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ILLINOI& FLASHES. Latest News by T«l V >k from All Parts of th* ; World. B Matted Gossip, Railroad Notes, Per- «MH! Mention, and Oecarreaoil of Lesser Note* LIQUOR WINS _A_ BIG VICTORY. SQIMM Comrt of Michigan Kills Part of !f the License Law. The liquor law adopted by the last Michigan Legislature has received an- ^ other blow from the State Supreme Court, -t * H 8a^9 a kans'n8 dispatch. ' ' ™ The decision this time invalidates the provision ihwhich <l«x'lart'B that brewers and saloonkeepers ,' ••hall not become sureties on liquor boiKie, and ;$i! . is the result of a test ease bronpht by Frederick ?• •'« Xabn, •whose liomi was rejected by the Detroit Common Couueil bec ause his sureties were both brewers. Kuhii s counsel claimed that the pro- K < vhicu of the net forbidding any persons engaged fa?:' la the sale of liquor from becoming sureties on saloon bonds was unconstitutional and void beca-iBe in conflict with the provision of the •if; State Constitution that "No person shall M b e deprived of life, liberty, or property without J doe process of law," and also in conflict with the v fourteenth aiuemhneut to the Constitution of ,:i, the Unitfil States, that no State shall make or s i'.r ,v enforce any law which shall abridge the privi- WJSV kges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any State deny to any person Within its jurisdiction equal protection of the >, laws. The court concurs with both of these ob­ jections, and declares the provision void. Other provisions of the act go to the suf- •' , llciency of sureties and facilities for col­ lecting judgment from them, and are reasona- tde restrictions ujnin the right to carry on ? :j. > the business. The provision prohibiting aper- .J:: ; acta Itecause of the business in which he is en- gaged from entering into contracts of a certain Sass which are open to all other persons would i t«> be a violation of the constitutional principle, i . The right to make such contracts is included iu 3 *" •• the right to liberty, and it is also a right of prop- V «tt. The right to" pledge one's estate is as much !&"•; aright to property as either title or possession. tl • This practically leaves the regulation of the traffic where it was before the new law wee t made, except that the tax ie higher. SHOT BY TRAIN-ROBBER& ten fcy tt* dog KftltfceM EM H&m no m- rious results. TAFT A MORGAN'S aash and door fac­ tory, the Baldwin Refrigerator Company's office, Shepard & Morse's lumber yards and planing mill, and over half a dozen houses, covering an area of two blocks, in Burlington, Vt., burned. The total loss will be $200,600; insuftuice, $125,000. THE Western Cut Nail Manufacturers, at a meeting iu Pittsburg, Pa., adopted a new card, making the base twelve to forty- penny . The change advances tenpenny nails 10 cents, ana fifty to sixtypenny 25 cents. . THE fine mansion belonging to Mrs. L. 31. McColl, at Bridgewater, Mass., burned. The loss is estimated at from $40,000 to 65,000; partly insured. The fire is be­ lieved to have been the work of incendi- aries, ma the house was unoccupied. v \ 7 . . . W E S T 7 ' MAJ. GEN. W. L. STODGHTON, warrior, statesman, and politician, died at his resi dence in Sturgis. Mich., recently. He went to the war as Lieutenant Colonel of the Eleventh Michigan, having resigned his office of United States District Attor­ ney to help 6ave the Union. He was pro moted to Colonel and Brigadier General] ,for gallant and meritorious services, an<$' afterward brevetted Major General. He lost a leg at Stone River. After the war he was Attorney General of Michigan two terms and member of the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses. He was buried with military honors. PARTICT7iiARS of a desperate attempt at suicide on the part of John Kline, an actor, now in St. Paul with a dime- museum company, and who is supposed to have relatives in Chicago, have leaked out. Just before going to the theater Kline sent his wife out to a neighboring drug store on some pretended errand, and upon her return to the boarding-house, She found her husband lying on the floor unconscious in a pool of blood, with a 6air of long shears sticking in his neck, [e had stabbed himself seventeen times. MBS. JAME$ HARXISCH, a Polish woman of Dorr, Allegan County, Mich., has given birth to four children, three boys and one girl. The lightest weighs three, pounds and the others average four Sounds each. The mother and babies are oing well, but the father is in a dazed condition. EXAMINATION of the accounts of Colo­ nel W. H. Webster, Treasurer of Merrick County, Neb., resulted in the discovery of a shortage of $35,000. Webster will turn over property of his own worth $20,000 Desperate Midnight Battle on a Kankakee Trail. THERE was a desperate midnight battle On a Kankakee train near Cincinnati on Friday night, the particulars of which are • toward making up the deficiency! THE hotel at Manitou Park, Cal., has been destroyed by fire, with all its con­ tents. The guests barely escaped with given in the following dispatch from that citv: The American Express messenger, J. H. Zim­ merman, and Baggage Master Joe Ketchum were alone together in the express and baggage car of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Chicago Railway train. Ziinmermann, when the train left Delhi, a Station twelve miles west of here, eailed Ketchum'8 attention to some tramps that ha saw through the glass window of the car door leading to the front platform, next to the locomotive tender. Both men arose and went toward the front door. When within ten feet of it the tramps began firing through the window. Ketchum nil, shot in four places, two balls en­ tering bis abdomen, one in his breast, and one in his left ahoq^der. He will die. Zimmermami tried to draw hte pistol, but it stuck in his hip pocket, and he retreated to the rear plat­ form of the ear. Where he met the conductor. The latter polled the bell-rope and stopped the train. While this was going on one of the tramps climbed on the tender, where he was met by the engineer and fireman and knocked stiff by two blows from a monkey-wrench. The engineer and fireman then rolled him off the tender while the traiflwas at full speed. Before he was thrown overboard, however, a second robber at­ tempted to climb on the tender, but weakened and dodged back at the eight of the prostrate form of fata companion. Before the train stopped more than one robber was seen to jump og and SOUTH. A FIRE occurred at Rockdale, Texas, in which eleven .human lives were lost and several persons seriously injured. The fire diaagpear in the darkness. All of them wore originated in the office of the Mnndine ' covering their faces. ; ' Hotel, a three-story brick. Out of thir- their lives. Some lost nearly all their clothing. Mr. Thornton, lessee of the hotel and park, had brought up $1,000 in greenbacks to pay off employes. It was burned. It is staled the hotel will be im­ mediately rebuilt. There was a small in­ surance on some of the contents, but the amount is not known. The loss is esti­ mated at $25,000. THE flour output of the Minneapolis mills for the past week was 134,200 bar­ rels, against 102,000 barrels the previous week, and 114,360 barrels for tne corres­ ponding time in 1S87. completely < T. H. GARRETT DRO WNEjfc | teen people known to have been in the j hotel only two escaped. D. M. Oldham ; of Galveston escaped uninjured by jump- Sfce Balaam* Millionaire Perishes la a Got- ,from a second-story window. The " lislon at Sea. cracking and roar of the names T. HARRISON GABBETT, a brother of T°\E °PeninK ,his room, , . .. , ' , I door to the hall he discovered a mass of Robert Garrett, and manager of the bank- i flames. He gave the alarm and jumped teg firm of Robert Garrett &. Sons, of I for his life. As Oldham reached the Baltimore, was drowned in the Patapsco grookd he saw Pemberton Pierce rush out *n_ • , • , i on the second storv veranda all in flames. Sand » Picrce leaped downward, turned over in Baltimore ̂ r«m A nn nnnii5 ̂ S01?® to , his descent, struck on his head, broke his ft thilis, was run down ! neck and died instantly. Dr. W. A. iLik * *'• bfng i Brooks, proprietor of the hotel, had to be SirS n" aIm°St CUt m,two" i taken from the building by force. He was eei>t Mr Garrett h ™ rescued ex- j franti0 over the horrible fate of his family. ^®8Ie®n by ^ Pas,-|He was badly burned. Rockdale has senger on the Joppa to fall overboard. Mr. Garrett was manager of the firm of Bobert Garrett & Sons, which was founded by Robert Garrett, his grand- father. He leaves a fortune of several millions of dollars. A NOTED DIVINE'S DEATH. no organized fire department and the pro­ gress of the flames was only checked by the united efforts of the people. JEFF DATIS celebrated his 80th birthday at his home in Beau voir, Miss., on the 3d of June. A dispatch from there says: % )«fe, and questioned the teaching her Majesty Hin- doeta&ea at her time of life. HER*TON TISZA. the Hungarian states­ man, has withdrawn his offensive utter­ ance and denied any intention of offending France. THE address of the Irish Bishops to Rome admits ^feat the plan of campaign and boycotting come under the jurisdic­ tion of the Pope in making the rescript. The Bishops say, however, that the Pope was not correctly informed in regard to the acts to which the rescript applied. A DISPATCH received at Omaha, Neb., from London contained the information that Walsh, the man suspected of engi­ neering an assassination plot to kill Bal­ four, has stated to the English police that the money found in his possession was sent to him by a man named Groves in Omahas. The Omaha man referred to is John Groves, Deputy Treasurer of Doug­ las County. Groves has lived in Omaha for twenty years, and during all that time has been connected with Irish National affairs. Mr. Groves admits having sent the n\oney to Walsh as stated by the letter, but says it was merely a loan from one friend to another. THE crisis in the German^ministry con­ tinues, but it is positively assured that Prince Bismarck will remain at his post. Herr Von Puttkamer will resign the Min­ istry of the Interior and Herr Achenbach, President of the Province of Brandenburg, will probably be appointed in his stead. Herr Achenbach conducted the political education of Crown Prince William, and is highly esteemed by the Emperor. A PARIS telegram says: Rasia Herques, during a dinnef at Monaco with his broth­ er and his wife and other members of the family, got into a hot dispute with them about the distribution of family property. After dinner, while beside himself with rage. Rasia drew a revolver and shot his brother and sister-in-law dead. He then blew out his own brains. A CABLEGRAM says that a scheme has been discovered not only to rob Mme. Patti of her jewels but to kidnap her. A gang followed her to Buepos Ayres. One of their number communicated with the po­ lice, and as a result two members of the band have been put into prison. The chief of the gang is an Englishman, who on reaching Buenos Ayres took up his resi­ dence at the Hotel de Paris, while his principal accomplice, a Spaniard, was re­ siding in Rosarib. Failing to get the jewelry, it was the intention of the ruffians to capt ure Mme. Patti herself and seques­ trate her until a large ransom had teen Oi her release. The house was filled with flowers, his neigh- __ ( bora voicing their good wishes with their bou- IMV. Janes Freeman Clarke PeaeefUly 1 quets, while sundrv substantial boxes and bae- Passes Away. I THE Rev, James Freeman Clarke, D. D., I . - /fee eminent Unitarian preacher and an- I thor, died at his hpme in Jamacia Plain, Mass. He had been sick for several days, there being no organic disease, but simply a breaking up of the system from old age. His death was quiet, without pain or ap­ parent suffering. He was 78 years old, and had been pastor of the Church of the Disciples, in Boston, for forty-eight years. f Trade Looking Up. ,̂ K;iBmD8TBKBi'8, in its review of the week, "Special telegrams state that gen­ eral improvement in the weather through­ out the country has stimulated the retail Mid jobbing trade, principally groceries, dry goods, and boots and 6hoes, to a mod­ erate extent." ' ,f."V L • Congress, ' * • *** Boose passed the following MB* & Gth inst.: Authorizing the construction of a bridge at Omaha, Neb.; providing for the sale of aportion of the Winnebago Indian reservation *5?' riKht of way through the Ilritan Territory to the 1'aris, Choctaw and I.it- tleBock Railroad. Free salt was the text for a mmber of speeches in the committee