Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 May 1895 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, MAY 10. 1895.

THE saloon license at Danville, 111., is 8800 a year.

Now is a good time to clean up the "back alleys and filthy cellars.

No difference what happens the Democratic party could not be got into 'a more demoralized condition than it is now.

THE supply of pie having been exhausted the Tall Sycamore has discovered which side of the silver question he is on.

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON was the first to "demonetize" the silver dollar. He ordered the coinage stopped in 1800, and it was not resumed for thirty years.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S annual net income is estimated all the way from $90,000 to

§100,000.

Grover is a thrifty

President and is ever on the lookout for the main chance.

THE total value of Indiana taxable property in 1S94, according to the statistics just received in the State Auditor's office was 81,295,106,415. General tax fund reached $1,468,777.40.

THE quarterly payment of pensions began at Indianapolis Saturday. All pensioners who have received less than $6 per month will hereafter be paid 86. In Indiana this will effect 3,400 pensioners.

THE Deiterich syndicate has gobbled in the Logansport Natural Gas plant. The price paid was 8500,000. It recently took in the Wabash and Peru lines, and will soon be in possession of all the lines leading from the gas region.

SOUTH BEND has just let the contract for a public library building, at §25,583. THE JOURNAL hopes to be able to announce in the not distant future the letting of a contract for a similar structure for Crawfordsville. "'"We haven't the library yet but we will have it.

THE greater amount of the §40,000 left Purdue University by the late Amos Heavilon was in Frankfort real estate. The last piece, the Heavilion business block, has been sold to Paris brothers for 810,000. The money will be used in building an addition to Heavilon block.

THE Frankfort Times thinks it begins to look as if Harrison will occupy almost identically the same position in the next Republican national convention which Cleveland did in the Chicago convention of 1892. Sections will stand out doggedly for their own particular candidates. There will be Morton and Reed from the East, McKinley and Allison from the West, and Ben Harrison will come mighty near capturing the whole kit.

CINCINNATI Commercial-Gazette: Gov. Matthews speaks well of ex-Pres-ident Harrison, and at once the Cleveland cuckoo organs have none but belittling words to say of the Gov ernor. Why should not Gov. Matthews speak well of Gen. HarrisonV They are fellow-townsmen, and the Governor is a man of brains, and being a man of brains he can and does recog nize ability and statesmanship even in a member of the opposing political party.

THE income tax doctors and nurses are weary waiting and watching over the sick and almost lifeless Democratic infant. The Supreme court should knock it in the head and put it out of its misery. The treasury otticials are doing the best they can to collect the tax, from which they estimate an in crease of 814,000,000. They may think themselves lucky if they get half that sum. The law is virtually dead. Public opinion is against it. It is safe to say, that it will be the olast attempt that will ever be made in this country to enact an income tax law.

THE treasury statement shows a very large loss of revenue and a serious discrepancy between Secretary Carlisle's estimates and the actual receipts. Two months remain of this fiscal year, and the treasury officials are now able to see that whereas Mr. Carlisle estimated a- deficit of 820,000,000 June 30 next, the actual deficit is likely to be about 848,000,000. This is a pretty serious matter, and there is small prospect of any increase of the receipts. The sugar duties are not coming ii! as they were expected, and the whisky tax is disap' pointing enough to indicate that the American people are not drinking as much whisky as they did a few years ago.

THE board created by the Legislature, composed of the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of State and Treasurer of State, to appoint the Monument Regency, is said to be in a quandary. The Indianapolis Sun says that all of the board would like to reseat Langsdale, but the specter of the G. A. R., and with it the glum sense of future political pudding, is deterring any such action. As a means of straddling the issue the board decided to toss the plum to Artist Steele, without the shadow of a doubt that he would accept. But Artist Steele fooled them one. He told them that it would be "disgraceful" for him to take the place after having worked for Mr. Langsdale so hard, and that it would be a downright shame for the board to dump G. J. His remarks were not received with the kindliest of feeling, but nevertheless the board, with the persistency of despair, has kept on urging him to accept. He keeps on saying what he thinks, however, and the bewildered board will have to look for other timber.

