Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 14 February 1896 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1895.

THB JOURNAL is indebted to Hon. Geo. W. Faris for a copy of the Congressional Directory of the Fiftyfourth Congress.

IT has now been demonstrated beyond the possibility of a doubt that there was no necessity for the improvident contract that Cleveland and Carlisle made with the BelmontMorgan syndicate in 1885.

ONH fact which the people fully comprehend is that in President Cleveland's term of office, not yet threefourths ended, the Government has run in debt $262,000,000, one-tenth of the entire debt contracted in four years of our bloody civil war.

A. M. HIGGINS, of Terre Haute, who has served as the efficient Secretary of the State Lincoln League during the past year, is a candidate for the Presidency of the same. The election takes place February 12. The JOURNAL would be glad to see him succeed in his aspirations.

TIIE silver bugs who have been telling all about the scarcity of gold, had no conception of the hundreds of millions in strong boxes, in oid trunks and stockings.- There is no mistaking the fact that there is much gold that statisticians of the Stewart school know nothing about.

SOUTH BEND has taken the initiatory steps for the entertainment of the State Encampment of the Grand AT my of the Republic to be held in that city on the 13th and 14th of May. South Bend never does anything by halves, and the veterans when they go there next May will receive a royal welcome.

THB silver wedge threatens a split in the Texas Democracy, but both the party and the State are big enough to stand division without defeat—Louisville Times.

That's the same opinion you entertained for Kentucky at one time. Texisjjg_a fair way to follow your footsteps.

Is the past three years Grover Cleveland has increased the indebtedness of the Government $262,000,000 and decreased the revenue. The blind blundering and incapacity of the present administration has never been equaled. Our resources have never been exceeded, yet we are forced to assist foreign enterprises, to the detriment of home industry.

JOHN B. ROBINSON, of South Africa, was a poor grocer in 1878. He and his wife begged their way to Kimberly) and he was lucky enough to find a dia mond which he sold for $1,200. With that his fortune began. To-day his wealth is set down at §350,000,000. He is among the richest men, if not the richest, upon the globe. Here is a tip for some of ourCrawfordsville grocers.

THE annual live stock investigation made ,by the American Agriculturist places the aggregate value of all farm animals at 01,860,420,000, a decline during the year of 802,130,000. "This is the lowest point yet reached since the decline began in 1893, when the total value of animals on the farm was reported at $2,463,083,000, a shrinkage in three years of 8662,633,000, or 25 per cent."

IN 1886, prior to the passage of the McKinley act, the aggregate number "of sheep slaughtered at Chicago St. .Louis, Kansas City and Omaha was but 979,000, while in 1894 the number was 3,564,000, or nearly four times the number only eight yearB before. In 1885 Chicago alone slaughtered only 743,000 sheep, while in 1894 2,766,000 were killed, or nearly four times the number of nine years previous.

IT may be there will be no national encampment of the Grand Army this year. The Western Passenger Association refused to grant the desired time extention on reduced rate tickets to St. Paul, the place selected by the Louisville encampment last September, and it was then determined to select some other city. Being in formed that none of the roads, East or

West, would allow the privilege asked for, Commander Walker declared that in that event there would be no national encampment held. This is an unfortunate muddle, but it is to be hoped some way out of it will be found.

CROCODILE TEARS.

If the Argus News would waste some of its crocodile tears over the brutal treatment the Union veterans have received from its own party it would be in abetter position to upbraid Republicans. From the time that Grover Cleveland issued the decree that the pension roll should be reduced by cutting off not less than a hundred thousand names, and all without a scintilla of proof of fraud, the Argus-News up to this hour has never -raised its voice in behalf of the veteran and against such inhumanity. How bitterly hostile to the Union soldier who draws a pension the Department of Pensions has been is matter of record, and this hostility has had the approval of the Argus-News. Thousands of deserving veterans, old, sick, crippled, and pov-erty-stricken, have found the severity of a Democratic panic increased by the sudden stoppage of the petty revenue that they drew from what had been, until the advent of Cleveland, a grateful government, aud yet during all this crusade never a crocodile tear did the Argus-News shed because of this brutality. When a Democratic Congressman from a Northern State informed the President that "this must stop or the party be defeated at the polls at the next election—meaning by "this" the unjust persecution of veterans by Hoke Smith—the President retorted that Smith was as the apple of his own eye, and the Argus-News was in hearty accord with the President. That paper has been instant in season and out of seasou in its cuckoo support of Grover Cleveland and Hoke Smith who have taken every recourse within their power to create a public sentiment against pension laws and pensioners. It has made unwarranted statements against the pension roll. It, therefore, comes with poor grace for a paper that has set its face against the thousands of poor and deserving veterans to set itself up now as the champion of Union soldiers. The people cannot be deceived with the hypocritical atod acrobatic performance of the ArgusNeivs. It must first show fruits meet for repentance.

