Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1878 — Page 2

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Democratic State Ticket.

■BCBKTABT OF «TAT»r JOHN O. SHANKLIN, of Vandetbttrg. IDMTor or **ATI, AAHLON D. MANSON,- or Montgomery. faßiaußßS or btatk, WILLIAM FLEMING, of Allon. ATTOBXBT OKNMRAt, •THOMAS W. Jobmion. |>VWiiix*Bi?6*ftT or rußi.ic iwrrnt’cnoß, /AMES H. SMART, of Alien. nrmreKNTAT-ivK in comm, MORGAN H. WEIK. Laporte county. JL’DUK CIRCUIT COURT, EDWIN P, HAMMOND. Jaaperconnty. Circuit I’bohkcutor, MAIILON I). SMITH. Aenton county.

Democratic County Ticket.

For CIerk—CHARLES H. PRICE. For Auditor—EZßA C. NOWELB. For Treaeurer—WlLLlAM E. MOORE For Sheriff—JAMES NICKEL. For Recorder—HOPE B. MILLER. For Surveyor—CHAßLES P, HOPKINS. For Coroner—SAMPSON ERWIN. Oommlaeioner, Diet. 1-BR. W. HARRINGTON “ •• *—E. E. ROCKWOOD.

TO THE VOTERS OF JASPER COUNTY!

MillgfiUil! tnpri “Hare the people of Jasper county any hones :er, pleasanter, or more faithful officers administering their local affairs, than when each depart ment was Dredded over by a Republican? Did the Democratic Board of Commissioners introduce any reform in county management—did they try to—was there any room or place f; r them to?”—Consul in the Union. We reply from the records! For nearly twenty years the Republican party had entire control and management of the county finances. lu 1874 Ihe Democrats and Independents elected two Commissioners and Auditor. The consul says that “they promised reform in couutyailairs, but have not fulfilled that promise, for there was do roSom for reformation. — Let us examine the factSo and compare the figures:

REPUBLICAN MANAGEMENT. Year. Ain't of Balance in Levy. 1868 50c. $ 1,872 1869 50c. 4,415 1870 40c. 971 1871 60c. 2,045 1b72 75e. 4,563 i 1873 50c. 9,747 ! 1874 500. 2,926 i DEMOCRATIC-INDEPENDENT MANAGEMENT. ■ 1875 35c. 12,263 ! 1876 35c. 13.447 REPUBLICAN MANAGEMENT AGAIN. 1377 45c, 6,571 1878 45e. 2,831 Messrs. Hoover and Kessler entered upon their duties as Commissioners at the December Term, 1874, and so ■wisely did they manage the business of the couhty, thai at the June settle ment, 1875, there was $12,263 in the County Treasury. True to the interests of the people, they reduced the county tax from 50c. to 35c. on each SIOO of taxable property, and from the amount of taxes collected on that reduced levy they paid all the exnenses of the county, all outstanding orders,, and at the June settlement, *lß7'6s tnere was $13,357 96 in the Treasury. At this session Elisha E. Rockwood, Ind., occupied the place es Mr. Hoover on the Board. Messrs. McCullough, Kessler and Rockwood thought that if a levy of 35c. would leave so large a surplus in lhe Treasury, that amount would again be sufficient, and accordingly made the same levy for 1876. At the following December Tenn Sons. John Van’tWoud and Wm.B. Price entered upon their duties as Commissioners in place of McCollough and Rockwood. As soon as tihe-y bad become fairly installed in office the money began to flow out of the Treasury faster than it came in, and by the next June the balance, together with the collections, was reduced to $6,571 35, and at the October Term, 1877, the Treasury was empty. The Board then issued bonds to the amount of $5,000, bearing 8 per -lent interest, sold them at a discount of Srofli 5 to* 8- per cent., and the taxpayers of Jasper county are now paving from 13 to 16 per cent, on money to carry on the county. At the June session, 1877, the Republican Board increased the tax levy from 350. to 45c. The levy for 1878 is the same. At the June settlement, 1878, there was but $2831 39 in the Treasury, with a considerable amount of outstanding orders and a bonded indebtedness of $5,000.

