Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-30
ON TIE WING.
Crops and Business In the Upper
Country Politics I'm Illinois
Chances for democratic Sue
cess I'm Indiana and
Ohio.
From Our Travelling Correspondent.l


ANCaoR.i INE STEAMER HELENA
September 2S--From Fairfield, Iowa, pass d
over le Chicago, Burlington and quincy
Dad To Omaha, NeOrasR a, Juis being a greaI
through route from Chicago tD Omaha with
out Change Of cars, distance five hundred
miles, and lies along near tn, southern Il OF
iowa. The crop, ia many places are go d, hut
in places whole fields oI lrty scre. or mo e
nothing but dwarfed and united stalks Of
fdder instead of IN. This is the case ali
over illinois and Iowa, bus only in places,
while IN fields adjoining, where the gcUund
would De hlgher or better cultivated, TIE
stalks wOGlu hardly support the e~rs o. corn
saw diamond joe" president OF the HCt
Sp ings railroad, VINO rs also running line OF
boats on tue Mississippi, blow 81 Paul, and
has an Office in Chicago, who reports
The wheat crop very short indeed IL
who have Iaised corn or wneat thi,
year may be glad that trey will
west OF Omaha, over the Union Paciic road
and found the count y baOly infested with
grasshoppeIs. In places they would fly up IN
s~orms az every ep, aud all busy get ins
etc, 10 eat up next years crop. Pc pie SAID
they We're flying south in cOuvs, and would
come to Arkansas. not much danger; they
would find no great sand plains there in
which TO deposit their eggs, ana their repro
ductlve instincts would hasten them home to
their native plains, doubtless DISCUS eu with
the NJ Jestic forests of Arkansas. Ia Chicago,
anu IN all the ciCi5s and towns Wis tel IA Iowa
aud ILLINOIS, the co paint Of uncOmmouly
d
stand still all values shrinking, and every
body wondering wnen things would Ue better.
As Tor politics al e4clI emeut, no higu IN IL
nno!s ina IL lnterieTes seriously with any at
tempt 10 get an audience Oh any other sub
jecJ .nTougu tue wees, and tEey Ii tell J ou
elerywheIe tIat 1t is not wor b while to ex-
pect the audience 10 hear of The moral aud fe
nsisus condition of Chius, becsu,e Of pullt,-
cal meetings OF puoiic and private characL
absorbing the attention OF the people. But in
ludiana and OHio, from all reports aud ap-
peaances, 1t Is simply "red hot" All tn
leading speakers of the country # botu par
ties, and especisliy Of he Republican, seem
TO be thrown lnlo those states; and cltl, 5,
towns and villages have their pubic meeiuts
announced for them, 30 as TO fl whole sides
how these states will go let The wise ones pre-
dict. But one thing is fact, and
thst is, that the Chicago Times,
Democratic paper, Is to be found 90 all the
rains leading out oil g, IcagO, 20 far as my
travels and observations extended, red by
more people u an all the Republ can papers
OF the city put together. f. o.u Gu cago came
down to afro, ILLINOIS, on he Illinois Cen
tral road, which 1t , a pleasure to travel up.
on, on account of the stetl rails and the eXcel-
lent order in which it l. kep'. the Old presl-
cent has resigned, and w K. Ackerman, ESQ
Is now acting presi dent. This is the road 10
take IN seeking noTtUern summer resorts, IOI
you run through Cairo at the sou hern point
OF illinois u Lnicagb, from three In the after
noon 10 sif-pasJ seyeu next morning, and
rect, or 20 the moth snore OF Lake 3 perior,
where there is ice under the moss In the
sTamps ia August. Coming down over tue
Central met yC ung man from To onto,
Canala, who hRd a fiTst-class ticket from In ~
city to Memphis, " hich cost only twenty
seN en- dollars, or some two cents per mile. AT
Cairo took Anchor-lIne steamer helena Tor
your city. she is nne boat and We'll man
sged, as are ali the boats of this line. 1t has
b-en my privilege to travel on most, II nOC
q J. Of tutse boats, and one o The chief sd-
va4t1ges is InaJ you can generally rely on
when they come and go, Instead of wal ing
anu watching all nj ,ht for boat, and be ng
uisappo nted. There mnst be over million
of cEp piJal invested in this line, and Mr.. scUd-
der and Mr.. Ke ser, president and superIn-
tendent, at st. Louis, anu Mr.. Ad storm,
WHO manages its affkls at Memphis must
have level neads to keep Il. wnOle thing as
evenly ballasted a II appears to b.. There is
man on the boat goiDg TO Arkansas to get r.
quarter section OF UniIeI otaJes government
land. he VIII find plenty there ID pleniy 10
be had from tue railIUad companies and
Others on easy terms. PAUL BAGLEY.