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K* - sasssmu* yffijartnrji'n^ t V:; U--< FuMltMr* ILLINOIS. L VAN SLYKE, Editor THAT must bare been A very qaiei wedding when two Arkansas deaf mutes were married. BEV. SAM JOKES denounces the newspapers as too sensational. The only trouble with Sam is that be is AK invention has been perfected whereby the Waterbury watch may be wound up in five seconds. How does (bis affect the suit of clothes? WK move that the letter* "d" be stricken from 4«Verag0a'3 Fund," for President Palmer's sake. He has other and more emphatic uses for **d" in connection with the tame subject •' . * .JUDGE THOMAS of Dead wood, has sent a man to jail because in a same of poker, with three hearts ana a re­ volver, he took the money from an opponent who held a fuli hand. The Judge Is right The integrity of the great American game must be main tained. 4 aocispiracy of bankers bad induced legislators to betray their trust. If the people burned their own fingers they would be the sufferers. They would correct the mistake next time, and no lasting harm would'be done. THE dude is downcast The news has come from London that the tyrant Fashion is about to decree the revival of the "mutton-chop" whisk­ ers of Dundreary days. To mount the appendages after having neglected and made fun of them for some years is a bitter pill for Chollv. But he will swallow it because dear London demands it, and he would die for dear London. The barbers must be alert, for smooth faces have dulled their Went, and most of them don't know a beard from whiskers. Cholly is likely to have a wretched quarter of an hour when he first runs the gauntlet of the small boys wifafe fcis "educated whisker." iCi f WHILE eating^ pie at a picnic a young .man of Beaver Falls, Pa., swallowed a hornet There are many indurated topers who would give all they possess to experience the sensa­ tions of that young man before the hornet finally passed into the un­ known. ' THE last execution in New Tork by the humane method of electricity consumed just fifty-five minutes, dur­ ing which time the victim was alive and groaning. This is the only in­ stance of recent years where a civil­ ized commonwealth has legally tor­ tured a culprit before killing him. WHETHER or not Admiral Tryon was responsible for the loss of the "Victoria, the onus will ever rest upon his name. The maxim that "dead men tell no tales" seems in as high favor with the officers of the British navy to-day as it was with their pro­ genitors, the privateer captains of two centuries ago. Two MEXICAN editors fought a duel the other day and fired three shots apiece without damage to either. The-French code has evi­ dently displaced the old native one in Mexico. When editors in the land across the Rio Grande met in former days editorial mincemeat was tee usual outcome of the encounter. PBOBABLT the wealthiest news­ paper reporter in this country is Anthony Drexel Biddle, a grandson of the late A. J. Drexel, who comes into $1,000,000 under the will of the dead banker. He is a reporter on the local staff of the Philadelphia Ledger, and he proposes to stay there until he has learned the business and has de­ served promotion. Two YOUNG Kentucky fire-eaters fought a duel over the affections of a young lady, and, though several shots were exchanged, the only damage re­ sulting was a slight flesh wound in the leg of one pt the contestants. The glory of the blue-grass State is in truth departing. A half centur/ ago there would have been wilt one interchange of shots, and a funeral and a wedding would have come eff the next day. COL. JOSE ANDRADE, a Mexican army officer, has been shot by . order of court martial for causing, while acting as an administrator of justice, a number of innocent persons to be shot without trial. He seems,to have been a cold-blooded fellow who seems to have been out of place even in a republic where justice is often admin­ istered in summary fashtoa. If he bad been a Turkish or Persian official, his actions would not have been In­ quired into with so much sternnws. THE abandoned terms" of Massa­ chusetts will soon be nettling more than a tradition. Since the State Board of Agriculture has been inves­ tigating and seeking purchasers their number has very rapidly decreased, until now there are left less tban twenty. The buyers of these farms have come all the way from Flerjda and Illinois, although the greater part of the purchasers are from Mass­ achusetts, and thoroughly fam>llir with what it would be necessary to do to make their investment prwflt* able. WE respectfully recommend, says the Philadelphia Record, *to the So­ ciety of Christian Endeavor a Sunday corralling of all the girls. It would not hurt the girls, and it would fill the churches and give the pastors such opportunity of admonitiou and wh'olesome teaching as they so ar­ dently desire. This method of pro­ curing church attendance would doubtless be railed at by scoffer.?, but as compared with some of the sensa­ tional phyrotechnic and picnic de­ vices now in vogue it would certainly bear consideration. IT is so difficult for fore'trnera to understand the customs of our coun­ try. The srimple Duke of Veragua, for example, who came a-begging to •our shores, objected With a Ducal dfemn to planting out a tree in Mr. Child's