1857

JOHN MARTIN,	foreman	ANDREW McCONAL
JOHN F. CURRY		ELLIS GREENFIELD
JACOB ESLINGER		PETER HAWK
JAMES M. MILLER		JOSIAH WOLFE
BENSON RIGGS		JAMES M. GOBIN
HENRY JACOBS		ALFRED SMITH

Taken before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, acting as Coroner, this 3d day of January, 1857.
Jan. 10, 1857-3w H. DOOLEY, J.P/.[SEAL]

>William Keith, who lived in Widmer township, in this county, disappeared on New Year's Eve, and has not been heard of since. He leaves a wife and three children, who would be very glad to hear of his whereabouts. Any person knowing anything about him would confer a favor by addressing the Postmaster at Maria Creek, Indiana. [Vin. Gazette.
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Saturday, February 7, 1857

DIED
On the 1st. inst., of lung fever, Dr. JOSEPH G. FOSTER, of this place, aged 57 years.

FIRE AT MEROM.-- We regret to learn that the dwelling house of Dr. JOHN N. HALLSTEAD, of Merom, was consumed by fire, on last Wednesday night, with most of his furniture and stock of medicines; also, the store house of PORTER BURKS and office of Dr. JAMES H. WEIR. Loss about $2,000.

Found
In the vicinity of Carlisle, recently, a sum of money, which the owner can have by proving property and paying for this advertisement.
jan17* JNO. SIMMONS

Taken up, by Jacob Fouts, living in Gill township, two estray steers. One brown steer, three years old last spring; a crop and split in the left ear, a hole in the right ear; appraised at fifteen dollars. Also, one strawberry roan steer, three years old last spring; a crop and split in the left ear, an under-half crop in the right ear; appraised at ten dollars, before me, this 10th day of January, 1857.
SETH CUSHMAN, J.P.
A true copy from my book of estrays,
JOS. W. WOLFE, Clerk.
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No paper published on February 21st
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Saturday, February 28 1857

Circuit Court
The Spring term of the Circuit Court commenced its session on Monday last-- the Hon. JAS. M. HANNA, presiding. This we believe is not the first Court holden by his Honor since his election by so signal a vote last fall, but is the first term in this county. In this community there is no occasion for us to say that he presides with patience, dignity, industry and ability. We hear commendations of him on all hands, and believe they are just. The business of the Court is complex and the docket large, and considerable ability exhibited on the part of the bar in attendance on the Court. If this term is a fair specimen of the Sullivan Courts, the people may well be proud of it. Messrs. ECKELS, USHER, CORY and MM. RAY, we notice are in attendance from a abroad and perhaps some others.

DIED
At his residence, in this county, on Saturday, the 21st instant, HARMONUS ALKIRE, in the 80th year of his age.
Thus has passed away another of the few early settlers of this county who remained among us. Father ALKIRE was a native of Virginia, and emigrated to the North West Territory at an early day, was a soldier under Captain Wiggins in the War of 1812, for which he received a land warrant.
Thirty eight years ago he settled in this county, on Turman's Creek then an almost unbroken wilderness; and lived to see the country around him densely populated. He leaves an aged widow and a large family of children to mourn his loss.
It may be truly said of him that he was an "honest man, and died without leaving an enemy."
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Saturday, March 7 is missing a page.
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Saturday, March 21, 1857

>We learn from a gentleman just from Terre Haute that Samuel Crawford, Esq., President of the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad died suddenly, in that place on Thursday last.

MARRIED
On the 15th inst., by Samuel Bonham, Esq. JOSEPH ARTHUR to Miss SUSANNAH H.J. MINCKS, both of of Fairplay Township, Greene county, Ind.
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Friday, March 27, 1857

MARRIED
By SAMUEL BONHAM, Esq., on the 22d day of March, 1857, Mr. JOHN M. MILLER, to Miss AMANDA ROGERS, both of Wright Township Green County, Ind.
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Saturday, April 11, 1857

MARRIED
By Samuel Bonham, Esq. on the 2d inst. Mr. PERRY SQUIRES to Miss ELIZABETH HANEY, both of Wright Township, Greene county, Ind.
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Saturday, April 25, 1857

MARRIED
On the 22d inst., by Elder John S. Howard, Mr. ALEXANDER W.C. DICKERSON, to Miss LUCY J. PARKS.

