Mattoon Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 1

MATTOON, COLES COUNTY, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1882. NO. 27. VOL. XII.

1 I I I II III III THE RAILROADS. public roads. This is a question that has not received the attention from the business men of the cities and towns of the state that Its vast importance demands. All through Central and South ern Illinois the usual stagnation of trade' in January has been many times in-creased by the unpassable condition of the county roads, Thff Ntitte 7J wit John. rTjf--- Oh Wednesday, a change in the proprietors of the Dole House took place, and Messrs.

8tubbins Mar-ney were succeeded by Mr. John Stub-bins and Henry Rick, of Danville. On the first day of May last Mr. John Stub-bins leased the hotel to Messrs. Stub-bins Marney and concluded to remain out of business for a few months until he had regained his health and desired to return to business.

Meantime be looked around for an eligible hotel where he could do a prosperous business. At one time he had in view the Tefft House at Topeka, but not being able to conclude a satisfactory arrangement he and THE CITY IN DRIEF. Tub store at Stockton has changed Mr. W.Jawin bavin; sold toa J.Ir. Hancock.

Axcsejoest goers will not forget" that the minstrel hold the boards at the opera house Saturday nightil Thb Presbyterian congregation at Oakland, is making arrangements to build a churckFlamdealer. Teb City Mill whkji had been laid up two weeks for repairs, started up again on Tuesday and is now filling orders as usual. What is lost to farmers and business men this winter by bad roads would, if it could be applied, go far in building good roads. 4 Taii "Broom Brigade" will be given next Tuesday evening at the W. C.

T. V. halL-ETerybody cordially invited. Admission ten cents. Db.

J. TV. Dob a will soon commence rXti i erection ier tw Beat five room cot-' tages, on East Broadway, occupying the vacant lots next west of the Mrs. Lyon These will be a social and supper given by the ladies of the Christian cnurca at tne residence orirajames a v. 1 1 general invitation is extended.

J.D. WATSOMand J. M. Flemming have commenced the erection of a hand-some residence for J. F.

Lawson, which 1 will be situated on a tract cf land oppo 'J. site the residence of Charles Bennett The shooting of prairie chickens and quail is now forbidden by law. January fv 15 is the date for prairie chickens and February 1 for quails. The law permits the rabbit to be hunted whenever there is a fall of snow. Thb "Young Folks Dance" last even-; tog was a delightful affair and in every respect was a success.

The young folks are talking seriously of organizing a club for the remainder of the season, and giving sen entertainment every two Wi are indebted to M. Cramer, J. M. Flemming, John A. Piatt and Chas.

Wood, of this city, Lieut T. E. True, of i Ft Leavenworth, Tracy Kingman, of Keogaand J. A. Bagsdale, Indianapo- aaked for last week.

Taj Mattoon none Association have decided to hold the next meeting June 80, July 1,8 and 4 The following are the officer! for the ensuing year: Mark President; II, 8. Clark, Vice-president; W. B. Dunlap, Treasurer; and John F. Scott, Secretary.

Dcprez Benedict's Mimstrxu, 1 one cf the. oldest organizations of the country, are announced for an appear- this county. He leaves a wife and child. behind him, having ran away with a daughter of a man by the name of Bate-man, in West Virginia, who was only 13 years of age, and inamedrTbe grand Jury of thi-Axranty found an Indictment against Board In March, 187ft, upon which be will be tried at the next term of th circuit court, fa MaithrjP- No L6netii 2 Sojck months since the work of transferring the mails between trains of the I. and St L.

and D. and E. railroads wu let to the lowest bidder and taken by 0. P. Harris, who has found it impossible to do the work because two men are required to be on duty at the same time as the trains arrive so near at the same hour.

Representations were made to the department and Uie officials were so slow in reaching a decision that Mr. Harris determined to resign because' he could not do the work required without hiring an additional man and paying all he received under the terms of his agreement Some two. or three weeks since Superintendent White visited our city and went over the ground, had an interview with Mr. Harris, and took steps to have a change made, Which will enable him to control the service and pay what the work is actually worth. To that end the contract was annulled and Mr.

Harris appointed local Mall Agent, at a stated salary, and takes charge, of all the transfers of mails and is held responsible for their faithful and prompt delivery. This will be a better job for Mr. Harris and secure a more satisfactory service. An Enjoyable Occasion. Mas.

