It is items like these that really take us back and give a picture of life. Some that I'm including have no listed surnames but gave me a chuckle and they certainly paint a rich picture. A few antidotes from the Indiana Messenger 16 Jun 1869 Extracted ( ) are my comments. A.T. Moorehead & Co., Church Street Store, have placed us under obligations for a box of fine cigars. The reason they can afford to give the printer so much is because they do a big business, by the aid of "printers ink," which is respectfully recommended to all who desire to do likewise. (some things never change-scratch, scratch) Jno. Nagle sold his pet deers to the proprietor of Bryan's menagerie, on Saturday. We have not learned the price paid. We were shown some new potatoes of the early rose variety cultivated by Capt. Nesbit, which are rather handsome for this season of the year. Quite a number of young men who came to town on Saturday to see the show, succeeded in getting gloriously drunk. I would have been a good day to inaugurate the new police law. The law requires guide boards to be placed at the forks of every road, and it is the duty of constables to report to the Court cases where the law has not been complied with. This is a useful provision, and beneficial to all classes of people. Nothing is more unpleasant than not to know which of two roads to take, especially when a long distance from a place where inquiries can be made. Many townships of this county are entirely deficient in this respect. We would respectfully call the attention of road supervisors to this subject. (I believe they would now think we have too many). Pocket Picked. Mr. Wm. Mitchell, coal dealer of this place, had his pocket-book containing some ninety dollars, taken from his picket while going to Blairsville on the morning train, on Monday last. A large number of persons traveling with Bryan's circus were on the train, and, we doubt not, the light-fingered chap was one of that party. The managers of the circus would do well to drop some of the gamblers and pickpockets who travel with the concern. The reputation of the company, in towns where they have exhibited, is none of the best, and we would advise persons to look well to their doors and pockets when this establishment is about. Michelle Isenberg-Dalton