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' ' : ; . ' » »t jntienug §lamdealcr. J. VAN SLYKE, Puwusmsa. CHENEY, ILLINOIS. AUEICCLTUEIL AND DOMEGT{€« Vnn MM lnatd tMr golden glo*T > And sunny uplands of their beauty reft, Through the still sunlight of the autumn manu And hedgerows, with their lingering Jewel* left By the brown river, through the leafy lanes. On to the farmsteads move the loaded wains. The stalwart reaper bears hie brightened scythe. Or tracks the course the great machine haa •>» And bonnle laea and lad, sunburned and litt*. Bound whose straw hats woodbine and poppiM fade, Wake all the meadow land with harvest strains. <nustering snd laughing round the loaded WHM» Tie soft September nature's harvest yields, But all through hfe our ripening fruit we Now storing violets from sweet April fields, Now roses that bright July sunshines steep, How garnering gray October's sober gaina, |Now Christmas hollies pUe our loaded wains. ^Ah me! how fast the fair spring flowers die, P» How summer blossom* perish at the touch ; •'r And Hmwsndliove, in tweless sympathy, Weep for the faith But gave sad tost so moetol 'From naif our sheave* drop out the golden grain I; Small is our portion in the loaded wains. Yet are the mighty Reaper takes it alL Fling out the seed, and tend it rood by rood; One ear is full, though hundreds round it fall;' •" One acre 'mid a mildewed upland good; . 'Eternity will rear on heavenly plains ' * "The smallest treasure won from loaded wains. Arouad the fam. . TBICPERISO Sram for ROOK DMM«WO. --In tempering steel for rock drilling be careful not to overheat it in harden­ ing and forging, and finally quench in / salt water.--American Cultivator. THH Potter Journal says that the farmers in that part of Pennsylvania have discovered that the thrush will not ( only eat the potato bugs, but that it ,aoon suoceeds in exterminating that pest. CORN AS HUMAX FOOD.--One pound of corn is equal as food to three and three-quarters pounds of potatoes, or eight and one-half pounds of cabbage, or eleven and one-half pounds of white turnips.--Germantoivn Telegraph. A PENNSYLVANIA butter-maker tests his salt by dissolving a little in a glass tumbler; if the brine formed is clear and free from bitter taste, he pronounces the salt good; jf, on the other hand, it pre­ sents a milky appearance, leaves any sediment or throws scum to the surface, he rejects it.--Chatham Courier. i POTATO BKBTOBS POISONOTO?-- question is: "Are the beetles and larva} poisonous?" The juices of the insect on the human"skin "are as a rule harmless," says Riley, "yet the rule is not without exceptions." But the ex­ halations resulting from bruising and crushing large masses of them,, or of burning or scalding large numbers at a time, have, when breathed, frequently proved fatal. They should be avoided. --Maine Farmer. STRAIGHT paths and stiff rows of shrubs j^d flowers should not be left to remind one of plats in a graveyard: Walks shsnld wind up among the trees and shrubs, as the path winds on through the beautiful groves God has made. The child will carry with him the sweet vis­ ions of such a home to the ends of the earth. In that nook of beauty will be laid his scenes of fancy and fiction. Around it will cluster the memories of guidance and love.--Dr. W. W. Newell. ' Arras experimenting with all varieties of corn. Bowing broadcast, in drills, and cultivating by hoeing it, I have come to the conclusion that the best and most profitable way to raise corn fodder is to plant sweet corn, put your rows three feet apart, plant thick, not more than two feet apart, put in six to eight stalks to a hill, manure heavily, keep it clear of weeds, hoe two or three times, and you will not fail to have an abundant crop of the best kind of fodder for milch cows. --New England Homestead. FEEDING POB MANUBK.--We must not ffrgM that in all food, rich or poor, there is a certain amount of indigestible matter, and some of this contains ele­ ments * rich in plant food as that which is digested. This also tends to still fur­ ther enrich the manure pile. Linseed meal, cotton-seed meal and com meal afe%he articles generally used as food for, fattening cattle, and, while these con­ tain the elements of fat, they are also rteh in the elements of nitrogen and minerals, which are so necessary for plant growth.