Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — County Board of Equalization. [ARTICLE]

County Board of Equalization.

4he Count;,’ Board of |’’i]ueation met in regular session, Saturday. May 1, 1880, at the. office of the County Superintendent. The following members of the Board present : Trustees—Lucius Strong, ot Newton ; 1.,J. Porter, of Marion ;A. J. Yeoman, of Jordan ; William llvnkle. of Carpenter ; Win. Van’t Worn!, of Keener ; T. M. Jones, of Kankakee ; W. S. Stevens, of Gillam ; George Stalbaum, ot Walker; William Cooper, of Union; Charles Uosh'oaugh, of Milroy ; S, Jt, Nichols, of Barkley ; and l>. 1;. Nowels, County Superintendent. L. Strong was chosen permanent Secretary of the Board. The tegular order,of business was then proceeded with.

Under the head of new business the adoption of a school register for uniform use in the schools of tiie county was called up. On motion of A. J. Veoman, which was supported by a unanimous vole, “B. Wilson Smith's School Register for Indiana” was adopted. On motion of T. M. Jones the County Superintendent w;o authorized to perfect a system of keeping the daily records of the schools and report at the September meeting of tiie Board. Carried by unanimous vote.

The following proposition was then submitted to the Board for its consideration. , i o tiie County Board of Education, Jasper county, Indiana.—Gentlemen : 1 rovided you will at your May meeting adopt Appleton s Readers for use in tiie schools of your county during the next 6 years, we, the publishers, will at our own expense, furnish new books equal in all respects to the samples furnished you, in free exchange for the old books now in use grade for grade.

We guarantee that the retail price during the 6 years, shall not be over2o ets. for Ist reader, 30 els. for 2d, 45 cts. for 3d, 55 cts. lor 4th, and 81 for sth, and if any reduction is made in the price of materials or labor, you shall have the benefit of such reduction.

1 hirty days will be given in which to make the exchange of the old books for the new. from a time or date which the township trustees of any tow nship or the ConntySuperintendent may select. We further agree that teachers who may wish to retain their old books or who have none to exchange, can have the full series- first, second, third, fourth, and fifth readers—for sl.lO.

D. APPLETON & CO. By Hiuam Hadley, Agt. Indianapolis, April 24,1880. After a few explanatory remarks by the Comity Superintendent, it was moved by A. J. Yeoman, that unless Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., of Cincinnati, would offer their ‘•McGuffey’s Revised Reader ’on the same terms as Appleton’s Readers were offered in the foregoing proposition, that Appleton's Readers be adopted for use in the county. The motion was duly seconded and thoroughly discussed. The vote of the Board was as follows : For the motion, A. J. Yeoman, I. J. Porter, William Van’t Woucl, S. R Nichols, Charles ].oshbaugh, Lucias Strong. William Cooper, W S Stevens, George Stalbaum. Against the motion'. 1. M. Jones, M illiam Henkle. As it requires a unanimous vote to make an adoption at this time the motion was lost. The following preamble and resolution was then adopted : Whereas ; The law expressly makes it the duty of the truetees of the several townships of the State to select and employ the teachers for their schools, and W hereas; The State authorities are urging a compliance with this provision of the law from the fact that it has given the most eminent satisfaction wherever it has been generally enforced, Therefore be it Resolved—That the School Trustees of this county be required to carry out, so far as possible this provision of the law, in good faith, choosing

I I for their respective schools the best teachers ■ which it is in their power to provide. (hi motion anti second it was ordered that the | County Board of Education issue a certificate of | honor as a mark of approbation to each pnpil in ■ the comity who lias missed no time from school I during the school year of 18711 and 1880. Carrico. I Adjourned to meet in regular session on the I first dav of September, 1880. D. B. Nowels, | L. Strong, Sec y. President.

It makes but little difference whether defeat comes at the Chicago convention or at the polls in November, Grant will no longer be the hero of the American people and of the civilized world. He has forfeited his right to that respect which a grateful public would always have accords I him by his overriding an unwritten law, and attempting to force i.is way into the White House for a third term as President He can never be President again, and having tiied and ‘a 1ed, he will be lost to sight and memory as all great men who have reached the pinnacle vs fame toppled and fell into obscurity by some injudicious act of their own.—Rochester .Sentinel.

A gang of counterfeiters who have been doing an extensive business somewhere near the big huckleberry marsh in the corners of Marshall, St. Joseph and Stark counties, h: V been arrested. They ware giving tneir attention to the manufacture of Mexi cun dollars and so exnert were they at the business that thousands of tin m have got into circulation and can scarcely be detected fiom the genuine.

A large hawk in L a burg, N. C, darted upon a nine year old daughter of William Murray, and attempted to carry her away. Keeping couragi, she gave the hawk battle. After a severe struggle, in which her clothing was badly torn, she finally caught jt by the neck and leg aad succeeded pi holding .t until help came.

Adam Walker killed himself at Aurora 111., because he had been sentenced to imprisonment, and the very same day Marcus Boppe, a tramp, committed suicide at Lancaster, Pa., because a magistrate refused to send him to prison. Davis county, Kan., has produced a pig weighing 1,512 pounds. It is four years and ten months old and is of the Poland China breed. It is to be put on exhibition in some of ti e largest cities as the heaviest porker in the ‘world. Says the New York Graphic: “The New York pulpit has the biggest Bel lows, although that of Chicago has more Swing.” Yes, and New York has + he biggest Chapin the pulpit. A man having fallen down in a fit in a tailor’s shop, an envious rival said: .“That’s the only lit ever seen in that establishment.” The heirs of Thomas Jefferson have presented the nation with the desk on which the Declaration of Independence was written. An organist at Litchfield, Minn , played “What Will the Harvest Be?” as a bridal couple marched out of the church. RS. Woodin, of Goo Hand, died at the Peacock House, this place, last Saturday night.