Greencastle Star, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 March 1880 — Page 4

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Tour

If not in (>• rfVtl or<ier ncod* and oxpcrioncc to pm in jjoo 1 repair and perfect

running order.

I can now consciention.ily say that we do lirat cKan wotk, an ! have recently secured the aervices ot a v>*r line workman, of TWfcSTV YKAB< KXfKlttK.'i'CK to taki 1 chargu of my repairing department, a man w ho can not only r- p» r a watch in th< West manner, but can manufacture » watch complete. With additional machinery and materials, I can say in all candor, that my facilties for making anil repairing anything in the Watch, Clock. .Tewelry, Silverware or Spectacle line cannot he excelled in the State, aatf'AU. UKIWIlilN-O STHtCTLY I'A'il OS

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A. K. BRATTIN. Watchmaker & Jewtdcr,

(irccncastle, Ind.

TiiE STAi^

.h st i 20 Cases of Elgin Corn. 2o Cases of Hay Mew Tomatoes. Xew^Calitornia Canned Peaches,

Apricots and^Whito Cherries. Also, Fine Line ot New

.lava, Mocha, (Johlon Uio and Green Kio O IEEE IE P 3 -

family.

The last few days of Truesdale's existence were terrible, not only to himself l.ut to those who watched him. The poison from some corpse (for it is believed be had recently opened several graves), which was communicated to his system by pricking a raw spot on the inside of bis nose, appeared to co irse through every vein in his body. Not Dili v was his person oflVnsire to the eye, but the odor and heat ol his breath waso offensive that it was impossible for the attendants to wail on him properly. I’he breath was so poisonous that when one of the attendants held his hand si.\' inches from the dying man's mouth it i

sltiiur the Ik.sh like hundreds of nettles Civtixc ,, v Those who waited upon him were ollig- SpOllgOS. 1 01161 NM|>S*, 1 1 I lUlUCry

o i to w. ur g!ovls, as it was inip08.*»ibl<

PATENT MEDICINES

WALI. PAPER,

STA.TIOIsrEP^'Y', PAINTS, VARNISHES,

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Darnall Bros. As Co’s,

t iill and St*<* I s.

Fkakk A. AknoUi, Dditor and Proprietor

Saturday, March 27, 1880

THKMd.

il 00 per year.

TnKreRtlerM of will nlcMRo bear in mind th»t we do not l»oM nurHclvev accountable lor or endorse the opinions of correspondentn published in these coIhihoh. We s'liiply give space to our correspondents thst the people may learn what the thoughts ol their oeiffhors are.

SnciAt. udcgraiiH from Wa-thington City, say, “them is no disguising the fact that the sentiment in f ivor of th,' renomination of Uenural Crant is growing, and that l■ven those who tie not want to s,-u him r'nominated now cjt.i'i.'de the fact that such an event is more than probable. Over a month ago, it will be remembered, a newspaper correspondent made a canvass o’the Republican members of the Iloiiso touching their Treaidential pref••tenets. ,-.t that time the sentiment was clearly in favor of Hlaine. About that limp, there was a lull on the Grant boom iiul there was a feeling in the air that 'Irani’s renomination would not bo seriously contended for, and that Hlain would go to the front. .Since thin t vent - have demonstrated that Grant's friends are tenacious in the suppoil ol their preference, have no secon I choice, aril

llot-i'or ol :Ioit ois.

to wash the odor from their hands. | Hie day Ik* died his llesh was so rotten j that it seemed as if it would dr -p from | the bones if touched, and lus eyes act- , u iliy decayed until they became sightless For two days before bis death a c ,Uln had been in readiness, and the orders of tiie physician were to place him in it as soon as the breath h ft bis body and get him underground immediately. After bis death none of the attendant-

SoL ta IIkxi*, Ixd., March 22.—Several | ia ,j jij,. temerity to touch the corps”, fot months ago the grave of Sarah Platts, a f ear of being poisoned, so they gather”c young lady who died of consumption, tho sheets on which the bodyjlay at each j was found disturbed, and an euamii(ation en j an d thus lifted it into the coffin j showed that the head of the corpse was The lid was quickly screwed down, bin missing. What led to the discovery was before a wagon could be procutetl ,tbe i the finding of a uman jaw bone by Pred body swelled and burst it off. It was | Aur, a farmer who lived near the county ,|,en strpped on, but when the coffin was : graveyard, some eigi.t miles from the u km from tho wagon at the grave yani j city, where the body was buried. Th" JU , t jit d a y|ie| ltl it again flow ulf, and th

brushes, Combs, etc.,

At Allen s Drug Store!

