Edwardsville Intelligencer, The (Newspaper) - December 28, 1871, Edwardsville, Illinois VOLUME DECEMBER 1871. 8. BT J. R. every at TUB Printing No. 4 Main Per In SI 50 BATES OP One one 1 00 Kach additional One Square 3 One Square 6 One Square 12 1C 00 Squares 1 WO this type constitute and column advertisements inserted on double column 2j per notices of ious one-half regular in all will be and transient advertising must be paid in 49-Local to regular rents transient notices in local column to those who do not advertise In finy other 20cents per line will be exacted in nil ordered If will be charged regular weekly Since the meeting at the the proceedings of which we publish ill another Messrs. Beach and Stiles have hail a ference with Mr. Earth in regard to the Madison County and Mr. Beach came here on Tuesday evening to present the proposition of himself and Mr. Stiles in reference to running the Mr. Barth refused to lease the but proposed to sell it to Messrs. Beach and Stiles for and gave them the refusal of the road until yesterday at 12 Another party was here last and walked over the road with It is understood that this was the agent of General and that the latter will take the road at if Messrs. Beach and Stiles do not purchase and in that event the iron will be taken up and put on the Belleville Beach and Stiles will take the road on the following Pay Barth cash and give bond and deed of trust on the road for They will also purchase of rolling which the road must have to run it. This the and rolling stock cost and they will this amount of stuck and commence operations at ed our citizens and the citizens of Alton will take iu stock of the Mr. Stiles went to St. Louis yesterday to get from Mr. Barth a few days longer in order that they may see if the in stock will be and if we shall Boon again hear the sound of the whistle on the old Madison Trains will run to St. Louis without of this arrangement ing been made with the Indianapolis St. Louis K. R. IN Massachusetts the case of John C. charged with attempting to commit which has been be- fore the courts since has just been finally decided in the preme judicial The defendant shot himself with a but as the wound did not prove he was arrested and brought to trial for the attempt at The decision was that the general statutes do not include attempts at suicide as a crime or offence known to or punishable by the laws of the so hereafter the citizens of that state may considered at liberty to kill selves us fast as they please without running the risk of punishment when they fall of success in their PRESIDENT GRANT has approved the action of the state department in under an act of March the sum of for increased ses incurred by Mr. Washburne and other diplomatic and consular agents abroad by reason of the war between France and of which amount goes to Mr. Washburne as com- for and to Mr. Secretary of the legation at as extra com- Among the items given under the very appropriate head of extraordinary expenses incurred by Mr. Washburne Is one charge of franca for a watch and diamond stolen by a German under United States and another charge of franca for cath stolen by the same in- Minister Bancroft at lin was allowed his removal partly upon Republican for but put in no claim for extraordinary IF official figures are to be credited less than Germans were killed outright in the late Franco-Prussian All the ingenious means for destroying life perfected under the patronage of Verhuel Napoleon were lined to sweep away the invading and yet but and some odd of the latter yielded up their lives on the soil of At Waterloo men were killed wounded on the side of the allies In tbe desperate battle of the lose in killed and wounded of both aides exceeded In the three days fighting In the wilderness not than men were killed Though hundreds of thousands o men were contending in the Franco not a single battle was i sanguinary as that between tbe and rebel forces mention a dozen others of on FROM All nur stores during the last week mve put on their holiday dress and their windows with line t has been a busy week for the and equally busy ess for the paying members of Saturday night the Presbyterian gave the first of the holiday to their Sunday school It was largely attended by both Id and and all seemed to oy the occasion Monday light will be occupied by the ian festival and Tuesday by the holiday party of the Social Wednesday and day by the concerts of the Musical and Friday and Saturday nights the Dramatic Club give us to the and an amusing We shall not suffer for ments during