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A PROCLAMATION.
$500 REWARD

oboGe " itdHOtS, 90.
AAT IIEREAS, it has been represented to
wv me that ENOCH HAWKINS. is
charged with the murder of one Abraham
Moore, Of the county of Hancock, and that
the said Haakins was committed and escap-
ed from custody; the said Hawkins was of
the following description to wit About for
ty years of age, five feet nine or ten inches
high, light complexion, gray eyes, gray hair,
very much peck broken from having the small
pox, down look, speaks slow, and smiles
when talking, il in a good humor, and a
grea. hand to boast and brag, and withal
great drunkard, and when drunk will lie
and brag to a great excess. He was former
ly from Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, and
has lived in Indiana near Indianapolis.
Noao therefore, l John Reynolds, Cover
nor OF said State, by virtue of the power
vested in me by law, do offer a reward of
lwo Hundred Dollars to any person or per-
sons, who will apprehend the said Hawkins,
and secure him SO that he may be brought 10
trial before the circuit court of the said coun-
ty of Hancock.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto
subscribed my name and caused the
LIS. great seal of State to be affixed at Var
dalia, this 9TH day of September, 1888.
JOHN REYNOLDS.
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The Work will be printed as soon as
five hundred Subscribers are obtained.
1t will contain between three and four
hundred octave pages, printed on good
fair paper, and furnished to Subscribers
at 81 so per copy, bound in sheep-skin.
The printing ard binding shall be exc
.cutcd in the best manner. Any person
procuring nine Subscribers, and becom-
ing responsible for the same, shall be en-,
titled to copy.
Vandalia, Aug II, 1888.
N. b. Copy tight secured.
o. Persons Obtaining subscribers will
please return the same by the 18th of DC
tober. r. G..
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CAUTION!! CAUTIONlu

L hereby forwarn all persons against pnr-
chasing three several promissory notes, exc
cuted by me to A. Baldwin, as they were
traudulently obtained, aud lido not intend to
pay the same till compelled by law. All said
notes bear date the 9th June, 1888. One for
two hundred and fifty dollars, becomes due
the 18th of August instant; one for six hun
dred and twenty-five dollars, becomes due
the first day OF January next, and the third
for SIX hundred and twenty five dollars (as
near as | can recolect,) becomes due the
first of May 1884.
The above notes were given in purchase
OF patent right for burning gas, which
proves to be gross deception; fraud was
practised on me in obtaining the notes
and am resolved not to pay them but at the
end OF the compulsory process of law.
ELIJAH SIIIDMORE.
Aug. 18th, 1888 [l7-3m.
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HARDWARE AND CUTLERY.

] ME subscribers, importers of hardware
Z and cutlery, are now receiving direct
rom Birmingham and Sheffield, and from the
American manufactures, extensive additions
o their stock, comprising EVERY variety Of
articles in the busness-which are offered on
LIBERAL terms, to country dealers and others.
.Amoag .chich are
Table and pocket Cutlery: Razors, Scis-
sors, Shears, &c.
Bread, butcher and shoe Knives,
Mill, cross-cut, tenor, pit, hand, PANEL and
other Sams.
New York and Cincinnati bench and
moulding Planes.
American and imported Edge Tools.
Files and Rasps, Ibbotaon's aud common
make.
Building and Housekeeping articles gen
orally, gilt and mahogany frame Look
ing Glasses.
FowIing Guns and Rifles, flint and percus,
sion locks.
Cabinet Hardware of every descriptions
tin'd and iapann'd Saddyery mems and
side saddIetrees.
Wood and iron lIames, eliptica and cradle
carriage Springs, brass, copper and Iron
Wire
Slckles, and grass and cradle Scythes, to-
gether with general assortment of ia
pa"aed Fancy and Military Goods.
-ALso-
Flat, round and square bar Iron, hoop and
sheet do.
Nail and brazier's rods, American, Eng
lish, blister, German, spring, Crowley
and cast Steel, of the most approved
brands.
Common, Birmingham & mousehole An
plts, blckhorns, stone, sledge and hand
hammers, black and bright face patent
cast iron and cottial KEYED Vices, Pitts.
burgh and New York Bellors. assorted
sizes.
Log, trace, trap and halter Chains.
English and American Shovels and
Spades, carolina hoes, common and rivi-
ted corn do.
English and American and Pittsburg Gu,
and wrought nails, spikes and brads.
Boston crown window glass.
lin plates, brazier's copper, spelter, sol.
der rive;s, &c
Hollow ware and castings.
April 5.-l3-ly j. S. PEASE, & Co.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

