Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 November 1893 — Page 4

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FKIDAS, NOVEMBER 3, 1893.

DR. ERNEST HART, editor of the British Medical Journal, said in a recent address before the New York Health Association that the cholera is less to be dreaded than any other disease. It is perfectly controllable. It cannot be caught, andean only be eaten or drank.

THB Supreme Court has settled the screen ordinance question. The decision may not be right, but for all practical purposes it is just as binding, and to which the people must and will submit. If the people don't want that kind of decisions thep should not eleotthat kind of a court.

NEW YORK Tribune: Well, you men in Wall street, you clever merchants and money-makers, who did all this for yourselves, how do you like it as far as you'vo gone? You wanted a change, did you? You've got it, a sure enough change. And yon are going to have your fill of it—make no doubt of that.

No less than thirteen bills have been introduced in the House which provide for the repeal of the existing law taxing State banks 10 per cent, on their circulation. Revival of "wild cat" money is not one of the impossible measures that may be enacted by the present Congrese. This is a party mandate as embodied in the Chicago platform.

FROM 178.'5 to 1780 the trade of the thirteen old Stales was perfectly free to the whole world. The result was that Great Britain filled every section of our country with her manufactures of wool, cotton, linen, leather, iri.n, glass and all otLer articles used here and in four years she swept, from the country every dollar and every piece of gold.—Bollc'f Financial History of United States, 11, P. 437.

The prospect of free trade now has already reduced the weekly pay roll millions of dollars and disastrously curtailed the grand volume of American industrial production. If the threat has produced so much depression acid mis ery imagine if you please what the reality will be. It will be even worBe than when the trade of the thirteen old States was perfectly free to the whole world.

GOVEKNOH MCKINLEY may bo re elected, but he ought not to be, and he woula not be if the southern part of Ohio hud as able a Democratic paper as is the Cleveland Plain Dealer the northern imrl.— liidiaiiapoliti Sentinel.

And yet did not editor Holden, of the Plain Dealer, recently appear before the Ways and Means Committee to protest againBt any reduction in the tariff on lead and zinc? What does it take to constitute an "able Democratic" editor, anyway? One who is in favor of reducing the tariff on everything except the article in which he is himself direct ly interested?

IPROF. H. VON HOLST, the eminent his torian, contributes to the November Forum a slashing criticism of the pres ent Senate under the title, "Shall the Senate Rule the Republic?" The Senate, he points out, has perverted its privileges so as to give every individual Senator an absolute veto on all legislation. The two Nevada Senators, representing hardly the population of a goodsized third-class city, paralyze the business of the whole population. He warns the people against vicious "compromises" and urges them to hold massmeetings to demand an immediate revision af the Senate rules.

TIIE New York bank statement shows that the idle money in the vaults of that city amount to 8157,000,000, or S50,000,000 above the required reserve. Bat while this is true the railroads are doing less business per mile than at any time in sixteen years. One-seventh of the entire railroad mileage in the country is bankrupt and in the hands of receivers. The iron mills are running about one-third time and 200,000 iron workers are out ot employment. Onehalf the carpet mills of the country are closed. Woolen, knitting, and cotton mills employing last year nearly half a million hands are now employing about one-third as many. Western farm products are lower than ever before. Commercial failures are twice as numerous and three times as disastrous as those of laBt October—such are the external signs of present hard times.

HON. JOHN L. WILSON, of Washington, delivered a speech in the House the other day on the bill to exclude the Chinese from our shores, or rather the bill extending the Geary Chinese exclusion law. It was a most eloquent and foroeful plea in favor of the exclusion idea. In his peroration, with much impressiveness of manner, he said:

"Mr. Speaker, must we leave our country to the Cueur d' Alenes, the Spokanes, the Nez PerceS to the Yakimas and the Columbia?, that thej-, too, may lure back the retired bear from the distant forest to roam over our fruitful fields? When this character of legislation shall come to pass, may uot the great West again become a lair for wild beasts and for savages, the graves of our parents be polluted, and the places made holy by the first footsteps of pioneers become profaned by the orgies of barbarous incantation. The evening wolf shall again howl on our hills and the echo of his yell again be heard around our waterfalls the owl at noonday may roost on the high altars of devotion, 'and the fox will look out of the window' upon the utter desolation caused bv such legislation as has been attempted tin this Congress against the great West. In that hour the gentlemen who have spoken against our interests can rise in their places and exclai ii truthfully, as old Tristam Rurges did, in reply to John Randolph: •llodie,hodic, Carthago dtlendo'—to-day,to-day. the great West lias been destroyed."

SOME question has been raised as to the effect of the decision of the Supreme Court in the soreen ordinance case on the present ordinance in this city, which simply provides for the removal of soreens and curtains during the hours that the saloon keeper is not permitted to sell. Judge McCabe sets this question at rest in his decision, when he says: "There can be do doubt that suoh an ordinance would be within the power granted and reasonable if it is confined in its operation to suoh times as the saloon keeper is not allowed to do business, as between 11 and 5 o'clock at night, on Sundays and legal holidays and other days on which he is prohibited from doing business.' It will thus be seen that the decision will not disturb any ordinance of this city. The saloon keepers must remove the screens and other obstructions as heretofore.

