Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1882 — Page 2

The Democratic Sentinel

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Th« ...an, friend, VrTvll) H VEOMAN ni.ao.nce p,,, ~,:,; Independent candi,late fo r V, “U»mc Tan»T*a.»al'ieet to.nedevotes of Marion Townkhip on Monday, April 3d, JbS-, Fok Ahs*k*ob. ... .... -iiioi. of <"an.v frlt'"' , B» nVkLSU * <,Ub , ; .."trill, deei*i> of the people at ] u ~ . ir , in yiutluu to.vn.hip, Mon* day IR-Xf, _ "Belt learn. <l" , r,l »..t|.r “writ remain a 8e.1.e. ■ <• >. i! " National: J‘ l> P™" 4 * v. ial hoises down with Pink » r ;.,un thin<r like the “epizootic. t j. „ , „*7sTiXtrnTTs*-rv.**l U masterly inactivity t:e White House in ell except getting out of the way of call t ,, When they inquiicd for him to the front, door he slipped adroitly cut through the cotisevaloiy. ’•Wid * Awake” is opp« s\d to re Intuit rs running on republican tick, et.s. Weil the people w.ll run them A liitle reform just now in the man a*,merit of the office, of trustee of Marion township would bo as'ly to the interest of the people. « * * There are usunly some very knowingly wise voters who wish to parade their political eo irage (on how little ready they do know) and vote an independent ticket or a mixed one/— “Wide-Awake, m l.epub llcan. The voter who votes to suit him H< lf.and not pander to .he wliims of parties cr “Wide-Awake,” can appre c-iato the above.

A Bad Pill!

“Wide-Awake,” in the Republican of last week says: “It Lno time for * Half Breeds * to be running on Re publican tickets and claiming Republican support.” •(The half breed,” so stigmatised by the “Stalwart” faction, who suffers himself to vote for a ticket on which he would not be suffered to run. deserves to bo stigmatised by Stal warts.”

WANTEF TO KNOW

of — ISAAC J. PORTER, Trustee OF MARION TOWNSHIP. 1. Why did you not turn in your lightning-rod vouchers on your last settlement with the County Coimnis slouersV This was the proper time they should have been accounted for was it not? ii. Was it because you were atraid to do so and let the people of the township,know what the lightning-rod luxury cost them until after the elec tion ? 3. Or is it because the Township is in debt for them yet and hence you have not come in possession of the vouchers ? 4. And i 1 so how can voa account for the $2165.42 of special school :c enufc turned ovar lo you two years bv trustee Coca and the $1223,59 of said revenue received up to your la«t c- tUemeut Oct. 18th 1882. making a total tmid of $3389.01 which has passed through jour hands? 5. How does it happen that the trustee <k Newton Township in buy jug the s arne kind of rods of ’he same man only paid $126 for rodding five houses while it cost you over SSOO to rod eleven houses?

6. How did it happen that the same trustee only paid .37 cents a foot for his rods while you paid over fifty cents? 7. Why do you 'carry on hand a balance of $761.26 in the Township Fuad when your aunual expenditures from the same cannot be over $350, were in fact last year but $339.83? 8. Do you not see it will take you two years at that rate to expend it* nud that you will have the free use of the money all that time? 9. Why did you propose to give a certain mechanic who did some work ou one of your school houses au order on Willey aud Bigler’s store for his pay aud which he indignantly refused? They are notjyour bankers, are they? 10. Do you not know that your administration has been the most extravagant of any the people of this Township have ever had? XL Do you think with this record they should continue you in office for another term? The above are reasonable and direct questions and the taxpayers of this Township thiak they have a right to demand a direct answer. A TAX PAYER.

We copy tbe following from the Republican of last week Wo are very willing that the bright geni us of its composer shall have the widest possible cireuiaton: £h'r«m the Rensselaer Republican, March 23, ’82.1 The April ElectionEne Republican By a recent change in the time of holding elections for certain township .-aices it becomes necessary to hold a general election throughout the state. Due notice has Oeen given of this election and convention# are being held and nominations made by both parties, t his fast draws party lines and makes the duty of •very Republican plain. At the same time the , lection is general, it is local, in that the offices to be filled are township offices. Thisfact makes the e ectlon the more important. The officers ti , olected are township trustees, roadsnperint -'dents, justices of the peace, and constable* i »r pilch township. This localizes the ©lection and throws the responsibility on each township. I . a county or state election a partial vote in one •art of the connty or stats may becounterbalanced St a fnil vote in another part ThU is not so in this election; the responsibility is individual In a lo'Telection of this eharacter. there are usually some very knowingly wise voters who wish to parade their political courage (on how little thev really do know) and vote an independen: ticket or a mixed one. Such action cannot he too severely condemned, such votes are lost to thefoartv which the voter represents, and do neither narty any good all this difficulty can be obviated oy nominating the right men for each office, upright honest men, men of opinion on qu* •- lions likely to|be presented to them; men wLo know to which political party they belong with, •nt being told; men who will perform the duties

