Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 May 1890 — Page 9

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SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1890.

Building in Linden.

Linden is having quite a little boom. Several new houses are going up and James White has sold his house and barn to an Illinois man who will go into the business of buying hue horses

Bentz-Hixon.

Lewis Bentz and Miss Elizabeth Hixson were married Tuesday, April 29, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Ochiltree in Wingatc. The ceremony was performed by Rev. D. A. Rodgers.

Public Buildings for Indiana. The House has passed the bill providing for public buildings at various points. Indiana towns remembered include Lafayette, §80,000,' Logansport,$50,000 Madison, $40,000 Richmond, 305 000, and South Bend, §75,000.

Uhange of enue.

The suit of "W. T. Brush vs. Mat. Doherty for attorney's fees has been taken to Parke by the defendant on a change of venue. It will be tried next Wednesday. 1\ F. Davidson, H. P. Ensninger, M. W. Bruner, P. S. Kennedy and W. G. Hanna will appear as witnesses.

The Boyer-Berryinan Case Affirmed. The supreme court has affirmed the deoision of the lower court in the case of John Boyer against J. A. Berryman. The court holds that mere weakness of mind, impairing only the capacity to transact business prudently and judiciously, is not sufficient to avoid a deed where there is no fraud.

Poisoned With Raspberries. J. M. Hose, of Linden, postal clerk on the Monon, ate some raspberries Sunday evening when near the end of his run, Chicago, and soon after became deathly sick. The raspberries had been put up in tin cans and had become poisonous. After suffering for a day or two he returned to this city and is now getting better.

The Season Why.

Litigation is exceedingly dull in the Justices' and Mayor's courts. One very potent reason is because this

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Death of Willis Tomlinson. Willis Tomlinson, of near Linden, died Tuesday evening after an illness of two months. His death was much hastened by an uocident which occurred Monday. He was trying to discharge a shot gun cartridge, and after the gnu failed to Gro ho took his knife and knocked the cap off. An explosion fol lowed whic'j took a large piece out of his left hand. The shook made quite an effect on him in his weak condition. He was the son of Henry Tomlinson and leaves a wife and one small baby. His mother and brother, Milo, are both sick with diphtheria. The funeral took place Wednesday at 10 o'clock.

The Art Exhibit of Indianapolis. The Seventh annual exhibition of the Indianapolis Art Association is now being given at Masonic Hall, Indianapolis. It closes May 17. It oonsists of about three hundred paintings valued at $100,000. Many of the finest of these paintings were lent by the millionaire collectors of Ghioago in a spirit of extraordinary kindness and generosity. A large number of the piotures are immense in size, as well as deeply interesting. The exhibition oonsists of landscapes, marines, shipping in ports, views in foreign cities, in forests, mountains and by views, rich interiors splendidly furnished, figure pieces full of rich costumes, fruit, flowers, animals and stilllife pieces, portraits of eminent persons, and a profusion of the most exquisite water colors. One of the finest of the paintings is a large canvas representing a gorgeous apartment in a Wom where a beautiful slave is seen deoking herself with fresh flowers.

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Por the Silk Quilt.

The following correspondence will explain itself. Of course the young ladies feel highly honored in thus seouring the privilege of using the President's name on their quilt:

BOWERS, IND., Jan. 28,1890.—BENJAMIN HABRISON, Our Beloved President. —The young ladies of my Sunday school class are making a silk quilt for the benefit of Potato Creek, In

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church and putting on names at ten cents each. Now we feel sure you are willing to help us in tills kind of an enterprise so will you please do us the honor to send us ten cants, and grant me the honor to place your name on our quilt on my part, and thus help us.

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EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1, 1890.—Miss Stella Saidla, Bowers, Ind. inclosed I hand you the ten oents, together with postage, and you can place my name on your quilt if by so doing it will help you in a good causo. Respectfully,

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A Belt Eailroad.

