Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 December 1893 — Page 2

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Printed Every Afternoon Except Sunday.

1HF. JOVRSAL CO.

T. H..B M.-OAIN, President. }. A.GURKSK, Secretary. A. A. MCCAIN.

DAILY—

PiiFiilile I advance. Simple copies tree.

Treasurer.

Ono year 16.00 Sir mouths 2.50 Thrt«o month# I

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Eutcrp.l at the Posto(Bc« at CrawfordsvlUe, Indiana, as second-class matter.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1893.

SOME INSIDE HIS TOBY.

Miss Mary H. Kroat, who spent three months at Honolulu as tho representative of the Chicago Inter Ocean, gives soma inside history in her paper yesterday concerning negotiations between the American Administration and the Queen Cor her abdication. Miss Kront eavs that last April the Qneen made the proposition to acoept a definite sum and retire permanently. This sum was fixed at, §500,000. Says Miss Ivront:

Tnat it was made is true beyond all question. The Queen lu the negjtlatlon was represeted by ier attorney, Mr. Paul Neumann, whose orriiud to Washington after the treaty had boon sent 'to the Senate was partly to effect this compromise. Mr. Neuman recelred a senerous retulner lor his serrlces, which was dedosltwd in the bank In Honolulu beiore he took any steps lu the case, and his fee was proportionately gemrous and equally well secured. It must be admitted that he earned Uiemouey and managed the Queen'* ease with signal ability.

The plan of abdicating a throne which no longer exists, however, was as praotleuble last April as it is now, and It seems inereulble that Mr. Cleveland, alter antagoaizinir his own party, and malting himself ridiculous in tho eyes of the diplomacy of the whole world, should nmc, tlnally. by all this round-about rout*. to uc.-ept its a dernier resort—having it forced upon him as a last miserable means of retreat—terms whlcn he could have accepted naeifically and voluntarili last April.

The proposition was made there is at .least one person now in th« Culted States in no way connected with the provisional govtrnment, who saw the written document lu which the Qut en's terms were unequivocally set forth. Secretary Gresham was promptly Informed and subsequently acknowledged that he had oeeu infoimed of the Queen's willingness to relinquish all claims to the throue for a stated sum. Hut the administration evldontiy wished to try the experiment, first, of restoring discarded royally and throttling Incipient republicanism, It has essayed that experiment to Its own undoing, and now, when it realizes the enormity of its stupidity and Its entire Inability to retrace steps, it is moved to do that which It believes could have been done months ago without all the Buheequent blundering and expense and sacrifice of dignity which an ignominious retreat or disastrous persistence lias ordained.

IT will, no doubt, be a surprise to many to learn that, the amount of money now held by the bnilding and loan associations of Ohio exceeds, in the aggregate, the combined capital invested in the national banks,the savings banks and the private banks of the State. These latter show a total capital of over 63 millions, while the bnilding associations show aseets amounting to 74 millions. There are. 714 corporations of the latter kind in Ohio with a membership of 244,(300. There are nearly one-fourth of this latter number classed as borrowers, and the disbursements last year run over 61 millions.

THE New York Herald, one ot President Cleveland's loyal supporters, hasn't a very high opinion ot an income tax. It siivs: "The President has evidently realized from the force of popular sentiment that the American people will not countenance a general income tax. He has apparently yet to learn that no sort of income tax will be tolerated in this country. The very theory of such a tax, with its inquisitorial P,iul Pry features and its induoemente to fraud and perjury, is foreign to our institutions and obnoxious to our people."

MRS. DOMIXIS, the dusky Queen of the Sandwich Islands, is the daughter of a negro barber and a semi-pagan. She is a woman of most dissolute habits and is very fond of sin and pleasure, her paramour being one Wilson. ThiB woods colt Queen not only demands that the United States Government shall restore her to her rotten throne but shall keep her there by military force. The one demand is just as reasonable as the other, but it seems that even Grover hesitates.

RECIPBOCITY is struck down in the Democratic tariff meaeure. The Democratic party has always hated reciprocity, because it retused to admit foreigners to the American markets unless the foreigners in question extend equal advantages to American products. Reciprocity is too American to suit the Democracy.

ANOTHER steamer arrived at San Francisco yesterday from Honolulu, with the news that the Provisional Government was yet in power and that Queen Lil was still in retirement. Cleveland and Gresham certainly realize by this time that their policy of restoration has been a lamentable and humiliating failure.

HOKE SMITH talks back in a most saucy manner to Dan Yoorhees because ot the hitter's position on the pension question. He makes the charge that Din is looking after the soldier vote in

Indiana, which is doubtless true.

HOKE SMITH, Dink Botts and Joshua .Tump must look to their laurels. Iowa has elected to the Legislature Messrs. Shokp, Homerighausen and Stillmunks.

