Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 20 May 1893 — Page 4

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SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1893.

This Date In History—May 20. 1500—Christopher Columbus died at VuJladolid, Spain, aged about 70 birth date uncertain. 1C31—Famous sack of Magdeburg, Germany, in Thirty

D. T). FIELD.

North Carolina married James Madison 1704 died 18-10. 1780—David Dudley Field, clergyman and scholar, father of the four famous Fields, born in Madison, Conn. died 1807. 1818—William George Fargo, expressman, born in Pornpey, N. Y. died 1881.

died in Paris born 1757.

1859—The French and Italians defeated tho Austrians at Montebello. 1875—Centennial of the Mecklenburg declaration of independence ceicbratetl with great ceremony at Charlotte, N. C. Jesse 1).

Bright, former senator from Indiana, died at Baltimore, aged ti.'!. 1890—Extraordinary rain over all the Atlantic states, especially from the Hudson to the

1893—25 lives were lost by floods oil the Arkansas river near Lit tie Rock the Mississippi at and nnr St. Louis near the highest mark of tho floods.

AFTER July the Cleveland family will be composed of four members.

THE quarrels among the managers of the World's Fair continue from day to day at Jackson Park. They surpass in bitterness the quarrels of a city council.

ThE agricultural outlook is better than it was a week ago, and there is good reason to believe that the farmers will have a reasonably profitable year after all.

THE banks that have been failing lately are of the small and constitutionally shaky class, and there breaking is not felt in ths general and legitimate business of the country.

THE scheme of the present Administration to scale the pension rolls and then to tax the tea, coffee and BUgar that the Union veterans consume is simply the Cleveland ^way of showing love to the soldiers in blue.

IN THE report of the Street Commissioners to the City Council on the opening of Plum street through Elston grove there was not a $ mark in entire document. This was a fatal defect, and hence the action of the council in the indefinite postponement of the whole matter. Such a blunder needs no comment.

CON CUNNINGHAM'S hopes have been ruthlessly dashed to ebrth by the fiat which has gone forth from Secretary OreBham that Indiana has had more than her (hare Consulships now, and that no more plums from the Cleveland tree would drop in this direction. Con must be contentto "take the next best thing," which will probably be hooks.

THEBE is no justification for mob law in Indiana. If the murderers of the Seymour landlord and the railroad conductor had escaped the clutches of the law and the courts had failed in their duty to administer justice to the murderers then there might be some justification for the mob. But the contrary is true. These men were in jail and there is no reason to believe that they would have not been dealt with according to law and meet their just deserts.

SANITARY burials is a good subject to talk about at a convention of funeral directors, and Dr. Taylor gave a most interesting address yesterday, a synop sis of which may be found in to-day's JOURNAL. Crawfordsvill has two cemeteries that are dangerously close to the city, but the greatest danger that now menaces the living is the death produc ing cess pool connected with nearly every costly residence in the city. When an epidemic spreads aerobe the city it will not require the aid of a die tinguished medical scientist to give the cause. A system of sewerage iB the only remedy for these death traps.

THE Board of Directors and the National OommiBBion are still diBCUBsing the proposition to open the "World's fair on Sunday. The Board has passed a resolution favoring such a step and coupling with it the proposal to return the money received from the Government amounting to $1,929,120. In thuB throwing open the gates it is not the intention that the machinery Bhould be run as on other days. All work shall be suspended as nearly as possible. By opening the gates we cannot see that it can add anything to the wickedness of

Chicago. The fact iB it will not make any difference.

OPENING STREETS.

The law governing the opening of streets has never been thoroughly understood, especially by the commissioners appointed by the court to assess damages and benefits. Every set of commissioners that has served in this city has acted upon the assumption that benefits must be assessed against the property in the vicinity of the proposed improvement, and they must equal the damages, leaving the city out of all consideration. Section 3166 of the statutes says:

It shall be their duty to examine the property sought to be appropriated, and to estimate its value and they shall, also view the rsal estate in the vicinity thereof, and estimate both the injuries and benefits thereto. Tn assessing and awarding damages and benefits, they shall not be confined to real estate upon or along the line of the proposed change or improvement, but shall estimate benefits and damages to all real estate injuriously or beneficially affected. They shall a!«o consider ami determine what part, if any, of the expeme of such change or improvement ought to be paid out of the general fund of the city.

