Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 March 1869 — Page 3

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An Englishman was bragging of the speed on English railroads to a Yankee traveler in England. The engine bell was rung as the train Beared the station. "What's that noise inquired the Yankee. "We are approaching a town," said the Englishman. "They have to commence ringing about ten miles before they get to a station, or else the train would run by it before the bell could be heard! Wonderful, isn't it I suppose they haven't inrented bells in America yet "Why, yes," replied the Yankee "we've got bells, but can't use them on our railroads. We run so 'tarnal fast that the train always keeps ahead of the found." "Indeed!" exclaimed the Englishman. "Fact," said the Yankee, "had to give up bells. Then we tried steamwhistles—but they wouldn't answer, either. I was on a locomotive when fte whistle was tried. We saw a twofcorse wagon crossing the track, about five miles ahead, and the engineer let the whistle on, but it wasn't no use. 'The next thing I knew, I was picking myself out of a pond by the roadside, and the fragments of the locomotive, dead horses, broken wagon, and dead engineer, lying beside me. Just then the whistle came along, mixed up with some frightful oaths that I heard the engineer use when ke first saw the horses. Poor fellow, lie was dead before his voice got to kim. After that we tried lights, supposing these would travel faster than sound, but the locomotive kept ahead of it still, and was in the darkness, with the light close on behind iil. I have heard that some of the fast trains beat th» telegraph 15 minutes every 40 miles. But I can't say as that, is tine—the rest I know to so

The Amendment.

The Fifteenth Articlo of Amendment to the Constitution now submitted to the Legislature* of the States for ratification, has the recommendation Cf being concise and comprehensive. Here it is, and all there is •f it: •'The right of the citinena of the ilfiuted States to vote shldl notbe denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account ofrrape, color, or previous condition of servitude. 'Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate, legislation

The right is still left to the States to protect the ballot by such safeguards as the people thereof may think expedient. The amendment simply forbids discriminations on account of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." That is to say, conditions which no man can remedy, do vhat ho will. It is absurd, it is disgraceful, for any political community to punish by disqualification in matters entirely beyond the control of the individual, and for which he is nowise responsible. The principle embodied in the articlo is a just one, and leaves no ground of detense.for those n&o oppose its ratification. If the States want limita lion, let them fix it on the basis of ieducation, or property, or such other qualification as seems best, but apply it to all alike, tho white and the black —tho nativo and foreign bom—the adopted European and the Asiatic.— Commercial national Bank Kotes.

The late Secretary of the Treasury, Hugh McCulloch, on Feb. 27, i38tied a circular giving instructions in reference to the receipt by U. S. Assistant Treasurers of torn, mutilated, defaced or dirty National Bank notes. This circular remains in force unless modified by tho new Secretary. Mr. McCulloch says that the condition of these notes is gradually growing worse, and will continue to do so until the banks are compelled to make the arrangements contemplated by the law for keeping their circulation in good order. As the Treasury Department is not by law the redemption agent of tho National Banks it muflt either incur the expense of issuing new notes, or be the agent ia keeping a defaced currency in exist«nce by paying it out again. The Secretary, therefore, instructs the collecting officers of the United States to refuse to receive notes of the national Banks which are no longer it to be kept in circulation. 1» I

According to the published reports, the recent earthquakes in India were very severe. At Silchar a town •Mt of Calcutta, some of the houses were buried twenty feet below the level of the ground where they stood iNifore, and many lives were lost -la some places the earth opened in

Co?

rifta, from which

large

tpater

quanti-

«p4 tapor Were qfectod.

Indiana in ftlie 41st Congress. We give the Indiana delegation in the Forty-first Congress, which met on the 4th inst The names of Democrats arc in italics: Senators—Oliver P. Morton and Daniel D. Pratt. Representatives—1st District, WtnE. Niblaclc 2d District, Michael Cf Kerr 3d District, Wm. 8. Uolrnan 4th District, George W. Julian (con tested) 5th District, John Coburn 6th District, Daniel W. Voorhees 7th District, Godlove S. Orth 8th District, James N. Tyner 9th District, J. P. C. Shanks 10th District, William Willaims 11th District, Jasper Packard.

The members of the last Congress who are not members of the Fortyfirst Congress, are—Senator, Thomas A. Hendricks Representatives, Henry D. Washburn, Morton C. Hunter and Schuyler Colfax.

The Fifteenth Amendment.

