The Herald-Despatch from Decatur, Illinois • Page 3

"PAY" LOCAL NOTES. Dunham Post has fifty members at present. A telephone line is to be put up be- ween Macon and "Walker. (jto. Walker, of Monticelly, greeted Decatur friends onSaturdao.

.7. T. Hubbard. invoiced a stock of Irugs for Dr. Miles at Cisco last week.

Blanche Wilson is spending weeks visiting friends in Blue IDC Ithicn (N. Ithican observes: Our t3 rt that St. Jacobs Oil off Zot cukes, 'Ihe county board does not meet until the second Tuesday in Sep- 1,11) wr. will be a meeting of Dunham No. Ml, on Saturday evening, 'Ilie annual conference of the A.

II. 1, Church of Illinois, will convene in a August 29th. 1'iUick Griflin, a well-to-do farmer Muultrie county, was visiting i.i.'nN in the city Sunday. six prisoners in the city four of whom are compelled to mil in the labors of the chain gang. I1.

Martin was struck accidentally is the right arm with a coal-pick the r.her day. He is unable to play base- bull, The work has been commenced on Thatcher's new residence on the jitheiist corner of Eldorado and Jack- jn streets. Try the "Belle" cigar, after which will smoke no other. To be had at the "Bon-Tori Blue Mound, ill, Tlio Sunday school convention which was to have been held last Sun- iU at Myer's grove near Casner, has tjpi'ii postponed to meet at the same (iluce on Friday, the llth inst. Mi.

and Mrs. John W. Graham, of LoMiaVille, will arrive hereou "VVednes- ur Thursilay of this week, to visit with Mr. mid Mrs. M.

Einstein. The workmen in the Niaiitic coal at a depth of feet, struck a six foot vein of coal on Thursday. They i dig no deeper, but make preparations for heaving the hidden ruel to the surface. M. Vorhees, vice-president of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture, to hold an institute at the court house some time i August.

He has written the supervisors for per mission to use the court room, In the opinion of many of our physicians, there will be much sickness this They say that the season has most favorable for malarial I'bo Kansas City Timoa reports that its SUMMEB VESTS Have concluded speedy sale. Come uk-koepor suffered very severely, and for i loi.g time, with rheumatism. Ho tried St. incyOi Oil und was cured by one bottle of it. There will be an agricultural insti lute August 23d ana 24th under the ilirection of William Voorhees, Vice 1'resident of the State Board of Agri- I is expected that Generals B.

OgU-suy, J. A. McClernand, C. Black C. and K.P.

Buckland will attend the soldiers' reunion to be held at Virginia, 111., September 8tb. I'eter Bennett, of Maroa, tfas in the cit and took possession of the horse and buggy which was stolen from him on Thursday night. He paid the ofii Lers liberally for their trouble. M. A.

Myer Son have been award i'tl the contract for painting the Preis Ford, Spangler, Steven's Creek, Pulask and the two old county bridges for which fey will receive 8225, for itwo coats of paint. There has been a modification of the postal money order system which ad of tue transmission of smal with more convenience and lessexpense. Three cents only will bi charged for a "postal note" for sums or less, and eight cents for sums not exceeding 810. The rules govern ing money orders will be observed in the new posta. note system.

The preliminary examination of the five persons confined at Taylorville charged with the rape of Miss Emma Bond, tuvs been again postponed unti Thursday August 8th. A gentleman from Taylorville. reports that a mu'ti tude of people were in that city Mon day. Miss Bond is not expected survive hej injuries. 'Squire Ingham, the man who was drugged, is slowly recovering.

Hi W-sight has partialy returned, bu is still either insane or unconciou the greater part of the time. Dr ff eyl thinks he will recover befor and be able to tell his own story 's supposed that he was drugged a a preliminary to being robbed, and th revelation which will follow Ingham will probably lead to the ar ot the one or more persons wh suilty of the outrage. The funeral and burial of Spencer Lehew, who was killed in an elevator, at "Warrensburg, en Thursday, took place yesterday afternoon. The business houses weae draped in moruning and a large concourse of people followed the remains to the cemetery. The Superintendent ot the Western Union telegragh company, arrived in the city yesterday afternoon.

