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GOOD RECORD. YHE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE L*IFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. " trMP*rtt* "f Wwtmi Firam-Braatr ; V; •" *»Pl« Soiw-IkoN ••Good Old S. ®»y*"-Th« Farmer'* Msrktt-Soma 1 Tariff Plctnras. slM>" n ac^cvements of this Fifty-first 'Congress in actual lcis'ation fell much ! 1 /helow the expectations of its friends; tout they were memorable among th-. * first. The House's great failure was to la duty. Does iiot their action throw a ray of light on the question, who pays the tariff? pass iho Senate bill for the promotion by'; business sense would advocate anvthin* Itnhsidiua nf i.; . J I, » " , - «VV Itnj viiius things as wc can manufacture or produce f tlafiy neutralize the effect of the increase ourselves? Is there any sense in our buying iron products from England when we have inexhaustible supplies of iron ore and coal to con vert the same into pig iron in our own country, and plenty ot men to work the pigs np into all sorts of shapes? What profit would result from letting our own cotton and woolen mills stand idle in order that we might buy cotton and woolen goods from Eng­ land? Would it be sensible for as to close our silk factories in order to take the products of French looms, or our hosiery mills to oblige German manu­ facturers? No man with a shade of Tariff Pictures. No. JU If *» cannot Mil unless we buy, bowls It ttat we cold to British Australasia last year SI 1, *66,484 worth ol food*, and taport*d therefrom only •4,877,876 of the kind. It is only that economically rotten part of the community which shares the ideas of the old-time Calhoun- ites ana secessionists that still believes the United States should produce raw materials for Great Britain and other foreign countries to put into shape and sell back to us at an immense profit No patriotic American ever advocates any­ thing of the kind, and the blush of shame mantles his cheeks when he hears men calling themselves Americans urging that we should remain hewers of wopd and drawers of water for foreigners.-- San Francisco Chronicle. March iff. subsidies of American shipbuilding and ^ehipowning It was a mistake on Mr. Farquhars part to report a substitute Tor Senator Frye's bill, which Aad passed . ithe Senate, it was a mistake on the part of a score of Republican members .*° yield to the pressure and blandish­ ments of the lobby of capitalists and other agents in voting that bill down. The postal subsidy bill which was adopted may effect something, but it is liable to an easy handicap from our rivals in this very field. The Postmaster General is Ifetrictly limited as to the amount he may pay American ships for carrying the mails Our rivals need only increase •g their postal subsidies beyond this po nt, ;";afid they will nullify our action by en­ abling their steamship . lines to furnish ^transportation still cheaper than we can. ;| And it hardly is to be hoped that the ^Fifty-second Congress will correct this " mistake by repealing the restriction. A more unbusiness-liko arrangement than this, of limiting th2 extent to which we will try to counteract unfair competition is hardly conceivable. ^ The West will be the worst sufferer , Wlll from this failure to put our shipping oni J,,,. V,I- I J a satisfactory footing. The breadstuffs ! - - p u'an re*ime* and meats are the products which most need tho No. a. The average wage* paid In the silk factories of England, aooordlng to the Board of Trade re- tarns, are 9X31.30 per rear. According «a the K»«sachnsetts Bureau of Labor statistics, the average earnings In the silk trale in that State are M1«.M par year. No. 3. You hear a good deal from free-traders about the protected oopper trust, but you dont bear from them that, latvely as the result of the development of America's copper mines, the average price of copper, which was 16 cents a pound SOME outlet which a wiser policy would have offered. It is they who most would have thriven by the exten­ sion of reciprocity with our Southern neighbors under the new tariff law. The great and tho lasitng achievement of the session was tho protective legisla­ tion, wh:ch embraces three measures: the tariff administration bill, the tariff bill and the copyright bill.* I would add as a fourth the postal subsidies bill if I were sure that it is going to do its work. It is this legislation, and especially the reciprocity clause of the now tariff bill, by which the Fifty-first Congress has made its lasting mark on our history. Its enemies proclaim that it is already as good as repealed, since the adverse elec­ tions of last November have changed the majority in the House and weakened the majority for protection in the Sen­ ate. But this is not true. 1. So far as the tariff question entered Into the eloctions of 18K0, it did so through shameless and systematic mis­ statements a? to the character and effects of a law which had not been • tested. Every month since that time has weakened what popular feeling there was against the bill by furnishing fresh practical refutations of the falsehoods with which it was assailed. I have re­ spect enough for many of its loudest as­ sailants to believe that they would not dare to repeat what they kept saying in the four weeks before the election; and that for the sake of their own character In this world and their prospects in the next they wish they had said much less and had stuck closer to the facts. They certainly are not now saying what they did in the concluding weeks of that cam­ paign, and some of them are making . wry faces over the facts as to "McKinley prices" and wages which protectionist newspapers ask them to publish. The force of the "roorbacks" of 1890 is badly Spent already. They never will elect an­ other Congress, and the veto of Benjamin Harrison stands between "snap judg­ ment Congress" and free trade. 