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THE CONDITION OF CROPS.
This Period of Cold Has Proved Very Unfavorable to Growing Crops and Much Injury Has Kesulted 1'roin I'rosts
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Washington, May 15.—The weather bureau, in its regular weekly report weather crop conditions, says: The great feature of rlie week was the remarkably cool wave, which overspread nearly the whole of the country cast of the Rocky mountains 011 the lltli and 1 12th. was attended hy freezing weather I iti rlie northern slates and .rost as far as the Ohio valley and western I pm ion of Sinnii 'arolina. Tins period of cold has proved very unfavorable to growing crops and much injury has vesuited from frosi's throughout the nurthera portions of the country.
The. line of freezing temperature extends from western Montana soutiieastward to western Nebraska, thence northward to southern North Dakota and thence eastward through the southem portions of Minnesota, Wisconsin and ichigun, norl: hoastoru Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania to western New York, the lowest temperature within the United States being about 10 degrees below freezing over the extreme northern portions of Minnesota, and Monrana.
The following special telegrams were received by the weather bureau from the various state weather services and are based upou 11 ore than 10,000 special reports:
New York—Ithaca—Until Saturday, 11th, very hot: irregular showers: vegetation far in advance all conditions favorable, except in southeastern portion, where crops are! suffering from drouth: heavy thunderstorms, with hail, Saturday afternoon caused great damage to fruits and nurseries near Rochester: killing frosts in portions of Niagara and Chautauqua counties great damage to grapes and peaches elsewheie no damage reported.
Tennessee—Nashville Light frost, but no serious "damage on the Kith, heavy frost the 14th, too late to learn extent of damages crops of all kinds nicely: cotton and corn being worked cutworms still destructive-to corn and tobacco.
K(-mucky—Lmisvilie—Pirst 1 mlf of week clear and warm last half cold, cloudy and showery slight damage from frost 12tli and Pith, but serious injury proi
ibie from killing frosts of the 14th. Missouri—Columbia Much wheat damaged by drouth and chinch bugs in central and western andbyliy in southern sections damage by frost slight.
Illinois- Chicago Frost damage slight in southern portion, but in northern counties corn, fruit anil garden truck greatly .damaged first of week very hot, then very cold rainfall plentiful in north and .west: half, but much needed in southern portion strawberries being marketed in son 1 hern portion, large yield, excellent ijuality wheat, lye. oats, sprouting corn and clover injured by drouth, and insects in southern and southeastern counties.
Indiana—Indianapolis—Fr st Monday night probably caused injury i.u localities, •••specially in northern portion very warm weather first of week, and local rams fell several days crops advanced only slowly corn coming up nicely: cutworms numerous and doing much damage.
West Virginia—Parkersburg—Excessively warm and dry unlil Saturday special telegraphic reports from Hint-oil, Mueiield, Grafton and Wheeling indicate severe damage by frosts to grapes, potatoes, all tender vegetables and fruits in uplands river bottoms generally protected by fog, 110 serious damage to wheat, corn and grass reported.
Ohio—Columbus—Where, rain fell it improved condition of wheat, oats and grasses, elsewhere no corn and potatoes coming up generally, tobacco plants damaged by drouth and insects frosts killed to large extent, tender plants, grapes, berries and believed to have seriously injured jointed wheat, corn, potatoes and fruit over eastern portion not so badly over central and western portions.
Michigan—Lansing—Warm bountiful rains have improved and rapidly advanced all vegetation corn and potatoe
urday and Sunday slightly damaged fiuits, corn and garden truck in central lower peninsula and fruits in upP°r\.
W isconsin Milwaukee Favorable conditions during first half of the week caused rapid growth and put farm work two weeks in advance of average season, heavy lrost Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights killed fruits and vegetables in northern and injured them severely in central portion damage to corn and grain comparatively light corn not generally up injury to strawberries moderate.
Minnesota—Minneapolis—Unseasonably warm until Friday, afterward much cooler with sharp frosts, cutting corn, potatoes and garden truck to the ground fruit also considerably damaged but small grain uninjured and cool spell favorable for stooling hardiest vegetation will fully recuperate aud season sufficiently early to replant the tender vegetables killed.
