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| THE ATCHISON
COUNTY MAIL, February 3, 1881 Chas. Tate, of Vesta, Johnson county, Neb., was among the callers at this office this week. The trial of Rich, the man who shot Theodore Sanders last July, resulted in his being sentenced to the Penitentiary for five years. The verdict is generally endorsed. The Talbott trial continued ... THE ATCHISON COUNTY MAIL, February 10, 1881 Watson News - Louie Morgan died at her father's residence on Saturday night last, having been sick only about ten days. The history of this young lady for the last three months has been a sad one indeed. She was engaged last fall to marry a young man who was taken seriously ill on the day set for the wedding and died in a short time. Miss Morgan was seized with inconsolable grief, seemingly caring but little for her own existence after the death of her allianced. She was finally taken sick with the same disease and died under very similar circumstances as did her lover and thus the winding sheet became the habiliment of the lovers and the grave their home....Mrs Serene Bowers, whose unfortunate condition of mind made it necessary last fall to place her under medical treatment at St Joseph, has returned home apparently permanently cured....There is some talk of enlarging the corporate limits of our town and laying out an addition of fifteen or twenty acres into town lots on the south side of the original Plat. The rapid growth of Watson makes this a necessity. Mr Mellville C. Cox and Miss Della G. Dustin were married at Watson on the 1st inst., Rev J.C. Moore, officiating. Conrad Deatz is the proud papa of a twelve and a half pound boy baby. He thinks of sending him out to buy stock in a few days. DIED - January 25th, 1881, at the residence of Isaac Frampton in Center Grove, Mariah P. Jamison, aged 79 years, 5 months and 25 days. We learn that the brakeman was killed on the T.V. railroad on last Monday night...The accident occurred near the Iowa line. His remains were taken to St Joseph on Tuesday. Death of Mrs A.B. Durfee. The dark angel of death again descended on our city on Monday and plucked from society one of its brightest ornaments and from the family circle a kind and indulgent wife and mother. After suffering several months with that terrible disease, consumption, the spirit of Mrs A.B. Durfee has taken its flight to those "realms of pure delight" where pain and sorrow never come. While the treachery of the disease with which she was afflicted caused her friends to hope that her life might be prolonged, its result was known to be inevitably death, and her demise was thus not unexpected; yet, its announcement bore to her many friends the most poignant pangs of grief. Her brothers, Green and Jared Todd, of Dakota Territory, were with her when she died. Her remains will be laid in their last resting place in Green Hill Cemetery today. Blanchard news items.... Nishna items - W.H. Christian has sold his farm to A.C. Gillilen. Mr Christian is bound for Texas or bust....Mrs Frame, wife of Sheriff Frame of Holt county, was visiting her father, Mr Thos Arnold, of Rupe's Grove last week.... Rock Port College....need for a building.... Condition of County Farm. The following items in regard to the condition of the Poor Farm of this County will be interesting to our readers. During the year ending Feb 7th, 1881, the receipts of the institution were $1,719.01 while the expenditures amounted to $1,685.36. $449.68 of the latter was for cattle, while $65 was expended for a horse. This shows a total expense of $1,170.68 for running the farm and a profit to the county of $514.68. There were thirteen paupers admitted during the year and ten discharged. The number of deaths in that length of time was two while there was one birth. There are now seven inmates of the institution. We think that all will agree with us that the institution under the supervision of J.F. Hurn is in the right hands. THE ATCHISON COUNTY MAIL, February 17, 1881 County Court proceedings....Catherine Townsend sent to Asylum No 2 in St Joseph.... Ezra Spurlock, an old time Hamburg boy, is making Atchison county an excellent Treasurer.--HAMBURG REPUBLICAN Charlie Durfee came home last week to perform the sad duty of witnessing the obsequies of his mother. He will return to Mt Vernon on Saturday. Death of Gracie Willis - daughter of Rev H.P.S. Willis...Her remains were taken to Irish Grove for interment on Wednesday. Married - At Watson, Mo., on Thursday Jan 27th, 1881, by Rev J.C. Moore, Mr S.C. Adamson and Miss Mollie A. Wallace. THE ATCHISON COUNTY MAIL, February 24, 1881 Letter from the Black Hills, Spruce Gulch, Dakota Territory, February 8, 1881 from D.A.R....tells about the weather, crops etc. Mrs Durfee of Illinois, has removed to this city and will make her home with her son, Col. A.B. Durfee. W.L. Riffe had a severe attack of neuralgia last week but we are glad to learn that he is about well again. Mrs Lucina Taylor and her brother, Gobrias Beal, were in town last week attending Probate Court. S.J. Osborne at one time Prosecuting attorney of this County is holding a similar position in Trego County Kansas. C.O. Snow has accepted a position in a general merchandise store at Sheridan, Nebraska, and will commence business next week. The case of the State of Missouri vs Wm Tann for carrying concealed weapons which came up in Justice Newell's court last week was dismissed. R.H. Miles was the only student from this county who graduated from the North-Western Medical College at St Joseph this winter. He has hung out his shingle at Tarkio. We learn of the death of a Mrs Hadden which took place in the neighborhood of the Campbell school house a few days ago. John Laney received the sad intelligence on Tuesday of the death of his mother which took place at her home in Cass county, this State, on last Friday morning. Joe Coleman says that he didn't say that he plowed up seventeen hundred snakes in breaking out twenty acres of prairie in Kansas. There were only sixteen hundred and eighty of the varmints. We saw one or two cows feeding quietly on the contents of a farmers sleigh on Monday. The scene was, oh, so natural and strongly reminded us of the good old times before our city dads passed the ordinance to "pen up your stock." The remnant of W.B. Orr's stock of goods has been taken to the building on South Main street, formerly occupied by Geo. A. Pinnell, where W.L. Riffe presides in settling up the business of the firm. Aaron Helt, a stepson of Mr Joseph Welle of Lincoln township, committed suicide on last Sunday night. He went home on that night and remarked to his parents that he had brought some medicine from town which he was to take. He then took a dose and went to bed. A short time after he went up stairs, his mother heard him struggling and went to him. When she reached him he was in the agonies of death. A physician was sent for but the young man died before he arrived. The Dr says he had taken some kind of poison. No cause is assigned for the rash act. Death of Mrs Charles Burnett. The people of our city were startled on Tuesday morning by the announcement of the death of Mrs Chas Burnett. It was only a few days since that she returned from an extended visit to Illinois in her usual health. But scarcely had she been at home a day when that terrible disease which has carried away so many of our best citizens this winter, pneumonia, seized her for its victim, and caused her death as above stated. She was a most estimable lady and by a display of those virtues which so adorned her life had surrounded herself with many warm friends who mourn her death. She leaves a devoted husband and two little children who have the sympathies of a large circle of friends and relatives in their bereavement. |