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TUE MATTOON' WEEKLY GAZETTE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 18,9. STATE HEWS. combined strength of Oglcsby and "Representative Schleicher of Tex-as, who died in Washington on Friday of last week, was native of JJMtoor. Cfette. A Weekly Family i The Mississippi Is frozen over at Cairo.

arwell will keep Logan from obtaining a majority, It ia also, rumored that a nomination will not be The Paris water-works have gone In C. Ui Dqswlck i Pubs. to operation. eqnivftlent to an election; that some Chicago received over $6,000,000 hgs 6f the republicans stay out of mo past year, Germany, having been bom, In Darmstadt In 1823. HeVas aisifil engineer by profesMon; and ft inWof decided ability.

to the United Statos ja Texas, was elected Wveral times to the Stato legislature and three times The state grange 'meet at Blooming- wu vnuuury sv. The public debt statement for the month of Dccorabcr --shows an in- The legislatures of New York, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin and Kansas aro wrestling With tho ques The Si. Clnlr mill, at Decatur, will be the Cftnous; that there will be a bolt, etc, I think this is all grapevine news. That such rumors exist is certain, but jit is impossible to And ft single republican who is going to removeu to Kansas. II.

C. Allartl I airaln nronrletor of the to congress, He was one of the best Virginia uateite. members from the South. Bepre bolt the nomination or stay out from Prof. Murdock.tho mat elocutionist.

I tion "of cboosifle a United States sentative SchUlcber is Vthe seventh the caucus. reaus at uuuboro to-nignt. Benator. member of congress who has died So far as I can gentlemen A convention of Illinois til muksrs i t. within a year.

who are candidates are carrying on I tojpheld at Sprlngfleld shortly. Governor Cullom in his message a fair and decent canvass; the only Colonel E. R. Stiles, of Litchfield. recommends that an spj rnpriation At the cabinet meeting of last bad blood in the affair at all may be npoyedn) men last we.k lu cutting of $500 bo made to Dr.

J. M. Greg found in the daily Injections of bile rt orUin I Over 3000 nor ami a lmv alwnml tho ory for his services in preparing and and spleen from the columns of the blee-ribbon pledge in Danville during the publication of a Chicago Tribune. Its bittor hos-1 past year. tllitv to Locan has certainly made A boy named Ford wan killed at Ot- Friday, Secretary Sherman exhibited a statement showing the daily sales of 4 per cents tinco January; 1st the total amounting to over It was suggested to Secretary Sherman that perhaps these bonds were selling too fast, but he thought not, for no matter how rapid the sale 1 I Law.

woaL- II. him frianna nii afrflrurt.hfln Art thA I I pamphlet in Fronch, which.set forth the general advantages of this to emigrants, and to rcimburso him for clerk hire and other expenses -e i iuoviijit train. 1. il LI. 4.

I uwwiimiMuuii ui u.o Seth C. Sherman, one of Qulncy's waue nowever sincere may De in oiaest ana most respected citizens died connected with the preparation of its support of Gov. Ozlesby for sen- aftturaay motnin- his report on tho French exposition, ntnr Itu tiAirflrtholn faot that There are 44 Inmate at tho Vermilion i mwwi aw mwvwhuvuww urn mvmtw waa I I roiinl.r nAnr.ru rm malm aurl fa to which he was a commissioner, six per cents would be called in equally fast. A statement prepared at tho treasury exhibited at the same v. tne support oi me irtoune Das aam-1 males and children.

Congress at its last session appro aged ma.eauee. When tne Tribune The Jersey county fair directors have fires itsolf JT at Gen. Logan the re- "solved to offer $1,100 for speed at their time showed that by resumption of priatcd $10,000 for tho investigation specie payments twice as much gold coll is more damatrinz than the dis- of hog cholera, and placed it in the has been paid in as has been paid Governor Cullom held his flmt iu.uB Ti- recept0n of tho frends out. aent in an us outer articles against Wednesday evening It seems to be generally consider him. I And now it ia claimed that $20,000 of unt nA.

nlKP th Springfield city tax levy for the eurrent year Is illegal. anna a in nraiao anH I ed that the Burnside bill for the re-organ ization of the army cannot pass. The bill, as a whole, will be vigor hands of a committee. Investigation shows that the disease though called by different names in different states is identical, and is not a "cholera" but an affliction of the lungs. A large mass of information has been collected, but it remains to bo seen whether a cause or cure has been found.

