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HILLISM IN NEW TOKK. If the constantly expressed desire • of the people for purer methods and imore wholesome laws be half as earn­ est as it is noisy, .great will be the de- ieat of the Democratic party in New "York at the November election. The Secretary of State, vfrho will ihead the Democratic iicket, and every Democratic candidate for a seat in the IState Legislature, will go to the coun­ try as a man approving of the past and pledged to the future policy of ^Governor Hill. It will be Hillism against reform, and even against de­ cency, in the New York campaign. And what is Hillism ? The reform v^y^Blement demands high license as a '~~Tmeans of checking the great and grow­ ing evils which the multitude of sa­ loons have begotten and forever are begetting all over the State, and es­ pecially in the large cities. Governor , ,'jpEIill has vetoed every measure which $he Legislature has passed as a check ,; ; 'hpon the liquor trade, and his call to the Democratic convention has stopped Lttle short of an open declaration of hostility to any and every form of legis- ; Ration which may hinder or lessen the . 'pale of intoxicating liquors. V ®overnor Hill also vetoed, with un- 1;' Ijiisguised contempt, the Saxon bill, Although both parties had demanded f "Electoral reform in their platforms of >|1888, and although the bill contained /Ml that is best in the Australian ballot 'law. He gave active aid and support to the defense of one of the most guilty participants in the scandalous "ceiling Bteal" connected with the Capitol Building. Though both parties pledged themselves to labor for the reform of the civil service, Governor Hill has surrounded himself with the, most unscrupulous gang of officials that the State ever has been burdened with. He defeated the popular desire for a Constitutional Convention. < He has done everything that the liquor sellers, the ballot-box stuffers, the dis­ honest public contractors have desired 'him to do, and he hps left undone everything that the friends of temper­ ance, the advocates of an honest ballot, the promoters of civil service reform, the champions of honesty in the making and securing of public contracts have wished him to do. This is Hillism, and Hillism is what is to pass as 'Democracy in the next New York elec­ tion. It would seem impossible that any nomination of good Republican can­ didates should fail to overcome the array of Hillism at the polls. It would be impossible if the ballot-boxes in New York City were as carefully guarded as those in the lesser towns and rural districts of the State. The hope of Hillism lies in direct bribery, in that indirect bribery which saloon­ keepers can exercise toward many of their customers, and in that thinly dis­ guised intimidation which one set of minor officials can bring to bear upon the criminal classes, and which another set can exercise toward those who are dependent upon it for place or profit. Yet the prospects of Democratic suc­ cess are far from bright. There is a Erotest against Hillism, even in the •emocratic party, and there is steady hostility to it among the Independents. New York is becoming impressed with the belief that the defeat of Hillism is fts much a necessity now as the defeat i^f Tweedism was aforetime.--Chicago san. . ' Bosh! Periodically and especially upon the eve of a political campaign the Demo­ crats discover Republican conspiracies for negro colonization arid raise a clamor that Republican leaders are running negroes into election districts With the intention of voting them and then running them out again. There has not been an election in Hlinois, In­ diana, or Ohio these last dozen years When the story has not been started that negroes were crossing the river into the southern counties of these States for this purpose, and in every case the reports have proved to be ly­ ing fabrications. Now a similar dlamor has been raised concerning a conspira­ cy to induce negroes to emigrate from the South into the Northwest, and particularly into Montana and Wash­ ington, as a political move to help the Republicans in the pending new State elections. So far as any organized movement of negroes into these territories is con­ cerned there is just the same basis of truth that there has been in the other movements to which reference has been made and no more. So far aB opportunities for labor are concerned in those localities and so far as induce­ ments can be held out to the negroes that they can better their condition there may be a movement on the part of such of them as can find the money necessary to make the change, just as there is on the part of white men, but that the movement will amount to any­ thing like a general exodus, or, in fact, amount to anything more than a change of base on the part of individuals here and there, there is no reason to be­ lieve, and those clamoring Democrats know it. The conditions of climate and soil and the opportunities for agri­ cultural labor in the new States do not present any inducements strong enough to attract the Southern negroes. The climatic, conditions of Arizona and New Mexico and both the cli­ matic and agricultural conditions of California, which runs farther south even than the Gulf States, are well adapted to the negro, and access to them by the great transcontinental lines has been easy for the last fifteen or twenty years, and yet hardly a handful of negroes have been induced to leave the South and go there, not­ withstanding the injustice, brutality, and outrages inflicted upon them in the cotton States. Even in Missouri there are no more negroes, compara­ tively, than there were during slavery times. If there is any general move­ ment of negroes in the South it will be - toward the rich cotton lands along the ^Southern rivers and toward the alluvi- al districts of the Mississippi valley. This is already shown by the gravitat­ ing of large bodies of "negroes from North Carolina into Southern Alabama and Mississippi, and this to such an Oxtent that the wlytes of these States are even now dreading the increase of the existing black numerical superiori­ ty- To whatever extent Washington and Montana may increase their popu­ lation by colored men, it will be due jOnly to the inducements which those States can hold out to them in the way »f labor at more remunerative wages than they are now receiving and to the ©rospect that they may in time get 'land of their own and be allowed to Hnjoy the result of their own industry Without any regard to politics. How freat or how little the movement may e time can alone determine, but the fxpfffionoe of the past is certainly *n- IlftERESTING ITEMS GATHBRKD FBOM VARIOUS SOURCES. f , «avor*ble to the expectation that the AFFAIRS IN ILTINOIS. movement will ever reach dimensions -entitling it to be called colonization," or even sufficient to attract general ob* -t sirvation. Be this as it may, iff «Mnea > with an ill grace from Democrats, who pose as the friends of labor, and pre- what Oar Neighbors Are Dolus--Matter* tend to love the laboringmen. this con- " ' "* * * " * ~ tinnal clamor and hullabaloo every time the negro manifests a desire to better his condition and seek some place where he can secure just and equitable remuneration for his work.