Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 11, Bloomington, Monroe County, 15 January 1881 — Page 1
VOL. VII. BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1881. NO. 1.
TIME TABLE NORTH SOUTH 11:57 A M Express 4:05 P.M 4:55 " Through Freight 7:25 " 2:05 P M Way " 3:55 A M
Louisville Ac. leaves 5:20 a. m.
arrives at 9:15 p.m. MITCHELL TIME TABLE GOING WEST.
Day Express Night Express Express, Local; Freight, GOING EAST. Day Express Night Expres Express Local Freight,
12:02 P.M.
11 :48 P M
1:06 A M
11:00 " 2:55 P. M. 2:39 A.M. 3:34 P.M. 1:45 "
O. & M. Railroad. EMIGRANTS FOR
TEXAS
AND THE GREAT WEST should Purchase Tickets by the
& MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY,
OH
Lowest Rates for Tickets, Household Goods, Stock, etc. All Passengers carried to St. Loms Union' Depot. NO MIDNIGHT CHANGES By this Route. For full information
suck as Maps, Time-tables, Rates on
Passengers and Freight, apply to
Station Agents of this Company, or
call on or address J. S. MILLS General Emigration Agent Seymour, Ind.
GILMORE'S Blacksmith, Wagon,
---AND---REPA1R SHOP.
HORSE SHOEING A Specialty, We have plenty of yard room and water for stock.
We make and repair buggies
and Wagons. All work done cheap and warranted to give satisfaction: GILMORE BROS., Madison St., West of the Railroad.
3lbs chewing Tobacco for $100 at Dunn Hi-Co's big cash store. Pure ground pepper at Dunn & Co's. Clean mince meat at Dunn & Co's. 8 lbs Coffee for $1 at Dunn A Co's. --- Buy your confectioneries for the holidays, at Benckart's --- Backbones and spareribs, fresh and of the best quality, for sale by J. K. Anderson & Co. --- Fresh invoices of dry goods constantly arriving at the New York Store.
BEE HIVE
HOME NEWS. ---BEE HIVE. ---Still pretty cool, thankee.
---The delinquent tax-list is our
principal editorial this week.
--- See announcement of the New
York Store, on fourth page.
---Several weddings booked for the
holidays were declared "off."
--- Marion Hinkle shipped two car
loads of fat hogs to Indianapolis last
week.
There ia a great rush at the
New York Store for those Hamburg
edging and inserting. Big Bargains!
The great Closing out Sale of
Winter stock at the New York Store is now in progress, Follow the
crowd. The house of William Hall, in the western part of the county, was
recently destroyed by fire, during
the absence of the family.
---Mrs. S. E. DeMotte has sold her
residence on South College Avenue
to Prof. J. K. Beck, of the High
School, for $1,750.
Mr. H. J. Nichols has the con-
tract for building the new factory for
the Showers Brothers. Work will begin as soon as the weather will per-
mit. We were in error, last week, in announcing the death of Rev. Eli P.
Farmer. We are pleased to learn that our old friend still lives, although
rather feeble in health. ---Billy Mitchell, through Mr. George Brecount, presented conductor Fletcher, of the Louisville accommodation, a fine silver mounted lamp one evening last week. ---Judge Wilson was attacked with illness last Friday and was compelled to leave the bench and go to his residence. He is alli right now, however. ---[Bedford Banner. ---Friedley, Pearson & Friedley have secured a judgment for $1,000 against the Hon. W. H. English, in favor of N. E. Field, of this county. Mr. English was sued as administrator of his father's estate. ---Mr. Henry Rott has sent us some papers from Gunnison, Colorado, give a glowing account of that country. We are glad to note that our former fellow townsman is prospering. BEE HIVE.
