Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1880 — Page 2

OFFICIAL PAPKB OF JASPER COUXTI. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1880,

The Logansport Pliar. s makes a grand mistake when it designates Mr. Thompson as a “backwoods statesman," as he is the equal in ability and and intelligence of Calkins, Packard, or any radical competititor named against him this year, but theD he is in a deuco of a mix fora “war record.” RADICAL MASS CONVENTION ■ | [ Notwithstanding the fact that the Republican Mass Convention which assembled at the Court. House on Saturday last was extensively advertised> and an unusually vigorous effort made by the fellows wdio run the machine to secure a large representatien, and givo the “grand old party” a boom, but about 150 persons were in attendance, all told. Three townships were not represented at all, and a number of them but by one or two persons. Scarcely any enthusiasm was maifested, and it is not strange that such was the case, as there is still enough de coney left in the Republican party to conduct a funeral with propriety, especially when that party furnishes the corpse.

The convention was made up of about fifty Democrats and Nationals, who dropped in to see how the “old thing wonted,” twenty-five or thirty boys who, understanding that a re publican convention was equal to a menagerie and circus, were on hand to look at the animals, and witness the ring-masters make them perform, which they did, as they always have done, In a most admirable manner.

Bro. James, P. M , member of State Cen. Com., chairman Rep. Co. Corn., and See’y of State—in his eye—in pursuance of the Civil Service ordei of Fraud Hayes, called theconvention to order, and to more fully demonstrate his respect for the civil service system of the Frau i made a short, speech, in which he admitted that the party had possibly but barely 25 majority in the county. This statement was in marked contrast with one made by him two yeas ago when, in a speech accepting the chairmanship of the County Cen. Com lie boastingly declared that the republicans would sweep the county by six hundred majority. It will be remembered that they did no such thing, and since then' people are prone to believe that he is not gifted with the spirit of prouhecy. At this stage of tho proceedings John Querry, who it i» said has one eye on the county treasuryship, was elected chairman, and made a speech which was commendable only for its brevity. Capt. John M. Wasson, who iuts both eyes on tiie exchequer of the county was elected secretary, and took his sort along side his venerable competitor from Gillum.

It is supposed that some of the patriots who were manipulating the convention were not satisfied with it as organized, and therefore tiie member of the Stato Cen. Com, instructed it to appoint a committee of one from each township to select officers to preside over it. This being accomplished, partially, the convention took a recess for dinner and drinks.

Upon the reassembling of the convention the committee reported the selection of H. W. Snyder, lawyer, President; I. P>. Washburn, doctor, Secrotary, and John E. Alter, merchant, asssistant secretary. The report being concurred in by the convention the “little giant” assumed the duties of president, and when he had linished his speech, Genei al Thompson, the battle-scarred veteran who is still bleeding—the people—rushed to the front and presented the president with a little book containing a programme of exercises, and the General then retreated as gracefully as he did from Camp Chase in 18(51, when lie woke up with a bad cold. The president, having written in Btruetions how to proceed announced that, the selection of a Central Com. was the first business in order, whereupon two pet sons from each township were selected to serve as such committee. Henry I. Adams was elected chairman, and M- O. Cissel, Secretary. It is expected that this committee will fill out at once the circular issued by Marshal Dudley, and perform such other duties as the “ring masters” mav direct, and as a reward foi their services each member of the committee is promised the Sheriff’s office.

The brethren of the several townships were, on motion of Hayes’ post, master, instructed to meet on the 27th proximo and organize township committees, and nominate candidates for township officers. This motion was carried unanimously, but would not have been had the candidates for trustee and assessor of the various townships present been prohibited from voting.

Capt. Frank W. Babcock moved that the nomination of candidates for county officers be by primary election. The p. m. offered an amendment that caucuses be held iu the several townships, delegates selected to a county convention, and they instructed for whom to vote. Considerable discussion followed, Capt. Babcock—who afterwards got hurt,— R. 8. Dwiggins, 11. E James. Dr. Washburn and Charley Clifton all taking a lmnd, but none of them playing a trump. In order that quiet be restored, and that alljcandidates present might have a chance to electioneer each other for the office of Sheriff and Treasurer, all the business mapped out in the programme was laid on the table, save that of electing delegates to the State, and District conventions. One delegate fi om each

town and township in the county was selected to attend these conventions, except the township of Carpenter

Which tons not given a delegate to the ! State fconventioif. tVhy? The delegates were not instructed to vote for j an£ particular person, but it is expect- j sd that the delegates to the CoDgre3- j sionnl convention will read the Bit- ' ter war history of General Thompson j between now and the 25th inst., so j that they can give the voters of the j 10th Congressional district the exact number of (codfish) balls that pierced his manly breast during the late un pleasantness. Jared Benjamin introduced a resolution indorsing the administration of Frank W. Babcock as Prosecuting Attorney, and recommending his reelection. When the vote in support of the resolution was called profound silence prevailed, every person in the house being as dumb us an oyster.

