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AFFAIRS IN ILLIN0IS. IK WRESTING ITEMS GATHKBKD ' FROM VARIOUS 80VBCK8. Whet Owr Neighbors An Doinr--Matters °f Omni ud Loral Interest -- !to- rtngw ajpd Deaths tcctitwto wril Crtwil . Pointers. . 1 \* ' v a; ifef: ItiI,rNOIS FAIRS FOR 1889. --The following an the fairs already arranged for in this State for 1889. State Fair at Peoria, Sept. 23-31: Counties. Place. * Time. Adams............Camp Point....• • • .8*P^ M Boone BelvTdere. .Sept. 1<V13 ^1?: Burean Princeton.'.......,-Sept. 10-14 Carroll Mt. Carroll.... Sept. 9-13 Champaign. Champaign........ - .Aug. 27-30 v Christian. Pana ..Sept. 10-14 Christian Assumption...... Sept. 4-7 Coles Charleston Sept. 10-14 ! Crawford Robinson........... Sept. 24-27 Behaib.... Sycamore..........-Sept. 17-20 DeWit*. Parmer City.......-Sept- 13-16 IDeWifcfc. Clinton ....... .Sept. 9-13 Douglas Camargo Sept. 16-20 Edwards. Albion ...Sept. 17-20 Effingham Watson ............Sept. 24-27 Fayette. .Vandalia.i........• ..Sept. 3-6 ' Void... Piper City....*......Sept. 10-13 franklin Benton Sept. 17-20 ' Vulton ....Avon Sept. 17-20 Pulton Canton Sept. 10-13 Gallatin. Shawneetown Aug. 27-31 Greens. Carrollton...........Oct. 22-25 : Hancock. Carthage, Sept. 9-13 , Henderson. Biggsville Sept. 3-6 Henry Cambridge.,.*......Aug. 26-30 I Henry.. Kew&nee..... t.... Sept. 2-6 Iroquois...... Milford ...... Aug. 30-33 Ja«ik»un Carbondal#......-. Oct. 1-4 Jasper. .Newton....,.™,. ..Sept. 10-13 Jersey.;....". Jersey ville*,.......... .Oct. 15-18 ,r Jo Daviess Galena Oct. 1-4 V - J o D a v i e s s . . . . . . . . W a r r e n . . . . . . S e p t . 1 8 - 2 0 • Kankakee Kankakee..Sept. 10-13 1 Kendal^. Yorkville .Sept. S-6 .i; Knox.,.,. Knoxville.. Sept. 4-8 v Lake. liberty vilSs .Sept. 11-14 , i. L&Salla.,^..., Mendota. i»Y Sept. 2-7 Logan,...,........Atlanta. .Sept. 3-6 }, Macoupin Carlinville........... .Sept. 3-6 # Marion. ,Salem Cjbt. 1-4 li Marshall Wenona.. Sept. 16-20 M c D o n o u g h . . . . . . . B u 8 h n e l l . A u g . 2 0 - 2 3 McDonough Macomb.............Aug. 26-30 Moftenry. Marengo Sept. 17-20 MeHenry ; Woodstock.... Sept. 3-6 Meroer Aledo ........Sept. 17-20 Montgomery Hillsboro..,.Sept. 17-20 I" | Ogle. Rochelle........... .Sept. 10-13 ;• Ogle..,. ..Oregon . ..Sept. 17-20 (i Peoria Dun lap............... Sept. 4-6 Perry... Pincknevvllle Oct. 8-11 Piatt Monticello Aug. 19-23 Pike..,.. ..Griggsville... Aug. 13-16 Pike Barry Sept. 10-13 Riehlan4 Olney Sept, 17-20 Saline Harrisburg. Sept. 3-6 Saline Eldorado..Aug. 20-23 Sangamon Springfield .........Sept, 10-13 2 Hohnyler Bushville Aug. 19-23 Shelby Shelby ville.. Sept. 17-21 h Stark Toulon ........Sept. 10 13 Stark Wyoming. Sept. 17-20 Union.. Anna •...Aug. 27-30 Union JonesboroSept. 10-13 Vermilion. Danville......v.Sept. 2-6 Vermilion...: Hoopeston Aug. 26-30 Vermilion .CatUn ...v.l.^Sept. 10-13 Wabash Mt. Carmel.... j i.^,. . Sept. 3-6 Warren ....Monmouth.. ~ WWte Carmi. Whiteside....... Winnebago Woodford. Elpaso .Albany .Aug. 98-90 .Jtockford........v....Sept. 2-6 Sept. 9-13 --A meeting of the Medical and Sur­ gical Society of Western Illinois was held at Jerseyvills. --George Reinhold, of Chicago, took a - ' doM of laudanum at Milwaukee, Wis., ,. •. and then lay down on the steps of the • house in which his -wife lived, first plac­ ing a handkerchief saturated with laudanum over his face. He was found ;, ̂ jdead a few hours later. The act is at- 4 tributed to the refusal of his wife to re- .. - turn and live with him, owing to hi* dis- sipatedhabfts. --About 7,000 acres of the richest bot­ tom land in Alexandria County, lying along the Mobile and Ohio embankment, will be protected from yearly floods by the raising of the Cairo and Vincennes tracks, which has been agreed upon. - jThis stretch of land is now useless from the fact that it is yearly covered by water *0 a depth of from three to fifteen feet. The proposed levee will be eight miles long and fifty-five feet above lo# water snark. --Hie fiftieth aunivers ary of the founda­ tion of Zion's Episcopal Church at Men- is!. don was celebrated lately with a grand ?' choral service, surpliced choirs from Quin- oy participating. Several clergymen and many laymen from a distanoe were pres­ ent. The Rev. J. M. D. Davidson preached the anniversary sermon and read letters from several former rectors and communi­ cants. Eli Banks, of Chicago, was one of . the organizers of the parish in 1839. ^ --Brown Ogden, one of the leading iCiticens of Ballard County, Kentucky, over the river • from Cairo, was found guilty of killing one George Turner three JrearB ago. His punishment was fixed at two years in the penitentiary. The man was very popular, and the universal ex­ pectation was that he would be acquitted. Application to the Governor asking that the man be pardoned was signed by the jury that found him guilty and many oiti- zens. The killing took place at Ogden's Landing, where the defendant and his brother were keeping store. Turner and Frank Ogden were scuffling, when the de­ fendant came to his brother's rescue and shot Turner dead. -^Maggie Watkins oommitted suicide at Cairo by taking morphine. 