-- Chicago Tribune. THE NEXT APPORTIONMENT of General and Local Interest -- Mar- | rlages and Deaths--Aocidents and Climes j --Personal Pointers. j --The following pensions have been granted to Illinois citizens: | Original Invalid- Michael Cannon, Henry 8. i Howell, Lafayette I.. Jones, Isaac Kerr, John j Rankin, Job 8. Ooggeslmli, Calvin .Tohnson, I Chris. Scherschel, Tliouias Kofgan. Elhridge <1. j Beem, James J. West. Jr.. Alfonso Noonan. Nicholas Suiter. Peter Achlosser. Samuel j Iwig, Nathaniel T. Kendall, Peter Har­ mon, Warren A. Hall. Thomas J. Favne, Robert Johnson, Kapoleon B. Toor, Kried- ( erick Krueger. Jos. Ernst. Adam Winter- | gerst, Wm. iulton, Jacob Smith fdfeccascd), Lo­ renzo D. Mosher, John L. Hedfearn, JOB. H.Jett, ! John Boyd, Andrew J. Kviing. Win. Milhausen, ! Abraham Dillon. John E. Gla^co. Hiram F. Caa- aell. Hicliard McWilliaius, Henrv B. Maun, NEW BASE-BALt DEAL ItlTOLT OF, THK HOOD OF PLAYKB8, Difficulties which Confront Them -- The Leafve Magnates Will Continue In the Field--President Spalding; Interviewed-- Other Base-Ball Notes. [New York special] H itibs, Wm. A. Tin mas Lawsou, John \V. Phillips, Alfred A. Trover, rrauti-t M. Dixon. Alexander Moore, Arson Vret'ge. Oscar statisticians believe the population of the United States will be 67,000,000 in 1890. The esti­ mate of the census office, on which the cost of the forthcoming census is based, is 65,000,000. The Press esti­ mate does not quite reach this figure. The general idea as obtained from the published liters is to increase the population per Congressional district, and to lessen rather than to increase the number of Congressmen. For ex­ ample, Senator Hawley thinks a popu­ lation of 190,000 to a Congressional district about right, which, if carried out, would not increase representation, but leave it where. Hon. William M. Springer, of Illinois, thinks it should be left--at 330. We have therefore figured it out on the present basis of representation, say 330 members, giv­ ing a population of 192,999 to each district, and also on the basis of 215,- 000, 220,000, 225,000, and 230,000, re­ spectively. The results may be sum­ marized as follows in tne Electoral Col- lego: 1 9 3 4 5 Republican Btates 199 184 180 176 178 Democratic States 161 153 145 141 140 Doubtful States 54 49 48 48 46V 1--192,'J99 to one district; 2--215,000; 3-220,- 000 ; 4--225,000 ; 5--230,000. Here we have an Electoral College aggregating respectively 414, 386, 373, 365 and 359. It is not necessary for us to present the various combinations, but one thing is certain--namely, that the pleasing liction that the Republi­ cans can elect the next President with­ out the doubtful States is likefy to do a good deal of harm in the Republican ranks unless counteracted by the cold facts and figures. In future oontests the Republicans will undoubtedly stand the best chance, but our plan of campaign must contemplate not only every doubtful State, but two or three wavering States. Fought out on this line, the Republicans will surely elect a President on the new apportionment, on whatever basis it is made.--New York Press. \ A Cnni of the Opinions of l4adinf Men of All Parties. A galaxy of brilliant and well-known statesmen " iscussin the Press the vari­ ous propositions in relation to the new „ apportionment to be made on the popu- ' George Kchiuitz. Zaehariah Allen, tiirarn Brom lation returns of 1800. In the letters ! we nna ft great variety of opinion. For ' Dewitt Chapman, Hurcule Guynon. John example, a Texas statesman thinks the V^,u™ ARMSTRONG John M. -r>„ ... , , , , , Crutchley, Jolin H. Horn. Ptter Cssteur. Use Of Xtepresen t ati res should bo . Francis ii. Fair is. Frederick D. St r titer, Thomas cut down to 150, while his colleague 1 A- Fuller, Nu-holr.s Miller, .Iimci < ainpbell, from KR.naa.st unnlil rrln.llr it i„ j Henry Paughmv, Edward C. Kamage, John ansas WOUIa glaalv see It in- | <iejgerj HassU Hoj>;>fr, Hoss&e I,>.alien, Cvrus creased to 430. Some think Congress • M. Perrine. c. rirk-h. SOIO^ION Thi,le °th?rS thin£ ' J^rwNph,VHn«'AS1 A^'xn by abolishing the desks an increased number of representatives could easilv i Gilbert, Aliru Cavlor, Augu»t Pamler, Oliver hfi nv.-viirlcL/l fnr "I Hickman. Peter Meyer, Daniel Baker, John mi - IOr- I Kausch, deccas.d. There IS much that is instmotive Increase--Andrew A. -Adair, Daniel 'Smail, and interesting in thwtA lAtiora E8^uire Talbott- James B. Wolfe, George W. uiieresuiig in tnese letters. ine-Wjecker, George F. Shermer. John Fuchg, James table presented below also has a value. W. I'emiingtou. William T< if<>r. Georga john- The minimum estimate of the popula- I 2°N\.W"LLFT™ .SORr?LL5V J"THL: H; MOMBY AMON x- _ • i j i Saalig. Christian !:a?ig, Jonathan SlcKiniu>v, tion IS based on the returns of the sev- j JOB . B. Cruhaugh, Shadi ick Gowins, Hesse Ijt'V- eral State censuses, unon the vote of : ingstou, James Stewart, Alexander C, Helvie, last full Und o-ormrol ' John'H. Kielly, Milo Squires, K. M. Cumins, last lall, and the general knowledge of I Robert H. Orantou, l>e I.a;y Cole George 1'. the drift or migration from one State ; Beck toidt. A. Goeschei, Jasper ison, John or one nart of tlift nnnnfvrfjitlionHio,. White. William Kuhn, Durancv A. Merrick, or one pari or me countiy to the other. Thos Woo<l8 ,oM *ar). ,i„,. uurtiess, George E. It IS probably as near correct as any t Warren, .Tamos Craig, James G Haskell, Jt*sse estimate. Some statisticians believe ! y™11- Wii£8k'*G ojfRe W. Haie. Albert J. Burbridge, Elbert M. Heudiy, Mat­ thew Mitchell. Original widows, etc.