Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 14 May 1897 — Page 9

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Prescription Druggists. The Binford Corner.

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Duplicates

There are no duplicates in town of those Nobby Men's Suits, which we are selling so rapidly at $8, $10 and $12, and when they are gone Ave shall not be able to get any more of them. Yerbum sap—if you want a fine suit for a little money.

Special sale of

HATS

We will save you from 25c to a, dollar if you purchase a hat of us.

THE AMERICAN

Manufacturing Clothiers,

Corner Main and Green Sts., rawfordsville, Ind.

this week.

A LONG STUDY

For durability, up-to-dateness, style and price they defy competition. High grade manufacture.

THE DOVETAIL COMPANY

Eagle Claw Cultivators,

500 in use in Montgomery sounty alone. We carry four kinds of corn planters. THE HOOSIER, THE ROCK ISLAND,

Check Row and Drill Drop, iV Four Wheeled. THE HAYES, THE AVERY. Pour Wheeled. Drill or Check Drop.

White Hellebore, Insect Powder, Sulphur, Coperas Blue Vitrol, Crude Carbolic Acid, Insecticides.

Special prices for the season. Cooper's Sheep Dip and Stock Pood. Agents for Masury's house paints. Finish your walls with MurescO, the beautiful wall tint9.

Is required In buying good articles of some value. It is for this reason that we here drop a hint to those contemplating' the purchase of a new vehicle or wagon this Spring. Seethe

Dovetail Piano Body~^Surrey, Phaeton and ^_Road Wagon Bodies

«Sr Quillin,

Whitnack & Cotton.

VOL. 50-1STO. 20 CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY M=, 189 T-TWELVE PAGE IS. PART SECOND

A LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

Will Submit a Plan "Which Will He Followed in the Perpetuation ot the Natural Heauty oi the "Wabash Collect! Campus.

Some days ago l'rof. M. B. Thomas, of Wabash College, submitted to the executive committee of the institution a statement calling attention to the college campus. It was set forth that unless action be taken promptly the ravages of time and storm would withiu a few years reduce the campus from its natural beauty to a counterpart of a neglected barnyard. Many of the magnificent trees have died within the past few years and many others have begun to decay. The work of setting out trees to take the place of those dying has been inadequate and has likewise been conducted without definite plan or system. Prof. Thomas recommended that a special committee be appointed to employ a competent landscape gardener and architect to come and draw up a plan which can be followed from year to year in the work of perpetuating and, indeed, improving the beauty of the campus.

The wisdom of the recommendation was so patent to the executive committee that a special committee composed of Prof. Thomas, Judge Thomas and Capt. Bryant was appointed. After some correspondence with the superintendent of the famous Shaw Botanical Gardens of St. Louis, and other authorities, the committee employed M. G. Kern, the well known landscape gardener and architect of Toledo, Ohio, to come and draw up the required plans. He will arrive next week and will make a careful study of the campus before suggesting a plan. A careful survey of the campus with reference to drainage and other details has been prepared by Prof. Studley, and Mr. Kern will make use of this in his work.

Of course, no grand revolution of things over in the college lot is to be expected an 1 the process of the work will be almost imperceptible save in its results. A scientific plan will be followed, howeyer, and its practice will doubtless enhance the beauty of thd grounds immensely. There will be no effort to convert the place into a botanical garden but there will be a greater variety of trees introduced and the work so conducted that the campus will never lose the beauty which has made it justly famous.

It is not improbable that a system of concrete walks may be constructed at no distant day and the plan which Mr, Kern will present will include them and other practical improvements. The trustees will have to sanction the work before it can be forwarded, but no uneasiness of unfavorable action on their part is entertained, the necessity for action being too apparent to admit of debate. The outlay each year will be small and it may be thought expedient to establish a fund by contribution from alumni and others to more successfully carry on the work.

That New Stock I.iiw.

The law relative to stock running at large as enacted by the last Legislature is as follows: "Whenever any animal shall be found running at large or pasturing upon any of the uninclosed lands or public commons, any person resident of the township in which it is found is authorized to take up and impound it in any private a public pound in the township. And it is the duty of the road supervisor upon view or informa tion, to cause all animals found running at large on the roads, commons or inclosed lands within their re spective districts to be impounded. If any supervisor shall fail to perform such duty, he shall be fined not less than one or more than five dollars for each and every offense. Stock under the law is not running at large when properly herded."