--Cor. JNetf England, Farmer. SOMETIMES in dragging drilled wheat lengthwise a single tooth will get into a row and drag up all the plants in it, while when the harrow is dragged across the rows the wheat is not dragged out, asihe teeth are all evenly supported, ftnjf do not touch at a time more than a single plant. Harrowing wheat in the spring is only a light hoeing that breaks the crust of the ground and exposes the soil to the air, and hence promotes the growth of the young plant by encour­ aging it to push out its roots. The hoe following as a second opera­ tion, ought to have a very salutary effect on the growth of the wheat plant at that season, aiding to make more roots and to. stool out for a longer season. At the same time the very stirring of the soil makes it more able to sustain a greater growth, and to retain the rains and dews while resisting with iron power the heat of the sun. On clay soils that are apt to crust over and become baked in the spring it is a most effective operation, leaving the soil in a good condition for the whole season of the growth of the wheat plant end up to its ripening. The advantage of hoeing wheat ought to be more thoroughly tested in this State than it has yet-been. --Michigan Farmer. «*• -- 1 • About the House. 1$^ fcjfcjking spoils good food. EAT licorice to sweeten the breath. APPLY common baking soda to burns. THERE is no dignity in work half done. BOTTOMT heat is not good to raise bread. ; COLD corned beef is best for making hash. / EAT what your appetite craves if you can get it. Do NOT entertain visitors with your own domestic troubles. HUSBANDS must not expect their wives to make good, white bread from poor ijpuo for everything, and everything in its place, is the secret of good house­ keeping. ONB-HAU cup of corn starch improves, any common cake] less flour, however, must be used. FKVKB AND A0*JB.--Sweet fern tea has cured chills and fever at the South, where it is very prevalent. Make a tea of the leaves and drink of it freely every day. FRIED SCOMIOPS.--Dry the scollops in a towel; beat an egg, and roll soda crack­ ers very fine; dip the scollops into the egg, ana then roll in the cracker dust; have venr hot equal parts of butter and lard, and fry the scollops in it. Ox GALL.--One table-spoonful of mil in one pail of water will set the color. To make the goods look bright and clear use borax when washing; do not rub soap on, but have a weak suds made; rinse in clear water. COM) BICE PUDDING.--'Three table spoonfuls of rice; five table-spoonfuls of sugar; a piece of butter as large as a hick­ ory nut and a little salt. Let the rice boil up three or four times in a gill or more of water, then stir in the sugar, butter and salt, and add one quart of milk; boil one hour. Let it get oold-- the ioe-box is the best place--grate nut­ meg over it and serve. CURE FOR DYSPEPSIA.--Half an ounce rhubarb, half an ounoe snake root, two ounces wild cherry, one cubebs, two ounces sweet fern, one ounce prickly- ash bark. Put these into two quarts of water and let it slowly simmer until re­ duced to a pint, then put it into one quart of the best gin, and take a wine- glassful before each meaL BAKED TOMATOES.--Skin the tomatoes put into a baking dish a layer of rolled cracker and small pieces of butter, then a layer of tomatoes,'1 sliced; add another layer of cracker and butter, with pepper and salt to the taste; then a layer of green corn, cut from the cob; repeat un­ til the dish is filled. Bake three-quar­ ters of an hour. " I WANT every mother in the land to know what is a certain cure for cot or bruise, or any kind of hurt. Soft hot water is. Immerse the injured part into as hot water as can be borne, until the pain and inflammation is relieved. I knowa little 2-year-old upon whose ten­ der, soft little hand a heavy wind on oame crushing. In its frantic efforts to get the hand out, the poor little fingers were so terribly lacerated and torn that amputation was deemed inevitable. The mother would not listen to it, but kept the hand for hours in a basin of as hot water as the child could bear. In a few days the fingers healed beautifully,with­ out sou* or fester.