Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1877 — Communicated. [ARTICLE]

Communicated.

Editor Sentinel : On last Saturday morning I started with Chief Engineer Ferris to take a look at the line of tha I. D. & C. RR. from Rensselaer to Dyer. We went with a team overland via the Newton county bridge across the Kunkakee. The line is graded perhaps one-fourth to one-fifth of the way from Rensselaer to the river, and cleared all the way. The grade across the marsh on the north side of the raven in about one-half done, and almost completed from there to Dyer. There is about three miles of work from the river to Dyer to complete yet. The people of Lowell arc wideawake and very anxious for the early completion of the road. They may well be enthusiastic for the advantages which they will realize will reach huge proportions. Lowell will then be able to control the hay market of more than 125,000 acres of marsh land. She has a splendid water-power; a beautiful pleasure resort, “Cedar Lake.; I*' 1 *' a magnificent surrounding jarming countity, and high bluffs along the track of the proposed RR. which may be utilized with handsome results by building elevators along the sides thereof, enablingfgrajn huu’» tW to drive from the top of the bluffs Udo the third story with perfect ease, thus dispensing with the use of steam and machinery altogether for elevating p*HfpOߣB, The timber in the neighborhood of the line will furnish nil the ties need-

hutting of bridges will be very light compared with the cost on , many roads. j • 7~ Gov. Hampton has sent for carpetj bagger John J. Patterson, by the | grave of the Radical members of the ’ Senate, United States Senator from ■ South Carolina. The vaßant Jbhn < pleads exemption from artest on the ground that he is not a resident of . (South Carolina. The men who “fid--1 died while Rome was burt ing” are assuredly being brought to judgment. j Editok Sentinel: I notice that Horace E. James in his last paper still continues to try to j tear afresh that gaping wound. Let the boy go -give him all the rope he ; wants, and if lie will, let him hang ’ himself. To thu officers of the Agrii cultural Society,, and to the citizens of Jasper county, all supporters of said Association, I desire to £ay once i more that I hawe kept the hooks for ; the society for the year 1877, that 1 those books are in my office and open to inspection by any man, woman or i child, or any other interested party. IRA W. YEOMAN, Secretary Jasper County A. & M. A. Well, Ira, did you ever read the life and doings of Paul Pry? It became necessary to his life and health to indulge his contemptible and uugenteel disposition of prying into everybody’s business. And so witn Bro. James should he be denied the privilege of indulging in his fault-finding propensities. he might hire out to feed Halloran’s eagle and thus disgrace himself. Let him, we say, indulge his inclinations; it will harm no one. and at the same time will be highly gratifying to himself. Jimmy Meehan Is in Lafayette purchasing a stock of new goods The Union “blows”’ over its neighborly act of loaning us near a column of ready-set matter in return for the two columns we loaned it. Rather brassv, ain’t it ? Tommy McCoy was very severely kicked on the head by a horse, yesterday morning. Hc’was unconscious for a time, and we learn to-day suffers more from pain than on yesterday. Dr. D. H. Patton, of Remington, was in Rensselaer last Sunday on a professional visit to Dr. Loughridge. The health of Dr. L., we believe, is improving. Mrs. Jos. D. Cowdin, of this place, accompanied her daughter, Mrs,. Roach, to her home in Carroll county, this morning. She will bo absent a few weeks visiting friends in Carroll and White. Our neighbor, it seems, was first possessor of Halloran’s ‘eagle,’ which he used to attract a crowd in the rear of his office, affording him a fine opportunity to sing his original and justly celebrated song—“ Only a Quar-ter--Try It for Three Months.” We are highly giutUleU co uuclve that a former resident of Jasper county, John Chilcote, brother of Capt. M. F. Chilcote, of this place, received the unanimous nomination for Clerk of Wilson county, Kansas, at a recent Democratic Convention, with a good prospect of election. From our exchanges we learn that :he hog cholera is prevailing to an alarming extent in many parts of the State. A farmer in Randolph county recommends turpentine, in the proportion of a tablespoonful to each bucket of slop, as a cure for hog cholera. Eld. H. B. Miller officiated at the funeral services of Emma, daughter ©f Milton Weaver, of West Point township, White county, Ind. The child was aged about 12 years, and was interred in the Brookston Cemetery Monday last. Blder M. reports diptheriu is making sad havoc among the little ones in p®rt» of White county. Charles O’Donoho and Geneva May Carson, of West Point Township, White county, Ind., were united in the bonds of matrimony, in the township and;eounty aforesaid, on Sunday last, by Eld. H. B. Miller, of this place.