Feixx Kahn gave an informal card party last Friday, at which about seventy-five guests were present and passed an exceedingly pleasant evening. Mr. Kahn's residence, which is one of the most perfect in arrangement and elegant in finish in our city, looked very brilliant and beautiful on that occasion. The collation which was served has never been equalled by any other entertainers among the society people of the place. While supper was being served music floated faintly upon the ears of the guests, apparently from some tropical climeof fruit and flowers, aathe air was laden with their fragance.

After the lefreshments the music took a more conspicuous position, and dancing began. Until the "wee sma' hours" the blushing maiden and gray-haired matron moved gracefully through the quadrille, or swung through the dizzy waltz, with light-footed youths and light-hearted age. Mr. and Mrs. Kahn were assisted in their duties of host and hostess by Mr.

and Mrs. Kaufman, of Greenville, the genial parents of Mrs. Kahn. IT is understood that Winfield Woods will raffle off his dog next Tuesday evening. The tickets have been placed at the low price of 25c, and the number limited to i hirty-five.

The drawing will take place at Holmes' liquor house, and as each ticket-holder will be expected to "set 'em up" to the crowd, a good time may be expected. Marshal Alcott will be present to preserve order, and Dolph Sumerlin will superintend the drawing. Judge C. B. Smith purchased of John R.

Clapp, of Bemeut, on last Thursday three hundred and sixty acres of land! in Bement township for $10,000. The land lies in 83-17-6. The judge is becoming quite a roil eoutie man ihis being the third large tract that he has taken in out of the wet in this county. He closed out his two former purchases, of a section and a half section respectively, at a handsome profit. Montioello Herald, Wk are pleased to know that the noble order of Royal Templars is having a little boom In our city, one of the councils, Hope, having doubled its membership within the last forty days.

This council is in the hands of good, reliable men and women, and will make its mark in this community. The officers for the current term are: V. A. Powell, S. G.

R. Meredith, V. J. C. Orr, P.

I- D.jVVeaver,. R. J. Watson. F.

J. M. Riddle, J. M. Hall, Mrs.

M. A. Jones, Chaplain; J. O. Rudy, J.

L. Coke, S. This lodge meets in Knights of Honor hall every Tuesday evening. Mrs. Anna Homehs, daughter of Mr.

4L- L. Abell, of our city, and elder sister of Barrett, Hamilton, Lydeand Maggie Abell, died at the residence of her father, on Western Avenue, of consumption. She has been afflicted with this dreadful disease for some time, but only confined i to her bed a few weeks. The funeral took place this morning at 10 o'clock, being by Itev'ds J. M.

Bennett, of the Baptist, and J. L. McNalr, of the Presbyterian churches. The deceased leaves two or more chil-dien. She was a member of Lodge No.

26 of the Royal Templars of Temperance, in our city, and through that order leaves $1,000 to her children. There is no one article in the line of medicines that Elves so large a return for the money as a good porous strength-! enlinr pltator, such as Carter's Smart cw iii Duumipna or uacaacne naa-1 ters. Sold by Weaver. THE LEGCON OF A LIFE. From Slave7 to Respecta billty and Prosperity.

1. Yestejyabut twelve o'clock, Isaac Barr entered into the "endless rest of death, that comes to all the living, after years of illness and suffering. He ww vhoTnria lavwycueaxG allatln, December 15, 1839, and was ed on a plantation, aa wis usual in Ten nessee. His mother, who had been bouse servant in her younger days, caused record to be made of the events of her family, and the little old book is still held sacred by her children, where are entered their births." As was usual, be took the name of his master and was called by his mother Isaac Barr, which was also his father's name, but to indi vidualize him the Becond sirname of Barr was added, making it Isaac B. Barr, although his mother little thought that the young slave would ever be a respected and free citizen.

Early in the war he became attached to a Col. niQ, of Brazil, who afterwards lost a leg in an engagement and died. Young Barr accompanied the remains home and spent some time in Brazil, highly esteemed by Mrs. Hill and her family, which continued during his life and was manifested by a visit to him during bis illness. After spending about a year Brazil he determined to return to the South, and, on Christmas, 863, cam to Mattoon to reach the Hlinois Central railroad on his way.

