Mattoon Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 4

SOUTH CAROLINA. satisfaction and disquiet as has heretofore existed. If, however, the I cannot ask you to follow me farther. In my judgment, I can no longer Serve you by further resistance to the impending calamity. A bill "for an act to purchase stanes of Abraham Llueolo and Stephen Douglas, to beiade In statuary marble or bronze metal, after the models executed by Leonard W.

Yolk, sculptor," is now pending in the I-elslatur ThoHattoon Gazette. Friday, April 13, 1877. XiOCA-Xj MATTER Tho JIattoon Gazette A. Weekly Family Newspaper. C.

B. EOSTWICK PUBLISHERS Senators Oglcsby and Davis were on Wednesday treated to the "Grand Honors" by the Legislature. The French wine crop of 1875, is estimated at gallons which is almost exactly half that of witn eratitnae to uoa ror tne meas ure of endurance with which He has hitherto inspired me; with gratitude to you for your boundless conndence In me: with profound admiration for your matchless naoiity to tne cause In which we have struggled. I now announce to yon and the people of the State, that l8hall no longer actively assert right to the ofilee of Governor of South Carolina. The motives and purposes of the President of the United States, in the policy which compels me to pursue ray present course, are unquestionably honorable and patriotic.

I devoutly pray that events may vindicate the wisdom of his action, and that peace. justice, freedom and prosperity may nereatter do the portion or every citizen of South Carolina. (Signed) D. II. Chamberlain, Governor of South Carolina.

STATE SEWS. Prof. Light, the aeronaut, was buried at Paris, 111., last week. Paring the month ol March there were 61l deaths in Chicago. A movement is on foot at Springfield to establish a free public library.

There is strong talk of consolidating the Timet and Union at Champaign. The railroad bonded debt of the town ships of Vermillion county is The Legislature iu a body visited the State Institutions at Jacksonville last Saturday. Ilawley's new city directory of Peo ria shows that there is 9,461 heads of families iu that city. The Illinois Central Association of Congregational Churches held a session in Chcnwa ttiis week. Duquoinhasa public library organ ized in 1869 under the State law.

It contains 700 volumes. Die Leader says that the quantity of opium eateu iu Bloomiugton is increas ing at an al inning rate. The House of Representatives at Springfield, has killed the bill to abolish the normal schools. There will be alwut forty students in the graduating class at the Industrial niver-ity at Champaign, this year. At the city election in Shelhwil'e last ecK, the Kepuhlieaiis carried the day, electing their Mayor and Council.

K. .1. Alexander, late of the Ilills- boro lilade, has gone back to bis "lirst love" driving mules and guiding the plow. Over one-third of the land in McLean county is owned by 414 persons. Judge David Davis owns more than any other one man.

The Democratic committee used up about 17,000, in their municipal election iu Chicago, and did not elect anybody either. The po-t office light in Paxton is said to be getting hot. The present incumbent, after eight years of service, proposes to retire. The number of eases of Black Hills' fever in NVatseka is increasing. Nothing but excellent prospects for the coming sea.son iu this county can subdue it.

There have been eightv-six additions to the membership of the Methodist church, at Piper City, Ford eountv, du ring the. meetings which have just closed there. It is rumored that Condit, the Champaign banker, who lately left that city on art-oil ut of his liabilities getting too big for his assets, committed suicide in Galveston, Texas. A heavy consignment of grain is being shipped from Monticello direct to Liverpool, England, by Piatt, llubbell Co. The grain goes over the Chicago and Paducah railroad via Boston.

The village of Morva is in a happy condition. Its licenses pav all the village expenses, its Trustee work for nothing and the Treasurer don't charge a cent for handling ithe public money. John S. King, Receiver of the O. lt M.

road, offers reward, for the apprehension and conviction ol the person or persons, wnodisphu-ed the switch at Carlyle, 111., on the night of the 21tb nit. Mr. C. Stewart, the lately elected Mayor of Salesburg, was chosen to the sunn, isitiou in dunnc his absence from the city anil without knowing anything about bis candidature. The remains of Samuel Parsons, a sou tf Dr.

