Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 February 1898 — Page 7

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adults with Eye Glisses or i'sial Lenses to suit any age or eyes free of eh urge.

In Case of Fire Ring The Towel

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Old Oscar Pepper Sour Maftli I'onillToly Cure* ilic Crip

Court House.

25c 50c

No. 207

East Market Street.

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M. C. KLiNE.

Jeweler and Optician Opp. Court House

Before going to the fire stop and get a glass of good Cold Beer 2t

No. 126 North Greon Street.

FATHERS WANTED HSSC-

To Call arid Inspect our Stock of

DBURY BROTHERS.

RUBEN'S

CANDY

CATHARTIC

CURE CONSTIPATION

Eat,'jDrink and Be Merry

When you come to town and (eel like "taking something," with a bite to eat|thrown in, don't forget

NVJTH DEFECTIVE

EYES

Should have iliein exini auiined at once by an experienced opticiau, and have them fitted with glasses that will *-f.rengtheii and relieve the weak optic nerves or imperfect vision. We will fit either children Spectacles with perfect detect of si^ht, and lest

"The New Idea."

PURE WHISKEYS

Just received for Medical use. We Guarantee every bottle to be the height of perfection and Purity itself. The following old reliable brands always in stock:

Old Oscnr t'eppcr Sour Masli Old Silver Hill It.ve Marlon Club Old Crow llnirraaii House Hmiiii't Old Kentucky Ilonrbon Old Joel JOIICM Sour Manh Koek und Rye Itonkwood Rye Pride of Nelson Smir HI null Old Sherwood Itye

,, These goods are fully matured by ime. If you want snakes go some where else. Resp.,

109 N.

Washington St.

HOUSE CLOTHING PARLORS

60 West Washington St., Indianapolis, Ind.

You Earn Your Money, You Want to Save It.

Every dollar will now do the duly of two at Our Great

Sensation Suit

AND

Overcoat Sale.

Every garment 111 our house goes at 50 cents on the dollar.

We still have a big line of Overcoats, and have put the knife to them to turn them rapidly into cash. We offer choice of about one hundred and fifty fine all-wool Kersey Overcoats, in black, blue and brown, elegantly tailored sensation sale price, $7.50, former price $15.

We offer choice of about two hundred fine allwool twenty-two ounce Clay Worsted Suits, made with French facings, satin piped, sewed -with silk, either frock or sack, sensation sale price, $8.00, former price $16.

"THE LODGB.??

A WAR STORY.

The Experience of a Veteran The

Battie of Altoona Pass.

ED. Rkvji.W:

On the .'!d day 'if May. 1sfli, 1 was detailed to go to Bridgeport, Alabama, in charge of the baggage helonuing to the Sfith Indiana to store it and remain uctil 1 urtlier orders. I remained there till the fir&t of October and was then ordered to the front with the baggage. I arrived at. Chtttanuoga on the same day. My regiment was at or near Atlanta. Ever\thing seemed to be O. I\. at Moon station.I'le station north of Big Shanty. Just as we were passing Moor, station, a large red-bearded man, a sergeant in an I dinois regiment, called to us to stop as \vc passed, and said the Johnnies had attacked our men at Big -Shanty. The train was stopped and we could plainly hear heavy musketry firing. While we were deciding what to do, the Johnnies made a charge on the men who were doing duty at that place and captured them. We ran the traiD back to Ac-worth and took out what ammunition and guns we had with us, and went into a brick building which stood near the railroad. We picked portholes through the wall so each of us had a hole to shoot through in case of a battle. Our squad numbered about twenty-five II en and one officer, who was a major, and one doctor. Our company was composed of the fag ends of perhaps a dozen regiments. We thought we would stand the rebels a fight, although during the night we could hear them tearing up the track. We waited patiently till early daylight, and then four old soldiers started with hammer and spikes to fasten the rails if any had been moved. They met the patrol from Altoona Pass, and came back at once and reported, whereupon the officer in charge of us directed the conductor to pull out for Altoona Pass slowly as the track might spread. We had just got out of the town when the Johnnies made a charge on the company of troops that were stationed at that place and captured lhera after a short yet earnest engagement and when we arrived at Altoona Pass, we could look back and see that the Johnnies had fired the place. Our signal corps asked General Sherman what to do, and his reply was to bold the fort at all hazards, as there were a million rations of hard broad. There were oulv about 500 of us, three small regiments, a battery, the 12th Wisconsin, but the rebels did not attack us. About four o'clock tL next morning General Corse arrived from Rome, Qa., with a small brigade. Another brigade was following him, but unfortunately the track spread and it failed to come, The Johnnies ate their breakfast on the line of railroad south of us, and then commenced doing business with us. The rebs. kept up a hot tiring and opened on ue with eight guns from the center of theif line. In the meantime they withdrew their skirmishers and formed a heavier line just behind the hills on the south side of the railroad. Before the main attack they sent us a flag of truce, asking us to be so kind and obliging as to surrender or they would spill our blood. We declined the honor with thanks and rammed an extra ball or two in our guns. They then came to take us, and for the succeeding six hours we objected very strongly. Thero was no question about the' entertainment being firstclass. The Johnnies waltzed up the hill and then waltzed back, and at two o'clock in the afternoon the curtain was down. There was no response to our encore. They drew off about two miles whore there was a stockade of ours, in which was a company of Illinois troops. The rebs. outnumbered them. Their battery went to work and compelled our boys to surrender. One of the men did not care to be a prisoner, as prisons bad nc charms for him, and he concluded he would play off on the Johnnies, so he dropped down on his face and groaned loudly* The rest of his comrades were formed in line outside. A Johnnie discovered him and came up and gave him a severe kick and told him to get up and fall in line with the rest, but he kept on groaning. The rebel said to him: "What is the mutter with you?" "Smallpox," replied the Yankee. "Good Lord! I don't waut anything to do with you," exclaimed the reb. as he ran franticly from the place.

