Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 30 August 1890 — Page 3
DRY GOODS.
New Goods.
We are prepared this spring to show
the people of Montgomery county
one of the largest and finest lot of
carpets and floor coverings, ever in
his city. In order to accommodate
ij3ur large and increasing trade and
supply the demand for fine artistic
•iarpets we have lately enlarged our
carpet room so that it now includes
the full extent of our building, giv
ingus abundance of light and plenty
of room to show one of the largest
and cheapest lots of carpets ever open
ed in town. We have many different
patterns now open and new
arrivals every day. Call £and see.
We have got the prices and patterns.
You can find all the latest^ styles in
Lowell and Hartford extra supers,
which are warranted the^best carpets
made in the U. S. Our line of ta
pestry brussels were never so com
pleted Can shoiv you {handsome
brussels at 50 cents per. yard. Rag
carpets in abunda it profusion. Can
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vet and Smyrna rngs,§ door mats for
5« cents. Felt crutnb cloths, Bird-
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warranted to: weep cleanly and take
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Clark Co. Hydraulic Cement, -warranted per cont stronger than the best Louisvillo Cemont. Try it and you -will bo convinced.
The best of Anthracite a»d Soft Coal at the lowest cost prices. Can not bo undersold. Call, JOS. BINFOKD.
COLUMBUS Buggies at Tinpley & Mar* tin's.
It is said that anew railroad will be com plnted arcss Wyoming in 1892.
Seventeen husbands have mysteriously disappeared from Brooklyn, N. Y., since January 1. 5\'-r
An Omaha paper has characterized some of Talmage's lurid sentences "oratorical delirium tremens."
,V The English* syndicate which has been negotl Hating for the C. 0. Washburn mills at Minneapolls failed to secure the property.
At Syracuse, N. Y. by the explosion of a barrel of whiskey which was standing on the sidewalk in the sun several people were hurt,
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The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains corns, and all akin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money-refunded. Frlae 25 cents per box L' For B»le by Nye & Co., drucs N-17-7 '.1 "1
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KENDALL'S BROTHER.
There was a snow-storm on the morning- of the day fixed for the execution of Jonas Toms, who had been convicted of the murder of the old farmer, Joseph Kendall. The down-train on the branch from to the county seat had come through without difficulty and the up-train—with a load of morbidly curious men who had taken passage for the purpose of witnessing the hanging—was at iast reported as having reached the county seat. So the road was open and if the snow did not drift into the cuts there would be no need of sending out the snow-plow.
Jonas Toms was looking through the grating of his cell when the whistle ot the up-town reached him and for a halfhour lie waited expectantly, hope not failing him until the sheriff came to the cell door and shook hands with him in silence. "She did not come?" the condemned said, despairingly. "No. She was not on the train, but there are two hours yet and I have put a deputy at the telegraph oflice with orders to run here at once with any message.'' "You are very kind, sheriff," faltered Jonas, and turned away from the grated door. "It wouldn't be human not to try to make an ugly job like this as easy as possible," muttered the sheriff, "and I never was sure Jonas was guilty, though he couldn't prove he wasn't."
The sheriff's opinion of the case was shared by a great mauy citizens of the county of auci they had signed a petition to the governor for a respite for the prisoner, and a commutation of his sentence if the governor could not see his way clear to grant a pardon. With this petition Mrs. Jonas Toms had gone to the capital to make use of it in pleading for her liusbaud's life. That morning the prisoner had looked for her return with definite information concerning him—whether be was to die that day or not. As no word had been received from her, he was not hopeful, and he had really expected her to come back to him only for a final leavetaking.
Yet, when the sheriff spoke of the telegraph, hope asserted itself again and Jonas was buoyed with imagining his devoted wife wrestling still with the governor, and refusing to abandon the struggle for her husband until it was useless to plead longer.
And while the condemned was thus catching at a straw, and his heart was overbowinw with love and gratitude to his devoted, tireless wife, the deputy left the telegraph oflice and hastened to the jail. The sheriff, seeing Uim coming, ran to meet him, but paused abruptly when he could see clearly his subordinate's face. "The operator can't get ," said the deputy. '•How can't get him?" asked the sheriff, with the impatience of a serious man with riddles \$hen plain words were of urgent need." "Can't ^jet the operator at to answer his call the wire must be down."
