Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 December 1874 — Page 3
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MEDAL 1 VILLE JOTTINGS.
We arc having considerable Winter up here. There is snow afoot deep, and considerable deeper where it has drifted. Of coarse it is splendid sleighing, and people are making good use of their jleiglis.
Since I last wrote we have had considerable rain, but not enough to replenish the wells and springs to any considerable extent. Still there is water enough for all practical purposes.
The corn is all cribbed save what is in the shocks, and a good crop it is, too. Fanners have nothing to do now but feed their flocks, chop wood, do up the chores, sit by their warm fires and spend their leisure time sleigh riding. Oh, who wouldn't be a farmer But your correspondent is a school teacher as well as a farmer. How can he find time to sleigh ride? He has about as much time as an editor.
That "haste of a lion" thai has been frightening the Benton county folks of late was seen a few days ago only six miles west of this place, in Jasper county. The people are considerably "skeered up" in that vicinity. Wonder where the "larnal varmint" will appear next? Dave Barnhill says "if the critter comes this way he will come to an ontimely end."
An Illinois man by the name of Brown will feed 100 head of steers this Winter on the farm of John G. Jones, adjoining Medaryville. Jim Davidson will feed 120 head of hogs in Medaryville for Jim Gilkey, of Alamo, for the February market. The corn trade, of course, will be lively. Davidson also furnished Charley Rouster, of Alamo, 20 head of three year old steers, to be shipped to him the middle of December. You see, Mr. Editor, we have something else to trade in besides frogs.
George Fuller, a student of Asbury college, is teaching in Medaryville. Independence Grange, No. S.i, on Tuesday night last, di.-banded and gave what surplus money there was in the treasury to the M. E. church at that 1'lace. Quarterly meeting was held at that place on Saturday and Sunday last, Rev. John L. Smith, formerly of your place, presiding. The meeting was largely attended. JOE JOTTER.
THE SAFE BURGLAR Y.
tltt' lie"
A History ol til*' AiriKr I'roin
1 [Kroin the Boston Advertiser, 2:id.) The safe burglary case, now on trial in Washington, has been so long the subject "f dispatches from the Capital that very ikelv most readers hav« got tired of it, and given'up the attempt to keep track of its devious and mysterious courses. But it is coining to an end. The counsel are to make their arguments this »veek, after which we shall have the verdict of the jury, when possibly the whole subject will soon be forgotten. For if the verdict is one of acquital, few have interest enough in the matter to :roiong the trial by newspaper, and if the verdict convicts the accused, they will be sentenced and everybody will utke it for granted that they deserved their faie. In anticipation of the conclusion of the case, it is perhaps worth while to review the origin, and the circumstances which make it. so important.
During the last session of Conure-s an investigation of the conduct of aflkirs by ihe Territorial Government of the District of Columbia was entered upon and prosecuted with energy. The motive of '.his investigation was a memorial to Congress asking for it, which was signed by Columbus Alexander, W. W. Corcoran and other respectable tax paying citizens, who alleged that they had reason to believe the oflicers of the Territorial Government guilty of corrupt exorcise of their authority. The suspicion of such malfeasance in the ofiice was notoriously common in Washington and elsewhere wherever enough was known lo base a judgment upon. When the 'matter was brought before Congress by tlie memorialists an investigation was ordered. There was some reluctance on le part of several Senators, it will b-« remembered, to serve on the Investigating Committee, but after awhile a Committee was constituted which set about :ts business, and with little dilliculty found out that the condition of things was bad enough. The result of their report was the overthrow of the District
Government, the appointment of a
('Otrimission
lsls
to draft a new scheme of
Government for the District-, and the establishment of a Provisional Government to have charge of the public interMs ad interim.
The Assistant District Attorney under •i'e Tentorial Government was a lawyer t'amed Harrington, and he appeared at 'lie sittings of the Investigation Committee as counsel for Govcrner A. II. ^benherd and the members of the Board
I tiblic Works and officers of the Territoral Government, who came to be designated as the Washington ring. Harrington was superviceable to his clients in the way of preventing the Investigailng Committee from finding out the '"(its they were searching for. Some intimation the committee and niemoral-
particularly desired to obtain, was
sllIlosed
to be spread upon the book
|ohn O. Evans' & Co.* a. firm having ''talings with the ring. There was turned over to the committee a set of "ooks purporting to be those of the firm,
,Jut
the suspicion was strong that the 'fit.was not the genuine, original one. IJ'is suspicion, together with many othI'1'circumstances in connection with the Investigation, made the case look blue
lljr
the ring. It became clear that nothing would re-establish their prestige
rington, the Assistant. District Attorney, was mysteriously robbed of a bundle of papers. The robber was taken into custody when leaving the door steps of the house of Columbus Alexander, one of the memoralists, whither he had been tracked by officers of the Secret Service, who, by a by to see the burglary committed, Imremarkable good fortune, were standing mediately the report was diligently spread that Alexander had put up the job in his excessive zeal to procure evidence against the ring, and lie was, we believe, arrested for complicity in the robbery. The matter was at once taken cogpizance of hv the Investigating Committee, who made a thorough investigation of the whole ease, wit.ii the result that Alexander was cleared of suspicion, and evidence obtain.d which indicated that the job was put up by Harrington himself, with theguilty complicity of A. 1}. Williams, an Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney of the Washington Police Court Col. H. C. Whitely, Chief of the Secret Service of the Treasury Department, I. C. Nettleship and Colonel Whitely, first assistant, who employed some notorious burglars to break open the sale, abstract certain documents, and deliver them to Alexander, who was to have been arrested at the instant of receiving the stolen property, and so involved in a felony, by which the investigation of Harrington's clients would be broken uown. it happened, however, that Alexander did no', answer the summons of his door bell, and the plan failed to that extent.
