Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 May 1874 — Page 2

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—We all say three cheers for the prosecution of Falls. —Jas. Kobbins is making preparations for running a tile factory this season. —E. C. Mount and Robert Bruce are both building large house this season. Charles Rowe has the building of Mount's, and Charles Williams, ot Mace, has the building of Bruce's. Gay Boy.

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—11 tin Williamson teaches at the Po tato Creek school G. W. Slusser at Oak Grove Molly Bridges at Sugar Grove, and Lvdia Hadlcy at the Davis (No. S) school house. Teachers are getting $1.50 to $1.66 per day. —That good woman, Mrs. John

Mitchell, is seriously sick. So of Mrs. Saidla. —About the time of Easier storm some six or eight loons were taken in the neighborhood of Mote's mill, and as they are a bird never before seen in the vicinity of course it's the talk up there. —Prof. Bonnel, of your sin smitten city, was up at Potato Creek church, and gave a free sing, causing the folks of a musical turn to much desire his coming ae a teacher of vocal music —Jake Dav

•avis is pushing things at the *l,enl

Lane in hou residence quite completed -Oats and grass come on slowly, a

se, and w,ll scon have a nice

not one man in Scott township ever asked him (Peterson) to be appointed Asses-' sor, nor suggested any other person. He says the appointee is "well qualified," and further that he neither asks nor desires any office in the gift of the people, but shall endeavor to honestly discharge the duties of his office, despite of "severest censure." —We want Jake Peterson, Jr., for Appraiser. He'd do the clean thing with Scott, and the other 10 townships too.

Besides he is much the nicest man in politics, you know. —The long neglected bridge over Lye creek, near Harden's ranch, has been repaired and is now ill running order. Thanks to Supervisor Cook and the boys, —In no possible contingency can we have a full crop of wheat, as at least one half is Winter killed. It is safe to expect about a half crop. In corn and oats we hope to make good the loss. —The practice so many have of plowing up the highway to "scour" their rusty plows every Spring is a thing that could well be dispensed with. —The boy who "sets up" this may draw on me for perquisites. —Work! work! is the order being passed and enforced all along the lines.

Mann.

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—Rev. A. Meharrv, of Cincinnati, brother of the Meharrys of this vicinity, is now visiting here. He has just returned from Florida, where he has been spending the Winter for the benefit of his health. I understand, however, that he is still very feeble. —The New Richmond lodge of Good Templars still grows. J. W. Plunkett is the lodge deputy. —Some of our teachers attended the examination last Saturday.

—Wheat is beginning to hold up its head, and has the appearance of growing. It is in a better condition here, than I have seeu in the surrounding country. I understand from good authority that the wheat about Shawnee Prairie is very badly injured. Going to Crawfordsville, by way of Yountsville, I *aw none as good as ours in fact it was not flourishing at all. —The man who asked me to inquire into the cost of the iron bridge says that he has some more questions to propound, which I shall leave him to do. They will probably be some stunners to some of the members of the late grand jury. —Mr. Henry Gjary recently had an addition to his family, which caused him to subscribe for the Journal. Next. —Miss. Lizzie litter will teach a subscription school at Sugar Grove. Tippecanoe county. —Some young ladies, not far from here, recently started to attend school to a gentleman teacher, but after going one day discontinued because the teacher looked at 'em. Male teachers, take notice. —A hen belonging to Mrs. S. A. McClure is one of the industrious kind. She is now raising a brood of chickens, and laying eggs. She weans her brood long enough to go to her nest, and, returning, owns them as before. —The Good Templars will meet in another convention on the second Saturday tu May. —Union Lodge of Good Templars elected, last Friday, M. B. Evans, W. C. T., and D. Curtis, W. S. New Richmond Lodge elected Dr. Manners, AS". O

T., and S. S. Mitchel, W. The names of the other officers I have not learned. Pleasant Mill Lodsre elected oltieers as follows: W. C. T., .1. I. Thomas \V. V. T., Joel Thomas W. 8., 11. Newlin W. T., Henrietta Ives W. l'\ S., K.Ives \V. 7il., J. W. Gregory W. I. O., Hattie Cord W. V. G., W. Cord. Installation by D. G. W. C. T., .1. A. MeClure, next Saturday evening. —Wheat has been $1.55 at La Fayette several times, and it looks as if thai those farmers of Shawnee Prairie, spoken of lty the West Lebanon Times, might have got rid of some of their "old wheat." Gi:y Gamokk.

