Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 June 1869 — Page 5
PEOPLE'S LETTERS.
The friends of THE JOURNAL throughout the county will place us under obligations,if they will send us the newsfrom their several localities Anuthiny thai is interesting will be acceptable. Sever mind ichetheryou can "write for a paper'' or not—send vs the facts we will fix, than up. Marriayes and Deaths (but not half-column obituaries) published ffratis.
At- A?8« TATO.3S«K,
took him alon •at Greencastle. and was also put. in prison twice, at the Capital for contempt of court. He is probably convinced by this time that there i.« such a thing as a •••.•.National Government. I have not learned what was the result of the legal investigation, but it is rumored that .some of those persons will be favored with an opportunity to work tor the
State, at Michigan City. O11 their return from the Capital they made "Jackviile" too hot for Dr. Bryant, and lie had to llee for his life.
The munificent donation of Hon. John Purdue, securing the location of Purdue University in Tippecanoe county. will place him side by side with those benefactors of the human race. Harvard. Cornell, and Girard. It is a cheering thought to the farmer, that the leading University of Indiana will be conducted in the interest of the industrial classes, and will have for one of its founders a man of such good sense and sound judgment as John Purdue, and I one who has shown himself in such full I sympathy with the laboring masses as he has shown himself to be.
Two papers lie by 1113- side as I write, both of which I utterly abhor. The Imperialist is one. If the conductors of this sheet had their deserts they would be attached to one end of a good stout rope, the other end of which should be fastened to a beam above. The other is conducted by the man who owns Dexter, and is patronized by that otherwise good and noble man, Henry Ward Beecher. This sheet, and others of its class, have clone more to weaken the minds of our youth, and destroy their taste for useful reading than all other causes combined. This contagion for reading sensation novels has become so universal that scarcely any paper can live unless it succumbs to the popular current, and publishes a continued story. There sits a young Tattler before me now, aged 12 so absorbed in "Kit Carson's Last Trail" that she can't hear thunder.
Decoration Day was not observed at Alamo. It should have been. Brave boys sleep in the Alamo churchyard, and although their graves were not strewn with flowers, yet their deeds, their valor and their loyalty still live green and fresh in the memory of our citizens.
The wagon firm of Peck, Searing & Tucker will commence operations in a few days.
Brown, the Vulcan from your city, the best hand 011 a plow in the State, has been crowded with work all Spring. He is making money like dirt.
Mr. Peck, a scientific musician, both vocal and instrumental, is giving instruction to a large class in that cheering and solacing art, The harmony of sweet sounds.
The Tattler has been treading around like a blind horse for a week. He finds a block of his tattlings. word for word, published as editorial in a neighboring paper whose editor is sharp. He'll write puffs for that town for a trifle.
Messers. Editors, if you want to see '•biz" done, and lots of people, just come down to Yount's Factory some day and see iiow they do things. Their custom embraces the people of about twenty counties in Indiana, and a dozen or more Sn Eastern Illinois. Their transactions Teach half a million dollars a year. Come down, by all means, and see if you are not convinced that Ripley is the .center of the world. TOM TATTLER. gi
LADOGASEMINAKY.
The Annual Examination of this Institute will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, the 15th and Ifith of June. 1869.
Wednesday evening the 16th, the annual address before the Addisonian Society will be. belivered by Prof. White, of Wabash College. Thursday morning the Commencement Exercises will take place. Thursday afternoon will occur the annual reunion of old students, friends and citizens.
word of complaint to utter against him.
There has been a mighty rattling among Democratic whisky-soaked hones lor the last ten days, in our neirhuoviiir village ol Jacksonville, in Fountain county. It has been known to many for is only the propriety of a removal when entire and complete satisfaction has peupie" could not. join them, '•remem •li rendered, as was in this ca»t\ that the Sabbath day to keep it. holy
two or three, years, that certain parties as were- illicitly engaged in making whisky be at a couple of distilleries in Jackson it is to be questioned. And that comtownship. A certain Dr. J'.ryant. ofjplete satisfaction was rendered by the Roekville, came to Jackviile. ostensibly former Assistant Assesor any man in to practice medeeine, but really as a de- I thi.? countv who had business in his
tective. to "work up" the case. In the course of three months he had spotted about a dozen persons who were arrested a couple of weeks ago, and taken to Indianapolis. One young MeLain, not having the fear of the marshal before his eyes, refused to go. but that otlicer adorned him with jewelry, which is made and provided for such cases, and lie had to lie in-jail fell. Hence. 3In HoughV removal.
ofrlce will attest. Now. why hi- removal: Answer. To gratify a personal revenge. Dr. Fry opposed the nomination of Orth for Congress, as every other man intiiieounty did. who had the real interests of the party at heart. But a forced vote of the party has placed Orth in a position to bestow patronage, and of course, the ax
And he (Mr. llough wa informed that his misfortune was that he was a friend of Dr. Fry.
Now. if to gratify a personal animosity that Mr. Orth may have against Dr. Fry. worthy subordinates are to heremoved. then indeed must the interests of those who are personally interested be totally ignored and Congressional prtronage prostituted. This is not writ-, ten in the hope or wish of creating any sympathy for Mr. Hough or in disparagement of any one. but simply that the people may place...the, responsibility where it belonu-.-. Y-
FROM TIlORMOW Si'.
