Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 11 November 1869 — Page 2

THE CMSIN6 SCENE.

((The following is pronounced toy the Westminster Review to be unquestionably the finest American poem ever written Withm the sober realm of leafless trees.

The russet year inhaled the"dreamy air Like-some tired reaper, in his h«ur of ease, WheB all the fields are lying brown wad bare.

The gray barns looking finm their hazy hills, O'er tke dun waters widening in the vales, fjent down the air a greeting to the mills,

On the dull thunder of alternate flails.

All sights were mellowed and all sounds subdued, The hilte seemed farther and the stream sang low, As in a dream the distant woodman hewed

His winter log with many a muffled blow.

The embattled forests, enewtoile armed with gold, Their banner bright with every martial hue, Now stood like some sad, beaten host of old,

Withdrawn afar in Time's remotest blue.

On somber wiugs the vulture tried his flight: The dove scarce heard his sighing mate's com plaint And, like a star slow drowning in the light,

The village church vane seemed to pale and faint.

The sentinel cock upon the hillside crewCrew thrice—and all was stiller than before Silent, till some replying warden blew

His alien horn, and then was heard no more.

Where erst the jay, within the elm's tall crest. Made garrulous trouble round her unfledged young, And where the oriole swung her swaying nest,

By every light wind like a censer swung.

Where sang the noisy martins of the eaves, The busy swallows circling ever near, Forboding, as the rustic mind believes,

An early harvest and a plenteous year .,

Where every bird that waked the vernal feast. Shook the sweet slumber from its wings at morn, To warn the reaper of the ro6y east,

AH now as sunless, empty and forlorn.

Alone, from out the stubble piped the quail, And croaked the crow through all the dreary gloom Alone the pheaesant. drumming in the vale,

Made echo in the distance to the cottage loom.

There was no bud, no bloom, upon the bowers, The spiders moved their thin shrouds night by night The thistle down, the only ghost of flowers,

Sailed slowly by,, passed noiselessly out ot sight.

Amid all this, in this most dreary air, And where the woodbine sheds upon the porch I:s crimson leaves, as if the year stood there,

Firing the floor with its inverted torch:

Amid all this, the center of the scene. The white-haired matron with monstrous tread, Plied the swift wheel, and with her joyous meiu

Sat like fate and watched the flying thread.

She had known sorrow. He had walked with her, Oft supped and broke with her the ashen crust. And in the dead leaves still heard the stir,

Of his thick mantle trailing in the dust,

While yet her cheek was bright with summer bloom, Her country summoned, and she gave her all And twice war bowed to her his sable plume,

Regave the 6Word to rust upon the wall.

Regave the sword, but not the hand that drew And struck for liberty the dying blow Nor him who, to his sire and country true,

Fell 'mid the ranks of the invading foe.

Long, butnot loud, the droning wheel went on, Like the low murmur of a: hive at noon

Lone, but not loud, the memory of the gone

Breathed through her lips a sad and tremulous

tone.

At last the. thread was snapped, her head was

Life dropped'the distaff through her bands serene

Lire oroppeu me awuui luiuugu uci uouus ooiom., .. And loving neighbors soothed her careful ihroud,

Wblle death and love closed the Bouiinn scene. the

A Colored Pioneer—How a Xegrro Made Hone and a Fortune for Himself.

Near the close of the war a colored soldier found his way up the Missis sippi, and landed at LaCrosse. He had a quiet, observant look, and twenty shillings in his pocket. While in this wise

at LaCrosse he heard there was good deer shooting up in the Northern Chippewa country. He had a taste for the woods and a Sharpe's rifle. He got a chance at wooding up on one of Rumsey's line of Chippewa steamboats, and put off at Eaux Claire early in October. Here he procured an ax, ammunition, a coarse blanket and a small packload of provisions. He then started eastward for the deer range, taking an old trail through the

This was five years ago. then our colored soldier has flour-J ished. He has now a homestead of one hundred acres, with a ten-acre clearing, a double log cabin, wild fruit trees, swarms of bees, a sugar-bush, a pasture lot for his Indian pony, and a bank account at Eaux Claire. He has been offered a thousand dollars for his homestead, but he is satisfied as he is. He hunts

and

teams going to the woods, and then puts batik home by way of his old Indian trail.

Huntsmen and woodsmen who visit him at his cabin speak of him as exceedingly friendly and hospitable.

His cabin is a model of neatness, and Siis farming admirable He has a hundred-dollar rifle, which puts him high lip among his Indian friends. We saw him not long ago in our travels up the Chippewa. He talks with intelligence and spirit, and is well booked up in all woodcraft. He never lacks companj% he says, the Indians come in to see him from Lake Chetec, the Flambeau and Count Oreilles. They often crowd his cabin at evenings, when he takes down his fiddle and gives them a lively set-to in both rooms. Indian girls take crreat delight in break downs, and will hold out the night long without intermission.

