Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 August 1892 — Page 4

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Mr. Joseph Ilcmmcrtch

An old soldier, came out of the War greatly enfeebled by Typhoid Fever, and after being In various hospitals the doctors discharged him as incurable with Consumption. IIo has been in poor health since, until he began to take

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1892.

This Date in History—Aug, 13, 218+—Pope Sixtus IV died. 1521—Cortea captured the City of Mexico. 1G07—Jeremy Taylor, bishop of

Down, Ireland, and famous controversialist, died born 1613. 1704—Battle of Blenheim, or, llochstadt English and

Austrians, under Marlborough and Prince Eugene, almost destroyed tlio French and Bavarian army. 1823—(ioldwin Smith, English and Canadian author, born in Beading, Berkshire, England. 1829—Birthday of Mrs. Martha Lamb. 1848—Organization of Oregon territory completed. 1877—Chauncey Rose, pioneer, merchant and philanthropist, died in Terre Haute, Ind.: born 1T'J4. 16S8—Von Moltke retired and Count von Waldersee became chief of the general stall of the German army. 1800—The Teutonic lowered the transatlantic record to 5 days 18 hours and 5 minutes.

SIXTUS IV.

THE McKinley tariff is working out its own vindication in new factories established on American soil, in new sources of remunerative employment for all sorts and conditions of men and in a general reduction of the cost of living.

NEW YORK State has a collateral inheritance tax law. It is bearing rich fruit for the State treasury. The heirs of the late Samuel S. Tilden have just paid into the treasury the neat sum of $147,283. If this feature was added to the Indiana tax law the burden would not fall so heavily on land and personal property as it does now.

INDIANAPOLIS Journal: Before Representative Brookshire left Washington he assured the papers there that the Republican party in Indiana was torn aBunder by dissensions, but that the Democracy was united and working harmoniously lor the election of its leader. Mr. Brookshire has not been at home for 6ome time. After he has been in the State a few days and looked over the ground he will discover that he has simplv reversed the truth.

THE Durham, North Carolina, Globe does not hesitate to express the Southern Democrat opinion on the subject of pensions. Its utterances must make the heartB of good old Democrats shout for joy. ItsajB:

The pension fraud is theft, and we repeat that DO man can honestly defend it. The South has been taxed to pay this grand army of rascals—these bottle scarred bums who reach out the empty palms and when Cleveland struck the beggars in the face he did a good business job. We hope to God that he may have a chance to hit 'em again. Vagraants and mendicants should be both vigorously slapped and kicked.

THE calendar of the House cootains billB favorably reported for Southern war claims amounting to 8100,000,000, while the amount unreported exceeds the sum of §500,000,000, accordiog to an estimate made by a Democratic Congreseman. Of the 9,727 bills introduced in the House during the present session over 2,000 are for war claims, of which 878 have been reported favorably, and but for the active hostility of the Republican members a very considerable number would have been pasted. If the Democrats Lad the President and both Houses of Congress the South would have a fine old picnic in looting the treasury. They would show us that a billion dollars would be wanted in one email section of this ."billion dollar countrv."

THE DIFFERENCE.

The question is frequently asked by the free trader if protection does not increase the price of protected manufactures why should protection raise the price of farm products? The difference is this: The products of the farm are largely dependent upon natural results and are the results of changes which art connot control. By protecting the farmer he is kept out of competition with other countries, yet the necessary dependence upon circumstances over which he has no control renders it impossible for him to regulate the market-. On the other hand, manufactures are not governed by other circumstances than competition with home manufacturers. Weather nor climate can control the output of factories, hence competition forces the down. It is asked: would not the same competition operate to reduce prices under free trade? It would not only bring prices down temporarily, but drive out our own manufactures, leaving us at the mercy of foreign manufactures, and we know, by sad exjierience, wliat that means, foreign trades fixing the price upon their manufacture and also upon our products. The history of tariff-for-revenue is an oft told tale and the bitter experience of men who lived fitty and sixty years ago attest the idiocy of such a course. We have never experienced better times, all things considered, than now and policy would dictate a continuance in the same line.

THE SUGAR TARIFF.

The Louisville Courier-Journal says: "Just as soon as the Democrats get the power they will wipe out the atrocious Republican sugar bounties, and restore the sugar duties."

