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The Prohibition party at their stale con
Tcntion at Blootnington last week, raised
$2,500 for campain purposes. The .we
RiiiHtr suggests that " that amount of mon
ey will buy a good many drinks.
Roscoe Conkling has given the Republi
cans a greater "shock" than they exper
ienced when George William Curtis bolted
I31aine-he (that Is, Conkling) has gone
and joined the Manhattan Club, an exclu
sively Democratic organization.
The long threatened resignation of
Judge Drummoned as Judge of the U. S.
Circuit Court for the states of Illinois,
Wisconsin and Indiana, has formally been
forwarded to the President, to take effect
July 1. It Is understood that Postmaster
General Greshum has the promise of his
p'ace.
Senator Sabin's bar'l having collapsed,
the Republican party had no further use for
hira as chairman of their national committee,
and met in New York on Thursday and put
T. B. Jones, a wealthy Pittsburg iron-manu
facturer, in his place. The latter having ac
cumulated several millions through republi.
can tariff legislation, the party expect him
to disgorge a part of it for the good of the
part7'
The National Convention of the " Ameri
can Party'' (Prohibitionists) at Chicago last
Saturday, nominated Ex-Senator S. C. Pome
roy, of Kansas, as their candidate for Presi
dent and J. A. Conant, of Conn., for Vice
President. Pomeroy made some reputation
a few years ago in connection with an at
tempt to buy up the Kansas legislature to
return him to the U. S. Senate, but how that
fiasco should fit him to make a successful
presidential campaign is not entirely clear.
Judge Lynch gave a hanging bee at
Vlncennes, Ind., all the details being exe
cuted with "neatness and dispatch." A
man named Oliver Canfleld, a few weeks
ago, had quarrelled with his sweetheart, an
engaging and popular young widow,
known as Mrs. Mollie Gherkins, nnd In a
fit of jealousy shot her dead. On Tuesday
night a mob of about fifty people went to
the jail where Canfleld was confined, bat
tered down the door with a rail torn from
the railroad truck, took him out and
hanged him to a telegraph pole.
Ami now comes a very confident report
from Washington, to the effect that Ran
dall, Morrison and Tucker are engaged In
framing a tariff bill, making reductions in
the tariff on which all can agree, and cut
tlug down the revenues ulxnit $50,000,000.
The plan is to pass it through the House
under a suspension of the rules. And It Is
added, "Should they agree on something
satisfactory to lwth wings of the Democrat
ic party, it is not improbable Ihey may be
successful, for there Is a strong feeling
among Republicans of the Northwest In
favor of a reduction."
The gas bag of another of the great New
York millionaires has been pricked. Com
modorc ('. K. Garrison, classed with llould
and Vaiidcrbilt as a railroad king and re
ported to be worth $'20,000,000, has been
compelled to make an assignment, and prom
ises to come out. like Henry Villard, with
considerably less than nothing. It don't
take much ready money, but an enormous
amount of cheek, to become the owner of
520,000,000 of railroad stocks in Wall street,
but any attempt to realize on them generally
proves disastrous. The next big gas bag to
be pricked will probably be that of Jay
Gould.
The Washington dispatches mention the
death in that city on Tuesday of Gen. Ward
B. Burnett, who is still remembered by a few
of our older citiiens as at on time a resident
of Ottawa, while employed (from 18.18 to
1841) as an engineer on the Illinois and
Michigan. Canal. He had graduated from
West I'oint in 1882 but resigned from the
army in 1836. He had served in the Black-
hawk war; returned to the army during the
Mexican war and distineuished himself in
the battles of Vera Cru, Cerro Gordo and
Cburubusco. Afterwards he was placed in
charge of the Philadelphia navy yard and
served in other responsible government po
sitions. The attempt of the Republican? to
' whistle down the wind" the Claim liolt
In Connecticut as a small affair won't do In
the face of the facts disclosed by the cull
of the meeting of the bolters Issued last
Saturday. It is signed by 150 of the lead.