THE Delphi Journal, in speaking of the city improvements and the men who oppose them, says: "How silly men are to oppose improvements. You can't successfully fight them off. They are bound to come. They may not be here to-day but they will come to-morrow or next day. The history and experience of Delphi is the history and experience of every city with an3' vinegar about it. When we proposed to get electric lights there was lot of roaring, but the lights carr^e. When water works were suggested a posse of objectors yelled and swung their arms but water works came. Cement sidewalks were proposed and the mud hens cackled, but look at the beautiful walks about you. If a man wants to get a fight on his hands let him come to Delphi and propose to take away our electric light, water works or cement sidewalks. He'll be scalped in a second."

INTERNATIONAL commerce calls for an international measure of value, and the way to establish an international standard of value is for all nations that can agree on a bimetal) standard, to enter into an alliance with each other, with discriminating tariffs against the nations which will not agree to an international standard. If there are nations which will not agiee to some method that will make commerce with them fair and equal, then let them "paddle their own canoe." If a uniform standard of value is necessary through the commercial world, to enable nations to carry on commerce with each other, then let us have all the nations of the world determine what that standard shall be. Great Britain has no right to dictate a stand and for all the world.

TERRE HAUTE Express: Senator Voorhees is not only the man who predicted that'wool would rise above the old prices on account of the Wilson tariff, but he predicted, eighteen months ago, that the United States would return to a normal state of prosperity in ninety days. How any man holding his views of the diabolical and unalterable influence of "the crime of 1S73" could make such a prophecy is surprising. If he believes what he says about the demonetization of the beloved dollar of our sacred sires he cannot believe that prosperity could return in ninety days or ninety months.

DANVILLE Commercial: It is very clear to any one who heard him last night why Gen. Lew Wallace wrote

Ben-Hur." The doubts and questionings of the ages took hold of his active mind, and he began investigations that he might have clear convictions as to the divinity of the Christ. In working out his own convictions to an affirmative answer, he carried conviction to other questioning hearts ami clothed the era of the Nazarene's thirty years on the earth with a beauty, a fascination, and a reality never before fully realized. "Ben-Hur" will live almost as long as the New Testament itself.

THE late Senator Randall L. Gibson, of Louisiana, after dividing his property equally among his three sons, gives the following capital advice to them: "I hope my sons will defer to and confide in my executors and trustees, and, above all, that they may realize early in life that the only thing more difficult to build up than an independent fortune, and more easily lost, is character, and that the only safeguards of character are the ten commandments and Christ's sermon on the Mount." Here is a whole sermon for young men and women in a nutshell.

MARION Leader: The reports aiong the line of the Indiana Central Railway seem to be uniformly favorable. Marion will have the advantage of the shops if the tax is voted here, aside from being the division point, and in general deriving more benefit from the road than our neighboring cities.

THE Supreme Court has decided that county tax boards have the right to demand the names of bank depositors and the amount of their deposits.

THE TENNESSEE OUTRAGE.

Last fall Hon. H. C. Evans was elected Governor of Tennessee by nearly a thousand majority. The Legislature elected at the same time had a Democratic majority in both Houses. When it became known that Evans was elected a conspiracy was immedidiately set on foot to count him out. In violation of both the constitution and the laws the Democratic Secretary of State refused to canvass the vote for Governor, and Turney held on 'to the office. The Legislature met and passed an ex post facto law providing a way that the man ^elected Governor should contest for his seat instead of the man defeated, an unheard of proceeding. Governor Turney, who was not re-elected, held on to his seat. The Legislature, against the protests of all the leading Democratic newspapers of the State, went through the form of an investigation. The committee was organized to count Turney in and Evans out, and everybody knew what the result would be before it entered upon its alleged investigation. That committee has submitted its report which was in accordance with the prearranged plans. The Nashville Banner, the leading Democratic paper of Tennessee, in commenting on the outrage, on Sunday morning said: "The wrong that was perpetrated last night by the joint assembly in the name of Democracy, was done in the face of the earnest protest of the overwhelming majority of Democrats in Tennessee. It is a fact beyond all question, that the mass of the Democracy, and the best and prevailing sentiment of the party in this State, is emphatically opposed to the partisan action taken by a misguided majority of the Democrat members of the General Assembly in this contest case, and the indignation expressed in this city this morning over the indefensible action which overturns the people's election for Governor is but an earnest of the general condemnation throughout the State.

