Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 February 1894 — Page 3

UTe. Vot. 35, No 10

GREENCASTLB, IND., FEB. 3, 1891.

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RHEUMATISM,

NEURALGIA, SCIATICA, / LUMBAGO,

SPRAINS, BRUISES. SWELLINGS, BURNS.

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CITY AND COUNTY

idlns t'oilege «r ISunlnvAft und fehorthund. Bryant A Stratton. Established 1HT0. ^Tien Block. Elevator 'vid n i°r^t ^ i j UHl * 0 ^ wca ^ B(1 Mnfi e ^ ors ^p ie 1 “^ pawport to beet poe^iouH^ ^Euter mm. Eony p^monf u

J. N. Nutt hones to be made the Republican for Trustee of Greencastle

township.

As we go to press the Democratic primary election is on, and a large vote is predicted. $1.50 pays for the Star-Press and Indianapolis Weekly Sentinel for a whole year—cash in advance. The ballots in the Republican city primary fell with a dull sickening thud in the estimation !of the aspirants who did not get there. W. B. Vestal stopped off here, this week, en route to Toledo, Cleveland, Lansing, and other points where he has been detailed for service. Rev. Dillon being still on the sick list Dr. G. L. Curtiss conducted services at the Presbyterian Church on last Sunday, morning and evening. The blocks of twenty-five, with a trusty theolog in charge, played havoc with the calculations of the Republican candidates who failed to catch on before it was everlastingly

too late.

Mrs. Jackson and Miss Emma Jackson have gone to Pensacola, Fla. Gen. Lew Wallace, author of Ben Hur, visited here a few days ago. Attorney John Layne is confined to the house with an attack of measles. Dr. Underwood is organizing a party to make a tour of Europe during the coming summer. The Gentlemen's Club met at Plato Hall, last Monday evening, and Dr. W. V. Brown read an entertaining

and able paper.

We print letter heads, bill heads, statements, programs, invitations, sale bills and all kinds of job printing in the best manner, and at lower prices than can be had elsewhere. The Putnam county Prohibitionif-ts will hold their convention to nominate a county ticket, at the Court House, on Feb. 10. Prominent speakers are expected to deliver addresses. Mrs D. L. Anderson gave a delightful six o’clock tea, on Friday, the guests being Mrs. F. Lammers, Mrs. Florence Dunbar, Mrs. Susie Fay, Mrs. Lieut. Lewis, and Misses Rose and Hattie Joslin, Ella Beckwith and

Lillian Southard.

The police patrol w'as called to South Greencastle, on Saturday morning, to correl a negro named Williams, who was destructively drunk and had demolished a portion of Mrs. Tobe Churchill’s furniture. He had taken leg bail before the police chariot arrived. The Carbon divorce case of Kerr vs Kerr wascompromised after being on trial for several days. The report is that Mrs. Kerr is to receive §750 in cash and a piece of property in Carbon valued at §2500 the plaintiff; pays the costs and is granted a divorce on the ground of cruel treatment. In Kansas a Justice of the Peace has a monopoly in the marriage business over a territory for miles around because of the novelty of the marriage service he has composed and uses, which goes as follow's: “What this court hath put together let no man put asunder; suffer little children to come unto thee, so help you God and keep you steadfast; seventy-

five cents, please.”

Miss Case’s Recital. On Friday evening Miss Jessie Case gave her graduating recital at Music Hall. There was a large and much pleased audience present, the selections of the evening being artistically and delightfully rendered. MissCase was ably assisted by Miss Rosa Marquis, violinist. The program w r as as follows: Etude Op. 10, No. 5 Chopin Variations in F, Op. 34 Beethoven Scherro, Op. 16, No. 2 Mendelssohn Hpinnerlied Mendelssohn

Nntturni, (No. 1 in B minor . Op. 20. I No. 2 in O major .

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James Ricketts has returned home after being away on business for two

w’eeks.

