Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1877 — Death of two Prominent Citizens of Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Death of two Prominent Citizens of Indiana.

The New York Sun predicts that Grant and Piefrepont will be the straight Republican candidates for President and Vice President in 1880. Hendricks and Hampton, as the Democratic candidates ior President and Vice President in 1880, would make a winning ticket. Red Sitting Bull is repor ed a sa'» ou Canadian soil. Indiana's crippied fitting Bull is reported enroutb to Oregon where it is supposed he will interview aud admire Cronin’s uose, John J.J’attersOn, the sample radical senator from South Curolina, who dare not go home except under “priv ilege," is getting into still deeper watcr. That long-suffering people are ntioutto inquire into the means chosen by John to get there. This was undertaken once before, but under widely different circumstam es, when he held and owned the .legislature, sub jeet to Grant and Cameron. An investigation then was a farce.

.The Rensselaer Sentinel takes two and a half columns of space to show ? Imt the Union of that place is arepublican paper, basing its remarks upon the comments of the latter paper upon the letter of Senator Mor- i ton. Aud the Union never denied it, Delphi News. A few weeks since the Union occupied two or three columns of space tb explain that it was wot. a republicnn\ but an independent paper. And ij seems our friend Al. never read it. ft J ! _ __ ___ “Raw-head and bloody-bones” stories have been manufactured against tlie south, by the radicals, and circulated north, but Hayes will not accept and profit by them. The latest is to the effect that an ambitious little • nigger” sought admission to practice law in the courts of South Carolina, and was refused (for lack of qualification, if there was anything of the kind occurred at all); and radicals are shedding copious showers of crocodile tears over it. Hayes, however proposes to stick to his agreement with certain Democratic Congressmen—"to enforce the Tilden, or Democratic .Southern policy, if ullow to be peaceably inaugurated.” There is a howl in Africa, judging from the tone of the radical press.

On Tuesday morning last the engineer of the morning train north on the Louisville,New Albany & Chicago railroad, when near Reynolds station, • liscoverod something on the track, and stopped his train, to lind a man. s : ill alive but unconscious, lying on t lie track. A ghastly cut on the throat and extending under the - ear and a fractured skull served to indicate too plainly that he had been beaten, robbed, and placed on tire track, in expectation that some train would run over him and so mutilate him as to lefaee all evidence of the murder, iHs pocket-book was emptied. He was brought to Reynolds station, and soon after expired. Upon investigation, his name was found to be Tate, a bricklayer by trade, aud formerly a resident of Lafayettee, an honest, iu-> dustrious man. There is no clue to the assassins. The ground near where lie was found showed evidence of a fearful struggle for life. Since the above wus put in type we tied the following in the Moutieello Herald, which gives a different.shade to the affair;

“A man named Thomas Tate was Sound Monday night in a dying eon dition a short distance south of Reynolds, at the side of the L. N. A. & C. milroad. He was taken to Brookstou -aid placeddn the depot at that place where he died about fifteen minutes afterwards. Coroner Yopst was notified and impanelled a jury who returned a verdict of “killed by the ears.” A pocket-book containing about SSO was found on his person. He was known to be intemperate, and it is supposed he was intoxicated ut the time of the accident. Ho had been in the employ of Mr. H. M. Wheeler, near Reynolds, from whom lie had just received several mouths 1 wages.”

On Sunday last, Hon. John Pettit, one of the late Judges of the Supreme Court of Indiana, died at his residence im Lafayette, agey nearly “three score years and ten.” He filled a larger number of public offices than fall to the lot of most men. He had filled acceptably the offices of Mayor. Legislator, member of Congress, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, U. S. Senator, Federal Judge, Circuit Judge and Supreme Judge. On the same day, at his residence, in Logansport, late United States Senator Pratt departed this life, very suddenly, These eminent men fill a large space in the history of the State, and their memories will long be cherished by the psopl© thereof.