2. The issues raised by the Farmers' Allian ce, which led them to vote the ,xjpemocrats into power, indicate no con- -Vversion of the Northwest to free-trade 4o ctrines. The Western farmer is not agoing to vote away his best market by adopting that policy, and when that issue comes before him he will vote as he did ill 1888. Ho will do it all the more promptly becouso their show of victory has led the Iree-t.ridcrs to throw off the "revenue reform" mask and to declare for the complete and prompt abandon­ ment of the policy of protection. Since last November there has been more downright free-trade talk than ever be­ fore; and this is but an indication of what the free-traders will do when they get together in Congress. There will be Slenty of good texts for the next Presi-ential and Congressional campaign. The McKinley tariff bill is hero to Stay. There will be no new tariff law passed this century. And with every year it will commend itself more and more to the American people, until the Democracy will no more think of calling It into Question than they do of propos­ ing the repeal of the .Sherman law for the resumption of specie payments. It will come to be regarded as an accom­ plished fact, and people will ask in smused wonder how the voters were ca- Ioled into so gross a misapprehension of Is character and its effects as many of them showed in tho snap judgment elec­ tion. And the copyright law is a fit comple­ ment to it. That gives ample protection to every class engaged in the production of books, from the author down to the printer's devil. It secures the author against competition with English books taken without payment to their authors. It secures the book-making trades against the importation of English books which have been copyrighted. It is forty-four years since tho United States Senate first took up thl* problem. Now *at last a protectionist Congress has solved it in a way that means justice to all classes of producers. The Fifty-first Congress might have done bettor: but it has done well.--Prof. Robert Ellis Thompson, in Irish World. Tho^e "Oooil Old Days." OF THE rfticts THAT FABHXBS trSKD TO RECEIVE AND PAY. The following figures were taken from ai» ancient book kept in Boonesboro dur­ ing the year 1854. The items were taken hap-,hazard and compared with prices given by our merchants. They Show an average reduction that is start­ ling, and when the prudent housewifo compares the two sets of figures she will feel that'slie is witling to live un- pay five cents for a tin cup that in 1854 cost four times as much. But here are the figures. Study them out carefully: Flour, per 100 pounds Palt, per barrel Dried apples Dried peaohei Rice ludito, per ounce Candles, per pound. Ijoaf sugar Eggs Tea. per pound Fait, per half bushel Salt, per pound Molasses, per quart Tin cup Hoe Wash board Broad axe....................... Wash tub Three-tined fork. Grain cradle Sneath aud sna'h Shot, per pound...... Nails, per pound..... Smoothing iron................ Coffee pot Frying pan Powder, per pound File rr..r. ;. Bridle Girth Rope, per pound .' Toweling Paper pins French print Ticking f Calico Cottonade Jean Unlns Gingham Muslin Shirt buttons, dozen Black silk cravat On tho 17th of October, 1854, a bill of goods was sold to Jesse C. Williams, which is set out as follows: To 4 bushels salt 83.90 1 bolt domestic 3.97 12 pounds coffee 2.00 1 pound tea 1.00 2 pounds nails 20 2% yards calico at 25 cents 62% 41.. yards calico at 15 cents 67% 4 yards flannel at 55 cent* ' 2.80 8 yards ilaimel at 40 eents 1.90 1 yar.l muslin .15 1 yard gingham ,<jo 10 pounds sugar 1.00 1 sccop shovel 1.00 1 spade 1.65 2 pair drawing chains at 75 eents 1.50 1 curry comb 15 yards linsey at 30 cents 2.02% % pound cotton batting 10 Mr. Williams is now living on section 24, Marcy township, and if' he should come to town to-day to purchase these same articles wo guarantee that his ?27. to which his bill amounts, would purchase two bills like tho foregoing. These aro the figures of the good old Democratic days--the days of low prices for grain and stock and high prices for all the farmer bought--and we are of the opinion that tho farmer will not be will­ ing to return to them of his own accord. Those aro tho days when the school teacher taught six days in tho week, eight hours per day and twenty-six days for a month, at *13 to 815 per month. Farm hands received $12 to $14 per months. Hogs were sold dressed at never to exceed 4 cents and from that down to 1 cent per pound. When there was a good crop of corn it was valueless, and all other grain sold at very low fig­ ures.--Boon: (lowti) Republican. in 1880, foil to . cents a pound In 1990. No. 4. The markets both north and soutn of ns lfk< American fish. Watch these figures again after five years of reciprocity. The average value of oar fish exports for five , y«*r« ('85-'89) was *4,648,Ml; 1654. 1833. 9 4.75^ •3.35 11.00 1.25 .10 .10 .10 .10 .10 .10 .Mi* .05 .30 .20 .ia .08 .06 .12% 1.09 .25 .75 .25 .03 .01 .30 .19% .90 .05 .80 .45 .40 .25 4. CO 2.50 1.00 .75 1.2S .50 6.80 .25 1.75 .67% .12H .10 .10 .0)% .78 .35 .40 .15 .55 .35 .60 .30 .75 .25 1.5J 1.75 .25, .3J .25 .15 .1854 .08 .l'> .C2% ..v0 .10 .2) .12% .15 .06 .40 .20 .50 .25 .34 .15 .20 .08 .15 .08 .10 .01 1.25 ,5J our fish exports in 1890 were S8.040.826. --ITmo York Press. Maple Sugar Bounty. Wo have received, says the American Economist, several inquiries as to the conditions under which the bounty upon maple sugar may be secured by pro­ ducers. The bounty to be paid will be from 1?£ to 2 cents, according to the test of sugar produced. In order to entitle the producer of sugar to the bounty it will bo necessary for him to file a notice between April 1 and July 1 with a Col­ lector of Internal Revenue, stating the place of production, describing the ma­ chinery and methods to be employed, giving an estimate of the amount of sugar proposed to bo produced, the num­ ber of maple trees to be tapped, and making an application for a license, ac­ companied by a bond in penalty and sureties that the prescribed regulations will be observed. The license referred to will be issued without charge. Painters Not Honored by Farmers. The Alliance has elected threo United States Senators, one of whom is an ed­ itor, another a lawyer, and the other a preacher. In the course of time, per­ haps, it will recognize tho farmers when it has big offices to fill.