Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 September 1874 — Page 1

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VOL. XXVII-NO. 30.

^aturdaji (Sneninj} Journal. SECOND™EDmOX

CITY AND VICINITY.

JOHN R. ROBINSON, JR., and wife have been visiting in Cincinnati this week.

Dn. BKOWX, of Yountsville, is building a handsome new residence at that piace.

ST. CHARLES ACADKMY, Catholic, will open next Monday at the corner of Main and West streets.

CHARLEY GOLTKA has gone to the East to purchase the Fall stock for the hat store of Goltra & Habcock.

THE boys who took the two pieces of artillery through to F/ankfort mostly were members of the IStli Mattery.

CAMPBELL & HAIITER are putting down a substantial double plank sidewalk on the west side of their store.

LITTLE Billy Hartman is back from Terre Haute with his mashed hand greatly improved, though not quite well.

THE battery boys fired their pieces at Darlington, Colfax and upon their arrival at Frankfort Thursday evening. The reports were distinctly heard in tho city.

TOM STILWELL, of Covington, was in town this morning. He is the Republican candidate for Prosecutor in Judge Davidson's Circuit and has no opposition.

A FAN.Mlilts' club a few miles east of town held an animated debate on the Grange and Reform business lastWednesday night and prolonged its session until o'clock in the morning.

LOST POCKET BOOK.—Edwin Brower lost a pocket book containing some $25 or $30 last Thursday 011 the road between Crawfordsville and Ru.-selville. The liuder will be suitably rewarded by leaving it at the JOURNAL oflice.

SOME of trie Democratic neighbors of A. J. Shular, Republican candidate for Treasurer, appear in a card in the Review this week to deny the n*port that Mr. Shular thinks poor men should not vote when dollars and cents are in question.

CHARLEY BLAIR, John Sloan, Wm. Bromley, Jr., and Mord Richardson returned from their Niagara Falls excursion on Thursday evening, a delighted set of young men. They took in Long Branch, but didn't get to see the President.

GEN. GEO. F. DICK, of Bloomington, 111., was in the city Thursday night 011 his way to meet the men of his old command, the 86th Regiment, at Frankfort. The General is postmaster at Bloomington and in civil life as in military life is universally esteemed by all who know him.

"THE People's Guide, a Business, Political and Religious Directory of Montgomery County, Indiana, together with a Collection of Very Important Documents and Statistics Connected with our Moral, Political and Scientific History also a Historical Sketch of Montgomery County and a Brief History of Each Township," is the formidable title of a •100 page publication which is being delivered to subscribers for $4. It is published at Indianapolis.

STAUBING AFFRAY.—A difficulty occurred between the Marshal of Waynetown and a man named Clements yesterday about noon, in which Clements stabbed the Marshal in the back with a knife, inflicting an ugly but not dangerous wound. It seems the parties had revived an old quarrel and had clinched each other, the Marshal having Clements about the throat, when the latter pulled out his knife and did the stabbing. We

understand Clements after

wards undertook to use a revolver, but was prevented by bystanders. We have .very unsatisfactory details of the affair.

MARRIAGE LICENSES.—The following marriage licenses have been issued by Clerk Yancc during the week ending today noon:

John A. Servies and Mary C. Peters. Williams H. Com and Nancy Carr. Samuel S. Carrington and Sarah E. Davis.

John "W. Miller and Sarah C. Gregory. Robert B. Stimson and Edna A. Krown.

Abraham B. Caster and Sarah A. Sutton.

Robert Welch and Sarah A. Jones. Melrop Cohoon and Ada A. Fisher. Clark Culverson and Susan McCalJistor.

