Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 February 1894 — Page 1

j-SHWSi

Cross Cut, Hand and Rip.

All Sizes and Kinds. Enterprise Meat Cutters.

WASHBURN & flOEN

Barb Wire

Galvanized, Plain and Fence Wire.

EVERYTHING IN

A W A E

Doors—Sash—Glass—Paints. Locks—Latches—Hinges.

Tinsley & Martin.

Repaired ^Cleaned

In Time

Your watch will year may years

longer than if neglected.

We guarantee our repairing.

fl. C. KLINE

Tlrie Last Call

And the Last Chance

At the earnest solicitation of many customers and friends of the Trade Palace, and feeling grateful to ail for the grand success of our

Net Cost Sale

We will continue the same a few days longer, and invite all to avail themselves of this the last chance to buy all kinds ofdry goods at net first cost.

McClure & Graham.

VOL. 52—NO. 5 CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1894-TWELVE PAGES PART FIRST

THEM A1GS."

Miss Housely, a Charming !5runrttr, Tampers With Forhltlclon Hon Fruit uixl I.amis in Limbo.

Wednesday .John .Johnson was driving in from the country in a buggy and incidentally stopped at Merry's saloon on Market street, going on the inside to see how tin: thermometer stood. When he came out he missed from his buggy a bucket containing six dozen eggs. Mr. Johnson is a very quiet man who never kicks, so when lie stated his case to the bar keeper people living over two blocks away knew nothing at all about the affair. A search was instituted. but Mr. Johnson finally departed without the bucket. Soon after he left, however, the stolen pronerty was found hidden behind an old buggy by an adjacent work shop. It was watched and very soon Mag llousely. a colored girl with a reputation several shades darker than her skin, was observed to slope with the plunder. She had been partaking of the cool foaming when .Johnson came in and was Suspected from the first. Officer (Jill was called ami waited upon the young lady at her boudoir. She was found there in company with a lately arrived barbel-. There was a wild commotion but Margaret was finally subdued and the bucket of eggs duly recovered. As an evidence of good faith the young lady was locked up in jail. She was naturally indignant and declared her innocency as follows: '*1 never tetch them air aigs. I'se hones', I is. A young fellar done lef' 'em here while he go up town a spell and he say I kin done liab some ob dem if I count em out."

Miss llousely will probably be given an opportunity to establish herself before a jury in the circuit court. Some uncharitable persons have suggested that a few years in the reformatory might do her good.

WELL DIGGING IN MADISON.

A Water Wizzard Fails to I.ocate "Well In tlie Vroper l'lace anil lienor a Suit.

It would be a wildly peculiar state of affairs when a law suit from Madison township could not be found on trial in some county court. The people are many of them possessed with a love for law suits which is the salvation of many an attorney. A good suit is now on trial before Overton's shrine. It appears that some time agoChas. Long rented a farm of .Joe Rickey, agreeing among other things to dig a well. Joe had staked off the place where it should be dug but Mr. Long persisted in bringing in an old hoodoo with a hazel wand to determine whether the digging would pay. This grizzly old baboon went prancing around over the farm mumbling, chewing and shaking his ridiculous stick. Finally he declared the well would have to be dug 200 yards from the designated spot. There is was dug and enough water obtained to float a sun fish. When Signor Rickey learned of the state of affairs he smiled all over at the beautiful prospect of a delicious law suit and putting the saddle on his baldfaced old mare lie came galloping to town in search of a lawyer, lie found one.

FOR THE USEMPLOYED.

A Liberal Crawford svllllan ]{uyn Tliirty-five Cloaks atJColumbus, Oliio.

Columbus (O.) DUspaMi: Mr. A. F. Ramsey, of Crawfordsville, Ind., today, at a Columbus dry goods store, bought 35 cloaks for girls and young women and had them sent home to be distributed in families of the unemployed. Mr. Ramsey was here to see G. W. Meeker on business and as the two were walking on llig-h street Mr. Meeker pointed to 2:1 cloaks outside of the store door marked SI each. "1 wonder," said Mr. Ramsey, "if the firm would sell the cloaks to me for .$! each." He went inside and the result was a purchase of ten more, as stated.

Again in tlie Work.

