Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 July 1893 — Page 1

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ASSIGNED.

Eobmson & Wallace Wind Up Their Business Tins Mornme Great surprise was occasioned on Wednesday when it was announced that the old reliable book sellers and stationers, Robinson fc Wallace, of the corner book store, had assigned for the benefit of their creditors. Major L. A. Foote was made assignee and after the invoice, which is now being made, will close out the stock. The failure is made to protect the firm's creditors, and the Citizens' National Bank and other local creditors are prefered. The liabilities of the firm are between $7,000 and ,000 and the assets about the same. They will vary but little one way or the other. The firm was one of the oldest and moat popular in the city and its failure causes not only surprise but very great surprise. Hard times and sharp competition brought about the close. Whereas the two book stores of Crawfordsville formerly had a monopoly on the book, stationery and wall paper trade they now have twentv rivals in the county. All the notion stores, and most of the general stores carry their line of goods so that sales have been lighter and profits smaller than formerly. This fact coupled with the recent close times brought about an almost inevitable result. All persons are sorry to 6ee so popular a firm close up and trust that it may again resume business under favorable circumstances.

(Hire (Iriuui ri)s (ri I (c lourmil.

rv A Charmer Vindicated. Mrs. Emma Crique Booe, whose first husband was murdered in Illinois and whose second husband is in jail for stealing ham, was tried before the Mayor Tuesday on a charge of loud and disorderly conduct. It was charged that Emma had been out with a lusty young blade named Spencer, who admired her greatly but who believed her to be what our old friend and laureate, Wm. Woods worth would pronounce, "A creature not, too bright or good

For human nature's daily food."

It was charged that Mr. Spencer had pastured on her ruby lips and alabaster neck to his heart's content and that they had gone whooping through Goose Nib ble in the dead hour of night disturbing the peaceful slumbers of officer Transue. Spencer was duly fined but Emma, old girl, was triumphantly acquitted. She divulged the tact, however, that she and Spencer had bought the beer of Oscar Waite, the popular president, of the iron bridge saloon. O^car was sent for and couldn't come. He was therefore brought. His face wore the pleased and happy expression of the gentleman who finds a superannuated dishrag in the bottom of his bowl of vegetable soup. He listened to the charge of violating the screen ordinance and pleaded "not guilty." He slept on the subject and few cans of beer, however, and Wednes day came up and pleaded guilty Time is a great stirrer up of the mem ory of man."

Band Concert.

The band will give a concert on Sat urday evening, July 15th, commencing promptly at 8 o'clock. The following is the programme: Mfircii, DeMolay Commandery I{. B. J!a Waliz, Dream of the Past ('. Faust Overture, Fast Mail Southwell March, Chilcothlan R.Ji. Hall Overture, Brunswick linhinsim Finale Galop, Get Up and Get Teihiy

On next Saturday evening, July 22nd Prof. Joseph Baker, who has recently become a member of our band will ren der with band accompaniment that pret ty clarinet solo, entitled "AmphiciPolka," by Barnard. A thorough master of this most beautiful instrument, the clarinet, Mr. Baker has been a student of tha boston Conservatory of Music and was a member of that famous Bos ton Cadets' band for a number of vears

Union Temperance Meeting. It will be at the Y. M. C. A. hall on Sunday evening next. It is expected that will be the most enthusiastic temperance meeting that has been held the city for some time. Rev. Ii. Inglis will talk about temperance work abroad. Any one who misses hearing his address will miss the value of a trip to Europe. The meeting will be under the auspices of the Citizens' Temperance Society, of which Rev. Inglis is President. The hall will be provided with a large number of ohairs and it is hoped every one will be able to get a seat. Any one who is interested in temperance, either for or against, will want to know what is being done in Europe on this question that is all important to Americans. Don't fail to come on time.

Two Elieibles.

Postmaster Bonnell has received the eligible register from Washington as a result of the first civil service examination held at the Crawfordsville postoffice several weeks ago. Five took the examination and only two passed, Guy Steele with a grade of .883 and Joe Whittaker with a grade of .866. Both are applicants for the position of substitute carrier. The postmaster hae not received the necessary blanks, but as soon as they arrive he will make the neceseary recommendation. Steele is a Democrat and served as carrier under Postmaster Booe. Whittaker is a Republican and at present is a painter with the Big Four bridge gang.

