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ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH- FULLY RECORDED. Chas, N. Siiiith Confesses to Another Crime'Before Being Hnng for Mur­ der--Miser's Sons Dig Up> a .Kettle Full of "Gold. Dies at the Rope's End. -• The execution *of Charles N. Smith, widely known ih the baseball world as "Facer"' Smith, .was carried out with­ out a felip in the corridor of the Macon Jail Friday forenoon at Deca­ tur in the presence of SOU people, among whom Were several Protestant ministers of Dccaniy. The crime for which Smith gave up his life was the killing of his lit­ tle daughter, Louise Smith, aged 15 years, aud Miss Edna Buehert, aged, 18, his sister-in-law, on Sept. 28 last. He intend­ ed to kill his wife, but she got away. The shooting of Miss Buchert was accidental. The sensational feature of the day was a startling disclosure he made in his final confession in the cell , when he (Con­ fessed that he was the principal actor in the cruel torture and robbery of Uncle Billy Florey, at his hermit home, two miles east of Decatur, on Dec. JJ4. 1894. That night Florey was held on a. red-hot cook §tove by a party of six men and forced to tell where he had $1,000 se­ creted about the house arid in his barn. The robbers got all the" money arid burled $1,000. which was in gold. Smith, some time after the niurder, said he knew-all about the Florey robbery, but nothing cpqid indued him 'to,.give up the- names . of his pals. All parties implicated are now in I >eCatnr. •Death of an®Kccentric . Mian. ;• Da vid Long. who died at the almshouse in Schuyler County, was 94 years old, and for-forty years" had been an inmate of the institution. In 1850 lie lost his mind and the world to him had since been a blank. He was a veteran of the Mexican war and at times would talk incoherently of the battles he was in. but on no ocHftsiou would he divulge the naHHTof his captain. He possessed tlu; idea thai the county farm belonged to him. ami labored incessantly in the woods near by. in going to his work he always started toward the north, and then took a circuitous route to his destination. Just before each meal lie would go to a cer­ tain plao) on the lawn, where he would cry (nit in profane denunciation against Rushville. Sunday was for him a day of rest.. He would go to the woods early in the day and gathering together a num­ ber of logs start a tire. The coming and going of the seasons made no chancre in his primitive worship. Murderer IS arris Gets a Stay. < Gov. Ahgeld has granted a reprieve to Frank Harris, the ex-baseball player, of Free] <irt. sentenced to be hanged {or murder, until May 1. 1SSH5. The reprieve is granted for the reason that the Gov- satistied the condemned man properly defended, and justice lioufd be given time to •ase properly before the SuprenTc s well as for the purpose of pre- (» the Executive of the State am material facts which were not d tn the Court. Harris was cott- f killing a man na'ined Bengal, illy interfered with his l'aai- Ajt Pana Georgia W,. MeKee. one of thd pioneer reaidentsof age, agefl 90 years. Near Lacon the body of Harry Root,' aged 28, was fouricl in a field with the coin tents of a shotgun in liis ehest. The gun was accidentally discharged. , At a meeting of the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners held at Springfield " the State Veterinarian reported that Con­ tagious diseases had about, disappeared among cattle at this time throughout the. State. He had visited several localities from which contagion bad been reported^ but found the diseases to be nothing more serious than local eruptions and not con­ tagious. Glanders and anthrax were nbt known in the State at this time. Many localities were suffering from hog chol­ era. . > . Detectives m the employ . of~if--Hie AN ENGLISH OPINION. LEADING LONDON FINANCIAL PAPER TELLS THE TRUTH. British Manufacturing, Prosperity Is Due tO Our Low Tariff--Tliey Have Already Got Back "in Business the Money Subscribed to Our Loan." i . ^ Not in the Wheat Majfketr' The great prosperity of the wool trades has, fortunately, more than off­ set the retrogression in cotton, though that reflection brings small consolation to. Lancashire. The total gain €or the ored to enforce the law. It; wfll be par­ ticularly interesting to know this, es­ pecially as;the sugar trust has j.ust.es-. tablished a new method of reghlating prices, known as the factorage plan, whereby it;anr>ears that-factics of the trust proper are extended to parties of the second part, \Vlio may be foolish enough to enter, or who are forced, into its control. As the sugar trust has no consideration whatever for any human being on the face of - the earth, except its own members, the people's repre­ sentatives in Congress will do Well to force a statement from the administra- ernoi was demands that lie get the Court. seating furt In-r present ( vieted ( who had Northwestern Railroad arrested Dwight Burdick, of Rockford, identifying him as the robber, who- qgcaped about a month ago at Dixon. Burdick and a companion had been caught robbing freight cars and while being searched he made his escape. Burdick belongs to a band who have been arrested for many shady' doings about Rockford and the detectives are certain they have the men who have been doing a great amount of car-robbing