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ANOTHER MUGWUMP JEREMIAD. I (From the Chicago Tribune.] The regular annual meeting of the CiriJ Service Reform Association has just been held, and as usual Mr. George William Curtis was its spokesman. It wee not a hopeful or hilarious occasion. The meetings of the Civil Service Reform Association seldom are. They have been somewhat dull and oppressive from the start, but this one seems to have excelled all its predecessors in. whine and lamen­ tation. Mr. Cuitis' address shared the prevailing gloom. It was a lugubrious oonfess on of defeat and a notice to the brethren that civil service reform is pro­ gressing crab fashion. In his summing B® Mr. Curtis said. If the President regards himself Ma trus­ tee of his party, he is a trustee of a party which udopted civil service reform as its policy, and declared that its spirit and pur­ pose should be observed in all Executive appointments. Yet not in one conspicuous instance, so far as I know, has the Presi­ dent observed that spirit and purpose, or ordered them to be observed. I do not mean, of course, that he has appointed no honest and capable officers, but that he has not respected the principle that such officers in places which are not political should not be removed for political reasons; nor do I know a single member of the Cabinet, a sin­ gle Senator or Representative in Congress, or. with few honorable exceptions, like Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, a single recognized local leader of the dominant party who has publicly Insisted that the declared policy of the party on this subject shall be rcspcctcd. The administration Senators and Representatives who lingered in Washington after the adjournment of Congress did not remain to take care that the party policy of reform should be enforced, but as office brokers and peddlers of patron­ age, to secure places for political workers, to procure party advantages, and tc foster personal ambitions. They were not en­ gaged in promoting the public service where polities is impertinent, but in tightening and strengthening by patronage a party machine. Meanwhile the party clubs, leagues, and committees all over the Union have shown by their conduct the confident expectation that no regard would be paid by the administration to the platform prom­ ises and pledges under which in the cam­ paign the support of intelligent citizens friendly to reform was solicited. With fefr honorable exceptions the press of the party has either demanded the usual political proscription in the civil service or it has aoquiesced in the practical contempt of the declared party policy, or it has truculently defended the plainest neglect of principle as real reform. The chief party organ in the country frankly defended the overthrow of reform in the New York Postofflce by the assertion that "it is certain that party or­ ganization cannot be maintained by ignor­ ing party leaders," which is the old and fundamental plea fot^the spoils system. It must be confessed that this is a mournful condition of things and a pretty how-do-you-do, but it would be interesting to know why Mr. Cnrtis has reserved this sorrowful bleat for four years and all of a sudden sent it forth with such robust clamor, hoping to catch the public ear and arouse a feeling of commiseration. For four years Mr. Cleveland did his best to demoralize the civil service system even to the extent of demoralizing and almost destroying many branches of the public service at home and of impairing the usefulness and repu­ tation of our diplomatic service abroad. . Republicans were tumbled out of office by wholesale upon no other pretexts than ^hose of a political nature. For these violations of the letter and spirit of civil service reform Mr, Curtis promptly apolo­ gized upon the ground that it was neces­ sary at least to have the service half Dem­ ocratic, otherwise it could not be expected to retain its equilibrium. The Republi­ cans had been in power for a quarter of a century and of course occupied nearly all the federal offices, it would be impossi­ ble, said Mr. Curtis, for Cleveland to run his administration when leaded down with Republicans. 1 To make it stable and enable it to keejKita^ b^flance at least .50 per cent, of the officeholders should I'be Democrats. The decapitation process began with Mr. Curtis' approval. The Republican half went oat with a rush, without the assignment of canse other than that they were Republicans. ; Mr. Curtis found no fault with this style I of "reform." Bnt the work of removal -did not stop there. It went steadily on. I Before the close of the second year three- I fourths of the Republicans had disap- 1 peared. We heard not a word from Mr. Cnrtis about the equilibrium, not a word about political proscription or contempt for the civil-service regulations. By the time Mr. Cleveland's term had expired nine-tenth? of the Republicans were out. | The remaining tenth were protected in | their places under the Pendleton act. 1 Still not a word of robust rebuke of Cleveland and the Democrats from Mr. Curtis. Nothing was heard except in the I way of labored apology. Had Cleveland Ibeen re-elected (and Mr. Curtis supported Ihim), there would not hare been a Repub­ lican left in office one year thereafter. |The few routine clerks protected by the loivil-service regulations would have been I weeded out on various pretexts, the serv­ ice would have been solidly spoils Demo- ratic, and Mr. Curtis wonld not have lattered his recent lament. During all these four years of Cleve- liandism Mr. Cnrtis was deaf and dumb |and blind to what was going on around lim. So far as protest is concerned, he ras about as vigorous and eloquent as a slam at high tide. His hatred of Mr. Elaine was so bitter that it shut his eyes to all the spoils Democracy was doing-- that same spoils Democracy whose hun­ ger and thirst for patronage aud plunder ae had so mercilessly derided in the Chi­ cago convention. His hatred for Mr. Blaine went even further than this, for it carried him clear over into the ranks of phe anti- civil service reform Democracy. Ie could'see no fault in anything done yy Mr. Cleveland, although the civil ser- rice system was rent from stem to stern; »nt now, when the interlopers are being uown oat, when the expert men who [nought the civil service up to its iigh state of efficiency are being pat lack into the places that were given to Ignorant and incompetent heelers as a reward for partisan work, he sets np this mournful whine, although he knows that the Republican party has been the protector of civil service reform; that ie Democratic party is and always las been its open and professional an­ tagonist, and that it is and always has peen the out-and-ont advocate of the Ipoils system. As Mr. Curtis has re­ covered his voice after four years of lilence, we shall expect him to nse it low for fOur years to come, and