Greencastle Star, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 January 1881 — Page 1
VOL. 8.
The
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Another Lrtier (rom J. D. C. Wintkkm.t, !owa, Doc. 28, 1880.
Editor Star:
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NO 1 38.
wispled along to about tho middle of the humlred horses than with twenty tive str< am, when wc heard a splash in the nvn and fKty horse*. The horses are water. Ilig Sally arose puffing like a ridden until they become tired out; then porpoise, and lifted little Henry in her | he begins again with the horse at first
Many of your readers,.like myself, have I arms and carried him safely ashore,' tired out. Each ranch has a trusty seen the development of Putnam County amidst the raertinient of the crowd. foreman, whoso wages are about $1.000 from its small beginning nearly fifty When hogs were sold they were per annum "and lound. ’ The ordinary | years ago. Many, liko myself, I doubt weighed in the old-fashioned stool-yard herdsm. n get about $d'J per month and nor, have a just pride in having contribu-; scales. They were weighed by taking > found. Thoyarearough,har<ly,industed in some degree to the grand results the old-fashioned breeching off the hors- trious set of m o. and generally very already attained. When 1 look back over ; es and suspending the hogs in it, one at a trusty. The common d< ad-beut is not the situation from the present standpoint j tune, while they were weighed. The going out th-re to rough it.
riCKED-l’P PARTICLES.
A miser’s hair.
False hair.—[Chicago
they
An f-'<1u4*at«*«! Ilorsc*. (New York Letter.)
“You ask if we have any particularly bright horses,” replied u hook and ladder man. “Here’s Peter; he’s been with us nine or ten years, ami we rather brag i an him. Let me introduce you. Peter,
The man who exploded with laughter here is a chap from the Detroit Free
Flint-locks: Dead-locks’
Journal.
If a ship arrives in port a second late
dock it.
UFmedY. RHEUMATISM,
of progress and comfort, it certainly does price was f 1 50 per hundred foa the best, school for temperance and the ahsc-
; not seem very cheering, and yet from the
; testimony of some of these same old set-; the Ohio Itiver.
tiers, it was the most independent and happy period of their lives. Whether they have attained the success they de-
sired, their own hearts can tell. Philip Ford, while talking with the
writer about the hardships of the early days, sagely remarked: “Well, well;
didn’t know it was loaded.
Kansas has a church w hich cost *10.
It has walls and a roof of sod.
A fellow can’t dig clams without ntovIt is a good trig a mussel.—[Cin. Commercial.
They weriven on foot to .-otue market on of dissipation, and ihe men generally 1 iy
The greatest loss 1 ever up money. There arc no stabling, no
knew to bo sustained by stock men in sln ds for the winter. The cattlo run Putnam County was when they paid the just as the buffalo used to. There is nu above price for hogs. A number of years cutting of hay to bo done, and garnered afterward they used fer weighing the ola- for the winter s fodder. The cattle do la>bioned beams, with a box to put the their own mowing from one year’s end hog in. It never entered their minds to to (he other. In the Eastern Stall s it balance against the box, but substractod | has been said that the pitchfork has to
about the time a man gets ready to live the weight of tho box from every hog, as he used nine months in the year. In ' it is time for him to die—that is, if he ha';they did the breeching, and when the . summer the new mown hay has to 1. to begin the world as poor as I was.” present stock scales were first introduced spread, turned, put in into cocks and They were men of activity and energy, or l have known men to drive five miles to loaded up and unloaded into stacks and {they would never have decided to face | weigh in the box because the weigh- mows, and during the six months cf
winter is used as feed, the cattlo during winter
to 75 miles Ironi their respective summet ranges. During a cold storm tin \ generally move with it, and keep going nil they gut into some sheltered place
1 he sea fisheries of Europe are said to employ a quarter of a million of jicople. A Nevada Indian is going through life with the beautiful name of Drifting t loose.
Press.”
Peter nodded his head and pawed the
floor.
“Peter, have you been to a fire to-
day?”
He shook his head.
“Were you out yesterday?”
He nodded.
“Peter, how old are you?’ The horse pawed thirteen times with
his right foot.
