Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1878 — Page 2

Bm*rtaKr sraiiiwL FRIDAY. APRIL 19,1878.

Democratic State TickEt.

SECRETARY OF HATI, JOHN G- BMAFKLIM, of Vanderbarg. Aunrroa or state, MAHLON D MANSON, of Montgomery. treasurer or state, WILLIAM FLEMING, of Allen. ATTORNEY GENERAL, THOMAS W. WOOLEN,of Johnsos. •vnaniTßwnßWT or public instbcction, JAMBS H SMART, of Allen.

INDEPENDENT CREENBCK MASS CONVENTION!

A mass convention of the Independent Greenback voters of Jasper county will be held at the Court House in Rensselaer, Indiana, on Saturday. April 20th, 1878, at 10 o’clock P. M. Ist. To select delegates to the Independent Greenback State Convention. 2nd. To select delegates to the Independent Greenback Congressinal Convention, for the Tenth District. 3rd. To select delegates to the Independent Greenback Senatorial Convention, for the Twenty-fourth District 4th. To select delegates to the Independent Greenback Representative Convention, for the Forty-fifth District sth. To fix the time and place for holding an Independent Greenback county Convention to nominate a county ticket. 6th. To organize an Independent Greenback County Central Committee, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the convention. All voters who are opposed to the financial policy of the democratic and republican parties, as defined in their national Dlatform, and who are in favor of the principles enunciated in the platform of the National Green back party, are cordially invited to be present.

O. B. Mclntire, Parley Finney, Jed. D. Hopkins, Hope B. Miller, Elliot R. Burr, Arthur Clinton, , Wm. McGlynn, B W. Harrington, Abe. Sparling, B. F. Shields, H. Z. Leonard, Jacob Owens, Lorenzo Tinkham, Jessie Wilcox, William Beck, and others.

Tros. Borkoughs, Sampson Erwin, Wm. C. Pierce, Sam’l W. Ritchey, Hunky Welsh, James Peffley, David V. Garrison, John M. Helmick, John H. Shields, Joseph Bray, Chas. P. Hopkins, Sam’l M. Black, William Major, Charles H. Price, George H. Brown,

One hundred and twenty thousand mill operatives in England are on a strike. “Elizabeth”, it seems, has confessed, and Beecher is again on the “ragged edge”! Judge Jero Black has sued ex-Sec-retary of War Belknap, for services in his impeachment trial. The radicals in the Senate are endeavoring to defeat the proposition to place the gallant old hero of two wars, Gen. Shields, on the retired list. Resumptionists seemingly chuckle ever the small margin between gold and the greenback. Even if not a /rick of the Shylocks to head off the opposition to the resumption act, it does not furnish employment to the idle or help to the distressed. The apparently small difference between gold and the greenback may flee away when resumption is a fixed reality knocking at the door. “Resumption,” Hon. Jno. C. New, late radical United States Treasurer, says, “means the payment of every matured obligation, on demand, in eotto.” When the demand is once being made, then it will be curious to note the sudden rise in gold. An and to contraction —more money —and consequently revival of business, increase of labor and the means to pay for it, is what the masses want. The following, from the Indianapolis Sentinel, is to the poin : “Gold and Greenbacks.—There is an immense amount of chuckling in certain circles, over the fact that greenbacks are nearly, and for all practical purposes, on a par with gold. In fact we hear much talk of resumption even before the Ist day of January, 1879, and the impression is sought to be made that a business millenium is about to dawn upon the country. But it will occur to reflecting and observing men that the decline of gold, or the advance of greenbacks, so that one is eoual to the other, however desirable such a state of things may be in the estimation of some people, has not been regarded as the one thing needful to revive business. In fact it has at no time been difficult to bring greenbacks to par with gold, and that, coo, at a time when such a proceeding would have been of incalculable bene fit to the country! But no; such legislation would not have been popular with Shylocks. What they demanded was contraction of the currency, shrinkage of values, widespread deso lation, bankrupts, poverty and idleness, and, finally, when tliqse cruel curses have wrought out their misfd«n. we see those who have been instrumental in forcing them upon the country endeavoring to make It apear that the mere fact that greenbacks are nearly at par with gold atones for all wretchedness tint has resulted from the policy that has brought about the equilibrium. The millions of unwilling idlers in America will read the glowing periods of those who record the fact that gold is only and. that banks have commenced paying out gold, and ask themselves if all this means work and wages, bread and clothing, or if, wi h such eulogies upon John Sherman’s policy, th*y must still remain idle and starve. Just now, while gold is down and greenbacks arc up. failures multiply. We hear of no advance in values-, indust-