On leaving "the train at the depot he met one Of the Broady boys, still living in the city, and learned that all the colored people, in town, had gone out in the country tc a holiday dance, and the young and fine-looking stranger was invited to go along, which he did. Among those present was John Smith, the well-known barber of Tuscola, and Aus. Perry, of this city. 'While there Aus. Perry suggested to Smith that he take young Ban with him to Tuscola and teach him the barber's trade.

Smith said he would, and Barr being willing he went north instead of south. After a few months in Tuscola he returned to Mattoon, and for seven years stood be hind a chair in Perry Brothers' shop. Meantime he had married a niece of bis employer and built himself a home. About the year 1871 be opened a shop for himself, and far ten years counted among his patrons the best people of the city. All who came in contact with htm learned to admire his strictly honeti frank and gentlemanly character.

In these respects no citizen of the city stood higher and none could count more friends among the best people. Through his influence several of his family, including his father and mother, came to Mattoon to reside, and here his aged parents passed away during the past few years. The striking, features of his character he received from his mother, who taught all her children those sterling principles of right and integrity that formed the solid basis of upright living and continually gathered to him the esteem and confidence of bis fellowmen. In politics he was a thorough republican. No inducement could influence him to waver in his support of that ticket in the slightest degree.

Bribes and rewards would not reach him, nor personal appeal swerve him from what he deemed the straight line of duty. His daily life was exemplified as a consistent member of the A. M. E. -V I'UUIVIJ- For several years he has been afflicted with scrofula and rheumatism, and has visited the Hot Springs, Eureka Springs and other health resorts to find relief, but in vaiu.

The disease continued its inroads, until last fall he disposed of his business, after having Iwen for several months confined to his house, and bravely awaited the end, racked continually with untold suffering, from which he only found temporary relief by the hypodermic use of morphine. Unable to read and write he shrank from any conspicuous position where those defects in his education would be apparent, hence he never joined any of the secret orders to which the colored men in our city so generally belong. To his children, however, he offered as good advantages for learning as any of the white families oi the city, and less than a year ago completed the improvements which provides his bereaved family with a handsome and commodious home. The funeral takes place at the family residence this afternoon, and the pall bearers are made up of prominent business men of the city who have tendered their services out of respect to the worthy character of the deceased. The lesson that such a lifp carries to every thoughtful young man is worth pondering.

No one in Mattoon begins the ascent so lowly and unpropitions as this humble colored man did. The plain methods that made his success are open to every one, and should be especially imitated by the young colored men who know in what esteem their deceased elder brother of the same race was held. Peace to his ashes. May many be as good' citizens and as honest men as he was. Tn CJulnny Board of Commerce has ndded to it regular committees one on enough for the cultivation of music t.

nave readied so bizh a deirree of excel lence as they exhibited; and hope that tney may continue to improve. -Another" Preacher Sat Down On. The editor of the Urbana Herald, who has been In the habit of giving liberal notlcee.of tJl church services without charge, as Mattoon papers do, last week pastors of that city, to each of whom he was sending his paper free, and asked til Am tl IWplnmnata ihhaiiimIii ftm www v.y WWWI mff PWUWIIWllll Ml their pulpits that "the Herald was a ests of the city, its churches, schools, furnished at $2 per annum, and thc propneiors woma oe giaa to receive a many subscribers from among the breth- ren as saw fit to have their names place T-on their list" Upon the result of thl venture tne editor says: "We didnt suppose any of the ministers would read the announcement and shouldn't have felt hurt if they had not. But two of the gentlemen-consented to -make the innovation and read the no ties, one commenting thereon quite fav tlexnenfor their courtesy, and ture them we shall ever be pleased toobeerve- fka r.tAAAoa A a nl.n wiV. Mfi.fr.' wro dumcoi yjk Midi i.iiuiiiiCT nuu uiu.

them, as far as we can in our line, to attain that end. This may appear to be nnvnl nit in onmo IrMvnranr Tin nf ail is good enough to advertise the church, the church ought be good -enough to advertise the paper, By con- senting to read our notice the gentlemen spoiled a good article upon the subject-; of free advertising." 4 One clergyman, however, replied In a note objecting to advertising a purely business enterprise from his pulpit, and adding that if he was expected to pay for the paper in that way he could not stand the price. To him the Herald', replies: We did hot expect -My-re-' numeration for our paper. It has been- our habit to compliment the ministers, of the city with a copy.MrMftls is the first to. complain, and we hasten to re- move his name.