“That’s right, old boy. Do you rememlier when a loafer stabbed yon at a
fire?”
He did.
"Where is the sear?”
Peter bent himself almost double to bite his hip at the spot where a scar
the trials of pionc-er life. The lessons master failed substract the piatform and taught them in the early days were of i frame around it from the weight of the ; such a character that few of them re-' hogs, tio you will see that the old sayma ned poor. They made their mistakes ing that our fathers carried a stone in one in business pursuits like other men end of the sack and tho corn in tbo other,
A copyright is something working against the right to copy.—[New Or-
leans Picayune.
There is now and then a thing which the more it is cut the longer it grows. A
ditch, for example.
Detroit has “gum socials.”—[Boston wul'j be traced. .
Post. You needn’t go unless you chews. Now, i eter, show the Detroit man —[Philadelphia Bulletin. > ou ,ake y , ! ur P la . ce at ^ P 4 ' 10 ,’” . . . , . , Down went the chain, and the horse
It is estimated that seventy years and covered the distance at two jumps.
*1,000.000 will be squired to complete “Now walk around the truck and come
the excavations at Pompeii. i an ,| u ,k e my hat off.”
The horse obeyed to the latter. ‘Now,” continued the man as he laid
In Wyoming “What I'd like to know,” said a school drift from 5u boy, ’ is how the mouths of rivers can be
so much larger than their heads.” The pebbles in our path weary us, and make us foot-sore more than the rocks which require only a bold effort to sur-
mount.
Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, Genera! Bodily
Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted
Feet and Ears, and all other
Pains and Aches. Thero was scarcely ono of them but al- is about true, after ail
Mo Prej>«r*Mon on e«nh equal* 9r. Oil . lowed golden opportunities to pass un- Supplies in those days came to the in some ravine or behind a ledgo, travel-
as a Mnfr, »urr, sini/ilr anil cheap Hxtirnul , , . . ‘ , ’
tt.-mi jj-. a trial entaila but thi- I'.niipanitiTiri)- j needed \\ hat are Dow tno choicest farms county entirely by wagon transportation, ing in this v. ay some times twenty-five trifling outlar of 60 CetitR. «ml cVity ona auffiirinp: i. I . , , , . , , , . Titii P*in can baM ciiaap ana i-'Miive priiiT o! tti. : in I’utnnm l.ounty were not taken by the Mail was carried to and fro m the same miles during a heavy storm. Hutto
'^DtraiaiaBaIn Kieren Langaagoa. pioneers, who took land of very much way, and telegraph dispatches were trans- whatever distance they may have stray- ,a ''■ ! ' 4 ' u ' K,1 • ^.i'.'u.^Luw ^1,^ lit - Ko r ,n,l SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS ! less value. They have seen many of their milted through the memory and lips of I ed during the winter, when spring com, s ’"we would^ucceVulie 111^ would learn to play dominos in a’week HEDioiNL. prophecies fulfilled, ami others come to emigrants coming in, or strangers pass- they are all found during the general ter of sending them by freight.- [ Kco- ' ’ J ' ’ "
naught. ; ing through. There was not a railroad ‘round up” o- general gathering up, The agricultural implements of the yet which entered Cincinnati. when they are driven back to their nearly settlers were much in contrast with The old settlers wore very slow to ac- qr-ctive ranges without loss, where tho those of the present time. The only 1 cept any improvements on their old-time herdsmen attend to them until the winplows they had at first were what they 1 customs, and if there is one class of men t r set- in again. Atone round up last styled "corkscrews.” The mold-boards entitled to more honor than another, it is spring there wer^ tbirty-tivo men, thirty
were of wood. Sotno say they would that class wh^^untrnduced good stock wagons and l.’JJO horses,
kick a man over tho fence and kick at of all kinds ir^^Bc county. It was done up is run by a regular organi/.ation, and him three times after he was over. These at a great sacr^H at first ami against tho is commanded by a Captain whose or-
1N MEDICINE.
A. VOGELER A CO..
Hultimorr, At*!., TT. 8. A •
down on the floor, “step over me.” 1’eter lifted up his feet very high and stepped softly over and returned to his
stall.
