PLUM GROVE AND VICINITY, March 28th, 1879

PLUM GROVE AND VICINITY

March 28th, 1879

As “Num Skull” has chosen us his guardian, the trouble with him during last week is our excuse for not reporting items for the previous issue of the GAZETTE. 

☞ Our little town is on the improve; with the taking of the census completed, and we find that our population in round numbers is an even 100. 

☞ The last week of the term of the court in this county, some of our citizens were called as jurors to try a case of horse stealing that had been decided by the regular jury. The prisoner was by them acquitted of the crime of stealing a horse; it was proven that the horse in question was not a gelding. He was then rearrested for the crime of stealing a gelding, found guilty by the new jury, and sent to the penitentiary for five years; that gelding dodge is rather an excellent point. 

(Mr. Editor, could you not revoke order No. 1 regarding correspondents offering opinions. as we sometimes have an idea and like to express it, but under order No. 1, we cannot do so?)

☞ Wm. Weaver caught, with hook and line, from the Whitewater in one day 97 pounds or bass, and it vas a miserable day for fishing at that.

☞ The croquet season has begun in right earnest; two clubs already formed in this town.

☞ Those Martins left Peabody and came to Plum Grove and settled with us; they annoy the citizens of the village to a very great extent. As the sound of the hammer and anvil commences precisely at four o’clock in the morning and continues until eight at night, which makes the farmers happy. The eldest Martin is one of the finest and fastest workmen in iron and steel that Plum Grove was ever blest with; he is training the two younger Martins in his school. The farmers are well pleased with their work, and their shop is running two fires, and we venture to say that there is not another smith shop in Butler county that can compete with them either in quantity or quality of work (an institution Plum Grove has long needed.)

☞.Mr. Duesler’s stage makes two trips per week from Peabody to Towanda, arrives at this place for dinner.

☞-Mr. A. Worline will commence building a stone dwelling for S. M. Spencer next month. 

☞ Mr. Joseph Farnie will survey a new addition to the town next week; he proposes to sell lots very cheaply. and to those that will build, he will donate one lot.

☞ Mr. White and his family, brother-in-law of Dr. Seaman, arrived last Friday. and has settled in this town.

☞ James Tucker sold his farm of 80 acres last week to Mr. Patterson. price $1,.200.°°.

☞ Be a little a careful, “Poker Jin” and not trespass on our territory; give us all the news from Fairmount.

☞ On Sunday last, a terrific fire came in from the west, which swept everything before, destroying lives and property. Mr. Ed. Felter and his brother-in-law were burned so severely that they died on Monday morning; Mrs. Felter is lying in a very critical condition, not expected to recover. Mr. Felter was one of the members of the Louisiana Returning Board that played in Peabody about two years ago; he had only been married about four weeks. The parties live in Harvey county. I will give particulars more fully next week. 

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