--Cor. Chicago Trib­ une. • THE GUILLOTINE* THRILLING EXCOVXTEK. timSSSKMilsm'&SL&s Into Man Bxecntion of a Cowardly Parisian Hh< •tor--A Sickening Scene. [Parle Cor. New York Herald.] Pierre Jean Welker, the odious as­ sassin of a little girl in the Bue Nation- ale--she was 8, and he strangled her with her skipping rope, outraged her dead body, and went to sleep, using her corpse as his pillow--has been guillo­ tined. The warrant designated as the hour "about 5:30 a. m.," and somewhat after midnight the machine arrived and was noiselessly set up with wooden screws, only about 150 persons being at­ tracted to the scene besides the military and police.' One of them was a woman. It was 4:48 when M. Boch had every­ thing in working order and tried the fall of the ax; then he and his assist­ ants, Jacob, the Chief of the Detective Service, and the Abbe Crozes, who lias accompanied so many scores of murder­ ers to the guillotine, and whose hack, No. 148, is as much a part of the pro­ cession as M. Boch'8 van, entered the prison. Welker was a fearful ooward, who had wept and moaned and tore his hair when sentence was passed, and when he was placed in the condemned oell, but he believed the merciful false­ hood that forty days must ©lapse before the carrying out of sentence, which Jail attendants always tell to confiding pris­ oners ; and, thinking he had still some time left to him, and also having faith that his petition for mercy would be heard, he had gotten over his terror, ate freely and slept soundly. So soundly was he sleeping this morning that neither the opening of his cell door nor the light of the lanterns distebed him. Jacob shook him. by the shoulder, and the clerk said loudly, "Wake up, Wel­ ker, your petition has been rejected; you must prepare to die." A horrible sound, half the cry of a wild beast, half a death-rattle, issued from the miserable man's throat, and he fell back on his bed, convulsively biting the coverlet. "Have you anything to say ? Do you want any brandy?" asked Jacob; but Welker did not hear him, and lay racked by convulsive shudder*. He was lifted out of bed and made a vain effort to draw on his trousers, but he could not stand, and tumbled again upon his oouch. The veins on his forehead and temples stood out like knotted cordage, his eyes were filmy, his jaw had fallen, and a cold sweat was pouring down his ashy face. The Abbe Crozes spoke to him earnestly; Boch asked, "Do I hurt you?" as he bound his hands, but Welker made no answer, heard nothing, was as one dead. Indeed, the attendants were urged to make haste or he would die of fright in their hands. Two of them had to carry him out with his arms round their necks, his head hanging on the right shoulder, and his legs trailing on the stones behind them. The priest walked backward be­ fore him te shut out the sight of the machine of death, but the merciful pre­ caution was needless. Welker knew nothing. His body fell upon the plank like a bag of sand, and a moment later the ax fell. Owing to the difficulty of placing the inert body in position, the ax shored away the head diagonally, tak­ ing off a part of one shoulder, and leav­ ing a piece of the jaw attached to the other. So large was the murderer's skull that it got jammed in the bucket into which it fell, and could only be shaken out by pounding on the inverted vessel. It Tras 4:48 when the officers entered the prison to take out their man; it was 5:06 when the ax fell, the time occupied being three minutes less than was taken in tne case of Billoir. Boch thinks that with all circumstances favor­ ing him he can reduce the time to twelve minutes--that is to say, there will be for the criminal an interval of less than ten minutes between sleep and death. But how many ages of mental agony in those ton minutes! A WMUM&MI Deer LMMII TWO Mtaon an Indian G»mf-How a Brave Fought the Savage** [A Black Hill# Letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer.] On the 4th inst. fourteen of us found­ ed this camp or diggings, which is thir- ty%iv%p miles from Peadwood, and in a locality much infested by hostile In­ dians. Three of our party are from Ill­ inois, one from Canada, two from Mich­ igan, one from Omaha, two from the city of Chicago, and the fourteenth man was from Ohio. On the morning of the 8th inst,/soon after we had disposed of breakfast, a deer was observed on the hillside, about a quarter of a mile away. The Buckeye ana the Canadian at once rushed for their guns, and were about leaving camp to secure a shot at the game when the entire balance of the party strongly pro­ tested against such recklessness. We knew to a certainty that there were hos- tiles all around us, and ©very firearm was left where it could be grasped at a moment's warning. Had the deer not again appeared in full sight, seeming to be surveying the camp, the men would have returned to their shovels. While determined to go they waited a moment to prepare