of ’h-lr office fur th* good of the people ***l?)** uuri/ the/ r present. It •* bo time ® r . re /* r ?f ' are, lulf-breed* and Doinoeratlc-ufttionrislo be running ou KtpgbllMD lUkut# »»d c.aiming KeP °lt l * wnth P MudlV to carry a «!«»• »®fro*b«p ttaw tt ciiMu cotisjfv: a county tbtn & clow It i« al»o easier to hold what yon have than to let It go to the opposition nud then reclulm U, ao it follow* that If a Bnfflelcat number ablp* cun l.a carried at the April o\tet\o»,tbc conntr can ba furled at the f !L* e hcca'rrie* *ii flic-lent number of lb. conntlc* canhcearrieO rheo the *tatc will remain where #ne is point e lh*t the movement* oftl>e*tepnb’.lcan party in thl. county are net watched by tha present connty offiecra of the r him notice the gyranaaticeof those officers Even the Connty Superintendent, a maS C .o thoron”hly non-partfsan a. to inatrnct hi. committees at connty institutes to prepare non political resolutions to be passed bythatbody,* laboring hard to secure a majority of democratic trustee*, that hl» re-election to that office may be e \Vhat do these things mean? They mcan J2*'"’ ocratic continuation in office: they mean ocratic supremacy in the conntv and state, net Republicans mid r-t.nd thl#. hj t them andar 4 t}.f’: then be* Ht , r } on (Iny. vote the ticket* p**rlucle to do*o, and carry the elections in V.,rr town-hip in the county. v I >3E . AwAKB .

Tue following reply by Mr. Nowele vum urt:<u for publication in the IP publican but cannot be admitted o ih-dr columns, and we tuerefore furnish the necessary space: Editors Xls.vssei.aer Rei’i-blioak: Will you kindly give me snaee in your valuable column# i'jr tue following? , , , . •• ide Awake, in your mist Issue coses his article entitled —The April Election' with an nu •ail Ml for allusion to me which I lcol culls for a reply, lie makes several statements w hich or# is fur front the truth anil a* intentionally ml»eadiug as the name he writes over. That he wishes to shirk responsibility for his statements is evident from his assuming a fictitious name. \s to his ideutitv he has left ns to guess, but idging him out of his own mouth we may safclv conclude that he is a"Stalwart of the Stalwarts” —that happy brotherhood of w bioh G u ileau claim s to be a member in good standing. For he severey criticises independent voting and ns a natural consequent independent think ing, iie denounce# those who have the courage to sapport the best men, even though|the) .'liefound'en another ticKet, is ignoruu; anu untrustworthy. . The true animu* of his article, however, is clear, when he makes .he startling declaration that the Republican party should make its nominations exclusively from among such men as he, for, says ne, ‘‘lt is no time for reformers, half-breeds aim Democratic-nationals to be running on Republiau ticket* and claiming Republican support. Gan it be that W.-A. is a hungry offleo-aeeker?— He wishes to.cxelude all but the most Stalwart from his ticket. He cun trust the offices in no hands except the select few w hich are left afier excluding ail he mentions. Rut who does he mean by the ‘ reformer* which he wishes to exciudo? Does he mean the g»od temperance people of our county and State who are socking the reformation of the wretched drnuknrd as well as the laws which regulate the liquor traffic? They, indeed, stand boldly unri bravely at the front as reformers in the truest sense of the word. We ask again, does he mean them? Is there, as he says, no pluco on the Pe publiean ticket for such? Does that party, which has made the idle boast of feeing the God and Morality party of this country now wi»h to turn it# back uponreformers and reformation ? So W.-A. would have us believe. There is, also, ho says, no place upon his party's ticket for “half-breeds!” What-does he mean by this? Who are “half breeds”? Let W,-A. answer. •Half breeds” i« u t«rm used to designate the whole-souled supporters of President Garfield’s administeatlon from the followers of Grant, Conkliug and Stalwartism. Those Republicans of broad, liberal and patriotic views, those lnde pendent thinkers whoclaimcd the late President as their loved and honored leader. Thay.too. were “reformers," seeking to reform our civil service, and emancipate it from the accursed spoils system, and Pres. Garfield fell by the hand of an avowed “stalwart” for the advocacy of this doctrine. The crime of such men is not that they love their party less but that they lo\-e iheir country more. Does W. A. mean what he says when he declares that he no/ his party has iio room for “reformers” and “half-breeds” upon the Republican ticket. Then, God pity his party!— Ho separates the sheep from the goats and says to the goats, “Come ye blessed,” *c., but to the theep ho says, “Depart front tn«, ye cursed,” Ac. Independent thinking and independent voting, which W.-A. condemns so harshly, has been, and will ever be, the salvation of our free institutions - -the very bulwark of freedom itself. The officers under our government are the people’s public servants. Every elector has the unquestionable right to decide whom he wishes to be his servant, and every infringement or attempted infringement by another of this right deserves the severest condemnation. A voter is not likely to turn away from the man on his own ticket and cast his ballot for another unless he thinks he has fonnd a fitter man for the place. If he thinks this, his action Is justifiable and cannot be censured. But W.-A, seoks to conceal the weakness of his position by the o d and familiar dodge of “Stop Thief!” For he says the opposition, and psrtic ularly the County Superintendent is trying to secure the election of a majority of Democratic Trustees that the office may be secured to him for another term. This is absolutely without foundation. The present County Superintendent It no “third termer,” mv friend. Did he belong to your ranks there might be some atom of truth in your assertion, for, excluding all “reformers” and ••half-breeds”, your tenure of office prcclivitles would be well represented by the “immortal 30*!” Do not juoge others by yourself so closely. To disabuse your terror-stricken miad, the County j .Superintendent will inform yon that he is not a candidate for re-election, As to the “non political resolution” referred to, I have to say that I most heartily concur in the sentiment contained therein. But you are again at variance from the facts when yon state that the Committee was instructed. Connty lustitutes are not “packed” like your conventions. Let me tell you that the resolution expresses the feelings of iearly every teacher in our county.— Tbev can see the evils which will inevitably result to our schog!* if {he filth and pollution of politics are to be drugged across the sacred threshold of : the schoo! room. And law proud tv fay (for it is to their honor) that the teachers of our county sud State, taken as a class, are the most rational and independent in the use of the ballot of any other of our citizens.

