Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1878 — Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

Correspondence.

Idaville, in White county,/six jniles east of the county seat, on the P., C. & St. L. R. R., is a thriving village of about 500 inhabitants. It is surrounded by a good country and consequently a large amount of business is transacted. It has four churches and a commodious school house with three departments. All branches of business demanded in a country town are carried on, and hard as times have been, no failures have yet occurred. The passage of the silver bill has produced no marked effect as yet among our people; nor has the National party effected an organization here yet. At the township election the democrats elected the trustee and justice by over fifty majority, while the republicans carried the assessor by sixteen majority. D. McConahay (Buckwheat Dave) was elected trustee. The wheat crop in this part of the country never looked better than now, and it gives promise of an abundant harvest. Farmers have commenced plowing, though the ground is yet wet and cold. Mikros. Congressman Kelly, of Pa., in a recent »peech in Congress upon resumption of specie payment, said: '‘Coming down to the question of specie resumption, he said that with sixty-five millions of gold in the treasury, with none in the hands of the people, and with seven hundred million to be redeemed, the proposition was a measure of iusanity. It was a propositionthe enforcement of which was driving the people to pauperism, to lunacy and to suicide, and was creating a moneyed oligirchy, whose wealth compared with that of the body of the people would be greater than that of the moneyed oligarchy of England. “The silver bill was an act of justi ee not of relief Its good influence cannot be telt appreciably until restored confidence will justify an enlarg - ment of the circulation of moneyan e d credit. Bonds have not fallen nor gold risen since its passage over the President’s impotent veto. Its enemies have been confounded by experience, and so, too, will its friends be if the resumption act be permitted o disgrace our statute books.” The new United States Senator from Indiana, Daniel W. Voorhees, is considered one of the foremost criminal lawers of the Northwest, and a very attractive popular speaker. He is six feet one inch tall, and weighs about 200 pounds. He is called the ‘Tall Sycamore of the Wabash;’ has a large head, large face, large shoulders, and a large heart. He wears a mouth-muzzling style of beard, like the late Charles Dickens. His head is well thatched with a heavy coat.of dark red hair; eyes, hair and beard seem to be all of the same hue. He usually has a sombre, thoughtful look, and as he sits in the Senate, or whereever he is seen, at once attracts attention.—Harper’s Weekly.