Excerpts from
The Schuyler Citizen

List of Letters 
    Letters remaining unclaimed in the Postoffice in Rushville, State of Illinois, on the first day of Sept., 1872.
    To obtain any of these letters, the applicant must call for "advertised letters."
    If not called for within one month they will be sent to the Dead Letter Office.
    Letters are not advertised until they have remained in the office one month. G. W. SCRIPPS, P. M.

Hackwith, Wm.
Hara, G. W.
Hess, Daniel
Hodgeson, Hume
Hosmer, A. J. 3
Johnson, Mrs. J. C.
King, Levi J. 2
Klamorth, Edmund
Littlefield, Warren
Lyons, Joseph
Ohrtman, August
Ockason, J.
Rice, Katie
Tift, Joseph
Wilson, Saml N.

Married

MILBY-DAVIDSON--In this place, on the 29th of August, 1872, at the residence of Charles Patteson, by the Rev. J. A. Bengle, Mr. EDWARD T. MILBY and Miss LIZZIE DAVIDSON, both of this place.

GILLEN-CRAMER--In Rushville, at the residence of Mr. Wm. Brown, on the 1st inst., by Rev. W. C. Burchard, Mr. JOHN GILLEN and Miss TILLIE CRAMER, all of Rushville.

Died

    HENRY--At the residence of his son-in-law, in Placerville, Cal., on the fifth of August inst., in the 73rd year of his age, Mr. GEORGE HENRY.
    He was buried at Coloma, near Placerville, by the side of his wife, who died eight years previously. Mr. Henry will be remembered by our older citizens. He came to Rushville in 1834, and was connected with Mr. John Todhunter as carpenter and house joiner for many years. He helped in building the "Fairweather" house, now occupied by D. Munroe; the house on the north-east corner of the square; Kinderhook school house, etc. Among his last jobs was Dr. Worthington's house. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church, and retained his connection with the church till death, dying in peace.

Schuyler Boys Abroad 
    Mr. Jacob Ruth, who returned from Nebraska last week, gives us the following information concerning some of our Schuyler boys who have gone "out West:"
    Wm. and Geo. Beatty are in Tecumseh, are merchandising. Doing a good business and well satisfied.
    McCroskey and Wright are also engaged in general merchandising. Are doing a large business, and are very popular. Mr. Geo. Warren is with them.
    John Graff and George Ramsey are merchandising under the name of John Graff & Co. in Sterling, in Johnson county. These gentlemen are well satisfied with their prospects.
    Henry Cross has been closing up his business of selling goods preparatory to engaging in some other occupation.
    Rev. A. S. Powell resides in Tecumseh, and is preaching for the Presbyterians. Services are held in the court house, there being as yet no church building belonging to that denomination.
    William and John Campbell are on a farm of 320 acres, which they own, seven miles north-west of Tecumseh, on the Nemaha River. They have splendid crops this season, as, in fact, are all the crops of Johnson county. Charles Campbell is in a hardware store in Tecumseh.
    Col. Hinman (Enoch) Rhodes is in Gage county, about thirty miles north-west of Tecumseh, on his farm. Mr. Ruth says of him that he ranks high in that part of the state as a man of integrity and moral worth.
    John Marshall and family live in Johnson county, about ten miles south-east of Tecumseh, and doing well.
    Oscar Gross and James Stevenson reside in Brownsville, and are prosperously engaged in the hardware business. Wm. Hugh McCreery has a flourishing drug store, and is held in high esteem in the community.
    The Misses Minerva and Eliza Nelson are married to very estimable gentlemen; reside in Brownsville.
    Henry C. Lett is president of the Brownsville & Pacific railroad, running through Tecumseh to Denver, and was recently made the nominee of the Greeley party for Governor of the state.
    There are others from Schuyler in different portions of the state whose names are not accessible.
    Tecunseh is a flourishing town of 800 inhabitants, pleasantly located on the Nemaha River, a stream about the size of Crooked Creek. Is the county seat of Johnson county. It has doubled its population within the last year.
    With regard to Johnson county too much cannot be said for the fertility of its soil, abundance and purity of its water, healthfulness of its climate, etc., etc.
    Lands around Tecumseh range from $5 to $15 per acre.

