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THE NATfON fT^U-S ««•« <fV» iaial;; H I W ' y ; * • i ~-^t'J,?-'J:*,,*,pii^-'rf x', ' , . r*"*"' f " , { W **? 'A- 3SIPPI REI'TOMCANft CtAIH THE COVNT&rS ATTKNTlON. 'h% '\M: r.-rV' Their State Ticket Withdraw* Owin* to Year of "Violence-- References *o 8»f>|« and Bloody Deeils of the B«urbou-- Frand Hofils Sway. [Jackson (Miss.) special.} Th© Republican State Executive Com- mittee met at Jackson, Miss., to con- aider the withdrawal of General James B. Chalmers from the head of the State ticket. ChalmefB •was not there, but it is understood that he wrote a letter to the committee declining to make the can­ vass for Governor. The committee issued the following: "As Republicans of Mississippi we are compelled to withdraw our State ticket. We knew that our votes would be stolen and our voters driven from the polls, but we hoped that in the larger towns and cities, at leaBt, the semblance of free speech might still lema n to us, but our candidates are not safety allowed to dis­ cuss or protest. We desired especially to go before th •> whole people of the Statol and challenge the Democrats to a eonri parison of principles and records. I "Our course has always been eonserv- ative. When the armed revolution of 1875 wrested the State from us Mississippi was the only Southern State unburdened with a State debt. She has a Demo­ cratic one to-day. The Constitution of the United States guarantees to each State a republican form of government. Mississippi is governed by a minority, a despotism, and we appeal to our country for redress. The Constitution that we adopted is the only one in the South so satisfactory that it has not been changed. Our laws stand substantially unchanged and unrepealed, but we are Republicans and this is our offense. "That we are not actuated by cowardice In withdrawing from the contest is shown by our past. For fourteen years, ever 'since the infamous Mississippi plan was adopted, our path has been marked by the blood of onr slain. Not only the well-known leaders who bravely died at the head of the column, but the faithful followers krown only in the cabins of the lowly. Wo refer not only to such well- known slaughter as Kemper and Copiah, Clinton and Carrollton, Wnhalak and Vicksburg, Yazoo Citv and Le Flore, but to the nameless killing by creek and bayou, on highway ana byway. These are the Democratic arguments which crash us. We can do no inore. We dare no longer carry our tittered and blood­ stained Republican flag. We appeal to the nation. "Is national law and honor but a delu­ sion and a snare? When we rely upon the guaranties of the National Constitu­ tion do we but lean upon a broken reed? If so, announce the policy boldly, and acquit us of further effort." Whjr General J. K. Chalmers Retired from the Canvass. So the Public: My idea in advocating the organization of the Republican party and a canvass of Mississippi this year, and in accepting the nomination for Governor, was to prepare for the future and not this elec­ tion. I knew the Democrats had all the counting machinery of the State, and that there was no earthlv chance for our State ticket to be declared clected. But. in view of the certainty of the resulj, I believed the Democrats would give us a fair chance of being heard in discussion before the people. I wanted to ad­ dress the white people, and to show to them what Democrats and Democratic •papers had said about the worthless- ness of the present Democratic adminis­ tration in Mississippi. I wanted to read to then some editorials from the Appeal about the penitentiary ring and the con­ victs, and especially to read an editorial from the Avalanche of June 30, 1887# headed "In a Volcanic State," and com­ mencing: "Affairs in Mississippi are in a bad way. The control of government is mainly in the hnnds of corrupt officer^, who are growing more desperate daily in their efforts to cling to the high places from which honor lias fled and profit, or the love'of it, alone remains. * •* * Those who can not be bought are kept silent by threats, and threats too which are now and then carried into effect. So desper­ ate is tne case that perjury and open rob­ bery is followed by murder." I hoped that this, with the defalcations of Demo­ cratic treasurers all around us, woald convince our white people there was a necessity for two parties. I wanted also to read and comment on the speech of th<i Hon. J. P. Walker at Meridian, iust after Lowrv vetoed the con­ vention bill, in which he said: "Do you kuow that you are living under a Consti- etitution that concentrates the power of ( the State in the hands of an oligarchy?* These things are so, and being so, I, for my part, think that though his Excellency may deem it * better to endure the evils we have than ily to others we know not of,' it would be preferabl'e over and over again to fly to any amount of unknown •evils than to live under the present auto­ cratic, aristocratic, and damnable oli­ garchy." 1 have my scrap-book filled with many such extracts from Democratic authority to show the utter worthleBsness and corruption of the present Democratic administration in Mississippi. Democrats who have heard me in the Second Congressional District know I am thoroughly posted on these matters, and they do not wish me to have an op­ portunity to express them before the white voters, and to break the force of what I might say they vilified me person­ ally. The recent killing of negroes had cre­ ated great excitement, and white men were forming military companies and arming themselves all over the State. To increase this feeling false reports were put out that I had made incendiary ap­ peals to the negroes in my speech at Jackson, and they went so far as basely to say that I related an anecdote to ex- cit» the lewd passions of the negroes , toward white women. What I related I said at the time was a story which, when I was a boy, I heard told by Gov. A. G. Blown in his race for Governor against George R. Clayton, yhen they were dis­ cussing the payment of the Union Bank .bonds, and the Hon. J. J. Meek, Mayor <of Sardis, recollects to have heard the Governor tell the same story in that can­ vass. It was an unsavory story, but as Gov. Brown told it in the days of slavery, I supposed I could tell it now. He ap­ plied it to the Whigs, who assumed more virtue than Democrats in sustaining the honor of the State. I applied it to Dem­ ocrats who in 1869 and 1873 all over the State, and in 1883 in many counties, United with the Kepublicans to obtain office, and were now assailing white Re- riblicans for the same thing. For this have been shamefully slandered all over the State to excite the mob against me, and a few cowardly editors, like Banks of the Columbus Index, have attempted to bring about my assassination. I went to West Po4nt to speak, and there the Court House, Opera House, and every suitable place to speak was refused to me, end my health was too feeble to speak in the open air. From Columbus I received a message from colored leaders begging me not to •peak there, as they would be the suffer­ ers, and letters from personal friends, who were Democrats, urging me not to oome. On the appeal from the negroes I decided not to go, though I had before that written to my Democratic friends •I would come. I afterward learned from Mr. Abram S. Humphreys, a young law­ yer of good family, who brought the message to me from the negroes,.that when he returned an excited mob was waiting for me at the depot, and that ha : believed if I had gone I would have been Openly shot on the streets or secretly as­ sassinated. I then went to Okdoca, to apeak, and there again the court ho-aae was refused to me, bat I rented a public hall from a personal Democratic frfenS, and '""s no tice that I would speak the next day. That night the military company marched down to the hotel where I was, with arms, and yelled for Stone, the Democratic candidate for Governor. Next morning abusive handbills were *ound all over the street reviling me, and urging white men not to listen to me. Esrlv next morning Judge Frazee, the Republican candidate for Attorney General, and Tom Buch­ anan, a Democrat, called, and informed me that the excitement was intense, and urged me not to speak. I told them I had rented a hall and would go there at the appointed time and speak until I was pre­ vented. Shortly after this Dr. Tindall, a Republican, and Captain Burkitt, a Dem- crat, called and urged me not to speak. I made the same reply to them. Dr. Tindall answered that no one who knew me would believe that I was personally afraid to speak, but that a row was inev­ itable, and that not only my white friends but the negroes were in danger, and to strengthen his argument, he said the Sheriff and Town Marshal had both left town, and that there was no legal authority to control the mob. I con­ sented not to attempt to speak; but I Bald if my friends insist on mv not speaking in Chickasaw County, which has been among the most peaceful and conserva­ tive of the State, I would resign the nomination and go home, and I did so. Judge Frazee at the same time resigned his nomination for Attorney General, and the resignations were forwarded to the Republican Executive Committee. JAMES R. CHALMERS. AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. IKXIRESTING ITKMS GATHERED FROM VASIOCS SOURCES. -Edward Spellman, the Peoria dis- J ROYALTY AT THE ALTAR. tiller, who is wanted ae a witness in the Pensions, Warships, and Public Build­ ings Will Absorb the Surplus. Democratic free traders and even Re­ publicans who are bothering themselves about reductions of the tariff should con­ sider the demands certain to be made on the Treasury in the immediate future and understand that every dollar of revenue derived from existing customs duties and internal revenue taxes will be needed to meet the rapidly increasing appropria­ tions. A modern navy must be had. Tens of millions will be needed for war vessels and fortific ations and this work cannot be delayed longer with safety to national defense or honor. It concerns not only the seaboard States but every part of the country; A siege which woald close the Atlantic ports would suffocate trade and prosperity iu Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and throughout the West. The law of self-preservation requires that the nation shall equip itself with a fighting navy and the work should be pushed while there is money still in the Treasury to be used for that purpose. The rapidly ex­ panding expenditures for pensions, %nd for river and harbor improvement schemes, and logrolling public building jobs all over the country will eoon oblit­ erate the Treasury surplus, stop the sink­ ing fund, and bring public expenses up to revenues and compel increased taxa­ tion to get money for building war ves­ sels. The treasury surplus is a Snow bank on which the appropriation bills of Congress shine hotter and stronger every session, and it will soon melt away. The pension appropriation for the present fiscal year, 1889, amounts to the enounous sum of $81,758,70.0, and there will be a deficit of probably SSlO^OO.OOO by reason of Black- Tanner "reratings" and *taew pensions. Next year the appropiiition for pensions will amount to fully $100,000,000 under the laws and rulings now in force, and it moy as well be understood-that Congress will swell the amount by new legislation by $20,000,000 "or $30,000,000 more by passing the dependent pension bill. * The dependent pension bill which Cleveland vetoed will certainly be adopt­ ed by Congress next winter and approved by President Harrison. The bill passed the House in 1887 by.180 yeas to 76 nays, j and was adopted in the Senate without division. The House gave 175 yeas to 1 125 nays to pass it over the veto, and that , in a Democratic house. The demand for the bill is stronger now than two years ago, and it will go through this winter by a practically unanimous jote of the Northern members, irrespective of party. 