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HE GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN

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/VOL. 16. No. 25 Entered at the Postofficea. soond-class mall matter. ,, .P s, MONTGOMERY,

Publisher and Proprietor.

Circulation This Week,

THE silver men are again making a big show of strength. But the free silver men are so divided on other matters that

it is very difficult for them to agree up­

on silver. THE President and his cabinet have been formally invited to attend the Atlanta exposition at some time during its

It is needless to say that hunt about that

continuance. trover will take a duck time. fefl IT must seem very hard to Messrs Bynum and Cooper, of this State, that the fit President offered a lucrative office to Mr. ••^Otto Gresh im, which he decliaed, when the

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B.v num and Coopea are "things

the pait thanks to citizens of their

respective di-tricts.

I THB decision of the Supreme Court sustaining the act of the last Legislature, which conferred upon the Governor and four State officers the power to appoint directors of the State prisons, is in a nature of a surprise. The general assump­

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has been that the court would decide in favor of the Governor continuing to make the appointments.

THE citizens of Clinton county are rejoicing over the fact that the county is oat of debt and has a surplus of over $24,000. The last debt was.paid Wednesday.

This

is the first time the county

has been free from debt for more than twenty-five years. The Republicans especially feel happy over the event, for

when

they took charge of affairs, five years ago, their predecessors left them a large debt as a legacy.

THE Indianapolis Sun is authority for

the

statement that one of the attorneys retained by the liquor league to contest -ie constitutionality of the Nicholson temperance law, asked

ex-President

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rison if he would accept a retainer fee of $10,000 to make war on the Nicholson law. Mr. Harrison declined the fee and informed the attorney that he would not under any circumstances appear in court on that side of the case.

THE city water works are perhaps not all that might be desired, but it is no especial fault of the administration. The •council and all the other officers of the city are deligent in their endeavor to give s^agood water service. They may lack mtj-some experience, but they do not lack any more experience than the Councilmen of many other towns in the State.

We venture the assertion that the Greenfleld water plant will yet be an object of pride and profit to the city.

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CONVICT in the Kansas State penitentiary, who has served six years of a life sentence for murder, petitioned the Governor a few days ago to sign his death warrant and order that he be executed as soon as possible, as he preferred to be hanged at once rather than suffer imprisonment with no hope of release. This is about tjia first case where the above request has been made. The Governor

of

Kansas has the right jto sign a death warrant as above statsd, but Governors are slow to take this kind of action.

EUGENE V. DEBS, the man who was at the head of the last great railroad strike, is now serving bis sentence of six months in jail. Debs failed to show up on the day he was to have been taken to jail, ftnrl did not go with the rest of the prisoners who were convicted with^him. He gave for his reason that he had eaten "cucumbers" for his dinner and they made him sick. The United States marshal at Chicago intimates that Debs had taken a "jag" and could not show tip at the proper time.-

RIBHARD OLNEY who was promoted by Cleveland from Attorney General to Secretary of State served his master well as a corporation lawyer. Under him corporations and trusts were never disturbed He was a trust lawyer and he stood by his clients. There will be no proceedings under Judge Judson Harmon, Olneys successor as Attorney General. He is and has been a trust and corporation lawyer. He was elected Judge in 1876 and was on the bench until 1887 when he resigned from the bench to become the head of the firm of Harmon, Colston, Goldsmith & Hoadley, which represents several railroads and other large corporations and with which firm he will continue his connection. That shows haw he stands. Notwithstanding the fact that he is to represent the interests of the government and the people, he will continue his connection with the corporation firms whose -nterests are generally antagonistic. Why pick out such men if the rights of the people are to be looked after.

Marvelous Results.

J. Gunwe are "I have

Erom a letter written by Rev. derman, of Dimondale, Mich., permitted to make this extract, no.hesitation ia recommending Dr. King's New discovery as the results were almost marvelous in the case of my wide. While I was pastor of the Baptist church at River Junction she was brought down With pneamonia succeeding la grippe. Terrible paroxysms of coughing would .ast hours with little interruption and it deemed as if she could not survive them.