IN DIXIE'S LAND

BEPORE THE WAR.

Bv JAS. muN irrxns.

CHA1TEH XX IV—(OTXTINI KI I.

"Your honor, my young client here pleads not puilty to this charge, lie admits nothing whatever, and requires that everything shall be proved. The statement that he msxle to your liouor is true in every particular. We deny that this lady is or ever was a slave. She is the daughter of the late Pierce Bostock, reared in his family from Infancy, both here and in Mississippi, and always treated and acknowledged as a daughter. If there is the slightest evideuce to the contrary we shall produce a cloud of witnesses from tho parish of La l'ourehe interior, and from the vicinity of Vicksburf*. While I am led to believe that there is some evidence that the complainant is the son of the deceased, we give notice that the most positive proof of that fact will be required in the ease of a man who was disowned by his reputed father from the time he arrived at his majority, and who is known as one of the worst blacklegs alonir the river." "I'll call you to account for that!" the person referred to furiously exclaimed. "Whenever you please, sir!" my belligerent champion retorted, with outstretched finper. "Order!" said the judge. "No personalities here." "I don't want to be personal," continned my counsel. "Yet it is a fact that the complainant was put ashore from a steamboat below VieUsburg last June for cheating at cards."' ."That's so," somebody in the crowd exclaimed. "I was there.'' "If the court please," said the opposite lawyer, jumping up. "what has all this to do with the accusation here?" "Very little," said the judge. "Make your statement pertinent, Mr. Garnett." "I was merely warning the complainant that he will have no easy time in proving that he owib any slave. And your honor will see the immense importance of this investigation. Kot only does it affect the right of this lady to her freedom—and I use the word lady in the highest sense that can be given it—but the evidence taken here will be used in another tribunal, in establishing the disputed question of heirship to the large Bostock estates. It will be a long and complicated investigation, and I shall see that the rights of both these interesting young people are most fully protected. We ask an adjournment of ono, week that the defendant be admitted to bail, and that the court will commit this lady to the care of my family pending the examination.

I pledge my word that she shall be here on the adjourned day." "1 object," said the other lawyer. "We can prove our case in five minutes." "Indeed!" sneered riiy champion. "I don't think the unsupported word of a professional gambler, and the party in interest, as to Pierce Bostoek's statements to him. will have controling weight against the proof I shall bring." "We will show by the prisoner that Pierce Bostock admitted and confessed to him everything we claim." "No von won't. Because he is under accusation, he will not be permitted or required to testify at ail." "We will prove it by the girl."

A smile flitted over the judge's face. Lawyer Gnrnett laughed aloud. "Worse and worse! According to your own theory and complaint, the lady Is a slave, and "by the law of Louisiana can't be a witness. Who else would you like to call?" "We will prove it by Washington Le Fevre, the late Mr. Bostoek's overseer." "You couldn't prove anything to your advantage by him, if you could bring him here, as you can't. He is at the bottom of the Mississippi."

Conrad's lawyer began to fidget about and his client looked troubled. After whispering together, the former said: "We shall be able to prove all we allege, your honor but the evidence is not at hand to-day. We consent to a postponement, and we shall be entirely ready. In the meantime, wo insist that both the prisoner and the girl shall be committed to the parish prison."

My counsel was promptly on his feet to protest but the judge told him that it was unnecessary for him to be heard again. "This postponement will be ordered," he said. "As for the custody of the prisoner, and the female whose legal 6tatus is so strangely in controversy here—"

A note was at this instant handed him by an attendant. I learned afterward that it was addressed to tho judgo, with the words in the corner, "please read immediately." lie checked his remarks, and read it. "This is most extraordinary," he said. "This case iB filled with surprises. Let the people make room there, and admit this gentleman."

I had not the slightest premonition of what was about to happen. My eyes were fixed upon the crowd, and as the people slowly parted and made way 1 saw a man come forward. My heart gave a bound. It was Alfred Dorion.

CHAPTER XXV

BROKEN FETTERS

As he came forward, he seemed not to see mo nor Coralic. The judge greeted him cordially, by name, and it was evident that they were old friends. "When did you arrive in town?" he asked. "Within an hour, by rail from Vlcksburg. was on my way to Donaldsonville and beyond, and was amazed to learn on the street of the death of the man I was going to see and the nature of the case you are investigating. Here is a pRpcr which I fancy will be of great importance."

He took a folded paper from a long pocketbook and laid it before the judge. While the latter was reading it, Mr. Dorion stepped down and heartily greeted us. My lawyer had caught the name and, leaning over, whispered: "What's your evidence, sir?" "Wait a moment," was the reply, given with a peculiar smile. "1 reckon you'll be satisfied with it."

The judge finished reading the paper, and called to Mr. Dorion." They had a brief whispered conversation. Thon the lawvvri were called up to-

A RETIRED BUSINESS WOMAN.

