Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 September 1869 — Page 5

PEOPLE'S LETTERS.

The friends of TKK JOURNAL throughout the county will place- us under obligations,if they wills end us the news from their several localities A nvthing that is interesting will be accevta^le. Never mind whether you can write for a paper" or not—send U3 the facts joe will fix them up. Marriages and Deaths \butnot half-columnobituaries) published gratis.

iLAMO TATTLINOS.

An agent of Barnum's has offered Gilkey, Copner & Cahn $500 for the "Big 'Possum" 3kin.

Joel Tucker is making a nice new cottage house out of his old one. Peter Mercer has erected a new house this Summer.

Wm. Gilkey and wile have gone on a visit to Joliet Ills. Mrs. Gilkey is over sixty years of age and this is her first ride on the cars.

George Bradford of Minnesota is here on a visit of pleasure and business. He was a soldier in the old 10th Indi, and listening to his war reminiscences to-day has shortened these Tattlings. He had a narrow escape at Mill Springs, his life being saved by the rebel bullet striking a silver quarter in his pocket book, wv

Wesley Rountree the banner farmer of Ripley threshed part of his wheat this week. It averaged 29 bushels per acre. Mr. Rountree has also 50 acres of corn which will average 50 bushels uer acrc, even this bad corn year.

R. D. Wert has advertised his splendid form for sale. He expects to emigrate to Missouri. Mr. Wert ia one of our best citizens, and if he travels the wide West over he will find no better country than Ripley. Land such as his is cheaper here at $100 per acre „than raw prairie is as a gift.

Henry Clay Lars a has been taking an enumeration of the children of Ripley. In my next I shall try to give some statistics cf schools &c., of our township.

The venerable WE. Denman is in very feeble health^He and his aged lady, who is also Very unwell, are at their son's in Fountain couaty. Mr. Denman is a native of Georgia: was a volunteer under Jackson in the Creek and Seminole Indian wars of that State emigrated to Indiana over fifty years ago, and settled on a farm which he sold in 1827 to Hon. Oliver H. Smith, and on which Mr. Smith made his future home. In that year Mr. D. moved to Montgomery county entering land east of Alamo which has since been his home. The frosts of ninety winters have passed over hishead, and they have fconre to him many sad afflictions. Of a large family of children only two are living. Four of his grown daughters are buried on his farm, three of them "being victims of that once dreadful but now extinct scourge, milk sickness. A favorite, talented, and eminently lovable orphan grandson Wm. H. Smith, "whom to know was to love," and whom he had raised from infancy, died in 1865 from injuries received by the blowing up of that ill-fated steamer on which was the 9th Battery boys, of which organization young Smith was a member. This misfortune seemed to break Mr. Denman's great heart, and he has never fully recovered from the blow. He is one of those noble old men of iron, whose brawny arms and stout hearts subdued the wilderness and overcame difficulties, and endured hardships of which young men know but little. One by one these pioneers are passing away. The young man who does not honor their grey hairs, and who pays no homage to their rude virtues is unworthy to share the rich inheritance which their labor and fortitude have prepared for him and us.

Will those old heroes not have that pioneer meeting Nearly every man I see from Fountain county will vote against the railroad donations. That will suit us very well. We of Montgomery can do the carrying trade of Fount ain and pocket the proceeds very complacently. If they are satisfied we ought not tot to grumble.

raOM PAKKEBSRUHGH.

Having seen articles in your paper from nearly ail the villages in the connty, except this, I thought I would drop you a few lines and inform you where we are, what we are, and what we are doing. Parkersburgh is situated in the southwest corner of Scott towuship, about one fourth of a mile from the Putnam county line, and surrounded by as good a section of farming land as there is in the State. It boast3 of a population of about one hundred souls it is well supplied with water by numerous toells as well as by a magnificent public spring which furnishes enough of the "aquatic fluid" to supply half a dozen such villages. The business cf the place comprises two dry goods stores, one drug store, one cabinet, two blacksmith, and one harness shop, one doctor, and "nary" lawyer. Just now the business is pretty lively in the way of church building. Two are being erected, one by the Presbyterians and the other by the Reformers, both good houses, that of the Presbyterians being considerably the larger. The Methodists have a good house that has been built only a few years. It speaks well for the liberality of the people.

