Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 June 1893 — Page 2

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SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1893.

A BEWILDERING MURDER TRIAL. In the history of crime there have been few cases more bewildering than that now being tri6d at New Bedford, Mass. Lizzie Borden is charged with the murder of her father and stepmother. This double crime was committed on August 4, 1892, and is one of great mystery, but there is no direct evidence to connect the daughter with it. The prosecution started out on the theory that the daughter is guilty. All its efforts have been directed toward obtaining the facts to dovetail with this theory, and is endeavoring to secure her conviction by ingeniously piecing together bits of circumstantial evidence. The State's case has been perfect so long as it was allowed to make it in its own way, but it was riddled with holes before the defense had done with it. This is not true of one witness or two, but of all, and especially true of the police officers, on whom the State mainly relied. Two axes and two hatchets were fouud in the cellar. One hatchet was without a handle. The theory of the State is that the killing was done with this hatchet, the blade of which was found to lit the wounds that the handle was broken out and burned and the blade washed and then covered with ashes. But there are circumstances which tell on the other side. The servant, who had lived there over two years, testifies that Lizzie always got on joleasantly with her stepmother. She never saw anything amiss between them. Would not Lizzie have chosen a more opportune time? It was midday, when danger of interruption was great. Her uncle was visiting them and was liable to come in at any minute. He did return shortly after the discovery of her father's body. If she committed the murders, how could she remove all traces of them so quickly and thoroughly from her dress and person. None of the neighbors or keen-eyed police found a spot upon her or upon her garments. Whoever did the deed must have been splattered with the blood of the victims. The State's theory requires one to believe that she hacked her stepmother to death, changed her dress, washed herself thoroughly, saw and talked with Bridget as though nothing had occurred had talked and laughed with her father after he came home while doing some ironing, induced her father to lie down, so that he could be in her power, brained him, washed and changed her clothing again, calling Bridget downstairs within twenty minutes of the time the servant had seen her talking with her father. All this is perhaps possible, but probable it is not. The dress she burned she burned openly in the presence of her sister and a friend. Would sh«i have done so if it had borne evidence of guilt? Those who were looking on saw no blood on it. This act and her subsequent remark about it really have the appearance of innocence Her confused statements at the inquest can be explained by the morphine which the doctor had been giving her. Moreover, there is nothing in her past history to account for her being the monster she would be if guilty.

THE Western Christian Advocate, the leading Methodist newspaper in the West, says of the Briggs case: "Now, it may be altogether proper for the Presbyterian church to silence such a man, but it can never unchurch him. Its Assembly may vote 298 to 116 against him but the enlightened Christian sentiment of the world is three to one in his favor." It will thus be seen that the Methodist church is tinctured with the heresy of Dr. Briggs.

DEMOCRATS hereabouts as represented by the Star are suffering from "that tired feeling" so prevalent in the spring. A prescription of pink pills for pale people would be reinvigorating. Far sale by John A. Booe, the druggist. No charges for this advertisement.

PROFESSOR BRIGGS' defense offered to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church at the recent meeting in Washington is to be brought out immediately in pamphlet form by the Scribners.

THE State

presB

is demanding copies

of Attorney General Smith's speech in defense of the fee and salary law. Smith's silence in that case was painfully eloquent.

THESE are golden days for the farmer.

JOYLESS JERRY UNDER A JAGThe Star, which is the organ of the Swallowtail Democracy of Montgomery county, is growing more impatient as the summer advances and the harvest approaches. In fact it thinks that the golden grain is dead ripe now and that Reaper Cleveland should thrust in his sickle and gatlfcr in the sheaves. To drown its sorrow it takes on a jag and writes a jaggedy tale of woe because Crawfordsville still has a Republican postmaster. See this:

Mr. Bonnell is not a Democrat he is a Republican of high standing as citizen, and as a vote-fixer he Is "out of sight." He violated the civil:servlce rules throughout the campaign and did valiant work for the Republican party. He was the best man they had In the shop.

Any Democrat In Montgomery county would be preferable to him: with the party at large.

Why a Democratic postmaster has not been named i3 because the rosy bed of downy ease has io be fixed for one certain man before any other Democrat is to be allowed to got bis nose

in the trough.

This one man has all four feet in the trough.

This explains the whole situation. Is there one Democrat who will say this is Democratic? Hardly one, except that one, has an axe on tlie grindstone.

TnE national bank circulation outstanding at the close of the month of May amounted to $177,064,477, an increase of $309,180 for the month and of $4,674,620 for the twelve months ending therewith. The portion of the circulation based on the deposit of bonds amounted to 8156,028,008, an increase of $4,674,620 for the twelve months, ending 347,645 for the year. The portion of the circulation based on the deposit of lawful money amounted to $21,036,469, a decrease of $586,510 for the month, and of $6,673,025 for the twelve months. The bonds on deposit to secure circulation as above amounted to $174,539,050, an increase of $1,280,250 for the month.