Host Goods at Lowest Prices.

Oialy ^ Oise llollai

K.xtkkku at the 1’nst dliee, (JreenCaKtle Ind , as secotnl class mail mutter. Tiik Itemocratie convention in Hendricks Gciunty. Saturday, iiiatructou lui Lund'.s, (or G jvernoi; Harnett, for Slate Superintendent of I’uldie Instruction; and iloaveiiiidgo, (nr 1'ongress. Speechesi

, . , , ,, ., i i .i fc'inco no anxiety as to the result, but on

were madu b*) tiene.al Manson and Gol., J

,, ,, ' tho contrary, assert that he will be re- (’. C. Matson. ! . , • , , , , .,, ,

noiiimuted. and not only tiiat he will be

The latest political seiisuttoiu comes renominated, hut l.y accl: mation. To from Cincinnati, and it is hinted "iliac SS y that this fealty of Gram's friends has

there may, and probably will, he nn il pendent li ‘publican candidate for

1’residency in the held this year. The the Michigan and Iowa nomination of Grant ut Chicago is widely now concede that, before expected by Republicans. In the e vent I Convention meet*, there may be <•• i.tin of that notninatoiii it is proposed—this is geneies, and such as are liable to hapoe:), the suggestion—to run an independent as will give Grant the support o! the Republican candidate." delegates from each of theso States. Hue

of those causes which has operat”d to advance Grant stock is the* tact that th-

fact that only the hea 1 was taken threw suspicion on an amateur phrenologist named Gordon Truesdale. Truesdule < cupied a small farm in the vicinity v. his wife* and a family of four gitls, i oldest not more than light years old. !!e was a handsome, broad-shouldered f- !- low, with a fair education, but ta/y and shiftless. His great hobby was phrenology. Hi* ambition to possess a collection of skulls w as well known in the neighborhood, ami the desecration of the Platts girl's grave was laid at his door, although ho was r.tvtT openly charged

in- not produced an impression would be " Ml ' 1 ' l ' th” an H'- ortion contrary to the truth. liven

Congr ^siu *n the Chicago

Fisoji Washington, on Monday, came the report that Senator Yoorhocs is eon

body appeared to swell visibly befon tl • hoirified attendants’ eyes. 'J'he fetid .luisomo stench from the putrid mas.within was such that no one could attcmpl to replace the cover; and the eofli.. was covered from sight as hurriedly as

possible.

Stont-wa'.I Jaeksou a meeper.

tlater-Ocean ]

'J'liis extraordinary talent of going to sleep under the most disadvantageous circumstances followed him into the field, and lieeauie of the greatest service to him. He could sleep delightfully on horseback during his forced marches.

About three weeks ago Ti ucsdsle went and I believe tolerably well on the batto a physician and asked if a person tie-field; and this may have Loon the could become poisoned in handling a cause of the remarkable lowers of eudurood v. He T' I'v.ved an at inuattvo r* piy a nee for which he was noted. 1 hat his

.„u rT a ttk ., ■

coiDptaiiM d Lis " *o ihai his nose [ rem«‘Uiber being present at a preach* pained him terribly, and he believed he ing service held at tne door of his head- ‘ was taking ”the erysipebut. He began in East Virginia, one hot July

doctoring himself with

. , . Sunday morning, when lit? rs'rfornuil .e.oi a-i iim.-. ,| le ehompion sleeping feat of the war.

lined to his room by indisposition, and pi'lil'ciaiis are ia*t hcginniging to find out, poultices, but without success. LI is face There was no shade whatever, and the

whole

there was a r.poit at the (Japito! ,he hu, ‘ an 'l cr . v « h ich has been raised tha' he was dangerously ill. This w.- ,t,roni1 1,1 lh,J ilind lhat t,,,? Germans will not true. He received a telegram tlii- , "' t su Pi’ ort 0rttnt co, " ts principally morning announcing the death of that ‘lie Ohio Politicians, und was purposily father, aged 87 years. While preparing , ' l,,K ■ L ‘ ,v, ' ,1 » ndwi “' lh “ v ‘ow to to go out there ho felt indisposed, and “'-’"ken Grant in Uhio, so that Heerelary was advised by his physician to remain '' dl1 I,uan "‘'gh- b” the bijneficiaty.

in his room and rest for several days. 'J’he “Associated Press" report of Lingsdule's testiiiiony before the Kxodus

began to swell rapidly, and in less than three days it and his head became twice

service was held in the face of th * hottest suti that ever shone in that

.. . , , , ., country. The preacher stood in front tueir natural size, and lost all semblance 0 f Jackson's tent, and Jackson sat on a oljhuiuan shape. A physician was called backless camp-stool at his right hand, in against the wishes of Truesdale. II” '* * 10 nien . comjxising the congregation

kept their caps on, to avoid sunstroke,

A part of which itre remnants, receive,! Lv T- IB. SOOTTI The Fancy Goods Man! They are the Cheapest in price over offered in Greeneastle.

