, 1870-04-20
Illinois.


The expenses Of the Constitutional couren-
ton 80 IA, foot up about sloo, 900.
The colored folks Of Springfield and Peori.
celebrated the Fifteenth Amendment, Wednes-
dAr last, with professions, saluses, and
speeches. Among the speakers At the former
place we're Governor Palmer, General Rowell.
Captain Drendorn, Mr. Coleman, and Messra..
rerley, Of atarshau County; Church. Of
McHen7; Peirre, Of Grundy; Nayns, Of
Woodward, and Cary, of 10 Dayiesa. MI.
Buxton. Of Carlyle, Clinton County. p.eaided
at tho meeting in Representatives Hall.
In tho hayoralty case, tho Wilmington
Common Council threw ont si1 votes for II.
b1lrin. which elected II. Il. oden by aix ma
joEtv.
The express train on the Chicago l. Alton
RnlHay was thrown from the track Friday
night, four miles south Of Jerseyrille.
-At Springfield, the Democratic municipal
ticket vas chosen. At Bloomington. r. J..
BuT, Democrat, vn elected Mayor BY 800
majority. 1t Quincy. tho contest Has cloee
but the Democ1Ass claim the victory.
-Nm- a. WoEllen, late Treasurer OF KankA-
kee Connfy, accused Of being defau1ter for
sl2. cog, has been acquitted after thlrts-two
hours dehberation BY she iury.
-Comnuiesinns hAve been issued to Byron
G; Dudley, Il Judge, ind Jord.n j. Cole, N
Clerk Of DnpAge County, the Circuit Court
having decided against the contestants.
Tho Neponset school house WAS burned
April Is. The fro WAS started in tho balf1y
ioss, 900. The same day Osgood Il Eli
sonss livery stable, and Fellows i 9fone's plAn-
ing mill and machine shop, Belvidere, with
two harms, were burned to the ground. Loss,
.20,o00; no insurance. April II the round
house, at Alton. OF the Tesrc Haute 4 Alton
l!ailroad, caught fire iron, SPARKS Of = locomo-
tive, and was destroyed. Loss, T., 1000.
james Ramsey, while on his way to the
Hcrncpin Jail, WAS seized by mob aud hung.
lie was charged with violating his daughter.
livery Dallaul wss murdered near White
hall, lant Saturday, by stranger whom be
bad hired to chop wood for him. The vltlain
cleft his head in two with his a1e. After reg
lsteTing his namo at a hotel IN Whitehall. ~
"Nm- F. Dayia, Christian County, Illinois" !"
and surrendered himself to an oaicef, with tho
remark, that be- fad had his revenge. He uAr-
-oWly escaped 1yuching on the spot, and 1aa
lodged in tho CAr1olton jail.
Hon. Charles Emmsrsor., member Of tia
Constitutional Convention, diod Saturday night
at Decatur
Allen c. Mason, Of Normal, committed
sHic,de .E !, Sunday, BY shooting himself through
~. l. Washington, colo7ed, Of Chieaca
sn~l the ST. Louis i keokuk Packet Company
foo dan1Agas in that ono Of their Captaino put
him on steamer at Portage, Missouri. The
dofence was that Washington, holding a
second-claes ticket, claimed fitst-clasa I,riyi-
lcGer, and was sent &ahoze for violating the
rules Of the boat and using insulting language
The case Was tried in tho Circuit Court at
Quincy. After dfteen minutea' dc.ibcra,iop
tho jury found for the defendant.
"A female inmate Of the Jsckeeayi1}e In
zane Asylun got upon tho roof. dropped to a
coruice ei1 or eight feet below it, esyentY-fiye
feet from tho ground and only a foot wide.
: Ihere ehe walked up aud down fo< fifteen min
utes- Then swinging herself down to = CAP
ateye the tifth-stUy window, foot vide and
four feet long. che stood there another quarter
Of an hour. At hst ahe relieved. the spectators
tciror t.y sclziog ropc that lad long been
lowered TO her from the roof, md .uaehod the
ground in safety.
An official excu1Hion rart4 from SpYinpheI3
visited the Springfield l. Peoria Railroad last
Thu1sday. dining At the St. James Hotel.
a temporary injunction has bcen granted
against the Palmyra Farmers Inzurancs Com
pany for non-compliance with tie sct Of 1850.
- 1hs contract for constructing the Ecsth-
ern Insane Asylum at Elgin has been awarded
70 VI Bushnell 1 Co., of Mendoza, who bid
Thomas Canntrau, who has been on t1iA1
for the murder OF iia hrother, In the circuit
Court Of Jacksonville, has heen found, guilty
OF naansl4ughter, and sentenced to ten years'
confinement At Joliet.
Quincy hae elected Democratic Mayor. by
majority Of 1856.
William Shannon, Of Indiana, was t.cona-
deneed" ont Of S3oo. On Tuesday. in Quincy,
The wife OF r. 4 Milton, Of Dru1y, Rock
leland County, eloped with George Why, re-
Gently, and wen1 to Red Oak, Montgonery
County, Iowa. Tho psir wore pursued thithcr
Il Milton, aE1 = fight ensued batween him and
N5a,, during. which the former Has shot in the
side by the Ntter.
The Daavile Commercial says: MANY
farmers arc now plowing for corn in this
county. Spring wheat and oats arc nearly a|I
sown. We do not remember Of ever seeing a
more favorable spring for the farmers.