Decatur Daily Republican from Decatur, Illinois • Page 2

SATURDAY DEC. 7,1889. LOCAL NEWS. GAS" at the Grand to-night. THE T.

H. P. morning passenger train was thirty CLOCDI to-day with the mercury at 4C this morning. IT only costs 820 a ton for coal at Deadwood, Dakota. ASK your grocer for the popular White Foam flour.

THE DEDICATION. Opening of Brown's Business College in Library Block. The Rooms Flowers. and It is always good. House A SEW lodge of Knights of Pythias will be instituted by Co-ur do Leon lodge at Forsyth.

E. K. CCLVEB, on i Church street, Lad a telephone put in his grocery store yesterday. Send in orders by telephone. CALL for the Granu Op'r- 5 cent cigar.

W. A. COMBS' Restaurant. THE students of theTolono high school now march out and in the school building to the music of two snare drums. MATHEMATICAL GAME, both amusing and instructive, it teaches multiplication addition and subtraction.

For sale at J. E. Saxton's Book Store. dec7-d2w THE Hatfleld elevator at Blue Mound valued at S-I-OOO, has been purchased Mr. Heinneman, of Macon.

DECATCTS Nut Coal, double-screened, at delivered to any part of nov 7-dtf. per ton town JCDCIE HCO.HES will convene court at Lincoln on Monday. He ia to be in Decatur on the 14th to Harris, the forger. THE finest line of the celebrated Candy fruit tablets can be had at I. Bramble's confectionery, laa rtn Water street.

HON. J. H. ECKPLS, of Ottawa, will deliver a Christian Endeavor address at the Grand Opera Hoise Sunday night. IF you want to get net choice, call up Wilson, Springfield, 111., telephone for one of his 880.00 lots-82 50 cash, 50 cents a week, Now ia the time.

A iDETtcriVE is playing great havoc with the boj and local newspaper boys wbo make a practice of jumping on and off the trains. A reproval and a good, sound kick are the usual reminders. TELEPHONE to the handy store of Niedemeyer on the Mound for splendid groceries. WILLI.I W. STEELE, aged 27 years, son of Charles Steele, of Bloomington, and cousin of County Treasurer Steele, of this city, died suddenly at San Francisco, The formal opening of George W.

Brown's Business College in the Library Block was witnessed last night by a large number of ladies and gentlemen who rilled the rooms completely, scores being forced to stand during the interesting exercises. Decatur is an important factor in the Brown triangle of business colleges the other two being established at Jacksonville and Peoria, each about 75 miles distant. All have been started by Mr. Brown and to each he devotes his personal attention. The rooms of the Decatur college are six in lighted and ventilated, heated by steam and gas-lit.

They are on the third floor of the block and were built to order the owners of the handsome building T. T. Roberts and 0. Z. Greena.

The college now has 82 students, young men and women, who are receiving special training under the direction of Prmcipa E. P. Irving for business careers--with special departments for short hand, type wnting, etc. The dedicatory exercises took place in the main class-room of the college, which had been brightened by sp2cial decora tions of tlowers, bunting and growing plants and the word "welcome" in ever greens. Introductory remarks were offered by Principal Irving, who called Prof.

Brown to occupy the chair. Kev. W. C. Miller, of the Congregational church, offered prayer, and the Misses May and Bernice Faries favored the audience with a piano duet, the Labitzky "Leinates Klauge Waltz." It was artistically given.

Prof. Brown, who is a genial gentleman of thorough business experience, addressed the audience on the scope of the business college. He said that there were two leading branches of education--the general education of the free school system which has to do with the mind in its development, and the special education, which not only trains the mind but develops the physical powers- -a mechanical, manual training that cannot be secured in any of the other schools. He said there were now 300 business colleges in America with 75,000 students, all fitting themselves for useful lives. Rev.