on the Northwestern, Illi­ nois Central and Milwaukee Roads. Suit was brought against the Chicago and Alton Railroad at Springfield to re­ cover a penalty of, $5,000. . The suit'was filed by the Attorney General and is based upon the ground, that it charged $2 more than the regular toll fdiv shipping: •a lot of hogs .to the Union Stock Yards, Chicago. The "extra $2 was for, terminal' charges. . The- shipper iriade complaint to the Railroad "and Warehouse Commis­ sion. which reported the .charge .as ille­ gal and referred the case to the Attorney Genera!. Tbe suit .will be made a test as to the legaikv- of tyHt^tiug'1 $U£-hv ter­ minal 'charges. . In the Circuit Court .at <iale.sbu'rg the trial. '-of the Case of John I). Mjoore vs. John Cooks, superkitenden.t of the Knox County alnishoiiso; I)r. Schwartz, the almshouse physician, and Supervisors John Rohson and .1. S. Simpson for 000 damages is in progress. Moore's •diotic son was an iinnate pf the alms­ house^ nd skin was removed from his person and grafted on the arm of Anna Kendall, an inmate. The operation was performed without the consent of Moore, and- it is claimed large pieces of skin were pinched off the idiot's thigh and leg, leaving bad scars. Messrs. .Carl, Dan and Fritz Asprooth, Mrs. Ralph Kerlin .and Mrs. Victor Faust, of Rockford, are direct heirs to property left by Jonas Bengston Lam­ bert. of Amsterdam, Holland, who die'd there in 1720. Lambert left his property to three sisters living in Afro, Sweden, but they, not knowing what became of the will, failed to get the bequest. The Hol­ land Government has been holding the money in trust ever since. The money now amounts to $25,000.(MM), excluding large plantations in Demerara. The Rockford parties are descendants of the three sisters, and with others are pushing their claims. The Swedish Government, has the matter in hand for them. POTATO CROP OF THE WORLD. Bi llfonB of Bushels Annually Product, & --Status of the United States. .. The almndance and cheapness of American .potatoes thisseason lend con­ siderable iiiterest to the culture ami distribution of those important and staple articles of diet. The world's average annual crop-for many years lias been estimated by experts, aided by official statistics, at over 3,000.000,- 000,000 bushels, exceeding the average annual crop of grain by fully 750,000,- 000 bushels. In volume of production tiou as to the methods that have been) «lie United States stands fifth on a list . f ly""relations- Hides $i0,000 Under a Barn. After a long search the sous of .1. Beck, a miserly old man who died recently near Highland Park, have found Lis hoard of $l(UMMi in gold secreted in a leakettle and hid ill the earth under the barn tioor. The deceased was known to have money hidden away, but his sons did not know where. After a long and vaiu search Mrs. Rudolph, a neighbor, told them that I their father had told her before his death | Mrs. Clara E. Johnson recovered $20, (MMI damages from the West Chicago Street Railroad for injuries sustained | Dec. 11. IS'.t.", Mrs. Johnson sued for $5(1.000 damages. The -street railway company iinniediiitely moved for a new •trial. Mrs. Johnson is the wife of an engraver who lives on the West--Side. She boarded a Madison street cable on the day mentioned, which collided with a wagon loaded with building material for the Champlain .building, in course of construction at Madison and State streets, where the accident occurred. The shock threw a tile from the top of the wagon, which struck Mrs. Johnson, in- j dieting internal injuries. According to the medical testimony in the case, she will never recover her normal health. nine months under is $16,48S,o75, and as the value of wool­ en tissues taken by' the United States- has been about $4,750,000 aud of wor­ sted tissues nearly $15,000,000 greater than in 1894, no further search for the origin of the improvement in the trade returns need be made. The lowering of Uho American tariff has been our sal­ vation, and it cannot be said that we have shown much reciprocity; for, in­ stead of taking the increased value of our shipments across the Atlantic in kind, we seem to have bought less American-produce. It is needless to go bevond our o wn Board of Trade returns to find an explanation of a gogd .<leal of the monetary trouble in the United States. Practically every penny that wag sub­ scribed here toward the recent Amer­ ican loan 'has been got back through the expansion in the exports,of woolens and worsteds; but the United- States has not confined her increased pur-, chases-to those articles. Last month- she bought less raw wool than in Sep­ tember, 1S94; but had to. pay more for it. She took mote cotton, pieces, more iron, more alkali, and more of sundry articles which need. not be specified. In some instances the rapid growth of the 'preceding months resulted in®»a slight check in September, but in all these cases the figures -of the nine months show a big advance in 1S94. On the other hand, we have paid a good deal less for American wheat, flour, ba­ con, hams, cheese, tallow and cotton, to mention only those articles in which the contraction is most apparent. The fact that the Argentine Republic heads the United States in respect of maize is not without significance. 