1 The bill grants a pension of $12 per month to every soldier not already receiv- ; ing a pension who served three months or mora and is "unable to earn a support." j Practically this would mean that all whose incomes are not satisfactory could apply for and receive a pension. That is the construction already put on it. The Government could not investigate each man's way of living and say to one that he could earn a support and to another that he could not. Nor is the pension based on efficiency or length of service. The bill is a measure of charity intended for the relief of needy old soldiers, and to avoid excluding nnv of them it was purposely made broad and loose. To avoid barring out any poor old ex-soldier all are admitted. It was recklessly claimed in the House that not more than 33,000 pensions would be called for under this act; but experience with similar measures after the revolution and the war of 1812 showed that the pensions allowed were from ten to twenty time* greater than the estimate. Under the act of 1818, j which was considered to cover hot more than 375 cases, over 20,000 pensions were granted! In the light of previous ex- ' perience with legislation on this general character the Democrat s claimed the act would add at least 300,000 names to the pension roll, but careful and conservative Republicans thought the number would not greatly exceed 200,000, and that the annual expense would be about $30,000,- 000. This, doubtle:a, will prove pretty close to the fact. With the general pen­ sion appropriation expanded to $100,000,- 000 and $30,000,090 added this coming session by the "dependent bill," the ac­ cumulation of a surplus in the treasury would be permanently stopped. If other government expenses increased also there would be a deficit as soon as the surplus already on hand would be exhausted. The indications all are that before long the treasury will be in need of increased reve­ nues, and certainly not in a condition to stand a reduction* of either tariff or in­ ternal revenue taxes. It is a sheer waste of breath for any politician to tell people that the tax on sugar or on tobacco, cigars and cigarettes will be repealed at the next session of Congress, for the good reason that not a dollar of it can be spared.--Chicago Tribune. (Striking Statistics. The very ill-informed newspaper which ever and anon resumes its rigmarole of "free trade and British prosperity" is in­ vited to con these figures, which we take from the Wool Manu facturer*' Bulletin. They show the value of British exports of cotton yarns and clotty? during different" periods of five years each: To To all British India, other c*ntries. Five years, 1870-4 £70,354,000 £305,739,000 Five years, 1875-9 76,820,000 261,730,000 Five years, 1880-4...".. 100,368,000 279,876,000 Increased value of exports to India.. ..£30,014,900 Decreased yalue to all other coun­ tries * |26,383,000 So it seems free trade does-not insure supremacy in the markets of the world. For, except its own provinces qf India, the foreign trade of England in cotton goods shows a steady decrease. Still more striking are the statistics of the English silk trade. The values of im­ ports of raw silk, less the quantities re­ exported, at all English ports for the first year of each of the last three decades, werA! I860 255 1ft70 - 5,774,510 I860. IV. I • •••••• 3,883,373 So much for thirty years of free trade. Let us take English estimates of thirty years of protection in Ameriea. This country imported raw silk for domestic manufacturers to the values of £812,870 in 1860, £1,628,6 >8 in 1870, and £3,864,409 in 1880. Thus we find that the silk man­ ufacture of England has decreased by nearly one-half during thirty years of free trade, while that o£ America has in- eieased about threefold daring thirty years of protection.--Inter Ocean. \ Wliat Oar SalcMwn An Doing--Matter* of General And laical Interest--Mar­ riages MM! Death*--Aeckleats WD Crimi --Personal Pointers. --A bold, bad Chicago burglaT was the other night made the victim of an op­ tical illusion. We quote from the Tribune: A onrglar secured an entrance to the residoaee of George M. Higo, No. «i Bellevua place, Mon­ day iiigtii. and. ae.iiig liis imago in »tivr^'o plate glsUs mirror, became eo bn.ily raSled that he drew his revolver. The man in the jninvr did likewise, and in a moment the pair vrerr> blazing away at each other with a precision that was hard on the mirror. Mr. Hith and his family were at diirner on the fioor Ik low. and nhou the shooting was heard, together with the noise of breaking class, thare was a sadden losa ol appetite on the part of every one at the table. Mr. High grabbed a poker ai.d headed a proces­ sion-up the stairway, and \vli«u the large rear bedroom on the tiocond iloor was rt achid nothing was found but the broken minor and an open window. By this time the wholn neighborhood -- one of the most fashionable on the North Side --was in an uproar. Private telephones -were set at -work, and the Kast Chicago Avenue Station patrol wa^on with a load of officers was summoned* rXhe arrival of the police added to the excite­ ment, and there wera rumors ihat a double murder had been committed. An investigation showed that some one had placed a ladder against the rear wall of Mr. High a house and had effected au entrance by forcing the window. The room door was open, and the light from the hall fell upon the mirror in sneh a way as to give the impression that some one was ap­ proaching through tfiti door. The burglar, for 'such the int ruder must have been, was a de». Berate character, and it was not his fault that he did not commit murder. He probably thinks that one. and perhaps both, of the snots he fired took effect in the body of the person ne supposed he shot at. --The following notice has been sent to the.various Alliances in Illinois: You are hereby Invited to send delegates to meeting to be held at Decatur, Illinois, on Wednesday, November 30th, at 10 o'clock ; &. m., for the purpose of organizing a State Far­ mers' Alliance, and to transact such other busi­ ness as may properly come before the Alliance after it is organized. The ratio of representation will be one dele­ gate for each Subordinate Alliance, and one additional delegate for each twenty members