Mondav evening and the following day there was a sensational report si

lound the man sutlering terribly. His lips wee drawn by the tension of the skin, and writhed themselves away from the teeth in unceasing pain. The cuticle Across the bridge of the nose and overth”

Kemiiis tf lats!

We have also it

bit; lot of

*»•«. at wiif i\J tavv/lti

but Jackson’s ideas of propriety would not allow him to sit in the door of the

tent, or to keep his cap on. The result \tid the Ltrepst Stock of Fancy (joods, Gtnnantown Yanis,

he sat in the sun, held his cap , * Zephyrs, etc., to be found in the <’ity.

S ci h\ a' C! Vi cl 1 II \i a s* cl tl 0 tl

agoir.g over the c,tv. lhat the vessel b. at- com,ni ‘ ,t e ‘ >1 ' “ »■» follows: forehead was so distended with the mat-

I'hc invaiiablo complaint of the colored t - r ! r ‘'ubsiunco underneath it that il emigrants was that they were unable to seemed as if it would burst every mcget a fair living in Hie South on account lnent - The eyes were swollen almost to of bad laws and cheating. There was 1 bursting from thc-ir sockets, and were

was that about six inches from hiv head, to shade hi* face, and slept sweetly in that position throughout the entire service.

ing Gen. Grant and party from Mcxici to Galveston, had been lost in a storm on the Gulf. There was no foundation whatever for tin* story The gulf was visited l.y a severe storm on Sunday, but there was no reason tor fearing for the

Thiiijs* You Don't Ilellrvo.

ICin. Saturday Night.]

When an obi acquaintance meets you

alaocomplaint about their political rights. ! ,urr,, 'd with pain until hardly anything aft, ' r “ ^ ,n 2 s ‘'I ,, ‘ n ‘ t ' f,n an ''' P ut,1I 'F r ,,IJ Some poor whites wore among the cm- , ’ 11 ' l ' ,e whites could be seen. It was ll * n ' ' '' 1 ' l, | .’ I,lr . s ’ "'J ’ ln , i grants, llie negroes paid their own endent that a tm.blo poison was slowly ,, t0 ^ v , m ,, , <h J t a

but surely permeating the man s whole | word he MJ . a ; W hen a woman with n

bayonet nose and a breech-loading eye

1 he pbysiciun, after a careful exaiuina- 1 calls her husband “darling,” vou want

If you want goods in this line you will lind genuine bargains :tt T. If. SCOTT'S, Ha- Fumy Goods Man.

ed by the exodus. The w itness read ! xlracts fiom fanners and manufacturers, I

safety of the City of Mexico, which wa-

repo, tod to be a stanch seagoing ve ssel in , , ‘ 0 P;« r posc was serr-

good hands, and the fact of her urtival

safe in port on Tuesday evening, (xplad- ... ( - -

i d the whole sensation. asking him to get them colored laberers; tioii of tho unwilling patient, tut open his U) hoar tr >n. the family U*ii luiuihci

that labor was rcacrc and wages high, skin from about tho center of tho now ' 1111 augurhole before you believe

Hi m: i* another Presidential candidate of l,u ‘ w , riu ‘ r9 ' rel1 knuw " 1 ul,nost lo th, -‘ rooU of the hair, and then'eat half'as mu. h 1 !!* you do'] voimIoii’Ti'k" laid on tho shelf, if Senator Kernan, who ,cmocr *'‘ s ' '1 he witness also read two ^ made another cut across the forehead litvc it- unless you are a fat man your-

is a fellow-towngman of Seymour, letters addressed to Cu.isroas.iian Cow- , frnuFtemple to temple. From these incis-

to be believed Kornan sav* Mr • ,11 * st8l!n 8 that ‘he* Democrats were go-I ions their ortxcd a mass of loithsome 1 . ' , m'* I>K - •" ,u, ‘ s " , ' ln ‘ ui t ''“V"t to tx. otiuveu. rvernan saj>. mi . . , , , . ‘ *he shall never, never marrv, vou don t