the coming The warm weather of Friday cleared he river of but on Saturday it again opposite tbe and is till Our ice wen were busy and Friday gathering their the ice was of very fine Capt. postmaster at was arrested Wednesday by the States on a charge of if the peculation is on a with the value of the it must be exceeding Through the efforts of the city the to secure uniformity of has been altered so as to re- ease Alton of all special luch an charge of the Phis obviates the only objectionable of the as first The gale of wind on Saturday was severe and did a good deal of The back wall of one of Dr. Hope's building was blown the of building raised from ts and large numbers of minor accidents to Considerable excitement created the attempt of three men to cross he river In a skiff during the were blown into the and but or help from the shore wonld have partially but by going over tbe canvass with care in those states which gave Gran this it will be found that the majority given therein to the Republican candidates for the present heuse over their opponents is just about We are certain that it does not vary from those Here is a sample of the two classes of select eleven states which fairly represent all sections of tbe Maine and Massachusetts id the extreme Kew York and Pennsylvania of tbe great central Illinois and Iowa in the North Carolina of the Atlantic rebel Alabama in the extreme south West whose history typifies every phrase of ment for whose negroes voted in the tial and whose groes first voted in tbe congressional elections now under The re- turns show that in these eleven states Grant received a majority over of and that in the congressional contests of 1870 in the same states the Democratic candidates received a majority of making a Republican loss in two years of in those These es are and we know of no reason why the results in these eleven states may not be accepted as a clear demonstration of public opinion throughout the We now come to the elections of the present iu the estimation of Grant's have reversed the condemnatory verdict of 1870. This is an Tbe elections of this fall were not as were those of the policy of tration was not now so distinctly iu issue as it was then and more than only about half as many states have while those which have not belli refer to nearly all tbe carpetbag the very ones where Grant would have been most signally The smoke of the recent contests having lifted from the we now see excepting in New York and the majorities of 1871 do not vary materially from those of though the general is er against the This eral with the special results in the two states is clue to the exposure of the Tammany But long ere the presidential election arrives the Democratic party will have cleansed its skirts of all taint of and if Grant is in the field tlie Democracy are com- if they will present candidates whom the people can the same popular indignation which brone up the ilen of thieves in Tammany Hall One of the of the C. A. J will spread over the and 11_ 1. It. was blown from the He lad one rib but fortunately without Saturday some wishing a appropriated B. and which he had left on Belle and started on their Jt was short if not and ended in the where they spent Sunday meditating on the rights nf property and the between ct Real tbe the York The fact that many have proposed that their party shall make no nomination for the presidency next but accept a from the has been chronicled by Grant's riends as proof that the Democratic is not merely powerless but and therefore that iu the lext campaign it will only be ry for Grant to walk over the course pocket the That a coalition among all of reform in the coming national with n Republican of cratic antecedents at its would be the most certain mode of fighting the battle for the reform of corruption n the national no manner of but ng this and supposing battle to be waged under such a Democratic learer as William S. with a candidate for vice- president like Grate those Republicans who should assume that Ihe campaign was to be merely a neral would be pretty sore to Snd the corpse a very troublesome one to What then is the present strength of the Democratic What forces can it bring into the field in whether waging the contest without or as a member of a answering these a few are of more value than volume of The popular majority for Gen. Grant in 1808 was and Texas not voting at and Florida choosing electors by the How small this seemingly large majority really will be ent when we graduate it by a scale which the mind can readily In round the