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LOCAL NEWS

Mrs. Dr. Hester has been visiting her sister and friends the past week. Much of the wheat throughout the county has been cnt daring the week. The democratic county convention has been called for the 16th of August. Miss Minnie Shields, ot Seymour, was a guest of Miss Mollie Waldron last week. Mrs. May Edwards, of Spencer, is visiting her father, Mr. Worrell, in this city. Mrs John P. Arnott, of Canby, Minn., is visiting her friends in Bloomington. A graphic account of the Republican convention will be found on the 3rd page. Mrs. J, W. Dixon is visiting her brother in Kansas, having started for that point last week. An Indianapolis man was in Bloomington last week looking over the prospects of starting a laundry. The Republican Central Committee will meet to-day at 10 o'dock. Every member is expected to be present. Ollie Barton was home on Monday. He became sick while making his run on the train south and stoped off to reerute. Miss Laura Lockwood, of Washington, and Miss Hattie Houghton of Loogoottee, after spending a few

weeka visiting in Bloemiiigton returned home Monday. 1 An error last week made the Telephone say that Mrs. Owens was a sister of Mrs. W. 6. Fee. The item should have read the mother of Mrs. Fee.

Capt J. M. McCoy, in returning home from the National Sunday School convention at Louisville, stopped over here among his friends for a few days. Wallace Gentry was home this week spending a few days among his friends. He is now foreman of the Novelty Foundry Co., of Nashville, Tenc, and is much pleased with the South. (P. S. He will be back in November and promises to bring her along.) Miss Minnie Dunn, of Louisville, is in the city a guest of Dr. B. A. McGea and family. Miss Dunn has been spending the winter in Florida, with her sister Mrs. Carnahan (nee Hattie Dunn,) who is in very poor health, and it is thought will not live a great while.

A new cistern is to le made at the center school house. Some person could make money with a bath room in Bloomington. Read the call for the Judical convention, to be fouudonthe 4th pe. Come in and join the Telephone army. Only 50 cents till after the campaign. t Mrs. Arnott is v isitin sr her

relatives and friends

Madison, Indiana.

in and about

A large number of our citizens attended the 4th of July celebration ax Ellettsville last night. George Bookman the young man who was stabbed in the back so seriously, is improving and will soon be about again.

Joe. Henley is down in the Southern part of this Judicial district looking up his political fences. The convention is Monday a week. Wallace Pauley left with Mason Long, as one of his singers. The Company disbanded Thursday for a short vacation, when Mr. Pauley is expected to join them again. The Commissioners have decided to pipe the artesian well, and have ordered the piping, to be sunk 1,000 feet. It is to be bought at Ind-

ianapolis and placed on the ground at 55 cents per foot. The Telephone is; thankful to the Kokorao Gazette-Tribune for an invitation to attend the. grand Prize Drill and Band tournament held in that city this week. It is the provenee of an editor, however, to receive but never accept invitations. S- C. Curry has returned after an absence of six montas, to his old Bloomington home and will remain some time at least. During his absenee he has visited Kansas and different parts of Indiana, remaining at Elizaville,' Ind., with his brother-in-law the laat three months.

Nanov J. Sexton, who has been in the insane asylum, has been restored.

Mrs. Belle Seward is visiting friends in Muncie and other points in the northern part of the State. H. J. Feltns of the Courier, will attend the National convention at Chicago next week. He is an alternate from this (the 5ih) district. Jacob Lindley, who graduated at the State University in 1881, graduated this year from the law school of Bloomington, Ills., withfirst honors.

Armstrong, Woodward and Carmichael, of Harrodsburg, sold to William Bailey, of the firm of J. F. Sadler &Co., of Ciucinnatti, a, lot of three hnndered and ninety steers, all of which are very fine. They will average about 85 a piece, amounting to about $33,000, This is the largest scale of live stock ever made in this section of the state. Bloomington dispatch in Chicago Tribune: "Rev. J. E. Brant, one of the most prominent pastors of the Indiana Conference, returned to-day from two weeks' visit in different parts of Kansas, and was asked in regard to the bolt of Governor St. John on account of prohibition, to which he replied: "It amounts to

nothing absolutely. He has no fol

lowing, friends who have stood

by him and advised him now de-

nounce ms action, ana state tnat it is certain suicide for the Governor. "Continuing" said Mr. Brant: "I

never knew sucn entnusiasm for a

man as there is in Kansas for Blaine.

