Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1882 — The New Gaol and the Old Court House. [ARTICLE]

The New Gaol and the Old Court House.

The public are Informed that Jasper county is to be favored with a new Gaol. Doubtless it will be in keeping with the other substantial im proveraents in Rensselaer which have been completed, oi are in course of construction. If so, it wi.l throw the Court House, which was constructed in 1854, in the shade. The old Court House has always been an eye-sore to the citizens of Jasper, although they paid liberally for it; but there were then, as there are now, bribers and sharpers, and they looked upon the job as a fat morsel.

The following article which appeared in the Lafayette Courier, and was copied iuto the Buuuer and commented upon, will furnish a clue to the way the thing was worked: Something Mysterious. A bachelor frieud of ourg stepped into the extensive millinery estab. lishment of Mudutns Gould & Mayo, a day or two since uud ordered one of their forty dollar bonnets to be nicely packed ami forwarded to Jasper. It was something exquisitely beautiful — too much so we thought for so out-of-the-way place as Jasper—but if you do a thing, do it up nicely, say welt may have something to do with the new Court House to bo built there, and perhaps it was purchased for the head of Lady Justice, whose figure generally presides in those edifices, <ts an emblem of what ie, or perhaps rather what should be enacted within their wails. A forty dollar bonnet for Jasper -only think of it! This beats anything that tops the crown of our fairest belles iu this, tin* Star City of tho State. Will our ladies be outdone by Jasper—rinu’s the question? If not. call and see the mate of the bonnet, aforesaid, which may be seen at Madams Gould & Mayo’s, if it has not yet been purchased for some other foreign village. But as to the mystery —what was that bonnet for? Who can t“11 us?—Lafayette Courier.

If the Courier thinks the charms o 1 our ladies have been overrated by ita bachelor friend, or that their beauty a.id worth is In any respect Inferior to the ladies of the .Star City, we can inform him that he is decidedly under the proper esti mate. For pretty girls and fat cattle Ja»per acknowledges herself second to uo county iu the State. If yo t doubt our statement you have only to consult your bachelor friend and, we doubt not, he tell you “That ttaer forms • tft’rt iftccj Had ' <>? .••■n.irbls jt/mpb* or Giac*», That uoasts the Grecian chisel's traces” than are to be fouud in Jasper, and the bachelor who can possess himself of one of these fair creatures at the moderate expense of forty dollars may think bimselfaluckyfellow.— Butitisdar ly hinted that the “New Court House”haa something to do with the matter. We are not prepared to solve the mystery; but we do know that Lady Justice will never wear that bonnet.—Banner. J. M.

General Grant’s pay on the retire list will be $17,000 a year. Tea, which cost in this country anywhere from fifty cents to on* dollar a pound, can be bought in China for from thre* to ten cents a pound, this may seem a pretty but just think how expensive curomos are. Ex Senator Conkling has concluded that he don’t '‘understand the language” of fbe Supreme Conrt and has declined. He has received a firstclass indorsement, and is now fully equippep to make himself useful in some ethea sperer.

Complimentary : The Indianapolis Journal pays the following high compliment to the country press of Indiana: “There has been a marked advance in the character of the country newspapers of the State within the past ten or fifteen years. It has more than kept place with the improvement of city journalish. Connected with these papers there is nearly always s.completely equip ped printing office. A community is iargely judged by its papers. A publisher who h. s invested his time and means in a good printing establishment, and is putting in his energy, enterprise and ability in the publication of a creditable newspaper, is entitled to the generous support of the people whose interest he is espousing, and wiih whose prosperity he is indentifled. There can be nothing higher than the obligation rest ing uqon every community to accord full support to its local press. That is the way to make It better. Support your own paper first.” Her* Is some “good readin,” being a letter of Isaac Rice, a state senator of Illinois, to Emory Storrs, called forth by th* latter’s blackguard speech at Lincoln club dinner in New Tork: In writing to you I may be doing a very foolish thißg, but I am prompted to do it for one single reaeon, and that i», the stalwarts, who glory *o much in their name, are not awar* of the feeling existing among the firm, thinking and controlling part of the republican party in t Is county with regard to stAlwartism, a* represented by the Lincoln elub at Its last meeting. You seem not to be aware that a large majority of republicans firmly bellove that the death of Garfield was the outgrowth of the war made upon him by the stalwarts, and when we read such speeches as the Rev. Dr. Newman’s it is difficult to avoid the conclusion, that he, at least, isjoioed at the fact'. Arthur was glorified and Garfield wan such a poor insignificant nobody that no one had time even to mention hie name. For the first tjme In -the higio. y ot our oountry a mao was nominated for the presidency who was not a candidate,

