Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 February 1894 — Page 3
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Wednesday Morning
25 lbs 40
We placed on sale the entire lot of goods purchased by me at the sale of the
J. H. Walker & Co.,
Wholesale Dry Goods Stock
IN CHICAGO.
Biggest bargains ever offered. Come see us and
buy your goods at Wholesale Cost and some at 50 cents on the dollar.
A E E I N S O N
Saturday, Feb. 10
We began selling California Canned Goods Of All Kinds
Peaches, Plums, Pears, Apricots and Cherries
At the Astonishingly Low Price of
15—CENTS PER CAN—15
We have only one hundred cases of these goods to sell at the above price and yon had better get them quick. They are strictly High Grade Standard Goods
WILL CONTINUE LOW PRICES FOR A FEW DAYS ON
FLOUR and SUGAR.
lbs Minnesota Flour $1.00 25 lbs New Orleans Sugar SI.00
lbs 50 24 lbs Yellow Sugar .l 1.00
50 lbs Pride of Peoria Flour 1.00 23 lbs White A Sugar 1.00
25 lbs 50 21 lbs Fine Granulated Sugar.... 1.00 50 lbs Eureka Flour.:. .-.ii SO
Extra Fine Potatoes, 75c per Bushel.
Our Furniture Trade Immense at Our Low Prices. We have not felt the hard times and do not expect to if Low Prices will prevent it. Very Truly
Barnhill, Hornaday&Pickett
Furniture, Stoves, Queensware and Groceries.
And deservedly so, for a better, purer and more effective Soap was never made. SANTA CLAUS SOAP never disappoints the most exacting housekeeper. Try it and be convinced. Sold everywhere.
M«de only by n. K. FAIRBANK & CO., Chicago.
"A HAND SAW IS A GOOD THING, BUT NOT TO SHAVE WITH,
IS THE PROPER THING FOR HOUSE-CLEANING.
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VOL. 52—NO. 8 CRAWFOKDSVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1894—TWELVE PAGES
WITH THE JURY.
The Ou*'htion «f the Mure with Kits with .Jury, Good and True.
The testimony in the Meharry suit was continued Thursday afternoon. Jennie Meharry, daughter of the defendant, had heard of the fits.
Abe Meharry, son of defendant, testified that mare had blind staggers at times.
Hence Coleman, the champion quoit pitcher, testified that he had been a horse doctor for forty years. He gave expert testimony of a technical character, prettily defining the important difference between blind and stomach staggers.
A. W. Cliilcote testified that Hoots was sober, industrious and honest. Dr. W. W. Olin, the attending physician, said that Boots died of blood poisoning caused by his fractured leg. His blood was not in good condition at the time of the accident or poisoning would not have set in so soon.
The plaintiff here rested and the defendant began. G. W. .Buxton, John Livingstone, John Ilarmel and S. M. Mick testified in substance that Boots had told them before the accident that the mare was subject to fits.
Squire Gilkey showed his cash book with the entries where Boots had paid his firm for the mare
J. T. Pence. Eph Martin and Frank Stover testified that Boots told them he had purchased the mare of Phillips.
Frank Jackson, Meharry's hand, testified that he had told Boots of the fits before the sale.
Abe Meharry, son of defendant, testified that both he and his father had told Boots before the sale about the mare having fits and had described them. Boots said that she was suited to his purpose anyhow.
The defense rested and the court having struck out the evidence of Henry Krug tlie court adjourned until Friday morning, when Paul & Brunei" made speeches for the plaintiff and Crane Anderson for the defendant. Mr. Paul closed Friday afternoon and the ease went to the jury after instructions by the court.
TIIK YKKnit'T.
The jury retired at 2:50 o'clock and at 3:05 returned a verdict. It was handed up and read as follows:
We the jury find for the defendant. E. P. MCCI.ASKKY, Foreman. The jury took four ballots to reach its verdict. On the first three it stood eleven to one and on the fourth was unanimous. The gentleman voting for the plaintiff at first was Mr. Needham.