or major fraction thereof of the same. As delegates to the annual meeting of the National Alliance, which is to be held at St. Ix>ais December 5th, 1S89, will probably J>e appointed at this meeting, all Subordinate Alliances are requested to consider the propo­ sition to unite the Northern and Southern Alliances and the Agricultural Wheel in one body, which is now pending, so that the dele­ gates to St. LQUIS may be instructed on this question. I --The Supreme Court has rendered a decision in the case of True et al. versus George B. Davis et al. True was Treas­ urer of Lake View previous to the an­ nexation of that suburb by Chicago ond declined te turn over to County Treasurer Davis money raised by taxation in Lake View. The ground for his refusal to sur­ render the money was that tbis money having been raised for specific purposes, must be applied in that manner only, and consequently should not be handed over to Cook Qounly. The cily and county jointly on behalf of County Treasurer Davis sued and obtained a verdict in the lower court. From this decision Mr. Trae appealed, aid the Supreme Court hag affirmed the decision of the lower court. The case was hastened on- the ground of public importance. --The new steel nilroad bridge built over the Ohio Biver at Cairo for the Illi­ nois Central Railroajl was given a formal test and opened to traffic last week. Ten mogul engines, weighing nearly 700 tons and covering the largest spans from end to end, weie drawn over the structure, back and forth, at the ra'e of about twenty mi'.es per hour. A test line at­ tached underneath each of the spans, reaching to the water below, showed that the great weight caused a depression of about four inches at the center of the spans while the engines were passing over, but the test was entirely satisfac tory. Nearly all of tie officials of the company on a special followed the en- gine^ and another special carried citi­ zens. The bridge was begun May 5, 1888. There are fifty-two spans in* all. Eleven stono piers, resting on ca'ssons sunk into the sandy bottom of the river from thirty to seventy feet, support the structure over the river at a height of fifty-three feet above high-water mark. The cost of the work was $3,500,000. All trains will hereafter croes the bridge, and the river transfer steamers will be used for an in­ terchange of traffic between roads center­ ing at Bird's Point, Mo. --GOT. Fifer has appointed George M. Sterns, of Chicago, and Lovejoy John­ son, of Stillman Valley, as delegates to the National Dairy and Food Conven­ tion, to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 27 to 29; H. W. Breckwith, of Danville, to succeed Henry S. Baker, resigned, as a Trustee of the Illinois State Historical Society; and Charles Lane, as public administrator for Moultrie County. The Governor has also appointed the follow­ ing as public guardians under the new law passed by the last General Assembly: Ward Reid, for Bond County; Alvard Shuin- way, Carroll; William T. Hallenbeck, Clark; Virgil IT. Curd, Coles; David R. Green, ("umber- land ; Isaac Cosier, Douglas ; Henry E. Daniels, Dul'age; J. C. l'almer, Edgar; John Eversman, Effingham ; John Abingbam. Fayette; John F. Kenny, Ford; Jasper T. Kelly, Fulton; Alexan­ der M. Wilson, Hamilton; William A. Symonds, Hancock; Harvey F. McAllister, Headerson; Orson Jones, Henry ;• W. C. Blair, Jefferson ; S. Cott, Jersey; Russell P. Goodwin, Kane; John Small, Kankakee ; A. T. Seeley, Kendall; Asa Mattison, Knox; Duncan McDougal, La Salle; R. C. Maxwell, IiOgan ; Albert Barnes, Macon ; George L. Tipton, Macoupin; James T. Tartt, Madison; Frank F. Noleman. Marion; J. M. Marks, McHenry; Franklin B. Marquis, M;c- Lean; Johu Tice, Menard; Phil Arris, Monroe; Amos Sawyer, Montgomery; Isaac Hudson, Moultrie; Cyrns W. Rice, Peoria; James P. Robinson, Rock Island; Clinton Otey, Saline; J. W. Trimble, Schuyler; John B. Meacham, Will; W. C. 8. Rhea, Williamson; aad E. B. Sumner, Winnebago. Cronin ease at Chicagp, has disappeared pKXTSSIA and from his home. His wife claims to know nothing of his whereabouts. --Fire at Lincoln, destroyed the hoist­ ing machinery and tower of the Citizens* Coal Company. The loss will reach $6,- 509. Two hundred men are thrown oo$ of employment. --David W. Lu«k, the well-known hit? torian and journalist, died at the resi­ dence of Senator Mark M. Baesett, in Peoria, a few days ago. Mr. Lusk pub­ lished two books--"Politics and Poli­ ticians of Illinois," and "Eighty Years' History of Illinois." He went to Peoria to secure material for a biographical his­ tory of some of the noted men of the State. He was taken sick at the new Peoria House, and when his condition became serious he was removed to the residence of Senator Bassett, where his malady developed into typhoid fever. His wife and two daughters were present at the time bf his death. Mr. Lusk was .fifty-six plage ftod'was a native of Ohio. ^ . --Seven year^ ago the dead body of William McLean, a switchman, was found in the Wabash yards at East St. Louis, with a bullet-hole in the head. Ellis Rhodes was arrested, and at the trial pleaded ap alibi and asked a continuance • on the ground that his witnesses were not in the city. The trial was pressed, and Rhodes was convicted. He was sen­ tenced to eleven years in the penitentiary. His attorney, Mr. Mes^ick, believed his client innocent, and has just secured an affidavit from a well-known Mississippi Biver captain showing that Bhodes was on his boat at Memphis the night of the murder. The case is before Governor Fifer, and p, pardon is expected. --Cleveland G. Arnold has been ar­ rested by the postoffice authorities at Chicago for a novel method of swindling. Arnold's scheme was simple but effective. He would watch the columns of the vari- our marriage journals; and when he saw an advertisement that suited him would GRBKCB VNIOX. ' Of SCPTUkt AMERICAN FABLES* --Hog cholera prevails to an alarming extent around Freepdrt, farmers in some sections losing nearly all their hogs. --Never in the history of crime in Chi­ cago, says the Inter Ocean, have the thieves