Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 December 1898 — Page 3

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Bible

For Christmas? We have them and you save 20 per cent or more by purchasing one here. Oxford Bibles, large size, containing Old and New Testaments, helps to reading, full concordance, maps and illustrations, including also indexed description of every animal, coin, jewel, musical instrument, etc, used in the book, bound in genuine French Seal, will lay flat at any page. This beautiful book is offered this week at Complete finger index will cost you only....

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Soaps

Fifty neW piecea of Dress Goods

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We could mentiou hundreds of other items which would make nice gifts: Combs, Brushes, Pocketbooks, Perfumes, Shirt-waists, Satin, Silk, Wool or Novelties, beautifully trimmed Hate, and stylish Bonnets, Purs, Collarettes, Capes, Jackets, Scarfs, Muffs. We won't mention any more. Suffice it to say that our stock never presented such buying possibilities. Wo are building up a reputation for having the best there is at the lowest price.

The Golden Rule.

Radiant Home

Air Blast Fire Pot.

{BURNS' Soft Coal, especially poorest kinds of Slack and Coal Dust, also Coke,

Lignite, Hard Coal from pea size up, and Wood, with perfect com' bustion and greatest economy,

We defy the world to take practical exceptions to the following: The Radiant Home Air Blast XXtta Century Fire Pot forms the ,only perfect retort made. The air is drawn •jithrough the cells at every point from the ash pit and entirely around the pot (not on one side only). When the air passes through the cells it becomes heated, and passing into'the fuel it frees the gases properly from the fuel, and part of the air passes over top of fuel, being heated, properly consumes the gases and the volatile products of combustion.

j^fFour Inches Gained in Capacity Over Oaks with Double Fire Pots.

Barnhill,Hornaday&Pickett

SOLE AGENTS.

Candy!

The question of sweets for Christmas is now a topic of earnest consideration. Let's put an end to the question right now, As we did last year, we offer again, the choicest Candies to-morrow, and until Christmas at 15c a pound and each pound package in a beautifully enameled box, Last year we sold almost 500 of these boxes of*candyJ'in one afternoon, We give you more chance this year, Tons of sweetmeats! Palate'tickling, tooths some fancies, Chocalate Creams, Vanilla Dips, Cocoanut Creams, Orange Bon'Bons in neat and delicate shapes. Come in and look at them, JZ JC 3C JC 7C JC

Hundreds of them. Good, standard stories, everyone. Two hundred books like cut go at 12 1«2 Cents. Books for children, beautifully illustrated, highly coloredfcbacks, choice of 150 this week 5 Cents. We have also nice, more beautiful books at 15c, 252 and 29c.

What makes a nicer, neater, more durable present than a beautiful.

98c

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Silk, Linen, anything you want from lc up. Beautiful Mufflers, a hand-

rrfilffc-fc some array of Neckties, Shirts, Socks, Gloves, vlilCld and everything of gentlemen's wear.

received Sat-

urday. These together with those already in stock form a line from which a selection can be made to suit a most fastidious

As beautiful a line as ever shown here. Butter-

Toilet milk Soap (3 cakes in a box) for 9c. Cashmere Bouquet, Colgate's genuine, 19c. Every stand-

A HAUNTED HOUSE-

The OhOHtft are the Memories of tlie Notable Long: Ago—Decay or Once Famous Legal lteniU'zvons.

A few days ago the statement was made that the tumble down old building on Pike street, just east of the Doherty place, was to be torn down and converted into firewood. Inquiry developes the fact that such is probably not the case—certainly not unless a long disputed boundary line can be settled. The reason that the houBo has stood so long is that it stands EB evidence of possession for one of the interested parties. It is on the lot belonging to Mrs. W. T. May and stands on what she maintains is the boundary line between her lot and the Doherty lot. That it so stands is material evidence in favor of the claim and establishes her right by possession.

Otherwise what is really a historic old building would not be standing today—certainly not where it now is. Some years ago Mrs. II. S. Line rande an effort to have the building removed to her grounds and set up, sue desiring to preserve it, as it was once the office in which Mr. Lane practiced law. Owing to the unique service the building was rendering its owner, however, Mrs. Lane was unable to accompli-h what she wished.

