Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1879 — The New Penitentiay Appointments. [ARTICLE]

The New Penitentiay Appointments.

Ohio election next Tuesday. —————— Cowboy Sherman now claims credit tor the shortage of crops in Europe. A grand, honest, solid speech of Vice President Hendricks, on first page. Head it. The Republican patty, which 15 years ago controlled the country, has to day a majority in but four States. “Remember!'’yelled a man til Grant inSan Francisco, “remember that I was one of the tt st to holler for you I" We acknowledge our obligation to Mr. John Makeover for a nice lot of fine apples of the Northern Spy variety. The leading Radical journals all over the country are exceedingly savage on Mr. Voorhees just now The “Tall Sycamore'' continues to “mop the floor” with them all the same; One of the causes which has conspired to bring about some degree of prosperity's the silver bill passed by a Democratic Cong’css, vetoed by the Fraud, and repassed over his head by the same Democratic Congress. In procession at the great Democratic Rally, Marietta, Ohio, last Sat urday, was a large piece of calico with the following inscription, which created considerable merriment;“Fosters war record —62 J cents a yard.”

When a colored num at the South gets cowhided for being in a white num’s chicken house after dark, he sends word to the New York Tribune that he was there as a Republican for political purposes, and that period ical announces another brutal outrage. The Democratic policy of stopping further contraction of the paper curleticy; prohibiting the retirement of greenbacks, and making them a legal tender in the’payment of debts, publid and private, the remonetization and Increase of the silver circulation' has equalized the metal and paper currency, but there is no resumption'. No bank is required, by la w. to redeem its notes and checks in goid. Illinois and Kansas are claimed #is Republican States. In Kansas there are 16 different counties and 9 cities which have repudiated their debts amounting to $5,547,001), and in Illinois there are 17 counties and 5 cities I hat ha ve repudiat ed t heir debts, making a total repudiation in two Republican Statcsof $14,067,01)0. Now lie n it will bo in order for the organs of the Republican conspirators to apologize for Republican repudL.tion while denouncing Southern repudiatim. In a re< ent very able speech in Ohio Senator Voorhees said that whatever the faults and shortcomings of Other parties, the Republican party was the first, in our history to join issue against free elections, the first to clamor for an army at the voting pla- < as of the people-, tor the fixed bayonet at the polls, for the bullet to regulate the ballot; the first to ask for federal overseers of State voters; the first to use the appliances of federal force with which to coerce and dictate the result of elections.

The immensity of lite cheek exhibited by R. B. Hayes and his crowd in condemning the doctrines of States rights is well illu.stra.ted by a Baltimore paper when it says that these worthies should be i'requenlty reminded that the de facto administration owes its existence to the assertion of tlie extremist State sovereignty doctrine. In the Florida case a fruuduulent electoral certificate was returned. This was made in violation of the order of the Court of Appeals of the State; the exact nature of the fraud was exposed and the Court of Appeals ordered a new certificate collecting the fraud and casting the true vote of the State of Florida. It was held by the Electoral Commission that the State of Florida was sove reign and that no power existed iu Congress to correct even an acknowledged fraud In its proceedings as to the electoral vote. The vote was counted for Hayes and now he and the visiting statesmen who w-ere paid with offices the fees of fraud are going about the country denouncing “the dumuable heresy of State rights.”

The Franklin Democrat has been Interviewing a porkpackur of thaten terprising llttie cjty as follows: “At what figure will hogs start out in the coining season ? ' we asked. “Of course,l can’t name the extut figure, but I believe they will bring a better prices than Dst yetu*. My tea sons for this belief are that the old stock of meats is going off at better prices than last year. Especially is this true of side meats, which to-day sell at an advance of one cent a pound over the same time last year; and that the assessor’s reports from the hog growing States show a reduction in number of about 800,003 as compared with last year. This will cut a big figure in the supply of fat hogs and must enhance the price. Butanot ler fact, which will tend to reduce this deficitj-and thus modify the price to some extent, should be considered.— It is that in the great corn growing States, outside of Indiana, th t is, in Illinois, lowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, tile corn crops are unusu ally large. This will induce farmers and feeders to crowd every hog that can be made marketable by the last of Uie season into the feeding pens.— However, the large deficit as shown by the assessors reports can not by any possibility be made good. My judgment is that the season here will, open at from $3 to 8-3.50 per iiutidre I, which is an advance of about 50 >-cnts on the hundred above the highest price paid Last year, wltieh price fluctuated during the season from $3 Io as low 82.L5.’’

Our neighbors are silent on the sh r'age of their Attorney General Denny, the predecessor of Buskirk, io whom they referred. Come, gent fenicii, be holiest.