A friend recommended Dr. King's New ?Discovery it was quick in its work and vfetghly satisfactory in results." Trial Ig&ottfes freest M. C. Quigley'sdruj? store,

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SKETCHES OF LINCOLN.

Beginning Life on His Own Account.

SECOND TKIP TO NEW 0BLEANS.

Karly Superstitions—Another Visitation of the "Milk Sick"—Abe Attains His Majority—His Business Ability and Physical Prowess—Clerk In a Store.

JFrom "The Life of Lincoln" by William H. Eerndon and Jesse VI. Weik. Copyright, 1888, by Je.sso W. Weik. Copyright, 1892, by D. Appletoil & Co.]

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Although gay, prosperous and light hearted, these people were brimming over with superstition. It was at once their food and drink. They believed in the baneful influence of witches, pinned their faith to the curative power of wizards in dealing with sick animals and shot the image of a witch with a Bilver ball to break the spell she was supposed to have over human beings. They followed with religious minuteness the directions of the water wizard, with his magic divining rod, and the faith doctor who wrought miraculous cures by strange sounds and signals to some mysterious agency. The flight of a bird in at the window, the breath of a horse on a child's head, the crossing by a dog of a hunter's path, all betokened evil luck in store for some one. The moon exercised greater influence on the actions of the people and the growth of vegetation than the sun and all the planetary Bystem combined. Fence rails could only be cut in the light of the moon and potatoes planted in the dark of the moon. Trees and plants which bore their fruit above ground could be planted when the moon shone full. Soap could only be made in the light of the moon, and it must only be stirred in one way and by one person. They had the horror of Friday which with many exists to this day. Nothing was to be begun on that unlucky day, for if the rule were violated an endless train of disasters was sure to follow.

Surrounded by people who believed in these things, Lincoln grew to manhood. With them he walked, talked and labored, and from them he also absorbed whatever of superstition showed itself in him thereafter. His early Baptist training made him a fatalist up to the day of his death, and listening in boyish wonder to the legends of some toothless old dame led him to believe in the significance of dreams and visions. His surroundings helped to create that unique character which in the eyes of a great portion of the American people was only less curious and amusing than it was august and noble

The winter of 1829 was marked by another visitation of that dreaded disease, "the milk sick. It was making the usual ravages among the cattle. Human victims were falling before it every day, and it caused the usual stampede in southern Indiana. Dennis Hanks, discouraged by the prospect and grieving over the loss of his stock, proposed a move farther westward. Returning emigrants had brought enconraging news of the newly developed state of Illinois. Vast stretches of rich alluvial lands were to be had there on the easiest of terms.

His land groaned under the weight of along neglected encumbrance, and, like many of his neighbors, he was ready for another change. Having disposed of his land to James Gentry, and his grain and 6tock to young David Turnham, he loaded his household effects into a wagon drawn by two yoke of oxen, and in March, 1830, started for Illinois. The two daughters of Mrs. Lincoln had meanwhile married Dennis Hanks and Levi Hall, and with these additions the party numbered 13 in all. Abe had just passed his twenty-first birthday.

After a fortnight of rough and fatiguing travel the colony of Indiana emigrants reached a point in Illinois five miles northwest of the town of Decatur, in Macon county. John Hanks, son of

JOHN HANKS.

that Joseph Hanks in whose shop at Elizabethtown Thomas Linooln had learned what he knew of the carpenter's art, met and sheltered them until they were safely boused on apiece of laud which he had selected for them five miles farther westward. He had preceded them over a year and had in the meantime hewed out a few timbers to be used in the construction of their cabin. With the aid of the oxen and a plow John and Abe broke up 15 acres .of

Bod,

and "Abeand myself," observes

Hanks in a matter of act way, "split rails enongh to fence the plaoo in." As they swung their axes or with wedge and maul split out the rails how strange to them the thought would have seemed that those selfsame rails were destined to make one of them immortal! If such a vision flashed before the mind of either, he made no sign of it, but each kept steadily on in his simple, unromantic task.