1 bus the trade balance between the States and this country is moving rapidly against the former, and it would re­ quire a large and regular transference of securities from New \ ork to London to redress this tendency and restore the former position. And with India. Ar­ gentina and Australia keeping up and even improving their position as pur­ veyors of wheat to tlr.s country, with Argentina sending more as the I nited States sends less tallow, it will not be easy for the Americans to regain their old footing in our market adopted to suppress* the concern. It is quite \>ossiblo that those filtering into the "factorage" arrangement are vio- If so. tli lating~ :the law mand protection from them na much as they do from the octopus itself. Democratic Business Revival. About inspiriting as a revival meeting are the business reports of our two great commercial agencies. Dun's Re­ view spoke of the "closing pf man} works," also that, inJbusiness generally, "it is a time of waiting, and uncertainty may naturally continue for some weeks." The use of the word "natural­ ly" was clever. "Uncertainty" is al­ ways "naturally" associated, witli a Democratic administration. Of the railroads, Dun's says that earnings "are 5.4 percent, smaller than in 1S5V2." Of trade matters it notes that 'Unaay stove factories; have closed, and the shipments for four weeks have been 24 per cent, less tbhn last, year"--the bad year of 1894., Again we quote: "Nor has the demand for woolens improved; and ©very-week the. closing of. addition-, al mills is. noted." The volume of do­ mestic trade for the closing week of Oc­ tober was "22.8 per cent, less! .than in 1892." October failures "show.liabili­ ties of $11 120.488 against "$8,206,892 last year. Manufacturing were $5,420,- 959 against S3,149.455 last year." This record of Democratic revival is fully substantiated by Rradstreet's, from which we quote: "The volume of general business has been smaller this week." There was "a falling off in vol­ ume" of commercial demand at the West and Northwest, and "larger Fast­ en! business centers feel the effect of the falling off in demand at the West, notably Boston. Philadelphia and Pitts­ burg." Jobbers in the South are doing "only fair" business and "mercantile collections are slower." Of manufac­ turers it is said that "dullness charac­ terizes the stove industry, and many .factories are idle. Business in wool has fallen off one-half. Woolen machinery continues only partly employed, with a loss favorable outlook than hoped for." The situation was well summed up in the following: "Business failures throughout the Fill ted States number 290 this week (ending Nov. 2). and show a eoqsidera- ble increase over last week as well as Last., month I the like week.n year ago, when the to- of five countries which are the largest producers, and whose average annual Crops are estimated in btislieis as fol- princlples, "and, according to" a Itfbor commission report, form regula'r trade; UBTIOXIS; Some or tneni toi low fhelr PRO­ fession the year round; others only at stated seasons;, othejftjgo on begging expeditions when the weather la- fine There are many distinctions of rank among them. The Sondogsda beggars, for instance, who work on the soil for six months of the year, are socially of. no account whatever; whereas the Iva- louni, who would as soon think Of flying as of working, are quite important per­ sonages--aristocrats of beggardpm, in fact. The Ivalouni call themselves "collectors," and their- chief business is to direct the begging operations of others. As a rule, two Ivalouni, enter arui--giU-lier--ar.aun.d_ India and Argentina sent us more wheat than the I nited States, and Rus­ sia and Rouinanla together also lopped the American tigures. These all are factors that 'must be borne in mind in judging the outlook in the United States, and it is unfortunate that they are so consistently overlooked in-that country itself. The increase in the pur­ chases of British manufactures may not be maintained; but. on the o flier hand, the United States must count on the ! competition in wheat and maize be- | coming more and more intense as time goes on.--London Financial News. t-.ils were respectively 259 and 253, this week's gains being very generally dis­ tributed. In IS!>2,-in the corresponding week, the total was only 221, and in 1S91 was only 238." This gives quite a good idea of a Democratic business revival. 521.000,000; France, 385,000.000; Aus­ tria, 285,000,000; United States, 200,000.000. The average annual receipts ' of potatoes in this city arc about 200,000 barrels, each barrel containing from two and a half to two and three-quarters bushels, or a total of from 5,000,000 to 5,500,000 bushels. Of this great supply an aver­ age quantity of about 260,000 barrels is exported to the West Indies, the Hay- ana steamships each carrying from . 