No one doubts it. It is a part of the Democratic doctrine to tax sugar, tea, coffee, etc., things we cannot raise in this country, and in order that British goods may be let in free. Henry Watterson, the editor of the Courier-Jour-nal, is the chap who mainly procured the adoption of the free trade platform and he is determined to carry it out practically. Will the Democratic organs of Crawfordsville dare be as explicit and outspoken as the CourierJournal, on the subject of restoring the tariff of 2J cents a pound on sugar? No they will not.

IN 1890 Montgomery county paid in as State taxes the sum of $21,500.19, and as State school $27,845.25, an aggregate of §49,345.44. In 1891 the. State taxes amounted to 838,635.18, and the State School to S34,615.19, an ag-1 gregate of 873,250.37, or an increase of S23,904.93. This great increase from this county was made necessary by the Democratic policy of managing the State finances. Notwithstanding this great increase in the revenue from every county in the State the 89,000,000 debt will not in the least be decreased. It requires all the revenue the State can raise to pay the interest on the enorm-1 ous debt and to meet current expenses. Yerily, the Democratic party is a taxmating and debt-making party,and not a tax reduction and debt paying party.

"GENERAL" ADLAI E. STEVENSON now makes a show of his friendliness to union labor. The report of the Illinois Inspector of Mines in 1888 stated: "There have been only two strikes in this district during the last year. The first was by the miners employed by the McLean County Coal Company, at Bloomington. The company having discharged a few of its employes for taking a leading part in forming a union the miners as a body came out on a Btrike to have those who had been discharged reinstated." General Stevenson was President of the McLean county coal company at that time, and he discharged miners for trying to form a miner's union.

No more compact and truthful statement of the effectB of the Dew tariff law and its reciprocity clauses has come under our notice than the following paragraph from the Cincinnati CommercialGazette:

It is an established fact, supported by indisputable figures, that the present tariff, with its reciprocity features, has reduced the cost of the necessaries of life, advanced wages increased our foreign trade, increased the import free list, and diminished the average rate of duty. It is indeed as near free trade as we can get in supplying the government with necessary revenue, while at the same time the tariff is wisely adjusted to protect and foster, as far as possible, our home markets and industries.

THE Republican Elwood tin-plate fake has been sold out by the Sheriff. The g. o. p. will go the same was in November.—LaFayette Journal. ftps

The above is true with the exception that the tin-plate works at Elwood are not a fake, they are not Republican and have not been sold at Sheriff's sale. A can of concentrated lye could not be stronger than the above. If the Journal's predictions are no more reliable than its statements which it palms off on its readers for fi.cts, the g. o. p. need have no fear for its solvencv.

TnE Democrats are worried about the Treasury surplus for fear that it will not hold out against the bills. It won't with another Democratic Cot gross to pass rebel war claims. The Committee on War Claims in the last House reported rebel claims against the government amounting to 870,000,000. The Democrats were, however, a'rnid to pass thes? bills just before election. They allowed them to go over until December. y-v?v

CHAIRMAN Will Johnson an.l .Tore Koeney were in Indianapolis la night. It is said they went over to see Tom Taggart, of the State Central Committee to Becure funds for the campaign here and for the Slav, especially for the latter. This infant industry seems to need a good deal of protection these gladsome August days.—Aryvs News.

TIIE JouitNAii has no interest in the fight between the Argus News Hnd the Star, and the above is only referred to because of tho implied suggestion of campaign funds for this county. The charge is made by the Argus New." whose editor is a Democrat, that this is to be a boodle campaign so far as the Democracy are concerned. Until the Star makes a denial the charge of the Ai'gus Neics must stand.

WILD WITH RACE.

Tennesseeans Furious Over King's Escape from the Gallows.

GOV. BUCHANAN'S ACT DEXOCSCED.

A Mass-Meeting at Memphis at Which the Governor Is Hanged and Humeri in Effigy—King Taken to Nashville—Pursued by Lynchers.

ANGIIY AT THEIR GOVERNOR. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 11.—The people of Memphis were thrown into a state of excitement when it became known that Gov. Buchanan had commuted the death sentence of II. Clay King- to life imprisonment. The official letter announcing the commutation was received by Sheriff Mc London Wednesday, and it was his intention to take King to the penitentiary at Uashville to-day, but the excitement was so great that Kintc was spirited away Wednesday evening to escape mob violence. The whole country is arouBed. Telegrams from Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee are pouring in, protesting against the action of the governor.