Iowa—De* Moinos—First half week extremely warm last half unseasonably cold, with severo frosts garden truck, potatoes, grapes and berries badly injured, but small grain not materially hurt corn in low places was cut, but will recover.
North Dakota—Bismarck—The week was generally favorable heavy frosts have injured fruit and gardens, but
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South Dakota Huron Generally condition favorable, except gardens, fruit and potatoes considerably, ami cereals slightly affected by frost in many localities in eastern portion field crops will recover considerable permanent injury to fruit cool weatlior promoting small grain stooling.
Kansas—Topeka—Warm and little rain, except in eastern counties corn doing well, but wheat, oats, flax and fruits altec,led by drouth frost cut corn, gardens and some fruits in central and western counties.
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AMERICANS IN CUBA.
I jiit Jj.\|e-i 1 (ion-, Are Already Tlicro Aiding 1 l:e Insurgents.* CIIHARS, Cuba, May 15.—It is said rlie I insurgents have complete control over the eastern end of the island, that is the provinces of Baracoa and Santiago.
Last night 45 Americans and 200 W inehester rifles were landed at Nip bay from the yacht Couma. The lilibusterers are said to have been fitted outnear Satillu river, Georgia. They are guaranteed ail the plunder they can take. This is t.ie sixth expedition that has landed from southern states during the past two weeks. Two came from New Orleans, one from St. Marks, Fia., one from Gaiveston and one from Mobile.
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HAVANA, .\lay 15.—Captain General Martinez De C.unpos unexpectedly arrived here yesterday from Cieniiiegoes.
DISASTERS O 1 THE LAKES.
iileveii Vessels Are Ivuoivn to Have liceu WncKwl. CHICAGO, May 15.—The storm which swept Lake Michigan Monday and Monday niglil- was the most disastrous since the gale of last Ala .', ill winch so mail}' lives were lost. The list of known wrecks is as follows: (Quickstep, wrecked off Racine.
Ii. Kitchen, wrecked at Middle Island. Viking, I. H., driven aground with three consorts at Sand P.eacii.
Unknown steam barge ashore six miles north of Sand Beach. •Steamer Unique wrecked at St. Clair.
Three schooners wrecked oil' Last Tawas, Alich. Schooner lieindeer reported stranded at Liack river.
Unknown schooner wrecked off liaeine. Three-masted schooner wrecked near Milwaukee.
It was rumored that the City of Holland and the Mabel liradshaw, passenger and freight boats, plying between Chicago and Holland. Alich., wore missing, but it developed later that I both had been unable to leave the Holland harbor and were safe.
Alarine men here anxiously awaited news from missing boats, and gn^ fears were expressed for the safety of all snips overdue.
landed II is Troubles ill Death.
KANSAS CITV, May 15.—John Shaw, once a banker in Warwick, Ont., com mitred suii ide yesterday by taking carbolic acid in his room at the Colorado hotel in this city. Frank Hood, a boy, who "..as traveling with Shaw, discovered his dead body in the afternoon. During the last, few weeks Shaw and young Hood had been touring the state with a one-horse wagon containing a steropticon out lit, giving shows in country to,,ns. Shaw left a 24-page l.itter, giving an interesting detailed
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Pla., .May 15.—The Spanish
warsnip Infanta Isabella weighed alienor yesterday and sailed direct for Havana. It was expected that she would proceed to Key West, where she Would remain several days before going to Caoa, bui. la ie Monday night oiiicial dispatches directed her to proceed inl-ine-rial ely to Havana.
Tiie Spanish consul here asserts that She revolution is abating. He says he has kepi a record and thus far the American press has killed 08,000 Spaniards, which he claims to be absurd, as there are not that many troops in Cuba.
Coiiiident of ictory.
