Gibson City Courier from Gibson City, Illinois • 1

5 3 Terms, $1.50 Per Year In Advance. GIBSON CITY, FORD FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1887. VOL. XIV. NO.

25. Courier J. M. BAILY DRY GOODS TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. BOOMG r'BOOHG Modish, of Grand Prairie jSsminary, will deliver the Oration at 1 on Peooration day.

Z-th Illinois Central hu let the eoo-tnot (or it steel bridge over the Ohio 4 Cairo. It to ooet $3,500,000. According to the Pantograph, the town of Chenoa closed the last municipal tear with a balance ol 131,408 in the treasury I Xhe Decatur Republican says that $1 000 an acre has been offered for forty icM of land adjoining that city and Literary Notices. -The Century for May has two very interesting articles bearing" on the present Sunday Sohool lessons, one being an account of the way in which the' mummy of Pharaoh (fiameses 11 was discovered, and the other a study of Pharaoh and hjs Daughter, the writer of which, Prof. John A.

Paine, arrives at some new and interesting conclusions. The life of Lincoln deals with tbe Kansas border war, and the war articles relate to the battle of Chattanooga. "The Chemistry of Foods and Nutrition," by Ifj-Atwatorjsa valuable article; YILLAG'E FINANCE Report of the Tillage Treasurer for tbe Year ending April SO, 18S7. SCRIPTS. April 16, ti8S, Balance bh uahtf at date of last statement $2068 63 Rec.

from R. Hulvane, poll tax. 163 73 Rec. from A. L.

Phillips, Meal's and Trask licenses 35 00 Rec. 'from J. B. Sbaw, county treasurer, taxes 872 04 Rec. from F.P.

Wood, taxes for '86 2216 14 Reo. fi.it lumber sold. 10 65 Rec. from Highway Commissioners, tax for 84 and '85 795 00 Rec from R. B.

Rockwood, show and theater 63 00 Same, street license 5 00 Same, dray and huckster licences 65 00 Same, fines 8 00 Same, for J. G. Ellis. 5 00 Same, to cnr. er.in or.

to Campbell 10 00 Rec.from J. EjCrammond. for walk 22 81 Rec. for lumber and nails. 40 42 Rec.

fiom O. H. Damon, sidewalk 10 35 is the way to express the business of J. M. BAILY COMPANY.

Magnificent display, and a full stock of everything nice, new and noTel in the Dry Goods line. Their store is resplendent with beauty and shelving jammed full of staples and novelties suitable for all" full of staples and novelties suitable "for classes. Many lines of goods very much cheaper than former seasons. We aim to keep a stock suitable for the circumstances qt all. Some too good to be low-priced and others too low-priced to be good, and the happy medium where you get a dollars worth for a dollar.

rdased bylflS owner The' total revenue of the city of Btreator last year was $18,648 93, of which abont $40,000 was expended, leaving $8.411.7.4 in the treasury. Mrs. I Ludington, of Farmer City, has been appointed assistant instituting tod installing officer of the W. R. C.

of Illinois. She organized a corps at De-Witt on the 28th ult. A PiatJ oonnty family named Lux L.vTbeen informed that they e- heirs to a $20,000,000 fortune in California, left by a bachelor uncle who went west during tbe gold lever of '4. The Chatsworth people have been bring for coal, but went down only 321 feet, when their money gave out and they stopped. Coal has been encountered several times, bat not in sufficient quantity to pay for mining.

The interstate commerce law practically adds 4 to 6 cents to the value of svery boehe.) Qf raised in this part of Illinois. We guess the farmers will instain the new law, even if some editors do make faces at it because they hare lost their passes. Tolono Herald- The Fairbury Blade say a L. J. Odell, formerly of Fairbury, has invented a new type writer, exceedingly simple in Operation and construction.

He sold a half interest to a wealthy Wisconsin (or 50.009. and company haa I been organized to manufacture the ma chine. It can be made and sold tor $15. Robert Rome, of Saybrookr, who it ii said tried to sell goods below cost, didn't succeed, but has gone to the wall, leaving a number of creditors in tne larch. One Bloomington firm bad nam arretted and put under $1200 bonds to appear and answer to the charge of mortgaging real estate property to them at $1100 which on examination was found to be worth only $500 or $600: T-FairburyBtaiie: John Loar of Belle 1 Prairie, marketed sixty-eight bushels of fine apples in this city last Saturday, which he received $1 per bushel.