The evidence before the Congressional Committee was of such a serious character that the Treasury Department took cognizance of it in so far as it affected the other oflicers of the
Secret Service Depart
ment, and that branch of it was thoroughly investigated by a law officer, whore information being submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, that officer dismissed from the employ of the Government Whitely, Nettleship and the rest, and, indeed, reorganized the Secret Service Division altogether. In the course of time the grand jury had the case submitted to them, and Harrington, Williams, Whitely and Nettleship \ere indicted for a conspiracy to commit burglary. Their trial on this indictment is the case now drawing to an end. The chief evidence for the prosecution is supplied by one of the burglars named
Hayes, who turned State's evidence and told a startling story of the negotiations conducted by Whitely and Nettleship, by which his professional services were secured for a price and a guaranty that he would not have to remain in jail long. During the past week some of the defendants in the case have procured the arrest of Hayes on the charge of perjury, but this is in some quarters said' to be only a trick to discredit his story with the jury. There tire many episodes connected with the case which have a special interest, such as the spiriting away of important witnesses, and the release on nominal bail by application of one of the alleged conspirators of an alleged confederate. The District Attorney, Harrington, being on trial, the prosecution of the case has been in charge of
Assistant Attorney General Clement H. Hill and A. G. Riddb-, Esq., of the Washington bar. who was specially coinmissioned by the Department of JUBUlC
The Arctic Niyrhl in Xonvav. From the Loudon Sutiii'd.iv Heviow.1 ISo experience of the long days of the north of Scotland or even at Throndlijem ((3.'S1°) gives an adequate forecast of the true Arctic night Near the Arctic circle you*may, lor about a fortnight at Midsummer, see the sun descend below the horizon at ten minutes to twelve, leaving a subdued light, as if he were behind a cloud, and rise again at ten iniroutes past at nearly the same place, which of course is north, with enhanced splendor. For the lew minutes ol the sun's absence a night chill is precepible, whichis dispelled directly by his rising rays but so !ar we have not yet reached the Arctic Summer. The next night, if you have been voyaging on meanwhile, you must be a degree or so inside the circle. It the weather is fine and the northern horizon tree from high laud, you may carefully watch the golden orb (not generally so red as with us) descend the horizon, but, when about three times his own diameter from the horizon after a few minutes apparent stand still, begin to rise again, moving toward the east. The heat and brilliancy of ie sun this nighi are such thai parasols are generally used, till the. interest of the few minutes ol crisis iusesthrm to be discarded, and that if there be not too much wind, holes may be made in woolen clotlies, pipes lighted, etc., by ordinary burning glasses the sun may be gazed on, though with some pain by the naked eye. The further north you go, the higher is the aim's lowest point, till at Troniso
his porthole, as the present writer could do shortly after leaving Throndhjem. The temperature is very different from what is often supposed, It varies to an extraordinary degree with the clearness of the day and with the direction of the wind. A north or northeast wind brings severe cold yet if it be not very strong the sun shining free from clouds counteracted it so far as lo make every sunny seat very hot. Especially at night and in the early morning is this heat remarkable, because then we expect cold and dew. A south or west wind is of course mild, and would cause great heat but that it generally brings clouds and rain, as on the similarly circumstanced west coast of Scotland. On the land the heat is felt in the Arctic region far more than on the sea. The soil undergoes no cooling process in the night, and is therefore un freshed by any dew. 1 he hills afford frequent shelter from the wind, and expose many a spot on which the sun pours its full heat, while on board ship the wind is always present. Un this account many of the valleys in the north have an intolerable and worse than tropical heat, and large tracts are said to be absolutely uninhabitable from the mosquitoes, against which no protection, is..found to be of the slightest use.