Beginning Life on His Own Account.

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the vexations of parental restraint. He had dono his duty to his father and felt able to begin life on his own account. As he steps out into the broad and inviting world we take him np for consideration as a man.

For along time after beginning life on his own account Abe remained in sight of the parental abode. He worked at odd jobs in the neighborhood or wherever the demand for his services called him. As late as 1831 he was still in the same parts, and John Hanks is authority for the statement that he "made 3,000 rails for Major Warnick," walking daily three miles to his work. During tho intervals of leisure he read the few books obtainable and continued the practice of extemporaneous speaking to the usual audience of undemonstrative stumps and voiceless trees. His first attempt at public speaking after landing in Illinois is thus described to me by John Hanks, whose language I incorporate: "After Abe got to Decatur, or rather to Macon county, a man by the name of Posey came into our neighborhood and made a speech. It was a bad one, and I said Abe could beat it. I turned down a box, and Abe made his speech. The other man was a candidata Abe wasn't. Abe beat him to death, his subject being the navigation of the Sangamon river. The man, after Abe's speech was through, took him aside and asked him where he had learned so much and how he could do so welJL Abe replied, stating his manner and method of reading and what he had read. The man encouraged him to persevere."

For the first time we are now favored with the appearance on the scene of a very important personage, one destined to exert no little influence in shaping Lincoln's fortunes. It is Denton Offut, a brisk and venturesome business man, whose operations extended up and down the Sangamon river for many miles. Having heard glowing reports of John Hanks' successful experience as a boatman in Kentucky, he had come down the river to engage the latter's services to take a boatload of stock and provisions to New Orleans. "He wanted me to go badly," observes Hanks, "but I waited awhile before answering. I hunted up Abe, and I introduced him and John Johnston, his stepbrother, to Offut After some talk we at last made an engagement with Offut at 50 cents a day and $60 to make the trip to New Orleans.

Having loaded the vessel with pork in barrels, corn and hogs, these sturdy boatmen swung out into the stream. On April 19 they reached the town of New Salem, a place destined to be an important spot in the career of Lincoln. There they met with their first serious delay. The boat stranded on Rutledge'smilldam and hung helplessly over it a day and a night "We unloaded the boat, "narrated one of the crew to explain how they obtained relief from their embarrassing situation—"that is, we transferred the goods from our boat to a borrowed one. We then rolled the barrels forward. Lincoln bored a hole in the end projecting over the dam. The water which had leaked in ran out, and we Elid over." Offut was profoundly impressed with this exhibition of Lincoln's ingenuity. In his enthusiasm he declared to the crowd who covered the hill and who had been watching Lincoln's, operation that he would build a steamboat to plow up and down the Sangamon, and that Lincoln should be her captain. She would have rollers for shoals and dams, runners for ice, and, with Lincoln in charge, "By thunder, she'd have to go!"

After release from their embarrassing, not to say perilous, position the boafe and her crew floated away. Early in May they reached New Orleans, where they lingered a month, disposing of their cargo and viewing the sights which the Crescent City afforded.

In June the entire party, including Offut, boarded a steamboat going up the river. At St Louis they disembarked, Offut remaining behind, while Lincoln, Hanks and Johnston started across Illinois on foot. At Edwardsville they separated, Hanks going to

Springfield, while

Lincoln and his stepbrother followed the road to Coles county, to which point old Thomas Linooln had meanwhile removed. Here Abe did not tarry long, probably not over a month, but long enough to dispose most effeotually of one Daniel Needham, a famous wrestler who had challenged the returned boatman to a test of strength. The contest took place at a locality known as Wabash Point Abe threw his antagonist twice with comparative ease and thereby demonstrated such marked strength and agility as to render him forever popular with the boys of that neighborhood.