The sheriff groaned and trembled as if shttken by a strong wind. "Go back," he said—"go back and wait, for if there's worilHo come it will get here."
The sheriff spoke as if he expected a miracle to be wrought to deliver him from the awful legal duty of taking man's life to satisfy the vengeance of the law, but yet he, having once more obtained control of his nerves, walked lirmly back to the jail, where he proceeded at once to conclude the preparations for a solemn act.
Meantime a crowd of men was surging about the jail entrance and some boys had climbed a tree to look over tho wall at the scaffold. The deputy in charge of the door admitted those who had passes and kept back the others, who nevertheless clamored to be let in. Those who were within the gates by permission trampled the snow in the yard and impatiently wished the sheriff would "luiny up," while the other prisoners in their cells were silent, aud curious, and glad—not glad because oue who had been with them in compulsory association was to be hanged, but gln-l because their crimes were not so heinous as his, aud they all vowed to reform lest they, too, shouM end on tho gallows.
But at the telegraph operator was frantic. He had called the operator at the county seat and could not get a reply he was in despair and he thumped the key. There before him lay a message from the governor of the state: "To TUB SHKHIFF OK COUNTY: Respite of ten duys griintud to Jouas Toms."
The telegram was signed by the governor's secretary, but apparently it was as useless as if it had never been written. The countv seat was thirty wiles distant and there was but an hour to get word of the respite to tho sheriff before it would be forever too late.
A restless man stalked up and down the long platform he seemed to be waiting for'a train and impatient because it was delayed. He noticed the telegraph operator's agitation and macle inquiry concerning the cause. The operator showed him the message and the man's face blanched as he demanded, tremulously: "Why don't you seud it?" "I can't, I say, for tho wire is not working." "The man paused a moment irreseJutcly and then said: "Give the message to me. Seal it iu an envelope with wax. I will take it to the sheriff.'» "How?" "On that engine." He pointed to a locomotive that was standing on a siding with steam up, but was not manned the engineer being at his home and the fireman having made a trip to the round-house. "Give me a switch-key," the stranger said, nervously, "and be ready with telegram when I come past the platform."
The operator gave the man the key, but instantly reached for it again as he exclaimed: "Tin gravel train: it is up the road." "Never mind. I'll scarp it on a siding. You have the message ready."
Quickly the stranger ran to the switch and turned it for lie siding. A yard-man noticed him, but at tho distance thought him ths station agent, who at this time was away frpm bis office, fortunately for the stranger's plan. The engiue responded to the
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mrottie ana came out on the main track slowly—the yard-man looking after it in astonishment, then starting on a run to see what madman's impulse seemed to control the man at the leverP The telegraph operator was rapid in his movements, and, when the engine ^teamed past the platform on the track that led to the county 6eat, he delivered to the man, whom he now regarded as a hero, the message properly sealed and authenticated. "God bless you," he called after the unknown, "and save you from the gravel train."
The road to the county seat was a single track, aud the gravel train sent out to keep the roadbed clear of drifts was liable to be collided with upon any curve bv tho engine running without schedule or orders, but the stranger merely smiled as he pulled the throttle lever further back. The engine dashed up the track, the engineer standing in the doorway of his home and looking at it aghast, while the station-agent and train-dispatcher hastened to the telegraph office to learn the reason of the engine's departure on a "wild cat" trip.
The engineer rushed up to the platform, where stood the operator explaining to the dispatcher how it happened that the stranger took out the engine. "But he Avill not get through," said the dispatcher, "for he has no lireman." "Yes, he has," exclaimed the engineer "he's doin' the firin' too. He's just lettin' her run he'll just fire and whistle."
And, as if to confirm the engineer's statement, the scream of the steam reached their ears—the whistle shrieking a frantic demand for a clear track. "If the gravei train is on the main track there will se the 1 to pay," said the dispute). ruefully, and he went to report t: lacts to the superintendent.
