The Butcher-Knife, Volume 2, Number 10, Danville, Hendricks County, 3 October 1857 — Page 2

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- T v - f ! f - ' fl"riho i :c:tlr vis called: to crdbr by, nji. : ,:::tir I Bvr.Tesj. President.. . On uclioi, 1?. a. Kennedy, WmrK; C, FJr.r.3, r.nd, J. L. Mitchell, tere spv:!.:t:d a cr ittee to draft & constitution and by daws for the government of the So-

tcntloa to mate- several improvements i?' crety, and report at the next meeting. -the next volume, which will 'greatly en-1 L. M. Campbell was elected to serve as hnnce its value. In another column yon ' President until the Society was thoroughwill find that we offer some inducement ly organized. to persons getting up clubs. It is truo It was resolved that the exercises of that the amounts "-wc 'propose to -give aro-'the Society consist in. Addresses, Desmall, bat considering the stringency of bates, Declamation and Composition, the money market, the bunk failures and Messrs. Litson, Chiton and Darnall, suspensions, it is a 'right down chance'' to appointed to. select a (uestion for debate, us. We think, however, that the induce-1 reported the following: mcnt is sufficient for our friends to exert j ' Would it be wise and expedient to themselves a Ueile. The 'Knife' now has confer the elective franchise upon women?' a circulation of four hundred, and nearly j The meeting then adjourned to meet all of them are in this county but this at the Court-Huuoe on next Tuesday is entirely too small for a county possess- evening. J AS BURGESS, Pres't. inn; the intelligence that Hendricks does. J- L- Mitchell, Sec'y. We want six hundred subscribers, and J 1 n ' think that we will have that number be- JT 0ne of our bo)'s turned Mexican fore the first day of November next. No ti,e ot!ier day and concluded to ride one

one (except a few bass-wood men living of the "Mustang ponies that have lately in this community) will deny that our pa ( been imported in our midst. Mustang peris not worth the subscription price. 1 went fine for awhile, but finally, after cutWe intend to mate our paper interesting ting a despecate shine, he introduced the to the citizens of this county by publish-; Hoosier to the sidewalk in a very rough

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of. We will say to those who intend to

; r.:: ih-,!-::r.-..:r.t f;.r c r r.gents to. exert thirdvr; in. clrhhg -l;3riber, fonthe-'Knife' we j,. t!- lowing:. To any person v?ho i:i the largest, list of subscribers, over twenty-five, ac

companied bv the cash, we. will give. TEN DOLLARS 1. - To any one sending us the, second largest, over twenty-five, we will give ElYE DOLLARS! To any one sending us the third largest, over twenty five, we will. give TWO AND A HALF DOLLARS 1 Persons competing lor the money must, send in. their, clubs by the 1st of Ni ember next. We will publish the names of

the lucky ones in. our first issue in November. We feel truly, gratel ul to our agents who have labored for us so far, and hope hat they will continue their favors. Terms Twenty -live cents per volume, consisting of twelve numbers.

make an effort for the prizes that we will

(ttj" A bane! of ale was stoltn from

pay the money to those who send in the(Wade's cellar o st Sunday night. It

largest clubs by the 1st of November.

, JP It will be seen by the proceedings in another column that there is an effort being made by some of our citizens to organize a Literary Society. We hope

appears that anything in the drinking line

'what's laying round loose stands a bad chance in this community.

The cotillion party had a grand

time last evening. Among the distin-

they will be successful, and would urge jguished visitors, we noticed H. C. New-

upon the young ladies and gentlemen, the jcomb and Ed. Clark, of Indianapolis.

propriety and necessity of taking an active part in their deliberations. Let there be a good turn cut of ladies and gentlemen at the court-house next Tuesday

evening.

deb ted to 'izz . by paying t:p.

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jc- It xall 1:2 r:ci) thr.t c.r friend Jno. A. lIcDcr.r.'J will hrze a r.;b r.t 1 f-rn,

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V c are requested to-ay to. the borrower, of the second volume of the days of Bruce, from a young lady,, that they will be favorably recollected, by loavirg the same at Matlock's store..

07- J. W. Bryan offers several valuable articles for sale on the 0th of October. See Ida advertisement.

&ST An English paper gives an account of a party of sixty old women, who were the mothers cf tight hundred and sixtynine children!. Average about fourteen and a half each. If this be true, Queen Victoria should bestow a pension on each,

of the old ladies.

ST' Potatoes sold at 15 cents per bushel in Indianapolis, this week, butter 15 c; eggs 7c; wheat 6070c; flour 85,00; corn meal 55 c; oats 252Cc at wholesale.

Dr.Depcw has just received his Fall'

and Winter sic:!: cf; Dry Goods, Grcccr-

OT A new hotel, has been erected in Indianapolis on the corns' of Louisiana and Illinois streets, under the manacment of Mr. J. B. Harrison, a gentleman of long experience in the hotel business. The city papers speak very highly of this new House, and ask for it a patronage worthy the enterprise of this gentleman. 03" The other day, when quite a crowd was about the Court House, an old entleraan happened to discover the Mammoth Watch hanging in froat of Thos. N Jone's establishment, and being anxious to know the time of day, inquired of one of cur youthful sharpers: 'Sonny, is that watch right over there?' Bight over there it ain't rr.ywherc Thecld r:aa nrub r, r.t t!io boy uith Li: cm?, t:t th? 1:7 clc":d.