Lynching Was Feared.

It was given out that the jail would be attacked and the notorious prisoner lynched. So great was the anxiety that Criminal Court Judge J. J. Dubose issued the following order late Wednesday evening: 'It appearing to the court that there is now, undue excitement in the public mind because of the commutation of the sentence of H. Clay King, who was by the supreme court sentenced tu hang August 12, 1892, and it further appearing that because of threatened mob violenee it is not safe to longer keep said King in the county Jail of Shelby county, it is therefore ordered by the court that the sheriff of Shelby county without delay take said King and deliver him to the keeper of the penitentiary at Nashville, in pursuance to the order as made by the governor commuting his sentence to life imprisonment in the penitentiary of the state."

Denounced bv the Prcsa.

The newspapers took up the cudgel Wednesday morning and severely scorched the state executive. The Ap-peal-Avalanche in commenting on the matter and the absolute power of the governor says if his determination in the King case is to be taken as a precedent there is no reason why any other criminal in Tennessee should be hanged. It calls Poston's murder a highway assassination and calls attention to the fact that King refused to protect himself behind the insanity plea. It says the decision of the supreme court was welcomed by all lovers of good order, but that the governor has brought all this to naught. It would have been better for the trial jury to have acquitted King. It says further: "The supreme court considered even the excuses King made for his act. But the L-OV. nior has brought all this to naught. H:ivin~ the greater power to save, he has met the courts power to condomn and has whistled the latter judgment down the wind. With a stroke of his pen he has given hope to every murderer in tho Jails of Tennessee. He has rebuked the jury and made light of the state's highest tribunal of justice. He has acted without the support of the trial judge, the jury, or the prosecutor, usually an essential prerequisite in gubernatorial clemency, and it now remains for King's art to solve the question of his freedom."

The Evening Scimitar says the governor has spit upon the courts of the state and nation by rescuing from the gallows a man whose case was a test of the efficacy of money and influence in the south to make a distinction between persons convicted of cold-blooded murder. The governor's action is called a worse crime than that ol King and asks that if Buchanan were shot down at the capital or King slain on the way to prison, who could say that the gallows would bear fruit?

Hanged the Governor In Efllgy. These publications aroused intense feeling. At a mass-meeting Wednesday night, after the heavy rain had subsided, the people in great numbers assembled at Main and Madison streets, hanged the governor in effigy, set fire to the dummy and watched it burn. No speech-making was indulged in

Gathering of the Mob.

Groups of excited men commenced forming on the four corner of the junction of Main and Madison streets about 8 o'clock. By 9 o'clock there were fully a hundred people at the corners, but, a rainstorm coming up, they soon sought shelter. When the storm passed the mob gathered again and severalties hundred excited men eagerly awaited the spectacle. Cries of "Bring out the traitor!" "Burn the hayseeds!" and other similar ex­

pressions were heard. Some one threw a brick with a rope attached to it over a telegraph wire and the strunge-looking scarecrow representing Gov.. Buchanan was suddenly dragged forth from a group of men. and the rope attached to its neck. There was a rush for the other end of the rope, and no lyncher was ever jerked into space witn the suddenness that the dummy was. The iiaidling corpse was finally set o:i Vi-v, and tho blazing figure was t-v cut down midst many groans :uvl of derision. The crowd iv is composed for the most, part of good crtl: -, and those who actually did t'u were prominent young buNi:e-*

Sheriff McLendf took Col. King from the jail Wednesday evening and out of the city on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad en route to Nashville. The sheriff is one-legged and unaccompanied. King's son is with the party, and there are some fears ol an attempted escape.

Sniil to 1'e Governor. The court officers who helped to convict King are boiling over with wrath, and regard the pardon as a miscarriage of justice. Attorney-General George B. Peters bitterly denounced the action of Gov. Buchanan.

Judge ilulius J. Duboise was equally as severe as Attorney General Peters in his criticism of the governor. lie said: "The law lia-s been trampled under foot. 1'iiii justice outraged iy a weekmiuct'.'j j/owrnor who is a disgrace to ilv- i:.- of Tennessee. No wonder lyr.ch'.n .,-e of such frequent occur-:'e:--e." ''.'ho

news

of the commutation of the

sentence was received with great indignation by the relatives of David H. Boston. King's victim.