of the whole of the House. Nothing of interest was developed, ana Mr. Burrows' motion to strike OOt the paragraph from the tariff was rejected. Mr. Urosventr s amendment to exclude bulk salt tne free lifct and iwlmit only dairy and table- Mat met with a similar fate. Mr. Bavne (Pa > OBered an amendment to insert rice, clJaue.l and ttncleaned, in the free list; rejected. The four toes relating to flax were read, and Mr. Browne i» Ili0,vtd 10 etrike them out of the free list »™d^g,debateS the committee rose and the -v, adjourned. The Senate was not in session. kets also told of affectionate remembrance from absent friends. The mail brought many letters of congratulation from old army and i>olitical friends. Davis is in better health than he has been for some time. He is greatly interested in current events, political and social. He is con­ cerned in the outcome of the St. Louis Conven­ tion, and reads all the newspaper gossip with the ardor of a young politician. THE Rev. Dr. Pridgeon, of Athens, Ga., some week« ago preached his own funeral sermon, and now he is about to contest his own will. When asked about it he de­ clared that what had once been done could not be undone without sufficient cause, and as he considered himself dead since his funeral 6ermon, he can only proceed in the legal way to have his will set aside. He sought to keep his coffin in the house, to which bis wife objected. Now the old man desires to recall the will, by which he left her his small possessions. At Bardstown, Ky., ex-Governor Wil­ liam Johnston, aged 71, died of a com­ plication of diseases incident of old age. A RAILWAY accident occurred just out­ side of Tampico, Mexico, in which many lives were lost. A construction train was derailed near a bridge by a cow and a donkey which were on the track. The train crashed through the bridge, and went down an embankment. The dead and injured were taken to the City of Mexico. So far as known, 18 were killed and 11 injured. • • GENERAL#' THE Union Pacific Railroad has sent from the West to Chicago a special stock train of eighteen of the new palace stock cars, the train to be run through at the late of thirty miles per hour. THE worst cyclone and thunderstorm that has ever visited that region struck Ot­ tawa, Can., and vicinity, causing great damage. It raged for over half an hotir. The Roman Catholie Church at Billings' bridge was blown to pieces. Twenty-one children and the priest were in the church at the time, preparing for a communion service." One child was instantly killed and nine were injured, several seriously. Houses were unioofed, barns blown down, ciops injured, and general devastation caused in all directions by the awful fury of the stottn. The Protestant hospital was struck by lightning and badly dam­ aged. Forty-eight patients were taken from the building uninjured but in a ter­ rible state of fright. The damage by the storm is roughly estimated at $100,000. Miss MARION HABTBANFT, a member of the Lily Clay Gaiety Company, play­ ing at the London Theater, New York, has resigned her position and proposes to re­ tire fiom the variety stage, a telegram received containing the news that she had fallen heir to 830,000. The substance of the information received in that an eccen­ tric old lady living on Peoria street, in Chicago, had died and bequeathed her entire estate to the actress. Miss Hart- ranft is the descendant of an old Penn­ sylvania family. She is 22 years old, and went on the stage through necessity. She is a niece of ex-Governor Hartranft, of Pennsylvania. THOMAS A. E&ISON is experimenting upon a new electric flying machine, which he has been commissioned by the Spanish Government to make for war purposes. The system will be one of revolving fans, to which power is supplied by means of a wiie connecting with an electric dynamo on the earth. The fans are not only to propel but to lift the air-ship. Then with a properly equipped car an officer can as­ cend and take photographs and sketches of the enemy's position. MCGARIGLE, the ex-Chicagoon, is at Banff Hot Springs, near Donald, B. C., spending money freely, and seems to have plenty left. He says he was in Chi­ cago once since his escape, but that he only remained one night, and drove out the next morning in a covered carriage. He has been living a pretty fast life in the mountains, and savs he will stop there all summer. He is going to China by way of Victoria, B. C. A ST. JOHNS (N. F.) dispatch says that "destructive forest fires aie raging on the south shore of Conception Bay. At Col­ liers, nine houses; at Harbor Grace Junc­ tion, seven; at Seal Cove seven have been burned. At Little Bay twenty-six fami­ lies have been burned out, with one woman and two childrenburned to death." CATTLE MARKETREPORTS; CHICAGO. -Choice to Prime Steers.$ 5.25 EAST. IjC * ̂ ' presentation to New York City of ' statue of Garibaldi, erected in Wash­ ington Square by the Italian residents of that city, has taken place. The statue is Of bronte of heroic size. There were present a *arKe number of Italian residents, delegationK from other cities, and repre­ sentatives of French societies and G. A. sewjj;.-- t P0®^8- Mayor Hewitt, accepted the 1^-. -y *tatue on behalf of the city. v, ADAM G. FAIST, a prosperous German fceer-bottler of New York City, has been In the habit of sometimes using a rubber tube in bottling his beer. Faist Hothyerv went to sleep in the stable He t«e up an hour or two later, still drunk bat verr thirsty, and staggered down to tfc* eeU»r *or a drink. By some extra- tipafeuoy drunken blunder he attached the m^ber tube to the gas pipe, thinking it V*« the beer tap, then turned on the gas jUI&iMgan to sack. He inhaled so muoh ,J,"Lhe fell on the floor unconscious,, an honr later when his family to look for him he was dead. B. SMITH, of Jersey City, N. of hydrophobia. A month ago he on the hand by a spitz dog, a his family. He had the wound ed and thought nothing of it as and niece had previously been bit- POLmca. THE Arkansas State Democratic Con­ vention, after an exciting contest of five days between five candidates for Gover­ nor, reached a conclusion by nominating J. P. Eagle; B. B- Chesm, Secretary of State; W. 8. Dnnlop, Auditor; P. M. Cobbs, Land Commissioner, and W. E. Thompson, Superintendent of Public In­ struction. GEN. JAKES B. WEAVER has been re­ nominated for Congress by the Union Labor party of the Sixth IoWa Distiiafc. _ & (5.00 Good 4.50 0 5.25 Cows and Heifers 3.00 igi 4.00 Hoes--dipping Grades 5.85 <<$ c.00 SHEEP 4.50 ® 5.75 WHKAT--No. 2 Bed .86 @ .87 COBN-IJO. 2 .54!