You hear of no talk about bolting

in that State. It is a commendable

fact with Americans that so long as

oreat men are ngnt tney nave im

mense following, but when these

men and newspapers go wrong their

influence, for the time at least, is

lest at once."

George Elliott, the Colored bruiser and statesman of East Grant street, has been insisted upon to attend the Democratic National Convention in the interest of Joseph McDonald, for whom he

was at one time a stable-boy. Ell

iott's presence at Chicago will no

doubt create quite a boom for the

venerable ex-Senator; if not insure

his nomination.

An interesting letter headed

"Temperance Notes" will be found

in another column.

W. D. Owens, an old Blooming

ton boy, has been nominated

by the Republicans of the 10th Dis

trict, for Congress. He is a stepson of Mrs. Owens, living on east

8th Street. Mr. Owens was a boy

here twenty years ago, and his old play-mates will be pleased at the success he is bein: blessed with.

As the 10th is usually Republican,

he is most-likely to be elected.

Mason Long, the "reform gam

bler," with his trio of singers, and

beautiful wagon clr&wn by two iron, gray horses, visited Bloomington

last Saturday and Sunday. Saturday afternoon and at night, and also

on Sunday Mr. Long and his com

pany gave entertainments on the

square, ma were listened to Dv a

large crowd of spectators. Mr. Long gives a history of his life as a

gamble v nd also a description of .i .1:. i t.K t.i

tnaii Kiifcrv ousmess, aiter wnion those accompaninsj him sang songs

composed especially for the occasion.

Spencer Democrat: "Married at

the residence of the bride's parents,

Wednesday evening, June 25, 1884,

Orrie Allison, of this place, and Miss Debbie Allison, of Bloomington.

The affair was qui te an event in

Hloommgton society and tnere was a very large number of guests. The

presents were many and elegant.

The bride and groom, accompanied

by relatives and friends, arrived

last evening at the home of the latter

a this place, where; a reception was given. Many of the friends of the

couple here attended and gave their

Rev. Phillputt was at , Bloomington. Ills., last Sunday, and occupied the Christian Church pulpit of that city. He was much pleased with the country and the people. H, C. Duncan, N. E. Mathers,

Robt. S. Bierly, Dr. Jas. Dodd, F,

M. Carroll, James M. Rogers, Benj.

Bass,D. W. Browning,J. E. Henley

Nat U. Hill and H. H. Friedley are delegates to the Congressional Con

vention at Mitchell on Monday, the

14th.

New Albany item: Harry Bourk, son of Mr. J. E. Bourk, has returned

home from Harvard College, where

he graduated with the highest hon

ors. Young Bourk graduated in the

High School of this city and then

graduated in the State Uhiversity

He entered Harvard as junior and

come out with the highest honors.

Mr. Bourk is the onlv man in New

Albany who has the distinction of

beins graduated at Harvard.

Prof. W. M. Tiester has deeded

to accept the position of Principal ofliered him by the Greencastle

Board, at a salary of $750. Prof. Tiester in his many years of service

here has made a faithful instructor, and he will be seriously missed by our colored friends. He was paid

550 here, and was promised 100 1 A jl - 1 J 1 A.

raise, nun inougni ine prospects

better there and decided to go.

At a recent meeting of the W. C,

T. XL the following resolution was adopted :

"Since God, in his infinite wisdom,

has removed the dear and noble

boy, Dick Pittman, from an earthly scene of promise to, we trust, one of

heavenly fenition, we tenaer our heart felt sympathy to the bereaved

family, father, mother and sisters,

who miss him so sorely; and we

pray that they may be solaced by

the thought of what they were in

strumental in helping him to be, as well as by the reflection that God

can do for him infinitely more than

tenderest human love. Especially for Mrs. Pittman, our dear sister and efficient co-laborer in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, shall we pray that,commitiug her dear, noble boy to the one who has taken him to keep him safe from life's ills, she may, by imparted grace, be enabled to say to the desolute father, to the stricken sisters, to her own soul, "It is well with the child."

Cyrus Reed intends . in a short

time to leave lor Texas ana tne

South to represent the Showers Bros.

factory. The wheat crop of this county is much better than was supposed. The straw is lighter, but the heads are heavy and full. The ladies of the Christian Church gave supper Friday night and dinner Saturday, in the skating-rink, thereby realizing about 70. profit. The regular monthly meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held next Monday evening, July 7th at 7

o'clock in the Walnut Street Pres

byterian Church.

warmest congratulations."