1.600 ,to 2,500,-barrels,a" trip, or about 5,000 barrels weekly, leaving about 1,740 barrels for eonsumptfbu in and around the metropolis. The local supply of potatoes is re­ ceived from different sources at differ­ ent times of the "year. The new Ber­ muda crop begins to arrive about Feb. 1, and'comes in at au average• weekly rate of about 2,500 barrels, which, un­ der ordinary conditions, are usually sold for .from $5 to $7 a barrel at whole­ sale. The Floi'ida crop, which is com- parafively Slq»i)l, begins to arrive about April 1; and is usually sold at about the same prices as are received for the Bermuda potatoes. A mouth or two later Georgia potatoes begin to-arrive from Savannah, and are received at the rate ofe about 10,000 barrels a week, their wholesale price generally ranging from $3 to $6 a barrel. Supplies come from seaboard cities further north as the year advances till the latter part of July, after which tbe metropolitan market is mainly supplied by Long Island and New Jersey, whose early crops are dug in July and August, and late crops in September. There'a re usu­ ally limited supplies also received from Canada and Scotland, but on account of the present enormous domestic crop the importations from those places this year will be insignificant. A small sup­ ply is generally received late in Decem­ ber from Bermuda, but it is too insig­ nificant to have any appreciable effect on the market. There are only ten States in the Union which extensively produce potatoes for shipment to markets beyond their own borders. They are Maine. Ver­ mont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl­ vania. Michigan., Ohio, Wisconsin. Minnesota and Virginia. Tennessee may soon be added to this list, as her product is steadily and rapidly increas- j red. ing. and among her potato plantations there is a single one which has over l.otKt acres under cultivation.--Now York Tribune. them a little company of assistants- four or five .children, and perhaps two adults their infirmities. Woe be to the one who goelabout with a cheerful air. or is heard to laugh in public. When the firm is ready for action, the Ivalouni, who are often capitalists in their way. buy a'horse and large cart, and set out iu the world. They go hundreds of miles from their homes, sometimes wan­ dering from village to village, from town to town. Ih a fairly good district they will clear as much as-thirty shil­ lings a ; week--a huge stun in Russia, where thousands of men-earn less than sixpence a day, and women are paid for their work about a farthing an hour. The assistants, who do all the begghig. receive .their",food,, the shelter of the cart, and perhaps a few rags for cloth- ing."iiothin'g.,morf'. Ail that is given to them inust be yielded up to their em­ ployers. and dire is.,the punishment that, befalls them If they are detected' keeping back a few :kopecks for •their own use. Four sermons by Bishop Hugh Millet Thompson, of Mississippi on the per­ sonality and responsibility of God and man, delivered as the Bohlen Lectures for 1895, have been collected and are Issued' with the general title, "The World and the Wrestlers." An excellent book to put rn the haads of a lad is "Turning Points in Success­ ful Careers," by the Rev. William M. Thayer, which T. Y. Crowell & Co. publish. It gives important chapters Tbe Engineer Was Color Blind. A story is told of the late Railroad Commissioner Stevens, on the' occa­ sion of the rear-,end collision at West Sonierville three or four years ago. The engineer of the following train was careless, and ran by two red lights without a stop. At the hearing the engineer testified regarding the lights, and said they were set at white. After the other commissioners had asked the witness all the questions they could think of, Mr. Stevens quietly re- Quested \Villiam, the office boy. to tako a "Baby Pathfinder" railway guide, and hang it on the ventilator outside the window, but in l'ufl view of the witness, and when his turn came to examine liini, he merely asked the engineer what color the little book appeared to him. The engineer squinted at the book, which was some twenty feet away, and then said, in a rather -uncertain . tone that it was sort of brownish. This was | 'all that Mr. Stevens had to say to the I wi'r-ss. hut the cause of the accident ! was pretty conclusively proved to have j been due to color blindness of the en- | gineer', for, as everybody knows, all j the "Baby Pathfinders" are bright Boston Traveler. from the lives of a men who may well be taken as models n many respects bv the rising genera-, tiom The unhappy critic is said to -'catch •jit" in Marie Corelli's forthcoming "book, "The Sorrows <>f Satan." And what is. ^yoi'se, the English reviewer will be obliged to buy the book if he wants to know how dead he is--because jthe fair writer has given strict orders ithat no press copies shall be .sent out in England. • ^ V % The personage for whom Clara Lou­ ise Bisrnhain has named her t latest novel, "The Wise WOm'an," is a delight­ ful oid spinster, an unmarried woman of social position and comfortable £or- • tune, whose native wit and kindliness ..have.been'developed by, a wide social experience. The scenes are laid , on Long Island and in New Jersey, and the story presents a ve;y truthful, and': vivid picture, of well-bred, well-educat­ ed and well-dressed American men and women. There are no .thrilling Inci­ dents In the story, but the personages attract one's sympathy their talk is bright and entertaining! -c • Tliev 23 2-f 25 26 27 2ft 30 31 & DR. FL. T. BROWN will accept thanks for files of Washington papers, just received. THE . P. S. Club has been reorganized and will hold their first Social Party at the Riverside Hall on Friday evening of this week. \t the annual meeting of the 111 i• lers' Association lie' '1 edaing, nm, ..