Our sable brother reports that he has had frequent offers of young Indian girls in exchange for his pon}r or rifle. So far he has stood proof against all the blaudishments of the forest maidens, and has shown no ambition to perpetuate his name or his race among the tribes of the red man. He will be known hereafter as the first colored soldier iu Wisconsin who had the manhood and independence to push ofl'aloue in the forest and hew out a farm and fortune for himself.

Remarkable Phenomena.

The Amherst, Massachusetts, Student tells the following curious story "The rock in Mr. Flynt's granite! quarry at Monson, Massrchusetts, has been playing some curious freaks I ilatelj'. Several weeks since, a sheet of rock, one foot thick and fifty feet square, lifted itself into the air and broke into pieces with a shock like I that of a cannon. The explanation seems to be that the rock to that depth had been expanded by the, fieat. and the frequent passage over I it of loaded teams caused it to beicome brittle, as does iron or steel by long hammering, and at last it had not tenacity enough to hold it in its bed. Another remarkable phenomienon was where the rock moved up hill ol itself, while yet undetached at: 'one end. A strip of rock three hund-1

red and fifty-foui feet long bj

inclination

farms be

times. Last winter's hunting receipts stood him over three hundred dollars. He killed six bears and thirty deer. Lumbermen pay a good price for his corn and hay at his door.

During the spring and fall lie makes trips to Eaux Claire, stays a week or two with his barber friend, Bowler, gets trimmed and posted up, smds provisions around by lumber

INC,

feet deep and five feet wide, was split

I b}' wedges from the main 1'OCk, and

immediately it besan to move up hill,

being free at the upper end,

tllOllgU

WHS

mole than one

T. l".*. I foot in twenty. This rock moved and another

one and one-half inches, strip, one hundred and fifty-four feet I long, moved half an inch.

Indian Summer.

The New York Farmers' Club speculates on the cause of Iqdian Summer

The warm, smoky spell known as Indian Summer, which is perhaps more peculiar to the Northeastern States of America than to any other portion of the globe, always occurs after the first killing frost, not the first white frost, but one which is severe enough to bring down nearly all the forest leaves and kill the herbaceous plants. The bulk of vegetation thus destroyed is almost incalculable. In its decay it is undergoing slow

timber, and avoiding roads and hab- combustion. Who can calculate the itations. The second day brought amount of smoke and heat thus given him to a pleasant camping place be-1 off, or what effect this must produce side a small stream, where he set upjon the atmosphere, or tell whether a temporary brush shelter for the I this is not the true cause of Indian night. He was out at sunrise the Summer? In support of this theory following morning and in less than!is the fact that when forests were an hour shot a 3roung deer within much more extensive the Indian Sumfifty rods of his camp. This was aimers were longer, warmer, and more good beginning arid fixed him where smoky than at present. he was. He now set about getting his logs together for a cabin. The noise of his ax soon brought in a Chippewa Indian, who was camped a mile up the creek. Neighbor Indian talked a little English and was glad and surprised. The day after, the Indian ancl two squaws came down to his raising," and helped him to roof his cabin with bark. He gathered boughs foi his bed, and slept like a king that night.

The Kew Jersey Mastodon.

The Camden, New Jersey, Press says: The lately discovered Salem county mastodon proves to be the largest skeleton of the kind in the world, being larger than the one on exhibition at the British Museum, in London. The head measures five feet length and two feet six inches between the e3res the ribs are five feet long. As yet, only a part of the leg bones have been exhumed the since ^nes of vertebra have been found, and are quite perfect. When the work of excavating for the remainder of the skeleton is resumed, many of the missing bones will be found.

Curiosity seekers have broken off pieces, and defaced parts of it considerably, in order to provide themselves with something to keep of the remains of this remarkable animal.

A VEIN of excellent coal, eight feet thick, and extending to the northward, has been struck on the immediate line of the Kansas Pacificlrailroad, seven-ty-five miles east of Denver, and five hundred and sixty miles west of Kansas City. This discovery shows that workable coal beds of the Rocky Mountains' base extend miles eastward into the great plain.

CRAWEOEDSVILLE JOURNAL: NOVEMBER 11,1869.

BOOTS AND SHOES.

FREE ENTERTAINMENT

At Corner of Main and Green streets, Curtis' old stand.

H. WEBSTER & SON,

The Managers, have the honor to announce to the citizens of Crawfordsville and vicinity a scries of general entertainments at the popular

Boot and Shoe Store,

Corner of Main and Green streets, by their celebrated Stock Company, commencing immediately and continuing until further notice.

Programme—Part First.

Cindcrilla, or slippers to sell. Company Recitative—Pedestrian's Lament, How long, how long shall I complain,

Like one who seeks for Boots in vain? Chorus, Not long, not long, for you can find

That the Websterskeep every kind.

Part Second.

Narv a Rip Polka Company Parody Billy Father, dear Father, come home with me now.