8he was in a comatose state when discovered. Phy­ sicians by hard work restored her to consciousness, when she fought desper­ ately against further efforts to counteract the effects of the drug, saying she wanted to die. She died the same evening. She had been deserted by her husband- --Peter Laterette, a young blacksmith of Illiopolis, who had been in ill-health for some time, cut his throat with a razor, inflicting fatal wounds. Despon­ dency was the cause. --Augustin 1. and Bosaline Ambler and Augustus Friscoli have sued the Chicago A Northwestern and the Michigan Cen­ tral Railroads in the United States Cir­ cuit Court for $75,000 and $50,000, respectively, for infringement of patents. --The Democratic State Central Com­ mittee met at Springfield and discussed the question of locating the headquarters, which was left to a committee to be ap­ pointed by the Chairman. John C. Camp­ bell was re-elected Chairman? George Jlaines, Secretary, and W. B. Brinton, f;-• treasurer. Resolutions of respect to the '-ft*;>|neiaory of the Hon W. H. Barnum were . unanimously adopted. p. >» --While handling a revolver in the law j>ffice of William Scott at Peoria, Miss Jessie Benning fatally shot herself. --It is a rare day when a church fair gets left', or fails to work the latest. A church in Southern IlHnof s is about to Siave a fair in which one of the features will be the pi^s in clover with real pigs.' A large fac simile of the toy will be built in the hall, and a prize will be given to the man who pens the porkers. --Benjamin B. Abbott, of Bloomingt<m, . aged 60 years, committed suicide by as- phyxiation. He attached a rubber tube to the gas-burner, took the other end in his -Tiouth, and turned on the gas. He had . 9^|Ltely lost much money in a coal-mining --The Govarnor has signed the bill of Mr. Miller of Stark for the identification of habitual criminals and it becomes a law the 1st of July next. It provides thai in every prison in this State to which per- •ona convicted of any felonious offense are or may be committed the officer in charge shall record a description of every person under sentence lor a felony, nnd also the criminal history, so far as the same may appear from the records of the courts of this State or an$ other State, or otherwise, as full and complete as may be obtainable, and attach thereto a photograph of such person. The^rose- cuting attorney of a county in which a criminal has been convicted and sentenced for a felony shall forward to the officer in charge, at- the request of such officer, a criminal history of such criminal as fully as is known or can b/ ascertained. The register shall not be made public,ex­ cept as may be necessary in the identifi­ cation of persons accused of crime, and in their trial for offenses committed after having been imprisoned for a prior offense. The record shall be accessible, however to any. officer of any court hav­ ing jurisdiction in this State, upon the order of the Judge in the court, or of the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the person is being held for a crime, and such record may be offered in evidence upon any trial of an offender for the purpose of proving a former im­ prisonment or imprisonments, and the offense or offenses for whioh im­ prisoned. For the purpose of ob­ taining accurate descriptions of convict! the Wardens or other officers in charge of the several prisons are authorized to adopt the Bertillion methods of measurements and registra­ tion, or such other method as shall minutely describe cpnvicts. A copy of the description and^of the history and of the photograph of any convict shall be furnished upon the request of any officer in oharge of a prison for felons in any other State of the United States, provid­ ed suoh State has made provision by law for reoording the descriptions of its con­ victs, and for furnishing such descrip­ tions to the authorities of other States at have made provision by law for the keep­ ing of registers of descriptions and his­ tories of their convicts. --At a recent meeting of the enmity school superintendents of the State, at Springfield, a committee of five was ap­ pointed to prepare a course of study. The committee, which comprised George Shawhan, J. D. Benedict, George Old- father, George Talbot, and J. A. Miller, held a conference in Bloomington, and completed its work. The committee has laid out a course of study forthe district schools, covering* eight yean, with eight months' school in each yea*. It is in­ tended to use a uniform set of text books throughout the JState. The results of the committee's labors will be published in pamphlet form by the State, and will be ready for distribution about June 1. --Three robbbers were discovered in the postoffice at Centralia the other night by two.night policemen. The thieves were attacked by the officers, and many shots were exehanged. One of the rob­ bers fell seriously wounded, throwing his revolver from .him. The police then started to pursue the two others, think­ ing that the wounded man was unable to move. When they returned unsuccessful they found that the latter had taken off his shoes and also escaped. The fences in the rear of the postoffice show that a hot fusillade was carried on. The boartn are full of bullet holes, and the ground where the robber fell is covered with blood. The thieves did not have time to disturb the safe, and only secured $1.12, the amount of money in the stamp drawer. A negro was found terribly mangled and decapitated at the Central City bridge. He had no Bhoes on his feet. Several coppers were found in his pos­ session, and it is thought that he was the wounded robber, and that he was killed by a train while escaping. --The body of James Farrell was found in an Illinois Central freight car at Cairo. It had been deprived of nearly all its clothing. A severe contusion was found on the head, which was in­ flicted by a severe blow with some flat implement. The body was taken to the hospital, where a post mortem examina­ tion was had. The conclusions reached was that the man was murdered. It was developed during the day that a negro named Luther Branch had quarreled with deceased the previous evening and had struck him on the head with a plank. After receiving the blow Fartell went to the freight car for the night, where a brace of negroes discovered him, and, thinking him drunk, robbed him of his clothing and left him nearly naked. Branch has been arrested. --Three hundred passengers of the wrecked steamer Danmark reached Chi­ cago recently, on their way to their sev­ eral destinations, and a great crowd as­ sembled at the Union Depot to welcome them. --The State Auditor has issued a per­ mit to Albert M. Day, William J. Watson, and Gilbert B. Shaw for