"Baltimore American: An Indiana court has decided that husband and wife are two, and that, if the husband gives his note to his wife, he must pay her just as though she were a stranger. The domesticity of the twentieth century is evidently going to take on a serious aspect for the believer in the old theory that husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband. With courts ordering husbands to pay wives the money borrowed from them, a new terror is added to the perils of matrimony."

"The steamer City of Cincinnati, when above Madison a week ago yesterday, broke a shaft, demolishing several staterooms. The engine then blew out a cylinder head. The boat will be laid up nearly a month for repairs. In the meanwhile the Indiana is making trips in its place."

"Much ice in the river and navigation is suspended. The Workum was the last boat to touch at this landing."

"The steamboat W. F. Nesbit was sunk some distance above Cincinnati--a large field of floating ice cut a hole forty feet long in her hull. No loss of life or freight. She will be raised when the river falls.

"One hundred years ago--December 14, 1799--George Washington died--bled to death for a cold!"

"Some of the thermometers in the neighborhood registered 2 below zero Sunday morning--the coldest of the winter so far."

"Over a week of decidedly wintry weather--part of the time near zero."

"This is the week of the Indiana Industrial Association meetings at Indianapolis. H.L. Nowlin goes to represent the Patrons' Mutual Fire Insurance Association of Dearborn county. He is also a hold over member of the state board of agriculture and president of the Indiana State Association of Fair Managers."

'Elizabethtown'
"School resumed Tuesday after a vacation of 10 days."

"The Lawrenceburg banks have $357,341.22 on deposit, and the Aurora banks $373,312.26."

"Wednesday, January 2, was the most noted day in the financial history of the United States, as about $175,000,000 was distributed on that day to the share and bondholders of the country. This was about $2.30 per capita, but the bast sum found its way to the pockets of only about 12,000,000 persons."

"There are 4,047 men and women in this country estimated to be worth a million dollars or more."

"In 1896 Indiana cast 323,754 votes for McKinley: in 1900, 336,063."

"Now-a-days a man can go to the Philippines from New York in less time than it took to go from New York to New Orleans a hundred years ago. The ends of the earth are being brought together. Is not this a fulfillment of prophecy?"

"In Chicago 36 cranks have assembled for the purpose of awaiting the coming of Christ to earth.--Boone County Recorder."

"The Business people of Lawrenceburg have holiday stocks surpassing all former years. There is nothing in the line of toys, fancy articles, jewerly, dry goods and furnishings that cannot be bought here as low, quality considered, as in Cincinnati. Read the advertising columns of The Press for further information."

"Those sterling silver mounted hat brushes, clothes brushes, military brushes, hand mirrors, etc., make nice Christmas presents for both ladies and gents. Get them at Hornberger's.&quo

"Kiefer & Kirsch are the only first class photographers in Dearborn county without exception." BW

"Stuber & Son have sold 60 Moore's airtight heaters so far this season."

"The population of Ohio county has decreased 321 in the past ten years. Switzerland county 674, Dearborn 1,170. Jefferson 1,594. Franklin 1,978"

"Lawrenceburg's population by wards is officially announced as follows: First ward, 1,383; Second, 836; Third, 877; Fourth, 533; Fifth, 697; total, 4,326"

"In 1890 the census figures showed that 71 per cent of the population of Indiana was native born."

"Indiana has 35,210 square miles of territory, and there are 70 persons to the mile on an average."

"At the beginning of the Nineteenth century 21,000,000 people spoke the English tongue, while the number is now 130,000,000. The English tongue will yet rule the world and be the universal language."

"The electric railroad is using a steam plow to make its roadbed near Lawrenceburg. The time for the completion of the road to Lawrenceburg has been extended from January 1 to May 1, 1900--made necessary by the frequent stoppage of work on account of opposition."

"It is rumored that the Big Four railroad is trying to buy the Aurora and Laughery turnpike to build an electric road to North Vernon. The C.,L. and A. Electric Street Railroad Company offered $10,000 for the pike so it could extend its road to Friendship."

"A week ago today Cincinnati Street Railway Company stock sold at the highest point on record--$135 for a full share. Prosperity is here."