Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 31 May 1890 — Page 4

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Treatise on Blood Skin Disease mailed free. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,

Atlanta, Ga.

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SATURDAY. MAY 31, 1890.

RKl'tHLlCAN TICKET.

*V Kor Judpe—E. C. SNYDER. For Prosecutor—W. T. WH1TTIGTON. For Representative—T. J. AKMSTUONG.

For Auditor-JOHN C. WINGATE. Fwr Treasurer—A. RAMSEY, 1 For Sheriff—FHED» BANDEL. ForSurveyor—JAMESM, WAUGH. For Coroner—GEOHGflW*. TUCKER. For Commissioners— 2d District—MICHAEL PRICE, 3d Dlstrictr-AOUILLA W. GROVES.

CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.

To Meet at Brazil on Wednesday, July 16. The Republicans of the Eighth Congressional District will meet in delegate convention at the opera house in the city of Bra zil on Wednesday, July 10, 1590. at 10 o'clock a. m. for the purpos. oj placing in nomination a candidate for Congress, The counties of tho district will be entitled to reiir0?o,!tlU'on in tnc oniiyetuion at follows: 1 iXV 37 r'ountain 2ti

Montgomery 40 Vermillion 17 Parke 2S Sullivan 1U Vigo 03

Total 230 The several counties will select their delegates as the county committees shall direct. By order of the committee. \V. T.

BHUSH,

Chairman.

U. 1. ALLEN, Secretary,

This Date in History—May 31.

1727—Preliminaries of general peace signed at Paris. 1740—Death of Frederick William, king of Pru*. sla, aged succeedod by Frederick n. surnamed Frederick the Great. 1798—Reign of Terror began in France with proscription of the Girondist*. They were arrested Jane 8 and executed Oct. 81. 18®—Death of Harshal lannn, Duke de Mont* bello born 1769. 1887—Death of Grimaldi, famous comedian born 1770. 18il—Canton, China, ransomed by the payment of $6,009,000 to the BrilUh. 3845—Great Ore in New York. 1847—Death of Rev. Dr. Thomas Chalmers, Scotch divine: born 1780. 1851—The king of Prussia, emperor of Austria and czar of Russia meet at Oluiut*. 1(W—'Trial of Anthony Burns, celebrated fugitive slave case, in Boston. 1S5S— Uniu-d States expedition sent in search of

Dr. Kane iu the Arctic regions. IKS—Battle of Fair Oaks-Seven Pines In Virginia, two days Union loss, 5,739 Confederate loss. 7.397 1800—Tho Fenians make a raid Into Canada 18B7—Amnesty proclaimed to IM.I1 leal offenders

In Poland.

1S7&—Great failures In the iron trade of Great Britain.

How swiftly are old veterans passing to the unknown land! It will not be long before the "places that now know them will know them no more."

TJE Democrats look at the per cent., the Republicans look at the prices. The Kepublicaus would rather have steel rails at $30 per ton aud an advaloretn of GO percent., than steel rails at S100 and an udvalorem of 28 per cent. The one pursues tUe shadow, the other enjoys tue substance.

THE only general pansion bill that has ever paused tho House since 1801, which received a majority or tho Democratic votes iu its favor, was the Mexican war lill,aud the benefits of that law were largely bestowed upon men who had sought to destroy our government and disgrace our flag.

THE

recent speech of Cougrcssman

MuKinloy, of Ohio, beforo Congress on the pending tariff bill, has just been issued in pamphlet form. The speeoh includes valuable statistical tables, and is an admirable presentation of '.he principles of protection, as ombodied in tho new Tariff Hill. Send a two-cent stamp for a oopy of the American Protective Tariff League, 23, West 2.'U street, New York City.

St. Paul has gained a step or two on other cities in the matter of the census. She has leon lucky enough to have her city directory publisher appointed census supervisor, and he has promised tho St. Paulites that he will give the city a population of 200,000 or know the reason •why. Minneapolis meanwhile has rained a private sum for her census supervisor, "in order to enable him to conduct the count in a proper manner." Each city might take in tho gravestones of old set's to lielu out tho count.

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WHAT WOULD IT BE.

What would It bo to live tuy Ufe Without the Right of thy dear face. NeVr look Hg&ta into thlao oyes.

Nor view ajpUn thy form of grace?

If thou Ahouldst prove untrue, at lost Forsake me for another's charms, The sweet and tender past forget.

Return not to my loving arms

Twould bo as uight on noonda}* hills. As frosfc on falrvet summer Sowers. As laughter In the h&lte of death.