ApTll lSln, 1000.
z N the late conhagration Of the Treasury build
I'll ing, nearly all the correspondence of the Sc
cretary of the Treasury from the establishment of
the Department to the 3lst March, 1888, was de-
stroyed including, well the original letters and
communications addressed to the Secretary of the
Treasury, as the records of the letters and COM
muncations written by him. With a vrew to re-
pair the loss, as far may by practicable, all of
hcers of the United States, requested to cause
copies to be prepared, and authenticated by them,
OF any letters (eXceptng those hereinafter alluded
toy which they may at any time have written to,
or received from, the Secretary of the Treasury ;
and all those who have been in Office, and other in
dlvldual throughout the United States, and else
where, are invited TO do the same. That this cor
respondence may be arranged into appropriate
books, 1t is requested that it be copied on folio
ioolscap paper, with sufficient margin on all
sides to admit of binding, and that no more than
one letter be contained on leaf. 1t is also re-
quested, that the copies be written in plain and
distinct or engrossing hand. Where the original
letter can he spared, it would be preferred. The
reasonable expense incurred in copying the papers
now requested, not exceeding the rate of ten cents
for every hundred words will be delrayed by the
department.
The correspondence which has been saved. and
OF which, therefore, no copies are desired, are
the records of the letters written by the Secretary
of the Treasury to Presidents and Cashiers of
banks, from the lst October 1919, to the Goth Feb
ruary, 1888; all the correspondence relating to
Revolutionary claims under the act of 18th NAV,
1928, and TO claims of Virginia officers to half pay
under the act of 9Th July, 1882; and to appiica-
tons for the benefits of the acts of the I'd March,
1881, and 18th July, 1882, for the relief of certain
insolvent debtors of the United States. Copies
of some circular letters and instructions, written
by the Secretary, have also been preserved and
ii is requested that, before copy be made of
any circular letter Instruction, written by the
Secretary of the Treasury, the date and object of
the circular be first stated TO the department, and
its wishes on the subject ascertained.
LOUIS MCLEAN,
April %, 1889 3m Secretary of the Treas'y.
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AMERICAN, EUROPEAN, AND FOREIGN
AGENCY OFFICE

No. SO, Main Street, Basement Story.) betwesr
Front and Second streets, Cincinnati, Ohio.
NOR the sale and purchase of Real and
Personal Estate of every description.
Agricultural Implements and Farming Uten-
siIs, Live Stock, Provisions, &c.
The Directors of this Office have entered
into arrangements with experienced and es-
tablished land Agents, permanently located
in different parts Of the United States, Eu-
rope and the Canadas, 10 aid and assist in
[ettecting sales of such property as NAV be
offered for sale, exchange or lease, &c: al
SO will afford every facility towards forward
ing the views of Erfigrarts, Capitalists and
others, and give them every information and
assistance they may require. Therefore,
through the medium of these arrangements
and the assistance of the several agents men,
toned, many sales can be effected, and manv
advantages insured to emigrants, capitalists
and others. An established Branch Office
will be opened in the city of New York for
the accommodation of such emiesahts and
others as may arrive Ito our care and direc-
tlon) from the Canadas and Europe, &c. and
particularly such as may desire to locate and
settle in the Western States, make purcha.
SEES and investments, &c.
N. B. 0rrTO LAND HOLDERS.-Owns
ers OF unimproved arabic lands, farms, plan
tations, building lots, coal and other mineral
lands, mills, mil-seats, &C. can now embrace
a very favorable opportunity for disposng of
Real Estate and other property to good ad-
vantage.
2. S. Persons at a distance will forward per mail
post paid drafts, and correct written descriptions
OF all or any property they may wish to sell. ex-
change, or lease.
HI. l.. STONEMETZE, (Sen.) &, Co.
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SCHOOL