mg into the colonization business; that j detestaole putrescence, so terrible in its kdieve it-if y. u are a marVied man. a I rank Artbui bad brought -.0 white stench that tho attendants, save one ran When a until talc an ovcr-nfleetionati

r W HE I T E

Seymour is not a candidate, il” neither seek* nor desires a Presidential nomination. llo regrets extremoly that bis iiauie should continue to h” nssociutid vvitli the 1’ivshb'iny. N’othing Would please him more than to sco the party unite upon some one of tho excelleut gentlemen who aspire to that p . iiion But. yet, if the Democracy should be un able to combine upon any other man than Mr. Seymour, and should ihvustthc noininntion upon him, as w n ■ the case in IcC'**. 1 am at a loss to eoaci.iye how lie could i sen pc I'rom yielding to the wishes

ol his party.’*

Wm.hos, of Iowa, a foitnor Congres . man, new in Wusbiugton City, and said to b<* on tl e ‘'it.side” with both Blaine ami Conklin”,is repotted to express himself: 1'ersoi allv, Wilson ha* a prefer cnee for Blame, with Grant a* u second choice. Ik* think-', however, that Gram will be nominated, and thal thir-' ni l not lie any ballot at all at tin Xum'.nnting (invention. Hi* opinion is that before tiie ConvenFoii meet*, Grant will have enough delegations pledged to his sup port to iusute IPs nomination, an 1 that the nomination will bo made by acclauiation, because ibos<* who really would vote for some other candidate if a ballot is taki n would prefer to smother

tncu from North Girolina to Indiana, ev idetitly to secure their votes lor the Deui-

frura the made in

house. Other incisions

were

: int: n-st in another man's wife, and tin

ratil party, and asking Wiudom to ; from winch the hair had been band, yott don’t believe it—it yuu happen look into the nialter. Tho vvimess and shaved, and from there this territil? of- ' K ' Gie husband yourself. When a othir.* bad interested themselves as far tensive matter oozed constantly unti’ , v ','. u ", : ’ r ri ji stertr is lugged home stone

b, , tk “ '- 7 :t- *‘"f« ;•">»»*- i

migration into Indiana,especially intol ut- ( and face assumed neat y their nominal wlitde year, you don’t believe tiie half o* imui county, for the purpose of building size. Attempts were then inado to free l *“‘ v ' ll °k’- When a genth inHU i* fre up tho country. A circular setting forth tho incisions ol matter bv iniortim. 'i^ nt lv issuing from kdiind a paint the advantages of Indiana had b.o wide water .nto them. It was noticed that tL'^e'hiTlLrf ub!iut

ly circulated. Some copies were sent when wator was forced into

into tho Southern btateM, and

l/iiiM k («l Oil, Mi\6<I 1'aint^ VARNISH. a-L^ASS & EEE ST'CTEFS. Paint and Whitewash

the cut in ;

witness . the forehead it poured out of .ho holes In

thought thia might furnwh|tn explanation thoaealp. Aa one of t) atti | uf ihe (act that Indiana happened to be ' it seemed as if all the llesh between the the objective point of the emigrants. Hi akin and bone had turned to corruption

bad been struck with the similarity of and ran out. this circular to that of llio colored ...

preacher, Clay, of Indiana, already put " “° n 1 ,U! '' , ' Jalc v Bs lo l' J ll >st he in evidence. Mr. Yoorhees—You wrote '" oldd n ° l tl0s ''''*'L' recorer, he called his Clay's circular yours. If, did you not? wifo in ‘° die room and couftssod to her I.angsdali*—I wrote it a* bis aiiiaiiuensis tk * 1 ro l*l**' d tl* 0 Flatts gill's grave,and Ho dictated it to me. J.\ special to tin* r '‘ ft,rod t<J » certain night when he left Indianapolis Sentinel til so savs that l '‘ 1 ' ko,, ' IL ‘ hlld rolused to te.l her where

he went as tiie time w! en

liio artist.

A faivitl Ttilki’i*. (I he Cor. verier )

Tiie greatest talker <■( ancient or mod in time* wa* unquestionably Samuel

l av lor Coleridge.