--St. Louis Globs- Dimovrat. Prosperity of Western Fanners. The St. Louis Post-D'isjxttch publishes an interview with Mr. Charles K. In­ gram, dealer in agricultural implements, South Bend, Ind. He takes as an index tils sales of farm machinery, and con­ fidently asserts that Western farmers are prosperous. Below is an extract from the interview: "I have been through the Statos of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Northern Texas, and find that the farmers everywhere intend buying new and improved farming im­ plements to plant and gather the next, crop. From long experience I know that this is an infallible sign of pros-^ perity. After a bad crop, or when thi farmers, for some reason or other. oot in a good financial condition, are very unwilling to add to their : and make their old tools do. But they have money to spare they invi Improved appliances. That the ment this year will be heavier t .before is a fact assured by the already ma^e, and is evidence farmers never were so they are now." This testimony conflicts with the doleful pictures /V*jhend its iii%, formers of the tarifjj^^jyg ey^er" and Beciprer • °r * , , so- jv'req aires sti»^ Cheapest. pros '-Vhat **» called We buy 110119 but the best'and sell at Seasonable PrL . Call and see me and yon well. ANTONY ENGLEN. Hcfltnry,m„ Iftt* The Farmer's Markets. AH things seem to be working together for the good of the American farmer, and we take pleasure in reminding him that they have been set at work by Re­ publican policy. The latest beneficial movement is the removal of the embargo on American cattle; this is the work of Ambassador Phelps, acting under in­ structions from the Republican Secre­ tary of State. Moreover, Mr. Phelps has been able to create an extensive de­ mand for American boef in the capital of the Germarf Empire, and to induce German capitalists to invest £800,000 in slaughter houses at Hamburg, mainly for tho preparation of American beef for the German market. Tho prohibitory orders against the introduction of the American hog also are likely to be re­ pealed as a result of Republican di­ plomacy. Let us review what has teen done for the American farmer since the passage of "the infamous McKinley bill," and either directly or indirectly because of it. The Brazilian market has been mado free to United States grain and meat Millions of dollars' worth of Canadian produce has been excluded from competi­ tion with United States produce. A bounty has been provided for every pound of beet, maple, or sorghum sugar produced. An impetus has been given to the in­ dustry of wopl growing. The German market has been reopened to American beef. < Millions have been, or are being, spent in the erection of tin-plate works, the op- eiatives of which will 1 e consumers of farm produce. One American tin-plate factory is al­ ready producing roofing plates at "a little lower cost than that of foreign goods of like weight and quality." This being a purchaser's testimony. The duty on cheap sugar has been re- on high grades reduced to a nominal figure, with the all but result of reducing prices by 2 a pound after the 1st of April. ! wholesale prices of flannels and other woolen goods are a shade er than at this time last year. reights are lower than in any other intry in the world. No is the price of nearly all farming niplements. Farm produce is bringing better prices than^at this time last year. These things being thus it is difficult suppose tnat the American farmer siWie anxious to change them for those Mi0 or his father was accustomed old times of free trade," wi^wrcre worth 2 cents and ^ s^nts a pound.--Chicago It Remains to Be Seen. Discreet, clear-headed Democrats are already advising against any serious meddling withr the McKinley tariff bill in the next Congress. It remains to be seen whether their counsel will be heeded.--Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. PoU leal Comment. '* TIIK anti-administration organs do not harm Mr. Blaine in the least by their senseless and unpatriotic criticisms of his diplomacy.--Springfield Union. WHEN the consumer gets eighteen or tw.enty pounds of sugar for a dollar, the pearl button howler will receive no atten­ tion.--Indianapolis Journal. WIIKX sugar drops, two cents a pound the country will have one more illustra­ tion of the wisdom and beneficonce of Republican policy.--St. Louis Ulobc-Dcmr ocraL THE last Speaker of the House who didn't got "thanked" was James K. Polk. Yet the people for some reason thought enough of him to elect him President o' the United States.--Buffalo Express, RKCIPROCITT, according to Mr. Mills, is a Democratic doctrine, but the ugly- fact remains that tho Democrats in Con­ gress did their best, to defeat it.--St. Louis Globe Democrat. THE latest figures show that Congress-^ man Mills leads in tho contest for tho Speakership. It should be stated, how-" ever, that the figures are. fumishod by a Texas gentleman.-- Boston Herald. OPPONENTS of reciprocity, who have been so assiduously insisting that the commercial treaty with Brazil would not bo accepted by that country, have an opportunity now to digest the fact that it has been ratified by tho President of Brazil.--Philadelphia Press. DKMOCRATIC organs are again lament­ ing the condition of the national surplus, and by juggling the figures build up a huge deficiency. Similar demonstration^ were made less than a year ago, but their calculations utterly failed to dove­ tail with practical results.--Omaha Bee. It costs money to be honest and pay just debts for a government as much as an individual, if the Fifty-first Con­ gress had neglected as many Just govern­ ment obligations as the Democratic Con­ gresses which preceded, its appropria­ tions would have boon smaller.