Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 4 November 1869 — Page 4

THE JOURNAL,

T. IS. «. HcCAIX ami .T. T. 1A1BOT,' EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.

Cjii AWFOKDSVILLE:

THURSDAY, NOV. 4, 1869.

TO SJUBSCBIJBEHS.

Winter is approaching, and with it a season of leisure which ought to be devoted to profitable reading. Every family ought to make its arrangements to have at least two or three good weekly papers for gen oral reading. For the accommodation of all who may wish to take advantage of it, we make the following oiler: We will furnish the Ceawfoudsville

Journal and the

Toledo

Blade, Nasby's paper, both tor one year for THREE DOLLARS or the Okawtordsyille Journal and the J\few York Independent, both one year, together with steel engravings of Grant and Colfax, for FOUR DOLLARS. The Blade and Independent arc generally known in the country, and are both in every way desirable as family papers. The polished style of Theodore Tilton pervades the columns of the Independent, and Masby's rich and racy letters, which always appear first in the Blade, will continue to add to the at tractions of that paper.

PUIILIC DEBT STATEMENT.

The public debt statement recently published shows a reduction during the month of Octobcr of $7,363,883 and a total reduction since March 1

of 864,nS-MJTl.

l'llODll'E AXD PRICES.

The total grain harvests for the present year are roughly estimated as follows: v^Wheat, 350,000,000 bushels corn," 800,000,000 oats, 175,000,000 barley, 25,000,000 and rye, 10.000,000, making a total of 1,360,000,000 bushels. The decline in the prices of wheat at the principal grain markets of this country during the past two months has been about liftv cents per bushel. Oats and corn have declined, according to their relative prices, fully as much as wheat. This decline in prices on the total grain products of the country renders the decrease in the aggregate national wealth plainly apparent if the whole crop were designed for the foreign markets. But while this is not true, and while, in some measure, a decline in prices of breadstuff's, so long as it is induced by a general plent}r, is a blessiug to the industrial and producing element of the country, nevertheless the subject is one well worth the serious attention of every legitimate trader in the country. With a moderate, but by no means sufliicent, consuming class in the manufactories of the country, wc yet have a surplus of hundreds of millions of bushels of grain. Western Europe, where there is always a considerable demand for bi'eadstuffs, is not less hungry than usual. But immediately upon the decline of prices in the West, and partly in consequence, follow complaints against carrying companies- for alleged exorbitant freight charges. And these complaints are made both against the great railroad lines radiating from the seaboard cities and against carrying companies on the Mississippi.

It is asserted that a Cincinnati firm .can get goods from Liverpool via Canada and the Grand Trunk Railroad for little more than the cost of carrying the same goods from New York to Cincinnati, while the charges on freight from New Orleans to Memphis arc almost ecjual to the charges from the ports in Portugal or Spain to New Orleans. Though the regulation of freight charges by legislative enactments is of doutful propriety, yet the importance of the interests at stake demands interference of some kind. The matter is one of importance to grower, trader and consumer. If the West does not promptly meet the demands of England and France for breadstuffs, the countries around the Bia'ck Sea trill.

THE JfOVJSMAEB }jli£('TIOXS. Elections for full or partial State tickets were held in New York, Mas, sachusetts, Wisconsin, Alabama, Michigan New Jersey, Maryland and Minnesota on Tuesday. New York is Democratic, and Massachusetts and Wisconsin Republican. Returns from the other States are not sufficiently definite to show how the vote varies from that of the last election. Illinois voted on a Constitutional Convention. Chicago elected the Citizen's ticket, consisting of four Republicans and three Democrats. The Massachusetts Prohibitionists and License men both claim a majority in the State Legislature.

ANDREW JOHNSON is said to be preparing a veto to the action of the Tennessee Legislature in electing Cooper United States Senator. So strong is the force of habit.

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN MISSISSIPPI.

THE

Steamboat Stonewall Destroyed by Fire.

Two Hundred and Twenty Passengers Perish.

The most appalling disaster that perhaps has ever occurred on the Mississippi river took place about six o'clock on the night of the 27th of October, just below Neeley's Landins, and about one hundred and twenty-five miles below St. Louis. At that hour the steamer Stonewall, for New Orleans, heavily laden, and with two hundred and fifty-three souls on board, was discovered to be on fire, having caught by a lighted candle coming in contact with some hay, one hundred and fifty bales of which were stored on the deck. The steamer was run on a gravel bar, the pilot supposing that the passengers could wade ashore on the bar. Unfortunately, at the end of the bar there was a slough, and here it was that the larger number wen drowned. The boat was not run on the bar but two feet, and the shallowest point about her had five or six feet of water. The boat had so much hay aboard that she burned like tinder, and all efforts to put the fire out were unavailing. The Belle Memphis came up at o'clock, three hours after the accident, and rendered all the assistance possible, out of two hundred and fifty-three passengers and crew only thirty are known to be saved. The last seen of Captain Scott he was floating down stream on a log The people at Neeley's saw the light, and hastened to assist. One man rescued sixteen persons with a skiff. Had it not been for their help all would have been lost.