t'K: I A movement la on foot to remove the is a noDie man, ana snouia ne pe ine Icoupty seat of Madison county from choice of the caucus, will be surely lawarosvme to Alton ously opposed by some of the ablest elected. Indeed I have no fears of I A special from Centralla says the I fruit In that nettlon has been greatly tn anpoAaa nr thA Mnnh tn nvml. I members of both houses, on the ground that it tends to subordinate the war department, and even the laamagea dt tne late com weatker, nee for United States senator. Who- A man by the name of Jarrett, living resident himself to the general of ever he may be, he will bo elected. at St.

Joseph, ha caught over 200 RpHt snrfirl of th.t muskraU during the past fall and win- N. P. Hill has been elected United States senator from Colorado to suc the army, and to establish a sort of tor. millitary autocracy, which is not in There does not seem to be the ceed Senator Chaffee whose term expires in March. He is a wealthy year in Maroa towashlp, Is put down at legislature at the Dresent session.

'uw proprietor of reducing works for the treatment of gold and silver ores and has never before given any special kk v.m hen John Remley died he was worth harmony either with the wish of the people or with the spirit of our institutions. Some of its leading opponents do not hesitate to say that the authority which it gives the general "uwu uo but we understand he didn't by the senatorial contest It is I uke a nickle of it with him. Hooputo attention to politics. He is said usually the case that every member Lnron(9u' of the army is not only excessive but has some scheme to ameliorate the lh.e annual meeting of the however to be an able and sensible business man who will do something Southern I'linols Medical association wholly unconstitutional. condition of himself or the human waa held at Centralla on Wednesday a I for practical legislation, and but mis wees.

race, and the legislature is bis op Rabbi Wise, of Cincinnati, one of The state reform club, ITon. A. B. portunitv. At the earliet opportu Campbell, president, will hold its an nity he draws a bill embodying the nual meeting In Bloomlngton, Feb.

17, pet scheme from his coat-tall pocket U8. 19 and 30. The above Store is stocked with tbe Choicest Stock of and- launches it nnon the sea to be I A bill to tax all church nrooertv val little speech making in the senate. It is said that the committee on Finance in the national senate is about ready to report favorably upon Senator Wallace's bill providing for a popular postofBco government loan, and authorizing postmasters to rfltnmArf In th. nf lw nn ued In Sxeesa of $5,000, hu been 'ntro- DRY GOODS FANCY GOODS I quco for the consideration of the Icr JW i 1 I a wviv loreTur.

LgiBianou is eueciea I uiamn opnngneia. the most learned of American Jews, defines Judaism as follows: "The principle of Judiasm is monotheism not the belief in a God, but the existence of the Eternal God, who is the first cause of all of which was, is and will be the Will, Life, Love and reason of the universe, the Governor and Preserver of this cosmos, with that is therein or thereon. This is the ever living God of Israel, i. revealed in and by Israel only in this IN COLES COUNTY. by a series of compromises, not nee-1 Qulncy's suspended banks have al i i I PmuAm nailrt sIT ovw-krl I rwri-in tT issue certificates of deposit bearing 3.65 per cent interest on sums of personal or extreme measure can be Th.

mi Cental r.ii, i. M' Alshuler One Prlc Cash 8tore, Oppoelte Dole House. forced throuch a bodv of leffislators I larger and better paaaenrer bunlness I tins winter than It haa Ions at any time $10 and over, the same to be exchanged for four per cent, bonds at the option of the holder. It is believed the bill will pass both houses. wunin me pastten years.

improper influences. We shall oon- A Ch caro Ice flrtn is cnttlnEr 15.000 1 of of the Paxton Etcord. hu procured fideatly expect healthful and judl-1 tons of Ice per day. Tbe work Is done three men to uke hta place, Frank Cook purity of the ideal, sublimity of universality and perfection of attributes. With this principlo of mono-tliesism Judaism stands or falls.

ciona entrtmpnU from th nrnnnnl I wun coints, eaco or wnien nas voiiucsm wnier, cnnter local, ana Clous enactmenu from the present 4 Lewi. Dunlap a. asllsUnt. Now bovs. general assemDiy or Illinois.