CADIZ, 3lay 15.—-Persons who have arrived here recently from j-Iavana, declared tliar the campaign, which is being directed by Captain General Martinez de Campos against the Cuban insurgents, will lie briefer than generally expected. The military operations, they add, will be pushed during the rainy season. Captain General Martinez de Campos will remain in Cuba unni order is completely restored, which, it- is claimed, will probably be before the beginning of next year.
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in*** 1m o't'iiM1:!11 1 ,i 1 and than the reverses which he had perienced lately were too much, and he therefore decided to end his troubles in death.
Kverythiny: Ouiet in Nicaragua. :!#2YVASIUXGTOX, May 15.—The Hunger, which has arrived at Panama from Lsmeraldas, reports affairs tranquil in
Ecuador. The Alert has sailed from San Juan del Sur to Panama. It is
I everything is now so qiuetin [Nicaragua that 110 trouble is feared, and that the Alert could leave San Juan del Sur without jeopardizing American interests. Not-ill ug has yet been heard from the Montgomery and the Nicaragua canal commission, although it is presumed that the ship has arrived at
Greytown.
Cloudburst in Kentucky.
VANCKISuna, Ky., May 15.—Newshas been brought here of a cloudburst in Hock Hun creek, live miles south, last night. All fences from the head to the mouth ot the creek were washed away. John Cole's house was washed away and the far*ily narrowly escaped with timir lives. .Crops were completely destroyed, trees uprooted and the debris lills the valley where pretty fields were spread a few days ago.
Japau Asked No Kxtra Indemnity. SHANGHAI, May 15.—It is announced at Pekin th the Japanese renounced their claim to the Liu-Tung peninsula without demanding the payment of an increased amount of indemnity for so doing. It 's added that the conduct of Japan in this matter is warmly praised. It is feared that the disbanding of the Chinese troops will cause disturbances.
Oklahoma Crops Injured.
HENNKSSNY, O. T., May 15.—The dry, hot winds of the past few days have had a disastrous effect on gnuii, and if it continues will kill all chances for wheat, which are very slim. The effect on corn and oats is also pronounced. Pusiness is almost at a standstill owing to the uncertainty of crops.
N««l ltose Kills His Itrothor. SICKGKNT, Ky.. May 15.—News has just reached here that Ned Hose shot and killed his brother in Dickinson county, Va., last Friday. The brothers lived on adjoining farms, and tihe quarrel resulted over the pasturage of a horse. Hose escaped, but the ollieers are in pursuit.
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SKETCHES OF LINCOLN.
Hanks Girls at Meeting:.
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Abraham's I-'irst School Days Dennis
Sweet as honey, strong as bacon ham. "Just at this moment the young lady holding to my arm whispered: 'They aro to S3F married next week. Her name is Hanks.' There wero very few who did not believe this true religion, inspired by tlie Holy Spirit, and the man who could not believe it did well to keep it to himself. The Iiankses wero tho finest singers and shouters in our country.
Here my informant stops, and on account of his death several years ago I failed to learn whether tho young lady shcuter who had figured in the foregoing scene was the president's mother or not. The fact that Nancy Hanks did marry that year.gives color to the belief that it was she. As to the probability of the young man beiiig Thomas Lincoln it is difficult to say. Such a performance as the one described must have roquired a little more emotion and enI thusiasm than the tardy and inert carpenter was in the habit, of manifesting.
The Hoy at School.
