are Indicated by the statistics given. Iowa had 75 percent of its school population (594,730) under instruction, and has advanced in aH matters except avorago attendance. Nebraska has advanced in nearly all re. spects. There were 10,478 more youth of the school ago, 8,337 more enrolled In publlo schools, and 5,348 more in average daily at

tendance. With an Increase of 389 in school districts, there were 617 more having school six months and over, while fewer reported no schools, and tho average term for the State was a day longer. More teachers were em

ployed at a Flight advance In average par.

$3,718 more were expended for public-school purposes, and tho permanent Stato school

tuna inoreasea oy l,(H,te.

THE FORD BROTHERS.

Attempt to Assassinate Charlie at His

Father's Home In Missouri Disappearance of Bob.

Richmond (Ha) Telegram.j

News has reached this city of the attempted assassination of Charlie Ford, one of the no

torious Ford brothers, at his father's home, about three milea from this city. As nearly as can bo learned the circumstances are as follows: Ford had been notined anonymously not to come Into the neighborhood, but he disregarded the notice, and Monday night after supper, while walking out, seven shots were fired at him in rapid succession, but none of them took effect, although one passed through his coat, Tho shooting was done by parsons ooncealed In tall weeds growing near by. Ford returned the fire, but boihg unable to see his assailants did not succeed in hitting them, and they made good their escnpo. Thoie are many rumors as to who the parties were, but nothing is mally known as to their identity. Somo 'say it was neighbors of Ford's father, who Tiad forbidden both Charlie and Robert Ford to come into the vicinity. The report of tho attempted assassination created much excitement. A mover who was camped near by stated that the shots were fired so closoly together that they seemed to have been alt fired at once, and there is a strong belief that the party was composed of so ven men who made their escape on horseback, the horses being in the timber adjoining. Ford has stated that ho feared somo such an attack, as his life has bora threatened freiuently, and that ho fustratod a plan to kill him or his brother at roorla by a member of the troupe with which he was performing, who had substituted powder and boll for blank catrldges. Charlie Ford left hero for Kansas City to secure tho aid of officers In searching- for hi brother Bob, who has mysteriously disappeared, and whom Charlie thinks has been foully dealt with.

THE CORN CROP.

Final Report from Washington, Showing a Falling off or 40,000)000 BosHela. Tho November report of the National Department of Agriculture gives the local yield per acre. In tho October final reports, the condition of corn, which averaged seventy, eight, was interpreted to mean a product of close to l,fci)0,000,000 bushels. The average yield per aero appears to to twenty-three and ono-tenth bushels one and one-half bushels lower than tbe yield of 1883. This gives a result practically identical with that of October. On the acreage reported In July of 88,300,000, the exact figures would bo 1,577,000,000 bushels. In tho revision of tbe season's' returns this result will not be materially changed. Tho product will therefore be about 40,000,000 bushels short of the previous crop, notwithstanding the increase of area. The potato crop is large, amounting- to 175,000,000 bushois.

Tirrb Haut young

liver sugar spoon as a nook

TbS ladles of Kokomoaro tryloj to raaw noney with which to erect so Uilsstilalt tchoot bufkunrA Bomb firm baa manufactured 6,000 gallons of peach and apple tnadjr .during tfeav. last two months. Tbs McKeen cadois and the Dicklkompaos jouave, of Terro Hauie, will partkapaSaba prize drill Nov. 18. Morris Basobb, the great Liverpool eotte broker, who has just failed for $,0S,o, formerly lived at BvaasvtUe. Cot C rails M. Au.SK, weU-knewd rosfhout Indiana, who had great influence wttJt Preldeiit Lincoln, died at Vlncennaa. ? Term Hautb boasts of having SoUtvas and Anna Dickinson the aarno was Oate wore a belt and tho other the tireeohaa. Geo ROB P. Most,, on aged brOtWr of a former Governor of Indiana, fell dSaat tan rallwav coach on the JeaeraooviUe road.

