Greencastle Star, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 January 1881 — Page 4

•v THIDU! OwinR to the kindne.=s of tny ou»*toinpr8 I have been enabled to do more than trinle the < business the |>u*t year, as compared wi’h any previous year of my businesB life in (Jreen •; castle. N otwith«tandine th* extraordinary large sales in the pas . with the aid of the toletcraph and ekpress eomp ies. 1 have now a full and i comple estock in all lines. I can. In all can | dor. say that I believe I now hue the larg >t j stock of goods in tny line in Western Indiana. . an«l in the future as in the i* St, my price:-* shall he as low as is consistent with good work and goods.

JUST RECEIVED ! 20 Cases of Klgiu Corn. 25 Cases of Hay View Tomatoes. New California Canned Peaches, Apricots ami White Cherries. Also, Fine Line ol New .Java, Mocha, Golden Rio and Green Rio COIEnEIES. C "EC H5 -A. P 3 _ AT Dam all "Bras. & Co’s., ( nil and Nee

THfc ST.\K. Frank A. Akn<>i.i>. Kditnr ami I'ropOfO Sittuniaj, Jan. 8' 1^81

Now >t i< runjorod tha' General Grant I will h« Secretary of State in Garfield’s I cabinet.

TKR.MS

• •SI•00 per year.

Tuesday last .lames Walsh silled Harlinr* (jrowenthal. in Brooklyn, because he loved the girl and she refused to mar-

ry him.

The man who understands and

From New York comes a dispatch dated Jan. 5, saying that the marriage of Governor-elect Porter, of Indiana, to Miss Stone, sister of General P» . Stone, and daughter of a late prominent resi- j dent of Chautauqua County, New York, 1 took place this afternoon at the resi-1 donee of Walter S. Gurnee, uncle of the bride. The ceremony was per formed by Rev. John Freeman, of Lock-: P'.rt, N. Y. The wedding was private , and only a few of tho relatives were I present, among whom were Albert and , Annie Porter, tho son and daughter of (he bridegroom. The couple left for Indianapolis via the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cincinnati Commercial publish!* a special from Washington, saying that the cold weather in tho West is represented as very hard upon the colored exodusters who went west last year from

, North Carolina,

olored people arrived there from Oxford. by wav of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and aro on their return to Macon, N. C , from which place they migrated last March. They were in a deplor--■ihle condition—without a cent, poorly!

For twenty days we will ofler 1 £5 O

Heating; Stoves Comprising a full assortment of all the regular patterns, ai

Less than Ma-nufacturer’s Prices I

If you need anything in this line, come at once and Buy Stoves

Late last night twelve ! at nearly your own prices.

LS.REIICEHO.

D-ti-al.

There is considerable excitement in

different parts of the country because of rlad, nearly frozen, and the children cry- ! tho prevalence of diphtheria The opin- 1 ‘"S from hunger. They were thawed at

ion is last gaining ground that poor ven- the Station House, and made happy by bhi bb* • ,• mb m a a ■ I I A "I illation is the most prolific cause of the as much good soup and bread as they , T 116 I| I JIC! H HSltl y OliRT ^BCKlV JlOmniGrC'clI. disease. A point n made bp the Chica- could eat. From their statements they j ** go News,as follows: -The week before had seen hard times, and had hem im- 1 A Large, Eight-Page, FiftySix Column Family Newspaperi loot was i comparatively ■-sia nosed unon in manv wavs. Tho exces- . __ _ ~ \

last was a

Chicago. The

Kntkkkd at the I'ostottioe, GreenCoSth Inil.. as second Hass mail mutter. —this fact should he remembered and

Tub Secretary of the Treasury reports put in practice, for by so doing you will that the amount of gold, silver, green- make a livelihood and ho enabled to lay backs, ami national bank notes in circula- by a little for a rainy day.

tion in December last was $1^59.921,OtiO. ] _ ... . . „ . . the number being sixteen. Last week

