Greencastle Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 February 1880 — Page 1
GREEmSTLE
BANNER.
VOL. XXVIII.
GREENCASTLE, IND., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY r>, 1880
NO 6.
NEW PRICES! 0 W. CORWIN « 00.,
Ha\e houirlit out tlx
Dry Good And Carpet House of Beck & Bennington, 'l lto most sum*sst'ul firm in tlii^ County, ami will not only up the stook to its usual merit and ])ul)lie favor, hut will attempt to improve the QUANTITY and QUALITY, And hopes hy honest treatment of their easterners to not only retain all the old, hut add many new ones to their large trade. Mr. J. W. Heck will remain with us for at least one year, and will guarantee as good, if not hotter, treatment to the trade than he has ever shown, and hopes to see all his old friends at the old stand. In order to make room tor the New Spring Stock we will slaughter all the sroek on hand until 1st., iaso. All the present stoek must go out at some price. W e shall advertise nothing that we dont intend to do. Come and see us. Cr. W. CORWIN «£ GO., A.T BECK Ac, O'CnsriMXISra-TOKr’S OEE> SXAISriD.
JONES’ AET GALLERY. STT The umlersigned, tor years an employe in tirst-e.lass art galleries, tlie last three t i
Cincinnati, has bought the lirslIHU A HT (. ALl.Klt V ot
years lieing spent in Cincinnati,
ibis city, and begs to state that lie is prepared to do all kinds of work in the very best manner. Satisfaction guaranteed in every case. Tliejuitrcnage of tlie public is respectfully solicited. R, X. JONES.
IULH0LN & HANNA’S MAMMOTH PURHITURE STORE. Has just received a complete stock- including the FAMOUS FOLPING LOUNGES.
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The Greencastle Baime r.
Furl Ui>i1 •’•l residences last Monday.
, ,, , * , . , Tliefren/.yincidenttothecourtofiu.1 antes Mni'eland s wile is down with quiry is subsiding. O. Imppy rest! lung lever Blue Itibbon meetings are entbusiasU m. Dodds little boy (Dan) is siek i (j e The present and apiiroitriate queswith lulliimniutinii ot the bowels. tj,,,, f or iHseussion is—Kesolvetl, that .lames Buhlle Ims bought the proper- | e g.j] inthience is a greater power
11< ( i ’• "’u- l!rad\ for against iiiteiiii»eraiice than moral stuts-
sf'Kt. and contemplates moving in the 'f,7i, '
spring.
'Sf|iiire James Mon land and B. !•’. Wilson are making arrangements to ImiUl a warehouse here in the spring. Jar. lulian has rented part of James Blaydes' house, and will move in in a few days. Mr. Julian is in the stave
business.
Tlie railroad compam have built a large shanty here, anil lilled it with
Inrfuneit. Some of our Democratic tirelv thrmigh on the I.. D. AS. U. H. neighbors say they would rather, “a ' beginning the llrst of next week. Cardatunetl sight, have the “niggers nentersville should now construct a free
about them than the Irish.
I.evi Under lost his household and kitchen plunder with all his clothing ami that ol his wiles last \Vodnesda> night hy the burning of the house iit which they were living. Tlie house was owned by Frank Booker. The tire originated from the stove flue, ami the house
was in flames before it was discovered . , tonne, 1\ as the family whs absent visiting that j pLT/.m.t Y, tin,r is
evening.
Marion Township.
David Steers and Shel Ferry are in
the stave business,
( nrpentersvillo. |" hielt wagged in litis county, lias earn The tow n inov es-four familieschang- 'li', s t, |d'r! 1 m ,| t ,'te,' 'm,! 1 qualftications',
his iuniiem e and zeal, and his inflexible loyalty to the principles of Republican ism w ill gain the support of each member of our party. \\ e are heartily in
favor of him for the position.
We favor a thorough and complete canvass. We want to begin at once. W.must denounce the traitorous principles of Democracy, their Court House Hmg their I’osttnaster-Slieriff. and their cow ardly and criminal conduct inhuming houses and destroying property of colored citizens. w ho are their superiors ii, honesty . industry and patriotism. Ue don't w ant any kid-glove canvass. We desire to hold the Democrats up to their record, and to riddle their plat
form with the bullets of truth.
A Republican
That “Take-off” on Christ.
If the articles written by the editor ot the Anbury Monthly contain the ()• *1 answer lie can give to my questions, ami he feels satislied with them himntlj 1 am perfectly willing to say adieu, for experience has taught me that “as well might we undertake to bind the order to the lily’ - as some persons to a subject, or to get from them a clear, decided answer, which will admit of but one con stmetion. In his first article he began building a wall of self-defense, founded on tlie statement. “Editors are not sup posed to endorse and believe all they
East Sabbath was an unfavorable day for the clergy. The pulpits of both Presbyterian and Methodist churches
were vacant.