^stan­ ces prevented. Both couple are said to be enjoying the best of health. '(lOlden ^ MARRIED, at Woodstock, Dec. 2, 1895, by Rev. S. C. Hay, Miss Mary Etta Wright, of Mclienry, and Mr. George A. Vasey, of \ olo, Lake county, 111. HON. GEO. W. ELDRKUGK will accept thanks for a copy of the proceedings of the Illinois State Board of Equalization, session of 1895. NEW advertisements this week from Simon StofM, John Evanson & Co., Geo. W. Besley, Heman & Schneider, Miss J, A. ^tory, J. I). Lodtz, Jr., Jacob Justen and Fred Saner. WE are informed that the G. A. R. Post, of this village, in connection with the pupils of our Public School, intend to give an entertainment on or about January 30th, the proceeds to be used for purchasing books for the School Library. 1 all particulars hereafter. IF you are iu want of a fine Robe, Blanket, Harness, or anything in the irse Goods line, do not fail to call on is Carlson. He has the finest line of' tese goods to be found in the market, } is offering them at bottom figures. WE would call especial attention to the new advertisement of Heainan & Schneider, .Jewelers, to be found in another place in this paper. Their stock was bought with special reference to the wants of the Holiday trade, and coiiKiHts. of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, isjiver and Plated ware, aud in short, everything usually kept iu a first class Jewelry store which they are selling at prices to suit the times. Read their advertisement and call and examine their goods and learn prices. List of Jurors. 1 he following have been drawn as jurors to serve at the January term of Circuit Court, to be held at Woodstock, the second Monday in January, 1S0G. OI!AND Jl'HORS. '11 V Why Potatoes Arc Cheap. Farmers will do well to study the rea­ son why potatoes are so olieap this year. The low tariff on fipreign pota- toes of course brings th'R b-tli^ down ll- to the price "* '- 'id Kitct»r other ' Postage [irepaid, to any ladv sending her address (name, town and state) plainly given A copy in German or Scandinavian will be sent if desired Postal card is as good as letter. Address Price Baking Powder Co., Chicago. Oil HA . , . u , ' ' ( rwi had shot two r'abhits. and Hinsliaw ordered him off the place and attacked him. In the fight Hinshaw was killed. It is believed by the (lovernor that Moo- berr.v acted in self-defense, under strong provocation, and that to send him to a penal institution would be inadvisable. Alter a suspension of nearly six months work at sinking the coal mine at Ramsey was resumed under a new company, which has deposited $40,000 m the Fay­ ette County Bank as an earnest of push­ ing the work to a consummation. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Youngs, an aged couple, while on their way from Lin­ coln, Neb., to Rockford >to live, stopped off in Freeport and waited in the depot a short time for a train. Both fell asleep and the old gentleman was robbed of $000 in money and his wife of a number of Valuable articles. ^Tliere is no clew to. the robbers. Chevalier Chappell recently found on the homestead near Delhi $7,758 in gold and greenbacks in an old tin can that had been secreted in the house by his father, the late William Chappell. The money was" turned over to the executor ,of the estak; and will be applied to the payment of bequests. Mrs. John Heaton, an early settler of Illinois, died at Virginia, aged 7(5 years. She was born in the tower of London, England, Feb. 29, 1S20, when her father. Maj. James Fullerton, was in command of the tower. She was the only female ever born in the tower. She leaves a hus­ band, Capt. "John Heaton, aged 85, and fcine children. FT Driver P B Smith, E D Stuart.. W Wallace ^ ilk in son, E Bowman VI L flnckett E F Mullen I) Thompson I) Hastings P Keating F B Choate, G B Baker.. 1) ^mith I) 11 J oslyn Geo Lifers Richmond •I ( randall Coral Julius Smith, C H Granger McHenrv G Harris, H Behan Xunda L E Mentch, F Richard Algonquin I 'ERIT JURORS. G Nichols, E Mackey Rilev F Pamter, R Redpath Murengo Riley Marengo Dunham Chemung Alden liartland Seneca (,'oral ..GraitOn I )orr ,.G reen wood Hebron Proceoddtig-H of the Board of Trustees COUNCIL ROOM. Dec. 2, 1805. Board met pursuant to adjournment. Present full board. Minutes of last meeting read and a[i- proved. Hie following bills were presented and ordered paid. ?41 50 10 25 8 00 2 SO 20 70 20 51 . '55 50 80 Wont- How ? Retail trade throughout the country is somewhat better, though moderate iu some lines, and while there has been no reported" advance in wages this week and some manufacturing concerns have teiniMirarily closed, or are about to close, purchasing power of wage earn­ ers on the whole is much larger than a year ago.--Dun's Review. But'how does it compare with 1S02? Might Do Hotter Next Time. Rev. l)r. Thirdly, who is somewhat »4~SSSAl»lS8fW'SJrrtc« tbr«fc evenings last Week. J .Miss Olive Stevens is quite sick at the) & present writing Mildred Lawson spent Sunday atj tJje John \\ alsh, police services Al. Xoisen, " " John 1 halen, special police G. W. Beslev, bill home, ( • E.