BEXTOX COUNTY ITEMS. From last Thursday's Tribune.

The amount of school fund apportioned to Benton county at the October distribution is $880 88.

Billy Jones has lost another fifty dollar dog. Mark Briar fired the fatal shot. Dash is dead. The two gentlemen started out on a hunt Saturday, when Mark discharged his gun at a rabbit in a thicket and killed the dog. They saw him die and sadly wended their way back to town, for Dash was a good dog.

Ella, a little daughter of W. M. Jones, about four years of age, had one of her limbs very badly scalded one day last week. She was stand ing by the stove and accidental!}' turned a bucket of boiling water over herself, the stream striking the knee and scalding all below that joint. Although she is yet unable to walk, the wound is healing very nicely.

Little Carrie, youngest child of .John Wattles, in this township, aged about five years, met with quite a serious accident on Friday last. An older sister was using ail ax and attempted to cut a stick just as Carrie attempted to pick it up, when the ax struck her left hand cutting the first two fingers almost entirely off at the knuckle joint. The first finger was entirely severed and the second nearly so. Dr. Kolb was immediatrly called and dressed the wound and thinks he can save the fingers with exception that the first one will be stiff-

COVIXGTOX ITEMS. From last Thursday's Journal.

Potatoes only twenty five cents a bushel and a drug on the market. The population of Covington is increasing in the good old wa}-" with astonishing rapidity. -A patient is in a very bad way when his disease is acute and his doctor isn't. Eh!

Wood sawyers'are in good demand at present. We know of a number of idle young men who might obtain profitable, useful and healthful employment.

LADOGA ITEMS. From last Thursday's Herald*

Bad show for winter apples hereabouts. Half the crop frozen on the trees.

Charles Thomas and wife have returned from their visit to Kentuckj', with Mrs. Thomas's health much improved.

Charley Miiler and a Miss Gilmore, of Reelsville, were married last week. We extend our congratulations to Charley and his esteemed lady.

Zed Yeagley has moved back to Ladoga. Zed is putting in his time hammering on iron for Tom Smith.

Nhe new Christian Church, at Parkersburg, will be dedicated on the first Sunday in November.

A. J. Daugherty, Lucky Hostetter, Smith Mills and John Harrison are putting in the time out on the plains buffalo hunting. Go in boys.

ATTICA ITEMS. From last Thursday's Ledger.

A pleasant party assembled at Marshall M. Milford's on Monday evening, to donate to Rev. Camburn, according to notice. Amount realized, seventy.five dollars.

Bush gobbled a wandering porker oh Tuesday, in accordance with the late city law on vagrant hogs. Business has therefore commenced, and stray hogs should avoid the man with a blue overcoat.

Some soulless scalawag threw slaked lime in the eyes of Dr. Jones' black and tan terrier, producing a blindness that may prove permanent. The cruel perpetrator needs a good whitewashing to make him decent.

A little four year old was treated about right by a young clerk the other day, in the way of striped candy rnd sich, and straightway showed his fine sense of appreciation by inviting the clerk up to see his sister.

Not a week passes but good honest citizens have their Ledgers stolen from their door-yards. Why is this thus The first mean thief caught will serve to point a moral in a local item, and get all the benefits of a prosecution for petit larceny.

More ash a million Ivatfish oil the streets—thicker than the plagues of Pharaoh, or the skull of a native Congo. Catfish by the string, by the wagon load, and by the wheelbar ov load, and in startling variety— every kind from the miserable little black "bullhead," up to the more pretentious and aldermanic looking yellow belly.'' We never saw so many slimy, horny fellows. The market is overstocked.

The New York

Poor Old Andy.

A Nashville dispatch says that Andrew Johnson, being sanguine of his election to the Senate, was badly unnerved by the result. He retired to his room in the hotel where he resides, and was visible only to his intimate friends, who called to condole with him, But even then his privaey was invaded by an impromptu procession halting beneath his window, cheering wildly for the newly elected Senator? and bearing banners^ inscribed, Moses under a Cloud," the "Real Dead Duck," "How about the Pocket Copy of the Constitution Swingiif 'round the Circle/' and other mottoes.