EXPENDITURES COMPARED. At the last annual settlement before Democratic rule the expenses of the county were $16,791. The fisst year of Democratic control the entire expenditure was $11,175 72.. The next year, ending June, 1876, the ex penditures increased to $16,940 77. During this year more bridges were built than in any one year before or since.—A bridge across the Kankakee, a bridge over Curtis Creek, the Pullins’ bridge the Lanrison bridge, the Rawls bridge, the Thompson bridge, and the Bullis bridge, which accounts fvF the increase in expenditures. For the year ending May Mist, 1877, the first year of Van’tWoud, Prick & Co., the expenditures amounted to

$21,105 94. The expenditures for the second year, ending May 81st, 1878, amounted to $25,678 80, making a total for the two years of Republican management of $46,624 24. It cost but $2748 more for two years Demo* cratic and Independent administration than it has for the last one year under Republican reform.

The present levy is 45c.. 11c. of which is to be applied to pay the interest afid for the redemption of the county bonds. If every cent is collects d it will fall SI,OOO short of paying them, leaving but 34c. to defray the current expenses. The taxable property is a fractien over $4,000,000, which will raise about $13,000 of revenue. If the same rate of expenditures continue, the county will be in d.-bt not less than $12,000 or $13,000 at the annual settlement in 1879, Eld. H. B. Miller returns thanks to ‘Daddy” Humes and other friends in Union township, for the donation of a number of loads of wood and other substahtials. H. B. Miller, Democratic and National candidate for Recorder, rsgrets that lie is unable to visit the'people as he had desired, owing to sickness in Ms family. Mr. Miller, “fiat” candidate for Recorder, denies most emphatically the statements imputed to him by a Rensselaer correspondent of the Indian apolis Journal.

The flat candidate who is invited by the consul to call upon him and receive charity, suggests to the hero of I’urk Island that “charity begins at home,” and that he devote any spare change he may have to legitimate uses He adds: “Ths consul’s proffer reminds me of the old adage —“Put a beggar on hoiseback.” etc. The county is tn debt, paying in trrest which necessitates higher taxes that oppress the people.—Uuion. As the Union seems desirous of misleading the people we guess next week we will show just how this state of things has been brought about, and fix the responsibility where it rightfully belongs. Fojur hundred is the majorityof the republicans of Jaspercounty.—Union That is simply your claim, Mr. consul. But, don’t you forget it, one of the tricks set up by radical leaders to outvote the citizens has been nipped in the bud, and your claim won’t hold out. You’ll be snowed under.— The people are in earnest. They have rights and interests which they will not permit to be made secondary to those of the gold bugs. Kemem ber Maine!

Democrats, to your posts! One week from next Tuesday the money lords and their hirelings will make a final and desperate struggle for supremacy. See to it, Democrats, that at each voting precinct men are selected to look after the interests of the people. See to it sharp that the voice of the people be not hushed by importations While we believe victory is within your grasp, yet we insist that you contest th« ground inch by inch and thus make success doubly sure, and m re complete. See to it!

A CARD.

It having been currently reported, and by many believed, that there was a scheme on foot to import a larce number of republican voters into the northern townships of this county, for the ostensible purpose of getting out ties for the I. D. & C. Railroad, but with the rehl design of controlling our county election, I have thought it my duty to interview the officers of the road in relation to the matter. I take pleasure in announcing to th? people of Jasper county that no such design was ever entertained ou the part of those gentlemen, and I have their earnest assurance th it they do now, and ever shall avoid any appearance of political partiality or favoritism, They also assure me, that no work of anv kind will be dona on choir road, north of Rensselear. until the necessary subsidies are raised on that, part of the line; and that in no case will they unduly influence the elections called for that purpose, in the several towuships interested. I make this statement as a matter of simple j ustice to the officers of the road, who are in all respects gentlemen entitled to the confidence aud regard of their fellow citizens.

