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FNRNFLAMDEALRT J. VAM SLYKE, Srfiter «•* PsUitber. J|lcHJBNKY7 ILLINOIS. *$* ' " (CoNSTANTitoPLK is believed to nave %founded tbe first hospital in the world, -W we now understand a hospital. ?-fi; A nuNGRY horse tied ia front of a «flry-goods store at Norristown, Pa., <le- r.\ "^onred part of a box of cheap hat* re- fe. «centlv. When he had finished . his t' feast he was brim full. \S EXPERIMENTS prove that the Atlantic j breakers have a force of three ton# to ^ 'the square foot; thus a surface of only '( Tiwo square vards sustains a T)low from j . , . , , t , ^ . , ,_ t amount for which new-born ' :,<f* heavy Atlantic breaker-e^ual to fifty - ; ifour tons. • ' ; A LOCOMOTIVE for British Columbia "waa being hoisted into a vessel at San "' /^Francisco the other day, when the rope . ffcroke and the machine tell into the bay. V -- jit weighed sixty-five tons D^pd sank so . far in the mud that it cold not be found v,;:; the next day. | ^ • ; V '> IF a cellar has a damp sme'l and can- Jnot be thoroughly ventilated a few trays *'V ' of charcoal 6et around on the floor, |v , nab elves and ledges will make the air |pure and sweet, says Medical Classics. 2' a large basketful of charcoal be if placed in a damp cellar where milk is v; ' »kept the milk will be in ioo, danger of ,» Ibecoming tainted. P J ' / C HAUXCEY D EPEW was called upon , Tccently by a middle-aged lady, who *was so delighted by his urbanity that |w ' »she impulsively kissed him when she Vf: . t aarose to leave. A reporter who wit- I'. - nessed the disturbance asked Mr. De- fe t: jpew whether he was used to that sort of ' tolling, and he replied: "It is one of 4he regular rules of the office." ; R. T. "WALKEM, Grand Master of H Masons of Ontario, who has just re­ turned from England, sayB he attended the installation of the Anglo-America .Lodge and witnessed the ceremony -which put Theodore Tilton, late of |f% Brooklyn, in the chair. It was a re- anarkable occasion, as it was the first time an American was made master of an English Tiodge. FIFTY-FIVE millions of dollars of capi­ tal have been invested in jthe building of "new Rome" during the laat six years. The larger part of this amount was sup­ plied by mortgage banks on the secur­ ity of the lands and hout-e. Between f1882 and-1887, when the building fever |was at its height, rents increased enor- ' " mously and are now much higher than in any other Italian city except Na­ ples. • . ' IT is strange how badly we get im­ portant matters of history mixed. Ask any well-informed person who invented the sewing-machine and the reply will be E lias Howe, which is far from the truth in the case. The first sewing- patented in England by 1760, sixty years .be- Oue of Saint'n hibition so, but in the present shaky condition of my health I cannot but feel thai my first duty is to my posterity, a boy of five and a girl of four, rather than to my ancestry. It is bad to be an un- dutiful great-grandson, bu| j^jyi to be a reckless parent.* THE shocking revalations that ii&re just been made in the matter of child insurance and child murder in England are quite likely to lead to some stringent legislation prohibiting the system of insurance of infants' lives. This form of insurance was started some years ago, and has become im­ mensely popular, especially in the crowded population of the East End of London, and the great manufacturing cities of tbe midland counties. The babies are insured range from $1 to $10 each, the premiums being only a few cents a week. The profits of the insurance companies are not derived solely from | the premiums, however, but from the bodies of the children that die. These are, under the terms of the insurance policy, turned over to the companies, and are by them sold to medical students for dissection, thus realizing actually more than the insurance paid to the parents. It is thus to the inter- oft of both parents and the insurance companies that the insured babies should die. . ' . OUR tongues play us sad tricks when we let them wag at will. It is aston­ ishingly easy to fall into slovenly habits of speech which sound well, but cannot be literally interpreted. A lady who was on the point of leaving the house to pay sOme visits said, absently, as she looked at the leaves and dust whirling through the street: "Well, if I had known it would be so windy, I never should have gone." "Well, you haven't gone yet, have you?" asked her hus­ band, rather testily. This changed the current of her thought, and she con­ tinued half aggrieved:Well, Richard, I should think you might have gone with me, and made that call we owe Aunt Sophia." Then Richard gave the matter up as lost. Another excellent lady who, with the best intentions, does not always say what she means, was one afternoon greatly concerned at the thought that her husband, a lecturer, must work up to the very momeut of delivering an address. *My dear," said she, going into the study, where he bent over his books, "can't you get a few minutes to sleep half an hour?" But he, being a mathematician, could not see the feasibility of the plan. FOKIIOXEST ELECTIONS. THE LQTDGE BILL WILL PROBA- ,;B|LV BECOME A LAW. Northern intimidation and fraud a* well, If there be such, must cease at Congres­ sional elections." THE PRESIDENT BOUGHT HIS COTTAGE. in Islington, n^apiime Thomas fore old m tbe Royl England. 