Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1877 — Page 2

FRIDAY. AUGUST 3, 1877.

Forty rioters are in jail at Harris* burg, Pa., awaiting trial. Not one drop of blood was shed in Indiana during th'j strike. Cre.lita.ble. 4 More than 100,000 bushels of wheat owned by parties in Indianapolis were burned in Pittsburgh, Sunday of last, week. Thb Democcratic Sentinel is now the largest and best newspaper in Jasper county. Only $1 50 per annum. Call and subscribe, and advise your friends and neighbors to do lik- - wise. It is said that the stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railrowd will lose their quarterly dividend now due, the officers having determined to use all the available cash to restore property destroyed by the mob. On Wednesday last seven thousand strikers endeavored to stop a mail train at Wilkesbarre, Pa., by uncoupling cars and interfering with employes. The train was eventually I >a<iked up, got on full head of steam and shot through unharmed.

An exodus of the colored people to Africa is by no means improbable. Several meetings on the subject have been held recently In different parts _pf the country,and one was announced In New York for this week, at which Frederick Douglas was to give his views. The late Senator Sumner had an idea that the colored race would work out its highest development in tliQ West fndia Islands and found there a black confederation; but it may be that Africa is the promised land. It is evident that the end of the infamies of Grant’s administration has not yet been reached. At Erie, Pennsylvania, indictments have been found against the firm of I. & J.Dunlaj>, government contractors of that < ity; G. E. Fell, government inspector; J. W. Dominick, of Buffalo, clerk m engineer’s office, and A. Barthoh - mew, for defrauding the government in the improvement of Erie harbor, of amounts variously estimated at from one to two bundled thousand dollars.

Gov. Robinson, in his proclamation to the people of New York, says: “The law recognizes and protects the rights of all then to refuse to work, except • upon terms satisfactory to themselves, but it does not permit them to prevent other men from working who di - sire to do so. Unless the State is to be given up to anarchy, and its courts mid laws are to be delied with impunity, its whole power must be exerted [O suppress violence, maintain order and protect its citizens in their right t'i work, and the business of the conn try from lawless interruption within our borders. It is no ionger a question of wages, but of the supremacy of the law, the liberty, the property, andthq rights of all classes of citizens.” All law-abiding citizens will say “Amen” to theabove. Gov. Robinson states the law in plain words. The Chicago Times says that Indictments for perjury have been returned by the grand jury in the United States court at Portland, Oregon, against Mr. Stiles and two other persons who swore to certain damagingstatements against Governor Grover, In relation to the senatorial election, before Mr. Morton’s committee. As it would be a bsurd to suppose that Stiles and the others have engaged in this false swearing business merely for the fun of the thing, it seems to follow that if there has also been subornation of perjury. The grand jury might do many worse things than to give this whoje business very exhaustive overhauling. The members of the senatorial committee may be supposed to know something about the meas by which testimony wa ■ obtained and brought before them, and they should be favored with an opportunity to tell what they know.

A PROCLAMATION.

On Thursday evening of last week i Gov. Williams issued the following I proclamation: Thf State of Indiana, ) Executive Department, \ A Proclamation by the Governor rel- ■ ative to disturbances of the peace ' by striking employes of railroad companies. i To the people of Indiana: Many disaffected employes of railroad companies doing business in this state have renounced their employments because of alleged grievances, and hove conspired to enforce their demands by detaining trains of their lute employers, seizing and controlling their property, intimidating their managers, prohibiting ly violence their attempts to conduct their bus!-I ness, and driving away passengers ' find freight.offered for transportation, i The peace of community is seriously ! disturbed by these lawless acts. Ev- > try class of society is made to suffer. ' The comfort and happiness of many families not parties to the grievances , are sacrificed. A controversy which i belongs to our courts, or the province of peaceful arbitration or negotiation is made the excuse for an an obstruction of trade and travel over the elmrtored commercial highways of I our state. The commerce of the qntire country is interfered with, and'i the reputation of our community is ! threatened with dishonor among our j neighbors. This disregard of law ; ami the rights and privileges of our i citizens and those of sister states can * not betolerated. The machinery provided by law for the rnljus ment of ' private grievances must be i.aed as the only resort against debtors, individual ar corporate. The process of the courts is deemed s fllcient for the enforcement of civil remedies, as well , as the penalties of the criminal code, ’ l-nd must be executed cquallyia each To the end that the existing