He will try to perfect arrangements to locate the main batteries of the Western Union lines in this city. If he succeeds they will be located in the storeroom of the Central Telephone Company. David Martin is building a three story addition 40x50 feet to his lime house. The lower story is to be used for the manufacture of frear stone, the second for the storage of Portland and other cement, the third for barrels, etc. Uncle David repous that the lime and ewnent trade is on the boom.

This speaks well for the building enterprise of Decatur, Wheat sells in Decatur at SO cents per busbel. D. S. Shellabarger Co. are receiving about 5,000 bushels daily, 1,200 bushels of which comes in wagons from the country.

The lemainder comes by rail. Both mills are now running to their fullest capacity, using up about 2,000 bushels per day and producing an average of over 000 barrels of flour daily. W. Saulman's threshing machine aught flre near Macon, on Tuesday, nd was entirely consumed. The loss the proprietors was about SSOO or 400.

It is thought the fire originated rom sparks from the engine. The men at work around the thresher were excited that nothing was done until was too late to do any good. The farmers were gratified with two eavy showers of rain on Sunday. Vegetation seems to have taken new fe and corn is trying itself in grew- ng. No damage was done by the rief freshets, but in the opinion of es- imators the rain was worth a half million dollars to the crops of the ountry.

Now the option dealers are nvestigatlng the extent of territory ver which these rains spread and the ross benefits that will be derived trom hem. A moonlight party composed of i-oung folks of Decatur visited the Boiling Spiings grove, four miles lorthwest of the city, on Friday even- ug, and had a grand time. "Moonlight music, love and llowers" seasoned with Tierriment were enjoyed by Misses lattie Ilowell, Fannie Sibley, Gussie leed, Eva Bixby, Mabel Alexander. Jracie Bnggs, of Franklin, Flora 3ailey, of Pleasant Hill, and Messrs. Breck Irwin, Roxy Slater, Ed.

Chas. A. Ewing, John fl. Bixby incl Fred. W.

Walters. Justice Albert is building a small residence in Cassel's pasture on East Wood street. The building will be one story high with dimensions 34x24, and will eontiun live rooms. Shultz Houck are doing the carpenter work, riie building will cost SSOO. While removing an old stump from where Justice Albert intended to dig a cistern, an Indian, tomahawk was found which weighed two pounds.

It is made of hard rock and had a smooth polish, the work no doubt of some ingenious Indian, whose yell has made old settlers' hair assume a perpendicular and his finger nervously clutch his rifle, from fear of slaughter. From Saturday's Daily. THE DOLLAR OF OUR DADDIES. How It was Appropriated in the Council Last Night. The council met last night, Alderman Shroll being absent.

The aldermen took up the business of the appropriations for the various funds, and for upwards of two hours engaged in discussion on the law in the case and the amounts to be set aside for the different appropriations. After much wrangle, increases and reductions in the different sums, the following were the amounts agreed upon on the different funds: Public improvements, streets and alleys, 84,500, sidewalks and crossings, lighting the city, police department, fire department, 3600; health department, S500; law department, 8200; new pump at water works, salaries of city officers, 83,000, library, total, 841,600. This total is less than two per cent, of the total valuation of city property, and is therefore lawful. The total amount of tax levied for next year will be 853,700, for the amounts set aside by the city dads Jo not include 85,600 for interest on the city debt, 85,500 as a sinking fund for bonds of 1881 and 81,000 for bonds of 1S86. The vote of the council then adopted the whole as an ordinance, The request of certain parties for the free use of water in street sprinklers was refused.

The request of Moses Stafford asking that the city furnish aad lay the brick for the approaches to his new brick walk, at the corner of Broadway and Eldorado streets, was referred to the committee on sidewalks and crossings, or in other words it was refused. On motion of Alderman Parke, the amount now to the credit of the sinking fund of 1878 was transferred to the sinking of 1881. The plat of Miller Packards audition was referred to the streets and alleys committee. The bond of A.F.Imbodenas special policeman was signed by Reuben Bet- xer. The amount 8500, and the bond was approved.

On motion adjourned. I. S. Kaufman has neatly repainted his dwelling on South Union street. He has built new walks, made a new gravel drive-way, painted and generally improved the appearance of his home.