Jaspor County’s Candidate for Congress.”

On the appearance of the Sentinel with the article concerning General Thompsons “war record,” “Jasper county’s candidate for Congress” was sorely troubled, and in anguish of soul exclaimed, “ what shall I do to be saved”—fromjthejhands of my friends ? “What shall be done about my war record ?” A council of the wise-heads of the party was called in consultation, and it was determined to institute a vigorous search for the needed record. Emissaries were dispatched to various points in the district. Lycurgus stepped off the narrow gauge at Delphi, and the County Physician put in his time in the city of Logansport and county of Cass. Four days were consumed in the hunt along the Wabash, the Eel, and the Tippecanoe; from Delphi to Logansport, from the mouth of tiie Tippecanoe to Winatnac. Tiie desired information was at last obtained, and the little chiefs hastened to curryjthe tidings to the head chief, and rushed into his presence exclaiming: “We have found it!” and “Jasper county’s candidate” responded, “ Well done, good and faithful servan s, when I get to Congress you shall have some of the crumbs that fall from my table.” and they were exceedingly delighted thereat. The “war record,” as ascertained is thus given by his historian in last week’s Republican: “Perhaps it would not be wise in us to urge the “war record” of Jasper county's candidate for congress, but that he did go to camp Taylor, Ohio, in 1802, and offer his services to the government, cannot be denied. * * He also served sometime as a recruitingoffice!-. If his health did not permit him to enter the army at the beginning of the war he did a good job of fighting and voting against Vallandigbam Democrats.’ This is the “war record” as given by his historian. Went to “camp Taylor,” and may be kept a peanut stand until his soul became so “fired” that he abandoned it, rushed to tho “rear,” and engaged in the recruiting business. It was probably more profitable to travel over tee’country and persuade other men to leave their homes, their wives and children, and endure the hardships of a military life. Now the able bodied recruiting officer, continually urging others, and themselves refusing to go, and the sutrler, “the curse ofthe camp” were during the war equally deserving the supreme contempt of patriotic men. For lack of “war record,” then, which, “perhaps it would not be wise” to urge the devoted biographer of of “Jasper county’s candidate for congress” tells us that “he did a good job of lighting .and voting against Yallandighatn Democrats.” The biographer himself diil that; and a sufficient following of tiie radical paity to carry the elections did the same thing.— But so soon as tiie ‘ boys in blue” returned the table turned and Democ racy assumed the ascendancy. But, seriously? what a God send for the nation that the health of “Jasper county's candidate for congress" failed just when it did. But, “God moves in a mysterious way, His woundurs to perform,” and had General Thompson gone to the front, instead of to the rear, there is no doubt bat what Vallandigbam would have been elected Governor of Ohio and taken the “Buckeye” State into the very vortex of treason, and perhaps would have dragged it into the Gulf of* Mexico. The last version of the military career of “Jasper county’s candidate for congress” is a hundred fold more ridiculous than the first.

On several occasions the publisher of the Republican has boasted that ere long he would have the “Democratic scalp of the editor of the Sentinel daugling in his wigwom.” A friend at our elbow, for the benefit of the “big war chief” of the Republican suggests that the chairman ofj the Radical Central committee go to Nor man Warner’s hardware store and purchase one of “Norm’s” machines for extracting wind front beans, and operate once or twice a week upon the Republican editor, as there is evidently too much wind in his Bitters. The “big chief” might read with profit the history of the Giant of Pbilistia, who was an egotistical, blustering braggart, and defied the armies of the living God. He, too, was a “big ingin,” put on bis war paint and threatened to have the scalps of the Israelitish chiefs dangling in his wigwam, out the stripling David stepped fortli.aud with his sling and pebbles knocked the wind out of the boasting bully, and the Gitite was laid low in the valley of Elah. Aud the unciroumsed Radical Philistine should take warning from this result and understand, when lie becomes overly windy, that there is a God in Israel.

Delphi Journal: “The many warm, personal friends of J. D. Cowdin will rejoice to learn that he has been appointed clerk of the Northern State prison. Jerre, as he is known here, will make an excellent officer.”

Delphi Journal: Rensselaer hasgot up such a boom in the corn market that one engine is constantly employed hauling corn from that city.

