Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 5 November 1895 — Page 3
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Local and Personal.
See The Burglar to-night. City Council meets tomorrow night. Great show—Hamilton & Phillips Co. John H. Binford was atJ.Fortrille today on business.
The Burglar to-night at opera house. A good company. Miss Blanche Brown, of Indianapolis, is a guest of Mr. J. A. Wells.
Don't fail to see The Burglar to-night. It Is a good play. City Street Commissioner, Hook, is 'having Main Street cleaned to-day.
Dr. O. S. Coffin and wife, of Carthage,
i.were
guests at W. O. Bragg's, Sunday. For rent, two newly furnished rooms, centrally located. Inquire at this office. 63tf
The trimmings of the new hotel will be of red stone, several car loads of which have arrived.
Miss Flo Fry, who has been seriously ill for the past few weeks, is now improving very fast.
Mrs. A. 11. Brown, of Indianapolis, who was visiting her daughter, Mrs. R. A. Black, went home to-day.
Mi^s Flo and Pearl Randall went to Indianapolis today, and will attend a "housa party" there tonight.
The Chrysanthemum sho»v at Indianapolis this week is attracting a large "number of people to the Capital.
Harry Brown and his'mother, Mrs. Brown, of Indianapolis, were guests of Mr. J. A. Wells over Suudav.
Frank C. Innis, of Homer, Ind., has .entered the high school here. He is boarding with his uncle, O. L. Carr.
Miss Kate Wagoner, who has been here visiting Miss Flo Borrey, will leave for 'her home in Ravanna, Ohio, tomorrow.
Just received a large "shipment of sulphur, carbolic acid, asofoetida^J and copperas at Qui^ley's drugjstore. s. Mrs. Mellie C. Winslow left today for
:Erie,
Kans. to visic her brother, $,1. E. Thomas. She will be gone several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Welling, of Indianapolis, were guests of her brothers, R. iA. and Dr. J. P. Black, Sunday'and yesterday. 1 Mrs. Nancy J. Chandler went to Paris, sill., today to attend the funeral of her father, Newman Rhodes, who died there
Sunday.
The Maccabee Lodge of this city will initiate four candidates on Wednesday night, Nov. 13th. This lodge is rapidly growing in this city.
J. W. Reese, of Philadelphia, one of Hancock county's old soldiers goes tomorrow to Troy, Ohio, for a visit with his father, George Reese.
Mrs. M. E. Nethercut went to Union City to day, to attend the Woman's Missionary Convention. She will read a paper before the meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Goble were called to day to the bed side of their neice Nora Newhouse of Grant County who is critically ill with typhoid fever.
Mr. Mahurin, of Fort Wayne, architect for the new court house, was here today assisting the commissioners in selecting stone for the new court house.
N. R. Spencer and Judge Martin will look after the city's welfare at the council meeting tomorrow night in the absence of City Attorney, Elmer Binford.
Elmer J. Binford left to-day for Muncie, Bluffton and Anderson, where he goes to attend to legal business. He will be absent during the remainder of the week.
W. W. McCole, wife anl baby, and her sister, Miss Nellie Beeelier, who *er« viniting bis piiri-nts, Major C. J. MoCole *!td Wife, Nobles-lilt,- have returned home.
Rev. J. Barclay and family, of Carrollton, were here yv-terdny calling on friends. Rev. Barclay was
formerly
tor of the M. P. Chuicii in
pus
this «*icy
an
made many warm friends during his stay here. The Hamilton & Phillips Co which ie playing at the opera hou^e this week is a splendid company. They come here well recommended by the press. Go an 1 hear tiem every night. Notice tjieir ad in tl'U paper.
Mrs. T. H. Biafori went to Union City r... 4*y r. aUoud 4 meeting of the WomS FVeUn M'S ionary Society of the tf. v. Cuuroh. Mr^. Binford is oue of the. nt p.-irnest and prominent werkerj of t^ab Society in cais Conference.