the organization of the American Trust and Savings Bank at Chicago, with a capital stock* of $1,000,000. --Francis Oberkoettar, wholesale gro­ cer, an old resident of Bloomington, was recently stricken with paralysis and it is believed he will not reoover. . i ' --Paul Buehr, a farmer living east of Mount Sterling, while plowing for corn unearthed about a dozen human skulls. One of them was wrapped in mica and had a bullet-hole in the forehead. The ground where the skulls were found con-. tains a number of mounds and was never plowed before. s ' --G. P. Billon,, a pioneer settler oi Galena, who had retired on a competency a few years ago, has beefradmitted to the County Poor House, having lost his for- < tune by unwise speculation. --Near Buffalo, on the Wabash Boad, Louis Webber, a member of the Cigar- makers' Union, was beaten from a fast' stock train, on which he was riding, by the conductor, C. O. Sands, and a brake- man, A. L. Straight. Webber fell be­ neath the train, and his head was cut off. The coroner's jury held the conductor and brukeman Tasnnnnihls *nr Wahher-'a i - v ,4 • » • *<>m- ^ CARL BEN J AMES. "We Which t Young Get-m Massachusetts Is Having. ' George Wright, who arrived in San Francisco lately from the Caroline Is­ lands, tells a story of the sndden rise of a sailor to distinction in one of the largest islands of an archipelago, seventy-five miles west of Haweis, where Mr. Wright has a trading store. "The sailor," said Mr. Wright, "is Carl Benjamin, and he has not less than twenty odd native wives and fifty cop­ per-colored children. He was wrecked in the schooner Bombazine off the La- drone Islands nine years ago, and: floated at sea on a raft for a couple erf weeks before he struck land. "If you will look at a map you will find lying midway between the tropic of cancer and the equator thirteen dots. On some maps they appear marked, Thirteen islands, well inhabited.' Well, it was on the biggest one of these, called by the sailor Benjamin Island, in honor of himself, that he has taken up his home. It seems odd that an island as big as, this has not been got down finer by the geographers, but it remains ! >ractically a terra incognitia, although t is ten by twenty odd miles in extent. " 'Well inhabited' means that there is quite a sprinkling of dark-skinned na­ tive residents there, as well as many men who move to and fro in their light native boats. They eat bread-fruit, bananas, coooanuts, and cat-fish, and that's the end of it. They don't work at all. "Benjamin has •got to be a king in his far-away home. There the white-capped waves beat against the coral shores, and Benjamin has nothing at all to do but go swimming in the surf, talk the native gibberish, which he has learned, or loll under a palm tree. Sometimes he has his wives fan him while he smokes the kaziba leaf, which grows so plentifully there, and which, after you get to using it you like better than tobacoo. Maybe you think he hasn't a soft tiling of it. "However, Benjamin is doing some g>od work there despite the hot climate, e carried three or four bookd with him on his raft--the last thing you would expect, and he has continued to instruct the natives in the English language. Benjamin is an American of German or Jewish descent and is a lover of books. The first thing he did was to select an intelligent native and teach him the alphabet. He learned rapidly and soon hegan to teach it to others, and a num­ ber of them can now speak English, while the rising generation immediately around are gradually picking up a prim­ itive knowledge of the language. Ben­ jamin is looked upon as a sage. All the chiefs come to him for points, and of their own accord they have made him their reigning potentate. The chiefs, of whom the.y are three, are his cabinet. "Benjamin has picked out the hand­ somest women for wives. They esteem it an honor, and readily acknowledge him as their lord and master. He lives in a straggling bamboo village, the vil­ lage of Ki, on a coral reef. His children are a sprightly, lively lot. Nobody bothers much with clothes away down there in the South Pacific. Still he wears a little something, as do some of the natives, thanks to his teachings, for he has instructed them that there is no civilization without some clothes. "He is about thirty years old and came from Newburyport, Mass., but says that he no longer has any desire to return to this country, Mid that he is perfectly contented to end his days there. He is the only white man, with one exception, for hundreds of miles around. "He has taken to wearing a string of shells around his neck like the natives, and he sometimes imitates their exam­ ple and puts dots of blue paint, got from a native shrub, on hi? face. This is only on state occasions, however, when there is a discussion of important questions on Jiand with his subordi­ nates. "The permanent population of the island is perhaps not over 600 or 700. It is a very pretty and picturesque place, and the soil is very rich. It is indented with beautiful bays, whose shores are dotted with trees and shrubs of a tropical growth that are oftentimes covered with fragrant flowers. The Island is about six hundred rciles west of the Marshall group." The Joke on the Joker. A laughable but rather embarrassing ease of mistaken identity occurred the other day in one of Boston's largest re­ tail stores. A gentFeipan who is a little too fond of joking, entered the store for the purpose of meeting his wife at a cer­ tain counter. Sure enough, there stood a lady well-dressed, to his eye, at least, just like the woman he was after. Her back was turned, and no one was near her; so he quietly approached, took her by the arm, and said, in a voice of simulated severity: "Well, here you are, spending my money as usual, eh?" The lace turned quickly toward him was not his wife's; it was that of an aerid, angry, keen-eyed woman of about fifty years, who attracted the attention of everybody in that part of the store by saying, in a loud, shrill voice: "No, I ain't spending your money or no other man's money, and I'll "I beg your pardon, madam," cried the confused gentleman,"Isupposed you was my wife, and " "Well, I just ain't your wife, nor no other man's wife, thank fortune, to be Ced at every time I buy a yard of rib-! I pity your wife if you go round shaking her like you did me. If I was her,1'd " The chagrined joker waited to hear no more, but made his way oat of the shop amid the titters and sly chuckles of those who had witnessed his oon- foaion.