J. H. LOUGHRIDGE,

Chairman Dem. Central Com.

By the letter of the law under which the & 20 bonds were issued, they were payable in greenbacks. On the 18th of March. 1869, the act “to strengthen the public credit,” changing the contract against the people by matting them payable in coin, was passed.— When the bill came up in the House, debate was cut off, and it was passed under the gag law of “the previous question ” The vote in the House was: For the bill —Democrats, 1; Repub--11 ans, 9;». Against the bill - Democrats, 34; republicans 12. In the Senate the rote was: For the bill—Democrats. 0; republicans, 42. Against the bill— All the Democrats; republicans, 7. On the bill for the resumption of specie payments, passed in January. 1875, the vote in the Senate stood: For the bill—Democrats, 0; repub licans, 32. Against the bill All the Democrats republicans, 1. In the House the votes was: For the bill—Democrats,o; republi cans, 136. Against the bill—All the Democrats; republicans, 24. On the 23d of November, 1877, a bill to repeal the resumption law passed the House. The vote was: For the bill—Democrats, 104; republicans, 28. Against the bill—Democrats, 29; republicans 92. Tiuj bill was killed in the Senate by the vote of the republicans.

The consul this week complains that Mr. Major, in 1873, committed acts unlawful and . indiscreet In 1874, he successfully contradicted and refuted these same charges which he now parades before the public, supported and aided and voted Mr. M. into the State Senate. In his paper of August 24, 1876, he pays the following well merited tribute to Senator Major:' “Mr. Major is the peer of any gentleman in the United States in the matter of respectability. He has never been guilty of crimes against mankind or of violating the laws of the state. He is a moral man, honorable and upright in his dealings with his fellows, moves in good soci- • ty, and commands the respect of good people where he resides.”

"Formal Opening of the Republican Campaign!”

Such was the announcement by advance posters, that called the people together at the Court House in Rensselaer on Monday evening of this week. Special attractions had been advertised by announcing, music by the Ladies’ Orchestra Band, and a fair audience assembled to greet the noted speakers—and the music. All was anxious expectation a? the hour approached. No cannon boomed to herald the arrival of the speakers at thia “formal opening.” but the “Ladies’ Orchestra Band,” true to the proverbial fidelity of woman, was on hand, and discoursed to the waiting audience some very fine music. At length the consul steps to the front an J announces the disappointment they were laboring under—not that “the brains had left the day before on the Narrow Gauge,” but tha t the brains had, for some reason unknown failed to appear, and hence the audience would have to submit to be bored for the evening by listening to “that other feller,” the tail end of the kite—Dan. L. Blown, of LaPorte! who very soon convinced the audience that he starred out with one proposition that could not successfully be contradicted! He said he was “no speaker,” the most important truth (if not the only one,) that he uttered during his hour and a half talk. His text, “by their record shall ye know them,” was sounded, and wrung, and twisted in all manner of disconnected ways, but no one could see a point until he came to the fable of • Fox and a Goose, when several schoolboys in the audience began to whisper that “he took that from the Second R ader.” But, had it not been for that fable, that he told as an anecdote, and the music by the Orehes tra Band of young ladies, th • evening’s entertainment would have been very tiresome. As a political speech, it was a perfect failure. No other evidence of the truth of this proposition is needed than to call attention to the dejected appearance of the consul and other leading Republicans who were present during its delivery. We would not harrow the sensitive feelings of our friend, the consul, oy reiterating any of the incredulous statements of the speaker on that suspicious occasion, but we cannot permit such garbled statements to go to the public and be received by them as true without giving a word of caution to the unwary voter, that they receive such political clap-trap with a great degree of allowance.