$ OATS--No. 2 jja .34 BABL,ET--No. 2 .68 (;*. .70 BUTTER--Choice Creamery 17 <3i .18 Fine Dairy .14 & .16 CHBME--Full Cream, flat .08 EGOS--Fresh 13;S'<S .14}$ POTATOES-- New, per brl 2.50 & 3.50 POBK-- Mess 14.00 ($14.25 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--June .82'$ COKN--No. 3 .fti'I OATS-NO. 2 White ,87 & .38 BVE--No. 1 ,f>3 (3i .t5 BAKLEY--NO. 2 ^51 & .68 ....1&V5 (<$14.25 .91 .57 ' FOREIGN. • V -vv.| A XtARGF audience assembled in Berlin to witness a performance by university ! students of a drama entitled "Luther and His Team," the work of Paster Trumpel- man. When the time arrived for tne per­ formance to begin a student appeared and announced that the drama nad been so mutilated by the censor that it could not be presented. It is stated the police of­ ficials stopped the performance because the drama was offensively anti-Catholic in tone. A LONDON dispatch says that a native Indian, the n&tural son 'of an Indian potentate, who has up to this time been hardly able to earn 30 rupees a month, has suddenly fallen into great good luck. He is appointed as teacher of Hindostanee to the Queen, with a monthly salary of 1,500 rupees. Charles BTadlaugh, in the House of Commons, attacked appointment, PORK--Mess. TOLEDO. WHKAT--Gash .&0%G( COKN--Cash JS6 (9 OATH--Cash .35 CLOVER SEED 420 ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed .83 CORK--Mixed JjO OATS--Cash ;32 R*E .60 BARLEY .80 PORK--Mess 14.50 NEW YORK. CATTUT.......* Hoos SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2Bed CORN--No. 2 OATS--White PORK--Mew Mess DETROIT. CATTUB. Hoos w HE A-T-^no. i winte! **.y. * CORN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--»o. 2 White INDIANAPOLIS. & .» & 4.90 Jtenat* and Nona* of Rep­ resentatives. CLEVBLA! TH« timber paragraphs of the Mills tariff bill were diseaiSed dt lsagth in the House on the 2d inst. Mir. Doekery, of Missouri, declared that the explanation of the failure of the lumber­ men's weges to increase lay in the fact that U0 per cent, of the workmen wore Canadians. So it WM In othftf industries; 83 per cent, of the men em our manufacturing industries were foreigners imported under contract to compete against American labor. Mr. fiiller, Of Iowa, secured a round of ap- plause from the Democratic side by declaring that as he did not believe that the true doctrine of protection was involved in this question he should vote for hree lumber. Mr. Graenther, of Wisconsin, nredieted that the Democratic party, if it passed thin bill, would go to that place paved witb good intentions, where every limtptnu knot of timber would be used, not to raise the reve­ nue, but to raise the temperature. Mr. Wilkins, from the Committee on Banking anil Currency, reported to the House a substitute for the bill in- trodncea by him to revise tod codify the bitiikiniz laws of the United States. AMONG other xneasuros the following bills were passed by the Senate on the 4th inst.: House bill authorizing the President to appoint arid retire Alfred Pleaeonton with rank and grade of Colonel, with an amendment reducing the rank to that of Major; Senate bill authorizing the 1'resident to £lace on the ifetiral list, with the grade of Major, tajor General William W. AveriU. The House passed the bill to authorize the construc­ tion of a bridge across the Missouri River in the counties of Monona. Iowa, and Burt, Neb. Mr. Mills moved that the rules be suspended and evening sessions ordered for the con­ sideration of certain bills, but as he would not consent to an amendment setting apart certain sessions for the consideration of pension bills the Republicans refused to vote. As no quorum coula be secured Mr. Mills withdrew his resolution, He then moved that debate on the pending paragraph iu the tariff bill be limited to ten minutes. After some wrangling, Mr. Mills withdrew his motion to limit debate and simply asked that the House go into committee of the whole on the tariff bill. But the Republicans, hoping to make an opportunity for the pension bill, persisted in their refusal to vote, and an­ other roll-call was ordered on the motion to go into committee. On this vote ill Democrats re­ sponded. No quorum, and Mr. Mills moved to adjourn, which prevailed, and the House ad­ journed. SENATOB CHANDLEI* introduced a bill In the Senate, on the 5th inst., to amend the fishery "retaliation act," by striking out the words "in his discretion," and the reference to "other products of the Dominion" than fish. This would absolutely deny Canadian vessels the right of entry whenever the President is satisfied that the rights of Americans in Dominion ports are abridged, or whenever they are subjected to annovance; and would also forbid the importation of Canadian fresh or salt fish. The House, in committee of tho whole, devoted the day to the Mills tariff bill. Several items in the timber schedule came up, and every attempt to strike them from the tree list foiled. ANOTHER great hole was made in the Senate calendar on the 6th inst. All the pension bills On the calendar--one hundred and sixteen, in­ cluding sixty-four House bills--were passed Among them were bills increasing the pensions of the widows of Gen. Thomas Kilby Smith to 975, Gen. Heintzelinan to $100, Gen. Schimmel- pfennig to $50, and giving a pension of $50 a month to the widow of Commodore Truxton. Among the other measures passed were the House bill for holding terms of the United States Court in Minnesota, with an amendment authorizing the purchase of a site for a United States Supreme Court building; appropriating •125,000 for a public building at Salt Lake City, UtpJb; providing for two Associate Justices of the Dakota Supreme Court; and authorizing the construction of a bridge at Omaha, Neb. The ses­ sion of the House was spent in committee of the whole on the tariff bill, and most of the re­ maining paragraphs of the lumber schedule were disposed of, all motions to strike out be­ ing rejected. Messrs. Weaver and Funston in­ dulged in a personal recrimination and shook their fingers in each other s