Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 February 1889 — Page 1

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BCOQMllfaTON, INDIAN A, FEBRUARY 2, 1889.

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'.. Al. Elinor's

A Comedy Co. atr the Opera: House

all; next week. Everybody go. John Long is visiting Jim Short.

':-diojt--Q0lline$y- aext 2oii

flav. t- .

A new hoy baby at WalterRobin-

aon's. ;d

Theatre all" of next week.

Hon. John C, Xfolan waBat home

over Sunday.

Geof. Puett :has purchased lot of Ben Eirby, .

Geo. Eileyand Elmex Nixon were

at oport -Tuesday.

-'fe,jb eav

iot ot fuu -coasting thisweek: ; WSChe St. o ?F lodge is taking a boom in the way of new members. It looks like we are going to have all ; wppr winter : weather at the tail -nd. " - .. Mrs. Sarah Fittman visited at JKoblesvilie and Knishtsto wn ' the

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A heavy snow storm last Sunday

inorsgrand. the mercury took a tumbJaway downi ? - A series of highly enjoyable en-

tertainments at 4he Opera House

every night-next week, by the EnnComedy Go,

?-Wt Browning is?trayeling for a boot fc shoe bourse r Nat RosebeFry fjias returned to

Las Vegas, New Mexico. The wife of Joseph ; Hossion is down with the consumption.: Hoii.' Hv C. Duncan hai ejeii'- to Paxton, III., on; legal business.

About 60 accessions at the M. E. Church during the revival .meetiugs. - -., A petition is being circulated for

an electric Ught s ovejin 4Buck-

town.

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.OUR LOCAL PREACHER-

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Ab. Helton was in . Chicago, this

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-Thei?GQlumbusi Clock," now on exhibition atlfehe Opera House,is a : bighlj interesting entertainment. It may be seen afternoon and night. Bi F- Bupree and Archie Clay, of Bloomingn, and Wiltiam Jacobs, Salti summoned to appear before -the federal grand jurVat: Indianapolis, last

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Mrs. Homanv who delivered a lecture in the college: chapel Satrday night; ve v: temperance talk atithe Union Temperanee -ser-vices at the Walnut-street Church Sunday nigh -Mrs., Hoffman is i a splendid speaker. . ; ; Al Ennor, manager of the" Comedy Company to- play at; the Opera House all of next .week is one of the most interpriing men in the business. He knows hew to please the public; and aa organized a company that is meeting, with great

success-everywhere

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R epnbltcanaof this city are practicing in writing P--it? after their

aames. in order to be .ready in case - -teh lightning should hapen to strike J them. They are not near such ardent

civil seic reformers as tney were

:jjoiiSfce election

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Senator Duncan is chairman of two important Senate com mittees on Finance, and Supervision and Inspection of Senate Journal and he is also a member of the following committees: Education,Ciaims, Phraseology, and Congressional Appointment. His duties m connection with' these committees and

j&t. t on the floor of the Senate will make

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the Senator a verj busy man. v Here is a fact for business men to consider : iIf we were to put a Iwo-Khc local in Ahis JournaV' which stated that a certain busness

man-charged more for his goods or kept an inferior - quality than his competitors, that man would employe a pugilist" to come around and kill the editor the,, next morning af tervt he paper appeared . But if . we were to ask; that same pan for an advertisement of his wares he would probably say : I'No,!. don't

, believe i n advertising ; no one reads ithe paper" This is a fact and no

mistake.

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To all whom it may concern : This is to certify that James H. Knight never made any confession

4n regard to the murder of Robert

Clark. Me said to several good

men duringhis long suffering that

he never killed nor that he - never

swore anybodys rights away, and

that is all he ever said concerning

murder, futhermore the -man that started the rumor abroad is the blackest kind of a villan and a fogative from justice The following named persons were at James H. Knight's nearly all through his illness-: Jas. O. Baxter, Bock Milton, William Duncan, Jas. Shields, James B; Bender, Wilson Clark,

f William Shield, Abner May, Ghas.

Jan. 28th, IMfc

Bi C. Houston and wife, of Bedford, spent Sunday with the Tele

phone and wife.

Wk Watson has purchased two

iota- of Ben Kirby and will erect a

neat cottage upon the same.

M. H. TSeward, of Indianapolis.

wfll fltarfc a cierar factor v in the

Waldron block in the near future.

