Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 30 September 1869 — Page 7

Republicanism in the South.

It is not only in Chicago and other cities under Republican administration that the superiority of Republican over Democratic rule is shown bv contrasting it with the rule of cities under Democratic administration not only in the Northern States, where Republicans have held the reins of power, that the same fact is demonstrated but the present prosperous condition of the South shows the same truth—and, considering all the circumstances, in a manner in the highest degree remarkable.

Upon the whole, the South was never more prosperous that it is now. If it be true that it is under the control of "carpet-baggers and scalawags," then the South is under a lasting debt of gratitude to carpet-bag-gers and scalawags. Railways have been built, repaired and improved towns and cities have been regenerated with a new life agriculture lias been fairly revolutionized by the spirit of progress, so that the crops are superior to any of previous 3-ears manufactures have been started commerce has been placed upon the footing of active operations sj-sterp.s of popular education have been established schools and colleges of a liigher order have become successful where were formerly misery, •degradation and unthrift, now will be found happiness, intelligence and prosperity. All this, and more, to come out of a vast scene of desolation caused by the curse of slavery and the ravages of war in a few short years, is a grand result which could have sprung but from the great sourcfe of prosperity among any people— the irresistible power of free idej^s and free institutions. The South is prosperous because it is Republican and free. That it is not wholty prosperous—that scenes of terror and outrage occur which demand the most vigilant care to prevent becoming more frequent, and the most inflexible determination to punish—we admit. But these things are attributable to the fact that Republicanism has not fully triumphed—that the old crime and barbarism have not been all swept away. The politicians of the South lack the capacity of party organization and party management. They have in Virginia and Tennessee utterly and disgracefully failed in these respects. But this is a mere temporary evil, which will in due time cure itself. The great fact remains that in four years the South has done more to place itself on a firm basis of prosperity and national wealth, being thereto inspired by Republican ideas, than it ever accomplished in fifty years under the inspiration, if there ever was inspiration from such a source, of bogus Democratic ideas. And this is a fact which all the abuse of the Republicans personally, which all the Satanic sheets in the country qan manufacture, will be utterly unable to answer, as it is also a reason for the better organization and management of the party at the South, and the vigilant watching of those who would divide it on trifling occasion at the North.—

Chicago Post.

Help Wanted.

Our office is beset daily by applicants who wish to be put in the way of self-support. To a great extent they are honest in their search, but they deceive themselves in the belief that they are willing to undertake whatever shall be most for their advantage. They all have a preference which they are not willing to yield to the judgment of those they consult, orr even to the plainest arguments, which they find themselves totally unable to answer. •they-all, without exception, wish/1 like old Mr. Shelton's son Gershom to "get their living by their wits and although some of them,, unlike him, are not sure to fail for want of capital" of that sorVthey will nevertheless succumb upon the first trial, either for that reason, or because the market for even the genuine article is overstocked.

Clerks of all kinds, agents, brokers, accountants, book-keepers, collectors, copyists, reporters, paragraph or story writers, authors, poets, druggists,and even light porters, ip run errands, are all too plentyy and ^the busings bvevdbS'e. For alrnbst every man now. engaged in these occupations, a duplicate, if not triplicate, stands idly gaping to be employed in the same line.

Physical labor is at a discount. A man too dumb to write or peddle matches for a living *may accept a place to take care of horses or work on a farm but most young men would stand idle along time before they would roll up their sleeves for liearty work in what they consider menial occupations. But if mere hand work, requiring little intelligence, is distasteful,. surely the call for skilled labor need not De slighted

for the same reason, and the demand from that quarter was never so great as now.

First-class mechanics among us now average from three to five dollars per day, and the need for intelligent workmen is constantly increasing. Any father of a family would do better by his son to give him a trade than to start him in business with a capital of ten thousand dollars as a "free gift. The boy would be likely to lose the money he couldn't be deprived of the trade. And here the wit and intelligence which go so for in the mere professions will count for even more to their possessor. The standard is annually deteriorating in almost every trade, because the smartest boys feel above the call to mannal labor. For this very reason the inducement to those of superior intelligence is becoming greater every year. The road to independence is shorter by this route than by any other open to the foot of aspiring youth and in all the future there is no prospect where intelligence and thrift can be turned to so good account.—JV. r. Journal of Commerce

An Aimless Life.

