Mattoon Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 1

7 A EirCSITCHY LOCAL KEY' 8 AMD ADVOCATE OF EOIIE INTERESTS. vol. xvn. ATTOOK, COLES COUNTY. ILLINOIS.

FM1)A 1 JUtf 24, 18f-7. NO. 47. i i v. li-iiVwv CITY IN IJUIEP.

"THE MEW REGIME." i New York and St. Louis of Its passage over the city. Imagination will work fa Styles si Shapes 31 Sets, IN IN BURMESE. POMONA. KlUHtUU, Water LEI John Sponagle; Financial Secretary, Thos.

McCormlckl Guiflo, Mrs. C. A. Hall; Guardian, wWllInkle; Sentinel, C. G.

Peck. Officers will be installed Tuesday night, July fith. 7 Dick Oolebuy, son of Gov, Ogleaby, had his arm broken near the wrist on Friday by a fall from a horse he was riding on his grandfather's farm near ElkhartDecatur Review. Tub shareholders of the Illinois Central road decided Friday to accept the proposition ot-the board of directors to increase the capital stock by $10,000,000, for purchases, improvements, etc. The D.

and E. road will run an excursion from Mattoon to Peoria on Sunday, June 20. Train leaves Mattoon at 0 a. m. and returning leaves Peoria at 6 p.

m. Fare for round trip $1.00. John Hamilton objects to the term applied to him by the Charleston Courier, He says he has been accused of pretty nearly every thing since he coin-menced to work for the county but that. Secretary Baldwin's books show that the Order of Railway Conductors now has 10,330 members, 2,380 being added last year. The indications are that 3,000 new members will be gained this year.

TnE church people at Toledo have arranged a fourth-of-July celebration and Sabbath school pic-nlc at the fair grounds near Toledo on Monday week the 4th. Elder Reed, of Mattoon, will deliver the oration. Rev. E. D.

Wilkin, chaplain of the department of Blinols, G. A. was given a reception Friday night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Lane, at Danville.

Kenesaw and Hanford posts weie present "WARES. iff rvoon rn1 notir tV ro Band at The STAR GROCERY, Under the Dole House. LAMES Your attention just a moment. Will the following interest you? We have just opened a case of Handsome Lawns at 3 cents per yard. We will offer for a few days aline of Black -and Colored Silk Mitts, never sold less than 50 cents, at 35 cents per pair.

Another lot of Black and Colored Silk Mitts, sold for less than 25 cents, at 15 cents per pair. Buy a pair of these before they are gone. Vn, i will npwr crr nnrp ETRUSCAN. tilt MAN AflU rULKA'UUI CANTY D. and excursion to Peoria next Sunday.

J.F. Dearborn has started a poultry Joint in Sullivan, 7 Cibler'b concern Ming out immense throngs of people. Work on the new coal shaft has been suspended for season. The Mattoon posMfl A. will attend a camp lire at xtfola to-night.

The reunion or yflJhVs brigade will be held Sept. 7 aiil 8 it Greencastle, ind. r'y1-, The ladles of the Baptist church held a social in the Hammer building Monday night. See change in D. and time card this week.

Quite a number of radical changes. The Daily Journal has been enlarged to a five column quarto and otherwise improved.1 D. N. Harwood shipped his first carload of new hay yesterday. Shelby- ville Union.

The MontagueaTiaye bought the Deming building, (corptr of Broadway and First street. Remexber the gun club shoot on July Fourth. It will be the only attraction of the day. An excursion train of seven coaches and two baggage cars passed north over the Central Tuesday. The D.

and E. excursion to EvanV-ville last Sunday was patronized by about 150 people. Too hot. Bert Coleman had the two middle fingers of his right hand cut off Monday by a saw in the planing mill. Owing to a wreck -on the Vandalia line, its trains were run over the and St.

L. road last Friday night. 1 J. R. Thompson, of Fithian, has a race horse named Joe Cannon.

It is needless to say that he Is a goer. CiiAs. Bonn has punffiteod a team and is skirmishing arofnd he country picking up what may preve'saleable. The Illinois Central has been having trouble with its water supply at Cham paign and is now using water-works water. Mr.

II. B. Scott will deliver a farewell address at the V. M. C.

A. rooms, Sunday, at 4 p. m. All men are cordially invited. Superintendent Funkhovseh's lecture at Lema, last Sunday night, was listened to with' great interest and is highly spoken of.

Cbas. McClelland, clerk in A. B. Candy's office at the I. and St.

L. shops, and Miss Nellie Best were married Wednesday night. Siiaffer'b tailor shop was the scene of an incipient conflagation a day or two since, but wrfs discovered before much damage was done. Harry Holmes will have one of the handsomest, as well as most unique, fronts in the city when completed. It takes the blue ribbon.