For Young Ladies and Gentlemen.
TMNIE subscriber respectfully informs the pub
IL lie, that he intends opening School on the
first of June, at ATTENTION, Peoria county,
where he will teach the different branches OF
Science usually taught in schools and academies
Particular attention will be given to the mental
ana ;.2oora Improvement of students-such course
of instruction will be pursued, as is calculated to
bring the latent LEVERS of the mind into exercise
and facilitate the acqulsi ton of knowledge Tui-
ton from So to "a per quarter.
SAMUEL ALI YIN, A. b.
N b. The town of Attention is of recent loca-
ton, at the head of Lake Peoria, on the east side
of La Sale Prairie. This site is healthy and
beautiful, beyond description. There will be a
day in May. SA.
January 22, 1883. daily
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POETRY.
OH ! STEAL NOT THOU MY FAITH
AWAY,

BY CHARLES CHLORINE LYONS.
Oh! steal not thou my faith away,
Nor tempt to doubt the trusting mind
Let all that earth can yield decay,
But leave this heavenly gift behind
Our life is but meteor gleam,A
Left amid surrounding gloom,-
A dying lamp, fitful beam,
Quench'd in the cold and silent tomb.
Yet if, as holy men have said,
There lies beyond that dreary bourne
Some region where the faithful dead
Eternaly forget to mourn;
Welcome the scof, the sword, the chain,
The burning wrath, the black abyss
shrink not from the path OF pam,
Which endeth in a world like this.
But oh! if all that nerves US here,
When grief assalls and sorrow stings,
Exist but IN the shadowy sphere
" Offancy's weak imaginings;
If hopes, though CHERISHED long and deep,
Be cold and baseless mockerles;
Then welcome that eternal sleep
Which knoweth not of dreams like these
Yet, hush! thou troubled heart! be still;
Renounce thy vain philosophy;
Like morning on the misty hill,
The light of truth will break on thee;
Go-search the prophets deathless page
Go-question thou the radient sky,
And learn from them, mistaken sage!
The glorious words, THOU SHALT MOL DIE !!
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SALE OF THE VERMILION
SALINE RESERVE.

~ pursuance of an actof the Legislature
4 of the State of Illinois, approved 10Th of
January, 1929, and the act of Congress,
approved on the Goth day of March 1881,
the Undersigned will offer at public sale in
The town of Danville, Illinois, on the fourth
Monday of November next, the following de-
scribed lands, situated on said VermiIion Re-
serve, viz: Sections IS and II in township
10 north, of range u west, on which are sit
uated Salt works now IN full operations; tim
Der and inexhaustlble quantity of stone coal
are on this tract. 1t will be offered for sale
in tracts of eighty acres, beginning at the
lowest number, and continue until it is all
offered.
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NOTICE.

q MAT at the term of the Probate Court
u for st. Clair county, to be held al
Belleville on the first Monday of February,
1884. will attend before said court to SET
tie and adjust all claims against the estate of
Ninian Edwards, deceased; and all persons
having claims against said estate are request
ed and notified TO attend at said term of the
court for the purpose of having the same ad-
iusted. ELVIRA L. EDWARDS,
2l-F ErecutriT
Belleville, Aug. 80. 1888
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GENERAL COMMISSION
IND FORWARDING OFFICE.

