, 1865-12-19
ILLINOIS ITEMS.

| Cheney. Who was confined In jersey couat,
fa'l On charge OF burglary, effected his escape
few nights since. The jallcr locked the p.,.onsr /.
HI. cell md left the Keys hanging In the halt Sorat
Que entered the ball, look the keys, unlocked ,he
door, and let The prisoner out The sam: thing has
been cone before In the same county.
Aiafshaa dateck, Of DecatnT1 4 lew days since ar
rcsted young man who had been sporting around
that toTn In rather eztravagant style, and upou
searching him, found six or eeyen hou=and dollars
IN money md other yn1aablcs on his person The
saaf.hal look the young to st. Lon1a, where It
turned out that he WAS the son OF hotel keeper On
1--WE street. and In tie capacity Of clerk, be had
poesested himself OF the yauables LETT In h.e care
By the g.lea.s Of the house.
Inc Peoria Transcript reports that the bee. guar
mandatory at Chafsworth is IN full blast The
Company Is called the Il 'Gezmanta Dect Company"
They OWL hvc or six sections Of la1l, and intend
gong into the manufacture OF susar next season
On a gigantic SCALE They havc sent to Germsny
Tor three hundred mechanics and 1aborers, and In
tend to operate Tlth eighty teams OF mules and
tosty teams Of oxen. They arc now building tuo
hotels and sinking coal shaft besfles puttin. m
hsfy houses for the accommodation Of their hands,
4 fire broke out in the efab!e Of Thayer / Bros.
at Tnecola, on Tuesday night Of last week. md con.
suIued the building, with n1ne horses. four mu1cs.
anu lol o1 bnEglc.. Carriages harness, &c. Lose,
<s,N0+ Insurance. SS00. The hse Is suppvset 10
be The york Of an inrcndlasy.
feW days since James j. Mcbride, leading ST.
LosRs lawyer aud prominent FenIan, Was called to
Edwsrd4rite, this State, Gu murder case. Whtte
there he attended lecture en- spitisua1lsm, del1y
cred by ono George Miller, Of Worcester, Mass.
Mr. Mcbride and some OF his friends showed
their contempt Ior the spts By laughing and talk
rg during The delivery OF the lecture. This mani.
fesatipu Hyu*ed the ira Of the feeturrr xvhr 20.
buled them from the stand. Alter the meeting
was dismissed and the audience had nearly all 1ei
the hail. Mr.. Mcbride approached Nj. Miller and
desired him 10 apologize for the use he had made
Of bis {HcBride's) name. 3lE Miller, as nearly as
wc could understand, replied that II he {1IcB.ide}
Was rot the person making the noise. he would
apologize; but II be we're disturbing the meeting.
be wonld not At this Mcbride Ealsed his cane md
struck Mr. Miller, and the latter gentleman immc-
diatelY made amends In the zane Manner Nc
Efide then drew revolver md attempted to shoot
Mr. Miller, when Mcbride was seized By tyo or
three persona, and nr, Miller LEFT ihe hall.
On the 12&h inst, the store aud dwelling house
belonging to George Bsodbecs. Al Rome, Peoria
county, were destroyed By fire. The la1ge ware
tor.e or the Illinois River Packet Company, caught
a.c repeatedly. hut was finally saved, though with
the Utmost difficulty. The tn.utance On the house
and storc ran ont come two months aso, and Mr.
D. IVES In Peoria for the purpose Of re1n.using
them. He vas negotiating the insurance when he
heard OF his loss.
The Vienna (Johnson county Herald says there
|: 20 kchoo1 taught In that town this wfuter, and
that the hogs have taken possession Of the school
houfe.
At kro.yfle, On Thursday eyenns 1azt Iazty
o tno gentlemen and four l2dsea we're thrown from
carriage by the ho:ses running away, and sere:al