ries stand still, and the army of idlers increases. Banks are husbanding their resources, and are more than ever cautious about their lines of credits. The fact is that the process of contraction has gone forward until the United States, with all of her vast enterprises to carry forward, has vastly less money per capita than any other commercial nation in the world, and the announcement that greenbacks and gold are on a level does not solve the business problem. Beyond this sagacious business men will ask themselves and each other if resump* tion has taken place in any proper sense, or is likely to take place in the near future. It will be noticed in this discussion that those who are the most blatant in favor of John Sherman’s policy declare that resumption does not mean resumption at all, that the people will not demand the redemption of greenbacks and national bank bills in gold, and thus the entire superstructure of resumption rests not upon the ability of the government and the national banks to pay, but upon the hypothesis that nobody will ask for specie. If the people take John Sherman at his word, his resumption scheme will not stand a week; for with all his plans for accumulating specie he can not have more than two hundred millions with which to redeem six hundred and fifty millions, and in the event of failure, which is certain to follow the experiment, new complications and disasters will be forced upon the country. The whole scheme is in the Interest of Shylocks, and is pursued by a man and a party that have afflicted the country with mor? curses than ever fell to the lot of any other people under heaven.

For the information of our readers we publish the following with regard to the holding of the corporation election. By reference to the law, which we also publish, it will be seen that the notice designating the change in voting precincts is required to be published four weeks and in the paper having the largest circulation. Why the clerk of the board of trustees, Mr. Reeve, has not shown a disposition to comply with the law in these two respects he can probably explain for himself. < Corporation Election—The Law. Ssc. 8. Tn city and town elections each ward shall constitute a precinct: Provided, That the Common Council of any city, or the Trustees of auy town, may make such changes in places of holding ejections, or divisions in precincts, in tlie'r respective cities and towns, hh public convenience and the public good may require: Provided, That no >-nch changes or divisions shall be made without giving dne notice, at least one month before any election, either by publication in the newspaper having the largest circulation in the county in which such citv or town is situate’. or by posters put up in fourof the most public places In such precinct. Such Council or Trustee shall appoint three qualified voters in each precinct, one to act as Inspector and two as Judges of elections, who shall have been freeholders ahd resident householders in such precinct forat least one year next preceding any election at which they may officiate, such Inspectors and Judges to be appointed according to such regulations as are hereinafter specified. Such Inspector and Judges, when so appointed, shall constitute a Board of Election, which Board of Elections shall have all the powers and shall perfom nil the dntlesof Boards of elections, as hereinbefore specified. Sec. ft. Any person who shall vote, or offer to vote in any precinct except the one In which he may reside, and any person who shall vote, or offer to vote, without being entitled to vote under the provisions of this act. shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall be punished for each and everv offense by imprisonment in the State's Prison ibrnot less than one year. [ORDINANCE NO. 48.] An Ordinance providing for. and designated Voting Plates in, each Ward of the Town of Henseelaer, Indiana. Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Trustees of the town of Rensselaer, in Jasper county, Indiana. In Council assembled, that Ward No. 1 in said town shidl hold its election in the Court House, situated in said Ward; that Ward No. 2 shall hold its election in a small building situated on lot 5. in block ft, fronting on Washington street, in said Ward: No. 3 shall hold its election in a building known as Michael Eger’s shop, situated on lot 5, in block 4. in said Ward: that Ward No. 4 shall hold its lection in a building known as the Christian Church, situated on block 15, in Newton’s addition to the town of Rensselaer, in said Ward; that Ward No. 5 shall hold its election in a building situated on a three cornered fractional strip of land, known as the Milroy proper ty, in said Ward. Approved April Ist, 1878. F. J. SEARS, President. Attest: N. W. Reeve, Town Clerk. ELECTION NOTICE. —Notice is hereby given that an election will be held on the first Monday in May. 1878. in the Town of Rensselaer. Jasper county, Indiana, in each of the different wards of said town, in pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March lllh, 1877, and for the purpose of electing five (5) Trustees (one for each ward), one (1) Treasurer, one (1) Clerk and one (1) Assessor for said town. The election will be held in the following named places, to-wit: For Ward No. 1 in the Court House; Ward No. 2 in a small building situated on lot 5, in block ft. fronting Washington street in said ward; Ward No. 3, in a building known as Michael Eger’s shop, situated on lot 5 in block 4 in said ward; Ward 4, in a building known as the Christian Church, situated on block 15 in Newton addition to the town of Rensselaer. In said ward; Ward No. 5, in a building situated ou a three-cornered fractional strip of land known as the Milroy property, in said ward April 11th, 1878. F fl. W. REEVE, Town Clerk. Col. Healy’s organ, the Goodland Register, pokes out a feeler suggesting the nomination by the democracy of Charles Jouvenat of the Remington Times as a candidate for representative in the General Assembly of Indiana, He would certainly be a vast improvement over anything that the democracy of the district has supported for the position in the last twenty years. For this reason they ought not only to pardon the impertinence of those Goodland gentlemen for the intimation that they are not capable of looking after -their own affairs without the guardianship of neighboring districts, but should make their gratitude lively by nominating Col. Healey for prosecutor for the 30th circuit. The only objection the democracy could have to him is that he was a gallant and faithful soldier in the Union army; and that elass of men is decidedly unpopular in their party.— Rensselaer Union. It would give us great pleasure to support “Charley” for the position named. He would make an intelligent, creditable, and we believe honest representative. Ai to Col. Haley’s desires and motives wo are not posted. But the Union should be the last to insinuate and impugn the motives of anyone. Is the Lnion paving the way for a “flop” over to the Nationals, or is it merely preparing a little ambuscade to gobble them up? It denounces them as a pack of fools in nonpareil, on one page, and very amiably pats them on the back in primer on another.— Remington Times. No, Charley, the Union cannot “flop;” Panama is not totally lost sight of yet. The Union has of late become a political “what is it;”a kind of hardo-mono-republico-independento Hayso -bloodo-shirto-squirto-guno, which aims at nothing and sh >ots nowhere. Whenever the Union departs from its time honored and pre-eminent position of “weather cock,” it snarls and tangles itself all up, and loses its head. lu other words, the Union is nothing if not a weather cock. —Remi ing ton Times. We never expected to see Charley I Price turn out as driver for a livery stable, but last Sunday the fact was established beyond dispute. He ap ■ plied for the situation, too.—Remington Times.