Oil the Test.

The suit of the State of Indiana has reached the Supreme Court. This is the suit brought in the Marion county Circuit Court for the purpose of testing the constitutionality of the new prison law permitting an indeterminate sentence and the sending of all prisoners between the ages of eighteen and thirty to the Jfcffersonville reformatory. Until the Supreme Court has passed upon the matter the prison authorities are in doubt as to what to do since the stand taken against the law by the South Bend court. The Marion county suit, which reached the Supreme Court last week, was brought purposely to have the question settled. Attorney-General Ketcham is representing the State.

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Lebanon Reporter: David Orme, the meat man, to-day moved his household goods from Crawfordsville. He will occupy the S. C. Clay property on east I Washington street. .••••'•.••4:

eneral Order from the Headquarters of the (iraml Army ot the Kepublie in liei urd to Its Observance.

T. S. Carkson, Commander-iu-Chief of the Graud Army of tLie Republic, has issued the following general orders* concerning tue observance of Memorial Day. llie Nation's Sabbath day—that day upon which patr onc people gather together everywhere to do honor to their sacred dead—is agaiu upon us. Let us, as is most fitting, uuite iu making the solemn services of Memorial Day as impressive as possible by appropriate exercises, una by strewing beautiful flowers upon tue graves of our comrades, and so show to the world that as citizens we appreciate their great sacrifices for their country, and as comrades we revere their memories and to the rising generation tnat ne who dies for his country, dies nobly.

In the words of the lamented Logan: 'If other eyes grow dull, and other hands slack, and other hearts cold, in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us."

Let us invite to our assistance in this patriotic work that noble band of workers, the Woman's Relief Corps, who have done so much toward the success of our great organization, and also the Sous of Veterans, who must soon take up the work wuieU the ravages of time shall compel us to lay down.

In the interest of patriotic instruction to the children it is earnestly hoped that the laudable work of talking to the children of the public schools on the subjects and lessons of Memorial Day by a veteran, now so general throughout the order, will be observed this yea-, and hereafter, in every public school.

Let every Post, in accordance with usual custom, attend divine services in some church, iu a body, on the Sunday before Memorial Day.

The 30th of May falling this year on Sunday, Memorial Day will be observed according to the rules and regulations, on the preceding day, except in such States as by Jaw or custom observe the succeeding day.

Comrades, as we grow older, let us be more particular in the observance of this sacred day, and let us discourage the holding of games and frivolous amusements thereon by thoughtless people in every possible way.

By resolution, the Thirtieth National Encampment recommended that the reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg address be made a special feature of Memorial Day exercises held under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic.

In accordance with the above orders and the usual custom McPherson Post will observe the day on Saturday, May 29. The Post has appointed, besides the usual committees, a committee on finance to raise the necessary funds to defray the expenses incident to the occasion. The address on that day will be delivered by Hon. Marmaduke B. Bowden, of Louisville, one of Kentucky's most eloquent orators, a young man who has won a national reputation as a public speaker. The Post has accepted an invitation to attend divine services on Sunday, May 22, at St. John's Episcopal church, which is the Sunday preceding the 29th. It would be well for the people to bear in mind that Memorial Day is for an observance, not a celebration. It is sacred to the heroic dead. The distinction between it and other American holidays is very clear. Thanksgiving, Christmas and the Fourth of July are all days of rejoicing. But Memorial Day stands apart from them all. It should not be forgotten that it is primarily a commemoration of death. The sorrow that it evokes may be softened by time and the patriotic observances it suggests may divert our thoughts to the glories of our country, but nothing should be alloyed to interfere with the solemnity of the festival. This is the view that is taken by those people who are indignant that an anniversary so sacred to them should be made the occasion for a grand accession of racing, ball playing, cock-fighting and similar amusements.

Marimi) uk* II. Jlowden.