J. WeeTvpurchased a fine pacer wblch(df air to make a record. He has(putjxin training on the track at the fair grounds. There has been more paint sold in this city the past season than ever be fore In Its history. A ride over the city will explain this large sale.

Rev. McKellar will preach at the Congregational church next Sunday morning and evening. All the congregation are requested to be present. V. H.

Foley, of was arrested the other day and taken to Springfield on a charge of sending obscene letters through the mails. The Shurnway Institute, a school for girls, lias been established at Taylor-ville. It will be under the management of the Mat toon Presbyterian church. The Shelbyvillians in their rejoicing over the near prospect of coal, forget the thousands of dollars it will take to sink a shaft and put it in successful operation. Miks Cakkik Kile, of Paris, well known to many Mattoon people, was married fue.sday night to W.

11. Beebe, of Philadelphia. They will take a trip to Europe. A fire bell is undoubtedly a good thing but there can lie too much of a good thing. We would suggest the advisability of giving it a est about one day in the week.

The passenger earnings of Lite Bee-line for May were 30 per cent ahead of the corresponding month In 1SS0, and the June earnings promise to show up even more favorably. The Catholic Knights of America with their friends picniced at Nelson Tuesday, and the P. and M. E. Sub-bath schools went to the fair grounds at Charleston the same day.

Tiik officers of Omega lodge, No. CM, K. and L. of for the ensuing term are as follows: Past Protector, Mrs. It.

Montgomery; TCtector, Minnie Meitz; Vice PrLecy)r, Mrs. CG.Peck; Chaplain, Mrs.jAmpson; Secretary, Mrs. Lottie M. Gullfoil; Treasurer, The Bun of the Amusement Firmament -jonn JJ. Doris is.

1). Colvin Mew Colossal Shows. v' The most massive, meritorious and in all things complete, amusement federa-, tlon ever organized will exhibit at Mat toon on Friday, July 8, and it comes heralded by newspaper notices of the most flattering description from every city in which it has up to the present time appeared. We refer to the Great snows owned by Messrs. Doris Col-vln, and which unite in their vast en tirety more amusement, more wonders, more artists, more variety, and vastly more excellence than any other organization extant.

The Doris Colvln shows come this season united and to any of our show-going readers it Is only necessary to state that the Great Inter-Ocean Three-Ring Circus, World's Menagerie, Universal Museum and Great Theatre Stage is to Mr. Colvin's Colossal Hippodrome and magnificent" ITI14 117 Allf fA h.l'A tt.AVM VflAW A. IIU UDIi, IV incut tuvn that the unification completes a show which the word "immense" but feebly portrays. There are over two hundred all-star artists in the Circus department alone, without counting the scores of Hippodrome riders daily appearing in Roman, standing and chariot racing. Add to these the tribes of Indians, cowboys, frontiersmen, trappers, guides, hunters, Mexican vaqueros, toreadores, plcadores, matadores, chulos, capas and cachateros in the bloodless-bullfighting-department, and there will be a regiment of artists alone.

The massive tents cover more than eight acres of ground. The show requires four great trains to haul it. It gives a full exhibition of all its depart-. ments, Circus, Menagerie, Museum, Stage, Wild West, Hippodrome and Mexican, for One ticket and one price of admission, such as is charged by small shows. Remember that it Will exhibit at Mattoon on Friday, July 8.

1 Progressive Dinner Party. 1 tlL ljaaies who enaiess-oougauons or hospitality to cancel, writes Mrs. Allen Forman from New York, are always' yearning for some new form of entertainment to present to their guests Progressive euchre parties, as a mild recreation, were in high favor last year; but the gilt edge of novelty has worn off of this species of entertainments, and after many frantic efforts ind dismal-failures some brilliant genius has de vised the scheme of. a progressive luncheon or dinner party. This is absolutely the latest thing, and promises to be very popular among young people.

Considerable skill must be exercised in selecting the guests, and lazy people, above all, must be omitted. A good-sized room is cleared of unnecessary furniture, and small tables (each accommodating four people). are placed along the room as for progressive euchre, or in horseshoe shape, according to the size of the room. The number of tables and courses must be regulated by the number of We will su ppose that forty young people are to be invited, making twenty couples. In which case ten tables will be required and ten courses served.