Our faith in the intelligence and the integrity of the people is such that we cheerfully counsel all to in vestigate the principles of the different parties—to become acquainted with the qualifications of the differ, ent candidates—to weigh well the result that will follow the election to various offices—and then to act conscientiously, as good and loyal American citizens. We come to you with no polished rhetorical periods. We bring no U, S. bonds, nor greenbacs. nor fiat money to buy your votes and influence, but in our plain way, using language that all can understand, we advocate the election of our candidates because we believe the best interests of our country demand it, [For the Sentinel.] Mr. James attacks some candidate upen the Democratic and National ticket for not paying his taxes. It so happens that this same Horace E. James has a loan of school funds, aud he is delinquent for two years interest, amounting to $37 60. This interest is applied to the payment of teachers in the Public Schools. What a shame for the Chairman of the Republican Central Committee of Jasper, and member of the State Central Committee, and Mr. Haves’ consul to a foreign Island to thus defraud the children of Jasper county out of an education. And Mr. James sets himself up as the champion of free schools! Horace, if you would “see yourself as others see you, it would from rainy a blunder free you.”

"THE GRAND OPENING”

Which was to take place at the Court House on last Monday evening resulted In a grand sizzle. The Hon. did not appear, and the “Hon ” Dan. Brown, of LaPorte. had a clear field. His first proposition, that he was "not prepared to make a speech” was heartily endorsed by all present long before the close of his harangue. Democrats and Independents were amused and republicans disappointed and disgusted to a degree expressible only in “swear words.”

He edified the audience by statin • that he waved the “bloody shirt” on all opportune occasions. He is only a bag of wind and wat-no, not water ; he never uses so thin a beverage. Having been sent to Jasper county by Hon W. H. Calkins to instruct our citizens how to vote on the Bth of October, he has employed his leisure hours in street controversies and bliveating about “fiat money* and other financial problems. And to show his acquaintance with the financial history of this country, he made and frequently repeated the declaration that United States “de mand notes'* were not worth 38 cents on the dollar during the years 1864 & 1865. We pity the intelligence of the schoorboy who knows no better than this. Some of his republican brethren endeavor to excuse“hisshortcom-

ing by asserting that he was not in a suitable condition to appear on the streets. Certainly his countenance is a iggestive of anything but a temperance lecturer. The Rensselaer Union announces its intention of becoming a partisan paper after tho 10th of August Heaven save the party whose cause it espouses.—Monticello Herald, July 1876. Amen! With the assistance of Heaven and The Union our party shall prevail against the allied hosts of hell, the world, the flesh and the Herald. —Rensselaer Union, Julv 27, 1876. We suppose when the consul penned the above he expected to be retained by the Democratic and Independent party. Failing in his anticipations be joined “the allied hosts of hell, the world, the flesh and tne Herald.”— Result: Heaven was on the side of Blue Jeans, and gave Tilden and Hendricks over a quarter million majority!

As predicted, Calkins is sick; but the biggest joke of the season is his dispatch to "our Simon” to fill his plaee in the joint discussions.

THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

The democracy of the state of In diana assembled in delegate convention declare: That national bank notes shall be retired, an 1 in lieu thereof, there shall be issued by the government an equal amount of treasury notes with full le gal tender quality. That we are in favor of making the United States notes, commonly called greenbacks, a full legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except such obligations only as are by tbe terms of the original contracts under which they were issued, exoressly 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 us 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 tiie taxation by the states of the United States notes in common with all other money. That we deem it unwise and 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 practical opportunities for the investment of their savings in the funded debt of the United States.

That we are in favor of such legislation as shall fix the legal rate of interest at not exceeding six per centum per annum. We demand the restoration of the silver dollar, of 412 j grains, to the coin of the country, and with full legal tender quality in the payment of all debts, both public and pri rate; 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 wo 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 declare that 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 miuiug, 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 an 4 enforced by appropriate legislation. That we favor the passage of a law for the ventilation of coal mines—one that would be just to *l e miner and owner. The democratic party is the friend of the eomnion school system, and will in every legitimate 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 purposes was grossly unjust and dishonorable, »nd we demand that the next legislature, iu apportioning the state for legisla« live 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 such 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 the people. And we demand such legislation as will restrict and limit the jurisdiction of such courts to such matters as are clearly contemplated by the constitution and expressed in the judiciary act of 1789. We are opposed to class legislation, and protest against the grant of subsidies by the federal government,either in lands, bonds, money or by the pledge of the public credit.