The Billet colts at Saratoga this year have bad wonderful success 'Ruanymede" and "Barnes" by Billet, won among the best horses on the track there. Mr. Powers has much of the Billet stock yet. H. Mueller has just received a large order for water regulators from Hot Springs, where the reservoir system of water works gives them a pressure of 150 pounds.

The order is for 150 inch regulators, 12 inch, inch, 12 2 inch, and one tapping machine. The whole amounts to nearly 82,000. Paul Smith is putting up a new brick building on State'street feet iu dimensions, two stories in height. The height of tbe basement ceiling is seven feet, the first story feet, the second story 10 feet. The cost of the building will be about 81,500.

It will be completed within about two or three weeks. A Policeman Punctures a Prowler. Early Saturday morning, as Officers Early and Robinson were perambulating their beat near D. S. Shellabarger mills, they heard some suspicious persons prowling about among the freight cars standing on the side track in that vicinity.

The officers approached the parties and officially arrested them. The parties proved to be white man and a negro, and the officers began to search for concealed weapons and tools, etc. Officer Robinson was searching the white man and Early was getting ready to look through the pockets of the colored individual, when the fellow jerked away and ran. Officer Early repeatedly told him to halt, but the cslored man thought that distance would render in-' effectual all threats of violence and kept running. Officer Early fired four shots at the fleeing negro, the last one taking effect and inflicting a severe flesh wound upon bis person.

He fell and was soon after put in the calaboose. Dr. Weyl was taken to the calaboose to attend the wounded man and probed for the ball, which was found to haye lodged in the left leg. On his persori found a skeleton key, a part of a box of matches and a sperm candle. There was nothing found on the person of the white man that would create suspicion and he was released.

While tbe negro was running he threw something away; that something proved to be a revolver, and was found yesterday morning. The negro is now in the county jail. His name is Monroe Kelley and he is recently from St. Louis. He is about thirty years of age and has tbe face of a criminal.

DIED. Zeb Kennard Alias Jack Dayton. Our readers will remember that about two months ago the HERALD contained an account of some unknown horse thief stealing and getting away with a fine horse and colt from tbe farm of James C. Lake, near Lovington, Illinois. Mr.

Lake offered a regard for the thief and horses. About two weeks after the theft Mr. Lade heard ol the horses at Quincy and pursued so closely that he obtained the colt. The thief struck off to the northwest and had not been heard of until yesterday morning when the following dispatch was received: MADISON, D. July 28.

To Js. C. LAKE, Decatur, 111,: Man and horse for which you offered a reward in custody here. Answer what course. WM.

LEE, Sheriff Lake county, D. T. Mr. Lake answered the sheriff by telegraph and went to Justice Lowry and swore out out a warrant for the arrest of Zeb Kennard, alias Jack Dayton, and left for Springfield, where he obtained a requisition, and continued his journey to Madison, D. claim the property and prisoner.

If nothing happens to prevent him he will be in Decatur with the alleged horse thief the first of next week. Mr. Lake hag worked incessantly at great expense to catch the thief, and his labors are now about to be rewarded, and the criminal enroute for the penitentiary Give sorrow words not apeak the grief that doth Whispers the o'erfrauctit heart and bids it Directors' Meeting. The regular meeting-of the board of directors of the Decatur Public Library was held July 27th. Present--George P.

Hardy, Henry Shlaudeman, W. T. Wells, W. A. Barnes, J.

L. Peake, B. B. Montgomery, Alice C. Bishop, Mary A.

Bradley, and Mary E. Hawsrth. Minutes of the last meetino; were read and approved. It being the beginning of a new year the first business was the reorganization of the board. The election of officers by ballot resulted as follows W.

A. Barnes. and Mary E. Huworth, to hold office for the ensuing year. The regular routine of business being completed, the board proceeded to the election of librarian and assistant, which resulted in the election of Mrs.

R. L. Evans as librarian at a salary of $50 per month, and of Miss Alice Tyler as assistant at a salary of 820 per month. On motion adjourned. MARY E.

HAWORTH, Sec'y. Late Estate Sales. Kincaid Sterr to Billing Longy, lot 4, block 2, B. H. Cassells second addition 8850.