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION!

ftie Ratio of Representation by Delegates for Each County. The following call has been issued by the Democratic State Central Committee: Tiie voters of Indiana, regardless of past political affiliations, who are desirous of co-operating with tiie Democracy in the support of its principles and nominees, are invited topaiticipate in the met tings called tliro’out the State for the purpose of se lecting rehresentatives to attend a delegate convention, to beheld in the City of Indianapolis, WEDNESDAY, JUNE9,IBBO, for the purpose of adopting a platform of principles and the nomination of candidates to be supported for the folic wing offices; Gov ernor, iieuD mint governor, two judges of the supreme court, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, clerk of the supreme court reporter of the supreme court, attorney general, and superintendent of public instruction. The ratio of representation will be one delegate for each 2<J(j votes cast for Governor James D. Williams, in 1876, and one delegate for each fraction of 100 or over, as follows:

Counties'. vote for No. of Williams. Del. Adams 1,98:1 9 Allen 7,558 88 liartholomew 3,818 11 Benton 1.179 6 Blackford 813 4 Boone 3,405 12 Brown 1.358 (i Carrol! 3.388 11 Cass : 8,515 18 Clark • 3,335 16 Clay.: 3,882 13 Clinton 3,821 13 Crawford.... 1,338 8 Daviess 3,141 13 Dearborn ■■. 3,438 13 Decatur.... 3.413 13 Delaware 1,884 8 DeKalb 2,597 13 Dubois 3,381 13 Elkhart 3,410 17 Ell vet te, 1.307 7 Floyd 2,857 14 Fountain 2,i)81 10 Franklin .' 3 993 15 Fulton 1,724 9 Gibson 3,382 II Grant 2.058 10 Greene 2,121 11 Hamilton 1,782 9 Hancock 2,104 11 Harrison 2,411 12 Hendricks 1,872 9 Henry 1,881 9 llowaid 1,744 9 Huntingdon 2 520 13 ■Jackson 2,738 14 Jasper 722 4 .Jay 1,844 9 Jefferson 2,772 Jennings 1.778 9 Johnson . 2,381 12 Knox 3,132 18 Koscisko 2.888 13 Lagrange 1,205 8 Lake 1,274 8 I.aporte 3,888 18 Lawrence 1,074 8 Madison 3.413 17 Marion... 11,350 ot Marshall 2,805 14 Martin 1.838 .Miami 2,944 15 Monroe 1.5. >9 8 Montgomery 3,188 16 Morgan I-*® 10 Newton * ,1 Noble 2,636 13 Ohio 558 4 Orange 1.620 » Owen ; 1,911 10 Parke. 1.855 ® Perrv 1,758 9 Pike 1-600 8 Porter 1,630 8 Posey 2,364 12 Pulaski 1,221 6 Putnam! 2,805 14 Randolph 1.995 10 Kip lev 2,370 12 Hush’ 2,201 11 Scotr. 1,003 5 Shelby 3,178 16 Spencer 3,475 12 Starke 590 3 Steuben 796 4 St. Joseph 3,524 18 Sullivan 2.892 1! Switzerland 1.388 7 Tippecanoe ... 3,183 30 Tipton 1.753 9 Union 799 4 Yanderburg 3.933 20 Vermillion 1,032 5 Vigo ... 3,673 IK Wabash ." 2,311 12 warren . Warrieh.. 2,260 11 Wayne 3.162 16 Washington.... 2.344 12 Wells., 2,307 12 White 1,496 7 W) itlev 2,096 10

Total delegate. l * • • • 1,069 Necessary ta a choice ... 525 The delegates from each congressional district will meet on tiie evening previous to the convention, at places to be hereafter designated by this committee, for the purpose of selecting and reporting to the convention one committeeman on per manent organization, one committeeman on platform and resolutions, one vice president for the convention, one assistant secretary for the convention, two delegates to National Peraocratic convention, two alternate delegates to National Democratic convention, one presidential elector, one contingent presidential elector, one member of the State Central Committee to serve for the ensuing two years, and one committeeman on ere dentials,

The committee on platform and re solutions will meet immediately after the adjournment of the district meetings, say 9 o'clock p. in., at the consultation rooms of thesupreme court. Tuesday evening, June 8. The committee on permanent organization will meet at the same hour in the governor’s office. It will be their duty to name a president and principal secretary of the convention, four delegates at largo and four alternate delegates to the National eon vention, two electors for the State at large, and also two contingent electors, and also recommend rules for the government of the convention. The committee on credentials will meet at 8 o’clock,a. tm» Wednesday, June 9, at rooms of the State Central Committee, to determine such contests as may be submitted to them. Delegate tickets of admission to convention will be issued to the chairman of each county delegation, and to authorized r presentatives of the press upon the presentation of credentials at the State Central Committee rooms, Masonic building. By order of the Democratic State Central Committee. B. C, Shaw, Chairman. James H. Rice, Secretary. In connection with the above call the committee have issued the following CIRCULAR. In politics, as iu business, success is tnosi surely attained by systematic organization and energy. No matter how earnest members of a party may be, individually, it requires unity of action to accomplish definite results. It is utteily impossible to conduct a campaign with any degree of cer tainty unless there is a method adopted by which reports can be reliably and promptly made to the proper au thority of the party. The primary and most important matter in a campaign is the appointment of members on the standing committees, to which is intrusted the party management of each locality; therelore the utmost care should be exercised in their selection. No person should be chosen to such position simply for the purpose of giving tone and dignity to the organization, but more especially for their knowledge. earnestness, and activity in political management, prompt iu the execution of duties assigned them, and possessing the confidence of the patty iu their locality as to efficiency, and who will consent to devote the ! necessary time to the party’s interest I and promptly communicate with the ’ several headquarters in relation there- I to. j

