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ggrfEttttg fftoindeata I. VM tLYKE, EMwaiPiMWMr. MoHENBT, » , • ILLINOIS. Is 1898, John Tobin tu obliged to Hoe from Salt Lake to escape death from the Mormon avengers. He owned considerable property, bat he deserted It and took up his abode in Kansas City. Just before John D. Lee's exe­ cution he confessed that he had been employed by Brigham Young to kill Tobin, and had attacked the party, fljiiUing several, but only wounding Tobin. Tobin will now sue Salt Lake City for $1,000,000. Lou SCABHERRT, a Scotia (Neb.) liutcher, accompanied by a peace-per- •nading bull-dog, was invited, while meandering homeward Sunday night, to "throw up your hands." Lou's dukes went up. and the dog went out fttto the darkness. A mighty struggle iiisued. Bones cracked and wild yells were heard, in the midst of which Lou scampered off unharmed. The bull­ dog turned up a few hours afterward, loaded with scraps of old clothes end masticated cuticle. AMONG the few survivors of Water loo is Lord Albermarle, who entered ihe English army April 4, 1815, and , served June 18 with the old Fourteenth Foot. He retired upon half-pay as Major, became * Major General Octo ber 26, 1858, and a General February 7; 1874. The other survivor, who is on fhe army list, is Gen. George Wliicli- cote. This veteran soldier received his commission in January, 1811, and served in the Peninsula with the Fifty second Light Infantry. FRED IRISH is the 14-year-old son of Mart Irish, the village blacksmith of Deerfield, Mich. The other day he Was loading a revolver, end, finding the cartridge too large, he took the cham­ ber from the revolver and essayed to push them in with his teeth. The cart­ ridges stood this, but when he pro­ ceeded to pound them in with a ham­ mer they rebelled. The chamber of the revolver is a total loss, but Fred saved one of the balls, catching it in lus leg, and he has it yet. MRS. L. A. HOUSEB, of Perry, 6a., has a curiosity in the shape of a ball of -corn that grew on top of a cornstalk in the place where the tassel usually grows. The ball consisted of a cluster of thirty-five diminutive ears of corn, All being fairly well filled with ma­ tured grains. The longest of these ears is about five inches and the shortest abqut two inches. The whole ball is equal to nearly two good ears of corn. This was extra from the regular ears of corn on the stock from which it was gathered. LADY TENNYSON, it is said, is neither intellectual nor esthetic, but is her husband's very humble worshiper. She does not appreciate his work, but When she became his wife he was the poet laureate, and she counted the fact -of more consequence than the late au­ thorship of the "Idyls of tha King." He was very fond of reading his verses in a chanting tone and grandiloquent manner; she invariably listens with Tapt attention and explodes in superla­ tives. Being indulged, flattered, and humored to the top of his bent, he is •domestic. JUDGE SLOAN, of Golconda, III., was cutting weeds near his house the other evening and cut off the head of a rat­ tlesnake. The same blow threw the snake into the air and it fell upon the judge's neck, about which it coiled with a convulsive grasp, at the same time keeping up its ominous rattle. A colored man pulled the body off the frightened judge and assisted him to the house, where it was some time be­ fore he could convince himself that the blood which was smeared on his face from the body of the snake was not the Tesult of a wound. MAJ. W. BRUNSON, of Perry, Ga., owns a pig that has developed some pe­ culiar traits. She is a girl pig. She was petted when quite young, and soon became found of human society-- in fact, she became very familar with quite a number of business men on Car- voll street. She became quite indolent, especially when she found that she would not come face to face with the alternative to "root, pig, or die." When her food is plaoed before her she in­ variably reclines at full length while eating. She is quite exclusive in choosing her ossooiates, and positively refuses to eat in company with the other hogs belonging to Mr. Brunson. A MOST curious object in the shape of a negro child is living at Aufusta, Ga., according to the Savannah News. The boy, who is about 3 years of age, has neither hands nor feet As substi­ tutes for these limbs nature has given him olaws somewhat resembling those of a crab. There are little or no palms, but small, round pieces of flesh about the size of a silver dollar, from which project two long double-jointed daws. Similarly are constructed what nature has given as feet There are no soles, but what serve as heels are something like what ordinarily serve as palms. On thesa heels the child wab- Ines along, and from them two double- jointed claws also project The child, notwithstanding, is healthy and able to navigate with ease. WHEN the late Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., was a boy he went to sea. The com­ mander of the ship had a literary turn of mind, and put in the spare hours of one cruise in writing a sea story. One day he came upon deck and, looking down upon a group of seaman, sung out: "Has amy one got a pen-knife8?" "I have sir," replied young Cobb, step­ ping forward. "Can yon make quill ftens?" "Yes, sir." "What did you do before yon shipped in the navy ?" "I was in a printing office, sir." "You are just the one I am looking for. Come with me." Young