, 1870-12-02
TAENORTHWEST.

: &VQlo OF 1saSb 70 2a1s :,
The Rocktord Journal says that dry murriAu
u prevailng To aome extent among the catslH IN
hist section, ,snd that number hare a!resdy died
Tho disease: seems to be produced By their exttng
The Fmut On tho cofu-stslkE-
ia one day 1axt week $50 wagons came into
Mattoon, bringing Il, ,ooo bushels Of com; aud on
thst day the farmers spept u leass $1,000 among
the merchants, VINO accounted 1t the bugtest day
NATION had ever seen.
Within nltJ miles Of Cairo there IL larger
quanrttJ Of whlte oak timber th1n eau be found
in she ssle extent Of Territory elsewhere between
the Allegheny and ROCKY Mountatnf, and MI
Ramon, Of Cairo, has contract with the Battah'
Government for l,soc 900 cubic feet Of the timber
Tho Turner's Of Central ard Southern Illinois
held convention st Cairo, on SAturday, to organ-
1Ee. new Bextrk, independent OF tho Chicago
one. Seven hundred Turner'S were represented.
A conBtitutiou Waa adopted, and oince11 elected
for the ensuing yeat..; peortx VA named ~ the
headquarters Of tho Bezrf, and 1t Tss decided to
hold Tutnfeat there some time next s1mmer.
a Joung mAn by the name Of L. Aautse, with
his wife, to whom he had recently been married,
YVES boet-r1d!ng in the Mississippi River, 1uit
above the mouth Of tbs Illinois, on the 9Th nlt,
When The boat capaized, drowning both Of theEn.
The husband xas resident OF Kansas, whittier
he intended taking his vile in few days
IOWA.
The coal mlned near Boauesb0to are Yielding
z.soo tons month at ptesent.
Tho Emmet vtndsaatoT u responsible for the
statement that they intend having dance at Da-
a9e for their preacher.
: The members Of the antf-Mnsonic societies
recently organized IN Iowa are instructed ''not
to vote sor, trade with, bny from. employ, or have
any other business relations with, FftemAsonsn
-wBcoNsM.
The Oshkosh AorthetHeTn notes the arrest, for
rape and other crimes, Of the Rev. T. B. Hayward,
a Free Ull Baptist preacher, who has had charge
OF churchea near Qm1o and Vlnla1d. -"
The 1aCroese Leader saJa but few Of the Large
boata 1re now running On the Mississippi sboya
Dubuque. Tho larger boata Of the Northwestern
Union Packet Company Will 60 into the Lower
Mississippi trade. Maila are taken up the riveF BY
stage, the steamboat contract having expired
A0n Friday last tho residence OF David Cover.
OF Oak Park, one mile from Saltwater Wa1 burned.
Mr. Cover WIS aick In bed 1t the time OF the IRE,
md had about s1o, 900 iumoney concealed between
the mattressesof the bed upon which he WIS
lying. In the excitement the money waa forgot
ten, and Was destroyed. It ls believed that some
one who waa aware Of the fact that Considerable
amount Of money Wal concealed IN tho house aet
1lra.to the premises for the purpose Of securing
| tho treasure.
-A:nve-year-old daughter Of Joseph Zah,er, o!
Hudson, -haz been troubled for the last two
months with bleeding 1t the nose quite frequent
| ", accompanied By general debility. Last Sun.
day the child WAS attacked with bleeding spell,
and the mother pnt some anu TO the chld's nose to
staunch the blood. 1tcaused the child to Bneeze
vely hard, and the Strange part OF the matter is,
that worm OF grub, about three Inches long,
with perfectly shsped head and eyes, WAS forced
from the little girls no8e.- Il Was full Of blood
and alive Of bright blood ento-. with TWO shArt
horns prot,udiug f1om the head.
INDIANA. ).
The Upton 1tmss saya: Captain L q. Mont
gomefy hAs In his ppsscsston topaz, found wnflt
digging we'll on his farm on Indian Prairie, thl
county, some years ago, Tor which he has rstaset
the Hum OF TWO hundred and nity dollarz,
Tho Presbytety OF Ylncennes, which met 4
Washington. Daviess County, On the 2lst nit. !
the cali Of the Moderator, the Rev. c. B. Il. Ma.
lin, took up tbs case Of the Rev. Mir. Carson
charged with drunkenness, and promptly SUI
pended him from the exercise OF his mlnlstefta
duties He was summoned to appear for trtal a
the next meeting OF tue fresbytefy. !
XuNIsorA. 4
George P. Cleveland died 1t Minneapolis on tn
9Th ult A child Of hls, aged II months, die
about m hour before isa father. q.
OHIO.
Patrick Farley, Of Cleveland, started for Te5
ne4see with flo, 900 IN hls belt He fell asleep o
the train, aud, when he Awoke, bait and moae
were gone.
the French eettsement Of Adelescat Dakos
Territory, has curious ortgtu. A party Of Frene
;. emisranta wn.s loo1ueI1ng up tho Missouri Rive
! R when pet cat Escaped from IL mistress, AdA
A stop WAS r1ade to catch the runaway. when +
1 emlgrsntz, struck By The adrantsges Of me Toe
don, halsed and format tho now settlement.