always a the mugwump minor key of the pro- sssional reformer. Satisfied with all bat Mr. Cleveland has done or left un- >ne, it follows that nothing Mr. Harri- |on do will please him. - JL BOURBON PROTEST. [From the Chicago Inter Ocean.] Mr. L. J. Piernas, having been an­ ointed Postmaster at Bay St. Loots, khieh is a sort of summer resort for cer- kin well-to-do people of New Orleans, lere is complaint and protest concerning Lis appointment--and all because he is 1 colored man. The "official organ of be town of Bay St. Louis," as the Gulf poetsi Progress styles itself, says: I Against Piernas individually this journal las no war to make. He is as good a colored ^an as can be found. When he was a 8u- Brvisor from this beat we took occasion to >eak well for his public services, though we nposed successfully his re-election, and fould oppose it again, because we believe Tthe election of Democrats and white men i office. We would bn pleased enough to ie him rewarded by some such appoint­ ment as suggested above, but when it is kade as apparent as it now is that his ap- ointment to the postofflce here will mili- kte against the town's Interest we feel it jar duty as well as onr Impulse to join in te protest. This is bad enough in a very provincial pnrnal, but the Times- Democrat, of New rleans, is equally puerile: | It would be an act of peculiar injustice id oppression to appoint or to retain in Ice negro postmasters in our seacoast arts. They we frequented by the nigtk- IAFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. and rammer. Neither visitors aor reel- dents have any objection to appointees to _ these offices on kcoount of political opin- IHTKSKSlINO ITEMS GATHKKKD ions. All they ask is that they should be i FBOM VARIOUS SOUKCK8. honest, competent, and polite, and that they be either respectable white men or women. This desired qualification is not an outcome of sectional prejudice; North­ erners and Southerners alike demand it; and if the administration be disposed to act fairly In the matter, and to avoid unjust and oppressive measures against the peo­ ple of these communities, it will oomply with this urarent demand. And the Picayune says: T °*a negro man named I*. J. Piernas to be Postmaster at Bay St. Louis in place of Miss Ioor. a white lady, was recently announced. The change was found extremely objectionable. Bay St. Louis, besides being a place of considerable importance, is largely inhabited by the families of men doing business in this city, or which it is in reality a suburb. The men of the families being absent in the day time, their postal business Is done almost exclusively by the ladies and children, and the appointment of a negro to be Post­ master in place of a lady has aroused with good reason a widespread protest. The Item, New Orleans, says: If the President's Southern polioy Is to placate the white race, he must not push the negro race into the postoffices, as at Ocean Springs and Bay St. Louis. The postofflce touches the white people nearer than any other Federal place; the whites (women and girls included) constitute the great majority of its visitors, because the whites chiefly use the mails. Give negroes' custom house and internal revenue places,, Mr. President, if need be, but keep the postoffices lor the whites, and at summer resorts for white postmistresses where practicable. , This is s imply monstrous. Mr. Piemas, let it be remembered, ia honeBt, capable,i and "as good a colored man as can be found." He has been appointed to an office where Rood service to the public ia. required. The assumption of the Demo-' cratic papers is that a postoffice kept by an honest, capable colored man will be offensive or dangerous to the white ladies of the town. The whites of tho South' will trust the colored man as a custodian of their houses, as a coachman, as a business agent. As a head waiter in a' dining-room, or as a caterer, or as the' proprietor of an iee-cream parlor or a confectionery store he will not be offen­ sive or dangerous to the ladies. Why should such a man be dangerous or offen­ sive as a Postmaster? Why is the ap­ pointment of Piernas an act of mjnstioe and oppression? TWO KINDS OF APPOINTMENTS, The Democratic free-trade organs are printing labored articles claiming that the course of the present administration in respect to appointments is proof that it has definitely abandoned its reform professions. Tney base this accusation on the number and not on the character of the persons selected for office. Of the fitness, honesty, or capability of the men chosen by President Harrison and his advisers the Democrats have been unable to find any just cause to com­ plain, so they fall back on the number of appointments made as the only possible grievance in sight. There are very plain reasons why the present administration has been called upon to make a large number of appoint­ ments. The first reason is that most of the changes have been made in the for­ eign legations and heads of bureaus and departments, where they would have been made had any new administration come into power. The other reason is of nearly i the same character as that which com­ pelled a clean sweep of the offices in 1861. When Abraham Lincoln became President he found the offices filled with disloyal Democrats, and when Benjamin Harrison became President he found an almost equal number of Democratic ras­ cals and incompetents in offico. If the Democratic free-traders want to make a comparison of the appointments of this and the Cleveland administration, let them make it on character. Let them search through the lists of foreign ap­ pointments made during the past sis weeks and find, if they can, an Anthony M. Keiley, who was sent to Italy and re­ jected, and then billeted on Austria, but refused recognition there also. Let them find three such disgraceful selections as Edward O. Buck, sent as Minister to Peru; George W. Bryant, the Minister to Liberia; and James H. Morgan, Consul at Melbourne. Among the home appoint­ ments let them name a Eugene Higgins, the Baltimore tough and gambler; a Morris Thomas, the proved embezzler; or an Ebea F. Pillsbury, the leader in the attempt to steal the State govern­ ment of Maine. Instead of moaning dolefully over the number of postmasters being appointed, let the Democrats put their finger on an ex-convict appointed by Mr. Harrison, like Samuel Moriey, whom Mr. Cleveland appointed postmaster at Bridgeport, Ind.; or a saloon keeper and violator of liquor laws, like P. T. Kinian, made postmaster at Valley Falls, R. I.; or a defaulter like Postmaster Dalton, of Lincolnville, Me. Finally, let them name a Republican pa­ per that has become as disgusted with President Harrison's appointments as the Indianapolis Sentinel was with Cleve­ land's nominations and which has been compelled to calf a "halt" and exclaim, in the language of the Sentinel: "We confess to oar inability to make out any sufficient reason for the selection ana appointment of thieves, highwaymen, bribers, deadbeats, and the like. Give honest, competent Democrats a chance!" When the free trade organs can point to such a disgraceful record of appoint­ ments, of which only a few specimens have been given, it will be time enough for them to moralize on the "abandonment of reform." Meanwhile their criticisms of the present administration, sicklied over as they are with malice and disap- Eointment, are gauged at their proper ypocritical value by an intelligent pub­ lic.