lawn and failed to be per­ suaded that it 13 a nice thing for a Duke to dig with a spade even to plant a tree in a grove, when genius, statesmanship and beauty have set the example. Somebody should have put the matter practically to the Duke and told him in America we expect our tramps to chop a little wood or do a little digging around the garden before we «ive them a square meal or take up a purse, for their benefit* in our immediate neigh­ borhood. HEAL RURAL READING IT is Indeed pleasing to know that American baled hay is receiving the recognition abroad that it so richly deserves. The fragrant bale of hay is a typical American institution, and none know it but to love it none name it but to praise. It is not so gaudy as some of the products of our farms, but it makes up by intrinsic worth what it lacks in other direc­ tions, and we have long urged that It should be selected as the national flower. A man should be sent abroad to show the people there how to pre­ pare baled hay for the table, even as Mr. Murphyexplained the merits and mysteries of cornmeaL For many years it has been a staple in Ameri­ can boarding-houses, as those who are partial to vegetable soup and corn beef and cabbage can testify, and there is no good reason why it should not occupy a similarly honorable sphere in Europe. SOME more fly-by-night World's Fair hotel schemes have gravitated into the bands of receivers More will probably reach the same destina­ tion. Crazy speculators, utterly igno­ rant of the possibilities of the ex- position, have induced equally crazy investors to put money into imprac­ ticable schemes. In some cases ram­ shackle structures have been run up only to be condemned by the City Building Inspector. In others the hotels have been located so far away f torn the fair grouads that no reason­ able being would patronize them. Still other projects have been down­ right swindles, whose promoters have secured money without any intention of building hotels or anything else. Of course bankruntcy for all these enterprises was inevitable from the first, and the sooner the whole list is wiped out the better. Those hotels which were erected in accessible lo­ calities, upon a cash basis and by people who meant business, are mak log money and will continue to make money: The concerns based on wild speculations, exaggerated ideas of money-making and a general bunko game substratum will be forced to the walL And a good thing, too. IN Switzerland, there is no trouble about such a question as the repeal of an obnoxious law. Whatever the legislative body might do there would be 30,000 voters to sign a petition for the submission of the matter to the people. It would be put to a vote and the people would decide it Then everybody would be satisfied. Therf would be no chance to say that The Care mf WkHlowi, It is surprising that women do not mere often adopt the method used by storekeepers for cleaning and polish- lag Klasa I have tried it myself for several months, and found it espe­ cially valuable dnrtng oeld weather, when it would net be practicable to use water outside. X ase it both in and out. * Provide yourself with common alcohol and wblMng: make the cloth danp, but net we\ with the liquid, then dip it into Mis whiting. Rub the glass as you wesdd if using soap and water. Irtish wtfeh chamois. Windows cleaned in this manner will shine and sparklet and will keep clean much longer than if done in the old laborious way of rinsing and wiping and polishing. Next after clean glass coma neat shades To keep shades from streaking dust them every time the room is swept Do this by drawing the shade down to its full length, and using a feather duster along the front and over the roller. As you roil up the shade keep on dusting the roller. You will by this means brush both sides, for they roll up from the outside. Care should be taken now that the season of open windows and sudden showers is at hand, that when win­ dows are opened from the top the shades shall be tightly rolled or oth­ erwise they will be spotted before you are aware.--St Louis Republican. He Foffot Them. A man living on Fishing CrOek, Wetzel County, W. Va., has been deaf for five years. The other day he went to a physician for examination, when a wad of cotton completely coated over was found in each ear. The cotton wads were put in five vears ago to stop earache and had been forgotton. . „ A COMPOSITOR became crazy be cause be could not find the glacial period, that the foreman had ordered him to put at the end of an article. FOUND IN THIS PARTMENT. DE-BE i Provided to Batter Makers--Cultivating i'oUtoe*-- Wt Mid Sawdust for Bee*--A Simple »»«. » •» Hln»» to Hotter Wofctwu »• * * Good butter can nut be made from cream which has become overripe, nor from cream which has been allowed to get too warm. Sixty-six degrees is the highest point cream should ever reach. No matter if cooled again before churning, it will not maice butter having the same grain and flavor, and will soften at|a lower temperature than cream which has never passed that point On the other hand, nothing is gained by churning the cream too oold. If it is I properly ripened, just f-our enough so j that it is nicely thickened, it will; make very fine butter if churned at 66 degrees in winter, but it should not he more than 62 