For the purpose of making the organization throughout the State useful and effective, the foliowiug directions are issued: 1. Organization should begin as early as possible in the campaign year at a time prior to the April election; certainly before the meeting of the State convention. 2. Each township, at the meeting for the nomination of candidates to be voted for at the April election, should select its local committee and the officers {hereof for the ensuing two years. 3. The chairman of the several township committees thus chosen, should, at the meeting of the County convention, be selected as members of the County Central Committee, which should as soon thereafter as possible organize by the selection of the necessary officers. 4. The chairman, secretaries and treasures of County committee ia each judicial or joint legislative district should eonstiti te the joint committee for said district. 5. The ehait man of the several county committees in each district should constitute tne congressional district committee, having for its chairman the member of the State Central com mittee, who is selected by the district delegates in State convention. G. Immediately after the organization of.the County Central committee, the chairman or secretary thereof should transmit to these headquarters the names, township and post office address of each officer and member thereof 7. A full and complete list of noun ty and township nominees of tiie party, giving post-office address of eacn, should be transmitted to these head quarters immediately after selection. 8. As the last legislative apportionment leaves many joint represent -■ tive districts without pioperly authorized committees, therefore, to prevent the possibility of confusion in such districts the following instructions are issued: The chairmen, secret-tries and treas nrers, pr- ner, of the committees in the counties composing a joint representative district shall constitute tiie committee for such district. The chairman of the committee from the most populous county shall act as chairman of sueh joint <ommittee. If t»y reason of an even vote of such committee there should be a failure to determine ratio of representation forjoiat convention, then, in that case the ratio shall be one delegate for each 100 votes cast for Governor James D. Williams and one delegate for each fraction of 50 or over. These rules will also apply to judicial district committees. 9. All communications, filling of blanks and reports to headquarters containing names or figures, should be plainly written out in order that mistakes may be avoided.

John Hunt, of lowa, will not attend a prayer meeting for six months to come. The Detroit Free Press says that one of the brethren in a prayer meeting asked him to sing, and he yanked this out; Away 3own South A nigger in the water Was standin’ in a mill pond Longer than he oughter* The judge gave him six mouths. Don’t fail to go to C. C Starr’s new store for anything you want in the Grocery or Queensware line, and examine his goods and prices before making your purchases. Standard do 1 • -r. J. IGV.O, XV/t AO lltw motto.

Driven Well Users

In Jasper county are hereby notified that from this date the full Royalty of Ten dollars each on Domestic and Farm wells not exceeding I■} inches in diameter, will invariably be charg ed. Our Agent, Mr. James E. Franklin, Indianapolis, Indiana, is prepared to issue Licenses. The U. S. Courts have again affirmed the validity of the Green Patent. Five U. S. Judges are now recorded in its favor, and no adverse decision has ever been given. The patent lias been vigorously contested apd its validity maintained without any expense to the people of this County, and before commencing suits in tiie County, as we shall soon do without further notice, all infringers have the opportunity to settle without costs. Jan. 31, 1880. WM. D. ANDREWS & BRO. I authorize no agent to collect, and payment, can only be made as above except in eases of suit, when payment is made only to McDONALD & BUTLER, our Attorneys. James E. Franklin, Agent, Indianapolis, Ind. Jan. 30, 1880.

LIFE INSURANCE.

The Royal Protective Union, of Ft. Wayne, is the cheapest and most practicable Life and Accident Insurance Company that now extends its benefits to the people of this district. This Association is purely mutual and is the oldest form of protection in America. It furnishes Life Polices for one fourth the amount charged by the old system of insuring.— The Plan is similar to that of the Masonic Mutual Aid Societies that have gained the confidence of the public at large. We insure jail persons between the ages of 15 and 65 that can pass the examination.— It casts sl2 to become a member of this association in the district. The death assessment is $1 for each member that dies* Also an assessment of $3 per year is m&de for sick and accident fund. Each member receives $5 per week when sick or disabled by accident. Idie amount ot policy runs from SI,OOO to s4,ooo,according to age, payable at death, or at a certain number ot vears—from 10 to 25 years Full particulars will be sent upon application. Local agents wanted in every town in the district. Address P. R. Faling, Moniicello, Ind, Elza I. Phillips, Rensselaer, agent tor Jasper county.

A WINTER TOUR.

Embracing a Trip to St. Louis, thro’ the Sunny South, a Gulf Ride, and Home via Texas, Arkansas, or In dian Territory.