At the jail t!i. sheriff's jury was drawn up in tl corridor, solemnly waiting for the iciusion of the last conference of th oinlemned with his spiritual adviser. the sheriff restlessly paced the flaggin g: while one ef the deputies nervour. lingered a black cap, and the othi•• nyecf wi.th the cords to be used in
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The sheriff who repeatedly looked at his watch in a •. ,• that seertied to beg time to go im, slowly, glanced at it at last with a hen sigh, and went to the jail entrance a'linal look toward the telegraph :ce. The deputy stationed there was tin sight, and the executive official tu: 1 with a heavy heart to the prisoner cell. "Come!" he said, an the heavy footfalls of the jury so taded dismally through the corridor. |^tis time," he said gently to the prisoner, who courageously stepped into the corridor and bravely faced the jury, while the deputies bound his arms and slipped the cord of the cap over his head. He was ready, but. just when the word to move to the yard was given, he turned a longing glance toward the main entrance, as if he hoped to see his wife appear there suddenly.
Slowly the procession moved—the prisoner leaning on the arm of the clergyman, his back toward the main entrance, his temples throbbing many beats between the footfalls of his executors, who stepped heavily and in time with him, as if to deaden tho sound of his own feet, which shuffled in spite of him, the nails in the heels of his boots rasping on the stone floor.
And then came shrieking through the corridor the whistle of a locomotime—strident scream on scream rising higher each second, and indicating that the engine was approaching at a terrible speed. The heart of every man in the jail leaped. The prisoner stood still and his lips moved as if in silent thanksgiving, for to him the shrill sounds were trumpeting his freedom. The sheriff rushed to the jail entrance. A commotiou rose among the visitors, who had grown cold in the snow, and they began to crowd into the jail. The' deputies momentarily forgot the prisoner, while they coutended with the impatient and excited spectators, forcing them back to the yard.
The conductor of the gravel train was startled when the whistle penetrated his ears with its cry for a clear track, and he was glad that he had reached with his tram the safety of the siding at the county seat when he saw the engine leapkig toward the town on a steep down grade.
The deputy stationed at the telegraph office ran out on the track to learn the meaning of the terrible shrieking. The operator ran with him and the crowd around the jail stampeded toward the station. The whistle ceased its screams and a man was seen standing between the cab and the tender as the engine with unabated speed forged toward the station.
The erowd stood still in silence 'as the man lowered himself on the step to the cab. "Heavens! he is going to jump," said
the deputy, and the crowd fell pelV mellback ®ut of the way, but every o*P heard the man cry: "Take this t« ihe sheriff."
He waved his hand in which he elutched something voldow. "A man's life depends on ft," he shouted again.
Then lie jumped and rolled to the .feet of the deputy, who wrcnched an envelope from the grasp of his twitching lingers. Without pausing to see whether the man was alive or dead the crowd ran after the deputy, and no oue looked around when the engine crashed into the dump ami was totally wrecked.
The sheriff, in trembling, eager haste, opened the euvelope and read aloud the telegram.
The crowd shouted and returned to the station, where a physician, with the calmness due to his profession, was endeavoring to restore the senseless man to life. At last he succeeded. The stranger opened his eyes and looked in a bewildered, manner at the crowd ol curious men and boys. But presently his eyes lighted with intelligence, ana he asked in a whisper: "Was I in time?" "Yes," said the surgeon. "TbttHk*God! I killed Joseph Kendall, and this is my expiation. I am Joseph Kendall's brother."
Wfth ere at Dresenee of mind tho
physician wrote the confession in his note book, and then read it aloud. "Is that correct?" he asked.
The stranger nodded and his lips moved, but they uttei'ed no sound. He died while the doctor was having one or two reliable witnesses sigu Ws concession.—Arthur IF. Merrick in Ui& Epoch.
I A Dry Niagara.
It seems almost incredible that at one time in its history the greatest and most won.derful waterfall in the world actually run dry, says Golden Bays. Nevertheless, it is an established fact that this occured on March 29, 1848, and for a few hours scarcely any water passed over Niagara Falls."
The winter of that year had been an exceptionally severe one, and ice of unusual thickness had formed on Lake Erie. The warm spring rains loosened this congealed mass and on the day in question a brisk east wind drove" the ice far up into the lake. About sunset the wincl suddenly veered around and blew a heavy gale from the west. This naturally turned the ice in its course, and, bringing it down to the mouth of the Niagara river, piled it up in a solid, impenetrable wall.
