Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 25 February 1893 — Page 9

Faith.

I will not learn to doubt my kind. If bread is poison, what is food? If limn is evil, what is good? I'll cultivate a friendly mind.

I see not far, but this I see— If man is false, then naught is truo If failn is not the golden clew To life, then all is mystery.

I know not much, but this I know— That not in hermit's caltn retreat, Hut in the thronged and busy street, Tho nngels most do come and go.

Who to tho Infinite would riso Should know this oue thing ero he starts—

That all its steps aro human hearts To love mankind is lo bo wise.

I will not learn to doubt my kind. If man is false, then false ain I If on myself I can't rely. Then where shall faith a foothold find? —Christian Register.

PROM MERE AND THERE.

—The rr.other of O.D.Duvis is ill. —Mies Iniogeno Brown is quite 6ick. —Mrs. Fred Sheetz i9 reported belter. —Mrs. Christina Brandkamp is quite ill. —Mrs. George Lewis, of Terro Haute, I iB visiting here. —Henry Crawford and family are visiting in Maco. —A pool table has been placed in the Lotus Club rooms. —The revival meetings ah the A. M.E. church have been resumed. —rJack Brady is up from Terre Haute to welcome the arrival of a ten pound boy. —Mrs. W. H. Wiley, of Terre Haute, is the guest of the family of T. D. Brown. —J. 0. Booher has been appointed administrator of the estate of Nathaniel Booher. —Rebecca, the youngest daughter of Earnest Doreey, is very low with membraneous croup. —Miss Belle Sprague has been initiated by Alpha Chi, the ladies' musical fraternity of DePauw University. —Mrs. T. P. Keys and 01 Grover went to Crawfordsville this morning to bo«it the bedside of Mrs. Calvin Heiehert, who is quite sick.—Frankfort News. —Miss Stella dinger, one of the best •known teacherr in the county, is very low and not expected to live. She has been teaching just south of Brown's Valley.

DANGEROUSLI BURNED.

Miss Fannie Smith Paints and Falls Against a Gas Stove. On Wednesday Miss Fannie Smith, a well known lady of this city about 19 years of age, and who resides with her widowed mother at 602 Binford street, met with a distressing and dangerous accident at her home. For some time past Miss Smith has been suffering from a nervous complaint and has on several occasions fainted. That morning while standing before the fire she swooned ana in falling her head fell against the hot gas stove. She uttered a shriek and the family rushing into the room found her unconscious with her head jesting against the heated stove. She was quickly rescued from her harrowing position and Dr. Chambers hastily summoned. The left side of her lace was scorched in a sickening manner and the hair burned from one side of her head. The awful wounds were tenderly dressed and every assistance rendered the poor sufferer. It will be several days before the outcome can be ascertained but even if the poor girl recovers she will carry the marks of the accident to her grave. It was a sad and distressing mishap.

A FISE.

A Young Man With More Money Than Brains Abroad in the Land. The following special from Shelbyville will be of interest here:

For several days there has been a young man in this city who is acting in a very curious manner. Saturday night he arrived from the west on a Big Four train, and stopped at the Ray House, giving his name as M. H. Henry, of Dayton, Ohio. He ordered supper and gave the two girls who Berved him at table a five dollar bill. He gavl the porter 84 for building fire in his room. Sunday afternoon he went to one of the livery stables and while they were hitching up he went across the street to a jewelry store and purchased a handsome gold watch and chain and a diamond necklace, which an hour afterwards he gave to a young lady he had never Been before. Monday morning he interviewed a number of real estate brokers, telling them that he was hunting a site for a hotel and opera use.

They showed him arouud and he seemed to be satisfied with the locations presented. He told some young ladies that he was from Crawfordsville, but whGn confronted with a former resident of that place he said he lived at Ladoga. He bought a thousand mile ticket on the Big Four road and signed his name M. Clark. He did not drink or gamble while he was here, but seemed to huve an unlimited amount of money.

When Clark left Shelbyville he returned to Crawfordsville aud has been in this aounty ever since. He hails from Lebanon, Ohio, and his name is Mart Clark. He has been visiting relatives near Ladoga for some time and is a frequent visitor at Crawfordsville, spending much time and money here with young men of rose colored characters.