fr.Iffhttr.-.MtK.nnur. makeit hot while you have a tral and Cairo Short Line railroads. Is tkrmueu. This is its basis and its tower of ne uiaponou give me pnn- boomlni; now, on aeeount of the The Mt Carmel Rtgitttr publishes strength," cipal credit to Secretary John Sher freezing up of the Mississippi. I Hat of the ladles who have Increased One of the killed at the India, massa- iT A bill to reimburse William and (,,,, iimn anri tarn thlrita it man of the treasury department for for the success of resumption, has awakened the jealousy of other prominent republicans, who have shown Paso, where his parenU reside.

th, Uliv A rumor is prevalent in England that on the assembling of parliament an intimation will.be made in both houses that, in consequence of her recent bereavment and from other considerations, also of a personal nature, the queen has decided to relinquish the reins of power in favor of the Prince of Wales as Prince Regent The rumor has no official may be true, never theless. The Qnecn is nearly sixty years old, and must begin to feel her years considerably. Mary college in Virginia for the loss and damage during tbe rebellion, was called up in congress on Friday. On Monday, December 30, A. II.

IT. Rountree. owner of the Mechanise bank of HUlsboro, suspended with liabilities which he report at which tt is feared are far greater. Messrs. Anderson A 8 hum way, of Tay-lorvllle, are his assignees.

It Is reported that creditors may get 00 cents on the dollar of their claims. General Smith, state treasurer, and James P. 81adc, superintendent of pub-llo Instruction, entered upon the discharge of their new duties lut Monday. Treasurer Hutz turned over to General Smith $1,125,000 In currency, which was counted by the tellers of the city hanks In flv hours. Mr.

Jamea H. Beverldgo ia General Smith's aulatant, and Mr. W. L. PllUbury la Mr.

Slade's. Tbe Illinois Department of Agriculture, at Springfield, hu received crop reports from a majority of the Southern counties of the state, which indicate that th winter wheat was never in so a condition as at present. The leavy snown hnve protecred the grain, and the ground reported In excellent I ry In New lork lut wmk CftpUIn Bo-1 patront or tbe piper ,1 Ar a. t. I I that it was not attributable to him.

KSaiUU Ul HUB llite. CUAUlUlUU Wini A atW Hmu (AaBrnakln Tunnnta nAnB i ash uivtv ww ii nil i vuum vj 1 The measure was vigorously sup- ported by the ablest men from the uKOUuj, uu uuuc uiucu pro- The mpretne court has designated the lowest expense during the year South, and the principal opposition was made by Conger, of Michigan, mote its accomplishment, that the I Judge oeorge w. wall, or 1878, from tne sum Doru oi ngrictu it I uuii ui wv auuciiic l-van. TICC tfUUee I mro. inert wrrc luirij iiiuca ui riwi grcrcuu uC1uUg8W fcuc rtpuou-1 Bkjr appointed on the supreme bench, built at an average expense of $63 per who has an admirable faculty for can party, or more man ten years PoatB1teP htm wrlt.

going right to the heart of a subject. its platforms have urged the speed-1 a letter to Postmaster Paltrier, of Chl-I Speaking of the poor In Bloomlngton He showed that William and Mary i.o i- I caro. oomDllraentlos- hlra and his forot I the Pantcarapk aavs There are to The Edmunds electoral bill having nassod the Senate, the resnon- wywu 70tthe Those college had educated more of the coin, and the act of 1875, which I fire. who know say that there is leu poverty prominent rehel officers than any condition. Live stock Is also reported went into effect January lit, was a Mamie Holden, a daughter of Alder- thU raon? uone" I -in.

I nannln than nanal till rlajia nelnir In Id good condition. Nineteen thousand dollars In permanent Improvements were put In tne Jol- let penitentiary lut year, Including th now gas works and green house. The total cost of the prison up to the close n.n.n. $. IIU'llCIl, OI LailTllie, CirODDBU 1 1 T- 7 caucus measure agreod upon and de of heart disease lat week Ve7nW- better clwumsUutVsa common dur-made a law.