and robbers been more bold in their crooked work than during the past few months. Daylight burglaries and robberies have come to be a common thing. --J. Alexander Harris of Mulford, DeL, has been arretted at Chicago for defalca­ tion of $6,000. Harris left a wife and four children^ and eloped with his book­ keeper. He had over $9,500 with him when arrested. --Chicago dispatch: The Secretary of the Committee on Congressional Action for the World's Exposition on Monday reported to the committee: "We have 162 Congressmen in favor of Chicago, and we are the second choice in about forty more, and this does not include Senators or contestants." The announcement was received with marked satisfaction. In view of the efforts of other cities, it was regarded as putting Chicago in first place in the race so far as the popular branch of Congress is concerned. Beports from the West and -South which reach'the headquarters here are all encouraging. HarMsgs of the Princess Sophia Mid tti* Daks -of Sparta at Athens--Prttiee Hsti- feldt Weds the Danghter of C. P. Hunt­ ington--Wealth Exchanged for a Title. The duke of Sparta and Princess Sophia of" Prussia were married at noon, at Athens, by the metropolitan of Athens in the Greek cathedral. 'The marriage procession left the royal palace at 11 o'clock. The sun was shining briliantly. The streets along the route- were crowded with spectators to the house­ tops. The national costume was largely worn and gave the masses n unusually picturesque appearance. Every buil linsc, private as well as public, was>decorated with the Greek blue and white and the German black, white and red colors, and with garlands and emblems of all kinds. The bride rode in a state (.carriage drawn by six black horses with silver trappings. The bride­ groom was on horseback by the side of the carriage, wearing a handsome uniform. The moment they came insight the cheer­ ing besran aud never ceased until they had entered the cathedral. It increased, if anything, as the Emperor and Empress followed, the former wearing splendid decorations and the Em­ press sparkling with diamonds. They were the center of attraction. Children were held up to look at them and vented their delight in screams. Next came the jrinee and princess of Wales. They were heartily greeted all along the route. The Empress Frederick, accompa- nied by her daughter, the Princess Vic- write to the^dvert ser. His victims were always men, while Arnold assumed the role of an innocent nnd gentle girl desir­ ous of finding a husband. Inclosing a portrait of a handsome woman, Arnold was sure to receive a rep'.y. A corre­ spondence would then be opened, and in a very short time Arnold wonld receivc a sum of money from his distant admirer, sent for the purpose of defraying the railroad expenses of the young girl in her trip to her admirer's home. The girl, of course, never arrived, and the would- be husband soon discovered that he had been swindled. Complaints have been pouring in to the Chicago postoffice au­ thorities for some months, but it was only a few days ago that Arnold was located and arrested. The young man's "aliases" wera Sadie L. Munson, Nellie V. Ander­ son, Jennie Wroath. He had in his trunk,*when arrested, letters, from sus­ ceptible grangers as ̂ ar away as Texas and Montana. --The troubles that have disturbed the management of the Hotel Richelieu, in Chicago, for a year have culminated. Mr. A. S. Gage has sold out his half interest in the property to "Luoky" Baldwin, of San Francisco. The price is said to be near $25O,0Qtf^|md with the sale Mr. Gage retires completely from any interest in the hotel. --Gov. fifer has appointed the follow­ ing delegates and alternates to the Na­ tional Farmers' Congress, which will hold its annual session in Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 13 to 15. The first two are at large, the others represent the several Congress­ ional districts ih (he order named: Abraham Mann, of IJossville, and J. C. Willis, of Metropolis; Samuel W. Allerton, Chicago; alternate, Ira McCord, Blue Island; M. A. Chicago; Peter fc'chuttlor, Chicago; alternate, J. H. Sanders, Chicago; W illiam Stewart, Chi­ cago ; alternate, Chris Bussey. Elk Grove; D. A, Fuller, Cheny Valley; alternate, John Stewart, of Elkhorn ; George S. Haskell, Kock- ford; alter:fate. J. B. Taylor, Freeport; William H. Gould, Nepoiiset; alternate, Nathan W. Tibbets, Kewanee; J. M. Thompson, Joliet; alternate, Charles Bartee, Dowiier's Grove; J. B. Foley, Gibson City; alternate, George B. Graymont; John H. Vanarsdale, Peo­ ria ; alternate, Wiufleld Scott, Wyoming; E. Mitchell, Monmouth ; alternate. C. V. Chandler, Macomb; John M. Stalil. Quincy: alternate. J. B. Stevens, Virginia ; Charles T. Mills, Spring­ field; alternate, William J. Wyatt, Franklin; Donnis Ken you, McLean; alternate, David P. Kellar, Macon ; E. E. Chester, Champaign ; al­ ternate, Wiley Fowler, Hope; J. W. l$arl>er, Albion ;alternate, John B. Mchols, Noble; John Ball, Girard; alternate. John F. Glenn, Hills- boro ; John M. Pearson, Godfrey; alternate, Ar­ thur Hecker, Kummerfield ; Matthew Telford Dix; alternate, Thomas Sullivan, Jr.t Akin ; E. W. Bennett, Carbondale; alternate, James M. Fowler, Marion. --The following Illinois pensions have been granted: Original Invalid--John V. Huntress,- Francis M. White (deceased], Hei r/ Koeliler. Whitman O. Fisher-frestoration), Joseph C. Cole, Isaac W. Stuart, Peter Brereton, William H. Benson. Eli- sha B. Sweet, Joseph Siddness, William Tuke. William S. Higgins, Joseph Tucker, William Page. Increase--William D. Ward. Reissue and In­ crease--William A. MerriCt, Noah Bullockr Mon­ roe A. Hubbard. Maurice Bywater, Alvah B. Fitch, John Leggate. Jerry McCarty, James Petrie. Joseph Gunnie. alias Alfred Michlette, alias Louis Alfred Michlette. alias Smith, Henry C. Trent, William Taylor, Alfred Garrett, George Brott, Jeremiah Vowel 1. Keissue--Luther E. Matthews, John M. Bird. Lewis H. Livelv, John Cox. Iteissue and Increase--Alford J. Elmore (de­ ceased', John S. Green, Franklin C. Smith, Ivan T. Stokes, Elijah Jollifif, William