Thos. Vancleave has bought the Hanna street grocery store of Wallace McHvain. John Tucker still continues very seriously sick at the residence of his father, Mr. Eph. Tucker. Prof. Ragan was called to Mason, Ills., a few days ago, by the serious sickness of Mrs. J. N. Matthews. There is an effort being made to engage Evangelist Mills for a series of meetings to be held here in the early spring. A very large audience listened to a very practical lecture on sociology, by Dr. Dike, at Meharry Hall, last Sunday afternoon. George Hathaway returned from the land of rice and sugar Louisiana —on Saturday, and reports that country prospering nicely. Reverdy and Willis Hammond, who were called here by the death of their father, returned to their respective homes on Wednesday. Free gift of a portfolio containing 53 beautiful World’s Fair views to every subscriber for the Star-Press and Farm and Fireside only §1.25 for both, invariably in advance.

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The Villian Still Pursues.

This is a trite old quotation, and seems to turn up as a truth very frequently. On Friday night, after the entertainment at the Opera House, Miss Minnie Crawley, of South Greencastle, took an omnibus to ride home, she being alone and the hour quite late, the ’bus driver being one Albert Evans. In a short time Miss Crawley discovered that she was not being driven towards home; Evans had driven directly south on Jackson street, and when about half way to Greencastle Junction had put out the ’bus light and attempted to commit an assault on his passenger. Fortunstely Frank Spurrier, a well-known traveling salesman, was driving in from the country; when he arrived near the ’bus it was standing in the middle of the road, with no driver visible; he lurued lo one side intending to drive around it when lie heard the girl’s screams; the villian was frightened at Spurrier’s approach and the girl escaped from the ’bus,

beseeching Mr. Spurrier to protect j in Broadparfc, §50.

her; he took her into his buggy and | M. P. Sutherlin el al. to Wm. H.

drove her home, learning the facts in Smith, land in Floyd tp.,§575.

the meantime. Evans disappeared] Wm. A. Bond to Warren E. and immediately from his usual haunts, j Margaret K, Rond, land in Wnshing-

THE KIDS DOWNED. The Old Timers Win at the Repub-

lican Primary.

The Republican primary election on Friday resulted in several surprises to those Republicans who are usually “in,” and particularly wise in their own conceit under all circumstances. There was considerable deception and skullduggery, and the supposed friends of some of the candidates for nomination were happy only when they had inserted their bowie under the fifth rib and twisted thoroughly and well. Another factor in the victory was the “blocks of five” system introduced into Indiana some years ago by the Republican party, only that in the present instance the blocks were of twenty-five or thirty, with a candidate for A. M., A. B., D. D., or some similar degree in charge; as Jack Cane forcibly expresses it, “We worked mighty hard, Sir, we knows how to git thar; had had ’em brought up in blocks of twenty-five; I’m powerful glad that we hoodooed the other fellers and

knocked ’em out.”

There is bad blood over the ways and means used in accomplishing the result. One well posted said that at noon on the day of the primary fully §500 were in the hands of Republican heelers and workers for persuasive purposes, and outside indications are that the dollars were used where they would do most good. The figures tell the story of the make-up of the ticket, as follows: For Mayor—Jonathan Birch 340 H. C. Lewis 262 Birch's majority 78 For Treasurer—John Gilmore 203 H. S. Renick 171 Frank Landes 137 E. T. Chaffee 88 Gilmore's plurality 42 For Marshal—W F. Rtsrr 300 \j. T. Asliiey 72 Wm. Welch 137 Starr’s majority 253 For Clerk—Jas. Hurley 264 J. W. Bovver 93 J. T. Owen 136 F. L. Joslin 121 Hurley s plurality 119 Councilman, 1st Ward—Thos. Abrams 165

Jos. Williams 51

Abram’s majority 114 Councilman, 2d Ward—E. Perkins 92

G. E. Blake 90

Perkins’ majority 2 Councilman, 3d Ward—J. R. Miller 106

John Browning 94

Miller’a majority 12 Real Estate Transfers. P. J. Salsbury and Mary M. Wilson, lot in Bainbridge, §200. G. L. Firestone to J. R. Brunemar, land in Clinton tp., $350. G. S. Frank and wife to C. B. and L, H. Frank, land in Clinton tp.,

§1,600.