On the 23d, by the same, Mr. JOHN W. GRAY to Miss JOSEPHINE RILEY.

DIED
On the night of Tuesday, April 14, URZILLA, wife of John Rusher, Esq. P.M. of Fairbanks-- aged about 23 years.
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Saturday, May 2, 1857

MARRIED
On Tuesday, the 14th ult., by the Rev. ? Whitted, Mr. WILLIAM WINES, of L(?) Greene county, to Miss NANCY CANARY, of New Lebanon.

DIVORCES-- We are informed that there were twenty-four applications for divorces at the term of Court which has just closed its session in this county, and every one of them granted. This is a startling fact which we were slow to believe, until assured of its truth by a member of the bar, and one which reflects anything but credit upon us as a community.-- Shelbyville Banner

During the past few years since the enactment of the divorce law which the last legislature amended, Indiana has been a sort of asylum for injured wives and dissatisfied husbands, who sought relief from the bonds they had put upon themselves. They have flocked here from every State in the Union, and not a few are still here on this unhappy mission. This fact will account for a portion of the divorce suits that have flooded our dockets, but still leaves a wide basis for the censure of our Shelbyville friend. We do not think that Indiana is worse than other States, but certainly very few, if any, other has shown so many records of domestic troubles. -- Ind Journal
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Friday, May 15, 1857

Insanity
Mr. George Raab, a German who lately came to this city from St. Louis, has, for several days past, exhibited signs of insanity. He was a constant reader and a devout christian, and no doubt his mind has become impaired by long and study reading. He was extremely anxious to learn to read English well, in order that he might the more readily procure such books as he preferred. Three days ago he exhibited signs of derangement, as he talked very wildly about the comet, but this had nothing to do with his derangement-- constant reading, little or no exercise and his peculiar religious notions were the causes. George is a fine young man, of good, sober and industrious habits, and a good harness maker by trade. In the afternoon of Sunday he went to the M.E.S. School, shook hands with every person in the school, and kept walking up and down the aisle until the school was dismissed. After this he crossed the river and remained in the bottoms until late in the evening, most of the time preaching. Several young men followed him for fear he might injure himself. A little before sundown, he came back, and while on the bridge, he turned round and got a glimpse of the sun while it was partly obscured by clouds, and cried out-- "It has come-- there's the comet-- the day of judgement has come!" He left the bridge and hurried down towards the river, took all this clothing off, and was making for the river when he was overtaken and brought back. Sunday night he was confined in the calaboose, but on Monday he was taken to the shop of Mr. Rufus St. John, where he had been employed. He now appears to be somewhat recovering, but it is difficult to say whether he will ever be in his right mind again or not.-- Terre Haute Union.

IMPORTANT SURGICAL OPERATION
In the 11th inst., Dr. J. M. HINKLE, of Carlisle, assisted by Drs. H. N HELMS and J.A. MINICK, performed the operation of lithotomy, or cutting for stone in the bladder, upon Mr. MADISON CUNNINGHAM of Daviess county. The operation was performed at the earnest and repeated solicitation of the patient and his friends, his physicians not thinking him a favorable subject to operate upon, owing to his system being almost entirely worn out by the disease, and owing to the enormous size of the stone. The operation was performed with the utmost coolness and self-possession. It necessarily required some time, as the stone was so extremely large that it had to be crushed before it could possibly be extracted. It weighed one pound and sixty grains, apothecaries' weight. Chloroform was administered, and the patient kept under the influence of it during the whole operation. It is now four days since he was operated upon. Mr. Cunningham appears to be in a tolerably favorable condition. Strong hopes are entertained of his recovery.

MARRIED
At the residence of the bride's father, on Monday, May 11, by Elder Joseph W. Wolfe, Mr. JOHN CALLENDER, of Kentucky, to Miss NANCY TIMMINS, of this place.
The happy couple will accept our warmest wishes for their connubial felicity. Of course NAN did not forget the Printers, and as our boys devoured slices of her excellent wedding cake their countenances expressed gratitude.

-- On the 7th inst., by Samuel Bonham, Esq., Mr. JAMES GADBERRY to Miss MATILDA JANE WRIGHT, both of Green county, Ind.

