Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 August 1895 — Page 3

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GREENCASTLB, IND., AUG. 24, 1895.

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CITV AND COUNJ Y, Miss Elizabeth Overstreet is visit-

ing at Altamont, Ills.

J. J. Curtis is visiting at Valparaiso Granville Moore is home

Iowa.

I Died, on Aug. 16, of brain disease, from son 0 f j Ruark, aged 3 years.

Mrs. James Vermilion and Flossie

Miss Lou Rader has returned from Vermilion spent Sunday at Brazil. tiosport. Mrs. G. W. Poole and daughter The colored camp meeting is “done have been visiting at Crawfordsville. and gone. Geo. W. Black shipped a car load Mrs. Margaret Farrow has returned of horses to Connecticut, a few days

from Brazil. ago.

Mrs. II. C. Allen and children have ( Mrs. A. C. Fry was called to Mt. returned from Delphi. Sterling, Ky., a few days ago, by the

Mrs. George M. Black and children sickness of a relative,

are home from Kentucky. , Pixed It Up in a Satisfactory

Mrs. D. T. Darnall has returned Manner,

from French Lick Springs. I A special from Brazil, on SaturJohn Peterseim and children have ^ a8 ti says: The family and close b Jen visiting at Anderson . relatives of County Clerk Wehrle, Andy Farrow and wife have re- who was shot and killed by the Hon. turned from French Lick Springs. i , A - knl S h ‘ the night of

. July 16, have issued the following to

...Mr 8 ' ^ Mann, ofChmago^ is vis- the publiC) 8igned b the wid her itmg her mother . MrB ' J ' C ' ftidpath. father) who ifl adminietrator 0 ’ { the Mrs. A. H Morris and son, Harris, estate, the three brothers are visiting her parents, at Liberty, brother-in-law of the deceased:

To the Public—We make this vol-

Lon Jacobs has been viewing the untary communication in the intersights at Niagara Falls and there- est of a correct public sentiment and abouts. | vindication of simple truth and jusFlem McCray was here from Tip- 1 t* ce - While every one concerned ,n. visifimr relatives and friends, on lamen ts and deplores the recent sad

and tragic death of John M. Wehrle, we know that the act was an unfortunate event, purely accidental and

and

ton, visiting relatives and friends, on

Saturday.

The DePauw Quartette gave four concerts at Piasa Bluffs Assembly,

this week.

George W. Hanna sold 60 head of extra fine cattle to Kahn & Co., a few days ago. We were flsbing. Her hands Were grasping the pole; I saw my advantage— A kiss from her stole, She was highly indignant And wept in her grief. Quoted I: “the receiver’s As bad as the thief.” Will Dills shipped a car load cf nice hogs, of his own feeding, a few days ago—he says he’s out of the hog trade, until porkers get a better

price.

Mr. Frederic Harrison, in the September number of The Forum, concludes his series of articles on “The Great Victorian Writers’’ with an unusually brilliant critical estimate of “George Eliot’s Place in Literature.” Mr. Harrison’s life-long acquaintance with George Eliot gives this paper an unusual interest. Trustee Bond has employed the following teachers for the next ensuing school year: Diet. 1, H. A. Hutcheson; Dist. 2, Jesse McCoy; Dist. 3, Gertrude King; Dist. 4, Cora Wright; Dist. 6, Kate Reel; Dist. 5j, C. F. Miller, Dist. 6, Annie Polhemus; Dist. 61, Phillip Hutcheson; Dist. 8, Jesse Osborn; Dist. 9, Jennie Donald; Dist. 10, Paul Pickett; Dist. 11, Cora Girton; Dist. 12, Belle Combs; Dist. 13, Clarence Skelton; Dist. 14, Annie McElroy; Dist. 15, Frank McElroy. Real Estate Transfers. Win, Dicks to Phoebe A. Dicks, land in Bainbridge $750. John F. Cline et al. to Joseph N. Miller land in Roachdale $425. Anna Hamilton to John W. Thompson, land in Greencastle tp.,

$500.