MCKINLEY has fought the battles of protectionists for twenty years he is the embodiment of the protection sentiment of the country the final buttle between protection and free trade is to be decided in the present campaign, and McKinley is the man to lead the Republican hosts to victory. Mr. Allison is an excellent man, but has never been identified especially with the protectionists indeed, he has al times wavered on the question of protection. Many of his old speeches against protection would be brought foward against him, and throw a damper on his campaign. We want a man to lead the fight, in this contest, whose utterances have always been for protection. McKinley is the man, and Indiana, with its vast manufacturing interests, should be a unit for him.

THE Democrats are now begging that the law of "party perfidy and party dishonor" be let alone. They declare "it will soon produce a surplus." They first declared that the surplus would come the first year. Now they place it certain for this year. In the meantime the record shows that the deficiency for the first seven months,of this year is 819,000,000, for last year of 840,000,000, an 1 for the Cleveland administration of 8)30 000,000. Probably with the hopeful prospective conditions the deficit of over 84,000,000 per month may be reduced, but it is now plain that the increased debt during Clevelands term will amount to 8262,000,000 and ihe end is not yet. It is a dear experiment, and no amount of begging from tar/ff tinkers will keep the American people from smashing the nefarious work at the first opportunity.

CHICAGO Inter-Ocean: About one year ago Cleveland and Carlisle told Americans there was no need to apply. They were going to sell 4 per cent bonds to an English syndicate of gold bugs for 104. They did so, and paid them a bonus of from eight to twelve million dollars. They .would have repeated the act had it not been for the public press. Just set it down to the credit of the newspapers of the land that they have not only given the world a fair knowledge of our resources, but they have saved in actual cash to the treasury not less than fourteen million dollars. It is an amount worth mentioning.

COMMENTING on the greatness of this great administration concerning its picayunishness in withholding underpaid pension papers the Indianapolis Journal says:

A few old soldiers drawing pensions have 6ent their vouchers through the mail with insufficient prepaid postage. Until recently the pension agent has paid such postage aud taken the letters out of the postofflce, but recently orders have been issued that the government will not reimburse officials who pay such postage. The result has been that several hundred of these letters have accumulated in the postoffice. After a time they were sent to the dead letter office. It is 800 miles to the dead letter office and not half a mile to the pension agency. Still, these letters, known to contain pension vouchers, would have been sent to the dead letter office if the public had not been made aware of the detention by

the morning papers. Mr. F. M. Hay was the first veteran to appear to pay the postage due on nearly three hundred letters. Others appeared to pay the postage during yesterday forenoon, among them a member of the Loyal Legion acting under orders from Commauder Lew Wallace. Day after day the three hundred pensioners who sent these vouchers with inadequate postage would have anxiously inquired at their postoffices for letters bearing pension checks, only to be disappointed. Many of them are ignorant old men and women, and to the most of them actual poverty is too well known. Not getting their checks, they would have gone to an attorney to see what had become of their pensions, which they so much need. In the course of time it would be dicovered that their vouchers had been sent to the dead letter office because the pensioner did not know that 4 cents are needed to nay the postage on pension vouchers. Hereafter veteran organizations win look after this matter here nevertheless, it is a great admitilstration that for 2 cents unpaid postage will keep an old man or woman out of a pittance of a pension.

WITH "ghoulish glee" the ArgusNews refers to the elections of 1892 as though there has been no expression of the people since then. It ignores the fact that the people spoke in 1893, 1894 and 1895. By these elections they indicated that they desired McKinleyism restored. They said by their votes that they were tired of this queen-restoring, bond-issuing, debt-making, factory-closing, wagereducing, prosperity-killing, Democratic Administration. The Democratic party, like Belshazzar of old, has seen the handwriting on the wall over against the candlestick, on the plaster of the palace, and it reads, "Thou art weighed in'the balance and thou art found wanting." The changing of nearly a solid Democratic delegation in Congress from Indiana into a solid Republican delegation, the transfer of a 1,600 majority in the old Eighth district in favor of Brookshire, who championed the Wilson bill into a Republican majority of 2,500 in favor of George W. Fans, and Montgomery county rolling up a Republican majority of 500, all point to the handwriting. Can the Argus-News see it? As compared with the elections of 1893. 1694 and 1895 the 1892 episode is ancient history.

