Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1879 — On the Death of Little Homer Cotton. [ARTICLE]

On the Death of Little Homer Cotton.

He was a tall, lank fellow from the sandridgesof Jasper county, and had an innocent, confiding look. He was a silent and respectful listener while Dr. Lovett and John Cooko spread themselves, and vied with each other in yarns about marvelous pranks of baulky and unprincipled horses which they had handled in their youth ful days. The Dr. had just finished a moi e than us daily brilliant effort in regard to a peculiar trick of a horse owned by his uncle, when the cadaverous individual from the ridges suddenly straightened himself, and looking his victim square in the eye, broke in; “Speaking of hotses with bad tricks rem nds me of one my father had when I was a boy at home on the farm. Hitch him where you might, with strap, rope or log-chain, he was sure to get loose his favorite trick being to break the chain used on the stump-puller. Well, the expenses for straps, chains, etc., ran up fearfully, besides tfle inconvenience of the thing was fast telling on the old man’s mode of expression, and I determined if possible to break this horse of his chronic Dulling back. There was a pond on our farm, and at one particular place the bank was rather high, and a few feet back from the edge were several saplings. One day I took the horse out there and standing him with his tail toward the pond securely fastened his rope halter to ihe tree, and seiziug an ax stepped back and awaited developments. I hadn’t long to wait; no sooner did the animal find himself tied, than true to his habit he planted his forefeet and swung back on the rope with a mighty heave; and, stranger I’m happy to say it was his last. Quick as a flash I raised the ax, whacked that tree in two, and in a minute the horse was floundering in the mud and water of the pond, sucking the dew-drops from the water-lilies in a sort of a dazed way. He came forth reformed, and never again attempted to break a halter.” One by one the boys silently arose and departed, and at last accounts were all in a fair way to recover, with the exception of Dr. Lovett, who has takeu the story to heart; he says if the fellow had cut the halter, instead of the tree, he could die much easier.—Goodland Herald. So it would seem that the poor and humble sandridgera of Jasper county are superior to the educated and polished Goodlanders.

Indiana is in a condition to welcome as immigrants all classes of people, white or black, who are able and willing to provide for themselves. Paupers of any color are not wanted. This is the main basis of objection to making this State a point for colonization of colored people from the South. The experience of the people of Kansas has shown that nineteen-twenti-eths of these immigrants are poor, ignorant, shiftless creatures, too lazy to work and too poor to live without the aid of charity. It is fully a year since these people went to Kansas, and yet there are hundreds and perhaps thousands of them who are subsisting wholly on charity. Such people are not desirable acquisitions to any community.—Delphi Times.

Senator Conkling hasn’t an over amount of confidence in the ability of the Republicans to to carry New York in the next Presidential contest. In a recent interview he is reported as saying that the Republicans have a barepoßsjbility of carrying that State in 1880, if ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour can be kept out of the contest. The feeling in Utica among Seymour’s friends is that he can sweep the State by JOO,OOO majority next year; that

bis nomination is the one thiog that would make New York secure beyond peradventure, and that under these circumstances it would be unwise and unpatriotic in Seymour to refuse the use of his name to the convention that should nominate him by acclamation. Seymour’s health is good, though he is Dot able to bear the strain of former years. His eye is as keen as ever; his voice as strong; bis form as erect as thirty years ago. and in aopearance he bids fair to outlive several presidential terms. Ex.