So closely was it packed and so great was its force that iu a short time the outlet to the lake was completely choked up, and little or no water could possibly escape. In a very sport space of time the water below this frozen barrier passed over the falls, and the next morning the people residing in the neighborhood were treated to a most extraordinary spectacle.
The roaring, tumbling rapids above the falls were almost obliterated, and nothing but the cold black rocks were visible in all directions. The news quickly spread, and crowds of spectators Hocked to view the scene, the banks on each side of the riVer being lined with people during the whole day. At last there came a break in tho ice. It was released from its restraint, the pent-up wall of water rushed downward, and Niagara wtjs itself again.
The Colossus Knocked Out.
M. Eiffel hr.s rendered a real service to mankind in connection with the famous Colossus of Rhodes. For centuries that, impertinent statue has been flung, so to speak, iA our faces as an evidence of the vast s\ "riority of ancient over modern gi. 'srs, and thousands of unhappy school-, \ys have Jjeen compelled to commit to V"emory Us impudent proportions. Nom
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M. Eiffel and demonstrates with\ ,«late and pencil that no such statue existed nor ever coul'd exist. There never lived an engineer wlio could have placed a bronze statue standing astride of the entrance to the port of Rhodes, for the simple reason that the weight of tho ,bodj would infallibly have crushed the Hg^s, Let us hope tbat M. Eiffel will pursue his good work and demolish the aggravating hanging gardens of Babylon and prove that the exasperating temple of Diana at Ephesus was about the size of -an ordinary Methodist chapel. We Jiave been sat upon long enough hy tKe engineering impostors of tlie antiquity, not one of whom ever dreamed of making a'statue like that of "Liberty Enlightening the World" or a tower like that built by M. Eiffel.—N. Y. Herald.
Their Liot Not a Happy One.
No sooner are the Swiss girls large enough to possess the requisite physical strength then they are set to the most servile work the laud affords, says a traveler. The child has a pannier basket fitted to her shoulders at tho earliest possible moment, and she drops it only when old age, premature but merciful, robs her of power to carry it longer.
I have seen sweet little girls of 12 or 14 staggering down a mountain side oi along a rough pathway under the weight of bundles of fagots as large as thtfir bodies, which they no sooner dropped than they hurried back for others. I have seen girls of 15 years, bare-footed and bare-headed, in the blistering rays of an August sun, breaking up the ground by swinging mattocks heavy enough to tax the strength of an able-bodied man.
I have known a young miss no oldei than these to be employed as a porter for carrying the baggage of travelers up and down the steepest mountain "path in all the region round about. She admitted that it was sometimes very hard to take another step, but she must do it.
And she carried'such an amount of baggage! A stout-limbed guide, is protected, by the law so that he cannot be compelled to carry above twenty-five pounds, but the limit to the bucden often put up'oji girls is tljeir inability to stand up under anything mors.
But the burden increases with the age and streagth ef the burden-bear-ers till by the time the girk have come £o womanJiood t'here is no soifrof menial toil injWjhich they do not bear a hand, anjd quite commonly the cKief hand.— Baltimore News.
VamderbHt Charities.
jBke more notable »f the Tanderbilt for philanthropio and public purposes are as follows: The old commodore gave $60,000 to'Dr. Deems to purchase the Church of the Strangers and $100,000 to found Vanderbilt university at Nashville his sou Wil liain H. added $200,000 to the endow nieut of the university, $100,ObO for a theological school, and $10,000 for a library iu connection therewith, $5(30,000 to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, $250,000 for a maternity hospital, $50,000 to the Church of Bartholomew, $100,000 to the employes of the New York Central railroad, $103,000 for the removal of the obelisk from Egypt to Cen\ral park, $150,000 the Grants, and by his will $1,000,000 to various institutions. Cornelius Vaoderbilt's projected People's palace in New York may roqure $1,000,000.
Circumvented the Stocr.
A novel method of plowing was that reecntly adopted by a colored man in North Carolina. His steer nofuscd to work when hitched to the plow and thereupon* he hitched it to a cart aud fastened the plow behind th^ cart. He proceeded to plow with the steer without any further trouble^-
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