Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 July 1869 Edition 02 — Page 5

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PEOPLE'S LETTERS.

'Thefriends of TIN: JOURNAL throughout the county will place us under obligations,if they will send us the neiosfrom their several localities Anything that is interesting will be accevtable. Never mmd whether you can "write for a paper" or not—send us the facts V3Q will fix them up. Marriages and Deaths {but not half-columnobituaries) published gratis.

ALAMO TATTLIJiCS.

The past week has been a busy one for the farmers. The close of wheat harvest found our corn needing plowing, our hay to make, and wheat to be stacked or threshed out of the shock. ]L was hard to decide what job to do first. Some made their hay, others stacked wheat and A few have done their threshing.

Frank Humphrey, the 1 tanner wheat thresher, opened the ball with his steam thresher at Col. McMackeu's last week. McMac-ken and his sons, Joseph, William and Andrew, had 130 acres, which made 2,900 bushels, being an average of 22 bushels per acre. Frank threshed .',200 bushels ia 1 days.

Captain Watson's sons. Milton and Marion, harvested sixty good loads of prime timothy hay from fifteen acres of rolling walnut land. Beat that who can. Jim Craig pitched 12 loads of this hay on and oil' in less than a day.

Some of our Iiipley boys treat down to Jaekville to a picnic the other Saturday. Like poor Tray they got into bad company, and got terribly beaten, a chap by the name of Horn using a slung shot quite indiscriminately upon some of them.

A young man, who has been running a steam thresher in the suburbs of your city, complains that he got uothing to eat—was not even asked to dinner. Bad on your amateur fanners.

I hesitate to mention the elopement of the notorious libertine and scalawag, John C. Harrison, as it is not a fit subject to dwell upon, and as the young lady, as well as his wife, are respectably connected and of excellent families. But I shall endeavor to point a moral, if not adorn a tale. Harrison, and such as he, are the curse and bane of any community. That such as he can circulate among decent people, and openly boast of their foul and evil deeds, without receiving a kick from every honest man is one of the wonders of the nineteenth century. 'Twas a happy day for Alamo when he left, for by his plausible manners and infinite "gab" he wielded an immense influence over many young men and boys. It is to be feared that he has started some of these on a down grade which is leading them at the rate of forty miles an hour to a depot called RUIN. Let them take warning by his ignominious flight and abandon all such company as he. Harrison had a good intellect, and an open, generous heart, and was a good mechanic. He might have been a useful member of society. But by giving loose rein to evil thoughts, he was led to evil deeds which brought not only ruin upon himself, but deep grief and disgrace on others. Let boys and young men take warning, lest they follow in his footsteps. "I shall marry as soon as I get my farm paid for,'' said a first-rate young man to me the other day. "I shall never marry a man who has not a good home to take me to," remarked a young lady not long since in my hearing. Now I don't think either of these young people takes the right view of life, and of the married state.

That young man has 80 acres partly paid for. His wife, if she be worth having, will enjoy the home all the better, if she can feel that by her industry, economy, and self-denial, she has assisted in acquiring it. These habits of economy, to which they will "become accustomed, will enable them to keep the land when it is paid for To this young lady, and others hav ing like notions, and they are legion let me say that this prevailing public sentiment among American society is alarming. There was a time when young people were willing to com­

mence life humbly and to fight the battle of life bravely together. But now they must commence as their fathers and mothers left off.

That "Looker-on" writes with excellent good sense on the boy question. He has comc to exactly what I have been driving at. Boys must have employment and occupation of some sort. If not directed* in the wajT of that which is useful the\r will run into that which is bad.

Did not the good cheer you received down at Garland's make you shoot rather wild when you wrote: "There arc many farms such as his, but the number ought to be increased Would it not be better to have small farms well tilled

Thomas Elmore has bought the old Jacob Elliott farm of eighty acres, just north of Alamo, paying $62 50 per acre.

The Alamo Academy is in rather a bad way. There is a debt of six hundred dollars which must be paid, and that soon. Will the people of Alamo and the immediate vicinity sutler themselves to be disgraced by allowing the building to bo sold

TOM TATTLKR.

FROM I)AKIIJSOTO'.

Not seeing any "Eyctems" in the JOUKNAL for some weeks past, I concluded to send a few pebbles picked up hereabouts.

We were honored with a visit from Dr. Tnttle, President of Wabash College, last week, on the hunt of geological specimens for the college cabinet. He secured a number of very pretty ones. Those who were fortunate enough to make his acquaintance on the occasion express themselves well pleased with the man. His affableness will secure friends wherever he may be.