or 63 degrees in summer. Much time may be gained, with no loss of quality in the butter, by churning it at this temperature, provided the-butter is cooled as soon as the globules appear, to 62 degrees, using either ice or cold water. Never use ice that is not perfectly clean and pure for cooling cream or butter. Salt assists the butter globules to rise to the top of the buttermilk, render­ ing the separation easier. A pint of salt to four gallons of cream is about the right proportion. Use only the best salt for butter. To test it, pack inoo common glass tumblers but­ ter from the same churning, each be­ ing salted with a different brand of salt. Mark each one plainly and set away for a number weeks. Never! use hot water upon milk pails until! thev have first been thoroughly rinsed ' in cold water. Soap should never be i used about any milk utensils It is j unnecessary and entirely out of place. I Always strain milk through a fine I wire strainer and then through cloth. A single trial of the cloth strainer j will convince any one that its use is j imperatively necessary in order to j have all impurities removed. Four ' thicknesses of butter cloth fastened to the underside of the wire strainer by a tin ring which slips over it, hold­ ing it in place, is a very satisfactory strainer.--El a Rock wood, in New York Tribune. spread open of itself, and reveal ail its contents* at a glance. Two of these bags, ore to hang up when the laundress takes the week's washing in the other, will make yott feel very rich indeed. Tbey will cost about 30 cents, and can be made in less than an hour.--Philadelphia Record, .•»>. y.? ^ The flofctr blaster should "fee a pro­ ficient in the art of weeding. He who annually overhauls the flock, and drafts from it with no niggard band all the faulty and likely to be unpro­ fitable members, is certain, at the year's end. to show a much more favorable balance sheet than the one who neglects this point The farm­ er's motto should fce -the best of everything," and, no matter wnat class of stock is kept--be it breeding, feeding, or store--the endeavor should always be to retain only really good sheep; as they always turn out the most profitable in the end. In the case of a breeding flock, thorough weeding is specially desirable. All old broken-mouthed ewes, those that are faulty in udder, deficient in milk­ ing properties, or other important re­ spects, or that have proved uncertain breeders--ail such may be classed as * "Unprofitable servants," and should be got rid of at the earliest favorable opportunity. ; (felt and Sawdust. t ̂ - Bees, like all other creatures, relish salt and should have it placed before them occasionally in i diluted form. I found the bees gathered by hun­ dreds on the bridge where the sheep were salted. Some rover must have found the spot by accident and then informed the colony of his discovery, for there were no flowers near the spot to attract them. To give bees access to salt just sprinkle some on the sawdust in front of the hive. The rain wili dilute it properly and the sawdust will retain it for them. Bees are annoyed and hindered In their work by the grass growiug up before the entrance of the hive. To prevent this put a bushel of sawdust before each hive, spread out evenly and just level with the entrance. Tbis furnishes them with a fine parade ground, and a good foothold for alighting and starting.--National Stockman. ILLINOIS' GREAT DAY. MYRIADS Or HER OitlZENS AT THE FAIf? , - f- ,>«•" Bashed by the Tnstn I*md from All amo­ tions of the Stftte-~»'orjK>®«ss«s Are Dis- Ullh fi, WKn^fV»lA Tltnn T« . y • ; - y * y " Eajoirsd. 1 Cultivating Potatoes. It is tiue that a potato field should . , have been so thoroughly cultivated i 0 a r? ~ order and cleaned from weeds before the blossoms appear that no deep stirring would be needed. Deep cultivation and pulling of large weeds from the hills late in the season is unfavorable to a large yield, as many feed i ng roots are broken or badly disturbed. Such deep cultivation of corn or other crops is also injurious. Shallow, surface cultivation is usually advisable till the crop is top large to drive amongst with team. If one has neglected his potatoes till the ground is overgrown with weeds and the crop is in bloom, it becomes a question which to choose of the two evils, and one should use the best judgment at command. De­ stroying the weeds will injure the crop, but lettinsr them alone may in­ jure it more. 1 never intend to get caught in such scrape. If I did I should have to pocket the loss as pun­ ishment. in cultivating potatoes or other noed crops one should do all the cultivation possible before planting. Get the ground mellow and as free from weeds as possible. Then culti­ vate often while the crop is smalL Cultivate more and more shallow as the season advances. When the weeds are all killed by early cultiva­ tion there is no call for any but the shallowest stirring possible, just enough to keep the surface from crusting. An inch of loose earth pre­ vents excessive drying of the soil be­ neath. Such shallow stirring is al­ ways in order. -- New England Farmer. Shade for Stock. Stock of all kinds are not unlike mankind in some respects, and seek the shade whenever possible during the extreme heat of summer, says the American Agriculturist