, 1860-02-21
159rrss Trii1>tttte.

Drcss & Trihtt1te.
| WESTERN NEWS ITEMS.
| From the present indications, and from
t what ne eau gather, VIC would judge that tie
river business for the conlirfy season viii: be
much better than il has been for several .enrs.
Extensive preparations arc being made By
steamboat men for large business, and we
hope their expectations may be reulized.-RocE
Ixtaad Nyix!4r.
FATAL ArrRAr.-A fatal aiIray look place q
few miles north Of Mt. Pleasant, Ill.,, last week.
| W. J. Hooper by accident fell in company with
one George Benson, apd banter to shoot 1t
target for ten cents shot was made by one Of
the partics. They fell out shortly, insults were
| passed between them, when Benson, becoming
enraged, stabbed Hooper, intictiug wounds on
| his pcreou from which be died almost instantly.
| Az ye, Benson has not been arrestcd.-Jonts-
1oro Ga=ttte.
For PikEs IEAK.-A company has been or
.anizcd at Rock Island to 80 to Pixies Peak
cd By DR.. F. II. Judd The outfit of the com-
pauy will cost about $4,000. Tho weight Of
| their machinery excceda fifteen tons. Part Of
the company started on Tuesday last.
| IxcExp1AR1sx.-An attempt was mnde on
Monday night oflast week to set fire To the cab
met shop Of Peter Russell. in Ottawa. but the
design fAiled. The wind WAS blowing very hard
that night, and if the desigus Of the ncendiaries
had been successful 4 large conlagralion would
hare probably been the result.
ASSAULT LION ScuooL TEAcnKR.-At Jer-
SEVILLE, in this State, Joseph Faulkner Gill;
mitted m assault on Samuel D. Dram, school
teacher, for Which he was brought before JUS
was that Dram had punished the son Of Faulk-
nes. bog about Il years Of age, for gross
| violation of the school, and IN open defiance Of
the authority Of The teacher.
| F,nE.-At Waukegan {Ill.) on Thursday lust,
the dwelling house Of James L. Dickenson was
entirely destroyed By FIRE. The loss on house
and furniture il about Il s1,50o-insured in the
IN. ~ Home for $500.
Several men lately went 10 house Of i'll
Tcrute in Cairo, where one Of them named
| Smith, being intoxicated, drew n revolver and
| commenced an indiscriminate shooting, injuring
one Of the women so seriously thut she died in
q few hours, and slightly wouudiDg two others.
Smith is about nineteen years old, and has been
committed to Jail.
| DARING IxcESD1An1sN.-On Thursday night
Inst, daring attempt was made 10 burn tue
| depot Of the Logausport, Peoria aud Burlicg-
| ton hailroad at PEORIA, but the iucendiaries
were caught in the very act, and proved to be
two 1rishmen, named Michel Murphy and
| lichael Kirby, formerly employees Of the road.
They were taken before justice md held to
bail in S3 900.
FIRE At WroAEc-On Friday last, the 18th
| inst the store Of J. B. Brown d Son, at Wyo-
ming, Stark Co, {Lll.,) in which also was the
Post 0ice. was entirely destroyed by fire, in
Guiding tue books. letters, and papers in the
Post O1fcc, and the goods in the store The
loss is about 3,000-Partially insured in the
| Alton Mutual office.
DRowSEp.-Jncob Burcr while intoxicated,
/ WIS drowned at Dunleith on Tuesday last.
The dwelling house occupied by james Il.
| Reed, editor of the Aledo (Merccr Co., Ill.,
Rseord was burned on Friday lust. Mrs. Reed
was confined to her bed By sickness. but was
Of the furniture Of tue fumiy was destroyed.
Mr.. Reed estimated his loss at $300-no insur-
! unce.
A COW suffering from hydrophobia, WIS
killed in Ottawa (1ll) few days since. She
mad been bitten by i rabid dog just nine days
before she manifested the symptoms.