vote in 1888 was and Grant's majority on a reduced is saying that in a vote of 680 his majority was 31. for ex- in that Westchester county where lies tbe domain of the Republicans after a fierce contest iu which 580 votes were elect a supervisor by barely 31 would not Dr. Greeley be justified in instating that if the Re- publicans hoped to maintain their supremacy in that town their super- visor must behave himself And this Is tbe precise position in which the figures of 1868 place General In the congressional elections of 1870 each party did its The losses of the Republicans were Their majority in the house chosen with Grant was 90. Their majority in the present bouse is showing a falling off of 64 and being among the greatest changes from one congress to the next in the history of the though the bouse is nominally Republican by this narrow a few test votes have already proven that it is How stood tbe popular vote iu tbe last congressional In a few ofthe Southern states the returns are to tue winds the most cor- our Don't Read Ax Indiana editor leave to-morrow for the county hog and hope to take the THE Eugenie is sented as no beautiful but gray and is at a very low in Only or very distinguished parties can draw au FOR the first time in sixteen years there is not a iu Mr. governor-elect of having sent in his tion as a member this A rural poet indited a sonnet to his entitled I kissed her The compositor knew better than and set it up in printer's kissed her snub THK William is a hale healthy Like a hardy be went the other day on a five day's shooting for a busy potentate of 76 no inconsiderable to tlie the jail of that county is in so shabby a condition that rogues are ashamed to stay in it. They even threaten to hold IT is the style when an engagement is broken for the lady not to return her by or even the engagement which is kept as an Indian keeps a a trophy of former A Louisville amendment fell head foremost into au and his frightened hastening to the found him sitting disconsolately on the and de sorry I broke dat I A western editor speaks of a who is dirty that every time he goes up stairs there is a rise in real AN enterprising dentist in a boring city your sweetheart a new set of teeth as a Christmas A who had married Ins wife because she was declared that thing of beauty is a jaw THK armies and navies iu Europe are said to contain at present field and 800 A Louisana engineer was acquitted of neglect iu running over a be- cause grass on the track grew so high as to obscure tbe iron all is the legend a Hartford plumber inscribed on his outer who in thunder said it was the inquiry of an inebriated man of sin to the plumber STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS suggests that and of being echoes or pears by analogy within the and This should be generally WOMAN'S so far ed in Spain that women are now mitted to take part in Three bulls were lately slain by valiant young at were so advertised in the Spanish When old Carlo Hits in Sally's don't I wish that I were When her fairy fingers pat his don't I wish 'twas me When Sally's arms bis neck don't i wish my neck was When Kisses Carlo's don't I wish I were i M 2 a H if i i o ao t D S K 2 o GREAT SALE 2 i f c bd CO S 3 3 B 02 H s. S 2 m s GOODS FOR THE AT POPULAR STORK OK H. A. To commence DECEMBER At Low O i3 O i 3-5 m 0 0 U prints al iflo Good cotton Heavy domestic Twilled shirting flannels Best quality of shirting theut Si Splendid heavy Jeans A beautiful new of dress worth 50 at ii Beautiful ilu solid at colored and black worth nt plaid dress goods reduced from cents to 09 I 50 MO Those celebrated striped shawls reduced from SO SO to all-wool worth 82 at All-wool worth Splendid douWe shawls cheaper than liny store In flic cloth at 1 00 at 10 pure handkerchiefs Hood white worth 85 per Heaviest quality of gray per at l W OF AND are now lo lie closed mil prices so low Unit il will astonish Men's boots from M 00 Men's kip worth 3 .jO Men's custom-made boots 1 boots from Si at worth Jl J shoes 1 goat 1 worth pegged calf worth at i at variety oJ Children's I X e s ll Jl A TSi AND C A PS at wonderful Men's fine cassimere Men's wool worth at from oO good wool Irom 3i cents to the finest Otter amt can now be IX 1 am prepared give as good bargains in Southern As the prices are 1 will only say that you shall have Groceries at the very lowest rates so low that nine merchants out oi every hundred do not buy them as cheap at wholesale as you can buy from me at H O S I K 11 V at city wholesale O M K O R T K A N n X r U i A S than you ever An of OK