BARKLEY.

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 peo pie 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,-end condemn the acts oi 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.

National State Ticket.

■BCBBTABT or ST ATI, HRMLY JAMKS, of Grant county. TBBABUKES or UTATX, M. P- MAIN, of Floyd county. AUDITOR or ST ATX, JACOB F. BURG, of Gibson county. ATTORNKT-OKNX*AL. DAVID MOSS, of Hamilton. ItrtMKtBKDE!(T or PUBLIC INTTBUCTIOX, JOHN YOUNG, of Marion county. BEPHKSXNTATIVX IM COKOBKSB, JOHN N. SKINNER, Porter county. JUDGE CXBCUTT COCBT, EDWIN P. HAMMOND, Jasper county. PBOSBCUTINO ATTOBNBT, JOSHUA HEALEY, Nuwton county. STATU SEMATOB. GEORGE MAJOR,of Benton county. RBPBESEMTATIVE, GEORGE H. BROWN, of Sasper county. National County Tiukot. For CIerk—CHARLES H. PRICE. For Auditor—EZßA C. NOWELB. ForTreasurer—WlLLlAM E. MOORE. For Sheriff—JAMES NICKELL. For Recorder—HOPE B. MILLER. For Surveyor—CHAßLES P. HOPKINS. For Coroner—SAMPSON ERWIN. Commissioner, Diet. L—BR. W. HARRINGTON “ ” >.—E. B. ROCKWOOD.

Nation*! State Platform.

The National Greenback Labor Party of Indiana, in convention assembled, declare: 1. We declare our fealty to the American monetary system—the abolition of all bank issues, the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver, and the issuing by the government of full legal-tender paper money, receivable for all dues and payable for debts, public auu private, in amount sufficient to meet the wants of trade, to give employment to all labor, and to enable the people to do a cash business, and to relieve them from the debt system which has made the industrial and commercial classes the slaves and drudges of the creditmongers of the world. 2. We declare our opposition to every measure looking to the resumption of specie payments, the monarchical system of finance which puts all the interests of industry, trade and commerce in the hands of the few. and enforces a monopoly of wealth destructive of the highest material good of society. 3. Me proclaim our uucompomising hostility to th v perpetuation of the system of goverment bonded indebtedness which is intended to hind unborn generations in chains, and we declare that the government should use all the funds now hoarded lor resumption purposes to pay and cancel outstanding bonds, and that it should make new and liberal issues of money to be applied to the same purpose; and that the issue of future interestbearing bonds should be prohibited .by constitutional amendment 4. We demand that all legislation should be so enacted and so administereilae to secure to each mau, as nearly as practicable, the just reward of his own labor; and we denounce all lawlessness, violence and fraud that refuses submission to the will of the people honestly expressed through the ballot. 5. We denounce the red flag communism imported from Europe, which asks for an equal division of property, and we denounce the communism of the national banks, of the bond syndicates, and of the consolidated railroad corporations, which have secured and arc enforcing an unequal division of property, having already divided among themselves ten thousand millions of the piopcrty of the people by corrupting the rapreseutativee and servants of the people. The one system oi communism ignores the inequalities of capacity which have been planted by nature in the human family, and both systems are destructive of the rewards of toil and of the incentive to industry and exertion. 6. We declaretbat until the American monetary system, which will result in the practical extinction of debt and usury is established the State should by all the powers that it can exert, limit and reduce the rate of interest so that it shall in no event exceed the average increase of wealth by productive industry. 7. Wc favor simple, plain and economical government, as few laws us possible, and they rigidly enforced—as few officials as practicable, and jthey held to a close accountability. To this end we demand the abolition of all useless offices, and the overthrow of the system by which offices are made to yield almost princely fortunes. It is the first duly ol the next general assembly of Indiana to secure such legislation as shall make it impossible for any local or State official to receive more than adequate pay for his services; and when practicable the compensation should be fixed by a specific salary. 8. We denounce the conspiracy of the Democratic and Republican leaders of Indiana to build a costly and magnificent state house, which, as experience has proved in all similar cases, would result in the general plundering of the people.— We denounce the action of the governor in calling a special session of the legislature for the purpose of fostering this scheme. We denounce the indecent haste with which the state house commissioners are proceeding to let a contract to bind the people of the state, audwc demand that no contract shall be let until the voters of the state have naa an opportunity to express their will upon the subject through the legislature to be chosen iu October next.