J. C. Browning to Willard Bowen, land in Greencastle, $2,5000. Wesley Stevenson to Nancy Morphew, land in Jackson tp., $325. Richard Lloyd to Edward A. Hamilton, land in Greencastle, $300. Charles T. Webster to Harvey H. Gardner, land in Russell tp., $1,000. John P. Baumunk to George E. Blake, land in Washington tp., four transfers, $1. David Houck to James A. & Mary E. Steele, land in Badger park, $275.

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unintentionaal on the part of Mr. Knight. No intention nor motive could ever have any foundation in fact, for nothing but neighborly kindness and perfect friendship ever existed between them. And this feeling was expressed and emphasized by deceased before his death in the kindest and tenderest manner, exonerating Mr. Knight from all censure or blame. Mr. Knight has not only passed through great mental anguish and suffering on account of the deplorable calamity, but has made reparation sufficient and puisfactory to the family as far as 'i' Jnan power

could do this.

Wo have no unkind f ‘jJaags toward him or his family, and 4 f 0 Jk from the public and our kind friexltt) the same liberal feelings and sentiments. F. W. Schromyer, administrator; F. J. Wehrle, H. C. Wehrle, Alice J. Wehrle, A. W. Turner.

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A Tooth Carpenter. One of our citizens made a recent business trip to the South, and while there he suffered one night with a terrible tooth ache. Next morning he asked the landlord whether there was a dentist in the town, the answer was yes, and he was told where to find him. Arriving at the house indicated our citizen asked a man who was in front of the house looking very wisely at a scrawny looking mule, where he could find the dentist. The man replied that he was “the puller and plugger for the district.” and asked the stranger what ho could do for him, at the same time conducting him into the house, when the following conversation took

place:

“Do you treat teeth?” “Pull ’em or plug’em, just as you want,” was

the reply.

“I have one that needs treatment.” “Want it pulled or plugged?” the

dentist asked.

“I want It treated; how do

treat acheing teeth?” “Pull ’em or plug ’em.”

“I think this could be saved it was treated,” our citizen suggested. "Want it plugged, then—is it a chawer or a knawer?” said the dentist, as he rubbed the mule hair off his hands on his pantaloons, preparatory to beginning operations. Our citizen got a little shy, by this time, and his tooth didn’t hurt as he imigined it had, so he sought to gain time by asking: “Do you do

bridge work.

The Dentist got riled, immediately, but replied that he had done no bridge work since ho began practising dentistry, said he: “The last bridge work I done was on Bayon

Taebo; now a days I am busy pullinir hv constitutional remedies. Deafness is and plugging teeth, doctoring mules m^ous lining ofU^ BuJi^hUn °Tub£ and horsee, and cuttimr hair and when th * 8 tubo iB infl ® med y° u hav c » runib- , . ’ b ling sound or imperfect hearing, and when Shaving my customers.” it is entirely closed Deafness is the result

Frank Tilden is back from Illinois, and J. P. Allen is homo from Delphi. Mrs. Jessie Happ, of Paxton, Ills., has been here this week visiting rela-

tives and friends.

II. 8. Renick and wife are attending the triennial conclave of Knights

Templar, at Boston.

Mrs. Harding who was the guest cf Capt. Wimmer and family, has returned to Indianapolis. The Putnam County Teachers’ Association has elected Ed. L. Day, President, and Miss McVey, Secretary, for

the ensuing year.

Will Dills sold to Kahn & Co., through B. F. Wysong, a few days ago, thirty head of cattle that he classifies as “fat backs” they aver-

aged 1624 pounds.

As a preliminary arrangement for a reunion of the Wood families, it is requested that all the Woods resident in this county meet at the Court House, in this city, on the first Saturday in September, at 1 o’clock, to form an organization. Funk & Wagnalls, of New York, have in preparation for publicatien The Students’ Standard Dictionary. Svo, 800 pp., cloth, $1.50. The vocabulary will be richer by many thousand terms than that of any other similar Dictionarj’ in English, and it is the only School Dictionary that has all the words in the English classics prescribed for study in the schools. Definitive exactness, in contrast to synonymic looseness, characterizes the definitions of the work, as in the Standard Dictionary, which is one of the original features that has won for the complete unabridged work such unbounded prise. Synonyms, antonyms, and etymology are given in extent and quality beyond what are given in any other School Dictionary. For pronunciation, this book has followed the Standard in using the Scientific Alphabet which has been prepared with great care by the leading phiologists of the En-glish-speaking World, and which is indorsed by the Philological Association of America and the Philological Society of England. The work also has full advantage of the decisions of the “Committee of Fifty” leading philologists, etc., who determined the pronunciations on disputed points in the Standard. It has, therefore, an exact, world-wide comprehensive uniformity for this most important feature for our language—its correct pronunciation. The Appendix of this Students’ edition is made also on the plan of the parent work.

