LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS--Mrs. J.M. CLINE has been quite sick this week.--Miss Ettie DUNSTON is just recovering from an attack of pneumonia. --The young folks engaged in a social party at the residence of Mr. S.H. TYNER on Tuesday evening. --Dick BOREN, the aged offender of the laws of his country, who broke jail here a short time ago, was heard from at Newport, Ky., last week. Sheriff DUNCAN has gone after him.--Mr. A.M. PACE will return from St. Louis the latter part of the week. --Wm. DUNGY is under arrest for the larceny of Starling HILL’s pocket book. He will have a hearing today. --Two young men named MOCKABY were jailed last night. they are indicted for larceny, so we are informed.
--Mr. William T. DAVIS and Miss Mary BARHAM were united in marriage at the Pulley house, in this city, on Tuesday evening, Jan. 31st, 1882, Eld. John A. RODMAN officiating. The bride is the daughter of Mr. Joseph BARHAM, of this county, and is an industrious, handsome and intelligent young lady. The groom is our present Circuit Clerk. He is extensively known as a business man throughout the county, and is considered one of “the best fellows in the world.” The couple certainly have our best wishes.
FIRE.---Our people, and especially those on the east side of the square, were give a genuine scare on last Monday morning. At about three o’clock the family of Mr. Thomas PERRIGAN, who occupy rooms in W.P. GOODALL’s building, were aroused from their slumbers by the presence of smoke in their apartments. They were not long in discovering that the house was ablaze in the closet underneath the steps in the front part of the building. The fire was making considerable headway, and had it not been discovered when it was the entire block of wooden buildings on the east side must have gone up in smoke. There was considerable rubbish in the closet where the fire was discovered, and that furnished first class material for a starter. The general supposition is, we believe, that the building was fired by incendiary. The fire could not break out in a place in town where so much property would be liable to destruction as in this block, and the thought that any one would apply the torch to it is too terrible to contemplate.
MASONIC.On Monday evening Hon. Isaac CLEMENTS, of Carbondale, favored our people with his lecture” “Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons.” Mr. CLEMENTS spoke at the Christian church in this place and was greeted by an unusually large and especially interested audience. The speaker handled his subject most ably, give a full and complete history of the ancient origin and progress of Masonry from its earliest known existence up to the present time. A special train from Carbondale brought over quite a number of the Masonic brethren and their ladies from that place; and these were joined at Carterville by another large delegation of people who came to attend the lecture. After the lecture the visiting brethren and their ladies repaired to the CLINE house and partook of refreshments which had been prepared for them. Among the guests present from Carbondale were: Hon Isaac CLEMENTS and wife, Mayor E.J. INGERSOLL and wife, Prof C.C. STOTLAR and wife, Dr. L.H. SPENCE and wife, John H. BARTON and wife, C.F. PRICKET and wife, Geo. L. BOWYER and wife, C.C. LAWRENCE and wife, Edmund NEUSOME and wife, S.W. DUNAWAY and wife, Henry BEMAN and wife, A.G. SHEPPARD and wife, Misses Nellie B. DAVIS, Nora BRUSH, Ida FLEMING, Lieut. H.T. REID, C.E. BRUSH, A.G. JACKSON. We were unable to obtain a list of those present from Carterville, but among them were Misses Flora DAVIS, Genie LEWIS, Cornelia BROWN, Mrs. Josie HINCHCLIFF, R.J. HAMPTON and wife, Dr. W.H. PERRY, James THOMPSON, Squire DAVENPORT, Johnnie LAUDER and others.Richard’s Helicon Band accompanied the visitors and furnished good music for the occasion. A.J. BENSON, Master of Fellowship LODGE, acted as master of ceremonies, during the evening, with credit to himself and satisfaction to the fraternity.
WHERE IS HE--Does anybody know anything of the whereabouts of G.B. LEASURE, formerly of this county? Please inform this office.