But W.-A.. iu IroniQ language, *v* I am "nonpartisan.” That is, that lam an extreme parti san. Does he judge me by himself again? That I have political convictions I do not deny, noram I ashamed to express them, but as to my view* on the selection of trustee#, please refer to the i»»ue of your pap -r of April Ud, 1880. In an artl ele addressed to the voters just before the April election, 1 #ay; “We hope the best men. Irrespective of partle#. will be elected by the voters of Jasper county next Monday for township trustees." You may r#aci the whole article, W.-A., if you wish. And in the canvass for County Superintendent last June Isuid time and time again to the trustees, that if they did not conscientiously think me the best man for the position not to support me. Further, it my political views were the qualifications which recommended me for the office I did not wunt it. I make them my witn#iHes to thetrnth of this. No. Wide-Awake’s sole object is to fire the po litical passions of the voter* of this county, i rd he is trying to use the County Supcrintendei cy as a brand to kiudlo it. He fears the calm jut gment of men will lead them to support the fittest candidates irrespective of party in the towns! ip elections soon to take place Else why need ht evince such alarm? The Legislature placed he election of these officers as far removed from he general elections as possible to prevent the paitlsan strife and feeling which W.-A. seeks to exci e. Wc want the best men for the place. These sho d be elected, the poorest ones defeated. When trustees so elected come to ballot for the next Co. Superintendent they, as honest men, acting under a solemn oath to discharge their duty faithfully and Impartially, will not look at the political affiliations of the candidates, but solely at their fitness for the position. No entreaties, no threats nor bribes—not even a corruption fund of #IOO in the hands of W.-A. or his friends will ayail Their sworn duty is to select without fear or favor the best man for the place, and then put him in, W.-A. to the contrary notwithstanding. D.B. N.

To the Club, of Chicago, on the occasion of its celebration of Jackson’s birthday, Judge Jerry S. Black sent a long and interesting let er from York,Pa., containing reminecences of Jackson times and principles. He suid: If present I might take occasion to repel tho charge that Jacks n was the author of the pratice which now corrupts the civil service by making office the reward of partisan crimes. That was an invention of the Federal party, and was used by it so unifomly that when Jefferson was lnaugura ted he had not a single personal or political friend in any klod of public employment. He removed the unfit and the unfaithful, and gave the honest majority of the people some, but not by any means a full representation in the executive department. The second Adams commenced his administration by bestowing the high est office in hi* gift upou the man who betrayed bis constituents to elect him, and on this course he- went through so consistently t at when Jackson came in he found himself precisely where Jefferson had been thirty years before—a Democatic President without a Democrat in office to support him. Of course he followed the example of his great »redecessor, removed the most obnoxious of the political vermin, and let the others stand as monuments of the safety with which a current of opinion may be toletated when reason is left free to combat it. After dwelling on the necessity of local selfgoverment, Judge Black eon' tinued:

If I dared speak with the voioe of authority or even in a tone of ad mo nitlon to the Iroquois Olub I would

say: Resist tb**Be encroabments of the ' containers with all your might,maintain home rule for your domestic concerns, set your faces like flint against political corruption, tolerate no (laim of any President to represented at your election by thelbay** oiiets of bis standing army, enforce your right to the free bailor and a fair count, and give the love of your whole hearts to the memory of An«* drew Jackson, who, if he were heie now, would lay down his life rather than s e you fail in a cause like this.

Th e Political Issue.