To gratify this desire, shade should be provided wherever practicable, and the cheap­ est manner of doing this is jthrough the medium of shade trees. One or two should 1 e set out in each pasture, and be protected by a fence until thoroughly established. If the field be tilled, set the trees along tbesoutn line, selecting those of rapid growth and spreading branches. If they be fruit trees, they should be trimmed to a height of at least seven feet, and then allowed to branch out While the trees are growing, it would be simply humane to provide a temporary shelter of some kind, such as setting a few posts, and covering with poles, upon which are thrown branches ot evergreens, or even limbs of oak or other trees in full leaf. This will af­ ford a useful shelter, and if located upon a knoll or other naturally poor portion of the field, it will thoroughly enrich the soil. By changing its posi­ tion yearly, various portions of the field will be benefited. All thi9 takes but a little tflme, and can be done when other work is not pressing. By boarding up, late in the summer, the side from which the prevailing winds blow, a fair protection from the chilling blasts will be obtained, and the stock will return vou, the cost A Simple Clothes Bag. The simplest bag in the world" for soiled clothes and an excellent thing to take to the country boarding house or seashore is nothing but a piece of brown or blue gingham with a long tape loop on each corner. Take four yards of stuff, cut in two pieces, seam together, hem the ends, leaving the selvedges if you want to, and stay at the corners by extending the taps of the loops. Spread out flat it is a good-sized, neat-looking cover tor your bundle to and from the laun­ dress, who should wash it regularly and use it for a cover to bring heme the clean clothes. Gathered up by the four loops and hung on one hook, it is a bag that does not get "smelly." Still more important perhaps, it is one that vou can put things in with­ out requiring one hand to hold it open. And you need never put your hand into it To find anything or empty it lift it from the hook and let It rest on the floor, when it will They Stole a Ijocomotive. "The most successful, and, at the same time, most unique civil service examination I know of occurred dur- j ing the war," said T. G De Land, of the Examining Board at the Treasury, to a Washington Postman. "The Confederacy was very much in need to 1 operate their supply system. It was in 1804 and they had not the means to buy an engine, so the invariable alternative arose--steal one. A band of one hundred men was selected from Lee's army and placed under the commaud of a big six-foot-four Georgian, who had been foreman of a stone quarry and was more or less skilled in the usa of derricks, etc. He took his men up into Maryland and they tore up a section ot the Baltimore & Ohio Hallway tracks, | flagged the next train and with noth- | irig on earth save plenty of rope, those one hundred men carried the locomotive fifty-two miles over hills, across streams, through bogs and woods, until they struck a line the Contederacy had built Then they ran the engine down m Virginia. When the President of the Baltimore & Ohio heard of the feat he couldn't believe it He went out and person­ ally inspected the scene; went over the route and declared it the most wonderful feat of engineering ever accomplished. After the war be dele­ gated a man to find the leader of the band. He was lacated in Georgia. Mr. Garrett sent for him and on the strength of that single.feat made him roadiuaster of his entire system of railroads. "Any man that can pick up an engine with fishing-lines and carry it over a mountain has passed his examination with me," said he. Cheapest Light in the \fcorld. It is said by those who have experi­ mented with them that the light given by the fireflies of Cuba is the "cheapest" in the world, produced! thai is to say, with the least heat and the smallest expenditure of energy, and that a successful imitation of it would pove to be a most profitable substitute for gas and electsicity. The insects are beetles two inches long, and belong to the family of "snapping bugs," so called, because, | when one of them Is laid on its back, it snare itself into the air with a clinking sound. The secret of the light this firefly gives is as yet undis­ covered. Apparently it is connected ta some way with the mysterious phe­ nomenon of Ufa, and chemist* and physicians have sought in vain to ex­ plain its origin. On each side of the beetle's thorax is a luminous membranous spot and these flash at intervals; so that the Cubans put a dozen of the insects in a case together, and so obtain a con­ tinuous illumination bright enough to rea l by. This light is accompanied by no perceptible heat and is seem­ ingly ptoduced with almost no ex­ penditure of energy. How great an improvement it repraents upon all known artificial lights can be im­ agined when it is stated that in candle-light lamp-light, or gaslight the waste is more than ninety-nine per cent. In other words, if they could be so obtained not to throw anything away, they would give nearly 100 times the illumination which they do afford. Even the electric light is mostly wasted. He Wanted Qolck Returns- "I was sitting in a railroad station the other day