0 IN Geneva, at a cirCTP, a; female trap­ eze performer. Mile. Matliilde, aston­ ished the natives every njghfc by her performances with a yout^. of about seventeen high up in the air. One evening this youth, by his own care­ lessness, slipped from the hands of the girl, who hung by her knees. A cry of horror arose from the audience, when she luckily caught him with her teeth l>y tbe embroidery oVer the breast of his tights. She pulled him up into a sitting position on the trapeze, then boxed his ears vigorously and made him go through the performance again --this time without fault. ONE of the rising industries of Phila­ delphia is the bogus coffee industry. An enterprising manufacturer of the Quaker City has discovered a process by which an excellent imitation of the coffee berry cau be made from flour. The flour is reduced to dough, tbe dough is run through a machine which molds it into coffee grains, and the grains are baked until they assume a coffee color. In its "circular to the trade" this enterprising fitm assures t he dealer that he "can safely mix fifteen per cent, of the substitute with genuine coffee," that he can largely increaso his profits, and his transactions with the firm will be treated with the "strictest confidence." US: TAMES MACGREGOR, Qaeen Vic­ toria's Scotch Chaplain, is a brilliant preacher; aud he is also a man of very small stature, and slightly deformed, a defect which has gained for him the title in Edinburgh of "Bowdy" Mac- Cregor. Once when a minister of a rural parish he called at a farmhouse, and as the members of his congrega- Mlcn la Hrr Gulden Hair. Fraulein Elizabeth Meyer, belle of Berlin, has had, according to the Chicago News, an exciting, a marvel­ ous experience--one that will shock (aud therefore charm) ail tbe fair sex. Upon rising betimes the other morning from her billowy couch, and Upon un­ loosening the coiis of her splendid hair, preparatory to combing those golden tresses, lo! there fell from her am­ brosial ringlets a shower of mice! It teems that during the night a sagacious old dame ptonse, hunting' about for a habitation, came upon Frau­ lein Elizabeth's inviting wealth of soft hair spread over the downy pillow. "Here," thought this wise rodent, "is a comfortable shelter for me and mine." So in crept Mistress Mouse and cud­ dled herself up among the silky strands of hair. There were seven of them the next morning when, standing before her mirrior. Fraulein Elizabeth rudely uncoiled her tresses, thus precipitating the blue-coated mother and her pink- skin progeny to the floor. The "parent mouse fled under a bureau and the six helpless babies lay rolling and squirming pathetically upon tbe floor. In the supreme crisis Fraulein Elizabeth's presence of mind did not desert her. Leaping into a chair she screamed lustily for help, and presently every chair in the room had a woman on it, each in hysterics. The dignified pater familias finally made his appearance and removed the frightful creatures that had caused all the hubbub, but Fraulein Elizabeth was sick abed for a week in consequence of this awful experience. Tbe local journals got hold of this story and told it eloquently, and now a 'panic has come upon all the womenfolk in Germany. Nightcaps have suddenly come into fashion again--not the pic­ turesque, frilled affair we've seen in prints, but a grotesque fabrication of oiled silk, which is said to be properly cool for the head and at the same time proqf against depredatory rodents. How the Wind Was Raised. An Alderman who represents one of the down-town wards has the "old coin" mania and will stop at nothing to secure a good specimen. One day last week four of his constituent*, who were re­ markably thirsty, found they had only one quarter among them. Numerous plans were suggested to "raise the wind," but none were adopted until one of the number hit on a scheme, which the rest applauded. All four repaired to a near-by pawn broker's store and of­ fered the quarter, which was a trifle worn, in pawn. The amazed clerk thought they were fooling him, but on their assertion that they intended to play a trick on "annoder feller," he handed them back twenty cents and a ticket which called for "an old silver With this they hastened to the tion whom he wanted to see were not at home, he good-naturedly consented j coin to be taken around the premises bv the . Alderman and offered to sell the ticket farmer's boy. After he had seen the | He grew interested, •' minor sights about the place, he was taken to th« pig-sty to see the pigs, where a curiously-shaped animal was triumphantly pointed out to him as * Bowdy MacGregor, ca'd after oor minister ye ken." The story is told by the worthy old doctor himselft A .ccBiotrs instance of the author of "Looking Backward" declining to look backward and persisting in looking for ward occurred at the dedication of the asked a number of questions, and finally offered halt that price for the ticket They ac­ cepted, and after securing $1 they left. Half an hour later the Alderman hur­ ried to the pawnshop and released the "old silver coin." His rage on discov­ ering the deceit can be better imagined than described. He got over it, how­ ever, aud now regards the matter as a good joke.--New York Star. 1-atal Fertility. Tourist- I suppose the soil about here is very fertile and Prominent Kansan -- Fertile? Tell monument to Dx. Joseph Bellamy, the I you what's a fact, stranger. See that great-grandfather of the author. In I thar tall treeV Wal, last year that was replv to an invitation to be present, a wooden leg. Feller that owned it ,, f " , u . i trot drtmk an feu asleep in the fence Edward Bellamy * rote from a watering- j «orne,. End of hia place: "I have been compelled to come down here for my health, and shall have to leave my great-grandfather in the lurcii as regards attendance upou his Fourth of July celebration. I greatly regret that I am obliged to seem lacking in family loyality, and hope yon will believo me ttot I am not sorto stuck in the soil, an' when he woke up next morniu' it had growed to be right smart of a sapliu'. i Tourist--What is that dark object away up in the top of the tree? Kansan--All that's left of the owner of the leg. Tree growed so rapidly that we couldn't splice ladders together last enough to git to him. fh« Threatened Pojrrott-John M. Thmn- tou S»vs That Sone but the FiPf-K»ters Will Seriously Talk of Itetuliation and the Mouth Cannot Aft'ord to Antagonize Northern Capital and Knterprlae. [Washington special to Chicago Inter Ocean.] The Republican mom hers of the Sen­ ate Committee of Elections have sent to the forty-seven Republican Senators a copy of tbe election bill which they have prepared as a substitute for the Lodge bill. It is the present expectation that the Republican Senators will meet in i caucus this week to consider this bill and to determine what their policy will be respecting it.y The distinguished gen­ tlemen who have