His introduction to the citizens of New Salem, as Mentor Graham, the schoolteacher, tells us, was in the capacity of clerk of an election board. Graham furnishes ample testimony of the facility, fairness and honesty which characterized the new clerk's work, and both teacher and clerk were soon bound together by the warmest of ties.

A few days after the election Lincoln found employment with one Dr. Nelson, who, after the style of dignitaries of later days, started with hit family and effects in his "private" conveyance— which, in this instance, was a flatboat— for Texas. Lincoln was hired to

pilot

the vessel through to the Illinois river. Arriving at Beardstown, the pilot was discharged and returned on foot across the sand and hills to New Salem. In the meantime Offut's long expected goods had arrived, and Lincoln was placed in charge. Offut relied in no Blight degree on the business capacity of his clerk. In his effusive way he praised him beyond reason. He boasted of his skill as a business man and his wonderful intellectual acquirements. As for physical strength and fearlessness of danger, he challenged New Salem and the entire world to produce his equal.

Filial Devotion. ?,

Lincoln's love for his second mother was a most filial and affectionate one, His letters show that he regarded the re*

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PLEASURE TRIPS.

Numerous Excursions the Coming Summer at Reasonable Rates.

Whether the tourist's fancy directs him to the New England States or the Atlantic seaboard to the South: or to the lake region of the North or to the Rocky Mountains and the wouderland beyond the Mississippi, he will be given opportunity to indulge his tastes at a small cost for railroad fare this year. There will be low rates to Baltimore over the Pennsylvania Lines in May, account the American Medical Association to Decatur, ill., account the German Baptist (Dunkard) meeting, and to Pittsburg for the Presbyterian General Assembly. There will also be low rates over these lines to Meridian, Miss., account the General Assembly Cumberland Presbyterian church the same month. In June excursion tickets will be sold over the Pennsylvania Lines to Omaha account the National Jr. O. U. A. M. to Chattanooga, Tenn, for the International Convention of Epworth League to Cleveland, Ohio, account the National Republican League Meeting, and to Roanoke, Va., for the German Baptist meeting. Excursions for July include low rates over the Pennsylvania to Baltimore for the Baptist

REDUCED RATES.

Excursions over Penusyluania Lines During Season'of 1805.

Liberal concessions in fare over *the Pennsylvania lines have been granted for numerous events to take place this summer in various parts of the United States. In addition to local excursions tiakets at reduced rates will be sold over these lines as given in the following paragraphs. Excursion tickets may be obtained at ticket offices on the Pennsylvania System and will also be sold over this route by connecting railroads. Some of the points to which tickets will be sold and dates of sale as follows:

To Chattanooga, Tenn., June 25 and 26 and 27 inclusive, account Epworth League International Conference good returning fifteen days from date of sale. By special arrangements return limit may be extended an additional fifteen days.

To Denver, Colorado Springs, Maniton or Pueblo, Col., July 3, 4 and 5 account National Educational Association Meeting. The return trip mast be commenced July 12th 13th, 14th or 15th unless by special arrangement the return limit is extended to Sept. 1.

To Baltimore July 16th and 17th good returning until August 5 Inclusive account the Convention of Baptist Young People's Union of America.

To Boston, July 5th to 9th, inclusive for tbe National Christian Endeavor Meeting. Return limit may be extended by special arrangement to August 3d.

To Boston August 19lh to 25th inclusive acconnt Triennial Conclave Knights Templar. Return limit extended to October 3d by special arrangement.

To Louisville, Ky., in September, for National Encampment, G. A. R. One cent per mile. Reasonable return linit.

The reduced rates over the Pennsylvania lines will not be restricted to members of the organizations mentioned, but may be taken advantage of by tbe public generally. Any Pennsylvania Line Ticket or Pussenger Agent will furnish desired information concerning rates, time of trains and other details to applicants, or tbe same may be obtained by addressing W. H. Scott, ticket agent, Greenfield, Ind., or F. Van Dusen, Chief Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt Pittsburg, Pa. may21dwtf

Big Excitement In Town.