• u .. , On A ednesday Iasi a fire broke out in . ®

I lus shows an increase over ttie paced- .... , ... was an exceedingly severe one. The

i r *ios ruuin/,. » five story tenement house in New , ’ J

ing January o< rlSo.OOO.OOi, 1 1 . , 'windows were closed tight. Not a

mouthful of fresh air w as admitted into tinny residences unless by accident. The result is before us. There were 34

attends to his business is sure to succeed ! wrre thrown open fresh air was admit-

ted to sitting room and sleeping chain her, the atmosphere was purified and the deaths from diphtheria were not quit'half a« many as on the week previous;

| a live story tenement house in New Vork City, burned ten people alive, and

Those dangerous toy pistols should s, i "usly injured many more. The fire be consigned to the scrap heap. The la- stalled at the bottom ol the stairs and

test accident reforted is that John I.an ye.d so rapidly as to cut off al1 " ; deaths from diphtheria,

dis, a hoy* of twelve year*, at Kdinburg <'f escape by the stairway and by tho j Ind , shot himself fatally with a toy pis- fi r p escape on the outside of tho build

tol on Ch r istina-, and di-d on Saturday.

mild one in : P 0 S | ’<1 upon in many ways. The excesw indows of residences ‘ i ' vo c °hl climate where they had been

living, coupled with destitution, had made them sick of the Western country, and they said they preferred their old : home. A returning colored exoduster from Indiana, who is hdre on his way to North Carolina, says it got mighty cold

in Indiana.

i<: in j4 .v ic <; it: i> a in d i m i» « o v !•: d.

From l.tti’ur, Flcui* Nrw Typr.

PUBLISHES MORE REA' ING MATTER FOR THE MONEY THAN ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER IN THE COUNTRY. Aim! is Not Surpassed lor News, Kiisiiiess Heports. Literary ana Neleel Kea«lin|(. A LMCEK I*i*i^»* Hook to 10114*11 N'4*n»*ly flti*l*M4*i*il»4»t-.

Alter M an y Vears.

New \ or.K, Dec. 28 — A woman applied yesterday at tho Newark, N. J., jail with a letter from Dr. L B. Brockett

mg. Tho terrified occupants were driv- Tl,, ‘ i ojiKresslonal *PP»i- i his r llniIy for seveial year*, and that she

From Otis, this State, on January 1, conies word that the unsatisfactory settlement of some property, closed in a terrible tragedy. To have revenge, Henry Augustine went home to the the

, , . , , , , the country,

house of his uncle James Augustine, and

en upward by the flames to tho roof, hut round the scuttle nailed down, and their only escape lay in jumping from the high

windows.

Look out for squalls in the finances of

It is predicted that

tioumont. i

, believed herself to be tho wife of Frans

T he eensus statistics of the I. nited : L ammen8i onc 0 f t | l0 conf j umriP d niurStates show that, in order to prevent an defers of , fohn MemrhoU’er. and asking increase or ih crease of tho number of that an interview be granted her. Dr.! members in the House, the basis of rep- BrockeU , re f erre d her to Rev J. Clemens the ! resentation wiM havo 10 bf ‘ «* cd at m ; -1 French, of Newark. The v^yuan was

boom in stocks and businecs will result i * ' f ° r * ,:lrin,>er ° f tht ,loUMC ’ J h ’ s , admitted and Lammans was <^Pd from, offered the adults liquor and the children ! ' '.ratio would make the number of mem-

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He Pof»thuraouii Pipers of the Pick wifk Club the work that gave Charles Dickens

candy. Tastim bitter, it was but sparingly partaken ot Failing to poison them, he waited until thu family had retired, and leaving his bed, went to hts uncle's sleeping room, attacked them shooting tho old man through tho lefi breast, and the wife through both lungs

and that right soon, in The Chicago Times, in article, warns its readers, thinks the country is on the

other gr at financial panic. Railroad stock* arc 8 to C8 cents higher than they Were this time last year. Real estate is

another^ ■ ( bers of the next House (including the

hiscciltothe archway which connects j

down, and was shot in the neck and kil led. The murderer ran away, but soon returned, and again disappeared and can not be found. The lady will die, and the

uncle’s recovery is doubtful.