A Page From Her History.

The important experiences of othere are Interesting. Tho following Is no exception: I had been troubled vrlth heart dlsoose 35 years, much of that time very seriously. Tor five years I was treated by ono physician continuously, I was in business, but obliged to retire on account of my health. A physician told my friends that 1 could not, live a month. My feet and Urabs were badly swollen, and I was Indeed In serious couditlon when a gentleman directed my attention to Dr. Miles' New HoartCuro, ana said that his

Bister,

who had been afflicted with hoart disease, had been cured by tho remedy, and was again a strong, healthy woman, "i-purchased a bottle of the Heart Cure, and lu less than an hour after taking the first dose I could

,.iy ankles, something

done for montns.and my limbs had been swollen so long that they seemed almost putrlfled. Before I had taken ono bottle of the New Heart Cure the swelling had all gono down, and I was so much better that I did my own wort On my recommendation six others aro taking this valuable remedy."—Mrs. Morgan, 6611 \V. Harrison St., Chicago, 111.

Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure, adlscoveryof an eminent specialist In heart disease, issold by all druggists on a positive guarantee,or sent by the Dr. Miles Medical Co.,Elkhart, Ind.,ou receipt of price, 11 per bottle, six bottles for 5fi, express prepaid. It Is positively free from ail opiates or dangerous drugs.

Sold by all druggists,

MB. DORIOX HE.UVNI.V GREETED US. gether and permitted to read the paper, the judge adding some comments in a low voice. As they returned to their seats, I saw Mr. Uarnett's face wreathed with smiles. "You're safe," he whispered.

I looked at Conrad. The face of the fiend never shone out more plainly in a human countenance than in his, as his lawyer communicated to him the startling news. "I have been made acquainted with such additional and surprising disclosures," said the judge, tn a voice which the whole room heard, "as make it, In my judgment, both proper and necessary to end this case here, so far as relates to the charge of abduction of a slave. The gentleman who has just come into court is the owner and occupant of the plantation in Mississippi formerly occupied by the deceased, Pierce Bostock. In a secret drawer of an old bureau left in that house when he returned to Louisiana: Mr. Dorion, only a few days since, found this paper. It purports to be the last will and testament of Pierce Bostock, executed by him December 9, 1858. It frees and manumits the person described in it as 'my beloved daughter Coralie, child of the late Louise Boufant,' and then proceeds to devise and bequeath to her all his estate, real and personal, wherever situated. He names his 'unworthy son, Conrad,' only to declare that he has by his unfilial conduct and his long confirmed evil courses forfeited all right to any part of the testator's property more than he has already received." "That instrument has never been established," Conrad's lawyer interrupted. "I am aware of that and it cannot be, in this court. Dut there is reason to think that it can be legally established in the proper tribunal. Mr. Dorion pronounces the signature of Pierce Bostock genuine. There are three witnesses, as the law of Mississippi requires—all of whom, strangely enough, are also dead, as Mr. Dorion informs me. But he pronounces all these signatures genuine, and he says that numerous witnesses in that vicinity will swear to them. "If this instrument is the legal act of the late Mr. Bostock, not only is Coralie Bonfaut named in It a free woman, but she is at this moment the rightful owner of her father's immense estate.

(To lie Continued.)

After trying many remedies for Catarrh during past twelve years, I tried Ely's Cream Balm with complete sucecss. It is over one year since I stopped using it and have had no return of catarrh. I recommend it to all my friends.—Milton T. Palm, Reading, Pa.

I was troubled with catarrh for seven years previous to commencing the use of Ely's Balm. It has done for me what other so called cures have failed to do—cured me The effect of the JBaltn laeemcd magical.— Clarence L. Huff, Biddeford. Mc.

When Baby iu sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Caatorla. When the became Hiss, abe clung to Castor!*. When ihe had Children, she gave them Caatorla.

Sore Throat.

For a sore throat there is nothing better than a flannel bandage dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It will nearly always effeota cure in one night's time. This remedy is also a favorite for rheumatism and baa cured many very severe cases. 50 cent bottles for sale by Nye Booe, 111 north Washington St., opposite court honse.

Children Cry for

Pitcher's Gastorla.

TO BE SOLD

Order of Court

Big Bargains In Clothing.

The stock of goods formerly

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$16,00 Suits for $8.00

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Third Annual Tour ol

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Seats on sale at Brown's Drug Store.

MUSIC HALL.

Monday, Dec. 11,

A Famous Play,

The Burglar.

100 Nights in Now York City at the Madison Square Theater,

Mr. Augustus Thomas' Four-Act Comedy Drama from the story of

EDITHA'S BURGLAR

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Peace and Prosperity to Ail.

The joy bells ring out in the near distance our

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Xmas Greetings! Xmas Presents!

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