---The item in last week's Courier announcing the death of Eli P. Farmer was decidedly premature. It should have read Samuel McCalla , who died on the 6th inst. of old age, he being in his 95th year. Mr. McCalla was u native of South Carolina, but lived in this county over fortyfive years. ---Eggs went up as high as 40 cents per dozen in Bedford last week. In the smaller places in adjoining counties, like Bloomington and Salem, they did not get above twentyfive cents, a clear advantage of al most forty per cent, in favor of peo-
ple living in the country, in the mat- ter of eggs alone. --- Bedford Star.
A large variety of fresh pies and cakes always on hand at Benckart's.
A large assortment of candies, nuts, fruits, etc., at Benckart's. A full stock of Gents Furnishing Goods at Kahn & Tannenbaum's --- Benckart keeps the nicest and reshest candies. New stock of Shawls, Cloaks Dolmans and Furs, at very low prices. New York Store. A new supply of Fancy Candies inst received at Jno. K. Anderson & Co's The New York store have on exhibiton a fine lot of Ladies' Furs, that they are selling at less than half cost; all of which are guaranteed to be perfect in every way. Come and see them.
Our stock of FIannels and Jeans is now complete, we will and can give our customers bargains. McCALLA & Co.
$lOO PRESENTI
For a machine that will saw as fast and easy as this one.
Image of sawing equipment.
---The second bill introduced in the legislature, immediately after its organization, was one by the Hon. John W. Buskirk, our Representative, to make six per cent. the legal rate of interest. This was a good move on the part of Mr. Buskirk, and is evidence that the proposes to try and be of some service to his constituents, The excursion train which run from Mitchell to Indianapolis, last Monday, to see Gov. Porter inaugurated, and to take in the legislature and Crone's garden, went into the city with over 500 passengers. There was about $175 worth of tickets sold here. On the return trip the train did not reach here until daylight next morning. The gentlemen who managed the excursion were citizens of Bloomington, and they no doubt made a good thing of it, while all of the excursionists were well satisfied. BEE HIVE-
This is the King of Saw Machinesl It saws off a 2 foot log in 2 minutes. 20,000 in use. The cheapest machine made, and fully warranted. Circular free. United States Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Ill.
After Jan. 1st, 1881, if our best friends ask for credit they will be refused.
will be
McCALLA & CO.
---J. M. Mason was one of the many whose hopes were blasted by the Democrats failing to make a straight out organization of the legislature. ---Prof. John McGce, County Superintendent, "has furnished us with the Report of the State Superiritendent of Public Instruction for 1880. From it we glean the following items, pertaining to the Schools of Monroe County; There are 5,660 school children between the ages of six
and twenty-one years; there are 94
school-houses, while the average number of teachers employed is 115. The numbcr of teachers holding license is 180; The amount of school tax collected for the year was $8,006.90, while the amount necessary to run the schools was $8,716.40. The average daily pay of the teachers is $1.42. At the end of May, 1880,the amount of the school fund of the county was $24,810.14.
---We still wouldn't object to that
wood. ---Saturday and Sunday "the wreck" was the talk of the town. ---Lew. Anderson has returned from a pleasant trip to the West. ---Miss Florence Williams is visiting Mrs. E. F. Tennant, at Cloverdale, this week. ---Don't forget to hear Bob Burdette that prince of all humorists, next Tuesday night,
---Such a long season of sleighing
has not been known before in these
parts for years.
---An effort will be made to again
submit the Constitutional Amend-
ments to the people.
The L. N. A. & C. Railroad have
purchased another lot of steel rails
4,000 tons.
---The Postoffice at Rose Creek has
been discontinued and the mail now
goes to Stanford.
---Mr. D. C. Dillman, who went to
Florida recently, is getting worse,
and has sent for his wife.
John P. Smith and wife have
gone on a visit to friends and rela-
tives in Brazil.
---Mr. W. H. Baird has returned to
his home in Delaware, after a two
week's pleasant visit in this city.
---J S Mills, the very efficient and
poplar emigrant agent of the old re-
liable O. & M. railroad was here a few
days ago on a business trip.
