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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1880
Page
1
Local merchants advertise low prices on lamps chandeliers lanterns coal oil headlight oil wall paper and groceries. Allen’s Drug Store Wyongs Burnett’s Tom Abrams A. L. Goodbar & Son’s and others promote goods from boots to fresh produce with promises of value and cheap Canton flannels at C W Talbert’s corner store.
Richmond report states Clem Canada died November 3 at relatives’ home near Guilford Loudoun County aged about 121. Held by Lee family as a trusted slave from middle age, he managed funds and business for them. Freed twice by legal acts and Lincoln's proclamation, he would have turned 121 in January per a Lee family record.
Court convened on Monday the 13th with Judge Turman presiding forenoon and Judge Eckels appointed special judge for the term due to disability. Disposed cases include larceny burglary assault and battery defalcation intoxication obtaining by false pretenses carrying concealed weapons and numerous civil foreclosures and judgments by default with various sums listed.
The Drovers Journal notes hog receipts 52 000 with shipments 2300 and mixed packing at 4.40 to 4.70 while choice heavies reach 4.75 to 4.90 and quality good. Cattle receipts 7500 with market fairly active yet weaker. exports 5.25 to 5.90 for shipping good to choice, common to medium 4.40 to 5.00, butchers steady 2.00 to 5.20, stockers and feeders 2.80 to 3.40. Sheep receipts 2000 with shipments 1000 and market quiet.
In Scott County Indiana a famed roost draws hunters from across Indiana Kentucky and Ohio each night during the season. Pigeons fill the forest to the low limbs as torches guns and sacks proclaim a bedlam scene with thousands slain nightly. Hog scavenging follows dawn as hunters leave bodies scattered.
Miss Bertha Burgmeier of Jennings County near Six Mile was choked by a cockle bar in her windpipe. She was brought to Seymour for treatment where doctors Gerrish Oppenheimer and Galbraith performed a chloroform anesthesia and cut the throat to push the bar up through the mouth. She can now sit up.
Mrs Henry A Vice and a dozen neighbors bought the New Domestic sewing machine from J F Hill. Mrs Riley Maden acquired a New Home model and Mrs Jas Mason the Imported Williams, all listed among recent purchases.
John Dickson a 35 year old Brooklyner with business ties in New York died after inhaling vapors from a serpent's eggs toy. The retort cracked while he was bending over it and his choking fit proved fatal as he drove his wife and children from the basement.
Two well dressed men calling themselves Fitzherbert and Harcourt duped a Canadian farmer by claiming a walking trip and needing a meal. They hired him to drive to Hamilton, praising the scenery and promising a cashable hotel check for payment. They vanished at the hotel and did not return.
Washington Star reports a late life union between James Bowen aged 70s and Cassie Cissell in Cincinnati. The bride secured an heiress fortune and entered a French marriage with Juan Narcisse de Francisco Martin, agreeing to keep property separate and provide income to her husband. The Roelofson fortune totals $271000 in stock bonds and real estate.
Tip Lundregan pursued Rosa Clairmont in Burlington Ohio where she refused to meet him. He forced entry to a parlor where Clairmont shot him dead. Separately an elopement party in Vincent North Carolina defied parental bans, meeting at a railroad station to wed before a clergyman. Connecticut Universalist ministers plan prolonged meetings statewide to boost interest.
Manuel Johnson a twelve year old girl attempted to kill herself by taking strychnine yesterday morning. She bought the poison at a drug store claiming it was for a rat and hid the act from a companion. She collapsed at school but was saved from immediate danger and is expected to recover. Reed the school principal alerted the druggist and physician who treated her.
Detroit men form a company to build the Fontaine patent locomotive. The design uses dual drive wheels with a large and small pulley system, a balance wheel effect, and no dead centers. Tests near St Wayne showed freight payloads up to 862 tons drawn on grades with apparent ease, with claimed speeds toward 100 mph for freight, by inventor Mr Montaine and patent owners.
Miles Runk of Prairie township Tipton county saved his baby sister from a burning home. While his mother was away the four year old dragged his sister to the road and carried out a blanket and a quilt as flames consumed the house and contents. The boy is praised as precocious and brave and a gold medal is sought for him.
Tony Denier and a select company staged a new pantomime Tickled Ompty Dumpty Newly Hatched before a good house. Laughter and applause from the audience testified to the show’s popularity.
A vintage advertisement promotes PITCHER'S CASTORIA as non narcotic for children. It claims the product fosters growth, pleasing mothers, and earning physician approval. Benefits listed include regulating bowels curing wind colic easing teething feverishness and destroying worms.
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