Greencastle Star, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 January 1881 — Page 2
THANKS! Owing to the kindnos* of my cu«tomcr» I have been enabled to do more than triple the bunineas tlu' past year, as compared with any previoua year of my buainesa life in (ireencaitle. Notwithstanding the extraordinary large sales in the past, with the aid of the telegraph and express coup'ios, I have now a full itod complete stock in all lines. I can, In all candor. say that I believe I now hare the larg' st stock of goods in my line in Western Inilinna, and in the future as in the p ist, ray prices shall be as low as is consistent with good work and goods.
JUST RECEIVED !
20 Cases of Elgin Corn. 25 Cases of Bay View Tomatoes. New Caliloruia Canned Peaches,
Apricots and White Cherries. Also, Fine Line of New
Four Mru FaluUy Itium-d. New York. Jan. 6.—This forenoon an explosion of varniuh occurred in Peter Doelger's brewery, No 1100, First avenue, by which four men wore so badly injured that they must in all probability lose their lives. The men were varnishing barrels in the vatni-h room, when a lamp was incautiously brought too near the inflammable fluid. The fumes of the varnish were ignited, and with a fltsh the vat containing the varnish was set on
For twenty days we will offer 13 O
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Java, Mocha, Golden Rio and Green Rio COFFEES. O IE3: US _A- IP _
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Darnall Bros. & Co’s.,
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Qreencartle and Spencer, Ind.
THE STAR. Frank A. Ahnold, F.ditor ami Propnetoi
Saturday, Jan. 15, lb81
Messrs Orth and Cumback withdrew from the contest for United Stales Senator. and Ben. Harrison received the Republican caucus nomination by acclama-
tion.
Perils
TERMS..
. Sl-OI per year.
In another column we publish the interesting pans of Governor Porter's mes'atre. As will be noted, he opposes the
Entered at the Postottice, Ureencastle Ind.. as second class mail matter.
fire. An explosion like a clap of thunder followed, and the burning fluid was scattered through the room in all directions, with the sundered staves of the ^
varnish barrels. It fell upon the work- Comprising It full
men lise a shower of fire, and with blazing heard and clothes they ran from the , room shouting for help. Their follow j workmen, alarmed at the explosion, came j to the rescue promptly, hut before the j burning clothes could be lorn Irom their bodies the four men were most fright-
fully disfigured.
While efforts were being made to ex- \ tinguish the flames in the varnish room, 1
—■ ——- the police were called and nmhtilences ; tmU VI isli ;i ps AltoiuliMK wu'e telegraphed for from the nearest! Winter Sports. j station, and the sufferers were taken to
Heating; Stoves
assortment of all the regular patterns, at L3ss than Manufacturer s Prices I
If you need anything in this line, come at once and Buy SLaon
at nearly your own prices.
H. S .BEIIICK KO.
Stella Rur.'ees, an Elmo, N. Y., belle aged 19, broke through the ice while skating at Southport Tuesday, and was
drowned.
In hunting in a stalk field near How! - ing Green, Edward Mullins shot his
calling of a constitutional convention, | friend George Hutchison, mistaking him ■ ^ , m j
recommends the appointment of a Hoard ! for game.
Beilevuo Hospital, where the physicians declared their injuries fatal. The names <>f the men are John Harrio, aged 57, No. 1000 Fir-t avenue; John Flamer, aged 20, No. 1008, First avenue; Anton*Wintseureck. aged thirty-three, No. 1016, First Avenue; William Hrown, aged twenty, |
avenue.