^ lay was the lucky man • ra/ile Saturday evening for a $'2 ne^M that Air. Small put up. E. Robbins and wife, of Greenwood, were visiting the hitter's parents here Saturday. I here were 05 numbers out at the1 Opening of the club ' dances Friday •vening. Everybody seemed to have a i'fie next one occurs on Wed- thfi ti i e har- A11 be. Uu'-L-i good time. nesday, the 25th. The annual election of officers, of Ring- wood camp M. . A , will occur on Sat­ urday evening, Dec" 1 4. N'eighbois will ptPHHfi bear ihit? io mind. rhe Cemetery Aid Society has made ample preparations and are ftrepared to care for a large attendance on Friday evening. Oysters will be served in any style to suit your taste. Coffee, cake church ! t ' i '?c , l i t wi l1 constitute- part of the •bill of fare. A short literary program, 'consisting of recitations, readings and declamations, interspersed with music will be rendered before the supper hour! Don't forget the time and place. Friday evening, December 13, at the residence of J. V . Buck land W ilbur Lu-mber ('o., bill F. I.. Met)iuher. bill Street Commissioner, bill j Adam Ibsh Moved by Jlisten seconded by j worth, that the churches and j societies of the village be given the Use of I the City Hull.free of charge. | Ayes--,1 tidten, Wentworth, Nordquest, 1 Neisen. Nays--None. Moved by Nordquest and carried that th e w e l l a t t h e c o r n e r o f P a r k A v e n u e S P R I N G G R O V E . and Pearl Street be cleaned out and a The Pound Sociable, at Harry Peet's new wood pump put in. I was we" attended and a neat addition On motion board adjourned to nei t I waB made to the church fund. regular meeting. JOH.V I. STORY, President. who said she was badly in need of money, and had found the ticket among the ef­ fects of her husband, who died over twenty years ago. The broker gave her $1 for it. more out of charity than any­ thing else. and .later sold it to the trav­ eler. Brown and Bruner, who were indicted for violating the banking laws, gave bond at Metropolis in the sum of $7,200 each for appearance at the spring term of the Circuit Court. Rev. Mead II olmos. of Rockford. re­ ceived the plans from a Pittsburg firm for a building to take the place of the Mary Holmes seminary, which was burn­ ed at Jackson. Miss., last winter. The location of the new building has been changed to West Point. Miss., and it will cost $40,000. Mr. Holmes has a fund of over $30,000 on hand for rebuilding purposes. - A stranger, evidently a traveling man, committed suicide on Wabash train Xo. 4. He was on his way from St. Louis to Chi­ cago. Just as the train pulled out of Blue Mound he shot himself. There was nothing on his person to disclose his identity. Dr. Pindeil, a young physician of Cooksville, was taken to Bloomington, 'i>ei cent.; in Ohio. 1 per cent.; in Illi­ nois. 7 per cent.; and in \\ iscousin, 8 per cent, more land was set to potatoes. These additional areas, the result of the lower duty on tobacco, as well as the lower duty on potatoes, have forced tile price of the latter down to an un­ profitable ba-sis. Farmers will readily understand that proper protection for all crops is necessary to their success. Free trade in one farm product injures other products byf increasing the. area planted to other crops. • Sugar-Trust Kscapes. When Congress meets it will be natu­ ral for statesmen to inquire What has been done by the administration to­ ward enforcing the Gorman law as far as it affects the illegality of every com­ bination. /onspiracy. trust, agreement or contract. It will be.remembered that Senator Morgan introduced a series of resolutions, touching trusts, which were added to the bill. The penalty for vio­ lating this section of the law is a fine ranging from one hundred, to five thou­ sand dollars and imprisonment for a term varying from three to twelve months. The Attorney General was dl- nn, l id. uld hat eat ing un, lest oil . ind kes n ts nd. icy •ed re- the it. one rhe The ladies of the Aid Societv will have a sale at Woodman's Hall, Wednesday evening, Dec. 18. A fine supper will also j week for one keg planter reee-vv;-! bear just pushes right into the keg af­ ter the honey iu the end. and theispikes effectually prevent him from backing out. and all lie can do is roll around until he is tired, and then wait for the trap layer to come round. insane. Of late he has been giving con- rected to institute proceedings through stant study to religion and imagined he several district attorneys of the Uill- was the Messiah and that a friend of his t ed S ta tes Although Secretary Olney was J^n the Baptist. Wednesday morn- j sifted,-the responsibility of the At- ing heWaunced that Chicago was the S Generalship on to other slioul- New Jerusalem and he was at once taken 'xorue i u , 1 , . , . , in custody on the charge of Insanity iders, he is yet close enough to Was l g- He came from Missouri in May last- i *on to help explain how he has endeav- The Monster of the Century. The latest monster is claimed by Ger­ many. He is named Springstein, a blacksmith residing at Prenzlau. With­ in the past few months he has poisou- ed his wife, mother aiul brother-in-law. the lat tor's son, a governess, one of his apprentices, aud a neighbor's daughter. lie is also accused of drown­ ing his own father. His other victims were poisoned by the - administration of strychnine. Springstein's motive for the commission of these murders is not kndwn, and the general opinion seems to be that he is simply one of those exceptional monsters who appeal- from Time txrtime in the world's history. Too Much for Hint. "What do you think of