We have a very high -regard for ministers of the gospel, but occasionally we discover preacher what hna annwpnvl annthar fnnn'a Mill A Soured Mason. Mr. Papl Sours, of Mattoon, and Mrs. Jane E. Mascn, of Lafayettev were married at the residence, of the bride, on Wednesday afternoon, by Be v.

LH.Aldriclu. "Among those "Woo were present amf witnessed the ceremony were the follow ing Mr. and James Phlpps, -and Mm. Clement Bishop, Mr. and Mrs II.

Spriggs, Mr. and Mrs. Frank -Mr. and Mrs. John H.

Phlpps; Mr. and. Mr. Thos. McPberon, of Mattoon; Mr.

and Mrs. Bafus Williams, Mr. Johu Brady, Mr. T. J.

Phlpps, Miss Emm Sours daughter of the bridegroom ohlo mnt.hAP nf the taMa iffn. ceremony the bridal party and guests were invited to a bountiful dinner, that did honor to the occasion. The friend- all AvtAtifl mm, jwuiflMftilattAn, fj, couple, and hope that only prosperity and happiness may attend them, Furnished Rooms. Heuck's Open House, Cincinnati, -opened its season Aug. 13, to a packed house, notwithstanding hot weather and rain TtiA nnonlnir ffranflnn ni maw play by Scott Marble, entitled "Fur- nished Booms," and may be epitomized thus: "Furnfahivl Booms- the troubles and tribulations of thfr many who live in rented apartments It int rmlnrwt mnnv ntnnain.

situations, and creates considerable-laughter. Miss Ethel Tucker, who had -the leading role, jumped into favor it once, her acting proving her one of tho liest of the Lotta school of and 1 her nincrinor moeHiia with hra Tk i impersonations of Messrs. Rich, Marble and Fitzpatrick were capital creations. Cincinnati Correspondent of K. Y.

Mercury. Joskhi (toode will sell some of the Dersonal Dronertv lipInnirinfrtntliAMtatA ot his son. lxtflv HwphkmI ut Into. romuttuco iwo iniiwj wei. i thn ntlir tirmWtv Affrat will three horses, one wagon and harness, one cow, seven hogs, one hundred and fifty bushels of corn, fanning Imple-.

ments, etc. Sale Saturday, Feb. lLf Next Sunday Rev. J. L.

Douthlt, at Unity church, will discuss the "Point of faith in which all Unitarian; Chris- tians agree, and points which they do uot believe. 1 Dr. Dnule, employed by. the Council of Quincy to perform the nm- -nicipal vaccination, has made about rriUO sore lu-rnt. And ii imw ivriniraltr iiharged with using humanize virus.

He is understood to claim that he uses a mixture of bovine and humanized virus, and that the result of such a mixture is www a iuuu vimii wueiiafTU JJ aTF virus. V-v'v'J-- A grindstone in Boyer plow, fuic-tory. at Carml, burst while a -high, rate of speed. One piece was car- rledi disltanoe of over 100 anothec tore bole in the side of tl? build Lory. anI the demolishbur window in an adjoining 'Jamie; Jomi Mahxb, a yardman of the I.

and St I to our dty had the misfortune to jerloyjto- Jured yesterday while at work. Mb. J. H. Robb, foreman of the car-repairer's gang at the D.

and E. shops, had two fingers mashed early this week while engaged in unloading a db toleofcarr 'T Mi. Lex Fudge, who lost foot at Kenny, on the Midland Railroad some three weeks since, was able to be brought home last night and we are glad to learn is steadily recovering. D. and E.

Railroad is said to have followed the example of our other roads and reduced the rates of fare to three cents per mile. This arrangement took effect February 1. E. McElvaix, who has had charge of the American Express Company's business in this division for so many years aa route agent has been retired. and Mr.

George Leathers has taken his place. FfiKfi Ellison, the former paymaster of the I. and St L. railroad, has been appointed "stock and claim agent" of the Vandalia railroad, including its Logansport division, with headquarters at Tore Haute. At Champaign, last Friday morning, Mr.

