The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-19
ILLINOIS.
The Corn Crop Deficient by One-Third as
Conn Bed with Last Year.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SPhINGFIELD, Dec. 18.-The State Board of
Agriculture today issued its report, made up
from all the counties of the State the crop
of 1888. 1t shows the total acreage to have
been 7,304,596; average yield per acre 25a9
bushels total product, 1876, 59355s, and aver
age quality 60, or 81 below first-class yield as
to quality The counties producing the highest
number of bushels are the following: Bureau,
1904 060; Champaign, S,506;600 Henry, 3,102,-
$50; Iroquois, 5s53, 14l; Knox, 3,3O6,4Y2; La
Sale 8, $50 1876; Livingston, 1927, $50; Logan,
4,449, 276; Macon, 4.234,9l2; Mclean, $685.
$780, Montgomery, 3,6OO,294; Morgan, l,olo,
724; Piatt, 1898, ITO; Sangamon, 1924. G82 Yer
million, 1926, 704 Warren, 4,405, $40, and Will,
4454,3l9, the others declining from 100000
all the way down to 10000 for Pulaski, 1885,
500 for Hardin and 62,766 for
Franklin county. the lowest fig
ures on the list. Calhoun, Greene Jersey, Mon
roe Patt, Warren and Washington report
product of forty bushels and upward to the acre,
and thence the decline Is downward to fourteen
bushels in Coles and bingham, twelve in
Grundy and fifteen in Richland county, as the
lowest on the list. Five counties only produced
corn up to 100 over, in quality, to-wit: Gala
tin, Jasper Massac, Randolph and Union All
these counties, however had small yields, nearly
drought. The total yield is greatly short of
the States average, and great difficulty is expert
enced in some parts of the STATE in saving the
in the crib. on account of the large percent
age of it which is soft and wet.
Convicts Testifying in the Bond Case.
HILLsBoRo, Dec. 18.-After two or three
important witnesses had testified this morning
in the Sond trial, Burren, convict from the
fNf-- 60.
burglary, was put on the stand. He testified
that he was in Jail at Taylorville, and got ac-
quaiuted there with Montgomery, Pettus and
Clement, who were all in a cell together. He
says he heard a conversation between them in
which Clement said he had let his toe-nail grow
long, but had lost it shocking corn in June.
Montgomery said: fFYou couldn't lose it shuck-
ing corn in June" Some one read from paper
a statement that Miss Bonds Underclothes were
torn. Clement said: at is a - lie; they were
not torn" and Montgomery said; 'shut up; what
do you know about it,"
AT this point Judge Thornton, of the defense,
said to the attorneys for the prosecution; "You
may just as we'll rake hell for witnesses, as take
them from peniteDtiary. The introduction of
a witness convicted of high crime, to testify
against men of good standing, is Infamous. Such
estimony is wholly incompetent" He moved
to exclude the whole testimony.
After hour and a half of argument, the
court Overruled the motion.
The cross-examination of the witness elected
nothing important.
Charles Meyer. life convict for murder, from
the same prison, was the next witness. He was
III the TaylOrville Jail fourteen months; was
there when the defendants were brought IN
After the officers left them they had private
conversation part of which the witness heard.
Montgomery said: "We must all tell the same
story; we have to understand one another now"
Montgomery laughed over Drennan's fitting
piece of oow-horn to his toe nail. CLEMENT SAID
he had lost a piece of toe-parinS Yes" said
Montgomery, II suppose yosn lost IL husk da,
Miss Bond's clothing being torn, and Pettus said
it was a lie.
On cross-examina alton. the witness said
he first told this story. to Judge Van
dever, his counsel, when he was tried for
murder. did net tell Joseph PeytOn, another
prisoner, that Judge Vandever promised me
mercy il learned something which would fasten
guilt the defendants. Judge Vandever did
not promise mercy, but merely intimated that
would get il if / obtained evidence against Mont
gomery and the others. Judge VaDdever had
approached him but once; he then said that he
(the wiJness) could honOraoly tell what he heard
the defendants say; il would be of great import
ance to the prosecution, and would do him no
harm, but good. He denied that during his trial
he had said the prosecution was pushing him
hard, and was sorry he and Burfell had made up
a story on the defendants. He never said he
had put up job on the defendants
Jerry Ferguson testified that he was a member
of the grand jury that indicted the defendants;
that before the jury met he had conversation
with John Mont goInery, in which the latter asked
him for Miss Bonds statement in writing, in
consideration for a sum Of money. When cross
examined the witness said he never received
money from Montgomery. Montgomery uses
his right hand more than his left
o. Harand testified that he heard Clement
say during the preliminary examination that he
was not guilty, but knew who was
Isaac Ward testified that John Montgomery
told him he at the schOol-hOuse on the day
of the outrage
The prosecution then rested their case.
Assignment of a Commission Firm.