Many, Many thanks to Antoinette for typing this up. I know this was REALLY hard to read. 120 YEARS AGO NORTH VERNON SUN North Vernon, Indiana Thursday, July 8, 1880 =================== Local and Miscellaneous News ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pretty warm, thank 'ya. Hope, Ind., has a population of over 800. Spencer township has a population of 1802. Jesse Babcock has migrated to Pennsylvania. William Mefford moved to Seymour on Tuesday. Henry Bruning has been promoted to a conductorship. John W. Haney has moved from Columbus back to Edinburg. Remember the ratification meeting on Thursday night and come. The Vernon Band makes a nice appearance in their new uniforms. Dr. Green lost a cow last week, supposed to have been killed by lightning. Much complaint reaches us of damage to wheat by the recent wet weather. The Ministerial Institute of this Confernece is now in session in this City. Charles Meloy's display of fire works Saturday night was a beautiful sight. Miss Minnie Silverstein and Mrs. King, of Columbus, are visiting Mrs. Levy. Dr. Green and family have gone to Mt. Auburn to spend a few days with friends. The Brunetts will hold another Camp Meeting on the Fair Grounds in August. The Seymour Lever has died again and the Daily Democrat resurrected to its place. Miss Maggie Dickerson, of Versailles, is visiting Mrs. John N. Dickerson, in this city. The telegraph men, acting on H. G.'s advice, have gone west to go up with the wires. The Picnic at Hardenburg was attended by a large crowd. It was an enjoyable affair. Johnny Meyers and family, of Cincinnati, spent the Fourth with their relatives in this city. The colored people have determined to hold a Camp Meeting on the Fair Grounds, in August. Our livery man did a good business last Sunday. The driving was fine too, so we were told. Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Kane, Sunday night, a son, and its name is Winfield Scott Hancock Kane. Harry Smith greets our readers with another booming "ad", this week. Read it. Every word is true. Since taking Dr. Lindsay's Blood Searcher that old sore of mine is entirely cured. Sold by all druggists. Stickney's show, like its fellow predecessors, exhibited to small audiences Friday afternoon and evening. The best remedy for liver complaint is Sellers Liver Pills. Only 25 cents per box. Sold by all druggists. The 3d of July was observed as a National holiday by the young people, who enjoyed a picnic in Noon's Grove. D. L. Heugh, of Butlerville, tried Clifty "fatal ford", in Bartholomew county last week and barely escaped with his life. Columbus has a debt of $80,000 hanging over her and yet her councilmen are not afraid to meet. The council is democratic. Mrs. C. H. Krutchback died early Wednesday morning. She had been confined to her bed and room for more than a year. Patrick McGinty paid a street hawker $5 for a lot of soap that he could have purchased from any responsible dealer for a cent. A number of prominent speakers will be in attendance at the ratification meeting Thursday night, and we hope to see a large crowd out. Our census enumerator has most finished his work in this city, but informs us that we will not be able to squeeze out a 2,000 population. In the Fourth Congressional District a man cannot be found who is willing to make the race against Hon. W. S. Holman for Congress. It is thought the "tramp" who shot Geo. Wallace, is not much of a tramp after all. He gave bond in the sum of $1,000 and was released from Aurora Jail last Monday. A prominent republican remarked to us recently that the principle plank in the platform of that party was office, and to retain which was the sole aim of the bolting councilman. John Y. Smith has a curiosity in the shape of a hen that has raised two broods of chickens neither of which has been weaned, but both the little and the big are following her. John Powell, of Elizabethtown, was attacked by a mad bull last week and shaken up until the bones of his ankle and one of his arms were snapped asunder. He will probably recover. A rumor reaches us of a rough and tumble fight betwen two females in first ward that resulted in the sister of one of our leading republican politicians getting a sound threshing. Horace Scott's Fourth of July excursion trip from Greensburg to North Vernon did not run as was advertised a short time since. We hope we may be favored with a cheap ride over that much-talked-of line July 4th, 1881. James S. Smith, of Vernon, and Mrs. Minerva, of Madison, were married at the residence of W. Y. Monroe, at Madison, last Thursday night. The groom is upwards of eighty years old and this is his fourth marriage. The bride is upwards of sixty and this makes the third time she has taken the marriage vow. If age has anything to do with it, this couple is certainly competent to enter into a contract of this character. COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE. Compiled from Competent Correspondents Cipherings ______________ Butlerville Bass Buglings. Jacob Weaver has completed his arrangements and will move to Zenas immediately. James Craig is engaged shipping Blackberries to J. W. Pell & Co., Louisville. It is currently reported that J. C. Lee's crop of wheat, raised on his farm this season, netted him upwards of six hundred bushels. The Methodists will hold their Quarterly Meeting Sunday, July 18th, in the Grove. It will resolve itself into a basket meeting. Wm. Fitzgerald and M. Clerkin, who have been attending school at Ladoga and preparing themselves for teachers, have returned to their homes. A number of our people who attended the Temperance Meeting at your city Sunday night, were greatly disappointed on account of the nonappearance of W. W. Garry. It is charged in a certain circle that you made the announcement in order to draw a crowd for Dann. [We published the notice just as it was handed us by the temperance people - Ed.] The celebration at this place on the Third, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather, was a success. John Overmyer, Rev. Evans and others, delivered addresses that were well received; and a pleasant meeting of old neighbors was had. Newt. Ross' cow attempted to do what that male bovine so ingloriously failed to do--butt an engine off the track; and now she is quietly sleeping in her little grave, near the saw-mill. Sold to the railroad company. Lovett Laconics. The corn crop is smartly in the grass. The blackberry crop nearly all harvested. Prof. Savers and wife were seen on our streets a few days ago. A first class school teacher is wanted at No. 9 Lovett township. W. T. Hacker and wife were visiting in the West End last week. Samuel V. Chambers and mother were visiting here a few days ago. The shot gun policy was inaugurated over in Marion township a few days ago. August Seagran (sp ?) the born thresher of Jennings county, will commence threshing next Monday. The Baptist church of Teacreek, will hold a basket meeting at their church one week from Sunday. Continued wet weather has kept farmers from stacking their wheat, besides doing considerable damage to the crop. A knock-down occurred between Pete Lux and Mike Meyers at Four Corners last Sunday. The difficulty adjusted before 'Squire Rairden the day following.