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jfejjevy piia2tiler. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6lh, 187?. 'r J. VAN «LYKE, Editor. "Si " R^TV"3 ^4 .71 '4s ̂ J; V ,1 GREENWOOD. EDITOR PLAINDKALKR :-- Since hit appf trtnoe in your caloinns^Old Boreas."' chilling breath lias come upon LUwfmMft vlsl*. accompanied by his companion "Jack LFrogt," whese first laber seems to have been to fix indel­ ible upon a)) throughfaTes of travel, the imprint, sharp Hide up, of every thing moveable, putting an embargo upon travel in any and every form.-- The dark pall like gkxnn which so tk |»ng has been overhanging, lias at last been withdrawn, and an occasional ray •feunshitie beams forth to cheer the blue apd disconsolate. Many there are, who. through their gloom of grief and sorrow "heerteth not its ray." The o'rehanging gloom but adds dark* MM to that which already surrounds them. Such has been the case among us within the past few days. On Saturday last the funeral Services of lire. Boone were held at the Church on the hill. Rev. Byron Alden delivered the discourse, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Cox. Mrs. Baone was the wife of Lewis Boone, who, among the first settlers throughout the County is well and favorably known, being among the first of those brave pioneers who. upwards of two score years ago, sought what was then to be their future homes-and fortunes amid the wilds of the Western Prairies. Many are the hospitalities that have been shared prepared by her hands, by the Early Settlers throughout the north­ west. For upwards of 63 years has she been the faithful, loving, and patient companion, toiling early and late, even ready to lend a helping hand to the needy, and in sickness her pre Re nee was not wanting, ready and willing to do whatever she could to cheer those who perhaps many tifaes had less reason to complain than her­ self. Althengh she had nearly ac­ complished and filled allotted space 0t man, her last days have not been .spent in sloth and idleness. Within <tbe past two ysars, she, by the help «f Mr. Boone has woven upwards o f 3800 yds.<ef carpeting, and a few days previous to her death she stood at her loom casting her Shuttle fprward and •back with the accustomed diligence. But the time came for her rest from toil. In oae short week pneumonia ef the luugs had done its work. A large «trcle of relatives and friends art left to mourn her departure. On Friday last Mr. Charles Merchant nisi ding in the village, caught in some traps whicii he had set for wolves, very large American Grey Eagle The bird Is one of the finest speci­ mens <oflts kind. He was fortunately uninjured by being caught, and is in due condition. Its mate was shot few weeks since by Mr. Ensley Barn- •*d* • The Singing School is Organized and meets on Evening. The Literary Society are tag, waiting, waiting, for a , the Executive Committee. ; The School which has been in pro- ||fess some three weeks is now filling up to nearly its full quota and seems to be progressing finely. The hog Cholera still continues its tvages among some of the farmers he loss with some has been heavy ..^•$r,here*s money in it, "we mean to man Srho will find a sure preventative and - JBarjor' now fully Saturday still wait- call from & CRYSTAL LAKE. EDITOR PLAJNDEAXER.--Although jflou haye not heard anything from this placo for the last two or three .greeks, we are here surrounded by ^pud, hubs, snow and ice, and in fact ^Kvery thing which tends to make bad roads. But notwithstanding the roads business is quite lively. Rev. B. P. Hewitt preached his farewell Sermon last sabbath evening. Mr. Hewitt is a deep thinker, a power­ ful speaker, a pleasant and social man u company, and during his stay here as been the means of doing a great al of good, besides making many arm friends who will greatly miss im. It is seldom that a minister faakes as many friends as he has made ;-;W? Pt both old and yeung of all classes and