] American Register. The political issues before the country are matters of Nath nal concern, and it ie important to understand them and have cleur conceptions of their import aud bearing. These are to be gathered from the history of the two great political parties of the country, their National piaf forms, and their authoritative public acts and declarations in the proceedings of the Government. A part of the issues relate to the organic principles in the structure of the Federal Government, and a .part to the policy and manner of its administratian. 1 The doctrine of the present Republican party, tha* the Federal Government is a National Government of the whole people of the Uni ted States takeu collectively and subordinating the State, tends inevitably to the consolidation of all supreme power in the General Government, the destruction of the state s and to the creation of a centralized despotism, Anally ending in the ultimate total abrogation and change in the. Constitution as originally made by the Revolutionary fathers. On the contrary, the doctrine of the Democratic party is, that the Federal Government was created by a Union of free, sovereign and independent States, clothing it with a delegation . of powers sneciflcally defined in the Constitution for general and National purposes, and reserving all the other powers or Government not defined or thus delegated, to the several States respectively, or to the people of the several States; so that* while the Federal Governraeut was made supreme within the Sphere of its delegated powers, the several States were left supieme within the sphere of their reserved powers, At the close of the Revolutionary War each State was a distinct, separate and independent people, and so declared to be in the treaty of peace with England, which named each, and acknowledged its independence separately. And in the formation of the Constitution each State acted separately for itself, aDd so voted in tne Convention. So that* the Union formed as a basis for the Federal Government was a Union of free, sovereign and independent States, for general purposes of common de sense and general welfare in the necessary and proper inter State r< gu lations, leayiner the states su prerae as to all their reserved rights. It is clear, therefore, that “the people of the United States,” mentioned in the Constitution, meant the people of several States, as distinct cominuni ties, united, and nothing more. From the manner in which the several States acted in forming and in ratify ing the Constitution, and the declarations cf its framers, it was not, at the time, supposed that any ore would ever claim anything different. Even Alexander Hamilton, relied upon as authority by the Republican party, in the New York Convention, at the adoption of the Constitution, and in his artifles ir. the Fedeniist defending the Constitution, insisted that there was no incompatibility in the concurrent supremity or sover eignity of the State and the Federal Government; that while the United States were made supreme wiihin the sphere of their delegated powers, the States were left supreme within the sphere of their reserved powers, (see Elliot’s Debates, 2, pp. 355 and 856, and the Federalist, Nos.!) and 85) In the New York Convention he said further: “They (the States) are absolutely necessary to the system. Their existence must form a leading principle in the most perfect Constitution we could form.” Again he said: “The Union is dependent on the will of the State government for i.s Chief Magistrate and for the Senate. The blow aimed at the members must give a fatal blow to the head; and the destruction of the States must be at onco a political suicide,” etc. (Elliot Deb, v, 2. p. 352) And Hamilton says in the Federlist; “In fact and in theory the Union is an Association of States, or a Confederacy/the States are ‘the parties to the compact.” (See John C. Hamilton’s edition of the Federalist, No 85, p. 644.) It is clear and certain, therefore, that the doctrine and course of the Republican party tends directly to centralization; that is, the consoli datlon of power In the hands of the Federal Government, utterly destructive of the coordinate powers of the States, inevitably producing a controlling centralized despi (Tim, and thus insidiously destroying and revolutionizing that wiselv devised political system which Clay denoa - nated “the fairest fabric o’ human government that ever roso to animate the hope* of civilized mag.” This is vital and fundamental issue. 2. A strict constiuction of the Constitution, the omy means of preventing the Federal Government from absorbing all supremacy and destroying the co-ordinate powers of the State designed to be salutary checks upon the abuse and accumulation of Tpower in the hands of the General Government. 3. Opposition to the tyranny of partv, to the spoil system of office, and to the partisan system or Supervisors and Deputy Marshals of elections, which tend directly and inevitably to the destruction of popular government. 4. The strict maintenance of the publio faith, State and National; and

economy in the public expenditures. 5. A sound currency and hon«* t money, consisting of gold and silver* and a gradual introduction of gold and silver Treasury certificates to take the place. In course of time, of all paper money based on credit now in circulation. 6. A tariff for revenue, adjusted in its details with a strict view to equality in the public burdens, and affording alt the encouragement te the productively labor ol the country practicable without creating monopolies or giving unjust advantages to any. 7. An amendment to the Constitution, taking tbe appointment power, (except as to heads of Departments) away from tho President, and giving it to a Commission eo* sjsiing of two Commissioners appointed by Congress (one every two j’ears), eding with the head of the Department in which appointment* or xemovals are made. 8. The administration of the Government with an espeeiul view to equality o r political rights and equal and exact jusiice to all. so as to give complete protection to every citizen iu al Hi is righto of personal security personal liberty and private property.

9. The correction and remedy of the manifold errors, great wrongs and monstrous outrages committed in tlie long-continued misrule and tnal administration of the Govern ment by the sojcalled Republican party. These issues, so stated, present the great subjects for the. consideration of Hie American people, and the field for the future mission of the Democratic party.