Thomas Parsons, who resides alHiiit live niile-i southwest of arrivcil at home one, u-iy last Me bad been murdered in Texas by a des-I iierado. disturbing influences are simply transferred from the whites, who are too shiftless and lazy to work, to the blacks, who really constitute all the producing class there is in the state, then prosperity is further from being inaugurated than ever, and the real trouble has only just begun. It is an experiment and we are willing to wait and see what results. Arrangements for Boss Tweed's release from confinement has been made on condition of his surrender to the city authorities his property a quired during his ring transactions and revealiug the names nf those who were his fellow conspirators. His reluctance to divulge the names of legislators and others who receiv ed bribes from him in connection with the famous charter bills, delays his release.

It is said that the liar per Brothers have documentary evi dence of all these transactions and in due lime will make them pnblic unless the recipients of Tweed's bribes restore the money to the city. Those best informed express the opinion that Tweed will not endure his improsonment much longer for the sake of his old associates who, have no further use for him except to keep him silent. The most authentic reports from the Turkey indicate that the army of the Porte, is in a terrible condi tion. The soldiery, besides suffering from incapable and dishonest officers, have also to contend with want of food, clothing and hospital accommodation. An utter improvidence seems to pervade all departments and the only wonder is that it has been able to accomplish so much.

It is not the real soldier who are claimorous for war, but the Ulemas, Softas and other religious fanatics. These malcontents are continually firing the Moslem heart. The inflammatory placards that appear ou the btreets of Constantinople are the work of their hands. Should the actual contest begin, it is not believed that the Porte could maintain a respectable opposition to Russia but a few months. Last Wednesday morning, about." one o'clock the famous and elegant Southern Hotel at St.

Louis took tire and no effort could stay it. In a short time after the alarm was given the greater part of the building was in flames, and scores of terror-stricken people appeared at the windows of the fourth and fifth stories and pit-cously called for help, while the crowd gathered on the side-walks were utterly unable to render assistance. The ladders were found too short to reach the upper stories and the occupants of the rooms, made frantic with terror, in many cases leaped out upon the sidewalk, and were either instantly killed or so bruised aDd mangled as to ultimate ly die. In the upper story occupied by the servants, the greatest loss of life is reported. About 'J00 of them had quarters on that floor, and how many escaped, is at last accounts unknown.

Sufficient is known to place the disaster alongside of the Brooklyn Theatre iu loss of life and the liornfyiiig by UTr daily papers in their dctnib-o neeoiilits, we luv no to 1'p to i 1 1 i of to press nil' iii'r like a ivii.il'ic estimate of the tliilnbiT of lisi'i in-ci! iiei a 1 1 v. i i i iii.c i i iiv- at 111- fa'-ii. Veslenh.y In enforce 'vni'kiii wen- in e'li; i inir the debris and sr-arch i n-lor dead bi'dies. Anions thos-- who ii row Iv was. lvl.te the actress, who had a per ilous experience in the late tire at Brooklyn lln-atre.

She hi every thing. Mrs. John Simp-em, wife I' the general manager of the daiia and I. it St. railna was also rescued with great difficulty.

The Ihe department of Louis, v. iiic ii has been regarded as very cPU ieiil, se-ined to almost entirely fail the emergency of reaching and rescuing prisons in the upper stent's of the burning hotel was presented. i Tiie people of Mexico are given to change a change of rulers. Diaz, the latest nr. upcr, who sustains himself iu i.ower by the aid of the military, has involved hlmso'f In a iuanel with General Mi and the mutter has been carried before the Mexican Congressfor rather, what is leftof that body, Diaz having ahlished the Senate, and the lloune being without a quorum).

Diaz is accused, of had faith mid the return of ex-President l.erdo is openly demanded. Evidently, the Mexican people are longing for a change. I i I Withdrawal tf the Troops from the state House. Address Governor Chamberlain He Eetlres from the Contest for the Governorship. Columbia, S.

April 10. The Unl ted States troops were formed in line, and moved out of the state house at noon to-day Governor Chamberlain has just issued the following address, retiring from the contest for the governorship To the Bepublicatu of South Carolina By your choice 1 was made governor of this sutc In lo74. At the election on the 7th of November, last was again by your vote elected to tne same onlce My title to the office, upon every legal and moralgrouna, is tc-tlay clear aud perfect. By the recent daclsion and action of the President of the United States, I find myself unable longer to maintain my otneial rights wnh the prospect of tinal success, and 1 hereby announce to you tnat am unwilling to prolong a struggle which can only bring turiher sutteriug upon those who engage in it. In announcing this conclusion, it is my duty to say lor yo.i that the Republicans of south arolina entered mwn their recent iolltical struggle tor the maintenance of their political and civil rights, constituting beyond question a large majority of the lawful voters of the state.