The cute yank, came to where I was and told me of the iucident While tho battle was at almos: white heat, tho 30th Iowa was iu ail outer works. The rebs. made a charge on it. They stood the charge until they were almost all killed or wounded. All of the officers were killed except one lieutenant. The color bearer, a mere boy, was in possession of the regimental colors when the charge was made. A reb. ordered him to surrender he refused. The reb. made a bayonet thrust at him and pined the color bearer to the ground, nod took him and the colore. The bay-

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°t hurt him, simply passing

I through his clothiner. The prisoner soon afterwards made his escape. DurI ing the engagement the rebs. attempted to lire the hard bread, but were preven*ed as there was a fort and some men in works near by. Just, as tho rebs. began to fall back, one of their lieutenants made an attempt to tire the hard bread and wah promptly killed by a colored

B. F. Snyder,

Sergeant in Co. K. 8Gth luil. Vol. Army of the Cumberland.

The Financial Question.

En. Review—

Irie money power has worked along step by step, to secure the control of our monetary system. It has never dared to make a direct assault. When it sought to get the debt payable in gold it did not dare to say so but was content as a first step to have it payable in coin. The next step was to get silver demonetized. So far it has not been able to get the greenbacks retired by a direct withdrawal of them. Now it proposes to get them out of the way by an indirect method. That ie, when they are redeemed not to cancel them tut only to pay rhera out in exchange for gold. That is virtual retirement and the subsequent steps to their absolute retirement will be easy.

Our financial system does not satisfy the people, and will not so long as

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interests are able to control it. The people of a county ought to be able to determine what would be just to them, and if they can, their views would probably be acceptable to 90 per cent, of the other counties, and such a policv will have itq advocates in all political parties and will not be a party measure or policy.

The president in his! message says all our money is sound, because silver and gold are convertible into gold at the pleasure of the holder.

Let us assert as a first proposition that all our money is sound because each one is a legal tender for debt, made so by act of congress, and for that reason each is on a par with others. This legal parity is destroyed when one kind of legal tender is set above the others, as is the case when private individuals are allowed to rcject payment of debt unless payment is made in the kind of legal tender they choose to be paid in. It is true that the debtor must waive his right to pay his debt in any kind of legal tender money, 'but this the creditor compels him to do by, contract.

The wrong here is that the law allows the debtor to waive his right. This law should be repealed, or declared void by the courts.

The constitution says congress shall have power to coin money and fix the value thereof. The unit of value i° the dollar, and what a dollar is does not depend on the amount of gold ?r silver our coins contain. That is, 20 grains of gold would be a dollar if the lew said SO, or any number of grains of gold that the law specified would be a dollar, and SO of Bilver. When Congress specifies what is a dollar It is a dollar and the amount of metal in it, is not the determining factor. The fiat of the law makes the dullar and not the metal in it. After congress has coined money and fixed the value thereof, it is acting within an expressed condition of the constitution and has legislated for all the people alike.