R. M. Bartlett, of Cincinnati, now 80 years of age, founded the first business college in Philadelphia, and it was Peter Cooper and added responsibility go with education. We do not acquire aowledge for our own selfish ends as against another. It is acquired that we may be of more worth and helpfulness world.

For every truth obtained comes a new debt; for every idea of skill, added responsibility. If I know more I owe more. This truth rightly understood will inspire and help us to be of vastly more benefit in the world than we would 36 without it. Mrs. George W.

Brown, with Miss Nita Clark as accompanist, sang "Last Night" to the evident pleasure of the company. Dr. Vosbnrgh, of the Baptist church' was called upon to address the audience, but owing to the lateness of the hour, he excused himself. However in his brief remarks he gave the college his warmest endorsement. A few minutes were passed in inspecting the rooms and in social greetings, when the audience dispersed, wishing Prof.

Brown and his competent assissants a prosperous career. on Thursday. He was an expert telegraph operator, and at the time of his death was in charge of the fire alarm and police telegraph system at San Fran- oisco. Cause of death unknown. IT only costs 81,50 per ton delivered at your door, that superb Decatur nut coal.

Nov. 7-dtf. THB police raided a levee gambling room last night and captured four inmates, who put up cash bonds for their appearance for trial. No MOBK useful Christmas present can, be given than a Merritt Office in Library block on William street. dec5-d-wlmo EDWABD BBAMBLE has a splendid residence lot 57.9x183 feet, on North Main street high and dry, which can be had at a low figure.

Call at 155 North Water. 6-d3t THE Grand Opera House cigar is a general favorite. Try it. 23-dtf THI U. S.

Folding Flexible Steel Wire Door Mat is the best in the market. Sold exclusively at 7-d6 ABKL'S CABPBT HOUSE. WHAT better thing could you do for your boy or girl for a Christmas present than to get one of A. Wilson's $80.00 lots in Springfield. fJO cash, and 50 cents a u'eek.

dec2-dtf THEBB will be a meeting of the Pastor's Association on Monday, the 9th in the usual place, at 10 a. m. G. E. SCBIMOEB, Sec'y.

THE handsomest and largest line of plush goods, of all kinds, ever displayed in Decatur; now on sale at the City Book store. J. H. Bevans. d3dwlw In a Critical Condition.

Dora Bushert, the 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Bushert, who fell yesterday afternoon at the residence of Z.

W. Harris, and so seriously injured her head, is believed to be in a very critics! condition. The attending physician says there is but little hope of her recovery. COME to the "Standard" office in Library blooK on William street, and see how quick and nice it will make a buttonhole. dec5-d4wlmo HiLMi.

tne new popular game; it is taking like wild fire all over the country. For sale at J. E. gallon's Book Store. dec7-d2w DIED.

At Wiirensburg, December 6, of drop'y, Jessie ChUds, aged 17 years. The deceased was a sister ol Xoah Childs, ft this city. Chicago Grain M.araet. The following were the closing quotations in Chioaeo at 1:15 p. m.

to-day, re- oeived by G. 0. Oaldwell, Secretary Deos- tur Grain Dec; Jan; May OOBH--32 Dec; May OiTS-- W7 Dec; Jan; May. PoMcWan. 8.4.90; jFeb.

89.57; May, Jan; 86.00 Feb; 8i.87 85.07 May. Lrre Stock--Estimated receipts--Hogs market steady. Cattle, market steady. Car Lots--Wheat: Winter, 22; Spring, 116; Corn, 283; Oata. 183.

who built the Cooper Institute in New York. Prof. Brown said that in coming to Becatur, he did so in recognition of the favorable location, and with the belief that the college will be of great aid in supplementing the education received in the public schools of the city, in fitting young men and women for lives of profit and usefulness in thio and other communities. Prof. J.

H. Bay hill, a gifted elocutionist of National fame, came up from Jacksonville to contribute to the entertainment of the audience. He is a professor in the Illinois Female College at Jacksonville, in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. 0., and in the Christian University at Canton, Mo. He gave part of his famous selection, "The Bugle Song" in a finished style which indicated perfect culture and the wonderful range of his marvelous voice.