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If you have Kidney, Liver and Blood Disorder do not delay, but call at V. L. Early's drug store for a free trial package. Large sizes 50c and 20c. 20tly.

Parties desiring dressmakings or plain sewing are requested to call at No. W«t Main

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Meetine to Asbury Park for the L. A. W. meeting, and to Boston for the Christian EDdeavor Convention, and to Denver Col., account the National Educational Association meeting. In August excursion tickets will be on sale over the Pennsylvania Lines to Boston, account the Knights Templar Conclave. The sale of low rate tickets will not be restricted to members of the organizations mentioned, but the public generally may take advantage of them.

The Asbury Park excursion will doubtless attract many to that delightful ocean resort. Atlantic City, Cape May, Long Branch and all the famous watering places along the New Jersey coast are located on the Pennsylvania Lines, hence this will be a desirable opportunity to visit the seashore. The Denver excursion will be just the thing for a sight-seeing jaunt thro' the far West, as tickets will be honored going one way and returning a different route through the most romantic scenery beyond the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Variable route privileges will also be accorded Boston excursionists, enabling them to visit Niagara Falls, Montreal, Thousand Islands and St. Lawrence Rapids, the White Mountains, the Hudson River territory, and to return by steamer on Long Island Sound, after sight-seeing at Newport. Narragansett Pier, Nantucket and the Cape Cod resorts to New York and thence through the agricultuaal paradise of the Keystone State, along the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, over the Alleghenies, around famous Horse Shoe Curve, through historic Johnstown and the roke and iron regions of Western Pennsylvania. It is also expected that Bostou excursionists over the Pennsylvania Lines will be privileged to return via Baltimore and Washington if they so desire.

In addition to the hbove, there will be plenty of other cheap excursions over the Pennsylvania Lines to various points. As the season is some weeks away, arrangements in detail have not been consummated, but it is certain that no railway will offer better inducements than the liberal concessions in rates and privileges that may be enjoyed by travelers over the Pennsylvania Lines. This fact may readily be ascertained upon application to any passenger or ticket agent of these lines, or by addressing F. VAN DUSEN, Chief Assistant Gen. Pass. Agt., Pittsburg, Pa. apr6wd-t-stf

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Within a few steps of the intersection of two of the busiest throughfares in Chicago, if not in the entire country, is a store through the portal of which more people pass in the course of a day than enter into and depart from any other establishment of its size in the West. Men and women whose faces bear the stamp of intelligence and culture: women who lead in society, art, and letters men who are prominent it the professions: lawyers, physicians, artists, judges,».and journalists. The exterior of the place gives immediate evidence of its character, which is that of a center of current news and information. It is the news and periodical depot of Charles

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Call and see me. I will save you money.

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PAINE'S CELERY COMPOUND.

Charl es lYlael) on a Id, a Prominent Chicago Business Man, Is Restored to Health.

gan to feel at first a sort of languor and listlessness, to disguise which I was compelled to bring into play ail thft strength of will I could command. The feeling grew upon me, however, and in a short time it took such possession of me that it affected my appetite and caused insomnia. I approached my meals uitl-i a feeling amounting almost to nau»t\i, and my bed without horror at the restless night that I was nearly certain was before me. It was only «by the strongest efforts that I was enabled to hide the change from people who came into my place of business, but my intimate acquaintances were quicker to notice it. I had arrived at a point where I could no longer keep silent upon the subject, and speaking of it to one of my friends one day he suggested that I try Paine's celery compound. I purchased a bottle, and before I had taken a dozen doses I knew that the suggestion was a good one, for I felt an improvement. I continued to use it. and feel entirely restored. My appetite is good. I sleep well, and, instead of an irksome grind, my business has again become a pleasure to me. You may put me down as a strng advocate of Paine's celery compound.

Yours respectfully, CHAS. MAC DONALD.

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