Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1877 — A Copyright Claim. [ARTICLE]

A Copyright Claim.

The following legal opinion was filed in regard to a matter of some importance to County Auditors: Auditor’s Office, Sept. 1. To Jacob NichoL-. Auditor Pulaski county, Winainac, Ind. Dear Sin—Your communication j asking my advice in reference, to your County Commissioners allowing a claim filed by Ezra M. Stahl & Co., through their Attorneys, Messrs. Smith & Kellogg, for royalty for the use of the “Combined Tax Duplicate i and Delinquent Record,” for wlitcii they claim to ha e a copyright, is received and duly considered, I would advise your Commissioners, and the Commissioners of all the. counties in tli.- State, to make no allowances, or any parts thereof, to the parties set. ting up the claim of royalty for the 1 copyright. You are using the form lot the duplicate in compliance with ! an act of the legislature, and in eo ij fortuity with the forms furnished from ; fills olliec. If these gentlemen have ! any legal right being Infringed upon, j a te-st ease through the higher courts I will determine the matter. Make no I compromise by paying any part of | the claim presented you. Respectfully, E Henderson, Auditor oj State.

There is a young lady in Omaha | named Hittie Maginu. There are now no less than 2,365 j varieties of Am-Tican apples. j . A young lady of Athens, Georgia, I is fifteen years old ami a widow. The wheat crop in Texas this year ; will amount in value to utieast $12.I 000,030. An Arkansas editor says that when ! he was in prison for libeling a justice ! of tile peace, lie was requested by the i jailor “to give the prison a puff.” ; Tlie wife of ex-Goveruor Catlin, of ; Connecticut, is a fine swimmer at the ‘ mature agy? of seventy, and takes’her i plunge iii the waves every morning during the bathing season. There are twenty- wo species of oak's iu tiie (State or North Carolina, eight species of pine’ nine of- spruce, live of elm, five of birch, eight of hickory, and seven of magnolia.

Army officers omit their initials in signing a telegram, in compliance with an order of the war department, which was framed months ago in the interest of economy. Ihe engineers of Marseilles have, it is said, discovered that since the opening of the Suez canal the level of the Mediterranean lias sunk some eight centimetres, or say 31 inches. It is estimated that there are 2,400 disorders to which the human frame is lial le. When a man is laid up with the rheumatism he is apt to think that, the entire number has struck him in concert. The following order from General Israel Putnam has recently been discovered among the archives in the Pennsylvania State capitol. It is written on a scrap of paper, evidently the fly leaf of a blank book, and is penned in a legible, bold, round hand, and reads us follows: “You are to send 1,000 rations to the barroks for the yous of the hashons. Israel PutTo Mr. franks. December 30, 1 1 76.

M c take pleasure in informing our patrbns that we are now prepared to meet the wants of our trade with as large and well assorted a stoex ’of Goods as was ever opened out in this market, and we trust you will examine emr goods and prices before buy'lll’- WILI.V.Y & SIteLKK.