Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 14 January 1869 — Page 2

London Correspondence of the Hartford Post. The Banlt or England.

It is a great affliction to

have much money. One never has any peace until he gets ricl of it. Here now this great bank can hardly sleep nights for fear somebody willl be thieving its treasures. It has a •company of soldiers come down from the Tower of London every .night to stand guard within its walls. 'And as for the daylight hours, why it .has its whole force of workpeople, 1,500 strong, ready to fly to arms in "any emergency, they being organized and disciplined as a military force, and every man knowing his exact place should an alarm be raised. And you may go clear around that four acres of granite, and you can not find a single outside window. It is all wall and nothing else. And all the way around are stones so arranged that they can be suddenly displaced for the prolusion of rilies. And when you are visiting the interior, as you pass from room to room, bells rings and guards fly about until you might think thay had taken you lor a king and were paying you honor, but that isn't it a bit. It is because you are probably a thief and will be pocketing thousand pound notes or great bars of gold, if 3-011 have a chance. And they never permit you to enter the vaults where the bullion is, exedpt in the presence of a Director of the Bank. With us the President himself went, we being more than ordinarily suspicious characters, I suppose for while a clergyman, by virtue of his office and pretensions, is under special pledges to steal by virtue of his proverty he is under uncommon temptation to do it. When we went into the room where their coin and bank notes are gathered in almost fabulous sums, the treasury, four men watched us, with I do not know how many more hidden behind screens and doors. Aud when they put into my hand a package worth $5,000,000 in gold, I wond 'red that the entire building did not quake. They expected me to quake, I presume, but I didn't half as much as I do when I draw my monthly salary at home. Now, what is the use of being immensely rich aud living in perpetual consternation, like that great bank? I would not change places with it for the world. The President o,f the concern has a great salary, I was told (I was about to put down here how much, but do not dare trust my memory 011 the subject, but name any figure you please and it is more than thatj but what is that to peace of mind

Tney have wonderful balances in this bank, balances that know more than men do, far in weighing coin, if any pieces are of under weight, the machine detects it forthwith, and discharges the under weights into a receptacle all by themselves, while the full weights are sent in another direction.

The Bank does its own printing, 'too, and does it splendidly, using machines for numbering and registering that can do everything except speak.

Some 300,000 persons go annually to the counters of this bank to receive dividends. I think they ought to rotate, and give all one opportunity before we die. But England is a rather feudal country, and once in always it seems to be rule from the Queen down.

When the}* had told me their big stories till they saw I was in aper fectly receptive state of mind, and wide open to anything, they said that they used to have there, in their employ, a man seven feet high, and that he was in such fear the anatomists would be after him as a curiosity, after his death, that lie begared to be

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buried in the oourt yard of the bank, and was, which teaches us that much higbt, like much money, or excess in any direction, is a curse, as I said before.

I left the vast bailding in a perfectly daeed condition, confused by the enormous and unaccustomed figures and facts which they had dispensed to me, perfectly turned round by the many rooms, halls, and staircases through which I had been led, wondering how any one in England oould be poor, with such a mighty affair as that making money in full run all the time, speculating as to what rank among human occupations ought in fact to be assigned to this handling of money, and sure that my pockets were just as empty as when I went in.

A conductor on the Eastern railroad .who lives in Gloucester, Mass., was re«ently awakened from a sound sjeep in chnrch, and, with his secular t^ang, called out, "Beverly! Change cars for Gloucester, Manchester and Beverly Farms!'' The eflect upon the congregation may be imagined.

A macademized road has been con structed from Jaffa to Jerusalem, and the latter enjoys a steam mill.

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HARDWARE, AC.

Hard Times Come Again

N0 More, for

Is selling as much Hard

ware now for $1 a Green

back as could hare been bought for a Gold Dollar

when Wheat sold at 75c

and Corn for 20c per bu.

CHEER UP!

GREGG'S MAMMOTH

Is filled from cellar to garret with

IV E W O O S

Everybody goes to Gregg's

To get good Bargains and go Goods at

THE MAMMOTH.

Coil Chains, I^og Chains,

Trace Chains, Halter Chains, Dog Chains, Jack Chains, very cheap at

GREGG'S MAMMOTH!

For Everything, Anything

and All Things

Kept in a first-class Hardware Store,

O O E S

And you will "go away rejoicing" with good Goods at Good Bargains.

Sam is All Alive!

Gregg's Mammoth is still

Headquarters for Hard

ware

The very bent

CHOPPING AXES.

