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li • • * > • • ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. WORK OF CONG A M H S H K E , E d i t o r « n a T u b . KoHSHBY. ILLINOI®. but If the system is founa to be suoij ! AflCa#rf«rffK Artlfl «Mltl kA i I {/ipvo rv iu wo §tauu«u-| ly introduced equal to the delivery of the largeat-slsed^sttcltezsand codfish steaks. If Mr. Pullman doesn't reduce tlie *«nts of his upper berths he should at least furuisii eluiues-pins for suorers. Three Indiana men tried to thaw oat !'<wne dynamite and made a quick job of It. That's alL They'll neverdo it •p1" ? Spain pays us $17,500 indemnity for Hot having prevented our missionaries ; " ftom establishing themselves on Spa^. £ Ish soUL • ,-h " f v ' , ; R t h e r e i s a l a n g u a g e o f f l o w e r s , •what does a slx-lnch-across ehrysan- illiPUinm flav whan U h«HAn-hnloa n Russia has not been celebrated for great generals, but if she were to put her 11.000,000 of effective men in the 4eld one might be developed from suoii Amass. • The poor sewers of Cincinnati have io compete with people in the country. Who take sewing from the city and who «an live cheaper than they. Girls who sew for pin money are also competi­ tors. l,,\ .. ^ l>r. Talmage will hereafter preach as ' Ji'W «*~A. -- -- J* 4. M Utn •Mi uTau^cnoi, auu uuv iu a vuuivu vi uio own. It is to b» hoped that the doctor's III fortune in the matter of church fires Will not follow him. The destruction Of church property would be fearful. . It is a mournful fact for the bicycle trade that the soldiers of Europe find that they cannot utilize the bicycle to any great extent in war. Bad roads appear to be the bane of the bike. The market cannot be abandoned al- ether just yet. e molasses whisky trust is said to e large sugar properties in the t Indies, and it will therefore not dependent upon this country for its sweets. It is likely' that this molasses Whisky will produce only such reptiles AS are familiar to the West Indians. If the poets will go to work la the - Sotig winter evenings some of them may succeed in bringing out something wor­ thy of the morning-glory flower by the time the brooks renew their flowing. The morning-glory flower, properly poemed, might do much to humble the • ^presumptuous chrysanthemum. King Alexander of Servia having the light to marry a peasant or a princess, there is a report that he has chosen Miss Pullman for his Queen. This, however, may be only the dream of Some slumbering passenger in an up­ per berth. Newspaper readers will Await further advices from Servia. * Mr. Ward McAllister is, perhaps, too much alarmed at his vision of a woman with a baby reaching the Presidential office. There are unincumbered ladies who might be elected to the White Rouse. There Is every reason to be­ lieve that Miss Anthony would consent to accept the office for the first four Tears at least ? Parents have a right to visit the pub- lid schools whenever they please, but this duty is too rarely performed. In­ telligent parents especially who have the time to do so ought to visit the primary grades of the public schools and see for themselves how the hours of the children there are engrossed with needless, fruitless and vexatious things to the neglect of plain and hon­ est primary grade work which is only half done or not done at all. Every one who has been in a primary school knows that it is Impossible to spend too much attention upon drilling children In writing, arithmetic, correct lan­ guage, and the history of the United States. It is well that parents should visit primary grades and bring their own judgment into line with the most enlightened conviction. ' The St Louis, the first native fruit of " "uie new policy inaugurated by the act of May 10, 1892, should be accepted as only an earnest of greater fleets to come. While the thronged ferry that the new boats of the American Line will traverse is by long odds the most important stretch of ocean on the globe, there yet remain so many distant seas where the stroke of an American screw never churns the waters Into foam, so ---jpany trade routes where the flutter of Old Glory never catches the sun, that the dearest aspiration of all who saw that proud hull launched, and all who read of the scene, must be that her comrades will flock after her like gulls, as many and as fleet The inspiriting example of two such liners breaking records over the combined Broadway and Piccadilly of the ocean should be enough in itself to arouse American merchants. Ocean commerce, like all other forms of trade, is emulative as Well as competitive and grows out of a nation's pride as well as its enterprise. One St Louis will in time make twenty such, plying across both Atlantic and Pacific, making a class by themselves like that of which the English marine can boast With the St. Louis and th8 St Paul to the front moreover, the , many smaller American-built steamers that now ply a coastwise trade to the South American ports will be given a leader and it will at once be seen how efficient a nucleus we already possess : < ofa sea-going steam fleet a One of the latest