--Philadelphia Press. What They Make. . Ellen Terry is paid $600 a week. Digby Bell receives $'250 a week. Fred Leslie receives $500 a week. Kvrle Bellew receives $350 a week. Gnarles Coghlan is paid $350 a week. DeWolf Hopper is paid $250 a week. John Habberton makes $10,000 a thwt Onr Neighbors Am* Dolnf-X*ttan of General and Local Interest--Mar- ritS*D and Deaths--Accident* and Crimea -fcnoiwl Pointers. A YOUTHFUL KtTBDZUXK COHFXSSBB. --Jonathan Skene, of Derinda, Jo Daviess County, the youthful murderer of Prof. H. T. Matchett, Principal of the Hanover public schools, and who since the date of the tragedy strenuously maintained his innocence and manifest­ ed the utmost.indifference as to his situ­ ation, dropped his indifferent manner, and with tears streaming from bis eyes made a full confession of the crime. His admission of guilt was first made to his father, Supervisor William Skene, who had disbelieved his son's story of inno­ cence from the start, and who entered his cell for the purpose of remaining with him until he obtained the truth, which result he succeeded in accomplish­ ing after an hour's earnest pleading. When asked to explain his motive for the shooting of Matchett and attempted mur­ der of Wesley Prisk, the youth replied that he was crazed with wine which he had drank during the forenoon at a neighbor's house; that he had no grudge of any kind against either Matchett or Prisk, and that he was wild and utterly beside himself at the time he did the shooting. Immediately after the con­ fession of his guilt to his father, the father called in Sheriff McDonald and County Treasurer Farley, and to these officials the youth repeated the story of his crime. Young Skene 16th birthday occurred in March last. He is somewhat diminutive in stature and weighs less than eighty-five pounds. IfBATHEB AND CHOP BULLETIN. --The Illinois Weather Service, in co­ operation with the United States Signal Service, has issued the following weather crop bulletin for the week ending May 27: Tho temperature for the week was below the normal throughout the entire State. There has been a general deficiency of )>recipitatiori. Clear weather has prevailed in the counties of Car­ roll, Boone, I>ake and McHenrv. Throughout tho rest of the State a seasonable amount of sunshine has prevailed. Bond County--Corn nearly all planted; wheat looking well; oats amlgriisg need rain. Boone--liaii) needed. Carroll--Tlie planting of corn is well advanced; all crops looking well; rain needed for potatoes and meadows ; fruit trees in bloom. Christian--A little too dry fur growing crops, but favorable for corn planting, of which a large acreage is being sown. . \ Champaign--Kain needed badly ; corn being planted one week earlier than usual; ioe formed on 30th of April: no damage reported. Clay--Some rain this week--50-100 of an inch fell '29th ult. ; more needed. Coles--Frost of May 1 has probably injured fruit. Corn.,, mostly planted. Oats and wheat look well. Fayette--Bain needed badly. Wheat in good condition. Oats suffering much and corn plant­ ing at a standstill for want of rain. Douglas--Corn coming up well. Froats have injured garden truck and ptaches. Franklin--More rain needed. Too cold. Farm­ ers complaining of cutworms. Fruit safe. Fulton--Garden vegetables injured by frost. Hamilton The prospects for fruit continue good. With seasonable rain oats would come out early in the season. Iroquois--Killing frosts 3d and 3d. Bains needed badly. McHenry--A chilly, windy week. Plowing for corn progressing rapidly. Ij&ke--'The season is not advanced proportion­ ately during the last week owing to low temper­ ature. La Salle -- Continued northerly windB, cool nights and absence of rain have affected all crops unfavorably, though the weather has l>eeu favorable for preparation of ground and for planting. The frosts of the week have greatly damaged fruits. Some fear we afaall Mn none at all. Mercer--Light froat Hay 2 and 3s. No damage done. Morgan--Wheat in good condition. Ground too cold for oats. In some locations tomatoes and beans were killed by frost. Kendall--Fruit trees in full bloom. Probably badly injured by frost. Damage cannot be yet estimated. Piatt--Three killing frosts during week, injur­ ing fruit. Corn nearly all planted, bnt cannot come up unless we have rain. Wheat and oats suffering for rain. Stephenson--Frost and ice April 30 and May 1. No rain. Glass looking well, but growth slow for last few days. Considerable'corn has been planted. Ground in good condition for planting. Kangamon--Frosts of last week have injured fruit aud vegetables. Marshall--Farmers planting corn. Some have finished. Killing frost 1st,'2d, aud 3d. Ice formed 1st and 2d. Early strawberries, cherries, and, it is feared, all buds of fruit are seriously dam­ aged. Beans killed and potato tops frozen. Menard--Oats above ground. Kain needed. Marks of Hessian fly in some fields of wheat, but wheat is generally in excellent condition. Ojjle--Little corn planted. Temperature low during week, affecting crop injuriously. Washington--Little frost Mav 3. No damage reported. Oats need rain. Com nearly all planted. Wheat doing well. Wayne--Frost. Ice formed two-tenths of am inch thick May 3. Tender plants injured some. Fruit dropping slightly. Logan- litiuvy frosts 1st, 2d, and 3d. Tender vegetables and peaches injured. year. Mark Twain's inoome is $80,000 a year. B. W. Gilder receives $20,000 front the Century. Joseph Pulitzer's inoome lor 1888 was $1,000,000. Mrs. Chanler (Amelie Bives) makes about $10,000 a year. W. D. How ells receives from the Har­ pers $10,000 a year. Brander Matthews averages an annual income of about $3,000. Up to recently Francis Wilson lvta paid a salary of $525 a week. Edgar W. Fawcett receives about $4,000 a year for all his writings. Mayo W. Hazeltine receives $175 * week from the New York Sun. Col. John Cockerill is paid $20,000 a year by the New York World. The late E. P. Koe found no diffi­ culty in writing $50,000 worth a year. Miss Murfree's (Charles Egbert Crad- dock's) novels yield her about $3,000 a year. The Peaaat'i Yirtae. Bishop Theodore B. Lyman, of North Carolina, has discovered a new and hitherto unsuspected virtue in the pea­ nut. For nearly two years he had suf­ fered from insomnia. About a fortnight ago he ate freely of fresh roasted pea­ nuts before retiring, and enjoyed tflto best sleep he