Cobb was taken into the cabin and made a private secretary, but long before he had finished copy­ ing and arranging the captain's manu­ script he concluded that he could write a better story himself, and tried it THE United States are growing rap­ idly in wealth, and are now credit 2d with being the richest country in the world. Mr. Mulhall, the English stat­ istician, in his estimates of the annual increase of the wealth of nations, says that Germany increases her wealth at the rate of $200,000,000 annually. Great Britain, $325,000,000: France, $375,000,000, and the United States $875,000,000. If, as is stated, the United States has increased in wealth at the rate of $100,000,000 a year since 1880, at which time the estimated wealth of the country was$44,000,000,000 and the rate of increase is maintained till the year 1900, the grand sum total will be $64,000,000,000 and yet some peo­ ple are fearfnl if many more union soldiers are pensioned it will bankrupt the country. AT the time of the census of 1880, there were ten cities in the United States with more than 200,000 inhabi­ tants each. They were New York. Phil­ adelphia, Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, St Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Their population aggregated 4914,897. In 1887 the number of oities with more than 200,000 inhabitants had increased to fourteen, the four additional being Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Washington. The total population of these fourteen cities was estimated at 6,798,000. It is estimated that there are in addition to the cities above enum­ erated thirteen with populations ex­ ceeding 100,000 each, as follows: Al­ bany, Allegheny, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jersey City, Kansas City, Louisville, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Newark, Providence, Rochester, and St Paul. These thirteen have an estimated pop­ ulation of 1,750,000. There are also thirteen cities with over 60,000 each, whose combined population is 902,000. Altogether these forty cities have 9,450,000 inhabitants, or nearly one- sixth of the population of the United States. • THE late Sylvanus Gobb, Jr., was probably the best known of the story writers of this country, and one of the most voluminous of composers. He had written exclusively for the Ledger for thirty-one years. Robert Bonner, editor and proprietor of that paper, told a Times reporter recently how he came to engage Mr. Cobb. "In 1855," said Mr. Bonner, "I published a story by Fanny Fern, known as the '$100 column story' from the price which I paid the authoress. The agent of Ballou's Pictorial, the successor of Gleaxon's Pictorial in Boston, came to me to solicit an advertisement of this story, and I gave it to him. Soon after, in the editorial columns of the Pictorial an article appeared suggest­ ing that the $100 a column story was good enough to tell the marines, and thus cesting a doubt on my veracity as a publisher, I complained to the agent of the paper that this was scarcely fair after having solicited an advertisement of the very story attacked, and the re­ sult was that I received a letter from the editor stating that the article was a mistake and had been written by a sub­ ordinate. I answered this that I did not consider a private apology ample redress for a public wrong, and then I set to work to have my innings. I knew that Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., was the most popular writer that Ballou had, and I found out what salary he was getting. I at once offered him double this" amount to write exclusively for the Ledger, an offer which he accepted, and since 1856 not a line from his pen has been contributed to any other paper." When Cherry Trees Bloom. Springtime is one of the ideal sea­ sons in Japan, and of all of the weeks of spring the time when the cherry trees are in bloom is the high holiday. The trees in the temple grounds and parks, and in the long avenue by the river in Tokia, are as tall and stately as the oaks of an, English park, and in the merry springtime these ancient trees are shrouded in clouds of pink blos­ soms. Each double blossom is as large and full as a rose, and the air is soft with their fragrance. Among the deep tints of the evergreen trees and the fresh colors of the young foliage of other trees, these banks, and billows, and clouds of white and delicately pink blossoms are-in exquisite relief. * Even on still days the petals are constantly sifting down through the branches and drifting in the air, and the ground is strewn with these snowflakes that the wind whirls and banks in long ridges. One's pathway is literally strewn with flowers, and it is high holiday for all the Japanese, who go forth in their gala attire and ride and wander under the avenues of cherry trees, sip tea, write poems to the cherry blossoms and fasten them to the branches, or sit in rapt, poetic con­ templation of the loveliest scenes of spring. Along ' the Mukojima, lined for two miles with blooming trees, and through the drives of Uyeno Park, the jinricki go whirling to and fro with men in their dark gowns and women whose gowns are brightened by folds of gray crape at the neck and in the linings of their sleeves and obis. The blue-black hair, spread and glued in elaborate pufls and miegs, tied with crape or gold thread, and sdorned with hairpins that are often sprays of artiiicial cherry blossoms, make them picturesque figures, and give the finish­ ing touch to the ideal scene. At night lanterns swing from the rows of tea houses along the Muckojima and faintly illuminate the pale branches overhead; nlusic and cheerful voices resound, and interminable Japanese dinners go on with beautifuljgeishas posing and danc­ ing to the twangipg of the samisen, their lovely gowns Covered with woven or embroidered cherry blossoms, and light coronals of tha ttowers set in the butterfly loops and bows of black hair. This is real Japan in the time of the cherry-blossoming, and this is the way in which these poetic people have cele­ brated the festival of spring, for centuries.