D, O. Spencer is the stenographer

for the Judiciary Committee of the StaterSenate and is nowat Indiana-

polis,

The W; C. T. U. will meet in regular session Monday evening, Feb 4th, in t he Walnut-street Presbyterian church. The Chaplain Lozier entertainment, under the auspices of the G. A. B. will be held at the Court-

, house next Monday night.

The mother of Capt. J. W. Shoemaker died at Laporte. Ind. last Saturday. Mr. Shoemaker arrived from the south just in time toee her aiive; ' Mike .Reward and wife arrived from Indianapolis last Saturday. Mike has sold out his cigar business at indianapol is, and will probably locate here. Mrs. Clara Hoffman? President of the W; C; T, U.,of Missouri, lectured

in this city last Saturday and Sun-

here; of Mrs. R. W. Miers.

The wheat is doing remarkably

well thismild weather, it is growing

at the bottom and making a thick

mass of roots all the time, which

will be very serviceable in prevent

ing it from freezing out, if we hava

any bad-weather in March.

Owing to a mistake on the part

of the contractor Dr. Jaxweil &

Son were advertized in our last is

sue as selling a rheumatism cure.

Dr. Maxwell has nothing whatever to wiih the patent medicine busi

ness but devotes his entire time to the practice of his profession.

Carr Walker, of Monroe county,

who was at Chas Houston's livery

stable several days last week buying mules, purchased the line span

owned "by M r. Day huff , living west of town. They were "daisies," and had taken six premiums at the different fairs during thegst year. Worthingtion Clarion. The jury commissioners have drawn? the petit for jury the term of court, -beginning' next Monday: John F. May, John P. Herrell, R. W. Farmer, John Stipp, Wesley Kirk, David W. Conder, Wm. Lee, David Hays, jr., Joseph W. Lindsey, Jos. Dinsmore, Thos. Kilpatrick, Jackson L. Dowden.

It was just 70 years ago lasfe

April that the viMiage of Blpoin

ington was laid off. In June of tljE

same year there was an auction sale of town lots, which sale was

ad vex Use d in n e wspapers at Ci n cinnati, Madison and Vincennes. The head o f a barrel of whisky was knocked in and those 'present indulged in "free whisky" to their hearts content, but there was not a

case of

single

ene- xne

saie was a granu succcss,iue receipts amounting to-nearly $15,000,' many lots being bought for speculation. Among those who nought lots were Joshua Howe, Aquilla Rogers,

Jonathan Rogers, James Borland,

E. R. Maxwelf, Henry Wampler,W. D. McCollough, and many others. 208 lots were laid out for sale, and Benjamin Parks was paid $33.50 for thev liquor furnished. Some of the lots sold for over $200 pach. Jonathan and David Rogers and Robert Graham owned the land which was cut up into town jots.At the close of the year 1818 about 30 families, had built rudely constructed log cabins, and a log Court-house had been built in which the first school was taught. A blacksmith and carpenter shop, and a tailor shop, and a saloon were started. A

man route was openea to vincennes, and the mail came in semi-oc-casionaly. Win. Hardin was the first P. M., at a salary of about $15 a year. He also sold liquor and . a few notions, but more liquor than notions. He alsotV.ept tavern, but riot like the old oman we have heard about, Joshua Howe, Alex Owens and Henry Batter ton open

ed stores from 1819 to 1822. In

those days whisky was known as

wet groceries, and saloons were call

ed "groceries." Elias Abel came to

Bloomington in 1824, and the pop n

lation at that time was about 500.

Goods were sold at more than

dou ble4.he.pr ice they, are nowvandM

Owens and Batterioa and Howe had a haryest in the sale of calicoes,

nlc. Corn sold for about 20 cents a bushel and wheat for about 40 cents, that is, when there was any

sale for these articles. Money was scarce, and goods were principally sold for live stock,sjrain or produce.

As none of these articles could be

shipped without hauling them a

long distance, piaces wtre very low.

Such stuff was usually hauled to

Vincennes and shipped on flat-boats

down the Wabash. From 1824 to

1828 the feature of the town was

the liquor traffic. All the promin

ent merchants kept it free for their customers. If you purchashed an article you was always asked to

"have somethinV Among those

who handled liquor were ome of

the best citizens, such as Robertson Graham, John M. Berry, John

Borland, W. D. McCollough, and

others. A man named Thacker run the distillery, and there was ho "moonshine" about the artie'e; it was the pure stuff. Samuel Dodds had a tannery where the public school building now stands: John and Samuel Orchard run a carding

' I beg pardon of those of my friends who call themselves Christians if I have trod on their toes in anyiof my sermons regarding the

Secure seat at thfe Postolllce

therJSnnor Comedy Cos

f A party of hunters, from this

place reaped a harvest of rabbits on

Monday North of town.