--Martha R., widow of Abraham Fox; Naomi, widow of Richard L. Mangan- John, father of Ja:nes W. Corrie; Elizabeth, widow ot Milo M. Fnssett; Savah, widow of Jacob Smith; Amelia, mother of Robert M. Riggs ; MaryJ., widow of James P. Edwards ; Katie A., widow of Alack Biginesse ; Phoebe, mother of Preston Met lieny; Iiouisa M., widow of Henry 1). Terry; Dollie, widow of William E. Siiiith [old war); Mary E., widow of John Eveland ; Annie R., widow of Samuel E. Lyon ; Leyenna I., widow of Henry E. Backus ; Susan J., widow of Simeon Parks ; Susan L., widow of Henry P. Andrews ; Mary, mother of John M. Griffin; Sarah J., widow of Wm. B. Adams. Mexican Widows--Mary H., widow of John Carter. Reissue--Thos. C. Graves. Jos. Fore, deceased; John A. Harrell, deceased. --The annual rally of the Illinois Citi­ zens' Mutual Protective Association took place last week at Odin. The chief ob­ ject of the association is to recover horses which may be stolen from its members and the capture of horse- thieves. --A convention of persons interested in natural mineral springs has been called to meet in Chicago on Nov. 19 for the purpose of forming permanent organiza­ tion. --Gov. Fifer appointed Joseph J. Per­ kins, of Santa Barbara, Cal., Commis­ sioner of Deeds for Illinois in that State. --The Auditor of Public Accounts has granted permission for the organization of the People's State .Ban\g; of Astoria, Fulton County, with a capital stock of $50,000. --Lucy M. Ormsby, the wife of Nor­ man T. Ormsby, of Chicago, shot her­ self in the temple, inflicting a fatal wound. The following jnorning the husband loaded a double-barreled shot­ gun with buckshot, placed the butt end on the floor and the muzzle against bis chest, and pulled the trigger. The shot did not penetrate his heart, but tore away a portion of the lungs .^nd passed out through the back. Death resulted in an hoar. --The Illinois Masons' Benevolent So ciety has filed at Springfield a certificate that it has changed its name to the Illi­ nois Masonic Life Association, with headquarters at Chicago. --Sol Bennett, Bros. 4 Co., of Peoria, dealers in clothing and furnishing goods nnd manufacturers of overalls, have failed. Sol Bennett individually con­ fessed judgment for $6,750 and the firm for $45,750.65. --The Illinois Woman's Alliance, at Chicago, has been incorporated at Spring­ field, the object bein£ to promote the en­ actment and enforcement of laws relating to women and children. Pres Casey, aged 14, and Chatley Pull- ian, aged 13, the sons of respectable citi­ zens of Nashville, have been held in $100 bonds each to the Grand Jury for bur- glary. --The St. Paul German Insurance Com­ pany of St. Paul, Minn., whose capital stock is $200,000, is licensed to do busi­ ness in Illinois. --Miss Annie Vogt, of t Menominee, Jo "Daviess Couuty, attempted suicide by shooting. Disappointment in~ love is said to be the cau^e. --The corner-stone of a $30,000Metho­ dist Church was laid at Rock Island. --The Grand Council of Illinois, Im­ proved Order of lied Men, was in session last week at Springfield. --During a horserace upon an un- feneed course at Pnlaski, one of the J horses bolted the track and ran into a j crowd of several hundred people. Its I frantic Struggles and the excitement of j tile people resulted in the severe injury | of four persons and'the probably fatal in j jury of two more. 1 --Ex-Polfcemnn Joseph C. McDonild, I of Chicago, was shot, probably fatally, j by his wife. ' I --The report thf^t the Chieago A Alton is trying toJ obtain control of the Mis­ souri, Kansas & Texas Railway is au­ thoritatively denied, says the Chicago Tribune. The present condition of the latter road renders the ecquisition an lip- possibility, there being much dissension among the different security holders. The complications are as great as they were in the ciase of the Wabash. --The Secretary of State has issued a license to incorporate the Electric Street Railway Company at Chicago. --The wealthy syndicate which con­ trols the Wisconsin Central Itoad is seri­ ously considering the building of aline south from Chicago to tap either the coal-fields of Central Illinois or those of Clay County, Indiana. , --Chicago Herald: "Chicago is the highest, widest, and longest city on the continent. Its postoffice is the narrowest, lowest, and shortest. We have districts that are served by two carriers where there should be four, and districts with two carriers where there should be ten. The postoffice clerk wrestleB with tasks that cannot be performed." _ The Tariff and Stock Growers* Every man who raises cattle wants to get as much money as possible for them. The value of the hide is no small part of the value of the animal. A moderate estimate would place its value at one-fourth the total value of the animal. But for several years the value of hides has been steadily de­ clining, and by a coincidence that is easily explainable, that decline has gone right along ever since they were put upon the free list. Few people not interested in the business realize how extensively hides are imported into this country. The following table prepared by Mr. W. F. Wakeman, of Kansas City, a gentleman who has made special investigations of the sub­ ject, shows the enormous volume of this importation since 1860: I860 *19,689,099 1870 14,40-2,339 188 0 80,01,2,254 188 1 :...* 37,477,019 1882 37,-41,120 188 3 27,r>40,030 188 4 82,350,903 188 5 3).rMt;,413 188 6 8ti,C'J3,313 188 7 24.219,101 188 8 83.939,3:j9 188 9 25,127,750, Stockmen will readily understand that hides that are imjjorted free come into direct competition with them, and that they have to taeet lower prices by reason of this fact. Since hides were put upon the free list, their value has steadily declined from l'2f cents a pomnd to about one-half that amount. Every man who deals in hides is inter­ ested in getting better prices for his product. But with hides upon the free*list, he is virtually at the mercy of a foreign market, and obliged to cut his figures to meet the competition from abroad. An effort will undoubtedly be made to have the ranchmen and the stock­ men given the same protection that is given to the wool growers. Wool is protected for the benefit of the wool growers. Why should not hides be protected for the benefit of stock raisers ? When legislation for this purpose is proposed, the Democratic party will oppose it with all its power. Every stockman should bear this fact in mind, and cast his vote with the party of protection to American indus­ tries.