Democratic Doctrine. —The fore going statement, of the political issues before tho country embodies substantially the political doctrine included by Jeffersonjand the Revolu tion ary patriots, who agreed with him, as to the structure aud mode of administering our Government. They were iu favor most certaiuly of a Democratic representative Itepul • lie, and not a menarcbical Repubiic, and foresaw the danger of the accu* lation of power in the hands of the Federal Government* and of its run . ning into an absolute and|overshadowing monarchy, and (beingan elective monarchy) of its becoming one of the eorruptest of all governments. Hence they insisted upon a strict construction, and strenuously opposed the idea of constructive grants of power to the General Government. But the opposition to the Democracy have always insisted upon a latitudinarian construction, and the doctrine of constructive powers, in ordqr to strengh en aud en arge the powers or the Federal Government, so as to subordinate and finally absorb the powers of the State. This is a leading point in which the Democratic party lias always differed with its antagoui.it party. The Democratic party has always been iu favor of a weli-regu-lated Democratic Republic, whils the controling element of its opposite on part has ever been in favor of a monarchical Republic, and of insidiously enlarging the powers of the Federal Government, and making it as far as practicable an absolute monarchy. The caudia and most intelligent men that party (now the so-called Republican purty) frankly admit iu con* versation that they prefer a monarchy to a republican form of government. This is no matter of doubt or speculation.

A Philadelphia young man went to Washington on purpose to get Guileau’s autograph in his album, and ther proudly exhibited the trophy to his pretty sweetheart. The girl explains the scene that followed by sayiDg that “she was not anxious to marry a born fool.”

FARMS FREE TO ALL

Oregon and Washington, “the laud of never-tailing crops.” where grasshoppers, chinch hugs, drought or hard winters are unknown, offers fre© homesteads to all, on fertile govern meat lauds, Railroad lands in tlisir able locations can be purchased on Aen years time, in easy payments. Every industrious man can become independently wealthy in a very short Ume, by settling lu the Pacific N »rth west. Address a postal card to Paul Schulze, potlakd, Oregon, and ask him 10 send you a copy of The West Shore, a handsomely illustrated Jour ual containing full information.

A Royalty Fight

St. Paul Minn., March 23.—The visit of Mr. Charles CalahaD. of Chi .tago, to this city and Minneapolis to« day, was it is understood,,for the par* pose of demanding of the“Minnef.«* polis Harvester Works in the name of C. H. McCormick, of Chicago, Norn man C. Thompson, and Helen A. Gorham, of Rockford 111., a royalty of $lO upou each twinebinding harvester that said Company has made or will make. This claim is based upon the patents which, after several years of controversy in the patent office, were ia 1880 granted to Marquis L. Gorham, of Rockford, and It Is claimed by the paitics who demand the roy* ulty that they own and control all the patents relating to the automatic bind ing of (he bundles of grain. The Minneapolis Harvester Works, the Wlllium Deering Comimny, of Chloa* go; the Cuumplon Reaper Company, of Springfield 0.; the Easterly Har* venter Company, of Whitewater, and ulljothers that are luting twinefblnders made under the Appleby patents aro to be proceeded against by the par* ties coutrollng the Gorham patent. The uttorueys who hure been engsg* ed by the McCormick faction are Geo. Harding, of Philadelphia; E. N. Dickerson, of New York; M. D. Leggett, of ( levelaud, 0., »nd Parkinson & Par* kiusou, of Cincinnati. There axe some eight or ten com* panies manufacturing under tho Appleby patients, and this hf perhaps the beginning of the biggest patent suit on record. Several companies will no doubt, with the close of this season, abandon the manufacturers of the Appleby, which will work great hardships to those who have their machines and will not be able in a ew years to procure repairs foi them It is evident from the array of legal talent employed by the MeCormicks that they are fully prepared to estab lish their olaims.

I . ' WM. A. LAMSON, DEALEK Ilf HARDWARE, TINWARE, Cool $ WF ood & GUNS and Ammunition Breach and Muzzle Loaders in great Variety, Quality; and Prices ranging from $26 to S6O. Cartridges, Powder, Caps, etc. etc. Xfi.S'toOlSy various grades and and prices. WGive roe a call, at Clark & Mayhew’s old stand, in Newels’ Block, Washington Street. Rensselaer, Indiana.

"What good deed have you done to-: day Johnny?" said a benevolent father to his heir. “I gave a poor boy a cent, papa,” was the good child’s answer. “Ah! that was right. And why, ray son, did you give him the *entr “I gave it to him, dear papa, for a good three-cent stamp tat he thought was only u piece ot green paper.” Delphi Times:—One of the strangest contradictions in nature which has come under our observation in a long while, is the adoption in her f imily by a mother-cat, in the Third Ward, of two young rats. Together with her brood of young kittens she nurses and fondles the stranger with as much tenderness and effection as is shown toward her own offspring. The result of the adoption is looked forward to with interest

The Court austerely: ‘Prisoner’ how did you have the audacity to break into this man’s house at mid*: night and rob him?” Prisoner (pitously:) “But, your Honor, last time I was before you you wanted to know how I could have} the audacity to rob a man on the highway athighw noon. When do you want me to get in my work?” We knew that confounded treaty was abend of us, but we shut our eyes and wouldn’t see it. We hoped some*, how that it would dispppear as we wen* forward. But it won’t. There it is bigger than ever, a great wall in the way, and on the top of it a Chinaman, /shouting, “SpoeeJMelican man kicket me out. me kickee Melican man out alle same. John.”—Graphic. Germany makes an exception to the decorous polioy of foreign government in receiving the cast-off and worn-out material too frequently sent them as representatives of this country. The Berlin press protests against Sargent as the successor of such men as Bancroft, Bavard Taylor and Andrew D. White.