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We clip the following from the Hr.rnhl: —Mr. John T. Ash by, who lived a few miles southeast of town, died on Saturday last of dropsy of the heart, aged 40 odil years. M. A. was in old citizen of this county well beloved by all. •Amanda, a little daughter of S. Q.

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-ii I he would leave the old bachelors club, ...f.

but

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be ieve hU heart fll.i!e(1 him

"Peter

monstrous tail of Winter still wagging Story." at us. Before we return to our story allow us —James Irons and West Hirkpatrick the privilege of your indulgence until are favorably spoken of for Commission-1 we answer "W. II. J.'s" false retorts era. against poor Peter, for whom he ha* so —Assessor Peterson says in reference much sympathy. Indeed no one knows to the "severest censure" resolution of' better how to sympathize with him than Fairview Grange, that neither he nor he. He would have you believe that Watson has acted in opposition to the Peter was trying to divert the course of expressed wishes of Scott township, as his love affairs (using his language) on

Spike's Love

passed on him by her, consequently she was fond of him, as you will see at the close. But we will hasten on and give the result. The rival saw thecondition of things and, being a gentleman, called for his hat and made motions for leaving, but not without great reluctancy on the part of both, and also being a sympathetic man as well as a gentleman, ami seeing our hero was agitated over the result started away, followed to the door by ilie lady, who wished liiui good evening with the request to return again, hoping in the future not to be interrupted again as they were that evening. But now to our hero again. Oil, heavens, with what anxiety did he await her return. Moments seemed hours to him, and the dread of what was to come rendered his situation painful in the extreme. The lamp in the parlor, wliich heretofore had presented to him a brilliancy of beauty as he wooe.l her whom he thought so fair and beautiful now looked dim and gloomy. The pictures that decorated the walls, and which lie so oft had admired, now presented to him a ghostly appear.mcce as he paced up and down the floor. Using his same words again in this

Hall, who lives a few miles northeast of case, "He would sooner, ten times over,

town, while out milking on Friday evening last accidentiilly fell and broke her upper thigh bone. Dr. Drake set the limb. —On Monday last during the forenoon there was considerable of a storm passed just north of town, blowing down timber and strewing fences in every direction. We have not neurd of anything serious. —Mr. Jas. Forgev leaves for Wellsville, Kansas, on Monday. Mr. F.

Winter here and it was thought

be hung for the same length of time."

ftening question he

be scene which lojlowed ik

any one, no difference who, so as to shield himself. This is not the case, for Peter never denied the truth, but whether lie This being too much for him he moved to has told the facts in their true light or not "Athens," where he found another girl, will be left for those to determine who whom lie told all his lormer troubles.

know more about the affair than he, and

this he has never asked for a reconcilia-! tion with that person, either by words or Another by letter, and above all he has never said anything against her. It would have been manly in "W. H. J." had he done likewite, and not have gone about in •his private conversation with his friends and told them that his acquaintance with a certain lady was nothing more than of a friendly character. "W. H.J.," take-our advice and don't be discouraged in this your little broil while the world lies before you brimful of pretty girls. You should take the advice of the philosopher who says that we should not give up after our first or second failure, but in the future profit by them. He accuses us of having secured the assistance of the Review's correspondent. This is a fabrication of his own, and is received with about as much truthfulness and notice as he is by the girl who fooled him. Peter's fortress would be poorly defended indeed if it could not stand any shot that might be hurled against it from a fort so small as that of "W. H. J.'s," and were it not for the very great regard Peter has for the lady in question—too much indeed to see her tied to a fellow who comes among us as an entire stranger and passing for a gentleman or even (as he says) a shipping clerk in a New Y'ork freight depot—he would like no better play than standing where he does and throwing shots into "W. H. J.'s" fort, just to have his machinery smashed. And what does it concern the reader if Peter did have assistance, as his story is founded on facts beyond any contradiction Does it alleviate you or in any respect lesson the truth recorded? Why most assuredly not. But my poor fellow, inasmuch as we mourn for you in your blighted prospects, and if such an idea will be of any comfort to you and will give you one moment's rest when you come to close your tearful eyes in sleep, why take it, sir, in welcome, and call us a benefactor to you in your deplorable loss. Now to our story:

The hero of this sad tale had one great obstacle to contend with in his courtship. He had too much vanity in his composition, and imagined the marked preference shown him by the ladies at times was a signification of love. He did not know that they listened with pleasure whenever their own praises were sounded, but seldom inquired who the trumpeter was, as, for an example, we will show you in this story. 'To do this we shall have to relate a little circumstance that transpired at the old brick mansion where the lady in question was living. It was Sunday evening and our hero had an engagement there with the one he would have loved to call his own. But a few hours before his arrival another young man, whom we will call a rival of his, called to see the lady too, and everything goes to show that his company was far preferable to that of our hero, and the time was, no doubt, pleasantly spent until interrupted by this previous en-