---Last Saturday was Andrew Jackson's day, but there was no celebration by our local democracy, as there usually is. ---The official figures show that one hundred and forty six persons went from Bloomington on the Indianapolis excursion last Monday. ---County Recorder Gilmore fur nishes us the following item: Mortgages satisfied since January first, 1881. to January 12th, 1881, $9,400 Amount placed of Record. ---In the legislature our Represcntive, Mr. Buskirk, has been appointed a member of two very important committees ---the Committee on Judiciary, and the Committee on Education. ---The Delinquent Tax List appears in this paper. It has taken up so much of our time that the editorial work has been somewhat neglected. We shall do better next week. ---Last Friday Bob Greeves, accompanied by his wife, drove over to Bloomfield in a sleigh. The distance is 35 miles, and the trip was made in seven hours. The roads were splendid, and the ride a delightful one. E. F. Tennant's new paper at Cloverdale has made its appearance. He has named it the Herald Tennant has the ability to publish a good paper, and he will do so if the people in his territory give him a half a chance. The Herald is to be sound Democratic. ---Milford Mathers, now a conductor on a L. N. A. & C. freight train, has fully regained the old-timed popularity be used to enjoy when running a passenger train. He makes a safe and efficient officer, and the "boys" under his employ, as well as the patrons of the road, unanimously vote him to be the right man for his responsible position. ---Notwithstanding the cold weather the Gilmore Brothers may be found at the old stand, hammering away and turning out the excellent work for which they are noted. They will have a new advertisement next week. In the mean time, if you wish anything in the blacksmithing, horseshoeing, or wagon-making line, give them a call. ---The Indiana University Lectures for 1881 will be delivered by William T. Harris, LL. D., of St. Louis, beginning on Thursday, February tenth. The subject will be: Education; its Philosophy and History. Tickets, one dollar for the Course; twenty-five cents, single admission. Members of the University, Teachers, and High School Pupils of the State will be furnished tickets free. ---The passenger train North last Saturday met with a bad accident about three miles above Ellettsville. The track had spread, and the locomotive pitched headlong to one side making a total wreck of itself, while the cars were tumbled off also. Remarkable to say, no one has badly hurt, although the engineer and fireman narrowly escaped with their lives. The 9:25, p. m. Louisville accommodation, went up to the wreck and brought the South bound passengers down, while the South bound train went back with the passengers
on the wrecked train. The wreck was removed by Sunday afternoon. While passengers bound South was delayed, Conductor Al. Couck took them to Stinesville, where they were served with an excellent supper by Mrs. Jennie Easton.
---The slaughter of rabbits contin-
ues. ---The Ellettsville folks patronized the excursion train largely. ---Ellis Sluss, jr., has purchased a six-pound howitzer and any man asking for credit at McCalla & Cos will be shot on the spot. We don't know
about the women---especially the young ones.
For the Courier. OLD SONGS.
---The excursion train last Monday did not jump the track, but some of the passengers came home total
wrecks." ---The following Bloomingtonians helped to organize the legislature last week: Hon. W. F. Browning, Hon. W. B. Seward, Major J. B. Mulky, Capt. Henley, J. M. Mason. Joe E. Henley, Dr. James Dodd, and an army of lesser lights, including the Courier-man. ---The following report of the census of Monroe county, is forwarded
from the Department of the Interior:
The entire County........ 15874
Marion township............. 493
Washington township............... 1081
Bean Blossom township................. 1317 Richland township.......................... 1610 Bloomington township................... 994 Bentontow township....................... 925 Salt Creek township....................... 783 Van Buren township....................... 1087 Indian Creek township................... 1131
Clear Creek township............. 1434 Polk township......................... 1043
Perry township (exclusive of Bloomington City.................. 1220
Bloomington City...............2756
---It still continues to be decidedly
weatherish.