You allied yourselves with that political party whose central and inspiring principle has hitherto been the civil and political freedom of all men under the constitu tion and laws of our country. Bv heroic efforts and sacrifices, which the just verdict of history will rescue from the cowardly scorn now east upon them by political placemen and traders, you secured the electoral vote of South Car olina for Hayes and Wheeler. In accomplishing this result, you became the victims oi every torm of persecution and injury. From authentic evidence, it is shown that no less than 100 of your number were murdered because they were faithful to their principles and ex ercised the rights solemnly guaranteed to them by the nation. You were de nied employment, driven from your home, robbed of the earnings of years of honest industry, hunted for vour lives like wild beast, and vour lainilies outraged and scattered for no ollcnsc, except your peaceful uud linn determination to exercise your political lights.

You trusted, as yon had a right to trust, that if by such efforts you es-tablished the lawiul supremacy of your political party in tlie nation, the Uov- eruii.eut of Ihe United Mates, in dis- harge ot its constitutional dutv, would protect the lawful Government of the State from overthrow at the hands of your political enemies. From causes patent to all men, and ipiestioued by none who regard truth, you have been unable to overcome the unlawful com-' binations aiel obstacles hich have opposed the practical supremacy of the Government, which your votes have established, i-'or many weary mouths you have waited for your deliverance while the long struggle for thb Presidency was in progress. Yon were exhorted by every representative and organ of the National Republican party to keep your allegi iuce true to that party in order that your deliverance from the hands oi your oppressors might be certain and complete. Not the faintest whisper of a possibility of disappointment in these promises ever reached you while the struggle was pending. To-day, April 10, 1377, by order of the 1'iesideiit, whom your votes alone tes-eued from overw iielmiiing defeat, the Government of the United abandons you deliberately withdraws from you its support, with the full know ledge that the lawful Government of the State will be speedily overthrown by a new interpretation of the constitution Of the United Mates, at variance alike with the practices of the government, and with the dyoisions of the supreme Court.

The executive of the United States evades the duty of ascertaining which of two rival State (jovrrumunt is the lawful one, and by the withdrawal of the troops now protecting the state from domestic violence, abandons the law lul State Government to struggle with an insurrectionary force too powerful to lie resisted. I be grounds of policy Usin liic.i such action is 'I a startling, it is i-aid that the Xoitli i- weary ol the Niuthcm tumbles. Il i weary, too, of the oiil; which -nruiiii lioni the stupeioloiis i i iiue chattel ami longed lor reoo-e. It to cover tlielll from hv compromises with th is i -tig e. lib a di-l rbe i its jeace, lull Cod it I it- duty until, through a ciiutliei winch rocked and agonized ihe nation, In-gri-at crime was put away, an I I i ecl.ini onf.i n-d for all.

Il i- dd th. i'. il a ni.ij ii if of people I he M.v'.e nuahlc, liy pll)-ieal mail. lain their they I- hit p.lllie I TV 1 1 'e. Wa- 1 a iue ever In-; of our hi-or If il shall its I 1 con e.

will not b'ng run- i ii ne.i lo 1 1 in a or I isr.ni a. It I Hon oil Kepre -i nl ve- ill rel u-i- an aopro-I piialion the armv of the I ailed Males if the lawful of C.roiiua maintained by military force-. The submission to sin t-o-; ei eiou, marks the degeneracy of the i-lilieal party of people, which eiuo-en it. A (iovei nineiit of ihe nanw, a polit-! ieal party lit to wield power, never be-I lore blanclu il at mum a lin eal. lint 11...

lulirl ir.i.w. r.i.-tl. V.i ir. 1U trieiids could present have sulllci-d to avert the disaster. means of resistance to tin consummation of th" wrong are My strict legal rights ate, of course, wholly unaffeeU-ii by the action of the President.

No i-tturt of the State has i jurisdiction to tss umii tlie title to my oftVe. No lawful Legislature can be convened except upon my call. If the use of these pwers promised ultimate success to our cause, I should not shrink from any sacritice which might conlront live. It isacau'e, In which, by the light of reason and conscience, a man might ell lay down his life, hut to my mind my present responsibility, involves the consideration of the effect of my action upon thoae whose repre sentative 1 am 1 have hitherto been willing to ask you, Republicans of South Carolina, to risk all dangcra and ndure all hardships 'until relief should oine from tho Government of tlfi Un t- states; that relief will never com I i. i I Springfield.