Dr. Huntsinger, eye, ear, nose and throat specialist will be at Dr. McCormick's office every two weeks. See announcements later in this paper.

The

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JULY 15, 1898.

HERE'S NUTS.

The Parkersbura: Methodist Church Having a Parrot and Monkey Time. The church militant nt Parkersburg is deserving its name just at present. Wednesday in the circuit court Paul it Brunei-, attorneys for the trustees of the Parkersburg M. E. church, filed suit for damages against J. M. Hester, Daniel T. Carter, Thomas J. Alnut, Wm. B. Higgins and W. H. Hyten. The case is an interesting one. Back in '62 the Methodist society of Parkersburg and vicinity bought two lots in Parkersburg and built a church. The tooth of time and razun of oblivion finally began to make inroads on the old structure and along in '90 it was decided by a congregational vote of four to one to buill a new church a short distance from the town. The new church was accordingly erected but it was found that a part of the membership elected to stay by the old edifice. Bill Higgins, the colored janitor, had the keys and he with the other men named in the complaint and their families continued to hold out at the old church and refused to give possession to Rev, A. W. Wood, the pastor of the Parkersbug churoh. Their services were somewhat intermittent and they had all sorts of preachers, whom they happened to pick up from time to time, for a Sunday or so. Methodist, Baptist, Newlight, Presbyterian, United Brethren and Universalist doctrine was promiscuously dosed out according to the predilection of the passing preacher who happened to sojourn with the rebellious disciples. Old brothnr Stafford went out from Crawforasville to calm the troubled waters but his life boat waB upset and he came very nearly being drowned in the angry sea of controversy. The old church faction refused to listen, to talk of controversy or arbitrament. Rev. Wood and presiding Elder Middleton were told to mind their own business and given to understand that the Hester-

Carter-Alnut-Higgins Hyten faction intended to turn the old church property over to the United Brethren and join themselves to that denomination. Last week G. W. Paul drew up charges against tbo seditious ones for the trustees of the church and they were all summoned to trial last Saturday. They failed t.o show up and were every mother's son of them expelled. The trustees have now brought suit for possession Hud $200 rental for the past two years. The case promises to be one of the most interesting ever tried in our circuit court.

Indiana Crop OonditioDS.

bulletin issued by the In

diana weather service, in connection with the Agriculturol experimental station at Purdue University, has the following weekly resume under date of Wedntschn "Rain fell only in very localities in very small quality excessive temperature and much sunshine prevailed. Although too dry for corn and potatoes, the weather was beneficial to orops utid favorable to harvesting and farm work in general. Wheat threshing has commenced in southern and central portions »nd the wheat cutting in the northern the yield is reported good, both in quality and quantity. The hay harvest it? ended and an exceedingly heavy and good crop has been secured in the best condition. Oats are ripening fast in some localities the harvested has commenced. Corn and potatoes are still in good condition in most fields, but they need rain to insure a good crop. Tobacco, in the southern portion, never stood better, promising a big crop of good quality unless early frosts prevent it. Fruit is scarce."

New Wheat.

Orabbs & Reynolds have already purchased 3,500 bushels of new wheat in southern Inuiana and it has begun to arrive. Its quality ranges from very good to very poor. The first threshing in the county, so far as reported, began Thursday, south of the city. The Montgomery county wheat crop is a puzzle this year mid seems to run in streaks—a streak of lean and a streak of fat. A drive over the county developes a peculiar slate of affairs. For example, the wheat along the Youutsville and Alamo rood is generally very poor, while along the Wuyuotown road it is generally good. The best reports come from the eastern pars of the county and are very encouraging.

Teachers and Graduates Picnic, The teachers and graduates of Jackson township, Fountain county will hold a picnic in the grove at the Liveogood church, three miles north of Wallace, on Saturday, August 19th. Prominent educators will address the assembly. All teachers, ex-teachers and graduates of Fountain and adjoining counties are invited. The members of the Jackson township alumni will hold an oratorical contest in the Wallace chapel the Bame night. The contest bids fair to be excellent and well worthy of a large attendance.