It is claimed that day evening, while sluing in a chair at ln tb Sherman oppoed fixing the date of home A license has been lasued for the sfU The only pajver In Illinois mean ganliatfon of the Franklin county print-resumption before tbo bill was re- enough to violate the pledge of lu rep- Ing company, of Benton, with a capital ported, and votd against it in the reaentatlve and publiah the governor's stock of $1,000. The only query la, canena. Whatever mv hi hn meMKe before It waa read was the Chi- what they of so much money. A whole caucus, wnatever may have been cg0 T(met, nf0oo invested In the printing business! his position on the question, he came The Montlcello Herald says that the Wnr lt'u nuh 10 ood np to iU support and helped make cold weather hu frozen much of the cod-band preaa. ioia TrUmne.

It a nifwi It ia extwUd that frult th country, and On Moeday morning Mr. D. B. tt a success. is expected that haa also destroyed the poutoes of many Batchelder, of Illlnl, ahot and killed In of the flalcal year September 30 1878, hubeen $1,353,350.30 which Includes all Improvements made up to that date.

The aggregate number of convicts Incarcerated in the prison since lu opening, In IU opening, In 1868, Is 13,410. Of these 1.744 were pardoned, 286 died, other institution in the country and that secession and rebellion had been especially fostered and taught by its faculty, that the injury done to its buildlfigs was caused by their use as a rebel depot and hospital and that on no consideration of justice, fairness, or right should the government be called upon to repair the damages caused by the. rebels themselves. When it came to i vote tbe bill was defeated by 87 to 157. The southerners voted a few northern democrats wsre not prepared to face the music, and therefore, helped vote it down.

Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, will I of the farmers 121 escaped, and 77 were sent to tbe Insane uyluan. In the aame period 78 escaped convicts have been recaptured. li la viru. vaiu cuio wiiiuii hu.fuivui of sUrape. stamped envel- frora llP to UR of th a1d introduce this week a series of reso- The sale a -v lrtwri inanassi na nnmn uiru mm ti rii i- At th beginning or tne new year tnere ware 1.648 prlaloners In th Institution lution.

setting forth the republican ably Induced to com. so near to human I k.Ul.UA. Is 1 rt Un.a wll aal of whom 25 war female. Only 35 ber 31, 1878, amounted in round num- IIMUlFtILHIS) UJ IjIITJ IllWlino vuiu, sasau probably mlnht have been captured men have escaped since Januarv 1st, 1871, and 26 hav been recaptured. and finance, which will undoubtedly I7.30.74.

alive with little difficulty, eipility of its defeat will be upon the Democracy. The bill is ia no seuse a partisan one, and is a necessary precaution against complications in the electoral count The Democracy may suppose that they will stand a better chance as the law now stands, but they should remember that if serious trouble results from a failure to pass the bill they will be held responsible. The Chicago Tribune stated on Thursday of latwcek that a very large mail over the Michigan Southern road had arrived, the same being four days late, and that the Chicago post-office had bceaof great Help to the railway postal service in handling this and other malls since the burning of the office. We have it from the best of authority that the contrarv Is tbe fact that the postal clerks from the roads in this divison not on duty, were at onee called in, and that no mails passing through Chicago were allowed to go into the post office, but were taken to postal cars at the depots and bandied by the postal clerks, and were it not for the postal ser- An immt MnnHav Kjk faa af tKa p.m. The prlaon la nearly self sustaining in nortlon of Lha 1..

A W. mhln. The Bloomlngton FwUxgrnph aays winter and entirely so daring tbe summer months. ihepa, at UrUr.a, caught lire, but WM that, notwithstanding the cry or hard discovered and extrnaulshed beiore the loan -Rentt report Interea roach damage waa done. wn p-u ur Tr I m.n In.na njilnff italilnrV iIfia Bisloeu Fallares.

Lack of ludarment cause fullv 60 per A polloeman and a couple of other agent who, two yeara ago, had between brute at Normal, tied a rope to the forty and fifty thousand dollars loaned tiw of a balky horse, and hitching a In McLean county, to-day hu only orae to the other end of the rope, pull, about alx thousand. ThU speak well cent, of all business mu to fall, earlier ed the balky horse's Jaw off. I for the financial standing of the county pass the senate, and kecome a crystal! zed expression of tbe facts. -o The French Republicans now have a majority In both houaea of their national legislature. Hitherto tbe Senate has been controlled by tbe "left" or conservatives and imperialists.