Improvements in public service has just gone into opera­ tion in Orange, N. J., to the surprise and delight of a part of the population and the dismay of another part This Improvement consists in utilizing the ordinary water-pipes as a means of sup­ plying fresh fish. One Italian family received a live eel, weighing one pound and three-quarters, and "were happy. Another family, on account of the fau­ cets not being properly fitted for the cell very of fish, permitted their eel to die in the pipe. As one of the advan­ tages of this proposed inetiiod Is that fish will be fresher tha&.u$lial, this was a failure. But when the system is ful­ ly elaborated with properly contrived faucets, this will not occur. For the ftssaat supply is restricted*© eels When last summer an appeal was made to Mr. Pullman for arbitraton his peremptory refusal Was based on the grounds that his company could not raise wages in any event because it would then be operating at a loss; that the chief reason for keeping its plant in operation at all at such a period was that employes might be kept in some work even though the work was poorly compensated. Concerning this point-- the nub of Mr. Pullman's contention-- the strike commission first mentions the 2 per cent quarterly dividends drawn by the stockholders, and blunt­ ly says: "In its statements to the public, which are in evidence, the company repre­ sents that its object in all it did was to continue operations for the benefit of Its workmen and of tradespeople in and about Pullman, and to save the public from the annoyance of Inter­ rupted travel. The commission thinks that the evidence shows that it sought to keep running mainly for its own benefit as a manufacturer that its plant might not rust; that its compet­ itors might no invade its territory; that it might keep its cars In repair; that It might be ready for resumption when business revived wltlfa live plant and competent help, and that its reve­ nue from its tenements knight con­ tinue." Mr. Pullman's argument--or that which his representatives urged on his behalf--has lacked an official answer. This answer is both official and ex­ tremely candid. -> Hungry Pike. The rapacity of the pike is wet known. Fish, flesh and fowl seem alike acceptable to its palate, and it does not disdain mineral products; rings, spoons, plummets and other articles have been frequently taken from Its maw. The best authenticated instance of attempted manslaughter by the pike is that recorded in "Fishing." One of my sons, aged 15, went with three other boys to bathe ia Ingle- mere Pond, near the Ascot race-course. He walked into the water to about the depth of four feet when he spread out his hands to attempt to swim. ' At that instant a large fish came up and took his whole hand Into his mouth; but finding itself unable to swallow it relinquished its hold, and the boy, turning round, prepared for a hasty retreat His companions, who saw the fish, scrambled out of the pond as fast as possible. My son had scarcely turned around before the fish came up behind him, and seizing his other hand crosswise Inflicted some very deep wounds on the back of it The boy raised his free hand, which was still bleeding, and struck the great fish a hard blow on the head, when it disappeared. The other boys assisted my son to dress, bound up his hand with their hand­ kerchiefs, and brought him home. We took him to the surgeon, who dressed seven wounds in one hand; and so great was the pain the next day that the lad fainted twice. The little, finger was bitten through the nail, and, it was more than six weeks before it was well. The nail came off, and the scar remains to this day. Odd Letter. A writer in Cornhill tells a #0od story illustrating the Important part played sdmetimes by bank notes in the ordina­ ry affairs of life. About sixty years ago, the cashier of a Liverpool mer­ chant had received, in tender for a business payment a Bank of England note, which, he held up to the scrutiny of the light in order to make sure of its genuineness. * He observed some partially Indis­ tinct words traced in red on the front of the note beside the lettering and on the margin. Curiosity tempted him to try deciphering them. They were so' faintly written and so nearly obliter­ ated that he found great difficulty In doing so, but finally he was able to, combine them into this sentence; "If this note should fall into the hands of John Dean, of Longhill, near Car-, lisle, he will learn hereby that his brother is languishing a prisoner in Algiers." Mr. Dean was shown the note, and he lost no time in asking the Govern- ment of the Dey to make Intercession for his brother's freedom. It appeared then that during eleven years, while his friends and family had believed, him to be dead, the latter had been a slave to the Dey of Algiers. With a piece of wood he had traced in his own blood, on tb«e bank note, the message which was eventually to secure his re­ lease. The Government exerted Itself to the utmost in the matter, and he was set free on the payment of a ransom to the Dey. Important to Horse Owners. . The strength required of an