Franklin Township.

The Franklin Township Teachers’ Institute was organized Thursday with the tollowing officers: Ed Day, Principal of Raccoon schools, Pres.; Walter McGaughey, Principal of Fincastle school, VMce Pres.; Nannie Lovett, S> c.; Nannie Patton, Reporter. The first meeting will be held Sept. 21, After which ther will be held the second Saturday of each month, iu the High School room at

Roachdale.

Tlie Institute decided to take up and discuss the two branches of the Reading Circle work. Mr. Harris was selected to conduct the lessons in Shakespeare's plays for the entire term; Miss Etta Brothers the lessons in Method. xx

Old Settler’s Reunion.

The reunion of the old settlers of Putnam, Parke and Montgomery '•oimties held at Snthcrlin's Springs, August 15, 1895, was a pronounced success. The day was fine, and vast crowds of people assembled on the picturesque banks of Big Raccoon to drink the medicinal waters of the two famous springs of different water that bubble and sparkle from the solid rock. They came for a day of recreation and innocent enjoyment. Many of the brave old pioneers of botli sexes were present and were given seats of honor. The grand stand was decorated with wreaths of evergreen and adorned with the Stars and Stripes. Sweet music was discoursed between the efforts of the orators of the day. The orations were of all varieties from grave to humorous. The crowd was quiet and orderly, and the slick citizen with his games of chance and traps for the unwary was conspicuous by his absence. Ttie following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, J. V. Durham; Vice President. G. \V. Hanna; Secretary, A. J. Farrow; Treasurer, J. T. (Jlodfelter. The officers will meet at Morton, Ind., tiie first Thursday in April, 1896, to arrange a program for the next annual reunion. A. J. F.

SLAVE WITH A HERO’S HEART. IIplplmiH White Daily Malntal neil by fill

Monthly Cherkit.

A wealthy slave owner of the cotton belt entered the southern army, fought bravely and brilliantly, and died in one of the closing battles of the war. His widow, says the Philadelphia Ledger, was left penniless, with large plan

tatlons incumbered with

and a hundred or more emancipated n’

groes who had ceased to be her pro E'sdly recommend it to all who need s erty. Her business affairs were mi* 00< ^ purifying medicine.” Mrs. C. 8. managed by agents and lawyi r-,. :iii ,irc,f i < -'liauneey,Ohto. $1; six for $6. she 1,,st One plantation after'anothej” ,q m '»ytobw.MfftoMML Her health failed, and in her old ago ” 1 U.5>_«jar iu eUnct. ate.

Pace That Kille. St. Louis Kepubiic.

Do the gold standard Democrats and 16 to 1 Democrats know where they are coming out? Have they in view any point of time when they will begin to consider favorably a

united Democracy for 1896?

At this particlar juncture they appear to be exhausting all their energies in fixing the party for two national tickets and two tickets in each of several states. In the East and in some w’esteru and southern states large bodies of Democratic voters are being taught that the free coinage of silver on any terms is not only unwise hut dishonest. Men once saturated with that idea will not readily support a platform at all friendly to silver coinage. In the West and South the extreme 16 to 1 men are rapidly working themselves into a position from which they can not recede; or it they recede, cannot take their followers back with them Neither the gold standard nor the

ratio test oath was ever brought for- Cour “ of a few yenrs ho bou F ht ar ‘- ward as a Democratic policy until nV* far,r \ and doubled his resources.

uuwi other purchases followed, until he was

( p.ir.y was supposed to be a truck farmer with considerable

Bimetallism.