--Tokio letter. GOVERNOR F0RAKER. Ohio's Governor on "The Rstum pf the Republican Party to Power." Excerpts firm as AMe Article la the =• 1 Asfsst Number sf lie MForum,w So far as platform declarations are* concerned, all parties agree that the right of suffrage should be maintained inviolate. Nevertheless, the fact is that the Democratic party is in power to-day only because, by the most shameful offenses, it has overthrown this right in many places and States of the i-'outh, and, emboldened by its suc­ cesses there, it has sought to succeed elsewhere by like means, as at Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, and Cincin­ nati. This is said to be an old question and a sectional one, and there are many who affect to dispose of all allusions to it with a contemptuous sneer about the "bloody shirt" There is no answer in all this. The older the question the more reason for its speedy settlement; that the crimes complained of are largely confined to a particular locality is no reason why their commission should not be stopped, and the cry of "bloody shirt" but adds insult to in­ jury. The truth is that this question is upon us now as it never has been be­ fore; not as a question of the p3st, but of the present and the future. That the South was made "solid" by bloody and fraudulent methods is as indisput­ able an historical fact as the war itself. That it is now so maintained by im­ proper methods is shown by such cir­ cumstances as the formal farce called a Congressional election, in the State of Georgia, lost October. In Ohio and every other Republican State there are cast in each district at a Congressional election an average of about 30,000 votes. There are about the same num­ ber of votes in each of the Congres­ sional districts of Georgia, but at the election of Oct. 6, 1886, the votes cast were as follows: W r 390 1 1 Demo­ cratic. 2,061 2,411 1,704 2,903 2,999 1,7-23 5,043 2,822 2,3">5 1,944 District. First Scattering. Second Scattering. . Third Fourth, Independent Fifth Scattering. . Sixth Scattering. . Seventh Independent.. ..1,537 Eighth .Republican 3.1 Ninth Republican 87 Tenth Republican 7 In other words, with a total vote of less than 28,000, ten members of Con­ gress were chosen to represent the State of Georgia, and to wield as much power in shaping national legislation as any ten Congressmen from Ohio and other States, who were chosen upon a total vote of 300,000. Fairly attended results must always be cheerfully accepted, but it cannot be expected that such manifest abuses will be long tolerated. The demand for their suppression is rap:dly becom­ ing irresistible, and people who are not aware of this fact have not kept up with public Bentiment in this respect So long as these election frauds af­ fected only local results, the great mass Of the people appeared to be and probably were largely indifferent about them. They did not realize, at least not keenly, that they were injured by the triumph of fraud in the election of even Congressmen and electors. So long as the general result was sat'sfac- tory, it was easy as well as agreeable to believe that, in so far as such wrongs would not r'ght themselves, it was the duty of others to correct them. But a change has been wrought. The dream of indifference was rudely interrupted bv the Presidential election of 1884. The people of Ohio and of every Northern State were then made to un­ derstand and appreciate that when a man is not allowed to vote in Missis­ sippi, or any other State, or when he wrongfully votes for himself and his neighbor also, or when, in anv other manner, he interferes with a free ex- Eression of the popular will and its onest asceitainment, their rights are directly and importantly affected; that, in other words, this thing of voting, no matter in what place it may be done, is the common concern of the whole people of the entire country, and that to rob a voter of his right to vote in any locality is to rob everybody else as well. On account of the enfranchisement and consequent representation of the blacks, these States [of the South] had in the last Presidential election 38 electoral votes, to not one of which would they have been otherwise enti­ tled, and every one of which would have been cast for Blaine and Logan if the will of the people they represented could have controlled them. If these votes had been simply blotted out, and not cast at all, Mr. Cleveland could not have been elected. The conse- quenoe is, that Mr. Cleveland is Presi­ dent because the white Democrats of the South not only cast for him the votes that rightfully belonged to them, but also these 38 votes, which they fraudulently appropriated to their own use. But there are those who claim that it does not matter which party may be in