Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1881 — Over the County. [ARTICLE]

Over the County.

Barkley Items. Fair weather. Strawberries in abundance. Stock is looking well. More improvement on “ Wall street.’’ May cherries are ready for market. Some of the apples are falling off. Farmers are rejoicing over the recent rains. Early planted corn is over kneehigh. “Canada” boasts of having the best wheat in the township. Good for Canada. Mr. John W. Norman is drilling a well for Ad. Robinson, Owing to the wet weather, but little corn plowing was done last week. Considerable of good road-working has been done over the township during the past week, It is thought that the meadows will not average more than half a ton per acre this season. Old Mr. Cooper, an old resident of Jasper, has been confined to nis bed for quite a while. The Republicans of this township have furnished another representative to Michigan City for a term of one year. Our oats seemed tube on the sick list before the heavy rain fall, but since thay have began to grow, and most of the fields will probably make a half crop.

Some time since Elvin Israel wa s leaning over the baluster of the Pullins brid e when his fine silver watch slipped from his pocket and fell into the channel. Repeated searches have failed to recover it. Mr. Dave Marlatt has become dissatisfied with our pleasant Indiana, and proposes to pull up stakes (as soon as circumstances will permit) and return to his old home in the “Buckeye State.” Mr. Eldridge has contracted to build the new school house—“the Star”—for $450, and is now fast at work putting it up. Mr. Guss was the builder of thejsubstautlal foundation, and those desiring work of this kind will do well to employ Mr. GHe is not excelled in rapid, neat and substantial workmanship. Mr. Florence has purchased the Howard school house for $25. A READER. June 15,1881. Everything lively on Nubin Ridge’ The dunkers have been holding a big meeting at Sand Ridge.

The schools will all close next Friday, June 17 th. Uncle George Gratner ie still on the s.ck list. Henry A, Barkley’s house is nearly completed. The carpenters have some finishing work to do yet. The new school house is progress* Ing rapidly. It is something they have needed in Southern Confederacy for a long time. Robert Randle is repairing his house, or rather making a new out of the old one, Thunder poles on H. A. Berkley’s new house. J. C. Norman is drilling a well for Ad. Robinson. John has been trying for a long time to get through to China, but has not accomplished it yet. Leroy Florence went out on a limb, last Sunday evening, and, unfortunately, limb, tree and Leroy all came ;o the ground. IIOGUL. June 15,1881.

Culp Items, The hearts of the Grangers of this fajr portion of Jasper have been made gjad by a yery timely rain. It is pleasant to me.et jthe farmers with a smile upon their phi?. Wheat, oats and grass rapidly recovering from the May drought. Sabbath school, at Randle school house, is progressing finely. The series of lectures, by Elde r Hennegar. of the Christian churbh, is of much interest to the people drawing attendants from a distance.’ He has progressed as far as “Man in Eternity or Intermediate State.” One of the most enjoyable affairs, of the season occurred at Bro. Wm Noland’s, on the 29th ultimo, it being his 52d birth-day. His old neighbors to the number of 25 or 80 met at h|s house “like a wolf upon the fold,” he

having been decoyed off to Sabbath school in the early morning. On his return he found his lawn filled with buggies, his barn filled with horses, and the surroundings filled with his old neighbors, bringing the color to his surprised cheeks. After recovering from his surprise somewhat, dinner being called, we were seated to a bountiful repast. To enumerate onefourth would take too much space, but to say that we did not do justice to turkies, chickens, pies, cakes, and a “thousand and one” othpr things, would be a misrepresentation. All in all, it was one of the most pleasura ble affairs the old citicens in this vicinity have enjoyed for a long time, 4 REFULGENT.

Items from Slip-Up-Health is good. Fine weather for corn. Work on the railroad is progressing. Business is lively at the saw mill again. J. B. Heistand has had to take con trol of the engine again. Several engineers have tied to handle that engine, but none of them can compete with Heistand. Master Punch Plat, is herding cattle in the north woods. He hasn’t learned those swamps yet. His horse has been down twice We think he will scon hang his hide on a bush. The long-locked for has returned from the West, looks well, and speaks kindly of those savage red-skins. Girls, look out: the boys are begin uing to fix up their old harness for Fourth, and you haven’t much time in which to make your choice. Mr. James Yeoman has fenced his timber at Slip-Up. Mr. S. P. Thompson contemplates building three fourths of a mile more fence to enclose his north pasture. Charley Harding, the great, soon got enough running a railroad shanty.

Mr. Sparks is shanty-superiniend-ent at Slip-Up just now, aud is hav ing good success. a Zeb. Swaim contemplates soon building one aud one-half miles fence on his farm. He means business.— Girls youst look a little ont. He will be aiound.

