Due to the extremely busy schedule of your List Mistress, she has asked that I send this directly to the list, rather than to her first. So you can blame me for the mistakes <grin> Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington) 120 YEARS AGO THE VERNON BANNER VERNON, IND. WEDNESDAY . . . Jan. 5, 1881 ======================== More snow. Pretty cold last week. Court adjourned on Saturday. The fun is all over until July 4th. Teachers' Institute adjourned on Friday. The State Legislature meets tomorrow. The Ohio Legislature met yesterday. Our college boys are all back at school again. The last of December was not as pleasant as May. There are nine million Jews living on this earth. Governor Porter takes unto himself a wife to-day. The snow is a fine covering for the growing wheat. The Council met in regular session on Monday night. Considerable sleighriding was indulged in last Sabbath. Jim James and Apple Jack are supposed to be near relatives. Some of the boys ushered in the New Year by the ringing of bells. Secretary Evarts is a candidate for U.S. Senator from New York. Miss Abbie Burt is spending vacation with her mother in Vernon. The jury in the Si Mosman case failed to agree and was discharged. St. Louis recorded twenty eight murders and fifty seven suicides in 1880. The Schools of Vernon are again in running order, after a week's vacation. Some of our citizens had wood stolen during the cold weather of last week. Mr. John McGannon has been visiting his parents in Vernon for several days past. Kentucky borrows three hundred thousand dollars every year to pay current expenses. John R. Ramsey and Mary M. Jones were married, by Rev. J. C. Burt, Dec. 24th, 1880. The first detachment of engineers and workmen for the Panama canal will leave Paris to day. Mr. Walter Lattimore, the evangelist will conduct the services at the M. E. Church, next Sabbath. The military of Charleston, South Carolina, propose to celebrate Robert E. Lee's birthday, Jan. 19th. Messrs. Wenzel and Hengstler filled their ice house last week with ice that measured 8 inches thick. A social dance was given in Vawter's Hall, on Thursday evening. A pleasant time was had by the those present. Gov. Porter will be inaugurated into matrimony this evening, and into the Governor's office next Monday. The Ohio River is frozen its whole length, and teams can cross on the ice on the Mississippi anywhere above Cairo. The art of photography has been so perfected that thirty negatives can be taken with one instrument in a single second. It is thought the V. G. & R. road will not be completed to North Vernon, before the middle of March or the first of April. Work is progressing rather slowly, the weather is quite severe on the laborers. Prof. Bell, who invented the telephone, has discovered that sounds can be conveyed by rays of light. He believes that he can construct an instrument by which the sounds of storms on the sun can be distinctly heard on the earth. A Georgia man has come to the conclusion that at a hundred feet in height the air is pure, and he has obtained leave to fasten a pipe to a church steeple, by means of which he intends to pump pure air into his house. New Mexico is likely to be a State before very long. There is also a move on foot to turn the exodus in that direction, and let the negro show what capacity there is in him for government, by obtaining control of a section where the old slaveholder mastery is not felt. Blondes are out of fashion now and of course all the gentlemen, who were hasty enough to marry them, will now apply for divorces. You will be safe in betting that Ben Harrison will be the next United States Senator from Indiana, the Democracy to contrary notwithstanding. During the year 1880, the Governor of this State issued seventy pardons, remitted forty-three fines, granted five respites, and commuted three sentences. A Court-martial to try Cadet Whittaker has been appointed. It will be hard to convince rational men that a negro slit his own ears. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mr. Walter Lattimore, a former citizen of this place, who will begin his labors here as an Evangelist upon next Sabbath, is recommended as follows by the "The Interior" of Chicago: "Mr. W. O. Lattimore, for nearly four years past the conductor of the gospel temperance meetings held in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association of this city, has decided to enlarge his field of operation, and will in future give his time to meetings in Illinois and neighboring states. Churches and communities, desiring his services, may address him at Evanston, Cook County, Ill. He has given much of his time to Bible study, and his personal record is unsullied from the date of his conversion. -- He has a fine education and is an effective platform speaker. His experience in the Chicago work will be of great help to him now, and we cannot doubt that a warm welcome awaits him to many fields of labor, and his usefulness is to be greatly increased." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MARRIAGE LICENSES ~ ~ Curtis STANLEY and Olive MARSH; Frederick KORHOF and Mary COBBS; Phony GRIMES and Mattie MORRIS; John LITTLE and Sarah GIVIDEN; W. E. PERRY and Melissa SHELDON; John R. RAMSEY and Mary M. JONES; Philip HORGESHIMER and Rachel A. A. ARBUCKLE; Arthur DONALDSON and Eva LEAVITT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two infants, twins, aged three months, the children of William and Fannie Johnson, were frozen to death in New Albany, on last Wednesday. The father left home in search of employment, leaving his wife without fuel. The day was bitter cold, and in the evening the wife placed the children in the cradle and covered them the best she could. My midnight the temperature had sunk to eight degrees below zero, and at 3 o'clock a.m. one of the children perished from the cold, and at 6 o'clock the other followed. No one knew of the destitution of the family, or abundant aid would have been offered. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BUTLERVILLE. Butlerville, Jan. 3rd. Not frozen to death yet. Mr. Willie McNeelan and wife have removed to Seymour. Our mills and factories have been idle for a week, because of the freezing up. The teamsters have made good use of the splendid sledding, and the town is rapidly filling up with saw logs. Mrs. Sallie Sanford has seemingly tired of living with her husand, and left for Cincinnati in company with her brother-in-law, Mr. Dudley, who is a widower. Mumps have been prevailing here slightly for a few weeks. There have also been many rumors about scarlet fever, but I think them without good foundation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PARIS CROSSING ITEMS. January 3rd, 1881. Robert Farthing is Deputy Postmaster at Paris. Mat Terwilegar and family have gone to live in Indianapolis. Esq. John Tobias had a family reunion on New Years Day. Mr. Thompson Hudson of Kentucky is visiting relatives here. Dr. J. C. Cave, of Harrison, O., is spending a few days with his family in Paris. The cheese factory at this place still continues to ship large amounts of cheese to the cities. The week of prayer will be observed at Hopewell church during the week with appropriate service. There have been quite a number of persons visiting friends and relatives in this neighborhood during the holidays. The past week has been one much enjoyed by lovers of good sleighing as the roads are in splendid condition for that purpose. The alarming cry of fire was heard on our streets one night last week. The fire proved to be only the soot burning out of a chimney. The holidays have come and gone since my last letter. The time has been filled up with all sorts of gatherings. Oyster suppers, festivals, social parties and private dinners have followed each other in rapId succession until we almost wished Christmas times would last all the year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MARRIED: STOCKMAN - - EWING At the Christian church, Greensburg, Wednesday evening, Dec. 29th, 1880, Mr. George B. Stockman, eldest son of county treasurer Stockman, to Miss Maggie, only daughter of Hon. Cortez Ewing. It has seldom been our good fortune to attend such an enjoyable occasion as this proved to be. The wedding was a magnificent affair, fully five hundred guests being present. The church was handsomely decorated, and a lovelier group than the bridal party as they assembled around the alter, certainly never greeted the eyes of an admiring audience. The bride was becomingly dressed in cream colored cashmere and brocaded satin, made en train with veil and orange flowers. She wore pearl ornaments. The four bridesmaids wore white with the exception of one who was attired in light blue. After the ceremony, the guests assembled at the spacious residence of Mr. Ewing, where they were hospitably entertained until the wee sma' hours. The following evening, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Stockman, parents of the groom, gave an elegant reception at Alumni Hall, in honor of the bride and groom. It was pronounced the most recherche affair of the season. The presents were numerous and elegant. Among the most noted was a tasteful little house and lot from the parents of the bride, furnished by the parents of the groom. The young couple begin their wedded life very auspiciously, and it is our earnest wish that happiness and prosperity may attend them always. DONALDSON -- LEAVITT At the residence of the bride's parents, near Lovett, on New Year's deve, by Rev. J. C. Burt, Mr. Arthur Donaldson and Miss Eva Leavitt. This event has been anticipated for some time, and after weary waiting, we are glad to congratulate Mr. Donaldson, on the excellent choice he made in selecting a wife. May success and happiness attend them, as they plod down the hill of life together. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE OF INSOLVENCY. NOTICE is hereby given, that at the December Term, 1880, the estate of Johnson W. Summerfield, deceased, was, by the Jennings Circuit Court, declared probably insolvent. Creditors are therefore notified that said estate, will be settled accordingly. Erastus Summerfield, Administrator. John Overmyer, Att'y. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned Administrator of the estate of James Green, deceased, will sell at public auction, on the premises, on the 29th Day of January, 1881, the personal propery of the decedent, consisting of 13 stock hogs, seven stands of bees, corn, seven tons of hay, one cider mill and two iron kettles. TERMS -- A credit of nine months will be given on all sums over three dollars, the purchaser giving note with approved surity waiving valuation and appraisement laws. Sale will begin at 10 o'clock a.m. Henry Childs jan.5-4t. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~