On Tuesday the citizens of Lafayette voted on the proposition of a subsidy of a $100,000 to a Belt Railway. It was oarried by a vote of 6 to 1, or a majority of 2,175. The subsidy goes to the Land and Improvement Company which proposes to expend an additional $100,000 towards securing manufacturing enterprises to be located on the line of this road. One enterprise in view is car works whioh the company proposes to give $30,000 and 30 acres of land. Lafayette is waking up to a realizing souse that unless she puts her hand in her pocket and comes down with the cash money other towns of lesser note will outstrip her in the race. The Star City capitalists are setting a good example for Crawfordsville.

Linden to Have a Saloon.

A chicago man has purchased two lots in Linden of John Beach with the avowed intention of starting a saloon. He will ship his building already made and put it on the lot. The sentiment in Linden is very strong against saloons, and the Chicago man is liable to have a hard time of it. About ten yeaia ago, Dan and Jerry Riley, of this city, started a saloon in Linden, but it lasted only about three months. The citizens literally starved them out. Already the Linden people are getting ready for the Chicago man. To-night a Miss Palmer, of Indianapolis, will spjak on the subject of "Temperance," and a regular temperance revival will soon be in progress.

The Grand Jury.

Tho grand jury is called to meet next Monday. Tho indications are that the business will be light, and that it all can be completed in two or three days. Tbis is the first time the jury has been called together since the September term. The boys have been on their good behavior and pe^ce reigns throughout our bordors.

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A RAID BY TELEGRAPH.

REMARKABLE WORK OF JOHN MORGAN'S OPERATOR.

How Ell«wrrth Tupped Union Wiro.s, Sent U«guK Dlsjult I'hcs, slnl (i one rills unci

Commanded tlio Union Forces—It Wiis Not Ilcpen'.cd During the War.

[Copyright, 1800, by American Press Association.] HEY are having ta nip ode in Kentucky. l'lease look to it. A. LINCOLN.

This alarming notice was telegraphed by the president to Gen. Hal leek, comniauding the Union forces in the west, July 13,1862. On the same day Gen. J. T. Boyle, an in on forces in the state of Kentucky, wired from Louisville to tho war department at W as in to is startling news:

"The rebels undoubtedly have control of telegraph all around us. There is great danger in Kentucky."

At that time the Confederate lines in the west lay along northern Mississippi and Alabama, with forces in observation at Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tenn. The main Union urmy was around Corinth, Hiss., where llalleck was, and a portion of Halleck's force, under Gen. Buell, was moving out along the Tennessee river towards Chattanooga.

But the Confederate cavalryman, Morgan, was out on his first great ride and his errand was to bring about the state of alarm indicated in the dispatches of President Lincoln and Gen. Boyle.

The Confederate troops in East Tennessee were held in check by a Union force at at Cumberland Gap, the mountain pass to Kentucky, and the southern commander could spare only a small force for a demonstration in the roar of Buell. One column, consisting of two regiments and two small detachments, was placed under Morgan to operate in Kentucky, and his success with this small force was due to the manipulation of the telegraph, which he found in working order on his route. As neither ho nor his compeers were permitted to repeat the exploit by the same unique methods the case stands alone in annals of famous raids.

Morgan took with him as telegraph operator George A. Ellsworth, of his command, and after.he struck tho first blow, which was at Tompkinsvillo, Ky., July 8, four days after he set out from Knoxville, Ellsworth tapped the wire between Louisville and Nashville and learned from passing dispatches that the Union authorities were alarmed and were putting the railway and depot guards under orders. For the purpose of confusing the enemy a bogus dispatch, signed by the provost marshal at Nashville, was sent over the wires to tho provost marshal at Louisville announcing that a Confederate column under Forrest was advancing on Nashville and that Morgan was in that vicinity co-operating. This was July 10, and Forrest was at the time operating against Murfreesboro but he had not taken it, and Morgan wiis then over a hundred miles from that point.