combination be iissolved and destroyed in its lawless form, I invoke the aid of all the law-abiding cit "ens as our stat ?. I ask thatthey denoune and condemn this infraction of public order, and endeavor to dissuade these offenders against the peace and dignity of our state from further acts of lawlessness. To the judiciary: I appeal for the prompt and rigid administration of justice in proceedings of this nature. To the sheriffs of the several counties:. I common 1 a caieful study of tiie duties imposed upon them by statute Whioh they have sworn to discharge. I admonish each to use the f’.itl power of his county in the preservation of order and the suppression of breaches of the peace, assuring them of my hearty co-operation with the power of the state at my command when satisfied that occasion demands its exercise. To those who have arrayed themselves against government, and are subverting law and order and he best interests of society by the waste and destruction of property, the derangement of trains and the ruin of all classes of labor, I appeal for an immediate abandonment of their unwise and unlawful confederation. I convey to them the voice of the law, which they can not afford to disregard. I trust that its admonition may be so promptly heeded that a resort to extreme measures will be unnecessary, and that the authority of the law and the dignity of the state, against which they have so grievously offended, may be restored and duly respected hereafter. Given at Indianapolis, this twentysixth day of July, 1877. Witness the seal of the state and the signature of the Governor. James D. Williams. By the Govcrno: : John E. Neff, rfee’y of State. The Indianapolis Herald says this this document “fell like a bombshell among the fiery and reckless elements.” A speedy and bloodless victory was the result.

REBUKE THE DEMAGOGUES!

Certain Republican newspapers, says the New York Sun, try to give a party turn to the recent disturbances by declaring that they are of Democratic origin, and that nearly all the strikers and rioters are Democrats. Nothing could be more untruthful than this assertion. The most formidable outbreak and the most disastrous events that have marked this calamitous conflict have .occurred at Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, with its suburbs, is the stronghold of the Republican party in Pennsylvania. The county of Allegheny, in which Pittsburgh is situated and where nearly all the vot?s of the county are east, usually gives a Republican majority of 12,000 and in great contests it has given as high as 18,000. It has always been claimed by the Republicans and conceded by tiie Democrats that the mass of the mechanics and miners and other workingmen in and around Pittsburg voted the Republican ticket. But would it be either fair or decent to infer from such premises and loudly assert that the riots at Pittsburgh were Republican riots? Take another illustration from the city of New York. It is the Democratic stronghold of the county. Two of the great trunk railways, the Erie and the New' Yoik Central, terminate here; and the same is practically the case with the Pennsylvania Railroad. The most of the existing troubles are on these roads and their branches. In this city and its suburbs dwell hundreds of mechanics and laborers whose employments are connected with these three railways. Besides these, this city contains thousands of laboring men who can get no work, many of whom are very poor and some of whom, with their wives and children, suffer for lack of the necessaries of life. Nobody disputes that on election days the large majority of tiie voters of these various classes support the Democratic party. And yet amid the trials and temptations of this emergency, New York is the most quiet of all the great Northern cities that stand between the Connecticut river and the Pacific ocean. Should not such facts silence’ the brawling Republican demagogues? The simple truth is that party politics have nothing whatever t; do with these strikes and riots, except in so far as the Electoral Conspiracy of the Republicans has indirectly caused and promoted them.

RESCUED FROM GUERILLAS.

i A Reminiscence of Gen. Shields’ ‘Service in the Mexlean 'War. [Utica Observei.] I One of the thrilling episodes of the j Mexican war which are not found in ■ any of its histories is that of the res I cue of an English family from the : City of Mexico before the capitula- ! tioii by a detatchment of American ; soldiers. The city had been invested ; some time, when a refugee one night entered that part of our lines which I Gen. Shields commanded. He was taken to the general, and to him told his story. He was an English boy. and with his mother and sister, just arrived at womanhood, occupied a home at the capital at the time of the investment. One of the lawless guerilla chiefs, who held the people of the city as well as of the co.uritry in terror, had conceived a violent passion , for the sister, who repulsed his adI vances, and he had declared in his ; rage that, unless she consented to his i proposals on the following morning, I he would carry her off by force, and j cause her mother and brother to be i executed. The lad, in the extremity of his terror, had made his way out of the city, past the sentinels and the lines, gained the American camp, and now besought the general to save his mother and sister. The ardent soul of Shields (who was then but thirtyseven) was fired at the thought of the miserable fate awaiting these hapless , ladies, and without communicating at i ail with headquarters (where flat re > fusal would have been certain) he i formed a plan for their rescue. To ’ call it rash, Quixotic, or dare-devil, I would be the truth; the best defence l of his proceedings of that night is tlgjt it was a brave act, prompted by a generous heart, and that he succeeded perfectly, where disaster wo’d insure hie dismissal from the army. He had about 400 picked men of his command detailed, and after briefly informing them what he proposed to do, he found every man eager for the adventure. Putting himself at the head of the little column, he she itly

