Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 November 1874 — Page 2
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T'KA\VKURDSV1LI.E. SATURDAY. NOV 7-
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sonified the Nine Muses, and by their
worship of each other hope to propitiate the aforesaid goddesses to aid and blees their various aims and efforts. Having thus canonized themselves as sainU their invocations would necessarily be offered on All Saints' Day or Hallow E'eu. This day and eve they "celebrated Saturday last with all the pomp and credulity of materialistic idolaters.
As an instance of how extremely egotistical women may be in heroine worship, and how they may be led to imagine their.aptness to assume the possession of attributes similar to those of tiie Nine Mtwes, and which attributes they propose to have conduce towards llxsir devotees, we annex a list of the goddesses and their would be personifies.
CALLIOPE,
The goddess with a beautiful voice and who presides over eloquence and heroic poetry." This goddess is represented by Miss M. R., a young lady possessed of a beautiful voice, and whose exquisite warblings and emotional improvisations are the delight of Her ethereal sister spirits. But we sadlv confess that they are not the same to her mundane- acquaint&nces. 1*4,
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"The proclaimer, and the muse who presides over history." This goddess is represented by Miss L. W., a young lady who can tell all that has happened and is to happen. This faculty endears her to her sister spirits, as a future history is what they want, and the more imaginative and highly wrought the better, and this attribute L. \V. possesses in the highest degree.
EBATO.
This godfiess presides over poetry and especially over that devoted to love. She i6 represented by Miss L. R., a highly emotional iady, and if she succeeds iu obtaining for her sister spirits the personificatione of the ideals she so beautifully portrays we are sure she deserves the most .revered niche iu their mem ories.
EUTERPE,
"The delightful." This goddess presides over wind instruments, and, consequently, over, the vaice. She is represented by Miss M. H..K., a young lady in both respects the ideal bf the goddess. It is to be hoped'that the power of the voice which she poscesses may not be coveted by her sister spirits otherwise our goddesses may cease to be worshipped except for theirextrerne volubility. aiELPOMENE, Literally, "the songstress." This goddess is represented by Miss M. K., a young lady who may be said to possess the attributes of this goddess only in the imagination of her sister spirits. No human ear has listened to her warble, and no sorrowing heart has been soothed by her melodious voice.
TERPSICHORE,
"The goddess who presides over dancing." In Miss C. K. this goddess finds a faithful earthly representative, and as her beautiful form glides through the mazy dance her idolizing sisters ejaculate: "Grant, oh, grant to us this subtle power." '.y
THIXEIA,
Literally, "to be luxuriant one of the graces who presides over idyllic poetry." This goddess is accurately and beautifully represented by Miss E. A., whose exuberance of fancy and of spirits, coupled as they are with so many outward signs of the gifta ol her patron goddess, make her the cynosure of the brethren and the envy of her more plain and unfortunate sisters.
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Literally, "heavenly." This goddess presides over tbe science of star gazing, and may safely be said to have more worshipers than any other goddess in the realm. She is fitly represented by Miss J. G., an etherial being, materialized for the express admiration of the club, and whose eye, which can see the "home it will enjoy when lore becomes immortal," they hope and pray will share with them a sufficient portion of its discernment to enable them to descry the temporal home they hope to enjoy in the not far distant hereafter.
POI.YHYMSIA,
"The goddess of sublime poetry." She it fitly represented by Mist M. P.. whose labial manifestations are said to have been the foundation for Longinus' celebrated essay on the sublime.
In conclusion, it is a cause ot congratulation for us to know that we have in f,hi§ city such perfect representations of
th« virtues of those goddesses in whose worship the wisest and best of the nnjcient and renowned Grecians wore wont to take delight. If these, with their superior knowledge and goodness, could adore them-so devoutly, what should be
OUT duty to'their able modern impersonators? Lot us not for one moment in-
of Y°ur dulge in recrimination as to their harmless sports, such as sowing hemp seed aroundithe house at midnight, eating apples in front of the mirror expecting'their future husbands to look over their shoulders, setting suppers at midnight and opening the d^ors expectiug their future husbands to walk in and
It may not be known to all readers that there exists in this city* club of young ladies bearing the sobriquet of the G. lVs. Lest persons who 'may chance to hear ot the club and of its doings-will be at a loss to divine it* objects, we take pleasure in making them known to your readers. These young ladies, who, by the way, arc sub- their seats, etc., but rather look upject to t'he various weaknesses of the
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fair sex, and are therefore quite super-j follies of woman to predominate stitious.fcave in their own members per-.
these as-tin instance of the power of
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the attributes of the good, w.d take
weakness ikese sirens may entice us into a position from which there te no deli yerauce though wc ask ii with tears. os in
COUNTY M.WS AMI) GO SSI I' Howern* Mtntion. —Times are hard and money •scarce.'....! —Wiieut looks well here, considering the dry weather. —Pmeacher Brooks died of typhoid fever on Friday last. —A wolf has been seen in a swamp near Bowers' Station. —W.ild geese have been seen pursuing their courses southward for a fews days past. —Three of our boys, A. W. Bowers, S. L. Bowers and VV. Mallen went to Colorado this Fall, and are well satisfied. —The'Grangers will have an oyster supper at Sugar Grove school house 011 Saturday nisrht next. THUNDERrw
A Case ol' Meanness.