Enoch Carleton, an old citizen, and for twenty years past a well-known engineer on the Illinois Central road, fell instantly dead of apoplexy while awaiting his breakfast The Illinois Supreme Court has just decided, in a suit for damages against the P. and W. railroad, that a passenger who attempts to alight from a car before the train stops has no legal claim for damages on account of injuries received. During the year there were 419 persons killed by the railroad accidents in Illinois, and 813 injured. These are classified as follows: Killed passengers, 22; employes, 170; Injuredpassengers, 92; employes, 548: others, 175.

Fraxm Pattkbson, who has been running express on the D. and E. for several years, was transferred this week to the O. and and will run be tween BeardstownandAJtamont Frank is i first-das messenger and deserves the transfer. Ma.

G. P. Lesurk, general foreman of the car department of the I. and St who has tendered his resignation to take effect Feb. 14, Wednesday morning found on his desk a very handsome gold watch chain and a pair of cuff buttons, a token of esteem and appreciation from his men.

Journal. The pay-car of the I. and 8t L. road reached our city last Tuesday and paid for the December services. We learn that it has been forty-two days since the previous visit of the paymaster.

It will be a cause for great satisfaction to the employes if the managers will resume the old custom of paying regularly on the third Monday as formerly. Elsewhere in this issue appears the new advertisement of the Indianapolis and St Louis railroad, setting forth some of its advantages as a route of travel and business. With its present Eastern connections, through trains and comfortable coaches, it is a fair competitor or the best. Teii your friends in the East to take the old and reliable route. The Indianapolis and St.

Louis Express came in three hours and forty minutes late last night. One of the cars jumped the track at Kinders. 111., a place about ten miles the other side of East St. Louis. Only a few of the passengers waited until the car was pluctxi on the track, the most of them coming in on the Chicago and Alton.

lobe-Democrat, Thursday. Onk of the causes of the Spuylen Duyvil railroad disaster was the overworked condition of the train men. The lesson has borne immediate fruit by the issue of an order to tlte managers of all the Vanderbilt lilies, th.it the men must have ten hours rest in all cases, after making their regular runs. It is not necessary to go so far away as New York to find illustrations of this fact. During the past month there has not an accident on the I.

and St L. road, due, chiefly, no doubt, to the fact that a lighter business has enabled the men to get more regular hours of rest. Every honest American patriot should kindly remember the Uuiteau jury in their prayers. Mattoon Journal. And remember the man in their prayers who said that "Mr.

(iarfield by his own act invited the assassin's bullet." Charleston Courier. Tliis subject needs no further comment. The readers of the Gazette will understand it. Thk Presbyterian Church was crowd-d as usual at the nickel concert hut Tuesday evenbig. The programme as a whole was a very fair one.

We desire to mention Gathering Home," rendered by the Harmonic Club, with solo obligate, us deserving of especial notice. We are gratified to know that there are some young people in the place who care ance at Dole's Hall next Saturday night uey area gooa strong company ana re-. ceive favorable notices where ever they appear. Mattoon will be sure to give them a good bouse. his friend and former partner Henry Rick, made the late proprietors of the Dole House an offer for their leasehold interest and a bargain was struck by which Messrs.

Rick Stubblns as sumed charge of the hotel last Wednes day. It is understood, that several additions and Improvements will be made, and that Mr. Rick has secured a half ownership of the hotel building, and that the firm also own the store room now occupied by D. A. Fallin's grocery.

Among the additions contemplated is that of a fourth story which will nearly double the number of rooms and hence the accommodations, which seems alto gether likely to be needed in the early future. Mr. Rick is an experienced hotel man long known to the traveling public in Danville, 111., and Mr. John Stubblns needs no introduction to the Mattoon people or those who seek a hostelry. Messrs.

Arch Stubbins and Marney think some of securing a lease of the Nutt House afCrawfordsville, but the matter has not yet been closed. They do not expect to be long out of business. Something About Courting. i doe J. W.

