Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1880 — For Judge of the Supreme Court. [ARTICLE]

For Judge of the Supreme Court.

An old friend in Logansport writes ua: "Hon. N, O. Ross, of Peru, Miami county, will be acandidatefor the nomination of Judge of the Supreme Court from this, the sth district. “He is capable in the fullest sense honoroble, of the strictest integrity’ and in every way most worthy and competent for the dutei of the office. In fact no better man, in all respects, lives in Indiana.” Every word of which, from a personal acquaintance with Mr. Ross, we heartily concur in, and we trust he • may receive the nomination.

General Tom Ewing, in his speech in Congre-s on the army appropriation bill, completely spiked the Republican guns on the political rider record. He said that “the Republican Congress in twelve years, from 1864 to 1876. had put 387 political riders on appropriation bills, and the Fortythird Congress, of which Mr. Hawley was a member, had put more riders on appropriation bills than any Congress that ever sat under the dome of the Capitol. They had put on forty four political riders, for all of which the gentleman from Connecticut had no doubt voted as a true party mar. Think of it—forty-four revolutions in one Congress 1” After that the Republicans remained quiet. General Ewing had knocked the stuffing out of them. • The Repuplican this week presumes to tell “What the Greenbackers Are”; their design to absorb the Democratic party in this county, etc., ami throws out a little fulsome sop to “a few of the more intelligent Democrats, who have not been consulted.” and '* will refuse to concur in the “sell out,” then with a view to touch up the sensitive, sneeringly adds “but they will be successfully whipped iu by rhe renegades or compelle I to stand iside.” Mr. Made-yer Bitters may presume to be smarter than people of this locality, but in reality is not.— They fully understand his motives and will go on in the even tenor of their way, disregAl’tlingaliko his jeers and his flattery, and will, too, ro doubt, pursue sue h a course as will wipe out the miserable radical ring which seeks to continue its control in .parceling out the offices to favorites and tools. The independent manhood of true Democrats and true Nationals will assert its superiority over the de vices and tactics of the common en emy. —At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jasper County Agricultural Society, last Saturday, it was determined to hold the. annual fair fur 1880 on the 21st, 22d, 23d and 24th days of September; the Board reserving the right to continue beyond these dates or to postpone indefinitely sho d the weather prove unfavorable. A spe--eitil meeting of the Directors was called for Friday, 23d inst., at 10 o’clock a. iu , at the Court House, to revise the Premium List for this year. A. J. Yeoman was appointed superintendent of the horse and mule department; L. Strong superintendent of the cattle department; S- R- Nicholls superintendent of sheep and swine; Dr. I. B Washburn superintendent of poultry; Wm. S. Coen superintendent of gardening, grain, seeds, fruit and leather department; Mrs. C. F. Brown superintendent of the departments of articles of domestic skill and fruit preparations, pickels and honey; Mrs. A. Thompson superintendent of flowers and fine art department; Miss Mollie Babcock superintendent of ladies’ work and textile fabrics; W. W. Kenton superintendent of farm aparatus, farm implements, carriages, buggies, etc.; I). B. Nowels superintendent of educational department. The Society starts out forehanded this year, and the officers and directors are determined, with the co-operation of the public, which is interested and to be benefited, to leave no means untried to increase the interest and success of the annual exhibition. The same board of officers manage this years who made such an eminent success last season, and the public may rest assured that all schemes for gambling and swindling the youth and unwaty will be rigidly excluded from the Fair Grounds.

—Mr. Willis J. lines has had some misfortune with his handsome new brick residence at the bead of Front street, but the damage was not near so great or injurious to the building as represented. In fact the house is now none the worse for the accident, but if possible more secure and durable than before. Only the west wall of the west wing was affected. It happened about as follows: The entire building occupies an elegant eminence partly enclosed by an iron fence of the most modern pattern. In order to secure a dry and healthful cellar a drain was made of tiling from it to a running stream on the opposite side of the street. Some twenty feet still west of this west wing is a well, that is a “boomer,” and at this season of the year the water in it rises within four or five feet of the surface, The water seeped through the earth to the cellar wall, so another course of tiling was put in from the well to the cellar, expecting by this means to overcome all difficulties, but for a night the water was permitted to pour into the cellar, run along a little diteth near the base of the celler wall and out at the first-named drain. The result was that the earth became so soft that the wall began to sink and bulge into the cellar. Mr. Imes had it braced and propped as best he could and then hurried off to Lafayette to secure the services of an experienced architect. He found Mr. J. F. Alexander but he could not spare the time unless the work could be done on Sabbath last. It being a “sheep in a pit” Mr. Imes consented. By means of jack-screws the brick wall was kept in position until the stone wall was removed and a surer foundation laid. The former difficulties with the water have been obviated by laying the tiling deeper, so that in the future no danger can arise from this source. The elegant mansion is a credit to Rensselaer, and its builder has manifested a true spirit of enterprise in its construction.