No. 81, Main street, Easement Story, between
Second and Front Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio.
7 4 ME subscribers will receive every de-
4 scription of Merchandise and the va
rious commodities of Merchants, Manufac-
tureers and Traders, also the productions of
the country, viz:-FIour, Bacon, Hams,
Corn, Tobacco, SC. and sell the same for
moderate Commissions: also will attend to
the forwarding business, between the Cities
of Cincinnati, New York, Boston, New Or
leans, Louisville, st. Louis and Nashville.
STONENIENTZE, Sen. d Co.
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COX REWARD. Runaway from the sub
DLc scrber, on Sunday last, the .3st of
March, negro man named Harry, color black,
about six feet high, very stout made-wil weigh
1870 or 100, or probably near 200 pounds, lisps a
little, pretty heavy beard, and about 80 years of
age; clothing not recollected. He formerly be-
longed to VIM M. Haden of Madison county
He may attempt to return to Madison, but cir
cumstances induce the belief that he is lurking a.
bout town in order to get on some steam boat to
make his way to free state. Ten dollars re-
ward aid all reasonable expenses will be given for
his apprehension ami delivery to me, or confne-
ment in any Jail SO that get him, if taken in the
state, or twenty-five dollars if taken out of the
state. JOHN SLATER
Vicksburg, April 3, 1888. 1876.
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PUBLIC s ALE,
AT LOWER ALTON.


COMMENCING on MONDAY, 18th day
q J of OCTOBER next, at 10 o'clock, A.
M and to be continued from day to day I'M
il the whole is closed,
On credit Of SLY, NINE, and TWELVE
months, the entire stock Of
MERCHA NDIZE,
belonging to the estate of Nnian Edwards,
deceased, at Lower Alton, consisting of
DRY-GOODS, HARDWARE, GROCE-
RIES, QUEENSWARE, GLASS
WARE, TIN-WARE, and
MEDICINES:
Also-PRINTING MATERIALS, suitable
fora country newspaper; two Road Wagons
one Horse; together with all the other per-
sonal property in Lower Alton belonging to
the estate.
The greater part of the goods have been
recently purchased, and the sale will be well
worth the attention of Farmers and Mer-
chants:
The credits, of course, will be IN proper
ton to the amount purchased, which will be
made known on the day Of sale Approved
personal security will be required.
ELYlRA L. EDWARDS,
Administrative,
August %, 1888. [2UU-t.ds]
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In the Coles County Circuit Court.

In the CoteS County Circuit Court.
JOSEPH BARBouR,)
VS.. On Domestic attachment
K. L. ROBBINS.
~ Office is hereby given, that heretofore
on the Odd day of August, 1893, an at
tachment issued out of said court at the suit
OF Joseph Barbour, against the estate of the
SAID X. l.. Robbins, for the sum of twenty
seven dollars and fifty cents; and the same
having been duly returned levied, and is now
pending in said court: Now unless the said
defendant shall appear, give specia! bail,
and plead within the time limited for his ap-
pearance IN such case, judgment will be en-
tered, and the estate so attached will be sold
In witness whereof, l. James p.
lSEAL. Jones, clerk of the said court, have
hereunlo set my hand and affixed
my private seal, (no official seal having been
provided for my Office this Goth day of Au-
gust, 1888. 2O-4t ,
J. p. JONES, Clerk.
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A. WILLIAMS, Reg.
WILLIAM REED. Rec

Danville, ILL.,, August, 10, ls33.-lS-3m.
~ The editors of the Journal, Indianopo-
lis, Indiana; Gazette, Cincinnati, Ohio; and
the Focus, Louisville, Kentucky, will please
publish the above advertisement twelve times
weekly, and forward their accounts this of
flee payment-and also, forward the first
and last paper containing the advertisement
to the Register at Danvlle.
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NOTICE

NETAS committed to my custody, on the
Wv 18th inst, NEGRO MAN, who
calls himself Major, and says he belongs to
a widow Metcalf, who lives near Sprngfield,
Robertson county, Tennessee. He is 80 or
40 years old, toeraby well made, rather thin
vlsage, small eyes, about 5 feet s or 9 inches
high, and of rath yellowish cast of COM
pleXlon; no scars or marks perceivable on
his hands Or face. Said negro will be hired out
at the time appointed by law, unless proven
and charges paid. JOHN LANE,
DOW Sheriff Gallatin county.
Equality, Ill. Aug. 90, 1898.
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NEW PERIODICALS.