•As you were once a native of the State of Boone, a citizen of our quiet little town, and a student of our Academical Institution in its palmiest days. I thought perhaps you might like to hear from this part of the moral vineyard.
Our town is living in peace and quietude. and has 110 fights.riots. or disturban|Ces. The peaceful atmosphere is. however. disturbed occasionally from the report that "King Alcohol" is going' to plant his throne in our midst and bring the multitude under the power of his sceptre.
Industry has planted an extraordinarily large crop of corn, and seems hopeful of the result.
Many predictions are made respecting the rank growth of wheat. It is heavy, thick, of a dark green color, and liable to rust.
Orth lias finally settled the P. O. ques-
tion at this place just as lie did at many other places—to his everlasting disgrace. puggs'! The course he has pursued since his last election, and the distribution he has made of the various offices of this dis- 1 trict has consigned him to a grave of infamy. He can never get a respectable 5*. FIT25I*ArJ\RICK, hearing in this place, and it is doubtful if one Republican out of ten would vote for him under any consideration. He is believed to be a corrupt man, a timeserving politician, and destitute of the. _. ,, ... 1 TTAB constantly 011 hand 11 well select principles that constitute a true states- stock of man. ZKNO. I
L.ETTEB FROM MISSISSIPPI.
It has been a matter of surprise to me. to notice, year after year, the removal of my old associates to the Far West, when, for the same expense in transportation, a home could be obtained for a smaller amount of money, where the products, acre for acre, would far exceed often double, those of the rich prairies of Iowa or Kansas. 1 notice a correspondent of the JOUKna 1. speaks of "peaches as large as buck shots-" Iiow does that compare with those as large as guinea's eggs, strawberries gone, ripe apples, peas, potatoes and beans balmy .weather and dry roads What say some of your enterprising farmers of Brown and Ripley townships, who have been plowing with mittens and coats on, or wading through the mud. (vide Brown's Valley) if necessity required their presence in your city: that is, if the condition of affairs is the same as when it was my fortune to live in Montgomery county
T. W. FLOKKR.
FROM SCOTT TOWNSHIP.
The heavy rains of la«t week disappointed very many of our good people, among whom I was not the least.
Last Thursday night week was the time for the meeting of the Farmer's Club at No 7, but on account of the absence of both members and officers no business was transacted. The busy time with farmers is likely the cause of the slim attendance.
P. W. thinks that another corner of the postoffice could be rented. As I am in the pump business I would like to engage a small corner before they are all taken up. F. S. MILLER.
OKAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL: JUNE 10, 1869.
Till: ASSISTANT ANftESSOJJfilSI.P WAS THE DKCORATIOX OF TME I NOUHEB'S »JtAVKS A BJKSEl'KAI THE KAUItATIH?
I notice in last weeks JOUIINAL the announcement of the appointment of irrom the .sacred desk it has been so Oapt. W. II. Laymon as Assistant Asses- declared. During the war (and »upsor lor this county. "N hilo I ha\e no
p(l?t.
(for he certainly has gained by his gal- dilVercnee between Sunday and lant conduct as a soldier any place that
our ministers remember there was
011C a {\,w y(..ivs
.,^1
tbi:ght
tion which the former Assistant Assessor Sunday. Did our learned citizens who did. No blame can attach to any one, oppose the decoration say then that the and especially to Capt. Laymon, and it soldiers were doing unholy work", dese-
sol(1jcr.s
nnv otIlor thly
a grateful people can bestow,) yet 1 am niarehed. they worked 011 fortifications, loth to subscribe to that policy that AN ill they brightened guns and packed knapremove an officer who l\ his honcstj sacks for "Sunday Inspection." and and ability has given the entire satistac-
jcuou- ],ut
of the week. They
some of the hardest battles on
crating
Sabbath: and that "God's
Did ''the General Assembly petition the Authorities at Washington" to relieve the soldiers from even "fatigue duty" on the Sabbath day
During the war. the language of "Gods' people" in the Xorth. either expressed or implied, was. '"Work boys." "light bovs." "(.lie. if need be. bovs. even
thotigh it be on Sunday." They knew their homes were being defended by the soldiers and policy if not principle or religion kept than silent. I Now when the blast of war is heard 110 more, the "boys" having answered the call of God and Country, and saved the Nation's life: at home they essay to commemorate the names of their fallen comrades and are opposed by a class of "God's people." who. their homes being 'safe, enter their protest against, and discourage their congregations from attending the decorations, because it is on Sunday.
The decorations of soldiers graves is properly a duty to be. performed 011 Sunday. The ceremony is one of deep solemnity: and the loyal man who stands above the grave of a brave soldier hears in his heart a sermon as solemn land impressive as the living preacher could offer: he hears, as it were, the spirit voice of the departed, reminding him of death, and telling him of duty to
God ami Country. We trust no one regrets the duty performed last Sunday. Everything was done in decency and order. The prayers offered by l!ev. fr. I Webb were of the most impressive character, and touched many a tender chord. The absence of the other ministers was, of course, felt, though not so much as if they had favored the decoration with an encouraging word from their pulpits.