f%lenomInatioBs. Success attend him nd in his next field of labor may he nd as mail/ and as warm friends as he leaves. The next moating of the Lltfcrary ^Society will be held in the chapel ^^Uursday eve Dec. 6th. These meet- * lugs are very profitable and Interest­ ing, A cordial iuvitation is extended to ali. Come net only to enjoy your- eelvrsbut to eneewage the members who are doing all ia their power to make them a success. lu accordance with tbe proclamation issued by the President and Gove nor K ?: „?;,:fthe people of this place held Union Thanksgiving services ia the Corigre- i'y #U|gational Church. The germ-- was If \|fproachedby B. P.Hewett. ODDJB MMRNMMMMMMMM I IIIWBMM------» /. When in want ef Picture Frames do £% •>;|*^»o(t forget that John Medlar, Wood- - , stock,keeps the largest stock ia the sounty. He also makes frames to «r~ * V <J«r In MOW atyle moulding y»u waat. A COJKlSBCTION IBTTLKIX HFTFLNWR PJLA.INI>EALKR 1 NOTICE aft Itftticle iu your paper purporting to ematiftfeCrom C. Street & Son. AtVr £6ing through many regrets in regard «© huitiugotny reputation in regard to wnacity, and the pressure or friends Mud his duty to your readers, and the public and himself being enumerated, lie goes on to say "Ellsworth must re­ tract these false statements or prepare himself to defend them." Now Mr. Editor %ve have au apology to make and will state we were in error in re­ gard to number of prizes won by others. Street did win First prize on a Boar Pig sold to him by us July 4th, 1871, about Si months before he took the prize. Large feather. We bred him, he showed him. We naturally forgot this for the reason we attended the Natiooal Swine Shew at Chicago before our County Fair and sold ali the boars we had under one year, con­ sequently did not exhibit in that class. We did not intend to 10b our friend Street of his laurels. We have had the number changed in all our advertise­ ments. We did not change our list last year because those prizes wero not fairly won and we was waiting to have a request made to change ^when we would have venriiaieu i?i« wiioie umi* ter. Now we have replied to all the truths except one in Streets article.-- We went to Streets in Sept. after re­ turning from Ottawa, 1876, and looked at his boars over six months, intending to buy one if he had one good enough to wiu 2d Prize at Wis. State Fair.- We had one we thought good enough to win First prize, whicii he did.-- Street says we went away disappointed We did for he was not good euough to show and we left him and had our journey for nothing. If wc wanted any of. his premium stock for 1877 should thought we would iiave kept some for show as we bought the best boar pig ho had although he thought he kept the best. He came about as near keeping the best as lie did last year. Street blows about my trying to got him to goto Waukegan as though I was afraid to meet him at our Fair. Why did not Street beat rae at the State Fair all round if he had such wonderful stock? He put his lie into the hands of all ho could, stating that he had taken so many First prizes at Mclleury Co. Fair iu 1876, and there was no S on the word either as he very boastiugly say was in the Richmond Gazette. Now look at this little equivocating liar trying to make tbt public believe he had met me at McHenry Co. Fair and beat me, when in iacthe did not show at all. Marengo Fair is a local town Fair and is known by that name, and if Street meant to be honest why did he not say Marengo Fair. There was no trouble for Street to win prizes at Marengo Fair in 1876 for it w^s first Fair, and no promiuent breeders ex­ hibited there. Just so in 1877. Street's aim was to steal reputatiou instead of earning it as 1 haye done. 1 have done much for Street. I have made him. See his gratitude. First thing when he thinks lie can walk alone he publishes a falsehood. He publishes a card stating his stock are from Perfection direct. One would suppose he had been to Ohio and bought some of Perfections pigs.