As serpent hid mid Eden bowers.

Yet would I live and bear ray port. Deceive the world with laughter gay. Conceal my pain within my heart

Till death should b»ar my soul away. —Isabel Richcy in Chicago Herald.

OFF WINDMILL ISLAND.

Tho lustrous light of a June moon shone over Philadelphia one night in the year 1779. The summer air was full of tho odor of roses and the streets were embowered in verdure, but sounds of martial music floating down from Chestnut street brought home to every heart the chilling remembrance that war was raging in the country and that the issue was as yet in tho balance. Faraway from the din. out in the open fields west of the Pine Street Presbyterian church, was a settlement in which but little heed was being paid to the uproar. The colony existing in the tiny cabins huddled together had nothing in common with the Continental armies except a deep, unrelenting hatred of the English.

This evening the strangers gathered in little knots and conversed in quiet, unfamiliar accents, the men smoking their iong pipes, and the women knitting in a slow, measured fashion. In French patois they told the children stories of their ever to be remembered land far in the north, the villages and farms, aud the cruelty of the British in wresting from them their beloved Acadia, turning them adrift in a strange country separated from their kindred and every home tie. After all the years which had elapsed since their coining to the City of Penn, the Acadians were simply sojourners, not citizens. Few of them had any acquaintance with the inhabitants of the city, and but a small number could speak the English language. The industrious Quakers did not take kiudlv to the indolent habits of the refugees, hence it is not to be wondered at that the Acadians had no intercourse with their neighbors, and strenuously sought to deter their children from maMllg connections outside of their own people.

T1^ young are upt to be perverse, however, and the French blood in their veins was too volatile to be easily controlled. In one of the cabins had a maiden gone to and fro through the long hours of the day now drawing to a close busied with tho house work, but with heart beating high, for she hod heard that the troops wero expected to arrive in the city during the day, and thoughts of her brave Willie, with his blue and buff uniform and three cornered hat, had driven all other subjects from her mind. Little her parents guessed of her secret, and, although they noticed her preoccupied manner, tbev did not attribute it to the proper cause.

Now that dusk had come she impatiently awaited the time When they should take their usual 6troll to neighbor Minot's doorstep for the accustomed chat When at length the old folks were safely away, she tied a light shawl over her head and sped along the path to Pine street, then down that thoroughfare to Third street, carefully avoiding the open door of St. Peter's, through which streamed a flood of light. In Third street she reduced her pace, and slowly walking under the trees she finally reached St. Joseph's church, looming up in the fast gathering darkness beside the humble dwellings of the Quaker poor. She knew she had started too early to meet her lover, so she entered the sacred edifice, and after spending a few minutes in prayer, or rather in silence, for her feelings were too tumultuous to be calmed, again sought the open air.

Third street was deserted, but a square below the pavements were crowded. News had come of a battle, and the pulse of the people was at fever heat. Louise cared not for the news of the war so long a-s her lover was safe, and now she waited anxiously at the trysting place. One or two persons hurried just, too eager to hear the latest tidings to notice her. A soldier released from his duties came down the street anxious to get homo again. She drew back in the shadow. Soon she heard the step of a vigorous man, and peering through the twilight saw the glitter of another uniform. The man came closer, and she perceived he was young and stalwart, with a bold, masculine face, which, though in a measure attractive, had stamped upon it traces of sensualism and rough living, such as is noticeable in tho countenances of soldiers who have been on a long campaign.

All this the girl noticed by the dim light of the lamp fixed on the watchbox near by. The stranger was evidently in search of some one, as he constantly peered around him as he moved forward, but as he saw Louise all doubt vanished. Walking directly up to the maiden, he bade her good evening, calling her by her first name. The girl's countenance expressed at once annoyance and surprise. The cause of the first is easily imagined, but the manifestation of surprise was only explained when she ejaculated in French: 'You here, Jacques? We thought you had decided to stay in Opelousas. And why in this uniform?"

The soldier replied with alight laugh: "It is hard to get rid of a bad penny, you know. I found the surroundings of onr friends in tho south not suited to my taste, and. having a chance to enter the army, did so. But I came on an errand to-night, and that is to carry a message from your lover."

Although a smile accompanied his words, tho expression of Jacques' eyes was far from pleasant, but this Louise did not notice. Sho grasped his arm in terror. "A message from Williol Whatdoyou Uleau.' Is lie wounded?"