Voorhees Will Defend Him. Senator Voorhees has been retained for the defense in the Wesner-Brown murder case, and will take part in the trial at Danville in September. Judge Adams, of this city, is in the prosecution. Hendricks county is made up of the old reliable Quaker stock, the claps that believe in an "eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," when it comes t.o taking human life.—Frankfort

News.

i'ROM TERRE HAUTE.

A "Vigo Democrat Writes Ooncermhg the Appointment Row.

A Terre Haute Democrat has in today's Chicago

Hecnrd

a very leugthy

account of the collectorship row and the state of the Brookshire-Lamb controversy. It concludes as follows:

Last year there was a mild attempt to regain control, but Brookshire had evoluted from a country politician into a positive political force in the district and being a presidential year no

were taken by bringing on a determined struggle. He was a Cleveland man from the beginning Lamb was bitterly opposed to the renomination of the expresident and went to Chicago as a delegate against him. During the winter following the election Lamb with a considerable degree of skill in political manipulation organized his forces to take possession of the Federal patronage and use it to re-establish his sway and retire Brookshire. No concealment was made of his purpose. Democrats of local influence were told to get on the Lamb band-wagon. Some were threatened, others were promised something. The subsidiary patronage of the postoffice and revenue office was parceled out and the beneficiaries set at work day and night. Donham's

cluniBy

attempt

to capture the postoilice was a sorry failure. He not only failed to get his men, but caused a national scandal which grievously offended Mr. Cleveland.

One of the entailed resuits is the serious weakening of the chances for Jump. The President has, no doubt, had a deep desire to conciliate Mr. Voorhees, who, as chairman of the Senate finance committee, will have much to do in determining the character of financial legislation, but he iB undoubtedly hesitating before granting another request for patronage. Judge Jump is a first claBs man, in every respect worthy of the office, but he is weak in his backers. Crawford Fairbanks, his brother-in-law, is the rich distiller and the money backer of the Lamb and Voorhees faction. He it was who offered a bribe to Postmaster Greiner to resign that Donham might get in ahead of the civil service law. He told the civil service reformers who came here to investigate the postoilice scandal all about it and saw nothing wrong in it. It did not occur to him then that the President might dislike to appoint to the collectorship the brother-in-law of the rich distiller and brewer.

Mr. Brookshire has not been unmindful of these helps over his hard places unwittingly offered him by his enemies. The Congressman put forward Hulett, the county chairman at Crawfordsville, the home of both, and made known to the President that he felt that he had the right to name the collector. He held that the patronage belonged lo the Congressman and not the Senator, and was able to furnish a large number of instances which formed strong precedents in favor of his contention. It is understood here that the President, or some one from him, gave the Congressman the tip that the next collector must come from Terre Haute. Soon after this was done Gus Ccnzman, the county treasurer, went to Washington and filed an application for the place, leaving with the treasury department very strong papers. He has been a warm personal friend of Congressman Brookshire. He is popular, in the best sense of the word, and is looked upon as a winner in all that he undertakes. His term as county treasurer will expire in September. Politically speaking his selection would be very wise. While it would be something in the nature of a compromise yet it would be enough of a Brookshire victory to satisfy the Congressman. He has not been, strictly speaking, either a Lamb follower or an anti-Lamb Democrat. While Lamb might not like the idea he could not, perhaps would not dare, make open opposition to the appointment.

The troubles of the whisky trust are dispiriting to the would-be employes of Uncle Sam in the revenue service." The big distillery here, with the largest capacity of any in the world, has just shut down. This means the lopping off of eight gaugers and about ns manv storekeeper. Besides it causes this collection district to drop to second rank, thereby reducing the collector's salary from S'4,500 to §2,500 a year.

An incident of the change in the office i8 the zeal of Gen. Manson to have Collector Throop removed before he has served four years. The General is not actuated by any personal feeling against Throop, who has done nothing to offend Democrats, having complacently drawn his salary for nearly four years, without even becoming acquainted with members of his own party. The standing joke among Republicans has been to ask one another the name of the Orange county man President Harrison picked out for the office. But Gen. Manson believes in retaliation. He resigned the lieutenant-governorship to accept the collectorship in Cleveland's former ad ministration, atter Tom Hanlon, Voorhees' choice, had been rejected by the Senate. In October, 1889, Gen. Manson had not served four years. He says at that time President Harrison wrote him asking him t,o resign and now he wants to see the other fellow turned out. The General was here the other day telling his story and while here wrote a letter indorsing Judge Jump.