Quarterly meeting at M. E. church.
Fell, gl and
The public school of this township complains of diminished attendance; too
much April weather.
Regular passenger-trains will run en-
gravel road to the Junction
J. II. Pickle is agent for the best palter in the county. Don't delay sub-
scribing.
Bainbridge-
The Bannkh is evidently appreciated here. Aho.it twice as many copieseotne
Protracted meeting is still in progress | at the M. E. church. The attendance , is very good and considerable interest is
manifested.
Henry Shields, jr., is working for S. just east of town.
James Taylor is lying at the point of | publish.” His second, which seemed death with consumption at his home, to lie in defence of tlie article in ques-
The many friends of
will regret to learn that his wife is thought to be beyond recovery at hei
home in Missouri.
Clay Howard and family spent last
Sunday with his parents here.
Miss Sallie Howard went to Lafayette Monday evening to remain a short time. Douglass and Jessie Bridges returned home from the Ladoga Normal last Fri-
day.
Mat. Ilea went to (Jloverdale last week to organize a lodge of Good Templars. Rev. Kelsey preached at the M. E.
morning and
A. Cox.
Jdlin Dunlavy. jr.. has a new single
bttilel shot gun.
Ot W. Osier is speculating in liny .
Tlie excitement over the recent discovery of a silver mine near Coatsville js growing weaker and beautifully less.
Tlit tore don't pan out very well.
Isaac Mendenhall, of Reno, is down
here looking for coon skins.
J. A. Robinson is affected with boils. A series of meetings will be held at Litiertv M. E. church connncneiitV on
Thursday night the litth. _ . Some of ourfarmershaveopened'their church, Sunday, both
sugari-amps. evening.
The Beech Grove Literary Society The matter just now receiving the meets every Saturday night, when a most attention from our young folks is lively time is had. the masquerade social, which w illoecur
Rc-v. J. IE Bill failed to put in'his i on the 14th.
appearance at Eiherly Sunday evening. Our town is well supplied with M. There w as a social at the residence of D's. Only live knights of Esculapius Thomas Ragland Saturday night. dwell among us. and there's a new supMiss Emma Cox. who vvas burned to | ply almost ready to commence practice, death, was interred at Liberty church! Frank West s school, just west of cemetery on Wednesday, the day after ! town, will close next week,
her dVath. She vvas fifteen years old.
irot'oad of twenty, as tlie Ban nku had l IIIlUllllYluS.
il ’urt week. She was a daughter of John M. Jenkins has returned from Jacob ( ox. inste id of .1. P. Cox, her Charleston. Illinois, where he had been
father being a nephew of Jacob P. Her visiting his sons,
brother Jacob, in trying to save her life, I John Parks is home on a visit from
burned his hands into a crisp, and is in the Danville normal,
a critical condition, owing, partially, to i Prof. Watson and Tighlman E. the fact that he was already sick. Tlie ; , i N,. u l had a pound p >rtv Friday night.
Don, completes the wall, with the fol-
Dan. Darnall lowing: “The article which so ilistress, --
bereaved faintly have the heartfelt sym-
pathy of the entire community. JofltTsuii and Mill Crock, Some of our farmers are preparing for
some of the exodusters.
Win. ('ox is balding a house for a col-
ored family.
Robert Met amnmi k. Sr., is feeding one hnmhe.1 and twenty-live head of cattle this winter. John Vermilion has one hundred and seventy-live acres of wheat sowed on
his farm.
Have the girls of Jefferson anti Mill Creek forgotten that this is leap v ear? One old gentleman, famed for the chase, participated in the fox chase last Thursday. leading a canine by a string. He saw a fox run into a hole. A crowd
gathered. Heboid—a rabbit!
Mrs. Linda Humphreys is seriously
The Quakers are on the increase.
Meeting will begin at Beech Grove r t 7 next Saturday night, and will'N-pro- for a bridge across Deer Creek on the
Two smart persons brought for their pound a box of sawdust and gravel. 'I'. S. Boyd has formed a partnership w .th E. F. Crawford in the blacksmith business. It is rumored that lie will form a partnership with another party
tit Morton.
Rev. Woods, of this circuit, has been holding successful meetings at Bethel. Rev. FylTe's series of meetings at the Presbyterian church closed Wednesday
night.
Dr. McNutt is confined to his bed
with fever.