The appointments complete are Eli Baker, of Boone county, deputy warden; Major I . A. Burke, of Lafayette, steward; Hugh Sidener, of Crawfords- ; vide, clerk; Dr. McNutt, of Clinton ' county, physician; Dr. Mullen, of Laporte, assistant physician; Rev. Mil- ; ler, of Jasper county, moral instructor. Ten old guards were removed and new appointments made. The prison is in good ord r and everything in satisfactory condition. The ex warden takes his defeat philosophically. Ho retains for the present . all fhc books and papers relating to the penitentiary, and states that ho 1 will ieturn them uh soon as they are I nut in shape. He feels confident that i he. wili be able to tnake’a clear settlement with the State, and pay over all ; moneys that may be found remaining in his hands. Twelve new convicts were received since the Ist instant.— Total number of ptisoners, 640.—State Sentinel.

Ex-Governor Throckmorton was defending a murderer, the other.day, at Gainesville, Texas. He desired to convince the jury that the man whom Lis client killed, although in his shirt sleeves and without a pistol pocket in his trousers, might still have been armed. The lawyer had prepared himself to illustrate his argument.— Taking oil his coat, and standing before the jurors he said: “Cun you see any sign of arms about me?” They shook their heads. Then he drew a pistol from under each arm, one from each boot leg. and a large knife from the back of his neck. —Mr. Chas. Jouvenat’s son, aged about 12 years, was run overby an omnibus on I’riday at. noon, and had one, of his legs considerably bruis'd. Dr. Bliss attended the boy and ascertained that no bones were broken. The boy was not able to attend the fair in the afternoon but is not serious* l.y hurt—[Crown Point Cosmos. Articles of association of the Kentland and Lafayette railroad—a short lino running from Kentland, in Newton county, to a point on the L. and C. road between Earl Park tind Kaub—were filed yesterday with the Secretary of State. The capital stock is $25,000, and the. president of the board of direeiors is J. S. Hatch.—[lndianapolis .1 ournnl. - A man will spend an hour hunting up a board and painting an advertisement on it to bo nailed up where perhaps 200 different persons will see it in the course of seven days, when at. a cost of twenty-live cents he could put the same announcement in a newspaper, where it would reach 3,000 different readers within three days after the newspaper is printed. That’s the difference between old-fogyisin and enterprise.— [ Ex.

A dressmaker who was at the point of death recovered, and the local paper headed the item “Survival of the Fittest. ” A smart up-town boy lately inform od bis grutffi father that he didn’t like to hear Him joke. “It’s bad-in-age,” he. exclaimed. A grave digger buried a man named Button, and brought in the following bill to his widow: “To making one Button hole, SB.” It was a little Scotch girl of 7 who upon being asked whether she would marry or remain single, said, “Neither; I shall be a widow.” g [Shavings from a planing mill in Chicago; are, by an air-blast, blown 70U feet, through a 15 inch sheet iron pipe, to a distillery, where they are burned for fuel. Mrs. Partington again: “Poor man!” said the old lady; “so he’s really gone at last! Ninety-eight, was he? Dear, dear! to think how if he’d lived two years longer he would have been a centurion.” To learn to do the littles is the true way to the doing of the great. Life is not two or things, but a multiplicity of little ones. To be faithful in that which is least, is the high road to ruling over much.

A colored man appeared before a magistrate, charged with some trivial offense. The latter said to the man: “You can go now; but let me warn you never to appear here again.” The man replied, with a broad grin: “I wouldn’t be here dis time, only de constable fetch me.” A waxwork figure of Franklin, on exhibition in France, is labelled, “Frauckliu, inventor ot electricity,— This savant, after having made seven voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was de voured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.” “Be sure and always plant sunflowers every Spring around your drains and kitchen windows,* was the advice given by an experienced physician to a voting housekeeper. “It will save a world of suffering and a heavy doctor’s bill. Fevers, or any malarial disease, will uot visit a house that is pr< tented by a battalion of sunflow ers.”

“ Thar is times for all things,” says Daddy Wilson, “and one of the best of ’em is the time when you hold both both bowers and the ace—don’t you disremember it.” “But,” says his grandson, “s’pose the joker an’ king an’ queen, an’ nine an’ 10 is in the other Cellar’s hand, what then?” “Duru your improvements!” exclaimed the old man sorrowfully. ’’See,” said a reverend gentleman; ‘ here is an illustration. At onetime I should have sworn awfully at this fly—but, look now.” liaising his hand, he said, gently, “Go away, fly; go away.” Hut the fly only tickled his nose the more. The reverend gentleman,raising his hand with some vehemence, made a grab a. the offender, ami, being successful, opened it t<» throw the insect from him, when in extreme disgust he exclaimed: “Why, <l—n it, it’s a wasp.” Two girls belonging to> a churtthchoir in Dos Agelos, Cal., got locked in the church tin* other night, while they were talking over the fashions. They gave the ahrm, when a- man living near the church put a board up to the winnow and they slid down to the ground. Tne most singular thing was that after they had got safely to the ground they looked mad and went off without thanking the man, and they won’t speak to him when they meet him. Hecouldy t account for it until he went to take the board down, when he got sliveis.in fits lingers and scraiched Ids Ihumb'Qi* a shingle nail tn-it slack through the board.