Tea or twenty ladles present are chosen by the hostess to act as hostess for each table, and they remain seated in the same, place during the entire meal. When dinner or lunch (as the case may be is announced, music is played in the adjoining room, and these ten ladies take their places at each table and receive the other lady and two gentlemen who are to sit with her during the first cturee. By this 'time the guests understand what Is expected of them, and when the Blue points have disappeared and the plates removed the head waiter rings a gong and the lady and two gentlemen at each table rise and go the next In succession, leaving the hostess to entertain the newcomers. The gong is rung and music played between each course during the progression from the first to tliA taittVi tit kin tKtia rrltrlniv onnli mioof UK tVllbtl MIWIO U1UO IIISUK r.iV II UCOb opportunity to converse with the other. A pile of small finger napkins are placed at each table and the soiled ones removed with the plates, or they can be carried from table to table by the user-Favors are served with the lost and with a little taste in decorating the tables the effect is charming.

This progressive meal has its advantages. First and foremost, it is a whole eve- fitnir'f antnrtalnmAnt anrl 1t i 'tma away with the- usual conventionality and stiffness of an ordinary dinner, and by the contant change of partners introduces a new element into conversation so that there is no excuse for any one getting "talked out." The number of iruests invited mustbe divided by four, and the results will Eve the number of tables and courses to i served, but in i thing of this kind; forty is a good number. The menu need not be so elaborate or extravagant as that everything should be daintily served by good waiters and no confusion-in changing the tables. Thk following from a late copy of the Morning News, of Muskegnn, may contain a pointer or two valuable to the Mattoon water works: Adam Forepaugh does not ussally allow a little tiling to upset htm, but he was "riled" last night, and had tho good natured Teutonic showman lost a $10,000 elephant, he would not have felt worse. His agent contracted with the city for water for which it was agreed that $1 Should be paid.

When the order was presented it had grown to $10. What's the extra for?" asked Adam. "Services of a man two days to turn the water on," was the reply. And that 14 hy Adam remarked last nicht that the bill made him exceedingly weary, wonders sometimes. Walter Nichols, general Western passenger agent of the Bee-line and I.

and St with headquarters, at St Louis, retires on the" first of next month, and will be succeeded by W. F. Snyder, traveling passenger agent 'of the Bee-line, whose headquarters are now at Kansas City. Hon. Geo.

R. Wendlino has accepted the invitation to deliver the Fourth of July oration in Buffalo. His address will be one of the features of the day, and we would suggest to our Rochester friends that it might be worth their while to pay us a visit for nothing else. Buffalo News. 1 On Saturday evening a number of 01-ney, 111., citizens presented M.

S. Han-ley with a gold-headed cane. Mr. Han-ley has been the agent of the Peoria, Decatur and EvansviUe road at Olnev, and has been appointed agent of the Lake Erie and Western at Muscle, to which place he is about to remove. A dispatch from Tuscola to the Globe-Democrat of Tuesday says that Michael KJier, of Cherry Point, who has been bucking the Chicago Board of Trade extensively for some time past and lost bis last shilling, took a revolver, Monday, and ended his existence by putting a bullet thVough his head.

Tns first annual meeting of the Illinois Musio Teachers Association will be held in the Central Music Hall, Chicago, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 29, 30 and July 1. A very fine programme has been prepared and full particulars can be obtained of Mrs. V. R. Bridges, vice-president for Coles county.

The Annual Convention of Ashmore Township S. S. Association will be held in a grove one-half mile south of Ash- more, Saturday, June 25, 1887. Leading Sabbath School workers of this county will be with us, among them will be the President and members of Executive Committee of the County As sociation. Steven Coy had a $40 mare so badly eaten by dogs last Sunday nigbt that he was obliged to kill her.

The animal was lame, and when lying down was unable to arise without considerable ef fort. Some dogs prowling around his pasture discovered its helpless condition and at once proceeded to make a square meal off it The maie had to be killed to end its sufferings. President Layno, of. the Bee-line, has given orders that the passenger department must not indulge in excursions this season, but will have to turn coaches over to the shops to be rebuilt as fast as practible. Twelve coaches are now going through the shops and as soon as they are out twelve more will go in, and so on until the entire passenger equipment is rebuilt Jonathan Watson, of TItusvllle, lias been Lathe city the past two weeks leasing lands lying south of town for the avowed purpose of boring for gas, oil, etc.

He is said to be very wealthy, a representative of the Standard Oil and divers and sundry other things. He refuses to divulge the true inwardness and Mattooners are left to conjecture as to the real cause of his visit. J. D. Herkimer, the Dalrymple of Coles county, haMU of the finest prospects for a large aop than since he gave his attealonyfo farming.

He has about GOO acresoTbroom corn, 120 acres of oats. 180 acres of corn and 350 acres of meadow. In addition he has 330 acres leased to tenants which are planted with corn. He keeps 15 cultivators and two harrows going from sunrise to sunset. Blaze, the Tuscola-child-raper, in jail In this city for safe-keeping to prevent his being hung by tho justly-incensed people can get no Charleston lawyer to defend him for his self-confessed, terrible crime.

