Fights Reported in New Bern Saturday Night
Several fights occurred in New Bern on Saturday with multiple bloody Moses visible among the ten counties. Officials say no one was seriously hurt.
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Newspaper
Columbus Democrat
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1877
Page
2
Several fights occurred in New Bern on Saturday with multiple bloody Moses visible among the ten counties. Officials say no one was seriously hurt.
A country youth Barnabas Allen Darrick visits the Bartholomew County teacher examiner to prove his literacy and arithmetic. He boasts he can "lay it over" any man, but falters at questions about Boston Indianapolis and the U. S. capital. He leaves vowing to improve while mailing a postal card to the examiner.
A Jackson street child nearly burned to death when he emptied a quarter pound of blasting powder from a found package into a pile and touched it with a flame. The blast singed his face and body though the eyes were saved, and the incident serves as a warning against keeping gunpowder at home.
Clay Township News notes a Clay Grange meeting set for Saturday night Aug 11 with important business on hand. Several threshers from T News threshing disrupted by a delayed supper. Clifty Chapel Sunday School plans to join Brush Creek Union Sunday School. Threshing wheat remains the main draw with yields reported high. Washington May reports 35 bushels per acre on one field and 25 bushels per acre average across about 35 acres.
The Democrat reports a Sunday School picnic under Burnett schoolhouse directions on the Columbus and Burnsville road six miles east of Columbus with speakers including Mrs. James Newsom, a Quaker preacher, and a brass band. Hawpatch Grange No.80 holds August 15 meetings to plan two Grange Fairs, urging wheat samples and full attendance. A separate notice invites Grangers and others to a grove basket picnic August 16 with regalia and banners.
Cuiiaco August 8 official word confirms a severe engagement with Indians in Texas. Two officers and 26 enlisted men were killed, the remaining force reached Fort Condor with five privates and 40 horses. The unit endured 86 hours without water amid terrible conditions. Details await fuller dispatches in coming days.
A Brooklyn Elk Association wedding ended with a playful auction of the bride’s satin slipper. Bidding started at 70 and rose to 125 with guests competing until a winner paid 150. The groom and bride watched amused as the event sparked laughter and curiosity about the slipper’s value.
A satirical column mocks editors in Columbus and the Ledger-Standard, notes on a local “oldest editor” dispute, and praises Brown and the Democrat. It then riffs on mosquitoes with a lamp and bucket, beauty and bustles, flirtatious sidewalk crowds, a New Jersey man who shot at a cat and wounded his wife, a wife’s trust in her husband, a new English country-house trend on barges, and youth railroad directors. A Cincinnati block joke closes with a quip about a new lodger on the fifth floor.
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