framed it are not, as their Democratic opponents charge, con­ spirators against the peace of tbe nation and maligners of the South. On the contrary, they are actuated by only one principle. That principle is one which it had been supposed was ' incorporated into the organic law of the land when the latter amendments to the Federal Con­ stitution were adopted. It is the principle which is declared to lie at the foundation of the Republican party in every platform adopted by that party since the war. Unsettled questions have no mercy for the j>eace of nations. And it is the unsettled questions connected with the ballot which this bill attempts to solve. Neither the North nor the South can have peace while any citizen is denied his jnrt vote by fraud or vio­ lence. No Northern investment can he safe and no Southern trade profitable while the rights of, citizens, black or white, are denied by tin' bulldozer and ballot-box st-uffor. Congress by exercis­ ing a control of Federal elections which is vested in it by the Constitution can protect every citizen in voting for a na­ tional representative, and the Trainers of this bill think it is time that Congress" entered upon that duty. The Federal election bill seeks nothing more. Tho changes which have been made in tho bill do not alter its spirit. Tho principal changes are tho striking out of tho iirst paragraph of section three in tho House bill and the changing of the provision designating a district judge to serve in the place of a circuit court judgo when the latter is unable to serve. The bill as prepared by tho Senate Com­ mittee provides that when a circuit court Judge can not serve, the circuit judgo next in seniority shall take his plaeo. But if no circuit court judge shall bo able to perform the duties, any district judge may be designated. Another chango in the bill authorizes the circuit judges in their^discretion to appoint su­ pervisors from outside of the lists pre­ sented to the court by tho chief supervi­ sor. Another provision debars any person from being appointed a supervisor .or to any oflice under tho act at any election whenever he shall have petitioned for tho supervision of the election. The pro­ vision. of the House bill author­ izing supervisors in citios having twenty thousand inhabitants, and up­ ward to verify by proper inquiry and examination tho respective places or resi­ dences given by persons on the regis­ tered list is retained, but tho provision authorizing a thorough and effective house-to-house canvass hi cities of 100,- 000 inhabitants or upward is stricken out. All naturalizations are required to be made in open court and to bo recorded with the decision of the court. The pro­ vision in the House bill directing super­ visors to observe and scrutinize the man­ ner in which naturalizations are being made is changed so as to read that tho su]>ervisors shall give to the court infor­ mation to assist in preventing fraudulent naturalization. Tho provision in the House bill authoriziug supervisors to b*< detailed for investigating naturalization frauds is stricken out. The provision re­ quiring State, Territorial, or local elec­ tion officers to count and canvass tho ballots in the manner provided by the laws of their respective' States and Ter­ ritories, with the exception noted by sec­ tion 9 of the House bili,is stricken out. and the requirements made that the count and canvass of tho ballot shall be conducted so that the supervisors shall have full op­ portunity to inspect and verify all the proceedings. In addition to three cer­ tificates made by tho Board of Canvass­ ers created in the House bill, there, is a provision requiring a fourth certificate to be sent to the Secretary of State. In cases of appeal from the decision of the Board of Canvassers the Circuit Judges arc authorized to re for the matter to a commissioner to take testimony. Tho provision in the House bill providing for the appointment of three jury commis­ sioners is also stricken out. To call this a "force bill" only illustrates the utter inability of the opposition to attack its real provisions. It is in no sense a force bill. The force bfII of 1875 authorized the suspension of tho writ of habeas corpus and the use of the army at the polls. It in substance gave authority to the President to make a declaration of war. „.There is nothing of that character in thp Federal election hill. nThis bill is simidy a supervisor's bill. The Threatened Boycott. "From what I heard in Washington," said Hon. John M.Thurston to a Chicago Tribune reporter, "I believe the Lodge bill will pass tho Senate. I am confident also that a Congressional reapportion­ ment bill will be passed at this session. "Nebraska will get seven members on a basis of 1 So.000, as against three at present. The Republicans in our State will carry the State ticket and elect all three Congressmen this fall. The State Convention is being held at Lincoln to­ day. The alliance is quite strong in Nebraska. It will bo atf tho height of its strength this fall, I think. The vote will be shown more in the legislative elections, however, than in State or Con­ gressional. There is quite a contest within the alliance for supremacy be­ tween the fanner Republicans aud far­ mer Democrats, with the chances in fa­ vor of Democratic interests controlling it. "The league is organizing largely in several Southern States. Nearly 100 clubs have been lately organized in Flor­ ida alone. Wherever they are organiz­ ing they as^iit the passage of the Lodge bill to give them the opportunity of a fair lield. The Lodge bill will give them a chance to light for their rights. It is not the colored voters alone who look to it for deliverance from political slavery but tly many thousands of white South­ ern Republicans, whose numbers are constantly increasing. "The Nortli can laugh at such vapor- ings as Gov. Cordon has lent his re­ spected name to. Tho South will not boycott the North. It needs Northern credit, commerce, and capital. The boy­ cott plau could not be carried out whether tho fire-eaters indorsed it or not. The commercial people of tho South are not politicians. They would just as soon sec free