--Iowa State Register. -Following is the last bulletin sent out by the Illinois weather-service bureau: The temperature has been below the 'nor­ mal." Frosts occurred throughout the State, but so far as can be learned but little, if any, damage was done, except ou the low-lands W the northern counties, where, it is reported, the corn was injured somewhat. Heavy rains occurred in the southern conn- ties of the State; in the northern and central counties the amount of precipitation was below a seasonable average. An average amount of sunshine prevailed. Carroll' County--Light frost in low places. Vegetation on high ground uninjured. Ground in good order for seeding. Champaign-- Killing frost nn 19th. Corn on low ground dAmaged. Wheat seeding nearly finished. Rain need&d. Coles--Everything looks well. Rainfall, 1.40 inches. Fulton--The fall (Train is mostly in; some up. The last rain placed the ground in good oohdi- tion. Frost; 110 damage reported. Hamilton--The etirn <.r>p about secured against frost. Pastures good. Baiufall, 1.88 inches. Henry--It Is too late for rain to help corn. Tno frosts this week. Corn generally out of danger. Rainfall, .25 of an inch. Iroquois--Frost during the week. No damage to corn. Rainfall, .02. Lake--Corn is ripening well, arid much of It is alreaiy out of danger. Rainfall, .30. La Salle--The corn crop is now substantially "made" and out of danger. The frost of the week did no damage. Rainfall, .85. Logan-- Light frosts did some damage to tender vegetal ion. Marshall--Corn maturing finely. Rainfall. .17, McHenry--Corn on low lands killed by frost. Pastures need rain. Potato crop best in many years. R tinfoil. .11. Perry--No seeding dons here yet. Corn cround entirely too wet. Weather last week trying to all things. Late peaehes all lost. 8treama high. Rainfall for week, 2.00 inches. Pike --All crops are in except clover-seed and corn. The clover is cut and almost ready to thresh. Corn cutting commenced. , juont professionals to ignore the reserve rule 1 ope--Pastur© very good. Stock doing welL and forsake the National League clubs, wbich / held them under l>ondage. When the trying Hichiand-->\lioAt seeding progressing. light , moment cauio, however, the players, as a rule, frosts n-ported in sortie-parts of county; uodam- declined to accept the offers of t he Union Asso- age. i\aiutall 1. f inches. j Nation, and preferred to remain under the bond- SHngamon--Conditions generally favorably. -( nge where steady employment and good salaries A DRIVING YOUNG MAN. THEY WERE ALL LNTALUABLE, . Delayed* Train* Couldn't Stand Betinw H»w Howell Cobb managed to Get BROTHKB- Him aad an EncsgmitSBti | Some of His Subordinates. J "Talk about get up and get, with a Wlien Howell Cobb was Secretary of ! dasli of American nerve, I saw a good the Treasury he summoned to his pros- tablet out of his pocket and proceeded that is, his importance or unimportanee to dash off a letter. to the Government. Some friends of " 'Here, young feller; yon can't black mine desire positions here." your b>ots on the car,"exclaimed the' "I will do so with pleasure, sir." conductor. | "And with all alacrity," addedft. " 'Oh, but I must,' replied the young Secretary. > :1f. ' * •' A few hours later the clerk re-entered. specimen of it yesterday," said Uncle ence one morning the chief clerk of that Silas Bowersox. "A young man jumped department. t on a Broadwav car at Chambers street "I wish," said the magnate, *to liars followed by a bootblack. With a curt a list of the employes of this office. Yon „ . , „ , , t . „ Don't mind us' from the youth, the mark opposite each name the merit brotherhood to o^Mi?^a^wmWnaUon^/etatX<> ^t-black went to work on the young or demerit of the jjerson, and why in the prominent cities of the country, in op- i B}an s boots, while he pulled a writing should not be retained in his situation; position to the National I>aguo and ita i • _ _ • t •• - 0 i.:» : * --•: * laws, is a most serious undertaking to those di­ rectly concerned. A review of a former attempt to break the present controlling powers is of in­ terest at this time, in that it has more or less in common with the present base-ball situation. In the early part of 1884 Henry V. Lucas, a wealthy citizen of St. Louie, conceived the Ida* of breaking up that bulwark of professional base-ball, the reserve rule. Ho considered the rule merely a means of robbing the players of their freedom to come and go as they pleased, and, notwithstanding the fact that it had bean fairly demonstrat«d|that thelplayers' interests were as fully protected by the rule as were thto clubs, Mr. Lucas made up his mind to kill it. He enlisted the co-operation of capitalist* in various cities of the East and West and eet about to organize the Union Association. Of prominent men who took up his standard wera Justus Thorner, of Cinciuuati; H. H. Hender­ son, of Chicago; and Tim Murnane, of Boston. These formed the nucleus of the new Associ­ ation, and one by one other cities were repre­ sented by similar snthusiasts until eight were in the field when the season opened. They were l>t. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Altooua in tlio West, and Philadelphia. Baltimore, Wash­ ington, and Boston in the East. Mr. Lucas was fighting for a principle, and, believing that ha vas improving the status of the ball player thereby, expected to induce most of the prom- No damage by frost Schuyler--Weather fine for wheat sowing. The j light frosts were not sufficient to injure corn, as it is out of danger. Scott--Light frost, but no damage reported. Shelby--Light frost, but no damage reported. Rainfall, .2,5. The weather of past week lias af­ fected corn crop favorably. : Stephenson--There have boen light frosts on thsoe mornings during week. Corn generally not injured. The seeding of wheat and rye is going on rapidly. Ground in good condition for plowing and seeding. Corn doing well. Rain­ fall .06 inches. Wayne--No frost. Fina weather for seeding wheat. Corn crop in good condition. Rainfall 2.21 inches. , -»-The following bit of early Illinois history is taken from the