? . , . William Turner has purchased the stock o dry goods belonging to Tourner and Buzardi

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I; The Al. Ennor Comedy Co. in a Jiew-repertoire of plays, at the Opera

House all of nest week.

Has

oppned'again and is located at thojanie place, lie wn before the fire.

Hon. H. C. Duncan will have to

employ a. private Secretary t answer

letters, on account of the off ice-seekers flooding him with requests for a recommendation. As Mr. Duncan was the -Republican candidate for

Congress in this District, his influence regarding appointments will have as much weight as if he was elected.

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. Try Charley MePheeters' new grocery, Greeyes1 old stand. Charley MePheeters wants to sell you y oar. groceries (iiye him a triaU- r

On the night of the 11th the residence of Luther Miller, of Benton township, Monroe cou nty, burned to the ground. The family was away from home and the contents

were totally destroyed, not a single article being saved. There was no insurance. Loss on house and household goods, $500. On the Tuesday following about 75 of the neighbors, sympathizing with him in his misfortune, collected at Mr. Miller's farm, cut down trees, hued them into logs, and by night a substantial home was ready to occupy.

, Mr. Berry man is in ' charge of the delivery at Smith & Son's

grocery. Goods delivered free and prompt A nice- freeh stock al

staple and fancy groceries at

Charley McPhecter the

Grceves corner, ..x

machine. Austin Seward made wagons and plows. Col. J, H. Lucas also run a tannery, and he was the first member of the legislature from this .place.' In 1840 the population of the town was about 700. In 1823 the Indiana College was started, and had a good attendance. In 1835 the county seminary was built. The town grew to 1,000 population, and a newspaper was started. The "Indiana College" is now the State University, and the "County Seminary" is now occupied as a resi-

by J. C. Whisnand. In 1886 the

population of Bloomington was a-

bout 2,100, in 1876 it was about 2,-

400, and now it is a flourshing little city of about 4,000.

Mrs. Peter Bowman has gone to

Dunkirk, Ohio, her former home, to

enjoy several weeus visit among

old friends.

iseaiora is a city, a vote on in

corporating was taken last Wednes

day and the majority in favor was

166, out of 458 votes cast. The

population is about 2300. not quite

as large as Bloomington was when

she in corporated, about twelve

years agov

Remember that Charley MePheeters, formerly in the

hardware business is now pro

prietor of the Greeyes corner

gracery where he wilLbe pleased

to see his old customers, and a

host of new ones

giveness and to forgive and hope

that all within the church -are -tire-

same way an'd bear no hard feelings toward a brother or sister of the same flock. I may have been a little harsh when I criticised the hip

and a hurrah methods of converting weak and uncultivated minds and children. I may have been

harsh in my assertions when I have

intimated that in revival honest and christian people have been insulted by assumed christians approaching them with questions that were to put it mildly, insolent. It is all none of my business, anyhow., 3et 1 have a right to discuss these matters when they are the talk of the town and ridiculed by many intelliT

gent" people. If I do style myself a

".Local Treacher" 1 nave no doubt that I have been repeatedly denounc ed as ungodly, yet I would not give

my chances in Heave u for those of one out of ten of the exhorting, hand shajy ng participants in the revivals. If I were some of these I would do a little more revival work within my own household. But there, probably, where their true despositions and characters are known,they would have but little influence. It seems strange to me that so man' neglect those of their own flesh and blood who are fast going to the bad, and "go out into the world to counsel others. How I would like to hear some of these give in their true "experience" as they term it. What

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of the tales carried about from neighbor to neighbor, of the quarrels at home, and of the deception practicesed when appearing in the church, the class room or the Sunday school in the garb of a christ

ian. How false are the words often

spoken in public meetings, "I am

trying to be a christian pray for me," and the very next day, probably, the freshest piece of gossip is

rolled under the tongue with a relish to be spread out from house to house with its gross exaggera

tions a veneinous sting that may poison the life of some 30 ung wo-

man or blacken the future of some

worthy man. Go to them, my

brother evangilists, and if the' tell

you tney are converted you tell

them that they lie, and that they

cannot be true christians until the'

prove themselves such by their dailr life at home and among their neigh

bors. Yon owe it to the church to

do this. You owe it to the true

people of the church who are out

numbered by those wearing only

the cloak of religion. Purge the

church purify the church make

it indeed God's threshold, then it

will have His confidence, and blessing, as well as the conflidence and

support of true men and women

Mr. A. E. Johnson, President,

represented the Monroe County Agricultural Society at the meet

ing of the State Board of Agricul

ture, at Indianapolis, Jan. 8 and 9.