--Phila­ delphia Press. THE VICTIM OF ANNA DICKINSON, SANE, .IN A MAD-HOU86. PipeK^ ijriffT We have a very lurjcjcan tariff, »ery handsome patternaajlarly in CALIvANP .pFH mbatim. Muscular Bheumatisin. Muscular rheumatism is more simple aud common than any other sort (if it can be properly called rheumatism), and can be treated successfully at home. Any good liniment can be used with rubbing as vigorous as can be borne by the patient, but I prefer oil of wintergreen externally and intern­ ally. Externally, rub it ia well and then wrap up the part affected with flannel. Internally, take every two hours from two to live droys of it in a little water until the pain lessens. In all cases of rheumatism, cooling laxative medicines should be used. They are better than active cathartics. I would reoommend laxative mineral waters or salts, either Epsom, Glauber, or Rochelle, preferably Glauber. Better than all remedies, let me ad­ vise prevention. Keep dry and warm and well protected as much as possi­ ble. but in case of severe exposure to cold and wet, as soon as possible take a bath in hot water with thorough rub­ bing. Put salt in the water so that it is almost weak brine, and rub down afterward with alcohol. Drink two cups of good hot tea and go to bed between woolen blankets, or put on a good warm dressing-gown and toast yourself before the lire. You may consider this troublesome, but let me assure you that you should ward off an attack of rheumatism, especially as the second attack comes more readily than the first. Once you have rheumatism and you are predisposed to it for life.--New York World. She Fays II W*« a Plot E«ffineetwS kr Her Sister and Others to Kxtort Money fro in the Public--The Charge Confirmed. Anna Dickinson in a public in ad-house --that was bad enough: But Anna Dickinson in a public mad­ house and perfectly sano--Anna Dickin­ son. gifted and eloquent, noted and hon- orou figure of her time, famous for her labors in behalf of the enslaved and her championship of her own sex--Anna Dickinson shut np with maniacs an<j gibbering lunatics, and still in the pos­ session or her own reason--that is in­ finitely revolting to a country that, still respects her. Miocking as it is, that is her story. Worse than that, it is her story that the wrongs and sufferings she has undergone are the resu.tof a sister s designs Released from imprisonment by chance, Miss Dickinson, who is now in New York, has chosen to give her cx- traor.linary narrative to the world for tho first time. In moderate language, with the bearing of a woman who had weighed every word and understood the significance of all she ,<aid, she told what she had gone through and why she boiieved she had been tho victim of a fSorJipiraey. Fewi 2.V--so ran the substance of her story-*she had been seized in licr homo at West Pitfcstou, Pa . carried off by force, and in violation of law confined in the State Asylum at Danville. There she had staid live weeks and a day. with­ out examination as to her mental or physical condition, sick, worn with terror and anxiety, needing medical at­ tendance and lacking it, knowing all the time that a terrible wrong was hcing practiced upon he* but deprived of com­ munication with her friends and the world. From this situation she was taken on April 2 in a sad state of destitution and misery by a physician Ironi another State, who had been called upon to re­ move her tew his supposed private asylum. Instead of shutting her up. in another institution, this physician, a practitioner of repute and standing, had recognized her sane condition and set her free. To account for her incarceration stories had been set afloat of her violence and desp rate madness. These Miss Dick­ inson circumstantially declared to bo utterly fa!so. The object of subjecting her to these dreadful ordeals was, as she believed, to get money from the public by arousing sympathy for hei^ pretended condition. The person whom she accused as tho chief instrument in this unnatural de­ sign is her own sister. Legal proceed­ ings which will test tho justice of these sweeping charges aro to be begun at once. Miss Dickinson went to New York with Dr. Frederick W. Seward of Goshen, N. Y.,'at whose houso she has been sinco she escaped from Danville April •*. "It is luifortunate," Said Miss Dickin­ son, "that I must b 'gin my defense against the charge of insanity by mak­ ing a charge of insanity against some­ body else. Disagreeable as it is for me to reveal to the public in this way the misfortunes of our famiiy, I am obliged to say that for many years my sister Susan has been a monomaniac ou the subject of money. "Looking back over tho last few years and putting together many things which seemed to me then to be strange, but not suspicious, I think I see very plainly that she has been influenced by two mo­ tives, She had first the intense and grasping desire for money, and g, belief that if she had it she could handle it better than I could. She had, second, an Intense hatred and jealousy for me. Those things, as 1 now b'Plieve, working on a mind naturally weak atnNomewhat distorted, led her to lay plans by which she could at one and the saiuc tiuio put ine out of For way and raise out of my misfortuno the money she craved so eagerly. "With the few people who livoin Pitts- ton I had scarcely the slightest acquaint­ ance, and absolutely no friendship. My sister knew everybody, and everybody knew her. In this way she was able to circulate reports about me and my con­ dition. which the villagers, not having any knowledge of the subject, even the slightest, were bound to neliove. "One day while at work 1 wa® seized and hustled off to the asylum at Danville without being allowed to communicate with anybody. 