Chicago Inter Ocean: Pu rage County lias been at various times a part of Virginia," Indiana, Illinois Tenritory, and finally the t-tate of Illinois; and since the creation of Illinios as a T« rritorv it has been a portion of f-t. Clair. Madison, Crawford, Clark, j Pike, Fulton, Peoria, and Cook Counties. The first pettier was S;ephen J. Scott, who made a hunting trip througn tl.ere in August, 1830, with his son, and discovered the l>u 1'nge River near Plainfield, and soon after settled at "The Forks." The first actual settler, as the old records read, was Bailey Hopson, of Orange County, Ohio. Then |in. July, J Nil, Capt. Joseph Naper caine from Ohio with his brother, John Naper. The Captain, wl-o was an sc ive,capable man. built a trading-house and tiaiiickcdwiih the Pottawat­ omie Indians. Other families followed from Ashtabula, Ohio, ami formed the Naper settle­ ment. The present thriving town of Naperville was named after Csptain Naper. The first school-teacher was Lester Peet, who began his were certainti< Of all the players approached those who de­ serted the ltgular clubs can be counted on the lingers of one's two hands. The first one to break his allegiance to the reserve rule was Tony Mullane, of the St. Louis Association club. He accepted the offer of a year from Mr. Lm-as !ind pocketini *1,(100 a tvance mouey^ He weakened, however, before the Reason opened, nnd ngnin jumped liis contract, this time joining the Toledo Club, which was a member of the American Association in that year. George Washington Bradley and "Orator" Shaffer were the next to yield to the blandishments of Lucas, and one armed Hugh Daily soon followed suit. Then Fred Dunlap. Cleveland's great second baseman, seceded and signed a contract with the St. Louis Unions. Crane, of New York, was the next to yield, he going to Cincinnati. Do what they could the Union officials could get no more players to break faith with the League or Association clubs, and they had to make up their teams with the unungageHl players then on the market. And so the season was started. In July the St. Louis Unions tampered with Pitcher Sweeney, of the Providence Club, and that player so deported himself in consequence that he was blacklisted. He then joined Lucas' team. The last coup of the Union people was made on Aug. 8. when thev induced McCormick. Briody, and Glasscock, of the suc­ cessful Cleveland team, to desert to Cincinnati. So much for the players. And now for the suc­ cess of the clubs. i)f the eight that began the soason in April only five lasted to the finish. After six weeks' struggling the Altoona Club gave up, and on May 31 Kansas City took its place. The Keystones, of Philadelphia, dis­ banded early in August, and Wilmington waa induced to desert the Kastern League and fill the vacancy. The Wilinuigtona did not last long, and they in turn gave way to the Milwau- kees ou Sept.. 15. The Chicago Club quit in . 1 .6' """j; man. (.rot to do if; case of emergency. , And as he banded the conductor the,. fare'he whispered something in his eat that seemed to satisfy that Official. j " When we reached Prince street the man's boots wore a patent-leather shine. ! He had four letters written, sealed in ; au envelope and addressed. Handing , them to the bootblack, with a coin, he ! gave the boy directions where to deliver j them and return with an answer. Til be there at 4.43--just twenty minutes/ i he said, looking at his watch, 'and^-ou have just time to make it. Now gallop/ rustling u long list of officials Over this paper rapidly glanced Hon. Mr. Cobb, then remarked: "I see here one who is intimate with all the ramifications of the department, and, indeed, of the Government! Surely he Is indispensable, as you hare written. Another has a marvelous knowledge of the intricate duties of tba desk, such as few men could acquire at all, and at best only by years of devoted study. So it goes on. Why, sir, I Had that none of the numerous gentlemen The boy left the car and disappeared on enrolled can be spared without great THE black man is usually "the ag­ gressor." He "makes threats." "He is armed," and "gathered in large numbers"--in some swamp--and ready to swoop down upon the defenseless white population. But it should be remembered that he does not control the Associated Press, nor send special telegrams, and even under such cir­ cumstances, word seldom comes that he has scourged or killed white people. With brave, courageous men should such defefiseless condition excite pity instead of revenge. A PAPER known as the National Democrat has just been started at Washington, D. C. It seems like a voice from the tomb. The last paper of that name of which the country had any previous knowledge died at Peoria last year after a mortal illness of more than* a quarter of a century. It was the most emaciated framework of skin and bones when it finally did die that 11M pitying eye of man ever gazed upon. work in September. 1U31. Th« winter of 1831-'32 j August, ana transferred its plavers to Pitts- - - • ' burgh ; but there, too, no success was made, and theydiBbaudedsupt.lt). St. Paul, the lasl remnant of the defuuet Northwestern League, finished out the season in Pittsburgh's i lace. Such is the eventful record of the first and only season of the Union Association. Every club lost money, and the leader, Sir. Lucas, sank a small fortune. When the time for the second annual meeting came arouud no Eastern club w&s rep-eseutcHi. An aijouruinent was taken until Jan. 13, 1885. On that cav only two clubs appeared, and they formally disbanded ,the Union Association. The St. Louis club was subsequently admitted to membership in the National League and tho other Western clubs called a meeting for forming a new association, which proved to be the Western League, organ­ ized under the national agreement. The last chapter in thti story was the qualified rein­ statement of the deserters, Dunlap, Glasscock, McCormick, and Briody by the Naiiou League. A strong opposition exiBtod to it, uotablv that of President A. G. Mills. When the men" were finally restored to the ranks of the League, Mr. Mills resigned the Presidency, and has not been prominently connected with the national game since. was a severe one on the settlers, and this was followed by the Black Hawk war. that sent the whole settlement to Fort Dearborn. 