Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 19 July 1889 — Page 4

.Official Paper of Hancock Comity.

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VOL. 10, No. 29—Entered at the Postoffice as second-class mail matter.

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AGENTS JfOIt T!Ii: KKl'l'HMCAX.

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JOHN MILLER. M. C. ALEXANDER.

J.Gilmori- Wilkinson C. F. Bandy Maple Valley W. V. Thomas Willow Branch A. C. Pilkinton ortvillc J. H. Kimberlin Mc(.ordsville A. C. Atherton Philadelphia

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*Shn O. Branson New Palestine if.U. Conklin Charlottesville H. Thomas Cleveland iVe will announce agents for the other postoilices In the county a little later. We ask our agents to make a special effort and hope they will have the assistance of all our subscribers at their various postoiiices.

FRIDAY, JULY 19. 1889.

"Why can yon not send the "REPUBLICAN to some friend or relative who does not now live in the county. It is away ahead of a letter and costs less.

THERE are, we understand, a number of men securing gas leases in this township. The farmers should be sure that they get full value for all lauds.leased for gas. A good well at the rates gas is selling, is worth $10.000 a year to the owners, and $200 per well would only be a fair price to farmers. A man can. of course, rive gas away, if he wants to do so. See chat your contract calls for the money whether the wells are dug or not. The men are in the scheme to make money, and the REPUBLICAN wants the farmer to protect himself.

THERE has been considerable talk, about Tanner's liberality to the old soldiers. He has advice from headquarters and knows what to do. "Tanner, '"said President Harrison, "run your bureau on business principles, keep within the limit of the law and be as liberal to the boys as possible." Harrison believes that the boys who wore the blue have some claims upon this government, and he believes in discharging the obligation. "Be liberal to the boys," that is the kind of talk that strikes into the heart of every man who went to fight, and of every woman who sent her husband or son to fight for the dear old Stars and Stripes. "Be liberal to the boys" that's the policy that tfie REPUBLICAN believes in and it is the policy of the administration.

RELIABLE reports from the East indicate that the wheat crops in India, Egypt, Russia and Austria are very bad, and that they will only have enough grain for their own people. The crops in Spain and Germany are good but they do but little exporting. During the past two years Russia and Austria-Hungary have had big crops and have been forced to sell. This year, England, France and Italy will be compelled to look to America for their bread stuffs. The Dakota wheat crop is said to be 30,000,000 bushels short this year. That means better prices for American wheat. The farmers will no doubt make money by holding the greater part of their wheat instead of rushing it all off at once. We are indeed fortunate this year since the crop is fine, and it will bring a good price.

The Indianapolis Sentinel Co., is offering as a premium with the Indiana State Sentinel, a magnificent engraving of Munkacy's "Christ before Pilate," Rosa Bonheur's "Horse Fair," and "The Lions at Home," by the same artist. Subscribers can obtain any one of these by paying a nominal sum to cover the cost of putting tip and forwarding the picture. The engravings are readily sold at retail for $1, but it is proposed to ask an advance of little more than one-tenth of that amount over the regular subscription price for the Weekly Sentinel and the picture. The Sentinel Co. will send any one of the pictares to new subscribers, or old subscribers renewing their subscriptions, and The ^X^eekly one year for $1.15. This is only 1.5 cents to cover express charges from New York, postage, wrapper, clerical work and other incidentals. The picture is given free. It is a remarkable offer.

A Pittsburg paper says: "It has been developed in the past week that the Lead Trust has a capital stock of $1353,000,000, the Sugar Trust of oO. 000,000 the Cottonseed Oil of $42,000,000, the Whisky of $31,000,000 and the Cattle Trust of $13,000,000. not long ago it was predicted that in fifteen years the business oi the United States would be concentrated in a few trusts, and that the social system would then consist of a few families of enormous wealth, a middle class of lackeys and a great laboring class of degraded workmen. It really looks at present as if the prediction that business was to be concentrated into a few trusts was in danger of coming to a very considerable extent true—for a time at least. The wonderful success of the Standard Oil Trust threatens revolutionize business methods—until some great financial wrecks prove that very few tilings can be monopolized like oil."

The people are becoming hostile to trusts and will eventualy crush them.

The heated period is past so say the weather prophets. There will be no extended period of heat. The weather will generally be comfortable.

Have You Lt'iiscd Your Farm?

In addition to the fertility of the soil Hancock County lies immediately over one of the greatest and best natural gas fields in the United States. This fact alone makes our farms extremely valuable. It is very easy to show the value of this. Take for example a gas well which furnishes only 1,000,000 of cubic l'eet per day, (and a very small well will do that) this gas at 10 cents per 1,000 feet is worth $100.00 per day or §36,500.00 per year, and yet there are men who desire to pipe our sjas away from Hancock and only want to give the paltry sum of £100 per year for each well. Our people will not be so foolish as to make any such a lease as this. .Men who secure Hancock County gaswil-1 have to pay for it.