The building was erected back in the thirties by Col. Samuel Willson a* his law office. Then Col. Willson lived in a large rambling one story house on the lot which stands where D. L. Lee's residence now is. Col. Willson afterward built a large and in those days palatial residence, on Wabash avenu".

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This was afterwards converted into the Willson school house and geve way to the present handsome Willson building. When tbe old office was built Col. Willson was in the prime of his young manhood and success. He had come from Now York state, educated, and equipped for the practice of law and how he made it go will be remembered by all the older residents of Crawfordsville. He was feared far and near as a legal opponent and the drastic manner in which he handled witnesses is still proverbial hereabouts. In 1812 the firm of Lane & Willson was formed and from that day until Mr. Lune was elected governor the firm was one of the foremost in the whole western country. Besides the ability and prestige the firm had, it was in other ways equipped. It had one of the best libraries in the state aud its office, strange as those who now view the old wreck may think it, was a jswei. Mighty few offices in those days boasted of a consultation room but Lane it Willson had one and had besides all the other latest "wrinkles" known to the profession.

There wasn't then a continuous session of court as we have to-day but the court met here on stated days through the year and these were known as "court days." Court day was spoken of pretty much as we now speak of Fourth of July or Christmas and it meant about as much although it came oftener and was usually protracted considerably longer than one day. On court day everybody came to town whether they had legal business or not They came to get the news, or possibly get drunk, to buy goods, to Bwap horses, or 10 settle disputes. The settlement of disputes on court day didn't signify that the court was to be called on. These were all settled by the arbitrament of arms. Country boys, rivals in athletics or love, met in Crawfordsville of court days and there fought it out with bare fists and sometimes, teeth.

All the lawyers in this section of the state would come, most of them riding on horse back or coming by stage. Many of them perhaps, had no clients until on the ground, for it was a custom in the early days, especially in criminal cases, for lawyers to be chosen at the time of the trial. The issues were made up in a jiffy and the fun was on. During the sessions of the court the office of Lane & WillBon was the popular rendezvous for all the visiting lawyers and thither their clients came to find them. The place WKB about as busy as tbe court house

during the day and at night the lawyers met there in jolly fellowship to renew old friendships, discuss politics, and while the hours (\way in pleasure or perhaps businoEs of import. Of pleasant evenings in the warm weather they sat on the lawn around the office and until late at night. At these court sessions political pins were pet up, for the facilities of travel and of mail were poor then* and such imittors were deferred (most of the political leaders being lawyers then) until an opportunity for conference was offered during court. Many a man was made and tnany^a iuan unmade politically in and around the old building on Pike street, now so forlorn and disreputable that there is none to do it reverence. There,were strong men at the bar in those days aud passing the then handsome ollije of a summer evening during court)days one might see there sitting in front such men as Hugh O'Neall, John Pettitt, Rufus A.

Lockwood, R. C. Gregory, Ned llannegan, Tilghman A. Howard, Joseph A, Wright, Ned McGaughpy, John Law, Tom Hendricks, and a score of others fomouE in the annals of the commonwealth. Joseph 10. McDonald was a strupfrli^sr young attorney in the early days of .!I,T office and he was wont to come there to borrow books, perhaps, somewhat in awe of the great dignitaries h° saw assembled.

Laue & Willson always had a law student in their office and several eminent attorneys received their first instruction there. Among the law students who were there trained may be mentioned Hon. James Wilson, 1?. G. Noblo, L. Maddnx. D^niol VV. Voor-

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hees, E. H. Bowman, T. J. Cason, Horace E Carter, Robert Krout. D. M. Jones and Thomas O Odborn. During most of the time Voorhces studied there ho? was vacilatitiir between the Methodist ministry BQd the law. He could hardly decide between them aud it was not until after a long ani bitter struggle, and incidentally a pilitica! campaign of considerable venom, that he chose the law. He was wont to study law during the day.in the rffiue, maybe going into the back room to pray over the situation occasionally, and at night to slip around the corner to the Methodist church, where he held the position of exhorter lie was a good exhorter, too, and the manner in which he brought repentant sinners to the mourners' bench put the regular minister to shame and caused the eld«rs to declare that the young man would be making a powerful mistake if he failed to heed the call to preach. And maybe, now, looking back over all the past, the elders were right. In the old law office Voorhees fought the great battle of his life and the law and politics won over the ministry. He was successful in the field he chose to enter but ho would have been successful in the other field, too, for he was a man of many parte. Who knows, had he otherwise elected, that it might not have been Bibhop Voorhees to-day.

