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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1886
Page
3
Dr S D Weir visits Shelburn. Don Carlos cigars sold only at post office lobby. D M Blue and Mary E Menifee appointed postmasters at Merom and Paxton. Various locals visit, travel, and business. Prospects include corn buyers, new shoes, and community events. Public notices include elections and church services.
Simon Kaufman about 25 was declared insane by Justices Davis and Humphreys last Saturday. He escaped Sunday and attempted to throw himself into a cistern in the Wilson building before his mother stopped him and cries drew help. Sheriff Willis sent for admission to the Indianapolis asylum and took him on the night train. The note also reports a successful lecture on Capital and Labor by T. F. Mackey, praise for the talk, and regional notes on the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad earnings, Vincennes Electric Light plans, and the first dirt for the Vincennes Water Works on Feb 23, 1886.
The Methodists at Old Union plan a large meeting. The Pirile schoolhouse will close next Friday. Mr and Mrs Linder Pirtle visited F G Shepherd last Sunday. Mr Booker plans to go to Illinois March first for the summer. Miss Bell Cooksey and sister visited friends in north Jefferson last week. Mr and Mrs B O Figg visited relatives near Antioch last weekend. Will Robinson laments mud on Sunday nights in a ground hog case. Miss Mary Shepherd and Miss Lizzie Robertson visited Miss Cordie Holder last Sunday. Shiloah brothers plan a big meeting soon. Preaching next Sunday morning and evening by Brother Quillin Shorty.
Local notes report a revival at Mt. Tabor led by Rev. Moore and Advents planning a Baptist revival. Sanger J. B. Springer buried after short illness. Prof. Boone’s Graysville school closed with praise from pupils. Fox drive drew nearly five hundred participants and mixed line results.
Pittsburg column reports Jas McAnally sick with lung fever and Tom Gilman missing a valued roost er worth 5. Miss Ura Railsback recuperating, Lettie Spear leaving for Missouri, Linna Mahan back home from visit, and Frakes recovering from a broken leg. Rev W M Johnson leads Embury church protracted meeting. Local roads, winter school closings, and a ten week spring term noted. Primary race heats interest as assessor emerges as key issue. Dr Thralls pays telegram fee and protests. Railroad expansion hints spark talk of the iron horse crossing Jackson township. Community figures Stark Vanarshall Anderson and Johnson attend Embury. Tom Gilman offers to aid any inquiry into church youth charges. Protracted meetings provoke moral concern about public schools.
Jackson Rich is in declining health. Mrs J Bilwen is confined to her room with lung fever. Marshall Bailey is erecting a new barn. John Mosier is the expert employed. Talton Hawkins is in poor health with rheumatic pains. William Raines returned from Buell City where he visited friends. G A Ferree has a sprained ankle. Some of our young gentlemen have serious business at Sherburn. Steve Leach hums bye obaby to a bouncing dish-washer while Mat Walters teases a plow boy. Felix Benefield of Hastings Nebraska.
The Sullivan county Democratic Central Committee met at the Court House in Sullivan on February 6 1886 to fix the date for the primary election. John C Briggs was chosen chairman and Arista B Williams secretary pro tem. The committee set Friday February 26 1886 as the primary day with polls from 8 am to 6 pm and named inspectors for each township. They adopted rules restricting voters to bona fide Democrats and residents of their precincts.
In Terre Haute Circuit Court Judge Mack heard Administrators of James Drake v Thomas Hagerman. Hagerman admits debt of 250 dollars but claims he paid it, testifying he cannot read. The forgery question concerns Drake’s signature on a receipt, impacting Hagerman’s reputation. The case was put under advisement.
A brief note on using electricity to speed button production. Buttons are fed onto a grooved inclined plane that narrows to one per channel while the plane shakes, allowing continuous single-file passage aided by machinery and electrical power.
Describes a carding machine section where metal shank buttons are guided by feather belting and moved by pulleys toward a groove, then fixed by an electro magnet with a comb shaped pole. A cross bar and spiral spring drive the loop, with timing precision noted as remarkable.
In Heilbron Germany a prize was offered for the best observatory design. Fifty four plans competed and the winning tower appears in the picture. The top was the designer’s main challenge to be set amid forty eight foot trees and visible from afar while remaining affordable at under 3000 dollars. The tower promises picturesque appeal.
A Columbus Georgia woman visiting the electric light plant found her watch ran slow when carried but kept correct time at home. A jeweler found no magnetism, yet a bystander advised wearing a second corset. After wearing two corsets the watch kept proper time. The corset steels had been magnetized.
A literary man Henry Guy Carleton builds an electrical balance to detect firedamp in mines and a Gilliland patent enables telegraphing from a moving train. The concept, linked to Edison ally Wiley Smith, uses a battery on the train, an operator, and car roofs and copper wires to condense signals.
The article explains how electrical signaling travels from a starting station along railway lines to a moving train via telegraph wires and the car wheels. It notes current returns to the station, electrified roofs, and copper lines enabling bidirectional message transmission as the core of this discovery.
The piece argues against tight headgear and promotes weekly washing with soap and water, sun exposure, and straw hats to prevent baldness. It blames fur caps and felt hats for hair loss and claims hair can regrow if exposure is improved. It warns against excessive smoking and urges natural hair care.
A Popular Science News item explains wood durability varies with orientation. Moisture moves more readily in the direction of growth, so a gate post with butt end up decays faster than top up. Microscopic pores draw moisture upward, while hindering downward movement.
The excerpt notes Massachusetts has legalized cremation and cites broader debates in Congress over inoculation for yellow fever. It also reviews mortality estimates from chloroform and smallpox in Europe, with vaccination reducing army cases. It adds a medical tip for removing foreign bodies from the eye using flaxseed beneath the lower lid.
Illustrated fashion notes describe petticoat velvet trimmed party frocks for girls ages 9 to 11 with lace and plastron details and matching leg accessories. Styles shown include a white serge and sapphire velvet princesse dress and a white boncla cloth gown with boucle scarf. Also instructions for crocheted and knitted leggings for children and women, plus tips on ribbing and shaping for a knee length finish.
The Hudnots announce they pay the highest price for white, mixed and yellow corn and suggest contacting C. W. Cooper of Merom Indiana to obtain his prices.
Mrs. John Sherwood's book Manners and Social Usages will inform readers about etiquette from calling cards to dinner giving and related social customs. The volume outlines proper conduct and decorum for polite society.
The piece describes lace topped Lonz kid gloves, watered silk fashion returning in costume combinations, ribbon bows on bodices, and diamond cantellations worn as diadems. Gentlemen favor pongee linen handkerchiefs over silk, guimpes in white muslin with velvet dog collars, and winter suit costumes with fur trimmed jackets.
The column notes February birthdays of Victor Hugo and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hugo, born Besancon 1802, famed for The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables, was exiled, returned to liberty, and died in 1835. Longfellow, born Portland Maine 1837, became Harvard professor and prolific poet, died 1882 in Cambridge.
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