Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 November 1897 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1897.

SHNATOU HANNA, it is understood, has only one regret regarding the Ohio campaign, and that is that Mr. Bryan did not make more speeches. The Republicans gained an average of nearly a hundred votes to the county in their majorities where Mr. Bryan went.

THK 55th Congress had a larger num ber of Republicans from the South than was ever before elected to any Congress from that section. And now the 5Gth Congress is to have an addi tion to the Southern Republican strength by another Republican Senator from Maryland.

TIIE receipts from the new tariff law now show an increase over the receipts of the Wilson law at a corresponding date last year. The Treasury oflicials expect by the first of the year that the receipts will be sufficient to meet current expenses of the Government. This will be a novel experience to such clerks as have been in the Treasury Department only since the beginning of Cleveland's last administration.

THK latest discovery in the sugar beet industry that is now entering upon a successful career in this country is the application of electricity to its culture. Tbe result is that it increases the sugar in the beet. Where beets under ordinary culture yield 18 per cent, they are made to yield 25 and 30 per cent. The use of electricity is still small and largely experimental, but at the experiment statioD at Amherst it has been tested with great success. The invention is called the geomagnetifere, which practically makes use of atmospheric electricity at no apparent cost to the farmer after the initial expense of installing the farm has been invested.

THK newspapers tell us the silver dollar is now worth about 44 cents in current money, that is 44 cents in gold. How do they make that out? Here is a rule by which any one can "cipher it out" for himself. A silver dollar, present standard, contains 37125 grains of pure silver, the rest of the weight to make 412}. grains, is alloy usually considered worth nothing. Take the 371 25 grains and divide first by 24, the number of grains in a pennyweight, and divide that quotient by 20, the number of pennyweights in an ounce, and you get .77343 ounces, a little more than three-fourths of an ounce. This gives you the value of the dollar in ounces, or rather the decimal fraction of an ounce. Silver is now quoted in the market at 57 cents an ounce. Multiply this 57 cents by .77343 ounces and you get 44 08551, the present value of the silver dollar—or say a little more than 44 cents. Take the decimal .77343, at any quotation for the price of a silver ounce and multiply this decimal by that quotation, say 57, 55 or 50 cents, and you get the gold value of the silver dollar.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM. The Noblesville Lcdyer has advanced some theories in regard to county government which are entirely new and which are worthy of consideration and discussion. While the JOURNAL is not prepared to endorse the views advanced by the Ledger, yet what it 6ays cannot be slightly rejected. Its position, however, is so much in advance of current thought that it will require time and much discussion to make the change in the form and manner of our county government. The Ledger bases its theory on the tendency in recent years towards centralization in city government. This is shown in the new charters of all of our larger cities. It would apply the same principle to county government. But let the Led/jer speak for itself:

We believe the whole machinery of county government is too bulky and cumbersome and could be simplified and made muuh more efficient and could be run at half the ordinary expense. We would vest tho entire government of the county in the Judge of Court and in the Board oi County Com missioners. These would be elected by the people and paid sufficient salaries to justify tbe best men of the county to give their whole time to the work The Judge would have the Sheriff's and Clerk'6 office under his control and would appoint the men to run the offices. The County Commissioners would appoint all the other officers and be held responsible for their faithful and honest services Township Trustees would all go and all their work, except school work, •would be done by the Commissioners

To look after the schools of the county each district should elect its own Supervisor. Of course this plan would not suit office holders and tnose who expect to be office holders, bntit would secure much more competent men than counties often have at mucti less expense. It would also fix responsibility and parties would be more careful in the selection of candidates for the important positions. As matters now stand when an error is mace or corruption exists it is often haid to fix the responsibility for same. Ullices are being multiplied and authority scattered. In fact we are getting too near the loose, irresponsible system that prevailed among the colonists at the formation of this government. Their powers were limited and authority was scattered. The great fight of Alexander Hamilton, the master mind in the formaiion of our federal constitution, was for a strong centralized government. These elements have furnished the strength and power in our government that has made it abiding and perpetual. If centralized authority and fixing responsibility in the national government and in city governments are wise and effective, why would they not also be proper in county government?

Everybody will and must admit that our county governments are run by most expensive machinery. The laws setting this machinery in motion are pieces of patchwork, pate1! upon patch, and made during a period of eighty years. With t'ue advance in knowledge and the experience of all these years the laws for the government of counties are but very little, if any, better than they were when the first legislature met. Each legislature since has added bulk and expense to the machinery without the least improvement. If conscientious and earnest municipal reformers can 6ee the good effects of centralized power in city government the leaders of thought on county government certainly have a precedent for believing that similar results will follow alike policy when applied to the larger community. Of course it would require an amended or a new constitution. But the time is ripe for a new organic law and it will not be many years until a constitutional convention will be provided for. The question sprung by the Ledger will then press to the front for discussion and settlement.