average- sized team of horses, says a writer In Our Dumb Animals, and tue strain on the horses to draw a heavy load over stones or out of a deep rut hole, or over many other avoidable obstacles, Is oft­ en greater than to draw the same load, over a smooth surface fifty yards. It would be a small estimate to say a careless driver strains his team In that manner twenty tiuies a day. If a driver prevents straining his horses twenty times each day he will save them 1,000 yards of unnecessary pulling, and in the 300 working days of the year 300,000 yards, and in five years 1,500,000 yards--nearly 1,000 miles. With proper judgment and careful­ ness the driver, at the end of five years, will have, in place of a team or weak, overworked, bony horses, a team of healthy and strong ones. From a business point of view, will it not pay any horse-owner, driver or teamster to be careful and considerate, and to avoid all unnecessary strains on horses? And how ban humane horse-owners better aid in making their drivers care­ ful and considerate than by supplying tuem each month with a copy of your excellent monthly paper, "Our Dumb Animals?" Never ask your friends why they like you; you will never like them so well afterward because of the reason xne nour barrel iSsu|ngr And the lard Is gettmg lows r And the folks with whom I've dwelt Want cnsh for what I owe. And many times I've blamed myself < For voting for a "change"-- Bat I've learned through my stomach „ What 1 couldn't through my braias. ; . ' '• '•* .. There's no money in my pocket. And there's no coal in the bin; , The weather's growing colder And my breeches mighty thin."' V I'm longing for the "good old ttme#,*' h And my conscience gives me pains, t , For I'm learning through my stomach- ; What I couldn't through my tuyufta* -• " The Factory hasn't started up>v And times are mighty slow, And daily I am adding more 1 1 To the little bills I owe. Each day I figure losses Where I used to count up gains. And I'm learning through my stomach machines last summer ^ I for 40 cents a day, and many were turned away even at that price. No sale for property of any kind at fkQj: price. And this is the fulfillment of those glowing promises which turned the heads of the people in 1892! This 'is the harvest we reap after sowing as the "cheap John" politicians dictated! Oh. bow ih» fool-killer has neglected, his business. It is simply pitiable to listen to the Democrats a&u Populists manu­ facturing excuses for the deplorable state of affairs that their Joint efforts have brought about Discredited, dis­ honored, disgraced, they stand aghast at their own stupidity and inefficiency. / agu iuj WM*IUO* There's a day of judgment coming i.£f. For those who fooled me so; There's a day of retribution For those who made times slow. . I am going to vote to change times When I can count tip gains, ^ For I've learned through my stomach Soup houses have been opened . But the diet's awful thin; *.«,/ Free-Traders made their promises '(jt- And denounced McKintey tin. f , But the people have grown wiser-- Losses don't size up with gains; They've found out thro' their stomach What they couldn't through their brains. - - They pity the "poor.farmer," Taffy well the working mAn, And praise the Free-Trade Wilson Mil To the people of the land. And how they love the pensioner, It gives the veterans pains; But they learned through their stomachs What they couldn't through their brains. They promised us much better times And money free as mud; But work has stopped and wages drop'd Way down with a dull thud. But soon we'll smite those Democrats, And give the liars pains, For we've learned through our stomachs What we couldn't through our brains. v The Doleful Message of Defeat. Never from the tombs came a more doleful tune than runs it weary length through President Cleveland's last message It Is the song of a dodo bird, which is described as "massive, clumsy, flightless and defenseless," sitting amid the broken eggshells waiting for death to come and extinguish its vain life and race. With painful repetition Mr. Cleve­ land goes over the reports of his secre­ taries, bestowing a perfunctory recom­ mendation here and there, but adding nothing to the intelligent apprehension of their suggestions. Buried amid a haystack of undigested thoughts on ag­ riculture, the President hides a grain of civil service reform--a sad reminder to his old friends that this hope of the nation was once the k.. stone of his po­ litical arch. He dismisses it with just as much enthusiasm as he expends on the weak yet false and dangerous re­ port of the Strike Commission. Upon each he bestows a stereotyped recom­ mendation to careful consideration. Unmindful of the verdict of last month, President Cleveland still urges further tampering with the tariff, to the end apparently that the American market may be thrown still wider open to the manufactures of the world and that American workingmen may see the money that should pay them living wages go abroad to pay foreign wages to foreign workingmen. But there is a tone of hopelessness about the tariff paragraphs of the message that indi­ cates the President's appreciation of the people's verdict which he has not the grace to acknowledge frankly. Upon Secretary Carlisle Mr. Cleve­ land throws the labor and responsibil­ ity for the Administration's new scheme of currency reform. In this he Is wise, for his own attempt to explain it really befogs its most promising fea­ tures. Touching the finances of the na­ tion, after telling Congress that the de­ ficit for the year ending June 30,1884, was $69,803,260, the President places the deficit for the current year at only $20,000,000, when it is already more than that. Where he expects to make up the deficiency in the next B!X months he does not deign to say, prob­ ably because he does not know. When the Treasury wants more gold the Pres­ ident says he will sell more bonds, and that is about all the remedy he has for the drain upon the Treasury. It Is altogether the "dolefullest ditty" that ever issued from , the i regions- of defeat sorrow and political death.-- Chicago Journal. < Stolen or 8trayed. Where is the prosperity that was to follow the election of Grover Cleveland and the adoption of his free trade theo­ ries? The people have been patiently waiting for those "good times" which were promised them, but in the mean time they must live, and in order that they may keep soul and body together they must sell what they have to sell. This is working a very great hardship on most of the farmers, for it looks like a shame to have to sell $1.25 wheat which was promised, for only 33 cents. But that is just what they are and have been doing for several months ,past In 1892 the man who is now the Populist judge of the court at Anthony, Kan., carried'a banner through the streets of that town upon which was inscribed, "A vote for Chester I. Long means 40 cents for wheat while a vote for Jerry Simpson means $1.40 for wheat" Jerry was elected, and instead of $1.40 per hundred weight of wheat it falls far short of 40 cents; and there were idiots enough in this district yet to make It necessary to fight hard to beat him In the last election. A miller rwho had been shipping large quantities of flour to Galveston within the last three years for shipment to Cuba and South Ameri­ ca, says that Is all done for now. The abrogation of reciprocity treaties kills this trade entirely. The cattle and sheep men of Kansas, Indian Territory and Texas, who are roaring lustily for free wool and what amounts practically to free cattle, are doing their goose up brown. A great many of these men, strtinge to relate, voted for the party that has wrought this ruin, and all such are entitled to very little sympathy. Tuition In the school of experience comes high, but it is the only school in which some people ever learn. Good horses are selling from $12 to $20 apiece Me A Democratic Boom. have been waiting for that great lmprb¥£n¥£nt In business that was promised by the Democratic leaders as soon as the Gorman tariff became law and conditions were settled. Here is -what Dun's Review, October 27, had to say about It; "In textile industries the situation Is peculiar, and in many respects perplex­ ing. It is undeniable that orders for goods are on the whole diminishing, and retail trade does not yet prompt such supplemental orders as were ex- npotml. bnt n. mod m*nv works hum found orders enough to start up for a time, some having business for several months. The demand for wool is not as large as it has been, and while prices have scarcely changed for two weeks, sales are but 4,304,250 pounds against 5,778,750 in 1892, and for four weeks 19,451,749 pounds against 25,744,750 in ^1892. Prices were put down before the new tariff took effect so that results of foreign competition are felt mainly In reduced sales of some domestic wools.** Why They Want Oar Market. The American people are the largest consumers of goods in the world, con­ sequently ours Is the best market and naturally other countries are anxious to secure as much of our trade as possi­ ble. We do not blame them for advo­ cating a policy of free trade for the United States. It is to their best inter­ ests to do so. But we blame the men, born In this country and claiming to be American citizens and patriots, who can with bold and bare-faced assur­ ances proclaim that a policy which, they know, will benefit foreign coun­ tries must of necessity be beneficial to our own country. Such men may be American citizens, but they aee decid­ edly not American patriots. Canadian Potatoes. A potato buyer in Colebrook,.N. H., received over 1,900 bushels of carefully assorted potatoes within 48 hours, and refused quantities that were offered to him. He paid thirty-five cents per bushel, a price for potatoes that gen­ erally leaves the farmer out and in­ jured. Canadian potatoes are our- markets. A . Where Ia the Benefit}' • An Increase of 100 per cent In the tariff upon dates, pineapples, orchids, lilies of the valley and cocoanuts will be highly appreciated by the large army of wage earners engaged in pro­ ducing these necessities of our daily life, and also by the multitude of con­ sumers. This Won't Waah. The duty upon Castile soap has been increased 2.67 per cent, by the Gorman tariff. Was this meant as additional protection for the American soap man­ ufacturers or as an additional tax upon washing? . <> Hay Is Cheaper. The price of hay has gone down since the passage of the Gorman tariff bill, although many producing districts have short crops on account of drought Before and After. AT THE BANQUET, OCTOBER. 