Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 April 1869 — Page 4
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THE JOURNAL.
T. BUB. McCAIN and J. T. TALBOT, Bditore
Crawfordsvillc, Ind., April 29.
bditorial notes raoM TME CAPITAIi. Work was put through both Houses last vreek oil a fast line, and much business transacted. A great deal of time was spent in perfecting the appropriation bills which finally passed both Houses. The most important law passed during last week, is the
BIENNIAL ELECTION LAW,
The bill which passed the Senate on Thursday last by a strict paity vote, the Republicans voting i'or, and the Democrats against, it. The law provides that all elections held in the State shall be held biennially or every two years, and abolishes Spring elections. The officers voted for at that time will be voted for in the Fall, and they will hold their offices two years instead of one year as now provided. The Registry Law is repealed. Altogether the law is a good one, and the people will be pleased, notwithstanding the opposition made to it by the Democrats I^SfANTS IN COTTON AND WOOLEN 311LLJ?.
A bill was introduced last session providing that owners of cotton and woolen mills, could work children under sixten years of age, eleven hours a day. It was brought, up the other day for final action, and it was disposed of in a hurry, by its indefinite postponement. Strange it is that we have in this enlightened day and age of the world, men who would have laws made to compel children to work more hours iii a day than they would be willing io work themselves! But we find them even in
Christian Indiana. Tire SOLDIKRS' 71.03JE. A Committee has been raised in the Mouse for the purpose of inquiring into the expediency of transferring the inmates of the Soldiers' Home at Knightstown, to the Nation il Asylum for disabled soldiers and seamen at Dayton, Ohio. This is a wise step. It can scarcely be considered the part of wisdom, for the people" of the State to be taxed tor the support of a State Home while they are already being taxed for the maintenance of a similar invitation by the Government. tiik sourniCKN PKlUN.
The Southern Prison and the iu mjmt of its management have been uu-j dergoing an airing in the House, The investigation discloses the fact! that luring the past two years the conduct of some of the officials con-1 nected with the Prison has been such as to consign them to eternal infamy. What action the Legislature will take in regard to these vilhiinous officials remaius to be seen.
KKK-S Of COUNTY omcKfo. The bill providing for a salary to be paid county officers has been substituted by one providing that those officers shall be paid as they now are, changing the items but little from existing laws regulating fees. It simply provides against construction fees and extravagant allowance* by county boards. The bill passed the House by a vote of 69 to 15.
THB DIVORCE LAWS,
Since the scandalous and infamous divorce case at Lagrange in this State, in which one French went into an adjoining county and procured a divorce from bis wife, a highly respectable woman, without her consent or knowledge, the two Houses have been flooded with bills amendatory to, and repealing existing laws on divorces. Indiana's divorce laws stand as a by-word and a reproach upon our statute books, and if any of our laws need renovating, the law granting divorces is one among the number. It is hardly safe to be married in Indiana.
Qc ACKER I
On Saturday last, a bill passed the House for the "elevation of the Medical Profession and the suppression of Quackery."' Although this bill is
not all that medical men, and those who entertain a high regard for the profession require, yet it is along step in the right direction. Over a year ago Ohio passed a law of similar import, and recently quite a number of quacks have made their advent in this State. By the provisions of the bill, physicians of every school who have been in practice ten years, arc permitted to conntiue as heretofore. Others are required to be graduates, or to have license to practice medicine, granted by a chartered Medical Association. Physicians who have been five years in practice, have two years in which to conform to the requirements of the bill. It will take effect in October. It is thought that it will pass the Senate.
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. Air. Fairchild, of Carroll, introduced a bill in the House last Friday, creating an Insurance Bureau, with a Superintendent who shall be paid a salary of 04,000, though the Auditor of State is authorized to act until 1871. When! Wonder what Mr. Fairchild means He cannot be looking out for himself a soit place, as he is not a member of the grand army of insurance agents, though he may have a friend in view, who would not object to a downy couch.
