Show THE OLD HOTEL AT CARTHAGE THE STANDARD yesterday morning contained a brief reference to the old li hamilton hotel at carthage illinois Illino iB and of the historic associations connected with the venerable landmark in the carthage republican of the alth which was received yesterday and which sir frank carey of this city calls to r atten attention tiou appears an I 1 of the building and a portrait po of its builder the de accompanying the sketch h confirms the account published yesterday of its construction in 1830 1836 and its popularity as a hostelry among the legal and social worthies of that 1 early day the account conlinn con cont tinn lau daring the mormon ascendancy arcu dancy joseph end and hyrum smith v jre frequent guests usually acu ag to toga geber her the south room 1 ding now being torn tora do down rn the i arat masonic lodge ever held la the town was wag la in the north room of 0 the same building 9 JQ judge hamilton a sort conot of the bueller bul ller hai has I 1 arranged to hare bare some of the oak flooring of tbt that room male mile into a masonic altar by mr win barbell tor for the lodge room la in thi this city when joseph and hyrum smith were killed at the old jau oa on june 27 1811 their bodies were taken to the hamilton IIi mllton hotel w where here they wara placed la in rough coffin coffins and by mr hamilton and one of 0 hij hig son on token taken to nauvoo the fal lowing dy day dr taylor Wreal president dent john taylor who was w very seriously gerlous ly wounded by the mob on the same 00 oC Atlon lay la in oat one ol 01 the upper rooms until 11 he wm was able to be taken home on the morning 0 of july 6 the cholera broke out in the hamilton hotel the first victims were ada hamilton IIa mllton a lister sister ol 01 artois and a oranda chapin both ol 01 whom hom w died that day mra mrs hamilton IIa mllton daughter amelia aon son marvin and M B fristoe a clock peddler died the following day the lather father ol 01 miss chapin died at warsaw from the same disease a day or two alter after during the pestilence the town was nearly de populated but few low persons remaining to care or the eckand bury the dead mr Ifa mllton leased tile bouse house in imao is to mansfield patterson who kept it as a hotel until some time next year when it was sold to C 8 hamilton who kept it ita as a hotel unta 1313 or 84 since that time it 3 bas been used tor for wareroom carpenter shop and the like AN ATTEMPT ie to being made by some iconoclastic wretch in the east to dispense with the telephone girls and substitute a soul 1 I 1 hello leea mechanical device As an inn innovation 0 this is to be resulted restated to the last there are heights of invention to which mortality will refuse to rise one of these is a cold unsympathetic switchboard a witch board in place of the invisible but charming divinity who says wait a minute laute m please or busy now the telephone girl not a go never never I 1 PROFESSOR H will W out with the third volume of bis his at As you lite like it in a few daye days there is no ground to distrust hie his literary abilities nor big capacity to deal with the subjects be he discusses A prominent feature oi of the forthcoming work 13 a a series 01 of articles presenting what the author pronounces the only correct version on the nihilist trouble yet published in the english language THE LAST nail in the woi comans womans nans building at the worlds fair will be made of gold silver and copper and will ba be driven by mrs potter palmer president of the womans comans board lla five chances to one that the bard hard metallic nail will not ba be the only one to be touched by the hammer on the interesting occasion PLUMB who is a confirmed admirer of mr blaine and believes he be is the man to be nominated by tho the republicans next year says the sec bee ret re trye position is just this lie ile will not lift a finger to get the nomination but it if the party calls he will come the party is calling and he will respond s ond ST luka is believed to be the first ships doctor on ca record from lukes vivid description of the shipwreck on the coast of haifa malts and other evidence it ie Is thought by some critical scholars that be he waa was surgeon to a vessel plying from trois troia along the mediterranean coasts TUB TINTIC miner always a good newspaper has been enlarged and greatly improved since it bought out the chief in the I 1 the t people of earska and the great rich tintic gintic district have an able exponent worthy of 0 f generous support IT to be generally admitted that abe australian ballot law lobee more votes to 19 the democrats than to the republicans it requires more intelligence than many of 0 ham them are supplied with TUB ELECTION in iowa demonstrated demonet rated the utter unfitness of prohibition as so a political lesue like a candle the prohibition question grows smaller the longer it borne burne |