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Show STATE NEW 19, ILLINOIS. I Hannibal hogs are going at $3.75, on foot. Dacatur small pox hasn't passed the fifth victim. Cairo reports large droves of mules and horses going south. An Elgin violator has paid $25 for 1 one Sunday of snake-breeder. At Sycamore hops have hopped down from 60 to 20 cents per pound. Urbana Baptists havo lost their pastor, Rev. G. W. Riley, by resignation. res-ignation. The Central Methodist oonfereno reports withiq its lip; its 33,672 mem bers. When Quincy belles wear long trails, men conclude it is to hide large heels. Tho Chicago & Northwestern road runs 600 more oars than it did last year. The State historical sooiety withhold its annual session at Central a, Dec, 10 to 14. When boys aro born in Woodstock it is common to announce that the fathers are doing as well as could be expected. Fulton county votes to have every man protect himself against his neigh bor's stock ; in other words to let his stock run at large. Mrs. Dr. Mary McClellao, of Peoria, Peo-ria, was arrested at Quinoy on Friday, by the sheriff of Peoria county, who cold her that the grand jury believed she had had a hand in three abortions. MICHIGAN. Tho State treasury contains $787,- 000, Schoolcraft olode its Baloons at 9 ! p.m. The State will this winter ask of congress con-gress nearly $400,000 for the improvement improve-ment of its harbors. ! Sarah Scrogham, of Casso polls, has received $100 ot James Harley for selling sel-ling whiskey to her husband. One Mann, of Tompkins, attempted a literal taking of the bull by the horns and was himself seriously bulled by the horns. St. Joseph has brought suit against the firm of jack-lawyers in that city to recover the money paid them for restoring res-toring the stolen records. Alfred Cook, of South Haven, is cul tivating a new variety of chestnuts, which are said to be twico as large as ordinary chestnuts and to grow six in a burr. On the Ionia, Stanton and Northern railroad tho construction .train has reached Sheridan, The "oontraotors have been troubled to got teams, and have now resorted to oxen where they oan be had. IOWA. "Washington has a joint-stock skating skat-ing rink at $10 a share. Dos MoincB Episcopal fair last week netted $700, bosidea a good many mussed hair nets. i The Burlington and Missouri river , road has $1,000 per week for carrying the mails in Iowa. Several new coal banks have been opened at Fort Dodge, aod still the supply is unequal to tho demand. Cedar Rapids is to have a manufactory manufac-tory for tho makiog of oat meal, pearl barley, kiln-dried corn meal, and other delicacies for tho siok. Ten thousand bushels of Iowa corn have been sold io Liverpool at a profit of ten cents a bushel. It was sent by tho way of Now Orleans. During the prevalence of the horse disease in Chicago, the A man a colony in Iowa county sent a train of wheat to Chicago, and were notified by telegraph tele-graph that on account of the horse sickness it could not be handlod. Whoreupon they immediately shipped after the wheat four yoko of oxen whioh they handled tho wheat with, and then sold them for $300 por yoke, netting $1,200 in tho operation. NEBRASKA. Tho Lincoln gasworks use petroleum instead of coal. Thayer oounty is to build a $25,000 court house at Hebron. Kearney Junotion is building a now hotel fifty by sixty feet and three Btories up. Three railroad bridges and an increasing in-creasing number of wagon bridges over the Platte rivor, aro also bridging over old soctional State feelings. Tho United States circuit oourt has decided that taxes oannot bo oollcoted from the capital of a national bank, but may bo levied on the shares of stock. Alexandria is becoming a place of much importance in tho southern interior in-terior on tho St. Joo and Donvorroad, and tho farming land" around it are among the richest in the State. Tho Burlington aod Missouri road rood through trains from Omaha east by its nowly completed route ovor tho Platte river, thus avoiding tho hotel quarrol about running into Omaha via Council Bluff?. . |