elections as not. At any of the new trade centers in the South you will find one-third of the stores run by Northern men. "If the boycott plan was ever attempt­ ed Northern credit and business would be withdrawn from the South and the South can't afford that. Why, Secretary Humphreys, of our league, tells me sinco the Nashville convention in March over 85,000,000 that he knows of lias been in­ vested In the -South either by delegates or their friends who became interested in the South at that convention. The South threatened to boycott us if we did net let slavery alone. Let the South threaten. Southern intimidation, or Bafuaing to Accept the Cape May Hoase as a l*re*eut. He Paid SIO.OOO. A Washington special to the New York <Prat» gives the following facts about the President's Cape May cottage: "Presi­ dent Harrison has been the victim of most virulent attacks since it became known that it had been decided that he and his family would spend a portion of the hot months at Cape May Point. Mrs. llarrisou, too. has been subjected to the fiercest criticisms, because, as alleged, she accepted the little villa as a gift from admiring friends. True it is that tin; President and the mistress of the White House were urged by the would- be donors to take the cottage without money and without price. The Presi­ dent declined to receive It as a gratuity, but gave his check for $10,000 so soon as he ascertained that Mrs. Harrison and the family were pleased with it as a place of summer residence. The Presi­ dent's attention was first called to the existence of the cottage when the repre­ sentatives of those who had prepared it visited the White House just after, it had been made ready for occupancy. They brought with them the key and the deed made in the name of Sirs. Harrison. They unfolded their plans to the Presi­ dent in the presence of Mrs. Harrison. Both the President and Mrs. Harrison could not but feel under many obliga­ tions for the generosity with which they had been treated, and so expressed them­ selves. Mrs. Harrison and the family occupied the cottage for a few days be­ fore the President could go down. They wore pleased with it and enjoyed it. It is neither elaborate nor costly, but sim­ ple and to their taste. The President decided to retain it. He ascertained what had been expended upon it and drew his chock for that amount, which, as has been stated, is 810,(M)0. It is char­ acteristic of tho President that, despito the offensive publications that have been made, the fact that the cottage had been paid for before ho mado his first visit to Capo May Point has.just reached the public." THE CAMPAIGN OPENED. NC OF THE REPUB^CAH GIG STATE COMMITTEE.F? 1 §^||E..LEGISL4|,B|J| AFFAIRS IN ILLI EXTRA 'SESSldfc;"-it v • Gentlemen of tlie South. Gentlemen of the South, the North is no more craven-hearted now than in 1861. If you can not, be convinced that manli­ ness is still to bo found north as well as south of Mason and Dixon's line, you may make as great an error as you mado then. Marty if not most Northern men will agree with you that reconstruction laws were not all wisely enacted. All will concede that an ignorant majority, black or white, is a great social evil. But that is not the question now. In making the negro a voter when he was made free the North did not intend to do a wrong to you. She only meant to do a right to him. You still have it in.your power to bar out from tho ballot all citizens who can not read and write, as Massachusetts docs. Neither the fourteenth nor fifteenth amendment provents such State action, which would cover Federal as well as State elections. But, it you ' wf>ro iii our place, and your honor were pledged, as ours is, to the prevention of abridgment of suffrage rights "on account of race, color, or pi-evious condition of servitude," would you be deterred by throats of violence or boycotting from redeeming that pledge? No, we know your manliness too woll to believo it. Can you not pay tho same tribute to ours? Mutual respect, at least, ought to have been begotten by tlie long struggle which sprang out of the great rebellion!--Sjrrln<jfield (Ma«s.) Unitm. The Pactional Souther It is "nTthe South *YlYa^sectional tics flourishes. It is tlx1 South that has beon solidified and converted into a political province of the Democratic party, and it is the South that lives upon the past and knows least of the present, and is, in a business sense, most care­ less about tho future. It would be es­ teemed by the Southern politicians a privation to have sectional polities abolished. They never have compre­ hended how they could have been so far out of the world in 188S that the Repub­ licans regained the possession of the country upon simple national business issues. Why, if this thing goes on their occupation is gone, and as it is their im­ portance is vanishing.-- Brooklyn Stand­ ard-Union. • An Extensive Family. "Have yon a family ?" asked a Jndgo of a man who was making final proof in a United States land office. "Yes, sir," replied the man. "Of what does it consist?" "Well," said the man, evidently con­ fused and looking up toward the ceil­ ing as if to refresh his memory, "it consists of my wife, ten children, two hired men, a gang-plow, a seeder, a Bain wagon and a span of mules; I believe that's all." "That is enough," replied the Judge, with a smile, and the settler got his papers without further questioning.-- Crate ford (Neb.) Times. The Old ( rv Ruined Again. Anything more senseless than thl£ threat of a sectional boycott would be difficult to imagine, but tho North will not fall to note the spirit of intimidation and rebellion which is breathed in the resolutions of organized mAtings and in the public utterances of representative Bourbons. Resistance to tho laws of the United States Government is implied not only but threatened, and again we hear the cry so familiar thirty years ago: "Let us alone; that Is all we ask."--Rochester Chronicle. Where a Boycott Would Be In Ordtr. If tho sunny South organizes any boy­ cott at all it should not be against Northern goods but against tho dema­ gogues and cranks who aro urging her to adopt such'raethods. Tho boycott is essentially a Bourbon weapon and it fits the Southern mossbaeks to a niccty.