left the American lines, and, favored by datkness of the night, approached close to the walls of the city without discovery. The sentinels could be plainly seen on the walls, and the cry, “Sentinela, alcrte!” was heard as it passed from mouth to, mouth. Guided by the lad the party sealed the wall at a favorable place, and seizing two or three of the astounded sentinels descended into the city, and quickly made their way unopposed through the streets to the house to which the lad guided them. The boy ran in and informed the ladies that deliverance had come; they hastily collected a few valuables and articles of wearing apparel in a bundle, and placing the rescued party in the cea ter of the column, Shields started to return. But meantime the alarm had been given, and drums were beating and lanterns flashing all around the walls. Arrived near the point of entrance, it was found that the whole open place between the houses and the wall was filled with Mexican infantry and artillery. Shields instantly deployed and gave the command to fire. A rattling volley, followed by a bayonet charge, threw the Mexicans into disorder, and the Americans rushed through and over them with their little party, made their way out, and returned to their own camp with but a few casualties, although they drew the fire of both sides on their return, for the American camp was now fully aroused? and the pickets were firing rapidly. But the tumult soon ceased on both sides, the adventurous returned to their quarters as though nothing had happened out of the usual course, and the ladies were safely bestowed for the night In a hut made as comfortable as possible.

How he was called to account for this night’s work will be best told in Gen. Shields’ own language: “The next morning an officer of Gen. Scott’s staff came to my quarters with a message from the general that he would like to know the cause of the previous, night’s alarm, as it originated in that part of the line which was under my command. I answered that I would report in person, which lat once did. On the way I thought the matter over, and concluded that it would be better to make a clean breast of it, and I did so. The story threw Gen. Scott into a tremendous rage. Ever since Cerro Gordo was fought he had addressed me as “My Ceno Gordo friend,” but he now dropped that familiar name. ‘Gen. Shields,’ he thundered, ‘you are insubordinate and reckless in the highest degree. You have put in peril the fruits of the whole campaign; you have, perhaps, frustrated all my plans for the capture of the city of Mexico! Sir, I’ll disgrace you; I’ll court-mar-tial you, and have you dismissed the service!’ At this my temper rose, and I answered him plainly that he might court-martial, and, perhaps, get me dismissed, but that after all that had occurred on’this campaign, neither he nor any other man could disgrace me, and, being by this time pretty well stirred up, I said that under like circumstances I would do precisely the same thing over again. Instead of being more angry, the general was rather softened by this speech. ‘I was wrong, Gen. Shields,’ he said, ‘in saying that I would disgrace you; I ask your parden for that. You are a brave man, and disgrace-is not the word to use toward you. But you are greatly to blame in this matter, sir. You have acted without orders, and have imperilled the whole campaign.’ ’Gen. Scott,’ I said, ‘before you say anything more about it, suppose you come over to my quarter andjsee these ladies.’ After some further talk he promised to do so, and I rode back to my tent pretty well satisfied that I should have no further trouble with the affair. In an hour over came Gen. Scott, and I introduced him to the ladies. The daughter was a picture of beauty, with her golden curls and her blue eyes, and after the mother had thanked the general for their preservation with tearful eyes and trembling voice, the girl seized his hands, wept over them, called him her preserver, and invoked the blessings of heaven on his head. Scott looked from her to me with a very benevolent face and said: “Well, my Cerro Gordo friend, if I get you court-martialed for this, I shall have you promoted too.” I have only to add that long afterward, when the war was over, and we had returned to the United States, I received from England’ the gift of these ladies, a costly diamond pin as a toker of their gratitude.” Tnese are but a few of the interesting and varied reminiscences with which Gen, Shields entertains his listeners in public and private. For the benefit of those curious to know

something of the personal appearance of the man,’it may be stated that he is of medium size, hale and hearty, though sixty-seven years of age, with a keen eye, and something like the “brogue” in his speech. His residence is at Kansas City, Mo. He speaks without the least bitterness toward any of his contemporaries, either in civil or military, and evinces the warmest interest in the prosperity and welfare of his adopted country.

