The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-06-24

CHICAGO, june II, 1S70.-After a long sea-
son of droEth, We, last week Friday, had a
copious shower, and, since then, nave had
several small drlzzlCs, and some quite cool
days. 1t has been a good time for grain,
grass, and weeds TO get a strong root. The
season Is much earlier than last year. Have
had peas and beets for a week on my table,
grown, in nay garden, in the open air.
ZINE
Is now in the dull season, and for two months
to come trade will be quiet.
THE MANUFACTURERS
Are very busy preparing for the fall trade.
There is a very large capital invested IN m an,
ufactures here, and the yearly product
amounts to many millions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
The annual meeting OF the Western Social
Science Association was held in Farwell Hall
It's object is ''to promote the public welfare
by q determination of the principles of social
science, and by their practical application to
existing social evils of anv and every sort"
A pretty large field of inquiry and effort.
Most of the time Of the meetings were occu-
jeets. Prof. Goodwin Smith made an able
and interesting address the last evening on
the present political crisis in England in it's
bearings on political science.
THE FRUIT SEASON.
The Chicago market for small fruits has the
range of the whole temperate zone, and the
lasts from March to September. The
Illinois Central R. r. Co. rum special trains
during the fruit season in Southern Illinois
for berries, tomatoes, peaches, apples, grapes
and sweet potatoes, giving ample time at the
for careful loading, till the limit of
the fruit region is reached, when the throttle
is loOsed and the train run swiftly into Chi
cago. The first shipments OF Strawberries
are from the extreme South and from Califor-
mia. Next they com from the middle South
and from lower Egypt, and as he season adj
vances the ripening belt moves Northward
till we now begin to receive Strawberries from
Michigan.
FRUIT REGION
H~linois-chiefly IN Egypt-though not as
prolif as in some seasons, has produced a
crop in tho aggregate. The Illinois
Central Road brought from Southern Illinois,
i'm the fifteen days fall wing May Esd, $50, 106
pounds of strawberries, amounting to so, 53S
bushels, for consumption here, and distribu-
ton to all parts of the country.
CHANGES IN EGYPT.
There has been a great change effected in
Egypt within a few years. the construction
of the Illinois Central Railroad has opened a
454 miles long, through the heart of the
state, and m de a market for the products of
the farm, orchard and garden at every mans
door. This great t~horOughfare, together with
the mildness and ~salubrlty OF the climate,
the fertility of the soil and its peculiar adap-
tation to fruit raising, and the cheap aud
easy terms on which and could be bought,
have attracted a large class of intelligent and
enterprising settlers from all parts of the
as vel as many from the East;
80 that the old name Of Egypt, bestowed on
a 10 I,44la Svn ao4so- :, -
TO the inhabitants, and applies chiefly to the
and soil. No more intelligent, enter
and prosperous communities can now
be found anywhere than in Southern Illinois.
TIE MUNIFTcKNT LAND GRANT
Of 2.5OO, 900 acres to the Illinois Central Rail-
way company has been wisely managed,
n harmony with the interests of
he railroad company and the people. The
policy of the company has been to promote
he speedy settlement of the portion OF the
tate through which their road runs, and in
which their lands are situated. There have
been no rings" in the Board Of Directors
up the lands for speculative purposes,
)ut they have been sold at 3 low price, for
,ne-fourth cash and the balance in one, two
nd three years, at six per cent. interest, and
he company has never troubled a delinquent
purchaser who was making improvements
no uoInB MS pest 10 pay HE m~oeDUednesS.
their policy has been to encourage actual &C.
upancy and cultivation of the soil, and the
esult has been an
INCREASE OF POPULATION,
D the forty-nine counties on the line of this
Dad, since 1850, of q million souls-nearly
OUr-fold-While the increase of wealth has
cen far greater. Over two millions of acres
( the land grant have been sold, making
IT THOUSAND HOMES
or as many comfortable, independent and
Apply families, in the most favored region on
he globe, most of which, but for the con-
of this road, would still be a wilder
less without inhabitant. IL is the only in
lance, within my knowledge, of a land grant
whose lands have been so disposed of as
be a positive, enduring blessing to the
abroad company, the people, the state and
he general government.
UNsoLD LANDS.
Some $50, 900 acres of these lands are still
nsold, chiefly in the southern, or fruit re-
ion, of the state, and contiguous to the rail-
Dad, and can be boughtin tracts of 40 and 80
ores, or more, as purchasers may desire, at
rom 81 to So per acre, on three-foHrths
redit, at Elk per cent. interest. There are
of people in the Northwest-some
| them on farms, where by the hardest work
ley can scarcely make n decent living. who.I
y purchasing these fertile lands, in a mild
nd healthy climate, would insure both health
nd life and achieve Observation-Disclosures !
hich they can never realize in their present
Adam left Eden only on compul-
on, and returned not because a flaming
word guarded the entrance. The settlers !,
q these lands are free to leave, if they
moose, but l never heard Of their wishing TO
turn to their former bleak and less fertile
Those wishing full information in
gard to these lands should address John
Calhoun. Land Commissioner Chicago, Ill.
THREE MEN WERE KILLED
7 lightning in a thunder storm in this city