“That horse is one of us,” said the man as he brushed the dust off aud sat
Boston has seven colored lawyers, six down. "We can rest the foot of a ladof whom are in active practice, one cf! dor on his buck and he will not move, them being a graduate of the Harvard Wherever we stand him at a fire there law-school. fie will stay without watching. lie cats
ter of sending them kuk Constitution.
old “corkscrew” plows did good service, and must bo awarded the honor of first stirring the soil of Putnam County. It
Senator Davis, of Virginia, now a millionaire, used to be a railroad brukeman. Ho made his money by not .damming
the doors of the cars.
Slinks pea iv 1 .resaw that oleomargarine
would someday
if he could only handle them.”
Valud of a Doctor’*
(New York Medical Record.)
1 was called at midnight to \ it a g< is tlenian who had just returm 1 from a late dinner, when; he had succeeded by
prejudices ot a mljurity of the citizens at |ers arc impli illy obeyed, he having enthat time. It is strange to think of their tire charge over the operations. Tho unwillingness to avail themselves ot the cattle are u'l s un ite 1 sic ‘or liiis to the
was quite a time before the introduction : opportunity to improve their stock. 1 brands dcnolhig thi ir owners, and then of the ground-hog threshing machine. I Imvo often heard it remarked that when started back to their ranges. Thocalvis
be used ns a term of rc- hasty eating in lodging a large fish-bone
That round proace, when ho wrote: “O. thou me- in his throat. I provided myself with chanical salt-butter man!”—[Puck. in emetic, a pair of lesophagus f weeps
Sonm men maintain dignity by a good .imi other paraphernalia di -igncd to give
suit of clothes, and others by a good fiim relief, and hurriedly repaired to hi*
character. But the latter is best, as it can never grow threadbare.—[Whitehall
Times.
No on* *hould make sport of love. The chap who can’t love for all he's worth
room.
1 found him pacing up and down tli# floor with a look of intense distress and anxiety, occasionally running his fingent
I fcaw-aas. Via » v-al II I I a UII I 11U'a » I III V U OI It- II Ilt'Uill U I t? IIJ U L l\«’ U UJZ&V » 11V " SlUIUJU UH<.K t U l 11 ■ * I I I 111J »-«» I ' 1 c* VII.>* I H / V. <» 11 L l«-VV ll l 1 AICO ’ * V»I III . , . . . < 1 • H t M ! have alw ^ s wondered why they were no' j Dr. Stevenson and others first introduced are then branded and wrain turned loose .nlThi Umes of'deTp'air^that be thought adopted as an implement of war, for they line cattle they said there was no differ with the herd. The operation of collect- an ,l bald-headed it was all up with him, but begged me, certainly would have been formidable a. enoe between them and the native cattle, j ing. separating and branding a. a round A C(jlaradn gi ‘ rli onIy I8 ve . irs oW , on ato^Shfmy 1 'Xuuf relive short range to blind the advancing col- only the fine stock had thicker skins up occupies about two months before the the death of her father look charge of his He extravagantly declared in the
generosity of spirit begot by the vivij-
the advancing col- only the fine
i umns by throwing wheat in their eyes , which was the cause of them looking so j There was no attachment for separating 1 smooth, and that the fine hogs were a J the wheat from the chaff. It was put up | perfect imposition; for their meat was [in bins and cleaned at leisure by asheel' strong, and, worst of all, they couldn’t
1 or wind-mill. Corn was gathered by travel. Time alone has wrought the the annual ass mblages of the old fur snapping it trom the stock and throwing 1 change, and it is plain to seo now that traders when they met to exchange their
jsc who were first to accept of the peltries for supplies brought up from St.
movements in farming and good stock Louis.
Sve been the successful men. and hav. Two women lawyers will tnk part as
cattlo aj- p-t back, during which tie family and farm, and now manages her whole country is scoured by the com mother and brothers, and also her t’
hoys. It is generally a time of wild and boisterous excitement, reminding one of
her cousins and her ranche.
it on the ground, then gathering it up b> hand and putting it into a sledge or wa on and then it was hauled to some smool place on the larm and thrown into a ri after which all the neighbors would L
invited to the husking, when they would things that go to maliQ a prosperous proceed to husk and throw it ito a pile, county than any other class of men.