The Constitution ot the United States reads that the Congress, when ever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourthv of the several States. These provisions should be familiar to every one, yet the Boston Journal says that the Governor of Massachusetts transmitted to the Legislature "the Suffrage Amendment to the Constitution, recently passed by Congress, and which will have to be'ratified'by twothirds of the States before it becomes Constitutional law":/

fSS Tk« Whent Prospeel. The reports from all parts [lm! State, in fact from all parts of the country, are liasually favorable for ait I abundant yield of wheat. The wheat fields never looked better April than they did,this year February, and it believed that the weather this fiionfch I will not be cold enough to affect it (i particle, as the roots have taken su«h deep hold in the ground that it would be an impossibility them out. The farmers are delight-»-ed with the prospect* and nothing ex-1 cept rust or the wevil wHljpreveat the! most abundant harvest this yews-— Terre Haute Journal.

The weather of the three wirfter months just passed has been the subject of a report from Prof. Eliss Loomis, of Yale College, New Haven, Gonn. He says that the mean temperature of December, 1868, was 3.9 degrees below the average temperature of that month. Tho mean temperature of January, 1869, was 5.1 degrees above the average temperature of that month. The mean temperature of February, 1869, was 3.6 degrees above the average temperature of that month, so that the mean temperature of the last three months was 1.6 degrees above the average temperature of winter at New Haven. This result, it is asserted, is not particularly remarkable, similar cases occurring on an average once iu three or four years The amount of rain and melted snow for the last three months was 10.07 inches, which is but a little below the average fall at New Haven.'

HK tea plant is in successful cultivation some tan miles from Knoxville, oil the farm of Captain James Campboll, where it has been grown for about ten years. It is said that East Tennessee tea drinkers can easily raise their own tea with very little cost or trouble. The plant is a deep evergroen shrub, and grows about five feet high. It is hardy, and needs no protection from frosts. It bears an abundant crop, with beautiful fragrant flowers, in Octobor. Tho following season it matures a soed, somewhat resembling the seed of our native hazel, and grows up readily. The vigor and hardiness of this plant, and its adaptation to the climate, have been tested. The tea produced from the leaves of the plant very much resembles in ftavor tho tea from the Young Hyson plant.

Friday, Febnary 5, is said to have been the hottest day ever recorded in England in the first week of the month. The mean temperature of the day was 51.2 degrees, and at half past three in the afternoon the thermometer in the sun marked 71 degrees. In Paris the birds were singing and active out door exercise was oppressive.

Nashville horticulturists giro a doleful account of the peach pr«spelct in that region of Tennessee. Th^y allege that the severe cold weather of the paat week

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CRAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL: MARCH 11, 1869.

Violinx.

BOWK.

MtriiagA.

FINE AMERICAN WATCHES, ROGERS' PLATED WARE, SPOONS AND FORKS,

We have recently plete set of NEW manufacturing of

Door*.

Call at our

done tho dead"

tot the peach crop this year. The final result is hardly ever worse than the predictions of the "croakers" would have the people believe. .. •i ":V New Tork has a church ealledMfce Ckurch of lhcBr»k«i Qovmmt*

DRY GOODS, CLOTHS AMD CAES [MERES.

WASSON Sc ELMORE,

Jfa. 3, Commercial Block, Cireem St.. Crawfeffdsviile.

Dry Goods, Cloths, Cassimeres, Dress Hoods, Hosiery,

Cloves, White Goods, Flannels, Hal aural*.

Hoop Skirts, Domestics, &«.

FULL USE OK-

Bootft. £hoe*u Hlate and Cap*. Qncens' ami CHawmare, I

:tI. the iowest market price.

WATCHES, JEWELRY AND BOOKS.

New Jewelry and Book Store, No. 1, Empire Block.

SHEPHERD & VAN«ICKIiEf PKALEBS IN

Watehes, Clocks and tfewelry.

r.An'i* ri: riXK AB.S-ORTMKNT OP

American Watches and Setk Thomas Clocks.

Having opened out with an entire new stock ot Goods, we earnestly soliuit an exami-1 nation of our stock before purchasing elsewhere.

QP5~All kinds of Watches, Clofikj- »nU .1 «rv ranted twelve months.

pul in operation a cornMACHINKHY

for the

Blind*

Flooring,

Holding

dee.. Ac,

Together with all kinds of Planing and Lumber used for Building Purposes, Fencing, Pickets, &c., all of which wo will agree to furnish in as good order and at as reaeonaolc prices as any establishment in the country.

Always on himd, for sale either dressed orin the rough. UEJTParticular attention given to parties who furnish their own lumbar to be worked.