I.eiters to tins Governor.

NASHVU.T.TJ,

Tenn., Aug. 11.—Gov.

Buchanan before commuting the sentence of Co!. King had received almost half a ton of mail matter relative to the case. There were twenty-two letters from United .States senators and a letter written by Grover Cleveland to Mrs. E. K. White, King's neice, was also submitted to him. Mr. Cleveland in his letter said: "I know but little of the facts in the case, and confess that my slight information on the subject led me to suppose that enough of mitigation would be shown upon his trial to reduce the grade of offense below that of the highest known to our law. I have been so moved by your appeal that I have seriously considered whether there was not something I might do to help you. I am forced to the conclusion, however, that I ought not to interfere by applying to the governor for the mitigation of the penalty pronounced upon your uncle. Such an application on my part would be based only upon sympathy which I feel lor you, and my experience teaches that such a consideration ought not to control executive action in cases of this kin"1. Notwithstanding this I feel that there are circumstances in your uncle's case which ought to appeal strongly to the pardoning power, and 1

earnestr

ly hope that such representations ir.ay be made to your governor as will avert the execution of the death sentence which has been pronounced."

Petition of t'.awmakcrs.

Another historical letter is the following, signed by twenty-six United States senators and congressmen: "To Jonx P. BUCHANAN, (JOVELLNOB OP TENNESSEE: Whereas, Col. H. Clay King has been convicted of the murder of David Ii Poston and sentenced to be hanged on the 12th day of Augnst, and it is believed that the validity of his conviction has been shown to be in doubt because the jury while considering his case left the state of Tennessee and went into the state of Arkansas, and by the fact that competent evidence shows that several of the jurors had prior to the tria' expressed hostile sentiments against the defendant, which was not discovered in time for the courts to consider under the rules of practice, and

Whereas, It ,'s believed that there are grave doubts of the sanity of the defendant, and Whereas, The decision affirming the judgment of the lower court was rendered by a divi'ied court, therefore we, the undersigned senators and representatives of the United States, upon information received from the record and from persons in whom we have confidence, respectfully submit that his case is a proper one fr.r executive clemency, and we earnestly ask that you use your executive prerogative by commuting his sentence."

it was signed by John G. Carlisle, Kentucky Daniel W. Voorliees, Indiana Isliam Harris, Tennessee J. C. S. Blackburn, Kentucky Richard Coke, Texas G. G. Vest, Missouri Wilkinson Call, Florida Senators B. A. Enloe, Tennessee Rice A. Pierce, James D. Richardson, Tennessee W. C. P. Breckinridge, Kentucky J. W. Bailey, John B. Long, Texas John R, Fellows, New York C. B. Kilgore, Lewis Stewart. W. II, Crain, 1. 1). Sayers. Texas W. A. Foreman, Ben T. Cable, Scott ike, B. Mussey and Edward Lane, Illinois: Charles Stewart. Texas: J. H. Goodnight, Kentucky, and Paul G. Edwards, Virginia, congressmen.

Thinks He Did Right.

These letters were received by Gov. Buchanan Tuesday. Gov. Buchanan when told Wednesday tlia-t his action had been criticised said: "I am governor of Tennessee, and I thought I was doing right I am responsible to my God for the action I took."

When asked for further reasons for the commutation he said: "I will state them briefly. First, thf- refusal of a change of venue for King was a gross error. My second reason is that the man must have been insane when he committed the act. Third, aflldavit9 were tiled with me, which were made too late to be a part of the oourt record that the juror, Smith, had held communication with the outside world and also expressed an opinion. Juror Mustin also did the same thing. Fourth, that trip of the jury to Arkansas, and lifth, the fact of the dissenting opinion of one of the supreme judges. Sixth, the wailing of Mrs. King and her daughters, with other women, touch me, aud last, petitions of the commution of King."

Lyncher* on the Trail.

FULTON, Ivy., Aug. 11,3 a. m.—Sheriff McLendon received a telegram informing him that there was danger that Henry Clay King would be lynched at McKenzie, an armed crowd having left Memphis for that purpose. The sheriff then purchased tickets to Nortonville, Ky., where they will take another road for Nashville.