■gSpell murder backwards and you have its cause. Spell redrum backwards and you have its results. The Morocco Courier, after a short suspension, has been revived under a new management—Hu mston A Graham proprietors, Ed. H. Graham, editor. One of Bro. James* “bankrupts” asks space for the following: Horace, read acts 20-30 and take heed! “Remember the old adage: ‘People in glass houses ought not to throw stones.’**

We are in receipt o* the first number of the National, a neat six column paper just established at Monticello, Indiana. It is published in the interest of the “Nationals,” by J. O. Smith, an old employe of ours, and we wish it success. The rank and file of the “Nationals” of White county will do well to keep a hand themselves on the reins, as we recognize among those now most zealous in the movement some who have been chronic officeseekers and “sore heads” for 10, these many years. “Clay” has been a “greenbacker” for several years, and in launching his craft into the stream starts out in his natural element.

Valparaiso Messenger: Gen. Grant, whom some Republicans want to nominate for President in 1880, writes from Smyrna, under date of February 22, to his friend, Judge John F. Long, of St. Louis: “If I was where I was one year ago, and for the previous seven years, I would put a most determined veto upon the repudiation bill—called Silver Bill—if it should receive the vote of Congress. I fear it has passed, but hope, if so, all business men in the co intry will work to defeat its operation by refusing to make contracts except to oe paid gin gold coin.” Gen. Grant would find a solid west against him on such a platform. Mark that. *

The Narrow Gauge.

President Lee, of the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago Railroad, was in the city on Sunday, and reports progress on the survey. The engineers have completed their task on ths line between Bradford and Monticello, and have started over the route between the latter point and this city. Mr. Lee is now in Chicago completing the contracts for the building of the bridge at Pittsburg and Monticello, and arranging for the extension of the line from Dyer to Chicago. The first of July is approaching, and the management will need io push things to finish the line to this city by that date.— Delphi Times.

Although the audience of last Saturday evening made no great demonstration, yet the entertainment given by the Rensselaer dramatic troupe, for the bentfit of our cemetery, was thoroughly appreciated, and intensely enjoyed by our citizens. The play was a good one and well performed. Where all the actors played so well it is hard to discriminate; but we cannot forbear making special mention of Mr. John Boroughs as Michael Erie, and Miss Fix Thompson as Mary Woodward. Their acting came as near perfection as the surroundings and conveniences of the stage would admit. To the troupe Remington owes a debt of gratituie, which should opportunity ever offer, we hope, and are confident, will be cheerfully paid. If they will come again on their own account, they will receive good patronage.— Remington Times.

A Fresh Trial Demanded.