It will thus £be Been that the law is just as mandatory that assessments shall be made against the city as it is that they shall be made against private property. There has never been a street opened in the city but that the tax payers have Bhared in the general benefits. If property has not been actually benefitted it is wrong for the commissioners to arbitrarily make such assessments. It is in accord neither with the letter nor the spirit of the law. The law contemplated that justice should be done, even if the city should bear the entire burden.

MARIETTA College will be the scene of a novel contest this summer. The Cincinnati Tribune Bays that W. J. Lampton, who seems to be a newspaper man, has presented four medals to be awarded, as the medal states, "To the best all 'round fellow in each claBS." This award will be made by the joint votes of classmates and faculty. Just what constitutes such a manly man, according to Mr. Lampton's idea, is a young man who is honeBt, sober, industrious, of good Christian character, a lover of manly sports, a fair scholar, and in general juBt what is known among college boys as "a square fellow." If the faculty and classmates are fortunate enough to select the same men, they will be entitled, without doubt, to the medals. For such a man, judged from such different standpoints, must indeed be a royal good fellow. It will be a fortunate thing to have the id6a spread. Good all 'round men are more desirable than book worms and cads.

JOHN E. RISLEY, who was appointed Minister to Denmark by President Cleveland at the instance of his brother-in-law, has had his path Btrewn with thorns instead of roses ever since his appointment. The latest trouble which has overtaken him is the issuance of a writ restraining him from his contem plated diplomatic trip. The writ under which Mr. Risley is restrained grew out of the Alabama claims. It is stated that he and Joshua M. Spencer, of Inof, diana, were employed to collect one of those claims, amounting to $2,250,000, their fee to be 10 per cent., or $225,000, if they won, and they did win. The charge is that Risley kept all the money except $6,000. Had a Republican appointee been guilty of such charges there would have been no end of the howls sent up by the Democratic press.

THE friends of Judge Jump begin to realize that his prospects for the Collectorship of this district have been greatly endangered by the Terre Haute postoffice episode. The misrepresentations of Senator Voorhees to Postmastergbneral Bissell have not strengthened his influence with that gentleman. The friends of W. F. Hulett look on with an apparent serene indifference.

BE 11 said to the credit of Congress man Brookshire that he is not mixed up in the disgraceful squabble over the Terre Haute postofHce. The burglar who has been appointed is not one of Brookshire's darlings. He belongs exclusively to the Altitudinous Demagogue of the WabaBh. Mr. Brookshire's appointees so far as we are able to learn are respectable gentleman.

COLONEL E. T. DAWSON, of Grand Forks. N. D., owns the first military or der issued by General Grant. It is a simple document, is No. 1, dated July 2 1861, appointing Mr. Dawson Quartermaster and Commissary of the 21st Illinois. It is signed Colonel U. S. Grant, Springfield, 111. Mr. Dawson hae refused $3,000 for it.

UNDER Harrison, the average reduction of the public debt was $5,000,000 a month. The second month of Cleveland's administration shows an increase of $3,737,365 in the debt.

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THE Indianapolis News tersely but truthfully sizes up the Altitndinous Demagogue of the Wabash in the following paragraph

Senator Voorhees is a State calamity and a national nuisance. If he has ever done anything that reflected honor on the commonwealth he misrepresents, we fail to recall it. He can be regularity counted on to be on the wrong side of every public question and every public policy and principle. Everybody knows this. .And yet no man in the whole United States appears to have so much influence with the President. What does it mean? The Terre Haute postollice episode is the logical result of Voorhees' methods and Voorliecs' ideas of public office.

The secret of his pull with the President is that ha is Chairman of the Finance Committee, and to secure his services on the anti-silver

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question Mr. Cleveland iB bribing him with patronage. There is no difference between this kind of a trade and the one when a vote buyer goes out on the street on election day and places a crisp $2 bill in the hands of a poor devil for his vote. Mr. Cleveland Bnd the Senator stand in the relation of vote buyer and vote seller. The President iB no less bribed than the Senator with whom he bargains. Each buys the other.

THE Chicago Post frankly admits that the question of opening the fair on Sun days has resolved itself into a matter I of business purely. The stockholders of the exposition cannot afford to lose the money, and they demand the gates shall be open on that day so that, if possible, the great exposition may pay expenses.

HEAT AND LIFE.