A DEMORALIZED CORRESPONDENT. A correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal who sails over the non de plume of "Army of the Cumberland" in an alleged defense of the Fourth Corps when the Fourth Corps had not been assailed, makes some statements which are so glaringly bald of the truth that they should not go unchallenged. Among the most glaring is the following concerning the battle of Franklin, the matter under discussion.

It is a fact that in this battle the two divisions of the Twenty-third Army Corps, under Cox, were on the right of tne line. It is a fact that the Fourth Corps, Army of the Cumberland, under General otanley, had the left of the line. Now, Ueneral Stanley ranked Ueneral Cox, and the grand old Fourth Corps was three times the size in numbers of the fragment of the Twenty-third Corps. It is a fact that when tbe rebel charge broke our line on the left, Major Ueneral Stanley, a corps commander, took a reserve brigade (Opdyke't), and on foot, sword in hand, led, actually led, this brigade in a counter cnarge, driving the rebels back over our works and recovering the line, which was afterward held until the fight was ended. In this charge Ueneral Stanley was seriously wounded and the rebel general, Pat Cleburne, was killed on the works. Here is an instance of a general commanding a corps leading a brigade on foot in a desperate charge, thereby saving the day and the loss of the Twenty-third and Fourth Army Corps I may say, in passing, that it is tbe only instance known to my four years of service.

Now, what are the facts? The two divisions of the Twenty-third Corps were not on the right of the line, but on the left, just the reverse of the assertion made above, consequently it is not a fact that the Fourth Corps had the left. Kimball's division, of the Fourth Corps, was on the right of the line. Two brigades of the Second division of the Fourth Corps were in front of the Twenty-third Corps nearly a half a mile when tbe battle opened. One brigade of this division (Opdyckes), was in reserve in the rear of the Twenty-third Corps. All the official records show that General Cox was in command of the line. General Stanley, the commander of the Fourth Corps, was across the Harpeth river behind Franklin when the battle opened. Stanley started for the front at tbe sounds of the opening guns of the battle, and reached there after the lines of Riley's and Strickland's brigades of the Twenty-third Corps had been broken, and just as Opdycke's brigade had started for the works to assist in their recapture. While Ueneral Stanley was there he performed his duty valiantly and well, but he had not.been there more than ten minutes until he was wounded, bad his horse shot from under him and was compelled to leave the field on account of his wound on a borrowed mount. Of course General Stanley ranked Ueneral Cox, but he was across the river with his chief, General Schofield, making arrangements to repel 8 flank attack which they both felt sure Ueneral Hood would make, repeating his strategy in the crossing of Duck river and which came within a hair's breadth of success. Neitbei is it a fact that tbe Fourth Corps was three times the size in numbers of the Twenty-

third Corps. It was one-third larger, or about 15 to 10. It is true that one brigade of the Tweoty-lliird Corps was not Dresent, it being then at Centerville, but neither was all the Fourth Corps engaged. One entire division, Wood's, was across the river to be ready to take advantage of any emergncy that might arise on that part of tut held and which was fully expected by both Schofield and Stanley, and but one brigade of Kimball's division on the right of the Twenty-third Corps was seriously assaulted. The brunt of the battle was borne by five brigades of the Twenty-third Corps on the left and left center and four brigades of the Fourth Corps, while five brigades of the Fourth Corps had comparatively but little to do. In passing it may be said that all the artillery used on the line belonged to the Fourth Corps while the artillery belonging to the twenty-third Corps was across the river. We yield to none in our loyalty to the Fourth Corps, having been a member of that organization during its existence. It ranks as one of the fighting organizations in all tbe armies of the Union. It6 staying qualities had been attested on other und equally glorious^.fiekls, and its commanders, Uranger, Howard and Stanley, were distinguished for their bravery and ability. It is unnecessary, therefore, to try to snatch honors which belong to other commands in order to add honors to one's own. What the peoplo want now are facts and not vaporingsfrom ignoramuses. If thecor respondent referred to above were to read Ueneral Cox's Monograph of this battle it perhaps would be a revelation of truths such as he had little dreamed.

In Memory of l„ulu Gunkle. Ihe silent messenger has again visited our peaceful community and after a warning of one brief week and a half has called from us one of the most beloved and most jovial of our members. For the first time in the experience of the generation just emerging from its 'teens was called Sunday to minister the funeral rites to the mortal remains of one of its own members and assemble around the grave to 6ee her take up her abode in thh silent city of the dead.