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The old settlers of Tippecanoe, Montgomery and Fountain counties assembled at Meharry's grove, Coal Creek township, Montgomery county, on last Saturday, to relate incidents of the pleasures and hardships of pioneer life and to make merry generally. The day was one truly suitable for the occasion, the gray, overhanging clouds almost shielding the earth from the scorching rays of the sun. The beautiful grove, unfolding its shady bosom, invited those whose eyes are dim and whose hair is silver to enter and enjoy the pleasures of "God's first temples" together with those who hold due honor to our noble pioneers. The crowd was the largest that ever assembled in the grove, the number being variously estimated at from four to si.\ thousand.

The exercises were commenced by music by the Elmdale and Pleasant Hill choirs. They sang well the beautful song:

"Out. on tlie ocean suiling."

A request was then made for all the old citizens of seventy and upwards to come lorward and occupy the stand.

Invocation was offered by Rev. S. M. Hays, of Pleasaut Hill, after which the choir sang "Tho Old Musician's Harp."

CAI'T. J. R. CARNAIIAN,

Of LaFayette, was then introduced, and held the audience to some length by a good, sensible, and eloquent address. We should like to give it here in full, but its length will admit of but a very brief synopsis. He opened his remarks by speaking of the past and present history of Indiana. In 1810 we find the pioneers settling at Vincennes. They experienced repeated hardships. They were deprived of the right of church or school or social relations. They knew naught but incessant toil. Yet they built not for themselves, but for their children and their children's children.. To those pioneers home was tvuly a home not home in wealth, but in love. Husband and wife enjoyed peace and love in that humble cottage. It was to them better to give than to receive. They lived to worship the God of Nature. Those old fashioned camp meetings of the '"deep tangled wildwood" were great resorts of worship. The memory of those days to the pioneers now declines as the sun of evening. They read the dimmed print of the history of those days yet with pleasure. They now remember not their hardships in sadness, but look upon their work with pleasure. From the dirt wagon, the corduroy, the stage coach, improvement gives us carriages, gravel roads and the great railroad from log huts to elegant mansions from the log school house to magnificent academies. We have a good school law. Look to its protection Look with suspicion on the first one that strikes at it in the least. We have good institutions of learning

Bloomington, Asbury, Union City and Wabash are some of the finest schools. School teachers have arisen to a success, and now it is an honor to be a "Hoosier School Master." The Indiana soldiers weie of true bravery. Their victories at Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Mission Rid^e and other places won for them great honor. Well may you be proud of your sons, fathers, though they be absent from you now. Well may the Hoosier boy or girl be proud that he or she is a Hoosier. Indiana may truly be proud— proud of her sons and daughters, proud of her resources aud wealth, and proud of her pioneers. But one by one these founders of improvement answer to the final roll call of the great Captain. One by one they drop from the ranks as you march on. May your last march be one of triumph. We have read of the past and of its advancement. What shall the future be? We cannot stand still either upward and onward or downward and backward. Young man, shun the enticement of the cup, for that deadly poison has been our greatest drawback. Suffer it not to enter your veins. Do not drink to-day and say "I can stop tomorrow." But, old and young, in my closing remarks let me say, wo AVORK 1 WORK! for the ndvancement of your State.

Alter this most excellent address, the Snyder choir, led by Mr. Showen, sang the beautiful song, "Safe at Home at Last."

An intermission of one hour was then given for refreshments. The well filled baskets were opened to the hungry multitude, and by 1 o'clock the seats weie again filled with attentive listeners.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

The choir sang "My Own Dear Native Land."

GEO. C. COON

Then addressed the audience. lie opened by saying that it was the most civil gathering he had ever seen. Ho had seen but two men drunk, and they were not in the crowd, and the only alcohol 011 the ground was that used by Messrs. Heatou and Coen in raising the balloon. He continued his remarks:

My first duty to-day is to thank you for the honor you have conferred upon mc by inviting me to address you. It is certainly a high honor and a deep and lasting pleasure to speak to the oldest and most active of that generation which is fast passing away but whose works are destined to live so long after it. And I am reminded by all the surroundings today that the poet has said that "The groves were God's first temples and you, my aged friends, even in these the world's riper years, in grateful remembrance of that over ruling care that has preserved you, have met together to-day not in temples raised by hands but in this beautiful grove where God has reared these venerable columns and woven the thick foliage as a verdant roof above you, to triumph together again in the victories of the past, to rejoice again together in the contemplation of the days that are gone, to tell the tales of your early hopes and joys, of your early trials aud disappointments, to grasp the warm hands of old time friends who have met with you to-day and to drop a tear of madness for the memory of those who will never meet with you again this side of the tomb.