G. S. Frank and wife to Eliza J. Tucker, land in Clinton tp., §1,600. Kate Farrow et ai. to Jacob Rohm,

land in Monroe tp., §1.

H. H. Parker to Eliza J. Ham, lot

in Broadpark,§70.

H. H. Parker to Nancy J. Lewis, lot

“IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN." What a Depth of Thought in Those

Few Words.

How Often and With What Sadness Do We Quote Them. It Might Indeed Have Been Had We Only Known in Time.

Here’s a Prediction.

The Hicks weather prophecy for February 1894 is that thPmonth will open generally fair and cold, except in the extreme west, where reactionary warmth with storm indications, will be returning. These conditions will pass across the country eastward by the 4th, with cold in the rear of the warm stormy area. The new moon on the 5th will hasten the period from the 7th to the 10th. Mars and Murcury will also combine to prolong and aggravate the disturbance. Winter thunder and rain will prevail in the south and snow and sleet in the north. General cold will j advance from the west and cover) the country during and by the end of the perior from the 7th to the 10th. About the 13th and 15th, failing barometer, rising thermometer and secondary storms will be in transit from west to east, with a cold wave following. The 18th to 23d will bring renewed storms, ending in cold weather Reactionary changes and storms of thunder, rain and snow will center about the 24th and 25th, and the

month will end cold.

Probably no words are more frequently quoted than these, and surely none could have a greater meaning or show more clearly that some calamity in our lives, caused perhaps by ourselves, through ignorance, carelessness or insufficient attention to the laws of nature, might have been averted. Howtrue is it especially in regard to the sick. Might it not have been the case with nearly all of us at some period that had we but known what to do at the proper time, much suffering could have been saved? No one knows this better than Mrs. Mary Henderson, who lives at 89 Congress Avenue, Flushing, Long Island. “I suffered terribly,” she said-“from rheumatism, and was weak, tired and nervous all the time. 1 was so sore all over when I would rise in the morning and felt so tired that it seemed as if it would take me an hour to

dress.

“I am thankful to say, however, that all these troubles have passed aWay, thanks to a wonderful remedy which I have used. This remedy is Dr. Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and I feel it my duty to tell

and at this writing the police have not succeeded in capturing him. The joints and muscles are so lubricated by Hood's Sarsaparilla that all rheumatism and stiffness soon disappears. Get only Hood’s'

ton tp., §630.

Warren E. Bond to Margaret I. Bond, iand in Washington tp., §800. Thos A. Vancleave to Mary Etta McDvain, lot in Greencastle, §1,100.

IIamiiIcmh and Safo to llafidl* If Trccau. tions Arc Takon — Both float and PerruMlon Needed to Explode It—Method* of Manufacture. Dynamite is a name that, to the majority of people, is synonymous with murder, ruin and anarchy. In reality it is a'very safe and useful commodity when properly handled, and will not explode except under peculiar conditions. When a match is applied it will merely burn and sizzle as the ordinary rod fire does, says the Providence Journal, and ninety-nine times out of a hundred it may be thrown from the top of a building without doing any harm. To explode the substance there must be the heat and concussion combined, and this can be obtained only by the use of the dynamite cap or fulminate of mercury, discharged either by a lighted fuse or by the passage of an electric current. The explosive substance itself is a mass of sawdust or lamp black soaked in nitro-glycerine. Either of these two preparations is called dynamite. There is another, the latest explosive yet invented, which is obtained by mixing the nitro-glycerine with gelatine, or any suitable glutinous substance. This is called forcite, and has the double advantage over dynamite of being safe to handle and more effective in its working. The dynamite is made up in sticks or cartridges, generally of half a pound weight, and held in hollow pape r cylinders eight inches long and one and a quarter inches in diameter. For shipment these sticks are put up first in ten-pound packages, and then five of these packages arc placed in a strong wooden case, and in that bulk they are sent out from the factories to the selling agents. It is not brought here by train, and neither is ordinary gunpowder, for that matter, because none of the railroads which run freight lines in Providence will carry any kind of explosives. But the dynamite is brought as far as Acton, Mass., in the freight cars, and then carried from there in four-horse teams. It takes the team a day and a half to make the trip, and the selling parties pay the cartage. Of course there is more or less of the stuff smuggled in here by train; sometimes it comes marked ns soap or some equally harmless commodity, and the freight handlers throw it around accordingly, and very frequently workmen who are going a short distance by train outof town to do some blasting take enough with th un in a valise to cause a full-fledged modern railroad horror if it should

go off.