MAKKED men in the next Democratic conventions will be those who assert that a ring shall control the federal offices in Montgomery county. This is plain talk, but the Star iB urged by scores of tried and true Democrats to give this notice and It knows that the sentiment will prove to be no empty thing,—Star.

The Star with "scores of tried and true Democrats" seem to be out on a sandy desert. The Mecca to which they started on their pilgrimage is still in the dim, blue distance. The oasis is out of sight. They are dying of thirst. Hunger is gnawing their vitals. They threaten to ,turn cannibals and devour each other. Proceed with the feast.

THE telegraph wires are now burdened with the important information that before the end of the next fortnight the Cleveland family would number more than three. With great particularity the infant's clothes have been described, and the way the newspaper man wades through blue surrah

silk,

flannel bands, little white

dotted Swiss

muslin, vallenciennes, dainty little

Bilk

silk

shirts, and

frills of embroidery, lace, ruffles, satin ribbons, inch wide hems, tucks, beading) and long dresses galore is enough to delight the heart of any mother.

SENATOR DAN VOORHEES in a speech in the Senate in 1864 is on record as saying: "Let each eye which now beholds the sun take its last look at scenes of plenty and prosperity. Our fail from bounding wealth and unlimited resources to pinch and shrunken poverty and cowering bankruptcy is as certain under our present policy as the fall of Lucifer, the morning star, from heaven." Dan is still among the Democratic prophets.

THOSE farmers who voted for free wool in expectation that they would receive better prices now realize in a most practical way what a woful mistake they made.

IN one respect an income tax would be popular. It would create a big batch of new offices to be filled by the very hungry and very thirsty.

PRESENT prices, notwithstanding general shrinkage in values, encourages a great increase in the hog crop.

ONION parties are the rage in South Bend. A party by any other name would smell as sweet.

A SOUTH CAROLINA constitutional jag must be acquired between the hours of 7 a. m. and 6 p. m.

DEMOCRATS oannot reform the tariff without increasing the duties.

TONE OF THE WOOL MARKET. The weekly circular of Justice, Bateman & Co., of Philadelphia, says that prices for wool have fallen within the past fortnight. Wools of merino blood, such as fine and fine medium, have dropped from 60 cents per scoured pound to 50 cfents, and apparently have not yet touched bottom. A gradual receding of the market has been expected as the period is approached when legislation at Washington will indicate the actual change to free wool the suddenness of the drop, however, is a surprise. Free wool in the remote future has been regarded as inevitable, but no one expected prices to adjust themselves to that basis so soon. The difficulties of running woolen mills upon protected wool to be made into cloth which is to be sold in six months or a year after in competition with cloth made of "free wool," have, however, been great enough to precipitate prices toward the free wool basis with great Buddenness. The extra session of Congress to put wool on the free list has not yet assembled, yet prices within a few days have taken a tremendous stride toward the free wool basis. Buyers are even yet reluctant to take hold of wool, cheap as it is. and sellers are pressing sales under orders from shippers who are anxious to realize before values fall still further. Manufacturers, as a rule, cannot be induced to buy beyond their needs for immediate use. They believe that priceB cannot be higher, but are likely to be eyen lower. Holding these views, it is difficult to get them to make offers that can be accepted. Where offers are obtained they are mostly on the basis of what the buyer thinks will be the value of wool, say, a month hence. Sellers, on the other hand, recognize the inevitable movement of prices toward the free wool basis, and are reluctantly forced to nccept many low offers, under the belief that what seems almost a sacrifice to-day is likely to be a better price than can be reached to-morrow, so that offers which are at all above the free trade level are generally accepted.

HAS the Journal man some relative or iriend that is desirons of a coatract from the city that moves him to urge the immediate construction of sewers? The public is at a loss to know what other object it can be that induces him to be so zealous in the matter unless it is that.—Rcvieio.

THE JOURNAL haB no relative or friend that it is desirous to favor with a contract for the construction of sewers. It is a small matter to this paper who gets the contract to make a survey-, furnish the material or perform the work. We recognize the fact that before any permanent public improvements of any kind is entered upon that sewerage should have the preference. THE JOUKNAL has taken the position that sewerage is a necessity and in presenting the arguments in favor of such work we have not questioned the motiveB of those who have opposed it. In all questions affecting the public interest the widest latitude should be given in their discussion. If a man can give reasons for differing from others he should give them to the best of his ability, but there is neither logic nor sense in impugning the motives of those who may not see the question as he see it.