A NOTABIIE article, printed anonymously in the November Forum, contrasts the Senate of to-day with the Senate of the days of Webster, Clay and Calhoun. A classification of the present Senators, by six fair-minded judges, divides them into Senators of the old type, professional politicians, plutocrats, accidents and oddities, and old fogies. The history of individual Senators, as revealed by an analysis of the "Congressional Directory" biographies,shows that most of them lack the traditional qualifications of their high office:—the conclusion being that we put politics on a lower level than our fathers did, that we have as good a Senate as we deserve to have, and that its inferior personnel simply denotes the decline of politics as one of the noble professions.

THE figures seem to demonstrate the effectiveness of the sugar bounty. In 1891-'92 the Treasury paid bounty on 358,000,000 pounds of sugar, and on 429,243,170 pounds laut year. This year the Bureau of Internal Revenue figures that a bounty will be claimed for 691,449,000 pounds, which will mean a much bigger crop than was ever raised in the best years before the war. The Louisianians thinks that if the bounty be allowed to run its stipulated term of fifteen years they will raise all the sugar the country needs.

THE New York Journal of Commerce tells workingmen of all classes some plain and simple truths regarding wages. It Bays: "It Is impossible that wages can escape a reduction more or less closely corresponding to the reduction in prices consequent upon the changes of duties. If a manufactures has to sell an article at $1, under the new duties, for which he is now getting $1.30, he must be recouped in some way for the loss of 30 cents in his selling price, or be ruined.

THE Supreme CourtWednesday paused upon the validity of the bribery clause of the Australian ballot law, and held that the act is constitutional. Under the law a vote seller can bring action against the vote buyer and recover $300. The law has a depressing effect on the market. Now if we had a similar law to punish Senators and members of Congress who sell their votes for patronage Grover Cleveland would be compelled to go into bankruptcy.

ST. NICHOLAS means to tell its readers all about the "Brownie man," Mr. Palmer Cox. An early number will contain an article giving an accouDt of Mr. Cox, and telling how the Brownies were invented, where they live, and what their inventor looks like.

"TEN Years of Civil Service Reform," is the title of an article written for the November number of the North American Review, by President Charles Lyman, of the United States Civil Service Commission.

GRANTED AN EXTENSION.

The Crawfordsville Clothing

Concern Which is in the

Throes of Dissolution

Will Continue a

Short While.

Longer.—Many Have Taken Advantage of the Opportunity to Buy Their Winter's Supply of Cloth-,

ing While They Could Purchase $2 Worth for $1. The Chance of a

Lifetime.

By the grace of an extension granted

we are permitted to continue the great

slaughter sale of olothing, hats, under­

wear, shirts, etc., etc., for a short time longer.

We extend our thankB to the intelli­

gent publio who has come to our assis­

tance with their hard earned dollars and

we are sure they have been amply re-

pain by the matohless value we have

given them and the memory of .having

bought "the best and biggest bargains

of their lives" at Benua's closing out

sale, will linger with thera long after we

have left Crawfordsville.

We know that many people are suspicious of a sale of this kind and we also know that many things both unkind and untrue have been said about us. Conscious of the fact that we are doiug just exactly what we advertise, we pursue our way, regardless, of what others may do or say.

No one who will come and inspect our store and stock and see the marvelous low prices we are making can, for a moment doubt that our motives are true and honest and that this is a closing out sale in good faith without regard to cost or profit.

Ask your neighbors who have taken advantage of this great sale to lay in their supply of winter goods. Ask them to show you

%tho

matchless bergains

they have bought. The goods speak for themselves. The most skeptical cannot help believing what his own eyes see.

Many have asked us "How ciin you afford to do it?" Our answer is: "We opened this store at an unfortunate (for us) time."

The panic came and we failed to do the business expected. We knew at the rate we were progressing that we could not meet our obligations when due. Then it became|a question of losing our, profit or losing our ^credit and we chose to lose the former. If we can sell this stock we shall conquer Shylock and pay the pound of flesh.

We intend to do it. Note our prices. $25 suit for $16 99 8 suit for 12.99 $14 suit for 8.99 $7 suit for 3.99 $20 overcoat for 13.33 $15 overcoat for 9.99 $10 overcoat for 6.66 $10 mackintosh for 6.00 75c underwear for .49 75o shirt for 49 Celluloid collars •. .15 Linen collars .10

Winter gloves at one half price. Everything else in proportion. This is the grandest opportunity of a lifetime and it will pay yo£ to come 100 miles to get some of these matchless bargains.

Our stock is large, our styles are new and varied and our prioes are lower than •you will ever buy again. Nothing will be charged, for we want the cash.

We advise those who can to come through the week for on Saturdays we are crowded to the walls.

No one can compete with us for it is a life and death struggle and we intend to conquer.