f Tmi W.parom fr lafjfriiekMaat '

set up in 1829 by A. M. G. Hawea, M. D who also read the first proof-sheet. Be if saw n years pf age, and a resident of Geocesra 111. Willard Carpkhtsr, who died at BvSas. villc, was tho richest citizen of that seed on of Indiana, He secured tbe constxuotkm of tho Wabash and Erie canal, and gave atra library to the city. Andrew C Bbai who was awarded the gold medal in the telegraphers' oooteat, held in Louisville, resides In Jeffersonvflle. Mr. Beal is now the acknowledged ohampaoa) tela, graph operator of the West. A Cosstabui at Lafayette went to taat Louisville depot at midnight and levied upoai a basket or provisions and a bottle of aalBt, the only property possessed by Atoxandac Kulk, who was going to Tenneesee with' lidf wife and children. Thk Commissioners of Pike county repots that ex-Treasurer J. W. Richardson Is tndebt. edto the county to the extent of nearly $,-' 000. Mr. Richardson says he never gotta money and elaima that there most be -take. An expert will examine the books. Conductor ScantnBHOBST, of the Ohio and Mississippi express. No. 2, created a sennation at Clermont, 111., by stoppta the train and throwing off the train-boy and his warea and chest. Investigation showed that'' the boy had robbed a passenger. The ooodootor'S action was indorsed by all on the train. ' Boaxtos Casst, an employe in a anwaaOi four miles south of Shelbyvillo, while aawuag;. lumber, slipped and fell on the saw, wtuok struok him on tbe right shoulder and Inflicted a gash over a foot Ions soma his breast, exposing his vital organs. His right wttat was also almost out off. A largs sunt of counterfeit money waa found recently while tearing down an old building- in Munde, between the ptantormc and weather-boarding on the seoond noon The building la one among the first built Is the city, and is supposed to have been occupied by parties who followed ooantorfeittns as a Uvelihood, aa aH the money found was counterfeit. Taw banks at Madison are supplied with time-locks upon their vaults. Last week that on the vaul t of the First National refused to work one morning, and the bank had to borrow from the National brandi for the day. The first part of this week the May UOnal branch waa in the same fix. The' trouble in both oases arose from maHalrna la setting the lock. Stats Auditor Rxca has about completed his annual report, and, with the close of the Stato fiscal year, will be ready to make the footings and comparisons required by W; When published his report win Include a discussion of the means by which the State Institutions can be run without the aid of aa appropriation Mil, and wfll cite each section of the statutes under which the saver departments, officials and institutions are proposed to be paid out of As State treasury. This compilation wOl be most convenient for references should ny ant it r emergency hereafter arise. AanxDcaaeof basin has been developed at Purdue university. A new student from the interior of the State had intimated to hh) room-mate an apprehension that he aiight be hanged. Tbe boys got hold of it, and a part of four or five entered his room, pretendtas ' to be drunk. They personated the trishtftd -example perfectly not In any vMetwe profanity, but in wild feigned drunken stupidity. There was no smashing things ne knocking the piano off the manttepteovot anything of that sort, hot s liabci-iesged, stupid attempt to hoMesxfc other tap. Bat the new student waa half scared to death. Ha momentarily expected to be held oat of the window heed downward, or UftoS through' the skylight. He lied to the ettr that nlgktV and went home to tell his an.

Kelling, the Indiana Butcher. A recent dispatch front Lafayette, Ind., says: Jacob Nelling, tho brute who killed Ada Atkinson, continues to hold his peace iu regard to tho details of chat horrible tragedy. Ho posltlvoly refuses to make any further admissions than have already been printed. Tho Coroner of Benton count)-, Paul Hitzle, has visited him several times, as has also tho Rev. H. S. Buchtel, and both havo earnestly urged him to make a clean breast of tho whole transaction and inako his poace with heaven, but thus far to no purpose. Ho continues to have "palnn in tho head" whenever tho matter is broached to him. He Is very outspoken on one point, however, and that Is an intention to demand a change of venue from Bontou county.

POLITICAL MORSELS.

A number of doad Presidential candidates are lying about in different parts of tho country. It leaks out by way of Baltimore that

Grandfather Samuel Tlldon Is responsible for Undo Benjamin Butlor's defeat.