You look around you now upon scenes of peace and plenty, but the day is not yet so far past that an unbroken wilderness opposed itself to the hardy pioneer but the same restless spirit that inspired our Puritan fathers incited you, and leaving pleasant homes in the East, through the trackless wilderness you sought lands'in the rich and fertile West, and amid Summer sun and Winters' storm you battled with nature until through these dim old lorests you carved your way to fortune.

Here you found the beautiful rolling prairie where the tall grass waved and the wild flowers bloomed unnoticed except by savage eyes these rich bottom lands that emitted malaria and death these shady woods where the savage beast and still more savage men lurked cr came forth only to quench their thirst at yon bubbling spring or as tliey were bent upon some deed of death. But now the wild prairie and woods have become rich and fertile farms or cool and shaded retreats of pleasure, and holding as they do upon their face the deep impress of the stamp of civilization they bear testimony to your early exertions and subsequent triumphs, to your patieut toil and persevering industry that has caused the earth to yield to you her richest treasures and "the desert to blossom as the rose."

And while peace and prosperity have become yourn, honor and glory have also come to you though unsought. For as a pilgrim band you came in order that about your own hearthstones and amid these wild though quiet scenes of nature youjcould freely worship nature's God aud in that band

"Wis manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery henrt of youth, There was womiin's fearless eye,

Lit by her deep love'." truth."

And to that band of noble women who first dared these savage scenes, whose sufferings were great but whose devotion was greater, words can pay but feeble tribute their good deeds will live after them through the coming generations and for these deeds God alone can and will reward them. Your pioneer life was one of toil but cheerfully you went to your labors graciously you received every gift that Providence bestowed upon you your prayers were those of fervency and faith, and whether in field or forest, at home or abroad, around the hearthstone or altar your songs of thanksgiving went up till "'J lie sounding aisles of the dim wood? rnng.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND., SATURDAY, SEPT. 5, 1874.

To the nnthem of the free." But for you there is thrown across the

past a shade of sadness. Many of those who participated in those early scenes, whose voices were so eloquent in council, whose arms were strong in action, whose hearts were ever open to the calls of humanity, whose faith in their country's future greatness never faltered, who were accustomed to meet with you in times past, aye who have met with you in the year that is just passed, have gone down quietly and peaceably to their graves. Thus it is these pioneers' one by one are going out from among us, and down to the river of death to the portals of eternity their footsteps tend as calmly and as quietly as does some mighty river in its deep flow on to the sea. Silently they are going down to the river dark and drear, whose chill waters soon shall wet

their weary feet and whose shadowy boatmen will bear them over into the land where trials shall come no more and from whose shore looking back they can see their pathway brightened by their good deeds and a world made better bv their living. It was in your generation that the world after ages of inactivity and lethargy was suddenly awakened to the fact that

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heart of tho toiler hath throbbings 1 hat stir not the bosom of kings.

And then and not till then man learned that "He is tlin true ruler and comiueror

He tho true king of I11* race, Who nerveth his arm for life's comlmt And looks the stern world in the face."

And then the restless spirit of progress

When the history of the world shall be written in the future to you and to your generation the meed of victory, fame and honor will be given for all this the world's great progress. And you as the representatives of the age in which vou lived are leaving to us this rich heritage together with the most exalted of national freedom.