J. L. Robinson, whom the New York Tribune calls “a well-known banker,” writes in a letter to that

paper in part as follows:

“While it is heresy to express an opinion in Wall-st. not in harmony with the heads of moneyed institu-

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she became wholly dependent upon one of her former slaves. This negro was grateful to her for having given him a start after the war. Learning from experience that she could not manage her plantations successfully, she had rewarded the fidelity of a small group of emancipated slaves by deeding over to them outright small farms. This negro received in this way a farm of twenty-six acres with a cabin. He prospered from the outset. He made a living out of his ground and saved every year a little money. In the

Sulphuric and nitric acids were known to Qebcr, the alchemist, in the eighth century.

Deafness Cannot be Cured.

by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one wnv to cure deafness, and thnt is

by constitutional remedies.

,1893.

unitedly favorable to the use of our great silver possessions as money. Disagreement on practical methods of restoring free coinage was perceived, but the prineiple was considered a tradition from the earliest Democratic days and a binding belief of

the party of hard money.

Between the gold standard and a 16 to 1 ratio there is an irreconcilable

conflict.

It is none too soon to ask both sides Whether they intend to carry this dispute to the conclusion of splitting the Democratic party. The inflammation cannot go much farther on either side without making two tickets and a Democratic defeat inevita-

ble.

V hen, gentlemen, do you think the fate of the Democratic party, the only reliance of manhood liberties, will begin to enjoy the favor of your consideration? At Michigan City a young lady answered an advertisement headed “Girl wanted to sell baking powder.” The advertiser wrote in reply saying that if she would sell six dozen cans of baking powder at 25 cents each, and forward the money to him, he would present her with a safety. She assumed that a safety bicycle would come to her as a present, so she sold the baking powder in short order and forwarded the money. In a few days she received by mail an envelope, and on opening it she found the promised “safety,” but it was only n safety pin; this and nothing more. She is now convinced that life is full of uncertainties. Americans area nation of readers. In every home in our broad land, with possibly few exceptions, are treasured means for this delightful and beneficial employment of leisure moments. Each year broadening in its method of individual culture, contributes increased facilities, and brings them within the reach of all. But there is no literature for the common people like that of the newspaper. It is the daily companion alike of the prince and the peasant, the man who inherits and the man who earns, of the millionaire iu his mansion, and the laborer is his cot. It comes an regularly as the glow of-the lamplight, and finds a welcome at every fireside. If the night be fair under the radiant moon that walks in queenly beauty through her starry courts, or if the pitiless storm beats madly at the window-pane,—it does not matter—this messenger of good tidings is present to entertain and instruct, to tell to willing ears in that little circle what goes on in the great bustling world without. What better message can the merchant send than his advertisement of household necessities or fashion’s novelties? What better avenue to the domestic group can the tradesman find? Try it, and you will soon realize in an increase of patronage, it has brought to your trade a new constituency of buyers. Try it, and you will never return to the old methods; nor will you ever cease to wonder why you so long neglected such a profitable investment.

wealth. He did not forget his old plantation mistress iu his prosperity. When she had lost all her property and there was uo other friend to take care of her in her old age this negro rescued her from destitution. He became her most faithful friend. Both are still living. On the first day of every month the negro farmer draws a check for one hundred dollars and sends it to the aged lady whose slave he was in his boyhood. At first she was unwilling to become his pensioner, but he pressed help upon her with tears in his eyes, telling her that he would never have got on in the world if she had not generously aided him by giving him the first farm. His bounty is now her only resource.

NOT ACCORDING TO THE CODE.