Rev. Ira J. Chase, Indiana's fighting parson, who was elected LieutenantGovernor of Indiana in 1888, and became Governor after Governor Hovey's death in 1891, and was nominated for Governor and defeated in 1892, has returned to the ministry and has become an evangelist. Among his appointments just announced is the conducting of a revival at the Christian church at Council Mluffs, Iowa, to begin February 19. Great interest is manifested there in his coming.

First and Second Premiums. W. \V. Seawright sent ten Leghorn chickens to the Vermillion county, 111., poultry show, on which he received first and second premiums. The score was high.

Marriage License.

Otto E. Walker and May Miggs.

JOHN E. LAMB'S ASPIRATIONS.

A I'osnible Candidate for Congress, and May I'.vcn Try to l)e Cnltcd States Senator.

The Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Heirs says: ".John 10. Lamb's visits to the cjipitol are always followed by a trail of political gossip. The Terre Haute lawyer and politician reached Washington last Sunday, accompanied by Mrs. Lamb, lie said his visit here was for the purpose of recreation and enjoyment, but much of his time was spent in whispered conferences with his political patron. Senator Yoorhees. Lamb's political future is always a theme for gossip. That he would like to come to Congress to succeed Mrookshire is well known, but he does not intend to tackle the Crawfordsville statesman unless he sees victory ahead. Lamb does not want to experience, any political defeats, lie has loftier aspirations politically than many lloosiers have heretofore credited to him. Minister Isaac Pusey Gray. Governor Matthews, ex-Congressman Shively and the other budding 1 lousier statesmen who are hoping some day to stand in the shoes of Daniel Woolsey Yoorhees may as well take John 10. Lamb into account. The Senate is the point towards which he is tending. Senator Yoorhees once clapped Lamb on the shoulder, while the two were in the midst of a company of kindred spirits, and everybody was in a playful mood, and told the ex-Congressman that he hoped some day liis mantle might fall on the capacious shoulders of the smooth-faced and lusty-lunged Terre Haute lawyer. Just now Lamb is joining in the delusive hope of other Hoosier Democrats that Voorliees may be a Presidential candidate in 189C. Hut Lamb is not ready to fritter away his political future in making fruitless Congressional races. If he goes into the race against Brookshire it will be with supreme confidence in his ability to win the nomination, and the election. Lamb has been having Voorhees provide for his political followers in the government departments here, and is showing so much interest in these small places that everybody concludes he has political aspirations."

GROUNDHOG DAY.

To-Day is the Date, as Fixed liy the Legislature of This State.

To-day, according to an act passed by the Indiana Legislature, is Groundhog Day in this State. On the second day of February the groundhog, or American marmot, makes his forecast, upon which many millions of people depend for exact information regarding an early spring or continuance of winter. The groundhog forecast had its origin among the hill people of Western Virginia. Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, and was brought into Indiana about the beginning of the present century. It is claimed that the groundhog makes his appearance from his winter sleep on February 2d to spy his shadow in the sun. If the shadow could not be seen he remained out of his hole satisfied that the winter was broken, the weather would be mild and favorable to outdoor living, and that spring would appear in just six weeks from date. On the eontrar3\ if the day was sunny and his shadow followed him, he would return to his burrow siire of the fact that winter would continue just six weeks longer. There has been a difference of opinion by authorities as to the right day, and whether it is February 1st or 2d. The Indiana Legislature a few years ago decided that it is February 2d. Therefore, it has been considered the correct date by Indianians.

Mr. MeC'orkle's Ambition.

Lafayette Call: lion. A. C. JilcCorkle. who served very acceptalily in the lower house of the last General Assembly, will be a candidate for promotion before the Republicans of the county, and ask their nomination for State Senator. Mr. MeCorkle is one. of the substantial citizens of our county, a clear-headed and intelligent eiti/.en, and has the cordial good wishes of all who enjoy the privilege of his personal acquaintance.

On Trial.

The suit of Wm. Coleman against his divorced wife is now on trial in the circuit court. Coleman accuses the fair defendant of burning his house and barn, poisoning his hogs, killing his chickens and the bestowal of other little favors too numerous to mention. TIIK JOURNAL next week will contain a full account of the case.

Business Change.