faces over the barbed-wire and lumber taxes. MR. MORGAN, of Alabama, asked leave of the Senate, on the 7th inst., to offer a preamble and resolutions setting forth that the report of the Committee on Foreign Relations on the fisheries treaty questioned its legality, and declaring it void and lawful. Mr. Sherman objected to its introduction. Mr. Morgan addressed the Senate upon the subject. He said: "This important treaty has been made the political football of a great party for the Bake of advancing the interests of a certain gentleman in the National Convention to be held in Chicago." The Senate adjourned until the 11th. The House went into committee of the whole on the tariff bill. Mr. Dingley, of Ma'ne, speaking in opposition to Mr. Breckin­ ridge's untKidraent to the proviso attached to the lumber schedule of the free list, which pro­ poses to admit Canadian fish free of duty upon allowance by that country of commercial rights to our vessels, and also for reciprocity in the ex­ change of products between the United States and Canada. After a long debate, the lumber schedule was passed without change. .SO .60*4 4.50 6.25 4.0'J .91 .61 .45 1S.25 4.00 6.00 |.50 .90 & (9 & .ea & .83 @15.00 & 5.78 & 6.00 <f$ 6.00 & .92 & .61* & .50 (315.7S r" .54!<,® .38^# S.U & 4.50 * :$£ .89)4 CATTI4I.... Hoos..... SHEET.. LAMBS BUFFALO. CATTTS. Hoos WHEAT--No. l White...... CORN--No. 2 Yellow .. EAST LIBERTY. CATTXJS--Prime Fair Common... Hoos ...r...... I •*»•*>. ..:|s.oo & 5.95 6.00 5.25 5.2# (9 5.28 & 8.00 & 6.00 ® M .58^ MX 6.00 ® 5.50 4.50 m 5.09 4.00 & 4.60 $.50 m 6.00 « 858 4.50 6.25 4.00 4.50 4.50 6.25 4.25 .98 The Charm of Egypt. "When one first lands in Egypt the scene is the freshest imaginable. With­ in an hour you are launched from the P. & O. steamer that has carried home with it to the last moment, and are plunged in a new world. You find yourself in a narrow street of (fuaintest houses and in a throng that presses past, each figure in it a picture and a novel­ ty. On either side are the pigeon-holes of shops where turbaned merchants sit tailor-fashion, gazing out, calmly as oxen in their stalls, upon the hurrying tide of life which fills you with wonder. You would like to arrest each person for scrutiny as in a wax-works exhibi­ tion. You long for a kind harlequin, that with a touch thfey might be trans­ formed into motionless tableaux vivants. Here is a string of camels with their heads aloft above the crowd, moving with soft step and long stride as they carry bags of spice that have come from the distant Soudan. Here is a rich of­ ficial with his reis running in front and his pipe-bearer behind. Here comes a lady of rank, perched high on her pad­ ded saddle, riding stride legs, and ex­ cept for the large eves that glance from the kohl-tinted eyelids above the white veil, and the little henna-stained hand that holds the reins, she might be mis* taken for a bale of silk. Feasant wom­ en hurry along with veils hung by a kind of thimble to their head-gear, their lithe forms thinly draped in the long bathing-gown sort of dress of blue cot­ ton, and carrying astride on their shoul­ ders their little naked children, with weak eyes and grave faces. There comes a Bedawee on his hardy horse, that frets under the cruel bit, the sad­ dle richly caparisoned, and the Btirrups broad and coarse as iron shovels. And here, with many a stroke on the tough quarters of the long-eared donkey he drives before him, comes the donkey- boy shouting his "Kuach," "Sheemee- nuck," "Regluk," as he steers some large Englishman, who sits perched over the quarters of the "Homar." Crowds there are of brown-legged, brown-bosomed laborers, wearing the kind of gray felt cap which we see on .clowns in the circus at home; and water- carriers flounder past, bearing the bursting skins that palpitate and surge with their liquid contents; and sellers of bread, carrying flat cakes on a tray on their heads; and sellers of swords, bristling with steel like moving stands of armor; and then the beggars--blind, halt, and deformed--such as Raffaele introduced into some of his pictures, but to be seen in the flesh oiaJgr in an Oriental city. Cauliflower. Boil that is fit for growing4" Cabbage is fit for growing cauliflower, we should say to an inquirer. Cauliflower, however, will repay manuring in any soil. The seed may be sown in the hot-bed in January or February, and the plants transplanted in boxes or the soil of another hot-bed until it is safe to plant oat. Of course it is too late to do that now. As to the merits of cauliflower, which our correspondent asks for, it would not be possible for w to de­ cide that for him. As for ounetea, we think cauliflower very delicious. TBI seed may be bad of any of (he seedsmen. Yes, there are several different varieties, some being earlier . than other*. Bend for the catalogue of some prominent seedsman, from which yon will learn what the names different vari Daniel Dougherty's Sash Statements bi "' '̂ fh® St. 1Mb Coaveatira*' i J [From the Chicago Tribune.] As has long been anticipated, Grovei Cleveland will be the standard-bearer of the Democracy in the national campaign of 1888. The national convention of his party assembled at 8t. Louis renominated him by acclamation and amid the usual party enthusiasm Wednesday. That the affair might not be an empty form Daniel Dougherty was persuaded to lend his elo­ quence to the occasion. He eulogized Cleveland and the convention ratified the eulogy. But, despite the eloquence and the enthusiasm, this* portion of the pro­ ceedings had all the characteristic marks of a perfunctory affair. The Dougherty speech may be taken as Cleveland's per­ sonal platform, and was doubtless intended to make up for any shortcomings in that presented by the Committee on Resolu­ tions to the convention. Ever since Cleveland's election, $s the result of a bigot's blunder and a personal accident in New "iprk State, it has been evident that, despite his repudiation of a second term in his letter of acceptance, he would be the candidate of his party at the expiration of the first term. He wa» the only candidate the Democrats could have won with in 1884. They readily came to the conclusion that he would be their safest candidate in 1888. He was willing to forego his pre-election pledges, and it is no injustice to