Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 January 1869 — Page 1
YOL. 21.—NO '18
PUBLISHED WBBKLY BY
aJZ'0-A.XliT Sc TALBOT. OFFICE—"Sfcrne Front,"
ATTORNEY
Eut of Co,rt
Ho««e.
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Three months .'.v. 50 ADVERTISING RATES. One inch in length, one week, if 1,00 three insertions $2,00 each additional insertion 90 cents. No advertisement counted at less than an inch. Business cards, oue year, one inch $ 6 00 six months, .... -4 00 tuartcr column of 4 inches, 3 months 6 00 4 6 12 00 4 12
Half 12 00 a 18 oo 9 12 30 00 One 18 8 20 00 .' 18 6 40 00 18 12 60 00
Local notices, 10 cents per lino for each insertion. These rates are established at such a low fgure as to allow ALL our business men to advertise. The JOURNAL circulates more papers than any neighboring paper, hence it will pay to advertise in it.
frO-PRwELL^ -Advertising Agents,
HO. 40 PARK BOW, NEW YOBK.
MESSRS.
GEO. P. ROWELL & co.
Agents. Crawfordsyillc, Indiana. Being members ot the United States
are
the Agents for the CRAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL, and the most influential and lar-
itatesand
est
circulating Newspapers in the United Canadas. They are authorized contract for us at our lowest prices.
pBOFES8IONAL
CARPS.
KIMNLOT. R* HT GAIAOWAY. KENNEDY «fc GAILOWAY
ATTORNEYS
AT LAW and General Collecting
LAW
Associii-
tlon and Collection Union, which has a member in every county in the United States, they have facilities for transacting business in all parts of the coun-
^^rFtcE adjoining the Mayor's office, over the cormer book store.
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W. P. BRITTOJT,
A TTORNEY AT LAW, Crawfordsville, Ind. AtA tends to all kinds of legal-business. OFFICII •ver Simpson's grocery store, Main street- a 13
W. T. BRUSH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
and General Collecting
Agent, Crawiordsville, Ind. All legal business entrusted to him will receive immediate attention Office on Vernon St.,nearly opposite the Post Office.
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SIMOtf C. DAVIS,
AT LAW, will give special attention
to the settlement of decedent estates, petition for partition, suits on notes and foreclosure of mortgage. Office in G. D. Hurley's Law Office, in Crawford's building, Crawfordsville, Ind. [Jnell'CS
§¥D. B. DAVIS,
ATTORNEY
AT LAW, Waveland, Indiana, will
(rive prompt attention to bnsiness eutrusted to Mm In courts of Montgomery and Parke couuties.
GEORGE D. HUttlEY,
ATTORNEY
AT LAW. and Notary Public, Craw
fordsville, Ind. OFFIOE over Crawford A Mulikin's store. Will attend to all kinds of legal business entrusted to him. a23
H. II. OALEY,
DENTIST,
Crawfordsville, Ind. Office on Wash
ington St., over Mack's Grocery Store. Dr. B. V. GALKY, long and favorably known to the community as a first-class Dentist, is in my employ. angl3yl
T. M'MBCHAN. W. WOLKK. JlcMECHAtf & WOLFE
Jotto,Orrio*—On
)KSIDENT DENTISTS, Crawrordsville, Ind., respectrully tender their services to the public, "Good work and moderate prices." Please call Main street over R. K. Krout's Drug Store. apr23
R. B. F. PIERCE,
ATTORNEY
AT LAW. Crawfordsville, Indiana
OFFICE over Crawford fc Mullikin's store. Will give prompt attention to business in all the Courts of Montgomery county, a23
M. E. SIIE^ ER,
NOTARY
PUBLIC, Crawfordsville, Ind. OKEICE
with W. P- Britton. Attends to all business entrusted to him with promptness. a'23
c. L. THOMAS. A. D. THOMAS THOMAS «fc THOMAS
ATTORNEYS
AT LAW, and Solicitors in Bank
ruptcy, Crawfordsville, Ind. OiTici In Hughes' Block, Main Street. *23 liTn.