-- PIMadelphUi Press. The Power Behind the I-aw. Call the Federal elections bill "a force law." So is the law to punish murder a force law for those who violate it, and it is hoped that the proposed election law will have sufficient force to restore the right of suffrage to every voter who has been denied it.-- Indianapolis Journal. This Must Be Understood. Brag, bluster and bullying went out of fashion at Appomattox. The South will be governed by such laws as the people of' the United States, through their honestly elected Congressmen, may determine to enact.--Arkansas State Register. It Will Solidify the North. The organization of a Southern boy­ cott against Northern goods will have one direct and desirable effect. Which is to say, it will strengthen and solidify immensely Northern sentiment in favor of the prompt enactment o8» the Federal elections bill.-- Philadelphia Press. THE latest experiments made with carrier pigeons in connection with va­ rious European armies show that the normal velocity of the carrier in calm weather and for a short distance is about 1,210 yards a minute. With a very strong wind in the direction of the flight a bird has readied 1,980yard* a minute. •long" Jones Elected Chairman--Hi* Elo­ quent Address--Remarks Made by Gen. Martin--The Outlook In Illinois--What the Democrat* Are Doing. (Chicago tpeciaL] There was a full meeting of the Re­ publican State Committee at Chicago, on Tuesday, July 29. Nineteen of the twenty-two members answered to their names when tin* roll was called by Sec­ retary Shepard. The three absentees were represented by proxies. Joseph A. Lammers presented a proxy for Q. J. Chott, of the Second District, who is in Springfield attending to his legislative duties; Wrill O. Nash, of Oak Park, had the proxy of E. S. Conway, of the Fourth District; George Bass repre­ sented Pliny B. Smith for the First Dis­ trict. The other moinbers present were: At larpe. A. M. Jones, Warren, and E. H. Morris, Chicago; Third District, Henry L. Hertz. Chicago: FHfth. W. S. Frazier. Au­ rora; Sixth. George 8. Roper, Kockford; Seventh. John Diller. Sterling; Eighth. F. C. Fullerton, Ottawa: Ninth. E. A. Wilcox, Minonk: Tenth. Isaac A. Edwards. Peoria: Eleventh, Peyton Roberts, Monmouth; Twelfth, IT. H. Keath, Quincy; Thirteenth, C. 14. Paul. Springfield; Fourteenth, E. D. Blinn, Lincoln; Fifteenth. James II. Clark, Mat-toon; Sixteenth, A. H. Jones. Robinson: Seventeenth, II. J. tlaniline. Shelbyville; Eighteenth, Henry Brus*man, Alton; Nine­ teenth. ,T. S. Martin. Salem; Twentiotb, \V. C. Rhea, Marion. Superintendent of Public Instruction Edwards; Franz Amberg, candidate for State Treasurer; C. C. Duffy, candidate for Appellate Court Clerk of the Ottawa District; Col. Connolly, of Springfield; ex-Treasurer Tanner, Attorney General Hunt, J. B. Mcssick of St. Clair County; Paul Selby, of the IUinote State Journal; Dr. Benjamin Brown, E. H. Wright, and other State politicians were on hand. Chairman Martin, of tho old State Committee, called the new committee to order and by request acted as temporary Chairman. Gen. Martin said that at one time he had intended to be a candidato for re­ election as chairman. lie thought bet­ ter of it, however. Much as he would havo esteemed the honor, and desirous as he was to render all the service he could to the Republican party, he did not think the position desirable because of the hard work attached to it, which required a younger man who had en­ joyed some respite from political duty. As Chairman of the committee he had done all in his power, all that his judg­ ment dictated, all that a strong zeal for the success of the party suggested. As a committeeman and a citizen he would continue to render service to the party with whose history and with whose triumphs for the nation and for hu­ manity he had been identified since its organization. He thanked his old as­ sociates for their co-operation, and then proceeded to business. George S. Roper, of Roekford, who was elected committeeman frbm the Sixth District instead of "Long" Jones, nominated the latter for Chairman. W. S. Frazier, of Aurora, seconded the nom­ ination. E. A. Morris moved that tho nomination be by acclamation. This was done. Mr. Jones on taking the gavel said: Gentlemen. I thank you for this high honor. I appreciate the spirit in which it is offered. Your unanimity means har­ mony. and I aiu glad to note that. This U tlie sixth time I have been similarly hon­ ored. I realize, however, that, the position this time is not an honorary one. The Democrats have deliberately chosen this State as the great political battle-ground for this year. Well, we must make ready to meet them and defeat theiu. We must sustain the honor of this State, which has maintained its-altegtance to the Republican party when all the neighboring States of the Northwest have wavered; when even Mich igan and Iowa temporarily surrendered to the Democratic advance. We must con vlnce the Democrats and the Nation that Republicanism in the State which contains the ashes of Lincoln, which will contain the ashes of Logan, and which gave Grant to the Union and liberty--we must convince the Democrats that Republicanism in this State has not declined, but continues to flourish. We must organize. We must, encourage the doubting ami faint-hearted. We must wake up the indifferent and the slothful. We must bury factionalism. We must pre­ sent a united front to the enemy. We must take the aggressive. I appeal to Repub­ licans in every part of this great State to bury their knives and hatchets until after this election is over. If this is done there will be a Republican lower house, a Repub­ lican Senate, a Republican State Treasurer at Springfield next winter, and there will be a Republican administration of the pub­ lic schools of this State, as there ought to be. John M. Palmer is the Goliath of the Democratic party just now. A Republican David will meet him at the proper time and with the desired result. I hear from some quarters that the Re­ publicans are scared. Well, that is not such a bad thing after all. Scared