This bold theft is sure to make Tennessee a reliably Republican State. The masses of American people believe in fair play and when an outrage of this kind happens they are sure to rebuke it at the polls at the first opportunity. For years the Democratic majority in Tennessee has slowly dwindled from forty thousand to twenty thousand until last fall, when it dissapeared altogether. These facts have made the Republicans more and more hopeful of ultimate supremacy, and they could not have asked for a thing more to their wishes than the counting in of Peter Turney. Nothing can keep that action from being the issue in the next campaign, and the Republicans believe, with every show of reason, that with several Democratic papers supporting their contention on the point, they will carry everything before them.

DISCUSSING the experience of South Bend with brick and cedar block pavement the Tribune says that when the jity began putting down pavement public opinion was for cedar block and against brick. Experience has caused a change and few if any citizens would now vote for block. Brick has worked its way into public sentiment by proving its cleanliness and durability. The cedar block pavements now down are wearing out and it is a/ question of but a short time when they will have to be renewed. Several of the streets are in an unsightly and an uncomfortable condition and the matter of again paving them is not far distant. The brick streets give better satisfaction and brick will probably be used in South Bend until something better is found.

THE Louisville Times asks these significant questions: How does it happen that the so-called gold countries, almost without exception, are rich and powerful, while the silver countries, without exception, are poor, and with the exception of Russia, and probably Japan, are weak? Is this mere coincidence? Besides the "gold countries" are the only bimetallic countries—the only countries that employ both gold and silver as money.

THE Marion Leader says that in order to satisfy the people upon the reliabil ity of the new Indiana Central Railway Company, a comm.ttee has been appointed to investigate the matter and will report in a few days. It further says that if things are as represented it is without doubt the best thing that ever came to Marion and should receive every man's hearty sup port.

EVANSVILLE Journal: The Nichol son law is a great bugaboo, but it has many good qualities. It will close the low-down joints in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne and Evansville. And it will regulate saloons that have heretofore been run rather loosely. Under this law a saloon must be operated with some regard for decency and good order. -V:

FRANKFORT News: It is worthy of remark that there are a few property owners in Frankfort who prefer to pave with good intentions, rather th$n with-briqk or any other serviceable material that costs money. However, there are only a few such, and they are not objecting much tiow, and 'will be the first to pay their assessments.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON, in his mint report presented to Congress in February, 1792, said: "It is most advisable not to attach the unit exclusively to either metal, for this cannot be done effectually without depriving one of them of the character and office of money, and reducing it to the situation of mere merchandise To annul the use of either metal is liable to all the oobjections that arise from a comparison of the benefits of a full with the evils of a scanty circulation." Jefferson wrote to Hamilton, saying: "I return to your mint report, which I have read with a great deal of satisfaction. I concur with you in thinking that the unit must stand upon both metals." Congress embodied these views of Hamilton and Jefferson in the act of April 2, 1792, "establishing a mint and regulating the coins of the United States." By section 20 of this act, preserved in "section 3,563 of the revised statutes establishing the decimal system, it is provided: "Tbe money of account of the United States shall be expressed in dollars or units, dimes or tenths, cents or hundredths, and mills or thousandths: the dime being the tenth part of a dollar, a cent the hundredth part of a dollar, and a mill the thousandth part of a dollar: and all accounts in the public offices, and all proceedings in the court shall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation." The unit is, therefore, the unit of account, and is called the dollar and, as all values are expressed in the terms of this unit, its multiples and decimals, it is the unit of value. In our decimal system this unit or dollar is a mere mental conception, and, to be utilized or used in business transactions, it must be embodied in or represented by some material substance.