MARY JERAULD--This pleasant and accomplished Miss gave a party at her Pa's on last Thursday evening in honor, we believe, of one of her school mates, who was on the eve of leaving for home. We cannot speak too highly of the affair. The supper was almost beyond parallel.-- About one hundred were present who, from every indication, enjoyed themselves very well. We wish we had room to say more of the party.
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Friday, May 22, 1857

BURGLARY-- Last Saturday night we understand the shop of Mr. W.M. NOELER was entered by some person or persons and some three or four pairs of boots stolen therefrom. An entrance was effected by prying open a window shutter, the tools for which operation they stole from the adjoining shop of Mr. COCHRAN, gunsmith.
We are told, also that a gun was stolen from Mr. C., valued at $16.

>We learned on Wednesday last that Mr. CUNNINGHAM, the gentleman who had the operation performed on him, noticed in our last issue, was materially improving in health, and that there was a prospect of his recovery. Dr. HINKLE may well feel proud of this operation, considering the rarity of its performance, (this being the first of the kind ever performed in the Wabash valley,) the extraordinary size of the stone, and the prostrate condition of the patient before the operation. As a surgeon he doubtless has a brilliant future before him.
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Friday, June 5, 1857

MARRIED
In the Episcopal Church, Delphi, Ind., on Thursday, 28th of May, by Rev. Mr. Hudson, Mr. JOHN W. MILLER, of this place, to Miss CYNTHIA D. WILSON, of Delphi.
With the characteristic generosity of JOHN and his excellent wife, we received a basket-full of cake with the above notice. They have our warmest congratulations and wishes for their continued happiness through a long life, as well as the hearty thanks of the printers of the Democrat office for their generous present.

STOLEN!
From the field of the subscriber at the head of Gill's Prairie, on Saturday night, 30th ult., a strawberry roan MARE, three years old; her left hind leg, from the hock to the pastern joint, was considerably swollen in consequence of kicking in harness, and the hair worn off on the outside of the same leg near the pastern joint. Hair is also slightly worn from her right hind leg by the trace-chain. A blind bridle was also stolen from the stable at the same time. Any person who will give the undersigned such information as will enable him to get her, or deliver the mare to him will be liberally rewarded. HENRY FRENCH
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Petition for Divorce
In the Sullivan Circuit Court, August term, 1857.
Charles Riggs vs. Mary Riggs
Comes now the plaintiff, by Messrs. Coulson & Booth, his attorneys, and files his petition herein for divorce, and also the affidavit of a disinterested person that the defendant is not a resident of the State of Indiana, therefore the said defendant is hereby notified that unless she personally be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Sullivan Circuit Court the first day of the next term thereof, to be held at the Court House, in Sullivan, on the last Monday of August, 1857, to plead answer or demur to said petition, the matters and things set forth therein will be heard and determined in her absence and decreed accordingly.
{seal} Witness my hand and the seal of Court, the second day of June, 1857
je5 JOSEPH W. WOLFE, Clerk
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Friday, June 12, 1857

CORNONER'S INQUEST
An inquest was formed before the undersigned, as justice of the peace in and for Hamilton township, Sullivan county, Indiana, and acting as Coroner for said county, on the 7th day of June, 1857, to inquire into the cause of the death of a certain infant male child, name unknown, whose body was found near the residence of James Bedwell, in said township, on the 7th day of June, 1857. The following is the verdict of the jury empanneled in the case.
"We do find that the deceased came to its death by being smothered by filling its mouth with leaves, and by the hands of Sarah Bedwell, James Bedwell and Annis Bedwell, and which the jury find to be the immediate cause of the death of said child, whose body was found as aforesaid. We also report that the true name of said deceased is unknown, that we believe Sarah Bedwell to be its mother, and that it was not exceeding twenty four hours of age, that it was a male child, that it was wrapped up in a homemade cotton apron, striped, and that no valuables were found with it. Given under our hands at the time and place before herein mentioned.
"Allen Brodie, Lewis Creager, Harvey Simms, John Simms, Thomas Chambers, William Harper, Samuel Chambers, Lewis Treadway, William Jones, James C. McCleary, Samuel Sinclair, John S. Creager."
FERDINAND HASLER, J.P.
june12 and acting Coroner.