PRISON LIBRARIES.
Strange to say neither our State Prisons nov the House of Refuge have libraries. A bill lias been introduced appropriating 82,500 for establishing libraries in each. A good bill.
A I'l' AI SEMEN OF RAILROADS. It has been discovered that there is a manifest injustice in the law relating to the appraisement of railroads. The law as it now stands provides that in case railroads are appraised at too great a value to suit the owners, redress is had before the Board of Equalization, but in case a road i* appraised at less than its value, to suit the people, no redress can be had, and no alternative remains but for the Board to reduce all appraisements made to the lowest, in order to equalize them. A bill is now pending in both Houses to correct the evils complained of.
T. H. B. McC
Four papers in the United States have followed in the wake of the hu'perinlis I, the new advocate of Empire. The course of the Imperialist and its followers is an agreeable substitute for the conduct of those who could tind nothing else to do but to denounce Andy or the "rump Congress.'' and will probably be quite as harmless.
Prospects of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment are so Haltering that it is feared by many that anew issue will have to bn hunted up for the formation of parties. Twen-ty-one States have ratified. Seven more, and then whatV Imperialism, Annexation or Honesty
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Order of Odd Fellows was very generally celebrated on Monday. At Indianapolis, the display is described as one of the finest ever witnessed. Eighty-seven crowded cars were employed in carrying members of the Order and visitors to the city. About 4,000 members were present, And the whole crowd is estimated at 10,000. Robert Dale Owen delivered the address, and Dr. Evarts and Rev. J. II. Lozior recited poems on the occasion^
Attempts are being made to manufacture sentiment in favor of the annexation, peaceably or forcibly, of Cuba and the Canadas. There is no telling how successful the attempts may be. The Young Americas of to-day, along with a great passion of governing themselves, have a great ambition to spread, but this spreading operation costs money which had far better be spent in concentration. Seven millions of dollars expended on public improvements would be worth more to the United States than Cuba, or Alaska either.
JOURNALISTIC'.
We received, last week, the first No. of the Covington Journal, edited and published by Mr. Frank Seaman. The matter and appearance of the Journal present a strikingly favorable contrast to those of the old Free Press. There is evidence of life and energy there. If Fountain comity is entitled to half the name of county, the Journal canuot fail of success..
The activity and excitement incident to the inauguration of a new Administration have almost ended. Congress has adjourned, men have been rewarded or disappointed and we are greeted with expressions of satisfaction or dissatisfaction accordingly, but outside the world is rolling along as usual. The happiest persons are those who have looked only to the rewards of honest labor for support. They too, it is true, have their vexations and disappointments, but the consciousness of independence is more than sufficient to compensate for these.
Grant and the Cabinet lately executed a flank movement on the corps of office-seekers at Washington. On Saturday, Grant went to the country to recuperate. This movement has operated terribly on the alread}' reduced finances of the place-seekers.
THE B. ft C.
BAILBOAB.
Attention is called to the reports of proceedings of the two meetings held at Crawfordsvillc, in the interest of the Evansville and Crawfordsvillc Railroad extension. They will be found on the 1st and 8th pages. It is a matter of great importance as effecting the interests of this county, that the road be built as soon as possible, and we hope our citizens will not be behind those of other counties in the interest manifested and the support given.
Gov. Bakku has signed the Biennial Election Bill. Who is hurl
Thk Indiana Senate has passed, by a vote of to S, a resolution to erase from the records of the Senate the vote of censure passed upon the Lieutenant Governor at the last .session. Public sentiment is liable to some wonderful changes.
LaFayette has seut a delegation of leading citizens to Indianapolis, to take care of the interests of Tippecanoe in the Agricultural College. Tippecanoe is hopeful, but may possibly be disappointed.
Jas.' Colgrove, jr., has been appointed Sheriff of Tippecanoe county to fill the place of his father, deceased.
IXMIVVA NEWS.