themselves. The Buckeye took nil his firearms, and .the Canadian took a double-barreled shot-gun and a revolver. Work was suspended for a few min­ utes as the men moved out., Between our camp and the deer the ground was uneven and covered with bushes tall enough to cover a man. The deer stood in an open spot higher up and plain to the eye. Securing good positions, we waited to note the success of the shots. The men crept through the bushes until within close range of the game, and then both fired at once. We saw the deer give a convulsive start, as if hit, lose its legs for an instant, and then bound up the hill under cover. In about two min­ utes more the two men were seen to cross the open space in .pursuit. Ex­ pecting they would soon return, we re­ sumed work, and were not greatly con­ cerned until two long hours had passed. It was then agreed that the men had either encountered Indians or become oonfused and lost. The oountry in that direction was strange to all of us, and consisted of broken ground, hills, ra­ vines and here and there a grassy valley, long and narrow. What transpired after we lost sight of the two men is told by the Canadian, whose name is James Lennox, and whose home is in Ottawa. They believed the deer to be mortally wounded, and fol­ lowed it up the hill a quarter of a mile along its crest, and then the game de­ scended the hill and continued along a valley stretching back tor two or three miles between two ridges. This valley was not over thirty feet wide at any point, and had probably been gullied out by the spring torrents. The men found blood on the grass here and there as they followed the trail at a lope, and every minute they expected to see the deer be fore them. The valley ran as tortuous a course as the average river, and, while "loping" around one of the sharp curves, fully expecting to find the deer beyond, the two miners ran upon an Indian vil­ lage containing about twenty lodges. Squaws were sitting around the files, boys were running over the grass, ana from twenty to thirty warriors were grouped around the deer, either dying or dead, a few rods above the oamp • Lennox says they were within thirty feet of the first lodge when they halted. Their surprise was so great that they stood there for a moment without moving or speaking. Squaws and children re­ turned their store, doubtless just as much amazed, but the Indians were the first' to take in the situation. A grand yell of alarm was uttered in chorus to attract the attention of the .warriors, and then the two miners turned and fled. Both fully realized the danger, and both put forth every effort to secure all the start possible. The yejl of alarm from the camp was answered by the warriors, and about a minute after that there oame another shout signifying that the red­ skins were in pursuit. At this time there were two bends or curves between the fleeing miners and the Indian village, and they were rapid­ ly nearing another. The Ohio-man did not seem excited or frightened. He probably realized that they were too far from our camp to evade the Indians by flight down that narrow valley, and as they ran he said to Lennox : "As soon as we turn this bend we must take cover; you go to the left and I will to the right, and we can clamber up the ridge and conceal ourselves be­ fore they sight us. After they give up the search we must make our way to the oamp as best we can." After getting fairly around the bend each dashed for the ridge. It was cov­ ered with loose rock, bushes and stunted trees, and was hard climbing. Lennox lost his gun before he had climbed thirty feet. It fell and lodged in the bushes at the base of the ridge, and he climbed on without it. When about fifty feet up he heard the Indians coming, and rested where he was, afraid that some noise might betray him. Their heavy boots had left a plain trail, and the redskins had passed them only a hundred feet when they discovered that the miners had taken cover in the bushes. They divided into two parties and closely scanned the base of the ridge on each side. Lennox could see them moving along below him, and, happening to glance across at the other bank, he be­ held the Ohio man standing on a rocky shelf not twenty feet above the Indians. The hillside at his back was too steep to chmb, and all escape was cut off. When first seen by Lennox the Buckeye was kneeling down, revolvers and extra am­ munition on the rock in front of him. He could not tell where his comrade was, and