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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1880
Page
4
The Star reports a Bureau of Statistics finding that Indiana has enough fencing to circle the world thirteen times. It totals 111 USD 391 rods of fence across various types, totaling about 344 201 miles with rail, plank, post and rail, wire, sine, willow, and other fences. No current estimate of fencing capital is provided.
Lizzie Barton, born to poor but dishonest parents, rose early as a skilled thief in McLean and surrounding counties. She stole horses and wagons in daylight, faced multiple arrest attempts, and was jailed and freed due to youth, later named leader of a Long Point gang accused of stealing under $4,000 in horses and property.
Reports describe hogs in Grass Valley California gorging on spilled wine from a cask, acting frisky belligerent and imbalanced. Also recounted are the death by self after a dismissed policeman in St Louis and a deranged preacher in Troy New York, plus a fatal brawl at Richmond Indiana between Hawthorn and Pierce.
Queeney Illinois marshal captures Lizzie Barton in Quincy with a horse and buggy she stole last October. She is about seventeen, described as five feet three, slender with rosy cheeks and dark eyes. Barton has led a long trail of petty thefts and horse thefts across Dewitt County and Bloomington before her latest arrest awaiting trial.
Mrs Lucy A Still of Sharon Mills Pennsylvania wandered into Damey Swamp seven miles from home to visit a sick son. Stranded for seven days amid deep bog she clung to a hemlock tree feeding on crackers and snow while hunters heard her cries and rescued her. She survived on scant sustenance and drink, with deer visions and a panther encounter reported. She was brought to her son’s house where doctors expected she may recover mentally.
Stonesdale Corres reports Jerry Greening, famed hunter of Uosylvania, engages in a grand bear hunt in Pike County before a cold snap. He carries provisions for a two day trip and has previous adventures with wildcats bears and deer.
Jerry Greenings recounts a perilous night in a cave after a bear drags off a buck. He fires on the bear, enters the cave by torch, is wounded, hides in darkness, and defeats the bear with his knife. He finds two bear cubs to raise as pets. the cave floor is littered with bones.
The Marietta Journal describes rocks falling on Isaac Reed and his four children while picking cotton on Newton Cates land. Stones rose and fell, some hot, as neighbors witnessed the phenomenon confirming the events. A boy and Hazel were struck as similar manifestations occurred elsewhere in the state and Virginia.
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