THE Indianapolis Independent is a little rough, but the wwy it satirizes the Governor's staff is good, notwithstanding: "On Thursday the Indiana building lit the World's Fair was dedicated and the occasion caused an extraordinary irruption of Hoosiers. Ex-President Harrison delivered the address, and the usual mutual admiration and exchange ol compliments took place, but the great feature was the arrival of the Governor and his staif. The latter, which numbered an even baker's dozen, with titles as long- as a liagstaU', were out in full parade and for the first time, As they appeared in their gaudy and gorgeous uniforms, bedecked with gold lace and horsetail plumes, they made everything pale before them. Even the heterogenous massofriugnosed Barbarians in Midway Plaisance, representing every color of the rainbow, looked insignificant when the Hoosier Governor appeared with his blooming stall training behind him. Such a spectacle has never been seen •ince the monkey painted his tail a pea-green and hung pendant from the highest limb of a cocoanut tree." S

APPARENTLY Cleveland thinks it would be cruel to Congress to call it in session in the hot months. In 1861, however, it met right in the hottest part of the hot season, on July 4, and it did good work, too. The personal cor.fort of a few hundred Congressmen should not be allowed to outweigh the interests of the rest of the 66,000,000 inhabitants of the countrv.

THE Civil Service Chronicle speaking of the apparent power of Dan Voorhees in this administration say3, "it is the most astonishing fact of Mr. Cleveland's second Presidency. If the appearanc ie true, the old truth will come home bitter to the President that he can not serve two masters. He cannot serve the people of this country and Dan Voorhees."

THE bottom dropped out of that wild cat currency movement early. Not a plank of the Chicago platform remains that anybody is bound to respect.

THE SHERMAN LAW.

Democratic and Mugwump newspapers attribute all our financial and business ills to the Sherman silver purchasing act. They have dropped the tariff question and are devoting their best energies in an endeavor to show that the Sherman law is accountable for all our financial and commercial evils. This is sheer nonsense. The Sherman law was in full operation a year ago, and business of every legitimate kind was prosperous. It is not the Sherman law that has made every business man and manufacturer afraid to extend credit. It is not the Sherman law that has destroyed the confidence of foreign capitalists in the stability of American industrial enterprises and influenced them to withdraw their money from this country. The total sum that has been paid for silver bullion in the three years since the Sherman law has been in operation is estimated at only about $130,000,000. To declare that the issue of treasury notes to this amount has impaired the nation's credit is an obvious absurdity. Moreover, it is to be remembered that exjjansion of the currency has been necessary to accommodate the needs of trade, and that it will be necessary in the future for the same purpose. The fact is the election of Grover Cleveland and a Democratic Congress on a free trade platform was the starting point in the downward movement. The nation was prosperous, industries were expanding and public confidence was unshaken. The triumph of the party that is pledged to overthrow the industries of the nation bus simply produced its inevitable effect.

MR. CRISP refuses to answer questions as to his position on the matter of the Sherman law repeal. He is afraid to commit himself, as he is an aspirant for re-election to the speakership. This is cowardice of the rankest sort, and proves that Crisp is not a fit man for this post.

CLEVELAND'S idea of making a clean 6weep of the civilian Indian Agents and giving the places to army officers is a good one. The average Indian Agent is a bad egg and his elimination from the service can not fail to be beneficial.

THE Democrats builded better than they knew or intended when they elected a President with too much ordinary North American sense to undertake to carry out their foolish and dangerous financial notions.

THERE will hardly be a chance to get up a fight on the tariff in Congress this year. Apart from the wrangling which is inevitable on the finance issue the coming session will be a tame affair.

CHOLERA may or may not cross the Atlantic this summer, but the quarantine authorities at the coast will undoubtedly keep it from getting a foothold in this country if it does cross.

THOSE old soldiers who voted against Harrison because his administration did not issue pensions more rapidly are beginning to realize that they jumped from the frying pan into the fire.

THAT movement for reciprocity between the United States and Canada ought to be kept up. These countries should be able to stand a close approach to free trade with each other.

COMPTROLLER ECKELS has appointed more receivers for insolvent banks in three months than his predecessor appointed in as many years but his party is not boasting ot the fact.

A YOUNG minister has been detected in the heinous offense of picnicing at the Shades on Baccalaureate Sunday. This is as reprehensible as fishing on Decoration Day.

THERE is no reason to believe that the Democratic party will be able to carry a single Northern State in which an election is to be held this year.

THE new Pension Commissioner is appointing Democrats as pension examining surgeons a good deal faster than he is issuing pensions.

THE prosecution in the Borden case relied too much on theory and too little upon facts.

COMMENCEMENT days are here, and we welcome them with a right good cheer.

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