Lane and Willson in their day were attorneys in many famous suits, and it was in the little old house on Pike street that many a celebrated legal battle was planned. There the trustees of the Wabash and Erie canal came to retain the firm, and in the back room the sinewB of war were supplied for one of the greatest cases of the day— a case in which the fortunes and futures of many men wore involved. Within those now decayed walls the temporal salvation or damnation of many a criminal was arranged according to the employment of the firm. There the defenses in the Stambaugh, Flora, Blades, Owen and Bloomfield murder cases were all planned, and there the prosecution In the other caseB fully as famous held their consultations.

The old house should be of peculiar interest to Republicans, for in it much of the shaping of the new party that rose on the ruins of Whiggery was done. Mr. Lane was one of tbe acknowledged leaders of tho newly organized Republican party and to his office came great men from all over the country to consult him as to the

policy and declarations of the infant Hercules in the political work. Within the old office Mr. Lane made the draft of the address which ho delivered as the chairman of the first Republican national convention—the convention which nominated John C. Fremont for the presidency. When the ever memorable campaign of 1800 came on the now abandoned building was the Mecca for many an aspiring politician. The now party was coming to the front with strides betokening victory and the country was in a turmoil. Mr. Lane was the candidate for governor of Indiana, with Oliver P. Morton for second place. Abraham Lincoln was the candidate for the presidency and within Mr. Lane's office were received many distinguished men from all parts of the country and therein were planned bold and'clever political moves and startling^coupB of state. Letters from the foremost men in all the land were there opened and discussed. Could the old walls tell their story how 'interesting it would all be! Hut thoy stand there mute aud decadent, untenanted now by even the licentiously Bacchanalian cat which owes no allegiance to man.

When the old building ceasod from its use ae a law office it was for quite a season rented for a dwelling. Then Walter Sies, the eccentric artist, used it, for a studio. Then it did service as a carpenter's shop and afterward becaine the shelter of a lowly, Boft-eyed cow. The last time it came into publice notire was several years ago when four or five bad boys of very tender years utilized the cellar as a "robbers' cave" 'ind there concealed the plunder

they 6tole from various stores about town. But the cave was found and the boya were caught and sent to Plp,infield. Since then the historic structure has stood doing sentinel guard on the disputed boundary line, performing a sort of a legal function to the last. The ruling passion Btrong in lii'eay.

Were Not Dilatory.

To Hie Editor of the Journal. The decisioi of the jury in the John illenwider case, who was tried here last week for forgery, was indeed a surprise to many. From the juryman's explanation as given in last week's JOURNAL, we would suppose they surely judged by obnoxious conjecture, for the' evidenee given in the case could not possibly substantiate such a decision. We censure no one or harshly reprove the acts of this jury, but if there is any blame, let it not rest on those who first became interested in this case. Asjstated in the evidence it was about twojweeks from the time Fullenwider called to see Mr. Mount until he found out his (would be) name had been used. He immediately iuformed one of the grand jury men aa they had only been excused a few days previous. .^This juryman reported it to tho prosecutor, and he to the judge. Now this was all done within one weeKijfrom the 'time Mr. Voris and Mr. Mount found out it was a case of forgery. The»judge delayed the case because it was unnecessary expense to call tho grand jury just for the one case. So the jury or that one juryman daro not accuse any of the prosecuting witnesses of rottenness in thiB matter. It was a straightforward state case.

Lottt A11 Arm.

Dan Rael, a Vandalia brakeman, met with a terribie accident last Tuesday at Brown's Valley. He was engaged in his duties and dropped a coupling-pin. He reached for it juBtintimeto get his arm caught between the cars and the member wasliterally mashed off. He was brought on to Crawford6ville at once and given medical attention. The poor fellowtsuffored terribly, and now lies at the Junction House in a serious condition. It is thought that ho will survive the shock, and as soon as possible, he will be removed to his homeinTerre Haute.

