The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-10
ILLINOIS.

Cuttings from Correspondence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.
Clear Creek Baptist Association is in session
at Jonesboro.
Hog cholera is said to be raging in portions of
Edgar county.
ST. Pauls Church. Springfield, has made call
for Rev. f. w. Taylor, Of Danyille
1t is estimated that ten million pounds of fish
are taken from the rivers of Illinois each year.
The effort of knights of Labor and Green
| hackers of Marion county to combine has proved
a failure
Five prisoners IN TIE Paris jail beat the bars
ont of the prison door with stone and quietly
walked away
At the Murdoch camp-mesting, near Oakland.
the attendance on Sunday was estimated at fully
forty thousand persons.
A Mount Carmel magistrate united in mar
riage a seventeen-yearold boy and widow OF
thirty. The boy was the widows third husband.
Yellow waterlilies are said to grow in only
two localities IN this country. They are found
IN abundance near Peoria. They are now in
bloom.
The colored people of Alexander county have
called conference to discuss the feasibility of
placing in the field negro ticket for county
officers.
The encampment Of the Second Brigade, T. N
g., at Camp Lincoln near Springfield, ended
yesterday. 1t has been very satisfactory in all
respects.
Nauvoo expects to make 100 900 gallons Of wine
this year. besides selling $10 900 worth of grapes.
One firm in Warsaw is preparing to make 90 900
gallons of wine.
White Oak farmer killed seven large rattle
snakes in two days while working in his hay.
No rattlesnakes had been seen in that vicinity
before for years
A Jacksonville mother ties her children to
trees with long ropes, and then leaves them to
play about the lawn without being afraid that
they will run away.
A party of twenty boys went snake hunting
on the prairie, near Gallon. and in three hours
killed 1874 rattlesnakes, twelve blue racers and
several garter-snakes.
A birds nest containing four young birds was
found in the draw bar Of catte-car which
passed through Tilton last week. The car had
come from Kansas City.
Hundreds of birds were killed by the furious
rain-storm which visited Decatur Thursday
evening. Under one tree in the City Park forty
English sparrows We're found drowned.
Nation secures it's water supply from a we'll
fifty-6ve feet deep and fifteen feet in diameter,
which stands full all the time. notwithstanding
the immense quantity of water used from It,
man living one mile from Wayne jumped
off a moving railway train near his home, in
order to save walking back from town. His
and hip were broken. He thinks now it would
have been better to have walked back.
The Hancock County Holiness Association is
preparing for large meeting at its own grounds,
north of Carthage, commencing Aug. II. L. B.
Kent, Of Bloomington, and Frank Ashcraft, two
revivalists, are to conduct the meeting.
Grasshoppers are becoming very numerous in
the western part of Clinton and caste 1ortion
of st. Clair counties. They are dana corn
seriously, some fields being almost tirely
stripped Thus far the pests seem conin~ TO one
locality, but it is feared that their ravages will
increase.
William Cole. a resident Of Litchfeld, appar-
entity died on Sunday afternoon at o'clock,
from congestive chill, with which ne was
seized few hours before. Although he has ell
the appearance of being dead, his body snil re-
mains warm, and his friends believe it to be a
case of suspended animation.
The fire at Chenoa, few days ago. occurred at
midnight. Before morning a number of the
burned business firms moved the remnants of
their stocks into the Exchange Hotel, aud were
ready for business by breakfast time. A bank,
an insurance Office. drug store and dry-goods
store occupied the four OF the hotel Office
when the landlord woke up in the morning