1 tried to send out vari ous dispatches to my relatives and friends telling of the outrage to which had been subjected. But the next day passed and the next, and I heard noth­ ing. Then I began to realize that I had been cut off deliberately from any com­ munication with the world. "The Danville Asylum is a horrible place. My tortures in it were more than I can describe. All my associates were maniacs, nevertheless. There seemed to be a regular system of annoyances adopted toward them. All tho daily newspapers in which accounts of my supposed madness and false representa­ tions of my violence were conspicuously printed were placed whore I could not help seeing them. Attendants and half­ witted patients nagged, followed, pester­ ed. and teased me. "I needed the services of a physi­ cian. But from first to last, from the moment I entered that horrible den to the day I escaped from it. no ex­ amination was made of my condition, no physician inquired as to whether I needed any help, no medicines were provided for me.no attention whatever was paid to me." Dr. Seward, whose name is a famiiiar and irreproachable one in medical sci­ ence, said: "Miss Anna Dickinson is perfectly sane. I have studied her case attentively, and know there is nothing the matter with her. I investigated some of her statements, and fouud them to be truo." CONDITION OF WINTER WHEAT. til' Illinois Crop Poorer--Better In In­ diana, Missouri and Kansas. There has been considerable change In the condition of the crop throughout the winter wheat States. This change has boen by no means uniform, the condition having improved in some States and de­ teriorated in others. The crop has shown the greatest improvement In In- diaua, Missouri, and Kansas, and the greatest deterioration in Illinois, where the condition is 3 per cent.'^ioorer than a month ago. The average condition in tho whole group of States shows a gain of fifre-ninths of 1 per cent. In Illinois the condition has deterior­ ated 3 per cent, on an average, the loss, however, being in only sixteen counties, which report an average loss of 25 per cent, from freezing aud thawing. Indiana shows an improvement of 5 per cent in thirty days. Eighteen counties report an average loss of 13 per cent, from thawing and freezing, but the improvement in the other counties is sufficient to give an increase in the aver­ age for the whole State. In Ohio there has been a loss of 2 per cent, in the whole State, and thirty-five .counties report a loss from freezing and thawing of 9 per cent, on an average. This loss is, however, reduced by the im­ proved condition in twenty-eight coun- tics. ^ Michigan reports from twenty-seven counties show an improvement in twelve counties, and an average loss of 7 per cent, in fifteen counties, making an av­ erage loss for all the counties reporting of 4 per cent. In Kentucky an average loss of 10 per cent, is leported from freezing and thaw­ ing, but in the other counties of the State tho londition continues to im­ prove, so that the average loss is reduced to 1 per cent. The crop condition in Wisconsin still improves, and the blanket of snow that has covered a large part of the State for a'most the entire winter has, in most cases, prevented harm from freezing and thawing. In nine counties, however, these conditions do not prevail, and a loss is reported from these causes aver­ aging 18 per cent for tho season. The entire State has, nevertheless, improved in condition 1 per cent, since our last ro- port. The condition in Iowa has fallen 2 per cent, in a month, but this loss is caused by tho freezing and thawing in fourteen counties which report a loss from these causes during the season averaging 18 per cent The outlook on the whole is good. Of fifty-eight counties reporting in Missouri eighteen show an average loss from freezing and thawing of 18 per cent., but the remaining counties show an improvement to such an extent as to give a gain in condition for the whole State of 4 per cent. Kansas still leads tho States on condi­ tion and reports an average gain of 4 per cent, over last report Only five counties show any loss from freezing and thawing, and in those the average loss is only 5 per cent, for the season. From the reports, the percentage of condition compared wjth an average is as follows: Illinois, 80 per cent; In­ diana, 102 per cent.: Ohio, 94 percent ; Michigan, 91 percent.; Kentucky, 89 per cent; Wisconsin, 90 per cent.; Iowa, 88 cent.; Missouri, 95 per cent; Kansas, 104 per cent. Lotta at McVirkor's. Since its opening, March 30, after hav­ ing been rebuilt from the fire in a stylo more rtsplendcnt than Pver, McVicker's Theater, at Chicago, has been doing a phenomenal business, with JeiTorson and Florence. For the week commencing Monday, April 20, the attraction will be the ever-charming Lotta. Already or­ ders are received from outside towns for seats. Alrald ol Coyotes. A San Francisco paper says a young man from the East was hired to plow a field near Madera. One day he found himself surrounded by seven hungry coyotes. He left his team and broke M a swift run for the house and quit work right there. The team was found all right by the owner, a woman, who told the tenderfoot to go back home to his mother, while she finished tite plo wing- Jurors Compromise ou Manslaughter. At Grand Rapids, Mich., the Egan n«urder case went to the jury, and in two hours a verdict of manslaughter was bro*ght in. The prisoner and his attorneys appeared delighted with the verdict, and Egan shook hands with all the jury as they passed out. The jury stood three for first degree and one for acquittal and the verdict was a com­ promise. Murdered by a Slanderer. At Evansville, Ind., John Walters, a stranger, shot Ed Beir, a 17-year-old boy, who lingered in great agony for hours, when he died. Walters escaped. The murder was committed because young Beir defended the name of a poor young lady. The murderer was located in the country and officers went after him. *- First Train Ihrough St. ( lair Tunnel. The first train has passed through the Port Huron tunnel and under the St. Clair River. The information was tele­ graphed the stockholders of the Grand Trunk Railway, who are in aa&sion in England. Should Judges Wear Gowns? No man ever added a cubit to his stat­ ure by dress. No robe ever enlarged a man's brain, ripened his wisdom, cleared his judgment, strengthened his ptirposo, or fortified his honesty. If he is a little man without a robe, he is contemptible in a robe. If a man is large without a robe, he