Michigan has fifteen or twenty lawsuits hanging on over Presidential bets. White men are not yet allowed to own land or become citizens in Liberia. A murderer recently escaped from thejjail at Somerset, Kentucky, by eloping with the Sheriff’s daughter. An old negro preacher in Chicago on Solomon: “King Solomon had 300 wives and 700 other lady friends." A horse is used in the mail service at Lafayette, that once belonged to General Jackson. Mrs. McMahon, of Stowe, Vermont, who is now 101 years old, was discovered at the tub recently doing her weekly washing. Ex-Congressman Lynch, of Maine, proposes to start an Administration paper in Washington. He is® courageous man. The noble Garfield is pipe-laying Ohio to supplant Stanley Mutthews, whose term expires in 1879. How these Republicans do love each other! The Lake county soldiers have adopted the “blue ribbon” as a distinguishing badge on the occasion of the re-union. Ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, and ex-Speaker Lee, of the House of Representatives, have been committed to jajl. Mayor Heath, of Chicago, showed himself to be a hoary-headed coward during the recent riots in that city. He was afraid to hurt his political supporters. An Irishman has described nothing to be a bootless stocking without any legs. A description by another Emeralder is better. “What is nothing?” was asked. “Shut your eyes and you’ll see it,” said Pat.

If you are stung by a wasp, apply the chewed end of a cigar for a few moments to the wound. Blaine is a fellow of infinite humor, but just now it’s l ad humor, because he “didn’t think,” and: take some Hayes-seed, before “letting out” at Woodstock. Mrs. Tiltou lives with her mother, on Madison street, near Nostrand avenue. She dresses elegantly, paints, has plenty of money, and fs said to be happier than ever before in her life, and more religious, too. John G. Saxe is 61. He derives great comfort from the thought that he descended from Hans Sachs, the old shoemaker of Nuremberg, the ancestor of Marshal Saxe, of whom “George Sand” was a descendant. The most heart-rending of all the troubles and agonies vs lifeis to know that some trusted friend has deceived us—as fir example, Dob Cameron, when he found “Counted-in-Hayes” had left him out of his “cabinet”shop. The New York Tribune indorses the Republican platform of lowa in such phraseology as this; “It is a regular junk-shop for all kinds of absurdities and inconsistencies.” Now point out the miserable eunuch who says there is any want of harmony in the Republican party!—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Our old friends, Jos. Rothrock and wife, of Monticello, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Jas. S, Wigmore, and family. Mr. R. was one of the first settlers of White county, having located there in 1831—forty-six years ago—before the county was organized or Monticello mapped out. The father and a brother of Mr. R. were own ers of a large part of the original plat of that town, which they donated on condition that it should be made and perpetually remain the county seat of White. On Tuesday we noticed scattered around Remington and Rensselaer, in considerable numbers, a little circular on which we at sight recognized the familiar portrait of our neighbor, representing him in the act of bawling lustily for “QUARTER!” We give it. When in Remington, Tuesday, we had the pleasure of meeting our little friends, May and Jessie, daughters of the late Judge Reed, and Cora, daughter of Wm. Imes, all of Monticello, They were visiting Remington friends. Mr. S. T. Royal and wife, of Dayton, Ind., are visiting relatives and friends In Rensselaer.