On the 12th Morgan captured Lebanon, Ky., before daylight, and Ellsworth Went with the advance guard and seized tho telegraph office. Here he found a dispatch sent the day previously from the Union commander at Lebanon to Gen. Boyle at Louisville, stating that Lebanon was threatened and calling for re-enforcements immediately. lie settled himself in the operator's chair and very soon he heard the instrument call B, which the books told him was the signal for Lebanon. The following conversation then took place between Ellsworth, Confederate, and a Union operator at a station between Lebanon and Louisville:

To (Lebanon): "What news? Any more skirmishing?—Z." To (station unknown): "No we drove what little cavalry there was away.—B."

To B: "Has the tvuiu arrived yet?—Z." To Z: "No. About how many troops on train -B."

ToB: "About 500.—Z." There was but one railroad, a branch from the Louisville and Nashville, but the reenforcements wore evidently coming in answer to the call of the day previous, and the

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important thing to Morgan, next to their strength, was their location at tho moment. To ascertain tho station signaled as Z, Ellsworth adopted tho following clover ruse, telegraphing to Z: "A gentleman here beta the cigars you cannot spell tho name of your station correctly.—B."

To B: "Take the bet. L-o-b-a-n-o-n J-u-n-o t-i-o-n. How did ho think I would spell It?—Z." ToZ: "He thought you would put two b's in Lebanon.—B."

Lebanon Junction was the point of intersection of the thirty miles of branch road from the Louisville ljne to Lebanon. Morgan immediately sent out a party to burn the bridge and destroy the track. After some time Ellsworth heard the call of Lebanon again and received word from the unsuspecting "Z" that the train of soldiers had returned to the junction. Then, with a little urging, "Z" sent forward for the information of the Union commander, whom he still supposed to be in control at Lebanon, the copy of a long dispatch sent by the commander of the re-enforcement to Gen. Boyle. This gave Morgan just the news he wanted, for he learned where his own detachment was and that the re-en-forcement was indefinitely checked.

He now proceeded to seize all the Union supplies in Lebanon, and after attending to his own needs, a large amount was burned. Subsequently El'sworth received dispatches by way of "Z" at the junction, showing that Gen. Boyle did not know of Morgan's capture of Lebanon. They showed also that Union troops from Louisville were on the road south in anticipation of his coming, and so instead of going to Louisville the raiders moved northeast, striking the Louisville and Lexington railroad between Frankfort and Lexington at a station called Midway.

TRICKED AGAIN.

Tho command reached Midway in tho forenoon of the 13th, the day of the great alarm in Washington and at Gen: Boylo's headquarters. Morgan was in the heart of Kentucky. Ellsworth entered the telegraph office at Midway, surprised the operator and made him prisoner, and after a few words of professional condolence carelessly asked him to call tho Lexington office and get the exact time of day. This was a ruse to get the operator's style, and when ho responded Ellsworth found that ho was a register operator, using paper to receive answers. A little search brought to light a signal book giving all of the calls on the line, and it appeared from dispatches which passed over the wires that the towns all about were alert for Morgan. On tcstfing tho wires tho raider found that ho could safely cut off tho Frankfort office and receive all its business at Midway. In a short time Lexington asked Midway if it would be safe to run a train between those stations. Tho answer was: "All rightl Come on. No rebels here!"

Following this came a military order from tho Union commander at Lexington, Gen. W to his subordinate at Frankfort, Gen. to move all his forces out on tho railroad and await orders at Midway. It was now necessary to deceive tho authorities and give Morgan & chance to be off in one direction while his enemies were massing troops in another direction. Ellsworth then telegraphod to Union headquarters at Luxington that tho raiders had passed by Midway toward Frankfort.

It was necessary to confirm this letter by a bogus dispatch from Frankfort, but Ellsworth did not know the rules of charges and could not risk a formal message for fear of making a fatal mistake. He waited sometime until the wires were occupied by through messages, and then broke in in great excitement, calling frantically for Lexington, lie got the circuit, of course, and dispatched word to the Union commander at luxington that Morgan was before Frankfort and had driven in tho Union pickets. Having the Frankfort signal he signed it and ran tho wire into the ground, so that Lexington could not call Frankfort again and detect tho fraud.