He also gave an instructive ad- drees on elocution, and subsequently recited "The Elf! Child" and the "Sioux Chief's Daughter." Rapturous applause was his reward. Miss Anna Berry, of the Decatur Musical College Faculty, sang "Good Night, Beloved," very sweetly, with Miss Minnie Stickle as accompanist. Principal Bryant, of the Jacksonville College, extended words of greeting to the Decatur students. He used familiar business terms in the course of his remarks to bring himself closer to the students. Dr.

Richard Edwards, the distinguished superintendent of public instruction of Illinois, who was a teacher as far back ae 1842, was received with manifest pleasure. He spoke for 25 minutes and gave the college his cordial endorsement. He remarked that Prof. Brown was a good deal like Chicago, a city that is reaching out to gather in all the earth. There no telling what Brown will do if let alone.

Education ID any form is welcome, intellectually, morally and physically. The speaker had seen the usefulness of the commercial colleges illustrated--students inspired and taught to fill honorable positions in life, places they might not have attained in the absence of the business colleges. Dr. Edwards also rejoiced in the splendid training opportunities the colleges afforded the women. We have need of the business colleges in our cities.

They perform special duties, which multiply rapidly. It is not like it used to be when of necessity every man had to be his own lawyer, doctor and preacher. Our civilization is changing. We are growing denser in we must have culture and training to properly govern this great country of 65 million people and its influx of foreigners. There is no culture on earth if rightly pursued which does not develop the best faculties of the human mind.

In mathematics we seek the truth, and this study is a strong factor in the development of character.All other studies are in the same line of development. Book keeping requires accuracy of thought. All help to i build up character. The highest Another Mill Trade. Mr.

David Carver has sold his interest in the Hatfield mill to H. W. Hill, and is therefore no longsr connected with the business. His inability to give the business his personal attention, owing to failing health, was the cause of making the sale, the details of which were entrusted to his Eon, Felix Garver, who attended to the business for his father. The consideration paid was 817,000 cash.

PERSONAL MENTION. Miss Mary Travis departed this morning for Toledo. Dr. E. A.

Morgan and wife, of Marco, were in the city yesterday. Will Leiby went to Bethany this morning on easiness, Mrs. W. Jenkins is visiting in Bement. Snpt.

E. A. Gastman is at Streator to attend the La Salle county teachers' institute, Dr. Alexander, of hog cholera fame, has gone to Kentucky to remain until after the holidays. J.

E. Wallace, of the bridge and building department of the Wabash, was in the city to day. F. A. Stevens, soa of Justice A.

C. Stevens, left yesterday for Sultan City, Washington. R. A. Young, of the Smith Granite Company, will be the guest of Mr.

and Mrs. Jesse Bendure until Monday. Mrs. G. E.

Athens arrived in Decatnr Thursday morning from Trididad, where she Ed. plying his trade. Mrs. J. Visrnal, of Cincinnati, who was hern attending the Simpson-Blume wedding, returned home yesterday.

Miss Pearl Pinokard of Monticello will sing at the reunion of the Ohio soldiers, at Bloomington, next Wednesday. Mrs. Bohon, of Harrodsburg, who has been the guest of her son, R. 3. DECATUB'S FUTURE.

Its Prosperous Condition--No End to Improvements. Decatur is sixty years old. It was in 1829 that the first sale of town lots was held in the new county seat, the county having just been created by the act of the legislature of that year, and the town having been Lid out in the spring of that year. It is not our purpose to enter into the details of its growth, nor to describe the reasons which justified ths little town in "putting on airs" from time to time. But that it has grown and thrived the world knows, and it is the purpose of this aiticle to call attention to the fact that the growth of the city during the past twelve months gives assurance that it has not yet put on habiliments of the finished place, or mat it is getting ready to go into a decline.