11 uPage Couuty was organized as a county in 1839, aad Napervile was the capital, changed later to Wheaton. The first court house was built, in 1839, and the first election for county officers was iu the same year. --Capt. A. H. Bogardus, the well- known rifle shot, has commenced snit in the Sangamon Circuit Conrt at Spring- fied against Adam Forepaugh, claiming damages in $10,000 for the nse of his name and lithograph in connection with the Forepaugh sho# when he was not with it. --At the coroner's inquest over the body of James Molntnrf, who was killed by the cars at Ullin, Fayette County, recently, facts were brought out whid^giv^a strong flavor of murder to the case. --The amphitheater and buildings of the Brown County Fair Association, at Mt. Sterling, was destroyed by fire re­ cently. Loss about $15,000. --The officials of the Alton road, who are generally inclined to look cn the dark side of railroad affairs, are for the first time in two years taking a very cheerful view of - the situation, says a Chicago paper. Manager Chappell said said in an interview the other day that railroad business was exceedingly good and the prospect WBB that it would con­ tinue so for an indefinite length of time. Crops everywhere in the Southwest were, on the whole, the biggest ever raised, and certainly the railroads ought not to lack for tonnage. --A stranger recently made his appear­ ance in Litchfield, and was very inquisi­ tive as to whero the wealthy citizens lived and the time they generally went home of evenings. He met a young man who gave him the dished information and took him in as a confederate. The yonng man informed the officers of the fact aud as to the place of the medi­ tated robber}'. Marshal Leonard and Constables Lovd and Hushing and two picked men repaired to the place, secreted themselves and had Mayor Wilton walk out that way in order to be held up and capture the robber. Arriving at the place the Mayor was requested to throw up his hands. He, of course, obeyed, and the robber gave his sup­ posed confederate his revolver and told him to see that his victim did not movA The first thing the robber did was to t£ke the Mayor's revolver from him. Then he relieved him of his cash and valuables. At this point his con­ federate placed the robber's revolver in the Mayor's hand, and then Marshal Leonard and bis four men appeared upon the scene. The robber was commanded to surrender, but instead of that he com­ menced shooting. He fired three shots and the officers fifteen. The robber then pulled a knife and ran pact the whole de­ tail of officers and escaped with the Mayor's valuables. --Gqvernor Fifer has offered a reward of $200 for the apprehension of William Gregory, who murdered Oscar J. Thomp­ son at Golconda, Pope County, July 7, and made his escape from the State. --The new Illinois Board of Labor Statistics met in Springfield and elected Charles A. Deere of Moline President and J. S. Lord Secre ary. --Marshall Field, Chicago's dry-goods prince, has followed the example of Geo. M. Pullman and subscribed $100,000 to the World's Fair project at Chicago. The colored people held a big cele­ bration at Springfield Sept. 23, in com­ memoration of the issuing of President Lincoln's proclamation of emancipation of the slaves. "Excursions were present from Hannibal, Mo., Quincy, Peoria, Jacksonville, Decatur, and other points. There was a street parade and a mass meeting, which was addressed by Hon. John B. Lynch, First Auditor of tha Treasury; Gov. Fifer, Senator Cnllom, John M. Palmer, and others. --Charles W. Cokerhas been appointed a customs storekeeper in the Thirteenth Illinois Diatriei. President Spalding's Views. [Chicago special.] JPMsfdent A. G. Spalding, of the Chicago Cinb, being interviewed on the alleged new base-ball deal, said: "I shall not retire from business on account of the great plot, but get the best team 1 can together next season and go on The plotters may get grounds iu Chicago, but they will not play at 'Black Stocking' Park. That is certain. 1 leased the land rive yiars ago /rem the Richmond estnte for five years. The lease expires mis fall, but I have had an understand­ ing with the partn, r of Agent Clark, wlio has communicated with Mrs. Kichmond, so that for a certain sum I can have the paik next season. I know parties have been trying to get the park, but they have not succeeded and will not. I shall hold possession. It will disarrange our }>lans as to the new athletic park to be estab-ished near the County Hospital. Wo had planned to spend a quarter of n million dollars on its equipments ;and buildings. Nothing will be done about 5t until the war is over. And there will be war." "The League has existed for fifteen years," Said Mr. Spalding. "It wiped out the gambling element in base-ball aud cleared it -of crooked playing, notably in the cases of Devlin, Craver, and Hall, of the Louisvilles, in l87t>. Now that the game is clean aud on a healthy basis all the purifying work is forgotten by the players, aud •long chance' capitalists .are" ready to step in and assume the }>ossible profits that may come through the game. Supposing the games are as pure and clean as those played under the National league's reign, will the public have any belief in its purity tinder the pooling system and auspices of an Oathbound, se­ cret organization of strikers which has plotted against the life of the League, through the care of w hich it became a possibil­ ity V What will be the conduct of the teams? Can they stand loss, and can the men behave themselves, stick together, and make personal sacrifices for the general good? Certainly base­ ball can gain no immei.iate benefit if the plot thickens and out of it springs the hrotherhood'b league. If such a league comes the towns of I small population at present in the National i league will suffer and may be forced to the wall. But Now York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, j and Pittsburgh will fight hard and go on with j teams made up of the best players they can secure. It is a tremendous plot, and I hopo for the good of the game that all the differences be­ tween the I.eague and its playtra may be over­ come and the threatened break averted." Mr. ̂ paulding was earnest in what he said, and declared that if the fight came, while per­ sonally he would feel like retiring from base­ ball, yet he and his associates would not be driven out of