Ine Republican resident of New Haven,
including Simon E. Baldwin, the leading
lawyer of the city; Prof. Win. O. Sumner,
Ell Whitney, jr., Prof. Henry W. Fanmm
J. li. Sargent, the Hev. Dr. Edwin liar
wood, the Rev. T. R. Racon, the Rev. Geo.
P. Disher. the Rev. Stewart Means, and
Prof. James Dana
The movement Is declared to have the
countenance of President Noah Porter of
Yale College and a largo number of other
citizens who for personal and business rea
sons have not signed the call.
AFTER JAM WHEELER.
Among the most serviceable and efficient
party managers the Republicans have hud in
this state for years was Jake Wheeler, U. S
Marshal at Springfield. He was not only a
Stephen W. Dorsey in a small way himself,
but had a corps of deputies who were nppar
ently equally adept and unscrupulous in the
management of an election from that of a
city ward up to a congressional district
Jake not only had plenty of brass and cun
ning, but always seemed to have plenty of
money, the lavish use of which made him a
power auiuiis the bovs. So serviceable had
he made himself in particular to John A
Logan and Shelby M. Cullom in promoting
their election to the senate that they decided
a man of such remarkable capabilities as a
hummer and a striker deserved to be re
warded, and they had him promoted from
the marshalship to the still more responsible
and lucrative position of Internal Revenue
Collector for Central Illinois. The district
includes the biggest distilleries in the state
and involves the handling of millions of
money.
But in the course of the raousings of the
Springer committee at Washington through
the purlieus of the Department of Justice,
the brilliant career of Marshal Wheeler at
traded suspicious attention, and it was de
cided to put Inspecter Bowman upon his
track. An investigation was accordingly
instituted and a very superficial examina
tion was sufficient to demonstrate to Mr.
Bowman that the Marshal's office under Jake's
management recked with rottonness. Steal
ing seemed to be the order from the word
go stealing right and left stealing all
around. Says Mr. Bowman in his report:
" We found the books of Mr. Wheeler full
of ficticious and fraudulent charges for scr
vices never performed. The accounts exam
ined by us contained charges against the
United States for mileage never traveled,
transportation of prisoners when none were
transferred, expenses charged for endeavor
ine to arrest when no expenses were incurred,
charges for guards when no guards were
employed or used, subsistence of prisoners
when none was furnished, attendance of
deputies and guards at preliminay examina
tions before United States commissioners
when the alleged deputy or guard did not
attend and when there was no necessity for
their attendance, and charges for committing
prisoners when they were not committed.''
The stealings perpetrated in this way dur
ing the four years of Mr. Wheeler's service
foot up as far as ascertained, to the enor.
mouB figures of $215,2221 with half the
district yet to hear from I
The Chicago Journal, in speaking of the
case, says: " I his, we believe is the nrst
instance of official malfeasanco that has
come to light In Illinois since the Republican
party has been in power, and so prompt and
vigorous should be the treatment of the case
that a rcpititlon would not be likely ever to
occur. J he memory of the Journal is a
marvel for faultiness. To say nothing of the
enormous distillery frauds unearthed at
Springfield, Pekin, &c., a few years ago,
which created such a stench at the time, the
Journal forgets that no longer ago than last
January the Springer committee, through
Mr. Haight as special examiner, unearthed
some startling frauds in the office of the
Clerk of the U. S. Court at Springfield ; the
substance of the disclosures being that the
clerk of that court, Mr. Bowen (deceased),
was a defaulter in about $13,000. Bowen
refused or neglected to comply with the law,
which required him to make semi-annual
emolument returns. His bondsmen are lia
ble for his defalcations to the extent of their
bund, but as yet the department has not
taken any action to recover.
CHOLERA.