Darlington is improving considerably this season. H. Cook has put up a very neat dwelling J. S. Carson is preparing to raise another John Cary has }ust raised his frame for another M. M. Knox is finishing off a nice store room on main street, opposite J. M. Hollingsworth's store. The Methodists are erecting a fine church building, to be finished this Fall. The Christians (Newlights) have commenced building a house for worship near the Academy. The ladies of this society design preparing a supper to be partaken of on the fourth of August next. They are endeavoring to raise funds to purchase a bell for the church edifice. If you want to tickle your palate with the substantial of life, mixed with "pies and things," just be on hand with a big delegation from Crawfordsville flanked with a comfortable supply of stamps. I can assure you there will be a "feast of fat things."

The Deans Drug Store is open, it having been purchased by Carson & Naylor.

Why can't the Agricultural Society fall upon some plan to encourage the formation of Farmers' Clubs in the arious neighborhoods in the county Such organizations would be a notable means of disseminating what Tom Tattler calls a knowledge of "bookfarming," and thus hastening the time when "two blades of grass shall grow where one grew before."

I have just met John Patton on our streets. I surmise he is seeking a suitable building in which to move the First National of Thorn to wji.

GEODE.

THE BOY PROBLEM A«AIST.

Man cannot accomplish anything without work. The farmer must work, and the better he does his work the greater his increase and profits. The builder must work he must fit the small members of his structure as well as the large ones or it will not be complete. The school teacher is no exception to the rule of working for success. Six hours in the school room learning the letters and figures in the books is but apart of school-teaching and may be quite a parrot-like part, but teachers will say, I have nothing to do why need I be there before school time Have

CRAWFORDS VXLLE JOUBNAL: JULY 29, 1869.

you no influence? Can you not teach something by example? Are you not responsible for the conduct of those children? Would those boys swear so loud and wickedly if their lazy teachers were present, even if they did not say a word When and where does a teacher's lesponsibility for the conduct of a scholar commence and when cease A few years ago the above question was debated in several Teachers' Institutes in different parts of the State. Some maintained that when a child left home to go to school it was under the teachers control until it returned heme others thought that the teacher could not properly be held responsible before the child arrived at the school house, but all agreed that from that time the teacher was responsible and was bound to know that the child went home in good season. In these Institutes, the best teachers of the country, those who make teaching a profession and a study, many of them men and women of great experience, meet and give the results of their experience and compare their views, and their opinions are really better than any other law and should be as they are intended a guide to tcachers. This thing of finding fault and telling what is wrong is easy to do, but to tell how to do right is a

different

matter. But

the knowledge of what is wrong ought in itself to be a suggestion of what is right. It has been said that the calling of a teacher is only second in importance to that of a minis ter of the gospel and I have thought that teachcrs cannot be made by learning, that if they have not a native talent and a love of children combined, with a knowledge of hu man nature and an aptness to teach, they will never succeed. But the failure of teachers to do their duty is not the only cause of the inefficiency of schools, as I propose to show hereafter. A LOOKEB-ON.

XETTER FROM INDIAJKAPOLIS.

There is nothing of special local interest transpiring in this city at present, and a writer would tax his brain and imagination severely, indeed, to get up more than a passably readable letter. Business, of course, is rather dull, as it always is at this season, yet the wholesale houses are doing a very fair trade. Things are much changed in this city from what they were some years ago in regard to supply and demand instead of going to Chicago and Cincinnati for their goods the retail merchants of Indianapolis and adjoining towns and cities now buy direct of the wholesale houses here, and a trade is being built up which bids fair to rival tliat of any city in the country. Indianapolis is now the largest strictly inland city in the United States, and at the present rate of growth and improvement, she will soon be to the West what New ork City is to the East—the nucleus around which all the business enterprise and energy of the country clusters.

THE I., C. & D. RAILROAD

Is a frequent topic of conversation on the streets and in the hotel bar rooms. Standing in front of the Palmer House on last Saturday evening, I accidentally overheard a certain merchant ask a railroad-looking man if he knew when the new road to Crawfordsville would be in running order. 1-Ie was told that the road would be put in operation in about two weeks, at which he expressed much satisfaction, saying that he expected to better his business by one-third from the Crawfordsville trade. This shows in what light the "Athens of the West" is regarded here.