--Youth's Companion. Beaufoy had oOnapi making his hobby an the people to "strike at the cradle side" Liberal candidate, eluded: "Then voi foy with heart an Our children's The graves of dar] still, and plead for cause pleads for he is a traitor who who shirks a toil to toxy complete. ELIJAH HAINES DEAD.! lom 1 the for oon- for Beau- strength. for him. ive voices •hteous TX1XBAN CEGIStATOS 1 AWAY or FABALT8X8. iy a vio- ntinel have .tural soda. n mealies, Popular Election!* in England. It is probably the prevailing impress­ ion among Americans that elections in England are conducted in a much more qniet and orderly manner than in this ©ountry. The opinion is contradicted by ,a London correspondent of the Boston Herald, who gives some details respect­ ing the recent election of a member of Parliament at Kennington, one of the southwestern districts of London. ' A vacancy having occurred in the parliamentary representation for that district, it was contested by Mark Beau­ foy, Liberal, and Mr. Beresford Hope, Conservative. Some of the incidents of the election were as follows: A stone was thrown at Mrs. Hope. Mr. Hope's brother was "bonneted," whatever that may mean. Mr. Hope himself was "hustled." Stones were thrown at the Irish M. P. A piece of hard concrete was thrown at Mrs. Beaufoy as she was passing in a carriage, hitting her bon­ net but not injuring her. Each side employed carriages to bring voters to the polls. Placards were posted in every practicable place setting forth the virtues of the respective candidates and admonishing voters to support them. t Ap anti-vaccin ation crank who lavored ' Habits of "I am agreeably Cape Town .ostrich that ostrich farming fullv undertaken in all 1 can learn the h\ ing very well, hide Colony we find that osl a soil well impregm salts, that is, salts of Our breeding birds are barley, and lucerne, as they are kept in an enclosed paddock because of their fierceness. Young birds thrive on al­ most any kind of meal and finely- chopped prickly pear. They also re­ quire a supply of silicates, nitrates, and ground bones, and, in case of tape­ worm, is very corjimon, the oil of male fern, which affords prompt relief," "What method of hatching do yon employ ?" "I suppose you think we allow our birds to deposit their eggs in the sand and leave them to the tender mercy of the sun, but that sort of thing stopped when the Dutch Boers began to domes­ ticate the ostrich. Experience has proven that it pays better to let them hatch their eggs. A pair of breeding birds will sell readily for $1,500 of your money, and a male frequently pairs with two females. When it is seen that the female lays from nine to fifteen eggs in each nest, and 'hatches them in forty days, suoh a price is not exhor- bitant. Both birds sit on the eggs, the male longer than the female, and as soon as the chicks are a few weeks old the female lays again, thus hatching several broods a year. Of oourse these birds are never plucked, and when in­ fested with vermin are liberally sprin­ kled (from a safe distanoe) with wood- ashes." "How do yon manage what you call stock-birds?" "These we brand on the fleshy part of the thigh and hire Kaffir boys • to herd on the plain, or else keep them in barbed wire enclosures. Ostriches, like cattle, are liable to stampede, but the funniest thing they do is to waltz." "How, pray, is that done?" "The leader of the herd, generally a male ostrich, evidently thinks that his followers should have some diversion on a long march from one pasture to another, so he begins by slowly but gracefully turning round and round. In five minutes the whole flock is doing the same, and it is quite a sight; their long plumes waving in the wind until they conclude to quit and go on their way. Music, of course, has nothing to do with their dancing.--San Francisco Call . An Enlightened Jury. O'Connell, defending a prisoner at Cork, related the following anecdote to the jury: "Some yean ago I went specially to Clonmel Assizes, and aocidentlv wit­ nessed a trial which I never shall for- get. "A wTetched man, a native of that country, was charged with the murder of his neighbor. It seemed that an an­ cient feud existed between them. They met at a fair and exchanged blows; again that evening they met at a low pot-house, and the bodily interference of friends alone prevented a fight be­ tween them. "The prisoner was heard to vow ven­ geance against his rival. The wretched victim left the house, followed soon after by the prisoner, and was found next day on the roadside, murdered, and his face so barberously beaten in by a stone that he oould only be iden­ tified by his dresa. "The facts were strong against the prisoner -- in fact, it was the strongest case of circumstantial evidence I ever met with. As a form (of his guilt there was no doubt), the prisoner was called for his defenoe. "He called--to the surprise of every one--the murdered man. And the murdered man came forward. It seemed that another man had been murdered--that the identification by dress was vague, for all the peasantry of Tipperarv wear the same description of clothes--that the presumed victim having got a hint that he would be ar­ rested under the Whiteboy act had fled, and only returned, with a noble and Irish feeling of justice, when he found that his ancient foe was in jeop­ ardy on his account. The case was clear; the prisoner was