Tuesday's cuble reports from France
bring accounts of the sudden outbreak of
the cholera at Toulon, one of the principal
French ports oh the Medlteranean. The
first case occurred June 4th, but since then
the disease bus spread until It has become
epidemic, fifty deaths having occurred
from Saturday to Monday. The weulthy
people have commenced leaving the city,
the hegira on Sunday nnd Monday amount
ing to seven thousand. The filthlness of
the older portion of the town, owing to Its
defective drainage and the habits of the low
er orders of Toulonals, Is the primary cause
of the epidemic. The Ministry of Com
merce having investigated the mutter, has
issued a notice that the cholera nt Toulon
is sjioriulic ami not Asiatic, that it Is due to
local infectlou, and, therefore, Is confined
to the place of It.s origin. Still, the utmost
uneasiness on the subject prevails.
The bill to grant pensions to the surviving
soldiers of the Mexican war or their widows,
which had previously passed the house,
passed the U. S. Senate on Thursday, but so
amended that Senator Williams, of Ky., who
had warmly supported the house bill, voted
against it, declaring that the senate had killed
it. The chief amendment was that proposed by
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, limiting the peu
sicu to Mexican Soldiers over i2 years of
age, or subject to some disability "recog
nized by the geueril pension laws of the U.
S.," and providing pensions for "invalid
soldiers and sailors who have been dis
charged from the army or navy of the L'nited
Slates after three months' service in the war
of the rebellion, and for the widows and de
pendent parents of deceased pensioners.''
The upshot of it is, that as amended the
scope of the bill Is so enlarged that of couree
the house will reject the amendments ami
thereby kill the bill, and the Mexican veter
ans can thank our Illinois Senator, Shelby
M. Cullom, for it.
BLAINE AND THE IRI8H.
There is some absurd talk in the Republi
can nowspapers about a threatened stampede
among the Irish voters in favor of Blaine.
The notion they think has seized the Irish
that Blaine, if elected President, will pursue
the same reckless, tiarum scarum system of
diplomncy that ho tried to inaugurate tow
ards the South American Republics during
his brief secretaryship under Garfield, and
that thus he will embroil this country with
Knglandand give Ireland her "opportunity."
The report having been mentioned to Sen
ator McDonald, of Ind., by a newspaper
reporter, that gentleman, m repiy to me
question " Will Blaine be strong with the
Irish?" replied:
"Not when his political history is fully
written and thoroualy understood. The cry
you hear now is the first hurrah, but voters,
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especially lnsii voters, win uegiu tosiuuy ms
record soon and then tney win see now
baseless are the claims on which he appeals
to their suffrages. You must remember that
he was secretary of slate for over a year,
and was the man who appointed James Rus
sel Lowell minister to England. While he was
secretary an 4 Lowell minister was the time
when the most flagrant cases of American
citizens being arrested in Ireland as 'sus
pects' was occurring, and yet he never did
a thing to help them or enable them to se
cure their rights. I remember one case in
particular. An American citizen named
McSwecny, a resident of San Francisco, went
to Ireland for his health. He took with him
his family, with the exception of two elder
chilrdren, and was quietly living in tue
country. He was arrested as a 'suspect,
denied all riant of trial, and confined sixteen
months in jail without any semblance or a
heannir. He annealed to Minister Lowell
and got no redress ; ho then wrote to Blaine
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with no better success, ana men nis wue
wrote Blaine a letter imploring him to help
her unfortunate husband. He never an
swered her letter. McSweeney's sons, how
ever, interested their California friends in
their father s case, and the congressional
lelciration from that state brought influence
enough to bear upon Secretary Blaine to
have him inquire into the case i get Mc
Swecny released. Yet there is a United
Stales statute which is strongly mandatory
upon the secretary, and commands him in
express language to inquire into the reason
of the arrest of any American citizen con
fined in a foreign prison, and, if he is satis
fied that the imprisonment is illegal, to
lemand his release."
But it is said Blaine's mother was a Cath
olic and he was raised in that faith, which
makes the Irish feel friendly towards him.
