Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 39, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 February 1884 — Page 4

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BLOOMINGTON TELEPHONE. Published ever Saturday Morning. EDITOR AN PKOrKIETOK, W. S. BBADFUTE. One Year, $1 50 Six Months, .75 Three Months, .40 TERMS ADVERTISING: Business Card, 1 year, $6. Locals 5 cts. j)er line each week. Standing Advertising, 35 cts. per men a Mth. Xo Reduction to any Parties. CIKCULATIOX OP ANY PAPER PUBLISHED IN THE COU3ITY. Advertising without a Special Contract will be continued mxtil ordered stopped., at usial rates. Office over Collins & Karsell's. ANNOUNCEMENTS. FRANK R. WOOLLEY is a candidate for re-election to the office of Trustee of Bloomington township, subject to the decision of the Republican nominating convention. COmESTODEXCE AN INTERESTING LETTER FRON CLAY COUNTY. To the Editor of die Telephone : Brazil, Feb. 1. The capital of Clay county is centrally located so far as the.city is related to her court house; and the neighboring city of Terre Haute. From the foregoing remark it -would seem that vast a distance interveaned betwixt the city and county seat. Well, the truth is, the court house is a long way removed from the business places, occupying a sight so far to the eastward as to be in danger of committing a trespass upon the county of Putnam. After you find the. seat of judgement and justice you are not abundantly rewarded for you painstaking in searching it out.. It is located in the mudiest-, murkiest and dullest place a vacant ' out-lot, of the mudiest, murkest, - dullest and most dismal s ubsoil to be ..found in this city of smoke; strikes, gloom and grime, and is as suggestive of the law's delays and dangers as ever found in a Michaelmas term of a Chancery Court in the heart of Lon don. On the occasion ot three re cent trips to the Brazil court house, I find the same difficulty in reaching it, the same grateful, needed rest after the half-day's journey thither, and the same gloomy surroundings when reached. On these three occasions the stone steps and moldy terraces were still catching the drippings of the same ceasless rain-fall, in the same dense fog, and apparently doing all in their power to aid the same smoking chimney pots, with their drizzling flakes of soot, in making the scene as solemn and sumoer as po&siuie. in same dH cases were dragging along, in weary, monotonus rounds, ala Jarn-

dye and Jarudyee and the same 1 throughout this fair laad into the ChixxlesandTaagles, Mizxles andliagof the toiling millions, who

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F Wimteir HAVE Mlud; Fulkinghams were busy with briefs and banisters, and, despite ill conditioned court rooms and the wretched weather, reputedly, making good thrift out of all these cases and conflicts whither the warring element within or without. The Brazil doctors, I believe, are making as much if not more money as the Brazil lawyers; and it affords me pleasure to be able to say that I feel sure that my friend Dr. F. GThornton (formerly a citizen of Bloomington) is in the van, foremost among them all, and in every way known and eulogised as one of the best physicians in the place. Among the newspaper men also enjoying a good degree of prosper ity, I found Mr. Lansing, of the Democrat, Mr. Wolf of tha Enterprise, and Sam. B. Riley, of the Miner, especially good-natured, hap py and obliging. I am greatly in debted to them for . courtisies and kindnesses. I especially enjoyed my visit to the Miner office, where f found two members of Mr. Riley's family engaged in setting type. "Little Belle'r is a bright, pretty, vivacious little miss of only ten years, and yet she has been a compositor in her father's office for over three years. The newspaper men of central Indiana are booming Ri ley for County Clerk, and I hope they shall keep the good work progressing till they shall help boom him into the office, a position he is so thoroughly prepared to , fill with credit to himself and to his friends. I shall hereafter have occasion to mention, the success of other citizens here, who formerly lived in Bloomington j and notably Judge Silas Coffey, Hon. Samuel Curtis, Sid. Puller, Alfred and F. G. Merser and others; and also to- mention the mines, mills, men and manners of this vicinity. S. A SENSIBLE MOVE. To the Editor of the Telephone : Representative Poland has introduced one of the most .-ensible . bills that has yet been introduced into the present congress. One that solves the vexed problem of what to do with the accumulated surplus in in the United States Treasury, and at the same time place it in circula tion through a set of men, who of all men, most deserve favors from the Government. He proposes to give to every honorably discharged Union Soldier, who served 60 days and not over a year, $5 per month for life. Those who served two years, $6; those who served three years, $7, and those who served four years are to get $8 per month. Now, why is this sensible and jmst? It is sensible because it would send the money, that is now hoarded up in I the National capital, broad cast