The improvements of Decatur during the year 1889 point unmistakably to fact that it is starting on an era of growth which has never been equalled before. The substantial improvements of the year are but an earnest of what Is to be on: MI' and a promise of future prosperity. And we are not going to have a "boom," according to the modern understanding of the term, either, but a healthy growth which will receive a stimulus from whiit we have experienced in the past, and NO OFFICIAL NOTICE To Be Taken of the Death Jefferson Davis. oi Bohon, left last evening for her home. Misses Laura and Stella Jenkins departed this morning for Danville, where they will visit for several days, Charles the Wabash, is home from Moberly, Mo.

G. C. Kinsman will not return home until next week. Mrs. I.

Baldwin hw been seriously ill for several days at her home on West Main street. She is afflicted with a heart trouble. Jessie Brown, aged seven years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.

A. Brown, is threatened with diphtheria. Her throat is bad shape to-day. J. A.

Young, of St. Paul, is in the city visiting his friends to-day. He was formerly associated with J. I. Pasold in the marble business.

Miss Anna Grant, who has been visiting in Qnincy, will return to Decatur Monday and be a guest of Mrs. Silsbee on East Eldorado street. Lewis Campbell, a former Decatur printer, is now located at Jerseyville, where ne is a typo on the Democrat, an illustrated special edition of which paper has reached us. Miss Ida Seamons, of New York City, who has been visiting the Misses Tuttle, departed last evening for Chicago, where she will visit before proceeding to her home. Miss M.

J. Stockbridge, of Tacotna, Washington, who has been a gneet at the Hotel Brunswick several weeks, left this afternoon for Morriaonville, to visit her aunt. Miss Emma DaleBradsby, daughter of H. C. Bradeby and cousin of Mrs.

W. H. Enuis, this city, was united in marriage on Nov. 18, at Los Angeles, CaL, to Mr. Joseph H.

Barbonr, cashier of the Consolidated National Bank, San Diego, Cal. At home cards have been received by Decatur friends of the accomplished bride who has many friends in this city. The couple will make their home at the Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, Cal. Y. P.

S. C. E. Anniversary. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to attend the 3d anniversary of the Y.

P. S. C. E. of the Presbyterian church.

Hon. J. H. Eckels, a prominent lawyer of Ottawa, will deliver an address on "What He Hath Wrought." Seats will be reserved for 'members of the Macon county bar and the Decatur Christian Endeavor Union at the Grand Opera House, Sunday evening, December 8,1889, at seven o'clock. Sales of Real Estate.

B. K. Dnrfee, J. N. Bills and M.

P. Murphey, et al, to Henry H. Collet, quit claim to lot 2, block 6, South Addition-8200. Susan Miller and Mary MoClellan to Henry H. Colter, deed to lota 1 and 2, block 6, South David Garver to Hugh W.

Hill, deed to the undivided one-fourth interest in the Hatfield mill John O. Myers to W. B. Hunter and W. B.

Hunter to John F. Roberta, deed to tract of land in Mt. Zion--1400. C. B.

Waggoner to James M. Huff, deed to lot 19, block 4, Biggins' additon -8525. every step of which has betokened something better for the future. There is a peculiarity marking Decatur's steady growth which is not common to the building up of new towns in the Mississippi Valley. The money that has been invested in our mills and factorka and street railways and stores and paved streets and handsome residences, has all been made right here.

It has not been brought here from the outside. Every man who has money has made it right here, and the consequence is that its owners have an interest in the future of the town, and are possessed of the conservatism which has enabled them to accumulate property and amass wealth. Probably this same conservatism may have kept them from amassing still greater wealth, but it has also kept them from embarking in wild speculations and losing what it cost them many a hard struggle to gain. So that their very conservatism, which is often blamed for keeping them aloof from the feverish activity which sometimes leads a few to wealth, has been the balance wheel which has kept the whole mass from wrecking their all in attempts to get rich with baste. It is not popular, we are well aware, to advise against the methods which have made people wealthy in some places, but the common experience of all men who have studied the situation of booming towns is that the unnatural activity is always followed by a corresponding time of depression, from which the recovery is sure to be slow and painful.