There are three cases of scarlet fever at Carterville, in the family of Blunt SMITH.--Wm. DUNGY, who was charged with the larceny of Starling HILL’s pocket book, mention of which was made in the Press last week, had a preliminary trial before Justice LAND and was acquitted.
PAID SUBSCRIPTIONS DURING JANUARY. ---Green ROBERTS, Mrs. W.F. WILEY, C.M. MURRAH, J.P. DAVIS, Jas. R. SWAFFORD, Albert CLINE, M.M. EDGAR, Geo. W. HILL, Dr. J.H. EDWARDS, John SPRINGS, Charles CALVERT, Wm. REX, John F. PRATT, O.G. CAMPBELL, W.J. PULLEY, W.T. BARHAM, Hampton & Co., W.B. HALL, Geo W. YOUNG, W.T. HAMPTON, R.A. SANDERS, Ben WALKER, John H. SANDERS.
LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS.--Our esteemed friend R. BORTON is to be congratulated. A plump little girl made her appearance at his home on last Thursday. The baby getting along splendidly but the mother is not so well. --Sheriff DUNCAN returned from Newport, Ky., on last Thursday with Dick BOREN, and Dick is again boarding at the Perkins house. --James BAINBRIDGE has sore throat. --W.S. WASHBURN ha an occasional chill.--Mr. L.T. EUBANKS has moved to Murphysboro.--Mr. N.G. REID has been on the sick list this week.--Clarkson N. POTTER’s seven brothers were his pall bearers. --R.P. ISBELL will leave Carterville for DuQuoin in a few day’s.--Mr. M.W. ROBERTSON and family will leave for Florida one day next week.--G.W. MAY’s little boy, Coram, was very seriously ill Tuesday. He is now better.--There is a bran new boy at Wm. MCINTOSH’s; it made its appearance Monday morning. --There are six people sick in one house in the Robertson block- Mr. WOODY and his family.--Mr. Henry GRAY, who has a severe case of typhoid fever, is still considered dangerously sick.
DIED-SLANKARD--At residence in Carterville, Ill., on Friday, Feb. 3rd, 1882, Mary Jane SLANKARD, wife of John H. SLANKARD, aged 34 years, 8 months and 15 days. The funeral services were held at the residence of J.L. CALVERT, in this city, on Sunday, the 5th inst., and were conducted by Revs. G.W. MAY and G.W. SCAWTHON. The remains were buried at the Marion cemetery. Mrs. SLANKARD was an exemplary woman, distinguished for christian graces and more that ordinary intelligence. She was a member of the Presbyterian church.
THANKS.--Carterville, Ill., Feb. 7, ‘82--Ed. PRESS:-Allow me through the columns of your paper, to extend my thanks to the good ladies of Carterville, who so kindly waited with my wife during her last illness, and especially those who wove the beautiful wreath and placed it on her brow. I assure them that I shall never forget such favors, coming as they did, at a time when my bereavement was almost unbearable. Yours Truly, J.H. SLANKARD.
CARTERVILLE NOTES.--Feb. 7 1882--Mrs. James WADE was married to Miss Julia RICHARDSON, at the residence of the bride’s father, two miles north of here, on last Sunday. Esq. DAVENPORT tied the knot. William H. BUNDY will depart for the south in a few days.Mrs. J.M. EUBANKS is getting well.James THOMPSON has moved his saloon into new quarters, one door north of Desberger’s dry goods store.