The Courier has never for a moment entertained the idea that a lawyer had a conscience, but this action on their part, silently and individually, does them honor, and we give them credit. Courier. W. V. Gill, son-in-law of the late Win.

Fallin, of Mattoon, died at his home in Dardanelle, Arkansas, on the of this month. For years In the earlier days of Mattoon W. Gill was an academic teacher in Mattoon, and conducted a good school. He had lived in the south for many years, and for a while had been editor of the Polk County Reflector In Arkansas. He leaves a wife and eight children to mourn his death.

Journal. The diamond drill, at this writing, has reached the depth of 6(i0 feet, at which point it was stopped for the purpose of doing some reaming and caning, when It will again be set to work. The drill passed through a three foot vein of coal at the depth of GOO feet and If the Pans log is a criterian to go by, the big vein is now only about eight feet below the depth reached by the drill. It may be that before this paper reaches its many readers, the big vein will be reached. ShelhyvlJle Leader.

We have a few Beautiful Embroideried Robes left, regular price from $6.50 to $8.50, our price, to-day, to close $5.00. 'Another drive. We have a few elegant Parasols, regular price is $6.50, our price today to close $5.00. See the Misses' French Ribbed Hose in Black and all Colors, we are selling at 10c. or 3 pair for 25cents.

See those India Linens we are selling at 10 cents per yard. We have just opened to-day 25 pieces of very Handsome Oriental Cream Laces from 8 1-3 to 15 cents per yard. We are Marking down goods all over the Housk. Ever)' day a Bargain Day. Summer Goons Must Go.

Geo. N. Buck. A GENTLEMAN from St LOUiS, ft brother-in-law of M. Rammer, has leased the vacant store-room under the Dole House, and about July 15th 'Will open out a large stock of clothing arid gents furnishing goods.

What might have been a serious fire was dlscovere I in the roof of the I. and 8t L. blacksmith shop last Saturday night by the watchman. It was extinguished but not until a good sized hole had been burned in the roof. An engine on the C.

II. L. division of Die Illinois Central fell through a rotten-turn-table at Decatur on Saturday. it Engineer McVeigh was caught by the tender and received very serious if not fatal Injuries. Mattoon is putting on metropolitan airs with her proposed street railway line, electric light plant, etc.

Enterprise is commendable, and we hope Mattoon will receive great benefit from her endeavors. Litchfield Advocate. Litchfield Advocate: On last Saturday morning a sow, owned by Henry Ililler, who lives on East Ryder street, gave birth to six two-legged pigs. Two of the number died but the rest are alive and perambulating about on two legs. Mrs.

Mary Villa ns, of the National W. C. T. has delivered three lectures this week to large audiences, speaking from a stand at the court street railroad bridge on temperance. She is a pleasant and forcible speaker.

Kankakee Gazette. Burglars are at work on the farmers in the vicinity of Paris. Mr. Wilson's house at Grand View was entered Fri day night, and money and valuables to the amount of $100 taken. Mr.

Gor-ham's liouse, at Dudley, was also entered and $10 stolen. The Illinois Central fire department in Champaign has received a large supply of jiew hose. The several companies are thorougbly equipped and well drilled. Foreman Davis snould permit the boys to give a public exhibition of their skffl. Gazette.

The body of a man named Kirby Smith was found in the river at Cincinnati recently and Mattoon people wonder if it was the Kirby Smith who used to visit us in years gone by, sell queens-ware, tell stories, get full occasionally and have a good time generally. Frank Smith, of St. Louis, news agent on the east-bound I. and St. L.

limited train, was put off the train here by the conductor on last Saturday morning for robbing Mrs. C. J. Cuyler, of this city, of $7. The police were notified but Smith eluded them.

Litch field Monitor. The annual teachers Institute of Coles county will be held at Charleston, in tho Central school building, commenc-luK Monday, July 18, and Mill continue two weeks. A large number of lecturers and "Instructors have been secured for the occasion and a good time Is an' Thk New York World's much-adver tised balloon aicensiou from St Louis proved a fiasco. The balloon came down near Illinois, Friday evening, at 8:30 o'clock, the precipitate descent being attributed to the gas giving out It is also said that the aeronaut was suffering from painful injuries received before starting. Many Mattoon people related early the next morning how they saw it shout ten o'clock, and the operators even sent despatches to HORN Real Estate BROKERS.

Office Opp. flatioqal Real Estate Bought and Sold. Rents Collected and Remitted. Loans Negotiated. Titles Perfected, Abstracts Made.

Taxes Paid for Non-Residents..