Blaine was raised a Catholic but became an
apostate from the faith, because the Congre
gaiionalists were in the majority in the Maine
town where he located. He must have been
devoted to his first religious convictions
truly to cast them off so lightly !
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS.
The Ohio Democrats held their state con
vention on Wednesday. Delegates to the
Chicago convention were appointed and a
state ticket nominated. The delegated at
large are Gen. Durbin Ward, John R. Mc
Lean, A. G. Thurman and Jacob Mueller.
The convention expressed no preference for
presidential candidate, except that it favored
the nomination of a western man, a majority
of the delegates being in favor ef Thurman.
The only feature of the platform worthy of
note was the re-affirmance of the well known
Ohio resolution " in favor of ' a tariff for
revenue limited to the necessities of the Gov
ernment economically administered, and so
djusted in its applications as to prevent un
equal burdens, encourage productive Indus
tries at home, afford just compensation to
labor, but not to create or foster monopolies."
The State ticket was named as follows :
Secretary of State James W. Newman, of
ortsmouth, renominated.
Supreme Judge C. D. Martin, of Lancas
ter.
Member of tho Board of Public Works-
John H. Beufer, of Tuscarawas.
The Indiana Democrats held their state
convenlion on the same nay, over wnicn
Senator Voorhecs presided. Hon. Thos. A.
Hendricks was placed at the head of the del
egation to the Chicago convention, with D.
W. Voorhees. Robert C. Bell and Charles
Dauby as the other delegates at large. The
delegation is Instructed to be unanimous for
the nomination of McDonald for the prcsi-
lency. Isaac D. Gray was nominated for
Governor, Gen. M. D. Munson lor Lieut.
Governor, W. R. Meyers for Secretary of
State, James H. Rico for Auditor and John
J.Cooper for Slate Treasurer. The 'state
ticket is regardod as a very strong one and
no doubt is entertained of its election.
The Missouri Democratio Convention on
the same day elected John ()' Day, Morrison
Munford, D. R. Francis, and Charles H.
Mansur delegates nt large to the Democratic
National Convention. The delegates at large
and the district delegates are understood to
be in favor of Cleveland for President.
The Rhode Island Democratio State Con.
ventioti on the same day elected delegates to
the Chicago convention in favor of Cleveland
with Bayard as second choice.
The North Carolina Democrats, same day,
eleoted a delegation to the Chicago conven
tion, said to te equally divided between
Bayard and Cleveland.
UNCLE SAM'S BALANCE SHEET.
June 30th is the day to which all Uncle
Sum's financial operations for the year are
fooled up, and then a balance is struck.
Most of the footings having already been
made, the busy Washington correspondents
are giving them to the public in advance of
their regular publication. They show Uncle
Sum's affairs to be in a fairly satisfactory
condition. The decrease in the public debt
during the year has been about $100,000,-
000, against $l37,OO0,0iHI for the preceding
year. This laves the outstanding debt at
present $1,240,000,000. Of (his, $240,000,
000 draws interest at 3 per cent., $250,000.-
(MM) at 4i ner cent., and S737.0tlO,00(l at 4
" 4 I
per cent., making our annual interest charge
now !? IT.OCO.OCO.
The exports for the year have been about
725,00,sto and the importations about
f 605,000,000, showing a balance of ?00,OUO,
OOO in favor of this country for the year's
commerce, against $!0,OOO,OOO in the pre
ceding year. The efforts of the last Con
gress to reduce the revenue of the Govern
ment are shown to have been, as the Demo
crats predicted, a sham, as the receipts from
customs for the year foot up over $190,000,
000 against 198,OOO.t)00 for the preceding
year, the falling off being more than account
ed for by the general decrease in the bust
ness of the country, and having really noih
ingto do with the tariffchanges. The inter
nal revenue receipts, however, show the
effect of a real lax reduction of $15,000,000,
being $125,000,000 against $140,000,000 last
year.