I Loar has a fine orchard of ten acres, land in two years, when he kept a strict account of the amount received for apples cold, found that he derived $600 lone year and $550 the other. Besides Vith pride we call your Attention to our Boots and Shoes I Our trade on these is doubling. We have the best $2.50 men's calf boot you ever put foot in. Our Ladies', Misses' and Children's fine Shoes and Slippers arc par excellent and unexcelled. Our Ladies' Shoes have the reputation, and without a doubt are the neatest fit-tins shoes ever made.

Our goods are all marked in plain figures, and our motto "The Same Price to All." XM. BAILY CO. Bv THe Youno Ladies of the Y. W. We've a work to do 'gainst the drink that destroys.

And we must have the help of tbe girls and boys. When you are asked to drink, my son, and have a mind to accept the in-viteJHon, remember tbia; If you had a whole mind you wouldn't. "Keep your mouth ahut." During the cold, wintry days these words will be often spoken. There are reasons why Uhey should "be nttor6d jJl tbg iyear round. Thus Keep your month shut.

so that no untruthful or bad words may be spoken. Keep your mouth shut, so that strong drink may never enter. An exchange says: "A camel will work seven or eight days without drinking. In this he differs from some men, who will drink seven or eightdays without working." -The most powerful king on earth is wor king; the laziest king, shirking; a very doubtful king, smo king; the most common-place king, jo-king; the leanest one tbin-king; tbe thirstiest one, drinking; the slyest, win-king; and the most garrulous one, tal king. "Tobacco Is a filthy weed.

It was tbe devU. sowed the seed; It drains your pockets, stains your clothes, And makes a chimney of your pose." Making an Experiment. Lte us make' an experiment. Here is a boy ten years old who never used tobacco. "Charley, will you help us to make an experiment?" "I will, sir." "Here is a piece of plug tobacco as large as a pea.

Put it into your mouth chew it. Don't let one drop! go down your throat, but spit every drop of juice into that spittoon. Keep on chewing, spitting, chewing, spitting," Before he is done with that little piece of tobacco, simply squeezing the juice out of it, without swallowing a drop, he will lie here on the platform in cold, death-like perspiration. Put your finger upon his wrist. There is no pulse.

He will seem for two or three hours to be dying. Again put plug, of tobacco in a quart of water, and bathe the neck and back of a calf troubled with vermin. Ton will kill the vermin. Too will kill the vermin, and if not very careful you will kill the calf too. These experiments show that tobaooo, iu its ordinary state, is an extremely powerful poison.

Go to the drag store; begin with the upper shelves and take down every Then open) every drawer, you can not find a single poison (exoept sohfe very rare ones) which, taken into the mouth of that ten-year-old boy, and not swallowed, will produce such deadly effects. bio Lewis. -----y- Pretty school teacher "Thomas, state eomr of the beauties of education. Thomas (oldest boy in the class) "Schoolma'ams." Enjoy Life. What a truly beautiful world we live in gives us granaeur oi mountains, glens and oceans, and thousands of means of enjoyment.

We can desire no better when in perfect health; but how often do the majority; of people feel like giving it np disheartened, discouraged and worn out with disease, when there is no occasion for this feeling, as every sufferer can easily obtain satisfac tory prool that ureen a Augnsc lower will make them free from disease aa when born. Dyspepsia and liver complaint are the direct causes of seventy- rive per cent oi snon nraiaaiesas oiuoun-ness, indigestion, sick headache, cost-iveness, nervous prostration, dizziness of the head, palpitation of the heart, and other distressing symptoms. Three doses of August Flower will prove its 'onderfnl effect. Sample bottles, 1U oeuts. Try it, A Boston school-boy being asked what Rhode Island is celebrated for, re plied: "It is the only one of tbe New England States that is the smallest." Another Art Craxe.