Th« Application of Thermo Dynamlo ],aws to Physical Growth. We often speak of our bodies as machines or engines working1 upon principles similar to those employed in mechanics. The idea that the food we eat resembles in its action the fuel supplied to a furnace is familiar, atid yet one can hardly avoid a little start of surprise upon finding the laws of heat

engines

berly applied to explain the growth of plant and animal life. This has recently been done, says the Youth's Companion, by Mr. J. Parker before the Philosophical society in London. He points out, for instance, that the increase of available energy resulting from the building up of a plant out of inorganic materials can only be explained, in accordance with thermodynamic laws, by differences of temperature during the growth of the plant, and his calculations show that the difference between day and night is quite sufficient to account for the differences of temperature required.

Similar principles apply to the growth of animals. Nature gives nothing for nothing, and demands an exact equivalent for every expenditure of her energies, whether she is aiding man to drive an engine, causing an oak to grow, or building up the muscles of an athlete or the brain of a philosopher. And as far as her work upon our jilanet is concerned, the source of her supplies in all these cases is the sun.

A GREAT HORSE RACE.

An Exciting Contest Between the North and South. A great horse race—probably the greatest match race ever run in this country—was, according to a St. Louis horseman, that known as the test event of sectional superiority, the north against the south, in 1845. The horses were Peytona, owned by Messrs. Kirkman, of Alabama, and Fashion, owned by Messrs. Gibbons, of New Jersey. The race was run at a track on Jersey Heights, now a fashionable suburb of Jersey City, overlooking the Hudson river, and near the present American summer home of Mrs. Paran Stevens, a great society queen of the present day in Paris. London and New York. The match was for twenty thousand dollars a side, and created intense interest in all northern and southern communities.

There was an immense crowd present, distinguished men and women from all over the country being among the spectators. The spirit of local and sectional pride was a groat deal stronger in those days than it is now, and it was strung up to the highest tension. Peytona won the match, and the entire south appeared to be as a unit in demonstrations of joy and enthusiasm the north was corresponding! crestfallen.

A MUSICAL CRAB.

An Indian Sand Crab Which Can Easily Emit SoundB. Among the animals Dr. Alcock, according to Nature, has specially observed is the red ocypode crab which swarms on all the sandy shores of India. The bigger of its two cheloe, or nippers, bears across the "palm" a long, finely-toothed ridge, and on one of the basal joints of the "arm" against which the "palm" can be tightly closed, there is a second similar ridge. When the "palm" is so folded against the base of the "arm" the first ridge can be worked across the second like a bow across a fiddle, only in this case the bow is several times larger than the fiddle.

And now as to the way these crabs play their fiddles. A robber crab en Sers the burrow of another. When the rightful owner discovers the intruder he utters a few broken tones of remonstrance, on hearing which the intruder, if permitted, will at once leave the bur. row. If the intruder be prevented from making his escape the low and broken tones of the rightful owner gradually rise in loudness and shrillness and frequency until they become a continuous low-pitched whir or high-pitched growl, the burrow acting as a resonator.

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THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.

rhe Cost of Columbus' First Voyage Ksttmated to Have Been About 87,000. A German geographer, Prof. Ruge, has busied himself in attempting to answer the interesting question what it ost to discover America. The records af the cost of the caravels themselves do not seem to be extant, but the archives of Palos show what was the amount paid for the actual expenses of the voyage. It foots up 1,140,000 maravedis, but what was the purchasing power of the maravedi at the end of the fifteenth century, or how it can be translated into modern terms, seema much more difficult than in respect to the medieval coinage of some other countries than Spain.

The researches of the German professor lead him to the conclusion, however, that the first voyage cost, as nearly as possible, 87,500. The items of this expenditure are not less curious than the extreme modesty of the aggregate. The yearly pay of the "admiral" was 8820 of the captains, 8103 each of the pilots, from 8132.50 to B168.50, and of a surgeon, but 888.35. The ship's surgeon was then, apparently, as he sometimes is now, a medical student who was more eager for adventure than for profit. As for the sailors, their monthly allowance was something less than 82.50.

Considering the revenue to Spain itself within the two centuries that followed the discovery in gold and silver alone, the return from the outlay upon Columbus' expedition makes that outlay perhaps the most profitable commercial operation in the history of the world, says the New York Times. The voyage itself will be admitted to have been astonshingly cheap. It is to be hoped that an accurate account has been kept and will be published of the expenses of the voyage which has just been made by the reproduced caravels, so that a parallel may be drawn in this respect also. Even from the fifteenth century point of view it is evident that the voyage of Columbus was too small an affair to attract the attention of the politicians. There was nothing in it for them. In fact, the outfitting of the expedition that discovered America was an undertaking so petty that it would not now attract the cupidity of a "district leader

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