The well known.boot and shoe firm of McClamrock & Youngman has been dissolved. Mr. McClamrock has purchased the interest of Mr. Youngman and will continue the business alone.

Crawfordsville Circuit.

There will be preaching next Sunday, Feb. 4, at Roberts at 10:30 a. m. and Olivet at 3 p. m.

THE FARMERS' READING CIRCLE.

It IN l)«'HtinM! TO IIIM'OIIU1 a L*o\vor For »ooL —Kvory Neighborhood Should Have Olio.

At the Farmers' Institute recently held at Darlington, a committee was appointed to look after the interest of Heading Circle work in Montgomery county. It, does not, seem to be generally known that the Farmers' Reading Circle of I ndiana. is a. permanent organization and lias for officers some of the most prominent men and women in the State. It is destined to liecome a power for good, any one must admit who gives the matter a moment's thought. The writer does not belong to that class, however, who would talk of the ignorance of rural inhabitants as though it were.something appalling, and try to scare them, as it were, into the project as a means of enlightenment. The. Teachers' Reading Circle of our State was not organized because the teachers were, so ignorant that the State wascompelled to try some means of improvement: bnt it is. now that it has become general, a, recognized help. The same might be said of any similar organization, l'.ut there seems to be a disposition among the intelligent and educated farmers' families to ignore the Reading Circle, which is altogether wrong, for. while they may read all that is necessary, and all they have time for, yet the near neighbors of such families may be very neglectful of such culture. Mcsides, it is much more profitable and pleasant to read certain books and discuss them with others than it is to read alone, as any one who has ever belonged to a

Shakespeare or a Mrowning Club will admit. There are numerous circles in in operation in the State at present, and a Farmers' Institute recently held in a certain county owed much of its success, it is said, to the interest of a Reading Circle in an adjacent district. The country people of Montgomery county are not inferior in intelligence to those in other parts of the State and it is hoped they will assist the committee by their hearty co-operation. If there is a neighborhood where a Reading Circle is wanted—and there should be many such—apply for information to Miss Rua Miller. Sliannondale J. S. Fullenwider, Mrown's Valley: or J. P. Maliorney, Ladoga, who constitute a committee that will cheerfully give the assistance that lies in their power.

R. C. M.

JUDGMENT FOR $1,000.

Tlie Instate of Win. i. Hatchings,Deceased, Is Awarded Damages Against the County After a Stubbornly Contested Fight.

The suit of Thomas W. Sutton, administrator of the estate of Wm. G. Ilutchings, deceased, against Montgomery county for $10,000 has come to an end. Last spring Mr. Ilutchings was returning from Darlington to his home at night and while crossing an unguarded bridge on the highway near the farm of Captain McClaskey the team in some way went over into the muddy bed of the branch. Mr. Ilutehings fell beneath the wagon and was killed. Suit was brought against the county for the statutory limit of SI0,000, Wright & Sellar appearing for the plaintiff, and maintaining that if the bridge had been safe the decedent could never have met his death. The defense was that Mr. Ilutchings was intoxicated and was killed by his own negligence. The trial lasted several days and went to the jury Wednesday afternoon. The jury did not reach an agreement until 2 a.m.Thursdaymorning when it was decided to give the plaintiff $1,000. The verdict was a compromise, the jurors ranging all the way from §10,000 to nothing. It is likely that the county will pay the damage and the case end. The jury found that the bridge was a dangerous one and that the deceased was somewhat intoxicated when the accident which resulted in his death occurred.

SHANNON! A1,K.

Gertie Tharp has lung fever. Lee Dale has returned again. John Tharp has been putting up ice. Elijah Ham is very poorly with his eyes.

Philip .Johnson is no better at this writing. Charley Shannon was at Crawfordsville Monday.

Meeting closed Sunday night with fifty-four additions. Some of the young people of this place have been attending meeting at Center Grove.

Earl Labolle and Chris Johnson are the expert trappers of this place. They have caught one mink.

Miss Jessie Lewellen, who resided at Clark's Hill, died Thursday with a stroke of paralysis. The funeral was conducted by a lady minister at the Christian church at that place. She was buried at the Shannondale cemetery Sunday. She leaves many friends to mourn her loss.

THE CITY IN BRIEF.