Sarah, the sister of Abraham Lincoln, though in some respects like her brother, lacked his stature. She was thickset, had dark brown hair, deep gray eyes and an even disposition. She was married to Aaron Grigsbv, in Spencer county, Ind., in tho month of August, 18.20, and died Jan. 20, 1S2S. Her brother accompanied her to school while they lived in Kentucky, but as he was only 7, and r.s she had not yet finished her ninth year when their father removed with them to Indiana, it is to be presumed Ihr.t neither made much progress in tho matter of school education. Still it is authoritatively stated that they attended two schools during this short period. One of these was kept by Zachariah Riney, the other by Caleb Hazel. It is difficult at this late day to learn much of tho boy Abraham's life during thoso seven years of res-
HOUSE IN WHICH THOMAS LINCOLN l)lhl)
idence in Kentucky. Ono man, who was a clerk in tho principal store of tho village where the Lincolns purchased their family supplies, remembers him as a "small boy who came sometimes to the store with his mother. Ho would take his soat on a keg of nails, and I would givo him a lump of sugar. Ho would sit there and eat it like any other boy, but theso little acts of kindiioss," observes my informant in an enthusiastic statement made in 18G5, "so impressed his mind that I made a steadfast friend in a man whose power and influence have since been felt throughout the world. sa»A schoolmate of Lincoln's at Hazel's school, sneaking of tho master, says: "Ho perhaps could teach spelling and reading and indifferent writing and possibly could cipher to tho rulo of throe, but ho had no other qualification of a teacher unless we accept largo size and bodily strength. Abo was a mere spindle of a boy, had his duo proportion of harmless mischief, but as wo lived in a country abounding in hazel switches, in tho virtuo of which tho master had great faith, Abo of course received his duo allowance."
This part of the boy's history is pain-
THOMAS LINCOLN AS A FARM.EE, occasion ran a groundhog into a crevice between two rocks, and after working
Hanks' Remembrance of the Olden Days.
The Lincoln Family Cabin—An Uninvit
ing Frontier Structure.
[Froi» "Tlie Life of Lincoln" by Willnvnj II. Herndon anil Je.s.se W. Wnk. Copyright, lS.bS, by .Jesse \Y. WVik. Copyright, liW, by L. Appleton
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As a family the Hankses were peculiar to the civilization of early Kentucky. Illiterate and superstitious, they correspond to that nomadic class still to be met with throughout the south and known as'poor whites." They are happily and vividly depicted in the description of a camp meeting held at Elizabethtown, Ky., in 1 ts0(», which was furnished me in August, IS05, by an„..eyewitness. as "Tho Hanks girls, narrates the latter, "were great at camp meetings. I remember one in isoo. I will give you a scene, and if you will then read tho books written on tho subject you may find some apology for tho superstitions that were said to be in Abu Lincoln's character. It was at a camp meeting, as before said, when a general shout was about to commence. Preparations wero being made. A young lady invited mo to stand on a bench by her side where we could seo all over the altar. To the right a strong, athletic young man, about 25 years old, was being put in trim for the occasion, which was done by divesting him of all apparel except shirt and pants. On the left a young lady was being put in trim in much the same manner, so that her clothes would not be in the way and so that when her combs flew out her hair would go into graceful braids. She, too, was young, not more than 20 perhaps. The performance commenced about, the same time by tho young man on the right and tho young lady on the left. Slowly and gracefully they worked their way toward tho center, singing, shouting, hugging and kissing, generally their own sex, until at last nearer and nearer they came. The center of the altar was reached, and tho two closed, with their arms around each other, tho man singing and shouting at tho top of his voice: "I have Jesus iii my arms,
fv.LL I'agne *nd dim, and even after arriving at Mian estate Mr. Lincoln was significantly reserved when reference was made to it. It is rarely mentioned in the autobiography furnished to Fell in 187)9. John Duncan, afterward a preacher of some prominence in Kentucky, relates how he and Abe on one
vainly almost two hours to get him out "Abe ran off about a quarter of a mile to a blacksmith shop and returned with an iron hook fastened to tho end of.«» pole," and with tiiis rude contrivtu they virtually "hooked" tho animfi1 of his retreat. Austin Gollalarj Hcdgensville claims to have sav coin frein drowning one day were trying to "coon it" aru xiob creek on a log. Tho boys wr in purI suit of birds when young Lincoln fell info the water, and his vigilant cornI panion,. who still survives to narrate the thrilling story, fished hi'.n out with a sycamore branch.
Meanwhile. Thomas Lincoln was becoming daily more dissatisfied with his situation and surroundings. He had purchased since his marriage, on tho easy terms then prevalent, two farms or tracts of land in succession. No terms were easy enough for him, and the land, when the time for tho payment of purchase money rolled around, reverted to its former owner.