had had for months. He has tried the experimgnt repeatedly since, and has found it efficacious evary time. --Mrs. Mary Alner, a buxom widow, went * to Helena, Montana, a month ago from Chicago with $2,500. After her ar­ rival she met George Morack, who told her that he was a wealthy mining man and offered to invest her money for her. He made love to her, and Bhe reciprocated his affection and promised to be his wife. She gave him her all, $2,500, to invest for her, and it was agreed that they should be married in Portland, Oregon. She left for that place, and he was to follow in a few days, but failed to materialize. The man was a stranger at Helena, and nobody seems to know anything of him. --William Bedding, a carpenter 26 years old, met a terrible death at the crossing at Cottage Grove avenue and the Pitts­ burg and Fort Wsyne Railroad tracks at Chicago. With two companions he was crossing the tracks on his way home from the cable cars, and in some manner his foot became caught in a frog so that he could not escape being crushed by a rap­ idly approaching engine. The body was removed to his home in Brookline, sear Grand Crossing. --B. A. Morain, of Bloomington, has secured, a verdict for $5,000 damages against the Lake Erie k, Western Bail- way. He lost a leg by falling under a pas­ senger train at Ellsworth last fall and made the plea that the train was too crowded and that he was not given suffi­ cient time to get off safely. --The Bepublicans of the Nineteenth Congressionial District have nominated the Hon. Thomas S. Bidgeway, of Shaw- neetown, for the vacaucy caused by the death of Hon. B. W. Townshend. --M. F. Bewey, of Bewey's Station, Wis., took to Galena a pig with two bodies united at the sides, eight well- formed legs, two tails, one head, two eyes, two ears, and two tongues in the same mouth. This monstrosity was one of a litter of eight pigs born on his arm. --Permission to organise the Citizens' State Bank of Kankakee has been granted by the Auditor of Public Accounts. The capital stock is $50,000, and the or­ ganizers are. B. G. Bisser, H. M. Stone, H. A. Migrate, P. Biaser aad S.D. Ehrich. --The tenth anniu|b^l»«#ifln of the Central Illinois Ait Union held its session at Bloomington aad attracted about 100 artists and art lovers to that city. --In the Federal Court at Springfield a motion in an interesting intervening petition in the Wabash receivership has been argued. John Ensch, of Sangamon County, had obtained a judgment in the Sangamon Circuit Court against the re­ ceiver for $2,500 for injuries received through the negligence of the employes of the road. The case was taken to the Appellate Court and affirmed and a writ was issued out of the Supreme Court to take the case up. Ensch meantime went to the Federal Court with his interven­ ing petition, asking for an order dn the receiver for the amount of. the judgment. Judge Allen issued the order on the re­ ceiver to pay or file bond in twenty days, provided the Supreme Court shall affirm the decision of the lower courts. The arguments were made before Judges Allen and Gresham to set aside the order. r' --Peter Evans, of Jo Daviess County, was fatally shot by Max Vogt, a fanner 1'ving near Faitplay, Wis. Evans drove a iiL id of cattle across some land owned by Vogt's father. This enraged young Vogt and he fired at him, shooting him through the body. The murderer gave himself up to the Sheriff. He claims that Evans at­ tempted to kill him with a club and that the shooting was done in self-defense. --More land, the little western suburb reoently annexed to Chicago, was visited by a terrible fire, and before the dames could be checked half of the town was in ashes and at least seventy families were rendered homeless. The total loss will reach $85,000, about one-half of which is covered by insurance. The devastation is said to have been the deliberate work of an incendiary who applied the torch to the Presbyterian Church. There had not been a fire in the church for three weeks, and the citizens are thoroughly satisfied that the church was set on fire by some enemy of the town, knowing that if the structure once got fairly ablaze at least half of that pretty little dwelling- place would be eaten up by the flames be­ fore assistance could be secured. The culprit did not miss his calculation, for within two hours after the church was discovered in flames five solid blocks of business and dwelling houses were noth­ ing but a mass of debris and ashes. The citizens were powerless to check the flames. They stood back awe-stricken at the terrible Bight. There was no water, and no engines to throw it had there been any. All the poor people could do was to stand and look at the flames as they rapidly spread from building to building, --Robert T. Lincoln, United States Minister to England, has gone to London. Before leaving Chicago he was tendered an elegant reception by over on* thousand ladies aud gentlemen. --While Professor H. T. Matchett and Henry Prisk, a neighbor, of Hanover, Jo Daviess County, were on their way home in a buggy from Snodgrass school-house, where they had been conducting a Sab­ bath school, the first named as superin­ tendent, they were fired into by one George Skene, son of Supervisor William Skene, of Hanover .Township, who was concealed by the roadside, £nd who had a five-chambered revolver for a weapon. Skene emptied every chamber, one of the balls striking Matchett in the back of the head, killing him instantly, and another ball taking effect in Frisk's right arm. After firing the shots Skene leaped a fence and made off into the woods. Pro­ fessor Matchett was an old and highly esteemed citizen of Jo Daviess County, and was one of tho best known educators in that section. He founded the Hanover Academy about six years ago, and had sinoe been piiucipal of the institution. He was a single man, and is said to have furnished a motive for the murder by a refusal to permit Skene to pay his ad­ dresses to his (the Professor's) sister, who was his housekeeper. Skene has been turned over to the Sheriff by his elder brother, and lodged in jail at Galena. Although he was seen to fire the shot, he stubbornly protests his innocence. Pro­ fessor Matchett was 29 years of age and a graduate of Monmouth College in this State. He went to Jo Daviess County about the year 1882 from Newton, Iowa, where he was raised, and where his parents reside at the present time. He was buried at Hanover. --Eddie Gallery, 11 years old, was killed by the accidental discharge of a revolver as he was handing it to his mother. The family live in Chicago. While overhaul­ ing the drawers of a bureau in his father's room Eddie called out to his mother that he had found his father's pistol. The mother hastened to the room and reached for the weapon, which the^ boy had in his hand. The mother was so nervous, how­ ever, that she grasped the handle firmly, forgetting that it was doable