9. We protest ugaiust the weak and ineffective election laws of Indiana, and we ask that the next legislature shall enact statutes which shall secure fair elections in thestale, and which shall provide severe and adequate punishment for fraudulent voters, and for those who bribe voters or procure fraudulent votes. 10. We denounce the criminal and unfair apportionment of the legislative and congressional districts of the state tn the interest of the Republican party, and the equally unjust apportionments made in the past by the Democratic party, and we pledge our members of the legislature to vote for a fair and equitable apportionment which shall se cure a full and untrammeledexpression of the sentiments of the people. 11. The State shall enact laws which will abro gate the abuses and protect the interests of men who work in mines, by providing tor the propel ventilation of themines; and the eurniugs of all employees of corporations should be a first lieu upon the property of said corporations. 12. If it was wise and needful in 18t»7, when money was plenty and the country prosperous to enact a bankrupt law, it is certainly humane now to amend such law so to prevent frauds and to continue in force this last escape of the oppressed debtor from the extortions of the money power And we favor the exemption of not less than SI,OOO worth of property to the householder from forced sale on execution. 13. The constitution should be so amended that the Presideni, Vice-President and Senators of the United States shall be elected by direct vote of the people. 14. W'e are unalterably opposed to adding to the burthens of the people by an increase of the standing army, believing with’Washiugtou that -‘overgrown military establishments under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty, and particularly hostile to i epublican liberty.’’ 15. We indorse and reaffirm the platform of principles acoptcd at Toledo, February 22.1878. and we congratulate the country upon the union of the political interests subserving the useful ranks of society, in one party which shall advance this decree to a higher and better civilization and'thia oldest gospel, that there shall be workfor all and that all shall work.

W. B. NOWKLS. D. H. YEOMAN, Nowels & Yeeman, BREEDERSOF THOROUGHBRED POLAND-CHINA HOGS, % s ALSO. Partriige-Cociiin Chickens aui Bronze Turkeys! £3?“ Hogs—paired and not akin—for sale at reasonable rates. NOWEM & TEOMAN. P. 0. addrest. Rensselaer. Ind. May 24/78 ELECTION NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given to the qualified voters of Union township, Jasper county, Indiana, that the polls will be opened on Monday, the 4th Day of November, 1878, at the usual place of voting in said Township, in manner and form prescribed by the General Election Laws of Indiana, and each legal voter will then have the privilege of voting for or against an appropriation of Three Thousand and Twelve Dollars and Twenty-four Cents ($3012 24) to aid in the construction of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Rail Road, as prayed for in a petition signed by more than twentyfive freeholders and legal voters jof said Township- and presented to the .Board of Commissioners of said county at the regular September session, 1878. Those persons who are in favor of said appropriation will deposit a ballot with the words plainly written or printed thereon -For the Rail Road Appropriation." Those opposed wiU deposit a lot inscribed in like manner Against the Rail Road Appropriation." The Inspector and Judges of said election will meet at the Court House, in Rensselaer, in said County, on Thursday, the 7th day of November. 1878, at 10 o’clock, a. m.. to return the Poll Books and Tally Papers of such election and act as a .Board of Canvassers to compare said papers and certify the result of said election. ( —*— i By order of the Board of Comj BBAi.. > missioners of said county, ’ —’ HENRY A. BARKLEY, Auditor of Jasper county, Ind. September 13,1878—4w—510. Ucan mate money taster at work tor ns than at anything else. Capital not required; we will start yon. sl2 per day at home made by the industrious. Men, women, boys and girls wanted everywhere to work for us. Now is the time. Coitly outfit ond terms free. Address Turns fit! Co., Augusta, Maine.