THE fact that Dr. Cyrus Edson, of New York, has given to the world his discovery for the cure of consumption, and has not "patented" it is something in its favor. He explains his new remedial solution in the New York Mcdlcal Journal which has been copied into all the leading papers of the country. The name he gives to the new remedy is "aseptolin." This colorless fluid contains 2.75 per cent of carbolic acid, to every ounce of which is added one-hundredth of a grain of a new salt which Dr. Edson claims to have discovered, and which, for short and for simplicity to the initiated, he calls pilo-carpin-phenys-hydroxide. Carbolic acid, it is well known, kills the tubercle bacilli when applied to these germs outside the body. This new remedy, when applied to the consumptive by hypodermic injection, enters and pervades the blood, killing the all-con-suming bacilli wherever it comes across them. Some 200 persons have already taken the treatment, twentythree of whom have been discharged as cured. It is said to be almost a sure cure for malaria and the grip. Dr. Edson affirms that it is "a rational treatment," killing germs inside the body just as it had been known to kill them outside.

THE Chicago Tribune is authority for the statement that one of the cherished ambitions of the late Wm. tl. English was to see a bronze statue of aimself placed in one of the "four fame-points" around the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument at Indianapolis. He had two of these figures made in Chicago, of heroicsize, one of which is intended for the town named in his honor. As he did not realize his ambition while living, the other will probably be placed in front of the English hotel facing the monument.

THIS country wants a protective tariff says the New York Press, and no man who would not sign a protective tariff bill can be elected President next fall. This country wants a protective tariff law, and every candidate in ever Congress district will be elected or defeated on the Bingle issue of protection. Protection will be the only question before the voters, and on that issue the Republican party will go into complete control of the machinery of this Government.

EX-GOVEBXOB MCKINLEY is a good representative of the leading idea of the Republican party, that of protection to American labor. Other candidates for the great trust are as equally sincere and as safely to be trusted. But it is no wonder that the party honors the name of McKinley. While protection is the great issue, there are others of grave importance, and in naming the candidate the people should wisely consider the whole field and name the man who will most certainly win

AN annual appropriation of 8100,000 for stone roads is made in New Jersey, and the counties where the improvements are carried forward add double the amount furnished by the State.

The roads are made from 14 to 16 feet wide, and experience has shown that the stone should be crushed small and evenly. A hundred miles of road has been built within two years, and twothirds of the counties in the State are actively engaged in the work.

THE solvency of the government remains unshaken .by the Democratic deficit.

THE Kentucky Senatorial situation continues to be mixed and uncertain.

DIED OF HIS INJURIES.

Sanford Utterback, of Coal Creek Township, Struck By the Limbs of a Falling Tree.

On Friday Sanford Utterback, of near Elmdale, was felling a tree and miscalculated the way it would fall. He was running to get out of the way and was struck by a limb. His companions, who had narrow escapes, picked him up and carried him to his home where medical aid was called. It was seen at once that he was badly injured, but his injuries were not considered necessarily fatal. He was worse Sunday and Dr. Fletcher, was telegraphed for. At night, however, Mr. Utterback died, having continued to grow worse. He was about thirtyeight years old and leaves a family. He was a brother of John W. Utterback, ex-trustee of Coal Creek township.

Kaffir Corn In Indiana.

Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station. Newspaper bulletin No. 20, February 7, 1896:

Letters of inquiry, received at the experiment station, indicate that many Indiana farmers are becoming interested in kaffir corn. This forage plant has been grown experimentally for a number of years in many parts of the country, but without attracting much notice. Recently it has sprung into some prominence as a forage plant for the semi-arid portions of the country, and astonishing claims are made for it in certain newspaper articles which are attracting wide attention.

Kaffir corn is one of the many nonsaccharine varieties of sorghum. In common with other sorghums, both sweet and non-saccharine, kaffir corn, appears to succeed quite well in climates too dry for the best development of Indian corn. While kaffir corn may well claim the attention of farmers living in very dry climates, it is at least an open question, whether it can prove advantageous to the farmers of Indiana. It should be borne in mind that the sorghums are recommended as forage plants for the dryer climates in which Indian corn cannot thrive. Where Indian corn grows to perfection, as it does in all portions of Indi" ana, it would be extremely unwise to neglect it for any of the sorghums which have thus far shown no special adaptation to this section.

Although the kaffir corn and other sorghums have shown no superior merit in previous trials at this experiment station, the former will be more thoroughly tested here the coming season.