Lulu Pearl Gunkle, daughter of C. U. and Ellen Gunkle, was born July 13, 1878, and was called from this life November 12, 1897. A twin sister died in infancy and just as Lulu was passing from the innocency of childhood her mother was taken from her. Her older sisters were alt married and had homes of their own, so without the assistance of an older sister or the loving advice of a mother, the child was left alone to keep house and care for the wants of her father. In addition to this the care of a little daughter of a widowed sister was soon put upon her, and amid these cares she lived until just enterirg into the age of womanhood, when her life was cut short. No young person in the community was more more highly respected nor more loved by her as30ciates than she,—always jovial, meeting everyone with a smile, or merry joke. She was continually attracting the admiration of her friends, and even by her most intimate acquaintances she was never heard to complain that her cross was more than she could bear.

Exposure was due, perhaps, partly for her death, for she walked over a mile every day to school through the grassy pastures, and this, together with her other work had so weakened her constitution that Bhe was unable to throw oft' the dreadful disease. She might have recovered from the typhoid fever, but pneumonia set in and rent assunder the few remaining threads that held her spirit here.

The funeral occurred Sunday. A short service was held at the house, conducted by Rev. O. M. McUaughey, in which he likened her life to the growing of a small plant but was frosted by the cold breath of Death ere it reached maturity. The floral designs, numerous and beautiful, only went to prove the high esteem and affection bestowed upon her while living by her many friends. No more pathetic incident occurred during the ceremony than when the girls of her own age, and with whom she had been so long and so intimately connected, gathered around the casket to bid her a last farewell.

After the ceremony the body was taken to the Harshbarger cemetery where, while the rain was falling gently, as tear drops from Heaven, with a short prayer her body was con signed to the earth from whence it came. Some of the flowers were buried with her and the rest were placed on the grave.

Thus were the last manifestations of the love we bore to a dear girJ, innocent in ber youth, beautiful in her in nocence, devoted to her duties and constant in her affections.

One of the floral designs prepared by her girl associates and nearest friends bore the impressive stanza:

Farewell, farewell, dear Lulu, Until that glorious day When wo shall all meet in heaven,

And Christ bids us "welcome, stay!" Whitesville, Ind. A FRIEND.

Honk Kong is the capital of foreign Industry in the far east. More than 5,000 vessels touch there annually.

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The Rev. James Boyd Brady, pastor of the People's Temple, in BoBton, presides over the destinies of the largest Methodist church in the country.

Big, candid Scotch-Irishman that he is, Dr. Brady has built up the Temple fluaDCially and numerically, and today he is the pastor of a flock of 1,700.

Dr. Brady devotes himself with unflagging courage to anything he undertakes. The chief characteristic of his ministry has been progress, in number, financial condition and moral and spiritual growth. He is a man of plain, but vigorous words. So much has been said and written about Dr Brady—his work, his progressive methods, his eloquence and his po-v as a minister, that the following letter from him will be convincing and helpful to many persons besides the large number who are every Sunday influenced for good by his powerful preaching. He writes:

BOSTON, Sept. 27, 1897

Paine's Celery Compound, if widely and wisely used, Tould relieve nervousness, soothe restlessness, reduce sickness, strei gthen the body, invigorate the mind and add years of happiness to life

JAMES BOYD BRADY,

|||f Pastor People's Temple. The man or woman who does not take time to get well will f-ooner or later have to take time to be ill.

ROUND HILL-

Mrs. Lydia Burk is able to be upaiid around again. Peter Eshelman is clearing oft about five acres of timber of the Crawford farm.

Miss Minnie Dowden, of Balhinch, visited Joe Bennett and wife here last Tuesday and Wednesday,

Messrs. Smith, Murphy and VanCleave did themselves great credit in debate last Friday evening.

John Kirkpatrick will sell one hundred head of hogs besioes horses, cattle and sheep at public auction next Friday.

J. C. Bennett contracted the painting of Chas. Patton's new house and John Kirkpatrick's new barn last Monday morning.

Several from this place were called to Crawfordsville Wednesday to attend the trial between Oscar Taylor and the Phoenix Insurance company.

E. P. Bennett, of Campbell's Chapel, attended literary here last Friday night. He says the Candy Pulling" was worth coming to hear. Come again.

Several of P.'s attended the district convention in Crawfordsville last Tuesday. Among those from here were: J. D. Wilson, Ed Burk, Ed Arnett and Charles Patton.

Ab Eshelman attended a party five miles southwest of Waynetown last Saturday night. He says the girls are considerable bother to cause a fellow to drive so far in the rain.

It looks now very much if our church would have to go through another winter without wood and a new roof. The shingles are on the ground but no effort is being made toward getting them on.

BOSTON'S GREAT PREACHER.

The Rev. J. B. Brady, D. D., Advises His Many Parishioners To Take Paine's Celery Compound.

Mai.y live under needless infliction of indigestion, nervousness, constipation, and general weakness, and endure the consequent loss of health without considering how easily the cause of all the illness might be remedied.