WHITE. THOMAS FATTEKSOH. WHITE & PATTERSON
ATTORNEYS
AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
Crawiordsville, Ind. Offlcc—Empire Block, Main Street.
-Dp. J. €. SIMARD OMKOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, Crawfordsville, Ind. OFF-ICE with the Township Trustue. "a, M. WIIITEFORD
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Notary Public and Gener
al Collecting Agent, Crawfordsville, Indiana. Office in Mayor's Room. He calls the attention of all in city And country to this card, and solicit for himsclta share of the pnblic pitronagc. Jy9
LEGAL NOTICES.
STATE
OF INDIANA, Montgomery
County, ss. Montgomery Circuit Court, March Term, 18G9. Daniel j. Stiles, et al.. vs Charles \V. Sanburn, Susan A. Sanburn, William Uowcrs, Sarah Bowers, and Jarae.s Knox, and Charles D. Harvey, Assignee in Bankruptcy of Charles W. Sivnburn.
Come now the plaintiffs, by Lew Wallace their attorney, and on the 29th day of December. A.D. 1868, produce and lile in open Court, at the adjourned September Term thereof of said Circuit Court, their complaint, exhibits and affidavits, by which, among other things, it is shown that Charles W. Sanburn, Susan A. Sanburn and Charles D. Harvey, assignee of said Charles W. Sanburn. are non-residents of the State of Indiana. Now, therefore, notice of the filing and pendency of this action is hereby given the above-namednon resident defendants, that they may be and appear before the Judge of the Montgomery Circuit Court on the second day of the next term' of the Montgomery Circuit Court, to be held at the court liouse in Crawfordsville, March 8, 1869, and then and there to answer said plaintiff's complaint. [L.8.] Witness my hand and the seal of said
Court, the 29th day of December, 1868. dec31wi ... ... W. K. YVALLACE, Clerk.
CONDEMNED INFORMATION.
The Chicago Police Department costs $450,000 a year. Chicago lost, by fires, nearly 83,000,000 worth of property during the last year. It costs 8300,000 to run the fire department.
The annual average of cases of assault and drunken and disorderly conduct, disposed of by the magistrates of Edgland, is nearly 200,000.
Italy has nearly 3,000 miles of railroads. The manufacturers of Liebig's Extract of meat, on the river Uneguay in South America, slaughter 80 oxen per hour. Their buildings cover half an acre of ground.
The Pacific railroad from Omaha to San Francisco is about 1,820 miles in length. The Union Pacific Company have laid 960 miles of track westward from Omaha, and the Central Pacific Company 490 miles eastward from Sacramento, making 1,440 miles built by the two companies. About 150 miles more are ready for the iron.
The iron bridge across the Mississippi at Dubuque is nearly completed. Alaska cost two cents an acre, icebergs and all.
A bar of cast lead one inch square will sustain a strain of 860 pounds a bar of cast gold 22,000 pounds, a bar of cast silver 45,000, a bar of best wrought iron 84,000, and a bar of steel 130,000 pounds.
The nearest point at which good coal can be obtained on either side of the Union Paciciflc [sic] Railroad, is 138 miles west of Cheyenne. The country for most of the distance has been stripped of timber.
Chicago shipped 50,000,0000 bushel of wheat during the past year. The cotton crop for this year is estimated at 2,800,000 bales, against 5,000,000 bales, the largest annual crop ever grown.
The canal across the isthmus of Suez, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, designed and undertaken as many as twentyfive centuries ago, is rapidly approaching completion. The enterprise is now costing about 812,000,000 a year.
America consumes enough coal to generate a power equal to that 150,000,000 of horses, and the coal bods have hardly been touched as j7et
The Pope is said to be 78 years of are, and not 76, as commonly stated. This correction is made by a correspondent, who reports that the Pope himself says he was born in 1790.
Chicago taxes her newsboj's and bootblacks. She derived a revenue the present year' from newsboys' license amounting to 8393 75, and from bootblacks, 8150.