[New York Sun.] Some of our contemporaries seem to suppose that Anderson, of New Orleans, cannot be tried again for publishing as true and using in the official compilation and canvas* of the votes of Louisiana, the forged consolidated statement of the parish of Vernon. This is not so. On appeal to the superior court, his trial was held to be a nullity, because it was not charged in the indictment that the acts of Anderson were done in an official capacity. Now such a mistrial as this was held to be is, in the contemplation of the constitution, no trial. It is no bar to a fresh trial. The law on this subject is stated by two high authorities as follows: “If the indictment was eo far defective that no valid judgment could be rendered upon it ♦ * the accused may again be put upon trial upon the same facta before charged against him, and the proceedings had will constitute no protection.”— Coolby, kC constitutional limitations,” 887. “Where a judgment has been arrested or reversed for any defect in the indictment, a new one may be referred correcting the error, and the former cannot be pleaded in bar.”—“Whahton on criminal law." I. sec. 551. Anderson is liable also for a conspiracy to make a false count of the votes, which in itself is a criminal offense by the laws of Louisiana. By all means let Anderson be tried for one or both us these offenses. In the single matter of the Vernon parish forgery he is now liable to two indictment. The Indictments he would be liable to for other frauds in respect to the votes of other precincts and parishes are countless. Then there is J. Madison Wells, presidentof the returning board. Littlefield, the clerk who committed the Vernon forgery, swore before Mr. Morrison’s committee, and also before Mr. David Dudley Field’s committee, that he made the alteration by the express order of Wells. This testimony, corroborated by the admissions of Anderson and Wells before the same committee, and by many facts established by independent testimony, shows that Wells was the real forger. We may expect justice to be baffled for a while when the whole power and influence of the federal government are exercised for that object, but truth will at length prevail. Attorney General Ogden has shewn vigor and ability, and if h 3 persists in the same spirit he must at last completely succeed in vindicating the rights of the people of Louisiana. Two women, after attending ap 1 ayer meeting in Portland, Maine, a few nights ago, went to the home of one of them to talk over religious matters. The question of baptism came up during the conversation, and in the heat of discussion one of the Women hit the other in the head with a hatchet, crushing In the skull and cutting the forehead open. The meeting then adjourned. Two ladies were elected Supervisors at a recent election in Fulton county. The office of Justice of the Peace in Indianapolis is rated at from $2,500 to $4,500 per year. About the first of April, the editors of the Peru. Ind., papers received new potatoes, raised and presented to them by Daniel Hahn, of Miami county.

Froooediaau at CMMBfaa*MMM* Court. The Board convened ia spacial OMaiesoß theMh April, for the purpose of settling with Township Trustees, approving Assessors' boada, and to transact other he tin Me which Might prvporiy come before it. On petition of J. F. Irwin et al for a bridge over Carpenter Creek, Hon. W. B. Price was appointed agent of the Board to investigate the public Besessity thereof, asd report at next term. The following assessments on personal property for 1877 being found erroneous the taxes thereon were ordered released: Nelson Everson, ou a dog for 1877; Eb. W. Morris, on SSO for 1877; James N. Yeoman, on $l6B for 1877; Ralph Fendig. on s2ood for 1877. Parley Finney was allowed eight dollars monthly for the support of his invalid daughter Ella PFinney who has been adjudged insane. The Auditor was ordered to advertise in both the Rensselaer papers for bids for materials for and construction of a building on the county poor fanr t plans and specifications for which are on file in the Aaditvo's office— the bids to be opened on the sth day of June, 1878, and work to be completed by the 3d day of September, 1878. On the petition of Alfred Thompson et al for a bridge over the Pinkamink Creek, Addison Parkicon who was appointed agent of the Board to examine into,the necessity thereof, reports the co. - straction of the bridge a public necessity, and the Board find that a con tract should be entered into at once for its construction. Thereupon a contract was entered into with J. P. Dunlap to furnish the material, build the bridge and make the necessary grades on both sides of the bridge and complete the same by the 20th day of September, 1878, for the sum of $475 00, said bridge is to be constructed on the line between Barkley and Marion townships on the open line north and south of sec. 23, town 28, range 6, and in accordance with plan and specifications on file in Auditor's office. An agreement wm entered into between Peter Hordemen and the Board of Commissioners for keeping in repair the division fence on the line between his farm and the county poor farm, the county agreeing to attend to the north half and Mr. Hordeman to the south half of Mid fence. Wm. K. Parkison was appointed agent to super, intend the construction of the bridge and grade contracted for with J. P. Dunlap. A contract wm entered into with Oliver P. Robinson to furnish the msterisland build ssidewslk six feet wide in front of the Public Square for 88 cents a lineal foot, and a walk from the Court House to front fence eight feet wide, for 48 cents a lineal foot—said walks to be completed by the 10th day of May, 1878. Hon. Jno. Vant-Woud wm appointed agent to superintend the building of side walks and to have safe poets placed under the bridge at Rensselaer, and was authorized to enter into acontract with Thomas Antrim, M. D., of Keener township, for medical services be rendered and medicines to be furnished to the poor of Keener and Wheatfield townships for a sum not to exceed a limited am't per annum. Insurance was taken in the Home Insurance Co., of New York City, on the house and barn at poor for one year, with agent D. B. Miller—s3oo on house, at 8 per cent, and S3OO on barn at 1 per cent. The Board approved the bonds of all the Town" ship Assessors on the 12th, the day set for that purpose.' R. 8. Dwiggins, the county attorney, gave his written opinion that the Board had full authority to do any act at a special session regularly called that they might lawfully do at a regular session.— That they are authorized also to draw a warrant on the Treasurer of the County in favor of the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago Railroad Company in the sum of two thousand dollars upon the oral statement to them by the County Treasurer that he has collected that amount of the tax levied to aid in the construction of said Railroad. The Board thereupon ordered that a warrant be drawn on the County Treasurer by the Auditor in favorof said Railroad Company for the sum of S2OOO, and the Auditor authorized to deliver the order to R. 8. Dwiggins, the attorney for said road, upon his asceiptingfor it. On Saturday, April 13,1878, court adjourned until court in course unless sooner convened by the Auditor.