The latest art vtork among ladies is known as the "French Craze," for dee-orating china, glassware, It is some thing entirely new, and botn profitable and fascinating. It is very popu lar in New York, Boston- and other Eastern cities. To ladies desiring to learn the Art, we will send sn elegant china placqoe (size' 18 inches), hand somely decorated, for a model, together with box of material, 100 colored de mons assorted in flowers, animals, sold iers, landscapes, complete, with full instructions, upon receipt of only $1.00. The plaeque alone is worth more than the amount chanted. To every lady ordering thia outfit who encloses the address of five other ladies interested in Art matters, to whom we ean mail our new catalogue of Art Goods, we will enclose extra sod without a a beautiful 30 inch, gold-tinted plaeque.

Address, Thk tMPlBE Sews bjra H. E. HAWKINS, The most interesting article, in the May St. Nicholas is the story of "Sherman's March to the Sea," told by Gen. Adam Badean.

It reads like a tale of adventure, which in faot it is the biggest adventure in modern times. It is illustrated by Theodore Davis, who was with General Sherman on the March. There is also begun in this number a three-part story of life at the Military taJaJfa PointVwhich will be Phoi'Ion Howabd, who is expert testimony on hard roads, caucus politics and rye whiskey, baa been addressing the citizens of Chrisman, Illinois, on the subject of roads, and delves into the musty past for the following interesting facta: "Here, at the close of the nine-teeth century and in the happiest and most prosperous state in the nnion, we find in 1887, even under the operation of so good a law aa that of 1883, that ith all onr boasted civilization and en lightenment, we are less intelligent, less honest, less gregarious than were our barbaric progenitors of 6,000 years ago. The shepherd Kings who overran Egypt built stone roads. There were asphalt, macadam and stone roads throughout tbe whole Grecian archipelago; the Hebrews built stone roads and giant causeways from Jerusalem to the four points of the compass and who has not read or heard of the permanent roads built by the Romans under the administrations" of the Caesars? To-day, the Appian Way is in perfeot preservation although built thousands' of years ago.

And upon our own continent, a road built by tbe most effieminate of all known people, the Aztecs, runs from the port of Vera Cruz to the capital of Texaclan a concrete road that bus defied the ravages of a thousand years' time. Throughout Celtid Germany and Cis- Alpine Gaul, are some stone roads built barbarians a thousand years ago and now used for the comfort and business ol Christian people. How to Raise Peaches, Rev. George W. Mioier writes to the the Minier News aa follows in regard to the cultivation of peach trees in this latitude.

His suggestions may be of value to local fruit growera: Years since, through thoughts from concluded that by a little labor and extra care, we, in this section of Illinois, may successfully raise poacbesr With this intent, I last November laid down three 'peach trees, and at this writing. April 27, they are in full and beautiful bloom. With a sharp spade 1 eat the roots on two sides, leaving the other sides uncut; then carefully bend the tree to tbe ground, fasten it down with forked stickes; throw any kind of sticks br corn stalks on them, and then a few shovels full of earth, and your work is done. In spring, gently lift and tie them to a stake, and you are auout sure of a crop of fruit. I hope my neighbors will all benefit by my expert: ment.

A man of ordinary physical ability will lay down twenty acres in a day, and may thus secure this most delicious and healthful fruit. Bargain la Basic Th Favorite Album of Songs and n.llAiln. containing thirty-two pieces of choice and popular music, full sheet musio size, with complete musio and mnnin and Diano accompaniment is nne- ly printed upon heavy paper with a very attractive cover. Tbe following are the titles of the songs and ballads contained in the Favorite Album As I'd Nothing Else to Do; The Dear via Bongs oi Hnm: Mother. Watch the Little feet; Oh.