"No, no, girl," the man replied almost roughly, "but the fact is he was instructed to remain with his company. Ho doe* not wish to miss the chance of seeing your pretty face, however, and so ho asked me to meet and accompany you to a place near his post, where he can steal out for a few minutes and greet you. His command is stationed at the old barracks on Front street, and, if yon are willing to go along, I will take you up and back in a boat lying below the dock, which I engaged on my way."

Tho maiden was greatly perturled. Without any sense of fear she would have readily gone alone to the encampment, but the reputation of Jacques was not of the b«st and she hesitated to trust him. ft was now past the hour when her lover should have come, and as Jacques told a plausible enough story she decided, finally, to accompany him. The two proceeded to tho river, where in answer ton low whittle given by Jacques like signal was returned, and guided by the sound they reached the side of a boat 1 yinij in the shadow of a pile of cord wood. There were two men ia the boat, which struck Louise as rather odd, it being rarely tho wherries were manned by more than one persou. She took a seat, and Jacques, loosening the painter, sprang into the stem. The rowers bent to their task with a will, and the craft shot out into the bright moonlight.

Instead of turning north, however, Jacques kept the prow headed directly for Windmill Island. Louise noticed this and asked him why the boat was not pointed up the river. He uttered an unintelligible reply about the current, which did not reassure the maiden, and she, though inwardly frightened, insisted in iirm tones that the wherry be directed noith. Her companion, thinking all occasion for secrecy past, sneeringly replied that ho would run the boat to suit himself. Now thoroughly alarised and seeing the trap into which she had fallen, Louise sprang to her feet and screamed for aid. In those days the river was nnch used as a highway, and usually the evening air was enlivened by the dip of countless oars and the hum of animated conversation. To-night, however, the water was deserted, every one being in the center of the town seeking the latest tidings. No answer came to her cry for help, and before she could again find voice Jacques pulled her down beside him, and, covering hemiouth with his disengaged hand, bid the rowers make all meed to the island, whose shadows wotifil effej'tuajlv hide tljem.

With a frantic effort Louise wrested herself loose and scream after scream rang over the water, to be answered this time by a welcome cry from up the river. Tho conspirators turned their heads in alarm. A hundred yards distant was a light boat with two occupants bearing toward them, and propelled with such force as to very materially lessen the distance between tlieni before the abductors could realize the situation. "Row, men, row!" yelled Jacques, "ft will be ball and chain for life if we are caught." "Stop!" came from the pursuers. "Stop or I fire!"

Jacques muttered an oath, and, Seizing a musket lying at his feet, took aim and fired at the speaker. No return''fire came from the party in the second boat, and they had resolved apparently to delay action until they overtook the'wherry. Making an almost superhuman effort, they shot the light skiff alongside the heavier boat, when the island was not more than ten yards distant. Snatching a pistol from his belt Jacques-leveled it at the nearest occupant of tho other boat, but as his finger trembled on the trigger an oar quickly sweeping through the air fell upon his arm and the weapon was tossed into tho water, while his right hand fell useless by his side.

The boats by this time had drifted almost to the chores of the island, aud the cowardly boatmen, seeing their leader disabled, and with the horrors of Walnut Street prison in their minds, abandoned their oars and sprang ashore, followed by the pistol shots of the second occupant of the skiff, as well as by tho curses of the maimed Jacques, who saw his scheme fail when at the point of success.

Louise was lying in the bottom of the wherry senseless, and. seeing further resistance useless. cques threw himself into the tide at the same instant the officer, for so his uniform showed him to bo, stepped into the boat. Tho rower of the skiff made strenuous efforts to reach the drowning man, but failed, and the dark waters of the Delaware closed over Uie abductor, who was unable to swim lo the hind with his uninjured arm. Meanwhile the officer raised the maiden in his arms, and at tho first glance ejaculated: "Heavens, it is Louise!" The rescuer was no otlu-r than William Clark, her lover, whose command had indeed been located in the Liberties as stated by Jacques, and he was on his way to meet his sweetheart when the scream of Louise rang over tjie water.

Jacques' story of Clark having been detailed for sjiecial duty was entirely false. Through a letter which had fallen into his hands he had learned of the meeting arranged between Clark and Louise, and having known tho Acadian girl for years, he resolved upon the daring plan of abducting and carrying her to New York, of course deserting to the British. Not until Louise revived aud told her part of the story could Will understand her presence in the boat, or until then did he know who was the abductor.

Louise reached homo beforo her parents had returned from the Minote'. and in the disturbed condition of the city the fight on the river and the sudden disappearance o? Jacques created no comment

Years after, when Louise had become the wife of Clark, she told the tale for the first time to her daughter, and it was one of her grandchildren who related the incident to the writer.—Philadelphia Times.