A Grand Treat
Is to be given the citizens of Bloom-
ington on tho nights of January, thirty-first and February first. The
occasion will be the visit of the Wall-lace-Villa Combination, with a mili
tary brass band, full orchestra, cost
ly new costumes, etc. It will be re
membered what satisfaction they gave here last winter, but since then
the Company has been thoroughly re-
organized. Agnes Wallace is the
principal lady artist, while Sam B. Villa has no living equal in the im-
personation of female characters. Col. J. H. Rice, the business manager of the company will soon be here, when handsome posters, programmes, lithographs, etc., will give further
particulars.
Lies. The Courier is the best paper in
the world; it is the only paper in the
county all printed at home; it has a larger circulation, than any paper in the State; it has no delinquent sub-
scribers; it can get all the wood it
wants for the asking; the editor is the most charitable man on earth;
the Courier never lies, especially du-
ing a campaign: It fills a long-felt
want; it is read by all the preachers,
christians and Sunday school scholars; it often refuses cash advertise-
ments to give place for reading mat-
ter; it is a standing candidate for of-
fice; children cry for it; the girls
ove it; the old maids smile on it;
and the good, old people say that they cannot live without it --- all for
$l.50 per year. The latter is no lie.
The Legislature. The "dead lock" in the State Sen-
ate was maintained until last Satur-
day by enough Democrats voting
with the greenbacker, Mr. Poindex-
ter, to elect officers selected by the
Indianapolis greenbackers. This one
greenbacker for three days held the
Senate powerless to do any business
until one of the old parties should
help him elect his men as officers of
the Senate. This was a nice speci-
men of reform ---in a horn.
The House was organized promptly
on Thursday with the election of the
following officers, all Republicans:
Speaker, W. M. Ridpath of Clay
county; Clerk, Cyrus T. Nixon of Indianapolis; Assistant Clerk, C. C. Riley of Indianapolis; Door-keeper, Owen Evans, (not our Owen,) of Henry county. On Monday Governor Porter was inaugurated at English's Opera House, and made a partisan speech. The Republican caucus nominated Gen. Ben. Harrison as United States Senator, which insures his election.
The prophecy of Mother Shipton ---and who hasn't read it, time and again-- is quite important, if true, at this particular time. After predicting many wonderful things to come to pass, the prophecy closes with this couplet, "The world to an end shall come In 1881." As there are quite a number of people who are not ready for the event, we have concluded to rise and move an amendment by extending the date, carrying it forward a few years. Nineteen hundred and twen ty-one will rhyme as well as the present year to tell the honest fact, most any year would rhyme as well, and then it will greatly oblige people who don't want to leave the country this year. When the time comes round again, if the Republican party remains in power, the people will probably all be ready to go.
Sing me a song of the long ago! Some melody sweet in your old time way, Some simple words that both of us know. That soften the heart with their tender lay ; Some ballad, I have heard you often sing, Before you struck on this new-fangled thing, Called Pinafore, with its nonsense of rhymes. Just sing me a song of the good old times.
Sine me some song that is loving and true
That will soothe my soul with its musical thrills;
Those gems from the Opera make me feel blue,
As you torture yourself with its hateful thrills.
Sing a sweet old song as you used to do Just about the time I went courting you,--Sing me a song of the long ago. Some simple words that both of us know. J. E. H. Swearing Off.