Farmers having very dry, warm soils, will do well to grow small areas of kaffir corn along side the common field corn for comparison. Those who intend trying kaffir corn, should remember that it is said to be very sensitive to cold, especially when germinating. The ground may be prepared at the same time and in the same manner as for common field corn, but the planting of the kaffir corn should be delayed until late in May or early in June. Meanwhile, the prepared ground should be cultivated from time to time as weeds appear, so that it will be well cleared of weeds before the seed is planted. Put into clean ground thus late, the seed will germinate more promptly, and the early growth which is slow at best, will be more' vigorous than if planted early and the subsequent labor of cultivation will be considerably reduced. If much seed is desired, plant the same as sweet sorghum. If sorghum hay is desired, it is recommended that one bushel of seed be sown broadcast, or three pecks to the acre in drills. At the Kansas experiment station the red kaffir corn yields more grain and fodder than the white variety, and is considered superior to the latter. W. C. LATTA,

Agriculturist

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Are also talking about the ad contest. The ladies really ought to know best about effectiveness in advertising because they are oftenest iniluenced by a good, convincing ad. The ladies are voting, too.

WILLIAM fl. ENGLISH'S WILL.

Was Probated To-Day—After Various Small Bequests the Kealdne is Given to His Son, Daughter and

Grandchildren,

Special To The Journal. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 10.—The will of

William H. English was probated today. The estate is supposed to be worth five million dollars. English paid on over a million dollars valuation in this city alone. He gives 82,000 to Crown Hill cemetery, the interest to be used in keeping up the English monument 82,500 to the Indiana Historical Society 810,0Q0 for the completion of the History of Indiana to Louisa Vonstaden, widow of Henry Vonstaden, of Scott county, and her children, the farm and twelve acres of ground additional on which they live to Miss Ruth Hed*je«: confidential clerk, 85,000 in money and certain real estate in this city, this to be receipted for as final settlement. Of the remainder of the estate, Will E. English, son of the testator, receives one-half Rosalinda English Walling, the only daughter, one-fourth, and each of her two children one-eighth. The son and daughter are made executors, to serve without bond. There has been some of the usual gossip as to whether there would be a contest. The provision looking to final settlement with the confidential clerks is supposed to be a finality that will preclude any contest even if one were contemplated. The will was written by the testator without the intervention of lawyers and is believed to be water tight.

NUM I?IiK EIGHT.

Health generally good. Wheat looks fine for this time of the year.

Asa Brown will work for John Cowan this summer. Wm. Murphy will move on his farm north of Elmdale the 1st of March.

Our school is progressing nicely at this place under the management of Andy Foley.

Frank Allen delivered some hogs to Linden Monday for Mrs. Vincent at 84.10 per cwt.

Miss Mattie Hauk, who who has been visiting in Illinois for some time, has returned home,

Lon King delivered nine hogs to Ira Snyder last week which averaged 34(5 pounds al 84 per cwt.

J. B. Cowan delivered 38 hogs to Archey & don last week, which averaged 211 pounds at 84 05 per cwt.

*K\V MARKET.

This week closes our winter term of school. Maple syrup making has begun in earnest.

The Methodist and Baptist churches are holding a protracted union meeting.

Mrs. J. M. Glover was called to Judson Saturday by a telegram announcing the illness of her father.

W. R. Childers and wife went South Tuesday. Their destination is New Orleans. They will be gone one month.

Rev. Vessels united in marriage Saturday evening Mr. Walter May wood, of Muncie, and Miss Celia Hunthis place.

Since New Market has street lamps it would be in order for some one to write a book, the title of which should be "New Market by Lamp light."

Our energetic and wide-awake townsman, G. W. Miles, has in connection with his grocery store fitted up a first class huckster wagon. He pays the highest prices for poultry and produce, either in cash or trade.

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RIPANS TABULES Are just an old, old remedy In this new shape.

Doctors have always given this prescription—in water 1 We have them in this shape simply for their handiness.

RIPANB TABULES are like an Engineer going over bis big ana powerful machinery giving a little necessary lubricating to the needful ports: R-I-P-A^N-a TABULES do thla for YOU. Constipation, Dizziness, Nausea.

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OTICE TO HE IKS, CREDITORS, ETC.

In the matter of tlie estate of Taylor Buf llngton. deceased, lu the Montgomery Circuit Court.. January Term, 1896.

Notice is hereby given that Dumont Ker. ncdy as administrator of the estate of Tay?or Buffinirton deceased. Jias presented and nlotl his accounts and vouchers In linal settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit Court on the 28tli day of February, 1898, at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear In said Court and show cause if any there be, why said accounts anft vouchers should not be approved, and the heirs or distributees of said estate are also notilled to be in said Court at the time ufornsaid and mako'proof of heirship

Dated this 6th day of February. 1890. DUMONT KENNEDY, 2-1*1: Administrator.

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