a business which they bad built up by hard work and careful management. a run. "The young man took a seat in the ear, opened a grip and taking out a clean pair of cuffs, collar and white necktie, put them on. He then took out a Jiair brush and pocket mirror, brushed his hair, put wax on his mus­ tache, squirted some, cologne on a fresh handkerchief, put a clove in his mouth, knocked the dust from his hat aud clothing with a wisp broom and giving his cuffs a finishing jerk turned to the people in the car and said: " 'Ladies and gentlemen, an apology is due you, and some explanation is like­ wise due myself. I don't wish to be considered fussy. I'm no dude, and I don't spend half my time before the looking-glass, as you might infer. I'm a plain, practical, every-day sort of a chap, from Bridgeport, Conn. In just twenty minutes by the watch I am to be harm, perhaps ruin to the couatry. W hat will become of these poor appli­ cants, my eager friends and constitu­ ents? Moreover, and of incalculable consideration, what will become of our beloved land, for we cannot spare these invaluable assistants; neither, I fear, can death. They gone, our country la gone. I must not contemplate the future. No, no; it is too awful! At once I shall have bolts put to all the doors of the building, dismiss every em­ ploye and lock the outer portals and throw the keys into the Potomac. The doom of onr Republic cannot be long deferred. I am unable to bear the agony of such anticipation; let tike lightning strike now." The chief clerk was amazed,but prat ently repossessed the power of thought, which resulted in the declaration that a number, a considerable and sufficient married to the boss girl of New York! number, of names on the list might be City, barring none. My train was twe hours late; but, thanks to the conductoi of this car and your own kind indulg­ ence, I'll get there just the same.' "And the people in the car thought he would."--New York World, erased and others with entire safety be substituted. Looking; for New Men. [Minneapolis special.] The magnates of the League are determined not to be left in the lurch if the present move of the Brotherhood should prove successful. A. G. Spalding's trusted emissary is already mak­ ing a tour of the cities of the Western Associa­ tion, with a view of enlisting the services of Association players in case of an emergency. iPhiladeiohia special.] John I. Rogers, Seer.'.ary of th > Philadelphia Base-Ball Club, has sent to the President of the League clubs his legal opinion thai section 18 of the contract now in force between League clubs and their players laud which is kuown as the •brotherhood contract," having been formulated and prepared by that body aud accepted by the League) expressiy secures to each League club the absolute right to its players' services for the season of lfeWO. [Omaha special.J At a secret meeting of i ho President and di­ rectors of the Omaha Base-Ball Association to­ day it was decided to accp: the proposition of Messrs. Soden, Conant and Billings, of Boston, for the sale of the entire Ouuitia team to that city. The probable result will be tnat Omaha will have no team next year. - ' [Washington eiH?<iil ] President Walter Htwitt, of the Washington Club, said in refeieucj to the scheme of tne Brotherhood: "This trouble has been brewing for Bome time, and I a.u in favor of fighting it out. If the League goes to'the wall, well and good, if the Brotherhood falls through, so much the better. At any rate the matter will have to be bottled for all tfme. I do not lika this con­ tinual threatening and bickering. If we are go­ ing to have a fight, let's have it now and be done with it. The League was never in a better condition for such a thing than at present." From the Jaws or Death. About the year 1839 my grandfathei was inside superintendent of the Nes- quehoniug mines, near Maucli Chunk. At that time antliarcite coal mining was conducted on a rather primitive scalt as compared with the operations of to­ day, and instead of the present improved wafety lamp, tallow candles were used by the miners. One day during the noon hour a number of men, among them my grandfather, had gathered to­ gether at dinner. One of the men hac stuck his candle in some manner fast to the wall, not noticing that immediately below it stood a large open keg of the heaviest blasting powder. Unsuspicious of dauger, the met chatted and ate their dinners. Sud­ denly, without a second's warning, the candle- fell directly into the keg of pow­ der. Every man threw himself on his face, expecting to be blown into atoms. But the explosion did not come. Foi a few awful seconds they lay there, awaiting death with fast-beating hearts. Finally my grandfather said, "Boys, I oau't stand this anv longer. I am go­ ing to get that candle out of there. All of von lie just as you are." He sprang to his feet, rushed to the keg. and there a sight met hi* eyes euopgh to shake the stoutest nerves. Sunk deep into the powder, but bolt upright, stood the candle, with the flame a short half-incl. from the powder. Bringing all his re­ maining nerve to bear, he reached down into the keg and carefully lilted the candle out. It was some time before the men could realize that they were out of danger, but when they did they awoke the distant echoes of the old man with their cheers. However, like the sturdy Englishman that he was, he pooh-poohed them back to their dinners again, and said any one of them would have done the same thing, giving as his reason for doing it that he was the near-, est man to the keg.--Philadelphia Press. A Fishiug Episode. "That's a foine sthring ov fish you've got there, sor," said a gardener, as the master came up the garden walk. "Yes, Patrick." "Did you catch them on your own hook, sor?" "Why, you impudent rascal, of course I did." "Well, it's so's to be callin' Dennis Murphy a liar that I asked yez." "\Yhat does Dennis Murphy say?" "He says ivery wan o' thim was cotched on his hook, sor."