innocent. "The judge told the jury that it was unnecessary to charge them. They re­ quested permission to retire; they re­ turned in about two hours, when the foreman, with a long face, handed in the verdict, 'Guilty.' "Everyone was astonished. " 'Good God!' said the judge, 'of what is he guilty? Not of murder, surely?" " 'No, my lorrd,' said the foreman, 'but if he did not murder that man, sure he stole my gray mare three years ago.'" A Kottd Chirsrtw mm m PollticiM and Aa- tfcor of Valuable Books--Joint Isfort of th« Finance CommitteOT Wagarlllag tk* _ State Treunrjr. at cause 1 The Hon. Elijah M. Haines dM at his ffort, or home in Waukeiyan, recently, the direct cans* being paralysis of the heart. Mr. Haines had been sick for over two months, •lis disease appearing to be a breaking down of the system from overwork. His ieath, however, was quite sudden, as he had been in good Bpirits only a few hours previous. Elijah M. Haines was born in Oneida County, New York, about sixty* eight years ago. His father died when he was 6 years old, and in 1835 he went to Chicago with his brother, John C.. ILLINOIS LAW-MAKERS. L *OMAX SUFFRAGE II Wlwt OM WOHMSII Have Dmm» They Mar Da A year ago the female voters of Odti looea, Kansas, elected one-of their mia^ TH« 8»n»t« confirmed the nomSutiotif for Canal Commissioners sent In by the Oowraor on the 26th inst. The Senate oonoomd with tho House in the resolution to adjourn fline dto _ _ MSSr Gxmdl composed atitution for the Education of the Deaf and ClUSlvely of their sex. At the el £.u,2r- v.a>1, l\BS9ed fcy a unanimous vote. Sana- held thra week in the ( *mp tor Higbee s bill authorizing Drainage Commit. 111 Ut 8*me lionets to contract with railroad companies to uocess- Froin is do- Haines. He soon moved to L'ike Coun­ ty, and there, while working hard on a farm, he succeeded in teaching him­ self Latin and German and became fomewhat proficient in the art of surveying. Later he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1851. In 1856 Ho began practicing law in Chicago, residing at the time in Wau- kegan. Mr. Haines was an anti-slavery ,. « WH man, and for that {wTJ \JrW rea8on left the Dem- Jk'Ji oeratic party before >'/ I*10 war. In 1859, ' J w 1861, and 186S, ha B. U. HAINBS. WAS a member of the Legislature. Abont 1867 he became an anti-monopolist and an independent, and in 1869, he was elected a member of the constitutional convention, defeating the Republican candidate. In this conven­ tion he held the balance of power, acting independently. Mr. Haines was also a member of the legislatures of 1871, 1872, 1875, 1881, 1883, 1885, and of the present House. In 1875, and again in 1885, her was chosen Speaker of the House. In 1869 he was a candidate for Congress on the Andrew Johnson ticket, but was de­ feated. During the present legislature he has been almost constantly sick. Mr. Haines was a tireless worker in any line he undertook. He was the author of a number of works which are held in hi^li esteem. Among them are, "The Township Organ­ ization of Illinois," "Treatise of Prac­ tice Before Justices of the Peace," "City| and Village Law," "Probate Guide," and an extensive history of the American1 Indian. It is understood that he left in; manuscript, nearly completed, his "Fifty1 Years' Recollections," and a history of Illinois. Personally, Mr. HaineB was frank and independent, never hesitating to speak his mind when the occasion re­ quired. He was a favorite with those who knew him, and was a firm and true; friand. Though he had been ill all the1 winter he was thought to be improving. Only three hours before his death he spoke of feeling well and strong, but new complications arose and he passed away very suddenly, the immediate cause of his death being paralysis. His wife died about eiqht vears ago. He left one son, J. Charles Raines, of Washington Terri­ tory, and a daughter, Miss Fannie C. Haines, who has been his housekeeper and companion since the death of her mother. The Senate and House each adopted resolutions of respect te his memory, and then adjourned. CONDITION OF THE TBEASUBY. Jatef Report of tha Tin anc* CommlttMi oT tha Honw and The following is the report of the Fi­ nance Committees of the House and Sen­ ate relative to the financial condition of the State Treasury: To the Honorable the President of the Senate I The Joint Oommitteo on Finanoe, to whom was referred nccrtain joint resolution calling for Information concerning the treasury and the finances of the St Ate of Illinois, respectf oily beg leave to submit the following report: We find the vaults, safes and looks in the State Treasury in good condition and that proper security and protection are afforded for the k< • fr ing statement: the 1 from the Auditor of Vufolic Accounts the follow- Bevenue fund in State Treasury April 1, 1889 Unexpended balanoe of ai pended balanoe of appropriations of Thirty-sixth General Assembly, payable tliorefrom 1,900,SBO Balance applicable to payment of ap­ propriations of Thirty-sixth General Assembly 821,041 The above includes the following contingent appropriations of the Thirty-fifth General As­ sembly : Illinois and Michigan Canal 9 90,856 Board of Uve-Stock CommisskMMrs.... 