18M. AFTER THE BANQUET, NOVEMBEfi, 1894. THE BURIAL, AUGUST, 18'Jt THE RESURRECTION. NOVEMBER, IGtt. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY RECORDED Y Illinois' Enormous Revenue Payments --Valuable Free Courses In Agricul­ ture--Unique Jndgwent Against a Champaign Farmer, V:; , Illinois Heads the U«b ' According to the report of Commis­ sioner Miller Illinois Btands first in the list of States paying internal revenue taxes, while Kentucky ranks second and New York third. The amounts paid by these three States during the year ending June 30, 1894, were as follows: Illinois, $30,942,233: Kentucky, $24,308,630; New York, $18,922,111. The total receipts for the year from all the States were $147,- 168.449, a decrease as compared with 1893 of $13,836,539. The heaviest de­ crease was in the Item of spirits, amount­ ing to nearly $10,000,000. There was a falling off in the revenue from all articles subject to the tax except oleomargarine, on which there was an increase of $52,- 836. Tobacco in its various forms showed a decrease, but a large increase is re­ ported in the manufacture of cigarettes. The largest revenue Gavins: district in the country is I'eoria, which turned into the treasury last year about $15,000,000. The next largest is Louisville, Ivy., which paid in nearly $11,000,000. "That Woman Makes He Tired." George Centrell was ^ hanged at Belle­ ville Friday. Mrs. Kahn is in jail wait­ ing for her trial. She was at the hang­ ing and shouted good-by to Centrell, to wmcu uv remurkeu to the Sheriff; "O,' that worhan makes me tired." Centrell made public letters from her begging him not to implicate her any further in the tragedy. One sentence in his statement is characteristic: "I hope to God Annie Kahn will walk to the gallows and swing the rope, for she has killed one man and hanged another, and ought to be the next person on the gallows, so she doesn't kill still another man." Kahn was a promi­ nent farmer of St. Clair County. Cen­ trell was employed as a laborer and lived with the family. He and Mrs. Kahn planned the murder of the woman's hus­ band. Kahn went to East Carondelet the night of Aug. 7. Upon his return he was met in the road by Centrell and the woman. She was dressed in a suit of men's clothing. Centrell fired several shots at Kahn, two of which took effect in his head. The wounded man recog­ nized his wife and appealed to her for mercy. The appeal was in vain. It is al­ leged that the woman grabbed the re­ volver .from jO«htrell and finished the work by pounding the injured man on the head with the butt of the weapon. For Young Farmers. The University of Illinois will again offer during the winter term, Jan. 7 to March 27, a free course in agriculture. Lectures and instructions will be given in field agriculture, animal husbandry, vet­ erinary science, "vegetable physiology and pathology, agricultural Chemistry and practical horticulture. Veterinary clinics will be held once a week. Pour or five different courses will be given, from which each student nifiy select three. The university library of 30,000 volumes will be at the disposal of all students. Courses of reading will be recommended. There will be absolutely no charge and students need be only at the expenHe of board. The practical good to be derived from this course can not be over-estimated-- not to speak of the indirect benefit which comes from the association with 800 stu­ dents. ' - To Pay for Importing Cholera. Isaac Lease, a prosperous Champaign farmer and stock-raiser, purchased 100 hogs shipped from the West. He took them to his farm, and Boon after cholera broke out among them, fifty dying from the disease. Later the disease made its appearance among the hogs owned by farmers in the immediate neighborhood, and some of Farmer Lease's neighbors brought suit against him to see if they could make him pay for bringing the dis­ ease into the neighborhood. In the first %ase a judgment against Lease for $180 Was obtained. Settles a $50,000 Damage Suit. The Chicago and Alton Railroad Com­ pany settled a $50,000 damage suit by paying $5,500. Charles Drake was a fire­ man on that road, and in February last while near Girard, and while the train was running forty-five miles an hour plug was blown out of the boiler and the steam escaping blew Drake off fhe en­ gine. On the theory that the accident was due to boiler material being defec­ tive he sued the company for damages. Illinois Farmers Being Fleeced. Wheat swindlers are fleecing the farm­ ers in Fayette and neighboring counties. There are several of them and they work together. They exhibit a fine specimen of wheat, claiming that it is superior in quality and that it will produce fifty and sixty bushels to the acre. They get their victim to