action, and unfortunately caught hold of the trigger. An explosion followed. The bullet lodged just under Eddie's right eye, and he fell to the floor unconscious. The frantio woman bent over him a moment, and, re- ' alizing what she had done, fell baok on the floor in a swoon. The shot attracted some neighbors, who succeeded in restor­ ing the mother to consciousness. The boy was past the help of , a surgeon, and he died within half an hour. i --The Cragin Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, has made a voluntary assign­ ment to William A. Montgomery, a law­ yer. No schedule was filed, but the assignee said the • assets were from $130,000 to $160,000, and the liabilities about $70,000. --The will of the late Calvin F. Bulkeley, of Chicago, has been admitted to probate and letters testamentary issued to Lucy Bulkeley in bond of $20,000. Testator disposes of an estate valued at $85,000. --The Williams murder trial ended at Benton by the jury finding the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree and sentencing him to the penitentiary for fifteen years. When the verdict was rendered the defendant seemed unmoved by it, although he had hoped for an ac­ quittal. His oounsel immediately made a motion for a new trial. --Mrs. Josie Gurley was sentenced by Judge Shepard, of Chicago, to five years in the penitentiary for the kidnaping of little Annie Bedmond. Motions for a new trial and arrest of judgment respect* ively were deniad. ELLUfOIS KERS. THE TEMPERANCE TEAM. and ted in the Wing bills were I amending the organiza villages of •nts with a w,000; and in with a capital Tb# bill in re- Ittvation of ya. The and col- fronnds tutiong permit nston >n a man's ues- le in, aiiv- lepho* e orate limits of sn<Si •rporated towns. Oil telephone bill waa. tppropria-' VKHT little buslni Senate on the 3d ins passed: Senator banMiuf law so as t. tion or banks in cij 10,000 and less thnii sapital stock of not Bities of 50,000 infcnbl' stock of not less t.hi__ ta'vion to the propagati? flshes and the construct Senate bill to authorize leges to control and nsi for the objects for were incorporated the Northwestern I to erect a cntiej portion of the grounds' College of that university. tion was fought over aeaii the House, but thing. The bill Illinois Southern passed by a proceedings act authorizii towns to fix. charged, coll , services within cities, villages. a viva voce vote ordered to first reading. "The tion bill for the Northern Illinois In- sane Asylum was read a third time and passoa by a large vote. Among the Senate bills first time were the following: To au­ thorize the Soldiers' Home in Chicago to erect and maintain a soldiers' memorial hall, etc. ; to LT- ail<^ punish frauds upon hotel, inn, boarding, and eating-house keepers; to re vise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence, etc.; to protect policy-holders in Are, marine, plate-glass, guarantee, and life insurance com- panies ; regulating tho weight of flour and meat i°ld in sacks ; and a bill requiring phvsiologv aadhygtoneto be taught in the public schools, with especial reference to the effect of alcoholic stimulants and narcotics upon the human system. THE session of the House on the 4th inst. wan brief and remarkably tranquil. A number of House and Senate bills, to which no objection were raised, were read by unenimous consent, and an adjournment was reached in time to per­ mit most of the members to depart from the city on the noon train. Mr. Hunt called up on •eoond reading his bill regulating the sale of oleomargarine and filled cheese, and preventing fraud and deception in the manufacture and sale of dairy products. It was ordered to third reading without amend­ ment. Other House bills read a second time were as follows : Tho bill of Mr. Allen, of Scott, to prevent unlawful combinations to suppress competition, increase prices, aud restrain trade; Mr. Oglevee's bill prohibiting domestic animals from running at large in cities, vil­ lages, and towns ; Mr. Ireland's bill to release sureties upon bonds for the operators of butter and cheese factories; Mr. Converse's bill to enable landlords to recover possession of prem­ ises when the same are used for immoral pur­ poses ; Mr. Meiritt's bill to enforce the penal­ ties for violating the law prohibiting the run­ ning of bucket shops; Mr. Walker's bill to prohibit treating to intoxicating liquors. The Senate bill appropriating $400 to the widow of the late Representative Joiui J. Teefey and Sen­ ator Shutt's bill permitting city councils to lioense wheeled vehicles were read a first time and ordered to a second reading. The- Senate was not in session. THE usual Monday evening programme was enacted in the Senate Chamber on the Gtli Inst. About a dozen Senators were present when Lieut. Gov. Ray's gavel fell at 5 o'clock. No business whatever was attempted beyond the snipension of the further reading of the journal after the Clerk had read about twenty words, and an adjournment was taken. SENATOR THOMAS' bill permitting railroad companies to extend their lines, construct and operate branch lines, or to change the grade or gauge of existing linos without organizing a new company for that Bpeciflc purpose, failed to pass the Senate on tho 7th inst. Senator Se- crest, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported adversely upon the claim of H. W. Rokker for #13,000, for printing done by order of the Secretary of State, and the report of the committee -was approved by the Senate. The following bills wore passed: The bills appropriating #41 000 for fuel.^salaries, addi­ tions to library and furniture, and $4,000 for a new boiler-house a' the Normal University at Normal; tho bills appropria;ing $14,:152 for ad­ ditional buildings, street paving. i>ainting, aud new furniture at ihe Illinois Charitaide Eye and Ear Infirmary at Chicago; the bill appropri­ ating >44,500 "for new building and furniture, aud for an electric light plant for the Illi­ nois Asylum for the Feeble-minded at Lincoln ; the bill appropriating sw.000 for tho salr.ry of the custodian of the Lincoln residence, an(l $800 for keeping the residence in re{>air ; Sena­ tor Campbell's bill amending the law in rela­ tion to State printing contracts. Iu the House Mr. McClanahan's bill for the prevention of the evils of intemperance and crime came up on second reading. A motion to strike out the en­ acting clause was defoated. The Senate bill making appropriation in aid of the Illinois Horticultural Society was read a third time and passed. It appropriates $4,000 per annum, and provides that no portion there­ of shall l>e paid for or on account of any salary, expense, or emoluments of any secre­ tary or other officer or employe of said society, and that at least 91.000 of said sum be expand­ ed by said board in experimenting in the growth, care and development of the horticultural in­ terest. The bill appropriating r?l'J,000 to in­ demnify Mrs. Sophia L. Hicks for damages caused by the removal by the Canal Commis­ sioners of the dam across IJttle Wabash Kiver at New Haven, was read a third time and passed. The Speaker laid l>efore the House the report of the Joliet Penitentiary Com- 'missioners in regard to the advisabili­ ty of establishing btnding-twlne plants In the Illinois penitentiaries. It was read and referred to the Committee on Penitentiaries. The bill of Mr. Miller, of Stark, to establish a State historical library and ap­ propriating $25,000 per annum for its care and maintenance, was read a third time and passed. The bill changing the law in regard to elections in townships was read a third lime and passed. Mr. Tilton's bill, to enable Judges of County •ad Probate Courts and of the Superior Court of Cook County to appoint shorthand reporters In cases of importance, w as read a third time and passed, as was also the bill providing for the appointment of public guardians in eash oounty in the State. Resolutions of respect were adopted to the memory of Hon. Starkey R. Powell, of Winchester. THE Joint Revenue Committee's bill, amend­ ing the law in relation to the assessment of property and for the levy and collection of taxes, came up in the Senate on the 8th inst., on second reading, and after a few minor amendments was advanced to third reading. A message from the Governor announced the ap­ pointment of Benjamin W. King, of Will Coun­ ty, as chief grain inspector at Joliet. The Chicago drainage bill was referred to the Committee on Judiciary. The Senate oon- curred in Representative Partridge's joint resolution indorsing the Morgan Park ' Military Academv. and making graduates of i that institution eligible as Brevet-Lieutenant of I the Illinois National Guards. Senator Hadley'a bill amending the law in relation to the partition | of real estate passed without opposition. In the House Mr. Sundelius' bill, providing that all children between the ages of 7 and 14 years shall attend school at least twelve weeks in the year, was passed by a vote of 103 yeas to 3 nays. The bill rejxirted by the Committee on Fish and Game, revising iu detail the general game law, passed. Mr. Converse's bill, making important amendments to the dram-shop act in regard to Belling liquor on election days and Sundays, was passed. Mr.White's bill, provid­ ing for the diSHolution of drainage districts upon a hearing had on a verified petition praying such dissolution, signed by not less than four-fifths of the adult land-owners of such district, who own in the aggregate not less than three-fourths in area of the assessed land there­ of, was passed. A long discussion took plaoe over the bill to re]>eal the act of two years ago, establishing the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind at Chicago. The repealing bill finally passed by a vote of 84 yeas to '27 nays. The committee bill to provide for the expenses of the Joliet Penitentiary, and to keep the prisoners of that institution employed, was passed. Resoln- tions of respect were adopted to the memory of the late Hon. John Sloan, of Knox County. AMONG the House bills read a first time in the Senate on the 9th inst., was the bill provid­ ing for administration <of trusts by trust com­ panies and the bill prohibiting the sale of adulterated wines or liquors. Trie House bill consolidating the two boardB of Penitentiary Commissioners and setting apart one of the State prisons for a reformatory, was read a second time, amended, and sent to third read­ ing. The Senate bill changing the fees of State's Attorneys was read a second time, and advanced to third reading without amend­ ment. The House general education bill was advanced to third reading. The House bill amending the law in relation to actions of ejectments was read a third time and failed to pass. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Benjamin H. King as Chief Grain Inspector at Joliet. The Fisher bill, amending and revising the law in regard to fire, marine, and inland navigation insurance companies, passed the House by a vote of yeas to 7 nays. , file Senate bill appropriating #11,000 to pay for | furniture purchased for the Appellate Court­ room of the Chicago district came up as a j special order on a motion to recon- I rider. The bill was finally ordered to ! third reading, appropriating $7,640 only. , The omnibus bill, making appropriation for ] the ordinary and incidental expenses of the eleven State charitable institutions, was passed by a large vote. This bill appropriates an ag- ; gregate of $*2,031,000. Mr. Crafts' bill, appropri­ ating $12,204 for the support of Chicago day schools for the education of deaf and dumb, was passed, as was also the bill appropriating $11,000 for repairs and improvements upon the State House grounds. The bill making appro­ priation for the Historical Library and Natural History Museum was passed. Mr. Pike's bill authorizing and requiring the County Commis­ sioners or Board of Supervisors of each county in the State to appoint a sufficient number of suitable persons in each township and ward of tiieh' county to, at the expense of the county, look after and bury the body of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor, or marine who served in the army or navy of the United States during the late rebellion, was passed by an overwhelm­ ing vote. The announcement of the appoint­ ment of Speaker Matthews as First Comptroller of the Treasury was made, and he was at onoe the honored recipient of congratulations, a fine portrait of himself and a gold-headed He than announoed hit early ABGJQg |^S UK IS BOUND XO Vnl PESNAMT. >*' t -V'"1 ' f» Based Upon the Logic that " Sobriety Will win Oatnes Right Along," With His Team in the Lead--Notes and ot the National Game. [CHICAGO CORRESPONDIFSFCLJ Surprises in base-ball are thing* tlttt P***- , Nobody, not oven the cranks, is surprised at the outcome of anything that happens in the domain of the national game nowadays. Consequently no devotee of the sport is surprised, at the close of the 8®eclP'i_ week of tho playing season, to find the Philadelphia colts occupying tirst yosi- tion in the League race, with Anson's ag­ gregation of sluggers trailing along al­ most in the rear of the proces­ sion. It was pretty much the same last year and the year before. So the ad­ mirers of the Chicago Club have got used to it. They are not surprised, neither are they discouraged. They remember that while the club these past two or three seasons started out in bad form and was away down at tue bottom of the list at the close ot the first month's playing season, before the summer's solatia# had passed it was playing winning ball and beating everything that c&me in its way, and they console them­ selves with the prediction that tho same thing will happen this year. Maybe it will; maybe it won't. We will wait and see. Whatever outsiders may say or think, one thing is