In a Denver paper we find a story which amply indicates the meanness of which humanity is capable, under circumstances which afford opportunity for the exhibition of that quality. A poor widow who has been a ward of the c.ty's charitable institution went to work in a iiotelasa laundress, taking with her a son aged fourteen years and a little daughter old enough to wash and iron napkins. After working some months the woman quit the service of the hotel and asked for a settlement. This was not refused by the proprietor of the hotel (they never refused settlement,) but an offset to the widow's account was presented iu the shape of bill for board of the children at the rate of six dollars each per week whereby the widow was broughtout in debt to her employers. In vain tins poor woman pleaded that the boy and girl had fully paid their board by their work, and on this basis a settlement was denied. Suit was brought by the poor widow to compel a more equitable adjustment of the account. The court decided that the work of the children should stand a? an ofiset to their board and and that the widow was enti-. tied to her wajres. Tears of joy came into the eyes of the forlorn and destitute woman at this upright decision, and the avaricious hotel men lost some of their good name as well as the suit.
A Remarkable Accident. [From the New York Time*.] A most remarkable accident—remarkable for what it did not do rather than for what it did accomplish—occurred at about midnight of Tuesday in the Passaic Rolling Mills, Paterson, N. J. Some parts of the machinery became dislocated, and the fly wheel, weighing twentyseven tons, and its velocity inereased front 65 to 300 revolutions a minute, flew into a dozen fragments. There were one hundred men employed in the room in which the aegtdent happened at the time, but they aU-* miraculously escaped injury, (ine fragment of the wheel went through the roof of the building, crushing every thing in the line of its movement, and descending, made another hole in the roof, and finally embedded itself in the earth. Another fragment was sent through the roof, and descended through-thfe "roof of the puddling milk where it embedded itself in the fioor. A number of the men bad narrow escapes, but none sustained injury.
Cox Congratulating Himself. Hon. Samuel S. Cox, in his speech accepting a renomination at the bands ol his Democratic friends in the Sixth New York District, quietly remarked: "My votes against the salary bill and the return of the money degraded me from my proper position on committees and in the House. I trust that those who en joyed mv discomfiture and rendered my last session, socially and personally, uncomfortable, because of the salary bills, have had a pleasant time among their constituents. Most of them remain at home to jild the calm cur re .t of domestic blits."
Price of Silver.
[From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.] Silver is lower now in Europe than .at any time before in twenty-five years. Between 1850 and 1872 tbe average annual price was 60d. or above in 1872 59jd. At present London quotes 57Jd. an ounce. This great decline is accounted for by the withdrawal of German silver coin, and tbte substitution of gold therefor as a circulating metal, and also to an increased production of silver mines throughout the world. Nevada has become the greatest silver prodncing country in the world, and its mines seem to be nearer inexhaustible than those of Mexico.
A Fonl Injustice.
[From the LaFayette Journal.] An Eastern paper speaks of "Isaac Buchanan, tbe author of the Indiana plan." Crown of glory, wreath of fame! Jim, man, Jim not Ike! "Let justice be done though the heavens are knocked higher than a kite."
Speaking of the Nation's Wards, Artemug was one of them.
THE CAR OF .1 COWEHNA UT.
ThrUrmlliidimi Festival it Bcrfcampore—One or lnn«ra*M'i Vlcllmo. A correspondent of the Madras Aiken-
fre^]j warning lest at some time in our covered consciousness, and died early the
THE OKAWFOBDSVILLE SATURDAY EVEN LN(» JOURNAL.
ceum writes to that journal: "A frightful accident, which terminated fatally happened at Berhampore on Saturday evening, July 25, in connection with the dragging of .1 uggernaut's car.. The poor unfortunate man was a carpenter, and for three or four months has been employed in constructing the car which cost him his life. At the time the accident occurred he was sitting on one of the axles, and it was his work, when the car was running off the road or against a house, to block the wheel with a piece of woods In pulling the piece of wood ir.nn under die wheel he lost his balance, fell down, as the car was pulled along at the iustant, the wheels passed over his arms and legs, which»were completely pounded. The poor fellow was at once conveyed to the civil hospital, but he never re-
next morning. That his death was the result of a pure accident there can be no doubt, as the tahsildar, the sub-magis-I trate, and the inspector of police will be 1 able to affirm. Nor cau I see, if such ponderous and unwieldy machines are allowed to be dragged through the public street, crowded with people, how any person can be held responsible. The police,
I know, are supposed to take every precaution against accidents, but when the car is unwieldy, now rushing to this side of the road and now on that, when it is pulled by hundreds of people along way ahead, and often starts all of a sudden, what can the police do? Several timesi saw the car start through tiic crowded street's, my peons were excited lest some one should fall down and be crushed under the wheels. The wonder to me was not that there should be one n.iangled body, but that there was not several and can not but think that the goverment is highly to blame for allowing—in the name of religion, but really, for the sake of fun, or 'tamasha'—such ponderous and unmanageable vehicles to be dragged through narrow crowded, public streets.