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would be compelled by the necessity of the case, to pay it out again, and thus place it in the regular channels of trade. It is just because the Nation owes its de fenders a debt it can never pay the saving of its life. It is now nearly nineteen years since the war closed, and during that time the Xnlrflwuw l.n.VA luinn ur;l.iiiiiir nrnitiurr waiting for their country to be gra cious. During this long perk many have sank into premature graves, caused by exposure during their service to their country's cause. Thousands have returned without sufficient bodily infirmity to enaoie meni to ootam a pension under existing laws, yet I maintain that there was not a man that went through one, two or three years scr vice, but who was injured more or less; and as old age creeps upon them, it begins to tell, but alas for them it is now to late. They returned from the army apparently stout and hearty, and they can't now prove by their "commissioned officer" or "two privates" (and by the way I could never see why it should take two privates to make as good testimony as one commissioned officer.) or their Reg't Surgeon, just when and how they Avcre dis abled. And they still go on waiting and listening to long-winded politicians eulogizing the Soldier, making fair promises that thay will not forget him; that he shall have justice and all that. We look at this as being a golden opportunity for our congressmen to prove to the i Soldier and the country that they are their true friends especially as it costs nothing, as they have plenty of money on hands and no particular need of it. Think of it, vou closefisted man where- ever you are, who would it hurt?' Would it take a single cent from you? On the con trary it would be likely to put money into your pocket, for thus by putting money into your neighbor's hands, he would be most sure to spend some of it with you. I have yet to find the man so narrow-minded but what he will admit that the Soldiers have never yet been half paid for ; their services. Congress should come right down to business at once and act the man, as it were, by at least paying a part of one of the most sacred debts it is in the power of a Nation to contract. What is the matter? Is it possible that the soldier has not only out-lived his usefulness, but also his friends? I pause and listen for a reply. Ex-Soldiek. Bloomington, Jan. 29th. WOMAN'S TYRANY. To the Editor of the Telephone : I have just been thinking how very mean it is in the women of Bloomington that they don't admit , the male members of the family to enjoy the pleasures of the home, and the society of wives, mothers, daughters and sisters, on these long, winter evenings. Just think of it: as soon as supper is over the men are driven out, and have to spend the long, lonesome nights down town in and about the stores, saloons, or on the streets, as their inclinations lead j them. No wonder that men congre gate in business houses and amuse themselves in rehearsing stories of the past; (some of them it may be both false and filthy) in criticising the conduct of their neighbors and gossiping about things generally; or it may he that some of them are spending three or four hours each evening in some innocent game that. will strengthen the intellect and social nature, that is growing selfish because they are not permitted to cultivate it at home. Dear wives and mothers, do not be so cruel! Husband. ENFORCEMENT OF LAW. To the Editor of the Telephone : When the Temperance people become radical and want Prohibition, they are met with the taunt: why not enforce the law as it now stands and you can shut up every saloon. Well, that is just what the good people of Monroe county are trying to do. Under the present law the County commissioners as they have a right to do for sufficient reas ons have refused license,and so far have been sustained by the higher Courts Now it is notorious that our quart saloons are, with rare exceptions, daily violating the law What excuse have these law-breaker, the drinkers and sellers? Is it that they cannot get whisky legally?

No, for if they must buy they can

get all they want by the quart and then drink it where they have a right to do so. Our appeal is to the better class of citizens in town and county, Do they ever think of the ultimate result of their violations? Surely they must see that the ten dency is to break down respect for all law. So how surely it follows that if they are called upon to testify as to an illegal purchase, they evade or commit perjury. One violation leads to a second a worse offense. Do not these men and our juries see that such disregard of law tends to utter demorilization of society and fills the land with criminals? If a man violates one law, why may he not with equal impunity violate every law? If persons steal, murder, commit adultery, rob, burn or destroy property, how quickly they are indicted and punished. If a witness should commit perjury to shield them, how soon society spurns the criminal;1 drives him from decent society, or shuts him up in prison. Why then should the violator of our liquor laws be a privileged class, and allowed by courts and juries to go free? Do our people ever think that mobs are often the result of faithlessness on the part of courts and juries? Complaint is made against judges and attorneys that upon technicalities, criminals escape justice. But the fact is in the main that jurors are marc atfault than any other members of courts. Actuated by a false and sickly sentiment they fail to indict offenders. Especially is this the fact mth violators of our temperance laws. A juror who buys and drinks rum contrary to law, is not very likely to indict and punish oth- j era foi the same offense.. So we see how respect for law is weakened j and society goaded to desperation often takes the execution of law in its own hands. There are schools of lawlessness, of gambling and murder in our city that call for the j strong arm of law to suppress, or ! worst things await us. However it is true that "whom the God's- wish to destroy they first make mad'' and saloon-keepers and their patrons are rapidly driving the people on in. the route of Prohibition. In their desperate efforts to break down any law that even regulates them, reveals their fiendish purpose. The worm of the still is not a harmless worm, but a firey serpant, full of deadly poison, and strikes down not only those who take him to their lips, but those who want to regulate him. Our only safety lies in the utter ex termination, and to that conclusion the American people are rapidly hastening, B. NAMES OF THE MEN OF CAPT. LUNDERMAN'S COMPANY. To the Editor of the Telephone: The following is the names of the s -r i men composing uapt. .Lunaerman's Company, of the Mexican war, as furnished me by Maj. Day, who was with Capt. Lunderman, and. is now a leading citizen ot this place. The list is complete and correct. JbRANK. ARXOTT, Greenup, Ills., Jan. 25. Roll of Company "6r," 4th Indiana Volunteers, Mexican. War: Daniel Lunderman, Captain, Wm. McPhetridge, 1st Lieut., Barton W. Acoff, 2nd " Thomas A. Reynolds, 3rd " Daniel W, Skillman, 1st Sergt. James Eaton, 2nd Sergt. Charles G. Corr, 3rd " JohnMcClure, 4th " James Bean, 1st Corps. Henry Baugh, 2nd " James W. Bonsall, 3rd, Arch. Umpstatt, 4th, Columbus Mershon, Drummer. Wm Marlott, Fifer. Edwai'd Armstsong, Wm Armstrong, Henry A Bailey, Jackson Bailes, James Bailes, Stephen Bailes. John Baugh, Johnathan Brinson, Wm Blair, George Butler, Truman Buckles, Hiram Carter, Morgan Carter, George Canton, John C S Chipman, John Coffee, Robert Daniels, John W Day, Wm Dawson, James R Dearman, Joel Deckard, John Dixon, Jesse Elliott, John Gavett, John Glepner, Abram Goodnight) Sol M Grunt,