Escapes from Siberia

An ex professor of mathematics in a Russian university, rho escaped from S'b?riaia few months since, says that an exile in Siberia, under certain circumstances, escape offers no great difficulty. It is more an affair of money than anything else, the distance being so great and the population so sparce that ever close police Burveilance is impossible; but escape from penal servitude is a terribe undertaking. and is very rarely accompj lished, Sophia Bernina, who recently found her way into Switzerland, is the only woman that has us yet performed ‘he feat

During “Rip Van Wiukle” Jeffer son’s travels through France he chanced, in oue of the smaller towns, to vifcit a church, the officiating priest of which had just died, and in conse quence the letters R.I.P. in pace—were displayed in silver on a black drapery above the alter. The rector’s little boy cllngingfto his fath er’s hand, looked up rt. the familiar word, and exclaimed, “Why, papa, how did the people know that you were coming here to day?"

Ex president Dr. John McLean, of Princeton college, celebrated his 82d birthday on Friday. Over fifty years age, when a professor of Greek, he was known throughout the country as “Old Johnny,” since which time ho has been vice president and presi dent, retiring about twelve years ago on account of age, to give place to Dr. McOosh. The college anecdotes related of him are numerous.

A contractor, who was building a tunnel on a certain railroad observed one morning thut the face of a member of this gang was disfigured with bruises and plasters. "Hallo, Jimmy” said he,“what have you been doin’?” "Not very .much, sorr,” answered Jimmy; "I was dowQ at Bill Mulligan’* Inst night sorr, an’ him an’ me had a bit av a discooahon wid sticks!"

i The following good advice was glvea by the President of an Agricultural go.-iety on presenting a sliver enp to a young man who had won the first prize at a plowing match: “Take this cup, my young friend,” he said “and remember always to plow deep and drink shallow.” A full line of Gentlemen’s furnishing goods at Fendig’s. H, B. Smith, the Boss Watchmaker can can be found at Samar’s. Lafayette Bread 1 Fresh every day at Puruupile’s restaurant.

Has Warerbury, the Tailor, moved? Yes; he has. Where is his Bhop, now? Up stairs, in the Stone Store. Has he got a nice shop? The nicest in the county. Has he got on his Spring and Summer Goods? Yes: he has got the finest assortment in Town. Can he get up a nice Suit of Clothes? Yes; be can give you a perfect fit and stylish. Doe? he warrant satisfaction? Yes; in every respect, or money refunded. Is he reliable? Yes, Sir r-r! Is Mr. Daniel Lowry working for him? Yes, sir. Then let me in vest.

Home, sweet Home!

Now Is the time to buy a home.— Leopold is selling lots in his addition to the town of Rensselaer, that no one need be without a home. Terms —one fourth down, and tae balance in equal annual payments. I will bet you a gold dollar that if you call at Leopold’s for Clothing, Dry Goods, Boots & Shoes, Hats & Caps. Furnishing Goods, or any article kept dy him for sale, that you will not leave the store without purchasing - and don’t you forget it. Persons desiring to borrow money on real estate security, should see Frank W. Babcock. He can furnish any sum fromssoo to SIO,OOO, on shor notice and for any desired time. COAL! COAL!! COAL!!! Nut Coal, Pittsburg Coal. Block Coal, at reduced prices at. Cotton & Patton’s. Ferguson’s old -stand. The goods at Leopold’s are selling so fast that it is advisable for everybody to call soon and secure some of the bargains oefore they arc closed out.

Wm.B. Austin is devoting his time to collecting. Persons having busi ness of that kind will do well to call ou him. Ho can be found at the Citizens’ Bank. The stock of Boots aud Shoes, at Leopold’s will be sold out at a great deal less than cost, in order to get an entire new stock for an exclusive Boot & Shoe Store. Now is your time for bargains. Pure Creatn Bread jwarranted to be made of milk: Pan Bread; Cream Bread :Veranna Bread, at Purcupile’a Restaurant.