SHOCKING CASE OF INFANTICIDE-- The most brutal case of child murder we were ever called on to record was brought to light on Sunday afternoon last. A woman named SARAH BEDWELL was supposed to have given birth to an illegitimate child some time in April last, and made way with it. Suspicions of foul play were entertained by the neighbors; and on Sunday several of them met by agreement to search for the body of the child. A newly made brush heap excited their suspicions, and on removing it and digging some eighteen inches or two feet in the ground they found the body of a male infant, wrapped in an apron said to belong to the accused. According to the testimony elicited by the Coroner's investigation, the child had lived, its lungs having been inflated, and was killed by filling its mouth with leaaves so as to produce suffocation.
When Miss BEDWELL was about to be arrested she jumped into a well, holding fast, however, to the bucket; where she remained about fifteen minutes. After being rescued from this position, she seized a razor and attempted to cut her throat, inflicting a frightful gash on the left side. She was afterwards brought to town, and is now under confinement at the jail. The testimony also throws suspicion on her brother James and his wife, as accessories. They attempted to make their escape, but were arrested near Vincennes and brought back. The examination of the parties has been postponed until the 18th.
Miss B., we are told, has not abandoned her intention of destroying her life, and refuses to eat anything whatever.

ABDUCTION--A man named MALONE came to one of the taverns in the vicinity of the depot at this place, last Monday morning about one o'clock, in company with a young girl whom he passed off as his wife. About daylight a company of men, among whom was the father of the girl, arrived in town in pursuit of the fugitives, and learning that they were at the tavern in question, procured a warrant for the man's arrest on the charge of abduction. It seems that he enticed the girl off from her parents living in Illinois, by promising to marry her, although he has a wife living over there. Justice BASLER held him in bonds of $1000 to appear before the next Circuit Court-- failing to procure which he was committed to jail. The young lady rode home behind her father a wiser and, we trust a penitential girl.

A GOOD ONE-- During the investigation of the abduction case, on Monday, the counsel for the defense asked one of the witnesses for the prosecution if the girl was chaste previous to the occurrence of this affair. "No, sir!" replied the witness quite confidently; "she never was chased by any of the family!"
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Friday, June 19, 1857

MARRIED
On the 7th inst., by the Rev. J. McC(?), Doctor E. D. DENISON, of Greene Co., to Miss ELIZABETH CARTWRIGHT, of Carlisle, Indiana.
The above happy couple will please accept our hearty congratulations. We not only wish but feel well satisfied that their journey through life will be one of pleasure and prosperity-- because they so handsomely remembered the printer at the outset.

-- At Point Commerce, on the evening of the 3rd inst., by Rev. D. Swartz, Dr. JAMES MINICH, to Miss MATTIE E. ALLISON, of that place.

THE INFANTICIDE CASE-- Yesterday was the day fixed for the preliminary examination of SARAH, JAMES AND ANNIS BEDWELL. The hour fixed was 9 o'clock, but long before that time the Court Room commenced filling up, and at 11 o'clock the house was crowded full.
Messrs. BRIGGS and NEFF appeared for the defense, and Messrs. COULSON and MALOTT for the prosecution. By agreement of the counsel all three of the accused were tried together.
Up to noon but two or three witnesses of the forty subpoenaed had been examined; they were on the part of the prosecution, and their testimony went to show that, in their opinon, SARAH BEDWELL was delivered of a child about the first of April, and that the infant found was hers. The apron in which it was enveloped was exhibited in Court and was identified as belonging to SARAH by one of the witnesses.
Up to the hour of going to press nothing important had been elicited. We may give our readers a sketch of the testimony next week.
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Friday, June 26, 1857

MARRIED
On the 12th inst., by Samuel Bonham, Esq., Mr. ROBERT PIGG to Miss MARIA RUSSEL, both of Wright township, Green co.