P. Askew, Hiram McCriiiis, Solomon B. Sliadden, Victor H. Gould. Leiinder Futlioy, John Peter Zoy, William F. McKelvy, John F. Long, Thomas M. Shields, Michael Scliell, Patrick Y. Mullen. Restoration and Keissue--William F. Ingram. Original Widows--Nancy, widow of John T. Davis; minor of Luc Ji. Irwin ; Melissa M., widow of Gilbert Teachout.; Flora O. Garrett, former widow of Lue M. Irwin ; Isaac, father of Henry £amis ; Barbara A., mother of Samuel Campbell; Angelina, widow of ltelly Madison; Sarah, widow of William H. Benson. --Chicago telegram: "Congressman J. L. Wilson, of the recently sdmitted State of Washington, says the whole Pa­ cific coast is for Chicago as the site for the World's Fair. He does not under­ stand how any Western man can think of any other city. He deprecates the move­ ment in favor of St. Louis as one that helps New York, and if it is pushed much further will hurt St. Louis. He thinks that the W estern and Southern men will be a unit by the time Congress gets fair­ ly at work." --Springfield dispatch: "The Rev. Fred H. Wines has received a letter from ex-President Hayes announcing that he will be present at the meeting of the Na­ tional Prison Congress tobe held atNash- ville Nov. 16. Mr. Wines is Secretary of the National Prison Association, and has completed the programme for the coming meeting. An invitation will be extended to the congress to hold its next meeting in Springfield." --A* cablegram from Buppertsberg, Bavaria, announces the death there of John Dick, the wesMky Quincy brewer and miller. The Tnrtle and the Sage. One dny as the Sage Pursued bis waj along the edge of the Pond the Tttrlie called upon him to stop for a moment and Relieve her Distress of mind. "Yon must know," began the Turtle* as she recovered bur breath, "that Mrs. Moss-Bach, who has for a year or more been my nearest and dearest Friend, now suddenly Refuses to even speak to me. I can't possibly understand it. I have spoken no word to give her'offense, and I have Felt toward her as a sister." "Ahem--yes," replied the sage. "She is your neighbor, !" ' Yes; lives in the same mud-hole." " Are you ih the Habit of Borrowing 'ier?" - -- Oh, no. r • "But ig she ef V "Yes, indeed. I liftyeso good to her. I have lent her tea, coffee, sugar, eggs, starch, bluing, my flat- irfeus, quilt frames, eofl'ee-mili, and everything else she asked for. and was always glad to accommodate her." "And when did this coldness begin ?* "Last Tuesday." "What preceded it?" "Nothing. She ran in to borrow my best tableeioth, a dozen napkins and my silver forks, but I couldn't let them go, as I expected company myself." "There's the Milk in the Cocoanut, my dear Old Innocence," replied the Sage. "If you once Lend jou must never Refuse. The Neighbor who Lives off ef you has no further use Jo* you when yen Shut off th© Sij|^y**'Yf5 ' MORAL. ... ' • A cup of Sngar or a drawing of Tea Jill make Enemies faster than a kind ,« ~ nuyriw a* AFFntnry. An A fed W' Any Cm Friee made oil eart can make Friends. w« handle. OTTR Comprises a gether with out' pricos d«f Tli«> Wise Stan and the Foolish OTIB. A Workingman who wa3 going home om his Daily Toil, his Back full of ches and his Hands sore and blistered, lu 11 line <j»med aside to call upon a Wise Man nd ask his Advice. "Behold in me," he began, "a Man ho works early and late, lives Poorly, 'tresses Shabbily, and has never enough i Eat. ' There's something wrong here, ml how shall I Remedy it?" " My Wooden-Headed Friend, I have ften thought of your case," replied the ise Man--"often held it up as a wani­ ng to others. Gaze on me! There re no Aehes in this Spiual column--no listers on thesis Hands. Feel of my 'at! Do you ever see me AVorking?" "Never, and that's why I came to you. Jo vv do you manage ?" "All in the Philosophy, my boy. In lis clay and age> the man who won't ork is Supposed to be Physically in- apable, and Charity is only too glad help him grow Fat. Charity is Hobby. Every Hobby searches for ict'ims. Behold me a Victim. Come aud^ have some Cold Tujjt^ t>and ink it over." " • • „ * /' * MORAL. * , -. Just you notice next spring if the au who has rubbed a lamp-post all mmer has lost a pound of flesh rough the winter."--Detroit Free res*. , * J. W. Cr r*nr\ nr onet of the bridegroom. Count Herber t Bismarck 'was among the first to congrat­ ulate the couple. Crowds surged in tbe Place de la Constitution for hours after­ ward. At 4 p m. the Duke of Sparta conducted his bride from the royal palace to his own palace amid storms of "zetos" from the populace. The bride, who was very pale^ smilingly bowed in response. The Duke and his bride were' afterward obliged to appear on the balcony, when they were greeted with rending cheers. The diplo­ matic body was ihvited to the gala'banquet at the palace in the evening. The vicinity of the palace was ablaze of illuminations and bengal fires. The Czar's presents were valuable bril­ liants, a silver and crystal tea set, and a captain's uniform of the Neva regiment. Ex-Empress Frederick and her daugh­ ters will remain here for a few weeks and then go to Italy. The Princess of Wales and her daughters wil( remain here a fortnight. ® Prince Hatzfeldt and hiss Clara Hunt-' ington have b?en married at Brompton oratory, London. The ceremony was necessarily semi-private on account.of the brief time allowed for arrangements and because of the absence of many friends of the family from the city. About 100 special guests were present in the oratory, which had^baen sumptu­ ously decorated with rich draperies and growing plants. Princo Herman Hatz­ feldt was best man aud the bride was given away by her father. Miss Therroll of Washington was the only bridesmaid. The marriage ceremony was performed by Bishop Emmons. Among those present were Princess Hatzfeldt, Count and Countess Altahn, Count Paul (the German ambassador at London>, and his daughter, the Austrian and American ministers to England, Counts Mensdorf and Lutzen, and the mother and brother of the oride. Count Paul gave a wedding breakfast at the German embassy after the wedding. The newly wedded pair will pass