Newsboys Scourge a Companion Who Violated Queensberry's Precepts. Several bare-legged and leatherlunged newsboys were “shooting craps” in City Hall park the other night when one of them caught another cheating, says the New York World. The two, after raucous argument, set at each other to settle the matter after the code of Qucensberry. During the argument of limb and muscle some one yelled shrilly: “Kiggy, here comos do cop!” When the party reassembled in Spruce street botli combatants stripped and went at it tooth and nail. When they grappled the others pulled them apart. Finally both clinched with a desperation that defied unraveling and fell squirming to the pavement, where they swore between gasps at the others who trod upon their heads. Presently one of them writhed from the other’s embrace. “The dirty sninker’s bit me!” he shrieked. "He’s chawed off me arm.” "Dat’s right,” sniffed the other. “He was a-tumpin’ me iu de stummick. No bloke ain't goin’ to do dat to me.” "We ain't!” yelled a sympathizer of the bitten small boy. “Wo ain't, hey? W'y, I'll t'ump you in de Croat.” And he sailed in. The rest of the boys sailed in with him, and between them they were murdering the biting small boy when a policeman pounced upon them. “What’s the trouble here?" he demanded. “W’y, dat bloke hit a chunk out o'me pal's arm," one of them piped up. And while the policeman put in pursuit of the boy who had bitten the other the rest of the newsboys fled up a side street, bearing as spoils the evening newspapers of the pursued.

(aaiiitatly ivt-bt u«‘t> Tiiru* People uu<] Gains

a Medal.

Few more gallant feats have ever been performed by women than that of Miss Evans, the daughter of Dr. Evans, of Hythe, on the Southampton water, says the London Standard. Walking on the pier with a friend, she heard the cry of three persons whose boat had been capsized near the pie*-. Burping down the steps, she sprang into the water and soon brought the one nearest, a woman, safely to the steps. Then she swam off again to the others, a man unii a girl. Waiting her opportunity, she managed to seize them both, and supported them until a rope was thrown to her, and she was then able to get the man to the pier. The girl was going down for the third time, when Miss Evans dived, brought her to the surface, and took her also to the pier, thus saving three lives. It is difficult to know which is the more remarkable—the courage displayed, or the skill with which, hampered by her clothes, she succeeded in avoiding the drowning grip that is so often fatal to those who attempt rescues, and so brought the three persona, uiiu after another, in safety to the pier. It is a feat of which

la Kentucky a Doubtful State. The peculiar political conditions that esist in Kentucky have led many people to believe

that theStuteiHa doubtful one and that

tKf. R f^, Ub F C or , 'thi. a ;^ tt oS h ,he C r e e il 0 JZ? im! the b <^ ^ swimmer, unhampered terest, both at home and abroad, in accurate | by garments, would have every right and reliable politital news from all parts of t,, nuict tifuiuI -inil pYoeiitof! if the State. The Weekly Courier-Journal la I , mosl Pr<>Ui . ana, executed us it now covering this field perfectly, ami it is: was by a young lady, was almost if rmhiishinff the news without bias or pre-! not quite without precedent in the an-

judice. A close reader ol tne Weemy , * j , ■ ,

Courler-Jonrnal should be able to forecast ini nals oI deeds requiring presence ol

S^Te^lecTio^n^it NSvemher UtC i me u 0 /ltl hC skl11 a,Ki courage. It is indeed 11 Jetra'led^pumphl.t infor^nstioB coc-

question in economics, as shown by statistics in the financial history of every country, that as the value of gold is appreciated there is' a corresponding decline in the price of commodities, and it is used as conclusive evidence in favor of single gold standard that this increased purchasing power of a dollar enables the man of moderate means, or laboring men, to live so much cheaper that it more than counterbalances any reduction in the price of labor, which latter necessarily follows a restriction in the volume of a circulating medium. This is all very well, but the basis of all business or personal presperity is what we produce. “Is it possible for any people to prosper when the product of labor is below the cost of production? Ask the cotton planter what he has left after marketing his cotton at 5 or 6 cents per pound in New York. Ask the farmer in Pennsylvania, Illinois California what he has left after selling his wheat at 60 cents per bushel in New York. It is claimed that the serious decline in prices of all our products is due to over-production . Is it not a lack of ability to purchase, growing out of the fact that the producer has nothing left with which to buy? It is one thing to produce more than we can consume, but quite another to find we have no consumers by reason of their lack of means to acquire what they need to con-

sume.