W. n. Gale, editor of the Streator Pioneer, has been, in default of ball, placed In jail at Pont lac, charged, In a criminal prosecution, with libel ou two young ladies, Amanda and Etta Masters, daughters of a farmer near Streator. The remainds of Hon Sharon Tyn-dale lllnols, murdered Secretary of State, were removed from the Harrison near Belleville, to Green Mount Cemetery, las: week. The removal was rendered nescessary on account of the disuse of Harrison Cem-tery for burial purpose, On and after the 1st of May the office of Chief Engineer of the Illinois Cen-ralRallroad Company will be abolished, and the service of the division engieers will also be dispensed with.

Their offices will be turned over to the Division Superintendent. The wages of farm labor are lower In Ceutral Illinois than they were last year. The dreams of rapid accumulation in wealth have proved so delusive and recked so many, that people are content witn small gains, provided that they keep from being ruined. J. B.

Perry, of Tuscola, has the sympathy of a large number of friends, because lie bought the right to nse and sell a patent well-augur, giving therefor a mortgage of $9,000 on his farm. As is usual, tho well-augur turns out to be a humbug, and Mr. Perry is ruined. Bloomington is decidedly for woman's rights. She lias re-elected to the Board ofKducatiim Miss Georgiana Trotter, a lady who has served faithfully one term; and also her physicians have elected Mrs, A.

Shaw, a lady physician, president of the McLean County Medical Association. General A. C. Ducat, commander of the State militia, has been given leave of absence until May 1. It is rumored that General Ducat intends to resign, and that Colonel Torrance of the saeond regiment, is mentioned for the place.

Colonel Torrance is a good soldier, and will make an excellent commander. Jacob Ort, of Champaign, has just patented a device for placing prominently before passengers on railroad trains the name of the approaching station, which will doubtlu--, if practical, save travelers a vast deal of annoyance Iroro careless brakeiuen who butcher the names of some towns most fearfully. From observation In all part of Livingston county, there is great reason to expect crops for 1877. The inter ha very favorable, as the Irost lias made the ground mellow and easily plowed. The prospects for a large yield of corn, and oats is good, which will do much to bring our farmers and merchants out of tWeir depressed condition.

The board of snpervi-ors of Moultrie county, at the meeting la-' week, ordered suit to be instituted against Joseph Thomason, ex-siieritf and his bondsmen to recover $17-15. US, earnings of odfee collected and not accounted for in his report. Mr. Thoinason claims that (he money was expended on Clerk hire and olMce expenses. The suit will come up next circuit court.

Mrs. Beal, who lived iu Texifs town- ship, near Clinton, De Witt county, was burned todeath a few nights since by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. She ew down the chimney to blow it out as she was about to retire, when it exploded, throwing the contents over her night clothing Her sn endeavored to rescue her by throwing a blanket over her. but it was in vain. She was aged IS.

For some months past tbe people along the line of the Midland railroad have been anxiously awaiting the decision of the United States Supreme Court in tiie ease of East Oakland township vs. Win. B. Skinner, for bonds to sustain the road. The Court deeided the matter last week, and reversed a former derision, which was (hat tlie bonds should he paid.

decision relieves those along the line of the road of a heavy burden and they rejoice. Mr. Robert Rankin, of Southwn Illinois, has for a long time bevn a fruit growei and farmer, and during the past sixteen years his sales of products have footed up as follows- Wheat 71 cattle, hoi logs, apples, JXii.Vi.Xi peaches, grapes, or, in round numbers; (train, 11.01.'!.-11; fruit, The amount of laud devoted to grain as acres, mid only acres to fruit. Tbe average proceeds per acre he givs for grapes, $0(1. Pi item-lies, grain, A very fair showing.

The accumulation of fraud, deceit and pet jury that characterized the jury in -In- second trial of Alexander Sullivan, in Ihi eity, lor the murder of I rantis llanford, as developments continue to he made, -s startling. Tint three of these juror' have been Indicted for perjury, and that two of them have escaped i'rifli the city, and that two olln-rs, not yet indicted, have also run away, is by no in. uiiKeucourugiiig to trioM citizens who be'ieve In jurlice. Iu fact, it is a fearfal record that this SuMivan trial makes against Chicago, in whatsoever light it may be viewed by the pub-lie. Theru not one redeeming feature iu it from beginning to end; from the moment that Van Osdel so inexcusably ntad Hauford's unsigned missive in the Council cbamW till the moment when Sullivau inarched out of the court room a free man, at the end of the legal after-niece grotesquely called a trial.