Dr. N. P. Howard has a case ot' diphtheria in East Greenfield, Eirl Smioh, uiion whom he ^used anti-toxioe. The Doctor says the medicine gave eutire satisfaction, and thinks the by will get well. ii,ev. W. M. Gdrd, tha new pastor of I the Christian church here, was in the city today. He was here making arraugemeuta to move his family to this place next week. Rev. G&rd will commence his work here next Sunday.
Jesse Manis was before Mayor Duncan this raoruing, charged with carrying concealed weapons. Manis is the young mm who accidently shot Eb Duncan Saturday night. Mayors Daucan assesse a fine of $590 and cost against Mani«.
Jacob Haaseld of Cumberland has been employed as a clerk-,at H. B. Thayers Spot Cash Store. Mr. Hasseld has had a number of years experience as a clerk and by his genial, pleasant manners has made many friends and acquaintances in the Western part of Hancock ani Eastern part of Marion Coun ies. He would be glad to have them call on him in his new position.
Elden A. Robb who has been reading law with the firm of Spencer & Binford has gone into business for himself. He has his office with Robt. L. Mason over H. B. Thayer's Spot Cash Store. Mr. Robb is ft graduate of our city High School, has spent several years in the study of the law, and being a bright, capable, honorable, young man, will no doubt do well.
A man by the', name of Freeman, who was attending a trial in which his brother was interested, at Anderson, gave the Judge the Masonic sign of distress. The Judge immediately had Freeman arrested for contempt. The event has created much excitement in Masonic circles, as it is the first case in history where a Mason has been arrested for making the sign of distress to a brother.
In last evening's REPUBLICAN we said that the Hamilton & Phillips company would not get here in time yesterday to play last night. This mistake was occasioned by us misunderstanding a telephone message. The conipiny came in on the 3:16 trainfUst evening and played "In Old Kentucky," to a large house. The company is a gooi one and deserve a libsral patronage. They will be here the rest of the week.
Robert, the three year old son of George Sheckels, a clerk at the Spot Cash Store, had his left collar-bone broken last night by an older brother jerking a chair from under him. Dr. Griffin looked after the fracture. Jerking chairs from under persons is one of the most foolish and dangerous things of which carelees and thoughtless people are guilty. Children should have it thoroughly impressed on them that never under any circumstance should they pull a chair from under another.
There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment pronounced it incurable. Science has proven cattarrh to bej a constitutional treatment disease and there fore requires constitutional^ treatment. Hall's Catarrah Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surface of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any cas it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address.
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Bafc -Sold by Druggist, 75.
Surety of Peace Case.
Yesterday the trial of Marquis Lowder was held in Squire Joseph Williams' court of Buck Creek township. The case was tried before a jury ot six men, and continued from 10 a. m. until 10 p. m. Mr. Lowder was arrested ou a surety peace warrant, made by Wills Parker. Our readers will remember the cause of the trouble between the Parker brothers some time ago. This case is one of the results of the trouble. Prosecutor Downing represented the State and W. W. Cook the defendant. The jury Abound Lowder over to the Circuit ".Court. It was probably one of the lengthiest cases ever held in Buck Creek township, and will be. long remembered by those present.
Lost.
On Sunday a large key between Kinder'i stable and natlffactory. Finder please return to Mrs. New and receive a reward. tWtt
ANCIENT LOO CABIN.
STANDS ON LAND THAT ONCE BELONGED TO WILLIAM .PENN.
With Adrt'tions It Is One of the Old Manor Houses and Was the EiithplftM of l*rominent Families—Finding an English Coin of 170 Years Ago.
In the northwestern part of the prettylittle town of Media, the county seat of Delaware county, Pa., on a tract of land known as "Star Mount," owned by Samuel W. Powell, is located a genuine curiosity in the form of an old log house, which contains much to interest the antiquarian, and to afford material for the historian. The structure measures 22 feet in length and is 20 foot wide and 15 feet high. It is said to be one of the original manor houses constructed shortly after the arrival cf William Penn and liis colony on the banks of the Delaware river. Circumstances point toward that belief, and prove the claim to antiquity, which makes the old log house an important link connecting the distant past with the present.