Republicans run well, but never away from the enemy except on election day, when they run away ahead of them. Illinois has been the Gibraltar of thp Re­ publican party, which Is the friend of the soldier, the protector of the colored man, and the hope of the Nation, and now let me say to Congressman Adams, whom I am glad to see in our midst, that he may assure his Republican colleagues that Illinois is true to the memory of Lincoln and Grant, and that we bid godspeed to Speaker Tom Reed and those who act with him in tbe House of Representatives. W. S. Frazier nominated Capt. Dan Shepard for Secretary, and he was elected by acclamation. Clarcnce Paul, of Springfield, offered a resolution thanking Gen. Martin for his services to the party. It was adopted by a rising vote, and the committee went into executive session for three hours. The prospects of the party in the State were fully discussed. Hopeful reports were made from all sections. The Ger­ man Republicans continue loyal to the party. The compulsory education plank of the platform satisfies them. Mr. Blaine's reciprocity with tlw Spanish- American republics satisfies the party, and the Republican Congressional can­ didates are being pledged to its support. There are no dissensions worthy of notice, and the only thing that requires immediate attention is the failure to nominate two candidates in some of the districts where there is a good fighting chance to win two scats in the lower branch of the General Assembly. Superintendent Edwards said that his advices from all parts of the State were that the threatened German defection on account of the school question would not amount to a great deal. "As a rule the German Republicans will remain true to their party," he said. "I have assur­ ances as to this from those who are rec­ ognized as leaders. The disaffection has almost entirely disappeared. That is largely due to the compulsory education plank of the Republican platform. That plank is satisfactory. Besides, the Ger­ man Lutherans, who are mostly Repub­ licans, have an abiding faith in the jus­ tice and liberality of the Republican party. They cherish its principles and will support its candidates." Ex-Treasurer Tanner had .TAR* earatitutlenal UMBlmnit IHPIHUM! br the World's Fair Directory was introduced in both houses on the 24lh inst. and referred. The enabling bill, prepared by the directors of the" fair, van alto offered In both tbe Senate and Hound and appropriately referred. In the Sen­ ate Mr. Berry introduced a joint resolution pro- viding tor the HiibmiBsion to the voter* of tho Htate a proposition to amend tho constitution by authorizing the city of Chicago to isam* bonris to the amount of #5,COO,()OT in aid of the World's Fair. This resolution in an exact copy of that originally proposed by the fair directory and previously introduce in botli houses, except that it contains the following proviso : l*rovi<)«*l, tbe alien tion of isgaing such Iwouils "hall first be submitted by proper ordinance* of the City Council of the city of Chicago to the voters of said city at an eloctiou held for »aid purpose, and if a majority of the votes cast at such flection shall be in favor of istiuing •uch bonds, thou the corporate authorities of *ai<l »t n»t Onr Kelflibon Are l>olns--Mstitn of Genet-mi and Loe«l lntorait -- Mu> rtagea and T>e.-«th« Accident* and Crimea --Personal l'uintera. --The following is the weather crop bulletin of the Illinois Weather Service: I The tetrtin rnturo of the week has been I below tho a vi rajre throughout the State. An ! avoraj'1 iimnint of sunshine has prevailed. I The ralnfu'j of the week has been below a I MMonabh' average except In the eastern countlos >f the central and southern divis­ ions of the State. Below are given some extracts from the report by counties: Bond County -Corn and pastures neodlnft rain badly. Clark i»--liny lnj? about done. Cora shoot- city shall issue such bonds in accordance with j Ing and tassellni; well, but very low. Wheat the terms of auch ordinance of thrashing In progress. Halnfall, 1.35. In the House, Mr. alsh, in behalf of tha i hi. I Champaign -- Favorable corn weather. pmo mninlwD whn am nnnnaMl l.hA .lackaon 1 ^ . ... . ^ „ . T. cago members who are opposed to the Jackson Park-I.ake Front site, introduced the following: "WHEBKAS, Thu A'irectory of tha World's Columbian F.xposition Company has ap­ plied to the people of the State of Illinois for valuable and extraordinary privileges, one of which is the dona­ tion of S5.C0J.U00 from the city of Chicago; therofore, Retolved, That the said directory lw> requested to furnish to the people ana to the members of the Legislature of the State of Illinois a plain, unvarnished statement show­ ing whether they intend to locate the fair ou the Ijaka Front or Jackson Park, or partly on both, and if the latter, what will be the charac­ ter of the exhibit on the Lake Front, and the character of that in Jackson Park." Mr. Browne, oi LaSalle, on behalf of the country members, introduced ths following resolution : "Be*nlve< . That the Committee on Agriculture act with the other committers on the bill or bills in relation to tbe said site." This resolu­ tion was adopted by a unanimous vote. THI: Legislature did quite a good deal with the World's Fair legislation at its sessions on the 2">th, but the most cf the work was done in committee. The House in open session adopted by acclamation the resolution offered by Mr. Walsh of Cook, calling on tha World's Fair Di­ rectors to furnish the legislature a staterhent as to the location of the buildings, etc., and also Sisaed a resolution declaring it the sense of the ouse that the Fair should bo held upon one site. The Senate Committee accepted tho double election idea on the constitutional amendment, and incorporated it in the resolu­ tion on tho theory that both elections should be held th9 same day, the vote of the city to be counted separately, and the proposition to ba declared defeated if a n ajority of tne votes cast in the citv be apalnst it. The committee also carved the World's Fair bill, eliminating there­ from the matter of eminent domain. This leave# the Michigan avenue property-holders with an increased incentive to assert what rights they may think they have. The amended bill and resolution were at once reported to the Senate and Bent to second reading. The House Com­ mittees on Judiciary. Judicial Department, and Agriculture met in Joint session and apop'e i an amendment to the resolution providing that at no time should the State of Illinois be responsi­ ble for any part of the indebtedness of .