power, for the reason that there is no authorized remedy for such wrongs. If there be no provision to meet such a case, then the reason becomes all the more urgent for the party that can and will devise a way to correct such abuses, and thus save our Government from another wrench of violence, that will otherwise surely and speedily come. In the meanwhile, it should be remembered that the General Govern­ ment formerly had an acknowledged right to go into any State or Territory to hunt down a fugitive slave, and can now go anywhere to collect the tax off whisky and tobacco, draft a man into the army to protect it, regulate the management of the railroads, and do hundreds of other things necessary and appropriate to our welfare. Is it pos­ sible that our government can do all these things, and yet the suppression of a million votes be a wrong without a remedy ? If so, the Constitution is a slander on the fathers who made it, and another amendment is in order. At any rate, if we would have peace in this country, these crimes must be stopped, and not only must the perpe­ trators of them be treated as criminals, but every man must be held equally guilty who lends encouragement to such wrongs by whining about section­ alism and sneering about "bloody shirt," and insisting that such political villainies must be "let alone." Cardinal Gibbons said, a few days ago, in a sermon preached at Baltimore, just after his return from extended travels abroad: "After all my observations I am pre­ pared to commend our American insti­ tutions. The condition of our working people here is far superior to that of the working classes in any of the Euro­ pean countries. Whatever may be the .grievances of the American mechanic. I am prepared to state, as the result of my own observation, that he is better housed, better fed and clothed than his brethren on the continent of Europe. Love the land which God has given you. It is the best on earth." In the presence of such facts at home, and such testimony from abroad, enough is shown as to the nature of this question (and only that, and not its discussion, is intended) to warrant the assignment of the Republican view with respect to it as another reason for change of political oontroL If it be said that no harm has come te the pol­ icy, or injury, in consequence, to the business of the country, from a Demo­ cratic administration, the answer is, that a Republican Senate has made that impossible. Had it not been for this hindrance, Democratic tendencies to free trade would have assumed defi­ nite form in legislative enactments, es they have in other respects. The Re­ publican party Bhould be restored to power, therefore, in order that there may be no further progress toward free trade, and that the necessary re­ visions of the tariff and the control of our revenue system may be in the hands of the friends of American in­ dustry and national development The party that has, by destroying slavery, mfcde labor honorable, and which has, by the inauguration and maintenance of a policy of protection, made good wages, education, homes, and general prosperity possible, has given the highest evidence of both ability and disposition satisfactorily to solve the so-called labor questions, no matter whether that solution is to come through provisions for arbitration, hours of labor and similar measures, or through a wiser, broader and more comprehensive scheme of permissive legislation, to authorize and make pos­ sible here those plans of co-operation and profit-sharing which have proven so successful in some of the older countries. In so far ss national politics may have to do therewith, there is no hope except in the Republican pa^ty for the suppression of the evils of the liquor traffic in the populous cities and States of the North. The strict construction of the powers of the General Government in these cases indicates the old Democratic States-rights tendency nnduly to be­ little the national power and again to give vitality to the ante-war idea that it does not belong to the people as an agency for their benefit, and that they must not be allowed to enjoy any blessings therefrom that would attach them to it--not even those necessary to dispel the blight of ignorance, over­ come the calamity of drouth, or relieve the horrors of earthquake. It was hoped that some acceptable way would be found to dispense with, or at least lessen, so far as the United States Government is conoerned, the internal taxes on whisky and tobacco, no longer needed by it, and to enable the several States who do need them to get. the revenues arising from this source; but so important a subject could not command any serious atten­ tion. In fact, no business proposition whatever could find favor. From first to last, there was nothing to encourage the hope that exclusion from power has improved our opponents. The plain truth is that the Democratic party has no comprehensive business judgment. It is controlled by its South­ ern wing, and that is largely where the difficulty lies. But, when all else is said and done, the fact remains thai there is a vast difference between thd respective stan­ dards of moral worth,'political in teg' rity, and patriotic purpose of the two parties. There is not an election pre cinct in the whole country where any Democrat is not free and safe to vote according to his choice, and have his vote honestly counted, and it has ever been so. Interference by