i Direct from HIP importers In New have jusi the novelties of tlie i which 1 will offer fa low that you will consider it money away to buy them and blue beaver suits al less Hum ALTIES IX Ft US St. Louis Wholesale now on at prices thai sli iris and i A invitation is extended to and an of my and i the conviction will follow that is a a. 9 I llh THE CHEAPEST STOEE I. It. HANDLE AT Office on second floor of Wheeler's south side ot Main fi. 11. DALE ATTORNEYS AT SOLICITORS A in on Main jam JOHN 0. IEWIN AT XI floor West Prick ly H. D. over DniR I no pain in the operation of and do not Ihal E. W. Ph. M. D. AND formerly Prosector of at University Medical ami Physician U. S. Marine Hospital al Jan. v JOSEPH M. PHYSICIAN AND oc I block east ofthe residence on lot in rear of A CARPENTER AND lie is prepared to execute all jobs to Ills care willi dispatch and in i lie latest and on the most shop is on Slain tlie residence ot ly CIGAR And Dealer ail lira ml on short June UAR W. FRESH MEAT OF ALL KINDS Main near corner of Orders fully sol llou ill all Meal delivered in any pall of live THK TS Tin Stove H. A. WILL W. DEALER IX CHICAGO N. B. Lumber by at Depot at LOWEST MARKET AND AT FACTORY TUXHORN DEALERS IN STOVES AND A complete assortment will always be ound AT THE LOWEST A call Is Shop on Main two doors below the new January Trustee's Jolin Watson and Eliot son his did by their deed of bearing date the first day of and recorded in the office of Madison in book page one hundred and convoy unto F. T. ns the following described pieces or parcels of lying and being in the county of state of and more particularly described as follows The west half of the ter of section sixty acres northern part of the west half of the east quarter of section whole being Dec. one hundred and forty more or which lands are in township four in range sewn west of the third principal In trust to secure the payment of certain notes in said deed of trust and it was provided in said deed of that if said F. T. should fail or or be unable to the the sheriff of Madison state of was made his with power to execute the and the said F. T. now being un- able to execute this and fault has been made in the payment of a portion of the and by the condition slated in said deed of in case any one of said notes or any portion whether of principal or be- come due and remain unpaid 1'or twelve months after the same has then all of said notes so desired by the holder of said may become due and whether the same hare or have act notice is hereby given the on JANUARY at the front door of the in the town of Madison slate of at the hour of one o'clock p. offer for sale and sell by public for to the highest the above ed pieces of land to pay and satisfy said notes and the cost and expenses of executing this including compensation to the trustee for bis W. Sheriff Madison T. A. TROY CITY STEAM MILL Pay at all times the highest market price in CASH for keep constantly on at low White Wheat Flour of varied Buck Wheat Corn Meal and Mill We solicit a liberal share of Inducements offered to those who favor us with their T. A. Co. County CIVIL ENGINEERING ALL orders for or Civil neering will be carefully attended to by applying in person or by letter to T. M. at or to at Records of all surveys fully Terms T. M. County J. M. M. D. PHYSICIAN A deuce on the lot adjoining the adj church on Ed LIVERY Opposite the Court THE proprietor of the above IB prepared to furnish Ills ers with tlie best LI very accommodations ever introduced into this He has a of New Carriages and for either harness Horses hoarded and well taken caro of at reasonable H. DO YOU WANT No. It you drop in at the Intelligencer Job So. 4 Main MILLINERY Main barber i WILL keep constantly m liand a lull and well selected stock of 1'asliinnnble Milli- Fancy Dress and Cloak Making attended to nt Good work in every and given in all Mrs. desire ST. LOUIS EAST OF DEPOT MURRAY no A con stantly on FISH and OYSTERS in In connection wilh the above is a first class which is entirely five from J. A. Estop Loan Bant THi J. JOS. G. PRINCE IL DAVID A. PRICKETT Authorized Genera Special attention to Allowed on Nov. E M ALONZO Carpenter tf would inform the and vicinity having In- creased His Force and Facilities for Doing he is now prepared for all jobs intrusted and will execute in Hie mosi prompt and workmanlike manner and al prices to the times his motto being AND LET Call at a short distance oast of 1 he court before vmi close your cont ni ALONZO Nov. M. DESMOND FIRST-CLASS We arc also prepared lo AND i. We irill not be -in 4