The jury was one of the best that ever sat in this county, all its members being eminently respectable oand responsible citizens, men of influence and standing. The plaintiff stood upon the verdict and the case probably ends right here.
As Seen in Covington.
Spcncc's People's Paper of Covington speaking of the visit of the Crawfordsville Eastern Star ladies to that place says:
As soon as the goat could be unloaded and got up tlie stairway trouble began and from that until each candidate had been crowned with a star, the work progressed fast and furious. The ladies of the team were bright in the work and won the admiration of the candidates who committed their fates to the tender mercies of these visitors. After work refreshments were had and enjoyed by all. Then came the social communion and so pleasantly the hours flew by that the wee stria' hours drew on apace before the happy people sought repose. 11 was an event that will long be remembered by tlie members of Troy Chapter U. 1)., as one of the brightest pictures in the panorama of life.
The Eastern Star lady who was given entertainment at Billy Miles' came near not getting home at all. Billy was so taken up with the order that he wanted to keep one of the stars, and laid in bed quarreling with his wife about it until the train left, then got up, made a fire, and gave the lady her breakfast, hoping that by the time for the next train east she would have become acclimated and willing to stay here. But his scheme failed.
In the Putnam Circuit Court.
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Creencastle Jlanncr-Timcs: Central National Bank, of Greencastle, vs. F. P. Nelson, et al., foreclosure:judgment rendered against W. H. Durham, as. F. Darnell and Franklin P. Nelson in favor of Central Hank for §10,7G:.tin and judgment against the same in favor of the First National Bank for 89.284. First National Bank of Greencastle vs. Win. H. Durham, F. P. Nelson and James F. Darnell, note judgment against all the defendants for 8i3.i :o.!!o.
An Ironclad Iiulo.
General Superintendent Lowell- of the Monon lines, has issued an order to the effect that any employe who wishes to retire from the service of the company has only to be seen entering or emerging from a saloon or where intoxicating liquors are sold. This rule is ironclad.
Tli ItidlculoiiH Old lli'im, of Wvync*vwn, lUimarricB Htn Twice DIvorwd Wlfo And All IH Lovely For TIIIH
Week1 May bo.
Old Tom Courtney, of Waynetown, has again put his already skinned proboscis to the matrimonial grind stone. He was married Thursday at Danville, 111., to his twice divorced wife, Rebecca Fruits Stivers of 'redolent memory. Within the past two years Tom has been married to this woman three times and has secured two divorces from her. His marriage bill has footed up about $40 and his divorce bill to about $4,000. Tom has grown gray headed trying to solve the great matrimonial problem and making one woman and one clean shirt last through three marriages and two divorce suits. He manages affairs so as to about equally divide his time between the hymeneal altar and the witness stand in a divorce suit.
Tom has been ony of the wealthiest farmers in Wayne township but if he persists in monkeying with the female board of trade he won't have enough left in a year or so to buy funeral ice. He was a childless widower, as gay as a horned mutton, when he married the widder Stivers the first time. Very soon war clouds as big as the bill for Fullen's Chinese wall arose on the connubial horizon and began to patter down big drops in the Courtney camp of domestic felicity. Mrs. Courtney's half grown sons playfully impersonated clouds and, perhaps, did more to stir up a good stiff breeze than anything else. The personal encounters between Tom and Rebecca which were marked by the shedding of gore, hair, teeth and toe nails, also contributed to making the matrimonial cyclone a brilliant success. A divorce and a cross complaint, both filled with sensational and sassy charges were filed and in the course of time the divorce was granted. In much less than three weeks Tom had made a brilliant charge on the affections of his ex-wife and captured the works. The old gray mare was hitched up and the cooing couple came rattling to town to be made one again. They were evidently fond of this exciting game of "odd and even"' however, for along about raspberry time another divorce suit was filed. The charges were as gay and gaudy as ever. Each charged the other with murderous assaults, of wearing the finger nails long, and of carrying files to sharpen teeth in advance of a battle. Mrs. Courtney came marching into the court house under the banner of "No divorce without alimony." She got it. Again the good people were separated but the lawyers were still busy counting their fees when old Tom begun to get gay again. He made eyes at the lady on their way home from the trial and in less than a week began greasing his boots and wearing a collar. In less than ten days he was writing her poetry and driving a gravel wagon two miles out of his way to pass Annie's residence.