Miss Phagley is teaching a good school at Bob-Tail school house. A man out north has done some grading who says he will just come Samson on it—that he will packoff about a half mile of the road. Considerable business at HardScrabble, north of Rensselaer, this spring. Tom Davisson is selling goods at that place: He selfs for ready pay, And lives to sell another day, Amos Alter has fenced his brush farm. The girl south of school house must look out. Fur want of a secretary the Sabbath school at Piannville is not yet fully organized. The King of Slip-Up is Supervisor, and is doing a good work on some the ponds. S. P. Thornton is expecting his son in-law home from Little Rock, Arkansas. •* Green Thornton is very poorly with Erysipelas. There will soon be a wedding at Piannoville The boys are gathering up all the bells aud putting them in good trim. H. St. Clair is going to build u nice house in Piannoville. We glory in his spunk, but think his judgment poor. Good night for th?, present. SAND-LAPPER. June 14th, 1881.

LETTER FROM WEST VIRGINIA. Kenawha Falls, W. Va„ 1 June 3, 1881. f Deak Mac.: Here we are in the mountains of West Virginia enjoying a ftw days of recreation after four years of college work. We number seventeen, and consist of the members of the senior class of Wabash College, under charge of Prof. Jonn Coulter. A stranger would fail to perceive in our crowd that dignity and gravity for which seniors are especially noted, for the fact is we came here to have a good, interesting and instructive time, before receiving our “sheepskins,” and we propose to do so, in defiance of the lex non scripta of fashion, and the antiquity of cus tom.

We came here principally for knowledge, but incidentally fcr several other purposes,—for the knowledge to he acquired in studying the geology of the country hereabouts, and in viewing the grand, massive, and won derful works of nature, as they are exhibited in the western spur of the Allegheny mountains, which entirely surrounds us, and in the deep, eroded valleys; through which meander the Great Kanawha rivpr, and its tribu taries. Incidentally we are here for the pleasure and health to be derived from the trip, for who needs travel more than students, who have been cooped up inter silvas Academi, for from four to six years, and who know npthing more of mountains than the

descriptions of them by Livy, and whose lives haye been pleasant romances, smacking of poetry, but having no cpnpection with the hard, pio§y reality to be experienced in “roughing it” a short distance from home? Ry the way, I wonder if the vinegar which Livy says Hannibal made use of to split the rocks when he crossed the Alps was anything similar to that which we get at this hotel? Methinks ptfr vinegar is strong and pungent enough to walk all over the Alps, and nothing Jbut granite could stand the attack. We left Crawfordsville on the iOth ult, at 3 a. m., prepared for the worst, being rigged out as if bound for the Kankakee marshes on a fishing excursion, and arrived at Indianapolis at 4a. m., without mishan. Here without delay, or a chance to refresh the inner man, which same means stomach, for some men are walking stomachs, and hence should be called inner ; men, of course not casting any seri- '

ous reflection upon the class, we hurried into a “Big 4” train bound for Cincinnati. There we arrived at 8:30 arm., and immediately set out to seek that which we might devour, and soon satisfied our fastidious tastes and ravenous appetites with a 15c. oreak fast. Then we started to see the sights which have extended, and will continue to extend the name and fame of Cincinnati, although the city itself has seen its palmiest days, and the sobriquet “Porkopolis”has wended its way northwestward. The Zoological gard u is, without doubt, the most attractive and interesting place in the city. The collection of animals is a good one. though several specimens were conspicuous for their absence. The carnivora were especially complete, but the collection of herbivora could be considerably added to. However, there were some very fine specimens of the latter; a fine pair of Giraffes, for instance, being especially interesting. There is a good collection of reptiles and birds. The garden is very beautifully situated, in a grove of native trees, about 400 feet above, and hence entirely overlook ing the city, and is traversed conveI niently by paths and walks. i The ascent to the garden is reachI ed by the celebrated inclined plane, ! which inclines about 35 degrees and is i traversed by cars the dimensions of i ordinary horse ears. They are pulled I up the incline by powerful cables attached to machinery above. Cincin1 nati was hot on the 30th ult., really hot, and we did nut on this account go to Spring-Grove Cemetery, to the decoration exercises, but went from the “Zoo” to our boat, and partook of a good square dinner, such as is c-nly served on board steamers. From our wharf we got a good view of the suspension bridge, aud it is sufficient to say it is a handsome, elaborate and almost marvellous structuie, and one of which the city may well be proud. Our steamer, the Fleetwood, a Cincinnati aud Huntington packet, runs in connection with the Chesapeake and Ohio RR., leading from Huntington to Richmond. She is 315 feet long, of proportionate width, and is very handsomely and substantially b lilt. She is provided with every modern convenience and improvement, and is one of the most com plete coats on the river. Her caoin rairly glitters. The great desideratum, space, is provided for below, and I was told that the contents of 117 ordinary freightcars could bestowed away in her hold and on her boiler deck.

While at the wharf I could not help but notice the difference in treatment of negro laborers employed in loading bouts on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The. Ohio darkies certain ly have a happy lot compared to their brethren, and theresultof kind treat* ment can very readily be seen in the readiness to work, aud the amount of work done. Well, we started nt 4 p. m., for Huntington. W. Va., on the tranquil Ohio, and it was a ride never to be forgot ten.