LOVAL AND OTHER MATTERS--Uncle Nick MOORE has a severe cold. --Frank GOODALL returned from the South the first of the week.--Carey WILEY returned from Charleston, Mo., Monday, after an absence of about a month. His many friends welcomed him home. --Mr. W. ROBERTSON, his wife and two children left for Florida on last Monday afternoon. They will be absent several months. At just what point they will stop, they had not decided on, but near Tampa bay, probably.--Mr. I.G. KELLEY is suffering from a lame back. --Mrs. Dr. G.W. EVANS has been confined to her room in sickness for the past several weeks, and at present is improving very slowly, if at all. --Wm. H. BUDY has gone to Tuscaloosa Ala., to join his invalid wife. --Mr. and Mrs. D.R. HARRISON of Herrins Prairie, have gone to Florida, to take a view of the country.--Mr. and Mrs. J.C. HUNDLEY, of Carbondale, celebrated their wooden wedding last evening. Mr. and Mrs. A.J. BENSON and Miss Bettie GODDARD, of our city, attended. --Miss Sarah WRIGHT was seriously ill Tuesday evening, but is now much better. --That scarlet fever has broken out in our midst there is little or no doubt. One day last week Coram, a little son of G.W. MAY, was taken very sick, and the physicians decided that he had scarlet fever. The child died Sunday morning last. Meantime, another one of Mr. MAYS children was taken ill with the same disease, and at present is in a very critical condition. The announcement that scarlet fever had made its appearance among us alarmed our people considerably, of course, and at present Mr. MAY’s residence is quarantined against. The schools are closed; most of the children are being kept at home, and our people are doing what they can to prevent the spread of the dangerous disease. Up to the time we go to press no other cases are reported.
SAD EVENT.--Charles William CORAM, son of Geo. W. and Sarah MAY, of this place, died of scarlet fever on Sunday, Feb. 12th, 1882, aged 3 years 4 months and 18 days. The funeral was held at the Marion Cemetery on Sunday afternoon, Rev. G.W. SCAWTHON making a few remarks of a consoling character. The death having been caused by a contagious disease, few people, of course, attended the funeral. That “Death Seeks a Shining Mark” was seldom more strongly exemplified than in this case. Little Coram was an object of admiration to all who knew him, and everyone was impressed with his lovely disposition and marked brightness. But the little footfall is heard no more; the innocent prattle is hushed; he will not sing his little songs and make his little speeches around the family hearthstone any more. The Master has taken a sweet and precious life from earth to Heaven. “He Sleeps! Oh! lay him gently down, To long and peaceful slumber, Till God shall all his ransomed crown, And all His jewels number.”
LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS--County Clerk EUBANKS went hunting last Friday, and fell in the creek. --Mrs. S.J. CLINE celebrated her 56th birthday on last Thursday by inviting a number of her friends to dine with her at the popular CLINE house. --Mr. Issac MCCOY, three miles north west of this place, died on last Thursday. He was a very highly esteemed by a large number of acquaintances, being an exemplary Christian and good citizen. --Mrs. Mary HENDRICKSON, wife of J.J. HENDRICKSON, formerly of this place, now of Verndale, Minn., arrived here on Saturday last and will visit relatives and friends for a short time.--Julia S., wife of Thomas I. MOHLER, of this city, died on last Thursday. Rev. G.W. SCAWTHON conducted the funeral services. The remains were buried at the Marion cemetery. Mrs. MOHLER was 32 years old. --Mr. and Mrs. J.P. HARRISON, of Warrensburg , Mo., attended the funeral of their daughter, Mrs. G.W. EVANS, at this place, on last Sunday. Mr. H is a deputy sheriff of his county, and is a highly respected, intelligent gentleman. --One night last week some parties went to the residence of County Treasurer RAINEY, five miles north east of this place, pried up one side of his smoke house, took out a log and carried off all the bacon he possessed. --No more scarlet fever in Marion. The scare is over. Everyone breathes easier.
--Mrs. Arabella MAYHEW, widow of the late C.A.P. MAYHEW, and daughter of Mrs. S.J. CLINE, residing 11 miles east of this place, sustained a serious loss on last Saturday morning. The lady and her entire family went away from the residence a shot distance to where some ground was being prepared for a potato patch. This was about 9 a.m. A neighbor was passing and discovered that the house was on fire. He gave the alarm, but the fire had gained such headway that it was impossible to stay it, and the building, with all its contents, was consumed. The family were left with nothing except what clothing they were wearing. Mrs. MAYHEW had sufficient wheat to have supplied her with bread till harvest, which was stored in the building, and that was lost. The cause of the fire is somewhat of a mystery, as there was very little fire in the fire place when the family left the house. The only explanation is that a dog was shut up in the house, and there was some clothing hanging on a chair before the fire, and it is supposed that the dog upset the chair and the clothing falling into the fire, carried the flames to the floor.