Having all this rich laud, we invite all iiood citizens, who desire to partake of our prosperity and enjoy the blessings of natural gas, to come over and invest. It will pay mveh better to keep the gas in Hancock county than to have it piped away to build up some other town and county. If it is to be exhausted soon by keeping all we have, it will last longei, and if the supply is unlimited, your lands will bring you twice as much for gas privileges two or three years later. Let your land and gas bring better prices.

A Short History of tlie Christian Clitircli at (riec-iiiiolil, T»y 3Iaj. A- K. Branham. Brothers, Sisters, and Neighbors, as one of the pioneers of the congregation Worshiping at this Church I have been selected to give you, to-day, some of its early history. In doing so I will neccessarily have to tell you of the part taken by myself in its organization, and all along its history, to the present time. There are many sad reccollections that cluster around and about this Church. Of the men and women who composed the membership at the organization I am the only survivor, who attends tlie meetings of the Desciples.

Yes, many friends were gathered 'round me In the bright days of the pas, But. the grave has closed above theiii,

And I linger here, the last. As far back as 1836 there were a tew disciples scattered about in this county, and at Greenfield. They occasionally met at the house of Bro. Win. Sebastian, who kept, what at that time was called, an inn, and at the old County Seminary and M. E. Church, and were addressed by such men as Bro. JohnO'Kane, Milton B. Hopkins and others, on the subject of the great Reformation, as taught by Alexander Campbell.

But, not until the year 1854, was there anythiug like a permanent organization. In April, 1854 Bro. James L. Thornberry, of Kentucky, held a two-weeks meeting, which resulted in quite a number of additions to the Church. It was at this meeting that I was brought from darkness to light and from the power of sa.tu.ii unto God, and from that day to this I have never regretted the casting of my lot with the poor despised Nazarene, and his humble followers.

With the old disciples and the new converts the organization was completed, and Bro. Wm. Sebastian and myself were selected as Elders to serve the congregation. I have served the Church as an Elder ever since. Bro. Sebastian has loug since passed to his reward.

We did not forget the asenibling of ourselves together. Having no church of worship we met at the homes of the Brethren, for prayer, singing the songs of Zion and attending the Lord's Supper, we continued to walk in His footsteps, always trying to do good, determined to know nothing but Christ and him crucified. But we were met at the threshold of our new organization with the fact that we had no house of worship. This fact troubled our minds no little for we were not possessed of much of this world's goods, and were few in number. To build a house of worship meant to us a sacrifice on our part of no ordinary character.

We held a meeting and after along and earnest conference we resolved that we would build a house and dedicate it to God, who loved us and died to redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. About this time an opportunity was offered us to show our faith by our works. The Commissioners of the County declared in favor of building anew court-house. The old court-house was sold at public sale and Bro. Lewis Sebastian aud myself purchased it for two hundred and fifty dollars. We got enough brick from the old house to make the wall of our new house, and after a long struggle and the generosity of our fellow citizens, we were enabled to complete the building and dedicate it to God.

The young of to-day know but little of the trials, struggles and difficulties that were encountered by the disciples, thirtylive years ago. Instead of the beautiful seats we occupy to day, the pioneers were compelled to use one made of two by twelve inch boards with wooden legs. Such are some of the vast changes in the third of a century gone by.

We had for our first regular pastor, Bro. Lyttleton L. Rains, a young man full of promise, and the spirit of God, a man whom to know was to love, and to name was but 1.0 praise. He was successful as a preacher, in an emminent degree for one so young, and added largely to the numbers of the congregation. But alas that fell destroyer of the human race cook him

away at an early age. After Bro. Rains the Church has had many emminent preachers, such as John B. New, John O. Kane, Bennett Edmonson, the gifted orator, A. I. Hobbs, Geo. Campbell, J. F. Sloan, the brilliant Dr. A. G. Thomas, Anderson Chastineand J. L. Parsons, our present pastor, who has been here for nearly four years. "We cannot speak too highly of him as a man and a preacher. He come to us when the Church was in its darkest hour, when we were almost ready to give up in despair, and the candlestick seemed about ready to be removed from the Church, when he, by his pious walk and Godly conversation, by his gentleness and sweetness of disposition, brought light out of darkness and peace and happiness to the Church, and he has won his way to the hearts of the entire congregation. May God bless his labors in the future as he has in the past.