DITCH NOTICE. WTIEREAS, on the 12th day of May. 1877, TV Elam D. Fairchild. Joseph P. Fairchild and Lana Fairchild, filed in the’’Auditor’s Office of Jasper county, in the State of Indiana, a petition to the Board of Commissioners of the County of Jasper, in the State of Indiana, which petition is .numbered and docketed as cause Ao. 1771 on the Docket ot said Board, prayhig said Board to cause to be constructed, opened up, cleared out, and enlarged a Ditch or Drain in Keener township, said Jasper sount-y, Indiana, as hereinafter described, in accordance with An Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 9th, 1875, (Acts of 1875. nd ” Whe f e, ? s - on the 7t h ’lay of June, 18-7, the same being the fourth day of the regular June session, 1877, of said Board of Commissioners, and said Board being legally and duly in session, they did by an order duly entered of record, appoint Ez a C. Nowles David H. Yeoman, and Maliehi P. Comer, Viewers in said cause, to View said proposed Ditch, anti to perforin certain duties in said order named, and to do and perother necessary acts and services as such Viewers and to file their report with the County Auditor • And. Whereas, said Viewers have made their View of the said prop sed w?ik,- and as er having sworn to and subscribed the same, have filed their report with the undersigned County Auditor of said County of Jasper, Therefore, Notice is hereby given of the pendency and praver of said petition, and the filing of said Viewers Report thereon, and that the time set for the hearing thereof is on Tuesday, the 4th day of September. 1877, the same being the second day of the regular .-September Session, 1877 of said Board of Commissioner , Said proposed Ditch is described as follows, to-wit: Commencing in said old Ditch three hundred and sixty-eight (3681 feet east of the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of section twenty-seven [27), in town thirtytw3(32] north,of range seven!(7) west; thence running north, one fl) degree west twentynine hundred l29oO)feet; thence north thirtyseven [37) degrees west, fifty-seven hundred (s<oo] feet; thence north sixty-nine [69) degrees west, five hundred [~>oo) feet to a point where the proposed work terminates in a branch of the Kankakee Marsh, known by the local name of “Grand Marsh.” The names of the owners of the land that will be affected by said proposed work arc as follows, to-wit: Elam D. Fairchild Joseph P. Fairchild, Horace W; Fairchild, Anthony I. Drexell, bimon P. Thompson, Eli R. Farmer, Willard J. Sheridan, Alfred Thompson, John Buckingham, Ebenezor Buckingham, Kornelius B iwman, Daniel E. Fairchild. Witness my name and official seal, T lt. l <?? s , th day of July. 1877, I PROW HENRY A. BARKLEY, Auditor of Jasper county. Frank W.Babcock. July 27, UTT—At. I Attornerfor Petitioners.

DITCH NOTICE. In Marlon Township. Jasper County, Indi, ana: WAetws, On the 2d day of June, 1877, Henry Fisher, William H. Churchill, Patrick Donnelly Thomas Monnett, E. W. Bull, Mary Ball, W. 8. Coen. J. C. Porter, H. W. } °‘ te Vt«? nd . Jo, ’ n Yoder filed in the Auditor s Office, in Jasper county, Indiana, a petition to the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, usk ing for the construction of a certain Ditch in Manon Township. Jasper county, Indiana s hereinafter described; and on the sth day of June, 1877, the same being the second day of the June Term, 1877, of the Comm ssioners Court of said Jasper county, and said Court being in Regular Session appointed James Yeoman, David Nowels Ind Samuel P. Howard Viewers in this cause, and that they file their report of the result of their vie v with the Auditor of Jasper county, on or before the 25th day of J' l . l ?- J 87 - and on the 19th day of July 1877 said lowers filed their said report with the Auditor of said Jasper county, after having first subscribed and sworn to the same according to law. The following is a description of the eommensement, route and terminus of said Ditch or Drain, and also the names of the owners of lands that will be affected there- □ i,9 o . m, Pi encine a t a Point three hundred and Thirty-three (333) feet east of the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of Section thirteen (13) lownship twenty-nine (29)north Stani tt o^ e Tnj e - Ven west> Jasper county, Indiana; thence by courses and q™oh lC inti d< i Wn stream as follows, to .wit: Sou , t . t ' rl de «rees west 333 feet; thence south 58 degrees east 511 feet; thence south 82 degrees east 189 fee ; thence south •’SI degrees east 52feet; thence south 59 degrees west 215 feet; thence south 15> 2 de- ? G li! eet: t fi°nce south 38 degrees 3S3 S foet nce ?, outh 6 ?’» degrees west teet, tnoncc north 70 degrees west 900 feet; thence north 25 degrees west 344 feet • thence south 54 degrees west 1308 feet; 2 uth82 de^reeß west 7C>B feet; thence south 40 degrees west 344 fdet; thence south 1 degree east 1787 feet; thence south si degrees east ’45 feet; thence south 261 feetsnutheKo£.Ut4 1 70 degrees east34l feet; thence south 50)2 degrees east 1214 feet; where it will terminate at a point one hundred and seventy-one (171)feet north of the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty-four (24) township twenty-nine (29) north of range Be J ea Pl west. Jasper county, Indiana * ♦>» Sa / d ii Dit £ h or Drain will affect the kinds of the following part es and persons, according to said report, to-wit : Thomas Monnet' ry Fisher Sylvester F. Healy, Caroline and William 8. Coen. The Highway of Marion ' /aßpe V county, Indiana, Road Districts No. 7 and 9, Creorge Morris Patrick Donnelly, and William H. Churchill’ at Now, therefore, notice is hereby’given of the pendency and prayer of said petition, and the filing of said report, and that the same will be heard on the 4th day of Sep'Board of Commissioners, at the Court House, in Rensselaer, in said county and State. July 19 1K77 HENRY A. BARKLEY,’Auditor | Jasper county, Indiana. j seal j- D. B. Miller, Att’y t 'VTC . . Tor Applicants, July 20,1877—4 t.