We sat on the bow of the cabin deck, watching the green hills of Ohio and Kentucky rise and fall us we’hurried along at 10 miles an hour. The scenery uti both banks was almost identical, but thy marks of progress, in other words the people,soon distinguished one from the other.— The houses on the Ohio side have been later constructed and are more substantial than in the corn-cracker State, and the fields, what we could see of them, were better cultivated on the North than opposite, aud bore many more marks of honest labor. When darkness came on we adjourned to the cabin, and with Ward at the piano, soon drew the cabin passengers around us to listen to ’“Roll, Jordan, Roll;” “Swoot By© and By©;” “A Little More Cider Too;” “There Is a Boarding House,” and the many other songs which the students inflict on the suffering public. Several Lebanon, (O.) Normal st udents, and a Van» derbilt (Nashville) student a ssted us in singing. These “Normalites” wore each of thema“re union” badge, about 6 inches square, made of gaudy ribbons of many colors aud sizes, which were about as “loud” as Norm al schools generally are. After an hour spent in singing most of the boys sought repose. Everything which taste or comfort could desire can be had on a good steamer, The boar Jis good and am pie, state rooms are commodious, aud furnished with every convenience, and employees arc generally obliging and accommodating, The cabin is a palace in itself. Steamboat travelling is free from the inconveniences of railroad travelling, no dust, no cinders, no delays, no irregular meals, no loss of sleep; everything goes on as if one were at his own fireside.

We passed Maryville and Ashton, Ky., aud Portsmouth and Ironton, 0., ou our route, and at 11 a. m., on the 31st ult., drew up to our wharf at Huntington, well pleased with our boat trip. We visited the State Normal School located here, and found it about as far behind our State Normal, as stage coaches are behind railway cars. It was more of a .undergarden school than a normal, but as only $3,000 had been-appropriated in several years to support it, it is not a great wonder that it is no bette”.

Huntington has 3000 people, and supports three newspapers, but it possesses that appearance of ennui so characteristic of Southern towns. At 6:45 p. m. we were on a Chesapeake and Ohio train speeding toward the mountains, and at exactly midnight arrived here, where we make our headquarters. But my letter is drawing itself out too long, and I will leave the most interesting part of the journey for another time, and then will also endeavor to give you some idea of West Virginia’s position, politics and people. Respectfully, A.

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FOR SALE: 800 bushels of Corn, in bulk or by the load. One mile east of Rensselaer, on the Ritchey farm. Wilmot H. Ritchey.

New dry goods, large assortment, just received, and will be sold at the very lowest prices by R. Fendig.

Buy your Sugar and Syrups, pure and unpdulterated, at Kern’s new Grocery Store.

A full stock of Groceries just received, and will be sold at bottom prices, at R. Fendig’s.

Real Eatate Transfer!. I) C Withers to Tliomas Kuerr. W D und hf se ne and ne ne 31,28,6 —80 acressl,2so R S & Z Dwiggins to Geo Kaiinal, W I) lots 2,3. 4,5,8,9 arid it, block 3, Weston addition to Rensselaer, and pt s hf 19, 29, 6—7 acres. 210 David Nowels to Geo Kannal, W D lots 1, 6,7, block 3, Weston's add to Rensselaer. 100 J I Hamilton to W M Prichard, W D nw 11 32.6- 160 acres 1,000 A Thompson to L J Otis W D s hf 18, 31, 7 —320 acres 1,200 Geo Summers to O B Abbott, W D sw nw 26.31.6 acres. 250 Wm Hamilton to Fred Hoover, W D sw 30 27, 7—160 acres 4,800 RS&Z Dwiggins toC F Wren. W Dlot 7, block 35, Weston’s add to Rensselaer 120 E V Trough to A M Trough, W D pt n hf nw3o, 27, 6 1,000 Jno F Stone to Josephine Griffith, W 1) lot 6. block 2. Remington 500 E P Hammond to Mary V Hammond, W D lot 3. block 21. Rensselaer E P Hammond to D .1 Thompson, Q C D lots 9. io, 11,12, block 21, Rensselaer 750 D J Thompson to Mary V Hammond, same 750 Sarah Banta et al to David Gray, W D und 21-27ths ne and e hf nw 27. 29, 5. 3,733 Sarah Banta, guardian, to David Gray, G D und 4-81 of same 237 Same to same, G D und 4-27ths of same 711 RS&Z Dwiggins to G A Seitzinger, W D pt lots 16, 17. bk>ek 31. Westoil’s add to Rensselaer 68 A Thompson et al to Berrv Parris. W D pt se sw 19,29, 6 180 R S Tuttle to Jas Peflley, Q C D lot 6. bl’k 12, Western add to Remington 25 Also recorded 9 mortgages and 6 releases.