I beg leave, at this point, to give retribute of praise to the noble band of women who have labored for the Church from the time of organization to the preent. Some have fallen asleep in Jesus, after along life of service to the cause, and the living of to-day are the same faithful workers. In the darkest hour of the Church's history they have never wavered in their fidelity to the cause of Christ, no labor could tire them, and no sacrifice or trial could dishearten them. But like the eagle with its wing to the wind and eye on the sun swerves not, but bears onward, right on, so have the noble women of this Church made Christ and his service the great object of their lives. Man's heart may quail in the hour of trial and affliction, but woman's, never. Not she with traitorous kiss the Savior stung. Not she denied him with unholy tongue. She, when apostles shrank, could dangers brave. Last at the cross and earliest at the grave.

My Brothers and Sisters I cannot close this brief history without saying a tew words of another of my colaborers. I refer to Brother George Barnett, who is present to-day. Bro. Barnett has served the congregation, as an Elder, for nearly thirty years with a zeal and devotion unquenclied and unflagging. To his untiring labors, to his zeal for the success of the cause of Christ we attribute in large degree the firm hold that we, as a Church, have on the people of this city. God bless Bro. Barnett, and may his last days be his best, aud when he is done serving the Church here below, may he hear the welcome plaudit, "Soldier of Christ, well done, praise be thy new employ. The battle fough the victory won. Enter thou thy Master's joy." I might tell of many more of those who have been bright and shining lights in the Kingdom of God here on earth, who have long since entered their rest of the saints. John T. Sebastian, Jacob Slifer, Sister Ryon, Sister Mitchell and a host of others, but it would consume more time than is allotted me on. this occasion.

I thank God that to-day we are at peace with one another, and are endeavoring to carry out the great principles for which we were united, and when our woi'k on earth is done, and death shall call us from our labors may all have a happy admittance into that house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens, is my prayer.

E E E N I E E I A N I A 1 9 1 8 8 9

A. K. BKANHAM.

RAMBLER'S ROUNDS.

The Keptiblican's Scribe Abroad. As I started north on my regular rounds I had a short conversation with Thos. Bodkius. 1-Ie says that he and Jos. Baldwin are partners in the haying business, and when Jo comes out and begins to shed his linen, there's going to be something did. Mr. Bodkins is determined to keep posted on the doings of his neighbors, as he takes all three of our papers, but likes the REPUBLICAN best of all.

Jacob Keller knows a good thing when he sees it, so he will read the REPUBLICAN in the future.

As I continued on my route I noticed that corn was growing finely, but was needing a good shower, and it appears from the indications that it will soon get it. (It did Friday.)

The Farmers were busy in their hay. I noticed lots of it in the windrow that was likely to get wet, and it did.

Had a few words with J. B. Henderson, He was busy, but he is very courteous, and patiently awaited our readiness to go.

At Nathan Hunt's I found that gentleman in the hay mow. working vigorously in order to get in his hay before the raiD, and in a pinch of that kind his women folks do not scorn to lend a helping hand, and it shows plainly that they are business there from the word go, and his push and enterprise accounts for the many fine improvements about his fine residence.

At Maxwell, and as it begins to rain, I walked into the store of A. C. Alford, aud talked to him while it rained. The REPUBLICAN will go regularly to him.

I exchanged views sufficiently with the boys up there to be convinced that they are on the right track.

J. H. Lane's drug store is filled from top to bottom with various curatives for the aches and pains of man and beast. His soda fountain was kept "fizzing" for slacking the thirst of the people on that hot day. Mr. Lane is an affable gentleman and has a good trade. He reminded me of an error in my items two weeks ago. Instead of Mr, Dunbar as having taken charge of Miss Bidgood and her store, it should have been Isaiah Munden. Note the correction.

Going west from Maxwell I stopped at John Howard's, and as he came out his appearance indicated that he had been in a bloody row, but as I came nearer the fact was revealed that he had just been

helping his wife seed cherries, you all know how they splatter, besides John dont fight no how, but is willing to help the women when it's too wet to be about his farm work.

We learned that David Henry had been so unfortunate as to fall and dislocate one of his shoulders, while seeking shelter from the rain. Dr. Justice adjusted the hurt.

I stayed with Lee Barnard over night. He and his wife are kind aud generous people, and folks that Hike to cast my lot with. Mr. Barnard has recently built him a fine new barn that is a model, l'or architectural finish, in fact the road leading north from Jo Eakes and through Eden to Madison county line is decked the each side with more fine buildings and fine young orchards than any road of similar length I have traversed. Mr. Eakes, Kingen, Hunt, Sam Alford. Moore, D. H. Alford, Isaac Barrett and M. C. Thomas all liveoa this road.

Mr. Eakes has two as fine draft stallions as I have seen. Coco already has an established reputation. Rapid, the two-year-old he just recently imported from France, cost him $1,000,

Samuel Alford gave me a square meal. I will long remember the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Alford. Mr. Alford has one of the nicest fish ponds I have seen, and when he gets his next one finished he will connect the two with a pipe and they will be immense. It is a sight to see his fish eating their dinners.