In the retail stores, where the dynamite is for sale, there is no unusual precaution taken in the storing of it. It is kept under the counter or on the shelves, very much the same as common salt is; only the dealer is very careful to keep his dynamite cartridges at one end of the store and the dynamite caps at the other. The latter is the more dangerous of the two, and it is when they are brought together that dynamite is a most excellent thing to keep away from. It is the cap and the cartridge that are so often confounded in the accounts of explosions, etc. The prevailing idea about Anarchist Lingg’s death is that he exploded a cartridge In his mouth; instead it was the much smaller but just as dead-

ly cap.

The explosive retails for anywhere from twenty-five to sixty cents a pound, according to the percentum of nitro-glycerine with the sawdust or lampblack. The uses to which the dynamite is put in everyday work on the farms, ledges and highways are many, for simple rock blasting, removing bowlders, breaking up iron, clearing tree stumps and shattering ice and frozen ground. It lias been frequently used at Benedict pond, where its explosion under water, after a drowning accident, lias brought to the surface some body that could not be secured

with the dragging irons.

If the charge is to be used under

water or in break ing up ice the cap lias to be made water-tight where the fuse enters before it is inserted in the cartridge-by filling in the opening

with tar or some kind of grease. Vater does not injure the dynamite,

but it must be kept from the fulmin-

ate. The powder is injured, however,

and its power greatly diminished by a low temperature. High explosives freeze at a temperature of forty degrees to forty-three degrees, Fahren-

heit, and when in this condition will explode, if at all, with but little effect. So to use them in cold weather the

workmen have some contrivance for warming the cartridge, either by leaving it in an iron kettle which is immersed in a larger one containing hot water, or by burying it in sand heated

to a temperature of seventy degrees.

Carelessness in this part of the work has on several occasions resulted in a premature explosion and accident, for

while both concussion and heat are

generally necessary to produce nnv re-

sult, either one of the two agents alone

may do so, as was the ease in the re-

cent catastrophe at Santander. There is one rule of safety that is always heeded in blasting experiments. If the charge fails to explode after the

fuse li<ic been eigntcu or Inc current turned or. the operator will never dig it out to find the rei ion why—It is too

Big Four Excursion to the South on' Remember if 4-0 fail, to rive v-rfert I apt t*> act like the firecracker that the Feb. S, March 8, and April 0. The satisfaction in la Grippe. Asthma. Bronchi-j STTm11 bo y P i<,ks "P after he thinks it Big Four will sell at one fare excur- tis - Croup, Chronic Cough or Cold, I will re- has gone off, or like the toy pistol that sion tickets to all points in Kentucky, fund your money. j isn't loaded. When the first attempt Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, • „ is unsuccessful, a second charge is and to many points in Georgia, F10- A I I Dll Q I lUHO’ Si'/IY’D placed in close proximity to the first,

rida and Louisiana. Final limit 20 A-*' 1 ”*- 1 ^ ^ OlUit ,

You can’t raise a window by simply

planting a pane of glass.

A small soul has plenty of elbow room in a narrow minded man. Nothing furnishes as great motive

power as the force of habit.

Merchants are like yatchsmen in one respect they like big sales. Love well founded and firm -that which is built on her father’s rocks. When a real estate agent begins to go down hill he loses ground very

fast.

Some men have so much genius that they cannot apply it to any one

thing.

A baby always helps to make home happy particularly when the baby

is asleep.

The public speaker’s “one word more and I am done” is the longest word on record. Western train robbers who rifle the mail-bags use their rifles on the train

men, too.