Allowances Mode by the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana, at the Special Session. April, 1878.

RELIEF OF POOH. R. Depeller, M. D., for attending N. Guss, S4O 00 8. N. Caldwell, M. D., -‘ Delaney A Rogers, 13 00 Louis Kern, goods for Delaney, 1 65 E. T. Harding, medical aid to Jno. Thornton, 3 00 E. T. Harding, charges ordering removals, 2 50 Wash. Scott, for removing Weob family, 7 80 Jesse Osborn, relief of poor of Walker twp, 18 35 do do do do do do 365 Lewie Davisson, do do Barkley do 100 D. 8. Makeever, keeping child Van Camp, 2 60 J. O. B. McDougle, relief of Sam Eckels, 7 35 W. J. Wright, coffin for E. Zull child, 4 00 $lO4 90 ELECTION ACCOUNT. George M. Robinson, Sheriff, $57 40 Wm. E. Moore, returning, 2 00 Geo. Guild, ** 4 00 Geo. W. Watson, “ 4 00 .Jesse Wilcox, “ 400 F. M. Parker, » 2 00 J. V. Dutton, “ 2 00 Jared Benjamin “ 2 00 A. A. Tyler, “ 4 00 John Mannan, “ 4 00 Martin Green, “ 2 00 SB7 40 PRISONER ACCOUNT. George M. Robinson, Sheriff, $95 40 ROAD ACCOUNT. George M. Robinson, Sheriff, S2O 10 DITCH ACCOUNT. George M. Robinson, Sheriff, sl2 90 D. H. Yeoman, viewer, 6 00 E. C. Nowels, do 6 00 M. P. Comer, do 6 OO S3O 90 BRIDGES. Wm. B. Price, Agent, viewing A contracting, $8 00 POOH FARM. Peter Hordeman, division fence, sl7 50 D. B. Miller, Agent Home Insurance Co., sl4 00 F. L. Cotton, coal and lumber, 5 85 $37 35 FUEL. F. L. Cotton, coal for Court House, $5 73 George M. Robinson, Sheriff, 1 00 $6 73 ADVERTISING. James W. McEwen, S6O 15 Horace K. James, 17 15 , $77 15 COMMISSIONERS COURT. George M. Robinson, Sheriff, $ 1 50 do do do do 12 00 John Vant-Woud, Commissioner, 24 00 Wm. B. Price, do 24 00 W. K. Parkison do 24 00 SBS 50 INDI AN APOLT®. DELPHI A CHICAGO RR. CO. On taxes collected, CO Total amount of allowances, $2553 33. State of Indiana, Jasper County, ss: I, Henry A. Barkley, Auditor in and for said county, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true statement of allowances made by the Board of County Commissioners at their special April Session, 1878. < —> Witness my hand and official seal at ■J bdal. > Rensselaer, this 16th day of April, a. I —> d., 1878. HENRY A. BARKLEY. Auditor.

Full Text of the Bill Repealing the Resumption Aet.

Washington, April 17.—The following is a full text of the resumption bill agreed upon by the senate finance committee to-day and reported to the senate with a favorable recommendation: An act to amend an act to provide for the resumption of specie payments and for other purposes. That from and after the passage of this act. United States notes shall be receivable in payment for United States bonds now authorized by law to be issued, and on and sfter October 1, 1878, said bonds shall be receivable for duties on imports, and said notes in volume in existence October 1, 1878, shall not be canceled or permanently hoarded, but shall be reissued, and they may be used for funding and all other lawful purposes whatsoever to an amount not exceeding in the whole the amount then in circulation and in the treasury, and the said notes then in the treasury or thereafter received under any act of congress, and from whatever source, shall be again paid ont, and when again returned to the treasury they shall not be canceled or destroyed, but shall be issued from time to time With like qualities, and all that part of the act of January 18, 1875, entitled “An act to provide for the resumption of specie payments,” authorizing the retirement of 80 per cent, of United States notes shall cease and become inoperative on and after the said October 1,1878. Sec. 2. All laws and parts of laws