waiting for a train," said a traveler, "{ saw a 4-year old boy walk yp to a box which bad been placed there to receive the contribu tions of the charitable, drop a penny in the slot and pull the padlock; ev­ idently he had mistaken the box for a penny-in-the-slot candy machine. When he found that he got nothing he called to his mother who was sit­ ting near. She tried to explain to ner young son that he could not get candy from that box, butjthat he would have the pleasure of knowing that bis penny would buy something nice for some other little child. But the little boy didn't appear to grasp this, in fact he paid no heed to it; and there was nothing for the mother to do but take him to a machine that yielded quick returns for the money." --New York Sun. Jaekaoa Illinois day, Thursday, at the World's Fair, was a revelation. While every­ one expeoted .that the attendance would surpass that of any day except the opening, no one ventured to pre­ dict the erepd that waa-presenL The Prairie State did herself proud. All day Wednesday the regular incoming trains were crowded; aim on Thursday, when the half-rate trains, were run­ ning, both regular and excursion train? --the latter m three to five sections of ton to twelve cars each--were lit­ erally packed like sar--euelcers. They came from from all sections of the State. There was the husky farmer, the prosperous business man, and the brawny artisan from the northern and central portions, and the man with whiskers like a goat from Egypt, and all brought their families, lines of transportation to the grounds swarmed with human beings like an apple tree OF THE YEA3. lUIROIl STAC* BUILDIjra. of tike "AnMrtem Agriealtar- isfs" Annasfcl Review. The harvest of 1F93 in the United is in many respects similar to that of three years ago, but with every prospect that home consumption ana an inoreas© of foreign demand will also advance values so as to yield aa large a net return to farmers as on the aver­ age of recent years. Indeed, the American Agriculturist's annual review makes a distinctly encouraging exhibit In spite of the prevalent drought, though it is admitted that the financial stringency may interfere with the early movement of crope and have a tempo­ rarily restorative influence on prices. Present Indications point to a crop ot 1,780,- OOQjQOO bushels of oora, contrasted with 1.6S0,- 000,000 Isst yeai, and over 2,000,000,000 bushels to the Immense yield or two seasons preTloas. Bet anlese abun&ml fains pivrall ihrooahont the com belt In August, followed by nOdei wMtber, the prodnotion may shrink to 1,000,- 000,000, and may eren drop to tin else of the UN crop, when we harvested lsss than la any year tor m dee&de, with a single exception. While MM area in com some %,ooo,ooo ot acres grtatsf than last year in the seven oornsnr- 9ins States, orsr a mUUon less *oree are die voted to maise than was the oase two years ace. Thsooroorop has been greatly injured so far during Angus*, the first two weeks ot tbe month having wrought ten times as mnob dam­ age as the whole month of July. Kansas will not raise more then halt a crop, havtes bot very little azoept the eastern - quarter, and Nebraska's orop has been seriously curtailed. The wheat oat-torn will x>ot exceed MS.OOO,- 000 bashsls, ocmpared to *14,000.000 bushels as the arerage for the past two seasons and «0a.- o bushels In m AUiOvEBTMESil 000,000 Nearly MOO.OOO less mores were devoted to wheat last year, and the buDr of this decrease was in the surplus States, whioh bid fair to have T8,000.000 fewer bushels than last year and 1»,00G,000 bushels under the Surplus mates' product in 1891. AvaUable supplies of old wheat are *0,<*x?,P00 bnshsls greater than a twelve-month ago, rai oven allowing that farmers also hold I7.ooo.ooo bushels more old wheat now than then, the to­ tal supplies tor tbe ensuing year are only BOO.- 000,000 bushels, or m,ooo,ooo bosheli less than the average or the two previous crops. Our home consumption has averaged 3W.000,000 bushels annually, leaving an apparent export with bees. The boats were fairly burled] and at the entrances to the frounas the silver streamed in as it ad never done before, and the turn­ stiles clicked and registered a* if the crowd would never cease. Inside, the boasted elbow-room was at a premium, especial ly at points of interest. Every­ body wag out for a time; and if he didn't have it, he will at least never come so close to it again, There was no tiresome oratory, but there was lots of circus. Every few rods in any direction a brass band crashed and blared. Here and there, till everybody thought that the whole standing army was on the grounds, squads of the Illinois National Guard of 5,000 were marching to their ren­ dezvous. The different parades of the day were forming, and people of every nation on earth scurried hither ana thither until it must have seemed to some of the visitors that the millennium had dawnod. The formal program began with the march of the people from Midway Plaisance. The State militia led at 6 a. m., and as they passed the natives from each village filed in on their cam­ els, donkeys and Arabian horses. But there was no parading by these through the grounds. So far as the Plaisance crowd was concerned, it simply marched to the Illinois Building and back. The