Cbme to the Sentinel for your plain and ornamental printing if you want a net and eheap job KXaZMK. X- PXXXUXaZFS. Law, Collection and Abstract Oflfioo, RENSsJILARR, IND. Special attention given to collections. Office in Court House. lune‘.l.-'7B b HL. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Monticello. - . . Indiana. Office in Bank bui' ding, up stairs. McCollum & Turner *VSTZX3B] AWAKE! Looking out for Cash Customers to sell their NEW STQCK -or— Goods cheat er than ever before! ■E, ISM And a full line of AMERICAN Brea® Clothing, BOOTS & HATS I We sell the justly celebrated TIFFIN SHOES, And wirrantevery pair to give satisfaction! Give us a call and we will show you the cheapest stuck in the market. MCCOLLUM & TURNER. Monticello. Ind., August 30,1878—1 y.

CINCINNATI CLOTHING HOUSE, West Side Main Street, North of Court House, [Monticello, Ind. This House has recently roceivee a large invoice of latest styles of Gents & Youths’ CLOTHING 1 which will be sold at KT IU im Tee public are respectfully invited to come -and examine stock, and be satisfied as toJQI Quality and Prices. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. SAM ROTHROCK. Manager. Monticello, August 30.1878—1 y Stoves & Tinware. John Bennett, MONTICELLO. IND., Has now on hand the moßt extensive and complete stock of Stores, Tinware, Poctet & Table Cutlery, Etc., Etc., in the West. Patronage solicited. JOHN BEXNETTMonticello. August 30.1873-

| NOTICE S 3 S 3 cr |TO CONBUMEBS § Qi 2 —OF—--8 a > TOBACCO . ♦ 2 o 0 o The great celebrity of our Tin Tag Tobacco has caused many imitations thereg of to be placed on the market, we therer fore caution all chewers against purohasg lag such imitations. a All dealers buying or selling other plug w tobacco bearing a hard or metallic label, © render themselves liable to the penalty of la the law, and all persons violating our o trade marks are punishable by fine and imprisonment. Bek Act or Congbess. g Aug. 14.1876. 5 The genuine Lobillab v Tin Tag Toc bacco can be distinguished by a Tin Tag g on each lump with the wori Lorillard oe stamped thereon. m Over 7,088 tons tobacco sold in 1877, g and nearly 3,000 persons employed in c factories. Taxes paid Government in ~ 1877 about 53.500,000, and during past 1 years, $20.000.000. • These goods all jobbers atmanEi ufacturers rates T. M. JONES, [Late of Kankakee City, 11l. 1 Merchant Tailor, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. WILL cut and make suits for men, youths and children. Work warranted, sati:«faction guaranteed. Full Line of Piece Goods kept in stock. The finest, best and cheapest stock ever brought to Bensselaer, Call and see. Orders solicited. (Sept. 27,1878,

aoiiHiicD *g] STOCK OF NEW GOODS 11 ® orTinwuiouinniLii Just Received and being* p ened Out by RAI.PH FENDIG, OONBISTINQ OF f STAPLE ARTICLES most generally in demand with the people. In the selection of my new stock of Spring & Summer Goods, I have kept steadily in view the de sires and tastes of the people with reference to Styles, Quality, Dura bility and price. Ihsfelta Goods, Clothing, fab Cufi and STANDARD GROCERIES, kept in quantity and at lowest rates An inspection of Goods and prices is repectfully solicited. RALPH FENDIG. West corner Bedford & Jackson’s brick, Rensselaer, Ind.