149,806 State Board of Health 86,809 Total... #923.474 The estimated receipts of revenue (and to July 1, 1880, are: From levy on assessment 1888 $2,172,050 From Illinois Central Railroad 100,000 From fees of State Department 65,000 . « « «Itl VOU UVUI|miMVS IV seep railroads in repair, p&sacd without mfetar* ial opposition. In the House, Mr. Haves' bill to enable Boards of Election Commissioners to take charge and control of primary elections was passed, by a vote of 78 to 35. The Secretary of the Senate reported back the general appropriation bill with the announce­ ment that the Benate refused to "incur in the House amendments. It was referred to a con- terrence committee to be appointed jointly bv the I resident of the Senate and the Sneaker of the House. A joint resolution TVRS adopted to May 28. The Senate bill appropriating So M? *PurE°se ?t and furnish, tag the Executive Mansion was read a third time ami passed. THERE were four Senators present when thai body was called to order at 5 o'clock p. m ott the 29Ui ult., namely : Hamer, Garrity, Rick- ert, and Bacon of Edgar. The journal was read and on motion of Senator Hauier the Senate adjourned until the 1st inst. Of the 151 mem- bers of the House only five were present when that, body convened. In the absence of Speaker Matthews Representative Cooley called the House to order. Immediately after the reading of the journal Mr. Schneider, in accordance with an agreement that 110 business should be transacted, moved that the House adjourn. There was no objection, and the House ad­ journed until the 1st Inst. ( Twr. Senate cleared the calendar of Senate billa va third reading, on the 1st inet. Senator Bogardus' bill fixing the weight of flour and meal in sacks was read a third time and passe* --yean 80. nays 2. It fixes the weight of flour and meal as follows : Wheat flour, per baireL 196 pounds; wheat floor, per half-barrel, itB pounds ; wheat flour, per quarter-barrel sack, 49 pound*; wheat flour, per eighth-barrel sack, pounds; corn meal, per bushel pack, 48 pounds; corn-meal, per half-bushel suck, 34 pounds ; com meal, per quarter-bnshe! sack. 12 pounds. Senator Bogavdus' bill, providing that physiology and hygiene shall be taught to public schools, with especial reference to the effect; of alcoholic stimulants and narcotics upon the human system, passed by a vote of 30 yeas to 3 nays. Mr. Monahan's bill prohibiting the pub­ lication of lottery drawings in newspapers either as nefs matter or advertisements passed by a vote of 31 yeas to 1 nav. 'lh? bill amending the law to relation to the snooting of game and wild fowls panned by a vote of 27 yeas to 6 nays. It provides "That it shall be unlawful to hunt or •lestroy any wild deer or wild turkey between the 15th day of January and the 1st day of Septem­ ber of each and every year, or any grouse, prai­ rie chickens, quail or woodcock between the 1st Jay of December and the 15th day of September of the succeeding year, or any wild goose, - duck, brant or other water fowl between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of Septem­ ber, each and every year. And it shall be un­ lawful to destroy or shoot at any water fowl from any float, boat, sailboat, or steamboat, or from any flmed or artificial ambush or blind in open water beyond the natural cover of vegeta­ tion above the water of any lake, river, bay or inlet, or other water-course wholly within this State, or to shoot at any wild fowl between sun­ set and sunrise at anytime of the year." The bill appropriating #10.607 71) for new buildings and improvements at the Illinois Central Hos­ pital for the Insane at Jacksonville passed without opposition, and the Senate adjourned. After considerable filibustering In the House, the Secrest-Paddock stock-yards bill was laid on the table. Mr. Reynolds' savings banks bill was advanced to third reading. No other busi­ ness of importance was transacted. THE following bills were passed by the Senate on the 3d inst.: The House bill exempting from taxation bridges across any stream forming a boundary line bet ween this and another State; the bill appropriating $22,000 for the ordinary sinenses of the Normal University at Carbon- iale; tho bill appropriating $'2,950 for improve­ ments at the Institution tor the Insane at Anna; tlw bill allowing Justices of the Peace fees for preliminary examinations in criminal cases wher»< there is a subsequent conviction; the House bill requ'r'ng unclaimed moneys in the hands of guardians to be deposi­ ted in the County Treasury. In the House con­ siderable discussion took place over Mr. Sparks' bill to regnlsitp tho velghtH ami Measures of flour and meal when sold in sacks. Messrs. Sparks and Carstens favored the bill, while Mr. Of levee opposed it. This measiive. which passed by a vote of 91 yean, Ik greatly similar to a measure whioh passed the Senate. Mr. White­ head's bill providing for compensation of the judges and clerks of the elections at which jfcuatees of Schools and School Directors are elected was i-eait a third time and passed. The bill to regulate telephone charges Was referred to the Committee on Corporations. Several other Senate bills were read and discussed, amcS the Jlouw then adjourned. Total..... #3,417,660 Estimated receipts for two y*«ra from July 1,1889, from Illinois Central Bail- road •800^000 From feee of State Department 140,000 Total 9840,000 School fund in the Stat* Treasury April 1,1889 #968,674 Unexpended balances of tions of the Thirty-fifth eembly, payable therefrom , M,DM Balance applicable to the payment of the appropriations of the Thirty- sixth General Assembly.... 984,018 nppproprla- I General As­ ia Erea-Tempered Mm* "Whfct an ugly man," said Prittitom, the stranger, as be strolled down the village street with his friend. "Yes," said liiB friend, "that la Peter Gray; he is very homely, bat the pleas- antest tempered man in the world. You can't make him mad; no matter what you do you can't anger him." "Dollars < to doughnuts," said the stranger, "1 oan rile him all up." He walked up to Peter and caught hold of his gray beard. "You miserable old swindler," he said. "You surprise me," said Peter, with an impatient gesture. When Prittitom reocvered conscious­ ness he was lying on the drug store counter and they were bathing his face. "What was that he said?" he murmurfed in broken tones. "He said you sur­ prised him," repeated his friend. "That's what I thoi^glit he said," mur­ mured the stranger. "Send for a bishop and let us return thanks that 1 didn't irritate him."