NORTH VERNON SUN North Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana Thursday ~ ~ June 24, 1880 120 YEARS AGO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Local and Miscellaneous News Picnics popular. Dr. Monroe was at Cincinnati. Lena Levi is visiting at Madison. Clyde McMillan is taking orders for bibles. Morgan Jolly is jerking lightning at Nebraska. Harvey St. Clair of Seymour was in this city last Friday. Miss Nettie Brazeleton was visiting at Columbus last week. Some needed repairs have been completed on the SUN building. The mineral springs at Hardenburg are becoming a favorite resort. Mrs. Dr. Burgess of Cincinnait is stopping at the Reeder house. John Busby has gone to Jeffersonville to work in the ship yards. Pat Dickerson is breaking his two year old colt to drive to a wagon. Fortune favors the brave ~ ~ the cowardly must take care of themselves. Columbus boasts of a society belle that has passed her 80th birth day. The county school Superintendants Convention is now in session at Indianapolis. Judge New returned from Washington last Thursday night and is now visiting his friends in this district. H. O'Connor was in town yesterday. He looks a little brown from the sun, after taking the census of Campbell township. Doug Snodgrass visited relatives at Milan Sunday stopped off here a few hours in the evening on his return to Vincennes. One day's work in the police court at Columbus amounted to $40.80, the result of two drunks and two peace disturbances. It is reported that the snake by which Pat Gaughan was bitten last week was a copperhead and not an adder as reported. Newt McLain of Vermilion passed thru this city Thursday evening in company with his daughter who had been attending the Conservatory. Al Austin, O & M freight conductor who has been laying off for quite awhile on account of ill health, intends to go to work again in about two weeks. Edward Fitzpatrick, the genial Indiana correspondent of the Courier Journal was in to see us Tuesday night and is now "taking in" the Cincinnati Convention. Last Thursday Casper Hemberger got his foot tangled in a sickle-bar of a reaping machine and before it was extricated, the bone and tendons were badly lacerated. John Edwards, of Indianapolis was in this city Monday and posted the Madison and Louisville excursion. John gave us a pleasant call, stating his success as a bill-poster, and he is a good one. Dr. James C. Wells, of Clear Springs, Ind. who was indicted in the United States Courts for alleged crooked transactions in connection with pension papers last week underwent a trial that resulted in the jury returning a verdict of not guilty. Marshal Hacker {?}, at one time editor of the Columbus Republican, but now a prominent attorney of the Bartholomew bar, was married last Wednesday night, at the residence of the bride's parents, to Miss Julia Eldridge, who was well known in this city. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE Compiled from Competent Correspondents' Cipherings. HARDENBURG HASH. Blackberries at 5 cents a quart. Where are the boys? Harvesting. Miss Carver has moved into the Haure property. Mr. L. C. Bruner went to Madison on business last week. Mr. Andy Ritz has erected a saw mill one mile north of town. Mr. and Mrs. Kelso were out looking at their farms last Sunday. Miss Harrison from Seymour was in our city last week visiting her father and brother. Some of our boys have gone to Decatur county where harvest hands get two dollars per day. Sunday school concert at the Baptist church next Sunday evening. Every body should attend. Mr. N. Machino has improved the appearance of his dwelling by putting a new pine roof upon it. Our census enumerator says he will get through by the last of this month if the weather proves favorable. Cherries will soon be gone and the boys will have to postpone moon light excursions until water melon harvest. Mr. J. W. Campbell the jovial log and lumber dealer was in Iowa last week looking after some fine logs he had purchased. Some of our farmers were compelled to harvest last Sunday. The rains last week end had thrown them behind in their work. A Dr. Rodman was in our burg last week, did not know what called him here but suppose he was looking for a localite [?]. Mr. W. D. Weaver has returned to his home where he will remain during vacation. He is a student at the Franklin College. Mr. Jerry Sullivan and Mr. Thompson Childs and their families from Muscatatuck and Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan of Vernon were in town Sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Butlerville Batch Buglings. A number of our citizens are in attendance at the Cincinnati Convention. An unusual large wheat crop has been grown and harvested in this section. Odd Fellows hall has been improved by the addition of a set of inside blinds. Robert [Eldridge/Bridge ?] died very suddenly at his residence in Bigger township on the 19th instant. Julius Byers is building a cooper shop near his mill for the purpose of manufacturing barrels for his own use. Work on the M. E. church cupola is just approaching completion; and when finished will add beauty to the church. Hiram Gudgion and Lillie Waldron were married at the residence of the bride's parents in Bigger township last week by the Rev. T. W. Conner. The celebration on the 3rd of July, in Bewley's grove promises to be a big thing. The committee in charge informs us that good speakers will be in attendance and that no pains will be spared to make the effort a huge success. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oak Grove Gleanings. Wheat all harvested. The clatter of the reaper and mower and the ringing of the church bell made very discordant music last Sunday. Little and Brown are competent and are attending to their own business. Interested parties should make a note of this. A young son of L. Foster fell from a wagon last Saturday and broke his arm near the elbow joint. He is recovering all right at this writing. Considerable ill feeling is being cultivated in this section over the employment of a school teacher. Mr. Waughtel, the trustee, will fearlessly perform his duty. On the creek, it is reported, three weddings will occur shortly, and that Luther Greenwood and lady are the fond parents of a lovely little girl, and still the good work goes on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Butler Switch Items. Wheat harvest is over. Mr. William Patrick is lying very sick at his home. Several farmers in this neighborhoold spent Sabbath in their harvest fields. Mr. Vardeman Hughes the old settler of Bigger township, died last Wednesday. A report is current that Samuel Chestham lost a valuable horse and buggy at Lattimore ford last Sunday night. The patent fence boom struck out little town last Friday night, and resulted in the purchase of the right of Vernon township by Isaac Ziegler, from whom any one wishing a strong and cheap fence, without bolt, screw or nail, can procure a right for a mere trifle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Ghost Story. Near the eastern boundaries of Lovett township there lives a widow lady, in a house, where night after night spooks do congregate and in the midst of their reveries create the most infernal din ever, mortal man ~ ~ or woman ~ ~ listened to. This racket had continued so long and incessantly that the brave woman's nerves finally gave way and she was forced to send for her neighbors to come to her relief, and either capture or drive the goblins away. Two responded to her call; one a widower, who had long been smitten with the widow's charms, and the other the head of a family and the owner of a large estate. On the night appointed the two prepared themselves with revolvers and shot guns, repared to the rendezvous of the ghosts and, in company with the widow, kept vigilant watch until the wee sma' hours o' morn, when a noise, the most hideous they had ever heard, eminated from the garret of the house. For a time the trio were so badly frightened that they were unable to move, but after they had partially recovered, they gathered their guns, revolvers and broomsticks and advanced to the area from whence came the noise; and when they arrived at the garret door were transfixed to the spot by the sight of the demons that had caused all their dread alarm. They advanced upon them and found to their complete mortification that they had wasted the entire night to discover three or four rats that were rolling an ear of corn, which, they had stolen from the bin, over the [?]. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~