JOURNALISTIC.

The hew Sentinel building is going up rapidly, and promises to be one of the best in the city. The irrepressible George Harding, of the Mirror, still continues to belabor friend and foe alike. He don't carry a black eye at this time. The Journal appears to be in a prosperous condition, and is as "solid" as ever. The-Advertiser, a small weekly pa­

per, edited by J. S. Grieves, made its appearance last Saturday.

STATE EAIR.

Great preparations are being made for the approaching State Fair. The grounds are being put in first rate order, and it is confidently anticipated that the annual exhibition of 1869 will be the largest ever held in this State.

PERSONA!..

I saw General Wallace on the street on Saturday last. "General" Harrison, formerly a resident of Crawfordsville, and a graduate of Wabash, is now a prominent member of the City Council He is looking well, and has the same cnergetic motions as of yore. RAG.

BUSINESS MENTION.. KauAwlut

Salt.

One car load just received at .Reck & Johnson's.

liftIV

bH.

Billy Fry says he is selling Window Glass at 20 to ol) per cent. less than Pittsburgh rates.

At Fry's Drugstore.

3Lartf OS!.

A superior article of Lard Oil just received at Fry's Drug Store.

CoBUBia-y UmoceTM

XVid Hucksters desiring to purchase a stock will find it to their advantage to call »t the Excelsior Bakery. All orders will be promotlv tilled at low prices. Coiue and see. MAHOKNEY & GKRRAKD.

Wheat.

Michael Price, corner Washington and Market streets, has secured the old Houston Warehouse, near the depot, and has room for all the surplus Wheat in Montgomery oouuty. Highest cash prices paid.

Xiahiing Powders.

Use the pure Baking Powder or Quick Yeast the best made for making light, sweet, nutritious Biscuit, Rolls, Sweet Cakes, Buckwheat, Com and Griddle Cakes, Cornbread Wa.ffi.es, Pot-Pies, Dumplings, &c.

The most perfect substitute for raising Dough, that is in use. Try it a.nd you will be satisfied. Sold only at 15ap6m BINFORD'S DRUG STORB.

Beware off Impostors.

There are men going around through the country calling themselves "Cheap John." I therefore warn all to be on the look-out, as "John" has no partners or agents in his employ. aprltf CHEAP JOHN.

A €ard.

To the Editors Crawfordsville Journal: Through your paper, allow me to inform my friends, and the public generally, that I have resumed the practice of law. Office in Crawfordsville, opposite Post Office.

LEW. WALLACE.

Crawfordsville, Dec. 7,1868.

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^dinger's Tailor Shop

Is now permanently located in this city, over Krout's Drug Store, entrance Stone Front. All work done in the most fashionable manner, and warranted to fit perfectly. He is also in possession of the means whereby he can remove all grease spots, paint, tar or pitch with perfect success in cloth or silk goods. jan21

A Card.

I

would inform my old friends and customers, that for the present, I will repair uch watches, clocks, and jewelry, as they may desire and I will be found at my xesidence at all hours for that purpose. I have also just received a tine assortment of Seth Thomas Clocks, which will bo sold very cheap, and will be warranted. Let my old friends, and all others, call at my residence, where I will be happy to sec them. aprltf JAMBS PATTERSON.

A Ficce of Beef

Is far more palatable ifthe man who sells it keeps a neat and cleanly shop. This in some measure accounts for the popularity of the meat shop of Guthrie & Bro. These gentlemen keep their blocks clean, and kill none but the choiccst beeves. Hence, when a citizen of Crawfordsville desires a tresh beefsteak, tender and firm, he goes to the shop of Guthrie &Bro, No. 10, Green street.

For Tl»©

Boyd's Crear.i Curis Itch. Boyd's Cream Cures Scratches. Boyd's Cream Cures Tetter. Boyd's Cream Cures Pimples. Boyd's Cream Cures Old Bores. Boyd's Cream, Cures all Eruptions oj t.ie

Itfsinild and pleasant to use, highly perfumed, contains no poison and is especially adapted to children. Sold by Monett & Booe, Crawfordsville, Ind.^ ja_8mu