-- Truth is he never owned a Butler Co. hog. All the Perfection stock ho has came through our Sambo. We were foolish enough to let Street have the use of him to his famous sow Jennie that we sold to him out of the fatten­ ing pen two years since She had proved a failure as a breeder with us and we sold her to Street for 93.72 more than she was worth for pork She is the identical sow that we showed at our Fair two years bince with some young pigs, where everyone called her a scalawag. She is a very coarse sow and was saddled shouldered when we showed her at the Fair. She was thin in tiesh and showed her defects. She covers up pretty well and passes quite well with people that are not close judges. All the nice pigs she ever bred were sired by Sambo. Street will say he beat me at. State Fair Certainly he did on sows under six months for I had kept mine as I had two hundred and did not do as Street did, take three pigs and stuff them with all the inush and milk he could get down them. Mine had scarcely any milk, as I raised 7 calves and had cows only and did not rob the other pigs to stuff the three. All my pjgft fared alike. I showed 57 head and tiaa as good finished pigs at home as I took, while Street showed 5 head, including old feow and a winter boar pig, and had nothing left at home to compare with them. A Wisconsin gentleman said after visiting Street's place he would be ashamed to have such a looking lot of pigs at home and show three at Fairs so highly fitted. Street carried his milk with him and when he got out at State Fair bought, for i| would not do to let the pigs go without their milk. Judges toid mo I undeaiably had the best sow pig, but I had not pushed her as Street had. They made this statement when thoy gave me 2d. They said they did not award 1st to her on quality, but on great de­ velopment. Street says his young sow won sweepstakes fairly. Now is Stre'et a lunatic? Why did she not get sweepstake at Freeport ? I got it on same stock she was competing with. I beat him in class here with a sow that did not compete with him in class at Freeport. She took 2d prize here in class. Who would expect the same committe to give sweepstake to a 2d prize animal. If there had been anoth­ er committee there would have been some reason for giving a 2d prize ani­ mal sweepstake. Difference of judg­ ment. But Street kept squealing until 1 consented to have a nsw committee appointed just as he wanted and then did he get sweepstake ? No instead of Queen of the West getting it as it was awarded by other committee, Pride got it, same sow that won it at State Fair. Yet Street says his young sow fairly won sweepstake, simply because by accident the ribbon was put on his pen. I called attention of Superin­ tendent and two of the judges that were yet standing there to it, and asked if it was their Intention to put sweepstake on 2d prize sow. They said no. Said they must rectify the mistake. Superintendent said they would go and find tbe other Judge and rectify, but said he did not wish to do it until all three were there. They put it on my sow, Queen of the West, under one year. Street was not satis- fled, he ran around like a lunatic after one officer than another. Finally I agreed to have another committee ap­ pointed by Superintendent of Class D, and they gave it to Pride,my yearling sow, winner of Sweepstakes at Illinois State Fair, Street and his famous sow Jsnuie and her progeny bsing there notwithitm»diiME,..)ipMiiiv^^ I got theludgos together uoboko<*rn to him aiifTtawod to *.b«in. Now Street Im and talked to states a has* falsehood, fwt there was uo such thing trnimpirid. He would have you think 1 run fc.vorything as I pleased. H# asks what rlgut l had to take ribbons off of other ni|i and put them on my own. I will toll you*-- A iter the committee went away I met Mr. Morse and one of the committee. I asked if they had rectified the mis­ take and they said they had, I asked when, it went, he said on Queen