Ton Prettv Blue-eyed Witch; Blue Eyes; Katy's Letter; The Pasting BeU; I Saw Esau Kissing Kate; Won't Ton Tell Me Why, Robin; me uio uaraen Down Below the Waving Lin- Filled Leaves: All Among the Summer Roses; Touch the Harp Gently, My Pretty Louise Really don't think I shall Marry; Dreaming of Home; The old Cottage Clock; Across the Sea; A Tear Ago; Bachelor's Hall; Ruth and Good Night; One Happy Tear Ago; the Orchard: Tbe Old Barn Gate; Jack'e Farewell; Polly; Whisper in the Twilight. This iae very fine collection of real vocal gems, and got- nn in vara handsome style. Pub- Ushed in the usual way and bought at a music store, these 32 pieces would cost you $11.20. We bought a job tot of this ml sacrifice and as the holidays are past, we desire to close out our stock st once. Will send you the entire eo'lection well wrapped and port- paid for only 40 eta.

eena immeuixj. Address. The EuriHK Xa-wn Syra- Total receipts 43 BXPBNDJTDBK8. Pd.T. R.Wiley, office 3 00 C.

J. Bucbner, eip. as delegate to meeting. State Bd. ct Health 6 24 Swan P.

Johnson, work on streets 122 25 R. Mulvane. work on streets. 4c. SHI 50 Em iteiJSlSi.

2 0. Damon, same 24 00 1. E. Crammond, same 24 00 0. Damon, one day at Pax ton.

2 00 Geo. Morgan, work on streets. 6 00 N. L. Sears, 100 6-in.

tile. 350 Steve Huffman, work on ditch 75 RXnoate. service judge of election 2 00 Brown, Pettibone i blanks 64 A. L. Phillips, serv.as 62 00 J.

E. Sbeffer, judke at election 2 00 Pwanson Bros, griding 8 00 Andrew Bell, work on ditcb 1 50 E. 8. Ross, services aa 12 00 G. M.

Wood, same 12 00 J. W. Clark, serv, as trustee, 12 75 P. Wood. Judge at election 2 00 Mela Hanson, tiling 4 00 E.

Garrett, work on sidewalk 4 90 J. J. Roberts, costs in Alsop cases 9 40 fame, costs in suit with Berman 13 70 B. Gentle, work on park 10 00 1 P. Wood, costs in village suits vs.

Barthels, Arrbwsniitn, Bradford and 67 20 J. M. Mitchell, bookcase, 10 15 J. J. McCormick.

services as police 2 00 Gua Kinder, 2 00 A. Linstrom, work on ditch, Ac. 20 63 Dorsey and Stanley, ditching 9 00 C. C. Howdysbell.

police, Aug. 1 2 7 00 A. Williams, work on weUB 1 25 W. Moore, eupt. gravel pit.

60 75 J. J. Roberta, making troughs. 3 65 Frank Troutner, work on 8 37 Crawford Elliott, salary as Vill Att. 50 00 R.

B. Rockwood, salary aa clerk. 40 00 K. Lowry. pub.

proceedings, 15 00 Same, printing 4 Oil Wm. Thrasher, pumping. 60 Ji W. scraper. J.F.

Hicks, work 3 00 5 75 3 10 60 i ra 60 75 24 07 18 90 13 75 30 94 15 83 15 32 7 88 32 43 42 78 38 63 50 31 36 38 8 68 10 63 W. L. McCorneil. work Wm. Powell, reiair on pump.

v. M. J. Kenrudon. tax rerunilea.

Thos. Hoopes, for gravel N. N. Wrhrht. hauling lumber.

Geo. Morton, work on gravel road Wm. Hintnorn, do did. Rankin do do do do do do Geo. Mitchell Ira Hinthorn Gns Carlson Kightlinger Berry Price R.

BuddlestOn do Jordon titokea N. N. Wright John Briscoe Thos. Donavin Jobq Sutton George Fields" JH8 Bam Hums R. Majors B.

Uentle Robt. rtinon. Jack Stokes Selbura; Thos. Hoy I. McLaughlin Jas.

Anderson Gus Selberg John Wyant Campbell Jos. Ryan Buchanan Tnoa. Blake John Dobman Jas. Lester Harry Ramey Cha Donglaa Jaa. Grant Georra Harper, work K.

S. ttosa, naruware ai 11 R. Douelas, hauling and grav. wrk 63 69 J. LeFevre, 87 20 10 00 6 95 6 00 60 1 83 62 27 37 8 00 H.