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of Visitors to oversee the State bunevo-
Thk doctors are still harping on a med i,. nt institutions, two of the members of ical bill they wish passed by the Eegis- w hich should bo women, ami also urges Isture, the sum and substance of which is ,he adoption of measures to reclaim the to protect physicians of the different | . wa , np | an ,) 8 0 f I n< Jia, a , but opuses ties schools in the practice cf the profession, cr ,.ation of a Board of I’ttr.h.ks, and prevent too great an increase in the {- ranks of the profession, lest competition 1 hf.kk is now a movement on foot for should lead to cutting of rates. purchase of Central American terri-
tory. On Monday last Congressman Buckner, of Missouri, presented a bill re tpiesting the I’resident to open negotia-
tml is \«t Kni'|»ass<‘<l for \e\vs, linsinrss
KcUm'I Itrudiniff.
Krports. I.itorary and
State Legislatures seem to be growingiuto rather useless anil expensive lux unes. The Legislature of any Fiate in this Union could get through all the business necessary to the welfare of the State in ten days, and do it better than
tions with Mexico or the Central Ameri can States for the purchase or cessation of territory for the voluntary coloniz.ntion
, . , , , ; of the colored population of this country, usual, if their was less logrolling and iu- .• i .
6 b 1 ms p-oposition is by no means new. It
political wire-pu.ling going on. Is there I no way to work this much-needed refor-
mation.
was up under President Lincoln, and an -nitcome was the granting of the Chirique tract on the Isthmus from ocean to ocean
The Crawfordsville Review of last to American citizens, for the purpose ad week contains a communication from Mr vocated by Buckner. This grant is still James A. Mount, a farmer ol Montgomery ! w force, and has recently attracted alienCounty, giving an itemized statement ol [tion on account of the interoceanic canal his receipts for a 2(X)-acre farm, and also I communications. U’he United States has his family expenses and outlay for farm | recently established coaling stations of necessaries for the year 1880. The ag-i either terminus of the grant lor United gregate receipts were $8 213 85: aggre-! States vessels,
gate expenses and outlay. $1,408 70; net'
profit o: the farm for one year, * 1.408 70 T,,E mcd ' c * ] biU ,H ‘ fort - thc Legi.laturc The above is a splendid showing, and | reC,t '' 8 11,9 r ' < ‘ uisile8 neces ^ r y t0 ^ merits emulation by all tillers of the i CUre l,Cense t0 ^ ractice '“eUicine, and also jj i so sets forth those high crimes and mis|demeanors that shall disqualify a man Os Monday a bill was introduced in ; for the practice of the profession. One Congress, lowering the charges for mon-i of the crimes laid down is “unprofossioney orders—a needed refoim which we al conduct,” and our readers will no hope will become law. Tho bill pro-, doubt be pleased to learn t*it "unprovides that a money order shall be issued lessional conduct," as lui<l down by the lor sums in excess of $5, and establishes 1 code, is to advertise in a newspaper or in tho following rates: Money order not; any other way; to consult with a physicxceoding $5, five cents; exceeding $5; cian of another school of medicine; to and not exceeding $10, eight cents; ex- charge less for services than the scale of ceeding $10 and not exceeding $15, elev- prices adopted by the physicians’"uiiion,” on cents; exceeding $15 and not exceed- (or. in professional parlance, association,) ing $20, thiiteen c. nts; exceeding $20 and 1 of the county or di-tiict wherein practice and not exceeding $25, fifteen cents; is done; to respond to a call and prescribe exceeding $25 and not exceeding $30. j for a patient, when said patient had been
seventeen cents; exceeding $iO and not { previously visited by another physician j into his lung,
exceeding $35, nineteen c*'tits; exceeding who had not yet teen dismissed from $35 and not exceeding $■10, twenty-one further attendance; and so on through a cents; exceeding $40 and not exceeding string as long as your arm. Our opin$45, twenty-three cents; exceeding $45 {ion is that thc ‘'medical bi!l”shouldreand not exceeding $50, twenty-five cents; i ceive a “heroic” course of pruning beexceeding $50 and not exceeding $Go. fore receiving the votes of the legislative
Solons.
f , Later.—New York Jan. G.-Thefour PUBLISHES MORE REA' ING MATTER FOR THE MONEY THAN Harry Kerr of Oluan. N. Y., lies in a meo j n j ur ,. ( | by the explosion at Dool- 1 ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER IN THE COUNTRY,
precarious condition from the collision ; brewery died late to-night in Bel-
of his sled with a jutting p'ank while . | t vue Hospital,
coasting. A splinter pierced his body.