THE SELECT JOURNAL OF FOREIGN PERIODICAL.
LITERATURE.
IOUBLlSHED quarterly by Charles Bow
q en-, Boston, each number containing
23O pages, making volume of 1000 pages
annually.
Price $500 per annum.-Subscript..o
received by JAMES C. ESSEX,
l3-ly Book Seller 3, Stationer Main 81.
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By the Governors:
A. p. FIELD.
20-3t.
Sec'y of Stat.

%o-ot, Sec'y of State.
The s'Chronicle,'' Beardstown; "Journal'' In
dianopolis; and the "American," Pittsburgh, will
publish the above three times weekly, and forward
their accounts to the office of Secretary of State,
Vandalia, Illinois.
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TAKEN UP.

TAKEN UP,
Fh I'd Larking Johnson, lv-
ne Aa@L R -hs ing in Coles cousty, H.
VIZ Il 2M linols, one bright bay horse,
z--a1-E-=sz-lihirteen and half hands
high, four years old past, both fore feet and
the right hind foot white, and a star in his
forehead: appraised to twenty dollars by
Charles S. Morton, Andrew Clark and Will
lam Jeanes, before James P. Jones, Esq, ON
the Goth day of July, 1888.
Teste: lS--3t.
n. ELLINGTON, Cl'k.
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Foreign and American Gold.
Drafts and notes Of hand all the principal cities
in the United States, collected on the most reason
able terms.
Tickets and shares in all Yates & M'Intyre,s
Lotteries, constantly for sale.
az Cash paid for prizes soon as presented.
ut. Louis, November, 1892. Sc -ly
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A TAKEN UP,
M EaIIy 4 DY William Piper, living
MESN I'D on Cahokia creek, above
-Edwardsville, Madison coun-
ty, chestnut sorrel MARE, 10 or ID years
old, 10 hands high, the right hind foot white,
and running sore just above the left eye.
Also, bright sorrel HORSE, Is hands high,
supposed to be i years old, small blaze in
the face, right hind foot white half way up
the leg, no other marks or brands perceiva-
Bile. appraised to sixty dollars by James
Rosberry and Thomas Kell. before me, July
10, 1888. WILLIAM KEEL, ]. P.
Copy attest, 20-3t. j. r. LUSK, CI'k.
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MORE NEW HOOEASo

J. S. LlTTEL, Pailadelphia.
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ton which he had given the subject, it
was his firm conviction that humane in
stitution had never been devised which
tended more, in its results, to promote re-
ligion than Temperance Societies. The
clergy, therefore, looked with confidence
to the cooperation of these societies in
aiding them in Christian instructions; for
where a Temperance Society led the
way, the Christian instructor might hope
TO follow with success. lie thought
at this Institution was one of which the
Church Of Christ in all its branches
ought to he most anxious to avail itself
The Right Rev. Prelate concluded by
expressing the pleasure it would give
him to forward the objects of the Socic-
ty by every means in his power.
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season of the year. We have had no
rain since the 10Th Of April, and but lit
tie since the 9Th, just month since. A
few days since we had northeasterly
winds, and cloudy weather, with a pros
pect of rain, but only got little drizzle,
barely sufficient to moisten the surface,
when it again cleared off dry.
Fruit Trees blossom full this spring,
almost beyond precedent. Cherry, Plum,
and Apricot trees have presented the ap-
pearance, almost, ofone huge snow ball,
while the twigs Of the Peach tree have
presented long continuous cylinders OF
the richest bloom. Pear trees are now
in full bloom, and the flowers Of the Ap-
pie are just expanding. Both give pre-
sent promise of most abundant crops
Worcester Spy, May 8M.
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CATERpILLARs.-Amid all the promis-
ing prospects Of this season, we have no
ticed nothing, which gives indications of
greater abundance and fruitluness, than
the nests of caterpilars. They abound
in dozens almost, on nearly every tree.
Unless attended TO speedily, they will
destroy the hopes of fruit which other
appearances now hold out. A little time,
judiciously employed in destroying them,
will, probably, yield tenlold reward to
the fruit-grower, in the crop of the pre-
sent year, and will prevent the perma-
nent injury to the health and thriltincss
of his orchard (which is sustained, by hav-
ing the trees deprived Of their foliage