A son sleeping up sta.rs started to come °. n lhC ^ an ' 1! ’ r ° advancin B down and was shot in the neek and kil I Not 1CSS tha " ^00,OU),(XW of new ”sCCU

rities’’ have, according to ‘statements:

from the New York papers,

within the pale of the stock exchange, in 1 ss than eleven months.’’ These

a late financial i ... " ' ” the two halls of the jail, where the parTP_ .vrHnr! tCrr ' l0riC *''' “ P rcR8nt number is , ti 08 me | {„ the presence of the jailor and

1 ^ 292. Under this basis Arkansas, Cali-1 his deputies,

lea,, tn.m- f olni a. Io wa, Michigan, Minnesota. Xe-1 Lammens, before she bad time to bra.ska and North Carolina would in-, S p Pak , crit .d out: ‘’Bridget, my wife.’’ crease their representation ono member Both parties were greatly affected, and ! each, and Kansas and T exas would in- cm h r aced. Then came talk of the past, j craasctLeir delegations three each. The and of their children, of whom there States that will lose one member each were threet sho t0 | d llim thoy wure a „ , ••be.Thrn^' ^ Connecticut, Florida, Indi- j j P14d Sll0 upbraided him for the deed 1 ’ ! ana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland. Now - •• • - - • • -- ra8a

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j signs are now, as in ’72, reganloJ as signs

Ik another column we i-ublish a tabu-; of '““tcrial prosperity which is not hkelated statement of the population ot the 'F t0 1,0 interrupted. The cra-h came in States as returned by tho last census 187;!; there may be another when least By referring thereto, it will tie seen that p *P ec t ( ' ( i''xccpt by far-sighted and sathe population of Indiana is given at '- ,ilc i ous business uua. Lock out lor

1,978,858, ranking in point of population ar| Other Black 1 riday.'

as 4he sixth State in the Union, rulaliv) - 'I’Im- I'igurfs ol iliu < t'iisils 1y the same ; osttion as shown by the Wasi1isgton . , r>1 ._ Tll0 Supprin .

census of loTO. The States having lare- . , . .i

^ tend* nt ol the Census ninl.es tho lollower populations are New i ork, 5,083 173

Pennsylvania, 4 282 738; Illinois, 3,078.- 0 f^ am| Tcrntorit . s . C36; M'ssoun. 2)09,091. It is interest- pd t0 bp Tery near the

mg to note Indiana’s progress during the which are ox te ,, last fifty years. In 1830 she had a pop- next wet |.. ulation of 343 031; in 1840, 085.8GC; in j A|a , )!lni8 ' in 1850, 988 416; in l8(JU, 1 350 428; in Ainska 18”0, 1,080,037; in 18M), 1.978,858. In- Arizona diana has maintained her rank as sixth! ^ r ^* nsas State since ISOO. The rate of increase during the las ten years, while not as^ onnt>c tj c ,it great as some of tiie newer Western | Dakota States, is satisfactory. Of late years In-j Dnlawan

diana has lost latgely by emigration. Thousands of tier j>eoplo here moved to; the \Y. t and South but there is still I laho . room in ti.is Stab for men of enterprise 1 Illinois

and industry.

ing approximate statement of populations

to be announced

of whieh he now stands convicted, and ho TO A OK NTS

Hampshire, Ohio, I ennsyl vania, Lhode declared his innocence. “Why have you ! 'Vo allow n Cash Commission of ten per cent, to Agents on each yearly subscription to the Island, Tennessee and Vermont. New , not returned to me?" she said. "1 was I ZZtt&XTXt

i ork will loso two members. The lo^s- aslnrned ” he an.svrored She *i«Jiiircd i'r e » r dum book the 8u‘)Ff*riber

os aro fifteen and the tmiim thirtDon Tho n r * ‘ r IF THE AGENT PRKFKRS A FREE HOOK TO A 0ASII COMMISSION. ... . ? . . j j m , if^U'liy, to make a confession. | n e njny, f or( , ac (, yearly Bubicrintion.ent us select one free hook from the above lUt for him

West lost-, two members and pains rune. 'Pijg.y arp , ({oniaii Catholics self—tlui in nddition to to the free book selected by the subscriber.