But Decatur has never had a "boom," and therefore has never rushed to the other extreme--down to the depths of depression. For thirty years the growth has been steady--sometimes slow but always sure to keep moving steadily onward. The prices of property have never had a fictitious value, but they have been pretty sure to be a little higher than they were the previous year, There has been no great rush to lay out "all out doors" into town lots, but as fast as they have come to be needed additions have been laid out and lots have met with a satisfactory sale. The additions put upon the market within the past few years, East Park Boulevards, the new additions to the northward and the smaller additions adjoining the city on the west and the sonth, have sold readily and at fair prices. And Decatur property ia not yet high.

With but very few exceptions its rental value pays a fair income on the investment, and that is the true test of value after all. A man who invests a thousand dollars in a Deoatur residence lot, and puts a house on it worth another thousand, is very sure of finding a tenant willing to pay a rent for it that nets the owner nine or ten per cent, on the cost, and as the town grows--and it is sure to grow--it will increase in value every year. So that, we take it, the value of property in Decatur is very sure to advance. As the town grows will OLDCDSTOMSHOflOREDIliTHBREaCB Republican Senators Again in Caucus to Provide Committee Places for the New Members-Silcott's Bondsmen Not Responsible. No Official Notice to Be Taken of Death oi Jeiferson Davis.

W.v'iiixr.Tox, Doe. official notice will be taken by the War Department concerning the death of Jefferson Davis, who was Secretary of under President Pierce from 1S53 to lt.57. Secretary Proctor said yesterday morning that he could see no good reason to officially take notice of the event. The i has always been lowered to half-mast when ex-secretaries die. floated a usual yesterday from the top of the flag-sUfl.

'The clerks in the Department were all at their Jo-ks as usual, officially ignorant of the death of the ex-Confederate cliiefum. No announcement will be made to the army. Solitary and alone among the fifty-eight secretaries of war who have been gathered to their fathers, Jeflerson Davis dies unnoticed by the Department over which he once presided. The portrait of Mr Davis looks down from the galaxy of pictures of ex-secretaries, winch adorn the walls of the. chief clerk's room in the War Department.

No crape surrounds it, nor. as is customary when an ex-Secretary dies, will any be put about it. Providing Places lor the New WASHINGTON, Dec. Republican Senatorial caucus committee, witk Senator Platt as chairman, tisd a long session yesterday, and considered th? assignment of the new Senators to committees. Two plans for this purpose wore suggested.

One favored increasing the size of the committees ly assigning one new member to each ol those agreed to be so increased; while the other was to relieve some Senators who serve on several committees from tlieir duties on some of these, and assign the new members to their places. It was finally agreed, after much discussion, to adopt a union of both plans, and the committee then adjourned until Monday, when the arrangements will probably ue completed. It is possible that some new committees will be created, but the matter was not discussed at the meeting yesterday. Not Responsible lor Defalcation WASHINGTON, Dec. Silcott investigation committee have determined that the bondsmen of Silcott are not re eponsible for the 871,800 taken by him The law, they declare, gave members no right to collect their money from the Treasury through the office of the House, and tbat Silcott act ed only as the agent of the members in collecting the money.

The entire loss falls on the individual members of the House. A MISPLACED SWITCH Thawed Dynamite and Dead Men. BKADFORP, Dec. Yesterday D. Tutolo, an Italian, was instantly killed, and G.

Marehetta, also an Italian, a-1 G. Marganits, a young- Hungarian, wcro badly injured by an of dyr.i- mite cartridges at Howard's four miles from this place. The ir.cn were working on the Bradford i burg railroad, and went to a slianty to thaw out tho frozen Tea dynamite exploded, blowing the to pieces and instantly killing whose body was horribly mangled, a-1 almost unrecognizable. Margan.ts' lotheswere torn completely from person, and he was badly hurt aboat ace and neck. Marehetta was this city, and is now lying at Joylswn-btreet Infirmary, and wiU u.c.