inconsistent with this act shall be and are hereby repealed. The bill was reported to the senate as a substitute for the house bill to repeal the specie resumption act, and was ordered printed and placed on the calendar. Mrs. Lockwood, the female lawyer of Washington city, wears as her only bit of jewelry a gold thimble mounted as a breast-pin. Ledger Standard: By the death of Mrs. Martha Marsh, Mr. Daniel seabrok, her brother, is the only surviving resident of New Albany who was present at the first public sale of lots, from the original plat, as laid off by the Scribner in 1813. Crawfordsville Starr: James Hut chinson killed tow owls the other day and on cutting down the snag in which they lodged he found three headless rabbits and 19 Norway rats served in the same manner. After this Hutchinson vows he will cease warring on the blinkers. He thinks they far surpass the best terriers as rodent destroyers. Ledger Standard: Poteet Bryant, a citizen of this county, has a history whiJh is briefly given as follows: He is 69 years of age, has been married six times, is the father of 28 children, the youngest being three months old. He has voted the unscratched democratic ticket ever since he attained his majority, and is as good a man as most people of 40. He expects to vote many more times the same old way, don’t care if he is blessed with 28 more children, and, if necessary, will keep on marrying if his wives don’t outlive him.

An Acceptable Resumption.

[New York Sun.] There is one kind of resumption whivh Mr. Sherman and his chief, Mr. Hayes, would do well to practice without a moment’s delay, and without consuming with anybody; ’’.nd that is the resumption of private station. Mr. Hayes is not lawfully president; Mr. Sherman is not lawfully secretary of the treasury; let them at once resume the stations which respectively belong to them.

Going to Retain Their Peace of Mind.

[Philadelphia Times..] The republicans are going to retain their peace of mind as much as possible by ignoring Hayes. Now if they could also ignore the nationals and the democratic party and a few little obstacles of that kind, everything would be lovely.

The Great Trouble

[Washington Post.] “The president (so called) is in want, of a party and the party is in want of a policy.” says the Cincinnati Commercial. But the greater trouble is that both are in want of a character. Next Sunday is Easter. A large invoice of flour just received at lines’ grocery. It is expected that work will commence on the Narrow Gauge at Monticello next week.

THE PLATFORM.

The democracy of the state of In diana assembled in delegate convention declare: That national bank notes shall be retired, and in lieu thereof, there shall be issued by the government an equal amount of treasury notes with full legal tender quality. That we are in favor of making the United Statss notos, commonly called greenbacks, a full legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except such obligations only as are by the terms of the original contracts under which they were issued, expressly payable in coin. That the right to issue paper money as well as coin is the exclusive prerogative of the government, and such money should be issued in such amounts as the sound business interests of the country may from time to time require. We are in favor or such legislation by congress as will authorize the taxation by the states of the United States notes in common with all other money. That we deem it unwise an inexpedient to enact any further legislation for the funding of the national debt abroad, through the means of home syndicates, or other methods; and we believe the true policy of the government and the best interest of the people would be subserved by legislation so as to distribute said debt among our people at home—affording them the most favorable and practb cal opportunities for the investment of their savings in the funded debt of th<> United States. That we are in favor of such legislation which shall fix the legal rate of interest at not exceeding six per centum per annum. We demand the .os.' . atiou of the silver dollar, of 4124 grains, to the coin of the country, and with full legal tender quality in the payment of all debts, both public and private; and that the coinage thereof shall be unlimited, and upon the same terms and conditions as may be provided for the coinage of gold. That we are in favor of the immediate and unconditional repeal' of the resumption act. We are in favor of the most rigid economy in public expenditures, and we declau* ili.it the fees and salaries of all public officers should be reduced. That we are in favor of the repeal of the bankrupt act. That we sincerely deplore the recent violent collision between labor and capital, and to prevent the recurrence thereof and to protect the future public order and security we believe that the wages of corporations engaged in the business of mining, manufacturing and transportation should be a first lien upon the property, receipts and earnings of said corporations, and that such lien sho’d be declared, defined and enforced by appropriate legislation. That we favor the passage of a law for the ventilation of coal mines—-one that would be just to the miner and owner. The deuocratic party is the friend of the common school system, and will in every legitima e way labor for Its success, and will oppose any attempt to divert any portion of the common school fund to any sectarian purpose. That the last apportionment of the state for legislative r urposes was grossly unjust and dishonorable, and we demand that the next legislature, in apportioning the state for legislative purposes, as will be their imperative duty, shall have regard alone to population and contiguity of territory.