THE INFANTICIDE CASE-- The preliminary examination of SALLY BEDWELL for the murder of her child, and JAMES and ANNIS BEDWELL as accessories, terminated on Monday, having lasted four days. ANNIS was discharged, and JAMES and SALLY ordered to stand committed, being held to answer at the August term of the Circuit Court.
We took notes of the testimony on Thursday, but as nothing of moment was elicited, we concluded to give it up. The testimony is very voluminous-- fifty-five witnesses having been examined. On Saturday the Court adjourned to the jail to take the evidence of SARAH BEDWELL. We give the gist of it below, from the memorandum of Capt. BRIGGS.
Sarah Bedwell, being sworn, says: I gave birth to a child; can’t say what day; was at James Bedwell’s no one was present at the birth of the child; Jim was at Uncle Jim Weatherman's at a house raising; Annis was at Wm Jones; John Dennon's wife, Annis' sister, was with her at Jones'; James left as quick as he got his breakfast; Annis and Mrs. D. left as soon as they had washed the dinner dishes; Annis said she did not want to leave me, I was sick; I told her to go on; I was not very bad, and if she stayed she could not do me any good. Philip H(?)ck was there in the morning and went off with Jim. Old Jim Smith was there in the morning, I asked him to feel my pulse; instead of doing it he put his hand in my bosom. I said, "In the name of God, Uncle Jim! don't you know where any body's pulse is?" Don't recollect how long Annis and sister were gone; they were gone a good while; was in bed when they went; had been in bed all day; was up the day before; that evening I washed out a few things and nursed Annis' largest child; can't say how long after Annis and sister left before the child was born; my labor pains commenced the evening before; I put the child in a stump I reckon about 150 yards from the house, can't say what direction exactly, I think it is south, right square off the corner. I took the child to the stump myself right directly after it was born; my apron was around it; I was in bed when Annis and sister came home; I can't say exactly what time it was; they asked how I felt; I answered I was better; never (?) Jim or Annis about the child; Jim came back after dark; Rebecca and Allen Weatherman came with him; they stayed all night; she slept with me; the next morning I changed my clothes; got them myself; they were folded up in a box at the foot of the bed; took off my underclothes in the bed; put on others; put on my frock; got up and made my bed before I went to the fire; I rolled the clothes up in the sheet and made the bed. As I have done all the washing at Jim's, I put off the washing for a week; it rained and the tub was caught full of water. [Witness here testifies to washing, and having carried water up the hill for that purpose.] Neither Jim nor Annis knew anything of this child-- God knows they did not-- I know they did not. I did not tell them what was the matter with me, except the day the child was born; said it was my monthly sickness; that day was the only day I kept my bed for an hour. James and Annis never saw the child; unless they saw it the night it was taken up. At the time the child was born, Mrs. Dennon's little girl was sitting in the house rocking Annis' oldest child; she was sitting with her face to the fire singing when I took the child out....Can't tell whether it was living or dead; never cried that I heard; I put the leaves in its mouth; the reason was, I did not hear it cry; I had heard children cry and come to some four or five hours after birth and I did not want it to come to; this was before Jim and Annis came home; I laid it in the stump, and put some bark over it; can't tell when it was taken from the stump; it was not Jim or Annis that took it from the stump; it was buried south of the house where it was found that Sunday.
Cross-Examined: I will not tell who took the child from the stump; did not state to Drs. Bowyer and Thompson it was born in the night-- don't say they tell an untruth, but they were mistaken if they so understood it; don't know that I said to them, "I know nothing of the leaves"; I was flighty at the time; think I told Dr. Bowyer I buried it under the brush-heap; I saw the child after I put it in the stump, only once, the time it was taken away; in the day-time morning I believe; the child was moved the day A. Fisher was at the house.... The stump is a large black oak stump, near where James was clearing; did not think of the stump till after the child was born; got the leaves on the ground about the stump; can't say whether the child breathed or moved; won't say whether I opened its mouth or not; I was in a great hurry; think I went there mighty quick; I hid the after birth until I got a chance to burn it; hid it in some dirty clothes under the bed; Annis went out and I put it behind the back-log.... I know who cut the bushes; saw the bushes cut and hole dug; it was not done by a woman; there was but one there besides myself... won't say when the brush was cut; nor whether it was put on before or after the child was buried; he was a single man that cut the brush; she refused to answer if the father of the child assisted in concealing it and putting it away; the father of the child is a good looking man.
Last Sunday was the twenty-first day since her attempt to commit suicide, and arrest. During all that time, the Sheriff informs us, she has not tasted a mouthful of food, to his knowledge. She became much worse on Monday, requiring almost constant attention from her physician. She is now improving, having repented of her determination to starve herself to death, and now take such slight nourishment as her prostrate condition will bear. Close confinement has bleached her complexion somewhat, but she is not as much reduced as one would expect under the circumstances.
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Friday, July 3, 1857

Petition for Divorce.
In the Sullivan Circuit Court, August term, 1857.
Abigal Pirtle - vs- John W. Pirtle
Comes now the Plaintiff by Messrs. Neff's, her attorneys, and files her petition herein for divorce, and also the affidavit of a disinterested person, that the defendant is not a resident of the State of Indiana; therefore, the said Defendant is hereby notified that unless he be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Sullivan Circuit Court, on the first day of the next term thereof, to be held at the Court House, in Sullivan, on the last Monday of August 1857, to plead answer or demur to said petition, the matters and things set forth therein will be heard and determined in his absence and decreed accordingly.
{seal} Witness my hand and the seal of Court, the 29th day of June, 1857.
jy3 JOSEPH W. WOLFE, Clerk .