him to say that he has been a candidate for a second term since 1885. His public policy has been directed in aid of thai ambition. His prin­ cipal appointments have been made in furtherance of it. His partisans have skill­ fully cultivated the idea. His sucoess is necessary to their supremacy in the party councils and their retention of office. Their plans have been promoted by the lack of capable and available men in the party. The managers of the organization had to go to the brink of the grave for their candidate for Vice President. It is noteworthy that two of the men spoken of most favorably in connection with the Democratic nomination four years ago-- Vilas and Bayard--have been politically wrecked through service in Cleveland's cabinet, while a third promising candidate of that time, McDonald of Indiana, has been ignored by the administration, and, in fact, driven from participation in the party councils by the manipulation of Cleveland's henchmen. The Democrats at St. Louis Were)under the circumstances, compelled to nominate Cleveland. They could not help themselves. ||||ey had no other available candidate. a matter of necessity with them. But a nomination does not mean re­ election for Cleveland, as Mr. Dougherty and the other Democratic orators so con­ fidently predict. Mr. Cleveland stands before the people now in a different posi­ tion from that in which he stood four years ago. • He Was then the fortunate politician who had been elected Governor of the great pivotal State by an over­ whelming majority, and who had proved himself a conservative and moderate State executive. He made abundant pledges of civil-service reform. No man was to be turned out except for just cause. He Srofited by the personal jealousies and issensions within the Republican party. But he will have to make his campaign this year on his bad record against what promises to be a united and harmonious opposition party chastened and disciplined by four years' exclusion from power. His broken performances will be compared with his florid professions. They will not stand the public scrutiny even in mug­ wump eyes. The rash statements made in Mr. Dough­ erty's nominating speech of Cleveland will at once suggest many of Cleveland's broken pledges and faithless promises. His candidacy for a second term is in di- • rect opposition to the principles and por litical doctrines set forth in his letter of acceptance. His professions of civil- service reform have been so flagrantly violated that an organization officered by. his most influential supporters of four years ago, including George William Cur­ tis, its President, charges that the admin­ istration's disregard of the notorious and flagrant defiance of the executive circular of July 14, 1886, warning certain officers of the Government against pernicious activity in politics, and the President's letter of Nov. 2, 18K7, advocating the choice of a particular candidate (Fel­ lows) in a municipal election, have seriously discredited the cause of reform and have merited the public condemna­ tion which they had received; that the se­ vere judgment of the public in these mat­ ters was a hopeful sign of reform; that the enlistment of officeholders for the benefit of a faction was a perversion of the purposes of parties'; Nand that the Presidential term of four jiears was pro- >:fic of intrigue. The President, despite his professions and pledges, has so notor­ iously surrendered to the spoils faction of his party that the civil-service law has become a mock and a by-word among the spoilsmen themselves. The law has been prostituted to party ends, and tens of thousands of independent voters who supported Cleveland four years ago on the strength of his pledges will now feel it their duty to vote against him for his treacherous betrayal. So flagrant have those violations been that even the party organs have denounced them as calculated to injure the Democratic party." Nor is it in these matters alone that the President has failed toiulfill his pledges or the promises made for him by the spokesmen of his party. Several branches of the public service have been demoral­ ized by the character of his appointments. The Postal Department, the most efficient branch of the Government service four years ago, is now deplorably inefficient. The Department of the Interior seems to have been officered iu the interest of mo­ nopoly, and, despite Mr. Dougherty's boast that "this administration has rescued the public domain from would-be barons and cormorant corporations," the facts remain that the faithful officer who tried to effect this reform was /removed on account of his aggressive honesty in defense of th^ public rights, mid the Secretary who removed him was given a seat on the Su­ preme Bench, where he may have the op­ portunity to confirm the plunder claims of the barons and the cormorants. And the appointment was made notwithstand­ ing, though the appointee was not a mem­ ber of the bar of the Supreme Court, had not been iu active service for years, and had no standing as a lawyer, ana was one of the most efficient lieutenants of Jeff Davis in his attempt to destroy the nation. Cleveland's record in this matter will not be justified by referring to the fact that alleged Republican Senators connected with the "cormorant corporation" voted to confirm the appointment. Mr. Dougherty's challenge will be met in every detail thtoughout the campaign. Mr. Cleveland will be fought on his rec­ ord, on account of the violation of his pledges, his prostitution of the public service for politic il purposes, his weak and pusillanimous foreign policy, his im­ proper foreign appointments, his demoral­ izing influence on the domestic depart­ ments. There will be no necessity of dis­ cussing his personal record, and it is to be hoped that no such attempt will be made. His public record will afford ample scope for discussion. He will be sustained or condemned on that. We believe he will be condemned and de­ feated. He certainly ought to be. * Everything (Explained. Guest (to landlord)--"Are you sure, landlord, that this is a spring chickenV" Landlord--"Yes, sir. That chicken is from my own farm. It was born in March." Guest--"Ob, that explains it. March is tough month. "--JfurtWe Bam ILLINOIS STATE •--Dunham Post, No. 141, Grand Amy of