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Newspaper
Columbus Democrat
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1877
Page
3
A Saturday picnic at Bowlin's Grove was well attended and peaceful. J Robinson caught a twenty seven pound catfish just below Jim Reed's laboratory on White River Tuesday. Squire Rowe's weight caused talk in town Monday as he walked the streets. He will pay a reward for a deception that will reduce his corpulence.
An annual farm land letting stirs local politics as a trustee pushes to place allies of the Sandcreek administration in reforming positions. Bid by John Sam McCallie fails amid accusations of unfair auctioneering. Other items describe a prank letter mix up, a boy’s mischief, and a baseball score with Blues beating Elizabethtown. quips about a new water meter at the Democrat office.
McRoberts suffers severe limb chafing from a long walk and a prank misapplied glycerine and hartshorn spirits turn into a wild scene. Roach faces a noisy mob at North Vernon awaiting possible lynching after a horse theft arrest. Pedestrian champion A J Gordon returns, hinting at another record attempt, while his trainer Deak visits the Drno-CRAT.
The Bartholomew county institute and picnic will be held at Columbus Indiana on September 5 and 6 1877. The meeting opens Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Presbyterian church with county workers instructing attendees. Every superintendent teacher and Sunday school worker should attend and each school should send five delegates. Thursday features a union Sunday school picnic at the fair ground with singing and speeches. Bring baskets and children for a day of fellowship and celebration. By order Ex. Com. J M Wauracs pres T A Moors sec
A grand Sunday School picnic is planned near Otter Creek School House in Clay Township Bartholomew County Indiana on the Columbus and Hartsville turnpike six miles east of Columbus Friday August 31 1877. Speakers include Rev J B Reager Joseph Cotton Z T Sweeny T R Palmer W R K Burton and W I Young with vocal and instrumental music.
Part of the session covers Biblical Geography teaching by Prof Mobley of Hartsville and a teacher’s meeting by Rev FR Holland of Hope. Icecream and strawberries served by Rev Sweeney of Columbus delight children and elders, with singing by Hope Moravian and Norristown Sabbath Schools. The piece then drifts to quips about a tea tasters experience and a San Francisco plan for protection, and ends with a note on a subterranean cedar forest in New Jersey flats and the state’s subsidence.
Frederick Cavill started from Cape Grizenez at 3 40 pm and finished near Dover at 3 45 am after a perilous crossing of the English Channel. He was brought aboard due to rough seas and dangerous breakers making landfall unsafe.
A St Louis Globe Democrat item recounts Mathew and John Russell of Brush Creek near Wellsville Ohio famed for wealth and frugality. They avoided marriage politics and religion, sold their farm for 15000 then lived in a pig pen hovel hoarding money. After John’s death the survivor died July 20. administration filed in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The estate is valued at about 150000 and will pass to cousins.
A lengthy scene portrays a Maryland shore county dinner with canal ham oysters terrapina and peach brandy amid winter hospitality despite civil war losses. Interludes mirror childhood joy with verse and a boy describing piracy and dukes. A St Louis pupil offers a humorous definition of responsibility tied to suspender buttons.
A compilation of curious anecdotes from South Carolina and other places. The Charleston News, and Courier cites a land commissioner avoiding interruptions with a dummy figure, a note from a husband asking a handkerchief, and various short vignettes. Also includes farming by James M. Perry, a 1864 Tecumseh wreck note, and miscellaneous quips about Noah, ark bees, and patience in hens.
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