NUMKEll 2!)

CHOLERA MUST BE EATEN.

''It Cannot be Absorbed or Breathed, but Must be Taken Into the Stomach,'1 is a Scientific Opinion.

Dr. lvempster, of Washington, a special agent of the United States Government for the study of cholera and its prevention is nearing the completion of his voluminous report. He says, "The prevention of cholera is not a theory, but an absolute scientific certainty. "The superior system of the European

powerB

chanceB

for dealing with the cholera

is apparent. Appropriations which would be considered here very liberal are made to the schools and scientists who are best qualified to carry on the work. The home of the cholera, as everybody knows, iB in India. Every seventh year when the Mohammedans indulge in their pilgrimage to Mecca a wave of cholera is started abroad, which reaches an important part of the world. No doubt their religious pilgrimages aro praiseworthy from their moral point of view, but it is rather hard that the rest of the world, even ns far off as America should be made to suffer the effects of them. Great Britain holds the key to the situation. If she would restrain the pilgrims from coming across the Suez canal to Mecca there would be comparatively little danger of cholera invasion of Europe. But her interests oppose such a solution of the problem. Her supremacy in India is assured only so long/ as she humors the religious customs of the natives. Dr. II. Kempster holds that it is possible to keep the cholera from a city when the Burrounding towns are tainted or to keep it from any house in an infected city. But the expense is great and the trouble exceeds the expense. In illustration of this he hold of a house in Hamburg which was destroyed for the outside world during the plague. All provisions were taken in on a hooppole, the food cooked at once and the wrappings burned. All inmates of the house escaped safely, although men were droping down and dying in the streets outBide. By proper precautions every physician who worked in the hospitals escaped tlie disease. "Cholera must be eaten," remarked the doctor, putting it epigramatically. It cannot be absorbed or breathed. The terras must be taken into the stomach. If people realize this and govern themselves nccoi'dingly they can escape in case the germs should reaoh this country.

The Postal Oard.

Postmaster-General Bissell has decided to abandon the three sizes of postal cards now in use and to substitute one size for both single and reply cards. With that purpose in view, the specifications which have been sent to prospective bidders for the contract of furnishing the postal service with cards during the next four years call for single cards of the uniform size of 3| by 5,\ inches. This is what is known as the international

Bize,

it being used generally by

the countries composing the national postal union. The double or reply card now in use will be continued with the size when folded reduced to that of the international card. These two cards will take the place of the

Bmall

or la­

dies' oard, the medium and large card and the large return card.

Death of James Oraie

James Craig peacefully passed away Thursday at 1 o'clock at his residence on 6ast Jefferson street, from paralysis, the effects of a fracture of the femur bone in 1876. He was born in Adams county, Ohio, seventy-eight years ago and came to this State when he was a young man of twenty. He settled on a farm in Tippecanoe county. Here he was married and lived antil about seven years ago whe he removed to this city. Since 1876 he has been an invalid. For many years he has been a leading and zealous member cf the Methodist church and was active in all church work until he was disabled physically. He was the father of six children, three of whom are living, who together with his sorrowing wife mourn the departure of a kind father and an affectionate husband.

Prof. Ransom's New Place. Prof. J. H. Ransom, associate professor of chemistry in WabaBh College, has been offered and has accepted the chair of chemistry in the Manual Training School of Chicago. This school is one of the best of the kind in the world and is under Prof. Bellfield, famous educator. Prof. Ransom will receive a salary of SI,200 with a promise of an increase later on. Ho was appointed over about fifty other applicants, the work of each of whom was personally examined by Prof. Bellfield. The selection of Prof. Ransom was a handsome compliment to his ability. He will leave for his new work along the latter part of the summer. Hie service at Wabash has been most efficient and the college parts with him with great regret.

No Leoture Course.

At the meeting of the board of directors of the Y.M.C.A. held last Tuesday it was decided thatth& association would not conduct any regular lecture course this year but would probably take it up a year later. Dr. G. S. Burroughs was elected a member of the board in place of Prof. H. Z. McLain, who recently resigned.

We

print sale bills on short notice. The Jouiinal Co., Pk.nteks.