This house is constructed of oak and chestnut logs hesvn from the primeval forest, while standing beside it is a gi.'int oak, the largest by all odds in the surrounding country, which is a living witness of the age of the lowly dwelling which finds shelter beneath its huge outspreading arms. Tree and house are each the complement of the other, and seem destined to continue their intimacy during succeeding years, and perhaps ages.
In the year 1G81 A. D., on the 2d day of March, Peter and William Taylor purchased the land upon which these objects of interest stand from William Penn in England, and ou the 22d inst. Thomas Powell took title to the land upon which the house and tree stand and adjacent tracts, and after numerous transfers it finally came into the possession of Mr. Powell, who formerly resided in this city, but who now lives in "Star Mount." in northwest Media. Upon discovering the historic value of the house and oak, he subsequently took precautions to preserve tha objects of a past age and civilization.
The house is constructed of logs, and to prevent the entrance of cold air they were chinked with mortar. The small windows and doors were hand made, from the primitive oak cut from the forest. The faces and ends of these logs are scarred and defaced by exposure to the storms of at least two centuries, and show plainly the ravages of the "tooth of time," but at heart are as hard and sound as when first placed in position to form a house for one of Penn's followers.
The present owner, desiring to both preserve this ancient structure and to improve its surroundings, added some seven or eight years ago several additional rooms to the original mansion, but outside the massive old chimney is exposed to view, and inside the logs with their plastering, the windows and doors with their wooden latches and strings may be seen, while the low ceiling of homemade boards point to a date when the ax and saw were almost universally used by our forefathers.
At the time when the additions above mentioned were made an old English coin was found. Upon examination the coin proved to be a penny of the reign of King George I, and while the date is almost illegible, it seems to be 1724, or perhaps an earlier date. This old English penny was lying under the old wooden door sill, and had become imbedded in the ground, and was only brought to light by the use of pick and sliovel. History and tradition unite in the story in relation to this old house.
Beginning with the river Delaware and reaching as far as portions of Chester county, and bounded also by Ridley and Crum creeks, were some two tracts of land deeded to the Taylors, Powells and others in 1681 by the proprietor and founder of our state, William Penn. Upon each of these two tracts or parcels of land log houses were erected, and one of them was destroyed by fire. One of these houses, the one now owned by Mr. Powell in Upper Providence township, adjoining the town of Media, is tho sole survivor, and it is correspondingly prized by him.
The house and old oak, together with the curiosities connected with them, are very antique, and there is no doubt but that the claim of antiquity is well founded. In 1715 it was in the old log cabin that John Powell changed from the Quaker to the Baptist faith, and organized the J?iMt Baptist church of Delaware county, JtBowu as the Brandywine church. The congregation was formed on June 14, 1715, with 15 members, and among the delegates were Abel Morgan of this city and James Jones and Joseph Eaton of Delaware.
Thus the old house, constructed by a first settler from the virgin forest, which extended from far inland to the shores of the Delaware river, has both a civil and a religious history, and has been both the birthplace of prominent families and the habitation within whose walls a prominent denomination of this and surrounding country first sprung into existence.—Philadelphia Telegraph.
Hereditary Names.
According to the invariable custom of the Duke of Richmond's family, it ia prescribed that the eldest son and the eldest son of the eldest son shall be named after King Charles II, to whom they owe so much. The same principle is preserved in Lord Salisbury's family, where the eldest sons, are named James, after James I, who bestowed the earldom of Salisbury and viscounty of Cranborne on tho original founder of the hoase.
Getting to It.
Anxious Mother—Has Mr. Bashfu proposed yet? Daughter—Not exactly, but last evening, when I was holding little Dick ic my lap, Mr. Bashful went to the pianc and sang "Would I Were a Boy Again." -—Quiver.
WIVES AS TREASURERS.