We are well entered upon the new year, and as life is in a great meas-
ure what we make it, it depends then
upon ourselves whether 1881 shall
be more prolific of happiness, good
luck and blessings than its predeces-
sor, 1880. Now is a good time to in-
dulge in a little retrospection, and
by such indulgence acquaint our-
selves with our sins of omission and commission during the past year. None of us can look back upon the twelve months which have just been swallowed up in the ocean of time without being reminded that our life during that period was not what we would have made it. It has become the fashion to swear off, or, as many express it, "turn over a new leaf," at the beginning of each year But such reformations are not well grounded; they are entered into upon the impulse of the moment; they are not fortified with a deep, firm resolve to live a better and purer life ---a resolve that can only be born of an indulgence in just such a retrospection as we suggest---and the result is that the man who turns over the new leaf to-day turns it back to-morrow. We heve no doubt that many a man who on last New Year's Day said to himself: "I will lead a strictly temperate life from henceforth," has already broken his resolution and is once more tampering with the dangerous cup. Swearing off is a serious matter, and should be so considered by all who have occasion to indulge in
it. Let us all apply intelligent re-
flection to our individual cases. Such reflection will show us whether our lives were what they should have been, and having learned this, it
ought to be our aim to so live in
1881 that when the next New Year's
day rolls round we can each truth
fully say: "There were not as many black marks put down to me in 1881 as in 1880." Judge Coffey, State Senator from this district, will introduce a bill to
give Brown county three weeks of
court at each term, instead of two, as at present.
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In Prices of Our Elegant Stock of Clothing and Gents Garnishing Goods.
BEE HIVE.
Ex-Senator Christiancy in his suit for divorce has brought to the surface one of the smallest-souled human creatures that ever walked, Edelberto Giro by name. Giro swears to having been criminally intimate with Mrs. Christiancy. The fellow may have told the truth, but any socalled man who would cohabit with the wife of another man, and then go upon the witness stand and testify against the woman, is not worthy of belief under oath.
Indiana's law makers met on Thursday of last week. The lower House organized without trouble, Republicans having control and electing their caucus nominees as officers of the House, as follows : Hon. W. M. Ridpath, Clay county, speaker; Cyrus T. Nixon, Marion, clerk; C. C. Riley, Marion, assistant clerk; Owen Evans, Henry, doorkeeper. The caucus nominations of the Democrats were voted for solidly by the Democratic members, but, of course, defeated, as follows: Henry S. Cauthorn, Knox, speaker; Webster Dixon, Bartholomew, clerk; W F. A. Bernhamer, Marion, assistant clerk; David B. Wilson, Shelby, door-keeper.
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OVERCOATS, SUITS,
TRUNKS
VALISES ARE MARKED DOWN.
Now, is tHe time to buy these goods, as they are being sold at a low price. Call and examine our goods. They will please you.
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Latest styles in Ladies Fine Linen Col-
lars and Cuffs. Imported Novelties in Ladies Printed &Embroidered
Handkerchiefs, Nottingiham
Lace Ties, Silk and India
Mull Ties.
VELVETS
PLAIN AND BROCADED FOR TRIM
MINGS AND SKIRTS.
A LARGE LINE OF
DRESS GOODS
Cheap; trimmings to suit.
Jeans and Cassimere marked down to the Lowest Cash Prices. Suspenders,
Hats, Caps and overalls for Men and Boys. An Immense stock of Hosiery
Cheap. Silk Cord and Tassels.
REMEMBER THIS IS THE
THE CASH DRY
GOODS STORE!
AND WE HAVE MARKED OUR GOODS ACCORDLY
BONSALL &CO'S
Hardware Store,
North Side
Is the Place for Stoves of all kinds.
HARDWARE
TINWARE.
AND
Agricultural Implements.
WE SELL THE
CELEBRATED
Seward Plow
Mr. Ben B. Smith has charge of the Tin Shop, and will give prompt attention to Spouting and Roofing. North side of the Square.
Read This!
IT WILL DO YOU GOOD
J. K. ANDERSON & CO.
Sell groceries cheaper than any other house in the city.
CALL AND BE CONVINCED
Don't forget the place. South side of Public Square.
WINTER GOODS
C. A. MOBLEY'S
Golden Rule!
Hosiery, Hats, Caps, etc.
Dry Goods, Notions,
BETTER BARGAINS THAN EVER
An Enlarged Store Room, Fresh Stock.
Don't fail to give me a call before purchasing, and see what I can do for you. CHAS. A. MOBLEY
SOUTH SIDE OF THE SQUARE.