It is reported in Pollard's book that all the important documents of the Confederacy are still concealed in the South, Jeff. Davis having taken with him in his flight only such as were of no consequence.
An Illinois paper chronicles the arrival of a citizen "with a complete outfit of a Camanche Indian, consisting of bows and arrows, shield, kc., and also the gentleman's scalp."
A correspondent writes that the number of letters Baron Rothschild used to receive "from ruined clerkswho were to blow their brains out unless a certain sum arrived by a certain hour, averaged one a day."
In three years the number of Russian land-owners in Poland has increased forty per cent. More than one-third of the land owned by Poles in 1865 has been confiscated and sold to Russians.
Minnesota finds a 810 bounty on wolf scalps an expensive luxury. It paid over 811,900 for bounties this year., and the State Treasurer estimates the cost for 1869 at 825,000, unless the law is repealed.
The Baltimore Gazette has received a Christmas sweet potato a foot long, fifteen inches in circumference, and weighing ten and a half pounds. It was raised in Savannah.
Two San Francisco policemen tried to arrest a Chinaman. They found it necessaiy to leave him a moment, and handcuffed him with his arms each side of a lamp-post. When they returned their prisoner was gone—he had climbedup the post and swung his arms over the top.
HORACE GREELEY proposes to write, during the year 1869, an elementary work on Political economy, wherein the policy of Protection to Home Industry will be explained and vindicated. This work will first be given to the public through successive issues of the New York Tribune, and will appear in all its editions—Daily 810 Semi-Weekly, 84 Weekly, 82 per annum. v,„, v-t-
Does Advertising Pay.
We believe there is but one opinion about the value of advertising among those who have given it anything like a trial. The universal testimony of those who have made good use of it is enthusiastically in its favor. Not a few of the largest fortunes in the country have been made by it. We mean not simply the Moffats, Brandreths, Jaynes, Drakes, Ayres, Bonners, Spalding, Wards, Helmbolds and those who are most prominently known as extensive advertisers, but in almost every city and large town in the land there is some merchant who has won wealth to his heart's content by constant and skillful advertising. \Ve have yet to hear of a single man who has adver tised largely who considers the investment a poor one. There is but one voice, and it is always and ever on the side of advertising. Thus far, it is true, it has been too much in the hands of quacks and charletans, leading respectable men to avoid it, lest they should seem to place themselves in the same catego ry. And a great man}' shrink from advertising lest it may seem to imply a trick of business, and so amount to a confession of weakness. But those who have used it are the succes1ful men of the country, Princely fortunes are made as if by magic by the persistent and judicious use of this wonderful agency.
It is strange that with so many instances of success by advertising, there should be found any business man willing to leave it all to others. In England and France everybody advertises, the most conservative and oldest houses, as well as the voung and progressive. There it is not considered an evidence ot" weakness l'or any man to publish his business. The result is three times the amount of advertising than there is in this country, and consequent wealth and prosperity. But with us there is no such universal custom. The men who advertises are the exceptions. There are hundreds of houses in this city who have never advertised, and who would think it foolish for them to do so. But if they would employ this means for increasing their business, it might be doubled and trebled. Manwhile, the exceptional few who do advertise reap magnificent rewards without exception. We defy any reader to point to an instance where a man has lost money by skillful advertising.
There is no business that will not bear advertising. The Great American Tea Company, Ilall & Buckel's Sozodont, Christarado's Hair Dye, California Wines, and clothing dealers, the insurance companies, the bankers, the Pacific Railroads—it matters not what it is—every business is helped by advertising. The shipping men understand it, and act upon it. And whenever a man understands the matter well, the more he advertises. It is the magic wand that can coin riches by the shortest route. It has never been known to fail. There are thousands and ten of thousands of instances where it has achieved a triumphant success. He who does not use it is not the shrewdest business man.