That the jurisdiction claimed and exercised by the circuit courts of the United States over questions of corporate and individual rights arising under the laws of the states tends to oppress and burden litigants to sueh an extent as to amount to a practical denial of justice in many cases; and we consider the legislation which has conferred such jurisdiction as unwise and hurtful to the true interests of che people. And we demand such legislation as will restrict and limit the jurisdiction of such courts to such matters as are clearly contemplat'd by the constitution and expressed in the judiciary act of 1789. We are opposed to class legislation, and protest against the grunt of subsidies by the federal government, either in lands, bonds, money or by the pledge of the public credit That we abhor and hold up to public detestation the leaders in the republican party who secretly connived, and with barefaced effrontery, carried out the scheme, by and through venal returning boards, whereby Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, the people’s choice for president and vice president, were wrongfully kept out of the positions to which a free people had called them. We hold it up as the monster crime of the age, a crime against free government a crime against the elective franchise, and a crime that can only be condoned when the malefactors who seated a fraud in the presidential chair are driven from power and consigned to everlasting infamy by the people whom they have outraged. And we denounce the act of the president of the United States in appointing to high and lucrative positions the corrupt members of the returning boards, and condemn the acts ot federal officers in attempting to interfere with the rights and powers of the state courts in the prosecution of these criminals. That our senators and representatives in congress be and are hereby requested to secure the passage of a law giving to the soldiers of the Mexican war a pension similar to that now given to the soldiers of the war of 1812.

Notice to Sullders. SEALED PROPOSALS will be received antil two o’clock, p. m.Jon -Vednesday, June sth, 1878, to furnlt h all material and build a frame dwelling House on the County Farm. Bids are to be accompanied with abend payable to the State of Indiana, in the penal sum of One Thousand Dollars, signed oy at least two resident freeholders as sureties, which bond shall guarantee the faithful performance and execution of the work so bid .or in ease the same is awarde d to said bidder, and that the contractor so receiving said contract shall promptly pay all debts incurred by him in the prosecution of said work. Including labor, material furnished. rnd for boarding the laborers thereon. The work to be paid for when finished and accepted by the Board. The Board reserve the right to reject any and all bids. Said work to be completed on or before the ad day of September, A. D, 1878. And in case of default herein the contractor is to forfeit for the use of the county the sum of Twenty-five Dollars for each day. Plans and specifications may be seen in the Auditor’s office. Witness my hand and seal of the < > Board of Commissioners of the < skal. > County of Jasper, at Rensselaer, ’ —r— ■■ ’ Ind., this 16th day of April. A. ». 1878. HENBY A. BARKLEY. April 19. 1878—« w. Auditor.

Saleof School Land. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned Auditor and Treasurer of the County of Jasper, State of Indiana, will offer for sale, at Public Auction, at the doorof the Court House, in Rensselaer, on WEDNESDAY, the 15tb day of MAY, 1878. the following lands, situated in said county, which have been sold as School Lands, and are forfeited to the State of Indiana for the non-payment of interest due thereon, towit: The northwest quarter: the west half of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter ; the north half of the southwest quarter, and the west half of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section sixteen (16], township twenty-eight (28) north range six (6) west, containing 280 acres. Forfeited by William C. Cozzens. Principal $1665 eo— Interest $283 05. Also, the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section sixteen (16] township thirty-two (32) north -ange six (6) west., containing 40 asres Forfeited by Wiilaid P. Vanuorn. Principal $37 so—lnterest $5 15 These lands will be sold for not less than the full amount of principal, interest, damages and costs. One-fourth of the purchase money, toge her with the interest, damages and cost due thereon, shall be naid to the Treasurer on the day of sale, and the interest at eight per eentum. on the residue for one year: and the residue of the purchase money in ten (10] years from the date of sale with interest at eight per cent, payable annually in advance. Witness our hands and the ( , seal of the Board of Commis■I seal. > sioners of Jasper county, Ind., ' —» — ’ at Rensselaer, Indiana, this 21st day of March, A. D. 1878. HENRY A. BARKLEY. Auditor Jasper county, Indiana. HENRY I. ADAMS, Treasurer J asper county, Indiana. Mat cb 22, 1878.

s. P. YOUNGBURG. JUSTUS WABNER. Youngburg $ Warner, CARRIAGE MAKERS Rensselaer. Indiana. Shop on Front Street, Terhune's old Stand. ivnsuim WAGONS of every description, made to order. Repairing also neatly and cheaply done on short notice. Parties wishing woodwork, such an Bodies or Gearings, of ny kind, or anything else in their line will do well to give these gentlemen a ce All orders will receive prompt attention. Carr age and Buggy Borings repaired and oil tempered, and general work and repairing done in the neatest and best manner. Prices as low as possible to insure gtod work. All work warranted. Nov. 9.