And we can never be unmindful of your great work never unmindful of the fact that for God, your country and for us you 'early-sought these wilds, of the West, and amid privations and dangers, amid toils and discouragement you noble fathers and most devoted and loved mothers pushed back the savage wilderness from the face of nature and clothed the buautif'ul laudscape in the dress of civilization.

In conclusion let me hope that this may be a happy and pleasant day for you and "wish you many a return of the same."

After Mr. Coon's speech JAMES IIEATON, of Crawfordsville, exhibited some old relics. They were: A book published in 1651, the name of which is "fclorse Fenier." Another, "Cainly's English Grammar," published in 1803. "Watt's Psalms," published in 171)4. Newspaper's: Murray's Weekly Volunteer, published in 1824 at Hamilton, Ohio, and the Examiner, published at Crawfordsville, dated August 20, 1810, P. E. E11gle, editor and proprietor. People now a-days wouldn't pay postage on such papers. Both papers were four column and over one half advertisements. Next in hand came the

VOICE OF THE PIONEERS.

First to speak was OSCAR KERR, of Tippecanoe county. He spoke to considerable length, dwelling mostly 011 the former prices of manufacturing clothing, and of living. He came in 1827. He ran out of food the first Winter, and it being too icy to go to the mill he lived on meal one week that was ground from the coffee mill. He had no loft in his house and when he wanted to know whether it was clear or cloudy, all he had to do was simply to look up and through the holes in the roof. Next after him came

DAVID RUSK,

of Waynetown. Has been here fifty years. There was but one cabiu in Pleasant Hill. Speaking of the price of labor he said that harvest wages varied from 30 to 50 cents per day.

WM. BIRCH,

of Fountain county, made quite a lengthy address. Has been in Fountain county fifty years and has been heir to a corn crop every year. When he came the savages wore numerous. Then he spoke in behalf of temperance and against partyism. Related instances of the first temperance society in Fountain county. They helped one another in work as well as other things,

GEORGE GLASSCOCK,

said to be the oldest resident of Fountain, made but a short speech. He never went to school much, and what little he did was in an old log school house with no floor but earth and no chimney but a hole in the roof to admit of the escape of

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smoke the fire was built in the middle of the room on the ground.

WM. MONROE.

spoke a short time. He came in in '28. Told an instance of having a fight with wolves over a young calf. He conquered hy carrying the call a half mile on his back.

S. OREKARD

told somes instances of pioneer life. He came in '51. P. Swand and J. Widner, of Boston Store, sang a song of olden time entitled) "Old Liberty." .1 AM

ICS MCLURE,

of Newtown, then spoke of the singing of the olden time. HUGH MEIIARRY,

moved him until hecastaside that which who entered the land which the grove is was old and sought out that which was new and now art, science and literature are all stamped with the spirit of the age. Mind rules the world instead of muscle. The very elements have been brought under control, and instead of the drudgery of the past a few pounds of steam now do the work of hundreds of men. You have "entered into the springs of the sea you have '-searched out its depths and with an iron band you have "taken hold of the ends of the earth," and spanned it with the lightning of Heaven that they now may hear your messages over the world. You are able to foretell the coming of the storm ere the cloud has arisen, and not content with the conquest in this world you have sought out other worlds, told their component parts and traced their pathways in the Heavens. Human thought has become broader and more extended. Human action more free, and human slavery, that curse of the world, is no longer recognized among civilized nations.

on, illustrated the friendship that existed between the pioneers. 'SQUIRE MENDEHALL came in '23, and settled where Yountsville now stands. All the building there was at Crawfordsville was a double log cabin. Moved from Yountsville to the vicinity of Waynetown. It was then a wilderness. The nearest mill was at Terre Haute. Snakes were innumerable and they would meet and make snake killings, dragging them out of their burrows in the banks of Coal creek. He once saw in a single heap a wagon bed full of snakes, rattlesnakes, copperheads, garter snakes, blue snakes, black snakes, and all other kinds of snakes, both o» color and species. The closing speech was then announced to be given by a gentleman from Hillsboro,