$5,0; 0.- 000, The committee rejected the amendment for a double election. MB. LESTEK. of Sangamon, introduced the following resolution In the House on the 43th ult. : "Rtsolved. That it is the sense of the Rop. resentatives of this House that, in the employ­ ment of skilled artisans and laborers prepara­ tory to holding the World's Columbian Exposi­ tion, tho directors, or whatever managers may be under their charge, shall give preference and employment to union men, or, in other words, to men belonging to some branch of tho Ameri­ can Federation of Labor or any other recognized organization of labor." Mr. Carniody intro­ duced the following resolution : "JUvnolveil, That the joint committees before whom the resolu­ tion to amend the Constitution is now pending be instructed to report to the House a proviso in said resolution providing for the payment, first, of any bonds issued by the city or Chicago in aid of the W orld's Columbian Exposition be­ fore any dividend Is declared to the stockhold­ er s or others." * THE joint resolution for an amendment to the Constitution to aid the World's Colum­ bian Exposition passed the Senate on the ^2U|th ult. by a vote of thirty-six to five. The proposed amendment provides that "the corporate authorities of the city of Chicago are hereby authorized to issue interest- bearing bonds of said city to an amount not exceeding $5,000,000 at a rate of interest not to exceed five per centum per annum, and the proceeds thereof shall IKS paid to the Treasurer of the World's Columbian Expo­ sition. and used and disbursed by him under the direction and control of the Directors in aid of the World's Columbian Exposition to be held in the city of Chicago in pursuance of an act of Congress of the United States. Provided, that If at the election for the adaption of this amendment to the constitution a majority of the votes cast within the limits of the city of Chicago shall be againnt its adoption no bonds shall be issued under this amendment. And said corporation authorities shall be repaid as large a proportionate amount of the aid given by them as is repaid to. the stock­ holders on the sums subscribed and paid by them, and the money so received shall be used in the redemption of the bonds issued as aforesaid; provided, that said authori­ ties .may take in whole or in part of the sum coming to them nnv permanent im­ provements placed ou land held or con­ trolled by them." The resolution a* amended was sent to tho House, where, afttr several amendments had been offered and killed, it was put to a vote, and failed to receive the necessary two-thirds majority. In the House Mr. Paddock's resolution, de­ claring it to be sense of that body that the World's Fair should be held on one site, was defeated, the House, by a vote of 73 to.11, adopting a substitute offered by Mr. Martin expressing the view that It was beyond the province of the Legislature to dictate to the directory on the question of site. A resolu­ tion offered by Mr. Spltter. of Moultrie, ad­ vocating Uariield Park as the site was tabled. THE "bill for an act in relation th* World's Columbian Exposition'* was pa\ssed by the Senate on the 30th ult., 38 to 1. The House amendments to the Senate's joint resolution for a constitutional amendment were read. Mr. Burke objected to the first amendment-, providing: "That no in­ debtedness so created shall in any part thereof be paid by the State, or from any State revenue, tax. or fund, but the same shall be paid, if at all, by the city of Chi­ cago alone." "I move that this amendment be laid on the table," said Mr. Burke. "I consider It a reflection on the city of Chica­ go." "It will be a damnable shame." said Mr. Crawford, as he brought down hlsflst on his desk. "It will be a damnable shame to put that provision in the Constitution of the State of Illinois. It is a shame, a dis­ grace, to say these bonds shall be paid by Chicago, *lf at all.' That is an insinuation that the bonds may never be paid. I don't know who drew this amendment. It must have been some 'Jack-leg.' " "I will with­ draw my motion to table," said Mr. Burke, "and move that we do not concur In the House amendment. I regret this clause -If at all' as a reflection upon the city of Chicago, and tho entire State." Tho House refused to concur in the amendment--yeas, 15: nays, 26. The other House amendment, providing that bonds shall be payable with­ in thirty years from the date of their issue, was adopted--yeas. 56; nays, 2. In the House Mr. Crafts moved to amend the pro­ posed constitutional amendment by provid­ ing that the bonds issued shall be paid within thirty years from the date of their issue. The amendment was adopted by a large majority. The joint resolution, as amended, was then passed by an almost unanimous vote. advices from the southern and central parts of the State. "Tho Palmer boom has already collapsed," he said. "There is no enthusiasm for the Democrats* 'grand old man,' as they call him." References Required. Mr. Hightone-- "My dear, yon must send that new girl away at 6nce. She is not fit to have around." Mrs. Hightone--"I will, just as quick as I can write her a reference." "Reference? Do yon mean to say you intend to give a creature like that a reference?" "Of course. How can I help it? If I don't she'll tell everybody about the condition you Came home in the other night, and the--the wmy I talked to yon."--Good News. A Free Gift. Mrs. Bibbs--"See here! Why are reassuring you unloading all those shingles in Klse in Prices. Mrs. Sharpeye--"What makes sugar so high ?" Storekeeper--"The--the floods, mad­ am." / Mrs. Sharpeye -- "Hum! Floods don't carry away much exoept sand.