I'll Mens the hour when first I mot thee, And rather b*nr whole years of pain Than for a moment to forjret

hand than mine perhaps

Will yet press thine in w»idln.'k's i»ra"p, And you will forget that I haro loved tlw', Nor of inv welfare evorask. Then he it so, and may kind heavon

Protect and hW ss thee here below The heart is mine which thou hast given To another one, yet be it so. I'll not regret that I have loved thee

Though thou will he to another wed I Will you hestow a thought upon me Whem I arn numbered with the dead.

You promised tobejninein heaven Then be it so, I'll meet you there My soul will linger round I's portals I Until you come my bliss to share.'*

I O A A A 1 S I S A A E E N I N O A

How he will come out in this case is left

for the novelist t0 tpU hcreaften go

have busied themselves less. Peter is anxious reader, be patient and we assure honest enough, however, to acknowledge you the true result. For the present we that he was somewhat mistaken in the drop him by adding these verses, which go to express his feelings:

person whom he would have bestowed his best favors upon, or, in other words, (if it will please him more for us to say so) he was made a victim of misplaced confidence. But notwithstanding all

Fare thee well and let us part

love Ilk* mine bus failed to ninvc

But do not think this* constant heiirt Can ever eease, my dear, to luve ihoe In spile of all this told disdain

And now we close with the assurance that we have given the reader a true love story, yet we may not have pleased all because some one has rot got married. But be content the sigus are good yet.

Peter Spikk.

A PLEA FOIL ECONOMY.

The Voice of the Taxpayer* of the SoiiHi lnrt «f the County Some l'lniii Vt'ordn to the County t'oiiiinin-

MionferN.

A public meeting of citizens of Clark, Scott and Walnut townships was held at Ladoga a few days ago, to take into consideration the management of public af-1 fairs in the county. .Harvey Harrison I was called to the chair, and W. H. Boswell, of the Ladoga Herald, appointed Secretary. The meeting was addressed by Mr. John Barnett, T. H. Messick, J. N. Osborn, Z. F. Mahorney and others. On motion a committee of three, constating of J. N. Osborn, 0. B. Wilson and T. H. Messick, was appointed to draft resolutions expressing the sense of I the meeting. The committee reported the following, which were adopted unanimously, on motion of J. M. Harshbarger:

Whkiikah, The tax pavers of Montgomery county have for many years endured excessive taxation, trusting that a time would come when we would be relieved of such burdens, but our waiting has only multiplied our grievances and

Whkkeas, We have with regret watched our public servants, from the highest to the lowest, especially our Commissioners, in their reckless expenditure of our moneys, finding no parallel, therefore,

Resolved, That we demand of them the same economy in the expenditure of our moneys as a prudent man would exercise to manage his individual funds.

Resolved, That while we feel that eighty thousand dollars would be an ample amount in the construction of our new Court House, wo demand that the amount shall not go beyoud one hundred thousand, and to this end we urge each township in the county to hold meetings and express their feelings, that our officers may know that we keenly feel our burdens and will not endure them.

Resolved, That if Crawfordsville wishes to improve her corporate limits, or her immediate boundaries, she must rely on her own corporate moneys. We therefore deprecate the late proposition of our Commissioners to pay for any part of the proposed tunnel on Washington street.

Resolved, That if our Commissioners can not obey our instructions we earnestly request them to resign their

gajjement. Many compliments had been offices and make room for men who will.

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And now comes the sad part of our hero's story, and it is with soreness that we write it, but for the sake of t'.ie rising generation we feel that it is a duty. His courtship had been long and sweet until finite recently an unaccounted for cloud darkened his happiness. It was said by that great man, Henry Ward Beeclier, that the sweetest period in a mail's life was when he "popped the question but, alas, to our hero it was the bitterest, for when he asked, amid hope and fear, is rejected, not for us to describe, but is left to the imagination of the reader. The lady offered condolence to him on the ground that he could be a friend, but he would not be consoled in this way, and he answered, amid tears and anguish, that if they could not be more than friends they would be nothing at ell. Weeks passed by, during which time his brain was an everlasting fire, his blood burned and scorched his veins and vitals as it passed through them. Under this distracted condition he was fast decaying, and he knew that something must be done for his immediate relief or he was gone. So lie made the second attempt for the one he so ardently sought at first, but met with a much greater disaster than before

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