The full year's receipts were about f.'I'iO,-
000,000; expenditures about $250,000,000;
leaving $100,000,000, which has been used
in the payment of the public debt.
There has been no such falling off in the
exportation of grain, meats, &c, as people
were lead to believe by the reports of the
speculators there would be. Fortheyear the
exports of wheat were about $75,000,000 in
value against $115,000,0tKJ for the preceding
year ; but in corn the exports were $30,000,
000 against $26,000,000 for the previous
year, while flour shows a small increase, be
ing $53,000,000 against $50,000,(00. Cotton
shows a falling off, being $220,000,000
against $250,000,000 : but the hog product,
in spite of the opposition from abroad, fully
equals the export of last year, bacon running
up to above $30,000,000. Of lard, the total
is within a million or two of last year.
The case of Judge Pillsbury, who was
seriously wouuded on the Alton accommo
dation about a year ago, by striking mill
men from the Bridgeport works, occupied
several duys In the Will county circuit
court last week nnd wits closed Saturday.
The claim of the plaintiff wits for $25,000
damages, and the jury rendered a verdict
for half that amount, $12,500. As usual, a
lengthened contest Is In store for the par
ties, the Alton company, through its attor
neys, entering at once a motion for a new
trial, and as that will probably be denied,
the case will go to the Supreme Court,
where it will be "reversed and remanded"
for new trial ; to be followed by another
verdict for plaintiff, another appeal, &c,
&c, until, wearied and disgusted, the
plaintiff is willing to "settle" for less than
the litigation has cost him. The railroad
monopolists generally " come . down "
promptly and gracefully enough when the
case against them is plain nnd palpable;
but when they have a fighting case they
fight to the bitter end, and it takes " grit "
as well as money to meet them.
Libby Bros. & Co. have just delivered in
Chicago 14 head of half-blood Hereford bulls,
11 to 13 months old, at $80 per head. These,
with ten head more, were started for western
Colorado, away out In the Rockies. I he
party that bought them wanted another car
load, but they could not be fouud. They
were so well pleased with the lot of Libby
Bros. & Co. that they offered to contract their
this season's yield of half-blood calves, to be
taken In October, at f5 per head, or 50 head,
f they could be furnished; but the Libby 's
refused the offur.
County Uossip,
Dogs have their day, and eats their night,"
For so the proverb reads;
Bxt skeetcrs all the summer bite,
Where'er their fancy leads.
Hp. txissessed that real, genuine, Spartan .
Integrity which never permitted falsehood
to touch his lips. Ex.
As the Spartans were notorious liars, the
compliment Is rather left handed.
PeruraM: "The Streutor candidate
for congress who believes that "the office
should seek the man" is now traveling
through the county calling on every cross
roads politician presumably for the pur
pose of confidentially informing the dear
people that he 'will make no effort to se
cure the nomination.' "
The Streator Free Pre Is horritiQ to
know that "Cullen's forces are scouring
the county in behalf of that puny states
man. A gentleman coming down from
Chicago one night recently saw one of Cul
len's emissaries, the Ottawa postmaster,
get on nt one station, Cullen's son at anoth
er, and the foreman of his printing ofilce at
another, all between Ottawa and Milling-
ton. It is refreshing, however, to know
tin outside of the immediate family and
employes nolmdy is working very heartily
for Cullen."
Messrs. Joseph F. Titus, assistant audi
tor of the Illinois Central, Thos. Dorwin,
northern passenger agent, II. R. Vnnder
cook, of the Vaudercook Engraving and
Publishing company, and Louis Gosselin,
artist, visited the city last week In pursu
ance of the Illinois Central's plan of lxxim
nknkeft as a summer resort. In
company with a considerable party of cit
izens the visitors made a trip up the river
on the steamer, the artist taking a number
of views which are to be incorporated in
an illustrated work devoted entirly to this
city unquestionably the prettiest town on
the line of the Central from Chicago to
New Orleans. Kankakee Gazrtte.