of the West. 1 avked were Superintendent Cooney was. Said he had gone to town. I nxked If it was all right on book. ITesuldit was. 1 told him I believed I would change the ribbon then, for Cooney would not be here un* til nearly noon. Mr. Morse said ho, could we no objection, for it did not belong to Street, and did to me, I think i done Mr. Street a favor by so doing, for 2 aiu satisfied from his ac­ tions since that if he had kept that ribbon on his peu until Mr. Cooney came next day he would hrive went crazy, for his statements since show very plainly that it had shattered his mind a* It is, or he has .given his at­ tention to telling falsehoods. For cer­ tainly :MS is sithera lunatic or a falsi­ fier. First, by stating he won several First rizes at McHenry County Fair, 1876. We will show by Secretary that he did not enter a hog at that Fair. Second, what he says in regard to my getting committee together, is a wilful and malicious falsehood, in proof of which enter certificate from Superintendent of Class D. and Committe which proves Street a falsifier and shows him to be a man that will make any kind of state­ ment to forward his own ends. If you keep on you will get as good a reputa­ tion as you did in Early Rose Potatoes. Below wo give the certificate spoken of. WOODSTOCK DEC. 3d 1877.--By re­ quest of Mr. W. W. Ellsworth I have examined the entry book of the Mc­ Henry Co. fair tor tbe year 1876, and found there was no entry made by C. Street & Son. Was awarded in 1877 their premiums on hogs viz: 2d pre­ miums on Sow 1 year and over. 1st Premium on boar under 1 year. 2nd Premium ou Sow under 1 year. A. BOUBN*., Sec. WOODSTOCK, NOV. 22d. 1877.--This is to certify that W. W, Ellsworth, did not get us together when wo rectified mistake on the sweepstake on sews. Neither was he present when it was done. Mr. Cooney is the man that got us together and'our talk was not at the Hog pens but out near the track. Ellsworth had nothing to say to us at the time. -eobibe:bjeoplb- Every my i y-< !~ .site *1 r ^ Ai# i • - • I'.Vf w • 4* MOUpY TO .y mm R. D. COOWBT ALBERT MORSK MICH ART.. GMEBBI* A. IL ILAXLEV. In addressing C. Street & Son I mean S. G. Street, for old Mr. Street has nothing to do with this controvery, as know, consequently let S. G. Street bear the odium. We hope the lunatic will know when proof blocks his statements. W. W. ELLSWORTH. S IK 01. 2 P? H 2 WlSp'ji f %• i ii kMUi> ->:• * 1 •*.. It; : WJ r i-if '#*"•££{ rwat/ V' . > ->Vf, Lit. Buy your Goods ... U#- ' • i a'H: 6 of Product & vi-i1 v. , . for t - - a w \ *• -i-ri <b -- - i- ' • i,! .-'4'^ft r.r i Oood Prints .........Sets. Beat Prints 6 to 7 Oood yard wide Sheetinc 6 Best yd wide Sheeting . I? to 8 Yd wide Bleached Sheet­ ing 8 to 10 Extra good Waterproof 76 Cnrpenterville Flannels 45 Large line of ptain Flan­ nels .20 to 87 Cotton Batting--12, 1ft and 18 Good all wool Stocking . Yarn 90 Dress Goods, bargains. 10 to 40 AU woo) Blk Cash­ mere 70, SB, ahdfl French Bone Dorset a.,.. 40 Clarence and Peerless; Carpet Warp..... .... Best Layer Eaisins.. These Prices are for First Class Goods. Every article Warrant j ed to pwe «s or aaouey refunded. « / t P. D. SMITH. \ ^ Products of Looms of Eno»latu France, Germany, China, Japan and United btates of America. FASHIONABLE DM GOODS As Low aa any other Hause in the county*. . yi If Domestic Cheaper than at nny time within the memory of the oldest inhabi tant. ** Plaid Drees Goods, Past' Colored Calioos, Alpacas, Caten, M, GRASS CLOTHS, &c., Offered at the Best Bargains in four counties. A full line of Rochester and Buffalo custom made BootsandShoes every pair warranted Mens Suits......... . (6 to#90 Boys Suits $4 to f 10 Cotton Flannel 9 to 16 California Overalls leath er trimmed Fair Jamin Tea 3 1hs for Choice Japan Tea Best Japan Tea warrant ed best in market Fair Rio Coffes Choice Rio Coffee.rX..V. Best itio Coffee 4 bars Savon Soap.;.. :.ii Fair Young Hyson Tea 80 .S5 Choice Young Hyson Tea Beet Young Hyson Tea. 7ft 80 S3 25 35 40 70 86 UX 8 mi X box Layer Raisina...t 3 ft Can Peaches, beet.. 2 tb Can Blackberries. .. 