In two months the cooing and lollygagging was in full blast again and the roses blossomed on hymen's altar Thursday for the third time while Hymen himself went across the street to a neighboring saloon and getting gloriously drunk offered his ancient business interests for sale for a mere song. The marriage agreement was drawn up Wednesday at Waynetown by the amiable and agreeable Wm. Simms of the Waynetown bar. Tom agreed in these articles to leave Annie one-third of all his property, in fee simple, when he died. He also agreed to milk the cow and slop the sow. Waynetown is all speculation as to the time of the filing of tlie next divorce suit. Bob Baker and Morris Herzog are fitting up a lottery stand in the back of llerzog's store and will sell tickets numbered by days from the first of next week up until the first of June. The man holding the ticket with the day of filing the suit upon it will draw the capital prize—a type written copy of one of Capt. Billings' war stories with the truthful part in brackets.
A Dissolution and Two New
FIIIUK.
Ihe old and established legal firm of Hurley AClodfelter has been dissolved mutual consent. .Judge Hurley will retain the present office of the firm and will take in as his partner his son Frank, a bright young man recently admitted to the bar here. They will make an energetic and reliable firm. Mi. Clodfelter has formed a partnership with Claude Thompson, who has been associated in the study of law with Jere West for several years and who is a reliable and pleasant young man who thoroughly understands his business. The firm will certainly have a law practice.
COURTNEY'S COURTING. BLAZED THE CRIB. ORDERING HIS OWN COFFIN.
An Indignant auil SulVcrliiR Mother Applicti Tlie Torch ton Juvenile (ImnhlliiK l»cn.
The boys of the northwest end of town are not all devout Sunday School scholars as they should be, and the aveiage lad of 10 knows a good deal more about poker than he does about Genesis, and much more about Jim Corbett and Peter Jackson than he does about St. John and the Apostle Paul. There is always more danger of his breaking into jail than into church and parents are kept on the qui vive of unpleasant excitement most of the time. Everybody knows the big hollow which comes up Market street just west of High street and runs northwest, toward the old pork house. In this liollow off Hluff Hill the bad boys of the north-west end some time ago erected a commodious shanty. Although right in town the hollow is a rough, almost inacessible place and consequently unfrequented by the public. The boys were in clover here. The shanty was gorgeously fitted up with the. cast-oft' furniture of a score of homes and the whole thing resolved into a sort of stock company. Each boy was furnished with shares proportionate to the work done by him in fitting the place up or furnishing it.
The stockholders ranged in age from seven years up to about20,and were for the most part a very tough and disreputable lot. The place came to be known as the "Jesse James Ranch," and parents who were up to snuff forbade their sons going within two blocks of the place. Gambling, fighting and even more questionable evils were frequently participated in. The gaudy girls of the north end frequently graced the shanty with their presence for the sake of the older members of "the company." The juvenile hoodlums fairly had things their own way and made life miserable for any who chanced to come under their displeasure. Depredations were committed and a general reign of outlawry established. It was not only all day but all night at the shanty and Sunday was the biggest day of all. Parents with unruly boys were in despair.
Last Thursday, however, there was a sensation afforded for the youngsters. About 10 o'clock there was a cry of fire all along High street and people who were in sight of the shanty thankfully witnessed its destruction. It sprang into a blaze all of a sudden and in about two seconds was enveloped in flames. The manner of its burning was strikingly suggestive of the agency of coal oil, and it is rumored that by the light of the lurid flames which illuminated the disreputable hollow from one end to the other, that the portly form of a well-known mother was seen stalking homeward with the family oil can in her hand. It is thought that she was decidedly instrumental in ridding the neighborhood of a bad roost, and her action meets general approval. It is safe to infer that the place will not be rebuilt in the immediate future. It was destroyed last night with all its contents, and it is said the board of directors had failed to have the place properly insured.