J. M. CIS ROOM.

Although the crowd had become weary from long listening Mr. McBroom kept them listening attentively. He came to the Hoosier State in 1824, and landed 011 Coal Creek at Hillsboro. He spoke of and compared the "hard times" of the young at the present and the past. He related incidents of the "long aud dreary Winter" to those pioneers. Those people had to go to mill at Terre Haute. Perchance the mill goers were detained, a trough with a swinging iron wedge was the home mill to mash the corn for the family or perhaps hominy was the nourishment. These were times that tried men's souls, truly. To these ever remembered pioneers, we give due honor and reverence.

The meeting then was announced to adjourn until the

LAST SATURDAY IN AUGUST, 1875. Mention should not be neglected of the successful balloon ascension under the supervision of James Heaton, Sr., of Crawfordsville, assisted by L. M. Coen, of Newtown. Also of a chalk line, presented by S. Grenard, as a relic, which marked the first log thi.t built the first house between Pleasant Hill and Waynetown, and a razor hone brought from England to America by Samuel Gregory, a companion of Win. Penn, now owned by F. W. Gregory. A. Heath, of Wesley, exhibited an old-fashioned fire kindler. So closed the Old Settler's Picnic and those who attended thought it a day wisely spent.

Soldiers' lie-Union.

Yesterday the soldier boys and their friends in the 9th Congressional District met at Frankfort to shake hands,'talk, eat fried chicken and have a good time, and right well they performed their work. The gathering was large, the handshaking was cordial, the talking was soul cheering, the eating was done pretty much af\,er the manner of an old soldier after a weary day's march through a plentiful country, and the good time enjoyed was better felt than described. Notwithstanding the unfavorable morning the good people at Frankfort did every thipg that could be done to make the day one of real pleasure to all. The crowd was estimated at 5,000. Speeches were made by Gen. Manson, Col. Kise, Col. Tullis, Col. Blake, Gen. Spooner, Col. Bringhurst, Major Sayler and Col. Carrineton.

Tho A., L. & St. Louis Rail Bond. [From the Lebanon Pioneer.] William Zion reports that the money is made up and right of way signed over in Parke county for the A., L. &. St. L. Railroad. They met with considerable opposition in that county, but there, as everywhere else, the officers met their opposers only to defeat them. It is now a settled question that the road will be built. The people of Boone county are under many obligations to Messrs. Zion, Kenwortliy and Kersey for their energy in this new enterprise.

Hopeful.

fFrom the I adiana Farmer.)

The best sign of returning prosperity is the resumption of the operations of the great iron works, and other factories, all over the country. There is now reason to hope that the last traces of the break down in business will soon disappear.

Determined Opposition to Middle Hen. A Granger is stabling his cow in an ice house to make her give ice cream.

PER AJSnSTTJM.

Tlie Difference.

fFrom tho Indianapolis Journal.] The democratic party is in favor of a license law under which every loafer who can raise fifteen or twenty dollars can get a license and start a saloon. The Republican party is in favor of allowing the people of each township, district or ward to say whether they will have liquor sold in their midst or not. The latter is real Democracy and popular soveveiguty the former is base submission to the whisky interest aud the German editors.

Why they Did It.

[From the New Cjistlo Times.]

Henderson makes his money farming and 011 fast horses and spends it for the good of the Democracy, and so the Grangers cast Henderson overboard and took on better material for ballast.

Not one of the many balloon ascensions made this Summer has. ptoduced a fact to confirm the notion of a steady easterly current in the upper air.

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EDUCATIONAL.

Wabash College,

Crawfordsville, Incl. Fall Term begins Sept. 9, 1874.

Its Classical, Scientific, Preparatory and English Courses are vtensive and thorough. The Faculty have enlarged tho number of studies in the Preparatory Department so thai, young men in any Term may receive instruction in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, survey'ng, chemistry, German, booK keeping and othiM' studies usually taught in the best Academies.

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