Brick l»oineroy Vuhappy.

Brick Pomeroy is unhappy over the state of his party. He says: But our leaders are cowards. They dare not avow their principles. They mean one thing and talk another. They lose two Democrats to gain one Republican. They plan to foster enemies rather than to support friends They want the vote of the tax-payers and the money of the bondholders, and set up a cockle-pen platform, meaning nothing then talk by the hour to prove to a Republican that they mean one thing, and another hour to a Democrat that they mean another."

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MARBLE WORK.

Phoenix Marble Works.

Phceuix-like, we have arisen literally from the ashes, we have moved the remnant of our stock to the east side of Washington street, next to Miller's new buiid-ing, north of the court house, where we have now a nice assortment of

©rave-Yard Work,

Such as Monuments, Tablets, Slabs, &c. which we will sell cheap. USTAs the late fire did us much damage, we must work hard and sell cheap, to make monev to meet our liabilities.

I. F. WADE & SON.

N.B.—If any of our friends want to giTe us a little "material aid" on account of our loss, thev can do so by if they owe us, call and pay if they want any work in our line, either Grave-Yard or Building Work, give us a call. We will do you nice work at low pricks, and be much obliged.

BUILDING WORK done to order. Crawfordsville, Dec. 30,1808.

RAMSEY'S HOC.

oct21tf

LEGAL NOTICES.

A DM INISTR ATORS' NOTICE.—Notice xjl is hereby given that the undersigned have been appointed administrators of the estate of George Harlan, late of Montgomery county, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent.

CARSON R. WRAY', ISAAC M. KELSEY,

oct21w? Administrators.

FOR SALE.

FOR

SALE—LAND.—Great bargains to speculators. Eighty acres of good land, lying about one mile from the town of Covington, having good timber, building rock, stone coal, and never failing water. Will sell for thirty dollars per acre. For particulars call on the undersigned, residing in Wabash township, Fountain county, Ind. nov4in2 A. PAUGH.

LEGAL SALES.

Ggiven

UARDIAN'S SALE.—Notice is hereby that in pursuance of the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county, Indiana, I will sell at private sale, on or after lour weeks from date hereof, the real estate in said county, which is described as follows: The undivided twothirds of the east half of the southeast quarter of section twenty-one. in township eighteen, north of range three west, and the two-thirds of all that part of the east half of the northeast quartlir of said section twenty-one in said township and range which lies on the south side of the Indianapolis State road, containing together one hundred acres, the property of the minor children of William Watson, deceased.

Terms: One-third of the purchase money in hand, and one-third in nine months, and residue in eighteen months. The purchaser to give notes for deferred installments bearing interest from date, and with approved security, without relief from valuuation laws. DAVID D. WATSON oct28w4 Guardian.

P(hereby

given that the undersigned Com­

missioner. :n pursuance of an order of the Court of Common Pleas, will sell at private sale, on or after four weeks from date hereof, the following described real estate, situate in Montgomery county, State of Indiana, to-wit: Part of the north half of the north west fractional quarter of section thirtyone, in township eighteen, range three west, bounded as follows: Beginning at the half mile stake on the north line of said section thirty one, and running thence west one liundred" rods and fourteen links, thence south eighty rods and live links, thence east ninety-nine rods and seventeen links, thencc north eighty rods and eighteen links to the place of beginning, containing fifty and forty-one-hundredths acres, the property of Stephen Imel et al.

Terms:—-One-third of the purchase money to be paid cash in hand,one-third in nine and the balance in fifteen months, with ininterest, the purchaser giving his note with approved surety. BEN. T. RISTINE. oct28w4 Commissioner.

/GUARDIAN'S SALE.—Notice is hereby \JTgiven that the undersigned Guardian of the person and estate of Anna Huffman, will sell at private sale on or after four weeks from date hereof the following described real estate situate in Montgomery county, State of Indiana, to-wit: Part of the west half of the southeast quarter of section thirty-two, in township nineteen, north of range four west, bounded as follows: Beginning at a point in the south line of said section thirty-two, two hundred rods and twelve and one-half leet west of the southeast corner of said section, and running thence west two hundred and twenty-two feet, thence north three hundred and fifty feet, to the right of way of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, thence south thirty-two degrees east, along said right of way two hundred and fifty feet, thence south two hundred and twenty feet to the place of beginning, containing one and forty-five-hundredths acres more or less, the property of said Anna Huffman.

Terms:—One-third of the purchase money to be paid cash in hand, one third in six and the balance in twelve months, with interest, the purchaser giving note with approved surety. FISHER DOHERT

Y,

oct28w4 Guardian.

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