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AT SUCH PRICES AS WILL Compell All to Appreciate THE BARGAINS AND BUY WHILE GroocLs are Siauslitex-ed Call SOON and be Convinced. IL. FieMs & Oo.

Adam Gray, Joel Hancock, Elijah Haveron, Valentine Heap, Silas B Hoveons, Elijah Hoveons, Wm Hoveons, Wm Hunt, Daniel Jacobs, Wm R Jacobs, John Jones, Joseph Johnston, James Mallicott, Wm Matlok, David McGee, George Marshall, McNanght, Andrew J Mefford, John Miller, Alex Moberly, Benj. Murphy, Robert Landrum, Stephen Lindsay, Isaac Peterson, Thomas Pickle, Jas Richardson, Young J Robinson, Harmon J Rochett, John P Sulliuan, Hamp Slomgh, Daniel Spencer, Lawson Summit, George Smith, Charles U. Shook, Caleb H. Stone, James Thompson, Wm H Vint, Benj L Welts, Penry B. Wilson, James U York, Wylie Jackson, John Neal, David Wooster, Perry Dearmin, Alfred Moreland. FOR RENT. A large convenently arranged frame House, near the University. Inquire of Wm. P.. Rogers, at once. "The best package coffee in the market" Manilla. Sold only by Collins fc KarselL Every man should have his will written. It might save money and court expenses in case of accident. John Graham prepares them accurately, and regards them as strictly confidential. Office over Tourner's clothing store. "And the bind see", is the motto at Tobe Smith's on Wednesday Spectacle Day. Wednesday is always "Spectacle Day" at Tobe Smith's. You can get a genuine article of huck whkat vfous at COLLDTS & KARSELL. The last of Iowa Timothy scsd, and choice Clover seed for sale. W.J.ALLEN.

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SOMETHHSG NEW! The 'WhitehiU' SEWING MACHINE. The Best Points being taken from Other Sewing Machines and Combined in the. "New WhitehilL" Making one of the Most Simple and perfect Sewing Machines Manufactured. I will sell the WhitehiU from $5 to $15 less than any other first class Machine, with all silver-plated attachments. i Will make liberal, allowances ' for second hand Sewing Machin i es. Repairs on Sewing Macliinos a specialty. J. H. WYLIE, At Cockeran's Jewelry Store, west side the square. 3-4 FOR SALE. Or to TAde or Rent. The undersigned has a good Flouring Mill situated at Newark, Greene Co., 18 miles west of this city, that he will sell cheap or trade for Bloomington property. Enoch Fuixke. TO STOCK BREEDEBS Samuel Wallingford and Jos, S. Alexander have recently purchased a fine Spanish Jack, aud now have it stationed at what is known as the Hardin farm. It is of the very best stock, selected by Mr. Wallingford who is a supeior judge of animals, and farmers that are interested in such matters should see the animal within the next few months. The popular north side hardware store is now in full operation under the management of McPheeters & Shoemaker, and they intend supplying the people of Monroe county with the very best that is to be found in their line, expecting to please all their old customers and add many new ones to their trade. In the mean time all those who are indebted to the old firm are urged to come forward and settle at once witheut personal notice, as all accounts have been left there for collection, Cheap goods at small profits; good goods at reasonable prices, Call and see m, W, T. BLAIR,

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