Republicans with Democrats in an honest exercise of the right of suffrage has never been heard of, and everybody knows that the Republican party would not acoept the fruits of such crmes, or in any manner shield the perpetrators of them, if they should be committed in its interest The moral sense of the party would not tolerate it. Contrast this record with that wh'ch made the South solid, and with the attempts to thwart the will of the people in Chi­ cago, Indianapolis, Columbus, and C.ncinnati, and remember how the fruits and advantages of these crimes have been eagerly appropriated and defiantly defended, and you have a strik'ng measure of difference, to which nothing can be added by words. Reviewing only the past few weeks, we have seen the President of the United States and Jeffers m Davis unit" ing in words of compliment and eulo­ gy on the occasions of the unveiling of the statues erected in honor of John C. Calhoun and Albert Sidney Johnston --one the author of secession, and the other distinguished for nothing except as a soldier who fought to destroy his country. We have also seen the Dem­ ocratic State Convention at Louisvillo cheering to the echo Mr. Henry Wat- terson's allusion to the "Dependent Pension Bill," as "Fraud's patriotic pauper liniment, warranted to abolish vagabondage by pensioning a lot of tramps." We have seen General Ros- ser ordering General Sheridan to keep out of the Shenandoah Valley, or bring his rations with him. We have seen the President of the United States, in­ stead of joining with the loyal millions of the country in the sacred duty of scattering flowers over the graves of the dead heroes, but for whose bravery and sacrifice of life the Govern­ ment of which he is the head would not be in existence, going "a-fishing" on Decoration Day. And, finally, we have seen this , Chief Magistrate. proceeding to surrender the captured battle-flags to what he terms the "Confederate States," that they may be carried in public parade, and pointed to with pride, as though they were not still the einblemfe of treason, of which the people of the I South should be forever ashamed. And all this for no other purpose than to' make it appear that because "the vfQi is over" there should be no longer any distinction between the blue and the gray, and that both should be remem­ bered only and alike for the valor they displayed, and on such a basis to es­ tablish a sentimental fraternity of feel­ ing for the present, to be followed with payment for cotton, slaves, and Con­ federate bonds by and by. ' All these several steps and acts were quietly and patiently acquiesced in, until the last, but that was too much for loyal men to endure, and they greeted it with such storms of protest and indignation that haste was made to revoke the order and postpone "the pleasant duty," not because the senti­ ment was wroitg, but, because, having examined the law "with more care," it was thought best to wait until Con­ gress can give authority to do lawfully what, had there been no interference, would have been done unlawfully. PARCHED FIELDS. « m, Hay and Oat Crops of Ulinoia and Indiana Badly Scorched. PKtma la 8ereral States fit te Bora and Dally Taking ... ...v- l^teagotrtegrnm.! * or this city gives reports from various points in the Western States show, ing the condition of the crops, which is thus summarized: The drought hu l*een uncommonly fteyore in roost of the territory covered by these advice*, anil the sum of the information obtained ia not favorable. While aome htates Have es- cajfed vrith little loss, others have suffered very seriously In Illmoia the "dry spoil" has been especially disastrous. The yield of bay has been light, the crop of oa s is considered be­ low the average, while the prospects for corn are deoidedlv aiscourauug. From present ad­ vices it is reasonable to state that about half the usual yield will i>e obtained. Many coun­ ties report prospects for considerably less than half a crop, while only a wry few especially favored localities; rejHu-t an average. About 5t> per cent, of the usual jieid would seem to be indicated by the advices from the State. In the great corn center in the middle of the State many of the fanners are onttinc up the stalks for fodder, believing that rains, if they com* at all, will oome too late to do any good. In Indiana, 41IS0, the drought has done much damage. Rain has not fallen in many places for more than four weeks, and the recent showers have been of little benefit. In some localities the corn crop is a total failure, and in no jwrtion of the State is the ordinary yield expected. From one-third to one-fourth of a crop is the tenor of the reports from th s State. Hay is but a poor crop, and oats ors short of the usual pr®» duction. la Wisconsin the drought seems to have been less destructive Home localities re­ port a falling off in corn, but the crop in most sections of the State seems likely to be an aver­ age, while the ont crop is fair. The same seemi to be true of Michigan and Ohio. West nf the Mississippi the advices are much more encouraging. Plentiful rains have fallen recently 111 Ir.wa, Kansas, and Nebraska, which have been of untold benefit to the corn. The Secretary of the Iowa Agricultural Society re­ ports a probable corn yield of ttKVWJ.OOO bushels, whii h is »me :W,MW,IXW iu exteu of the shod erop of last year. OHIO. Powell and Foraker, ths Bival Candi­ dates for Governor of tfea