SUDDEN DEATH-- Yesterday afternoon Mr. F. Eberwine was taken sick while sitting on the pavement in front of his premises, and in a few minutes after he was assisted to his bed he died. He had been complaining of a slight indisposition for several days, but was not confined to his bed any portion of the time.-- Mr. Eberwine came to this city some twelve years ago, from Vincennes. He leaves a wife and a large family of children to mourn his loss.-- Terre Haute Union, 29th
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Friday, July 10, 1857

MARRIED
At the residence of the bride's mother, on Thursday, July 2, by Rev'd Mr. Gordon, Mr. ROBERT GARVIN, of Sullivan, to Miss JULIA A. FOSTER, of Terre Haute.
We scarcely know how to sufficiently thank the above couple for their very generous remembrance of the printers. We hope their journey through life may be one of pleasure, devoid of trouble and sorrow.

--In Sullivan, on Thursday, July 9, by Elder Jos. W. Wolfe, Mr. DANIEL ELLIOTT, to Miss ANN ELIZA HUFFMAN, both of Knox county.
Our warmest congratulations are tendered to Mr. E. and his bride. May their anticipations of continued happiness be fully realized.
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Friday, July 24, 1857

DIED
On Saturday, the 18th inst., at the residence of E. Johnson, in Cass township, Sullivan co., Ind., Mrs. SUSANNAH WILSON, in the 94th year of her age.
The deceased was undoubtedly the oldest person in this county. She was born near Moorefield, in Hampshire (now Hardy) county, Virginia. She was married to JOHN WILSON, a Revolutionary Soldier, in 1781, immediately after his return from the War. She removed to East Tennessee in the year 1784, when it was a wilderness, and resided there until 1831, when she came to this county, where she has resided, with her son, Mr. ADAM WILSON, ever since. Mrs. WILSON was very stout and hardy, having ridden on horseback all the way from Virginia to her new home in Tennessee, a distance of about 600 miles, carrying an infant in her arms; subsequently she made several trips there and back in the same manner. She had a good memory, and retained a vivid recollection of many incidents of the Revolutionary war, having arrived at mature years when it broke out. Her health continued remarkably good, and she might have lived several years longer, but for a severe fall she received a few weeks ago.

FIRE--Our neighboring town of Carlisle was visited on last thursday night by a very destructive fire. It broke out in the cabinet shop of Mr. RIGGS, and consumed the entire row of frame tenements from the hotel to Mr. PARVIN's store. The hot, dry weather for some time preceding rendered the buildings very combustible, so that it was impossible to save them; they were all small, however, and of but little value. Mr. RIGGS, we are told is the heaviest loser, having lost a large amount of lumber, tools, &c. The entire loss is estimated to be in the neighborhood of $5000.
We understand there is good reason to believe the fire was the work of an incendiary.
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Friday, July 31, 1857

MARRIED
In this city, on Tuesday, July 21st., by Rev. ALEXANDER NEBBITT, of the Reformed Presbyterian Church (Scotch), Mr. ADAM TATE, of Chicago, to Miss JEANETTE PETTIGREW, late of Scotland.

MARRIED
By Samuel Bonham, Esq., on the 9th day of July, Mr. ELIJAH T. MITCHELL, to Miss AGNES HOLLIDAY, both of Wright township, Greene county, Indiana.

HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE--To save trouble in answering everybody's questions as to who painted the beautiful sign which hangs on the corner of our office building, we take this occasion to say that it was executed by Messrs. MANNING and CLARK, two young gentlemen of Terre Haute, who have been working in this place for some time. It is a beautiful sign, as all will admit, and reflects credit on the skill and taste of the workmen.