A man can’t be too particular these days in making calls, especially in a

poker game.

It takes a “bull” to elevate the stock market, but a mouse can make dress

goods go up.

People who visit cj'elone regions are very often perfectly “carried away”

with the scenery.

When your wife asks you for a dollar don’t dole it out to her like you

were paying your taxes.

Raised letters are intended for the blind, and we suppose raised checks

are for the same purpose. Deafness Cannot Be Cured

By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by

MRS. MARY HENDERSON. what benefits I have derived from the use of this great medicine. “The news is too good to keep and I feel that it should be made known, and I certainly will do all that lies in my power to spread it because the medicine has done so much for me. It will surely help others if they will only give it a trial. "Why, I feel like a new person, and I am now able to do all my work and stand it well. I am suprised at myself and the strength and vigor this wonderful medicine has given

me.”

And now, readers, if you have been suffering from nervous or blood disease, causing debility, dyspepsia, or any of the conditions depending upon diseased nerves or blood, and have been thinking of what might be if you could but recover your health, we say to you in all confidence take this wonderful medicine and you will be cured. It is purely vegetable and harmless. Dr. Greene, the noted specialist in curing all chronic and nervous diseases, is its discoverer. He can be consulted at his office, 35 W: 14th Street, New York, free of charge, personally or by letter.

Tattooing t'tiiized.

A French physician, who has found that the majority of deaths upon the battlefield arise from the bleeding to death of the wounded while waiting for the surgeon, proposes that each soldier in the French army shall be taught where the arteries of his body are and how to arrest hemorrhages from then. In doing this he has found a use for that most useless of arts— tattooing: a small figure of some kind i Being tattooed over each artery, so that the soldier can at once see where

to apply the ligature.

Japanese latequer.

A first-class piece of Japanese lac-quer-work can scarcely be scratched with a needle. It requires almost the lifetime of a native artist to bring It to pi i fcctiou. Iluudl’cdte of coats of thin lacquer are laid on at considerable intervals of time, and the value consists not in the choiceness of the material, but in the amount of labor

spent.

Four-C is the only sure specific for La Grippe.

an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed vou have a rumbling sound or im-

perfect hearing,

beafuess is the result. mation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition ofthe mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured “y Hall’s Catarrh Cu.c.

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ti Giiippf mmm. In no single instance so far as tried has I’helps’ Four-C failed to give almost instant relief and final cure of this dread disease.

Genuine Gnwe of X-.it Grippe.

„„„„„ I was attacked November 20 by a genuine and when it is entirely closed j^ ^“‘Ee.e. TUeeoughaas so seven. result, aud unless the inflam- and c0,<1 90 persistent that alter enduring the - torture for two weeks I took to my rooms and

bed. 1 kept my rooms for two weeks with no relief whatever. It seemed as if each coughing spasm would be my "last.” My wife, at the request of friends, purchased a bottle of Four-C. The rapidity of its good work was wonderful. I was virtually well In four days and able to attend to usual business. Albkkt Wokthi.ky, Arkansas City, Kan. Dec. 23, 1891. With Matlock Dry Goods Co.

The Many Useful Purposes Which It Serves.

d&ys. Apply to F. P. Huestis, agent. | albert allbn, Prop. smu

and when that goes they both go.

Sno v storm on Monday,

},, |f, _ „ Stealth]/ in Ut approach. lV>o often, when the situation becomt s fully known, it is too late. That is true of Kidney Disease. A little soreness—a little lameness of the buck. Th. se excite no suspicion. Suddenly acute symptoms supervene and death ensues. It is like the fatal spring of the wolf. Let us reason together a little. 1 On tne slightest symptom why not use Dr. Fenner s Kidney and Backache Cure? 2. Because it is guaranteed to satisfy or money refunded. So you only pay for benefit actually received. 3. If you should be mistaken in fearing kidney disease, it will do no harm and has at any rate cleansed your blood, given you renewed life as it were, cleared vour head, toned up your stomach, invigorated your nerves and fibre, and insured you against the disease you fear. Take home a bottle to-day.