E. Gherman to Francis Skelley east half of lot 7, block 16, C. H. Moore's addition; 8400. S.

Overmire to Mrs. Docia Bishop, lot 2 block 3, South addition; S1525, Live and Let Live. Life is not always under our own control, but can be prolonged by enre and prudence. Buriock Blood Bitters ai laijtive, alterative, and diuretic medicine tend maUrially to restore health and lengthen our Price $1.00. At the family residence on W9st Main street, on Friday evening July 28 1882, at 7 o'clock, Anton Nicholas Schlagel of brain fever, aged 3 months and 13 days.

At his residence in LaPlace, on the morning of July 28th 2 o'clock of consumption, John Williamson, aged 38 years. At the family residence in Elwin, on Sunday morning July 30th, 1S82, cholera infantuno, the infant son of Mr and Mrs. T. B. Elder, aged one year.

At the family residence on Soutl Broadway, on Sunday evening, Jul infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Graham, of cholera infan turn, aged about 1 year. Licensed to Wed.

Oliver O. Benedict and Miss Jennie J. Wise, both of Decatur. Vennor's Predictions. Vennor's predictions so far have been wonderfully correct.

He says 1882 will remembered as a year of great mortality The German Hop Bitters should be usedb every body. Sold by Irwin Priest. Aug. yrom Tuesday's Daily. Police News.

Charles Potter and Tommy Reed who were arrested by a warrant sworn outbyl.J. Halstead.in which they wer charged with stealing old carpet, their preliminary examination before Justice Curtis yesterday. They wer each bound over to Court their bai being fixed at 850 each. On Sunday afternoon Officer Kearne; chased a lot of boys and men from the commons south of the Fourt Ward school house. They are in th habit of gathering there on Sunday and by profane and boisterous Ian guage annoy tbe citizens in that cinity.

Yesterday forenoon Samuel Grun den and Charles Grover had a live! fisticuff ia the city park square whic resulted in their arrest. Officer Welt condueted them into Justice Albert court. Grunden was discharged an Grover was fined SB and costs whic he paid. Grunden subsequently swor out a peace warrant against Grove who, whea caught, will be put undo bonds to keep the peace and desis from the further punishment Grunden. On Sunday afternoon, Officer Earl airestsd Aaron S.

Glenn and took him to the calaboose. Yesterday Glen was taken into Justice Albert's cour and charged with drunkenness. was fined S3 and costs, and on failin to pay or secure his fine, he was com milled to the charge of Mr. Adams a tbe calaboose. He will assist th chain gang, and when he has labore his flne out, be will be held on charge of burglary and larceny.

Whe he was arrested two bottles of bee were found in his pockets, the bran and quality being the same as were a terwards found in a box in a Wabas freight car. The evidence is circurn stantial and Gienn will find it difficu to explain the criminal coincidence. It is eratiryine to know that the Lieb Malt Bitract is rapidly becoming the pendenee of physicians and nurses in hel ing them "to bring through" patients who lives might otherwiie have been lo through the weakneis and exceedingly anil tedious process of ptrvwted function activity. From Tuesday's Daily. A Wife Beater.

Bud Ogden was arrested last night by Officers Kearney and Mason, on complaint of a boy who came running to tbe old square and saying that Ogden way trying to kill his wife. Having arrived at the house tbe officers learned from Mrs. Ogden that her husband struck her in the baek of the head with his fist, knocking her down and rendering her for a short time unconscious. She said that Ogden had reached about afterwards for a pair of knucks which he had, and had threatened to kill her. Ogdea is an employe of the city, and tbe police were informed that be had boasted he would never be arrested.

He didn't show any of that disposition last night, nd he wept in bis penitence as he as led off to the cooler. He will have trial. Ogden's neighbors in the yi- nity of Jane's chapel on West Main reet say that he has been mistreat- ns his wife for some time. A Surprise. The 47th birthday of Mrs.

W. F. usher was celebrated Monday eve, by many friends. The family had an evening drive, aud Mrs. Busher new nothing of what was in store for er until she returned to find the parlor i possession of the surprisers.

During the evening, card playing, chatting and an excellent super were the chief features. Among hose present were Dr. Wheeler, George impson, Theo. A Gehrmann, N. Laux, Geo.