“He spun daily,” say* Do f)uiiiccy, from the loom of Li* own magical brain, g'jrgooua theories and luxurious imago*.’' The value of hi* diacoursea lay tint an much in the positive knowledge they communicated u* the intellectttui *’.i;,iiilus they supplied, the spirit ot inquitv

oked, an '

GARDEN SEEDS, ETC. Li Jones 7 Drug Store.

ttllPVP VJ, va. ‘ '

Lansadalo in txaminalion in chief by th** ,,u *" m a " lne t,,uc "" t n said he ’ ^ " B<1 “ ie l ,rinci l ,1,!! ‘ ' v,lic1 ’ j production ol letter* showed that since! 1 sa ' d he dug Much of ('oleridge'.* eloquence w.ilast fail Hepubiicnna all over th" State I ,l0 * n ,0 , *' 0 ** cad ° r t,ie collin, broke it owing, no doubt, to the eburm of hiG hare been in eortospond, nee en the ex U P'‘"* aml <*ia knife cut around the 1 nmnue /’ 1 . and h « Vui ' x ‘ ^ 11 k i“ d , of . *> l odim question. Langsdale w ill be cross- tlm corpse to the bone. He then But Ure iwre ^lUnreloquenw tire* l, at t uuiaed ou Monday. pi e - j obi ol nil feet ob tl” breoot ol the last, and eveB that ot the aage tailx<l l

- corpse anil taking the bead in nis hands sometimes of it* witching effeet upon the (

An old lady walked out of a car on the pulled ond twisted and jerked ant'd j, ■ hyan’r s ears. Walter Scott describes a I Union 1’aciflc Railroad while she was fast | came off by mere force. He sfu rward i £'r,T by r a V um*t' , l”‘i'.n” 1 i’ hanuigu^" 1 .^ !

such nfrefei cnee,rather than show tlieu as’.eep, stepped otllhe pUttonn, and was disjointed the lower jaw and threw it Coleridge’s and concludes the account! hands in the faro of the assured luct tl.at not much hurt, though the train was go- where Fred Aur found it. He closed hi* with the iinj>atlt>nt “xclaination‘Zomid-I j Grant bad sufficient Votes to give hiai ing twenty . HTe hour confonsion by toiling nhete the skull 1 '«‘ver so Ualiumisid with word,.” , the nomination. This is the view of the , would be found, under the straw in a The surface of unsold public land.* ev ’ situation, also, iwDon Cameron diagiuu* W I ««u ^Aii-ooly one dollui certain manger in the stable. It wa* eecda in aera by over l.OOft.OOO miles, all

■ t ' a year. ! found tborc and giYcn up to tuc Flatts Europe ont»de of Russia.

WINE OF TAR

CUr.ES THOUSANDS VIABLY. IT It TH( LtAOIRt REMEOy FOR ALL

THROAT HUNG COMPLAINTS’

Health and Strength follow from it« oae.

c,--!. 1 have tVaAx Lcsoa, ar* Cos

J5 U ' C Gusibai, Okbiutv, Drs-

I'Si** 1 *, or Uhosi Hins, ihr u,0 of u single bottle will Batisfy you that it meet* tho Sk C ?*”^ r your ease and gives u relief Tar oss bottle! 1 frotu nu 0,lK ' r M ' urtc -

Ihe mnet olmtinal” C'ocou. and Coins « u ,.i . • . Dayton, Ohio, unmedlately reiicved •* beitU,' enntairs J9 time* a* r.iuch .vs any

- 1 '' rent preparation. |y |||gE8.

'to*. Dr. J ^ Kramer's German Eye Salvo * u po*it; . ' f 'i'

CATE AMD BSUASU. Never fail* I-. e..«* anv

1 remedy i. inimediutc tn He edi-et..

D«. CROOK’S Wino of Tar, a pcsmvE eu«£ For ( oiichs. ColtlN AJT3 COSSUHPITOit. It ia tho best of TouiM, Csro, Dynpepsb | Bostorea the Appetite, Btrongthena thcSystcui Eestorea the Weak a ad

Debilitated.

A trial of it will prove nil we claim. Ask youi druggist for Sr. Crooks W:;c cfTiT.lnke nootlur Fur eale by alldrvK|,d*; ,s at One Dollar a bottle. S.N.Smith & Co. Pro. Svi m’i Is oll.er Crook A C*

weak and diseaia-d

eyes, d no

Id yr...

lor portage atampej we will wnd'

. caee of eore eyes, an _ r centa a boi ‘should your drugfjbd

y is so inimediiite in its effort*. Price t ZKiel not have it, on r.ccipt of C5 centa If send you a boa free of cxiMna*. IB 8. N. SMITH & CO., Prop., Dayton, O. F

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