Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 October 1869 — Page 1
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ATTORNEYS.
LEW WALLACE,
ATTORNEY
AT LAW, Crawfortlsvile, Indiana
Office, opposite the Post Office.
X. Me OR3I K.
TTORNEY AT LAW, Topcka, Kansas. 1'rac-
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lices in all the Focle-ul and State Courts.
W. T. BRUSH,
ATTORNEY
AT LAW, and General Collecting
Agent, Crawiordsville, Ind. All legal bitsines tnirusied to him will receive immediate attention. Particular attention given to the collection of debts, settlement of decedents' estates, writing of wills, writing and taking acknowledgments of deeds, and mortgages.
Office in Mayor's Room, second story, Stone front.
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S. KENNEDY. R. II. GALLOWAY.
MEXAED1 A (i ALLOW ll
ATTORNEYS
AT LAW and General Collecting
Agents, Crawfordsville, Indiana. Being members oi the United States Law Associa:on and Collection Union, which has a member in every county in the United States, they have facilities l'or transacting business in all parts of the country. OFFICE in Stone Front, sccond story. ap'23
SYD. B. DAVIS,
ATTORNEY
AT LAW, Wavelaad, Indiana, will
s:ive prompt attention to business entrusted to 33jm in courts of Montgomery and Parke couutics.
GEORGE D. HiRL£¥,
ATTORNEY
AT LAW, and Notary Public, Craw
fordsville, Ind. OFFICE over Crawford & Mulikin's store. Will attend to all kinds of legal business entrusted to him. a23
R. B. F. PIERCE,
ATTORNEY
AT LAW. Crawfordsville, Indiana
OFFICE over Crawford & Mullikin's store. Will give prompt attention to business in all the Courts of Montgomery county, a-23
THOMAS. A. D. THOMAS THOMAS A THOMAS
4 TTORNEYS AT LAW, and Solicitors in BankJ\_ rnptcy, Crawfordsville, Ind. OFFICE in Hughes' Block, Main Street. a23
M. D. WHITE. THOMAS TATTEKSON.
WHITE & PATTERSON TTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, ix Crawfordsville, Ind. Office—Empire Block, Main Street. a23
PHYSICIANS.
THOS. J. "GRIFFITH, M.I).
PHYSICIANall
AND SURGEON, Darlington, Intl.,
attends to varieties of practice at a7l hours of flay or night. Medical Examiner for the Chicago LiSe Insurance Company. jan21
Ir.
J. €. SOIITARD
HOMEOPATHICwith
PHYSICIAN, Crawfordsville,
Ind. OFFICE the Township Trustee.
DENTISTS.
M." II. GALEY,
DENTIST,
Crawfordsville, Ind. Office on Wash
ington St., over Mack's Grocery Store. Dr. B. V. GALEY, long and favorably known to the community as a first-class Dentist, is in my emjjloy. auglSyl
T. MECHAHf,
RESIDENT
.OENTIST, Crawfordsville, 1 nd., re
spectfully tend '!i his services to the public, jviot'to,'"Good woikand moderate nrices." Please call. OFFIOE—CornerMair and 'reen streets, next to Post Office, up-stai'-s.
J. G. McMECIIAN, M.D. in,"v be found at the same place. apr23GS
CI OTHiWC.
\EW Y0RK )d PRICE
CLOTHING HOUSE.
L. I. Mossier & Bro.,
jfOi" :}T. East Washington Street,
LVDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA,
Keep the largest stock of Men 's. Boys' and Children's Clothing in the State.,
Our extensive
Merchant Tailoring Department
"Will always be supplied with the
Tery latest Styles.
Echeap
XTRA large sizes of all kinds of Gooids constantly on hand. A child can buy •is of us as a grown person, as all II© V* "O* I-
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goods are marked in plain selling figures »nd sold strictly at
ONE PRICE,
So that nobody need to fear that he will be taken advantage of. sep10
MILLINERV.
ILLINERY
Fall and Winter Stock.