THE NEW SPRING & SUMMER STOCK OF DRY ■ GOODS Just Opened by R. MIG, CONSISTS OF Staple Articles that are in demand and that civilized people must use, whether the times be flush or dull, business is at ebb or flow, or money is plentiiul or scarce. No attempt was made to secure frivolous novelties in the selection of my Stock of Goods FOR THE Spring and Summer trade of 1877 in Jasper county, but an eye was trained to the choosing of articles whose DURABILITY and PRICE would recommend them to a community that is anxious to adapt themselves to the circumstances which now surround everybody in the United States. But this did not prevent the purchase of a stock that will compare favorably in point of beauty with anything to be found in this market, while Hid Mari (uly ari low Pte of the fabrics must necessarily rec-, ommend them in an especial manner to people of judgment, prudence and economizing desires. No special enumeration of the articles comprising this new stock is deemed necessary from the fact that I deal iu all articles usually found in collections of A General Merchandise, in inland towns, but it may be well enough to say that Best Dress Goods, Best Readv-Made Clothing Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Standard Groceries, Etc., are kept in addition to the assortment es dress fabrics and other dry goods. Calls for inspection and purchase respectfully invited. R. FENDIG. Rensselaer, Spring 1876. vlnl.

The Great NEW YORK CIRCUS Is on the Road, and will be in TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1877. It is composed of Twenty-five first class Artistes, distinguished in both Hemispheres tor both Fame and Skill, and w o have been selected regardless of cost in order that we might present to the public the Best Circus Traveling and without a superior in the country. Every novelty in Equestrianism, and all that is new in the Arenic sports. Read ihe list of MALE AND FEM ALE ARTISTS engaged for this Triple Combination. The most wonderful Artists of the times. Leopolds. including the bewitched M’lle Russellie, the Aeriel Queen, who will appear afternoon and evening in their sensational speciality. Ladder of Life. Andy Spear, the happy clown, whose pungent wit and local hits make him a favorite everywhere. TVe have also engaged the world renowned DKMOTT FAMILY, who will appear at each performance. Mr. Chas. Arazona, the champion Light and Heavy Balancer. THE STRONGEST MAN of his heft in the world. .Behold our Leapers and Tumblers, Snear. Fisher, Aerrick, Corvella, Bancroft, Fink. Jerry Nicely. LEIPOLD & BALDWIN, the renowned Gymnasts and L’Eschella, Perch. Horizontal Bar, Flying Rings, and the great Cloud Swing, MR. AND MRS. KILGORE will make a BALLOON ASCENSION every afternoon at 1 o’clock, which is FREE TO ALL. We faithfully perform every act advertised and do our utmost to please, amuse and instruct our friends—the Public. Will exhibit at Francesville. Monday, August 6, 1877. DWIGHT CLAPP, Agent. July 20, 1877 —2t.