The blamo does not all rest on the Jurors. The. Judire and attorneys for the de fense share It ith them, and the world In tbe light of more recent events ill form a more righteous verdict. In the higher tribunal before which this case Is yet to come, there will be no corruption, and and exact Justice will he met ed out to all concerned. Chicago Jour nal.

A man not long since applied to President Hayes for an ofllco. claiming to be a relative, anil this was the reply he got: "The fact of your relationship would ho an insiierable objection to your appointment." In Cincinnati the entire Republican ticket Is cloeted bv majorities ranging from 1,000 to 4,000. Moore's majority for Mayor Is 1,500. CITY IN BRIEF. Election is over.

"Give us a rest." Next Tuesday Charlestonholds its annual city jelectloh. Clay Powel, has been reelected Sexton by the city council. The painter and wuitewasher Is now busy jsrith spring decorations. Thq usual spring work on our streets and gutters is in active The Shelby vllle Union quotes poUtoes at 75 ceate1 per- bushel. Mattooardoa't doit.

The plow has been stopped a part of this week by the rain of last Sunday and Monday. A good article of maple molasses sells at $1.25 per gallon in this market. Xexcton Preti. The union m'oetlugs of the Christian churches are being held at the Western avenue chapel. cost $18,216.97 to run the city of Champaign the past year.

Mattoon disbursed $17,724.06. Tho Methodist and Cumberland Presbyterian Sabbath schools have recently purchased singing books. All the Odd Fellows of Mattoon are requested to meet on importaut business at their hall next Monday evening. As the editor of the Oakland Herald will again enter tho traveling ministry, a change will occur in Us management shortly. The city of Charleston has expended $20,249, Including $10,295 on account of water works, and has $10,043.05 left la the treasury.

Perhaps the good old rule of our fathers, "a whipping at school, another at home," might help to solve our school problem. "Odes to Spring" are now in order. None knows so well as an editor how many buds of genius are blighted by an untimely frost. When a party of young men go out serenading it would be well for them to retrain from swearing at least until out of the door yard. At the Council meeting last Monday night.

Cha. Bennett, was reapsinted Cily Attorney, ahd Ed. Baker and Napoleon Pence pulieetiM-u. Hopewell, the pi ut of McQueeji, in Douglass -ounty last fall, has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to the pen-tentiary for wenty-live years. The news oi th.

ot the South ern hotel, in Louis, received in our city last Wednesday morning, awakened profound interest, and the newspa pers were anxiously awaited for, particulars. Tlie spirit contest for members of tlie West Side school board resulted iu the election of W. D. Blackiuan and Rev. I.

II. A Id rich. Ou the east side C. M. Dole, and John Hunt, were chosen.

Phil oi the Parts Timet, has dropped tlie role of Independent and come out straight democratic. Phil feels iK'tter. He Is once more on hi native heath. We wonder if It was a tax lisllhaldi I it The Areola Ilrcord says Tin- I. K.

hull Iks recently len arnetod. Uu- I i nitmr 1 1 rsrue.l, iti.it ollioi wise made live nmt il(-Ksnnt. Frescoing furniture is a new species of ornamentation thai has not yet he roine fashionable in Mattnun. A large force of bricklayers at work on Opera Hall block, which la to take the place of the old Doles' Hall block. We hos: good heavy walls will he put up so that an audio ice in the hall will always feel perfectly safe.

The funeral sorviesof Mr. and Mrs, Alexander Montgomery, which were announced for last Sabbath at the Cumberland Prcjby levian church, were postponed on account of the disagreeable weather, mid will take place neit Sunday morning. Rev. J. W.

Woods preaches the sermon The hoard ol directors of Vermillion county fair have A. Brooks Rev. W. R. Goodwin (Meth.) and Rev.

W. 1'. Cdlmore (Meth.) as an awarding committee on game cocks and fancy poultry at the fair next fall. So says the Danville iVctea. They must be considered judges of poultry.

The Mattoon Odd Fellows held a meeting last Tuesday night to consider the question of creating a new hall. The Order own a lot south of the old site of Doles' hull, but many are opposed to building on It. Another suggestion of building wi-r Hasbrouek's store building, on the block east, is being considered. The total coat of tho Charleston water works hns been $40,087.00. The cost of running the works fourteen arid a half months has been $1,841,80.

