LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS
--Stove pipe “cussin” has begun.
--Pumpkin pie will be a scarce article.
--Co. E has lately taken in some new recruits.
--Sore eyes have just let loose on Ike STEPHENS.
--New corn, in the ear, is selling at 80 cents per bushel.
--Considerable dried fruit is being shipped from this place.
--Are you going to the St. Louis fair? It is to be holden next week.
--FIRE.--Insure your property with W.H. WARDER. 18--2m.
--If it would rain our farmers would sow considerable grass seed.
--Crainville, since its incorporation as a village, is growing nicely.
--FIRE.--Insure your property with W.H. WARDER. 18--2m.
--Black up that old stove and run her another winter. It is hard times, you know.
--Thoughts of possum fill through many a man’s mind as cold weather approaches.
--Henry MCHANEY, formerly of this county, now of Malden, MO., is in this city this week.
--This is one of the years in which the farmer can get about his own price for what he has to sell.
--Read J.M. CLINE’s new advertisement. John is a clever man to deal with, and will do all he advertises to do.
--A number of our sporting inclined citizens have been squirrel hunting the past week, meeting with fair success.
--J.M and A.L. CLINE have formed a co-partnership with a view of buying and shipping all kinds of county produce.
--Sylvester EUBANKS, who has been traveling with a confectionery stand during the fair season, is visiting his parents in this city.
--J.J. HENDRICKSON, having the only butcher shop in Marion, is doing a lucrative business. He deserves abundant success, however.
--It is rumored that the M.E. church South at this place will have no regular preacher during this conference year. We don’t vouch for the truthfulness of the rumor.
--Mr. R. BORTON, the popular miller and highly esteemed citizen, is, we are to state, suffering from and attack of a low type of malarial fever.
--Miss. Emma BENSON will leave next Monday for Emporia, Kan., to visit relatives and friends in that city for a season. We wish Miss BENSON a pleasant trip and enjoyable sojourn.
--On Wednesday of last week Mr. Robert BENSON and Mrs. Mary MAXEY, both of Lake Creek precinct, were united in the hold bonds of matrimony. Mrs. MAXEY was the widow of the late Marion MAXEY.
--Al. FOWLER, who is said to have robbed THOMPSON’s store, at Thompsonville, of several hundred dollars worth of goods, and to have taken them to Malden, MO., for disposition, was arrested at Malden on last Saturday by Henry MCHANEY, who arrived here with the prisoner on Sunday night. FOWLER was jailed.
--The Greenbackers met at the court house in this city on last Saturday and nominated the following ticked for county officers: For Judge, J.H. REYNOLDS; for clerk, J.F. HALL; for Supt. of Schools, Dr. J.J. GRAHAM; for assessor and treasurer, Geo. W. ROBERTS; for commissioner, J.C. MILLER.
--Overcoats are sprouting.--Lots of strangers in town.--Trade is immense this week.--The Monitor sports and new sign.--The lovely autumn days are with us.--”All aboard for the fair ground.”--The fair is the all-absorbing topic this week.
--Geo. SENTER is employed at the new CASH store.
--The farmers are asking $1 per hundeed for their hay.--There seems to be plenty of peaches in the market. --Our people are having their winter supply of coal housed.
--Co. E will be on drill at the fair on tomorrow afternoon.
--The hotels and boarding houses are in their glory this week.--The sweet potatoe crop is now being housed. The yield is light.
--Hon. J.M. WASHBURN is attending the State Fair at Peoria this week.
--The very best quality of bacon and lard always on hand at
HOPPER & REID’s.
--Mr. Wm. WHEATLEY, a Du Quoin lawyer, was on our streets Friday
last.
--A very choice line of hardware and cutlery is on sale by LITTTLE & MCKEAN. 19--3w.
--Messrs. POWELL & DUNCAN, Carterville, were registered at the CLINE house Sunday last.
--Take your country produce to John EUBANKS, northwest corner of the square.
--The most interesting of the races at the fair will come off on the afternoon of the last day--Friday.
--Thos wants to be Constable for Marion precinct? If any man aspires, we will announce the fact for one small dollar.
--Tumors, erysipelas, mercurial diseases, scrofula, and general debility cured by “Dr. LINDSEY’s Blood Searcher.” 7-19-4w.
--Mrs. BRACE, of Metropolis, on her way to St. Louis, passed the Sabbath with her sister, Mrs. H.T. GODDARD, in this city.
--A special premium of $5 is offered for the best male child at the Carbondale fair. There it is; ours is a girl.
--John EUBANKS beats the world in selling groceries. John is one of the cleverest grocery dealers extant, and the people have found out.
--The first quarterly meeting of the M.E. church, Marion charge, will be held Oct. 1st and 2nd. The Presiding Elder will preach on the evening of the 2nd.
--A protracted meeting was held at Perry’s Camp Ground the greater part of last week, Revs. LAMASTER, SCAWTHON and MCALPIN preaching.
--Esquire S.S. VICK, Dr. G.W. EVANS and C.M. EDWARDS went up to Ashley on last Friday to attend conference of the M.E. church South.
--If there is any man in this precinct who wishes to be justice of the peace he would do well to come out and announce the fact. It will cost him only $1.
--When you want a no. 1 quality of bread stuff, go to the frame mills. Mr. R. BORTON is the proprietor, and knows just how to make good flour and meal.
--Pro. J.P. DAVIS went to Carbondale Friday afternoon to visit the model schools of that city and take items that may be of benefit to him in a pedagogical point of view.
--Mr. S.J. CLINE is sorely afflicted with erysipelas in her left foot.
--Go to Hopper & Reid’s for a glass of good lemonade.
--Choice brands of cigars at John EUBANKS.
--All the staple and fancy groceries and Hopper and Reid’s, at lowest prices.
--John Eubanks’ prices tickle the misers, even.
--Bails of all kinds and for all purposes will be found at Little & McKean’s. 19--3w.
--Mr. R.P. ISBELL, of Carterville, called on us Tuesday and subscribed for the PRESS.
--The fair is simply booming, and the indications are that it will be the most successful one ever held in our county.
--Any agricultural implement, any make of wagon, buggy or carriage can be found at Little & McKean’s. 19--3w.
--The fact is, WASHBURN’s drug store is absolutely headquarters for tobaccos and cigars. WASHBURN buys the very best goods to be found in the cities.
--Mrs. John YOST and Mrs. Caroline GREGG, of Gallatin county, are attending the fair this week, and are the guests of Messrs. J.M. and W.H. CAMPBELL.
--On last Sunday afternoon, out at the fair grounds, a negro hostler, in the employ of Cab VIOL, of New Burnside, did a very dastardly trick. The negro was owing little Ed. WILEY 15 cents for carrying water, and he dunned him for the amount. The negro ordered the boy away from the stall which he was occupying, and the boy not leaving very quickly the negro brought out a stubbed buggy whip and gave him a rap over the body, leaving a black mark six inches long. The negro was arrested, brought to town and lodged in jail over night. Monday morning he was given a trial and justice fined him $10 and costs. Quite a number theought that Mr. Wm. E. WILEY, the boy’s father, should have imposed vigorously the same kind of punishment on the negro that the negro had imposed upon the boy; but Mr. W. wisely concluded to let the law take its course with the cruel hearted black man.