Cable Railway £nginei.

The new cable railway station of the West Side Cable railway, in Chicago, has two Greene engines, each 80 inches by 72 inches each engine weighs 238,000 pounds and lias a capacity of 1.200 horse power.

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SILKS.

20 inch printed Indias Silk well worth .50c, in this sale only 2,"u. 12 styles to select.from.

Two numbers of gros grain silks, No. 1, 24 inches wide well worth 81.25, in this sale only flic. A great batgnln. No. 2, 2-1 inch gros grain silk well worth SI (i", in this sale only SI 07 a yard. These goods are iu black and a great bargain.

DRAPERY NETS.

25 pieces fine droperv nets. You can buy them for much less money than cost the importer. We stait as low as Uac, 75c. SI and up worth double.

DRESS GOODS-

In this department we can safely say never in the history of the trade have fine dress fabrics been offered at tho piiees n»mod by us this season. Finest novelties of this season's importation at half and loss than half aetua'. cost to Importers. AVe have still greater surprises for you in low prices. Fine all wool Henriettas fine all wool Serges. Plaids and Stripes. Fine Novelties, Robes at 50e. on the dollar. Give this department your attention and we will save you money as we need the room.

CHALLIS-

Finest half wot 1 ohallles equal to the imported Challies, In this sale only 15c a yard. Wash Challis that were 10 and 121CM.11 go in this fta,e at 5c a yard for choice. First come get best assortment. We will only sell one dress pattern to a customer.

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LOUIS BISCHOF'S,

DRY GOODS H0US

AND LADIES' BAZAAR.

NEVER SOLD SO CHEAP

We Inaugurated on Mondayf May 26.

CM Great Magnitude, preparatory to extensive alterations and re-modeling of our premises,

We will quote but a few of the

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Innumerable Bargains.

WHITE GOODS.

Everything that goes to make up a first class White Goods department can be found on our counters India Muils, India Linens, plain and figured Swiss. Plaid aud Striped Jaconets, Piques and Cambrics, etc, A saving here of full oue-third from regular prices-

TABLE DAMASKS. NAPKINS.

In table Damasks. Napkins, Towels and Crash wo give you prices that can not be duplicated. We have a veiy large stock and must make prices to put them into money at ouce. We have a lot of Turkey Red Table Linen will worth -10 to 50c In this sale, only 17c a yard Also 5,000 yards all linen Crash worth from 8 to 10c a yard, in this sale only ft cents.

Ginghams-

Fine French Ginghams, Plaids,Stripes and Plain. Fine Combination Ginghams and Zephyr Suit at about half the prices they wero Imported to sell for. Not a fow short ends but a line of 75 patterns to select from.

Embroideries-

We will offer a big lot of 45 inch Flounclngs, flno quality, wo made a closing deal on this lot, we did not pay •50c on the dollar for them. You can buy them for less money than you ever bought goods of equal quulitles. Jaconet Embroideries at 5, (i, 8, 10 and 12ic. Very cheap. 5

Fans.

We show the finest line of Job Fans ever brought to the city. A fan for 1c or a fan for $10. The one just as cheap in proportion, values considered.

mmense Bargains for on.

127 And 129 East Main Street.

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Umbrellas.

Hundreds of them to select from. Prices on a few leading number*: 'u'. $1.07, $1.17, $1.47, and S2.17. Tii. wonder Is vhere the material coiues from after the actual cost is eojiiliiwlGive us a call in this department au we will 8Rve you mor.ey-

Underwear-

In wnrm-woather underwent "M some veiy cheap goods to nflVi. La .: Jersey vests at (. 1(1, 15, 20, and worth double.

Lace Curtains.

Wo shall offer greater imluoei ieiits in this department than we have ever.dtw Uelore. Wo havo still a good assortine'" in Nottingham and Swiss Curtains- rii" prices named will be 07. H7, ?l, SI 75 and $2 and no house in tliis country own goods of equal quality at lefn tn-' double the price named. Scrnu Curtain material bv tho yard. CurU11! poles all at closing out prices, n* wo U"1" tho room.

Satteens arid Cashmere Ombre

The llneft high art novelties imported for 25c a yard, well worth 35c to

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iino of fine Satteens, good st los at i/A /i good quality which sold at 2JC a weeks ago. American Satteons. I stylos at 8Jc a yard goods that so. 15 and 20c. Wo want the room f"r our new building und must hare it cost or sacrifice of the goods on

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