A fellow in Dearborn County advertises a fugacious wife, who. he says, "has left him just as his summer's work is beginning, notwithstanding he has had the expense of wintering heiv'
Sheriff Colcgrove, of LaFayette, died suddenly of "pneumonia and congestion of the liver/' last Friday afternoon. He had nearly completed the second term of his office which he had filled with great satisfaction.
A dispatch to the LaFayette Journal states that Miss Lizzie Demotte, music teacher, of Attica, was seriously, if not fatally injured last Tuesday by being caught between two freight cars, at the depot at Williamsport.
On Wednesday of last week, the first shovelful of dirt wan thrown on the proposed railroad between Mt. Vernon aud Chicago. It is said the work will now continue in earnest until the road is completed.
The distillery of A. P. Williams, at Lawrenceburg, was seized on the 13th for having failed to pay the special tax of four dollars per barrel, and the "capacity" tax of two dollars per day for every twenty bushels of grain mashed. The taxes due amounted to about 822,000.
It is now said that John Ross, about whose lynching near New Albany, so much has been said, is "a lazy, loafing vagabond and worthless feliow." He is no doctor, he had no "Stu-gieal instruments" to lose, nor much else. And finally he was not lynched in any manner approaching the statement? which have been made.
The Fort Wayne Chess Club has challenged the Chicago Club to a friendly game by telegraph.
The Indianapolis Journal says: 'We are informed that the newly appointed Postmaster, upon taking possession of the Postoffice in this city, found that a large quantity of mail matter had accumulated in the Postoffice cellar during the winter months, but it is now being distributed and forwarded to the parties to whom it is addressed.
After duly considering the papers and affidavits filed in favor of and against a change of venue in the Abram's case, Judge Johnson has overruled the motion for a change of venue, and set the case for trial on Monday, May 17. The Sheriff was directed to have writs issued and served which would enable him to have one hundred men in attendance on that day, one hundred on Tuesday, and one hundred on Wednesday, in case it should be necessary, in order to obtain a jury.
And now eome all the Democratic journals again, for the several hundredth time, having the Tiepublican party utterly demoralized and ruined on account of the blustering and slangwhanging of such fellows as Chandler, Sprague & Co. These are mere gnats and flies bussing and flying around the great Republican elephant, who would smash them into invisible specks if he were not too dignified to exercise his trunk on such small game. If the Democratic party cannot learn that the Republican party does not demoralize worth a cent, it is hardly possible for it to learn anything.— Chicago Post.
China and Ireland.
A writer in the Atlantic Monthly for May, thus speaks of the Chinese on the Pacific Railroad:
The ever-present Chinese will pique our curiosity. We must look into' their homes,—compact, simple, yet not over clean or sweet-smelling quarters,—into their restaurants and their theatre, if it is in operation, and into their "Josh Houses." Their! stores invite us with open doors, and !tempt our pockets with all the vari-f ous specialties of Chinese mauufac-1 ture at reasonable prices. A lew are men of stature and presence, with' |faces of ronfiement and gentle strength the main' go sneaking) about their work.—a low type ol'j mankind, physically and mentally,, imported here like merchandise, and let out to labor under a system only half removed from slavery itself,
Yet they are an important element in
been building.
DRY COOPS.
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Staple & Saucy Dry Goods,
(JESTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
Oloves,
IVotions,
Hosiery,
tor. Main & Washington Street*,
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DRUGS.
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T. VV. FR\ & CO.
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All of which vvc will sell at the very lowed market price. Call and see us, on Green street, two door* above T. W. Lynn & Sons.
Juno 21, lfiW T. \v. F.R\ & CO.
fering punishment though thev bring east quarter of section tf, in township20 r|f ffimilipQ ind tin piHypncililn north, range Avest* and also south half of no lamuies, ana seek no citizenship, eASt hft
BLACKSMITH INC.
