150 YEARS AGO

Sept. 29, 1876

An editor negotiating for the purchase of the Peabody Gazette last week didn’t buy the office, but he jumped a $5 hotel bill, ’tis said. He must be an editor of experience.

Various wells in the city are getting foul from a cause we need not mention, and it behooves our citizens to remedy the evil without delay as far as possible.

The 12 gentlemen who unsolictedly and unexpectedly endeavored to inflict a representative nomination upon us are hereby forgiven, in as much as their conspiracy did not succeed. And those gentlemen who so promptly and kindly came to our rescue by voting for someone else also prevented the calamity befalling us, have our hearty thanks. We wouldn’t ask a man to vote for us for all the offices in the gift of the people. We want no office and never wanted any. We desire only to do our full duty as a citizen of Marion County.

Robbie Claney, a 13-year-old son of R.S. Claney, was thrown by and from a fractious mule last Sunday and was very seriously injured.