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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1881
Page
4
A display of gem like watches with sublime movements alongside clocks that promise perfect time. Novelties and an array of silverware feature in dinner and tea service sets showing elegance and variety.
A Montgomery County case records Vincent Smith paying $5 damages and costs for stray cow issues under the estray law. The piece discusses a new tax collection process with notices and possible sale of property for delinquency, compares gas and electric lighting, and cites Salem Massachusetts showing electric streetlamps reducing labor and increasing net city savings.
The state settles Coghlan's 1856 Wabash and Erie Canal bond claim totaling $5,563.15 on a $1,000 principal with interest. Missouri Supreme Court upholds limited ticket rights. A Marion Ohio church funeral turns violent as a melee leads to fines and injuries.
The wool clip has risen fivefold since 1830 from about 320 million pounds to 1.536 billion pounds by 1878, the latest year with complete figures.
Reports tell of a Greene County boy fatally consuming wild turnip for a cough. Grand Jury members questioned as freeholders spark indictments issue. Fires, floods, pestilence, crop losses, and new state laws on education, taxes, landlord liens, and drainage shape Indiana headlines.
Reports of burglary and violence fill items from Indianapolis and surrounding towns. Incidents include a fatal gun discharge near Colfax, a divorce case and murder suicide in Indianapolis, drownings at Longlake, and property losses from fires in Posey and Morgan towns. Also noted are state financials, canal bond litigation, social fads, and grain quotes__.
Acquitted Somerville youth Charles F Williams was deemed insane after murdering Walter Smith in a park, with evidence of prior treatment and a claim he should hang rather than live. The Kentucky Regulators are accused of cowardice after mobbing Billy Niskell. Prof Cannon’s fatal illness follows extreme lifting. Dr James Moore touts lemon juice as smallpox cure, while a Washington life class reveals a masked Psyche model. A Wrightsville mother saves her son from a well, and Sara Sauerbier disinherits a nephew, provoking a contest. A Dakota herder earns 25 000 amid thieves, six gangs are repelled. Two beech trees in Eminence Ky grow joined at nine feet high.
A Vermont incident reports a father guiding his son to prison after a guilty plea in a mail robbery case. In other notes, St Louis lawyers face trouble over forged testimonies by a King murder case defense. New York’s high death rate is linked to crime growth. commodity and livestock markets from Illinois and Indianapolis show weak and strong trends with various price ranges.
This notice advertises The Earl of Mayfield a popular novel now in a square duodecimo volume with paper cover priced at 75 cents. It praises the stylish prose vivid settings from the South to Italy and England, and notes availability through booksellers, news agents, and railroad cars via mail order by Peterson & Brothers of Philadelphia.
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