is simply ludicrous in one. A robe u.eed as an insignia of office is a relic of the age when tinsel, glitter, and flummery were thought to be necessary to overawe the common people. And the robe can now perform no other func­ tion than that of humbugging the people. A court wfyicli is worthy the name needs no such fli'msy'ana ridicu­ lous assistance in order to command tho confidence and the respect of the com­ munity, and a court which cannot com­ mand the respect and tho confidence of the people without resorting to shams of this kind is incapable of doing any good, is incapable of protecting the weak from being trampled down by the strong, and should be wip^d out of existence. This age and the American people do not want medieval shams. Thoy want light --daylight, electrl\ light, sunlight. They want realities: they want charac­ ter; they want learning; they want good judgment; they want independence; and they want these free from both barbaric and aristocratic subterfuges. It is' only weak minds that lean upon this kind of bolstering. Our age is superior to the middle ages only in so far as it has progressed beyond sham and formalism, lofty pomp and hollow and dull dignity, and asks how to be shown things just as they are. I am opposed to pretense and to humbug, no matter whether found in high station or in low, and. in my opinion, If the American people ever reach a point whore they must put robes upon their judges or any other officers in order to have the highest respect for them, then republican Institutions will be at an end in this country: for men who can be in­ spired by a gown are but little remQvod from those who can draw inspiration from a wooden god. and neither are fit to either enjoy or defend truo political liberty.--Judge John P. Altgeld, in the Chicago Globe. Art, Glass. Bric-a-brac and China. Cut-glass table bells \v-ith silver tongues aro the correct thing. Dessert plates of white china, with painted portrait centers and perforated borders, represent a popular article Anglomaniacs delight in porridge sets of Coalport china, this being a ware which appears on the table of her Maj­ esty of England. Rockwood pojtery is out in grotesque and Japanese designs. Sevres porcelains are the delight of every woman who kqows anything about ceramics, and just now* they are im­ mensely popular, being in harmony with the light furniture so fashionable ia modern drawing-rooms. , Cut glass candelabra afford a pleasing change from the more massive silver af­ fairs. Crystal lamps with shades simu­ lating an open parasol are attractive affairs. Numbered with novelties among cut glass lamps are thosoisupported on a slender stem, with a silk shade fringed and otherwise fashioned so as to repre­ sent a chrysanthemum For serving asparagus the silversmith has provided not only asparagus racks and dishes, but tongs, servers and forks. Asparagus tongs of recent introduction are formed with one wide side, which is designed to slip under the vegetable, and one narrower side that, folding over, holds the asparagus in place.--Jewelers' Circular. AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. ITEMS GATHERED PROM T;„V OUS SOURCES. Grains of Gold. I BELIEVE--I daily find it proved--that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so much as a principle or a conviction, except out of purifying flame, or through strengthening peril.--Char­ lotte Bronte. IT is an attribute of true philosophy never to force the progress of truth and reason, but to wait till the dawn of light; meanwhile the philosopher may wander into hidden paths, but he will never depart far from the main track.--- "Callci/rand. . #W4t faflflr KH^h'bors Are Dofng-^Sl atters of General and I^ocal Interest >ia^ rlttges anil Deaths-Accidents and --Personal Pointers. Q y FOLLOWING are extracts from observ­ ers' reports, sent out from Springfield, concerning the crop prospects of Illinois: Coles--Conditions favorable; nothing In­ jure i as yet. Crawford--Wheat looks we*; no insects; no oats sown; but little plowing done; vege­ tation backward. Clay---No oats sawn yet; ground too wet; wheat looks flue. Clark--Wheat in ex -ellent condition: pastures and meadows doing well; too wet for farm work; very little oats sown; fruit prospects excellent. Christ! an--tirass. wheat, and rye looking well: farmers busy sowing oats. Douglas--Wheat looks well: too much rain for oats-sowing; grass starting nicely. Vulton--Farm work delayed by unseason­ able weather: a few plowing for oats; wheat lojks well, especially late sown. " Franklin--liains interfered with oats sowing: wheat doing well. Hamilton---Fruit buds swelling: grass starting; wheat looking well: no plowing for oats yet; ground too wet; stock in good condition. La Salle--Ground too wet for plowing; a little barley sown: _crass starting. Madison--One frost; no injury; 50 per cent, of potatoes planted; ground hias never been too wet for plowing this spring. McHenry-- Some farmers have'started to plow, in sandy soil. Marshall--Farmers sowing oats, but the weather is unfavorable; grass starting slowly. Perry--No oats sown: peach trees in bloom. Pope--Very little oats sown; ground too wet; wheat looking well; fruit buds safe; peach trees beginning to bloom. ltichland--Wheat could not look better; pastures starting nicely ; stock looking well. Randolph--Stock In Une condition; wheat and other crops looking well; fruit, buds de­ veloping; some almost in bloom; some re­ port of louse In wheat. Sangamon--Wheat looks well; unseason­ able weather retarding farm work. Schuyler--The wheat prospect better than at same time last yoar; cool, cloudy weather not favorable. St. Clair--This county has never bad better prospect for wheat and fruits of all kinds than this year. Stephenson--Fall grain has done well; snow disappeared; fruit trees look prom­ ising. DR. If P. SMITH, of Chauncey, took an overdose of an opiate and died. H. E. WATSON, Postmaster at Louis­ ville, Clay County, is short $300. Held in $1,000 bail. WHEN undertakers went to lay out Jas. Rictor, at Sumher, the- supposed