Buckeye State. • J. B. Formhw, Uu RcynUlcu Standard. Hon. Joseph 8. Foraker, who has been nominated by the Ohio Bepnblioan -con- venntion for a second term its Governor of the Buckeye State, is a native of Highland County, Ohio, and is 51 years old. At the •ge of 16 he enlisted in the Eighty-ninth Ohio Infantry, serving until June*, 1865, and taking part in many engagements. He was rapidly promoted, was b re vetted Captain for bravery on the field, and when musteied out was setting as aid-de­ camp on Oen. Slocum'B staff. After the war he entered Cornell University, gradu­ ating in IKiSy. Subsequently he studied law, was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati, nnd in 187'J was elected a Judge of the Superior Court. In 188:) he was nomin­ ated for Governor on thei Republican ticket, but was defeated by Judge Hoadly. In 1885 he was again nominated, this time being elected by a handsome majority. 1 bos. E. Powell, the Nominee of the Dem­ ocracy. General Thomas E. Powell, who was nominated for Governor of Ohio by the recent Democratic State Conven­ tion, was born in Delaware County, Ohio, in the year 1842. He was educated in the State, gradu- THE GREEN DIAMOND. ating from the Ohio Wesleyan Uni­ versity in 1863 and subsequent­ ly entering npon the practice of law in 1867. Entering the political arena he in course of time was the chosen Dem­ ocratic nominee for Attorney General of Ohio, but with the balance of the entire Democratic ticket met his de­ feat. Mr. Powell is an excellent rep­ resentative of the legal talent of Ohio, having not only attained an enviable reputation as a lawyer of ability, but also established for himself a large and lucrative practice in the highest courts off the State and nation. 'I FORESTRY. Forthcoming Meeting of the American For- p»try Congress--Topics to Be Diicnfiml. The topics to be considered at the ses­ sion of the American Forestry Congress, which will be held at Spriugiield, 111., Sep­ tember 14, 15 and 16, are as follows: •1. Necessity of change of policy on the part of the General Government In regard to its timber domain. 2. Kffects and results of forest legislation in the different States. 9. Suggestions in regard to deBirable forest legislation. 4. Status of artificial forest planting in the prairie States, and suggestions in regard to the same. 5. Methods of enlarging the effectiveness of the work of the Forestry Congress. The constant and heavy reduction of our forest area has led all thoughtful people to recognize the importance of restoring all areas not suitable to cnltivation to wood­ land again, and in the prairie States of largely increasing the foiest area. There are less than 500,000,000 acres of prime­ val forest in the whole of the United States, and the annual timber consumption Is over twenty billion feet. At this rate, we are using more each year than the nat­ ural rate of increase. Detroit and Chicago Running a Vaok- and-Heck Baca for the Base-Ball Championship, t • « Haw l«t sad Beaton Clese tft fktlr • Heels--Notes ef the National Game. [CHICAGO COBBSSPOiTDKNC*.] - . Ite present week is the sixteenth week of the League pennant race, and with re­ markable tenacity and determination the four elube which took the four leading positions in the race are hanging on to first, second, third, and fourth positions respectively, with only a streak of daylight between themselves and their nearest neighbors. It is certainly a remarkable struggle, and, barring the collapse of some one or more of the big teams, promises to result in a remark­ able hnish. Chicago and Detroit still continue at the top of the string, and Detroit is playing better ball than she was playing two weeks ago, but that the cham­ pions will ultimately beat the W olverines out in the race seems to be the firm con­ viction of lovers of the game hereabout. That the two clubs will go East abreast is almost certain. By playing steady ball the Chicagos will hold their own until the lat­ ter part of the present week, when the De­ troit* will come here for a series of three games. It will then be an easy matter to whittle down the small lead now held by the Michigan men. This may l>e ex­ pressing a little too much confi­ dence in the Chicago team, but it is a notorious fact that Captain Anson and his men had rather play ball against the Detroits than any other team in the League. Clarkaon will probably pitch two of the three approaching games. This is tantamount to two victories, and two vic­ tories over the Detroits means a great deal. Should the two clubs go East ou even terms it is dollars to doughnuts that the champions will come out of the fights to be waged in Pittsbiug, Philadelphia, Wash­ ington, New York and Boston in far better condition than the Detroits. Admitting this to be true, where will the present lead­ ers be when Clarkson gets through with them in the three games to be played in Detroit on the return of the dub to that city? There is no denying the fact that the ball the champions have been playing in the past sixty days has not been excelled in the history of the League. The question is: Can they continue at their present speed? Under Arson's guid­ ance and management it is to be hoped they can. They will have an off day now and then, but, barring accidents, there will be no such let-down as the Boston Club has suffered. The Detroiters appear to have found some likely material in Beatin and Gruber, the two new League