The question now is, from what clause of the constitution does congress derive its power to delegate to private individuals the right to declare at their p'easure that is not a legal tender that congress by general law has made a legal tender?

Of course it will be said that congress has empowered the individual to declare that he will not receive certain legal tender money in payment of debt.

From yvhat clause of the constitution does Congress derive this power? It is certainly not from any oxpress provision. Its power to do this must be an implied power, but it is hardly to be supposed that the courts would uphold an implied power that was resorted to to uphold such contradictory legislation as a general legal tender act, and allowing individuals to nullify it at their pleasure.

Th* "-h is another clause of the constitution that says the States are prohibited from making anything but goid end silver a legal tender for debt. This is a surrender to the general government by the States of their sovereignty to th" extent that they will not make unjthing but gold and silver a legal tender for debt.

Another provision of the constitution is that all powers not delegated to the general government are reserved to the people and the States.

Tiie reasonable inference would be that the right of the State to make gold and silver a legal tender cannot be abridged by an act of congress, and if a State court should hold a gold contract void it would be sustained by tbe court of last resort. But suppose the courts should uphold tne law. Whyputsuchr an unjust law on the statute book? The\ whole tenor of the law is in favor of I capitai and against labor.

'BOGUS" HAPLE MOLASSES.

The Way a Few of the "Honest"

Grangers ix Up the Article.

A correspondent of the Inuianapolis

News, writing from here, thus describes how "pure maple syrup" is made in some of the sugar camps around Crawfordsville. The writer seems to be posted—may bo has had a hand in the work himselt. Consumers of the article will admit with him that the "pure stuff" is ham secure. Hero is what he says: "For Sievei days the sugar camps iu western Indian have been open and they will cmtinue so, at intervals, as the weather allows, for the next month. This feature of the farming industry has become important of late years and, though strange to relate, ha6 increased with the diminution in the number of sugar maples in the State. The production of "tree 'lasses'' tn pioneer days was made necessary by the absence of other sugar or sweetenings, and in this day the employment ot other sugars in the manufact 1 re of "maple syrup" is made necessary by the fact that not. enough trees remain to supply the demand for this delicate treacle. "Twenty years ago there were twice many sugar trees for obtaining maple sirup as there are to-dav. And yet to day the production of "pure maple syrup" is much greater than it was twenty years ago. The flow of sap averages about the same from year to year. It is so easy and so cheap to produce an excellent imitation of maple sirup that, hundreds of farmers have allowed their cupidity to get tbe better of their consciences, and do not scruple to peddle, at 81 a gallon, an imitation that coats them from 10 to 15 cents. To be sure, there are many honest men, who dn not stoop to this fraud and who furu^h nothing but the genuine article to their customers, but they are so well known that their whole output is usnaly engaged in advance. "The man who goes into the market for this commodity must take hie chances, and usually it is Hobson's choice. He can buy sirup flavored with hickory bark or that seasoned with the scorched corn cob. Grocers report that as soon as the maple sirup season opens the sale of the cheap and inferior grades of sugar enjoyB a boom. Many stock up in anticipation of this trade. Not infrequently a customer will take a whole barrel at once. Men whose sugar orchards have fallen away to a dozen trees are known to put on the market an amount which it would tax twelve times as many trees to produce."

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Deceiving View.

A correspondent of tbe Indianapolis i^ews gives the following very roaicolored Yi»w of the money situation in Crawfordsville and .the County at large:

Thers was, perhaps, never before a time in the history of Montgomery county when money could be so easily borrowed or on such easy terms as now. The banks find themselves embarassed with a wealth of ready money, and the loan agents compete with unprecedented eagernerness for even small loans for short time. It is the exception when interest higher than 6 pec cent, is paid, and large loans are made for and 5 per cent. The state of affairs is caused by several things. A great deal of money has come into the county during tbe year for agricultural products, and Crawfordsville, being a "loaning town,'' has on hand now much money which was called in during the late stringency. Wabash college has received some large sums, which have been invested at home, and the Tribe of Ben Hur is constantly receiving large funds, which are loaned at a low rate. The money-lend-ers are having a hard time, and the borrower can not only get a low rate,but has no trouble in avoiding the payment of the usual commission,

Vet, after all, the question may be asked, what does this abundance of money amount to? There has not been a period within five years when bnsiness yvas more dull and lifeless than during the past two or three months in Crawfordsville, or it was more difficult to collect claims due. The question may be askod fitly wh.it does all this idle cash amount to so far as benefiting most of the people? It might as well be a thousand miles away for all the good it is doing moBt of the community.