It is surely a small tribute to go onec a year and strew the graves of our Country's fallen heroes with flowers. It is a sacrifice of time and money not to be compared with the sacrifice of blood and life these brave men made. Then how strange, that from the pulpits, whence comes so much good, we should be opposed in our good work! If soldiers are to be accused in this as doing an unholy work, may God help their ae-
KAY IS.
WATCHMAKER.
WATCHMAKER,
At Binford-'s Drug Store,
Washington St., Crawfordsville, Ind.
FINE WATCHES,
CLOCKS.
Jewelry and Spectacles.
dgOTAll Watch work, and other llepairs, warranted to give satisfaction. declTyl
PAINTING.
T. I I. Wli^TOTSr^ IIOUSK, SIGX AXI)
ORNAMENTAL PAINTER
WOULD
return his sincere thanks to a
generous public for past favors. As a Glazier. Gililer, Paper Hanger, Engraver 011 Wood, *fce., lie is equal to the best workmen ii the State. Shop on Green street.
FOR SALE.
FOll
SALE—REAL ESTATE—Notice is hereby given that I have for sale the farm of the late John W. James, deceased, situate two miles north-cast of Ladoga, containininglGO acres, all under fence, well improved, and in good state of cultivation. Persons wishing to purchase are invited to examine the premises, or inquire of the undersigned in Crawfordsville. may27\v4 JOHN K. MULLIKIN.
SHOEMAKER.^
BOOT&SHOEM^KINO.
W. H. YANSLYKE
HAS
established himself in the. above business in the Graham building one door west of Wilhite's Tailor Shop, on Main street, and deals only in
(USTOHADE WORK.
He manufactures Boote on the patent Plumer last, which enables him to give a neat and easy fit. He is prepared to do custom work, either sewed or pegged, on short notice. Bepairing done with 9^4iuM and despatch. He aolMita a share Of fbe publie custom. SPfcj
DRY GOODS.
CANINE'S 'BEE""'HIVE
•s?
GO TO
RICE
OATVI:XE9 S.
AT riu:
Hive* Store
TO BUY YOUR
•'•OF KVKKV VARIETY.
Cienis* Furnishing
HATS AIV1 CAPS,
AF(, A FULL LINE OF
..,•.
Fashionable Clothing!
.IL'ST RECEIVED.
National Block, Washington St.,
CRAW 0 S VILLE, INDIANA.
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REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
ALBERT C.JEXXIS©]*,
REAL ESTATE
AXI
GENERAL COLLECTING AGENT,
CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.
Has DESIRABLE LOTS in different parts of the city on easy terms. Has Town Lots which you can pay for in
Monthly or Quarterly Payments
without interest. Come and buy one, and you will find it is 110 harder to buy a home than to pay rent. Therefore,
STOP PAYING RENT!
and buy a home of your own, and lay the foundation of your fortune NOW. Nine out of ten of our rich men have become so by investing in real estate, why cannot vou?
If you have a HOUSE TO LET, I can collect your rent with a great deal less trouble and vexation than you can, and won't charge vou much.
ALBERT C. JENNISON,
aply At J. M. Butler's Law Office.
NEW BAKERY.
AV I -I I I
Grocery and
"The Old Mack Stand."
Call and see tlie Jfew Firm and get something nice in the Grocery Line.
EVERYTHING
in the Bakery Line of the
finest quality. Orders promptly filled, and all goods delivered. Don't forget to call when you come to town. Bring your produce and get the highest price, and the freshest and cheapest groceries.
If you'are hungry, come and get your dinner. Why starve? You can appease your appetite for a small sum. Don't forget the place,
Next door to the
a
MAHORNEY & GERARD.
mm3ae£
DRY-GOODS.
McCLl'RE, FRY & C©~
-HAVE TIIK-
JLargesi and IS est
ASSORTED STOCK
OF ALL KIJfDS OF GOODS
l.\ THE CITY,
And Invite
I E E O
Call and See for Yourself!' To come and see the Pile
CHEAP
of
GOODS.
McCIure, Fry & Company.
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WOOLJJEPOT^
Wool! „Wool!! Wool!!!
Crawfordsville Wool Exchange
'AND
MANUFACTORY.
R. M. HELLS CO.
OFFEE
the largest and best stock of
Woolen Goods of their own manufacture ever offered the
WOOL TRADE,
Also additions comprising in part
Cloths, Cassimers, Doeskins,
Blankets, Tweeds. Jeans,
Coverlets, Counterpanes, Cottonades,
Trimmings, Flannels, Yarns,
Of all descriptions, colored and white, double and twist, also single, 011 the hest of terms for
WOOL OR CASH!
Let every farmei and all wanting goods caii and see Hills' stock before selling wool or purchasing. Also will manufacture wool on the best of terms.
Card, Spin, make Rolls and Batting with Neatness and Dispatch!
CJtSMt PMl* FOR WOOL,
Wool received at
THE FACTORY,
Or at Headquarters of
HDLLfiP WOOL DEPOT.
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