The Winter is the season during which business men, and especially farmers, can best afford to leave the wareroom or the farm tor a journey in search of recreation and pleasure, the chief drawback being the inauspicious condition of the weather lor such a trip noith of Mason and Dixon’s line between the months ot October and May. * This objection is overcome in the following tour arranged for the benefit of health aud pleasure-seekers, via PanHandle Route and connections, through Mississippi and Louisiana to New Orcans; by Gulf steamer to Galvesion, Texas, returning to St. Louis aid home yia Pan Handle Route and connections. 3 Tickets are fiist class, and good to return until June Ist ISSO. A detour may be made from Houston to the old Span** I ish winter resort of Ran Antonio.

R»te for round trip will be from fifty to seventy-five dollars, according to starting point. Round trip tickets will also be sold to Florida via Pan Handle Route and con* nections. For information regarding routes, rates and conveniences of travel, address W. L. O'Brien, General Passenger Agent Pan-Handle Route. Columbus, Ohio

The Constitutional Amendments.

Seven important amendments to the Constitution of Indiana have been agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assemblies of 1877 and 1879, and by an act of the last General Assembly, approved March 10,1877, these said amendments are to be submitted to the electors pf the State of Indiana for ratification or rejection, at an election to be held on the first. Monday in April, 1880. The law providing for the submission of these amenoments to the electors of the State enacts that“the secretary of State shall procure ballots or blue paper, on each of which shall be printed the proposed amendments, and below each amendment shall bo primed the word “Yes” in one line, and in another line the word “No,” that any qualified elector may vote for or ugainst any amendment by depositing one of said ballots in the ballot box. If he intends to vote for any amendment he shall leave thereunder the word ‘Yes,’ and erase the word ‘No’ by drawing a line across it, or otherwise. If he intends to vote against ary amendment, the word ‘Yes’ shall in like manner be stricken out and the word ‘No’left; and if both words are allowed to remain without either of them being so erased, the vote shall not be counted either way. These amendments are designated by numbers, and are numbered 1,2, 3, 4. 5, 6 and 9, numbers 7 and 8 having failed to receive a majority of votes of both branches of the last General Assembly.

AMENDMENT NO. 1. Amend section 2 of article 2 so as to read as follows: Section 2. In all elections not otherwise provided for by this constitution, every male citizen of the United States of the age of 21 j T ears and upward, who shall have resided in the State during the six months, and in the township GO days, and in the ward or precinct 30 days immediately preceding such election, and every male of foreigu birth, of the age of 21 years and upward, who shall have resided in the United States one year, and shall have resided in the State during the six months, and in the township 60 days, and in the ward or precinct 30 days immediately preceding said election, and shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States conformably to the laws of the United States ou the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote in the township or precinct where he may reside, if he shall have been duly registered according to law.

AMENDMENT NO 2 simply provides for striking out the words “No negro or mulatto shall have the right of suffrage,” contained in section 5 of Hie second article of the AMENDMENT NO. 3. Amend section 14 of the second article to read: Section 14. All general elections shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, but township elections may be held ar. such time as may be provided by law. Provided, that the General Assembly may provide by law for the election of all judges of courts of general and appellate jurisdiction by an election to be held for such officers only, at which time no other officers shall be voted for; and shall also provide for the registration of all persons entitled to vote. AMENDMENT NO. 4 amends by striking the word “white” from sections 4 and 5 of article 4, conforming the same to the constitution of the United States. AMENDMENT NO. 5 amends the fourteenth clause of section 22 of article 4 to read as follows: In relation to fees or salaries, exeept the laws may be so made as to grade the compensation of officers in proportion to the population and the necessary services required. AMENDMENT NO. 6. The following amendment is proposed to wit: Amend section 1 of the seventh article to read: Section 1. The judicial power of the State shall be vested in a supreme court,circuit courts, and such other courts as the General Assembly may establish. The words “such other courts” are suostituted for the words, “such inferior courts.”

AMENDMENT no. 9. No political or municipal corporation in this State shall ever become indebted, in any manner, or for any purpose, to an amount in the aggregate exceeding 2 per centum on the value of the taxable property within said corporation, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness, and all bonds or obligations in excess of such amount given by such corporations shall bo void; provided that in time of war, foreign invasion, or other great public calamity, on petition of a majority of the property-owners, in number and value, within the limits of such corporation, the public authorities, iu their discretion, may incur obligations necessary for public protection and defense, to such amount as may be requested in said petition.

• Q Jjjuwlt . uj HflHihi -i JfingKyffira PATENT BPAEK-ARKESTKR. W Sg&BSßgE^Sg^ 8 -a P. Mounted, $650. 12 - “ ,M- 2-a P. Eureka, $l6O. 12 “ “ 1000. 4 “ - 260. Send for our Circulars. r ■ B .W.P» E j|^oM,Oom ?& S;T. T. MV JONES, [Late of Kankakee City, Ill.] Merchant Tailor, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. WILL ' ut and make .suits for men, youths and children. Work warranted, satisaciongi iranteed. Full Line of Piece Goods kept n stock. The finest, best and cheapest stoe sever brought to /fensselaer, Call and see Orders solicited. (Hapt. 27. 1878.