T. 1). Layman, of the fhdianu Farmer, visited our place last Friday Miss Tura Boyd is organist at the M.
E. church.
Me wonder if the reason Colonel in. didn't go to Washington to testify, was because lie was afrad that there would be another Moldrous Hill.
Manhattan.
Our people are circulating a petition
thoBA, Malaria, Fever and Agme, itiul should
lienuver the
| traeted if the weahter is favorable. One of Jefferson Frye's children died
| last Saturday.
( Our Constable is convalescent.
Flojd Township.
Last Friday. Miss Sallie Welch, teach- ! er at Center school house, dismis-ed the school for two weeks. Measles the | cause. There are sixty mimes enrolled on the register and an'average attend mice of over forty, and out of this imini her there are probably about eleven that have had t he measles prior to this time, dis* Welch is a good teacher, and is giving entire satisfaction to the patrons
| of the school.
road leading to Black Hawk. James Sublett has leased his part of the quarry and will move on Gardner's
farm near here.
Simp. Roberts and Irwin Fellows will move to the Hurst farm in a few weeks. Aaron Lewis has sold partofhls farm to Mr. David Houck for $7."ill and will move to lowathe middle of March. He will farm with his brother-in-law. John Wright, of Glen wood. Mr. Houck has also bought is acres of bottom land of Mr. Hamrick for SI.•Kjo. Clay Gilmore will move west this spring. Volney Smith will go east next week
to replenish their stock.
One of Milton Hathaway's children
James Shepard and Frank Hall are j was burned to death lust week at Ueels-
, feeding over oneliundred head of cattle, | ville. _
'the best ever fed in this part of the
IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. It is our intention to keep on hands the most extensive assortment of goods in Putnam cMmty, and*we guarantee satisfaction hi quality and prices. lo-tf.
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REDUCED PACKAGE RATES Between 3,000 Offices Of this Co. In Nvv England, ml kid le and Western States; nis. to offices of nearly all Connectlnn Lines.
MONEY CURRENCY AND COLD. I’sckages not exceeding $20, I Be. •< “ “ .... $40, 20c. •• “ •• 5 50,23c Jaryt mm* In nwch tmallerproportion. MERCHANDISE. Lowest nn<l Highesi CliargFN, nreorUlnj to HIM nm. Packages not exceeding lb. 25c. 4 lb*. 25 to 00c. 11>H. 26 to 30c. 5 “ 20 t o 75c. *• 20 t^ 45c. ,7 “ 25 tof I .
Icnuntry. T hey are sold at a littlv over
4 oonts.
Mrs. Anna P. Eewis is almost blind. I Stic has lost the use ot one eye entirely, and can see but little out of the other. Jus. Turner is postmaster again at
Groveiand.
The debate on I'niversalisniat Wesley Chaiiel last Monday night week lasteil
till after PJ o’clock.
Wilkerson has not got a “nigger” to take the place of tlie“poor white man," Jacobs, with his large family, consistj ing of his wife and babe, but to the con- ! trary . has hireda very poor white man with a wife and seven children, and he j is a Democrat, too;, and now Jacobs swears lie wont get <>ut of the lioitse. but intends to stay there another year. How is that for bulldozing?
Ml. Meridian.
Elder Wood occupied the
Hold Them to their Record. Puts am ville. Jan. Jl, IS80.
To th< Editor of the Or'i ucontle Banner:
Seeing the many flattering notices
which Mr. Thomas 'Hanna has received from the Republican press of the State, suggests to me that there are other places to be filled by the Republicans at
tlii* coming election.
The slanders which the Democrats lin\ e spoken in regard to the Negro, and to bis emigration they having classed him as almost a brute and having denounced his coming:) the open hypocrie> and contempt with w hich they are treating the Irish; tlie dishonest manner in whiijJi they arc squandering the public money by furnishing a free excursion to Washington City to such demagogues and Democrats as matson and Lewman; their late endeavor to subvert the Constitution of Maine: and their whole pi
PRINTED MATTER.
Elder Wood occupied the pulpit of nimuiou or . iame. aii n.-u ......c .. the M. E. church last Snbbatli. He is : "{'p' 1 •i 1 ^ 1 t,ir |K *° promtses us acom
conducting an interesting series of I Ptete victoiy.
meetings at Bethel church.