ANY SUM FROM S3OO 00 to SIO,OOO on first mortgage real estate security on five to ten years’ time. Frank W. Babcock. Remember, the stock of goods at Leopold’s must, shall, and will be sold out, regardless of cost, before moving into nis new Bazaar. An immeuse stock of ready made clothing of the very best quality, has just been received at Fendig’s and will be sold cheap. Teachers, send your Watches and Clooks, to Hal B, Smith at Hamar’s, and have them repaired. Hal B. Smith the experienced Jewt ler can be found at Hamur’s,

BatliftM the most fjulidiotu u a perfect Hair Restorer and Drmafof. Admired for 1U eleftnllnew and elegant perfume. Never Falls to Restore Gref or Faded Hair to Um Toothful color, to cU. and »1 .1— nil dmggfato. Ginger. Buehu, Mandrake, Stilling!* and many of the best medicines known are hoe combined into a medicine of such varied and effective powers, as to make the Greatest Blood Purifier&the Best Health and Strength Restorer Ever Used. It cures Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Sleeplessness, all diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, Lungs, Liver, Kidneys, and all Female Complaints. 'lf you are wasting away with Consumption or any disease, use the Tonic to-day. It will surely help you. Remember I ft is far superior to Bitters, Essences of Ginger and other Tonics, as it builds up the system without intoxicating. 50c. and $1 sizes, at all dealers in drut;,. None genuine without signature of Hiscox & Co., N Y. Send for circular LARGE SAVING IN BUYING TKK DOLLAR SIZE.

***a week in yonr own town. $5 Outfit free. Vkla No risk. Rverything new. Capital not An||required. We will furnish yon everyVJUUthing Many are makingfortnnes. Ladies make as mnch as men, and Doys and idria make great pay. Reader, if you want a business at which yon can make great pay all the time yon work, write for particulars to , fivnl. H. Hallett & Co. Portland. Maine.

Watchmaker JEWELER, Remington, Ind

“EVERYBODY” Is respectfully aotifled that Dr. Iba C. Kelley has opened an office ov*» Willis J. Imes’ Drug Store for the practice of Dentistry in all its brandies. No pains will be spared to give the best satisfaction for the least ra«ney. Teeth extracted without pain. IRA C. KELLEY. DenHsk Julias Burns, House , Sign § Ornamental Painter , RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA, Is prepared to do all kinds of paiating, in oil and water colors, Paper Hanging, wood letter engraving, el*. Orders left at Harbolt’s carpenter shop, on Front street, will recelr# prompt attention. v6n4l

NEW Meat-Market. [FIRST DOOR BAST OF POST OFFICE,] Rensselaer, - - Indians FRESH BEEF, PORK, TEAL, MUTTII Sansane, Bologna, Hams, Bacon, Etc., Sold In quantities to suit purchasers,at theiewMl prices. The very best ©t stock slaughtered. Give me a call. Fish and Poultry kept In season, The highaat market price Incash paid for Cattle,Sheep, Mem, Calveg.|Poultry, Hides, Sheep Pelts, Tallow, m* V sna7 8. E. WOOD®.

Paolllo DRAIN THE MAGHINXI a tented October 21st. 187$. FARMERS, DO Your OwnTILE DRAINIRC TWO MEN AND A BOY can make and lay Two Thousand feet of Tile In one day, which wiM be far superior aud cost less than half as much m Clay Tile at factory. Mite d Territory Ml} Kingsbury & Feck, Sewer Pipe aud Well-Curbing of all sires mads to 'order. Tests loid for those who wish to iuvestin Machines orTorritory. All work guaranteed as represented. Orders solicited and promptly filled. All communications nddressed to tho above named Agents at Monticello, lnd., will ro coivo prompt attention.

GENERAL Insurance Agency —OF—- ■ DANIEL B, MILLER. ; Represents over $19,000,000 C&piUl! FIRE, LIFE, and ACCIDENTINBUKANGI effected in the following old and reliable Companies, at the lowest possible rate consistent with good. sound indemnity : HO3/E(Fire) of New York. FRANKLIN (Firo) of Indianapolis. SPRING! IELD(Fire and Marine) of Mass. INS. CO. OF NORTH AMERICA, Phllad’a. TRAVELLERS [Life & Accident] Ins. Co., of Haitford, Connecticut, lar Office in Hemphilf’s Block, Vsns Rensselaer Ind. Of all modern Improvements in Sewtaf Machines, the New Wheeler Sc Wilts*, "The Silent No. 8,” is the greatest cess. Wherever it has come in competition with other machines, before competent judges, it has universally come ol triumphant. Wc declare it the best in the world.— Judges American Institute, N. Y. Awarded the only grand prize for Sewing Machines, at the Paris Exposition, 1878, over 80 competitors. For Agencies in Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nobraska, Colorado, and the Territories. Write to— WHEELER k WILSON MFG CO„ 155 State Street, - - CHICAGO C. B> Steward, Rense3laer, Ind.. v5n25. Agent for Jasper eoun'r

■to ■■ ■toHpbnelneeisnow before the pnbliS. Yon IJ ■_ %■ I can make money faster at work for nP lus than at anything clue. Capital ULiU I not needed. We will start yon. SIS a day and upwards made at home ny the industrious. Men, women, boys and girls wanted everywhere to work for us. Now is the time. You ca* work in spare time only or give your whole time to the business. You can live at home and do the work. No other business will pay yon nearly as well. No one can fail to make enormous pay by engaging at once. Costly Outfit and terms free. Money made fast, easily, and honorably. Address Ovnl Tnu* A Co., Angasta, Mala*.

