, 1864-07-12
that magnificent tower-the night blooming

that magnificent hower-the night blooming
ZANE COUNTY. ......
There are SD pupils in the public schools
Of Elgin. The receipts Of the school f9nd
for The year ending June 80, '64, were S3,-
4l213; expenditures, 50, o1.6s.
There will be an excursion from Richmond
to Chicago on Frid,y Of this week.
The Good Templars celebrated the Fourth
at Elgiu. The Grafton was delivered by D.
.. Dliscon, Of Chicago, and is htghly spo-
v. ". Merrill, well known resident Of
Elgin, attempted to commit suicide on Fri
was insane at the time, bus It Is stated by the
physicians that his sanity returned the In
stant he cut his throat. BE will probably re-
cover.
ADAMS COUNTY.
"A Union Club has been formed lat Quincy
By that indefatigable worker, z. 4. Jones.
A Union and Copperhead meeting were
week. The latter was street corner fzzle.
Mad dogs gre the latest sensations at
Quincy. -
a serious and singular accident occurred
near Galya on Thursday last A small build
Ing Was being raised by screws, when two
men commenced scufaling underneath 1t,
One, named Thomas Carter had his JAZZ bro
ken.
The Fourth was celebrated at Galva by d
basket picnic. Rev. Wm. Guild delivered the
address.
KNOX COUNTY.
Rev. C.sP. West was the orator at Oneida
on the Fourth.
There is an app1e tree OF the Red June var
iety, at Galesb1rg, blooming TOR the second
time this yPar
A severe hail storm occurred near Gales.
burg on TbursdaY last. Corn, wheat and
oats were considerably injured.
The Galeaburg Fair aetted $4,000, one
fourth OF which will be semitic the Chicago
Commission.
ROCK 1sLAND COUNTY.
The Onion men Of Port Byron, cerdoys,
brated the Fourth ut Port Byron. Samuel R.
Alien read the Declaration, and Judge VII.
kinBon made the Grafton. 4 handsome sum
was realized for the Sanitary Commission.
The order for the Reserve Corps to leave
Rock Island and report at Washington has
been countermanded.
Three hundred and thirty five rebel prison
ere, among them twenty officers, hare ar
rived at Rock Island from Little Rock.
Sixty-four rebel prisoners ut Rock Island
took the oath OF allegiance on the Fourth,
and have enlisted in our navy.
MLEAN COUNTY.
The work of coal boring at Bloomington
IDS been suspended.
The chinch bug is making sad ravages with
the wheat In this county. Some pieces are
nearly destroyed. The barley crop is nearly
ruined.
Harvest hands arc obtaining from $3.50 to
$500
4 little child, son of Mr. Gerard, of Grid
ley township, was killed On the Fourth by q
wagon box falling upon hun.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The Union Convention to Nominate can
dldate for Congress will be held on the 18th Of
August ut Monmouth.
WILL coGSTT.
Ex-Governor Mattcson arrived in Joliet
on Thursday, after two years. absence.
Hon. Jesse o. Norton is at home from
Washington.
Celebrations of the 18th were held at Viii
mington, New Lennox, Jackson's Grove, and
Kendall. Four hundred dollars at the latter
place was donated to the soldters' Aid So
ciety.
sANGAMoS COUNTY.
Ten companies of the ed Illinois were
! mustered ont at Springfield on the 7th.
A meeting of wool growers was held at
Springfield on the 6th to take into considera-
tion the prices of wool Their action was
not made public.
La sALLE COUNTY.
4 little girl, ten years Of age, daughter oi
| Anthony Funk. living near the Ottawa Tan
| merry, Ottawa, was burned to death on the
4th inst, by her clothes taking fire. Her fa'
| ther is In the army.