There is a philosophy and art about advertising which few seem to understand. For instances, it is a wise man who-advertises a great deal when he advertises at all. And wiser .yet is the man who takes advantage of dull times to publish his business. Tne most advantageous time for advertising is when business is depressed. Many do not think of this aud wait for good times before they advertise. Some fail in advertising by mistaking the proper organs through which to make announcement. They take whole pages in books and manuals, and defunct papers, which are published for some narrow specialty, and wonder that they do not hear from them. If they had placed their cards in some live daily paper, which goes out every evening or morning, they would have reaped the desired reward. The daily paper is the best place for advertisement of any kind.
All about us we see instances of men who have acquired wealth by advertising. We can go two blocks from our office and find a dozen such. There is no possible mistake about it. Advertising is the great and legitimate adjunct of every lawful business. He who does it well and persistently is as sure of becoming rich as the sun is to rise again or the stars to shine.
A dictionary of "Pennsylvania Dutch" is ready for publication at Lancaster, Pennsylvania,.
CRAWFORDSYILLE, IND.: JANUARY 7, 1869. $2 PER YEAR
From the New York Mail.
From the New York Sun.
Suspicions Transactions In the Post Office Department.
Postmaster General Randall will have to explain a good many ugly looking circumstances attending the administration of his department, if he wishes to retain the esteem aud confidence of his fellow citizens. He has contrived, during his term of office, to roll up a heavy deficiency on our postal service, and when we find, as we do among the items of his expenditure, certain pretty heavy ones which are openly charged to be swindles, it puts him in anything but an enviable position.
For example, the contract, for the overland mail to California, which was taken last year by Wells, Fargo & Co. at 8750,000 per annum, and was this year awarded to one Carlton Spaids for 8350,000, was, by some hook or crook, got into the hands of Wells, Fargo & Co., at 81,700,000 per annum. The Postmaster General explains this remarkable, fact b}r saying that since last year Congress has repealed the provision of the law which required letter postage to be paid for transient printed matter, and that in consequence Mr. Spaids threw up his contract, leaving him no recourse but to employ Wells,Fargo A Co. on their own terras.
On the other hand, it is stated that Mr. Spaids was bought off by Wells, Fargo fc Co., and that the latter concern, so far from carrying all the printed matter intrusted to them, dumped it along the route until senders of such matter had become discouraged and directed it by a Panama route, so that they now, in reality, perform no more service for 81,7000,000 than they used to for 8750,000, and no more than Mr. Spaids agreed to perform for 8350,000. If Mr. Randall can not keep his contractors up to their contracts, the couutry is entitled to have a man put in his place who can.
Again, it is asserted that one Poston, a brother of the delegate from Arizona Territory, holds a contract at ,890,000 per annum for carrying the mail over a route in that Territory which does not exist, and on which he does no service at all. The Pay Clerk paid him 890,000 for the first year, but before the time for the seooud year's payment came round Gov. McCormick of Arizona exposed the fraud and the money was withheld.? Hereupon the contractor comes to Washington, sees Mr. Randall and obtains, at least so it is said, a peremptory order from him to the Pay Clerk to pay the claim, and it is paid in full!
Another device by which the taxpayers are swindled is a contract with the Baltimore Steamship Company for carrying the mails between Baltimore and Havana. The steamers from this port to Havana are contented to carry all the letters offered for the usual sea postage allowed— seven cents upon each letter but the Baltimore line, which is totally unnecessary, and which, at the regular rate earns only a hundred dollars or BO, are receiving 81,000 for each trip, or 824,000 per annum! These are, as we have said, ugly looking charges, and Mr. Randall, it is to be h^ped, will clear himself of the odium they reflect upon him.
Androo't Arithmetic.
Mr. Johnson's head is about as well balanced on the figures of arithmetic as on figures of speech. The lucidity of his mathematical propositions is only equaled by the clearness of his political views. For instance, he says in his message that Government "received for its bonds, in real money, three or four hundred per cent, less thai the obligations which it issued in return." No man of ordinary acquaintance with the English language and the Arabic numerals would ever make such a ridiculous statement. Take an illustration. Here is a bond for 81,0.00 given by Government. What does Mx\ Johnson mean by saying that Government received "three or four hundred per cent, less" than the 81,000 for bond How much is "three or four hundred per cent, less than $1,000 Three hundred per cent of $1,000 is 83,000. Does the man mean that Government received 83,000 less than 81,000 for every thousand dollar bond it issued? If that is his meaning, then the Governmust have paid 82,000 bonus to every man who accepted a 81,000 bond. But what a botch this fellow from Tennessee makes of everything.— Hartford Post.
