A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Illinois > Pike http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=615 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=29647 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: Pike County Demcrat Article Date: July 23 1885 Article Description: Local and Otherwise Article Text: Local and Otherwise The Instiute is well attended and the exercises progressing satisfactorily to all. Y. A. P. where are you? and if dead, why are you dead? If only speechless, write and tell us why. Isn't it most time that the official directory of the Herald was overhauled. It looks a good deal like a fourth of July market report with a new date. We are not disposed to make a blow about the Democrat, but please compare the quality of its reading matter and its news with any of the $1.50 concerns. The following marriage licenses were issued since our last: Chas. Campbell, Sarah Campbell; Hugh McKay, Mary Campbell; Geo. McLaughlin, Ettie McKinney; Theodore T. Crawford, Anna Whittaker. There will be an Ice Cream Festival at the Christian Church in Time on Saturday evening July 25th, for the benefit of the church. A cordial invitation extended our friends and neighbors. Readings of thermometer at Harder's drug store at 2 P.M. each day, Friday July 17th, 93 degrees; Saturday, 18th, 95 degrees; Sunday, 19th, 96 degrees; Monday, 20th, 97 degrees; Tuesday, 21st, 98 degrees; Wednesday, 22nd, 93 degrees. Elder E. R. Childers of Pittsfield will preach in the Christian church at New Hartford on next Lord's day at 11 o'clock a.m. and at Martinsburg on the first Lord's day in August at 11 o'clock a.m. For originality of accessories, accuracy of drawing, purity of color and tone and delicacy of finish, there was on exhibition at the Hansford & Martin art display nothing finer than the water color portrait of W. Ellis' little daughter, Quincy, Ill. There was a lively runaway last week (Friday) when the horse of Mr. George Shriver ran off with the buggy to which it was attached and upon getting loose from it, left it badly demoralized. Fortunately no one was hurt by the runaway, save and except the horse and buggy. Some boys were arrested yesterday for robbing hen roosts. We withhold names, but such petty stealing is but taking the first of steps that lead to the penitentiary. Let them ponder well on the fact that a good name is beyond price and that the stain of such actions will stick to them for years and be a reproach hard to outgrow. We met at the Springs, Sunday a Mr. Arndt of Cincinnatti, O., who came there about ten days since, nearly dead with the yellow jaundice. He is rapidly recovering, and those who saw him when he came say they never witnessed so wonderful a change. He is very happy over his improvement, and enthusiastic in praise of the Springs. The house of Mr. G. M. Pursley near the railroad between here and Maysville was burned one day last week with most of its contents. Mrs. P. had gone away to spend the day and he was at work some distance away. There was no one about the house at the time. It was insured for $900, in the Continental, but the loss claimed is $1,500. Burglars entered the store of H. C. Duffy at Louisiana Friday night, by removing several panes of glass from a rear window, and appropriated several suits of clothes. They dressed themselves from hat to shoes with the choiciest in his stock, and leaving their old clothes as a momento of their visit they departed silently as they came. With eggs at six cents a dozen, it would seem a poor speculation to steal them from under the setting hens, the probability that those so stolen not proving very palatable being very great, and the labor of the theft proving a loss. Several hens of ours have been robbed recently and we should very much like to know how the thieves enjoyed the eggs they got, but we do not suppose that they will tell. A gentleman who called on us this week, mentioned in the course of our conversation that he has a ewe that had borne him two lambs, this year, one in February and the other in this month. A far more remarkable occurrence that he spoke of however is that a turkey gobbler in his neighborhood prepared a nest in the manner customary among turkies, and started in to set according to the usual manner, but without eggs. The lady owning the turkey made up for this by putting under him twenty-four hen's eggs, and he has been steadily setting for the last two weeks or more. It would seem as if he had rather more of the maternal than the paternal instinct, and is evidently a very handy bird to have round the place. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com