--Merchant Traveler. _ _ ..... • A Bit of Strategy. In the Century for September Dr. J. Emmet O'Brien relates this rathei amusing anecdote of telegraphing in battle: "On one occasion an operator started out from Fairfax Station on a hand car propelled by three contrabands to attempt to restore the line so that Pope's operators could communicate his whereabouts. Finding the line cut be­ yond Pohick Bridge, he spliced it and got signals from both directions. While so engaged a party of guerrillas emerged from the woods to the^ track and sur­ rounded him. "Bidding the negroes stand fact he dictated a swift message over the line, which was being repeated back to him and copied as the Confederate leader leaned over his shoulder and read the significant words: 'Buford has sent back a regiment of cavalry to meet the one from here and guard the line. If you are molested we will hang every citizen on the route.' The instrument ceased ticking as the operator firmly replied, O. K. A painful pause ensued. The Confederate might have suspected a ruse if at the moment a gleam of sabres had not shone in the direction of Fairfax Court-House. Hastily starting for .the woods the leader exclaimed: 'Come home, boys; these vere ain't our niggers'; and they disappeared, while the hand car, as if driven by forty con­ traband power, sped rapidly rearward." IVhat the Chinese Cannot I'nderstwi. From some extracts published in the Presbyterian Messenger, we learn that the first major surgical operation per­ formed in Chang-pu by the Presbyte­ rian missionary was in many wavs a re­ markable one. One evening a beggar with a dreadful leg, and in all but s dying condition, was laid by some of his friends at the door of Dr. Howe's house, and left there. The doctor had the pa- tient at once carred to an empty house belonging to one of our church mem­ bers, and there on the morrow in the presence of a large and wondering crowd, amputated the limb below the knee. To the surprise of all, the man stood the Operation weii, and has since greatly improved in general con-, dition. That the foreign should pay BO jnuch at: to and spend so much tin: trouble on a beggar seems astonished the Chinese. They understand how any one should ppve himself so much trouble without being paid for it. I heard one say, as he 'was watching the doctor doing his work: "Well, the Chinaman would not do such things." It came to our ears that a number of the shopkeepers in the town are not at all pleased that the man's life has been saved. They hoped he wovld die, for he has been a son roe of great annoyance to them. He used to go to their shops and expose his sick­ ening sore, aud refuse to go away until they gave him what he demanded--vi 400 cash from the largest shops, do' to 80 cash from the smaller on There is every probability df his covery.--Pall Mall Gazette. An Honest Laborer's Indignatiotfc It was 1 o'clock at night and two of the City Hall Park summer guests were standing under a street lamp. One ot them was large, the othee was small. Both were ragged and unkempt, wad the big man was pouring out a torrent of abuse at his companion, who stood meek and silent. "So you wanter quit, eh," said the big man with a brave at­ tempt at scorn. "You ain't fit ter work with an honest man, you ain't. How do you expect ter make a decent living without working? You wanter go to sleep when the night is half over. A pretty kind of er partner you are. Here I am workin* my side of the street like a man. I've made 17 cents from the blokes, and you've made just 5. now you wanter quit, eh?" You're laziest man I ever seen. You nothin' but a common, low-down tram] you ain't. I wonder how a hard-worl in' man like me kin have anything ter do with you. Lemme tell you right here that if you expect ter git along m this world, you've got ter work. You don't deserve no success, yon don't. I won't have nothin' mere ter do with yon, do you hear? You go your way, go tor the dogs, throw away your opportuni­ ties. Don't try ter be an honest, in­ dustrious, decent gentleman. I wash my hands of you forever." And thai the man of indignation took up his stand beneath another lamp post to wait foe "some man who was willing to h«flpi||' C honest laborer.--N. I'. Tribune. The Deceptive Handbag. J "Would you mind going in Silk ft Satteen's store with me a tew moment^ dear?" asked Mrs. Younglove sweetly of her husband, the other afternoon after they had started out for a half hol­ iday; "I* just want to get a few little things--only what I oan carry in my handbag." The handbag was such a flat, diminu- * tive affair, seemingly capable of holding a very little, that Younglove cheerfully . the Self-Puffery in Newspapers. TJie Daily Blank-it was | complied with his wife's request, When they emerged from the store two hours aud a half later the handbag contained: Two yards orange ribbon, 1 jtaA dress lining, 4 yards Torehon lace, 1 card hooks and eye», 3 spools sewing silk, 1 spool twist, one spool basting far ahead of its contemporaries in re­ porting the recent convention." In what paper did the above appear? Why, in The Daily Blank-it. of course. No other paper would say it, for each one was occupied in puffing its own en­ terprise. Headers get very tired of this sort of thing, and it is singular that i thread, 1 card pearl buttons, 3 yards leading as well as misleading newspa- [ cardinal ribbon, 3 handkerchiefs, 1 pair pers keep it up. Self-puffery carries very little weight and is childish. Readers are the best judges in such matters; why not let them give the verdict ? But if news­ papers must have their work puffed, why can they not arrange to puff each other, turn and turn about ? One day let The Blank-it praise the enterprise ot The Illuminator, and the next day- let Hie Illuminator extol the work of The Blank-it. Then editorial modesty if riot veracity would not be put to such a serious strain as it is under the pres­ ent method.--Texas Sittings. IT is strange that a man can stand up and lie. But it is not so strauge, after all. when you recollect, that a tall man can be "short. r: ' , •Vi A ^ kid gloves, 1 yard tulle, 4- yard nain­ sook, 2 pairs hose, 2 papers of pins, 1 cut-steel buckle, 1 yark watered ribboa^ 3 fancy-work ornaments, 1 skein em­ broidery silk, 1 pair dress shields, S yards Hamburg, 1 yard iusertiou, 1 box button fasteners, 1 box hair pius, 1 pair hosiery supporters, 1 hair net. "There, dear," said Mrs. Youuglo*% sweetly, as they came out; "you see* I kept my word, and got only what X could carry in my handbag, l'on were a dear, good boy. to go in with me at all, and I Vouldu't liave^asked you if fd been on a regular shopping round; I know hov^"men dislike shopping."-- D., in Puck. THE song-and-dance man friptH mind b*ing clogged ate