Otto G. I’age.aged 14, of Omaha, while u "« ■>»»«"“« Ku.ncJ A I I*KK to K«.<l. Va.rl.v
skating on the lake, slipped into an air hole, and was not missed by his compan
ions until life was extinct. Sunday hunting cost Matt
Jloflirr and Dnugliicr Iturnctf
To Ocntli.
Ft. Scott, Khs , Jan. C—A terrible
'accident, resulting in two deaths, occur- "end'u^Vdoll'ar
„ . , - - i of one yeT as followKl
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.utmr. Mills la., ins tile, and rredrick this county. In passing an open fire! cost—the books being Harper’s Editions, unabridged, beautifully printed on good paper, iu
Hurt of 1’elham, N. H., lost his by put- I ting his gun in the wagon with the bai-
rels pointing toward him.
The brother of John Stevenson of Unionville, Ohio, cut a hole through the ice on the river for the purpose ol gigging fish. John came along on skates slid into the hole, aud was drowned.
I
place the dress of Miss Davis took (ire, and she immediately rushed out into the yard, and under the action of a strong wind, she was almost instantly enveloped in flumes. Her mother made frantic efforts to save her daughter, and in doing so her own clothes caught fire, and before help arrived her clothes were
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lost the rabbit but will lose his occupation as breaknian, as the result of a hunting excursion. He carried a now rloublobarrelled shot gun that exploded and
tore off his left hand.
Ai.K r ri:.vi> <*0., Proprietors Cincinnati Commercial,
tiro felt good 1 J. K. Lanadon is .rent for the Cincinnati Daily anil Weekly Commorcial at Ureoncastle.
. , , 'InH. Sub'crinrioni pvt with him w ill meet with erompt attention.
thirty cents; exceeding $50 and not exceeding $70. thirty-five cents; exceeding $70 and not exceeding $80, forty cents; exceeding $80 and not exceeding $100,
forty-five cents.
Ani> a bill is now before Congress, looking to tho regulation of interstate commerce. It provides against the dis criminations and eri'itles a party who tnaf have been discriruitcd against to r«
The Congressional apportionment ren-
When Robert Christy’s gun was itis-
charged by his slipping from a log, T li« JlitilttlK. pieces of his watch chain, coat, vest, and I Chicaoo, Jan. 12—1’he Drovers', shirt were transferred from his person i 'I^urnnl of this afternoon reports: He was but IG years of! linos.—The receipts for to-day were age, and lived in Plummer, Pa. ' 12,000 head, the shipments were 1,800 c i fii 11 . . , . . h''ad- The market was strong after a Sidney Tallerdap of Elkhart, Ind., had , , .. ,, ..... ... . weak opening, and all were sold. Sales killed one rabbit, and was cleaning him or . , , , . .. b I were made of common to good mixed for the spit, when h.s dog accidentally ; h kit)K ^.0,^,4 lj t|t
bacon hogs, $4.70@4 90; choice heavy
tzeeieu
Furniture
struck the hammer of his gun, which he held with the muzzle against his breast
and he fell dead.
James Whiteside, aged 21, of Lawrence
aftbrd.menibers of Congress an opporiunity to barter with each ether for the sacrifice of general to local and individual interests. The present numbor|of representatives in the House is 293; but ol course there is no necessity for keeping Ibis number and its incieasc will give
cover in the Courts double the amount of State another tnembei. Hence,
d. red necessary by the late census will [ Township Ind., was all excitement as his
companion scared up for him a number of rabbits. His gun slipped from his
hogs at $4 95®5 30 per 100 lbs. Packers
bought all.