Died In Kansas.

Referring to the death of a former resident of this county, the Almena, Kan., Lantern says: "Mary Z. Thompson was born in Montgomery county, Indiana. October 20,1870. She was the daughter of liev. J. li. Thompson, pastor of the M. E. church. Norton circuit she moved with her parents to Norton eounty, Kan., August 22, 1870, where she spent the greater part of her life. Ho- was united in marriage to Absolom Altman February 27,1889. She departed this life January 31, 1898, at 11:10 p. m. she was long and patieat sufferer of that dread disease, consumption. •She leaves a husband and four children.

The first theater in the United States was-at William rg, Va., 1752.

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57TH YEAR.- NO 29.

OLD TALK REVIVED

Of a Proposed Change of Way anCJ Grade of the Big Four R. R.

Through the South Part of the City.

The location by the survey of the Big Four (formerly I., B. & W. R. R.) has never been satisfactory to the operators of the line. The grade tor the distance of over a mile is too steep, and the treetie at the west end of the city has never been considered as safe and solid as the heavy trains daily going over it would seem to demand. At intervals ever since the road yvas constructed thero has been talk of a new location for the track, to tho

Bouth

along the bank of

Dry Branch, btarting from a point east of the Junction, aud running directly west to a point south of the Orphans' Home, where the new grade would strike the old. By this means tho grade would be reduced from its present height of over filty feet to about twenty.five feeti and a long high trestle avoided. The expense of making the change yvould be very costly, but in the long run yvould pay for the outlay. A surrey of the land along Dry Branch was made a few weeks since by some of tho officials connected with the road, but nothing definite has yet been announced regarding the matter of the proposed change of grade.

DEDICATION

Of the Wilson School Building Takes

Place on Tuesday.

The completion of the new Wilson school building, on east Wabash avenue, wbs fittingly commemorated on Tues--day last by the execution of the following program, which began at 2:30 p. m.

Music—High School Glee Club. Dedication Prayer—Dr. J. F. Tuttle. Presentation Address—W. C. Carr, President of School Board.

Address on Behalf of Teachers—G% F/Kenaston, Supt. of City Schools. Address—P. S. Kennedy.

Glee Club—Selection. Committee on Rsoeption—J. C. Barn hill, Dr. E. H. Coyvan, Anna M. Sib« bett and Mrs. T. J. Ewing.

It is a very pretty building with few architectural defeots.'^J'What it cost from start to finish yve know not, neither do many of the tax payers. Here in Crawfordsville it seems to be none of tho public's busiress what any improvement costs. The construction of th& building is thought to be considerably over 820,000, You will have to let it go at that.

Getting Things in Order.

At this time and duiing the past winter months business at the winter quarters of the LaPearl circus and menagerie, three miles south of Danville, 111,, is very active, lor the purpose of getting ready for the approaching tenting eeason. This year the show •frill be fully three times the eize of last, and the oumber of employees including actors, musicians, canvassmen, cooks, etc., will be about 300. At this time a number of men are engaged in making the tents for the two-ring circus, the menagerie and dressing room, others are engaged in painting and gilding the cages and wagons, others in buying and training the horses, etc. The menagerie is a fine one, the animals all being in fine condition at this time, and sorr.e of which are quite rare. In the circus department most all of the acts will be new, and most of thb actors new to tbe LaPearl show. The show will start out on tho road about April 20th, and will tour Michigan, Ohio and several eastera Sta.es.

Green Street Improvements. The one-Story building to the rJfJ- offlM the American clothing store, on Clreen street, is to be torn doyvn by its o^nera^'%: Ramsey & Sopimerville, and a two-story house, with iron beams and plate glass fronts, erected in its place, the present tenants being ordered to vacate within the ensuing month. Threo rooms on east side of Green street, one of which is occupied by Robert Smith as a drug store, are to be improved by remodling. The Odd Fellows building on the alley may also be improved this summer. Altogether Green street bids fair to be tbe leadine business street of the city. -1

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Bound Over.

"Tub" Chadwick, Mick Orme and "a hi other young man named McDaniel, were arrested. few days ago, on charge of breaking mto Sam Gills' beer hcuee and taking therefrom two kegs of beer,-** °L

Sm

ackn°wledged

their guilt,

while the other denied hie. They were bound over for their future appearance at circuit court. McDaniel gave bond and was turned loose, but the other two

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