the Republic, have dedicated their new ball in Decatur. It was done in open meeting, at which Col. James A. Sexton, Illinois Department Commander; j. W. Burst, Pos,t Department Commander; H. 8. Dietrich, Commander of Post No. 28; and H. P. Thompson, Post Department Adjutant, all of Chicago, delivered ad­ dresses. It was a red-letter oCca«iOn In the history of the post. --The liquor license has not yet been raised to $5,000 in Joliet, but action will be taken on it by the City Council the present month. The Committee on Li­ cense not only recommend the passage of the $5,000 ordinance, but also report iu favor of limiting the sale of whisky and beer within certain bounds and upon cer­ tain streets of that city. The agitation of the high-license question has brought out from the Mayor an order against members of the police and fire departments drink­ ing or smoking in saloons on pain of in­ stant discharge. Th>; is the first time in the history of Joliet such an order has been issued, It is Said the Mayor will rigidly enforce it. --At Rockton, Erastus 8. Bates, who had been out looking after his stock, was found dead in a field, leaning against a tree, and at Harrison William Bates, while out' on a similar errand, was found by his family dead. --The hiding place of convict William Heller, who mysteriously disappeared from the Joliet prison, has been discov­ ered. He was found by Deputy Garvin and Convict Bob Todd in an air chamber in the prison ice and meat house. Heller had cleverly removed a board from the air chamber, a space about five feet long and three feet wide,' and in this hole he had stored a supply of meat and bread, an extra pair of pants and a large iron hook to which was attached thirty-five feet of stout rope, to be used in scaling the wall when the hunt should be given up. He then crawled into his narrow quarters, and by inserting an eyelet hook into the boron he haa removed he pulled it back into place and secured it from the inside. Here for six days and nights the convict remained waiting a chance to go over the wall. One of the prison guards, who was on watch near the meat house, a place that had previously been searched a dozen times, heard a suspicious noise, as if some one was moving about in the meat room, and the doors were open and the place again searched, but without result. Deputy Garvin entered the place and with Convict Todd's assistance began tearing out the partitions. When Todd's crowbar struck the board that closed tip the hole where Heller was concealed, and the baffled convict was dragged forth, there was great rejoicing among the keepers. Many of them had been on duty day and night for nearly a week. Heller is now in the solitary cell. --"Redney" Burns, alias William Graves, the Rohnow murderer, has been pardoned by Gov. Oglesby from the Joliet prison. "Redney was a pal of "Nibsey" Payne, both notorious Chicago thieves. Capt. Simon O'Donnell, of the Chicago police, awarded to "Redney" Buriis the honor of being the worst criminal that ever graduated from the Twelfth 'street district. Rohnow kept a little grocery store. Burns and two pals entered his store, and while robbing the money- drawer the proprietor came in from a rear loom. He grappled with the thieves, when one drew a revolver and shot him dead. No trace of the murderers was found until six months afterward, when Capt. O'Donnell got a clew through a piece of city scrip. [ This scrip was in the possession of the murdered man Rohnow at the time of his death, and/was stolen by the murderers. ItSwas trj/ced through the hands of a dozen different persons, and finally to "Redney" Burns. "Red­ ney" had in the" meantime been sent to the penitentiary with a gang of country robbers for attempting to murder a conductor on the Burlington Road near Monmouth, receiving a five- year term under the name of William Graves. O'Donnell finally found "Red­ ney" at the prison. "Redney" admitted having the scrip in his possession. While O'Donnell held the scrip in his hand "Redney" sprang forward, snatched the paper, and was about to throw it into the fire in the Warden's offices grate, but the officer was too quick for him and re­ gained it. Burns was taken out of prison on a habeas corpus writ,' and after a long trial was given fourteen years for the Rohnow murder. He was in jail along with the notorious safe-blower Andy Mc­ Kay, awaiting removal to the penitentiary. One night Burns and McKay made a des­ perate assault upon the night turnkey foi the purpose of making their escape. The officer was terribly battered up, bftt finally recovered. Burns received an additional sentence of five years for the murderous assault upon the turnkey, making hi? total sentence twenty-four years. Last July "Redney" became insane -and was transferred to the Elgin Asylum for treat­ ment, and remained there until Novem­ ber, when he was returned to Joliet at cured. His sister, Miss Annie Burns, of Chicago, had been working incessantly for her brother's pardon, and finally succeeded. --The State Board of Agriculture heltl a called meeting at Springfield to considei the propriety of printing in the premium lists of the coming State Fair certain ex­ planatory clauses relating to the classifi­ cation of French draft horses. The board, after a lengthy discussion, decided to publish the classification for the French draft hjpses the same as last Season, with­ out making a separate class for Percheron thp' •post amusing ex- gentleman that, a meetimr of the Author's Clnb, droppod in the Hoffman House for liquid refresh­ ment It was lata at night, and the party was a singularly congenial one, composed of such kindred spirits as W. I). Ho wells, Julian Hawtnorne ̂T. B. Aldrich, R. W. Gilder, and Mark «V Twain. While these gentlemen were •' telling stories over their flagons and around one of those polished oak tables with which Brother Stokes accommo­ dates his patrons, a very gentlemanly- looking individual mode his appear­ ance, and, handing Mr. Stedman his card, said: pardon me, sir, but as you appear to be a very jolly set of fellows, I should like to make one of your number." Mr. Steadman glanced at the card and was engraved thereon "CoL Ernest Fitzroy Leigh, Her Majesty's Service." CoL Leigh, ex- , plained sotto voce that his ship lay in the harbor, and that lie had come to