CiiAi.siEiis was thoroughly defeated in Mis

sissippi, obtaining a majority m one county only of seventy iu that largo State.

Sen-atob. Coke ears that when Thurman.

Conkiing, and Blaine loft the Senate thoy took away 60 per cent, of the brains of that body.

Tub Baltimore Sua is said to havo made

S1.300 a day during tho last cami a'gn by

printing speeches of excited candidates at

advertising rases.

Henry W.titn Beeciikr is credited by his Brooklyn admirers with having secured

Mayor Low's re-elect loo. His iufluonce is wild to bo worth 10,000 votes In tho city.

Ill visits and harbor bills will lose an ear

nest and faithful friend In tho withdrawal of Congressman Hohlnpon, whom the Massachusetts Republicans have just made Governor.

Tub Hannibal (Mo. negroes have "re

solved " to " disarm prejudice and tho malignity of tho'power for evil" by redoubling their energies to becomo "Intelligent, industrious and law-abiding oltizons, deserving of

rcsnect and fair treatment at the nanus or

every ons."

Hiohaho Cousins, 100 years old, voted tor Hoadly for Governor of Ohio at too rcoent

olcoiioa. Cousins oast his first vote for Thomas Jofferson in ltOl, and from that year to this fall has not failed o attend any general election aud has voted for airunbrokpn

period of seventy-nine yara an unset-atoned Demotra' io ticket,

Hosf. W. A. Psau, Chief f

Bureau of Statistics, has own pi s

which gives the agricultural produets of th

State in 1883 as follows, the figures being aa

nearly correct as It is possible to get then: Wheat acreage, 8,038,833; con aereagej 8,071,220; oats, 605,198; barley, 1,181; rye, 18,(04; buckwheat, 470; Irish potatoes, 87,7S;

sweet potatoes, f,288; tobacco, U,M; ass,

11,153; hemp, 1,8(8; castor beans, ; navy

or bunch beans, 4,908; melons, M; cabbage,

1,564; onions. 844; timothy hay, t,lTS,4ST; bluo grass and other wild grasses, 1,7781;

nnnsed plow land, 685,411 : number of stock hogs, 1,911,830; ratted hogs, 1,68,44; eatth), -1,057,296; sheep, 1,064,788. She Tjrodnot of butter for the year was ca,tei,tH ponnda, and 8,000,000 pounds of oieoaaarrartae ware manufactured.

CorssB, alias Faulkner, alias ever ao aaany

other names, has been captured In Fieweh town, Harrison county. Be was tks ohtof and leading spirit of tbe oounterfeltera of

that district, and lived near Fisoehtown Is S

log house built much like a fort. It had one chinking out all around, and, while Fanlkner worked on the coin, his wife stood r trim mediately after the arrest of the PtkevfOe gang R. D. Hobbg, the detective known aa

Doc Henderson," went to too house Sf

Faulkner, whom be told about the tsht, ant said that he (Hobos) was the only aaaa to

escape. He wanted to ome tor a raw any.

Faulkner readily took hint In and explained ul bis process to Hobo, who pretended to be an experienced counterfeiter. Faulkner went to Frenchtown to get some Kvanavlus) papers to find out the extent or the mid, Hobbs, pretending that be was going for a bottle of whisky, followed him, and, dedghag behind fences and trees, saw hist enter a store. Hobbs ran in, and, presenting revolver at Faulkner's head, ordered ghn to throw up hia hands. The Irons wars put on the counterfeiter, and a Deputy Mai aha I took him in charge. Hobbs harried book to the house and sailed to Mrs. Faulkner to bring the shot-gun. She, thinking bar husband was in danger, did as she was bid, and, wheat (be reached Hobbs, gave him the weapon.

He clapped tho handcuffs on hi

knew what he waa up to, sad la Oe I

took the couple to ItidlaoapoUs. IhiitaTSSi

oiade coins from 10 cents la silver to fas te raid ao perfectly that he said that k fcjtttott

was not afraid to go into bank, with