sign a contract giving them one- half of the first year's crop. This con tract invariably turws out to be a prom Issory note* Rwont of the Wee*. The Chicago express on the Wabash Collided with a freight at Nameoki. Both engines were demolished. Henry L. Bristol, a civil engineer, who had been identified with many of Chica­ go's greatest enterprises, 1b oeau. Mrs. Barbara Buchanan died at Spring­ field, aged 93 years. She resided in Springfield for seventy-five years. At Decatur William Strain, a Cincin­ nati cigarinaker, fell from a train on the Illinois Central track and was killed. The Eastern Illinois Nashville limited ran into a coal train at Beecher. The passengers escaped with a shaking up. S. W. Riderburg, of Chicago, Chief Deputy County Clerk, is numbered among the mysteriously missing. Experts at work on the books express the opinion that Ridorburg's accounts would come ost all right At Chicago, Wilhelm P. Froesch will die, and his daughter and son-in-law are In the hospital as the result of a family row, in which' firearms were freely used. John Morgan, a noted character of Bloomington, died suddenly of heart dis­ ease. He was aged 63 and had spent his life in Bloomington. He served through­ out the rebellion in the Eighth Missouri. The rector of the Episcopal Church at Moline smashed the preparations, which were nearly completed, for- an entertain, ment in his church for raising fupds be­ cause the main feature consisted of a dance. ^ William L. Roberfs&n, ex-^ostmaster at Tallula, was fontfd"dead at the foot Of an embankment He had fallen from' his horse. The operators of Peoria County, who have watched the coal business go from them, are now agitating the formation of an organization which will cut prices of coal to consumers so low dealers in outside coal will be forced to quit The reconstructed Second Congrega- .tional Church of Rockford, burned nine months ago and rebuilt at a cost of $80,000, was rededicated Sunday, over 2,000 people crowding th^'auditorium to the doors at both handsomest church edifice Mhnt Maty stiller was killed in a run- away ̂ aj^, Pjrsepption, her body being Arthur McDonald, . a> farmer near Vandalia, was drowned* while driving across a swollen stream. The Belleville Brass Works Company made an assignment with assets of $27,- 000 and liabilities of $37,000. James Mace, a grocer at Maples' Mill, was held np by a highwaymaa on his wajr to Canton and robbed of $120. Charles Weirmeister, 19, of Desplaines, accidentally shot himself while gunning. The wound is likely to prove fatal. , Martin W. Garrison, an old citiscn of Rushville, dropped dead Sunday while reading a newspaper, fie wafe 68 years of age. Officer Stephen Healy, of Chicago, is charged with chasing Miss Ida Earl into her home and arresting two men who in­ terfered. | Charles E. feriraer, a merchant tailor at Chicago, dropped dead in a cable car while on Lin way hornet Heart disease was the cause. Waves made by a tug upset a skiff containing six men at Cairo. James and John Delay were drowned. They Uvea at Holly Springs, Miss. » Rev. J. H. Acton, pastor of the Peo­ ple's Church, of Aurora, has resigned to ~ ml? frnm Church at Seattle, Wash. J John W, Ruby, a farmer near Assump­ tion, bought a lightning rod folir$4 and signed a recommendation, and notes for $400 turned up against him. 1 Arthur McDonald was drowned with his horse while trying to ford Cross Beck's creek, near Ramsey. Rolla True- blood, a companion, swam out David Davis, of Oakland, was danger­ ously wounded by Ossa Peppers and Ed­ ward Ivnowles, who fired eighteen shot Into his head while hunting quail. Rev. A. N. Alcott, of the Universalist Church of Elgin, resigned his charge, having accepted the secretaryship of the State Society of Liberal Religions. The Consolidated Stone Company has been organized at Bloomington and cap­ italized at $1,000,000. It will include several of the largest quarries in Monroe and Lawrence Counties. The Illinois * Millers* Association re­ fused to join the movement calling for a general shut down of all the mills in the United States. The stock of wheat now on hand was reported far less than at this time last year. The Grand Jury at Freeport returned indictments against Mrs. Lafayette Bev­ erly, her daughter Sophronia, Thomas McKnight and Edward Keyes, charged with the murder of August Altemeyer several weeks ago. The annual report of the Commission­ ers of Joliet Prison shows total convicts 1,486, an increase of 115; 628 work for the State, 29 sick, 307 in yard work, and 539 iu contract work; loss to the State for 1894, $168,579; 21 prisoners sent to the insane asylum, 22 males pardoned, 38 men and two women died, and cost of board $3.10 a head a month. An appro­ priation of $100,000 is asked. Ex-County Clerk Jere Mathews died at Lincoln Monday from morphine. Mr. Mathews had been despondent ever since his defeat for re-election, and when he found that the shortage in his accounts could be concealed no longer than the meeting of the Board of Supervisors he took poison sooner than face them and his bondsmen with the deficiency, which he placed at*$l,904.81. He leaves to his widow imd six children a home aud a $2,000 life Insurance policy in the Ah? cient Order of United Workmen. 