being a net gain of seven. The South ' , lpr 8tory . as related t0 ( ; 0 ,.J ohn8on ,, ,-ntiMeWa th ° chol ‘ ,c ° f lb ° Club Aa,,D ‘- e ‘ ch yCM ' r ,ul ' ,,?rib " wh ° 11 " cains four and loses live, including Ma the Jailor, ,s that she was married to 1 ^ anV“ al, SpedL b .VS'X. d l?o« lbe t,MC ,b,! ■“ ubRcripti '* n •‘•«“* ry land among tlio Southorn States, Doing; Lammens twenty—seven years ago; when. !VI« I IbJivVl) C^O., a not loss of one. r I h^ Eastern ftnd Mid* they lived in Brooklyn h I sixteen* Proprietors CincinniiU Commereial* die States lose eight and gain no mem yPa ,s ago, he was se'utencod to three ’ In.b ' ^.^feh^^i^hiiirwin'^'li^^r;'. ^eulLm 0niU ‘ erciftl Ht - 1 "-’

b<Ts. 1 h>. representation of tho various years imprisonment in Sing Sing for: States under the apportionment of 160,-1 burglary, was transferred to Auburn; "••‘i would be as follows: Prison, and before his term expired hi ,

It is believ- ■ • : became insane. lie was then trunsferr-1 1 I * T—T* 1-4 !

final figures, ; ^ | od to the Utica Insauo Asylum, and hav-!

Florida j ing been reported dead, ids wife so con* fllino's ......... 19 j sidered him. When she read in ths pa- 1 ID pers of Frank Lammens, the murderer,' \V,mo k ' ^ i she did not think that it was her former 11 Massachusetts . . . n i husband, who spelled bis nume Franz | Minnesota 4 | Lammons, but on Christmas eve she bad

HANNA & BLACK,

. 1,202 314

District of Columbia , Florida

Indiana .

1 Iowa

Kansas . K. ntiuky

L >uisi 'tia. . . . Maine M ary land ... Massachusetts. Michigan . .

Minnesota.

J'iikki: are wond'rful men in thi-

are wouu rfully grand, oth

ers arc wotidei lully di.base I. Hera is the storv of a nun naru ■ 1 J.oshua Joynea. residing in Virginia He is noted as a glut ton. !-a't Friday he sat down to dinner,

and disposed of as mucb“ f ood as would I Mis>i*sippi ... have served a doz*n men a good square nn al. He has fr. quently performed sim- N - P p ra !^ ' " ' ’ ' ilarly ridiculous feats for wagers. His i Nevada bill of fare consisted of fifteen pounds of New Hampshire

of bologna sausage N''W Jersey.

pork, twelve links

....10,441

..8l>2.6tJ4

801 080

..191049

022.083 134.502 . 110 054 177,638 220600

1,538.983

. 3«y.711

,’i.In 8,030

1 978 86 i

1.024 463

■.i!I.VJ3.->

1,048 59!)

.!t:)l 1,203

. .04.8.915 . 934.13D .1.783.086 l,0;;4 09<i . .78' 1 M'? 1.131 890 2,109.091 . .39,157

452 132

. . 62 265 . .347,784 .1.13HS92

Furniture

Missouri Nevada New Jersey .. North Carolina Oregon Rhode Island. . Tcnn sseo.... Vermont .. .. 'Vest Virginia. . Arkansas . . i ,'olorado.... I >olaware .. Georgia . ... Indiana . Kansas... Louisiana .. .. Maryland. M ichigan Missjssippi N ebraska New Hampshire New York Ohio Pennsylvania .. South Carolina

Texas.

■ 13 a dream that tho Newark prisoner was • * her missing husband, and on Christinas ’ ^ J day a white dove flew into her room and . ,1 alighted U(ion her shoulecr, exactly as 1 : one had done betore her oldest daugh - •' i ter's death. This led hc-r to go at once to Newark. The Sheriff and Jailor be 5 lievo her to be the wife of Lammens. 1 He has told his spiritual adviser, the j ■ 7 Rev. Father Xillous, o( Newark, that he|

tmd a wife and three children on Long

9 I

12 *

g i Island.