Kellar, M. Goldburg and M. Eskett nd their wives: Misses Ida Wheeler, sophia Hattie Howell, Annie and tfollie Laux, Lillian Irwin, Annie Kehl, of St. Louis; Miss Smith, of Chicago nd Misses Maud Cupps, Annie Houck nd Annie Pumpelly, of Mt. Pnlaski, 11.

The young gents present were Ed, Cuny, Walter Towling, J. Erwin, Frank Jarber, J. Marts, Chas. Musser, and tfessrs. H.

Bekemyer, Will Clear and Simon Reinheimer, of Mt. Pulaski, The Opinion of a Physician. A physician writing of Dr. Guysott's Yel- ow Dock and Sarsaparilla, having carefully analyzed HE ingredients, BSVB: "Ifeelen- over this great health renewer. Dhere can be no other remedy BO harmless and yet so effective.

No other jjossible combination of drugs will more rapidly as- 5 ist nature in hastening the cure of general 11-health. In chronic disease of the lungs, iver and kidneys and nervous system it is especially beneficial. In its composition I wag especially pleased to find Iron, Celery Juniper combined with the Sarsapanlla Yellow Dock. Iron of itself is seldom jeneficial, but in connection with such valuable vegetable tonics its effects will at all have a tendency to promote health and strength." Breezes From the Suburbs, AOAIH. When sometimes our feet grow weary, On the rugged hills of life-The path stretching long mod drtfcry With trul and labor rife- we pause on the toilsome journey Olaucmg backward valley act! glen, And sigh with an infinite longing.

To return and begin again. For behind is the dew of the morning In all its freshness and light. And before are doubts and shadows, And the chill and gloom of the night, we remember the sunny places We passed so carelessly then, ask, with a passionate longing To return and Degin again. Ah, vain, indeed, is the asking! Lite's duties press all of us on, And who dare shrink from the labor, Or sigh for the sunshine that's gone? And it may be, not far on before us Wait fairer places than them; Life's paths may yet lead by still waters, Though we may not begin again. Forevermore upward and onward Be our paths on the hills of life, And soon with a radiant dawning Transfigure the toil and the strife, And our Father's hand in ill lead us peace of a'fiirtr world Tenderly upward then; the joy and peace of a fr' He'll let us begin again.

Come arrant Next Monday the Petersburg Browns will play the Lincoln Reds at Lincoln. Two men of muscle Lincoln are agitating a prize-fight to occur some time next month. The Dwigbt creamery is handling 600 to 700 pounds of dairy and creamery butter per day. Prof. Campbell, who has charge of the survey of the Kankakee valley, under direction of Gov.

Porter, is now in that survey for the purpose of digging a new channel for tbe Kankakee river, by which it is proposed to reclaim from 800,000 to 1,900,000 acres of lands. Should France! Mall Gazette.) Give me leave to answer this question, lately put by an advocate of the new tribunal of fashion, to be composed oi Englishwomen, with the avowed object of destroying French prestige in dress. As well try a crusade against French, cookery. Just as cookery haa been raised to the dignity of a science in France, to the benefit of the entire civilized world, so have Frenchwomen, greatly to their credit, made a science of drees. Cookery and dresa are alien to the geniua of our nation, and if the art of making food both palatable and digestible is valuable to humanity, equally BO from an aesthetic point of view, is the art of making and putting 011 clothes.

Were, indeed, the ordinary Frenchwoman what untraveled insulars believe; were she frivolous, vain, and prone to sentimental adventure, she must still be regarded as a benefactress of her kind, From earlieit times the quick feminine mind in France has been bent upon the problem of minimizing human ugliness and increasing the euro total of beauty. We read that a Bavarian brido was fetched for one of the ValoiB Kings, the queen mother would nob present her publicly till a French trousseau had been prepared. The young Princess was wholly unpresentable, wrote the old chroniclers. And, in the present day, one of the most curious effects of tbe recent Franco Prussian war is tbe prodigious improvements it has brought about in the dress of German women. Their fathers, husbands, lovers, haying seen the perfect thing that dress is in the hands of a Frenchwoman, instructed them.