Carriage and Wagon* SBi©!. A look through the extensive Carnage and Wagon

Shop

of Doherty & Deighton

will convince anybody of the superior finish of the vehicles made there. It is tnc boast of Messrs. Doherty Jc Deighton too, that the strength and durability of their buggies, carriages and /vagons equal the lini«h. A large

force

employed, and the

of workmen now

Firm

is emphatically do-

in" a large business. The articles manufactured here have all the latest improve­

ments

in hubs, spokes and springs, while the carriages and buggies are furnished

with every

variety of top. Shop cn corner

of Washington and Pike streets. junlO

HnffA Kellog's

Is the stable to get your fine rigs. They can accommodate you with any kind of a rig. If you wish to take a fancy drive, go to Huff & Kellogg's. If you wish to get up a fishing or hunting party, Huff & Kellogg's is the placeto get your rig for they have the only vehicles for excursions, in the city. They can furnish you with a turnout for two or fifteen persons. Any sized party can be accommodated. If anybody in town can excel Huff & Kellogg in fine vehicles or fancy horses, let them trot them out. Let those that are judges call at their stable, on north side of Market street, the old sign of Huff & Son, you will find Old Honest Abe and Charley always, and they are both pleasant and accommodating. junS

Good Advice.

Let our possessions be what they maymarble palaces, broad lands, magnificent plate, or baskets of precious stones—they all sink in the balance against Heaven's great boon, health, and they cannot be enjoyed without it. And yet how little is it valued, and how carelessly preserved. The laws of nature cannot be violated with impunity. Night revelry, luxurious living, irregularity of meals, and a disordered appetite, will gradually destroy the power and activity of the stomach, llow many ladies and gentlemen eat and drink disease at late suppers and arise in the morning with headache, loss of appetite, feeling languid and unrefreshed. There can be no medical remedy that will turn lead into food, or poisoned drinks into nutriment, but medical science can assist nature, supply exhausted fluids, and to a great extent correct the effects of disease. In all cases such as the above, we recommend Plantation Bitters. You will find them just the thing—at the same time a most delicious tonic and appetizer.

Magnolia Water—Superior to the best imported German Cologne, and sold at half the price.

To ConHuinptiveH.

The Advertiser, having been restored to health in a few weeks, by a very simple remedy, after having suffered several years with a severe lung aftc-ction, and that dread disease, Consumption— is anxionsto make known to his fellow sufferers the means of cure.

To all who desire it, ho will send a copy of the prescription used (free of charge) with the directions for preparing and using the same, which they will find a sure cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, etc. The object of the advertiser in sending the prescription is to benefit the afflicted and spread information which he conceives to be invaluable and he hopes every sufferer will try his remedy, as it will cost them nothing, and may prove a blessing.

Parties wishing the prescription, will please address REV. PJDWAKD A. WILSON,

W illiamsburg, Kings Co., N. Y".

REAL ESTATE AGENCY.

E A E S A E S AND 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 no harder to buy a home than to pay rent. Therefore,

STOP PAYING RENT!

aud 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 you?

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.

FOR SALE.

TWELVE

acres of land three-fourths of a

mile west of Crawfordsville, on the Yountsvilleroad. House of two rooms with plentv of room for improvement. Fine young orchard of 60 apple trees, and a fine lot of small fruits. Also, a fine everflowing spring. Will be sold low. For terms inquire of A. C. JENNISON.

NOTICE]

ALL

persons interested will take notice that the accounts of the late firm of Win. Bromley & Co. have been placed in my hands for collection, and that I shall call on those owing the said firm for prompt settlement of claims against them.

Doors.

A. C. JENNISON.

PLANING MILL.

Crawfordsville Planing Mill and Sasli Factory.

We have recently put in operation a com» plet.e set of NEW MACHINEBY for the manufacturing ot'

Kasli,

Blinds,

Flooring,

HloldingN,

Ac., &c#

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

DRY LUMBER,

Always on hand, for sale cither dressed or iu the rough. m2TParticular attention given to parties who furnish their own lumber to be worked.

Call at our

MILL ON DRY BRANCH, GRKBNCASTLK ROAD, South-West part of Crawfordsville,

where Doors, Sush, Blinds, Mouldings, Dressed Lumber, &c., will be kept for sale, and all orders received and promptly attended to

Canine, Boots & Co.

R. M. CANINK is agent forGreen'eaf

8"a"

tent SHAFTING and HANGINGS. aug6yl PAINTING.

T. I I. WINTON, BOUSE, SIGN AND

ORNAMENTAL PAINTER

WOULD

return his sincere thanks to

generous public forpast favors. As a Glazier. Gilder, Paper Hanger, Engraver on Wood, Ac., he is equal to tne best workmen in the State. Shop on Green street.