“The first relief is bimetallism. It is necessary, and in my opinion the people will demand it. There is something to be said even in favor of the free coinage of silver. While I cannot bring my judgment into harmony with this view, the idea of being able to purchase more with a dollar under the single gold standard than with two dollars under a free coinage system is attractive in feature, but the average producer would be more likely to have the two dollars under a free coinage system than to have any part of one dollar under the single gold standard. “Any monetary system which enables the rich to grow richer and makes the poor poorer cannot be productive of general prosperity. Under our present system this is the inevitable result. It lias rendered possible the enormous concentration of capital into a few hands, which conditioa is certainly not calculated to advance the prosperity of the general

public.”

When the Erie Canal was being excavated live mollueks were found in a gravel stratum at a depth of 45 feet from the surface. Captain William Pence of the British Royal Navy says that he has encounteied icebergs in Antarctic waters which were larger than the

!e!c cf Man.

Thomas Siddons has moved his blacksmith shop to the first building west of the coruer of Jackson and Liberty streets, and solicits the patronage of the public. 3tl" Utah has l,buu miles of canals, her irrigated lands producing over 0,000,000 bushels i f

gram annually.

The Paris exhibition oflaoo is to cost four millions sterling and will cover an area of

nearly 2.000 acres.

A new cotten pest has been discovered in Texas. It is a scale insect and belongs to

the family oi coccidea.

Nux vomica is prepared from the seeds of a tree that grows in abundance in India, the

East Indies and Ceylon.

The coin-in-the-slot-machiue was known in Egypt more than 2,000 years ago.It was used

for dispensing holy water.

Solid Truths About the South.

It is a fact that the most productive farms, where three crops a year are made, are in me garden spot of the world, which is in Mississippi and Alabama along the line of the Mobile a: Ohio Railroad. Mississippi with open fertile prairie lands and rich valleys timbered with valuable hard woods aiid Alabama, the yellow pine belt, n roily sandy loam, the paradii of the fruit grower, truce

farmer, stock rai.*i r and invalid.

The summers :e cooler; the winters are warmer; the entire year comfortabla for out door work. Garden the whole vear round, pure air. soft water, good health, and long life for yourself and family. No blizzards,

no sunstrokes, no swamps, no malaria.

riiou; .....!s cf acres of land may be he I -* very low prices and on easy terms. For il-

laving my customers.” I it is entirely closed, noafhess ii the result. State election next November. In addition , • „ , ^ ‘ Our Citizens had foreotten nil nhmif I an ? To giving all the politici news ..II extraordinary that a swimmer, hovv-| kind of land, locntlons

r C1UZCI18 naa lorgotten all about out and this tube restored to Its normal con-1 news ol every kind, the Week!., . ,.m i,.- over Strong, should be able to 'swVamo t'end and

that jumping tooth by this time, and ! dHion, hearing will be destroyed forever; Journal 18 oflerfug to its subscribers fc.coo in 1 atonc6 , d r ,,w U iiicr Iversons and bn ! A!o opraent o., ..lobfle.

i t i i iii. , ’ nine cases out otf ten are caused by catarrh, cash presents for guesses as to the exact 0 uiowuing &olib arui to * p t _• * • , , „

concluded he had been dreaming, which is nothing but an inflamed conditiob i vote and closest to the exact vote that will be avoid being caught in the grip of one 1 r rxf,. R f rtr 1 ln cf Sl omt n v^rvVo «r at cheap Uo npolosined to the dentl.t for SKftU. Don.,. ESS LS&S^&SSSftTXi " 0,hrr •> «-»■ «** *•» *** 'Stf'KKB terfering With his treatment Of the' caBeo . f P uafnes !i ( 1 ? 8u ?r d 11 , b y . ca,arrh that tucky. The price of the paper is only one Humane society S medal better de-| K K fun Information concernlmr Hekeis

mule patient in front of ofllce, ifflOTS ^ ^ ^be lUUe

and took his departure K J CHENEY & CO„ Toledo, O. free to any address. Write to Cvuritr-Jour- tllat the act will receive the highest ^d , Chtcugo m, or'E E Po^v nT** ana took ueparuire. j, 8old by Drogg , sts , T5c . * UB ual company, Louisville, Ky. , mark of distinction at the society’s dis- ; “obi.eiolSo E.B.’.iobile, A°” ’

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