--Burdette. Subtle Vengeance. "How do you like that for poetry?" asked a traveling man of a friend, as the latter with a visible struggle finished reading some manuscript. "How many glasses of beer did you drink before you wrote this ?" "Three or four." "I thought it sounded kind of mathe­ matical." "Mathematical?" "Yes--Lager Rvthma, you know." And his revenge was oomplete.--Jf<r> cMnC SOrwmtmn.. f*44 > ter Estimated receipts of - the school fund to July 1. 1889, from levy on assess­ ment of 1888 991,931 We find the amount called for by the appropriation bills presented to the Thirty-sixth Ueneral Assembly to be.98,451,599 Amount already appropriated 75,000 Arid the balanoe called for #8,376,899 We are unable at the present time to make any reliable estimate of the appro­ priations which will yet be made by the General Assembly. AN "UNH0LY_ ALLIANCE." Farmers Organising; :«> Fifht tho Blading* Twin* Trust. Two hundred fanners and others from all parts of this t?tate attended the con­ vention at Bloomington, called to discuss end act upon the binding-twine monopol/ or tiust. A long series of resolutions weto adopted, alleging that there is a ruiuow binding-twine trust organized td corner the market and increase the price of twine; protesting against the "unholy al­ liance," and resolving to use every ho neat effort to defeat it; recommending that farmers order no twine at mow than rea­ sonable rates, and to use wire or hemp it necessary. Congress and the State Legis­ lature are urged to enact laws against trusts, pools, and combinations of this character, and the manufacture of twine at the State prisons is urged. Propositions were made to the conven­ tion to supply flax twine at 9J cents a Eound, and sisal ot manila in 600-pound >ts at 15 cents. Grand Muster Thompson, of the State Grange, made a speech in favor of farm- ers going into permanent organization, and the "Farmers' Defensive Association of Illinois" was formed. An Executive Committee was appointed, composed of one member of each Congressional dis­ trict of the State. A Petroleum Explosion. An explosion in Chicago of nearly 3,00# barrels of crude petroleum oil caused a grand spectacle as the flames shot heav­ enward and extended across the prairie near Campbell and Austin avenues. A man, drawing oil from one of the tankl, was blown over one hundred feet by the explosion, and badly burned. Consider­ able damage was caused by the burning Wise and Old. He (rejected suitor)--Yon conde­ scended to look upon my suit with fa vac once, Miss Bond. She--Yes; I was young and foolish then. I have gained wivdom with age. He (savagely)--How very wise yo» •Mt be tyrtku ttmo.-- rantef Blidtk WMMK te Fictiea. rt te %omen who write most iflf iftfo English and American novels, though men still ply that industry, and it is women who are most popular in their novels. What has sola so well as "Un­ cle Tom ?" Who in France was read so mtich as George Sand ? or in En­ gland as Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot ? or in Sweden as Fredrika Bre­ mer? or in America as Miss Alcott? or now in all countries as Mrs. Ward ? No wonder that these great successes" and many others that could be named tempt women to write many poor novels and some good ones, the majority being mediocre, however, or neither good nor bad. But mediocrity in a novel is now much higher in quality than it used to be, the novel-writing talent having grown by cultivation, until the fourth- rate novelist oan write better than any but the first-rate author could fifty years ago.--Springfield Republican. Like an OM Roman. The Emperor of Russia has just deo- Drated and rewarded a private soldier whose fidelity to his duty recalls the stories of the Roman sentinels who perished in the destruction of Pompeii. When the recent earthquake destroyed a small Russian town in Central Asia, this soldier was on duty in the Mili­ tary Treasury. Although the houses were orashing around him, this faithful fellow stood motionless, waiting death. The only sign which showed that he appreciatiarted his situation was the fact that he raised liis hands as sol­ diers do in prayer. Fortunately a Ser­ geant in the street saw him amid the ruins, and instantly ordered him to quit his post, which'he did right will­ ingly. • Sonie Other Basinets. "And how's business iii Detroit ?" he asked of a .gentleman standing next to him in the crowd in the lower corridor of the City Hall. "I can't complain." < ., "Must be good, thai?**' "I have all I can d&t?,~' "In for yourself?" - ; "Yes.'; "That's nice. Mercantile or manu­ facturing?" "Neither one. Polioe Court Judge." "Shucks!" growled the stranger, as he backed off. "Maybe you are laying for me, but youll get left. I haven't got enough to get half tight on.*--De­ troit Free Press. i town the female candidates were again success­ ful. In Cottonwood Falls, also, a Mayor and Council were chosen. At Oskaloosa last year the lady gov­ ernesses--or perhaps we should say the city mothers--took a some what radical position. They were not called upon to take a position on the prohibition ques­ tion, Kansas being a prohibition State, but they sought opportunities of intro­ ducing reforms in other directions. As to Sunday legislation, they were less thorough than might have been ex­ pected. They allowed the hotels, liverjr stables, drug stores, and barber shops to carry on business on Sunday, but they stopped the sale of bread, cigars,to­ bacco, and ice cream. That they should be lenient to the livery stables is easily explained, for otherwise many of the dear creatures would miss their weekly buggy rides. That the barbers should be allowed to work is also easy to understand, for by their exertions, rep­ resentatives of the ruder sex are made more acceptable to the ruling caste of Oskaloosa. But for what reason tho sale of ice cream has been forbidden will probably ever remain a mystery. Among the other reforms introduced was an ordinance requiring all boys un­ der 18 to be off the streets by 8 o'clock at night. There was a proposition fa> prohibit any one from Spitting tobacco- juice from his mouth