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I'll IIF GI1.4VKL HO All \0T1CE. tlerllHg °l .!•<* Koitril of Free Turnpike IMrectorH. The Board of Free Turnpike Dir"ctor» of Putnam County. State of Indiana, will meet at the office of the County Auditor, in the Court Mouse, in the city of Greencastle, Putnam County, State of Indiana, on SATURDAY. I HE 24th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1894, To tranaact all business that may come before (hem requiring the Nttention of said Board of 1' ree Turnpike Directors. J. F. MULHOLN, Clerk ot Board,

For sale, a beautiful home on East Seminary street; house of eight rooms, largo shade trees, large lot, choice fruit of all kinds, tf H. A. Mills. For the Multitude. Many great blessings of the world can only he had by the few, but here is one for the benefit of all. and absoluUly free of charge. Nothing is of more importance to us than our health. It has, until recently, been impossible for the poor, or those living far from large cities, to obtain the best medical advice except at great expense. But now comes forward one of our greatest and most successful specialists in curing nervous and chronic diseases and offers to every one, far and near, the privilege of consulting him by letter, without churgc. This is none other than the well-known Dr Greene, of35 West 14th Street, New York, the discoverer of that wonderful medicine, Dr. Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy. You who have sought in vain to learn what you are suffering from, or to obtain help, write him a description of your complaint, and he will return you a letter stating exactly what your disease is, and thoroughly describing each symptom, so that you can clearly understand just what ails yon. And all this is entirely free of expense to you. The doctor gives most careful and explicit attention to all letters, and is having wonderful success in treating disease through his system of letter correspsndence, using as he does nothiug but harmless vegetable remedies in his practice. Write the doctor at once all about your complaint. It is the surest way to regain your health. The Midwinter Arena. The February Arena is another mommoth number ofthe great progressive Review, it contains 161 pages and filled with able papers, covering a wide range oftopics of special interest to wide awake thinkers and earnest reformers. The opening papers will interest all lovers of Robert Browning's poetry, as well as persons who appreciate broad but profound religions thought, it is trora the pen of Rev. M. J. Savage, and is entitled “Religious Thought in Browning’s Poetry. A fine portrait of the poet forms the frontispiece of this issue. "The Relation of the Land Question to Other Reforms.” by J. H. Beilangee is a thoughtful paper in The Arena Series on the Land Question. "The New Bible” by Washington Gladden, D. D. is a very valuable contribution to the literature of Higher Criticism 4 feitfnre this number *r a profusely illustrated Symposium ou "Rational Dress for Women,” by a number of eminent Americas women. Dr. Heinrich Hensoldt’a series of papers on ‘‘Indian Occultism” grows more and more absorbingly interesting with each issue. In this number the German scientist occupies twenty pages recounting wondertul phenomena which he witnessed in India during his ten years sojourn in that far East. A very interesting, practical paper is from the pen of Rev. Hiram Vrooman of Baltimore, on “The Organization of the Moral Forces." It is in the line of a movement the Arena has originated an is pushing, to awaken the conscience of the people and unite moral workers for practical progress. Congressman Davis discusses “Honest and Dishonest Money.” The fasinating series of Philosophical papers by Stinson Jarvis on 'The Ascent of Life” is continued. The Editor cotuributes two sinking editorials the nrst is entitled “They Have Fallen into the WinePress, or Illustrations of the Onward March of I'niuv ited Poverty;” the second isaslioug aigument against medical mcnopoly. Among the eminent thinkers who review the Books ofthe Day in this issue of The Arena are. ifet. •' *. J. e»aV&gu, iivuli campoen, Alton Solomon Sehinder, Rev. Samuel D. Fuller. Elbert Hubbard, and the Editor. The publishers announce that The Arena will fcaitoaiortii bo enlarged to 144 pages instead ot 12s as hcretoiore. This will make it the largest monthly Review published. Only $1.50 will pay for both the Star-Press and Indianapolis Wee kly Sentinel for one year—cash in advance invariably.