li town on a short leave of absence. "I am sure," said Mr. Steadman, cordially, that these 'gentlemen will be I • r1"' glad to make your acquaintance." e'.:"V Thereupon CoL Leijgh, having first ~ summoned a waiter to take the gentle­ men's orders, suffered himself to be in­ troduced to the party. "CoL Leigh, this is Julian Haw­ thorne, the novelist," said Mr. Sted- \ man, "and this is Mr. Thomas Bailey ijidrich, editor of the Atlantic monthly; this gentleman is Mark ^ Twain, the humorist; the gentleman to iiis light is Mr. Gilder, editor of the - Century, and the one to his left is Mr. W. D. Ho wells, the novelist. And I am Edmund Clarenoe Stedman, a poet. Now that we all know each other, let us be friend*." The English officer, with that in- ' I stinctive cunning characteristic of his. race, jumped at the conclusion that this was all a fine joke being played at his expense. He was not to be fooled --that was apparent from the sly twinkle in his eye and the slightly sar­ castic (not to say sceptioal) smile that, curled about the corners of his mouth. But he was determined to take the joke good naturedly, and return, if possible* a Boland for this Oliver. "Gentlemen," said Col. Leigh, set­ tling back in his chair, "I am indeed proud to be afforded the opportunity of meeting so many of the most distin­ guished literati of this fair Idd, It is- proper, I think, that on aa occasion like this I should cast off the incognito under which I am traveling, in order that we may the more unreservedly and with more geauine sympathy inter­ change confidence. Know, then, that I am not CoL Ernest Fitzroy Leigh of ]/ her majesty's service, but Sir Walter Scott, author of the ' Waverley Novels'! •Chicago News. I' V *1 . -- was then and French draft horses. The question of | ̂ least 40 years of age, thus making Merino Sheep. The first merino sheep that ever left- the shores of Spain for the United ^ States or for any other foreign part, • came from there to Boston in 1796. For hundreds of years the Spanish Government had prohibited the ex- ::; p o r t a t i o n o f m e r i n o s u n d e r h e a v y : penalties as it knew the great value of that product of its mountains, and did " * not intend to share its benefits and profits with any other country, and thus the sheep had remained confined to those mountains, the envy of the world, The law was still in foroe in 1796, bnt the Hon. William Porter, of Massachusetts, was in Spain in t hat- year, and by some means managed to obtain three merinos, which he brought safely home. Strange and unaccount­ able as it may seem, these three valu­ able sheep,, the first to leave their native hills, and to obtain which many governments would have paid almost any price, fell into the possession of a man who appreciated the ownership so lightly that he slaughtered them, and sold their mutton at the regular market price. That man was Andrew Craigie, of Cambridge. He knew what he had done in after years, when to obtain a- merino ram for breeding purposes, he paid the sum of $1,000 each. In 1802 Col. David Humphreys was- United States Minister to Spain. He was extremely popular at the Spanish Court. In that year he relinquished his office and returned homa The Spanish Government tendered him a- valuable gift in gold. Col. Humphreys declined it, but said there was some­ thing he would highly prize. He was asked to name it He replied: "One hundred merino nheep." The request was unexpected. The law stood in the way of its being granted. The Government got over the difficulty in some way, and 100 sheep were among the cargo of the vessel that landed the ex-Minister in Boston. Seventy of them survived the passage, and from that original stock, which were placed on the Humphreys farm At Derby, Conn., the present royal breed of Ver­ mont merinos sprang..-- Hew York Swu , Wonderful Longevity. On Hie subject of longevity Somali* markable facts are given in Hubert Howe Bancroft's "California PastoraL" The mission records show the date and approximate age at which the Indiau neophytes were babtised, and, there­ fore, tho statements given may be ac­ cepted as good historical evidence, Many of the natives reached the age of 80 or 90, while not a few of them num­ bered their years at over 100. Indeed, Frther Martinez, of San Miguel, wrote that there were at that mission several Indian women of more than 100 years of age. At Los Angeles, Antonio Valdes died in 1859 at the age of 92, and in 1858 Guadolnpe Borneo at the age of 115, An Indian woman, Maria Ignacie, reached the age of 96, another : Indian reached 102, while a third died at 137, having danced at a fandango a ; short time before his decease. Maria Marcelina Dominquez died in 1865 at the age of 107. When the Jesuits were ' expelled from Mexico in 1767 Ursula Madriage was 12 years old, he died at Monterey in 1856. Justiano Roxas, an Indian who died at Santa Cruz in 1875, was baptised at that missicn in 1792; in the entry of iiis baptism it is noted by the officiating priest that he ' M dPii "t- j j -II . holding an exhibition of breeding animals in connection with the fat stock show, to be known as the American Live Stock Show, was also considered. A committer representing the citizens of Chicago re­ ported through the Secretary that it was I their belief that a guarantee fund of from $12,000 to $15,000 could be raised. A strennous effort is in progress to make the exhibition one of the most extensive displays of breeding animals ever given in America. --Charles Ray/a irtranger confined in the County Jail atf Alton, charged with voting illegally at the last township elec­ tion in Alton, was found dead in his bnnk. His supposed that he committed suicide. % J « C ' him 123 at the time of his death. Eutal a Peruz, who died in 1878, claimed to be 140 years old, but did not seem so aged or present any satisfac­ tory proof to sustain the claim; a care- ^'examination of the facts seems to prove that she was not born before * 176ft . THE difference between horse races and walking matches seems to be that in the former the contestants score be­ fore they start, while in the latter they must start before they can score.--- Idea. . . "I AM in the hands of my friends," as a man remarked when the police bore him away from a fight in ha wu getting the worst ofm ! w.i ...>K*>.£..t- Jkt