and, indeed, against his own protest aa a candidate, and what the country thought of him was shown by his overwhelming election. Any one who will read Garfield’s speech made on all the great questions during bis long congressional career can not avoid the. conclusion that he was'the ablest statseman of bis day. Lincoln was the victim of the damnable spirit of secession, and Garfield was the victim of the hellish spirit of stalwartiem exhibited by its chief apos tie, Coukling. The one is much worse than the other, as it is possible to conceive—the blow cf the one coming from an avowed enemy, the other from the hand of bis own housebould. I haveJJalwAys been a great admirer of your speeches, but when I read your thrust at President Hayes I feel mortified —“mean sneaking. lyiug, hypocridcat preieose.” Indeed, »o me, it is inexplicable that such language should come from so clear headed a republican m 3 you. You forget under Grant congress was lost to the Republicans, and under Hayes it was regained. But then you say you would Drefeired ’ four years of strife, dissension and whirlwind to such an administration as gave us.” Tell me what Grant’s did to protect the 4,000.000 freedmen of the south? Those states that overwhelmingly republican were lost under his administration. One fact is worth mure than a thousand assertions and iesuitß. when of the right kind and what we should all desire. Ir would be very graifying to the country. I have no doubt, if at the next celebration of the Lincoln club, it rould be ih the heart of but n single mernl er to simply mention Garfield’s name, as he and Lincoln were exactly alike in the most awfu! events of their lives, both being the victims of assassination.

A verv righteous decision has just been made by the State Superinten ' dent Bloss, It is that only ‘fathers have children old enough to go to school have a right to vote at school meetings. This decision gill be away with a custom which has becom very common iu most parts of the country that is allowing all persons t ver the age of tweyty one the right of voting on any and all Questions that come before school meetings. It would seem more proper that per sons having children to attend sehoot should have a right to select their own instructors.

On the day after election in a certainchy a liquor dealer asked a provision merchant, vvno had voted “/jo” to license. Haven’t I always paid you for the meat I got?” “Yes,” replitd the merchant, “but some of the ineu who drink your rum haven’t.”

“David Crockett, after returning home from his first trip to New York, gave his backwoods audience his idea .of the first gentleman iu the metro polis: “Philip Hone is the most gen flemanly man in New York, boys and I’ll tell yv howl know it asks you .a drink -e don round yon glass—he puts a decanter on the table and walks off to the wiudow and-looks out until you have finished.”

In a country place in North Carolina, some time sfter the war they elected as justice of the peace an old white haired negro, ignorant but honest and well liked. His first case wSs a jury trial. After the pleading was over the council iuformed his honor that he could charge the jury? “H’m. 'Charge de jury?” Yes, You honor.” “Well gemmeu ob de jurj. it ’pears de case am frew, an’ I got to close it wid de charge. Considerin’ de ‘sperience yon hab got, I tink I will charge you two dollars an’ half piece.”

A writer in a London journal gives the following practical suggesstione on this subject, under the heading “Never Poultice for a cold:”

I am induced to offer the following advice, having experienced the evils of poulticing throat or chest, more especially in the case of children. It is a too common practice for doctors, when called to a case, to recommand poltices; they are, however, bitterly paidfer in the future., I have kuown several children who were poulticed, who suffered ‘from croup each winter after until they attained their teens: and also grown up people who so weakened throat and chest by injudicious poulticing that they were thereafter annual victims to complaints of the respiratory organs. To persons of weak chests I would recommend a small square, say a quarter of a sheet, of cotton wadding, worn over his chest in the winter months. Last winter but one, I had two children suffering from scarlet fever, one of them being badly effected in the throat. The doctor ordered poultices, but I demurred and stated my objections. He agreed with me in the main, and consented 10 allow a trial of my substitute, namely, a flannel soaked in salad oil wound around the throat,,with a dry flunnel on the top, to keep the oil from the cloths; the same application to the chest. The next morning |ho agreed that the remedy had been better than the poultice would have been. At tbat time the eruption of the skin was at its height, and occasioned the children much discomfort, so I asked the doctor’s pei mission to rub the bodies with the oil. He agreed to this, provided I did the rubbing myself, or superintended it, for, said he, without care it might be fatal, with care it will have the best results Having made up a good fire and fastened the bedroom door, to preveut the possibility of its being open during the operation,l folded the children in a flannel wrapper, and gradually rubbed them from head to foot in saiadgoil. The effect was wonderful on the parched skin, and they both went peacefully to sleep. Next day they begged for repetition of the oil rubbing, and I continued it until after the peeling process had been accomplished. As the doctor said, the benefits are great, and the only danger lies in the risk of taking cold. This with oare can De reduced to the minimum. So with colds effecting tnroat orjehest. A flannel soaked in either cold-drawn castor oil or salad oil, and worn around the throat and on the chest at night, will hav« a much more salutary effect than poultices, and will entail no bad after results. To persons who are subject to frequently getting w«t. a rubbing of elthef of the above oils would be found salutary in keeping off colds, and when rubbed into tbe joints in checking or alleviating rheumatis m