35 different styles Car. peting SO to«l» Wait Taper and Trunks full line 9 lbs White Coffee Sugar 9><f lbs C Coffee Sugar... 10 ih» t ighiiBrown4ogar Best Suga* cured ean« vassed Hams 12 lbs Rice Fair Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco Good Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco Extra Fine Cat Chewing Tobacco Best Hardwood Batter Pails i I am now prepared to give better bargains in Furniture, Picture Frames and Looking Glasses than any other iiouser ill the county. Below we give a partial PRICE LIST, Extension Tables, Solid Black Watnut, 85 cents per foot4 ^Bedsteads from $2 to $30. Spring Beds from $2 to $10. JWash Stand Bureaus from $3 to $5.. Bureaus from $8 to $J4. .Wood Scat Chairs from $2 to $4.50 per set. " Cane Seat Chairs fr4m $4.50 to $15. Single Lounges from $7 to $10. Bed Lounges from $10 to $14. PICTURE FRAMES.--8x10 Rustic Frame, complete, 20 cents.-- RusticMotto Frames 8 1-2x21, complete, ^ cents, and all other styles and sizes at the very lowest prices* Lookup Glasses from i5 cents to $2. « UNDERTAKING. I have the most complete stock of Coffins and Caskets, of ill Styles and sizes, to l>e found in the County, with Trimmings to cor­ respond, that I will sell at a very small margin. Give me a call and I will be pleased to show give prices. r To parties wishing it I tvill give one years time on approved Notes aMO per cent. t you my stock and «1: <#i: " John I. 0. BISHOP, -DEALE&ilN- ALSO • FULL ASSORTMENT OF Has now on hand, atgfiis WarcVuise, one of the Largest Stock* of Agricultural Tools to be found in the Count}', among (which are the follow ing: Belle City Feed Cutter, 8tar Feed Cutter, Corn Shellers, The Littl^Giant Com and Cob Crusher, Corn and Cob Crushers and Pulverisers, Iron Pumps, Sweep and Tread Powers, Scales, Dickey's Fanning Mills, Wood- Sawing Machines, Bob Sleighs, Cutters, Wagons, ^uggies, and in short everything usually kept in an Agricultural Warehouse. BUCKLIN & STEVEN?, McHenry, Auqxut IMA, 1877. Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, READY-MADE CLOTHING, Orocerieer, £ce. Of the best quality, and which will be sold at the Lowest Rock- Bottom Prices. Give us a call and inspect Goods and learn Prices. PERU? & MARTIN. McHenry, Dec. 1st, 1877. In speaking of the celebrated Belle City Feed Cutter, John Doran, of Nunda, says : John N. Dor an, of Nunda, McHenry Co., III.,says: "Th« No. 1 Belle City Feed Cutter purchased of O. Bishop, is a genuine success; its capacity is equal t© your recommend. I am now feeding forty-nine head of cattle,cutting shock corn for them; one hour's work of the machine cuts eneujrh for two days' feeding. The more 1 use it the more I like it. Several parties looking for machines have beea here to see mine in operation, and In every Instance have expressed themselves well pleased." If in want of anything in my line do not fail to give me a call, as I can please you both in quali­ ty and Price. O. BISHOP. McHenry, Nov. 27th, 1877. TXT fp JtjL JHj All will testify who trade with us that they can buy More Better {hods 15X>B THE DOLLAR <•- Than at any other house in Me- Henry County. We have BO need to cry PfO humbug. A word to the wise will suffiee. Chicago Nine Cent Ston^ Bloci>~^4eHeiiry, 111. Blake't YOUNG CATTLE FOR SALE. The undersigned offers for sale a lot of Young stock, Heifers and Steer?, from calves to two year olds. Apply to H. C. Mead, en the Wo«dstoek rMul, 1 milt trem McHnary Depot. The nndcrsltmed tiavlnff Opened a New Meat Market fat Curtis' Old Shop, wiser® he ia prepared to furnish all who ma* favor him -with A call with Fresh and Salt Meats of all Kinds, Respectfully aska a share Ike nabU* patronage. * >, Vegetables of all kinds IN THEIR SEASON. CASH PAID FOR HIDES. •srCall and we will try and please you with the Beat of Meats and a Clean Shop, McHenry. Ilk, Oct, R. WAITK. sut. isn.