Anthony Trollope says popular education is not so high or so far advanced in England as in America.
Congress, Grant and the C'lvll tcHre Bill.
Gen. Graut favors the reassembling of the new Congress as soon as the old expires. It is now alleged that those who are interested in preserving the present status of official tenure will attempt the repeal of the law convening Congress on the 4th of March, thus securing,. through the operation, of ..the Tenure-of-Offlce act, the continuation in office of "the great body of custom, revenue, Indian, diplomatic, consular and other officials," who can be removed only upon charges made, investigated and sustained. The "ins" will make a strong effort to prevent the repeal of the Civil Tenure bill, and also the assembling of Congress in accordance with Gen. Grant's wish. In case a majority show a desire to repeal the Tenure law, they will, it is said, stave off action upon the bill until withiiv ten days of the close of the term* when they hope Johnson, out of spite toward Grant, and through hatred of the Republicans for hampering him, will pocket it. If the present Congress shall show itself capable of acting from the considerations above named, it will deserve, as it will receive, the execration of every honest man in the nation. If tfte Tenure-of-. Office law embodies corrcct principles and sound policy, let it stand. If not, let it be repealed or amended. So, if the public welfare demands the convening of Congress on the 4th of March, let the law remain as it is. The Congressman who can be convicted of voting upon these questions under the influence of unworthy considerations, such as a desire to continue anybody in office, put farther off any proposed investigaiion of alleged frauds, or to retaliate upon Gen. Grant for opposing the pet schemes of Treasury depredators, should foifeit public confidence to such an extent as would preclude him forever afterwards from obtaining office. We shall soon see who is the stronger, General Grant, or the whisky, railroad, Indian tariff and othef rings that infest Washington in the person of both Congressmen and lobbyists. Grant is backed by the peopie the eorruptionists by money. May Grant and the people prevail!—
Chicago Post.
The IJiiltindest t'nt of All.
Poor old Ad Interim Thomas, who served the President so faithfully and so truly, who emptied his side-board twice a day during all the StantonJohnson imbroglio, and whom nothing would pacify save the papers in the War office, or, in lieu of these, the little black bottle in the little closet of the Secretary who was arrested at the ball in his gay uniform and brevet appointments, who sued the Secretary for 850,000 damages for offended dignity and false imprisonment who demanded his new honors regularly every day and wept profusely at being refused, who got up in the morning with the heart of a lion and was put to bed at night as limp as a dishcloth, who sat at the counsels of the Cabinet as the representative of a big office with no duties, who poured his troubles into everybody's sympathizing ear, and whom everybody snubbed for his pains, who loved Andy much, and the things that Andy loved more, who strutted and wept and soared and sunk by turns as the thermometer of his expectations rose or fell—poor old Ad Interim, we say, has been struck down by the very hand he delighted to lick,—having been retired from the army for feebleness and age by Andrew Johnson himself! Picture it—think of it! Such base ingratitude is such as only Presidents and Kings could be guilty of. The star of Thomas is no more. His shoulder-straps have gleamed at their last ball. He has performed his closing prodigy at the side-board of his master. Andy has got through with him and has let him slide.— Chicago Post.
HON. EDWIN M. STANTON, in returning to his labors at the bar, is said to have remarked to his friends that he had withdrawn from politics. We certainly wish him success in his old and honored vocation but men of his sturdy capacity are greatly needed in high official station, and we hope that, as a good citizen, he will hold himself in readiness to respond to any call that his country may be constrained to make upon him.
TREASURER Spinner was taken quite sick, Monday morning, and forced to retire from his desk at the department He has been exerting himself much lately in the exercise of official duties. i-