Shorts

• A sure cure for chills and fever. Ayer's Ague cure never fails.
• Miss Annette McCreary has been employed to teach in the "Hall school house" at $50 per month.
• The drouth and dust for the past few days are productive (to put it gently) of great inconvenience.
• A number of Christian laymen of different denominations went to the poor-farm Sunday afternoon and held religious worship with the inmates.
• A large number of Rushvillains visited Barnum's show in Mt. Sterling last Tuesday. Some were well satisfied, others thought they were Barnumized.
• There is an interesting little feeble-minded girl at our poor-farm who ought to be sent to the asylum, for that class of unfortunates, at Jacksonville.
• Dozens of car loads of lumber arriving at Caldwell's lumber yard and going up in great stacks indicate that the people who build have found him out and are sending their neighbors in.
• It will be an act of the grossest cruelty if the proper authorities of this county do not provide suitable winter quarters for the idiotic and insane now on our poor-farm.
• The several pulpits of Rushville will be filled next Sunday by members of the Southern Methodist Conference, now in session. A children's meeting will be held in the afternoon in the M. E. church.
• Owing to the unfinished condition of the new house the school will probably not open till after the close of the Teachers' Institute, which begins next Wednesday. The plasterers expect to be done by Saturday evening next.
• The Spoon River association of the Old School or Regular Baptists was held on Saturday, Sunday and Monday last in the grove near Sugar Grove church, in Woodstock township. A large number was in attendance during the Sabbath day.
• Mr. B. Crandall took a couple of car loads of horses and mules (from sixteen to twenty to the car) to St. Louis last week, and sold them at fair prices. He expected to take down two more car loads this week. He ships from Frederick at $32 per car.
• Michael Manyx, who was fined $100 by the county court, last week, and sentenced to twenty days in the county jail, and Pat Manyx fined $50 and ten days imprisonment, have had their cases appealed to the circuit court, which meets in October.
• The several Sunday-school vice presidents of this county will meet with the executive committee at 1 p.m. next Wednesday, to make the necessary arrangements, as usual, for carrying on the work for the winter. It is earnestly desired that every member will be present.
• We fully agree with our neighbor that there should be a semi or tri-weekly mail between Rushville and Plymouth. The weekly line now running is altogether inadequate to afford to the people interested the facilities commonly enjoyed by the people of the country generally. Dozens of letters and scores of papers lie in the Rushville postoffice five, six and seven days before sending. If the people along the line will petition the department we think they can secure a tri-weekly.
• Miss Anna Ramsey, of this place, was the only teacher that went from Schuyler county to attend the Normal Institute at its late session in Normal. All praise to her! We do not wonder that after she had spent so much of her time and means in improving herself for her work she felt so sadly disappointed on arriving home last week to find her wages cut down from $50 to $40 per month ! and the previous twenty day school month increased to a twenty two day school month. (This was done by the Legislature at its last session.)

Probate Notice
Estate of Archibald Edgar, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons having claims and demands against the estate of Archibald Edgar, deceased, to present the same for adjudication and settlement at a regular term of the county court of Schuyler county, to be holden at the court house in Rushville, on
The third Monday of October,
A. D. 1872, being the 21st day thereof.
All persons indebted to said estate are notified to make settlement to the undersigned without delay.
John C. Bagby, Executor,
Rushville, Ill., August 15, 1872.

Probate Notice
Estate of Sarah Rose, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons having claims and demands against the estate of Mrs. Sarah Rose, deceased, to present the same for adjudication and settlement at a regular term of the county court of Schuyler county, to be holden at the court house in Rushville, on
The third Monday of September,
A. D. 1872, being the 16th day thereof.
All persons indebted to said estate are notified to make settlement to the undersigned without delay.
Hosea Davis, Administrator of estate of Sarah Rose.
Dated at Rushville, Aug. 6th 1872.

Probate Notice
Estate of Benjamin Huff, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons having claims and demands against the estate of Benjamin Huff, deceased, to present the same for proof of claims at a regular term of the county court of Schuyler county, to be holden at the court house in Rushville, on
The third Monday of September,
A. D. 1872, being the 16th day thereof.
All persons indebted to said estate are notified to make settlement to the undersigned without delay.
Matilda Huff,
Robert Aten, Administrators of estate of B. Huff.
Rushville, Ill., July 24, 1872.