their honeymoon in Italy. The bride's dress was of green velvet, trimmed with sable, and was valued at $3,000. The bride received many hand­ some presents. Her father presented her with a necklace containing eighty gems, most of the stones being over three karats in weight. From her mother she received a diamond brooch and diamond star--the largest gem of tbe latter weighing twenty carats. Prince Hutzfeldt's parents gave the fair bride an elegant diamond necklace of curious design, and pretty ornaments for the hair or dress containing a large pearl and a number of small diamonds was the present from the groom. Most all the other presents consisted of diamonds. THE FALL JTCUIT CROP. Grapes and Oranges in Abundance, but Apples Very Scarce. Advices received by the agricultural department on the fall fruit crop show that grapes and oranges are unusually abundant, and that tbe American lemon is fast -crowding out Its foreign competitor. Apples, however, are very scarce and prices will be high. The government pomologist. Van Deman, in speaking of tha apple crop, said: "New York crops have been almost * complete failure. In some portions of the State, es­ pecially in the western part, they proved so poor as to indicate that there will not be a sufficient quantity for the consumption of farmers themseves. On seventy-eight farms in the vicinity of Roc hester not ten bushels of apples have been raised. Tife crops of Kansas and Missouri have been ex ellent ani those in Virginia have Men fairly good, but in Michigan they are but little better than in New York. Tbe cause of the -poorness of the apple crop is thought to have been frosts which occurred so late in the spring and another factor has been the wetness of the weather for the greater part of the summer, which caused the prevalence of the disease known aiAong farmers as "bitter rot." t - EARTHQUAKE^ IN EURgjfc Turkey aad Italy Visited by a felamto • Wave. - t London dispatch: The Mitylene light­ house haa- been wrecked by an earthquake. Slight damage was done in Constantinople. Shocks h* Italy caused serious damage, awl safee less oft life occurred »t Gallipoffi. Albanian Justice. ' Recourse to personal justice seems very undesirable to men of a law-abid­ ing land, aud probably few of ua have ever thought of jt as capable of foster­ ing the softer emotions of human nature as well a* of satisfying the instinctive craving of "blood for blood." A year ago, says Das Ausland, at a fight of trained gauders, ift Albania, the owner of a vanquished bird, in a fit of tempo­ rary irritation, raised his gun and shot dead the- owner of the other bird. The spectators wei'e so astounded that they made no effort to arrest the .murderer, and he betook himself to tbfc monutaius, where he was pursued for hours by the murdered man's friends, who had roused themselves at last. Fi­ nally, seeing that there was no hope for him, the fugitive ran down into the house of his victim, where the bereft mother sat lamenting. "I am in your house," said the mur­ derer. * Give ine bensa,"-- the oath of protection--"for they ftl'® going to kill me." The mother gave-him her oath, and when his pursuers reached the door, she went forward, and waved her hand­ kerchief, in sign that they should de­ part. All day the guilty man remained in safety in the house he had made deso­ late, but at night the old woman took him ly the hand and led him out upon the mountain. <, "Now my oath is fulfilled," she said, when they had reached a safe distance from the town, "you must look out for yourself." * Then followed the pursuit of ven­ geance, the family of the victim Occu­ pying themselves unceasingly with thoughts of retribution, while the friends of the murderer as earnestly set themselves to obtaining his pardon. This state of things continued for two months. Then the family of the murderer, women, children and all, be­ took themselves to the victim's house to ask a remission of the blood penalty. The murderer himself headed the pro­ cession, his head veiled in a linen cloth, and his gun, muzzle downward, sus­ pended from his Leek. "Pardon! pardon!" cried they, with one voice and this petition continued until noon. Then the father of the victim ad­ vanced, and the murderer knelt, ready to receive the sentence of life or death, The old man took the gun, discharged it in the air, and lifting the linen cloth from the man's face, kissed liim in token of pardon. He then led him into the house and set him in his son's place, and the mat­ ter was concluded by a three day's feast. Meiely a Civil Question. Miss Park wood--Do you know, sir, I could sue for breach of promise? Finlay Place--Oh, I guess not. Miss Parkwood--Why, sir, did you not ask me to marry you ? "Yes." "And I consented?" M'es." "Well, sir?" "Well, I didn't promise, did I? You were the one that did that. I pre­ sume I have a right to ask you a civil question, have I not. without ruuning the risk of being dragged into court?" -- Toledo Blade. • The Latest Catch. "I will bet you a new hat," said a gen­ tleman, "that you will come down out of that cliair before I ask you twice.' "Done!" replied his friend. "Come down," cried the other. "I will not," said his friend,with much obstinacv. "Then stop till I ask you a second time," said the other. he never would be j Mniln»alrt* , Unnt f«t » \Vi rn Several gentlemen sat in tl» reading: I room of oue of th* large hotels ia tldW' city last evening. They were- iliiuiil» ing matters of the- supernatural owSta|^l such as the Flying Dutchman 'amtA haunted houses. At last it came turn of B. B. Bnsl% to add to the enter--'-i tainment. "The story I feave in mind is a true one, and though not a very ' harrowing one, it in to me rather com-; ical," he began.. "About rex. weeks ago I was in Detroit.. One of the million- - aires of the city is. Augustus. Day. He ?; is a firm be!ieyer in modern spiritual­ ism. For la long tfine he iiai favdked$; the spirits to belp him iu finding hisi"v affinity, though he- old enough to bet-." making his peace? with Heaven instead of wife-hunting. Mr. Day has adver­ tised in a Boston spiritual