We have often wondered why the C, B,
& Q. road has never adopted a similar
scheme with regard to Jttawa and her i ox
River Line. No road In Illinois runs
through a finer stretch of country than the
Fox River branch. From Aurora to Otta
wa is one succession of handsom views.
especially so from Sheridan to Ottawa.
Theu too the natural point from which to
reach Starved Rk, Deer Park, the can
yons, etc., is Ottawa, lieing the only town
in the county in which proper conveyances
for large or small parties can be had by the
general public. The Sunlcula Springs, at
Ottawa, could be mentioned with effect, anil
were regular excursion offered by the road
and suitable advertising done by it, it is
more than likely the many other valuable
springs in the Illinois Valley and Deer
Park would be made accessible to the pub
lic. Now It Is not solely a matter of local
editorial brag, Irit Hn admitted fact, that no
part of Illinois offers anything approach
lug Ottawa as it local summer resort. 1111
nols can never be a summer resort state in
the proper sense of the word, but this 1m
mediate part of La Salle county can be
uiiule very attractive to that vast army of
people In Chicago who can "summer re
sort" only on Sundays, who like to take a
run Into the country for a dav or two to
some place where expenses will not eat up
u mouth's salary, and where there is some
thing else than a hot country town to be
seen and enjoyed, and where hotels are
comfortable and where a respectable meul
of victuals cun be eaten.
"My Lord of Ely, when I was last In Hol
born, I saw good strawberries In your gnr
den there;
I do beseech you, send for some of
tliem"
quoth Richard III. to the Bishop. The
strawberry is, alas I a retrospect now. The
lust berries of the crop are in the market,
puny little fellows that offer an apology for
being. Yet the crop has been a geuerous
one, uud from first to lust berries have been
plenty and cheap, rich and poor have had
their fill of them. And what a delicious
luxury. Too many goxl things cannot be
said of the strawberry. It Is the queen of
fruit, delicious to eat and wholesome. Fow
tenelle attributes to them his longevity;
Llnnaus says he kept himself frun the
gout by eating plentifully of them. One
enthusiast Insists that they will cure even
consumption: and they are said to be good
even for the teeth. Fancy strawberries and
cream as a prescription ! Half the world
would be hunting a doctor on the appear
ance of the first berry of the season ; oj,
rather, would follow the example of the
Italian poet:
For my part, I confess I fairly swell
And stuff myself with strawberries; and abuse
The doctors all the while, draught, powder
and pill;
And wonder how any sane head can choose
To have their nauseous jalaps and their bill;
All which, like so much poison, I refuse. .
(!ive me a glut of strawberries; and, lo!
Sweet through my blood and very bones, they
go.
"The best strawberry," says some one,
"Is the strawberry of memory" one picked
In the June of life, "when the strawberries
seemed like red heavens" the Impossible
berry. The next best Is the strawberry from
tine's own garden, picked when the dew of
the morning has just vanished, large, rich
and perfect In form and flavor the possible
berry. The last Is the market berry .
. . the actual berry.
But any strawberry may be hard to get
at times. The story Is told of a landlady of
an Ohio town who was rather slow to set
the dainty dish before her boarders; but
who one night took their breath away by
placing a glass dish of the long hoped for
luxury on the table. Though the dish was
rather small the boarders saved a large
place for them, and were soon ready for
the dessert. With a teaspoon the landlady
commenced to put a few a very few of
the berries in small dishes for the expect
ant persons around the table, probably not
more than twelve strawberries being each
one's allowance, which were soon eaten.
Silence reigned supreme, when all at once
a great big bashful boy who had had very
little to say In the family conversation be
fore, suddenly looked up and said, "Mam,
will ye please give me just one more berry
if it ain't askln' too much ?" There was
an explosion at the table ; but the boy was
voted a medal.