It is believed that with so wise a leader as Gambetta they will use their power prudantly and conservatively, and thus gain Is strength and confidence with tbe people. Ladles, Delicate sad Feeble. John Hardy, an Irishman, about 65 Monday afternoon two of a number of yeara of age, died at lila home In Deca- convicts engaged In filling the Ice-house tur, on lut week Wedntsday, from belonging to the prison at Chester, suo- recaieu exeoaure 10 tne rrtesing weain- ceeded In eluding their guard, ana were er. Too niueh whleky wu the real gone a half an hour before being mlsa euae. led.

rurauit wu men Drgnn ana atier u.a.jj j.j a five mile race over th hllli, hollows or later. Do not an equal proportion of physicians fall to cure from the same causer At th Grand Iovallds' and Tourist' Hotel, Buffalo. N. Dr. Pierce, through the skill attained by his several specialists, each having devoted yeara to a special department of medical science, la able to cur a large per cent, of cases hitherto considered Incurable.

Many physicians, In view of th superior advantages of this rood-el sanltorlum, bring their stubborn, obscure, complicated and surgical oases for eliminations, operation sod treatment. Full particular given In th Peopl' Comaon Sense Medical Adviser, Illustrated work of over 900 pages. Price, post-paid, $1.50. Address the author, R. V.

Pierce, M. hnol fa.M.al on nd aloUgllS for Wh Oh the Mglon Is -i r.ii. I IsDartlcularr noted. the prisoner were The senatorial contest at Springfield between Logan and Oglesby is still going oo, with Chat ley Farwell as a third man, trying to be the black horse or something else. Tbe exceedingly unfair and extreme hostility to Logan manifested by the Chicago Tribuni has been of no inconsiderable benefit to him, and from tbe most authentlo sources it seems evident tat he (Logan) will have a majority ia the caucus, which it has been agreed shall be held tonight George Scroggs, of the Champaign Gazette, who is a member of the boose, writes bis paper this week a fair and candid statement of tbe situation as follows: "The senatorial contest is now tbe engrossing topic Logan appears to have the lead and will evidently receive the republican caucus nomination, lthongh some think that the Mart vn i huh i uu i an urura pviiuui i i.

I overhauled. There names were in luama wu I ilt, naa wfofi uif i tared in Rav countv. Mi. and loxlred h-11' 1ouI Krn- the county jail. Borne benevolent persons of Bleom- rice the Chicago post-office would tuiii anftrsl imrwit anil wi priuoii niTCFFiiaaMi mo uviimiti klll.i of Jajor Reno In the Ll-tl.

Big Horn AJ? JlhiSl i. u. A elty were aaMmbled at the court houee. Thoae languid, tiresome sensations, causing you to feel acari-ely able to be on your feet; that constant drain that Is taking from your ays em all lu form-er elMticlty driving the bloom from your cheeks; thai continual strain upon your vital forces, rendering you Irritable and fretful, can eully be removed nr the use of that rasrveloua remedy, Hop Bitters. Irregularltlea and eb-structlons of your system are relieved at once, whlla tbe Special cause of peri roTur wu mauac who owned sleighs donated wl lhU them, and th children were Uken out 4 to ride br turn.

The teams were dec Ma. TV VWiM our malls would not hare reached for days Afterward. Congress should Investigate tha railway postal service, and make liberal appro-priatlcM to enlarge and increase the same. Politics should not be a Ixlndraaee-Ia the advancement of the saall aervlca. the country.

A alee assortment ef laeW TheSopram ooart ot Jlllrv't has de-1 orated and everything possible done to elded that a city ordinance Imposing anakell a thoroughly enjoyable ocea- neoeaoy one permittln snow to lis sion for tbe ebUdren. Many cnuorsn reats' Packet Books, Frsick Plate Hsse Mirror. Toilet a 4 Celerae 8ts ta Taeea. MUr Break sssf Cease isJtakls fer a CkrlatasafprMeat at nkIXUIJMUQ IT0B1. ape to sidewalks la front of property I who had probably nvr nloyed a ewaiavl or oeauniad bt aim la tint a I fUi Ltnr traatal to om odical pain Is permanently removed.

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