•3
Ir
ill of I
How to Write oml Talk.
fForney’h Progress ]
Sentiments are thoughts fnm the promptings of the feelings and the passions, and are therefore real. At Flor-
uoss of his fears, that he would give a million dollars to have that fish-bone removed. 1 assured him that such eases were frequent, and ordinarily not attended with much danger, before proceeding to carry out measures for relief. i His fears underwent some diminution n the strength of this, and he then do-j
one more good in making I’utnam one counsel in the trial of George A. Wheeler, cardinal wrote the following distich: of tho best counties in tho State in all who choked his sister-in-law to death, ii “ As the sculptor was forming the
San Francisco. Mrs. Clara Foltz has been engaged to assist tho 1’rosccuting Alter
once there is an unfinished bust of Bru* chired that fifty thousand dollars would tushy Michtcl Angelo, under which a no more than repay the skill and art re-
exiricate the unwelcome in-
ef
I Hired to
trader.
1 smiled and proceeded to introduce
n ligy of Brutus in marble he recollected, the forceps, but after several attempts . his act of guilt ami refrained.” An failed to grasp the bone. His fears again
preparatory to being hauleu to the crib It would seem proper, as 1 am writing nP y, am i Mrs. Laura Deforce Go.don to| fob I'-ll^me.id" ^ n ' 0nti °" “ r:lbulous mm
by hand. Thorn was no during tho holidnj’s that 1 should say ■ -
■i''ist the defence. 'I’lui two women wer. once close friends, sleeping in th'* same bed, but lately a coldness sprang up between them. In the recent political cani-
Gold and Silver
H WATCH ES,
FINE JEWELRY,
CLOCKS,
SILVERWARE.
Spectacles, Gold Pens,
1ft
t SILVERWARE. husking. There would be a great many • J changes of places until all were suited. „t Spectacles, Gold Pens, ‘and then the sport would begin by husk ,iri r» 1A IT IIP Pf ' n ^ f or red cars . If the young man got brOld neauctl LnnOSj JjLLij the number decided on first ho wns enti-
tled to kiss tho girl, and if she succeeded (
and thrown in by hand. Thor was no - during tho holidays that 1 I such thing as a scoop-shovel to handle . something as to how Christmas was of) grain with at that time. I suppose the served by the old pioneers. As it would labor performed in gathering the corn at fio too long for this article, I will refer
present wages would hare cost double | it by saying, if there is any ono thing that |,aign they were rivals on the poliiioil
what the corn was worth. But thero is | I might wish to bo young again for ii another side to this subject: The women j would be to enjoy an old-time Christmas J folks all came to the huskings, too, and during the early settlement of Putnam
while the married women and widews County.
'did the quilting and assisted the good A “Happy New Yeai” to all the rcadhonaewife in making the big pot pic in a ers of The Staii, ono of the best papers ten-gallon kettle, the girls assisted in the county ever bad. Yours truly,
.1. D. C.
stump.
A couple arrived at ISan Ernncisco on i their bridal tour, and took a room at a ! hotel. Tho bridegroom then informed tho bride that he was out of money’, airl lid not know how to get any. He said that the best thing for them to do was to * commit suicide. She agreed, and *uggeated the nse of laudanum, of which she 1 had a bottle. They divided the drug in-
mupun!
W I’strru < uttli’ ICnisiii^.
St. Louis Kcptiblh'itn.
Nearly all the cattle men of Wyoming t0 two 0< 1 U! * 1 parts 0,1,1 il ’ The „ . are getting out of Texas cattlo. and are ma " diH ’ but thG doso P roTod
he paid some forfeit. Tho girl who would breeding up their cow herds and getting t0 ,be wonn| L a: "* * lrls recoi cred.
re
hill, Mh’
be
Vh Ml'
submit to such an application was con young stock from tho extreme Western sidered love-sick; so tho kiss was only country—Idaho, Oregon and Washingobtained by main strength and manhood, ton Territory. The drive from the above and when he failed, which was very com points into Wyoming this year has been mon, he had to acknowledge that he was ^ about one liundr d and ti ty thousand : mastered by woman, which was very hu- head, which found a ready market. All
Also, too fine Show Caio* for the no« i- that , miliuting, as the writer can attest. When the country lying north of the Union I’a-
night came ail the furniture was removed ctiic Railroad is considered better than from the room, and those who wished*"; the country souih of it, on account of
Tlt<- Yltnk'-is.