me in my new costume, father?" asked the girl who was making her debut in bloomers. "I think," said the. oM gentleman as liis hand convulsively clutched a paper weight--"I think that ye're dressed fit ter kill." The world needs people Ayho will do right without first stopping to find out what others are going to do. Took the Hint. Clnpp was a shrewd detective and a most excellent judge of human nature, lie could tell a rogue, as far off as lie could a black man, and he never made mistakes. An instance of his readiness in read­ ing character occurred one morning in court. A case of considerable interest was being tried, aud the gallery was crowded with spectators. Two or three reporters were sitting near the door when Clapp, stooping over, whispered: "Don't all look at once, but please observe that nice-looking man with the white cravat in the front seat of the gallery in the middle." We looked. "Now," continued Clapp, 'Til send that man flying out of court on the double-quick in less than five minutes, yor will I leave the room or send him a message." While we were wondering how the ?eat was to be accomplished, the vet­ eran quickly beckoned to a police offi­ cer, and, taking a pair of handcuffs from bis pocket, directed the officer's attention to the party in tbe gallery, and apparently, gave him some direc­ tions. The man made bis way toward the door, and at the same instant the gen­ tleman with the white cravat bolted like lightning through the crowd to the door and disappeared. "Gentlemen," remarked Clapp. "I jiever saw that man before in my life." Speaking Up for Old Ireland. An English gentleman addicted to field sports arrived in Cork last au­ tumn, and engaged a car and driver to convey him to a vTtirrge some miles from the city. 611 the way the traveler re- anarked: "Ought to be a good country for game, eh ?" "Game is it. your honor?" was the reply. "Shure, there's oshins av it!" "Any snipe?" "Ay, is there! there's more snipe nor peelers, an' more peelers nor praties, an' that's sayiu' a good dale." "Plenty of pheasants and grouse, too, I suppose?" "Faith, there's no supposin' at all about it; there's millions av 'em--so there is!" Having proceeded some miles and not seeing a feather, the Englishman observed, sarcastically: "Il'in, yes; plenty of small game, but I don't think there are any phono­ graphs in these parts." "Arrah! don't be talkin"; shure, after a bit av a frost the whole counthry side, and more 'speshly the ploughed lan,' does b*e swarmin' wid them." Plants Thrive on a Meat Diet. It has been proven time and again that the so-called "cannibal plants," of which the Venus flytrap is the type, are much more healthy when allowed their regular insect food than they are when reared under netting or in any other manner which excludes them fiom their regular meat diet. The above is an oddity in itself, especially when we consider the fact that there is a certain school of botanists which teaches can­ nibal plants make no use whatever of .the insect prey capturcd by them, but it is nothing compared with the bold assertion made by Francis Darwin. That noted scientific gentleman bravely meets the "vegetarian botanists" with, the assertion that all kinds and classes of plants, whether known as "meat- eaters" or not, bear more ind heavier fruits and seeds when fed on meat than those that are not allowed a flesh diet, lie grew two lots, comprising various varieties of the different common plants. One lot was regularly fed (though, their roots of course) with pure juices compressed from meat, the other with water and the various fertilizers. The final figures on this odd experiment proved that the plants which were fed pure meat juice bore 108 fruits of the different kinds, while the unfed ' plants of ih number abd original condition bore but seventy-four. Also that the pampered plants bore 240 seeds to every 100 borne -by the plants-^that--were not given a chance to gratify cannibalistic tastes. This is certainly a discovery worthy of much careful study and extensive ex­ periment,--'St. Louis Republic. Russian Beggars. In Russia begging is jbst as much a recognized profession as the law or med­ icine, and many a skillful beggar has a much larger income at his command than a lawyer or a doctor. Russian beggars are organized upon scientific A Bow-and-Arrow Duel. Although the silly and wicked cus­ tom of dueling is still practiced in Ger­ many, France, and elsewhere, it has been extinct in the United Kingdom for perhaps half a century. The two fighters generally used swords, or pis­ tols, but there is on record a case in which two mini met in the Meadows at Edinburgh, on the 10th of February, 17'Jl, to satisfy their "wounded honor" with bows and arrows. Each combat­ ant had a second, but there was only one sufgeon between the two. After firing three shots, apiece without hit­ ting anything in particular excepting Mother Earth, the two archers parted, their honor, no doubt, being greatly the better for the pleasing pastime. Still, the Scotsmen were shrewd and canny enough to choose weapons that gave both of them a very fair chance of coming out of the encounter un­ harmed, whatever might have hap­ pened to a mere onlooker or even a passer-by. h Suicide of a Wasp. A short time ago M. Henry, a French­ man, being curious to see the effects of benzine on a