Duke Catti.k.—-The receipts for to-day were G 503 bend; the shipments were 1 009 head. Th ro were few export cattle. The market was strong and act-
wsti
injury ho may have received. It further provides that corporulions engaged n< common carriers in inter-Siate traffic shall each year, upon the 1st of October, report to the Secretary of tho Interior upon the following subject Their capital stock, funded debt, liabilities, ass* ts, revenue, expenditures, property, number
plans have been made not only on a basis of 293 but of 3i 0 and 325 while some Congressmen may even demand 350 members. Between ‘293 and ?25 almost ev. ry increase by a single member and certainly any increase by five affects one or more States. Thus each Congressman, instantly on th > auggeat-
hand, and the entire charge went into bis i ive; sales weie made of choice! abdomen, causing instant death. -hipping and fair export cattle | — -- at $5 00@5 70; common to good; Chinamen in Han Francisco buy their n 8 $4 (A)®4 95, supply heavy; wives of importers, paying from $:iU0 to butcher cattle weak, common to choice $1,500, according to physical quality. I very slow and 10® 15c. lower, $2.09® Not much value is placed on mental ac- 3 50; chiefly, $2 40@2 90; stockers and qiiirements, and tho wife may be idiotic feeders steady at $2.90(<t3.80, if also pretty, without depreciation. Chin t Shkei 1 and Lamrs—The receipts for Qui was brought over hy a dealer and! to-day were 1.200 head; the shipmentsold for tho highest price to a posperous were 200 head. Tho maiket was unmerchant. She did not speak for five : changed. Sales were made of common
of passengers carried, amount of freighi ’ io 11 8,) y proposed basis, finds out what carried, rates charged, accidents to offi j number of population that calls for and Cora, employes, and such other matters : hurriedly divides the population of as the Secretary may deem necessary. It i his ow n State by it. If only a trilling also provides lor the appointment ol remainder is left he is satisfied. Bui three Commia-ioners,one of whom ahalL'f® vor y bvfge 'raction remains he loud be a bkided engineer and one a lawyer, Iy cries for an increased tota; of repre whose duty it shall be, in the case of j xentatives which means a smaller minany accident resulting in the loss of life j !,, ' un 'population for any district and by the breaking of a bridge, or fiomotb- xo perhaps enough to secure his State tr eaus s, to summon wiintssea and take anothei" r< presentative. 1 his is the ex r testimony to the Secretary of the Interior j cise in arithmetic that Congressmen are
as to ttie cause and the blame, with such now taking.
recommendations ns they may deem ad- Nice HDained Honey, IG.^c. per visabK to prevent their recurrence. | n, a t TOM ABRAM S tf
days, and ho did not mind her silence for she was beautiful; hut itthe end of that time she began to break the crockery and furniture and he was forced to send her back. She was sold successively to four Chinamen iu six months, and in each case her lunacy took a destructive form her fourth exploit being I the utter destruction of a cigar factory. The imp orter has received $6,()U0 from the four husbands and refused to return
the money.
to medium sheep at $4 15® 4.50 per HJO lbs.; ood to choice sheep, $5.U0®5.50.
The market closed weak.
F O XT r J.' Z y S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS ^ - * •—■*e>iSa ^-ifOUTZM
Have in Hock n full and complete line of Parlor Furniture. Library Furniture. Chamber Set* Dir.inx Hoorn and Kitchen Furniture, Lounaes. IV lent liockcra of the beet etylee. Marble Top and Plain Table*, Picture# and Picture Frames, and In fact, everythin!; deHrable in the Fur niture line.
Largest Stock and Lowest Prices. tr XTDE H T A IE I IT
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In at! it« branch™, carefully attended to. A full Hock of Undortakor'a Uuodi constantly eu hand. Our Hearse is one of the finest in thi- section of the State. | HANNA & BLACK, 14 and 16 E. Washington St.