WANT A LO^G FRANCHISE,

An Electric Street Oar Company Offers to But In a Plant. Messrs. Powell and Hatch of the Kankakee Street Railway Construction Company have returned home, failing to get their proposition before the council this week. They will return and make it at the next meeting, however. Their company oflVrs to put in a $f0,000 electric, street railway of the "overhead" system, work to be begun within four months after the granting of the franchise and completed within a year from that time The proposed line nets the city pretty thoroughly. Tracks will run from city limit to city limit on Wabash avenue and Main street. A track beginning at tho Monon station runs south to Market, thence west to Washington, thence south to College and thence east to the Junction and Big Four station. The projectors state that tliev will take a" the stock but if Crawfordsville parties desire some they can have it. They will maintain their own electric plant and will build somewhere in the east end. They want a 40 years franchise and this fact we believe, warrauts the council in making a very careful and close investigation before making a grant. The city isn't anxious to be tied up for 40 years unless the tie up is to her advantage. Crawfordsville isn't hankering after bondage of any Bort and her law makers should be exceedingly sure that they are right before going ahead. The Kankakee company seems to be fair and its representative state that it will do the square thing. Doubtless it will but the council should make sure of it by an iron clad franchise with a proviso tacked on to the effect that the franchise shall be void if sold by those to whom it is originally granted.

A Bad Bill.

The following bill by Senator Ellison passed after some opposition by the majority of the Republicans and Senator Seller and a few other Democrats: "That no person shall be eligible to appointment or election to the oilice of county school superintendent who does uot hold, at the time of his appointment or election to said oilice, a teacher's professional license issued by the State board of education of Indiana, or a license or diploma of equal or higher grade in the opinion of said State board of education: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not take effect and be in force till on and after the first Monday of November, 1S94."

Senator Ellison made a convincing argument in favor of a better grade of school superintendent. There were superintendents in various counties who held only six months' licenses when elected. There would be no trouble in finding men with the proper qualifications to run for the offices. The majority of the superintendents were for the bill. The opposition came from the mossback superintendent.

Senator Seller's speech against the bill attracted the attention of tho galleries and the Senators as well. He took the ground that the less a man knew the better superintendent he would make. He believed in the law requiring first class licenses.

Senator McDonald—"Do you believe we ought to return to the old system of boarding around

Mr. Seller evaded the question and made the statement that no one held State licenses. Mr. Ellison answered that over 400 teachers held them. His speech helped the friends the bill, for it placed those who opposed it in a ridiculous attidude.—Indionapolis Sentinel.

Senator Seller probably took no such ground aB the Sentinel credits him with. His opposition to the bill was right and proper and more persons than "moss backs" are opposed to it. It is class legislation and will bar many capable and fit men from an office of great im portance.

Josephus Oollett's Will.

The will of the late Josephus Collett, of Terre Haute, was read and probated Tuesday afternoon. The estate amounts to about 8500,000. By its termB he gives first, to his brother, Professor John Collett, of Indianapolis, 810,000 Becond, to his niece, Mrs. Minnie C. May, wife of Lieutenant May, U. S. A., $5,000 third, to the Rose Polytechnic institute, $75,000, and all his books pertaining to the subject of archeology, together with all his geological, ethnological and archeological cabinet and specimens fourth, he gives to tue Collett Orphans' Asylum, of Vermillion county, lnd., $75,000.

All the residue of Ins estate is divided into eleven parts, wLich go as follows: To his brother, Stephen S. Collett, twoelevenths to his Bister, Mrs. Jennie Turner, two-elevenths to his sister, Mrs. Clara Fairbanks, one eleventh to his sister, Mrs. Ellen Jones, two-elev-enths to his nephew, Henry Campbell, one eleventh to his nephew, Stephen Collett Campbell, one-eleventh to his nephew, Josephus Collett Davis, oneeleventb to his nieces, Mrs. Mellie Jump and Mrs. Florence Ward, jointly, one-eleventh.

Messrs. John H. Bogart, of Clinton, lnd., and Joshua Jump, of Terre Haute, are appointed executors with full authority to sell and convey property without any order of court in settling up the estate, and are to give no bond.

MARRIAGE LICENSE.

Alpheu6 Cox and Nora A. Caster.

Is there no symbol of the hind to be— A lluatitiK weed, sonic broken, struggling branch— Noll ling to break the solemn round expanse Of this unending, deep lined, awful sea?

YOL 51 CRAWFORDSVILLK INDIANA SATURDAY, FhBllUARY 25, W 8—TWELVE PAGE* NUMBER

fllWlocran.

Brave ship to sail upon the unknown trackl Brave souls that dare, brave hearts that longing wait. Though storm and wind assaill Ship, turn not back! Let us go on, with faith o'ertopping fate.