wasp, put some of it under a glass in which a wasp was imprison­ ed. The wasp immediately showed signs of great annoyance and anger, darting at a piece of paper which had introduced the benzine into his cell. By and by he seems to have given up the unequal contest in despair, for he lay down on his back and, bending up his abdomen, planted his sting twice into his body and then died. M. Henry allowed his scientific interest to over­ come his humanity so far as to repeat the experiment with three wasps, only to find that the other two did likewise. He is therefore of the opinion that wasps under desperate "circumstances same-1 commit suicide. Tho Crank. The word "crank" is frequently used. Its origin may not be generally known. The cranke was one or the rogues and vagabonds of Shakspeare's time. It was tbe character nattie of one who feigned the falling sickness. DESERT OSTRICH FARMS. Rearing the Giant Birds Among the . Sands of Sahara. 1 A writer in La Revue Seientifique suggests that the French Sahara, upon the southern edge of Algeria, may be profitably used for the breeding of os­ triches. The Barbary ostrich was once greatly prized for its plumage, aud the ostrich feather houses of Paris made their reputation by the curling of these plumes. The wild Barbary ostrich is nearh^extinct, so that there are no mora plumes of the sort to be had. and the rarte«ui houses have lost their .mo­ nopoly of ostrich feather curling, in­ deed, a large portion of the business has been transferred to other countries, no­ tably the United States. It is estimat­ ed that the world uses annually about $20,000,000 worth of ostrich plumes, and the writer in La Revue Scientifique says that in view of the early adoption of the European dress in the East, es­ pecially in China and Japan, the de­ mand for this sort of personal adorn­ ment is likely to increase. He urges, too, that the increased use of ostrich feathers throughout the civilized world is likely to protect other birds of line plumage from destruction, and lie calls upon the various societies interested in the protection of such birds to aid in making ostrich plumes njore fashiona­ ble ' than ever. ( • -M It is believed that there are now in^ south Africa at least 350,000 ostriches, domesticated and bred for their plum­ age, and the writer says that there ia no reason why northern Africa should not become quite as important a region in this industry. The Sahara, it is ex­ plained, is by no means the exclusively arid and sandy waste that the populfu imagination makes it. The oslrich cannot exist in the absolutely dry por­ tions of the Sahara, but there are large areas which are not, properly speaking, oases, but they do produce considera­ ble vegetation. It is upon these areas that the French people are urged to undertake ostrich farming. There have been two or three unsuccessful experi­ ments to this end in Algeria upon the edge of the desert, but they have fail­ ed for reasons that would not necessi­ tate failure in other parts of the desert. It is true, the writer admits, that the Sahara can probably never maintain a large European population, but he notes that it is the oases and not the less fertile parts of the desert that are particularly unwholesome for Euro­ peans. He believes there is a large field for immigration in parts of the French Sahara that are suitable for ostrich farming, and urges that the War De­ partment should aid in establishing the Industry; that the natives could be di­ rected by French immigrants and Paris could recover something like her mo­ nopoly of the ostrich curling business. He points out that 30,000 Frenchmen emigrate to America every year, and thinks that some of these might profit­ ably be induced to settle in nort'ietn Africa. Au Odd Injury. Russell Daggett, of Lewiston. Me., was in the United States navy during the war, and a block fell from a rigging one day and knocked his right arm out of place at the shoulder. Since then the arm has troubled him exceedingly. It will slip out of place at t|ie slightest provocation. One day recently a lot of boys got Into his orchard and were stealing his fruit when he saw them, and gave chase. Stepping into a hole, he fell, and in falling tried to save his weak arm by falling on the other, but for the first time in hiss life the left arm was thrown out at the shoulder just as the other one had been. He had it set and ia doing well. Consolation. ghe--"I really don't thiuk I shall take part again in theatricals; I always feel as though I were making a fool of my­ self." He--"Oh. everybody thinks that!"-- Pick-Me-Up. A Practical View of It. > "How intense are the fire's of love!'* ejaculated the poet. "Yes," answered the father of six marriageable daughters: "but they do fake an awful lot of coal." Peary Speaks the Eskimo Tongue. Lieut. Peary litis learned to speak the Eskimo language with all the ease of a native. It is.almost as easy to reach the north pole as to acquire that tongue. On the Way. "Is my article iu the soup?" inquired the good-natured litterateur. "Not yet," replied the editor, "but I'm golug to boil it down pretty soon.** ---London Tid-Bits. _ . « An article in a contemporary 1$ enti­ tled, "Why Editors are Rich." It ia Even a dead duck can claim that he because they give a five-dollar puff wltfe died game. a fifty-cent advertisement.