The observance of Memorial Day in Crawfordsville this year will be attended with unusual interest in that a representative of the South will be the orator of the occasion. The brilliant young Kentuckian, Marmaduke B. Bowden, of Louisville, will deliver the address. Mr. Bowden's father was a confederate soldier and the young orator won the hearts of the G. A. R. at the time of the National Encampment in Louisville. He is an orator of rare charm and grace, and his address promises to be one of the most notable in the history of McPherson Post.

A Nov.- Pest.

The wheat pest, which has been working great havoc in southern Indiana, has made its appearance in the northern counties and threatens great damage to the crop. It is a very small worm, which does its deadly work by boring holes in the roots of the plant, and is said by farmers to work greater destruction than the chinch bug or Hessian lly.

MEMORIAL DAY. TRIBUTE TO HIS FATHER.

lion. 1. Iiee Tell* of a Notable Npeeeh l?y I). W. oorhves lie fore an Indiana •Jury Forty ears Ai o,

Washington

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late Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, the "Ta'.l Sycamore of the Wabash"—of his marvelous eloquence before juries, his big-hearteduess, and his strong hold upon the affections of the Indiana Democracy—are still heard about the hotels in Washington. Uou. I'1. M. Dice, of Crawfordsville, ex-Reporter of the Supreme Court of Indiana, was telling a party of friends a few days ago of the first time he ever heard Voorhees speak, and how his eloquence had impressed itself upon his mind or time. It was more than forty years and the speech—before a jury—was all the more remarkable in that it contained a son's tribute to his father.

In 1S5G Senator Voorhees was a young lawyer—but little past thirty— at Covington, Fountain county, Ind., in which county the Senator's father lived and he had been reared from childhood. At the election that year the Republicans triumphed and elected one David S. French treasurer. The Democrats alleged that the election had been gained by the importation of German voters from Chicago, and contested French's election. Voorhees was employed by the contestor.

The evidence disclosed that on the day before the election a Republican, McKuight by name, living in one of the out townships, went to Attica, the only railroad town of the county, and brought home with him two strange German voters. In going to his home he had to pass by, late at night, the home and farm of the father of Senator Voorhees. Before reaching the house, so the evidence went, the Republican said to the imported voters, "We are now about to pass an old Democrat's house, and your must lie down on the floor of the wagon bed, so that he may not see you."

In his speech to the jury, commenting on this lestimony, Mr. Voorhees said: "Down went those virtuous constituents of David French until the old Democrat's house was lost in the distance." Then he pronounced this eulogy upon his father without naming him otherwise than in the following: "Sleep on, old Democrat sixty winters have left their snows on your head and sixty summers have fanned your furrowed cheeks. The sweat of an honest brow has earned you your bread, and paid your taxes. For the blessings of good government you have been a law-abiding citizen and have served your country well. Good blood, too, is in your veins Your father heard the roar of Washington's cannon on the wintry morningatTrenton, and charged under the eye of the 'Father of His Country' and saw the noble Mercer fall. Sleep on, though now for once the enemy has passed the lines and the battle is lost, for to-mor-row's sun finds the hired Hessian foe assaulting at the polls the ^bulwark of every American's liberty."

Mr. Dice recalled this tribute, though forty years had elapsed since it was uttered. He asked Senator Voorhees, not many months ago, why this speech had not been included in the printed collection ot his addresses before juries. The Senator saul it was because the case was a political one, and he Hi 1 not care to do anything that might, even in a remote way, revive party animosities.

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Mrs. lieulah Bryant,wife of John W. Bryant died Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The funeral occurred Sunday at 4:00 p. m. from the home on th.j corner of Franklin and Elm streets, Rev S. H. Creighton officiating. Interment at Oak Hill cemetery.

Mrs. Bryant was a daughter of J. H. Cretord, and was born at Stockwell, July 1875. She was married to John W. Bryant. March 31, 1890, and he, with a two-weeks-old son, Forest Montgomery, are left to mourn her loss.

Mrs. Bryant was a very lovely character and was a devout member of the Christian church, with which she united two yeai*6 ago. Her death was a most lamentable one removing a life of promised usefulness and good.

At Muliarry'H firovo.