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Last' Saturday the number enlisted

in the Telephone's army was the largest ever in the history of the

paper in one day twenty-two in all, and here are their names: John L. Caviness, Gosport, E. B. Famliam, Stanford, James M. Tague, Harrodsburg. H. B. Campbell, Clear Creek, Milton Myers, Bloomington, John C. Lamkins, Unionville, Benj. Reeves, Bloomington, John Smith, Bryants Creek, J. H. Fulford, Bryants Creek, Thee Buskirk, Stinesville, David Kendrick, Stinesville, James P. Houston, Bloomington, Wm. Southern, Aliens Creek, W. W. Gentry, Nashville Tenn., Thos. W. Sparks, Stanford, J. T. Whisnand, Bloomington, J. T. Mathers, Clear Creek, Henry H. Brown, Stanford, John Dollan, Bloomington, Newt. Mathers, Bloomington, E. L. Woodward, Bloomington, S. J. Thompson, Bloomington,

The Democratic National Con-

vention meets next x uesaay.

50 cents will pay for the Tele

phone till after the Election.

Harrodsburg celebrated the 4th,

by having an an old fashioned bas

ket picnic.

Rev. Mayne will occupy the pulpit of the U. P. Church to-morrow Sunday. "'

Frank R. Wooley is ner pith Lon. Rogers suranee business.

now a partin the In-

Miss Hattie Moss returned Thursday from Cincinnati, where she has

attending to business connected - p i

with the factory.

An interesting letter j. E. Brant, now in appear nxt issue.

Miss

by Rev. type, will

W- B. Galloway, Craig Worley

and Soddy Carmichael left thi s week

for several davs visit in Kansas and

Indian Territory. Thev ero for

recreation and sport.

reamer-oea swmaiers aru oper

ating in Southern Indiana. They

get possession of the family feather

bed under pretense of renovating the

feathers, and never return it. Our

readers would do well to look

little out for this gang. Miss Grace Woodburn left Bloom

ington, Tuesday night of this week to spend the summer with her sister, Mrs. W, A, Foland, Benson, Minn. A trip to the northwest is oneof the popular tours of the season; between Chicago and St. Paul, an 18-hours-ride; and on the lakes and prairies of Minnesota will be seen some of the best country arid finest scenery in America. It is a common theory that the less water people drink in hot weathei the cooler they will be. No good reason for this is given. No doubt the less moistura in the system, the less prespiration; and excessive prespiration is unpleasant. Evaporation of perspiration keeps the body cool in very hot weather, even when the temperature of the air is higher than the normal temperature of the body. Perhaps the best plan is to avoid eating much heating food, and drink all the water there is a healthy, natural craving for.

A few weeks ago the Telephone gave a notice to the effect that F. M. Shaver and his wife were out, and that Judge Wilson had given Mrs. S. a divorce, divided the effects, and that she had left for her father's home in Illinois. So it was, but time heals all things, and last Wednesday the two were united again in holy wedlock, having met at Greencastle by agreement. They arrived at Bloomington on the evening train and drove immediately to the old home. The new couple certainly have the well wishes of the entire community in the second new departure, for they have :ao doubt concluded to guard the future by the sad experience of the past.

In the retiring from the General Superintendcy of the L. N. A. C, Mr. John MacLeod carries with him the best wishes and respect of all the friends and employes of the road. He has issued the following farewell to the officers and employee of the road: "In retiring from the management of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway, I take this means to express my appreciation of the devotion and jseal with which you have guarded and advanced the interests of the company during the time we hive been associated together; and to thank you for the valuable assistance rendered me during this period. Hoping you will give to the t ew management the same hearty support you have given to the old, and with best wishes for your future welfare, I remain, very truly yours."

Morrison, of this place,

is to address the monthly temperance meeting at Bedford to-morrow (Sunday) night. Dr. L, T. Lowder, of Harrodsburg, Ind., purchased a lot of brood fish (German carp) from J. M. Carlton, and shipped them to his pond last Friday with perfect success, as

he wrote next day, although the

weather was extremely hot. Gos-

port Re-porter. Bedford Journal: "Hon. H. C. TV I Tr

uuncan, or iMoommgton, was in

town yesterday. Mr. Duncan will

be a candidate before the Republic-

an judicial convention tor tne nom-

: i nation to the judgeship for this dis

trict, and if nominated, will un-

doubtediv be elected, as ne is a man well acquainted with the law."