concessionaires would 'not lose two or three hours of business in the middle of the day. Promptly at 11 o'clock- there was a _grand parade of the "Congress of Bough Riders," from Buffalo Bill's. This was headed bv the Cowboy band. The pa­ rade of the Illinois troops returned to the State building at 12, headed by Gov. Altgeld in his capacity as Commander in-chief. Here tho Governor paused to review the troops. The festivities with the millitary department contin­ ued until lato in the afternoor, and in­ cluded an exhibition drill by Company C of the Third and the Springfield Cadets. At 2 o'clock an inform­ al reception was held by the Governor. But the evening fur­ nished the greatest sight. There was a fine display of firework® from the lake east of Manufactures Building, the electric fountains were running, the search lights going, Weeded iBland was illuninatea, and gaylj lighted craft floated about the waters of the lagoons. In tho fire­ works display in addition to the numer­ ous novel effects furnished there were two special set pieces, one showing the facade of the Illinois Stat© Building, 60 by 40 feet in size, containing 12.000 separate burning pieces, and the Lin­ coln Monument at Springfield, 40 by 40 feet, with 10.000 burning lances. "Old Glory" and the American eagle burned in the eastern sky. It was a fitting culmination to a grand day--one lone to be remembered by the hosts Of pftuS Illinoisans present. . " last year ot 1M,000,000 and the season before of MS.000,000 bushels. This year's acreage of oats was never ex­ ceeded eaoept in 1W», when over MS,000,000 bushels were grown on 9T.MO.OOO acres, 00m- pared with «S0,000,000 buahela on a slightly smaller acreage this season. This is within *0,000.000 bushels of last year's oat-turn and lust about an average of the three previous crops. Reviewing the financial situation from the farmers' standpoint, the American Agrioulturist concludes: Tbe prospect lor prioes in (ha early future depends more upon the monetary situation than upon natiirai conditions, all of which point to oanses that should result in higher prices. But the wheat crop is oonoeded to be over 180,000,000 bushels less than last year in the leading importing countries. Stocks abroad are not materially larger than a year ago, so that the excess of M),000,000 bushels in the United States" la old stocks still leaves an Indicated shortage on tbe bread crop of the world of 100,000,000 bushels of wheat. This allows Russia aa good aa last year. The Euro­ pean rye crop is hardly a fair average: oats are under average, and potatoes are tainted by drought. With no extra surplus of the bread crops and an assured defiolt of wheat, the United States are likely to be called upon to export as much wheal m last year, If not more. Indeed, exports have been much heavier since July 1 than last season. The conclusion is justifiable that present prioes of all mins are abnormally low, as there Is little evidenoe ot our ability to spare as much wheat as Eu­ rope wants, unless a large underconsumption prevails In the United States. The hay crop is believed to represent a value to tho farmers of $1,000,000. Corn at cents per bushel comas next with a total of fras.ooo,- 000. followed by wheat valued at 1300,000,000, if worth 00 oents a bushel, snd oats worth |18\- 000,000, if valued at 30 cents on the farm. Po­ tatoes promise to net an average of TO or 75 oents per bushel or a total of $1*5,000,000. This list, is about one-halt the prospective value of the cotton crop of 1898, reckoned at $36 per bale. APPEAL TO WESTERN FARMERS. the moneyed oUaaraiy ready to dobaw people's, representatives ana weld the ot financial slavery still more securely nesk of labor. The money sharks are unre- CYOLONE AT GOTHAM. DaaUiwUv* Storm Sweeps Ovar th* Atlan­ tic Const. A hurricane struck tbe Atlantic oewt the other night doing incalcula. ble damage. It swept the coestB of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. The wind came from the northeast and attained a velocity of over seventy miles an hour at times and was accompanied by torrents ot rain. Reports from towns and cities in tfce storm-swept districts tell of vessels attd pleasure yachts being swept from their moorings and wrecked. No loss ef life is reported. The streets in up­ per New York were flooded, while trees were torn up by the roots and iuirled into the streets. Some of the streets of Brooklyn were impa@sa> bl» because of fallen trees and debris. At Bayonne, N. J., all but one erf the vessel# of tho yacht club were driven ashore and destroyed. Many washouts are reported on the railroads. A washout at Mount Vernon, N. TP., caused the wreck of a New Ha­ ven and Hartford freight train. Tele­ graph and telephone wires are down. The storm left its mark o%ver the whole regkm around New York withia_ a sweep of fully one thousand miles, xne rautfnl, measuring 3.82 inches during twelve hours, is the heaviest that has orer b®en racorded by the New York signal man. Through tho dragging of aajphors in the«tybrth River, more than fifty cables ef the Western Union Tele- p*aph Company were torn,, and are now on the bottom ot the Overflow of News. No CHOLERA exists in Berlin. NINE new cases of cholera are re­ ported at Naples. EIGHTEEN cases of small-pox are re­ ported at Muncie, Ind. THE severest