A THIEF CAUGHT-- Last Friday morning early two or three officers of this town arrested a somewhat notorious character named REAMER, at the house of his brother-in-law, DICK RIGGS, in Fairbank township, we believe. REAMER is a cripple, having to use a crutch in walking. He had been confined in the jail at Marshall, Ills., on a charge of Forgery, and in company with several others broke jail and escaped. On being arrested he expressed a willingness to go to Marshall, and his horse was saddled for that purpose; by a skillful manoeuver he succeeded in getting a start, and being on a splendid horse he soon left the discomfited Constables far behind.
The same evening several men who were out hunting found REAMER lying in some bushes in the woods, near the road from here to Merom; he having taken some sheaves of wheat from a field for his horse. They arrested him on suspicion, and afterwards learning the circumstances of his escape that morning, took him to Marshall where he is now in jail.

BOLD ATTEMPTS-- We learn that for several nights last week men have been detected in and about the stable of Mr. JOSIAH McKEE, but have been too closely watched to succeed in stealing a horse.-- Watching won't bag the game.
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Friday, August 14, 1857

(ran through October 9)
Mr. Briggs: Please announce my name as a candidate for Recorder of Sullivan County, at the October election.
ROBERT SHERMAN

Mr. Briggs: Please announce my name as a candidate for Recorder of Sullivan County, at the October election.
WILLIS G. NEFF
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Friday, August 21, 1857 (missing first page)

>Mr. DAN RING, of the vicinity of Sullivan, had a rattlesnake on exhibition here last Tuesday. It was 4 feet 10 inches in length, having 10 rattles.

MARRIED
On Thursday, August 13, by Rev. Mr. Howell, Dr. JOHN M. HINKLE, of Carlisle, Indiana, to Miss CHARLOTTE HILBERT, of York, Illinois.

True to her well-known generous nature, the fair bride had a thought for the Printer, and saved from the multitude of good things which graced the wedding feast a large supply of delicious cake. We are truly thankful. The Doctor is lucky in drawing such a prize from the matrimonial lottery. May their happiness always continue.

We are authorized to announce S. COLEGROVE, of Carlisle, as a candidate for the office of Recorder of Sullivan county, at the October election.
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Friday, August 28, 1857

MARRIED
On the 10th of August, 1857, by Samuel Bonham, Esq., Mr. JAMES CRABTREE to Miss AGNES HICKS, both of Greene co., Indiana.

>Our attention was called the other day to a huge watermelon at HOMER DAVIS'. It weighed 37 pounds, measured 2 feet in length, and 2 feet 9 inches in circumference. It was raised on a farm of SAMUEL D. BAKER, on Gill's Prairie.

We are authorized to announce that JOHN S. MOORE will be a candidate before the people on the second Tuesday of October next for the office of Recorder of Sullivan county.
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Friday, September 4, 1857

We are authorized to announce the name of JOHN F. CURRY, of Haddon township, as a candidate for the office of Recorder of Sullivan county at the October election.

MORE HORSE STEALING-- On last Sunday night a horse belonging to Representative BRANSON was stolen from the stable of a Mr. EVANS, in Jackson township. Of course the horse was a good one.
We learn from a gentleman of veracity living in the north part of this county, that a young man in his vicinity recently made confession to having been in collusion with the band of scoundrels who are engaged in stealing the horses of this county, and gave our informant warning that his store was to be robbed or burned. Two or three days after he received a note by mail giving him the same warning.-- The young man who confesses to having been in with them refuses to reveal the names of the band for fear it will cost him his life.
P.S. Since writing the above we learn that Dr. BRANSON has recovered his horse.
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Friday, September 11, 1857

OBITUARY
Departed this life, in Turman township, Sullivan county, on the 3d inst., Mrs. MARGARET HOUPT, in the 44th year of her age, wife of John W. Houpt and daughter of Samuel Correll. She leaves a family of eight children and her companion to lament her loss.
The deceased had been a consistent member of the Methodist Church since 1830, about 27 years. She lived only as Christians live, and died as Christians only can die. [Com.