Hood's Pills cure sick headache.

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Go to the People's clothing 6 tore, next door to Elston bank all new goods. Big drives in suits, huts and furnishing goods.

sugar to arrive this week.

just arrived will be sold cheap.

What is

Casioria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil.

It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency.? Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas* toria is the Children's Panacea—the Mother's Friend.

Castoria.

"Castoria Is an excellent medicine for children. Mothers have repeatedly told mo of its good effect upon their children."

DR. G. C. OSGOOD, Lowell, Mass.

Castoria Is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. 1 hope tho day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria instead of the various quack nostrumswhich are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves."

Da. J. F. KIXCHELOB, Conway, Ark.

chairs, Reed and Rattan, rockers, bed room sets all oak for $15.00.

^Harvest Times Are Here

Castoria.

Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it ossuperiur to any prescription known to rc.e."

And we have the best stock of Groceries in Crawfordsville.

We are headquarters for sugar, coffee, salt, and all kinds of dried

fruits. Remember we give two more pounds of sugar for $1.00

than any house in the county. We buy our sugar, salt and flour by

the car load. And this is v\hv we can sell cheaper. A car load of

QUEENS W

We have a big stock of Queensvvare to select frcni. Come

and see us when you are in want in dishes. A car load of fruit cans

BARNHILL, HORNADAY & PICKETT!!!

Corner Main and Water Streets.

Low Rate tlaruest Excursions. The announcement that the Northwestern Line, comprising over 8.000 miles of thoroughly equipped railway, has arranged to run low rate Harvest Excursions during the months of August and September, will be gladly received by those interested in the development of the great West and Northwest, as well as by those who desire to visit this wonderfully productive region at a season of the year when exact demonstration can be made of the merits and advantages it offers to home-seekers and those in search of safe and proiitable investment.

These excursions will leave Chicago on August 30 and Sept. 27, and tickets can be bought at the very low rate of one fare the round trip to points in Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Montana. They will be strictly first-class in every particular and will be good for return passage Ht any time within twenty days from date of purchnse. Full information concerning rates and arrangements for these excursions can be obtained upon applica­|Commissioners. tion to anv coupon ticket agent, or to W. A. Thrall, G. P. T. A.. Chicago & North-Western R'y, Chicago.

H. A. ARCHER, M. D.,

Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N.

Our physicians in tho children's departs ment have spoken highly of their experience in their outside practice with Castoria, and although we only have among our medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that tho merits of Castoria has won us to look with favor upon it."

The Centaur Company, T7 Murray Street, New York City.

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Our stock never was so large. Prices never so low. Com­

posing of bed room sets, parlor suits, side boards, book cases, fancy

UNITED HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY, Boston, Mass.

ALLEN C. Surra, Pres.,

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INSTRUCTIONS

FROM THE

State Board of Tax Commissioners.

At a meeting of the State Hoard ol' Tax Commissioners, held on the 1st day of August, -ules were adopted

1802, the following rules were adoptedf lor the government of Appeals from County

Appeals

Boards ot' Heview to the State Hoard of Tax

Commissioners: All petitions on appeal must set out the lull name of the appellant or appellants, together with a correct description ot the property in question. II' It he realty. In addition to lithe description, which should be employed in the conveyance thereof, a lull history ol' the same should be given, embracing the size, connItton, and character of improvements, the material out of which they '.vere constructed the use towhichput approximate cost rental value. together Trlth such other information as will aid in fixing a true valuation thereon. Said petition shall be subscribed and sworn to by 1 lie appellant or appellants, nS the case may be. aud should set out the amount of the appraisement or valuation as originally fixed: and returned by the Township Assessor, and the amount finally agreed upon by the County Board of Iteview. The grounds of objection should be stated in a complete and concise manner. 1 Appeals must be filed with the County Au1 ditor on or before tlie 10th of August, and it I shall be the duty ol that otlieer to forthwith I tiansmlt the same, with all the papers eonI nectvd therewith, »o the State Hoard of Tax

It. is especially important

I that all appenls shall be in the hands of tho f-tate Hoard on tlicl'ith dav of .August, oil which day such appeals will be heard.

JOHN L. GOBEN.

Aug.!! AuUtor Montgomery County.