I committed one fatal error in my youth, and dearty have I bided it. I started in life without an object, even without an ambition. My temperament disposed me to ease, and to the full I indulged the disposition. I said to myself: "I have all that I see others contending for wlw should I struggle I knew not the curse that lights on those who have never to struggle for an}' thing. Had I created for mj'self a definite pursuit— literary, scientific, artistic, social, political, no matter what, so there was something to labor for and to overcome—1 might have been happy. I feel this now—too late! The power is gone. Habits have become chains, Through all the profitless years gone bj\ I seek vainly for something to remember with pride, or evxm to dwell on with satisfaction. I have thrown away a life. I feel sometimes as if there were nothing remaining to .me worth living for. I am an unhappy man.— Beyond the Breakers, by Robert Dale Oicen.

WJiat Becomes of a Dead Chinaman.

It is an erroneous impression current among many Eastern people that a law or a practice or 'an edit of the Chinese monarchy requires that for every human body removed from China, a human body, or the bones thereof, must be returned. or, in other words, that every Chinaman who leaves his country must return to it, or, in case of death, his remains must be returned. There is such a practice among the people, but it is not enforced by law or command. The wish to have his body rest with the remains of his family is a very natural one, and one universally respected among the Chinese. There may be also a good deal of superstition connected with it, for certain it is that it appears to be the object of every Chinaman's life to obtain money enough to joay for the taking of his body back to China, and there are, consequently, few of them buried in California. If their families were here that would make some difference. At a recent meeting of representatives from five Chinese companies the sum of ten thousand dollars was raised by subscription without delay to defray the expenses of disinterring the bodies of three hundred Chinamen buried on the line of the Central Pacific Railroad, and sending them home in air-tight coffins.

JEWELRY..

I. T^~. anSickle,

At Fulleiiwider & Bro.'s,

Will'sell at greatly reduced prices, for the next six weeks, his stock of

JEWELRY and NOTION*.

CAIX AID SEE HUH,

As He offers Great Bargains. sep9tf p:

CRAW FORDS VILLE JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 30, 18B91.

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INDIANA MUSIC STORE.

THE INDiAN A !MUSIC STORE!

ESTABLISHED IN 1S54.

Nos. 4 Ac 5. Bates|Hoiise Block,

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

STEINWAY «fc SONS TRIUMPHANT

BEST PIABT© IN TIIE WORLD!

1868. STEINWAY & SONS 1868.

lJpg to announce that they have just received from

His Majesty, King harles XV., of Sweden cV Norway,

The Grand Gold Medal of Merit, with the additional decoration of the CROWN and RIBBON, constituting the highest complimentary distinction ever awarded to a Foreign Manufacturer by the Government of Sweden and Norway, and hearing the highly honorable inscription "TO TH «M HO Sl£ OKH» DESERVE IT."

No. 3, Commercial Block. Green

PLANING MILL.

"We have recently put iri operation a complete. set of NEW MACHINES*, for the manufacturing of

Doors,

Sash.

Blinds,.

Flooring,

Moldings,

Call at our ,\

Agents for Kappes & Company's Pianos,

Indianapolis, Indiana.

BEST PIANO MADE IN THE WEST!'. Keep all kind of Musical Merchandise. A Large and Full Stock of other First Class Pianos.

Agents for the Celebrated Mason & Hamlin Organs.

fSheet Music A Specialty!

OLD PIANOS TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR NEW.

TUNING AND REPAIRING DONE PROMPTLYjulySyl Address, A. G. WILLARD & CO.

DRY GOODS, CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES.

WASSON Ac ELMORE,

St..

Dry Woods. Cloths, assimeres, Dress Goods, Hosiery,

Gloves, White Goods, Flannels, Balmorals,

Hoop Skirts, Domestics. &c.

-A FULL LINE OF—

Boots, Sltoes. Hats and Caps Queens' and Glassware,

at the iowest market price.

Crawfordsville Planing Mill and Sash Factory.

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.

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Always on hand, for sale either dressed or in the rough. ft2r*Particular attention given to parties who furnish their own lumber to be worked.

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

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

Canine, Boots & Co.

R. M. CANINE is agent for Greenleaf's Patent SHAFTING and HANGINGS. aug6yl

PAINTING.

T. H. WIT^TOIV,

HOUSE, SIGN AND

ORNAMENTAL PAINTER

a Glazier, Gilder, Paper Hanger.Bngraver on Wood* Ac., be is equal td ta# oeBtworkmen in the State. Shop on GfMtt street

Crawfordsville.

trial, I regard it as offering the best

advantages for the prices charged, of any school in the State. TVM. JOHNSON.'' School Opens September 6,1809.

CHARGES PER QUARTER OF TEN WEEKS. Room rent, each pupil, $ 4 00 Tuition, Primary Department...- 3 50

Incidental fee, Primary Department, 25 Academic 50 Reading Room fee, V.. 50 Music—Piano, Organ and Guitar, 10 00 Use of Instrument 2 00 Other branches of the Fine Arts, usual rates. Boarding per week 2 25

established themselves An the old ELSTON CORNER since the fire, and have now on hand a large stock of

FAMILY GROCERIES

Coffee, Sugar, Rice, ...