Miss F. M. BALDWIN, HUGHES'is
BLOCK, opposite Court
House, now in rceeipt of a splendid assortment of
Millinery Goods for Fall and Winter.
These good were purchased in NewYork bv Miss Baldwin in person, and she knows what she i^ offering.
Ladies of Crawfordsville and vicinity are requested to call. octTtf
TAILORS.
S I
EDIMER & BISHOP.
Are now carrying on tin
TAILORING BUSINESS,
111 all its various brancho-.
THEY
feel from the long experience that they have had in the business, that they can give entii-e satisfaction. They are determined not to be surpassed in_ making up work, and in cutting they war-' rant a fit every time. Thankful for past favors, we ask for a continuance of the same. Give them a call. Entrance, Stone Front, Crawfordsville. seplG EDINGEIt & BISHOP.
DRUGS ^MEDICINES, &C.
MOFFETT & BOOE,
DRUGGISTS,
No. 4, Empire Block,
Crawfordsville, Indiana,
Dealers in all kinds of
DRUGS and MEDIUMS,
Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs, Per
fumery, Fancy Articles,
PURE WINES AND BRANDIES
1- or medical purposes.
Lamps, Glassware, Paper, Pens,
Ink, Pencils, &c.
PRESCRIPTIONS
Carefully compounded and promptly attended to.
To the Public.
Thankful for past favors from a generous public, we hope by a strict attention to the wants of our customers, and a just and liberal dealing, to continue to receive a large share of their patronage, and we will endeavor to make it to their interest to continue their trade with us. Give us a call and see for yourselves. no!2
FURNITURE.
Prices Reduced!
Furniture! Furniture!
A. KOSTANZER,
HAS
a complete stock of Furniture of all kinds, comprising everything from tlie cheapest to the most costly both homemade and the best Easern made wh^ch he will sell at
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Greatly Reduced Prices.
Old customers and new customers are respectfully invited to examine his stock and prices.
Shod on Washington Street, two Squares S. of Court House.
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VOL. 22—NO. t». CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.: OCTOBER 7, 1869. $2 PER YEAR
THE BOII.ER EXPLOSION AT THE STATE FAIR.
Most of our readers have already read the details of the horrible disaster at the fair grounds at Indianapolis last week, by which twenty human beings were rushed into eternity and nearly a hundred others badly maimed. The homes of the killed and wounded are scattered so widely over the State that there is scarcely a county that has not some sad hearts that will look back with sorrow upon this unfortunate termination of a Fair which had, up to the time of the explosion, been so successful.
A Coroner's Jury was immediately summoned to investigate the cause of the explosion. After a three day's sitting, and an examination of various witnesses, most of them machinists and engineers, it was decided that the explosion was caused by carelessness in the engineer who was running the engine at the time. Since the engineer is himself among the killed, the verdict can lead to no practical result.
It is gratifying to observe that the evidence of a dozen engineers, living in different parts of the State, all points to the same immediate cause of the explosion.' They all express the opinion that it was caused by the excessive heating of the crown sheet of the boiler, resulting from carelessness in regulating the supply of water.
THE XATIOXAL TAXES. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, in a speech recently delivered at Marietta, thus replies to Pendleton's whine about oppressive taxation:
I affirm that no system of taxation has ever been discovered that, taken as a whole, has been so productive of revenue, and yet has fallen so lightly on the mass of the people. During the war our taxes were heavy, and it was necessary to have them so but they have been rapidly reduced. Our internal taxes are now mainly laid on the incomes of the rich, and upon the consumption of whisky and tobacco. The residue of internal taxes will soon be reduced or repealed but even they are of a character not resting upon the masses of the people. We levy a very heavy tax upon the National Banks, yielding over $9,000,000 to the United States, and a like amount to* the States. The tax on sales is confined to the larger dealers, and those whose sales are small are entirely exempted. The special tax on employments, called the license tax, falls exclusive^ upon employments which are supposed to 3'ield large profits without manual'labor, and the tax in stamps is almost exclusively a commercial tax. No internal tax is levied on any article in common use among the people, and produced in the United States. These'taxes have been repealed. It is idle for Mr. Pendleton to declaim against these taxes as oppressive, when every intelligent person can see that they have been carefully adjusted, so as to fall upon those best able to pay, and upon whisky and tobacco, regarded everywhere as the proper name for taxation.