Starting Life Anew. ILL
Having determined on emigrating to Indiana, he began preparations for removal in the fall of lsiii by building for his use a flatboat. Loading it with his tools and other personal effects, including in the invoice, as wo are tokl, 400 gallons of his whisky, he launched his "crazy craft" on a tributary of Salt creek known as Rolling Fork. Along with the current, he floated down to the Ohio river, but his rudely made -ve.-sel, either from the want of experience in its navigator or because of its ill adaptation to withstand the force an:l caprices of the currents in the great river, capsized one day, and boat and cargo wcnfcr to the bottom. Tho luckless boatman set to work, however, and by dint of great patience and labor succeeded in recovering the tools and the bulk of tho whisky. Righting his boat, he continued down the river, landing at a point called Thompson's Ferry, in Perry county, on the Indiana side.
The head of the household now7 set resolutely to work to build a shelter for his family.
Tho structure, when completed, was 14 feet square and was built of small hewed logs. In the language of tho day it was called a "half faced camp," being inclosed on all sides but one. It had neither floor, door nor windows. In this forbidding hovel these doughty emigrants braved the exposure of the varying season for an entire year. At the end of that time Thomas and Betsy Sparrow followed, bringing with them. Dennis Hanks, and to them Thomas Lincoln surrendered tho "half faced camp," while lie moved into a more pretentious structure—a cabin inclosed on all sides.
Thomas. Lincoln, with tho aid of tho Hankses'and Sparrows, was for a time an attentive farmer. The implements of agriculture then in use were as rude as they were rare, and yet there is nothing to show that in spite of tho slow methods then in vogue he did not make I commendable speed. "Wo raised corn I mostly," r-.•laics Dennis, "and somewheat—enough for a cake Sunday mornI ing. Hog and venison hams wero a legal tender and coonskins also. We raised sheep and cattle, but they did not bring much. Cows and calves weru only worth siltoxx, corn 10 cents and wheat 25 cents a bushel. ",r
The cabin to which tho Lincoln family removed after leaving tho little half faced camp to the Sparrows was i« some respects a pretentious structureIt was of hewed logs and was 18 feet square. It was high enough to admit of a loft, where Abo slept and to whichho ascended each night by means of pegs driven in tho wall. Tho rude furniture was in keeping with tho surroundings. Three legged stools answered for chairs. Tho bedstead, made oS poles fastened in the cracks of tho logS»on one sido and supported by a crotchtiAstiek driven into the ground floor otttho other, was covered with skins, loaves and old clothes. A table of the same finish as the stools, a few pewter dishes, a Dutch oven and a skillet completed the household outfit. In this uninviting frontier structure tho future^ president was destined to pass the greater part of his boyhood. Withal hi» spirits wore light, and it cannot bo denied that ho must have onjoyod unre»" strained pleasure in his surroundings. I*' is related that one day tho only things that graced tho dinner table was a dislj of roasted potatoes. The elder Lincoln, truo to tli1) custom of the day, returnedthanks for tho blessing. The boy, realizing the scant proportions of the mea^ looked up into his father's face and irreverently observed, "Dad, I call these" —meaning tho potatoes—"mighty poof^ blessings."
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So with all his application and frugality lie head of this ill assorted house-" hold made but little headway in the accumulation of the world's goods. Wo are told that lie was indeed a poor man, and that during his entire stay in Indian:1. iiis land barely yielded him suffiei -nt return to keep his larder supplied" with the commonest necessaries of life. His skill as a hunter, though never, brought into play unless at the angered demand of a stomach hungry for meat, in no slight degree liiailo up for the lack of good management in tho eultivat.ion of his land. His son Abraham never evinced the same fondness for hunting, although his cousin Dennis with much pride tells us how we could: kill a wild turkey on tho wing. "At that time, relates ono of the latnr's' playmates, descanting on tho abundance of wild game, "there wero a great many deer licks, and Abo and myself would go to these iicks sometimes and watclj of nights to kill deer, though Abe waA not so fond ot a gnu or tho sport as I was."