Although cur township goes Democratic, the town itself is decidedly right. Out of twenty-three voles nineteen vote the Republican ticket

This would be an excellent point for a merchant mill, and I think if the attention of the citizens of the town and vicinity was properly directed to it, they would donate liberally to such an enterpric-.e. With a good merchant mill here in the hat ds of men with sitrficient. capital to run it right, we could easily command half the wheat trade of. the Ladoga market.

The wheat crop was good here, as it waa generally this season. Corn will be'rather short,!but the rains and extremely hot weather of the past few days are bringing it out rapidly, and it will yet make a much better crpp th.au the farmers were expecting.

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A VACATION BAY.'

On the evening of August 9, we reached the city of Rochester, N. Y., and found commodious accommodations at the Brackett House. As my special object was to visit tne Ward Cabinet, in the Rochester University, proceeded immediately to the University baildings, a mile or more across the Genesee river, and was refered by the the Janitor to Prof. Samuel A. Lattimore in the city, who received me with great urbanity, and fixed upon 8 o,clock the next morning to meet me at the University.

Prof. Lattimore is a graduate of Asbury University and wa3 for some time Professor of Greek in his Alma Mater he is now Professor of Chemistry in Rochester University a genuine live Hoosier by birth and education, and an able Professor in an Eastern University.

At 8 o'clock on the next morning we met at the University buildings, and Prof. L. conducted us through the Library, Cabinet aijd Chemical rooms.

The Ward Cabinet comprises about forty thousand specimens, collected by Prof. Ward, during his extensive travels abroad. With abundant mean3 to purchase minerals and fossils most valuable, and also to procure models of the most interesting specimens in the ancient, and more recent deposits, not for s?,le, from which he has supplied casts of the rare animal, remains deposited in the British Museum, and other collections on the continents of Europe and in this country, the Ward cabinet became, perhaps, the most full and complete Geological and Mineralogical cabinet in the United States. In ita arrangements, also, it contemplates the scientific illustration of

these

TOM TATTLES

departments of natural science. This cabinet, the private property of

Mr. Ward, was

purchased by the

I city of Rochester, sad made a pres-

CRAWEORDSVILLE JOURNAL: SEPTEMBER 2,1869.

ent to the University, at an expense of §20,800. Neither labor nor funds have been spared in mounting and arranging the whole for the purpose intended.

The chemical apparatus and rooms give evidence of the presence of an efficient and skillful hand in their adjustment and use. Prof. L. informed us that the Trustees contemplated the erect ion of a chemical laboratoy and lecture rooms, seperate from the main building.

In the afternoon we visited Mount Hope, the beautiful cemetery of the city, Mount Hope garden one of the most extensive of the numeroas gardeus about Rochester, and last, but not least in interest, the famous Century Plant at Frost's garden. The Century Plant, the American aloe the largest of all herbaceous plants, i3 a native of tropical America, It is so called from the belief that it blooms only at the age of one hundred years. But it often blooms much short of that. This one is about eighty years old. The scape or flower stalk puts forth from the lanceolate radical leaves, only a few months before the blossoms appear, and has a wonderfully rapid growth. At the time we saw this, the scape was nineteen feet in hight and bore twenty clusters of the magtiififlowers.

An interesting fact in regard to this v7onderful plant is, that although its growth is for a hundred years, so •toot. it blossoms completely the

vho1? oknt dies. E. O. IIOVKT.

IH r, ROY l'ROBLf AOAlBf.

lo-j Tattler aaka me to explain what is to bo done with boys who are never started to school or who refuse to submit to discipline. The best remedy and the only effective one I know of for such cases is to get up a good school with a good teacher in the district a school that will be popular and one to which children will like to go a school that those who go to it will talk about. In looking on I have noticed that wfcere such schools are, and there are some, the characters you speak of will soon disappear.