N. WARNER, DEALER IN OF AXJLi ICINTDS ENSSEEAER. U<D« Heeps 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 before 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 competition. Remember the place. LIBERAL CORNER vln2 Rensselaer. Ind Ucan make money taster at work lor ae than at anything else. Capital not required; we will start you. sl«per day at home made by the industrious. Men, women, boya and girls wanted everywhere to work for us. Now is the time. Costly outfit ond terms free. Address Tros 111 Co., Augusta, Maine.

ODDIMP JLOILMUrb *s| STOCK OF NEW GOODS ui iiimjuuummui Just Received and being Opened Out by RALPH FEU, CONSISTING OF STAPLE ARTICLES, most generally in demand with the people. In the selection of my new stock of Spring & Summr Ui, I have kept steadily in view the desires and tastes of the people with reference io Styles, Quality, Durability and price. Wta Goods, Best Rady-Made Miing, fob Bp, Boots, hs, . and STANDARD GROCERIES, kept in quantity and at lowest rates. . An inspection of Goods and pi ices is repectfully solicited. w RALPH FENDIG. West corner Bedford & Jackson’s brick. Rensselaer, Ind. W. 8. ORWIN " HENBBKLAEB, IND., formerly of Logansport, Will keep constantly on hand a largo and complete assortment of WATCHES! ot various kinds. Watches S-S Axrrk Studs, Brooches, AND Charms, Sleeve- —. F Buttons, Pins, Cuft J fYWAI TV ’ Pins > Ladies’ Sets, V C W Uxl y * Masonic and Odd „ , XU Fellows’ Pins, 811consisting OF ver Thimbles, etc., Eight-Day, Thirty- Ass - JI ic i » Hour, Weight and H J J.l Spring fflU Spectacles fir Jk from 50 cents to $3.00, to suit all VAJVvIXo I I* l ' 111 ages and sizes. Castors, Cake-Baskets, Butter-Dishes, Call-Bells, Cups, Napkin-Rihgs, Fruit' Knives, Tableware, Gold Thimbles. He can procure you an Elgin, Howard, Springfield, American or Swiss Watch, as readily and cheaply as any in the trade. He has secured the agency of the Rockford Watch Movement, the best in the America for the money. He purchases direct from the manufactures. Anything not in stock procured on short notice, at rates advantageous to those who purchase through him, CLOCKS, WATCHES & JEWELRY REPAIRED ! Eg" FINE WATCH WORK A SPECIALTY! JO Also Agent for the Western Cottage, Estey, Mason & Hamlin, Burdett and George Woo 1 Organs; Decker Bro., Weber, Valley Gem, Bradbury, Story & Camp Pianos. All of these first-class instruments. All Goods warranted as represented; and all work warranted to give satisaction. Nov. 30,1877. THE OLD LINE DRUG STORE. Wfflh <!!■. bm Would respectfully call the attention of the citizens of Jasper and adjoining count,-s to his large and complete stock of the following goods, bought low for cash, which en;.u' s him to defy competition : Pure W'ite Lead Painters'Materials, Window Glass Paintßrushes, Pure -linseed Oil, White-wash Brushes, Varnish Brushes, Coach Varnish, Copal V nish, Damar Varnish, Feather Dusters, Coal Oil, Perfumery, Patent Medicines, Chemicals, Drugs, Soaps, Hair Oils, Hair Brushes, Face Powders, Dye-Stuffs, Combs, Putty. Red Lead, Portmonnias, Pocket Books, Lamp Wicks, Lampe, Paper, &c. Books, School Books Stationery. All go< ds guaranteed strictly pure. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Everybody nvited to call. Rensselaer l Ind. vine J. IMIS. j". W. IwvaE&S Ittvwy 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 Bailways passing those points, and conveying passengers, expi isage and freight each way. Goods or money shipped by Express to any P tof the United States. Livery Teams, with or without Drivers nished upon application. Stock boarded by the day or week. (. 1 e Stables on Front street, above Washington. Rensselaer. Ind. We Buy Them Io Sell. n. w.peck, FamilyGroceries&Provisions CORNER RAILROAD & INDIANA STREETS, REMINGTON, IND. Keeps constantly on hand a full line of Groceries of all Minds. WOODEN and WILLOW WARE, GLASS WARE, BOOTS & SHOES, GLOVES & HOSIERY. Also a full line of Fancy Articles and Notions. You will find the best stock of fresh new goods, always on hand, at prices that defy competition. We will not be undersold, in anything in our line. We keep the best brands of Flour and Salt, constantly on hand, in quantities to suit purchaser. We take in exchange all kinds of Country Produce,rind 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 convinced tha we give you more goods for your money, than any other house in town. v2n27tf D. w. PECK.