Wlllctir® or prerent
No Rowan will diw of (JoLir. Bots or rut. If Foutr'i Powder* lire lined In time.
Koutc't Powdrr» w111 cure»ndprevent llo«rwoL«KA i FouLr l Powder* will prevent Caj*** in Fowl* , Foutx't Powder* will Increase the qnNit'tyo! adlk | k»1 rrenni tw»i.ty per cent., and m»kw tke butUr <Uin | VyhiU's Powder* will enre of pre teit nlmoit cTur
infa»« t<» which Home* an>\ C »ttle tire tublecl For r/. a P"U !>ne» will wits ttATiarLCTioJi-
:olio. Bort or Lt w**
»re lined in tlnn urennd pre ten t
Fowl
A dead pauper's coat, at Fort Scott, Kansas, was found to be lined with $5f 0 in good money, which gees to the State, no heir appearing.
»b 1 cream tw«Lt/ p«r cent..
Powder* will enre or pr*'rent time 1 ank to which Horne* and Cattle tire aublect
UTZ’a Pow'Dtaa $gI4 •▼•rywhera.
VAWIT) W. POUTS. Proprietor. BALTIMOILB, MB.
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Tart of the clothing of Daniel Downey |nearly all burned from her person, and of Winslow, Me., was blown completely' l“' r daughter, from whom the fierce through his body by the explosion of flames had burned every shred of her] of his gun as he was climbing a fence : garments, was lying a blackened corpse with the tr.uz7.le against his stomach. I at her feet. The mother lingered twenJamcR Maxwell of Mount Vernon D-four hours in great agony, and then | Ohio, used his gun while hiintimras u 1 ho husband and father was ab— brace on which to leap a ditch. His 1 •■om home at the time, foot struck the hammer, the gun was dis- A youn( . h(ly of NewVork, Miss Oliv charged, and Maxwell lost hts right arm ia ,>. Stoke8 , hag acquired the title of the 1
mi an ear. ‘thirsty horses’ friend.” Because she!
In the regular army Wm. McCcfmick loves to ‘-sen the thirstv horse drink," ; ‘’ nly b >' tb« riches of the vnne^y in^eUet^g^i^^Tite book fora FHKK PIUZE. o Shelbyville. Ky., lost a leg hy the she has erected in Madison Square, in We allow a Cash Commission often per cent, to Agents on each yearly subscription to thr accidental discharge of a gun. and on sieht of her rcsiiloncc „ Weekly Cmnmercial sent to ns. In forwarding subscriptions Aaents will please be careful to . . .. . "i n,r riSI,J,nc e. » elone lour.tain , n|wa jvpin fl|11 (hK Nnm( , < lw . offi ,. eC . ount> j;,.,,,. Ihe ^,1;,,,,.,.^,.^ and tu ^ tll( ,
8atonlay while hunting lost bis arm «>y and drinking trough at an expense of which premium book die eu'scribcr selects.
using bis gun as a crutch in dismounting I $li,(JOO. IF TUB AUKNT PREFERS A FREE BOOK TO A CASH COMMISSION.
! ’ i He may, fur each yearly subsoriplioa sent us select one free book from the above list for him irom a norse. j _ - j solf-1hi» in ndditlon lo to Ihc free book selected by the subscriber.
...... A Chicago woman broke a kerosenel Without reference to the choice of the Club Agent, each yearly iubteriber who pays J1 is
Adam \\ eiss of Alden, Pa., not only 11.„.„ . i , . .. .. entitled to a free book.
i J j'atop. While drunk and the blaz.mg oil The pri/.c books must in all eases be solected «t'hetunc the subscription is sent.
r..n b,.» v i.i. i Terms—Cash in advance. Specimen copies free.
ran over her. A man undertook to put i out the tlamcs, but she furiously fought ^
him off, declaring that the
and that it should not bo extinguished.
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