Marganits will recover. No Trouble In Hayti. Xi-vv Dec. eorge W. Clydp which arrived irooklyn yesterday afternoon i- laytian port's, brings authoritative nials of the recent reports a ri'bolion hai broken out in Hayti President Hippolyte and L.i rovernmont.

These report- were yjalinedly domed by the passengers o-. the Clyde! as well as by Hannibal Tr.o.\ he new Haytian Minister to the Unit. I States, who arrived on thf steamer c-i His wav to Wa-hington. To a Press reporter Mr. Price said: leople of Hayti are now happy and consented and are making mom y.

are thinking of the coffea crop at pres- 3nt and not of rebelion. Besu.lti in a Smaih-Up, CM on the Lake Shore Railroad. CHESTERTON, Dec. misplaced at Dunn Park, a sand shipping station on the Lake Shore Michigan Southern railroad, thirty-five miles east of Chicago, wrecked the lim Ited express west-bound at eight o'clock last night. The locomotive waa totally wrecked, and tho three front cars crushed to pieces.

One railroad em ploye was fatally hurt, two others sus taining serious injuries. The names ar as follows: George Wilson, fireman; left arm cut off just below the shoulder; died three hours after the accident. Elkhart; se- The Australian System. Poim.ANn, Dec Advertiser yesterday afternoon published 1 tors from the mayors of Maine dtif-. county attorneys and prominent licans on the subject of ballot reform as applied to this State.

All except four replies a the adoption of the Australian system. The Advertiser says editorially: "Now a i system las operated successfully in there can no longer Ijo anv doubt that the next Legislature of Maino i pass a similar law i si-nous opposition A Fatal Runaway. PoiiTi.AVi), Ore Doc 7 --Last evening. Mrs. Smith.

of Sonooa. a promini in attorney of this city, wont driving in company with Mr Roaclio. Tin- horso took i and ran away, upsetting the buggy Hoth la- die-, wore thrown out. Mrs. Smith was instantly killed, and was fatally injured.

A New Gusher. Dec. Philadelphia Natural Gas Company has struck an oil well in a new field in Washington County that promises one hundred barrels an hour. The gusher is two miles from Tavlorstown. NOOO to Suve Life.

Many travelers by rail and steam have doubtless speculated as to the reason for the existence of a sort of gallows erected over railroad tracks, with not o.io but a dozen rope ends dangling from the crossbeam. Frequently along the line of the New York Central are these odj looking structures to be seen, and I noticed a couple as I passed under the bridges on the Culver route from Bay Ridge to Coney Island recently. A few days later the knotted but nooselcss ropes swinging in the breeze caught my eye as I was awaiting a train at a little depot on the Hudson river, and curiosity induced me to question a rollroad employe on the subject. The mystery that had puzzled me so frequentl'y waa simple enough of solution. "That contrivance is intended to warn freight brakemen of a bridge ahead," said my informant.

"Thcso men, as you know, frequently run along the roofs of freight cars in the night well as the day time. It is often pitch dark, and tliey may not know where they are even if on the lookout for possible dangers. But in nine times out of sprained between the A. M. Breckett, engineer, Elkbart; arm and face badly hurt.

A number of the passengers wcro thrown from their scats, but beyond a few slight bruises none wore hurt. They all placed in the two uninjured coaches and sent to their destination over the Michigan Central road. The accident was caused by the negli- who failed to close C. C. Harris, conductor, fclKfiarv, so- much engrosse a in their ly cut about the head and arms and about low8briJgeSj wben I a man standing erect or even kneeling on a car roof would have hia brains dashed out against the hard stone or brick while the train swept from under him.