UoHHtpH Busy.
In the past week or so the gossips have been eminently busy concerning the rather sensational separation of John A. Corbin and wife, brief mention of which was made in Thursday's JOUHNAI.. The domestic affairs of the disagreeing couple are being thoroughly aired and no end of talk occasioned. Both the lady and the gentleman have stories to tell and Mr. Corbin's story seems to stand in justification of his action in leaving his home. But few men live, perhaps, who would wish a home where their own children are not welcome guests. Such Mr. Corbin asserts is the chief grievance of tin many he lias. As Mrs. Corbin's side was given before. this stateiiiciit is but justice to Mr. Corbin.
Divorced.
Nancy Dunbar has secured a divorce from Chaujjeey Dunbar on tlie alleged ground of cruel and inhuman treatment. Chauncey failed to lend his genial presence to grace the trial and consequently had nothing to say when 8800 alimony was chalked up against him by the court in addition to the decree.
Lewis G. Springer has been freed from matrimonial entanglement with Emma Springer. Lewis has evinced for some time past a morbid desire to precipitate Emma into the tempestuous sea of grass widowdom.
Knocked Out.
The Posfcy county man knocked out Chairman William Johnston for the Assistant Attorney Generalship on the first round and William started home at once.
PART FIRST
Mr. Drake ltrooknhlrc Getting Komly fbr IIIH I.iiHt (luuriicy.
A special from Ladoga says: Mr. Drake Brookshire, the father of the Hon. E. V. Brookshire, lives on hi* large farm near Ladoga and is one »f the most influential Democrats in th* county. He is of old North Carolimik stock, having been born and reared i« that State. He i« a man of strong personality and has many peculiarities of speech and action.
Mr. Brookshire is a very large max, and has the ruggedness characteristic of the pioneer farmer. He has all his clothing made to order, and is able t» have the best the country affords. U*t the most peculiar thing he has don* lately is to send for a carpenter, H. fi. 11 un tington of tli is place on special business. When Mr. Huntington arrived at the country home he found Mr. Brookshire in his usual good humor and i» the best of health. He was nota little suprised when the hale old man said to him: "I was in at the undertaker's store the other day, and I don't believe he lias a collin to fit me. What he has are llimsy things, just trimmed up to look nice. 1 have always had a comfortable and secure home, and I want my cotBn to be the. same so take my measure and make me one out of two-inch oak. Nail it together so that if the devil gets me he will have to work for it. 1 have no notion of dying at present, but 1 want to have my coflin ready for the occasion."
Mr. Huntington is now making the strongbox, and Mr. Brookshire will keep it until he needs it.
He has said before that he wants ne fine hearse to haul his remains to the graveyard, but prefers to have the coflin placed in one of his own farm wagons, and then he wants his favorite team of mules to draw him to his liint resting place.
A Now l.cimi! For the l'ontofll«i. Tlie lease, on the building now occupied by the postoflice expires next May. W. T. Fletcher, the government inspector of postoflice buildings, was in the city last week looking after a, lease for the next live years. Under his instructions he has advertised for bids, which advertisement will be found elsewhere in to-day's JOIJKNA.1,. All bids must embrace not only the building, but must include the furnishings throughout, such a lock boxes a fire proof vault and other furniture and fixtures, besides light and heat. Blanks with specifications for the use of bidders can be obtained from Postmaster Voris. The Inspector reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Bid* must be in by the 10th day of March.
KiiKiigcment Announced.
The engagement of Mr. Sam A. Morrison and Miss Alice Failey, of Indianapolis, has been announced. Mr. Morrison is well known in Crawfordsville society having graduated from Wabash in '90 and been a frequent visitor here since. Miss Failey is of one of the wealthiest and mottt influential families in Indianapolis and a young lady of rare beauty and culture.
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