TE14- FiiHtnoiiiablf Ikciiiciiuui'.

<*'iDf’innati Knouirer.

g I The demeanor most affected by belles

.2 this winter is that of the unsophisticated Haye in •■tock a full and complete line of Parlor Ftirnilura, Library Furniture. Chamber Set.2 isquirer. Siio asks questions of her Dir.inx llnom and Kitehon Furniture, Lnunses, Patent Rockers of the best style,. MnrMeTon :U male companion on subjects which she | ! ‘“' d , ’ l *! n Tab, “‘ 1Mc,ures • nd Framos, and in fa-t. everythlhx .U-irable in the Fur

1 ' uiture litio. knows more about than ho does, and

N'ew M<*xico.

sauce from one large hog, one large

goose, w hich the gormand has had U P. Korth Carolina fattening for the lust month, one full- Ohio

grown chicken, one peck of sweet pota- Oregon

toes, one dozen Urge biscuits, onc larg- Inland wiinee pic, and six caps of strong eofiec ^,,,,,1, (; H rolinii .Icyncssat down to ihi- ri pa,t at om Tonneseec.. ..

o'clock, and at Half j nst two lie had dis- Texas . posed of every artiel ' nam d, picked the 7, ,a *‘ bones of the fowls, and took a glars of! y |r ^ F egg-nog. He thi n smok d a pipe, jumped on a horse und rode live miies thru'

118 43'' I Virginia

New York .. 5083 173 5k isconsin

.19 .26

, g waits wide-eyed and open-lipped for an 9 answer with the most innocent air itnagi- ^ ; nablo. This flatters him treraendous'y,

the frosty rdr. Joynes weighs two hun dred and fifty pounds, an 1 if a good-hii-inored old fellow of i-ivy.

Washington Wi :;t Virginia

Wisconsin .. ..

Wyoming .

I 4' K) (NtO j 3 19/.I i

174 767

1.282 739 . . 276 528

994 7D0 I If.: 153

.1,4!I7 <>U9 . . 143 907 .. .332 2SB 1412 2' 13 . 75 120 . 618 193 . 1 315,380 .. 20.788

Under this division the Western States would have 110 members in the House, not including the Territories; the Lasteru and Middle States 8> n nd the Southern States 88. Tho Western Stater, will, therefore, be almost all-powerful in the next Congress

and makes him think she is entirely too guileless for this wicked world. If she has a spice of the dare-devil concealed hehind a particularly pure countenance, she blandly makes queries about forbidden things, feeling sure that he will mistake fur audacity for sweet ignorance,

j This will do very well for baby-faced ; ftAt between two

Largest Stock and Lowest Prices. Tj' IT D 57 RTA2S X 2T G

In all ilK braneliex, earefnlly attended to. A full stock of Undertaker's (l„nd- constantly ou

baud. Our Hear, c is one of the liaost in this section of the State.

HANNA & BLACK, 14 and 16 E. Washington St.

An Awinl ftg)u wiili iaElives.

Atlanta Constitution,

The particulars of a ban 1 to-hand

men with knives at

^ i;,.

yift-, I'u ,i!,v Vatli 1 ^ " ,l ‘ ll ■ 1

Tub Star and the Chicauo Wekki.# 0,, HUis m » crowd

fell through the sky light of an adjoin-

atid used offensive

ing building, and was found dying on the Nkwk for $1 ->0

Total. 50 L>2 630 | parlor llnor. | inent.

year—see advertise-i' an! s ua K e ‘ Lllis applied

’ wbicli s > angered tha old

an epithet

man that he ' bndv.

drew ids knife, and the two wont to work ranticully. Kliis cut Chainblia first. ( h, *' nb ! i:t d o J S'‘‘l Hie blows and struck h;o-k in rap'd succoasion. Finally ChamMis f. il to the ground on his face, when LLis made a lunge „• and (|r0Te th(j steel deep into the old man’a back. Chatnb!is w t; found to he cut ,n nino places: Ins head was nearly severed from his

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