--L.A. GODDARD has resigned the secretary ship of the Williamson county Agricultural Board. Mr. G. has held the position for the past five years, and proved an efficient and trustworthy officer. His reason for resigning is that a press of other business will not admit of his holding the office any longer. It will be hard to find a man for the vacancy who will so faithfully attend to the duties of the office, and who will take the interest in the welfare of the Board that Mr.. G. took.
I.O.O.F.--D.G. Master, Geo. W. YOUNG, by authority in him vested by the R.W. Grand Master of the State of Illinois, together with his corps of assistants, composed of E.E. MITCHELL, J.W. KEELER, W.L. BENSON, D.A. DAVIS, J.W. PEEBLES, J.P. MOORE and the editor of the Press, instituted a lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Carterville on last Friday night. The new lodge is known as Carterville Lodge, No. 703. Order was called at 7 o’clock p.m., and the work commenced. The 2nd and 3rd degrees were conferred on eight or ten of the degree of Rebekah on about fifteen members. The following officers for the new lodge were duly elected and installed:N.G., H.H. CRAIN; V.G., John HADFIELD; Sec., John H. DUNCAN; Treas., Adam SCHNEIDER.The presiding officers appointed their subordinates, and the lodge was formally opened. Eight or ten applications for membership were made. The work done consumed the time from 7 p.m. to 4:30 a.m., with the exception of about spent at supper and cigars, at midnight. Carterville Lodge, No. 703, is we officered and the membership is composed of good and substantial men. It certainly has a bright future before it. We must say that we have never met a more generous lot of men than the members of the order of Carterville. Mrs. James THOMPSON received the grateful thanks for all concerned for the bountiful supper she prepared, which was partaken of at 11:30 p.m.
DIED.--Again we are pained to record the death of a good man.Mr. Edmund HARRISON, who is well known to a large number of our citizens, died at his home, near Jeffersonville, this county, Jan. 31, 1882, after a short and painful illnessMr. HARRISON has been a resident of this county since 1852, and by an upright walk and a noble, generous nature, has endeared himself to all who knew him. As a citizen, he was fearless in the defense of right and justice; as a neighbor, he was generous and obliging; as a husband, he was true and faithful; as a father, he was kind and indulgent; and, as a Christian, he was unwavering in his faith- “A living epistle known and read of all men.”He joined the “Regular Baptist” church in 1846, and defended that faith till his death; and often have I heard it said of him, “the best sermon he ever preached was his noble, Christian life.”He bore his illness with great patience, seeming conscious all the while of the coming end, and telling his friends that he felt prepared to go. Father HARRISON battled with the cares and disappointments of life for nearly four score years; but,- “His day of life is o’er, his labor done, And now he sinks to his eternal rest, As mildly as the summer’s setting sun Sinks down behind the mountain in the west. And when at last the night of death is o’er. And all his gloomy shadows swept away, He’ll wake to view the glories of that shore. Where life is crowned with one eternal day.”The family wish to return their thanks to the friends who so kindly ministered to them in their hour of affliction.
DIED--EVANS.--At residence in Marion, Ill., on Saturday, Feb. 18th, 1882, Mary L., wife of G.W. EVANS, aged 27 years, 11 months and 29 days.The funeral services were held at the M.E. church South on Sunday, at 2 o’clock p.m., Rev. C. MURCHISON officiating. There was a large number of our citizens in attendance. The remains of deceased were buried at the Barham cemetery.Mrs. EVANS was a member of the M.E. church South, and was an active and devoted Christian. She was a faithful and companionable wife; a loving mother and highly esteemed neighbor. In short, she possessed all the attributes of a true woman. Her three little children, her sorrow stricken husband and her aged father and mother have the profoundest sympathy of every acquaintance.