Needful nerve and tissue nourish ment is at the bottom of all permament building up of the health

Paine's celery compound looks out for the insiduous weakening of the nervous system through malnutrition It gives a healthy tone to the stomach, increases the blood supply, quiets and equalizes the irritated nerve action and promptly feeds the tissues when the bodily vigor is at its lowest ebb, and should not be further taxed

The only cure, therefoee, for rheu maiism, neuralgia or general debility that is lasting in its good effects, must rest on a radical cleansing of the blood and a building up of the nervous tissues. All this is best done by Paine's celery compound, because this remarkable remedy begins at the beginning, wherever there is disease, and establishes the health firmly and beyond any fear of falling back.

The worn-out person who cannot sleep, should take Paine's celery compound It is foily to imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained. Nothing underlines health and energy like loss of sleep. The nervous system suffers as much from lack

Our literary was .largely attended last Friday night A most excellent programme was rendered and the best of order prevailed. The following is the programme for to-night as far as arranged to date: "Question. Resolved that Columbus deserves greater credit for discovering America than Washington for preserving it." Affirmative Ab Eshelman, Nick Washburn, Joe Bennett, John Clark. Negative, Sam Jones, Bert Wilson, Sam Raffertr, Joe Smith Declamations, Gertie Miller, Millie Long, Sam Rafferty. Ethel Rafferty, Frank Wilson, Ethel Wilson, Stella Wilson. Alta Pierce, Joe Smith. Question for Nov. 2G, '"Resolved that the Statesman is of greater benefit to a country that the soldied or the poet This question will be assigned to six speakers, two to each of the characters named. December 3, "Resolved, that the Negro has been treated worse by the. American people than the Indian."

LINDEN.

Very few people sick here. Mrs' M. Bible, of Sugar Grove, visited ber parents, J. S. Bennett and wife Sunday.

War Rash has his varanda completed and it is the finest in town. It adds to the value of the property very much.

The growing wheat never looked better at this time of year than it does now, considering that it was sowed in dust.

The protracted meeting at the M. E. church last week warmed up some of the members. The temperance meeting also did good

work.

Win. Dunkle has had his dwelling raised two feet and a good brick wall put under it. Mother Pixley will improve her property in alike manner.

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pf sleep as from lack of nourishment. 'Bofi may be supplied and a healthy condition insured by using Paine's celery compound.

The stay and staff of sound health is well nourished and well regulated nerves. Sufferers from sleeplessness, nervous dyspepsia, or headache may be sure that every reservoir of nerve force has been tapped and exhausted Vy work, wnr-y. too little, sleep, or faulty liuuriaUiueni, because ot poor digestion ond assimilation. As soon as such sigus of nervous exhaustion are noticed, shaky hands, broken sleep, poor appetite, wasting diseases, neuralgia or dyspepsia, take advantage of the remarkable restorative and regulating action of Paine's celery -.,: compound.

Nervous disorders increase in a sort of compoun I ratio. It is a thousand times easier to put a stop to nervous debility in its earlier stages than later on to correct nerve and brain exhaustion, that may be complicated by heart, kidney or some other organic trouble

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be confounded vith any .of the plausible sounding, but really temporary makeshifts, whose cures ore never permament nor thorough-going, and only bring deferred hopes that make the heartsick. Paine's celery compound is the greatest nerve and brain invigorator and most reliable blood purifier the world has ever been blessed with.

As the door in the Shelby hall was not locked after the evenir,* session: until the next morning someone went in and broke two large lamp-flues and two chairs.

J. S. Bennett has built a new barn. He says he don't intend to go across the Clover Leaf railroad any more to milk and be shut off from going home by a fr. ight train.

Some one writing to the New Richmond Record la6t week gave J. S. Bennett a free advertisement, that he waB still allowed to run on the streets. J. S. says when he wants to advertise lie will call on the editor.

Perry Crouch, of Blackville, Oklahoma, is visiting home folks on Bristle Ridge, Coal Creek township. He was a caller at J. S. Bennett's Sunday. Mr. Crouch was one of the number who made the run and located on a quarter section of good land. He has a good home of liis own.

The county meeting of the I. O. G. T. held here Saturday was a success in attendance and interest. The work was done mostly in the subordinate degree. The visitors could not say enough good things about the dinner and supper and hospitality extended. J. S. Bennett presided at the morning session and Dr. J. S. Coffman, of Darlington, at the afternoon session. Mrs. M. S. Henry, G. S. J. T. of Indiana, was present, also L. D.

Woodcock,

of Thorntown, G. A. S. Waveland and Darlington lodges and Union lodge, of Crawfordsville, were represented. The evening session was held in the M. E. church. The house was well filled. There will be another county meeting some time in February. The time and place has not yet been fixed.

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