Store open evenings. Remember the place. BENUA BROS, Cunnin gham's old stand, next door to

First National Bank, Crawfordsville, Ind. P. S.—Caution. Do not be deceived by the catch penny advertisements of our competitors. They see that the people are with us because we are en" gaged in a legitimate, bona-fide closing out sale and they try to imitate, and deceive the public. Ours is the only real, down-right, closing out and in-tend-toquit sale in Crawfordsville. We defy all competition and will undersell them all. Don't foget it. B. B.

Better Come and See Us. Strictly One-Price

The World's Fair The World's Fair

Being over people are, once

more beginning to think of

matters here at home and

especially the

Jewelry Store

—OF—

L. W. Otto.

KIRKPATRICK.

David Taylor has typhoid fever. Wm. Campbell was in Frankfort Monday.

Mrs. H. Chaffant is visiting in Henry county. John Johnston moved into our town Monday.

Reese Slauters, of Clark's Hill, Sunday ed here. Qnincy Peterson, of Crawfordsville, was here Saturday.

C. Baum & Co. are receiving new corn at '28 cts. per bushel. Loyd Bower's wife made him a present of a fine boy Thursday.

A. Miller has iented J. W. Kirkpatrick's farm for another year. J. W. Kinnick and family have returned from Johnson county.

Chas. Dain and Wm. Jinks have returned from the World's Fair. •Jacob Gher is happv. His wife presented him a line girl Thursday.

Lash Campbell, of New Richmond, Sundayed with his brother, William. Tramps are in town. Citizens are watching them with their shot guns ready for use.

S. E. Homey is having too much confidence again, and is engaging hogs for future delivery.

J. W. Wilson, Jennie Brown and son, Willie, and Arthur Gray, started for the World's Fair Saturday.

The cold snap Sunday night caught C. Baum nursing that pet tooth of his. It didn't burst the tooth, however, but it did one of the pipes to hiB elevator engine.

Our town has more bachelors than any other town in the State. They are talking of organizing and renting a room—bachelor's roost. Wm. Cooper, principal Dr. Shotts, cook.

liuck Creek in a Fermeut.

LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 2.—Edward Cool, who lives at Buck Creek, while under the influence of liquor Wednesday entered O. H. Haller's saloon, where he had been previously drinking, and, drawing his revolver, shot Haller, the ball striUiny a rib just below the heart and glancing to one side. From there Cool went to the residence of Cooney Lowe and. calling him out, shot him in the groin. Cools father took the pistol from his son and turned him over to the authorities. While he was being taken to jail he cut his throat twice, not dangerously. He is now in the hospital here.

Infested with l'etty HurgJars.

GOSHEN, Ind., Nov. 1.—The surrounding country has been infested the past few days with a band of petty burglars, who seem experts in their line. At New Paris Frank Paul's hardware store was robbed, also the till of the flouring mill of Clayton Bros. At Syracuse the stores of Olivor Cromwell, A. M. Correy & Son, C. K. Lenz, Miles & Son, and the post office at Henton, the stores of Hutler Bros, and the general store of Juday Uros. were broken in. At all these merchandise and small amounts of money were carried off.

The Marriage Declared Off.

COLUMBUS, Ind., Nov. 2. —Harry Goodson secured a license for the mftrriage of himself and Mrs. Susan lteasor, of Marietta, and the wedding was appointed for Sunday last. The widow has a daughter 18 years old whose wishes were not consulted in the matter and who promptly interposed objections, threatening to poison her prospective stepfather if he ever set foot in the house. Mr. Goodson thereupon declared the marriage off.

Are Proportionate With the Decline In Prices in Grain.

And now is a good lime for you to fit yourself out with Fall and Winter clothing. It is most too early to think of heavy goods and so we will make a cut of over

25 PER CENT. ON ALL LIGHT WEICHT GOODS.

Joel

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If we can't get our price we will perhaps take yours. They

must be sold. Call and see us.

COHOON & FISHER,

Crawfordsville, Ind. South Washington St

South of Court House, Main Street.

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SALE—A,0(10 Snyder blackberry plants, Alr-0 Cuthliert und Turner raspberry plants in any quantity. Now is the best time set. Call ut place, five miles west, of city, write. W.D. HARJ.OW, Crawfordsville. Ind. 10-27 tf

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SALE-CHEAP—Single buggy, box bed, end spring, piano box bed, full Ieatheriop.il/isbeeuused about two months, inquire at llil south Washington St. at

rT'OR :?AI.E-A thoroughbred poland china boar. Pedigree furnished. Address W. C. Stewart, Daillngton. !I-Nw2t

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\\TANTED—Agents on salary or commission to handle the Patent Chemical Ink eras ing Pencil. The most useful and novel invention ol' the ago. Erases ink thoroughly in two seconds. Works like magic, 200 to *250 per cent, profit. Agents making 850 per week. We also want a general agent to tako charge of territory and appoint sub agents. A rare chance to make money. Write for terms and Bample of erasirg. Monroe Eraser Mfg. Co., box 445. LaCrosse Wis, lyd&w

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