me new lied men's , nan was dedicated this week. It is in Fee's building and is handsomely finished,

the members generally donating the

work. The following officers have been elected for the next six moons: H. J. Feltus, Sachem; John F. Beers, Senior Sagamore; Wm. H. Hall, Junior Sagamore; Henry Holtzman, Chief of Records; C. A. Mobley, Keeper of Wampum; W. B. Smith, Rev. The Teachers of the Summer School in Bloomington are anxious to conduct their school entirely in

the interest of those who attend. Hard work and special attention will be given to the younger teachers of the county who are wanting to prepare for better work in their schools. If a young teacher, or one preparing to teach, will come to the school for the five weeks and be willing to devote himself to business he. will himself be surprised at the benefit derived from the course. There ought to be ? 5 or 100 prospective teachers here this summer, ready for good work. Rev. J. L. Pitner, of Trinity church, Evansville, has been having a serious affliction of the eyes. Recently while traveling in Illinois he stopped at a house for dinner. Calling for water in which to . wash he was given it in a basin into which croton oil had been previously poured for some use about the house There was enough of the oil left on the basin to impregnate the water, and Dr. Pitner using it hastily on his face and eyes had his eyes so seriously injured as to incapacitate him for pulpit work. He is still suffering greatly. New Albany Ledger.

Mrs. David Hughes and family

are now making- a pleasant visit

among -Mrs. Hughs' relatives at Lynchburg, Ohio.

Hon. R. W. Miers, Ja&: Williams,

H. J. Feltus and Geo. Bollenbacher

will attend the National Democratic

convention next week.

The Knights of Pythias excurs ion to Louisville yesterday was - - well patronized, a very large number going from this point . Thomjis lassey received word Friday that his brother's child, at Spencer, was dangerously ill, and he left on the noon train for that point. The Proprietors of the New York Store give it out that on the honor of their word no credid business will be transacted in the future. That ought to settled.

The gentlemen who have been appointed commissioners of Monroe county for the Southern Exposition, are very anxious to have a good display on exhibition but this can only be done by the aid of those interested. Our stone and lumber men should prepare something to exhibit. The Exhibition managers inform the Commissioners that exhibits should be collected and mounted in place in the Exposition building not later than August Gth. Applications for space for exhibits must be filed with the general manager at Louisville, not later than July 16th. By calling on either one

of the three commissioners, whose

names were given last week, any

particulars as to getting ready dis

plays wm De turnisnea.

Service will be held at the Episcopal Church to-morrow (Sunday) morning, by Rev. D. J. Hobbs, of Gambier College., subject, "Unconscious In fluence.9'

A heavy rain Thursday afternoon accompanied with a strong wind damaged the oats crop considerably and threw down much stacked

wheat. Corn was also- badly washed.

The work on the new College buildings is progressing as fast as could be expected. Of the main building the basement has been completed, including the placing of the iron siis. The brick work will begin during the coining week. The latest news in the southeastern part of our city is that Robert R. Strong and John CvCambeil have gone extensively into bee raising, and when the bees become troublesome on their hands they go to John R. East for information. Bob is building a fine bee house and they have sent o& for a dozen smokers. The good ladies of the W. C. T. U. charged on the court house yesterday and filled it with good thkgs to eat, serving one of 4he nicest dinners that our citizens have partaken of for some time. At the time of going to presg the net proeeeds are not known, as hungry men and women are still busily engaged in clearing awav meats and an endless variety of other nice eatables. . The flour millers of the State have formed an association for the protection of the grand trade. Heretofore there has never been any or garized system of protection against impositions frequently practiced, and now they have adopted a system of grading that will eventually have the effect of having better and , purer wheat. Heretofore there has been no way of grading wheat that contained cheat, rye, etc., and it all sold at about the same price as clean whaat. At their recent meeting in Ind ianapolis the grain dealers resolved to pay one price for wheat anci another for cheat, rye, etc. Princeton (Ind.) Clarion, 26th ult: "The first experiment of cutting wheat by steam power in Gibson county was tried, on the farm of James Warnock, Tuesday last, and worked successfully. John Ervin attached his attraction engine to a sel:; binder and the combination worked like a charm. The engine drsws the binder at a more rapid speed than horses oan and when the fields are well cleared of stumps the wheat can be cut in about half the time that it would take teams to do it. There is a possibility of this motive power coming into general use in many cases where the horse is now used and the day is not far distant when the immense wheat

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