The gallows like structures you refer to are placed at a sufficient distance from a bridge to give the brakeman time to lie flat on his car roof and thus avoid the danger. The rope strike him lightly on the head or shonl- the gradually posh out from the center, and stores will take the place of residences, while residences will push out to the outskirts and new additions will come in to extend our borders. Decatnr is not finished yet, by a long ways. It has grown from a raw prairie inside of sixty years to a bustling city of twenty thousand people, with paved streets, and electric railways, and gas and water, bnsy factories and shops in which thousands of people find employment and the means of earning a livelihood, it has schools and churches and banks, an opera house that every man, woman and ohild is proud of, and it hae a population as enterprising as any iu the Und, It cannot stop now; it mnst go OD, and develop into one of the most populous and wealthy inland cities in Illinois, or anywhere else. g-ence of a trackman, who failed to close -TM fhe switch after lotting a work train out.

ders as the tram passes under them, thus giving him a gentle reminder of fll Does Not Owe BUcott a Dollar. bridge York Herald. NEW YORK, Dec. David R. Paige, of Ohio, was much prised ye stcrday morning when ho read of the disappearance of Cashier Silcott, and the announcement that the latter had come to New York to collect 812,000 from him.

He sent the following telegram: J. P. Letdom, Washington, D. C. Sllcott's statement to you as published here regarding me is entirely untrue I have nol seen him (or six months, and do not owe bur a dollar.

DAVID E. PAIOE. Mr. Paige and Ex-Senator Camden, ol West Virginia, were on Loedom's bond during the Forty-eighth Congress, and Mr. Paige has continued on it since.

Arrested for Blackmail. BUFFALO, N. Dec. T. Hen drick and EdSvard Mills, correspondents of out-of-town newspapers, were arrested last night on indictments charging them with blackmailing the family oi Judge Lorant Lewis.

It is charged thai they offered for two hundred dollars recently-published story J. E. SAXTOK is selling toilet cases, collar and cuff boxes, manicure sets, baby sets, smoker sets, jewel caskets and work boxes, at astonishing low prices; in fact, at prices as low as most merchants pay for theire. And why? because he bought them BO he can. Be sure to see hia stock before purchasing.

d72w SWELL BODY and Portland Sleighs and Bob-Sleds for sale at n30-cUw6w SFKNCEB Jc TRUMAN- Co. W. A. COOTS' Restaurant. Whettlnc for 'Powum.

Some people have a prejudice for such feasts as 'possum suppers, but those who have the weakness are almost fanatical in their tasto. Just here it is well to recall tho conversation that occurred two darkeys, who were fellow travelers in a direction. One had asked the other what he con jidered the finest dish he had ever eaten. With promptitude he replied, and mentioned everything that was suggesteii to his mind. But lus appetite was evi- not aroused, as his companion afterwards found out.

After relating, or stating everything tempting that occurred to him, hu companion fiai 1: "Well, de finest thing I ever eat 'possum. Jes'get a big, fa', juicy'pos- sum, bake him till de grease runs ail over the plate, let him be good done and brown, den have taters packed up all 'round him baked well in dc grease" The other one couldc't stand it any to suppress a rZause 'onge, Stopping hU to be published in many of the papers jf do throughout the country. A Bad TTe lor Sanctlfication. JAMESTOWN-, N. Dec.

P. Fuller, a Napoll man, who has long talkin' 'bout dat, I'm gwine ter fall olf'n dis mule right here." This indicates how irresistible the 'possum is when properly baked and serv ed, been a devout Wesleyan Methodist, ana and no one is to be censured for having who has publicly professed sanctifica- a highly cultivated taste for this rich tion, is in Canada. An examination oi (Ga.) News. his books shows that he has kept up a systematic banking business on forged notes for thirteen years, floating as high a seventy notei a year, aggregating $6,000. Feauier Renovating.

Have yoar feathers renovated by the old reliable firm, Cox, Chamber! ain i i Library Block. augl.dtf.