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THE METROPOLITAN LINES OP CHICAGO Connect directly with THIS COLLEGE, atibrding facilities fur Completing a Telegraphic Education i Unequalled by anj^ other Telegraph School. Graduates are permitted to retain I an office oi\ the City Line until an eligible situation may be procured elsewhere. Competing Telegra])h Lines are calling for a large force of Operators. j i TTJITIOn^ ^35. Circulars, address, I For E. PAYSON PORTER, Principal. P. S. SHELLY $c SON, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN AND BURNING OILS, 23 S. Wasliinston Street, PEORIA, ILLINOIS. WANTED, AGENTS FOR li^ Consisting of a Metrical Versification of what may be properly termed the POETRY OF THE BIBLE, And of verses constructed upon topics selected from other portions of the Inspired "Word, together with the ENTIRE BOOK OF JOB, in the form of a Sacred Drama. This great work by Rev. JOHN A. MURRAY, Has been in active preparation for over thirty years, and is just now completed. It has received the cordial indorsement of leading clergymen of all the prmcipal religious denominations, and will be found to fill a long recognized liiatus in our Christian literature. We will send to any addres.s a sixteen page circular, giving full particulars, with copious extracts from the Work, and from numerous letters from competent per- sons who have examined the manuscript ; and, also a sami)le of the xwperbfull page P/ioto- Lithographs with which the work will be embellished. It will be the most richly embellished, the best printed, and tlie handsomest bound book of the sea- son ; in short, it will meet every reciuirenicnt of a very useful, highly popular, and quick selling book. Agents should consult their best interests and send for a cir- C. F. VENT, Publisher, >o. 38 AVoMt Foiirtli M, (fnolunatl, O. J. S. GOODMAN & CO., 5 Custom Iloufiiv Place, CHICAGO, ILL. Office of the Eobinson Machine Works, Richmond, Ind. VKO Sc SHOEITIAKEK, Proprietors. We desire to call your attention to our celebrated " GoLn Medai,," Separators, Portable Engines of all sizes, Horse Power Threshing Machines, Portable Saw- Mills, etc. Our work for the coming season will be still improved in style and finish, and wc think will be found superior to that of any establishment in Ameri- ca. Our long experience and close attention to every detail of the business, enables us to furnish our cus- tomers in all times with first-class machinery. We in- vite attention, especially to the great trial of Threshers at the Indiana State Fair, which was an important fea- ture in that Exhibition. All the Machines on Exhibi- tion were well known to the farming community, and being all of this class, unusual interest was excited in the contest. Report of the Committee on Threshing Machines at the Indiana State Fair. Your Committee beg le.ive to report the following as the result of their labors : There were three entries " viz. : Robinson Machine Works," Richmond, Ind., A Gaar & Co., and L. Q. Sherwood [Massillon Machine), of Indianapolis, Ind. The trial was set for Thursday, P. M. The wheat for all was taken from the same stack, and each Machine was run five minutes, as timed by a member of the Awarding Commit- five tee, and with this result : While the Gaar and Maesillon Machines had threshed about bushels each in the five minutes'run, the Robinson Machine bad ten bushels and two and one-half pounds, being more than double the amount threshed by the other Machines. Upon this the Committee were about to award the premium to the Robinson Machine, but the owners of the others asked for another run. Granting another trial under such circumstances was hardly reasonable, but your Committee wishing to give all parties every opportunity desired yielded, and asked the Robinson folks to do so, which they cheerfully consented to, they demanding, however, that the wheat for this trial should be divided, sheaf about to the different machines. This was done in our presence, and each Machine threshed ita load, when on weighing up the wheat we found that the Massilou Macliine had 380 pounds of wheat, the Gaar Machine 400, and the Robinson Machine 420^ pounds. In this run the Robinson Machine threshed at the same speed per minute as on the day betbre, and as it had saved and cleaned the grain better than either of the other Machines, the Committee decided in its favor. LOTT S. BATLISS, Chairman of Committee. MINUTES OF THE FOUllTEENTH SESSION OF THE Cental f llitt0i$ (^f^nitxtntt, METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUPtCH, The City of Canton, III., Sept. 29, 1869. A. C. PRICE, Publisher. H. S. UILL, HOOK & JOl! PRINTER, CORNER FULTON AND WASHINGTON STREETS. 1S69. Officers of the Conference. EDW^\JRD THOMPSON, Presiding Bishop. O. S. MUNSELL, Secketaby. G. R. PALMER,.... ) ,- Assistant Secketakies. G. M. IRWIX, .... \ J. EVANS, B. ) I Minute Skcketakies. B. E. KAUFMAN,.. \ M. D. IIECKARD, Statistical Secretary. THE L/BWRY OF THE hiAR 8- 194] WEftSlTT OF ,UimiS MINUTES DAILY PROCEEDINGS. FIRST DAY. C.^'TOx, III., Sept. 39th, 1869. Wednesday, 9 o'clock, A. M.—The Central Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church met in the city of Canton, Illinois, Bishop Edward Thompson presiding. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper -n-as administered by Rev. K. Haney, assisted bj' the Elder j\Iinisters of the Conference. The roll was called, and on motion O. S. Munsell was elected Secretary. C4. R. Palmer and G. M. Irwin were appointed assistant Secretaries. J. G. Evans and B. E. Kaufman were appointed Minute Secretaries. M. D. Heckard was appointed Statistical Secretary. The transfers of Revs. M. V. B. White, of Western Virginia Conference, and T. Head and M. A. Head, of Cincinnati Conference, were announced. Rev. T. Head, Rev. Mr. Sanders, pastor of the Lutheran Church in this C'ityi Rev. Dr. Butler, Secretarj^ of the American and Foreign Christian Union, and Rev. Mr. Webb, of the X. W. Indiana Conference, were introduced to the Confer- ence. On motion it was ordered that the Conference meet at S o'clock, A. M., and adjourn at 12 o'clock, M. The following Committees were ordered : Conference Stewards—J. Tubbs, G. W. Gue, A. C. Frick. Ordered that the Stewards be a committee on necessitous cases. Church Extension—G. C. Woodruff, M. D. Heckard, W. D. H. Young, J. D. Smith, J. N. Bartels, A. J. Jones, S. G. Havermale, Joseph Hart, O. Gunderson. Education—A. Bower, W. P. Graves, D. N. Gray, P. A. Crist, G. W. Arnold, F. M. Chaffee, W. C. Knapp, E. P. Hall, X. O. Westergreen. Public Worship—L. B. Kent, J. II. Rhea. Sunday Schools—B. E. Kaufman, M. C. Bowlin, Jacob 3Iatthews, J. J. Fleharty, J. E. Rutledge, G. 3Iontgomery, J. B. Dille, A. E. Day, X. Peterson. CENTRAL ILLINOIS CONFERENCE. Tracts—B. C. Dennis, J.