was making preparations to defend his life to the last. The Indians discovered him first, his trail being plainest, or because the Ca­ nadian had left none as he drew himself up the ridge. The first yell from the Indians was answered by a shot from his rifle. Standing on the edge of the rocky Shelf, he discharged his rifle as fast as possible into the dusky arowd below. Lennox says he saw three or four fall,but they were'dragged away by the retreat­ ing band. Some ran up the valley and some down it to get out of range, but it was only a ssnute before they took cover on both sides of the valley and began a rapid fire. The Buckeye sat down, his rifle across his knees and his back to the overhanging cliff, and was quite pro­ tected from the bullets. Some of the Indians were on his side of the valley and some on the other, and they oould not exactly locate him. The bullets •truck the cliff above him and the bushes beneath him, but he was quite safe un­ til some of them could gain a position opposite and above him. The Sre of the Indiana slackened for three or four minutes while they planned, and then grew warm as a war­ rior worked his way along through the bushes and rocks not more than fifteen feet below where the Canadian was hid­ ing. The Buckeye read the plan, and his eyes were constantly scanning the hilLidc opposite. _ The Indian was just getting into position for a plunging shot when discovered by the miner at bay, and the next instant he received a ball from the Henry rifle through the head. He rose up, lifted his arms, and then fell forward and rolled down to the grass. There was a terrible yell from the savages m a dead warrior crashed down, and thai a deep silence fell upon the valley. The Canadian admits that he was too frightened to make the least movement. He expected that Indians were working around to positions above Mm on both ridges, and he drew himself into as small a space as possible, and kept his eyes on the brave man opposite. All the chanoes were against the Buckeye, and he knew it It wag only a question of time when the savages would secure positions from which they could riddle liis body with bullets. After the silence had continued unbroken for five minutes, lie caught the only plan offering the least hope of success, Beasoning, undoubtedly, that the Indians were by that time making their way up the ridges, and that the valley was clear, he made ready to de­ scend, and dash off down the valley, hoping to secure start enough to insure his escape. He laid his rifle one side, tightened his belt, and then taking a re­ volver in either hand, he slipped off the ledge, and in another minute was in the valley. There was a yell from above as soon as he struck the grass, some one having been left to watch for such a move. The Buckeye dashed away at his best pace, followed by whoops and shouts, and screams, and the noise of Indians orashing through the bushes, as they dropped into the valley. He was either intercepted or overtaken before running forty lexis, as he halted and opened fire with Ms revolvers. Lennox heard him, ahout fiercely and defiantly, as if de­ termined to die game, and the crack! crack ! crack ! of his revolvers oould be plainly detected from the reports of the rifles. It was two or three minutes be­ fore the firing ceased, and then the si­ lence was broken by wails and laments from red men, proving that the miner had sent more than one of them to the happy hunting grounds. In a short time the squaws and children oame down the val­ ley, and the laments were renewed. Lennox saw a boy have one of the Buck­ eye's revolvers and a squaw carrying the other, but he saw no scalp or dead body to prove beyond question that his com­ rade was dead. However there is no doubt about this, as he has not been heard of since. Lennox scrambled fur­ ther up the ridge as the Indians began to return up the valley, carrying their dead and wounded, and it was not until two days after that a party of six men from our camp, out in search of the missing, ran across him in the hills, al­ most dead from fright, fatigue and hun­ ger. His statement is undoubtedly cor­ rect in every particular, and it may be some little consolation to the friends of the nameless Ohioan to know that he died as only brave men do. ILLINOIS TAXES. Conclusion of the Labors of the State Board of Eqnalnatlo n--Changes from Reports of Connty Boards--Assessed Valu# of Railroad Property, Be. At the last meeting of the State Board of Equalization