Mr. Johnson has made a faithful officer of the societ", and he should be re-elected at the meeting of the stockholders next Saturday. "Advertise all the year round"

should be the motto of every business

man who expects to succeed; but there are some business men who, selecting onty parts of the year in which to do their biggest advertising omit the very best months those from January to March. That a mqre careful attention is given to the papers by the reading people in the winter is a fact which every thinking man will concede, and 3'et many permit to" pass unimproved the best of all seasons for the work of impressing upon the minds of the public the value of their wares.

Bloomington is a goad horse markft judging from the number of Sorse buyers in town each week I : : I The Courier will give full particulars of the visit of the Legislative: committees in the next issuei t y .fefer Wheneris at Jutnlico,Mex-i&V'nnd-is- as-fat and good-natured as ever. Pete is a genuine"greaseiV

Miss Sallie Tourner has returned froth a length7 visit to her sister, Mrs. Meek, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. IL L. Willis, of Webb's Hill, 111.,

was in this city last week on a trade for some Polk township real estate.

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L.Di Rodgers, the hustling insure-

auce man of Bloomington paid Harrodsburg a business trip Wednesday, J, P. Dunn was chosen State librarian last Wednesday night. This is an inovation as the librarian for several years paijt has been a lady. Mose Kahn gdvo a very pleasant social entertainment at his home in honor of Mr. and Mrs; Sam Mayer, a newly -married company of Cincinnati, 'last Friday night. The Al Ennor Comedy Company will open up their weeks engagement at the Opera House .Monday evening in the great Southern Comedy Drama entitled Mountian Pink.

' C. H. Warner, of St, Paul, Minn., "who advertised Silks, &c, in this paper last week is denounced by the press as a fraud; The Cockier always uses care to exclude from its columns obscene or fraudulent advertising, but in this case all things appeared fair, and the ad

vai&ismcnt was

advauce, but we now drop it, and

hopij none of our readers hav6 been caught. The J Shoals Democrat gives meager details of an accident near Indian Springs, several days ago. Foreman & Co. are the contractors for tunneling the hill at that point for a new railway and the men had set forty dynamite cartridges .for the purpose of blasting. The fuse failed to burn as wag supposed, and while the men were gathering in the tunnel, to resume operation, there was an explosion, and several tons of rock were displaced. One man, a Pole, was instantly killed, and another was seriously injured. It is believed other workmen were buried, under the mass, which will require several days to remove.

Hen 0. Smith & Sou are "now in the grocery business at tho Dunn comer business Joe Alexander's old stand, and are read' to supply their frionds and the public generally with anything in the grocery line. Come and trade with us,- bring your produce., and we will treat' vou

j right,

One of the disagreeable things in running a partisan paper; some must be offended. It is a satisfaction j however, to know that the more sensible men in the opposite party recognize the fact that it is a necessity of the campaign, and that men can differ honestly without being criminals. We lost some valued subscribers during the campaign. Some of them have thought the matter over since the election and had their names restored to our listFj The door stands open for more to enter. The Courier, you know, is a Democratic newspaper, and when tlxe fight lis on, puts in its best licks fqr our-. side, But never forgets its otUer duties to the public and we know you- will admit that it steadily maintains its reputation as a firstclass local newspaper. During the

year so auspiciously opening its first and greatest care will be to

carefully collect and print all the

news, local, State and general, and by: every means possible help to develop the material prosperity of its patrons We will make it worth

more than the subscription price to

any reader, whatever hia politics

may be, and hope to give it such a circulation as it has never before

attained; ..... Ren C. Smith and bis son Dell may now be found at the Dunn comer. Call and see them when you want anything in the grocery liiiiei Take your country produce to Charley MoPheetersGreevee' old stand,

. -nA full and fresh stock of groceries by the new firm of

Ren C. Smith & Son at the Dunn corner. Give us a trial j we will sell at the lowest figures

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PianoSjOrgans and Sewliag Machines Kept in stok and sold on 'monthly paynientsi. Como and see us wnd get our prises. North Side Squardj . Waidroii's Block.

As be lost heavily bj the lafe fire he hopes that all nia ld iii!:iiKraers,v ah manynew oewiil .'iiimv a

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