They were rapidly laying the gas pipes at Eden. They turned on the gas and the blaze was estimated to be 25 feet high. The people up there are alive to the interests of the party.

Mr. Trueblood assisted me kindly. The gentleman will please accept my thanks. Maley & Alford are busy pleasant men and nice fellows to talk to, if you do your talking when they are at work. They read the'REPUBLICAX, and think it is the proper medium to communicate to people their business. The gas well there is a good one and they are rapidly piping the town.

Going north from Eden they have some of the finest corn I have seen. The farmers along here are getting ready to thresh.

At Mr. Rothermels several of the neighbors were assembled to assist in moving an old school house. With A1 Wagoner and Harry Rothermel as silent workmen, John Kessler to furnish the wind-work, ably assisted by one or two others and a little swearing at her by one or two others the old ark moved slowly to her destina­

Joseph Rothermel has been afflicted with cancer of the face for some time, but thinks it is some better now. He is a kind aud patient old gentleman.

I met Neri Jarrett, and old pioneer of Green township. He is 78 years old, aud entered his land under Andrew Jackson.

I passed the former beautiful residence of my old neighbor Lee Brown, now living south of town. Mr. Kerlin now owns the place. Mr. Brown's old friends expressed themselves as beiug sorry they lost Lee as a neighbor. They had heard of him having a good plow stolen last winter.

South to the residence of the old pioneer and friend of the REPUBLICAN. R. Y. Barnard, and I can say that in my travels I have never met two better friends to the stranger than Mr. Barnard and wife. I took dinuer with them, and two hours had passed before I had known it. Their two sons live near them and they all burn natural gas, in fact the farmers for a mile each way use that luxury. Mr. Barnard voted for W. H. Harrison. He is 76 years old and came to the county in 1836. He has 26 stands of bees and a fine vegetable and melon patch to keep him out of mischief.

East to Wood Wilson's farm. Mr. Barney Thomas lives there. I stayed all night with him, and it is the same old story, good welcome. Mr. Thomas is fully up with his brother farmers with his work, and there are lots of owners of farms that do not keep them in as good condition as Mr. Thomas does this rented one. This place has become somewhat noted as the place where Mrs. Wilson an., little Nettie Cass were murdered, which o. urred June 7, 1878. It is a pretty place a.. .: does not have that gloomy appearance i!:at we would immagine accompanies a place where such a deed lias been committed. I slept in the room where the little girl was found dead, but did not see any ghost s. This murder is and I suppose will remain a mystery.

I have been over most of beautful Green township this week, and have met many clever, good people, and a few smart alexs, and only one moss back, who, when accosted with the usual question made this reply. "Naw, stranger, don't want no paper, family's too smart now, lived here 9 years 'thout no paper, and git the noos 'bout the same. Jim Leer and me finds it out anyway. Jim is all the noospaper I want. Say if you are the feller that Jim Leer says is writin up people, jist gim me a little tetcli wont ye. Oh yes! Have they struck gas in Greenfield yet? Jim Leer says they have been digginfer it. I'll not sign fer no paper now. Good by.'' I left him and came straight, home convinced that there is still some missionary work needed in Hancock county. is:#

As I came toward town M. C. Thomas and lady came along in their nice surrey and kindly invited me to ride with them. I did so and enjoyed a pleasant conversation with tliem. J' T!

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We hope our delinquent subscribers will all be prepared to pay our solicitor when he calls. By having the money ready it expedites business.]

Thousands of people were eager to know the result of the pugilistic combat for the championship of the world between Kilrain and Sullivan. 'While Sullivan still claims to be the champion in his line, we have no hesitancy in announcing that we have the cheapest line of Summer goods to be found any where. To close out our line of Summer wear, notice the reduction.

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to Indianapolis and St.. Louis East-bound Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and New York.

For time-tables, rates of fare, through tickets and baggage checks, and further informatflk regarding the running of trains, apply to W. SCOTT, Ticket Agent, Greenfield, Ind.

Runs Daily. Daily except Sunday. Does not earrv passengers. JAMES McCREA, E. A. FORD,

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Sf hen Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria,

Splendid Kngliali Sliire Morses. The Imported English Shire Horses, Stony Stratford and Prince Charmaiu, will make the season ol' 1889, at my farm near Leamon Corner, Hancock County, Ind., »t $20 to insure with foal, or $25 to insure living colt. These horses are acclimated and sure breeders. If you want horses possessing a combination of style, action and quality, together with unexcelled breeding. Come and see me. lltf H. P. BEVEK

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TIME CARD FOR INDIANAPOLIS. 1,dive—doing East. •100 am. K0U m.

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