CIRCUIT COURT-- The court adjourned on Saturday night about eleven o'clock.
HENRY TODD, negro, charged with horse-stealing was acquitted by the Court. He had laid in jail about six months.
Thursday the case of the State against SALLY BEDWELL for murdering her infant child was taken up. Our readers will recollect that on Sunday, the 7th of June last, a child was found buried under a brush-heap with its mouth filled with wads of leaves; that an inquest was held, and a post mortem examination made, which justified the physicians in the belief that the child was born alive and had been killed by strangulation; that at the time SALLY attempted to destroy her life by jumping into a well, and cutting her throat, and that after her arrest she obstinantly refused to eat any thing for eighteen or twenty days. On preliminary examination of the case, before Esq. BASLER, we published her testimony in behalf of her brother and sister-in-law. She admitted to the physicians at the time of the inquest that the child was hers; that she did not know whether it was alive or not; that she put the leaves in its mouth to prevent it from crying or evincing any such sign of life. On the part of the prosecution it was proved by a number of witnesses that they heard what they supposed to be a child cry in the bed in which SALLY lay, on or about the 2d of April, at which time the child was born; the evidence of the physicians who made the examination was introduced to show that the child had lived and breathed, beside the circumstances under which the child was found. The theory of the defense was that the child breathed while being born, and yet was born dead, that the post mortem examination was imperfect, and that the tests to which the lungs were submitted were not sufficient to establish the fact that the child had lived, and that such partial inflation of the lungs would have caused them to float as they did at the examination. The case was very ably argued, we thought, by Messrs. GUNN and COULSON for the State and Messrs. BRIGGS and NEFF for the prisoner. Judge HANNA delivered a very able charge of about an hour to the jury, on Saturday evening, after dark. After two or three hours deliberation the jury returned a verdict of NOT GUILTY! We have yet to hear of more than two persons but what have expressed the utmost surprise at the verdict. It certainly was not what the accused herself expected.

The only additional case disposed of was the divorce case of CHLOE BODKIN vs. JOHN BODKIN. CHLOE was anxious to marry again while JOHN was in the penitentiary: Petition granted. This was the only civil suit disposed of during the term.
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Friday, September 18, 1857

A CURIOSITY-- Mr. JONATHAN ALKIRE presented us, the other day, with a stalk of wheat having two distinct heads, of nearly equal length.

DWELLING BURNED--We learn that on Saturday night last the dwelling of Widow HERRINGTON, about three miles northwest of Carlisle, was entirely destroyed by fire. Mrs. H. and her children escaped with only the clothes they had on at the time-- everything else was destroyed.-- This is a case which appeals strongly to the charitable feelings of the public.
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Friday, September 25, 1857

SHOCKING!-- We regret to learn that one day last week a little son of Mr. F. LEMON, living about five miles south of this place, was killed by being kicked by a horse. He was missed for some time and on search being made, was found lying in the stable with the top of his head shockingly mutilated.

STABBED-- We learn that a man named WICKS was seriously stabbed on Saturday last by a fellow named LEGG, who had recently been discharged from the Vincennes jail. He was cut in some four or five places, the knife penetrating his lungs.-- He lies in critical condition.
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Friday, October 9, 1857

DIED, at the residence of his son-in-law, Ebenezer Johnson, on Sunday last, Mr. ADAM WILSON, aged seventy-three years. The deceased removed to Jackson township, in this County, upwards of twenty-five years ago, from East Tennessee, and has resided in that towship ever since. He was a firm and consistent believer in the Christian Religion, and had been an honored member of the Presbyterian Church for more than thirty-five years. "He fought a good fight, and kept the faith."
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Friday, October 16, 1857

HURRAH FOR OLD SULLIVAN!--We were shown by Mr. HALLSTEAD, on his return from the State Fair, last week, a handsome silver goblet worth $20, which was awarded to Sullivan county for the best five acres of corn on prairie soil. The corn was raised by Mr. WIDER, of "Corn hill" in Turman township. It averaged, we learn, one hundred and seventy-five bushels to the acre!

>Young CUNNINGHAM, who underwent an examination before Esq. BASLER, on Saturday, on a charge of stealing his father's horse, was committed in default of five hundred dollars bail.
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Friday, October 23, 1857

SULLIVAN COUNTY OFFICIAL--We give below the official votes of this county at the recent elections.

Townships			Recorder			Com'r
	Neff	Curry	Sherman	Moore	Colegrove	Sproatt	McGowan
Jackson	17	16	0	15	1	17	25
Curry	52	7	0	7	0	49	12
Fairbanks	27	6	8	4	0	33	10
Turman	64	22	31	22	2	57	70
Hamilton	137	80	91	59	1	267	78
Cass	18	5	33	17	0	55	16
Jefferson	8	41	20	5	0	24	46
Haddon	19	114	71	1	26	103	123
Gill	35	72	11	5	0	83	29
Total....	377	361	265	135	30	688	419