at Springfield, last week, the Committee on General Equalization presented, an elaborate report,"the essen­ tial. portion of which is comprised in the following table, giving the per cents, which the committee recommend shall be added to or deducted from the the as­ sessed values of each class of property in the several counties of the State: OIKIBAL FBOPKITT. Esftt St. Lonis and Carondelet Evansville, Dam Haste ami Chicago .... Galena and Southern Wisconsin Grand Tower Mining, Manufacturing and Transportation Company Graynlle and Mattoon Oilman, Clinton tad Springfield Hannibal and Naples. Havana, Rantool and Eastern Illinois Midland. Illinois and bt. Louis IndisnapoUs, Bloomlngton and Western.. Indianapolis, Decatur sad Sprtngflekt.... IittlianaiMilin and RC T«nais Iron Mountain, Cheater and Eastern Jacksonville, Northwestern and 8onU^ 40.615 *>im' Personal l*r°perty A d . Adams...... Alexander........ Bond Boone. Brown,.,........ Bureau Calhoun,... Carroll. Cass.... Champaign........... ChriBtiaa..... Clark Olay Clinton....... Coles Cook Crawford Ciuuberlaad.. Dr.Kalo PeWMf ...... BcraglM...... DuPage.... Edgar Edwards.... Effingham.. Fayette Ford Franklin. Fulton Gallatin... Greene., f.... Grundy. Hamilton ,.... Hancock...... Hardin......... Hendenma.... Henry... Iroquois,.., Jackson Jasper. . Jefferson Jereey. Jo Daviess Johnson Kane Kankake*.......... Kendall Knox Lake..... La Salle Lawrenos Lee LWngBt-an Jtagfwi, Maeon. MttCOMpi®. Madison Marion Marshall Mason Maoeac.. McDofioilgh.. MellMMf... McLean. Menord. Mercer Monroe. Montgoraefy Morgan.;., Moultrie Ogle.... Peoria Perry Piatt Pike Pope... P«S#skl.. Putnam. Ratulolpli. Richland Rock Hand Saline ganguuoD Schuyler Scott Shelby. Stark St, Clair Stephcnina......... Tazewell Union Vermilion Wal>a*h. Warren Wiwltittgton Wayne. White,.. WMtesides Will... ;... William Hoa Winne Woodfa sr De. 30 "it "is 13 "ii 57 » 48 is 4 M ai '« 94 It 9 18 76 90 19 19 16 81 11 Land*. Ad. De. 19 10 10 9S 19 Toxen & dtp I*ot9 Ad. 19 11 M 19 De. 10 35 4 33 4 14 90 9 *4 4 18 4 89 106 14 16 19 Joliet and Northern Indiana, Lafayette, Elcmmington and Mississippi.. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern...... Louisville, New Albany and St. Loois.... Michigan Oentral Ohio and Mississippi Paris and Danville Peklq, Lincoln sadDeoetnr Peoria, Pekin sad Jacksonville Peoria and Rock Island. Peoria sad Springfield Pittsburgh, Fart Wayae and Chicago.... Ratfk Island sad Meroer Comity. St. Louis, Alton sad Terra Hante St. Lonii, Marine and KdwardsrlUs St. Louis, Rock Island and Chicago St. Lonis and Sonthssstem. 8t. Louis, Vandallaand Terr® Hants.,... Springfield and Northwestern Byoamor and Cortlaad. • Toledo, Peoria dad Warsaw union Railway and Transit Coiapaar.... Wabash Western I8M41 <m.409 8B4,157 JW,023 •8ft, 140 961,350 m,w& W.268 83,481 198,100 178,838 984,778 88,757 146JS0 910,188 988^30 *73,786 918,918 £3 90,110 886,143 609,807 MC8.91S 181,886 13,013 9,104,SSI 443,119 Total. *• *<«' +*• ALL SUITS. « Dad's Financiering." A farmer's wagon, in whioh were seated a family of eight, yesterday drove up to a house on Beaubien street, and, leaving his team at the curbstone, the farmer knocked at the door, drummed on the windows, and seemed determined to get in at every hazard. When all ef­ forts had failed, he returned to the wagon, hitched his horses, and the fam­ ily sat down on the grass to wait. A lad who had watched the performance passed around the corner and suddenly discovered the boy whose parents lived in the house. "Here--you--there's a whole family toying to get into your house!" he shouted. " Hush--shut up I" whispered the other. "But they are visitors," continued the other. " Don't I know all about it?" growled the hiding boy; "didn't mam and I see 'em drive up, and didn't we scoot out of the back door as the feller came through the gate"? I'm here and mam's over in that house, and we feel like some one ought to boot dad all over town I" "Why? What did your father do?" "What did he do? Why, he was out in the country buying poultry and rags, and he stopped at a farm-house, made 'em believe he was a distant relashun, and got his dinner for nothing. He came home and told it as a big joke, and he grinned around for a week, but now I want to see him when he comes up to dinner and finds them ' relashuns' squatted around the gate! Do they show any signs of leaving ?" " Nary sign," replied the other as he climbed the fence. "Well, let 'em stick. Mam won't come