New Richmond Record: The Meharry Grove committee met in Wingate Saturday p. m. to make arrangements for a Fourth of July celebration. Committees for the several arrangements were appointed and a grand day is expected. One new feature for the day will be the ringing of all public bells in the surrounding vicinity at sunrise. The celebration will be held at Meharry's Grove July 3rd. An invitation is extended to the public to meet at the grove the last Saturday of June to a in a a a 7 a

A TWO DOLLAR STALLION.

Oeor^e ISussell Has a Narrow Fseape From !*alh by the Jaws ot Ills 3lan Fating llorse.

Some time ago George Russell purchased a vicious stallion for the princely pile of two dollars and set to work to make a thoroughbred sire of him. The horse had the record of having killed one and of having tried to kill about fifty, but a little blemish of tliis kind was considered nothing to the great horse-tamer Russell LastFriday, however, he went into the stall of the ugly brute and the only reason he come out alive lies in the fact that his sou belabored the plug over the head with a club until the festive George was released by it. When George entered the stall the stallion *, seized him by the arm with its teeth and literally tore the muscles from the bone. The beast then buried itB teeth in Russell's shoulder and was proceeding to make a good square meal of the man when Master Russell attracted by his father's frantic squeals appeared with a club and finally succeeded in beating the horse oil! until his victim could escape. Russell was given medical attention and as soon as he was able called in Joe Goldberg,' the dealer in dead animals, and sold him the stallion for fifty conts. TheS vicious animal was killed last Saturday by Mr. Goldberg.

ATTEMPTED HOLD UP.

Masked Men Fndeavor to Hold l'p Fred Dorn at Fight O'clork In the Fvenitig In tho Iron ISridK" Cut. v.-iv":

The iron bridge cut just northwest of town was the scene of an attempted robbery Saturday evening, and the fact that knights of the road are ply-, ing their ruthless vocation there should be a warning to bicyclers and buggy riders.

Fred Dorn wfl, returning from Waynetown Saturday evening about 8 o'clock and as he drove down the Covington hill or iron bridge cut as it is sometimes called, two masked men suddenly stepped from the bushes into the middle of tie road. They called to him to stand and deliver, but they had been premature in their appearance. They were still some feet from the horses' head and Dorn gave the beast a vicious cut with the whip. The animal fairly jumped in the air and with a snort plunged down the hill against the highwaymen. One of them leaped aside aud fell sprawling in the ditch but the other grabbed at the bridle. Missing it be seized the shaft and ran with the horse endeavoring to clutch the bridle. Dorn leaned out over the dashboard and using the butt end of his whip as a club gave the rascal a whack over the head which sent him reeling to the roadside. Meanwhile the other fellow had gathered himself up and with foul oaths and imprecations was rushing down the hill after the buggy. He failed to catch up, however, although he followed Dorn to the bridge. Dorn had only seven dollars on his person, but he didn't propose to be robbed without a trial for liberty. The police are satisfied they know who the guily parties were.

A Dark Now Richmond Mystery. New Richmond Kntcr]rlne: Yesterday morning a rather fine looking woman, richly dressed in black, alighted from the west bound train and seemed to take in everything at a glance. She had not proceeded far, however, until it was evident that she was in search of something. Charles Killen, the liveryman, approached and inquired if she desired anything. She wished to get a rig to go to Crawfordsville and went direct to the barn where she waited til a team was got ready, She said she had come from Frankfort but when asked why she did not go direct to Crawfordsville instead of coming here, answered "I didn't that's all." She was very pleasant and flashed quite a roll of money when she paid the livery bill, but her actions showed that she was either mentally unbalanced or was playing a part as though she wished to elude some one.

A Bloody Murderer In Town. The red-handed murderer, Barney Robards, slayer of Charles Newkirk, was in town Sunday night. Ue arrived in charge of the sheriff of Fountain county, who was taking him from Michigan City to Covington to testify in the case of the State vs. John Davis, who was indicted jointly with Robards. Robards was kept in jail here until the morning's train when he was taken to Covington. Robards, who richly merited the halter, was let down with a twenty-one years sentence. His partner in crime will, perhaps, fare even better at the hands of a Fountain county jury.