The earnings for the same period In water rents and permits have been $1,301.00, louv-ing a deficiency of to say nothing of Interest ou the bonds. Such Improvements are excellentthlngs to have in a town but they are oxpenslve. 1873, which was reported at gallons. For the past twenty years the maximum and minimum products have been about as given above. The Louisiana commission do not seem to find a spirit of compromise easily to be discovered in that state, and thus far no information is received as to the conclusions they have arrived at.

From present indication nothing definite will be known until they make their report to the president Since the publications of Habber-ton's little book, Babies," there has been a manifest effort to prolate in gr. phi) the acts and saying of mischievous and troublesome children, who are familiarly knowu as "little torments" Habbcrton's book inaugurated a fashion in literature and his imitators are numbered by the hundred. Last Sunday night Dr. William Augustus Muhlenberg, the author of the well know hymn I would not live alway," died at the St Luke's Hospital, New York, in his 81 year. Besides an amount of humanitarian work that would be sufficient to make the lives of a half dozen ordi nary men glourious, he has left an enduring monument in several of the sweetest and hoot hymns that are found in modern collections, and which are sung The ring of silk smugglers in New Rork ami Europe, has been so strong and successful that A.

'J'. iv Co, who own their own mills in France, and have special facilities for buying cheap, are not able to import and pay the duties on their own manufacture: 'and make a liv ing profit. Instead then-tore of in-porting their own silks, that firm buy every yard they sell, including goods manufactured by their own I mills abroad, from large jobbing houses iu ork. Ihe mystery of these transactions is being inquired into by the Government. It has become quite certain that the extra session of Congress will last several weeks, and will take up several other matters besides the army appropriation bill.

The silver question will be pressed by those who favor remonetizing that precious metal. It is reported that the friends of this measure arc assured of votes enough to secure its prompt pass age. Should the Louisiana question remain unsettled until that time there will be work for Congress in taking some a tion in that regard. There need lie no fear that Congress will be in want of legislative work. It is reported that the German government has made a tinier of a magnificent decoration of membership in a German Order to Minister E.

for lus tZ BcrviCT wr vrt i liirri mmuh'is 'lining the sieged Paris, in 170. 'The dei is said to have Y- 000 to he spl-i da.it with an. I oilier iei iou sini.es. While a of our o-. i ernment in i-ranee ne cannot ac-vpt the gift, cxeept by a t-pccial art I I Congress As rvm hnwevir as a private aam ii-can receive, this manili it of the high esteem in which L-courage and humanity is held by the German people, ljn.il 'I'ui'idjtff the order of tin- president wilhdrawng the troops from the South Carolina state house, Was carried into cilect, aid mc lew soldiers on duty there were removed tc their barracks.

Governor Chan, berlain published a abandoning all fu.lher contest, and giving his reasons therefor. We aie glad he has concluded to adopt that course, for now the responsibility for the success of the president's pacification policy is put directly upon him and Wade Hampton, whom be aeems to have preferred to recognize. We believe if Hampton car ties out, impartially, pledge to know no class or color, in his ad ministration of affairs, that it will be better than such a stale of dis i Areola, voru 'i. elevator i and missel i urn was also Moiuhan A von-' ilu- tel I'liere was no ili-uraiue on tlm latter. Tile elevator lllld COI-telltS Wert) instiled tor Charles II.

Woodmamee. son of. I. 11. Woodmansce, formerly of 1 rtiana, out now one of the proprietors ol the iMu-ville was drow ned in a river at Eugene, Indiana, while hunting, ou Tuesday, March 17.

K. Hatch-, tin old and valued citizen of Decatur, died recently tit Hot Springs, where he had gone lor his health. Lie had long been a Justice if the Peace-anil City Treasurer In Decatur, and leaves many friends. bill has passed the House of Repre sentatives at Springfield, with the emergency clause attached, allowing parties to get married by publishing notice In the church to hich eithei belongs, two wcks before the hnppy tevcut. Two more companies l)r the Black Hills are being organized at Clinton.

Mr. Del a ml Is At the head of one and Nathan liar.ey is the recognized head of the other. Roth com panics arc arranging to take quartz-mllU with them. -The New York Catholic llxviem aays that "Msgr. J.

L. Spalding will he consecrated Bishop of Peoria, this month, In 8t. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, by Cardinal MeCloskey. The Blshop-elcct's old friend. Hlshop Foley, of Chicago, from whoe charge the new gee Is divided, will be an assistant bl- shop on this great occasion.".