home, I'll be gone, and if this turns out a Black Friday for dad it'll serve him right. Let's get where we can see his knees wobble as he turns the corner and sees his distant rela­ shuns covering half an asre o& ground !" --Detroit Free Press. Insanity. Goethe said that the means for the cure of insanity, leaving out the use of drugs, are the means which are of use in preventing the well from becoming in­ sane. Dr. C. F. Folsom, of the Massa­ chusetts Board of Health, has written a memoir, which forms no inconsiderable part of the last annual report of that body, to show that the words of the poet are scientifically correct. Fresh air, ex­ ercise, and total abstinence from the use of stimulants will do more to preserve the health of persons predisposed to in­ sanity than all the drugs in the world. The report was adopted. The adoption of these percentages produces a surplus of about $1,800,000 of equalized over-assessed vulues, and the surplus was, by vote of the Board, ordered to be distributed so as to reduce the assessments in the counties of Peo­ ria, Edwards, Effingham, Grundy and Fayette. CAPITAL STOCK. The committee on capital stock ot cor­ porations other than railroads made a report which was adopted. The report is as follows: AdaniH county-- German Insurance and Savings Institution. $63,995 Whitney s liohnes Organ Company 5,250 Van Diver Corn-Planting Company 26,0(10 Quiucy Gas-Light and Coke Company.....i "33,MC> Quincy Savings Bank 24,650 Hiilon P ills, of Qniucy 11,123 Quincy Kailroiid and iuge Company...... 195,500 Cook count} -- Traders' Insurance Company.................. 1!59,090 Chicago City Railway Company 409,587 Chicago West Division P.uihviry Company.... 138,435 Chicago Caryet Company 4,348 Chicago Packing and Provision Company.. 141,478 Pullman Palace Car Company 120,000 iKuiglaH county-- Areola Mercantile Association. 3,440 Du Page county-- .. . Empire Fire Insurance Company 49,WO Grundy county-- Morris Bridge Company 10,706 Kane county-- Fox River Manufacturing Company 6,161 Illinois Iron and Bolt Company 18,700 Aurora Gas-Light Company s,095 Kankakee county-- Kankakee Company 6,603 Knox county-- Farmers and Mechanics' Bank Macoupin county-- Banker Hill Bank IlemlerHou Loan and Building Association.. 3,600 Morgan connty-- Jacksonville Gas-JJght and Coke Company.. 18,000 Peoria county-- Peoria Gas-Light and Coke Company 31, German Fire insurance Company *jM>67 Peoria Bridge Association St. Clair county-- Bant St. Louis Rendering Works Sangamon county-- Springfield Gas-Licht Company 34,737 SteoheiiBon county-- German Insurance Company wyiou Winnebago county-- Rockford luBurance Company Uockford Gas Company ».44i People's Savings Bank Xi,uos RAILROAD PROPERTY. The Railroad Committee also made a report. It gives the following figures aB the equalized value of the railroad prop­ erty, including right of way, track and rolling stock, and there is no assessment of capital stock of railroads: Railroad*. Aaseued Vrnfttt. Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago. $ 11,314 Cairo and St. Louis 284,142 Cairo and Vincennes 882,760 Carbontlale and Shawneetown **,Oiri Chicago and Alton 5,013,791 Alton and St. Louis, St. Lonis, Jackson­ ville and Chicago, Joliet and Chicago were embraced in assessment of Chl3»> go and Alton MOHAMMED ALI, in 1829, made ft canal is Egypt in two months of forty-eight miles long and ninety feet wide, on which he employed at one time 250,000 workmen. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.. Chicago, Danville and Vincennes 8,353,327 431,398 68,021 . ai6,7(>9 13,446 -.20,1,6ft Chicago and Illinois River Chicago and Iowa Chicago, Millington and Western Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Chicago and >"ortln*c»tern 1^056,576 Chicago and Pacific..... 'J51..V2* Chicago and I'aducah 428,491 Chicago, Pekin and Southwestern Ii)u,!>39 Chicago, Rock Inland tuid Pacific......... 8,347.070 Chicago and Southern . 48.074 i:ntctunatt, Lafayette and Chicago 128,683 Coal Valley Mining Company.. 17,860 Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Centnl. 