corpse objected to tho proceedings. GKOIMIK E. NKEDHAM, proprietor of the Garden Hotel in Chicago, died from the effects of a fall from the top of ^ new building. ' SPRINGFIELD burglars secured jewelry, silverware, otc , worth $1,200, from the residence of Rev. F. W. Clampett A CASE of small-pox has been discov­ ered at the Cook'~Gqstnty Infirmary at Deering. The patient has been isolated, and all of the inmates will be vaccin­ ated. AT the Lumaghi Coal Mine, Collins- ville, a leaking steam-pipe made a large hole iti the ground, A 2-year-old son of Jacques Gardinc fell into it, and both the child and its mother, who attempted a rescue, were fatally scalded. AT Chicago a runaway horse threw Chas. E. Isley and Henry Randall out of a dog-cart, instantly killing Isley and probably fatally injuring Randall. Both were prosperous business men. JAMES W. PALMER, a railroad em­ ploye, was crushed to death between two cars at Chicago. NEAR Whitehall, fire destroyed a barn and three horses owned by Major Gillers. A CHICAGO syndicate paid §33,000 for the Rock Island and Moline street rail- way. AT Katie. Green County, A. G. Hughes lost $5,000; G. W. Wi.il, $1,000; and the Giles Houso proprietors $2,500, by fire. Partly insured. WM. H. BIIANIFF, a Chicago salesman, died in a saloon while dancing and sing­ ing over tho result of the election. Uraniff peddled Harrison tickets at the polls on election day. and at night, in company with a party of friends, went to the saloon. The men sp?nt some time in drinking and talking over the work of the day. Some one came into the saloon and announced that Harrison was elected. Braniff invited everybody in the saloon to take a drink. After drinking he began to dance and sing. In a few minutes he reeled and fell to the floor dead. He was well known in local politics, and held a position in the street department during Harrison's ad­ ministration. MRS. GAIJ.IO, an Italian woman of Chicago, had trouble with a neighbor, Mrs. Vallone, another Italian. Mrs. Gallio professed to have forgotten the discord and sent an Invitation to Mrs. Vallone to call. Mrs Vallone was per- fet^ly willing to have trouble ended, and called at Mrs. Gallio's house. On her arrival she was cordially greeted, but while she was taking off her shawl and hat, Mrs. Gallio locked the door, and plac­ ing the key in her pocket, went to a closet and secured a large butcher knife, the edge of which was whetted as keen as a razor blade. She then cooly in­ formed Mrs. Vallone that she had invited her to her apartments for the purpose of settling tho trouble between them in true Italian fashion, and proceeded to carve her according to the rules and regula­ tions of the Malia. Mrs. Vallone shrieked for help and attempted to make her escape, but her frenzied assailant threw her to the floor and plunged tho murderous weapon repeatedly in her body. Fourteen times she thrust the keen blade into her victim's face, neck and body, and only desisted in her bloody work when worn out from sheer exhaust­ ion. The victim will die, and the assail­ ant was arrested. VANDALIAS' old soldier, John Sullivan, who disappeared, has been located at the Dayton. O., Soldiers' Home, where he is having a good time with the boys. AT the March term, 1884, of the Jack­ son County Circuit Court, Thomas J. Russell was convicted of murder and sentenced to the penitentiary for fifty years. Governor Fifer commuted the sentence to twelve years. The , Gover­ nor has grave doubts as to the guilt of Russell. T. DANCE, a brakemau on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, fell from his train near Springville and was instantly killed. A CHICAGO cabman, John Miniek, shot and seriously wounded Thos. McAuliffe and Albert Brady, in a quarrel over a woman, lie was arrested. j Two MEN, Edward Maiioney and John Monahan, laborers, of Chicago, accused a bartender of robbing them, and as­ saulted Officer John I'hrig when he at­ tempted to prevent an assault on the bartender. Uhrig fired four times, kill­ ing Mahonev and slightly wounding Monahan. AT Springfield,'George Hudson, aged 14 years, was shot and instantly killed by his brother Charles, aged 17 years, while the two wore playing together. The shooting was purely accidental. The dead boy was* the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Hudson. FREDERICK COPI'EI, an old resident of Mokena, Will county, committed suicide by shooting himself ia the head. ILLINOIS LAW-MAKERS. l!f the Senate, on the »th, the following bills were passed: Mr. HumphreyV. provid­ ing for the appointment of Justices of the PeaceJin Chicago by the Governor, on rec­ ommendation of Cook County Circuit Judg- ^ es. Mr. Newell's, providing that when suit "'*2 v has been commenced in the wrong county. S .f court shall change venue, upon motion of -T® either party to said suit to the proper conn- ty. Mr. Ferguson's, requiring that a prom- * issory note given for patent right or light- * ^ « nlnjt-rod shall have expressed on its fac« in /Hi1 ' legible letters the purpose for which it is '*•"*«•' i given. Bills were introduced in the House • •, w as follows: By Mr. Edwards-- Providing that , towns and cities may vote upon the adoption r*yS 'A or rejection of ordinances. By Mr. Farrell 'H --Kequiring fire-proof safes to be kept In all sleepins-cars. In which can be deposited fki j valuables of passengers: also a bill to pre- • vent the pollution of streams and lakes. A THEKF. were few vacant seats in the Sen- ; n n*'] ate chamber on the 9th. The crowded cai- v endar was cleared as quickly as the cloudy % April morning. The Merritt conspiracy law \ %I was repealed according t> Senater Coppln- . ger's bill. The appropriation bill for the '"I Southern Illinois Penitentiary was passed. "if " Senator Secrest's bill, tmpowering County -Sfej and Probate Courts to authorize executors arid administrators in certain cases to pay taxes on real estate, was passed. It is now lawful to shoot prairie chickens on the 1st of September. The sen- eral appropriation bill nassed to a third reading* The West Chicago Park bill, in­ troduced by Senator Mahoney. passed the Senate. It provides for the issuance of $100,000 in bonds for the completion of the park and boulevard system of the West Side and for t he levy of a 1^ mill tax. The ba!