Nothing but Firrl-'dafl irood; fold. The finest Rerrulator in the State will (oun
arrive.
CmcAtiO, January 5.—Tho Drovers Sournal reports: lings.— Iteceipts, .'35,(XKJ head; shipments, 2.300 head; opened slow; light and common iiiix«d 5c. to
lowing:
“The sculptor would have framed n Brutus, but the vast and manifold virtues of tho man flashed upon his thoughts; he stopped and remained in
astonished admiration.”
The following words are often misused in speaking and writing: “ Pride is that which makes us esteem ours; Ives. Vanity makes us desire the esteem of others." As Dean 8wift said, “A man is too
proud to he vain.” there is no other
Alone means being accompanied by no other. An only child is one who has neither brother nor sister. A child alone is one who is left by itself. Opinions signify to think, to judge; sentiment to feel. Opinions are more - liable to error, as they depend upon knowledge, which is not always correct. Different opinions on different subjects is of common occunnee in the affairs of life. “No. cousin,” said Henry IV., when charged by the Duke of Bouillon with
having changed his religion,
of the service that would i xpel the object of his terrors.
I then gave him the emetic, its depressing effect causing his generosity to rise again, barometric-like, to a very high pressure. In a little while the emetic disburdened him of the greater part of his dinner, and with it up came the fish-
bone.
He gave a sigh and a look of relief, and solemnly looking toward me said: “Doctor, I wouldn’t have that thing in
Only imports that my throat again for #5!” Myfeeeventof the same kind, tmlly resolved itself into the “valuable
experience” that the occasion afforded
aic.
••1 Don’t Care Adam.’*
IKcrutcrson News.)
As our first parents were leaving lb* garden, Adam remarked, fumbling with the button of his fig leaf abstractly: “1 don’t care about myself, darling; but when I think how much you have lost,
1 have n) y heart fails me.”
unselfish
are now urrivuiK-
•i
1
changed no religion, hut an opinion.” And Eve, tho unselfish creature. An adverb should never be u-ed to de- looked into his eyes with loving gace, note quality. The soonest moment sayirg carelessly, hut sweetly. “On, 1 should be the earliest n men! Shi- don’t care Adam.” And thia little ipeecfa
IOC. lower, others ~5c" io lO.'Tugher.'.ml I ” ,,ks MV “ ll , v ! ' h .” u,fl l *' sh « ,,H,k4 " wwt 0 (. ‘;" r C0TnmGn nl0 ‘ b 'T ba8lbrou S b . s No, as an adverb, ran qualify compara- all the ages down to the present, though market active; mixed packing, ijl4 it'r'' .(i V( , s only. “The task no longer ap- cuiiously enough, it is now appropriat I mO; lizhf,+1 50fr 4 7ij; clioico heavy |jcared difficult.” Adverbs should hi ed almost exclusively to the aterner sex. ft 80(n 5 15; closed strong; all sold placed near the words which they qnidi- When a man would express most appro-
trip the light fantaslio too could do an,; grass, winter range and water. T ho loss Q Htt | e Rcoeipts, B.OOO head; shipments Ihe auxiliary to should not be priately the supreme indifcrence that
while the others enjoyed tin:
the various games of tliat day. Alter the li^bt, not being
.h„c. o,b M . injoj.d a—I,..!.:» .1.1-1 i....... p,, ye.r . 1MJ L^Uy of c .„ STf ‘ ^ ^ SSfe^lKTS, tfie various irames of that dav. Altcrthe ii .III not Ir in.r ov. r t-.vn in fiv» t, r . ... _ , , y V. . i . ■ • . . i. i i » i . c .l_ —
_ over two to
import was over they would all retiro to cent, and seldom
i dieir respective homos. As tho various ^ A ranch is run al comparatively small ; streams were not bridged, and tho neigh- expense. A ranch of 5 000 head can be , borhood travel was done on foot, it was run for ono year at an expense of |1 per customary as a matter of gallantry fora head. With a ranch of 10IHS) hr al ihe young man to earry his lady company c.i>>t would average from 75 to K) cents