paper for * partner to sharo his joys, and bank ac­ count. About six weeks ago the spirits'"! told him that his fond desire wou'.ct somi be realized. About that time her ; received a letter from a Mrs. May;; Wadswortli Goodwin, »rspook medium in New York, inquiring what the*|; chances would be in her line of busi-*;•>; ness in Detroit. After a little corres­ pondence she agreed to go West and- try her fortune. She 'was received by the aged millionaire with open arms, s<» ^ to speak. Day threw oj>en his e'^anft residency which was presided over - - * his daughter, to his guest. The ha'L t $ which he had built for holding spiritual services was also placed at Mrs. Good- -s win's disposal. Large numbers of spir- itualists attended the meetiugs, and all 5 < went along swimmingly. Mr. Day did 4 rot lose any time in making l&ve to th# fs spirit missionary, notwithstanding sha was fair, 40, and weighed 200 poundsw *1 But a crush came to his expectations* > ; He proposed and was refused. He wa» so disappointed and disgusted that he closed his hall aud turned his guest "* into the street. Her friends were obliged to assist her to go back to New £] York. But for all this Day went on ad-* , 0- J vertising for an aftinity, vJl ;• "Many wondered why Mrs. Goodwin t C J refused the 72-year-old millionaire's offer. The reason was a most excellent one. She is married, and her husband V, is a traveling salesman for a San Fran- - >"- • cisco firm. He was in Oregon at th* .'.;Jsf§ time that the affair occurred. About a year ago Mrs. Goodwin lived in this * city and followed the business of a me- " diuni on Mason street She went Ea$k >• % in hopes of finding a better field foe her rA&i labors."--San Francisco At to. The Vice of the Age. In some ways we may be w iser than our ancestors; but they had the better ? of us iu one thing--they did not give ; way to hurry. An iusane haste has V broken out in every department of life. The sense of the shortness of life has come upon men suddenly; yet, instead; of moderating their desires in accord­ ance with the conditions of our ephem­ eral existence, they persist in striving to cram iuto our life far more than it will hold. Art, literature, architc-cfcttt^" are all being ruined by hurry. How many men who were meant to be great have become woeful daubers! The art* ist caunot be content with a house nowa­ days --only a palace will suffice him; and, to keep up his palace he must hurry. His name once made, he can b» sure of receiving customers from on# end of the civilized world to the othei^ He turns out daub after daub; his tech­ nique becomes abominable; his oldL skill vanishes; but his name remains-- and the name enables him to keep up his palace. Literature fares no better. Some of the iater efforts of writers who were once splendid <raftsmeu is mesa journey work. We like swift work if the swiftness is employed in setting down ripe thought and wise observation; but there is now to be seen a sort of hurry which is not swift--it is the con­ vulsive struggle of men who have lost their speed. There are writers and : writers. If a merely pretty novelist! can keep on producing innocent storks •jvhich delight I'lncCTTlt' folk, W feflTG - no right to deiuaiid more; but wees?*' puet iiiUcu frOiu a great ari-isi; and we do not often get it now after the artist has once been bitten with the taste of money. In architecture, we have only to look at the rows of gaudily decorated shells, designated as Queen Ann "resi- deuces" and "cottages," that may be seen in any suburban town, to realise to what a pass hurry is bringing us. If we could learn the value of wise delib­ eration, reserving outbursts of swiftness lor extraordinary occasions, neither in­ dividuals nor communities need break down under a constant strain which la as foolish as it is unnecessary. Perceiving that -- asked a second time, the gentleman in | Carrie ?. the cucie down in a doable sease. j She remembers ataoot a»ybo4?> A Story About Wendell PhiDi]K. A number of years ago a poor man, whose case had excited a good deal of sympathy among Boston philanthrop­ ists, conceived the idea of having au en­ tertainment given for his benefit, and prevailed upon Mr. Phillips and the Kev. William R. Alger, . both of whom , J. were at that time extremely popular speakers, to give him what would he known in theatrical circles as a benefit. ,,d The affair was very well advertised^ and it was expected that Music Hall, ^ the place chosen for the exercises would be crowded, but for some oause or other the patronage was so light that the amount received for the tickets was not ) pufficient to pay expenses. On the day JvQ following the lecture Mr. Phillips re- ,* *jj ceived a call from the beneficiary, who { informed him that the expenses were $20 more than the receipts, and just as the orator opened his lips to express his v regrets, the visitor added coolly: • "I suppose that of course you and Mr. Alger will be responsible for the bal­ ance." Who really did pay the deficit* I do not know, but the incident pretty- well illustrates the mental attitude of the people who live by the sympathy of the community.--Book Buyer. Anybody or Jiebody. .• 'Xjt ,'fl Some people have a very nngractSffes manner, even when they do not mean to be discourte ms. They fail to realia# that it is a duty to appear kiud as well as to feel kind. A certain young man whose only fault is a lack of courtesy in little things was greeted one day by a young lady of his acquaintance, as he waj walking with a friend. "I have just had a letter from Mi-- Carrie Dean, and she asked to be ne-. rue m be red to lx>th of you." "Miss Dean is very kind. Thank yo«- for the message,'* $aid the seeoa&d yoouag man. ^ I shouldn't remember her, if I •honld see her, but never mind." sa§4: the ungracious one. Me had lifted hit; hat when he bowed, and seemed to have no idea that his reply was rode *nd cutting. The young lady flushed with wouuded feeling, but retorted quick wit: "You wouldn't Well, she remembew. JOB. * { > : m , v . - ' nv. K. t" "H. . V ' * " .'rkil ^ '.. r£v . til V':# £ v- • ' • 'V;. ih " j