This year the car—with a view of using it in future years—has been made stronger and heavier than usual. The wheels, too, which are of solid wood, and twice the width of ordinary bandy wheels,have Seen girt with tires, aivd so rendered more dangerous and destructive in cases of accident. Moreover, the presence of the police 011 the car and round about, giving orders, make it appear to the natives as though government had taken Juggernaut under its especial care and direction, and gives the idol an eclat which otherwise it would not possess. Even the accident is turned to the glory of the god, and amid others have heard it accounted for in the following ways: 1. That as Juggernaut was appearing this year in a new body, he wished to show his power in some unprecedented manner. 2. That the carpenter who built his car had given him a great deal of trouble, and in a rage he had killed him.
That Juggernaut, being so pleased with his new car, manifested his pleasure to the chief carpenter by giving hinv salvation publicly in the ba#ar. 4. That Subhadra's—his sister—car being made so much inferior to his own Juggernaut's brotherly indignation was aroused, and lie killed the builder for the slight upon his sister. 5. That in removing the divine principle from the old idol to the new one Juggernaut's permission had not beenaskea, and he therefore showed his indignation at the indignity offered. 6. That the roads'being so clean and level, (thanks to the municipality), as compared with former years, Juggernaut became quite bewildered, and that while in the state of aberration he accidentally ran over his carpenter.
With regard to some of the people, itmay be added that their faith in Juggernaut's divinity has been rudely shocked, and they ar- unable to reconcile his godship with his conduct in killing the carpenter, who for three or four months had been diligently employed in constructing his car. 'Where is his mercy?' they ask. 'The gods, like the people,' said one man, 'have all become false."'
Bloss a Murderer. [From the Detroit Free Press.]
The other day a compositor in this office got hold of apart of a page of the chirography of G. D. Bloss, of the Cincinnati Enquirer. It isn't writing at all, but Bloss seems to kick the ink Dottle at a shest of paper, and then sends the paper down to the compositor as editorial. This part of a page was used as a foundation of a plot to deliberately destroy a human life. A line or two was written above it, Bloss' page marked "solid," and it was handed to the "jour," who had just struck the office. He claimed to be lightning on the set, and on reading manuscript, and he set up the introductory line like a whirlwind. When he came down to Bloss he grabbed for a "cap A," held it a second, and then dove into the "Y" box. Then he threw that back and picked out a dollar mark, and the typo paused, spit on his hands, and rested one foot on the cross bar of his rack. After a moment he grabbed a "ffi," but slowly replaced it and toyed with an italic "Z." Then he spit on his hands some more, corrugated his brow, and hauled the manuscript under his eyes. It was no go. He held the page further off, close to his nose, slanting it to the right, and square before the window, but he couldn't start it, and he knew in -his soul that no other human compositor outeide of the Enquirer could doit. As afternoon faded into twilight he laid the page aside, set up two or three ljnes out ot his head, and then slipped into his coat, said he'd got to go the depot and see a friend, and he fras gone.' In his stick he had set up the words, "Tell my mother that I will meet her on the other shore." He proably will. He was seen at the foot of Griswold street, heard to ask if death by drowning wasn't easier than hanging, and it is probable that his marble form now lies at the bottom of the cold, green riyer, while Bloss is a murderer.
If a man really wants to find out what's in him let him go to sea. The first rough weather will generally enable him to ascertain it.
Polite—"Please, sir, if you'll get off my corn long enough, I'll kick you."
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Ladies' Misscss aixl Childi eiis' Now Fall Stockings and Gloves,Merino Underwcar.Gcntlcmons' and Hoys' Merino, New Neckties, DOWN, Etc., Bleached
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Tapestry Brussels, per yd $1.10 to $1.20 Three llyi 1.25 to 1.40 Ex. Two Flya 1.25 to 1.40
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OIL CLOTHS, RUGS, HATS, WINDOW SHADES, Ac, At Correspondingly Low Pricec*. For thirty days we shnll offer our immense stock of new Carpets, consisting of 1,000 Pieces,.at New York Wholesale Prices, to our retail customers.
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No 9, West Washington St.,
Crawfordavfllle, Indiana.
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