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1880 1880 Indiana Weekly STATE SENTINEL. Enlarged, Improved. 81.00 Per Annum THE PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. PROSPECTUS FOR 1880. The coming presidential year promises to be the most eventful anti thrilling in a political sense that we have ever witnessed, and,will determine questions of the moat vital importance to every citizen of the State and nation. It is not improbable—indeed it is almost certain that, upon the determination of these questions, will depend the perpetuity of our present system of free government. These questions will he thoroughly discussed during the present session of Congress. Ihe hentinel has arranged for a first ciass, experienced, special correspondent at Washington, and in addition to giving a true account of all the general proceedings iu that body, will give the leading speeches of our most prominent states men, and without depriving our patrons of the usual amount of reading matter. Tho Sentinel will hereafter contain supplement, [making iu ull Sixty Columns of composition. In a word, it is the purpose of The Seutiuel, as a steadfast watchman of public intelligence, to do its whole duty in ultording information to its sill) senders upon ull these topics of such vast moment. Asm Tti so in 80Indiana will be culled upon to take a first position in the front of the great, contest, and upon the success or tailure of the great and gallant Democracy of our State will depend the fate of issues the most portentous ever submitted to tile arbitrament ol a free people. Wesliull also specially cull attention, from day today, as occasion may require, to an entirely Nkw Til as i: in the politics ol our Slate—we mean the forced emigration for temporary partiznn purposes ol pauper negroes from Hie South into Indiana. 'i he managers and leaders of the Hepubli can party, in our State and at Washington, are now engaged iu this nefarious work, and are attempting by every means in their power to promote its advancement. They have failed,utterlv failed to convince our people of the correctness o’l their political principles, by reason or argument; their appeals to hatred and prejudice have fallen harmless; their lavish and corrupt expenditures ol public and private moneys have proved wholly futile. They propose now by an African invasion oi worse than a vandal horde of beggars and men dicants to override the voice of the people of the State, and to drown the Democratic majority. The last resort, the forlorn hope, the assaulting’party, the picket assaulting corps of Kepublicanism iu liwlkauauk.x&mniiwl'APOmji/A'.i'tom.tib’.Lijui.uo*, not from the intelligence or ability of thut party, but is composed of a motley, parti colored gung wretched field negroes from the South. The froth and scum of this worthless importation are made use of to destroy the free franchise ol' resident citizens, and to tax our means of home labor and domestic subsistence for the support of tho political tenets of a defeated taction. The sleepless Sentinel, upon the heights of popular rights and popular liberty, predicts that this movement wil; also be a failure. With respect to this before quheard of method of manufacturingpartv majorities in a State, we shall at all times ivo tlie latest and most reliable intelligence. The American Democracy, the Federal Union, tho rights of a lePpople and the States, one and inseparable—now and forever. 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EIGLESBACHS Meat-Market. FRESH BEEF Of the j2est Quality Always onlHand Finest Steaks. 3 pounds for 25 ete., Roasts, 6 to 7 cents a pound; choice Boiling Pieces, 4 to 5 cehts a pound Rooms always neat and clean. Proprietor always attentive.

RENSSELAER Marble Works Bans. Howl an d, JjEALEIt in and Manufacturer of Monuments, Head-Stones, Slabs, Tablets, Sic., FROM THE REST MuiiliuMe IM Slate and Marble inns, US 1 IBS, Washington Street, Rensselaer, Ind. Nearly Opposite Banking House of McCoy & Thompson. McCollum & Tuiner WIDE AWAKE! Looking out for 6’a.sh Customers to sell their NEW STOCK Goods ehea/er titan ever before! [mass, sob, sfss, And a full line of AMERICAN 11 if ©g g €J ©© 4 g BOOTS & HATS! We sell the justly e< lebrated TIFFIN' SHOE $ And W'UT.int every pair f ogive sat isfaef ion ! Give ns a call and we Will show you the cheapest stuck in the market. IcCOLLUM TURNER. Montieello, Ind.. -Vugnsr.3o. 1878--Iy.

