Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-02-11
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Leavins kirxsville 6:l5 % the W. q
L.P.RR by the WY OF Keokuk arriv
ing in Peoria Z p. m. Tie same day
TIE evening train to Bloomington be
ins gone, | stopped over night At PEG
. ria. Having little time on the morn
ine Of the tenth, went out for items
and not the following. Peoria has q
teachers and an average attendance o
$3.50 pupils in her schools. She psit
tie U. 8. government taxes, on dislllet
spirits, the months Of October 1879 ant
November 1850. &2,nS4 G:.A. there II
ever 5000 bushels Of corn At these dis
t,lleriesconverted into slchohOlic drinks
daily.
Peoria has the largest sugar manufAc
tur,ngestablishnent in the world. max
in susar from corn and grapes, using
5000 bushels of cora daily; also it has
. very large seven story brick building
in which sugar is refined.
Her court house is the finest prehaps
in the state, it cost 100000.
Prohibitionest are quite strong snt
hopeful in the city.
Ios is taken from Peoria lake, in larRs
quantities, by steam
leaving Peoria 9 A. n. got in BLOOM
nRtou II u. and found my dear old
brother.in-law, Calvin Blake, at the de-
pot awaiting my arrival. We Won
found the house of my youngest brother
Emer Russell, whom ! had not seen for
sixteen yesrs.
This brother was one Of the boys who
captured the rebel Morgan in Ohio.
While in Bloomington we visited
q. S. orphan house, there are 34s child
rem in this institution.
No mother can give her children
better care than thosc little ones are
cared for under the supervision Of Mrs.
Orr.
We were shown through this institu'
ton by Mss Nary OConnor, . tall and
graceful young lady.
The children were clean and nicely
dressed in uniform.
All the cooklnR and washing Is done
by steam.
Day school and Sunday school Is
conducted by the best Of teachers; in
deed everything connected with this in
stitution was Running, as nicely ~ y
veil regulated clock.
We next visited the old Phoenix MUIR
ssry, of GOO acres with Is GREENHOUSES,
and the Normal school with 500
stubsats, 200 in the primary depart
meat.
In the center OF = beautiful park
stands q monument, of gray marble
50 #. high, to the memory Of departed
federal soldiers, it cost 5000.
The osmetry IN Bloomington is the
finest city of the dead 1 ever saw.
liz natural site being on rolling
ground in beautiful grove Of forest
trees, now interpreted with q great var
isty of evergreens and ornamental
shrubs.
Red Seotch granite, white, blue, and
gray marble monuments costing from
one to three thousand dollars each.
The remains, of from one to three
daily, were buried there during the
week we stopped in Bloomington.
M. Krum, the extensive grain. coal,
M lumber dealer in Bloomington, ham |
llsd during the past year 1850 cars of
grain, loo coal, 200 Of lumber. 1000
cars Of salt, lime, and cement. total
amount of business during II months
css2, OOO.5O.
The N. E. Church has house of wor-
hip the cost of which was t65.OO.
The Christians have q neat houRe not
70 costly, l gave them short talk which
was well received.
We next went to Snatchwine, Put
nam county. here We had good meet
ing with tried friends Of long ago
4 widowed sister g years old lives
hsve With her two grand children, and
noble children they are. they read the
Scriptures daily and grandma leads
hem IN prayer.
She told me, she had been at church
very Lords day for two years exospting
two Sundays, then she was sick end not
lble to 60.
Thousands of fine cat and buffalo fish
,re taken from the Illinois river, near
assry this winter. by cutting holes
shssseh the ice.
We spsnt the holidays at Daalap. in
Peoria county, first stopping with our
,epbew. G. W. Blake, and family.
It bsing Christmas eve We went to
Ae large church house nd found it fl
- with old and young. bsiAs recog-
,issA 70 were called upon to thsak The
.ora fss tbe malv good things prepared
Or the chsl4ssp.
Next day. Christmas, We were taken
sns tuo miles n ~ c0uatry TO Mr..
I. Roger another nepksw by marriage;
h,s Is one Of the most sssMplxy chris
ian families, rich Ia fistb sRA Eaod
FORKS.
They have much Of this w0ell's goods