certain--President Spaldina:. Cap­ tain Ansou and other officials connected with the club are as serene as a harvest moon. Spalding says he is going to capture tho flag sure; Anson says he ha3 a sure thing on it: the players all say there is no doubt about it. In the meantime the base­ ball patrons, particularly the cranks, have little to say beyond a general expression to the effect that they would have more faith in the professions of Anson et al. it the lat­ ter would only suit their actions to their words. "Where are you going to land the Chi­ cago Club?" asked a Cleveland reporter of the big Captain the other day. "In notch one," was Anson's prompt answer. "You can put that down solid. Anson is out for the p mnant. It's true we'.ve lost several games, but that fact hasn't discouraged us in the least. People have been talking about my club's weakness at the bat, but I think tho record will show that that's just our strong point. We've made more hits so far than any other club in the League. I'm not a bit afraid of either New York or Bos­ ton. I've a better club than either of them. I've as sober and respectable a lot of men as you will Arid in any business, I don't -care what it is. Anson can go to bed and sleep comfortably now. My team is composed of gentlemen. I invite inspection. I can trust any of them in any company. The boys are all sober and well-behaved, and that's just what is going to land me on top. Sobriety will win ball games right along." Dalrymple, the old-time left-fleWer of the Chicago Club, is playing in Denver. Capt. Irwin, of the Philadelphias, has been laid off indefinitely on account of poor playing. Mark Baldwin, the well-known pitcher, formerly ot the Chicago Club, has signed a contract to play with the Columbus (Ohio) Club. Duffy, of the Chioagos, was fined $5 at Pittsburgh. He was declared out at first on a close call. "What!" roared Duffy. "Five dollars," answered Umpire Barnum. Barnum says he will stand no more non­ sense from players. Every man who kicks at or questions his decisions hereattor'will be "cinched." He tried to bh lenient and the players made a "sucker" of him, es­ pecially the Indianapolis players. A movement is on foot in ^i. Paul to pro­ hibit Sun Jay base-ball pluying. 11 it should prove successful. Manager liarnes says he will disband the club, as without Sunday games tho club would not live a month. An interesting disputed point touching one of the league playing rules arose in a game at Indianapoiiu between Anson and Capt. Glasscock, of the Hoosier team. When the Chicagos" turn at bat was reached in the seventh Burdick. the Indianapolis'tenth man, was substituted for Boyle. Ryan was at the plate when Barnum discovered the change. "You can't do that," shouted Barnum to Glrtsscock; "you can bring in your tenth man only at the end of a completed inning. Tnis is not completed. An even inning is a completed inning. You will havo to wait until the Chicagos have been at bat." "What differtmoe aoes it make so long as he doesn't object?" asked Olassaook, aod- ding his head at Anson. "'Tisn't necessary," answered Anson, "there's the rules." "He doesn't object." urged Capt. Jaek to the umpire. "Yes he does." answered Barnum. "Do you object." called out the Booster oomnander^ "I most certainly do." replied Anso*. Then Glasscock went to the bench to con­ sult Man.iger Banc toft, who drew a book of rules from his pocket. "Look at ltule 28," suggested Barnuaa. Bee. 2 of liule 28, reads; "One player, whose name shall be printed on the score oani as an extra player, may be substituted at the end of any completed innings by either club." Bancroft called Barnum over and read Rule 28 and Rule 65, which say: "&n inning is the term at bat of the nine players: representing a club in a game, and is com­ pleted when three of such players have been put out as provided in these" rules." Then he argued that an inning had been com- pleted aud Glasscock had the right to sub­ stitute Bardick for Boyle without farther' delay. Barnum was won by the argument, and Burdick was allowed to remain in the box. It will be observed that in Rule 28 the term "innings," is used, while in Rule 65 "inning" is used. Base-ball authorities have for many years held that "inning" re­ ferred to a time at bac for one side ana "in­ nings" a time at bat for both sides. If these definitions hold good Barnum was wrong when he conceded Bancroft's point. Anson saya: "They made that rule while I was out of the country. Now, all I want is somebody to tell mo what it means." Martin Sullivan, formerly left-Holder ot the Chicagos, has signed with Indianapolis. Daly, lately released from tho Chicagos. has been engaged by Cleveland. Pettit. another of Anson's released players, has signed with Wilkesbarre. • Pete Conway knocked the ball over the fence at Pittsburgh, and now the Pittsburgh cranks rank the great men of history in this order: Conway, Washington, Alexander. Napoleon. This is the way Comiskey, the Captain of the St. Louis Browns, sizes up a winning ball club: "Thei e is little difference in the actual playing strength of teams nowadays. Nearly all professional ball players can catch a ball when it is thrown to them, and he is a poor one, indued, who cannot make a safe hit once in a while. When I size up a team I do not look at the plavors' batting or fielding records. A winning team is made up of men who will "turn tricks' when they see a chance--men who study points and work every advantage to win. All is fair in love and war. and the «*»»« may be said ot biise-balL" The Harvard base-ball men have hatehed up a trick which they claim will eateh nearly every oponent who is lucky enough to steal second base. The player who has succeeded in reaching seeond base, on see­ ing that baseman step back to his usual position, about ten feet back of the base line, steals several feet down the path to­ ward third. When he is about in front of shortstop that player makes a dash to­ ward second base, which causes the runner to dart in that direction also; but the short­ stop's run is only a feint, and the runner, on seeing the shortstop stop, also stops be­ fore reaching seeond, and the pitcher throws the ball to the second baseman, who is on base, and whom the runner has en­ tirely forgotten, and the runner is out. It is estimated that $3,000,000 is invested in base-ball in the United States and Can ada. Manager Hart of the Boston team says that Brouthers is far more valuable to his team than Morrill was. ^ Jim McCormick has goh^ back on base­ ball forever. He is still on the Pittsburg reserve list, bnt says this makos little dif­ ference to him. He will never play ball again. Horse racing is good enough for him. Spalding's Base-Ball Guide lor 1889 is out. It is edited by Henry Chadwick. who has be« appropriately dubbed the "father of base-ball." and is undeniably the best work of the kind that has ever been issued. It contains a vast amount of