WnKnr passed through our city on Wednesday last, returning from Springfield where he bad poet with Judges Smith and Davis and arranged thworkoTlM circuit for the ensuing year. From the judge we learn that the programme will be as follows: Spring terms Vermilion, two terms, Clark, Moultrie and Douglas, by Judge Wilkin; Piatt, Champaign, Coles and Macon, by Judge Smith, and Edgar, by Judge Davis. Fall terms Vermilion, Clark, Edgar and Coles, by Judge Wilkin; Piatt, Champaign, Moultrie and Macon, by Judge Smith, and Douglass, by Judge Davis. We had quite a discussion of the needs of a reconstruction of our criminal code, and find that Judge Wilkin is fully alive to the trouble and embarrassments that surround the administrator of criminal law in this state. He feels that there is a serious lack of uniformity in the punishment as fixed by juries, a want of character and reliability in many of the panels of jurors drawn, and an array of precedents and restrictions that virtually tie the judge hand and foot and force him to give unreasonable latitude to the defense of criminals.

He asserted that under our present statutes and usages of the courts, the criminal who has killed a fellow man stands a better chance to escape with a light sentence, or none at all, than one who steals his neighbor's horse. Under such circumstances, the tendency towards mob law can be explained. It is reported that the spectacled Israelite who formerly flourished in Mattoon under the nameof "'King Solomon," and was much given to back stairs, faro and sich, is very seriously in limbo in Indianapolis on the charge of attempting to confidence or blackmail a man and his wife at Uie Surgical Institute out of $500, on the charge that they were not legally married. "King Sol" played detective, and when he once succeeded in "catching on" to his proposed victims, he held there until the police relieved him by marching him to the lockup. Some of his Mattoon sympathizers ought to rush to his rescue.

A certain eloqutnt young attorney would be afforded a splendid chance for a speech in his defense. On Monday last the residence of Mr. Wm. Shepherd, near Areola, was the scene of a very pleasant reunion and surprise. Mr.

Shepherd is the son-in- law of Mrs. Louisa Ewing, with whom the aged lady makes her home, and he, with ttle sons, daughters and other de-scendents of the Ewing family, had arranged a surprise for her, it was the occasion of birthday, and nu merous decendants gathered together to celebrate the event in appropriate form. R. L. Ewing, of tills city, and others of Coles county were present, and thev re port that it was a very pleasant place to be.

While Mrs, Ewinir is advanced In years she yet spry and healthy. Journal. The quarterly conference of the Mat-toon District of the M. E. church takes place in our city next week, beginning Monday night It is thought possible that the differences which have arisen in th fttf.tvn rhnrrh rinrtner th nost.

few weeks, may be brought before that assembly of clergymen for review. THE supervisor, collector and assessor of each township, according to the state i law nnnatitnfa A hnanl nf hAalfh fit hir respective It is the duty of these officers to see that the orders in relation to vaccination are complied with. They have power to appropriate money for the vaccination of the poor who cannot afford to pay for it. are pleased to notice that our friends Perry M. Mpore, of Areola, and F.

Y. Hedley, of Bunker Hill, have been appointed postmasters. To Moore this flamefl a new ftnnnlnt.mniit and Immin. ceeus Judge Jawing whose term, we pre-sume, has expired. Hedley is reappoint- sv ed.

Both these gentlemen will accept UlA cnmrrn.t.ii1at.lnna nf thn Catutte The devotional sen ices of the Y. M. A. will be Aeld in the Christian Church On Runifav np-rt. at fnnr nVJhrV ia anernoon.

XMmember that "Gospel Hymns" are always used. Members of the Board of Directors are requested to remember the regular -VV monthly meeting to be held atJD. T. Mclntyre's office on Tuesday evening, February 7, at seven o'clock p. m.

nnTksmnV Tilt TViTTTT TW a vn held a special conclave last Mon-day night, anJ'quite a number of visitors from out of town wm-a nrownf VWllVl Among, them were Messrs. Munsie, 'Dunsoomb, Lindsey and Ashworth.of 4 Sullivani Hamlin and Funk, of Khnii.v. Gllman, Aldrich, Wilson and Dr. Albin, of Neoga; S. C.

Wagner, of I'ana, and several others from com-' mouderies In this district. -'-Tint Paris Beacon of the 27th says: 'James Board, who murdered Robert Minor in a saloon at Chrisman, III, on the tlth was arrested by policeman at Gallipolls, on the lath.inst, and was lodged in the Edgar county Jalllast Sunday night Board is supposed to have lived in West Vlrgin- Ohio since his departure from.