Mammoths and Mastodons. IKrom tlie Denver (Col.) News.] Some of the results accomplished, and in the process of accomplishment, by the Wheeler expedition, during its present campaign in the interests of science, are of a character to be appreciated by scientists abroad as well as at home, and lo exercise a material change in more than one branch of knowledge, as at present constituted. Last year, it will be remembered, Prof. Cope, the paleontologist, set the scientific world on fire by the discovery of an "elephant's grave yard," containing the bones of mammoths, and the extinct elephantine genera that flourished thousands of years before the days of Adam and this year again he is likely to cause asimilar mundane conflagration by an even more extensive discovery of the same sort. He, in conjunction with bis conscientious coadjutor, Dr. Yarrow, lias unearthed in the valleys of the San Juan a large number of vertebrates of enormous size, some of which are entirely new to science, and those that are not, of a very rare aud unknown species. Among them are several very perfect skeletons of the mastodon race, and a very large variety of mammoths cousin German to the elephant of the past. The discovery has not yet been arranged and classified, so that a complete list of the different specimens embraced in it can not be given but this work already is in progress. a number of the specimens having been forwarded to Washington soon after their discovery, where competent persons at once set to work upon them, and Dr.
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4()v The amount ol light of course diminishes during the evening, but alter half past ten remains the same, and appears toward midnight rather lo increase. It has greater soilness than the light of day, and sheds a peculiar warm glow over tlie sea and rocks, which must be seen LO be understood. After midnight it is inieivsiing to watch the evening light change its character about half past twelve or rather later it assumes a whiter color, more like what we know as early morning light an hour alter sunrise. The birds fly about, the fishes jump, and animated nature seems to know as little of night as inanimate.
Ou shore, tor insiauce, at Tromso, people are out walking or standin! at their house doors, enjoyinsr the night as we do the day. Perhaps they retire to sleep at one or two but sleep seems scarcely a necessity to ihein, and they are up again early. It deserves to be recorded also that a photographer at of Troniso took successful portraits of a
large group of steaaiboai pussetiuer.-i exactly ut miilniidil oi line 27. It need hardly be mentioned thai neither within the Arclie circle nor considerably south of it were any suars visible at Midsummer, nor until the end of uly, and the moon but rarely, and then as pale as at noon in England. Of course this description is true only of bright, cloudless nights there are dull nights there, as
there arc dull days with us and many
[JUt the breaking down in some \vay of a traveler may steam from Throndhjem character of the men active in push-1 to the North Cape without ever seeing "'P the investigation. the sun at midnight, or being able to 'Jne night last Spring tlie safe of Har- read the smallest print all night through
Yarrow left for the East Monday with a large proportion of the remainder in tow.
Besides this very valuable variety of vertebrates, as many as a hundred additions to the known list of invertebrates have been made, while also a iarge number of "old friends and new faces" have been found in other words, familiar specimens'have been rediscovered in entirely new formations. The effect of this latter will be to revolutionize many of the conjectures of science, not only as to the age of the animals in question, but also as to that of the formations they are found in. Lieut. Wheeler regards this as the most valuable contribution to paieontologv made since that study became a brincirof scientific research.
Mistaken Advertising.
Tiic Denver (Col.) llerald. in a lute number, expresses tlie opinion that the public can be better reached through the columns of a newspaper of a fair circulation, '-than through all the other mediums, costly circulars, cards posters, give-aways and jimcraeks put together. The oldweekly newspaper is alter all, the only general, judicious medium lor advantageous advertising. A thousand doors are opened to welcome it: a thousand messengers are weekly seeking the postolllce to receive it: a thousand families look for its coining and ten thousand read it when it does come, advertisements and all. There is much truth in this. The, thousands of dollars wasted annually upon expensive almanacs, circulars and other questionable -methods of advertising, which in company with patent ofiice reports, iind their way to the junk shop, would render very material aid toword the support of numbers of deserving local papers, and also return something the way of proliit to theadvertiser.
The Difference in Living. [An Kngliyhnvm :it Chicago.] What first strikes, however, stranger visiting the stock yar'l is unaccountable difference between cost of living iu Americi and the prices of the first necessaries of life. An average head of cuttle caii be bought here lor $25, while it would cost as much as $90 or SLOO in the old country. A hog can be bouuht for $0 or $10, or at retail for about 8 or 9 cents a pound, one third of the English price. The same is true with bread and vegetables. Yet living here costs three or four times as much as in England. There must be evidently something utterly wrong in the very basis of the sociafand economical organization of this country.
It irn't suspected, but it is true. Bonner, of the New York
Ledger,
is respons
ible for much of the prevailing distress. For years young people have been reading his delusive romances and his advice to marry young, and now there# are thousands of people with large families on their hands and nothing to eat but New York
ledgers.—Courier-Journal.
Revivalist Hammond has just closed a revival at Nashua, N. H., where be made over four hundred conversions.
Mr. Heltscoot, oi Cahokie, Illinois, is supposed to be the person mentioned in John Hay's "Little Breeches."
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