How fearful is this scene! Yet many a time In London town I've known an hour more drear Amid starve souls and faces dark with crime Have felt sue.-, heartiiclieasone knows not hero. What lonelinfos akin to that white stare Of hungry lat s, hurrying—Hod knows where? —William Ordway Partridge.

A Votive Offering.

It is with ill disguised and peculiar pleasure that we submit a communiontion to-dny from the facile pen of Mr. I Kid Henderson, the popular and rising young pugilist. There is a vulgar superstition to the effect that pugilists are not literary. Let it be dispelled. Mr. Henderson rises above the dignity of his profession and lke Julius Ctnsar of old shows that he can "both write and fight, and in each is equally skillful.' To an expectant he would thus speaks: a noity ruan—he went to the Jornal office last eve and mad his roal call to the editor that he saw to stal fed prise fiterB goging to lafeyatte to fill an ingagement with John wise, but the stall fed fellows did not go and more of it that ladies man better not make any cracks are he will get a greagy epnng Job in his mouth he is looking to pinch some kid or a woman be is brave. When it comes to a sho down nit. will Betj he would not, take S3«l0 an let a man goJ you bet ho is a star

Jim Corbit nit

A Handsome Pieca of Work. From the printers' standpoint the Big Four Gazette for 1893 just issued is a thing of beauty and therefore an ever-

lasting joy. It is the World's Fair edition showing the unrivaled advantages of going to the Columbian exhibition by this route. Fine engravings of all the buildings adorn the pages of the Gazette accompanied by descriptions. Another most interesting part of the book is the biographies and pictures of the principal officers of the road.

K. of P. Party.

QThe party given on Feb. 20 by the Knights of Pythias and their families at Castle Hall proved to be a very pleasant affair. In spite of the snow storm a large number were present and the evening was most enjoyably pa6Bed. Dancing and other amusementB served to pass away the time.

The World's Affair.

Not the World's Fair but the "World's Affair" is the name of an interesting drama which the young ladies of St. Charles Academy will present on Music Hall stage on the evening of March 17, St. Patrick's day.

COLLEGE NOTES.

The base ball team will practice in a room in South Hall especially fitted up for the purpose.

Prof. Horton says the Wabash students lack greatly in the development of the uppsr part of the body. He will work to remedy the defect.

There are about twenty fiye candidates for the base ball team. Each one signifies two or three of the positions he would prefer and is to be tested as to his qualifications for thom.

Dr. Burroughs will deliver an address Sunday evening next, the 27th, in Hyde Park Presbyterian church, Chicago, on the subject, "Bible Study, Why and How." It will be the closing session of Biblical Institute of Sacred Literature under the auspices of the University of Chicago. On Monday, the 27th, two lectures on "The Poetiy of the Bible," before the Western Secretarial Institute of the Young Men's Christian Association, Chicago.

The lFa£/a,s7i poet this year is a very great improvement over that one of last year who wrote about, the "Long Corridors of Time" and "The Beautiful Danube Tide." This year's poet contributes the following to the fame of Piser:

We've got a man from way down oust, fS He gets out his Greek with the aid ol a beiict, His head so well perfumed and greased is filled with ten..cent liquid yeast, .y,s

Ta-ra-ra boom-eto.

His shirts are always red and blue, v',?"* Kor evening wear and night wear too. He sports a toe-less, sole-less shoe Aud a tennis cap the whole year thro'. Ifp When down into our cam]) lie came The land was soon tilled with his lame. :4^f| Aud if lie snags a C'ville dame, t|f|i Mrs, A l»e Uoy Piser will be her name. This sweet-voiced Wabash whlppoorwlll Is a fabric from the Shunhan dead-game mill. As "a nice old man" lie tills the bill, And with all his faults wo love him still. "Bloody Sophs in the Soup. Compliments of '96." This forcible inscription was painted hap hazard on a tag fastened by an inch rope around the neck of A. V. Tuller, a member of the Rose Polytechnic sophomore claps, who was thrown into the banquet hall of the Terre Haute House Feb. 21 in the midst of an elegant class supper which wa« being enjoyed by the li'ited sophs. His pn cipitous entrance cast an instantaneous gloom over the assemblage. For a moment none of the banqueters recognized their fellow soph in theuwful garb he had been forced to clon. Ho was clad in a woman's night gown which enveloped him from head to foot, and over his shining white habiliments hung the ominous card that toli in the twinkling of an eye that the unfortunate soph had fallen into the hands of their mortal enemies, the freshies. The affair preoipi

tated a bloody battle between the classes which rivaled old time sport at Wabash.

The Pettit Case.