1 « The Chicago fat stock show was a suc­ cess as an exhibition of animals, but financially it turned out a failure. The entire receipts were'only about $12,000, while the expenditures footed up nearly $19,000. It is the belief of some members of the board that a horse show simply would be more attractive and popular as well as less expensive. People in the city, they say, are not interested in fat hogs and cattle and big chickens, and they re­ call with envy the statement that the; horse show in New York cleared some­ thing like $100,000. Society will not come out in force to see fat animals, but splen­ did horses and bright turnouts will attract them. The oldest lawsuit in the Cook County courts has at last been settled and strick­ en from the docket. It was the case of Wright Brothers against the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company, in which the plaintiffs sued for damages amounting to $150,000 for injuries to their property occasioned by the great fire of 1871. The suit was begun March 7, 1873, and had been tried four times. Three times the verdict was in favor of the defendant, but the judgment was re­ versed upon appeal each time. The fourth trial resulted in a hung jury. When the case was about to go to trial for the fifth time it was compromised, the defendant paying $2,500 for a settlement. One of the plaintiffs has been dead several years, and the costs of the case during the twenty-one years it has been pending in court exceeded many times the amount of the judgment. , H. Harvard Parmore, the enterprising youth who has established a "Modern Press Association" in a little office in the Hartford Building, Chicago, is liable to have his revenues greatly, if not alto­ gether, cut off. His scheme Is to send cir­ culars to young college graduates and others throughout the country saying that for $2 he would enroll their names in a book of correspondents to be pub­ lished and placed in the hands of the ^reat newspapers in the land. This would bring them to the notice of edit­ ors, and any local stories they had would readily be accepted. Parmore evidently found his scheme a bonanza, for he re­ ceived big piles of letters and large num­ bers of money orders. Postmaster Hes- Ing did not think the postofBce ought to be used to forward the scheme, aud he wrote to Washington for instructions. He received instructions to pay no more money orders nor deliver any more such letters to Parmore, and when possible re­ turn letters to senders. Sealed bids were opened for the sale of $12,000 fifteen-year 5 j»er cent, bonds for the building of the waterworks sys­ tem at Decatur. The bonds were se­ cured by E. H. Rollins & Son, of Boston, at par. The Illinois State Board of Canvassers completed the official count of votes for members of Congress. No errors in the original returns were discovered. The two Congressmen-elect whose seats will be contested have, according to the re­ turns, the following pluralities: McGann, Third, District 31; Downing, Sixteenth District, 40. The delegates to the North Central Medical Association meeting at Ottawa indorsed the bill prepared for the coining Legislature by I>r. Brower, President of the State society, providing for the ap­ pointment of medical experts by the Courts to give testimony at trials. The official vote for State Treasurer ts as follows: Wulff, Rep., 445,8S6; Clag- gett, Dem., 322.459; Puterbaugh, Pro., 19,487; Randolph, Peo., 59,793; Mann, Ind., 1,650. Superintendent of Schools-- Inglis, Rep., 448,667; Raab, Dem., 325,- 074. Trustee of University--Flower, Rep., 487,841; Smith, Dem., 307,2*6. DCHNQS OF OUR NATIONAL LAW- ' ,v,3. \ -A" " ' *• i Hs i f *' * Proceedings of the Senate and TTiUieiB Briefly Summartzed-BIeasures I*- troduced. Passed, or Bdhm* £ '%f Routine Work. '. : ̂ Coming Work of Congress. The present session of Congress Is 110$ unlikely to be marked by some interesting debates. It seems altogether likely that the session will be partially devoted to a discussion of the currency problems be* fore the country, the President having set the discussion going by the reeon-. mendations of his message. It will be strange if the West and Sonth do not' make one more attempt to pass a free sB- vor mooanro TKapo haro Wn several new Congressmen, who will, their time comes,' no doubt act with free silver side. The income tax will un­ doubtedly come before the present sua­ sion of Congress. There was an appro­ priation of $9,000 made on the recommen­ dation of Secretary Carlisle to provide for the hire of clerks and the cost of th* i/ifliuittnuii ui uiuiia« iu oc uotru m collection, but it will take at least half a million dollars a* year to provide for th» cost of the machinery of collection in the offices of the district collectors of internal revenue. Senator Hill and his school of opponents of the income tax have addi­ tional chance to voice their opposition to it. The tariff is not out of the woods yet. The "popgun" bills, so-called, the inde- pvudciit uiwoure prOTiuiu§ fui tuv «i««r