ILLINOIS. 



The 1883 corn-crop, while somewhat larger 

 than the small crops of 1881 and 1882, will not 

 furnish nearly as much marketable corn. 



The quality of corn in 1883 is reported up 

 to an average in only the following counties : 

 Gallatin, Jasper, Massac, Randolph, and Union, 

 all of which are in the southern portion of the 

 State. The average yield and quality of corn 

 are as follow : 



INDIA. 



439 



Coal-Prodnet. Illinois has no equal, west of 

 Pennsylvania, in the abundance of its coal de- 

 posits, its accessibility, and means of trans- 

 portation. It supplies not only its own great 

 demands, but almost wholly those of the mark- 

 ets of Chicago and St. Louis. The following 

 statistics are for 1883 : 



Number of counties producing coal . . 49 



Number of mines 639 



Number of acres of coal-lands owned or controlled 



by owners of mines 110,898 



Number of acres worked out 12,329 



Number of men engaged 23,939 



Number of tons produced . . 10,508,791 



Increase over 1832 1,893,188 



Value of same at mines $15,310,529 



Amount of capital employed $10,896,540 



Estimated capacity of annual production (tons). . 21,085,435 



Number of casualties, all kinds 360 



Number of fatal accidents 184 



The two great mining catastrophes of the 

 year at Braidwood and Coulterville caused 

 seventy-nine deaths. The increase in the num- 

 ber of counties producing coal is three, Oass, 

 Edgar, and Macon. In the former, two mines 

 have been opened, at Virginia and Ashland. 

 In Edgar county, at Illinana, near the Indiana 

 line, there is a new plant costing $60,000 ; and 

 in Macon, two first-class mines at Decatur and 

 Niantic, involving an investment of $15,000. 

 Next year Christian county will enter the list 

 with a mine at Pana, over TOO feet deep, open- 

 ing a vein seven feet thick. The steady ad- 

 vance of the production in a period of years 

 is shown by the following table : 



Temperance. The Illinois State Temperance 

 Union met in Springfield in January. The re- 

 port of the State organizer was a strong argu- 

 ment in favor of prohibition, from a moral 

 point of view. He gave a list of twelve coun- 

 ties that have adopted anti-license laws, viz. : 

 Cumberland, Edwards. Fulton, Jasper, John- 

 son, Lawrence, Menard, Piatt, Schuyler, War- 



ren, Wayne, and Stark. These counties, with a 

 total population of 221,371, had only forty-eight 

 prisoners in jail during the year, and twenty- 

 four of these were incarcerated on account 

 of crimes arising from drunkenness. On the 

 other hand he mentioned twelve counties, with 

 293 licensed saloons, and a population of 217,- 

 597, with 801 prisoners in the various jails. 

 During 1882, 117 murders were committed in 

 the State, 61 in Cook county, nearly all having 

 their origin in drunken quarrels. 



The plan of work recommended the estab- 

 lishment of a weekly or monthly newspaper 

 in every county in the State ; the circulation 

 of temperance literature ; the holding of tem- 

 perance meetings and the development of home 

 talent in the cause ; the securing of special 

 temperance sermons ; the organization of Bands 

 of Hope, and the study of temperance text- 

 books and manuals. 



The same body met in Bloomington in De- 

 cember, voted to consolidate with the National 

 Prohibition and Home Protection party, and 

 recommended immediate party organization 

 throughout the State. 



Colored Convention. A State convention of 

 colored citizens was held in Springfield on the 

 16th and 17th of October. Fifty delegates, 

 representing eight counties, were in attendance. 

 The subjects of civil rights, education, and 

 labor were considered. A plan for a perma- 

 nent organization was adopted. The resolu- 

 tions adopted were as follow : 



Resolved, That while we are proud of the noble 

 record of the Kepublican ,party in the past in the 

 interest of the negro race,' we solemnly pledge our- 

 selves to not vote for any man for office who will 

 not give us that recognition to which we are justly 

 entitled. 



That we will not vote for any man for office in the 

 future who has not shown a disposition, while in of- 

 fice, to act honorably and fairly toward colored appli- 

 cants for political preferment. 



Resolved. That we recognize in the Douglas Louis- 

 ville speech a "new departure," the principles of 

 which are the underlying elements of the future suc- 

 cess of the negro race of this country ; we therefore 

 adopt it as our idea of right and justice. 



An address was also put forth, in which in- 

 dustrial education and co-operation were urged 

 upon the people. 



INDIA, an empire in Asia, subject to Great 

 Britain. By the act of Aug. 2, 1858, the 

 powers previously vested in the East India 

 Company were assumed by the crown. The 

 functions exercised by the company and the 

 Board of Control were transferred to the India 

 Office and placed under the direction of the 

 Secretary of State for India. The Queen of 

 Great Britain and Ireland was proclaimed Em- 

 press of India Jan. 1, 1877. The executive, 

 authority in India is vested in the Governor- 

 General, popularly entitled the Viceroy, who 

 acts under the direction of the Secretary of 

 State for India. Subject to the approval of the 

 latter, who is invariably a member of the Brit- 

 ish Cabinet, the laws are elaborated by the 

 Governor- General in council. The council of 