Over 200,000 acres of land in Missouri and Arkansas, on the line of the St Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway offered on ten years time at 6 per cent, interest. Also, 100,000 acres of prairie and timber lands in the counties of Lonoke, Prairie and Arkansas, in the State of Arkansas—very fine quality and cheap. Round-trip railroad tickets from Lafayette to Little Rock, via St Louis, good for 60 days, for $32,80, on sale at this office. Texas Land. Soript For sale at the lowest market price. This is a rare chance for persons with a few hundred dollars to get large tracts of tine land that will be a fortune in a few years. 246 Lots la Leopold’s Addition to the Town of Rensselaer, for sale very cheap. These lots are very desirable property, both as an investment or for occupation. Will be sold on liberal terms. Have 320 acres of splendid land in Kansas to exchange for a good farm in Jasper or Benton county, Indiana, and will give some boot. Improved farms and excellent wild lands in this county, for sale cheap and on easy terms. . Will Fay Taxes, Furnish Abstracts of Title to Land, and make Collections. Office in Bedford & Jacksons block, Room No. 3,2 d floor, Rensselaer, Indiana. vln2 THOMAS BOROUGHS. Money to Loan. On five years time at 9 per cent, in sums of SI,OOO to $25,000, secured by mortgage on real estate, and tissual fee and commission. Money furnished promptly. Call on the undersigned. 1 Thomas Boroughs.

WHAT IS DAVID JAMES GOING TO GO? He will keep a store in Rensselaer, Indiana, and will sell Hardware, Tinware and Cabinet Furniture on good terms and for the least profit. Who Sells CHAMPION MOWERS? David James, of Rensselaer, successor to J. H. Wood. Who Sells Studebaker Wagons David James. These Wagons took the Centennial award as the best on exhibition at the Grand World’s Fair at Philadelphia. They are not excelled by any ig the market. 'Who Sells Moline Plows, Cnltiyators, and Gilpin Ridina Plows? David James, who deals in none but the very best Farm Implements and Machinery, which experiment has established in their claims to classification as standard goods. WHO SELLS Seth Thomas Olookts *? David James, the Hardware man, who invites every man, woman and child in the county to bring their dinners and pocket books and visit him when wanting to buy anything from a paper of tacks or a gimlei to a cook’ stove, house door, window sash, set of chairs or breaking plow. A TIN-SHOP Is connected with this house, and the oldest Tin-smith in the county in charge thereof. The manufacture and repairing of Tin and Sheet-Iron ware, &c.. done on shortest notice. mai2.’77

N. WARNER, MANUFACTURER OF Wagons, Carriages BUGGIES, &c., Rensselaer, - Anything from a common Farm Wagon up to the Finest Carriage manufactured to order on short notice and reasonable terms, and at prices to suit the times. All work warranted Shops on Front street. vln2.

New Harness Shop! Having opened a Harness Shop in Rensselaer, I respectfully invite all my and customers to leave their orders with me for anything in this line, and they will receive prompt attention. I employ none but firstclass workmen, and warrant all work turned out at my shop. I keep constantly on hand a large stock of Saddles, Bridles, Halters Curry-Combs Brushes, and everything else usually found in a first-class harness shop. Give me a call. Shop on Front Street, Rensselaer, Indiana. vln2 N. WARNER. N. WARNER, DEALER IN Hardware, OF A.ILIL KINDS RENSSELAER, IND„ Keeps constantly on hand a large stock of Stoves, Tinware, FURNITURE, etc., And respectfully invites the citizens of Jasper and adjoining counties, when wishing anything in his line, to give him a call befote purchasing elsewhere. A careful examination of his stock will convince any one that he keeps none but First-Class Goods, and sells them cheaper than they can be sold by any other dealer in the country. He defies Remember the place. LIBERAL CORNER Jfvln2 Rensselaer. Ind

REMINGTON Marble Works Slieplierd, JjEALER in and Manufacturer of Monuments, Head-St on es, TABLE-TOPS, &c„ from the BEST AMERICAN AND FOREIGN MARBLE. PBICES That cannot be competed with, and Satisfaction Guarantied IN E3VE3R.Y CASE. Do not buy before examining my designs and prices. Remington, Ind. W. SHEPHERD.

SIMPLY WONDERFUL! THE NEW American Sewing Machine.

THE FIRST MACHINE EVER PRODUCED WITHOUT A SINGLE HOLE TO THREAD IN IT.