entrance of many staples into the coun­ try. have come over from the first session of the Fifty-third Congress, and as all eff them have devotees, they are sure to ho brought forward for discussion, if not fer action. This closing session of Congress will have one merit that its predecessor did not have. That is that the country knows when it will end. The first ses­ sion didn't have that desirable qualifica­ tion. *" Up to Thursday neither branch bait gotten in shape for active work. The re­ ports of the Cabinet Ministers had been received, and%oth houses discussed them carefully. Congressman Fithian, of Illi­ nois, introduced two bills affecting the shipping interests. The bills were d®1 signed to relieve sailing vessels of a por­ tion of their tonnage tax, aud transfer to steam vessels, and to change the meas­ urement law to make it conform to thone of Great Britain, Norway and other na­ tions. The object sought is to diminish the amount of taxes which the vessels of the United States have to pay in foreign ports. A bill providing for the free coin­ age of silver was introduced in the House by Representative Hartman, of Moo- tana. An important provision of the measure is that requiring import duties to be paid in gold in cases where the arti­ cles of importation are brought fnm countries whose Governments refuse to open their mints to the free coinage ef silver and gold. The Senate called far correspondence and information relative to several foreign questions, and the House passed a bill to transform Shiloh'a battle field into a national park. In the Senate Thursday some state pa­ pers from the President were received. Mr. Turpie advocated the election of Senators by direct vote. The bill exempt­ ing from duty foreign exhibits at the Portland (Ore.) exposition, and a bill ex­ tending the time for commencing and completion of a bridge across the Missis­ sippi liiver at New Orleans was passed^ Mr. Ransom gave notice that the memo-* rial services for the late Senator Vaneef would be held Jan. 17 next A bill was passed for the national dedication of th« Chickamauga and Chattanooga national park Sept. 19 and 20, 1895, under the di­ rection of the Secretary of War. The en-: tire time of the House was occupied fas the discussion of the railroad pooling bQKi No action, however, was taken. Bits of History. ' 435, iPfee celebrated made the law of the empire. 468. The principle of trial by ^urjfair augurated. Every accused person to be tr.'ed only by his equals. 476. The Western Empire over­ thrown by Cdoaeer; Rom 3 taken pillaged. 533. The Justinian code made the' versal law of the Eastern Empire. 568. The semicircular arch. '*t used* in the building of churches. " 4 S - • - f x - hffc- 644. A school founded at Cambridjfs; said to be the origin of the univerJEtj. 716. The art of paper making invent­ ed by the Arabs in Spain. m 788. Lawyers first allowed to speak in oourt for their client 792. The Gregorian chants brought to perfection and established in the ritual of the chuich. 802. Arabian i ace horses introduced into Europe by the Moors. 82?. The famous Cathedral qC 'fit' Mark's, in Venice, built v 872. Venetian clocks made and sent to all parts of Europe. 890. Schools founded at Oxford; ori­ gin of the present university. 939. Schools of medicine founded ai Cordova, in S} aia v* 941. Tae Arabian numerals brought to Europe and generally adoptad itt mercantile transactions 10J2. Paper first made from cotton rags; invention claimed by Moors aaa Germans. 102 K M usical scale and notes devised by Guido Aretino. 1055. Laws passed in England for­ bidding men to sell their children. 1081. Doomsday book, a census at England, compiled by order of Will­ iam the Gonquror. 10u;3. The first crusade preached tqr Peter the Hermit 1120. Abelard's writings*, the scho­ lastic philosophy reached comparative perfection. lMf). Phreno o^-y made a spe cial sub­ ject of scientific investigation by fealt and Spurzheim. ; 185^. An overland mail dispatched by stage from St Louis to San Fran­ cisco. 185 *. Telegraph lines from to India; nearly all its route overiaadL . 186J. Cables laid almost the whola length of the Mediterraneaa. 1813. Nation U Academy q| Arte aad * Sciences established by act of '€&>*- gross. I«u4. Peabody houses for the poor opened in London. 18C6. Atlantic cables successful; Bm* feet o >mmunicat:on established. I8t&. International Congress of Workmen called by Brunei declares Ia favor of arbitration. 1870. The great Mont Cems' successfully completed. Odds and Ends, IF we could look deeper into the hearts of people, it wouldn't be so hi* for us to love them. THE eleventh census showed that ia a population of 62,622,2dO there were 1,470,040 persons of African descent ARCHBISHOP RYAN, of Philadelphia* who is one of the great orators of toa Roman Catholic church, enjeys a jotea at his own exp.'m-e. His hair is ve^y red, and when the red ha was mm* ferred on Archbishop Gibbons be WJ marked to a friend: "Well, watt, I suppose I shall never get the rad MK services. It is the | Wulffs sjuwiity. i but no matt** i difice in the West I ity, 123,58ft, » * v ^ . "head.* * - .*