THE Anjus-Xeivs rushes to the rescue of President Cleveland and says he is "the only man, who in a quarter of a century, has been able to lift the Democratic party out of the mire, and put it on its feet." The admission that the Democratic party has been in the mire for twenty-five years is frank, but the statement that is out of the mud now is certainly a revelation. The elections that have been held since Cleveland has been President would indicate that the Democratic party is in the middle of the dismal swamp. Notwithstanding President Cleveland's position on gold, feebly defended by the Argus-Neivs, the silver Democrats seem to be in the saddle and their riding is beautiful to behold.

THE New York Evening Post is among the valiant defenders of Street Cleaner Waring in his onslaught upon 'pension bummers." The Post says: "The chief distinction of the Grand Army—one which nobody can deny— is that of being theoonly political organization in history whose main object was the procuring of a cash dividend for each member. We will not erect bounty-jumpers, deserters, skulkers, malignerers, and pension cheats into a sacred class of whom nobody must speak irreverently." Just keep it up, gentlemen. You are valiant fighters with the mouth.

AND now comes the Detroit Tribune with an editorial recommending the following: "That all existing coinage laws be repealed and that there be enacted law creating anew American dollar, which should be the sole standard coin of the nation, this dollar to be com posed of 206 J-4 grains of standard silver and 12.9 grains of standard gold fused together and struck into a handsome coin about the size of the present half dollar. The coin would be of absolutely stable value, for in case of disparity at any time in the commercial value of gold and silver what was lost by the depreciation of one metal would be made up by the exactity corresponding appreciation of the other." vy-S

STATE TREASURER SCHOLZ has received the money for the 8500,000 of State funding bonds, sold recently and has taken up the 8500,000 of new State House bonds, which fell due May 1.

A Trip to lJakotu.

J. M. Schultz has been in the vicinity of Bismark. N. D., in the interest of the Durham estate. Mr. Durham had invested §15.000 in a syndicate pur chase of land near that place. A man has been found who will pay 10 per cent of the original amount invested in this land if all the parties will sell Thus the matter stands, and if the trade can be consummated it will be 81,500 for the Durham creditors.

Mr. Schultz says that there are splen did prospects for crops there—the sea son being three weeks earlier than usual, and an abundance of rain has fallen. The main trouble with that country, he says, was the idea the farmers got that it was best to put all their land into wheat. When the, wheat crop failed they had nothing to fall back on, but this year a beautiful crop of all kinds will be put in.

Brought Back from Michigan City.

George Livingstone, the clover seed thief, was brought back from Michi' gan City last Monday. The Supreme Court has given him a new trial. This was a stubbornly fought case, and the next trial promises to be more so. new trial was granted on account of an error in the instructions of the court.

THAT GAS BELT ELECTRIC.

In Ten Days Mr. Clodfelter Will Begin to Lay Track For the Electric Railway.

Kokomo Tribune: May 15th is the time set for the beginning of the work on the Clodfelter gas belt electric line between Anderson and Marion. A copy of the contract between the Standard Construction Company and the reorganized company has been seen. They will put three forces of men to work at that ti:ae—one at Marion, one at Alexandria and one at Anderson. Depots are to be built at the terminals. Clodfelter is to build the first two miles himself. He is then to get

©10,000

for

every mile he builds and then pay for the two miles when the line is running, September 1. The 8500,000 worth of bonds are to be floated by Lyman & Wilgus, 33 -Wall street, N. Y. Congressman Henry's company began surveying its line to-day. It will parallel the Clodfelter line if both are °built, but in addition a spur will connect Anderson and Elwood and later Indianapolis. Both companies seem to be in earnest.'

Home froiu California.

J. E. Hamilton, who went from Sugar Creek township to California about five years ago, is here on a visit. He is located in Santa Clara county and is in the fruit business as a buyer and shipper for the Shady Oak Orchard. Mr. Hamilton is delighted with California and has no desire to return to Montgomery county for a permanent residence, although he thinks old Montgomery the next place to live.

A New State Boaril of Health. The Governor, Secretary of State and Auditor of State appointed T. Henry Davis, M. D., of Richmond, and John H. Forest, M. D., of Marion, members of the State Board of Health. The members who retire are John N. Taylor, M. D., of Crawfordsville, and S. S. Boots, M. D., of Greenfield. The board is now equally divided politically. It is understood that 0. N. Metcalf will remain as secretary.