IHSk - - < ■-

WARRANTED A LIFE TIME IF USED WITH CARE ! A CHILD CAN OPERATE IT. IT HAS NO EQUAL. If you see it and try it, you will be convinced that itrts the best. We can not be beat in prices. CHEAP for CASH I IS OUR MOTTO. Agents wanted everywhere. If you want to handle an easy selling machine get the American. Greatest inducements ever offered: wiite and see. Office and Wareroom— 63 Madison Street, E. S. BURNHAM, Manager. ] Toledo, Ohio. June 22, 1877—Gm For sale by WILLEY & SIGLER, Rensselaer. Ind.

THE OLD LINE DRUG STORE. . .. WMb ik -tatr Would respectfully call the attention of the citizens of Jasper and adjoining counties to his large and complete stock of the following goods, bought low for cash, which enable s him to defy competition : Pure White Lead Painters'Materials, Window Glass Paint Brushes, Pure Linseed Oil, White-wash Brushes, Varnish Brushes, Coach Varnish, Copal Varnish, Damar Varnish, Feather Dusters. Coal Oil, *i’erfumery. Patent Medicines, Chemicals, Drugs, ,Soaps, Hair Oils, Hair Brushes, Face Powders, Dye-Stuffs, Combs, Putty. Bed Lead, Portmonnias, Pocket Byoks, Lamp Wicks, Lamps, Paper, &c., &c. Books, School Books Stationery. All goods guaranteed strictly pure. Prescriptions carefully compounded. EVeryb. dy / invited to call. Rensselaer’lnd. vln« W. J. IMES. FRJVK COTTON. ZDHLA. ER 11ST awKsasj saiNOßssr, Lath, Sash, Doors, Blinds, &c., Rensselaer and Francesville, Ind. Orders left at the store of Bedford & Clark, Rensselaer, Ind., will receive prompt attention. Square Dealing A Low Prices Guaranteed. J. W. DWALISS And Daily Hack Line. United States mail hacks run daily except Sundays, between Rensselaer and Francesville, and Rensselaer and Remington, making connections with trains on the Railways passing those points, and conveying passengers, expressage and freight each way. Goods or money shipped by Express to any part of the United States. Livery Teams, with or without Drivers furnished upon application. Stock boarded by the day or week. Office and Sale Stables on Front street, above/Washirgton, Rensselaer. Ind. . vlnl We Buy Them to Sell. D. W. PECK, Family Groceries CORNER RAILROADJ& INDIANA STREETS, REMINGTON, IND. Keeps constantly on hand a full line of Groceries of all Kinds. WOODEN and WILLOW WARE, GLASS WARE, BOOTS & SHOES, GLOA Eb & HOSIERY. Also a full line of Fancy Articles and Notions. loir will Imd the best stock of fresh new goods, always on hand, at prices that defy competition. We will not be undersold, in anything in cur line. We keep the best brands of Flour and Salt, constantly on hand, m quantities to suit purchaser. We take in exchange all kinds of Country Produce, and will give you the best price the market will afford. We deliver all goods free of charge inside the city limits. Come and examine our stock and be smvinced tha we give you more goods for your, money, than any other house in town. v2u27tf - !>• W- TEC K-

To Wool-Growers’ Owing to the great efforts that have be/ made by the merchants of this vicinity to d vert the wool trade from its propci ehanne the Woolen Mills, I have been compelled t » put in a full and coirplete assortment of DRY-GOODS, which, in connection with a large stock of my own manufacture, 1 offer to the wool trade M Pte te Defy Knowing, as you most certainly do. that it is to the farmers' interest to encourage home manufactures arid build up a homo market for all these prod.utions, I tru. t you will give me. a manufacturer. the first call when in the market with,your Woo*. Mi U U no Y running on full time, with William 8. Hogeland as foreman and Alex ander Douglass as assistant, both so well knownjhat it is unnecessary to say anything as to their ability to give satisfaction to the custom trade. For the convenience of ms custon ers I have removed my stock to Reynolds’Block, corner room, where you can get the highest price in cash or trade for your wool. Henry Snyder. Monticello, Ind., May 29, 1877—3 m.

CAN BE RUN BACKWARDS OR FORWARDS, NEVER BREAKS THREAD OR NEEDLE.