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The number wlio partici]iated in the fox drivmas estimated at IJHK). Three foxes were driven ilitothe ring. Only one was caught, two making their cs-
We ought to place on our tickets earne»t, honest men, above any suspicion of reproach, men ot good moral, cultivated minds and of stalwart Republicanism. In an of these respects we can indorse
M. was written in a humorous style, and only intended as a kind of take-ofl or humanity in general. A prominent professor said that was the construction In- and aP thinking minds, M. excepted, nut upon it.” You will observe I an. left alone, according to his statement, with this formidable wall before me—the editor of the Monthly, a • prominent professor" and all “thinking minds” on the other side of the wall; vet, strange to say, I am by no means disconcerted, for 1 will not look before or behind, or on either side, but direct a calm steady gaze upward. 1 will make no attempt to tear this wall down, but with the hope there may be some weak point in it, somewher*through which I can lire a few shots. 1 will thank God and take courage. Should l hit any one, they will please remember my atm was at the wall, and the wound not intended. Perhaps, should 1 succeed in making a very small opening, some “thinking mind” will have the kindness to inform me whether it be consistent tor people who profess Christianity to publish or indorse an elaborate “takeojr of four pages on a subject selected from words uttered by the son of God? Also, which direction to “twist”the following in order to understand for what portion of humanity it was intended: “This is thrown out at man, as a kind of religious commandment, but it must have been done so through error or inadvertance. or is a kind of satire on the sellish principles of Ids nature. The ten commandments are possible of obedience; butthis is impossible. The most vicious are not always disobedient to them; the most upright and moral may live in good concord with their spirit But good and bad alike fall in every degree with this single one. As the boy in arithmetic says, give uc something easier. If commanded truly and sennusly what good is it? What profit to make a man supremely sellish and the'i order him not to be so. and leave obedience discretionary? It philanthrophy be such a virtue, why not have made him philanthropic and irremediably so? Then, if some commandment must l*given to he disobeyed, command this precept, love thyself as they neighbor. It resembles shooting blank cartridges at an opposing army, and has no effect. But should they Keep silent, I suppose when I think and wonder what this or that seeming inconsistency 1 have noticed in the past or will notice in the future means, should it be on the chapel rostrum among the professors or in the Month y 1 had better n a son with myself on this wise: You must he laboring under a hallucination of the brain; and explain away my feats by adding, its only an ’.her “take-off,’ and all “thinking minds" will understand it as such. M Joint McLeod has been appointed superintendent of the Louisville, New Albany A Chicago railroad. He was formerly president of the Louisville A
Cincinnati short Hue.
Relatives of Levin T. Miller, it is reported. have finally accepted voluntary flight as the correct solution of the mystery of his disappearance, and that the report of Ids trip down the Mississippi
river was true.
Pluelie Johnson, ot North Vernon, is a healthy girl. Her father undertook to whip her on Saturday, when Pliodio turned 011 him and lambasted him sn thoroughly that, w’hensummoned before a justice of of the peace, neither of them were able to attend, the old man having given i’luebe as good as she sent. Hon. John C. New. who visited Washington pursuant to a sub|sena to appear beture the Exodus Committee, wow detained eight or ten days, and'then dismissed with the statement from Senator Voorhees that he guessed he didn't want that kind of testimony. Mr. New drew $100. mileage and per diem. The last spike was driven in the I.. 1). A S. Railway last Thursday, and trains will soon be ruuing regularly. The present equipment consists of le Grant locomotives. 4 baggage and express oars, 4 mail and smoking cars. 10 passenger coaches. 300 box cars, and as many more thus. There are 4H stations, the road passing through Marion, Hen dricks, Putnam, Parke, anil Vermillion counties in Indiana, and bisecting
cane* Good'/iriiei^i'irev-irie'i'r imfeven H 1 '- Hanna for the position of Eieuten-• Edger. Douglass. Piatt, and Macon thing went off nicely. Another drive is i “'.'.V,;,*;} '-"'(i;,'. ‘J v .vvnUon" 1 ° Hr I in Illlu,ns ' lhe
talked of to take place soon.
Rumor says we are to have a drug store in town. We do not object to a drug store, tint we do object to whisky being sold to he used as a beverage. The young folks had an oyster supper and social at Joseph Vaughn's Satur-
day night.
Slip
pport m the convention. I statement of the "oinpany shows that Then are other places to he tilled. 1 there are fCobO.OW of first mortgage Jointly with Hemlfi'-ks county we elect' bonds. s2.7on,(? 0 of second mortgage.
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a inem!"-r of the spite Dogislatgrt. - . -m.i -wul«>f stock, making a total .ire of this section ot the county, in favor 'ltd stin k indebtedness of $4,-
of Mr. K. M. Eockridge for that position. His gallant race against D. VV.
V out bees and lhe sinaii euci til lu& Ut>' ^wiok fcjuimnge.
or about $30,000 o< is are 011 the list of In
ier mile. The e New Fork