storm of thirty years has swept the coast of Nova Scotia. ROBBERS secured $125 from the Chi- oagO and Erie depot at Decatur, Ind. THE Indiana Manufacturing Com­ pany, of Peru, Ind., has out wages 10 per cent. A METHODIST Church and parsonage aad feur dwellings burned at Welling­ ton, Mo. •* FLOODS in the Arkaasas VaAley, in Oklahoma, caused heavy loss. One faatily was drowned. SAKUKL, W, CIJAJUC, lumber dealer at Zanearttle, Ohio, failed. Assets and liabilities, are 11,600,000. Asked So Send Provisions to tho Hungry Thousands In New York. The delegates and speakers to the Farmers' Alliance and People's Party State Convention at Sylvan Beaoh, N. Y., issued the following appeal: Farmer* of the West: A cry of hunger and starvation comes up from the heart of the creat metropolis--New York. Sfe comes from the throat of tens of thousands of American cltisens who are without work and wlthput bread. It asoends to heaven amid the noise ot the call-board on the t-tock exohame and the jinriinc of the sold on the money counters of wall street. It is intensified by the tears and moans of starving mothers Aftd famishing chil­ dren. Man are becoming desperate from want, aad the gaunt specter of famine stalks abroad nnhaod«d by those who hav- grown fat.by the {ullage ot labor and the ravaging of industry. The lobby approaching tbe council of tha republic is filled with the paid agents of " * debauch tha Id the chain* securely on tha money sharks are unre­ lenting. the Government indifferent, aad Cha people desperate. By the pangs of hanger, law-abiding, honest men are being trans­ formed lato wr*oklees wolves, and this is tha condition dsacrted bj the enemies of the people. Thsy starve them#rst in order to fur­ nish an excuse to kill them afterward. This mast not be. The starving mmr of New Tork must not become tbe prey of da- signing enemies. Farmers, you must teed them, well, now, you are poor, we know the labor of your bands Is nnreqnltted and your toil ana perseveranoe unrewarded. But thesemenandwomen an your brothers and sisters. Their oauae is your cause. Their starvation and your poverty are. t hi Joint pro­ duction of our common enemy. Seed speedily iOt your oora and wheat, your potatoes anil breadstuff*, that disorder and bloodshed m&w <ba averted. Let the president of each al­ liance call his alliance and act without gaolse fallef commit1 aes at once aad oom- muQioate with Mr. David Rousseau, 310 Mott avenue, Ksw Tork City, who has been aeieeted by as as the consignee ot relief supplies who will arrange for their prom tive distribution, J. B. WBAvaa, Iowa. T. E. DBA.IT, New York. MABY E. LBASS, Kansas.: _ L. C. PAMHJCX. Colorado. Delegates »nd Speakers to tha Farmers' Altt- ance and People's Party State Convention. No Money to Move Crop*. The most serious problem which the Northwest finda itself confronted with at the present time as an incident of the financial depression, is how the crops shall be moved. There is not sufficient money in the country to send the stream t f golden.grain flowing into the markets, and aid must come from somewhere. Several meetings of bank­ ers and jobbers have been held at Min­ neapolis, to decide upon a plan of ao- tion, but none has been agreed upon. To harvest and move or mafrket the crops requires within the next three months the use of a very large amount of money. It soerns to be con­ ceded that the necessary money cannot be obtained from the usual Eastern sources, and that the iccal bank:* can do but little toward furnishing the needful in actual cash. To meet the emergency, a proposition has been dis­ cussed that the banks of St. Paul and Minneapolis should create a local cur­ rency bv issuing, on the lines of the tried plan of New York banks, clear­ ing-house certificates in denominations of $6, $10, $20 and $50, which would be loaned to the buyers t? be used in pay­ ment of wheEt to farmers and freights and charges to railways, and thus carry the wheat to market, when the pro­ ceeds would be returnc<J»to the banks, thus putting them in funds with which to redeem the lccal currency. N otes of Current Kvents. THE Bank of Albany, Mo., bps sus­ pended. MALIGNANT diphtheria ha3 broken out in Findlay, x ' THE German-American bank at Sk Paul will resume business. FLOODS near • Beatrice, Neb., have carried away many bridges. CONGRESSMAN DUNN, of New Jer» •ey, is seriously ill with Heart failure. DETROIT bankers are issuing oertifl* eate9 of deposit in plac^ of currency. THE Sons of Veterans have adopted blaok belts instead ef belts ot gali oolor. ILLINOIS NEWS CONCISELY OON* . ..V-Y&EN8EIX '<••41 AETFE RMMFN' Braeehee 100, FRAKK'FC Cotmty. Has A -Sleepy Farmer M FROM ̂ *• KUEIUINATE the SPARROUT 1 ""•'J VMMVUUD NEM. * AT Decatur Mrs. Fanl 6. Efebeit J dropped dead while standing at hee ff front gate. l.T' jA* PRANK HICKEY. a jealous suitori tried to kill Dollle Davenport, Chicago! ' A corset steel saved the girL I WILLIAM DANIELS is imder arrest a4 < Nashville. He is one of the bd#g^iilrt|? ^ who have been operating there. ' A COLLISION on the Illinois Central \ Railroad at Chfcaffo resulted in the) ^ serious but not fatal injury of twef -T men. » CHICACK> undertakers are being viol > timized by a sorrowing brother who \ borrows money on the strength of hirf sister's death. POSTMASTER Thompson, of Quincyj