My shoes arc all out at the toe You promised to shoe Johnnie and I, And you know it's very wicked to lie. Metamorphosis and Tableaux, in which the Shoeless Brirade appear in tine and Coarse Boots and Shoes, Balmorals, Scottish

Balmorettas, Button Polish, Congress Gaiters, Black Crook Boots, Base Ball Shoes, etc ... .Company Reception of Greenbacks

.Company

To conclude with the highly pleasing and sole-satisfying farce oi'

PERFECT FITS I

"This is anew piece, and is in no danger of being played out.

THREE PERFORMANCES DAILY,

Morning, afternoon and evening, until further notice. Doors open at seven o'clock A. M.: close at nine P. M.

Do not Forget the Place.

Corner of Green and Market streets, where may be found the best assortment of all kinds and styles of Boots and Shoes, at the lowest prices. Your inspection of goods and prices solicited. seplGtf

DRUGS, MEDICINES. AC.

MOFFETT & BOOK,

DRUGGISTS, No. 4, Empire Block,

.Crawfordsville, Indiana,

Dealers iu all kinds of

DRUGS and MEDICINES,

Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs, Per

fumery, Fancy Articles,

PURE INES AND BRANDIES

For medical purposes.

lamps, Glassware, Paper, Pens,

Ink, Pencils, &c.

""-'j- •. 'v i':' -V

PBESCRIPTIONS

Carefully compounded and promptly attended to.

Thankful tor past favors from a generous public, we hope by a strict attention to the wants of our customers, and a just andliberal 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 lis. Give us a call and see for yourselves. nol2

FJJ^IT^jRE.

Prices Reduced!

Furniture! Furniture!

A. KOSTA5V7.ER,

AS a complete stock of Furniture of all kinds, comprising everything from the cheapestto the most costly both homemade and the best Easern made which he will sell at

Greatly Reduced Prices.

Old customers and new customers are respectfully invited to examine his stock ancl prices.

Shop

Washington Street, two

Squares S. of Court House.

aus^ 'iffiS

HORSE NAILS AND SHOES.

Great Bargains in Horse Nails, Horse Nails,

Horse Nails, Horse Nails, Horseshoes, Horseshoes, Horse Shoes, Horse Shoes,

At Campbell & Barter's.

BOOTS AND SHOES.

BOOTS! "BOOTi

CAMPBELL & HARTER

Have received their new stock of

CUSTOM MADE BOOTS,

In Calf, American and French Kip, for Men and Boys.

The workmanship of these is guaranteed All rips will be mended free of charge.

CLOSE CASH BUYERS

Looking up bargains in

BOOTS AND SHOES

"Will please call.

ALSO,

Worn n's, Misses' and Children's

Shoes,

In great variety.

Calf, Kip, Goat and Lasting in

A O A S

Congress and Polish cut.

We call attention of Young Ladies to our exceedingly handsome styles of

PINE SEWED WORK,

In Morocco, Pebble Goat, Felfc and Lasting

intend to keep onr reputation for selling goods at low (JOTTO pi'tccs-... »ep9

HARDWARE. AC.

LOCKS,

Latches, Butts, and Strap

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

MILL,

DRAG and Cross Cut Saws, Rip, Hand, Panel, Tennon, Baen 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.

CHOPPING

and Broad Axes, Foot Adzes,

Planes, Mortise and Socket Firmer Chisels, and Drawing Knives of the best quality At GREGG'S MAMMOTH.

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

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

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

EAUTIFUL Patterns and New Styled Ivory Handled Knives and Forks At GREGG'S.

]Door

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

LADIES

ONE

wishing a superior quality of

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

hundred and twenty-eight diflerent patterns of Pocket Knives at GREGG'S.

CALL

lor Wilkinsod's Celebrated Sheep Shears at GREGG'S Mammoth Hardware Store.

^OR Curtain Bands, Curtain Knobs, Picture Nails and Fancy Goods, call at GREGG'S.

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

ALL and see the endless variety cC Knives, Razors, «fec., at GREGG'S.

CLIMAX

THE

Mower and Reaper, the latefl

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 woader, everybody, at GREGG'S

Mammoth Hardware Store.

EVERYBODY

goes to Gregg's to get

good bargains.

THE

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 runs very 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

Hardware Store.

Improved Quaker Reaper and Mower, a perfect curiosity and the wondec of the World, on exhibition at

WOOD'S

TAE

GREGG'S Mammoth.

Self-Rak'ng Reaper and Mow

er also, the Jsew York Self-Raking Reaper and Mower, it a GREGG'S.

Celebrated Vibrator Threshing Machines At GREGG'S.

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

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

EVOLVING and Sulky Hay Rakes an* Horse Hay Forks At GREGG'S.

ARVEST Tools of every kind always on hand and sold cheap at GREGG'S.

OUBLE Shovel Plows for the million, At GREGG'S.

JUST

received, a very large supply of Iron, Steel Horse 'Shoes, Horse Shoe' Nails and Blacksmith's Tools at GREGGS.

EVERYBODY

should go to Gregg's to