information, historical and statistical, relating to the national game, and is profusely illustrated. J. W. Spalding says that the League bat­ tle will be between the Chicago and Phila­ delphia clubs, and Boston and New York will not be in the race. Manager Hart of the Bostons thinks that a "reached base" column would be a more intelligible item in the score than a sacrifice hit column. According to this the sacrifice hitter would be cred ted with as many bases as he advanced runners. The player who does the most toward winnlnggamM shoald be credited for his work. >** OUT OF THE OSBfKARY. •M NKS" YORK ladies have adopted tfce Boston plan of engaging experts to gb*:fef lessons in whist. ;; AN enterprising citizen of Johnstown,,. N. J., is applying for a pension, a di» vorce, and a postoffice. BEBWN is called *tfie model city,* bnt the Salvation Army has abandoned - it as "not yet ripe for salvation." IN Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, which was opened in 1840, the 250,000tt| > interment took place last week. STREET car lines in Liverpool, MAN* v cheater, and London are to be suppli^il' with ammonia "tireless engines, invented in New Orleans. A GENTLEMAN of Americns, Ga., ownpt a jng which has carried liquor for hit family for over 100 years. This is pe*» haps the oldest "growler" in the eoufcr try.. H A HOT spring near Ragtown, GaL» throws a column of water nearly eight inches in diameter to a higlit of thirty feet. The water is boiling hot{ and th# * .»• spray scalds the skin whenever it cons# . / in contact. VIRGINIA preachers are said to mak#» the best farmers. They make the besfc crops and get the best prices. A deaA , con says: "I won't give a cent to th+, , support of my pastor. He makes »' v better crop than I do and gets better prices." ^ SINCE the purchase of Alaska it can be said of the United States what hail , been said of England for the last oe% v-ff- tury--that the sun never sets on her dominions. At sunset in Alaska ths next morning's aim is an hoar high " Maine. <( A MAINE man has figured up ho¥ ! mttny miles his faithful steed has tra^» > eled and finds that in the thirteen yeaiil he has driven his horse she has gon# 90,000 miles by the recor<L In ten yeatft a pair of Eastern Maine* stage holia® * have traveled 70,000 miles. PRESIDENT HARRISON ia m troubled by red ants in Hie WhitS House. They crawl over his desk ana- multiply among his papers until they have become an insufferable nuisancer ; The one consolation derived from theiji^; appearance is that they • are not officer -" , seekera. - . * .v. , ̂ - V#1 , V, iij 'hi j 'Tl f- Jenks and His Bej. "I see yonlr boy's back from Jenks," said Postmaster Bangs i& Farmer Jenks, during a loll in busineat in the Way back postoffice. " Yaas, he got in yistiddy," said Jenksu "I'm lookin' fur him now, an* ef I get ill reachin' distance o' him hell wiuiter go back ter-day." "Why, what's this matter?" asked v | Bangs. ' "You See, vistiddy when he got tc# • the house, I was doctorin' a oow, sick , ' - with the fever, an' arter shakin' han'%, •ays he: " 'Pap, that caw's snflerin' from heafcj feel her.' " 'Yaas,' 8*y L v\ " 'Ioe is the bea' thing ter drive mwMf - > heat,' says lie. w 'Yaas,' again s^ysX " ' 'Cordin' ter logidt,* said to, Wft ' , cure that cow.' '/ ; • "We packed the critter in he, an'lef.... Arter. a while we come bade, an' I lid"1, > ,>:- her. She was cold. .• " 'The fever's gone,' says L ,» .. j. V, " 'I tole you so,' says he. "Lookin' a little closer, says I: TfW tow's gone, to*' - -• : % * * 'Dead V says he. u'. , $ " 'Yaas,' says I, 'dead as a docw-nail|| " 'Pap,' says he, 'that warn't no logflf'• ..gc cal cow.' f ' l " 'I ain't raisin' them kind o' oowsfc* V: says I, sorter mad at loain' her, bt$ bein's it was his first day home, I nArev said no more. Arter supper, talkin' oft « difrent subjec's, says he: 'Pap, jnrj| Vj farmin'on shares, aint yon?' aay» ̂ Sou raise corn an'oata?* , ' i " 'Yaas,' says L ' " 'One-quarter ter the ban* anr on*? quarter ter the teamf says be. • ' " 'Yaas,' again says L. r . , " 'One-quarter ter the railroad, anf 11 one-quarter ter the commission mer» f chant ?' says he. '"v' " 'What do I get?* says I, thar's on'£ four quarters.' . " 'You git the rest'.--says he--tb# - rest o' the weary.' J " 'Nothin' else?' says I. V ̂ " 'You see, pap,* says he, 'ont o* ev*rjt dollar you make you have ter give awajf • four quarters, an' when you take four » quarters oat o'an ordinary dollar, thar1* nothin'lef but a big hole, an* yotr git that.' " H 'If that's so, I'm a goner,' says I. . - " 'Oh, no,' says he, 'yure all rights The gover'mint puts the whole to yur£ credit iu a big book.' ; , " 'Won* do me no goed,'saysL " 'Pap,' says he, 'I dunno whethet you was born that way, or yon got tha|| way by a fall, but, pap, yure a dur® fool.' He leP in er hurry, an' I ain% cotch him yet. When I do, he'll wish- he'd learnt some sense, stedder so mucp logiok an' Aggers."--Ji katntuw. etov * ifSt'lS --•vV " -kM-"Smoker's Heart," If, as alleged, it was too much smok*. ing which upset Mr. Edwin Booth ajf * Rochester, it is far from being the firs# :,i case of the kind in our history. ' > ; Within the past twenty years th^ > i- medical faculty has come to clearly com* *t prehend, and accurately diagnose, a dis» • case which they now denominate a^S>^ "smoker's heart!" Excessive smoking^ ; ' w h e t h e r b y p i p e , c i g a r , o r c i g a r e t t e , a f , ' • teds the action of the heart and dis« turbs the circulation. The pnlse will i n t e r m i t -- n o t w i t h a n y r e g u l a r i t y t ; sometimes one beat in four, sometime^,* •> • one in ten, sometimes two or three at gr, time, and then comes trouble. Th# brain, missing its regular pulsations of ^ blood, wavers, the heart flutters, ai4 then follows a temporary collapse. Strong cordials are "indicated."!* Strong coffee is good--strong spirit^ better. But the remedy, too often 5: lied upon, is as bad as the disease; an<$ ^ the subject grows slowly worse. An* , - gina pectoris is said to sometimes r»* suit. ' _ >' One of the leading physicians of thife - city relates a case in point. A patient • ; suffering from "smoker's heartwbelievei| , that he had a clxrouic heart disease^'. and came for a careful examination earlj| in the day--before he had eaten an J:, breakfast. The stethoscope showed tiu§ heart to be sound as a dot--he had no| * W. smoked for twelve hours. Greatly re« ' lieved at the verdict he lighted a bi(fe black cigar, and sat smoking, while h« ; * talked. In a few minutes as he rose t<| * go, his feet failed him, and he fell in 4 momentary faint. The heart was tering wildly, but yielded at once resumed its normal action, after a« stimulant. The moral of this story is that, if yoi| smoke at all, you should smoke in iuod eration, and only on a well-filled atom* ach. It is reokle jaaoss tbaA bagtfc • . CinmiMtt Enquirtr. A - y • -.IS'"I ̂J; V':' -• .jat * 4 ** * " V. §<S: