Stanley.F G JOHNS. Correspondent People stilldrlllingwheat.r-'* WJi -itight rain Wednesday; enough to stopdust*from flying. •' 5 ' ,as been very sick the past;* '**#y■ r*-ZKi* 11 PESfti_*-vpraiith broken; twelve hours slow, steady rain fell upto.Tuesday noon. Thanks, many thank's, for .water was scarce}VC .. . .. v - • — - • • .■ ,j ».I0. S. Hedges was herexoUectlng old* Iron, 1 ast Friday; ^predict Gale is going to,startfoundry hbElberfeld since the • discovery of toai.' ' _ . . '.. -: * a. :F.'McSwane received a painful wound on the , head from some unknown person while on his way from Evansville to Boon-Mlle, ib^tbck^rowh through the car win* dow at Stephen's Station. . . ,Amos t. Greer, recorder elect and family visited at his father's, on Sunday. It was quite a treat for the children to get hack to ^Stanley agaiD where they can give full force to their lung power; Myrtle especially.L. B. Ill dens and Elijah Stephens, of Lynn-ville, two old* veterns’ of the Civil war passed through Stanley, Monday. We thought they had started to war from, the gun they carried bn t found out they were looking for game. :t • * ••• V* ,t , , , 1We heard a good republican /say the other day-he wanted to buy some fence wire but the merchants at Elberfeld told him they did not keep It in stock, but would order it for him and told him they thought it would cost him about .three dollars per. 100 lbs. he said, in April two bushels of wheat would have bought loo lbs. of wire and now it will• * }•lt; • |* . t« «* * f , * • r - ! ' 'take five bushels to buy a 100 lbs. of wire. He says he don’t know so well about McKinley Prosperity.