SHERIFF’S SALE BY VIRTUE of a certified copy of a Decree to me directed from the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, in a cause wherein John Makcever is Plaintiff, and .John A. lienson, Sarah A. Benson, Ralnn Fendig, Abraham Leopold, Cornelius M. Horner. James H. Turpin, Emma J. Turpic, lUilliam Turpic, Mary I-Turpic, The Walter A- Wood Mowing and Heaping Machine Comnany, George T. Jones, and Jones, the wife of George T. Jones, are Defendants, requiring me to make the sum of Four Hundred and Seven-ty-eight dollars and Forty-three cents, with interest on said decree and costs, i will expose at Public .sale, to the highest bidder, on Saturday, the 28th Day of February, A. D. 1880, between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and 4 o’clock P. M., of said day. at the; door of the Court House in the Town of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, the following real estate , to wit: Tbeeastlialf (14) of the south-’vest quarter (J 4 of section seventeen <l7], anil the north-east quarter (hi) of the north-west quarter (hi) )f section twenty (20), all in township twenty-eight [2B) north of range live (5) west, in Jasper county, and State of Indiana. if such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I Will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as maybe sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws, and in accordance with the order ot the court in said Decree. GEO. M. ROBINSON. Sheriff Jasper County, Indiana. Thompson & Bro., Attorneys for pl’flf. January{3o, 1880— fit 25. SHERIFF’S SALE.—By virtue of a certified copy of a Decree to me directed from the Clerk of the Jatper Circuit Court in a cause wherein John Makeever is Plaintiff, and David L. Irvine, Matilda Ann Irvine, Cyrus H. McCormick and Leander J. McCormick are defendants, requiring me to make the sum of Four Hundred and eighteen Dollars and seventy cents, with interest on said decree and costs, I will expose at Public Sale to the highest-bidder, on SATURDAY, the 28th day of FEBRUARY, A. D. 1880, between tinhours of 10 o’alock, a. m. ard 4 o'clock p. ji., of said day, at the door of the Court House in the Town of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, the rents and profits fora term not exceeding seven years, the following real estate, to-wit: The south-west quarter (14) of the southeast quarter (J4J : the so’-th-east quarter | >*) of the south-west quarter [k t, and tiie east half [!4) of the south-west quarter (*4) of the south-west quarter [hi) of section twentytwo [22], in Townshiptwenty-cight [2Bl north of range six l«) west, in Jasper county and State of Indiana. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and losts, I will, at the same time and I place, exnose to public sale the fee simple of j said real estate, or so rnuen thereof as may ! be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Saul sale will be made with- j out any relief whatever from valuation or , appraisement laws, and iq accordance with | the order of Court in said Decree. GEO. M. ROBINSON. Sheriff j of Jasper county. Thompson & Bro., Att'ys for plaintiff. j January 30.1880.—fin.

:;IE HOLMAN Liver & Siomacli Pai ’ AND 00 f Medicinal Absorptive 5E 1 BObY & FOOT PLASTERS AND ABSORPTION SALT 3 l for Baths. C../S Without Medicine. Simply by Absorption. TMt Best Liver, Stomach and Spleen Doctot in the World. Facts for thb Public! The Stomach and Liver are the sourcvs of vigor and -- health —it Kept in a fST healthy condition. tjljf-? There"is no known Ra A - remedy that will so promptly and tffifiSßajsigSag dent tv " insure a healthy SroMACR and Liver, and so thoroughly • fortify g \\ 1/ \ tlie system against V J \'x l. g 1 the sudden changes $ I? y•/ j> -'1 of our climate, as the f 6>. '; t/i T 1 wonderful, vitalilF „ jfc: .J mg, health giving ' I 'Elman Lher an 3 ■ Drx;.;.l p«d. iu» 'it ' yi" | also n sure prevenTrap;: Makx. five oj disease. Do not fail to try it. The Holm in ’ iver and Stomach Pad Jl ’or.is by ab-ei. ;i. 10 two fold in its action—gire* arid tabes,' JTi foiled, Elective, Harmless. IT is marvelous m its prompt ami radical cure ol everv vies of i : vmi and bTOMACIt difficulties, the s--at of most alfdiseasos. IT is worn over the \ It.its, Liver and Stomach. IT i n\ ; s torpidity ol tlie I.iver, gives tone to the Sto inch : ■arresting ■rs mentation and pain by giving it 're. ■ t>..?ur.: 1 q-.iin-.ty of Idle and gastric juices. IT ■; I n V.: ..V . ; urn entire iy-svm with Nature’s if ~■ ■ crTer'iO.-at'.d and poisonous fluids in the .m.i.: . ;u. i ;!i is prevent., their entering- the svs>c it by wo. <>f circulation. IT b-. . from the body every particle pf bloodpm. whet'.ter binemalarial or medicinal, and 1c .. os i’.- wearer In perfect health. IT is it.e most wonderiul discovery of the nine- ; tec nth riv.tnrv, and no.'.Us a new era in the history ofmedl \U sci- nce. IT is a fact, incontestably proved in thour.r.n.ls t. • m thousands of cases .that the Hotmat J. ■.or and Stomach Pad will do all that ■ f far it. It zvill cure Fever and Ague, Bitinn Jh< ■ ders, I.iver Camp lain is. Intermittent FePeriodical Headaches, Dyspepsia, Ague Cake, l s/l /', , J >•;/.•,/. Afue, Bit ions Fever, Jaundice, . Fidnet Troubles. Irregular Action o) t.• dj. -.?.., Hh.■unit! I Lent, all kinds of Female Weak c si. i Headache, Lumbago, Siatica, Pain it, , Side Ba. {, Star,inch,Shoulders and Muscles, BMouc t'< 'v. us Dial■rhera. Ft '. i or safely, tonvenit i.ee and efiectivcness, it com- ! mc-itils iisrlf to c-verv household. Per..! for cur pamphlet, giving extended informs- ' tio-t .1! 1 tedimcaia's. Caution to tlie Publlc.-/?cn<»« of poisonous , did // audulet. t trail., ti ns forced upon the market by I ..' ■ nit.., and unprincipled adventurers to be sold ou I'.T’t r ) station of the genuine. Buy none but the lifolniaa Pcd, etc.' Descriptive Price List. 1 Steg-ulfti' Pacl sj-; Incipient diseases of thl ’ Siomacli and I.iver, first .stages Chills and Fcvt ”, c! . Special Pad sj.c< ; Citri I.i • I.iver and Stomach Disorder , of c\c: v .toraij also Malaria, Hilioiisuess, etc. ' , , JiXX Pad or Spleon Bolt— $5.00; Is intended to covur l.’Ytr siml Spleen, and is sovereign rcstu-dv for nil chronic troubles. Infant Pad--,* i.-.o; l’rc'vci-tivc and Cure of Choij < i;i j nlantum, J)iphliivii.i, Scarlet Fever, ■Summer Omipluinis, etc. Body Plasters- roc. ] vj For Nervous and ! -p Circulative troubles, Foot li pair roc. i throwing off obstruc- [ r: lions and removing Absorption Salt I 3 pains* For Colds, ij jX) } o V'bxcs, §1.25 1 < Sii clc Headaches, numbness of extremities, etc. Sent by mail, free of postage, on receipt of price. Wholesale and Re‘ail Depot. 1 Room 34 Fletcher & Sharps Block, SAUIAiVAI'OJLIS, HNI>. BATES & HANLKY, for the Northwest. : Stones & Tinware. John Bennett, MO\T.( F.1.L0. -M>. i lias now i,n I■n 1< 1 tho most, oxtuhsive and , coin;.;.-to stock of ! Stoves. Tinware. Fold & Table Cutlery, Etc,, Etc., ~II» fii-i.: West. 7’ntronagcsolieitfiil. ! .. JOHN GEN NETT. isJjioMPSON

