Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1882 — Chips from Gilliam. [ARTICLE]

Chips from Gilliam.

No small-pox inßensseiaer. and we believe no caso in the county of Jmper. A thief recently stole an overcoat from a Cincinnati doctor, and along with it got a first class case of smallpox. Kentland News: A man by the name of Clark came to Ren* lard last Thursday and expressed himself as feeling sick and unable to g"t to where his relatives live in the country. It was si spected that no was tak ng smallpox and foi lack of other quarters he was placed in the jail. Dr. Chaffer has charge of him and pro bounces it smallpox. It is thought that the jail is a safe distance from the street and buildingsand if ptopei precaution is taken there is no n« d of the disease spreading.

In view of the fact that smallpox is raging in several localities in thia state wo publish the following as a cure for this loathsome disease. It was furnished the Liverpool Mercury by a well known English phyhsi?iaa. and we would advise those who read it to cut it out and preserve it: “lam willing to risk my reputation as a public man if the worst case of small-pox cannot be cured in three days simply by cream of tartar. Th s is the sure and never-failing remsdy One ounce of cream of tartardissi lved in a pint of boiling water. Drink when cold at short intervals. It can be taken at any time, and is a sure preventive as well as a curative. It is known to have cured thousands of cases without failure. It never leaves a mark never causes blindness, and always prevents tedious lingering.

One of the latest swindling schemes is the following, reported by the Fort Wayne Gazette: “A new swindle upon unsuspecting farmers ha 3 been brought to lipht. Swindler No. 1 calls upon a farmer with a patent wagon tonarue, and Informs him that having made a big thing out of ft, he is on his way home with only this county to sell. He tells the farmer he can have it for two hundred and fifty dollars, and if he wants it to write to him. In a few days patent right man No. 2 comes along. H e has heard that the farmer has the right of the county for t|e patent wagon tongue, and as he made a big thing of it in Nebraska, he wants to buy the right of the county and offers the farmer four hundred dollars, and nays ten dol ars to bind the bargain. The farmer writes to No. 1 and sends him his note for two hundred and fifty dollars. He never hears of either of the two men again, but his noteoomes up for collection in a neighboring bank, and Mr. Farmer is out two hundred and fifty dollars.”

Quite frequently, now a days, we are told that the Southern States are going pell mell into the embrace of the Republican party. Republican organs do not hesitate to put forth interviews with "distinguished South* eru Democrats,” who are made to say that Mahoneism in Virginia—which means lobbery in Virginia—is im mensely popular throughout the South. This game has recently been played by using the name of Senator Coke, of Texas. The distinguished Senator, in the manufactured inter* view, was represented as saying that the Democratic party in Texas was going to pieces of its own weight, and that the press and people of the State were breaking loose from party ties and joining the independent movement. But Senator Coke indig* nantly denies the whole matter, and sayi: "I never heard of the interview until now. It is false from beginning to end. I have not had an interview upon any subject with any newspaper representative, and, moreover, I have never expressed such sentiments and opinions as I understand this socalled interview imputes to me. My candid opinion is, the independent movement in Texas will be defeated ty 75,000 majority.” It is not probable that Mahoneism will at once be adopted in the South. Mahone is not a type of Southern statesmen.

The Boston Journal, a staunch Republican newspaper, believes In the designation of the "Half-Breed” wing as “Garfield Republicans,” and recommends that they act in opposition to the "Stalwart” element. It says: “There are tens of thousands of men in this country who believe in the exalted progressive Republicanism devoted to the interests of the peo* pie to which the “Rock of Ohio” de* voted his life in the contradistinction to that Republicanism whieh is satisfied with the victories of the past, and in the present is engrossed in a scramble for the spoils of office and in securing local appropriations.— Those tens of thousands—fast in creasing—having the right to call themselves Garfield Republicans.” And the New York Post indulges in this prophetical declaration: "It, as is thought by some of President Arthur’s friends as well as some of his opponents, it is his purpose to turn the old third-term or “Stalwart" faction, which now forms only a small minority of the party, into a majority, or to subjugate the majority to it by giving it all tne offices. It re* quired no gift of prophecy to predict that he will wretchedly fail in his purpose and wreck his Administration upon that very point.” The Cincinnati Commercial ox* plains the situation— connecting the “Stalwarts” and “Star Boutors” In opposition to the “Half-Breeds”—

thus: “The same lot of persons—the • name newspapers—that ware abusing Garfield up to the day he was assas-1 sinated, the Star Routers whose es. fort was to stain Garfield with their own dirt—are now abusing Blaine.— They are determined to associate the ex-Secretary of State in every way with the murdered President.” Speaker Keller bus succeeded In b. eking the way to tariff reform for I jo next two years by packing the Ways and Means committee. Only tariff bills that are favorably reports I by the committee stand any ehanse of being adopted by the house. The power cf the Presid. ut to veto a bill seems slight in comparison with that of the Speaker, which has not been vested in him by either the laws or the constitution. The majority can accomplish but little without the divine sanction of the Speaker, and representatives can do but little more than give thlcr votes if not smiled upon by that functionary. They may introduce bills but nothing comes of them. They can hardly make speeches nnless the Speaker is willing. That functionary is sup posed to go by riles, but when an unscrupulous Speaker is determined to sot them aside, rules go for naught.

Everything lovely in Gillam except the roads, and they are somewhat rough. ’Beautiful snow* fell on Wednesday but not enough to make the sleigh bells jingle. Quite a number of our young people are attending Prof. Faris and Cop* pea’s writing class. Literary Society at Vernon school house every two weeks. The funeral sermon of Mrs. John Querry was preached at Independence Chapel on last Sabbath afternoon, by the Rev. J. J. Thompson. Miss Lissa Mitchell, who is teach Ing at Pleasant Ridge, north of Rensselaer, spent the holidays with ner friends and relatives at this place. A. K. Hartesty, O. H. Hunt and L. E. Rathfon attended Teachers’ Institute at Winamac last week. All had a pleasant time and report "a good Institutr," Prof {Brown of Valpo was present one day. Prof. L. 8. Mitchell, one of Gillam’s old pedagogues, 1s married to Miss Suo Fagg, of Bradford. Nothing like getting these times,“Be you ever so homely." Tom Randle, of Barkley still goes a "fishing”, up about Independence, where there is a "Seal” that he has been trying to capture forsome time. Spelling school at Union school house Thursday night. Milton Makeover, teacher. The oyster supper at R. Randle’s on Thnrsuay night, proved to be a “firstclass dance." Huffman has full sway. Ah! Charley, you’re left. Yes, Polka and Walts will be down to see the new top buggy. Wonder what made "Grape Island” change his name to "Unde Simon.” Grape Island wants to know whore in the “tyvol” Polka and Walts are. That, we suppose, is equivalent to "Where, In Union township, are Polka and Walts?” We are not any whore near him. Longing to hear from Uncle Simon alias Grape Island, we close. More|by-an<9>y. Polxa um Waive. January sth, *B2-