recently appointed by President dm landj underwent a surgical oper and is now in a dying condition. VETERANS of the One Hundred 1 Fourteenth Illinois Infantry held a r©». ,r union of the regiment at tne home oi ? their Colonel, J. W. Judy, at Tallulal • ,•$/, The gathering was well attended. t v ELLSWORTH MURPHY, a young! / Aurora lawyer who came from CalO fornia about two years ago, has, it idi alleged, fled from the city after various, .' h,. transactions involving several thoomadL 4 " dollars. , THE coal miners of St. Clair Count* are organizing for a strike, a demanJf' J ? '<{ for a small increase made by them hav4- ing been refused. Their order is nui- down, but the local trades as9embfa . • will assist them to reorganize. ' \ ' J. W. MARTINE claims to have com-i .IIV' pounded a food which no living except the English sparrow will which will clean that pugnacious lit pest out faster than a two-cent, bounty! law. He wants to slaughter the binuj . on contract for the city of Chicago. 1. • i'MMiM C. N. TREAT, captain of a Quincjr 4 * militia company and a "O." clerk, fif- , i under arrest for alleged embesdemeni " from the road. The money, $700*was * " * spent, so Treat says, in keeping up hi# f 1 end of the militarv compenv and Ut keeping himself solid with the noya 1 . ^ „1 FREDERICK MILLER, a well-to-dai Newton farmer, was serving on a Jorjj i/ which had failed to agree and witb the! ' other jurors wae locked in the room OH the second floor of the court house. Hi' went to sleep near & window aad out, breaking his collar brae, ribs, and injuring himself internally, JACKSNNVILLE entertained a force of Sunday school teachers officers from all parts of the Stale the sessions of the Morgan County 8aaj day school convention. S. H. Cram was the President and the body listened! to addresses by W. C. Pearce, missionary, Rev. IX F. Howe, J, Joy, and others. P. ANDERSON tends the prise in the Jersey Club's exhibit at the World's Fair, and, like many anothed husky farmer, wears two pairs ot feet up in tne air, caught him da httf horns, »nd there he stack. His trow* era didnf gh^ c£m|qrioMi rescued him, badly bruised. FIRE broke out in the Benton Chroo^ icle office in the rear of the building occupied by tbe postoffice, and soott consumed several buildings dn tha' sonthweet corner of the square, causing a loss of $14,000: insurance, $2,20(£j. Among the buildings burned were tha postomce, Chronicle office, 8. B. Efepey,! real estate; Browning, Hankins & OoJ \ general hardware; A. A. Haines mam market; J. G. Buchanan, photographers • city hall; EL Duppe, bakery; Dennings & Bennett, barbers; J. H. Swain, rea-, taurant; L. S. Naylor, grocery. The** electric light wires were burned aa# ^ the oity was left in darkness. Only ai small portion of the mail matter waft, ! destroyed. ^ v| THE annual Fayette County Tsaoher# i Institute met at Fayette. | 1 ALBERT S. SPAULDXNO a banker all Palatine, made an assignment. Aa>» sets and liabilities are plaosd at 000 each. THE consolidation of the Peoria, De^ catur and Evansville Railroad Ccmk pany and the Chicago and Ohio River Company went on record at Spring* field. 148§ii' JOSEPH LONGFELDT, a merchant at Kansas City, ooauntttadl suicide by shooting himself in the head in Lincoln Park, at Chicago. In his pocket was & letter telling of hie intention to commit suicideK Eoogr feldt failed in business last winter and lost all his property. He bad met wiffct reverses thfee times before aad aftar each failure had made a new start. Of late he had oftei brother that he did not feel enough to make a fourth st Gov. ALTGELD came near being _ into the street after he had goat" bed the other night along with ai ber of other people. He was a at a hotel in the World's Fair < A dispute over $2,500 claimed'- hf « . manufacturing concern as due it froai' " the hotel led to the issuance' of % ran" < plevin writ which was given the Sherlit with instructions to Serve. The fire* room-door at which he rapped waaGovi Altgeld's. The Deputy was about ifr-.: march into the room when a- ray of* light fell upon the oocupenVs face and the officer recognized toe ChiefMagie* trate of Illinois. The lawyers came upon the scene and axplatasd the situ* ation to the startled Governor. "Of course we wont take your bed, Gov*, vernor," said the' lawyer tor the plain* tiff in the case. "Well make you ens* - t I. 1# ~~~»n HiUibu vji *v u tvu u accept l luM. 1 .SSi&Zk':* A CHICAGO constable took umbrag#W JL at an attorney's assertion that he waa not selecting fit jurymen, aad sub-/ poenaed six o! the most prominent business men of the town to fry • drunk and disorderly. The oolpri) was sent to the bridewell to serve a ID fine. 1 THE private banking house of M. £. Bagley, Jefferaonville. failed to Q>ea Tuesday morning. The assignment Ja charged to inability to make fl(wa©» tions. A detailed statement shew* «• has assets of $124,000 and liafciities $110,7«. The assets are ecnedered good. GEORGE C. EISENMAVER, at Maseoutah for a haU-oe one of the leaders of toe party in St. Clair County, 73 years. He was appoil the State University FREDERICK KRUMJ old boy who lived on « his parents about 0) Arlington Heights, wpr death in a barn there tramps were short time before the was discovered seen running wied©. The abbproperto, ran in to try it; „\r. . * t..