- ?*$$$*$$ lot reform bill came up in the House as a special measure. Three or four clerks took i w turns in reading it the second time, and on the second reading it still hangs. Chair- ' man Reed Green, of the Election Commit- *>'t * • tee, submitted more than a score of amend--»- aS ments. all of which were adopted. When ~ the House had done talking twenty-five amendments In all had been adopted, and ^ the bill is still open to further amendment. J Is the Senate the joint resolution errant- ' * JU ing special investigating committees power „f§ to extend investigation to all live stock ex-- . f changes doing business in the State was * " adopted. Mr. Fuller presented a petition from the Boone County Patrons of Industry ... asking for the passage of Mr. Hunt's bill v*' j requiring butterine to be colored pink. In. * t the order of unfinished business, in thw* *< ? ^ House, the ballot reform bill came up Z-i for further discussion on second read-s JS* in sr. On motion of Mr. Green, the b i l l , w i t h a l l t h e a m e n d m e n t s a d o p t e d . - ̂ was ordered to be presented and its. -u$t further consideration made the special order for the 10th. The Speaker announced!1"- the appointment of Messrs. Watson, Green. Johnson. Hayes, and Anthony as members of the special commit ee to investigate th» ' * chnrges against the management of that Anna Insane Asylum. Mr. Hamilton pre­ sented a resolution, which, after some de» , bate, was adopted, extending the jurisdic­ tion of the Live St ick Exchange Investi­ gating Committee to the investigation of the East St. Louis Live Stock Exchange. m Otves Lessons Over the Tetephoaa, . ̂ M This story may be recognized, as a M number of people have been at the . ^ • * wrong end of the telephone. Those *5 I who have been at the wrong end, how- ever, will not be quick to admit it. ' yL:-1 The hero--of course there must be a » ^ hero--has apparently taken a contract M « to improve the manners of many Chi- c a g o a n s , a n d h e i s t r y i n g t o d o i t o v e r v " J the telephone. He spends a good -4,' ' share of his time giving information to • < ^ people who "work the ting-a-ling" at a J Chicago hotel. t *j Here is one end of a conversation' V , , overheard in the telephone room: • -•/ "Hullo!" ; ^ ^ "Yes, this is the hotel." \ - v&\: "Who?" "Brown ? William Brown? Hold the wire." 4 A couple of minutes latef. "Hullo, there!" "Yes. He's registered tof*.1 "I'll send up and see." A few minutes lateV. • st- • "Hullo!" •••;*• "He's in. Any messagetE&= rasa* I "Jones will be over to-night ? Alf right; I'll tell him." ^ Then suddenly the young man began ; ringing the bell like one possessed, and \| the following was heard: "Hullo. Central! Give me that who just rang off." • * "Are you the man who called ujfr , Hotel?" "Well, you're welcome:" . " "I say you're welcome. You forgot ' ' to say 'Thank you,' but you're wel- 4 oome." \1 "Have to do it," explained the young man, after he had rung off. "I sup- • pose he's tearing down the telephone 4 at the, other end of the line, but the next time he puts a man to a lot of |p trouble he'll thank him. Not one in twenty does it now. Make a man l^pl chase all over the house and then saj . 'Bats!' or something of that sort."-- 4 Chicago Tribune. . , Plague of Loetuti. In order to check, if possible, Uw annual plague of locusts that devour the herbage and blast the hopes of graziers, farmers and fruit growers to a greater or less extent in December. ^12 the Victorian government proclaimed November 7 and 8 as holidays for the _"-• j scholars and schoolmasters in the ** '-i rural districts, in order that they r J? might co-operate with the settlers in destroying the young locusts in the ? - early stage of their development be- J§| fore they have been equipped with §S wings, enabling them to take flight over the country to begin their work of devastation. With this end in view, preparations . were made in numerous parts of the interior to destroy the pest in various ways, such as by beating with branches ,|f M? the beds in the 'fields where the as yet l'ft Jt- wingless creatures were known to ex- ' k' r • ist, or harrowing the ground, or turn- ,i -. ing flocks of sheep upon the land and ^ moving them rapidly about so as to l||f tread upon and kill or injure the young brood, and also by spreading straw >v over the plague spots and setting fire ' d to it. Becently the reports came that I; J"" the creatures massed themselves so thickly along some of the lines of rail- way that, although the brakes were j shut dawn the trains could not be lllf brought to a stand until they had gone half a mile beyond the stations, owing M to the multitudes crushed beneath the - ̂ wheels, causing the train to pass along " j; as if the rails were covered with oil. The wheels actnlallv slid along the rails. In many of the northern towns *3 the inhabitants had to close their doors .* V^i to keep out the invading hosts. N What a Goorffia "Cracker" Eats. -f|| When money flows in steadily the ; r wage-earners buy the best cuts of meat *^11 and are liberal consumers of expensive '• • " early vegetables and fruit. The dia- ;f3|8| pensers of charity for a church, more ' trustful than prudent, gave a mill 5.31 family professing to be in dire need or- ders on a grocer for a certain amount . ll weekly, and were astounded to find that for the meat and meal indicated X'Mpj the tradesman was persuaded to sab- stitute fruit, nuts, and raisins. At 1^1 every door childreu squat aroiind a tin . ? ̂ plate of syrup, dipping in it big hunks 'of corn-pone and smearing their yellow _ «i faces more widely with each mouthfoL . £ The sweet "pertatur" roasted in th# --'M ashes is always ready--a great ad van- «' tage where the housewife "bees thud* from her birth. In the crackurt 1 t."l kitchen lard ia the universal solvent, MeHeary. »<>•« H