The command then moved on toward Lexington, reaching Georgetown at night. Ellsworth seized the telegraph office, found the instruments removed, put in his own, and called Lexington. Morgan had decided to scare Lexington and ride around it, north, so as to cross the Hue at Paris and get out of the state. He was within sixty miles of Cincinnati. Ellsworth said to Lexington: "Keep mum, I am in the office reading by the sound of my magnet in the dark. Morgan's men are hero. I crawliyi in when no one saw va»."

To this he signed the Georgetown signal obtained at Midway, and received the answer, "Keep cool. Don't bo discovered. How many rebels aro there?"

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A SWAP.

Softly and mysteriously sped the answer back, so cleverly worded that it reads like the breathless whisper of a man in terror: "I don't know. I did not notice. As Morgan's operator was asking me about my instruments, I told him 1 sent them to Lexington."

Cincinnati now broke in and called Georgetown, asking if the "rebels" were there. Ellsworth answered: "Yes, Morgitu's men are here," repeating his story of working in the dark.

The raiders remained two days In Georgetown waiting for tho scheme to mature and draw all the attention of the Union commanders toward Lexington. When the command was ready to move off the regular operator, who was under guard, proposed to Ellsworth that his telegraph instruments, which had all the time been skillfully hidden near at hand, should be taken by the Confederates as his ransom. "I agree to that," said the raider. "Telegraph instruments aro of more value to the Southern Confederacy than Yankee operators."

The exchange was made. Morgan now rode north, avoiding Lexington altogether. Every effort was made by the authorities at a distance to have him attacked at or near Lexington. A new general was sent out by Gen. Boyle to take command, and passing through Frankfort he reached Lexington the day Morgan passed north of it towards Cynthlaua, between Lexington and Cincinnati. Ellaworth found all the offices on the line dismantled and the wires out of order.

After taking Cynthiana and Paris (a town half way between Cynthiana and Lexington), tho raiders mode a detour and passed around Lexington to the south, reaching a place called Crab Orchard on the 21st. Tho telegraph ran along tho road toward Somerset, where Morgan, as his enemies know, would naturally turn to recross Cumberland river. Ellsworth tapped tho wire, and soon heard a message from Gen. Boyle to his subordinate at Danville, saying, "Pursue Morgan. He at Crab Orchard, going to Somerset."

It was 11 o'clock a. m. Danville is about forty miles north of Somerset, and Crab Orchard about twenty-eight miles northeast. The raiders, therefore, had twelve miles start by this timely warning and dashed off, reaching Somerset at sundown. The Somerset office was in nne working order,but the operator in charge had lust come up from the London office, and the raider had no trouble in personating a "green hand." The first message was from Stanford, near Danville, and was an inquiry about Morgan. Ellsworth answered that there were no signs of him at Somerset, and learned from Danville and Louisville via Stanford that the pursuers ordered out from Danville at 11 o'clock in the day had reported back to Gen. Boyle that Morgan was too strong to be attacked.

Resting secure on this information Morgan telegrapbe(^M0^nfflces ,ut ^Lexington, Danville,^•rononmud ?fcher points, countermanding in the^name of Gen. Boyle, all the orders for Bfcunirsuit. The whole command then took night's rest, and In the morning, July 23, started, well refreshed, for East Tennessee. Before abandoning Somerset and tho soil of Kentucky—his old home—Morgan directed Ellsworth to celebrate his clever art by wiring north the following facetious I greeting:

George D. Prentice, Louisville: Good morning, George D. 1 am quietly watching the compluto destruction of all of Undo Sam's property in this little burg. I expect in a short time to pay you a visit, and wish to know If you will be at homo. All well in Dixie.—JOHM H. I SUWOAK.

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