A MEETING of farmers from Montgomery, Fountain and Tippecanoe counties was to have been held at Shawnee Mound yesterday, for the purpose of furthering the agricultural interests of these counties. We have not heard from the meeting, but hope it may succeed in its plans,
A LOOK at the list of premiums awarded at the State Fair will reveal the fact that two-thirds of the premiums went to those localities where agricultural and horticultural societies are most generous] sustained in the township and county.
PROMPT sseps have been taken in Indianapolis, in the churches and at public meetings, to raise funds for the relief of persons suffering from the disaster at the fair grounds.
THE last statement of the public debt shows a decrease during September of $7,467,429 39. Croakers, growlers and Democrats are respectfully invited to note the fact.
INDIANA NEWS.
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Three colored public schools now operating in Vigo county. Wayne, Boone and Fountain counties all hold their Fairs this weeek.
The Indiana State Library now contains over 25,000 volumes. A number of valuable standard works have'been added to the library of late, and more are on the way.
Mr. W. W- Thrasher, of Fayette county, had ten head of splendid cattle at the State Fair. Among these is the famous cow, Cinderilla, weighing 1,800 pounds. She took the sweepstakes at our State Fair last Fall, and has taken four first premiums this year.
The State Sentinel has been enlarged to a nine column paper. Indianapolis claims to be the greatest walnut lumber market in the world.
The receipts of the Vigo county fair were §1.514, and the expenses! 81,751.
The Orthodox Friends' yearIy meeting has been in session at Richmond for the past week.
Heavy loads of scrap iron have lately been brought from the South for the rolling mills of New Albany.
County fairs, this year, are very successful. Hardly one in the State that has failed to pay expenses, while many have left handsome profits.
A gentleman has left at the office of the Vincennes Times four ears of corn weighing seven pounds. The aggregate number of grains was 4^840.
Some old women of Monroe county concluded that a young babe was liver-grown," and drew it through a hor^e collar to cure it, thereby disiocat!!i!i i1a sho'iMer.
A child was born in the country, one day last week, having but one ear. The side where the ear should have been is perfectly smooth, nevertheless, the little fellow seems to hear from that side as well as the other.— Lebanon Patriot.
Marshal King, who escorted "Sherman to the Northern Prison, reports Remster as engaged in making barrels. He attempted the craz}dodge the first day of his residence, but the remedy applied worked so charmingly that he denied ever having been crazy.— Covington journal.
James Bryant, on the farm of J. T. McJimsey,near Pleasant Hill,/raised this year 276 pounds (or M- bushels and 6 pounds) of Early Rose potatoes from one pound of seed! If any man anywhere can beat this, we'd like to bear from him. This crop was weighed in the presence of twenty or more witnesses.—Attica Ledger,
A man named Beckett, living in Warren county, was killed in a difficulty with another mall named Clem, near State Line City, a short time ago. Beckett had attended an apple paring at Clem's in the evening without an invitation, and, upon being ordered away, left, and stopped in a lane near the house, where the affray occurred ofter the apple paring was over. The Covington Journal and Attica Ledger give very different accounts of the affair, but both state that an old fued existed between the parties.
A. S. Griggs and T. E. Dawson, of this town, one day the present week exhibited, to us some as fine specimens of virgin gold—§10 worth—as we ever saw. These particles they found in this county, a few days ago, and old California miners, of extended experience and knowledge, who have thoroughly tested and examined the same say that they show evidence of rich "diggings that they are lar better than most of the California specimens which indicated mines of vast wealth in that State.—Martinsville Gazette.