Death of Oscar F. Stafford,

Oscar F. Stafford, the last surviving brother of Rev. G. W. Stafford, died Saturday morning at Chicago at the age of sixty-four. He was for many years the editor of the Attica

Ledijer.

The funeral occurred at Attica Monday afternoon, Rev. Stafford attending.

Transfers of Keal Estate.

List of deeds recorded in Montgomery county and ready for delivery. urnished by Thos. T. Munhall. Recorder and Abstractor. E Voris to 11 Bratton, GO acres Walnut tp 63.10 Elizabeth Watson to

Swank, 4 lots Longview... 750.00 Nancy A llawn to Wm Biggs, 6 lots city 100.00 Jas Fihely to Kebecea McAuliff, 2 lots city 300.00 W Harlow to Galey,lot in city 1,100.00 Wm Allen to Wm Fisher, 80 acres Sugar Creek ty 3,600.00 Geo W Conrad to W Conrad, 20 acres Union tp 1,000.00 Eva Kelsey to McKinley

Tapp, 11% acres Union tp. 550.00 Cinderella Short to McKinley Tapp, 3 acres Union tp 120.00 S Shuler to & Annable, 37-100 of an acre Union tp.. 2CO.OO Geo W Dixon to Sophia AGoslin, 1052 acres Scott tp.... 2,^30.00

A Kelsey to Jas Busenbark, 13J£ acres Union tp 540.00 E Kelsey to Jas Busenbark, 13£ acres Union tp 540.00 Cinderella Short to Jas Busenbark, 37)4 acres Union tp.. 1,506.00

Mitchell et al to Peter Mitchell 100 acres Sugar Creek tp 5,500.00

15 transfers, consideration.. .818,099.10

CIVIL CORNER.

James Hunter sold his wool Thursday. The farmers are through plowing for corn.

Clyde Watson is taking music lessons under Myrtle Rice. James Hunter finished planting corn Tuesday of last week.

Earl Watson is studying to be doctor under Dr. Bolcer. Harry Stubbins wont to Yountsville Wednesday night, May 1.

Ollie Watson is talking of going to Florida to buy an orange grove.

SWAMP COL.LEGK.

House cleaning is the order of the day. E. Rush visited among his neighbors Sunday.

Hezekiali Evans' sons sheared sheep this week. Geo. Grimes and family went to Ladoga Saturday.

Jake and Mort Shrader went to Ladoga Saturday. Most of the farmers are through planting corn.

Ask Charley Doyle if he has fixerf that door step yet. Bill Lydick is having some wood cut for next winter's use.

Ike Hester went down to Brown's Valley Thursday evening. A. Hester has a fine colt at his house, which he says cannot be beat.

Bob Straughn has not planted corn yet. He is waiting for it to rain. Henry Grimes and wife, of Russellville, were here Sunday evening.

George Grimes has employed two lawyers to assist him in his law suit. Bob Goff and George Hertner went fishing Saturday. They caught five fish.

Joseph Allen and wife went down to Parke Saturday on a visit to the former's father-in-law. enry Evans took first premium cgf 820 on his young mare at the .Ladoga 'horse show Saturday.

On Friday morning Enoch Bronson and Wilbur Haulk got into a quarrel which ended in a fight.

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J^OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. State of Indiana, Montgomery County: In the Montgomev Circuit Court, May term. 1895.

Ezra C. Voris vs. James S. McKee. Complaint No. 11,664. Comes now the plaintiff by Paul & Bruner. his attorneys, and flies his complaint herein together with an affidavit that said defendant. James S. McKee Is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that the object of this aotion Is to quiet the title to real estate ID Montgomery county, Indiana, and to enforce a lien against tbe same and toobtain possession real estate in said county.

Notice Is therefore hereby glvfen said defend* ant .that unless he be and npear on the 44th day of the May term of the Montgomery Circuit Court, for the year 1895, the same being the 25th day of June, A. D., 1895. at the court house in Crawfordsville, In s»ld county and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in his absence.

Witness my name, and the seal of said court, affixed at Crawfordsville this 2nd day of May, A. D„ 1895. WALLACE SPAHKS. 5-4--3t Clerk.

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