across a stream on his baek. On one of these occasions
live [ , ‘' r traffic; prices firm, except lower grades, careful to nut disturb him’ should be, so happily ; except that by one of the uuroaching 5 per rent.! are j u ]|. common to medium “ I JC car eful not to disturb him.” More accountable changes that time is ever
, ... . u . , than one subject conn, ctcd by or or nor, making in things sublunary, the accent shipping, i|!4 )(" l oO; corn fed lexans. oneo f them being in the plural, but the of the last word has been transferred
plural subject should lie next to the vi ah” “Neither l.c nor hi^ friends were to blame.” Inc pronoun you, though of n plural form, when used to
there was a
very small man. I will call him little Henry. He, like all small men. seemed to liko a large Indy; I call her big Sally I On arriving at the stream, which was Little Walnut, the young men proceeded to
$4 20 ' 1 55; good to choice shipping $1 80trf5 50; no extra here; butchers ateady. hut common to fair canning 10c
| com wouiu average ironi id to H) cents i ntt .o, ,» so fin-T*.van cows 7fi- L”’’. _ lower at -U(<r_ tiu, icxa low(0, represent n Miigle ivn-on, requires the pei head, and _•) oo head would not ulcers, $3 00. Sheep—Receipts. 2,1’.0 plural form of a verb, In-eause of Ihe-
head: shipments, 1.300 head: market, nc plural form of the proiiutin. as ” John tire, de dined f^c. on good: declined \c 1111 1,1 1 ir !l r ^ on common; common to medium. $3 2o(.< i ori-mncr.. ns Tux-fayi-m. 1 00; good to choice, 1*4 S'L'.iS 25; extra | Among all Etinqs'au n tin tries France |5 75(0.0 00. is the one in which the taxes are paid
c st much over 5) Cents a head. It requires to run a ranch, say for 5.i;00 head, about four ni'n dining the winter morithR, and ten men during ihe sum-1 miT.^kIt is generally estimated that they require two horse-s for every hundred
from the first to the last syllable.
The Bifthop BtiMi.jfi**,
A bishop of the Methodist episcopal church recei' es $3,000 as salary, and $1, 000 or $1,500 to pay the rental of a house, according to whether rents are moderate or high in tiie place where he is located. The agents and principal editors employed by the church receive ns much in worldly benefits as the bishops.
pull oil their boots preparatory to carry-[ head of cattle, which gives to every man ' ing their lady loves across. Big Bally ] about ten head of horses during tho sumproposed to little Henry to let her big nu r. There is nothing afoot in that . brother carry her across, which he n- i cointry. Everything is dono on horse-
' irwliirno
— --— r ■ t, i moat punctually and chiaTfully. In con-[ There have been in all 31 bishops in thi Ixdianai-olis, January 5. Livs hog-, traat, Englishmen ari- great grumblers denomination, 16^>f whom were residents weak at $4 5U@4 85; receipts, 0,000 | and Italians are always in arrears, their of the west and south, and 15 of the east.
head; shipments, 015 head.
treasury invariably ohort of its dues.
lieing one-fourth
A little Iwiy who accompanied his fa-
iKDiANAPOpfs, January 5.—AYhcat
Ejected indignantly, saying ho could carry j back. Horso-flesh is the cheapest mus- steady; No. 2 Rod, 99e.($$l. Corn her ‘like a top.” Wo all admired his clff that can be employed. A stock steady at 37'a @38c. Oats steady at 311 pluck, but doubted his judgment. lie } ranch is better off with ten men and ono ( (if33c.
flier to the theatre to set the play called
What is home without a newspaper? ‘‘Drink,” asked his parent if it was thns —[Yonkers Gazette. We shouhi riv it I called because so many young men went was a house without windows.—[New Hit between ’.heads.—[Norristown Hew
York New* | aid.