Then there was the man who sat down
to a Texas hotel table and ordered straw
berries in April. They came, and also a
bill, at $1 per berry I There werethe us
ual Texan expletives and a protest that he
had lived all his life in Texas and never
had heard of such a thing I "Oh, you live
in Texas?" said the apologizing waiter.
"Well, that's another thing. They're only
ten cents a quart now, so I guess you need
n't have a bill of them I"
The agricultural papers are now, or
were, a fortnight ago, full of directions for
growing strawberries. We presume the
man of Ohio (Ohio always looms up quad
riennlally) who says he had them measur
ing seven inches in circumference, take
em as they run In a bushel measure, has a
way of growing them. Aren t strawber
ries like oysters the small ones the best
in flavor? It Is safe to say, though, that
if one were to follow all the "successful
ways" of growing them he wouldn't have
many berries!
When one lias a 50 ft. lot, however, al
most any suggestion will be taken kindly,
so here's one for a small plantation. All
the ground needed Is a barrel full of good
soil. I lore the sides of the barrel full of
holes and plant the roots through the holes!
It's a sure thing! And so economical
of ground! And so sure of a crop. When
a frost threatens you can take your whole
crop Into the house. Or at tea time un
"economical" housewife can set the vines
down nt her elbow and pick as she serves
keep company with the joet3 and sages
by having flowers at the table I There
are many advantages, you see, for the
straw berry grower can sleep o' nights, sure
tiuit unit her frosts nor small boys can rob
him of the fruits of his labor.
The scheme Is excellent. Every house
holder thus has his own strawberry patch,
and can carry it along with him when he
moves. Like the ioor, it is always with
him. It must be this is the traditional vine
and fig tree. he can place It on his kitch
en or jvirlor table and sit down in the shad
ow of its branches. The strawberry barrel
becomes a household god the modern
lares nnd nenaie . Its fruit sw eetens the
stomachs of his little ones.it drives away
his gout and his hyixx hondrla, and grant
him length of days. And when In hi sold
age, his children's marriage bell rings out
Its joyful sound, l.e may, with a big, glad
neart, make his blessing to rhyme with
that same Italian, who sang:
Around this lovely pair may joy serene
On wings of balm for ever wind and play;
And liiughing health her roi-a shake between.
Making their life one long, sweet, riowery
way!
May bliss, true bliss, pure, self possessed of
mien,
Re absent from their sido, no, not a day!
In short, Ui sum up nil that earth can prize,
May they have sugar to their strawberries!
A religious weekly tells "how to keep
from going to sleep In church." (ine way
is to change your minister; but the most
effective way Is to go fishing In the morn
ing and remain hotne.at night to rest.
"How fresh you look this evening," said
a young man to his best girl. She quickly
put her hand up to her face and blushed
through the paint as she replied: "I de
clare ! I thought I had given It time to
dry."
BuckUm's Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in ilm world fwr C'nts, Krnis
s, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Hlirmn, Fever Sores,
Tetter, Chapped Hands, Uillblulii, Corns uud
11 Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles,
Dr no pay required. It is iriuinuitucd to irivo
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sulo by Lutz &
Briggs.
Vicinity Items.
A census of the city of Kankakee, 111.,
shows a total population of 6,541 being
about 1,000 more than 1880.
Work is progressing rapidly on the new
Chicago, llurlington & Quincy railway grade
between Sandwich, 111., nnd Leland.
The Streator glass works had a narrow es
cape from fire on Friday of last week, the
floor joist taking fire. It was promptly ex
tinguished. Mrs. Dr. Prntt, of Elgin, caught a U.pound
bass at Fox Lake the other day, which the
Courier pronounced the largest of the seasen.
The city council of Sycamore has voted to
lay down 10,000 square feet of asphalt side
walk this year in that city at a cost of 7 cts.
per foot.
During the thunder storm on Monday eve
ning a team belonging to Thomas Wolf, liv
ingn ear Blacktdone, was instantly killed and
his son knocked insensible.