Messrs. S. F. Wood, appointed for the defense, and T. F. Davidson for the prosecution, in the Remster trial, each presented bills to the Commissioners for their services, Wood for $250, and Davis for $300. The Commissioners refused to pay, whereupon these gentlemen brought suit against the county, in the Common Pleas court last week and the jury awarded them $500 each. Thus the county loses $450 by the refusal of the Commissioners to pay, besides an additional $100 fee to a lawyer to manage their case. And that's the way the money goes! Covington Journal.
CONDENSED INFORMATION.
Boston boasts of at least one wellventilated hall—the Coliseum. THE wool clip of Santa Barbara county, California this year runs up to 1,200,000 pounds.
AT A. T. Stewart's store in New York twenty $2000 shawls have been sold this season, and one worth $5,700.
FROM 15,000 to 20,000 vagabond children, roaming about the streets of New York City, never attend school.
IN the wild beast market an elephant brings $4,500, a giraffe $3,000, a hippopotamus $5,000, a lion or a tiger $2,000, a gnu $1,800, and an ostrich $300.
THE largest tannery in the world is at Kane, Pa. It is not yet finished, but has GOO vats in operation, and consumes 15.000 tons of hemlock bark per year.
THE famous race horse, 1-Ierzog, died at the stables of the Buckeye Club last week. He had made the fastest time on record, a mile in one minute and forty-three and a half seconds, at three 3'ears of age.
THE Erie Railroad has 17,000 tons of steel rails in use, not one of which has broken. The company is operating the New Jersey Iron Works, and those at Elmira, and is now turning out about 4,000 tons of steel rails monthly.
A SWEET potato weighing STI pounds at the time it was dug, and neasuriug ll-V inches long by 20^ inches in circumference, was exhibited at Cincinnati on Thursday last. It was raised by William Holderfield, near New Palestine, Clermont county, Ohio.
THE sweepstakes premium for best herd of short horns—bull and four cows—at the Kentucky State Fair, held at Lexington, has been carried off by Daniel McMillan. Esq., ot Greene county, Ohio. This is the firs time that any stock breeder outside of Kentucky has ventured to show stock with the Blue Grass farmers.
TAKING the country at large, it has been demonstrated by a high authority that the railroads add eveiy year more than their whole cost to the wealth of the nation. The freight business, it has been shown, is actually doubled in less than seven years, while their aggregate length is not doubled in less than fourteen years.
REV. CHARLES WALLACE HOWARD has been emplo3?ed by the Georgia State road to make a thorough survey of the southern slope of Lookout Mountain, in search of iron, coal and petroleum oil. Mr. Howard will commence the survej* in the neighborhood of Alpine, near the line of Chattanooga county' Georgia, and Cherokee, Alabama.
THE War Department has issued the eighteenth and nineteenth rolls of honor, containing the names of soldiers who died in defense of the American Union. The volumes embrace the records of 40,353 interments, the names of 11,530 being unknown. The list embraces interments in the national cemeteries in Virginia, North Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, and in some of the local cemeteries of the Northern States and Terrotirics.
LIME is almost universally used by Pennsylvania farmers. When a crop of clover or grass is plowed down, from fifty to one hundred bushels are applied to an acre, and after being slacked is scattered over the surface and harrowed in. The -wheat or other seed is then drilled in. Onehalf the quantity of lime used on limestone soil will do on slate soil. Lime and clover will make slate soil very productive, and oj^ster-shell lime has a still greater effect on it than that made from common limestone.
PROFESSOR FABER'S speakking machine is to be exhibited at Hamburg during the International Horticultural Exhibition. It is said to articulate various words, and even to answer questions by simple sentences with wonderful distinctness. This is not the
first
invention of the kind that.
has been exhibited. Wilfgang von Kempelen, the inventor of a chess automaton, Avho was born at Presburg in 1734, and died at Vienna in 1804, constructed a machine of the. kind, and wrote on the subject. The machine about to be exhibited at Hamburg is, however, reputed to be more perfect than any previous invention of the kind.