MILL ON DRY 13RANCH,

OREESrCASTLK ROAD,

South-West part of Crawfordsville, ,1 Or en A. W. LEMON, who has charge of the Books of tho firm, at our

OFFICE ON GREEN ST., Adjoining J. H. Benefield'a Grocery,

where Doom, 8Mb, Blinds, Moyldinga, Dreeeei Lumber, Ac., will be kspt for sale,, and all

OT€MM NTITE*

MI«

T*OMVTLY

AFC-

teaiet m. Canine, Wllhlte* Cor A O IS

HENBT WASSON. O. W. BLWORK.

Hevolver«.

Cartridges,

JUM.

FINE SWISS WATCHES, FINE POCKET CUTLERY, POCKET BOOKS., ••,fn it •Irv HHPAIJ1ED 011 short notice, and wur-

SCHOOL iBOOKH & STATIONERY,

We shall keep onxtonMy fhe vr»iy best of Letter Taper, Commercial No to. Legal Cap, Knrelopeji, &<•. COMK AN'l) SEE. 'j

SHEPHEBI) A YM8ICHLE.

JjrwnEELEK Jlc WILSON'H fiKWI.W MACHINES, together with Needles, Oil, &c., always on hand. ft^rPIANOS and MKLODEON.^ rented so aV thr rout will itpply to payment for Instrument.

PLANING MILL.

Crawfordsvillo Planing Mill and Sash Factory.

The beet .lob I'm-sin the World!

JOURNAL JOB OFFICE •'MTTORSI E: FRONT."

RING'S VECETABLE AMBROSIA. RING'S

GRAY HAIR.

This is the AMEBOMAtbatBlag

'fhis i» tUft Care tbftt lay la tho AjfeRnsiA that.King aade^

Thla ia the Man wlio was bald and Whouaow has raven locks, they say. He used the Cure tliat lny In tho Ambkosia tJiat King ra^dc.

This is the Maiden, handsome

gay,

Who married the man once bald and gray, Who now has raven locks, they say. IFC used tho AMBHOSIA that Bin mnde, This is tho I'aro6n, vrho^bythe way, Married the maiden, h&ndsome ani To t^e^man once bald and gray, But whe aovr has raven locks, they say, Becanae he used the Care that lay Im the AMBnoaiA that King made.

This in the Bell that rings away vTo arouse the people saa and ga, {Unto this fact, which here doea lay—

WATCHMAKER.

P. Ff TiBPATMCJK,

At Blnford'ri

Washington St., Onwfordsville, Jnd. AS constantly on hand a Willi selcH. stock ol"

FINE WATCHES,

CJLOCKH,

I I Jewelry and! Spectacle*.

KS'All Watch work, and other I'epaii'fc warranted to give satisfaction..:- declTy'

FOR THE HAIR.

BARRETT'S

RESTORATIVE

Hand

uonoot

$1ZE

J. (f. BARRETT & CO.,

,jy28yl

and gay

tlf »m wvld not he or gran, TUTE the AMBMMIAbald

I» mle vj

that JMG mate

wrwnr

Proprietor#,

xAscmmaat

LORD A SMITH, CHICAGO. flwcRii'lgMt* ft? the HortiwwteM fltctta. For sale by E. JT. BEDFORD & BRO.,

CBAWFOItDSVILLK, NDIANA. o4yl

HAIR RE8TORER.

The L»st

IMPROVED

HAIR DRESSING!

Gordon's Franklin Press

'noneBolftj

BT ITS USE or Faded liair is qtuocly

r«6tored to its youthful color and taautjr, and with the first Application a Veeatifni ^oas and telightffl ia gireu t« the Hair. It will cause Bur grow BaM Spot* It will promote laxurcvut g-rcmtli.

FALLINGHAIHi»

immediately efce

Vm flak kr ol Dmcgliti. DEPOT icnaved fiwm Greoowiok St. t* 85 Baidar St. & 40 Park Plao%

prjCCONEDOI^IB.

GROCERIES.

EI.STON CORNER

o. w. BOBiarsotf 4 co.

HAVE

established themselves in thr old BLSTON

COBNEB since Uiefir-,

and have now on hand a large stock of

FAMILY GKOCERIES. such au

fjo/Tee, Sugar, Rice,

and

i€K. JtS clauses?

Wooden Ware «f all Kindti

A full stock of

MIIOAB BtrCKKT*,

And everything connected with the Irusine^s, of the very best quality.

Ooi tfcry taken ia

Mckaage l«v.

Grocaries.

^•7UTl)att«vnbU«t« w#. HM.fi againiac