W. 8. ORWIN bensselaeh, inu,, formerly of Lioganaport, Will keep constantly on hand a largo and complete assortment of WATCHES! Watchas VVUIUIIUU 161 YzUsJk. Bracelets. ShirtStuds, Brooches, AA - L> Charms, Sleeve _ Buttons, Pins, Cull »T ATX7 Al fU* ’ Pins, Ladies’Sets, M w v?AX Jf * Masonic and Odd A« Fellows’Fins, Silconsibting OF JCXvG/4' A ver Thimbles, etc., Eight-Day, Thirty- £=4ll / n cii Hour, Weight and J Gold, Silver Ai spring Steel Spectacles ® WjEjitfvjg. Z JkY */V fi-Mni Kit « o nr nritrci » * 3oo * t 0 R,|,t H 1 vJuUC/JCXS I * ,l| Ui l 1 j, I ages and sizes. Castors, Cake-Baskets. Butter-Dishes, Cull-Bells. Cups, Napkin-Rihgs, FruitKnives. Tableware, Gold Thimbles. Ho cun procure you an Elgin, Howard, Springfield, American or Swiss Watch, us readily and cheaply as any in the trade. He has secured the agency of the Rockford Watch Movement, tho best in the America for the money. He purchases direct from the manufactures. Anything not in stock procured on short notice, ut rates advantageous to tho. e who purchase through him, CLOCKS, WATCHES & JEWELRY REPATBED I f#’ FINE WATCH WORK A SPECIALTY LdSJ Also Agent for the Western Cottage, Estey, Mason & Hamlin, Burdett and George Wood Organs; Decker Bro., Weber, Valley Gem, Bradbury. S’.ory <!; Camp Pianos. All of these first-class instruments. All Goods warranted as represented; mid all work warranted to give satlsaction. Nov. 39. 1877. THEOLDUNE9RUGSTORE. ««. £u«a Would respectfully call the attention of the citizens of Jasper and adjoiningcounties to his large and complete stock of tho following goods, bought low for cash, which enable; 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, Perfumery, Patent Medicines, Chemicals, Drugs, £oaps. Hair Oils. Hair Brushes, Face Powders, Dye-Stuffs, Combs. Putty. Bed Lead, Portmonuius, Pocket Books. Lamp Wicks, Lamps, Paper. Ac.. Ac. Books, School Books Stationery. AU goods guaranteed strictly pure. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Everybody nvited to call. ttenssetaer* Ind. vine J. lISES.

J. w. BIfVALL'S Livtfy And Daily Hack Line. United States mail hacks run daily except Sundays, between Rensselac and Francesville, and Rensselaer and Remington, making connections witt trains on the Railways passing those points, and conveying passengers, expi jsage and freight each way. Goods or money shipped by Express to anj p< tof the United States. livery Teams, with or without Drivers nished upon application. Stock boarded by the day or week. Offlo e Stables on Front street, above Washington, Rensselaer. Ind.

We Buy Them to Sell. JD. wTpjeck, FamilyGroceries&Provisions CORNER RAILROAD & INDIANA STREETS, REMINGTON, IND. Keeps constantly on hand a full line of Groceries of all Kinds. WOODEN and WILLOW WARE, GLASS WARE, BOOTS & SHOES, GLOVES * HOSIERY. Also a full line of Fancy Articles find 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 keen the best brands of Flour and Salt, constantly on hand, in quantities to suit purchaser. We take in exchange all kinds of Country Produ'-e.and will give, you the best price the market will afford. We deliver all go< ds free of chair e inside the city limits. Come and examine our stock and be convinced t) ? we give you more goods for your money, than any other house in town. v2n27tf D. W. PECK.