Clockg.

We have just received a dozen Seth Thomas black emameled, eight-day clocks, Cathedral gong strike, which we will sell till New Year's for five dollars each. A great bargain.

OTTO, the Jeweler,

lll'souths Washington St.

NARROW ESCAPE.

Motion Bridge Goes Down 80011 After ExprexM Pagsen Safely Over.

Bloomington Telephone: The Monon bridge over Salt Creek was swept away this morning by the high waters a short time after the early south bound passenger train had passed over it. The structure was being repaired by the bridge carpenters, tho supports and trusses being strengthened. By reason of the heavy rains Salt Creek succeeded in getting out of its banks. Great heaps of ica formed a gorge at the bridge, until the pile towered almost as high as the flooring of the bridge, which is ir0 feet long. The officials were not slow in discovering the danger, and sent an engine with three cars heavily loaded with Btone from Bedford to tho scene. A telegraph operator was also BBnt along and opened an offico on the south end of tho bridge, thus keeping the officials here posted. Tho cars of stono wore pushed on tho bridge to weight it down, and it was hoped thus to save tho structure from destruction. When tho morning passenger reached the scene the stone cars were pulled south to let it pass. Tho cars of stone had not been stationed on tho bridge more than an hour when with a grinding and crushing noise the structure went down, carrying with it the cars of stone. It will require two days and nights of hard labor to replace tho bridge and traffic will necessarily be delayed, as transfers will have to be made.

\Vi Smith Heard From.

Gabe Drake is in receipt of a lotter from Wick Smith, who is now a member of the 8th Illinois volunteers stationed at San LU:B, Cuba, doing garrison duty. Wick writes that ho is enjoying tho best of health as all the soldiers now are. Wick suffered five attacks of malarial fever and was twice in tho hospital but was never better than he is' at present. He has been promoted to position of first sergeant and is tho private secretary of his captain as well as secretary of the general court martial. Wick writes that another Crawfordsvillo boy, Dick Uiatt, is in the same regiment, Tho thermometer Btood at 100 on December 5, tho day the letter was written, and tho whole regiment was attired in duck suits.

Higlit Man for a Good Work. Kokomo Tribune-. Hon. Charles B. Landis, tho popular and brilliant congressman from tho ninth district, has boon selected to lead tho fight to be made in the house against Roberts, the polygamist member from Utah. "GUB" LandiB is just tho man to bo depended upon to do an artistic job of trimming in such a case. He will make tho atmosphere tropically warm in the neighborhood of the gentleman with the plurality of wives. A man with too many feminine hearts dangling to his bolt won't find it easv to sit in the council of tho nation alongside of the old bachelors and single spouse fellows.

Happily Married.

W. H. H. Smith and Mrs. Martha Elmore were married last Tuesday at the home at the bride just east of the city. They will reside in the future on the bride'a farm. Both have many warm friends wh# wish them all joy. Mr. Smith has resided for some time in Darlington and is the well known traveling man.

llankH Will CloHe.

All the Crawfordavillo banks will close on next Monday for a Christmas holiday and on the following Monday for New Year's.

Eczema!

The Only Cure.

Eczema is more than a skin disease, end no skin remedies can cure it. The doctors are unable to effect a cure, and their mineral mixtures are damaging to the most powerful constitution. The whole trouble is in the blood, and Swift's Specific is the only remedy which can reach such deep-seated blood diseases.

Eczema broke out on my daughter, and continued to spread until her head was entirely covered. She was treated by several good doctors, but grew •worse, and the dreadful disease spread to her face. She was taken to two celebrated health springs, but re-/ celved no benefit. Manypatent medicines were taken, but without result, until we decided to try 8. S. S., and by the time the first bottle was finished, her he»d began to heal. A dozen bottles oured her completely and left her skin perfectly smooth. She is now sixteen years old, and has a magnificent growth of lialr. Not a sign of the dreadful disease has ever returned.

is the only cure and will reach the most obstinate case. It is far ahead

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