A. Man Whose Wife Carried the Pans—A Bachelor's Wisdom. Two passengers on a New Haven train approaching the city a few morninga ago conversed together in a loud tone— that is, one of them, who was bluff, hearty, stout and a bachelor, talked in a particularly loud voice, while his companion, who was thin, meek and a benedict, answered in lower tones, which were still not inaudible after the passengers in the seats near by began to take an interest in the conversation. "No," said the bachelor, "they want me to get married, but I tell them that I've seen enough of married people and I don't care to be tied down the way most of them are. Why, there was a man down in our place died not long ago, and the widow came down to get his wages. He had died on a Friday, and he had a week's wages coming to him. You ought to have seen that widow when she found out how much he got a week. He had been taking his wages home to her every week and giving it all to her to divide, as she supposed. But when she found out that he had been getting a week more all the time she seemed to wish that he were alive again just for a little while, but I guess that he would just as 5 oon have been dead if he had had his choice then. I have heard lots of people say that you ought to take all your money home to your wife, but I don't want any one telling me how much I shall spend for carfare or luncheon." "Well, there is something in that," said the married man basely. He was a particularly humble looking man, who crouched down in his seat as if he did not dare sit upright, but his wife was far away, and he was emboldened, in the confidences of talk on a suburban train, to reveal his woes. "Now, I do feel badly sometimes when I want to take a man out to luncheon with me and spend some money in entertaining him. If I don't do it, I cannot very well keep his custom, and if I do it, it costs so much money that my wife, who knows just what I receive, thinks I am dreadfully extravagant, and talks to me about the way in which I am wasting money." "Yes, that's just it," said the loud voiced bachelor. "If you don't spend money you lose trade, and yet you married men are half of you afraid to go around and spend money freely on your customers. I know a man in our store who doesn't dare spend more than 85 cents for luncheon for fear his wife will find it out. They talk about lotting your wife spend all your money, but for my part I'd rather spend it myself, and that's why I tell all my friends that I am not going to be married."
Just at this point the train entered the Park avenue tunnel and the voice of the base revealer of secrets, who did not worthily support the part of the married man, was lost in the rumble of the tri-.in.—New York Tribune.
AMONG THE LEPERS.
Those of Molokai Have Many Ways of Occupying Their Time. Here in this sea girt asylum of people afflicted with the most dreaded of known diseases, from which there is no escape but through the portals of death, is presented one of tho noblest and brightest picturps of the glory of Christianity, with its marvels of self sacrifice amid surroundings aud under circumstances the most depressing. Those poor victims, doomed to the ravages of a disease that completes its deadly work in an average of four or five years, the progress of which is marked with the most significant and destructive precision. can alone appreciate at its true worth the Christian heroism of those who are laboring among them, following in the footsteps of the venerated Father Damien, and ready as he was to accept, if need be, the burden of the disease itself in their behalf. And yet unhappiness does not chill the air of Molokai. Death has lost its terror by reason of its very familiarity, and by the silver lining their faith has given the cloud. The Hawaiians are naturally a light hearted people, and even the shadow of leprosy oannot suppress for long their buoyant temperament.
In Molokai lepers may be found engaged in pleasant pastimes, and among them one may hear the light and cheerful words of greeting and see the sunny smiles. Horse racing, which is a favorite national sport, is indulged in frequently. Nor are the lepers idlers far from it. They work, while able, in the cultivation of the ground and in other ways, and altogether lead afar pleasanter and more contented life than might be supposed. The improvement of their condition, as compared with what it was when Father Damien took up his residence on the island in 1873, has been chiefly brought about by his influence and the labors of his successors.—Donahoe's Magazine.
Marie de* Medic!.
Marie de' Medici, the second wife of Henry IV, who married her in 1600, a year after his divorce from Margaret of Valois, was an Italian beauty, petite and dark. She was hot tempered, and her intolerance of her husband's infidelities caused constant domestic bickering. Her voice was shrill, and when angry she raised it almost to a scream, so that when the king and queen were engaged in a domestic argument everybody in the house knew all about it.
For Females Only.
Mr. Caustic—By the way, dear, let me give you a point about letter writing. Mrs. C.—What is it, dear?
Mr. C.—Hereafter always write your postscript first, and it will save you the trouble of writing your letter.—Richmond Dispatch.
Were we eloquent as angels, yefc we should please some people more by listening than by talking.—Colton.
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