On Tuesday night last a fire broke out in
John Stuart's barn, Tcru, which communica
ted with that of John Franca. Both were
destroyed, as were a team of horses and a
cow. Loss $3,000.
The improvements of the bottle works at
Streator are nrarly complete nnd include an
addition to the building, an enlargement of
the gas furnace, and other changes which
double the capacity of the works.
The miners and operaters of La Salle have
settled on the prices for mining for the next
year at the rale of 90 cents per ton for
screened coal of tho third vein. This is
about five cents lower than last year.
During the storm Tuesday afternoon the
lightning struck the central chimney of Jae.
Condren's new house in Streator nnd tore
the chimney nearly down to the roof. The
bricks were widely scattered but nothing
was damaged inside except by soot and
ashes.
F. M. Myer's recent public sale of Jerseys
at Wenona did not bring out very many buy
ers. Only four cows were sold, which, with
two sold at private sale a day or two before,
netted hira $458. Mr. Myers is not at all
discouraged, but later on will have another
sale, being satisfied that under more favor
able circumstances he can bring out a host
of buyers.
A defective connection to the wire of an
electric lamp at Joliet permitted it to come
against the iron front of the building and the
whole iron work of the building became so
strongly electrified that whoever touched it
received a severe shock. A bit of copper
wire stuck in a hole of one of the iron col
umns became an electric lamp until the wire
was melted.
The Mendota Water Works for fire pur
poses are finished It was tested on Monday
week. A hose being attached to the furthest
eastern hydrant, the pressure was turned on
and all inch stream was thrown to a height
of between 60 and 70 feet perpendicularly,
and over 100 feet horisontally, without any
engine, and solely by the ordinary steam
pressure from the C, B. & Q. tank steam
pump, over 1 ,200 feet from the hydrant used.
La Salle Timer. The window house of the
jrlass factory will close down next Saturday
for the present season, and it is rumoreu,
with a strong probability, that it will not
open up again next season. Messrs. Davis '
& Wright who have been running the win
dow house, have been hampered in such a
way and so disguted with the former owners
of the place that it is doubtfull if they will
touch it again. This is how the industries
of La Salle are ruined and not by lack of
prosperity.
The Mendota Comtreeational church has
been transferred to the possession of the
Mendota Turnvercin, who will remove tne
biiildinir to their lots on Washington street,
adjoining the Public Library, without delay.
The church will be utilized as the rear part
of their new hall, it being the intention to
build on about 80 fen, nmking a handsome
front. The building will theu have a length
of 80 feet nnd a width of 40, sufficiently large,
to meet all demands. When finished it will
add another attractive addition to to the
public edifices of the city.
"Wenona Index: On Tuesday a tarn on J.
D. Fyffe's farm, tworai'es north of town, was
struck nnd set on fire. Fortunately one of
Isaac Vanlforn's boys had just returned
from the field and discovered the fire in time
to extinguish it before any particular dam
age was done. The Climax school house,
near Evan, was also struck. The children
and teacher. Miss Ryder, of this city, were
in the building at the time. The casing
around the door was torn loose and the build
ing otherwise slightly damaged, but the in
mates all escaped with but a slight shock."
Wenona index, 26th : "The oldest Inhabi
tant's memory fails to run back to the lime
when there was such a rain a that of Tues
day. Milt Bayne says a tin can six inches
high, setting on his gate post, wag rained
full, and on that account he is led to believe
the rainfall was at least six inches. Milt has
been in Kansas considerably, and may not
be thoroughly reliable, but the balance of his
family vouch for the story, and it is undoubt
ly correct. In Wenona the streets were one
broad sheet of water, and the surrounding
country was in a similar condition. Between
here and Streator the flat ground was almost
covered with water for a short time. Wen
of town a short distance the rainfall was not
so heavy. The sloughs and creeks were all
booming yesterday, and many feared con
siderable loss by washing, damage to bridges,
fences, etc."
William How. the first settler is what is