What IVoplo Art*. Doing, What Tliuy A:'o Saying* and Where Thuy Arc doing.

—M. 10. Coldfelter is home from Carthage. Mo. —Mrs. I. C. Elston is visiting in Indianapolis.

—Alien Dodd. who is accused of abstracting an overcoat has had Chas. Johnson appointed to defend him. —IOld. Oliphant. who is preaching1 this week at Indian Creek church, will preach at the Primitive Maptist ehurek here on Saturday and Sunday next. —John Davis, who has captured with the stolen clothes of Henry Mrown upon his back, has for soma unexplained reason been turned loose. —Engineer Rudesal of the Monon, who shot Alike Ilorenat Lafayette in a quarrel over the A. P. A., was admitted to §.1,000 bail Wednesday. "Deacon" Keiper. an old Wabash College boy, is one of his bondsmen.

Lafayette. ('mirier: Mrs. S. P. Muird entertained at cards yesterday afternoon, at. her home c-n north Sixth street. There were sixteen ladies present, and the affair was in honor of Mrs. Judge Thomas, of Crawfordsville.

I.ADOC.A.

The heading factory has again shut down. O. P. Cooper has been sick the past week.

A1 lleavenridge has moved to eant Ladoga. People are attending church in largv numbers.

Ice only four inches think is beingstored away. The Dauglierty mill will be rebuilt in the spring.

Elmer Pitcher now occupies the Harney property. The H. K. Wilson grocery room is being entirely renovated.

Marnes & Shackelford now have th« largest grocery room in to%vn. Dr. Peacock is now established at th« residence of Mrs. A. (J. McDaniel.

Revival meetings still continue at the Maptist and Christian churches. Mrs. Mollie Parker has returned home after a ten weeks' visit with relatives near Anderson.

For two hours Wednesday evening the town was in total darknesss on account of trouble at the power house.

WINGATli.

The industrial thermometer is down to misery. Mrs. Allie Mrowning. of Holgat«, Ohio, is here visiting her parents.

Rev. Trotter is conducting a very successful protracted meeting at tha Christian church.

E. N. Palin. the tailor, spoiled a half dozen suits of clothes last Friday trying to make dresses out of them. It'« a girl.

Tuck Wainscott will be a candidate for constable at the Democratic township convention. Your uncle Tuck will hardly be in it as he is competent.

A. L. Mritton, the druggist, was out bright and early last Wednesday morning sprinkling his last year's potato vines with Paris green and softly singing. "Gather the Harvest In." It's a girl.

The Slnr of last week makes an un-called-for attack on Prof. Sims and tha A. P. A. We will be glad to furnish the full speech made by Prof. Sims on the night of the riot and ask the able editor to point out the "treasonable" utterances it contains. Will the SU*r dare do it. or will it publish the principles set forth by the A. P. A. and expose the treason in them. Strang# that when a manly Democrat like Prof. Sims raises his voice in favor of trua Americanism his party sits down on him.

WAYNKTOWN.

The health board was organized Wednesday evening. James Widner transacted business in Danville, 111., Tuesday.

Miss Effie Hay less, of Crawfordsville. is visiting at Cal Hybarger's. [jTom Ilerron has been packing ica this week in large quantities.

Harry Snyder, of New Riehmend, visited friends here Wednesday. Pete Mrown has accepted the agencr for the Equitable Life Insurance Company.

Quarterly meeting was held at the M. 10. church Thursday and Friday of this week.

Nate Lucas, of Frankfort, visited his brother William. Wednesday and Thursday of tnis week. .•*

At ingersol's chapel and at'Bunnell's, school house there have been very successful revival meetings held during the last two weeks.

Judge Suit, of Frankfort, will deliver a Red Men's address here in the near future. A festival is also talked of for the same date.

An old lady who resides at Richmond by the name of Pifer, tlie guest of Henry Huckney at present, fell on the ice Wednesday and broke her thigh.

The new K. of P. hall will be dedicated on Friday evening, the 9th. A very interesting programme has been arranged which, in part, will consist of fine selections of both vocal and instrumental music.

A i.i. farmers should be in possession of the Farmers' Guide and Manual. Nothing like it in the country.

ANY style cabinets $1 per dozen Mrs. Willis & Son's. tt

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