HARDWARE.

LOCKS,

E

A. J. VAAVTER, Principal.

Ladoga, Ind. july29 2m

GROCERIES.

ELSTON CORNER

G. W. ROBINSON & O.

HAVE

Latches, Butts. and Strap

Hinges, Screw Hook .and Eye. Gate Hinges, Glass, Putty, Sash. Doors. Blirids, and every variety of building material, cheap At GREGG'S MAMMOTH.

MILL,

DRAG and Cross Cut Saws, Rip, Hand, Panel. Tennon, Bach" and Keyhole Saws At GREGG'S MAMMOTH.

LOG

CHAINS, Coil Chains. Fifth Chains, Trace and Tug Chains, Halter Chains, Brass and Iron Jack Chains

At GREGG'S HARDWARE STORE.

CJ

I HOPPING and Broad Axes, Foot Adzes, Planes, Mortise and. Socket' Firmer Chisels, and Drawinsr Knives of the best quality At GitEGG'S MAMMOTH.

Gr

RUB HOES, Planters and Garden Hoes of all sizes and qualities At GREGG'S Mammoth.

E1POR

Good Bargains and Good Goods, go to GREGG'S.

"mmense stock of New Goods just opened at Gregg's Mammoth Hardware Store.

BEAUTIFUL

ONE

FOR

'HENRY "WASSON, C. W. ELMORE.

EDUCATIONAL.

Ladoga Seminary.

WtTTAVINGgiven this school a thorough XX

Patierns and New Styled

Ivory Handled Knives and Forks At GREGG'S.

ARM Bells, School Bells. Hand Bells, Door Bells and Tea Bells at GREGG'S.

LADLES

wishins a superior quality of'

Scissors and Shears will find them -it Gregg's Mammoth Hardware Store.

hundred and twentv-eight different patterns of Pocket Kn'ive.s'ar GREGG'S.

CALL

for TFilkinsod's Celebrated Sheep Shears at GREGG'S Mammoth Hardware Store.

Curtain Bands, Curtain Knobs. Picture Nails and Fancv Goods, call at .GREGG'S.

A

LARGE variety of Pocket Books and and Wallets cheap, At GREGG'S.

ALL and see the endless varietv of Knives, Razors, &c., at GREGG'S.

CLIMAX

Mower and Reaper, the late£»

improvement of the age, is the lightest running, has the least machinery, fewest bolts of any machine and only requires two men to cut and bind from 8 to 10 acres per day.. Come and see the wonder, everybody, at GREGG'S

Mammoth Hardware Store.

YERYBODY goes to Gregg's to eet good bargains.

THE

Preparatory 4 50 Academic, 1st year,.. 6 00 W":" 2d year... 7 00 3d "year... 8 00

World Reaper and Mower, the only cut gear machine ever built, every wheel is turned from solid iron, and the cogs cut with machinery and fitted on an. iron case as perfectly as a watch. It runsvery light and will wear longer than any other machine. It is a dropper, self-raker or hand rake, and is the finest machine ever built. Go see it at GREGG'S

WOOD'S

0

¥1

such as

Tea, Spies Molasses,

Wooden Ware of all Kinds

'3

A full stock of

SUGAR BUCKETS,

And everything connected with the biisi ness, of the very best quality.'

Country Produce taken in exchangers .. Groceries.- •. ... .-•

They invite thepublicto call ex^min heir stocki. *pr3S

Hardware Store.

fT^HE Improved Quaker Reaper and Mower, a perfect curiosity and the wonder of the World, on exhibition at

GREGG'S Mammoth.

Self-Raking Reaper and Mov*«

er also, the New York Self-Raking Reaper and Mower, at GREGG'S.

'AE Celebrated Vibrator Threshing Machines At GREGG'S:

A,

GARR & Co.'s Richmond Threshing Machines ., At GREGG'S..

NE and Two Sorse Grain Drills at GREGG'S Mammoth.

EVOLVING and Sulkv Hay Rakes and Horse Hay Forks At GREGG'S.

ARVEST Tools

of everyJci^

always

on hand and sold cheap at GREGG'S.

OTTHTiE Shovel Plows for the million., snov At GREGG'S.

JUST

received, a very large supply of Trnn Steel Horse "flfaOes, Horse Shoe Nails antl Blacksmith's-Tools atGREGGS.

E,VERYBODY

should go to Gregg's t®

see the immense stock of New Good* just received and daily, arriring. COM

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