A. Dorsey. H. Hawkins, George Pride, Wm. Ewing, pumping E.

J. cboenDonm, tax Cbas. Cram, cleaning crossings J. Dillingham, work on J. L.

Mitchell, do C. J. Bucbner, trust sal and 14 55 Garrett, judire at election. 2 00 2 00 J. A.

Rockwood, do Keiser, Holmes White, lumber. 1 62 M. D. Worrell, costo- in Vartuels, Arrowsmith and Myers suits. 35 65 John Linstrom.

ditchine 2 25 D. McGinlev. haul. gravel work 160 64 Ed. Alyea, do 28 25 Jas, Burns do 51 60 C.

K. Baenen. freight and lumber. 80 36 J. H.

Collier, 133 40 Hall Ross, lumber lus ua Eggleston A Spalding, lumb.A tile 172 73 J. H. Holmes, salary as 12 00 J. M.Mitchell do 12 00 P. A.

Coal urintine- 1 00 T. R. Wiley, health 08V off. rent 6 50 ACrabbs, brick. C.

Oliver, clerk at C. F. Buckmao, do M. D. W.

rrell, judge at election. J. ff. Clark, sal.poL and health off. Total expenditures (3834 33 April 26, '87, Cash on land 2546 16 do do do do ao oo 20 1 do 12 18 1 do 1 88 do 63 do 63 do 63 do 63 with team 52 13 I 1 do 53 SS do 9 38 do 39 62 do 86 70 do 4 31 do 1 25 do 11 60 do Tfll An it 7B 2 oo aoo 2 00 JtKHrEe cut twenty-four" tons of tay-cfflotbera-end -reflections nf my eg 'i I HardMre Quick Meal arid Crown Jewel I l-'i 1 -1 -1 riSSV I 1 jf.

i' 1 I 1 ..1 i i3TV ii, -ni. -4i. a sei Tinware COOS Stoves -AND- Jewel Ranges line of- GOODS! at (Jibson for- Gasoline Stoves, pr" -Full She ten acres one year. His orchard is lone of the finestln thiaTection of the I Illinois boomers might learn a lesson from tbe Wiohita, Kansas, fellows, who work the racket in this wise, according to the South Kansas Tribune, 'pf Independence "A man who owns a transfers it to a snydicate compos-fed of himself and some of his relatives, 'and the next day the Eagle announoee "the sale of suburban property to a local Inydieate of $200,000 and then the resi dents of the town get together and ask: Good Lord, did you ever see such a -The Seventh-Day Adventiate, who ave a few member in this neighbor-ood. if ere organized as a denomination orty-two years ago, at Washington, and they have grown rapidly in umbers aril influence.

"At present, they have twenty-eight organized State Conferences, covering nearly all the Estates and Territories in the Union. They have missions in Scotland, Eng land, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, France, Switzerland. Germany, Italy, Australia. New Zealand, and the Sand Moh Islands. They claim converts also in South America, Russia, and Africa, Vd in all parts of tbe world.

They have organized churches, with membership of about 35.000, and 330 minis ters. They are publishing twenty-five Wiodicals in different languages. They 9 wn six. large publishing-houses, and very year, they say, their work is They are a radical temperance people. They drees plain and present I quiet and modest appearance.

I that feeling of weariness, so often Siperienoed in the spring, results from i sluggish condition of the blood wnicn, being impure, does not quicken with Ae changing season. Avert Saras par rilla, by vitalizing and cleansing the Mood, strengthens and invigorates the STEEL STEEL P. S. Clothes Wringers $2.00 E. H.

JOH1T JSnTERfEHrl Sole ayont -H!" C- ViSi V' 7 ZTFS KING'S CEIaEMATED SPECTACLES! AND ROCKFQflD WATCHES. $6380 49 Evan Mattinsnn, treasurer of the village of Gibson, do solemnly swear that the above statement ia true, to the teat of my knowledge and tielief. EVAN MATTINSON. Treaa. The Leading Jewelry and Music Store.

Fib Watch Rrjfalrthiraapertartv. nvk and Jewelry repaired on ibnrt aoMea. All wea ruarauteed to oItv aatlrfaetlon. At Al. old staad, Srst door aorta Melwwallt' maat market.

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