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To the Editor The Journal. It is now a dutv to give the points in the Pettit case. Previous to sensational charges against him in some of the newspapers Mr. Pettit stood as high in character as any preacher in Tndiaua. When a sister of Mrs. Pettit heard the charges against Mr. Pettit she wrote a letter declaring the sensation to be false and slanderous. When a boy in the same family had heard that Mr. Pettit had been accused of killing his wife the boy declared the whole charge a d—d lie. A preacher who moved the seusation and became a prominent witness tilled the vacancies le by a condemned brother. John A. Murrel killed the neighbor and put on his boots. The evidence is merely circumstantial and too llimsy to establish the validity of a contract or a debt. The foreman of that jury who had reau Comb and Fowler believed that Mr. Pettit killed his wife, but believed that he would not kill anybody else. I have read the eaiue authors and I do not believe I hat man who will not kill anybody else will kill his wife. Why I write this is that I know that ev« ry lionest man or woman who is familiar with that case would rather have Mr. Pettit turned out of prison and know the facts of his guilt or innocence than have him remain there in doubt. I am for the truth. I A. D. WILLIS.

In Memonan.

Samuel Smith Ga'ev was bnrn in Mercer county, Kentucky, August 2(1, 1809. Ho was married Anril 14, 1S21), to Eliza Vanieo. Un October 17, 182'.). they moved to this county and settled on a la'-m. He has lived there continuously until iiis detitli. By bis lirst wife were born ton "children, four sous and six daughters August (!. 18(10 the mother departed this life. Within the last, two at:d a half years three of the daughters have di d. December 14, 18~0, he was married to Emily Wilhite who survives him. In all his years be has lived an honest, uprifrht life Although unassuming he always cherished the aespect of his neighbors and friends, and departed this life Feb 15,18!):), leaving the world better for his having livep in it. He has gone to a meet his wam. T.

Victory tor the Cover nor.

1N"TIA.NAPOI,IS, lnd., Feb. 17.—In the house Thursday the committee made its report on the senate bill to restore the appointing power to the governor, and the report was adopted by a vote of 61 to 83. Twenty-three democrats voted with the republicans, giving ten more than a constitutional majority. The house also passed Senator Mcllugh's bill, already through the senate, increasing the term of all municipal offices from two to four years. The senate committee reported on the world's fair, and passed the fair bill, with amendments suggested by the committee. The bill abolishes the office of secretary of the Indiana commission, reduces the salary of the executive commissioner.from S3.SOU to §2,000 and appropriates S75.000, out of which all expenses of the fair and the removal of the exhibits at its close must be paid. The special committee that went to Robv to investigate the racing resort submitted a report to the house which declares that no species of gambling except poolselling exists, and that charges of other forirs of crime and immorality are absolutely false, and therefore no "special legislation is needed. The report was adopted.

Senator Krice Settle! IIIH Tax Case. LIMA., O., Feb. 22.—Senator rice's delinquent tax case was settled Tuesday in court here by the Ohio senator tendering §11,827.71 and withdrawing his demurrer. The original case was for 817,000. The amount was accepted and judgment rendered accordingly.

II irrlsou's Welcome Home. ]NIIANAI'OMS, lnd., Feb. 22. The committee on arrangements for the reception to be tendered ex-President Harrison on his return to this city for residence has decided in deference to requests from the president to make the affair as informal as possible. Tho president will arrive about noon of March 6. At 7 o'clock a public reception will be held at the state house. Gov. Matthews will make a brief address, to which the president will doubtless respond. The public will be received after these ceremonies in the governor's parlors.

Itewardccl a llcrolc ISraliumun. INDIANAPOLIS, lnd., Feb. 22.—George L. Bradbury, general manager of the Lake Erie fc Western, Tuesday sent to Richard llenry Is'eff, the heroic brakeman who was ncarlj' killed at Peru in the recent wreck, a gold watch and chain valued at $200. In addition to this gift the company will take care of NefE in a good position as soon as he is able to go back on the road. On Wednesday he will be presented with the medal voted t'o him by the legislature.

Severest Snowstorm in Years. EVANSVII.I.B, lnd., Feb. 22. The greatest snowstorm in fifteen years visited' Evansville Monday night and Tuesday. Business was stagnant and people could hardly get around. The street car tragic was entirely suspended till late in the afternoon. A Peoria, Decatur & Evansville train started out Tuesday morning, and tho snow was so deep and solid that one car got ofF the track, delaying travel A train on the Ohio Valley was partly derailed owing to the condition of the track.

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