pitchers. The club is batting very freely, and with Bennett back in , the harness there is now 6ome show of their beat­ ing New Yoik out. The fact that the champions have also found the ball is a matter for congratulation. Mostly every member of the team is increasing his bat­ ting average. Anson dropped behind a lit­ tle during the past week, but Ryan, Sulli­ van, Pfetfer, Williamson, Clarkson, and Burns swung the clUb with terrific effect. There is another man in the nine who found the bail. His name is Darling. This nuiet young man is one of the wonders of the league. He played in the International League last year, and ranked as a weak batter. Since he joined the Chicagos he has burst forth as one of the greatest slug­ gers in the league, and to-day ranks second in the Hit. Out of eleven times at bat during the past week Darling hit for four singles, two doubles, and a triple. The Boston team, notwithstanding Mike Kelly's presence and influence among the players, seems to be letting down and New York is now close upon its heels. The prospects are that it will be beaten out by Chicago, New York and Detroit. The team is without steady, brainy pitchers. Radbourn is erratic, Conway has been slugged so hard that he is on crutches, and Madden, a mere stripling of a lad, will be hit so hard one of these days that he will be of no further use to the club. The Phillies are playing strong ball, and the prediction made by Harry Wright that they would be up toward the lead at the end of ihe season may be fulfilled. Pittsburgh, Washington and Indianapolis are having an interesting tight among themselves, but the Hoosiers are ahead in their race for last place. NOTES OF THE GAME. Catcher Darling of the Chicagos is dis­ abled by a badly injured hand. Billy Sunday is playing ball again al­ though his ankle is sore. His catch of a long Hy against the right field wall in Saturday's game against New York was the finest ever" seen upon the Chicago grounds. Kinslow, the new Detroit catcher, weighs 160 pounds. He caught a few games last season for the Washingtons. Charley Snyder, the old Boston favorite, is again doing first-class catching and throwing to bases for the Cleveland Club. Sam Kimber, of the Wheeling Club, struck a ball over the right field fence at Sandusky, on July 22, the ball lodging in the collar of a horse until Kimber made the circuit of the bases. Mori arty, a south-paw twirler who pitched a good game against the Detroits when the latter played the Minneapolis team last spring, is in Detroit, and will probably be given a trial by the Detroits. The Washington Club still holds the honor of not having lost an extra-inning game this year, having won one from Chi­ cago, two from Detroit, two from Pitts­ burgh, and tied one, while last year eveiy one was lest. Providence has sent out many ball cap­ tains. Irwin, of the Phillies; Farrell, of the Washingtons; Ward, recently captain of the New Yorks; and Denny, of the In­ dianapolis, make up half the League force of captains. If Seery keeps on at this rate be will have more bases on balls to his credit than hits. He is on his way to the fiftieth base on balls. Shomberg has seen first on balls thirty-fonr times. This would give Shom­ berg an average of .357, League rules, and Seery .334. Tom Deasley says there is too mucb legal talent on the New York League team. Ward and O'Rourke are both graduates of law schools, and Tom asserts that these two legal luminaries delight in paralyzing the common members of the team by the use of legal terms and jaw-breaking words. E. H. Poole, of Lawrence, Mass., writes the Boston 6'lobe as lollows: "I will bet any part of $100 that the Bostons will not win the championship this year. I will bet any part of $100 that the Chi­ cagos will win the pennant this year, and I will bet an even $o0 that Boston will not, finish better than fourth place. I will meet anybody at the Globe office any day •!»«• week and put up money on any or all the bets, whichever they may want to take." In Kansas Citv, on July 31, a veteran from the Soldiers' Home, Leavenworth, who visited the city to witness the game at Armourdale between the soldiers' nine from Fort Leavenworth and an amateur team of that euburb, was so much disap­ pointed at the defeat of the soldiers that he rushed to the center of the Armourdale bridge over tho Kaw Biver and jumped off. falling thirty feet into the water, intending to end his existence. He was rescued by a passing skiff, and his first words were said to be expressions of deep sorrow at the de­ feat of the soldier team. Shone Through the Worn-rat Places. Court--You say the moon waa not out, and yet you distinguished the prisoner's features. How do you ex­ plain this? Witness--Why, yon see, yonr Honor, the sky waa as full of holes as a city milkman's skimmer, and the staft shone through the worn-out placea. cm»0I8 STATE NEWS. J"' ' >nner has 120 asms jfe potatoes. -- A i M e t h o d i s t a hurah is ai silj completed at Barry. --There is a great complaint on aceoiif of an insiflcient supply of water at L££. coin. * , --Over 100 acres of valuable timber vas destroyed by Are in the vieinity of Yam* thisyeir. 1 ^ --The North Fork, the source of o Dan- •ille's water supply, has gone dry, and water famine is feared. --The Catholie folks of Flanagan will hold a grand fair, lasting three days, n the Stb, 6th, and 7th of September, for 1# benefit of their church. --Jacksonville has lost its oldest citizen, John Jordan. He was nearly 100 years . old. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was a noted charaoter and widS f̂ known. --The prolonged drought in De 'Witt County is beginning to excite serious- alarm. Wells and cisterns have become dry. Com is badly fired, and the yield will be cut much shorter than was at first expected. --A large two-story brick^building IjK Peoria, owned and occupied by Pringe* & Ulrich as a malt-house, burned. The ike probably was caused by a hot journal set­ ting fire to grain dust. Loss on building, machinery, and grain $35,000; insurance, $20,000. The building will be rebuilt at oaoe. --The wheat, oats, and hay have bees garnered, but will hardly average half a crop. Corn, which was so promising ̂is burning up in the fields for the want tf rain, and will average only about fivo bushels per acre throughout Marion County. Peaches are a complete failure, bat apples promise to be fair. --The Henry County agricultural fair and trotting meeting will be held at Cam­ bridge Aug. 29 to Sept. 2. Last year, a few days before the dates set for the fair, a cyclone blew down al| the buildings, fences, etc., of the society. They havaall been rebuilt this year, and larger prem­ iums than ever are offered. --Tjip miners at the mine of the City Coal Company of Decatur, at Niaatic, have, quit work, and refuse to strike an­ other blow until they receive scale wages-- 674 oents. The company has been paying 60 cents. The miners allege that the pries of powder has been raised 25 cents a keg. Th&ra is no prospect of a settlement. --^bont four thousand people attended the National Prohibition camp-meet ing at Decatur. The meeting closed with an id* dress by Dr. Boole, of New York, who re- ceivee $200 for his services there during the, ten days' session. St. John got $100 for two addresses at the opening of the meeting. It is estimated that 20,000 p*i»* pie have attended the meeting. --The dairymen of Elgin held a meeting and voted to organize a protective associ­ ation. The long drouth has caused fears for the fall and winter milk supply. The present price averages about nine cents a gallon, and it was de dared that milk could not be produced, judging from present prospects, for less than seventeen or eighteen cents next winter. A committee wss appointed to perfect an organization. --The contract for constructing the Free- port, Dodgeville and JNorthern Baihroad from eight miles north of Freeport to Dodgeville, Wis., has been let to Ityan & McDonald, of Chicago. They are to have the toad ready for operation by about the middle of November. It is generally un­ derstood that this road is to be another feeder for the niinois Central at St. Paul when the northern terminus is completed. Grading is to begin within a fortnight. --A wild man was captured by the c|§! zehs of Sargent Township, near Oakland. He had hair that measured over five fcet in length, and from its appearance it M not been combed for years. Beard two feet long covered his face. His language is unintelligible. No trace of where ha came from can be discovered. It took a dozen men to hold him to bind his and feet. The citizens are in a quandaiy what to do with their catch. --The most profitable institute for teach­ ers ever held in Coles County was closed in Mattoon after two weeks of close appli­ cation and study by the 205 persons who attended. The work was conducted by A. J. Funkhonse, the County Superintendent, ' assisted by Prof. Carnes, of Chicago; Prof. Julia B. Kennedy, of Springfield; Prof. H. B. Scott, lately elected to a chair in the Iowa college at Grionell, and others. --At a meeting of the Board of Super­ visors of Macon County the committee that had been investigating the accounts of tho retiring county ofiicers submitted a report that Wiliiam W. Foster, who was Sheriff six years, owes the county $11,400. An attempt was made to effect a compromise, but the terms were not satisfactory to the committee, and the board directed the County Attorney to begin suit against Fos­ ter. The retiring County Superintendent of Schools, John Trainer, confesses that he is short over $1,000, but he promises (a pay the amount. --Cattle are still dying in New Lenox from cattle fever, also in Florence, and the disease is spreading. About thirty havo died, and the Board of Health of Joliet has quarantined the city against the towns where the disease is raging. The State Veterinarian is in Joliet, and has ordered a number killed. Mr. Barns of FlorenSS has lost nine out of a herd of twelve. Vm, Guerney has lost three on the farm adjoin­ ing. ME. Gougar of New Lenox has lost eighteen, and other farms adjacent have lost from one to five. The disease was left £>y ft drqv» oft Texas steers going through. --A Chicago paper said J. M. Grimes, ef Woodhull, Adjutant of Post 779, Grand Army, spent his time during the war "gel' ting discharges and re-enlisting for b|| bounties. He now draws a pension, claim. ing to be an 'invalid,' and has refusal work within a week because he could not get $3 a day, claiming, although an in­ valid, that he is able to earn that much.* A complete vindication of Mr. Grimes is printed in a Woodhull paper. It includes the documents in relation to his services ia the army, a statement of his disability bjr three doctors, a denial from the parties a| , interest that he refused to work for $3 day, and a personal indorsement signed leading citizens.