Very cheap, at

GREGG'S MAMMOTH!

tXt Mill Saws, X-cut Saws, Rip Saws, QC Panel Saws, Wood Saws, Hand Saws, Tenon Saws, Back Saws.

Keyhole Saws—the largest stock ^5 ever exhibited in Crawfordsville, QflEJ all of which will be sold at a small advance on manufacturers' prices, at

GREGG'S MAMMOTH!

Iron, Steel, Horse Shoes,

Horse Shoes, Nail Rods, Steel Calks, Ac., below all competition at

GREGG'S MAMMOTH!

IF YOU WANT

The very best

O E N I E

Made, just step into

E S

Knives, Forks, Spoons,

Carvers, Scissors and Shears, at greatly reduced prices, at

E S

HARD WARES

S O E

NO. 2, EMPIRE BLOCK,

Crawfordsville, Indiana.

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PRY-QOOPS,

McOEimE,

FRY & CO.

—HA

THE~

BEST ASSORTED

-STOCK OF-

DRY OOODS

IN THE STATE

AND ARK DETERMINED TO

SELL THEM CHEAPER

-THA.K-

MY OTHER HOUSE

-IN—

Orawfordssvillej!

LL '•HO WAIT TO BUT

GOODS

FOR

CASH

—CAN—

J®" Make Money

—BT-

BUYIJVG OF THEM!

McCLURE, PIT CO.

ifSTM n*6 M.)

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SEWING MACHINES

FOR

Families & manufacturers.

THEHonor

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lV^&PFOLTZ,

General Agents for* Central Indiana, 1:' North Pennsylvania

decl0m6

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ruffle and gather will work equally well on

silk, lineu or cotton goods, with silk, linen,

linen, or cotton thread.

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Warranted for Five Years!

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made by the Singer, Wheeler & Wilson,

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Under-feed, like the best of high priced ma

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of its Simplicity, and consequent low cost of

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AGENTS-

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Sewing Machine, in each State, County, and

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Extra inducements to experienced agents.

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O. V. ANDREWS,

General Agent, Detroit, Mich.

N. B.—For the benefit of our Agents we

have arranged with parties who have Goods

suitablefcr Sewing Ifcchfcie Agents to Bell.

We will send Books of Samples and full

pMtiwilars on weipt of *ie vd stamp.

Attan G. N, B. ANDMEW6, «eiM»l

Detroit) VMi. o*Ut-lT

GROCERIES.

BECK & JOHNSON,

[8UCCBSSOKS TO J. W. LYXN SOX,]

Are selling

Groceries and Provisions

On Green Street,

ASTONISHINGLY LOW PRICES.

THEY

especially Invite consumers to examine their

COFFEES, TEAS, TOBACCOS, and

FINE CIGARS,

Which cannot be eiC«1fert in the city. The highest market price paid at all time* fof PRODUCE.

Drop

dccl0m3 BECK fc JOHNSON.

BUTCHERS.

F. B. GUJTmtlE & BRO.

DEALER#

Fresh Mea& of all Kinds,

NTo. lO fireen St.,

ANNOUNCE

st*Indianapolis.

to the puftlic that they art

now prepared to fuf#/sh

Meats hf Quantity,

—either by the SIDE or QUARTER—as lowas can be obtained anywhere, from farmer* or anybody else, and

DELIVER IT

To any partofthe city, without extra charge They have made special arrangements for KILLING HOGS, to an extent of 500 per day, if required.

They pay the highest prices for Beef Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, ilidersand Peltries. Tbey_ are prepared to STEAM Fat Hog* that have tffed, and want the farmers to bring them Along fre any quantity no danger of their brfffgfirg too manv. no!9 ¥. OUTHrtlE BRO.

MERCHANT TAILOR.

"Who wants War go where thv^re is Peace."

JOHN MAAS,

MERCHANT TAILOR,

6 Commercial Row, Green St.

HAYING

jult returned from the Ea*t,

and is offering the best inducements of any house in the city.

HIS PRICES ARE THE LOWEST

HIS PRICES ARE THE LOWE91

HIS PRICES ARE THE LOWEST

Dry Goods,

-,v.„

O I N

Boots, Shoes, Hats & Caps,

FURJYWSHJJ%*G GOODS,

flRJYISIMIJYG GOODS,

EURJYMSUIJYG GOODS,

fcC., AC.,

&c.

He tho begB respectfully to inform al those who desire good-fitting and reliable CLOTHING made to order to call and examine mjr new Fall and Wintar akxlc, JUST IN. I defy competition STYLE, PRI GEM and WOBKMANBHIP.

OC22 JOHN MAAS.