It is just the minute details we neglect that our French sisters go into with such happy results. No amount of time and labor is held wasted where the perfection of a bonnet ia concerned; and from their standpoint they are right, A woman, indeed, is very much what her bonnet makes her. Instead of railing at our neighbors for the energies devoted to dress, therefore, we should be grateful to them for cultivating a science so conducive to the agreeableness of life; while before we tet up a tribunal of fashion at home let us count the cost. How many Englishwomen are prepared to give up public life, philanthropy, amateur authorbhip, and the other multifarious occupations to which thoy now devote ibeuifcelvei-. in order to study dress after the i and laborious French method? 3 sim from saying that the gauii; worth the candle.

I simply aver a in the first places, dress is not in the genius- of the English nation, aud that, in i weoud, English ladies will never be ready to make such 'Hi behalf as come naturally to their sisters over tbe Minnie Brooks, of Chicago, who last winter experienced religion and turned her brothel into a mission house, being deeply in earnest in an attempt to reform, has fallen back into a criminal life. i Dr. Cox's IMamoDd Remedies. will make a speedy nnil sure cure in any case of Loet Manhood in old and young, Debility in either 6ex, coses of long standing of Tn- yate Diseases, Syphilis, Ulceri on tUe body poc- itive'y cured by tiis remedy. Price, $3 per bottle.

Consultation In all Female cases requiring itill and experience. One Interview sufficient. Office, 202 East IGth street, near Third Avenue, New York Cily. July 1-ra. The Khedive has placed his proclamation of Arabi Pasha as a traitor.

A convocation of various high functionaries declared to uphold Arabi Pasha, The portedescribes as extraordinary yerity the acts of the British at Alexandria. The powers are beginning to look with dissatisfaction upon England's course. Italy has refused to aid in restoring order on account of the porte's declaration to send troops to Alexaudria. De Lesseps is exerting his every influence in preventing British troops to land and Europeans in Egypt commend bis determination. Arabi retains a number of Bedouin chiefs in his camp as hostages and requires them to furnish him 60,000 men.

Houses under the protection of the British are being daily looted adroit Arabs. DeLesseps in an aduress to a crowd of Arabi's supporters declared England and France strangeis to Egyptian soil. The German, French and English admirals withdrew to their ships and will not land troops unless disturbances follow the speech. Be who has once despised the laws of notion, and has soared above them, has no right lo On eagle wings immortal scandals fly. While virtuous tctioni ire but borne and Everything in the word--even respect- is to be He who cannot wish that the who) wor may think and act like himself, his no right to call himself an honest free "Anld llotiin Anne Lindsay spent much ol her time in her little room in the high, winding staircase, "which commanded the eea, the lake, the rock, tbe birds, the beach," poring over old volumes or scribbling verse or prose on the "envelopes r' old letters." One day a fancy took her to write new words to a Scottish air which Sophy sing, the old ones 'being unsuited to its plaintive beauty; and in the course of her attempt she came to a standstill.

Calling to her sister Elizabeth, who was at play hard by, she said: "I have been writing a ballad, my dear. I am oppressing my heroine with many misfortunes. I have sent her Jamie to sea, and broken her father's arm, and made her mother fall sick, and given her Auld Robin Gray for a lover; but I wish to load her wiw a fifth nor- row the four lines, poor thing 1 Help me to one, I pray." "Steal tbe cow, stater Anne," said little Elizabeth. The cow was lifted and the ballad completed. But although willing to sing it whenever asked--and when once sung it passed electrically from heart to heart and lip to lip, till soon there was scarcely fireside in Great Britain where it had not been heard--Lady Anne never admitted its authorship, except to her mother, till within two years of her death.

She let the press arM the public- learned societies and private friends- puzzle over it in vain, till, seeing it attributed to herself in the "Pirate," she wrote to Sir Walter Scott asking him to 'thank the "author of for hia discrimination. There was a second part (written in response to the Countess "Annie, I wish you would tell me how that unlucky busineM of Jeanie and Jamie but, like most sequels, sadly inferior to the original song, The first to detect Lady Anne, out of her own family, was Lady Jane Scott, sister of the Duke of Buccleuch, who shrewdly said to her atDalkeitb, sing that song in a way; that sure it is your own writing," and extorted a copy of the words as the pnce ot I silence. NEWSPAPER!.