The duty of reporting absentees at the close of the term only is in my view a misconception of the necessity of the case. To illustrate my idea, let me give a couple of incidents that occurred not far from here. A large boy deceived his father and teacher for near tvro months, the former supposing he was in school every day as he left home every morning and returned every evening, when in truth he had been in school but three or four days, the teacher supposing he was kept at. ho me. The other was a boy about six years old, in his first term of school. He started in the morning, came home to dinner, went again, and home to 3upper for nearly three weeks. Those parents met the teacher almost daily, but no report was made. I think a teacher ought to look after his business the same as other men do and have it in his thoughts out side of the school room. And those who do not do so will not succeed. There is a rule in many schools requiring a written excuse from the parents for absence, but boys and girls can write, and such excuses are easily obtained without rthe knowledge of parents.

Tom also says, "Let him give some remedy by which the large class of youth who are growing up in idleness may be put in the way of becoming useful members of society.1' All that I have said heretofore has been confined to schools, and this matter, though of vast importance, is outside of my "line," except HO far as my own family is concerned, for in this parents and guardians are alone responsible, and those who suffer those under their care to grow up in habits of idleness and some of them without even knowing how to do some kind of work are guilty of a very great wrong to themselves to their country and to God. But there is no public remedy that I am aware of. The arrangement of society' places that matter in the hands of parents and guardians and under our free Government it cannot be otherwise.

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SCHOOL NOTICE.—The Public Schools IO of Union township will open on the first Monday in October, A.D., 1869, for a term of five months, and as much longer (if any) a-- the Tuition Fund will last. It is desired that Directors call their meetings early, and make selection of teachc-rs, go as to promote uniformity throughout the township. We are willing to vote taxes to build railroads to develop the resources of our State, and promote agricultural and mechanical interests, which is always commendable In any people, but while we are doing this, let us not forget the duty we owe our childien, who have minds to b'e developed tiud trained morally and intellectually. I trust that parents and guardians will co-operate with teachers and trustee to make our schools more efficient every year. Teachers have many trials and discouragements to surmount, and need Smiles instead of frowns, and hard epithets. All persons who taught private schools in this township last Spring are notified to make report of same to this office withcut delay.

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I have now in my hands, for sale on reasonable terms, a large amount of property consisting ofvaca nt town lots, improved town lots, improved farms and WeBterm'. lands.

I can sell vacant lots in Hughes' Addition, to the city of Crawfordsville at price? ranging from $150 to 350 each, and give a liberal credit, when desired, to purchasers on. three-fourths of the purchase money.

This addition is situated near the Collegp Grove, in one of the most desirable locations of the city and the lota are offerdt upon such reasonable terms that any person may secure for himself a home.

Can sell good frame dwelling house, story": and a half high,5rooms, witatwo acrWJC ground in south partof town. Price

Can sell an improved town lot neat ufetftisinesspartof the city. Lot 90feetttoafc by 175 feet deep. Good frame house with, room3, good dry cellar, cistern, we|L Ac. Price $2,000.

Can sell a fine residence four square* from the Court house corner lot SQrt^Q' feet, completely surrounded by besotUU forest shade trees and covered with a var$~ tyof large and small fruits. Good atof*. and a half house, seven rooms, goodwejj cistern, cellar, stable and out house*. Price, $3,500 t-

Can 6ell a very desireable improved cor1 2 6 1 4 6 a rooms, good cellar, splendid well, houses, &c., shade trees and fine fruit." v1 Price, $2,000.

Can sell 160 acres of good land within 2*4 miles of the city on the line of the East and West railroad 80 acres in a good state of cultivation and 80 acres of splendid timber three dwelling houses on the land. Prioe' $47 00 per acre. A bargain.

Can sell two well improved lot» in a desirable part of the city, with new houses on hem, good cisterns, cellars, &c., &c. Priee, tl,500 each.

The above is only a small portion of the property in my hands for sale. Persons desiring to invest in any kind of Real Est&te.will, I think, find it to their i*terestocall and see me before purchasing* elsewhere

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