186,613 Decatur, Mattoon and Southern 73,889 SCRAN E. DICKINSON, a sister of has started on a lecture tour. THE Boston letter-carriem in to Y** 1 in- a walking tournament. ! • AM International Congress for the ad­ vancement of good morals is to meet in Geneva. A BAM FRANCISCO clergyman says thtt only one-tenth, of the men in that oily ever go to church. BOM PEDRO, Emperor of Brazil, ii back home in Bio de Janeiro, after an absence of a year and a half. Fran have been successfully intro­ duced into the waters of thirty-two States and six Territories. IRON wire conducts electricity 400,- times better than water, and 4,, 000,000 better than sea water. MARS and Ms b&bj moons will not be again seen, alter their present star en­ gagement, mottl September, 1892. !Pomo, the capital of Japan, with 1,- 200,000 or so inhabitants, has 797 private §efe©olss with 88,901 pupils in thtan. ^ yellow, red, and©mng%;.... „' > 'The leaTes ooiae down in host#] SJSie trees are Indian princes-- .*' But soon they'll turn to ghost* THBBS are 659 Presbyterian congrega­ tions in Ireland, having 107,269 comman­ dants. The average salaiy of their pa*> tors is $870. A CONVICT was put into the stocks in Willis, Texas. His cries for meroy, 18 Take me down," ** I am dying," were not heeded, and he died under the tor­ ture. Tin Japanese Government has tson- strncted a war balloon, which has been successfully tried at Tokio. It is of thick silk/and was inflated with pure hydrogen. A Moscow newspaper says that out of the wealthy merchant families of that city not a' single member has gone to flgnt the Turks, They get medical cer­ tificates of unfitness for military senrioe, and often have to pay well for tnem. WMHH¥ Chinamen of Sao Francisco are suspected of ©ripping the feet of their little girls, after the fashion in their own country. Ah Moon is under arrest for having removed the bones from his daughter's feet, so that they oould be oompressed. A FRXNCH miller living near Rich- mond, Va., states that he used the new process of milling flour in his mill in New York State in 1848. This will nullify the claims of a patent process now used throughout the country on whioh royalty is claimed* DR. AUJHBT LOWER, of Hot Si Ark., and Ed. B. McLellan, of Mew leans, met as strangers on the New Or­ leans, St. Louis and Chicago railroad, but within half an hour they had had a trifling dispute and were fighting a duel. McLellan was severely, but not fatally, shot THB National Grand LodgeL O. O. F. has selected Austin, Tex., for its next annual meeting, miti&uon this yew diminished 10,000, compared with the previous year. Revenue about $25,000. The number dropped for non-payment *" of dues increased about 6,000. THK Hottentots .always fejoioe in the " arrival of a swarm of locusts, eat them in great numbers, and make soup of their eggs. They are brought in wagon loads to Zez in Africa, and are preserved by salting or smoking. The Moora prefer them to pigeons, and a person may eat 200 or 300 without feeling any ill efifecte. Thsy are usually boiled In wales' hull an hour, after throwing away the head, legs and wings, and then fried with a little vinegar. THX celebrated nickel mines at Gap, Lancaster county, Pa„ worked for sev­ eral years past exclusively by the United States Government, will soon be aban­ doned, and operations will not be re­ sumed for some time. The cause of tnis is reported to be the discovery, in New Caledonia, of very rich deposits of nickel ore, where it is said to crop out above the surface of the ground, so that it can be mined with very little trouble or ex­ pense. At the Gap, it is well known, it is brought up from great depths in the earth, and at considerable cost. AT 10 o'clock yesterday forenoon a man who looked as if he would dare to do right if he had half a chance entered an oyster store on Michigan avenue and courteously inquired: " Do you have oysters here on the one-half shell?" "Yes, sir, we do," was the answer. " Which half of the shell is the oyster on ? " was the next inquiry. The oys­ ter man regarded the stranger keenly, and after a minute replied that they were on the left half of the shelL " Ah--um--too bad," muttered the man. "I wanted them on the right half. Good-day, sir. I can't go left-handed oysters no-how."--Detroit Free JPrese. A STHIIT DAT IN AUTUMN. I love to wander through the woodlands hoary, In the soft light of an autumnal tiny, When summer gathers no her robes of glory, And like a drawn, of beauty glides awmy. How through each k>ved» fsunilisir path A* Itofsn, Serenely amilmg through the golden mist, Tinting the wild grapa with her dewy flngew, Till the cool emerald turns to amethyst. Warm lights are on the sleepy uplands waninfc Bencsth soft clouds along the honaon rolled. Till the tileut sunbeams through their fringe* lug. Bathe ail the hills la innhmsfroly (old. --Smk Htltn Wktomm*. a,-Sa5l4f«i§fi