IJlaeksmitliins in all Branches
it least two vears longer in rienco in the business, they leel confident in assuring the public that their work and prices will stive entire .satisfaction. They have done nearly all the picking and
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are well prepared to iron wagons, bunion,
drilling and shoveling and wheeling •horses in the mo.stdesirai.de.
of the road, from Sacramento to Salt: Lake. They furnish the principal labor in the factories they make cigars: they dig and work over neglected gold gulches they arc cooks they almost monopolize the clothes washing and ironing in all the lighter and simpler departments of labor, where fidelity to a pattern, and not flexibility and originality of action are required, they make the best and most reliable workers. At least seventy-live thousand of them are scattered over these Pacific States, west of Utah and though our Amer-1
iml approved style, aud on short, notice. Repairing of all kind*
done
NOTICE
ican and European laborers quarrel Two handled and twenty-nine acres or with and abuse them though the law: J*ncl "Pr,1,1'* JT township 20 north, of range .J west twenty gives them no rights, but that ol sut-I
if
wood
ported as such though they arc mean ^0eavt0,.vr re„"c *-e!, adapted to farmand contemptible in their vices as in ins purposes and stock, raising. their manners though thev are de-! At the wame time and will sell the personal property ot said spisect And kicked about ou even Peterson, consisting in part of t-b® followhand Still thev come and thrive, ingarticles, to-wit: Horses, UaUle, Shejp, riowlv better thiir their physical .n"J moral and mental conditions, and Mower. supply this country with what it most' TERMS—Said personal property will be needs for its growth and prosperity,— real "estate will cheap labor. What we shall do with them is not quite clear yet how they are to rank, socially and politically, among us, is one of the nuts for our social-science students to crack, if they can but now that we have depopulated Ireland, and Germany is holding on to its own, and the old sources of our labor supply are drying up, all America needs them and, obeying the great natural law of demand and supply, Asia seems almost certain to pour upou aud over us countless thousands of her superfluous, cheap-living, slow-changing, unassiinilating bat very useful laborers. And we shall welcome, and then quarrel over and with them as we have done with their Irish predecessors. Our vast grain/cotton, and fruit fields, our extending 33Tstem of public works, our multiplying manufactures, all need and can employ them.
with despatch.
Particular attention given fomendingand sharpening plows. They ask the public to giv» them atrial, i- they feel conlident of givingsatisfaction. iK-jr'Shop on Green street, between Pike iud South street*. apr2n (i IX). HKillTOWKi: ]•"11 M.
TRUSTEES' SALE.
is hereby given that the under-'
signed. Trustees l'or the benefit of the creditors of David Peterson, Sen., will sell at public auction, on the iMth day of June. 18B9, upon the premises, the real estate of said Peterson, situated in Sugar Creek Township, in the County ol' Montgomery, State of Indiana. live miles north of Darlington, on the State lload, to-wif:
acrcs off tl)e wuth
cud of east half of sou th-
of nort
though all their women here are not same township and range said premise# only commercial, but expresslv im- being well improved with .t line dwelling, *1 l. ii and
hea-t quarter of section 30,
ont-towildtiiirB and running water,
be sold for one-third of the purchase money in hand, one-third in live months^ and the residue in nine months, with interest from date, the purchaser to give notes with approved security for the deferred payment?, with interest, and without relief Ironi valuation larws.
JAMBS A. BKRRYMAN, JOHN PETERSON, JR.,
'J9ap8w Trustees.
ELECTION HOITC1.
NOTICE
is hereby given, that an election
will be held in the several Wards of Crawfordsville, at the usual place9 of holding elections, on Tuesday, May 4th, 1869. for the purpose of electing the following officers, to-wit:
One Councilman for the First "Ward of said city, in the place of Henry Lorenz, whose term of office, expires.
One Councilmau for the Second Ward of said city, in the place of William S. Fry, whose term of office expires.
One Councilman for the Third Ward of said city, in the place of William S. Galey,whose term of office expires.
By order of the Common Council of the,, eity of Crawford vlille. T. D. BROWN, 22»p2w City Clerk,