/V - ’ /V > fX.A\V\ I / . A !Sf i f@ , sh\\ 'r# 1 > 1 •-* . Watchmaker i - /v.f'in, JEWELER, Remington, Ind Dd. dale, • ATTORNKY-AT LAW MONTICKI.I.O, -... INDIANA. Office in Rank building, up stairs. ESTKAY notie, T-G\hX I I’ by Joseph Sparling, of Marion township..lnsper county. Indiana, on the J7th d“y December. 1879, One whitc'yesrling reifer wnh iod curs. No brands or marks perceptible. Appraised at ! uel\'e rlolJars, by William Day and 1-iunk Lehrs. Taken from the Docket of E. T. Ilnidjiig, J. P.. Marion Township. Jasper cotinlv I nmans. CJIARLLS it. PER;].;, ( i,. rk J [si:ai..[ JasperCireuii Court NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. The State of Indiana, ,In the Jasper CirJasper County. f euit Court, March Term, JBBU J iie Rr .voter. Insiirauev Bonipany vs. James W. Sniit hi Susmina Smith, Carriugton L. Westbrook, Westbrook his wife, Cii.-irh's A., ]>li. he-iiig, Eliza Flickering, ivuw jij 1 ho-]|jK, Lviilino Plu'ijis.iicoii Slum • gley, Jacob Johns. David Benson. IPashlllgton Seoil. James Boolier. Complaint No. 2005. NOW come the plaintiffs, by H'oleott & Je'v. ring its attorneys.and files in open ' 'uirt an afhdavi that Hie residence of the de fondants .James AY. Smith, S sauna Smith, < I)nrims A Mickering. KlizuFlli-kering.Ed-'v,n u in-ips iiini Evaime Phelps is not.in the tail, of Indiana, that said action is for the foreclosure of a mortgage, and said defendI .f l rl . parties thereto, No. ice is therefore hereby given suiddere:nia:.i s. llt at unless t hey lie and appear on drst day of the next Term of the Jasper Cir.-mt Court to lie iiolden on -.lie Third Jiond yof March, a d. Isho. at the Oouit Hon oi Rensselaer, in said County and Stale, and answer or demur to said com plaint. I he same will be lie* rd and determined mtln ir absence. By order of the Court. In witness whereof I hereunto set my band and affix the seal ( —’ — j of said Court, at Rensselaer, ■j seal, r Indiana, t hisbth day of ./anurry, ■ A . 1). 188(1. CHARLES H. PRICE. Clerk. Jasper Circuit Court. Wolcott & Levering, Att'ys for I'l'ff. January 9 1“80 in. GEORGE B. CONWULL, WA(iO.\ HAKUR, \> ag .iis, ( arrioges, Buggies, and everything else in the wood work line repaired on short notice. Prices down to hard pan. Shop on Front street, below Washington.