At Dellerilie, Ull,) Mr. 4. Knrr, respec-
table German citizen was shot and dangerously
wounded under the following circumstances:
IN the vicinity Of MIR. KS residence is IL house
Of doubtful reputation. Some boys;had gathered
around the huuse and were creating some dis.
turbance. 4 slot was fired, which, being heard
BY Mr. h, who, knowing lis own boy was upon
the street, aren't to the scene Of disturbance. As
be approached, another shot was fired. lie re-
ccived ball on the side Of the nose. where it
made IN entrance, sha.tering tue partition bone
and ranging round GU Il line parallel with this
lower extremity Of the cur, and lodging in the
cartitege Of the maxilary bone. Another bali
struck his crayat, but the steel spring which is
now commonly worn in craTats broke its force,
that it only grazed the skin around the wind
pipe.
a German named Nick STREET has confessed
that he set fire 10 the barn of Samuel Siugmaser,
in keokuk county, Iowa, on suspicion Of which
$1trr n fr&M M1..I
mt,l,s mud '' regulators are apt to injure the
innocent US to punish the gully.
"A log has been found, apparently cedar,
two feet in diameter, II feet from the surface Of
| the ground, while men were digging a well in
the northeast corner Of Iowa county on higl,
| prairie, two or three miles from timber, and
| four miles from the 1owa river.
MAN Suor.-On Tuesday morning Michael
Gill, who lives few miles from town, WAS shot.
1t seems that on Monday james Gill, Il cousin
| Of the man who was killed, hat some difficulty
with Michael Mulvaney about load Of wood,
in which Gill was finally whipped. That nigh.
about l. o'clock. with several friends, Gill went
for the purpose Of beating him, as they said. As
they were coming iu ut the door, Aiulvaney fred
| Ills gun Ut them, and the whole charge Of shot
took effect in Gfs face just below tile eye, kill
ing him instantly Mulraney then went out and
broke his gun over another Of the purity, hurting
him badly. Muivaney gaye himself up to the
authorities and his examination is now progress.
| sns.-Lyoas tLowa) Niryor.
| The Crown Point {Ind.) Rtgisfer notices
some wholesale stealing in that county (.ake),
which comes nearly up to the story Of the fel-
low who stole saw mill, and rot caught in try
inE TO steal the dam. 1t suys thut thousand
loads Of timber hare been stolen fran the lu,n-
Der lands Of the kankakce this winter, mostly
belonging to spectators. One rnau caught
seventeen teams on his land At one time, load
ing with lumber.
| SAD CAsrAITr.-A man, whose name we have
been unable to learn, was run over yesterday
| afternoon on the Valley road at Peru indy
Both legs were badly crusi,ed-one from the
knee down. and the other from about midway
between the hip and knee. No hopes were en-.
tertaiued Of his recovery from the first and last
night hc expired. The accident occurred in his
attempting to step from one car to the other,
aud missing his footing he fell between the cars
aud the train passed over him. lie was not
missed from the train until it reached Wabash,
when the Conductor tclcgraphed back to Peru
and learned the facts.
The slaquokcta Qa.) Excelsior says that 4
steamer for the navigation Of the Ma9uoketa
Rirer is now building al Pittsburgh. 1t is to
be ninety feet in lcnsth, twenty -four feet beam,
and tweuty-eight feet across the deck, with
double engine ten iuch cylinders, with three
feet stroke, aud rated ut about forty-five or fifty
horse power, to draw not tn exceed eleven
AAGHcS AItut1 auA Will carry 4pu louS 10aAAcu, Atk0
about 81 tons in eu inches Of waterfall to be
done April l, 1850.
Mineral Point, Wis. has a population Of
$500, and has 637 buildings, Of which more
than one.half are substantial structures Of stone
OF brick.
-A gang Of horse-thievcs, infesting the coun-
Try between kansas City md Leavcnworth.
finding that The telegraph has more speed than
their nags, aud so interfcrcs with their business,
cutting the lines faster than the repairer can
mend them
A bear weighing 800 TBS when dressed was
killed 10 t;recn county, Ind, not long ago, BY
| Mr.. Walker.
MELANCHOLY SU1c1pE-A IorSG LADY
DRowSs HERSELF IN TIE Missouri We regret
to learn that young lady named Susan L.
Cottlc, who had been living at Mr.. Elberts, in
South Leayenwo1tb, committed suicide By
| drowning in the Missouri river, yesterday morn
ing, about o'clock. She left Mr. Elocrts in
her night clo,hing. and without shoes, and was
traced to the ferry landing--got upon some
drift-wood. aud, it Is supposed. there made the
fntal plunge. She had been in the city since
October last.-Ltdrtnrorth Times, l7kh.