onto the sidewalks, but it was decided by a legal opinion that it would be contrary to the bill of rights, or some other part of the organic law. The ladies have now been endorsed, and there is reason to expect that they will go further than they have done during the past year. Being recognized by the .people they represent as suc­ cessful reformers, as far as they have Ce, they may venture into new fields. _ t year they disciplined the boys, this year they may be expected to ex­ tend the work to reform to andnlts ol the subjugated sex. An ordinance re­ quiring all married men to bp at their homes at 9 o'clock at night, unless ac- oompanied by their wives would no doubt fully meet the views of the town. Provisions oould bo made for excep­ tional cases by exempting from arrest those who hold permits from better halves, though this would be liable to great abuses, and would have to be very carefully guarded. Perhaps, also, some legislation requiring young men visiting their sweethearts to go home at 10 or 10:30 o'clock might be attempted, though there would be a risk that thfa would be pronounced null as being in restraint with matrimony and, therefore, against puplic policy.--Henry Water* son, in Courier-Journal. 70 •! Took It for Uranted. Homely Lady--"Oh, I guess you can fill the place. My husband is an easy man to suit." New Cook (looking at her)--"Yes, mam, I can readily believe it." Homelv Lady (to herself)--"Strange she should take that for granted, but probably she knows a superior woman like myself wouldn't marry a crank." --New York Weekly. Fresh Maple Sagpr. At the grocery ! Mrs. Brown--Fresh maple sugar, eh ? Grocer--Strictly fresh. There are no flies on that sugar, Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown (examining a cake)-- Maybe not; but I see there were flies on it hkslyear.--Chicago Herald. < The Ruling Passion. St. Peter (kindly)--Enter. Fair Spirit (hesitating)--Did Mrs. Da Fashion go in here ? "No. She went to the other plaoe." "Oh! Beg pardon for troubling yott. Whioh w i» Jfcr* Ppk*. Some Fair Crematloabtk. Cremation societies are being S%tg- mented in this country by women of the better class, who are joining them rapidly. In New York, Brooklyn, and Boston particularly there are a great many well-known women enrolled among the cremationists, and the move­ ment is indorsed by a still greater num­ ber who have not taken pains to beooma members. Mary A Livermore, Lucy Stone, Miss Peabody, Clara Erskine, Clement Waters, Edna Dean Proctor, Gillian Whiting, Lucy Larcom, and Miss Whitney are among those in Bos­ ton who advocate burning the dead. In New York there is a yet greater com­ pany of literary and artistic women, and throughout the country the numbers of cremationists are surprisingly large. Nearly all the members of the Nine­ teenth Century Club are outspoken ad­ herents to this ancient custom. Many members of the Sorosis, of the Author's Club, and the Artists League are crema­ tionists, and the rank and file of hetero­ dox people are its advocates. Among unitarians cremation is generally oepted as the best mode of disposing of dead bodies, and not a few orthodox Chritians favor it earnestly. Miss Francis E. Willard, the president of the W. C. T. U. ami of the American Woman's Council, indorses it, so like­ wise do Miss Maria Mitchell, the as­ tronomer; Harriet Hosmer, the sculp­ tor, who is in this country on a visit, after an absence of thirty years; Mme. 4; Le Pfongeon, the archaeologist, and ^ y: Mrs. Francis B. Thurber. ^ Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton believes in cremation on hygienic grounds, as <3 also do Susan B. Anthony, Mrs.* Thomas, President of Sorosis, and Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi. Among literary women who are avowed eremationiste are Grace Greenwood,. Edith N. Thomas, Celia Thaxter, Shirley Dare, Helen Campbell, Mrs. Ella Wilcox, Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson, Olive Thome Miller, "Bessie Chandler," Sarah K. Bolton, Elizabeth Akens, Rose Terry Cooke, Margaret J. Preston, Laura C. Holloway. Octave Thanet, Miss Holley (Josiah Allen's wife), Kate Field, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Mary D. Bryan. A perfect list would include the majoritv of the prominent women writers of the day and a largo percent­ age of the college-bred women of tfca nation.--Exchange. Not Above Sliowiusr Sympathy. ^ The offer of friendship and sympathy is always pleasant to the recipient, bat there are times when it beoomes a zeal. blessing and aid. One of the leaders of the Boston bar tells a personal incident which gives aa insight into the kindly nature of Rufoa Choate, and explains his popularity with the members of the bar. This lawyer had just begun purities, but being an emigrant to Boston ftoa another State, had formed few aoquaint- j ances, and often felt like a stranger in I the court-room. I One day, as he was sitting alone, watching the trial of an important oaso, Mr. Choate unexpectedly took a seat at his side, called him by name, with him about his native State and ita great men, about the college where ht had studied and its good discipline, and congratulated him on his prospect of certain success at the bar if he would be patient in waiting and labor indaa- triously. The young man was magnetized by the eloquence and sympathy of tha great advocate, and loved aud revered him to the end of his brilliant career. Ho subsequently learned that this was a habit of Mr. Choate to inquire the name and previous history of young lawyers, and then to surprise them by his personal knowledge of their strug­ gles and his warm sympathy. The habit is worthy of imitation by all who would lend a helping haud to young men struggling for recognition. A MONKET show is to be held te XsO©» don. Next thing we know some per­ son will go a step lower in the social •of4a and ge$ up a dude ashihiiMMt, % #3 r',f- 1 , mm ri A. ' ap hi,. t'ti. .1' £J&,. .At.* •Mi'