* tweak'" --New York h'etkly. front of my door ? We haven't ordered •any." Driver--"No, mum. They comes wid the compliments of the neighbors. You see, folks thinks from the way your boy acts that you can't afford to buy any."--New York Weekly. Next Week. "Don't grab my hand so! Save a little welcome for next week." OH! M, 7°" J. " j • 5Z& £ . A' i&A • Oats all cut. Wheat making from 10 to $1 b u s h e l s p e r a c r e ; o a t s 2 0 t o S 3 . Q u a l i t y 5 ' " 5 good. / * Edwards--Rain of last week has Improved ^ ̂ pastures and corn crop, and has been a great "j - A benefit to the county. I' Vh Folton--No rain for eight days. Corn crop doing well. Pastures need rain. Wheat and oat* will not average more than half a crop. McHenry--Absence of rain affecting corn unfavorably. Haying finished. Oat harvest begun; fair yield. Marshall--Kaiii badly needed. Core OR : sandy soil Injured a good deal. Potatoes yield poorly. A tine crop of hay has been secured. Oats all cut; not an average yield. Wheat thrashing begun; yield and lUality good. Peoria--Conditions generally favorable. Itlchland--Wheat thrashing ID progresa; field not up to expectation. Oat crop light; almost a failure. Schuyler--Corn greatly, benefited by lata rains. Stephenson --Drought continues. Corn and potatoes suffering greatly. Oats about ripe. Wheat nearly all killed by chirieh- bngs. St. Clair--Corn mostly gone. No potatoes. Fruit falling from the trees. No chance to sow buckwheat. Kain badly needed. --A recount (of the census report of Sangamon County makes the population slightly over 00,000, which, if it proves correct on tho final count, will entitled the county to a Recorder. --Margaret Payne, of Salem, has com­ menced suit in the Circuit Court against Americus V. Finley for $5,000 for alleged breach of promise of marriage. Mr. Finley is a prominent stockman. --Mark Bird, who was elected Alder- ' man at East St. Louis in the recent elec­ tion, failed to qualify, not being able to show that he had ever been naturalized. A special election was held to fill tho vacancy and Levi Baughor was chosen. Now Bird threatens to restrain Baugher from taking his seat, claiming to be ablo to show that ho wa$ regularly natural- 'zed.' --The population of East St. Louis, according to the new census, is 14.823. --Judge Samuel S. Marshall, an old- time Democratic leader, died at his home, Jf ^ In McLeansboro, Hamilton County, last "7" week, aged 69 years. In 1851 he was- • - - ^ -- ilected Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, but resigned in 1854 to accept a • u>at in Congress from the Nineteenth ,i District and served fourteen years, When Lyman Trumbull was elected to ^ tho United States Senate Judge Mar- iliall received all the votes of the Dem- '** < 7;"' ocratic members of the Legislature for s T ihe position. --Thirty carloads of fat cattle hav»( ^^||^ Just been shipped direct from Spring- /" field to Europe by Messrs. Maxw^Wfe *4 Montgomery. The order was a spocife \ one and is encouraging to cattle-misers j of that section. --The Co-operative Industrial Union, comprising delegates from the labor or- , ganizations and Farmers'Alliances, hold a meeting in Peoria last week and de- i cidcd to build a manufactory, which will be started on a $35,000 basis. The ob- t _" U > ject is to manufacture all sorts of farm- , ing implements and furnish them to "J§ • farmers in the union at cost of produc- ' f tion. The general office will be located : in Springfield. A committee consisting! of the President, Secretary and Treas- -If urer was authorized to select a suitable f t site for the manufactory* # • --The Secretary of State has chartered il the St. Louis, Springfield and Chicago: Railway Company, which proposed to * build a line of road beginning at*a point near Springfield, and thence to ran in a northeasterly dirootion through Sanga­ mon, Menard, Logan, Woodford, Taze- well, Marshall, Livingston, Labaiie, Grundy, Kendall, Will, DuPage and * Cook Counties to the city of Chicago^ The principal business office is to be es-^, tablished and maintained at Chicago. and the capital atook is $3,000,000, di­ vided into SO.OOO shares. This is, with­ out doubt, the extension of one of the short lines between Springfield and St. Louis. Just who is back of the enter-/ "^->1 p r i s e i s n o t y e t k n o w n , b u t t h e d e t a i l s . t j are expected to be m<ide public in a few x days. The mileage will, it is understood, 7 be considered reduced. 1 : -' •*"J T --At Bnffalo, Sangamon County, while J* j the battle of Atlanta was being oelebrat- ed, a general fight occurred in which six • jt' <,"4' *; men were seriously wounded and a great,;, „ many others injured. --Mrs. McMain was horribly mangled in the Chicago, Rook Island and Pacific yards at Peoria. She was passing be­ tween two cars when she was caught be­ tween the bumpers. --The Census Supervisor of the Salem district has made a report which gives the population of the principal towns in Marion County as follows: Centralis, 4,- 557; Salem, 1,492; Kinmondy, 1,028; Sandoval, 836; Odin. S32. --There is trouble growing between the City Council of Cairo and the Illinois Central Railroad Company, resulting from the lattcr's action in running its ; j fast mail and its through freights past ^ that citv without stopping. At a meet- ^ i ing of the City Counc il a series of reso- - ; ^ | lutions was adopted protesting against ^ v8 . the new arrangement and requesting that the company run all its trains into f j* Cairo as formerly. |J > --The Illinois Central Railroad Com- ; / pany has decided to build a 11,000,000 z 'i ^ depot in Chicago. , --Springlie*d dispatch; The census enumerators of the country districts of ^ J the Sixth Illinois Census District may # I, ,j| , be said to be on a strike. They met and ^ passed resolution* call in? on Supetintea- 4j dent Poster for more pay for work they ^ ® have done. The compensation has been V all per capita, and the enumerators find after working ten to fourteen hoars a day . i;|'u > that they will wily get from $1.50 to per day. and all ere demanding that the gam be increased to the maximum figure. - * * Their petition is indorsed by Ceuaas ^ sy|f SBpervteor Wke«!er and was fonrtffdsd. - -- H rAtSa wj, j f, .... C ^