The Democratic Sentinel . JAMES W.KallWkfl Proprietor. Oaooolam. o*«roar... too oo Half column an IT lighth eol. •• P« r «•>»*. added to foregoing price if tor aix months. Ii for thro* moj *' *'*• * r> tJ?“ b,| oa t, °n 10 cents a l, %232rJi? b **?l , * lon thereafter! cts. a JinV Yearly advertisements mar be «h.«» V •aarterljr[oncein Ihree months) at th.ll 4 * ** ;and Tuarterlyln aerate ■o&dbgai w. cmoonT ;-**“*-• • * IK?.: *%£s£s£££ w “H«F» It 8. * . DWIOODn *A.ttorxv*jr»-atVXj%w. AnssaLAßs . . * f under newDUojia, Law. a epe- - - vial.

DANIEL B Attwrn sr-at-Lav | . . . . , trS a wr“t^n P * r * ai * ,ftlnd ' Of Practice In all the Oonrts. VAIUON U SPITLER, Collector agd Ahodmooter H. LOUOHBIDe*. ~ rn—»rrTll»» Washington street, below Austin's hotel iceosifS r »»n r, . ,nt ® reßt W,U be a dd ® d toal sifeemonth. n,,lD ‘ nnMttled long*,, thaa DP. L B. WASHBURN, Physician A largsea, Rmstelatr, Jnd. Oalls promptly attended. Will give .mcl*i Hoe to the treatment of Chroal C Di»»»T»Y *st © • inn, HOMEOPATH. I. W. SNYDER, Attener at Law EMtttot, Indiana. OFTIOI IN HOHANGE BLOCK ?OLLICTIOKB A SPECIALT Y.

IBA W. TJOMAN, Attormwg at Law, notary public, Iml Estate afli Collecting kml Jill practise in all the Courts of Newton Beaten and Jasper counties. Orrics;—Up-stairs, ever Murray’s Cit* »mi Store, Geodland, Indiana. FRANK W. BABCOCK, A. ftt XaSLUO And Rent estate Brakar. Practises in all Courts of Jasper, Ncwtor »ad Benton coanties. Lauds examined; 4 oh tracts of Title prepared: Taxee paid. Ctollwctloao.» ok SSy^clstltpr. i- , j..mb— B. 8. Bwigglu linarl Bwlp^gs, President. Cm*hi«r. Oitiaene* Bank, r ora RENSSELAER, IND., M J®o® r *Jß*nking buxiuosa ; gives tea «T C n.t,ii. tt * n V on H collections; i wimtft*£* on of Pkrmout at current ■Tttis f «T.ff*K S * : , ,nt *rr«tpaid on balunoos. aertlleat.ee bearing lntereet issued: ext ihangebonght and sold. ~ m S * nk °, wnß [ b ? Burglar Safe.wMoh kaok thepremlum at the Chicago KXpoaition L* WTS.ThIa safe Is protected by one ol tarasnfs Time Locks. The Bank tTi.N asad la an good ae can be built. It will be seen Trem thoforesoing that this Bank fur--31 a nee ah good eecueity to depoeitors ae liO M. U.TMB K COI TBOMAg THoaraON* Banking House 0 P Asuccessors Reaee»i‘Jfr C t/h *"U Thom P a °n. Bankers. L Ind ’ j d ?? b Kemral j) unl . lnß business. Buy and sell exchange. Colleo“i 1 *vailable points. Money _®*?? d V iPtorgst paid on specified time de»r ew BLACKSMITH SHOP [6eath es McCoy A Thompson's Beak.} Rensselaer, lnd. HINT A DICKE Y. Pro Dr's. TNN preprletore having fitted up a bow ebop are new fullv prepared to do all kind* of Mfßialtalni. at the lowest price, and In the meet workmanlike manner. Farmer*, and all otters seeding aaythiag la oar line, are larltad t a give as a call. Ye parpnse making NIRSE-SnOEinc A Specialty, Aad dve this braackef the buslneoe partlcole ttpillm. All werk warranted. •RANT* DICKEY.

*b»wws. ma a x Dir Medic** 4l Day, Plasterers k Cistern Build’rs. All Mafia es Flala aad Ornamental woOk done Ip tke latest style. Leave orders at Tharp's Drug Store.

-A. 1.. WILLIS, dun k Locksmith, (Bh«p ea River bank, south of School Rensselaer, lad.) All kiada as Iroa and Wood turning, aad flna work la Iron, Steel and Rr*o», oa short antic*, and at reasonable rates. Qive me a call. vlniO

LIAR HOUSC, J. ■. LEAK, Proprietor, Opposite Court House. Montieello , Ind ■as recently bean new furnished throngh•ut. The reoms are large and airy tbo loqadea central, making it tne reoat oonvs lent tmfi daeirabl* hopse In towa. Try It. DM. DALB, a ATTORNBY-AT LAW mrasiuo, • Indiana. Bank betiding. np stairs. ( A#|| M Great chance to make money.--|*l 11 I I Those who ulway* take advantage If 111 || of the good chances for making moV w la wm Iney that are offered, generally become wealthy, while those who do not improv - * anch chancea remain in poverty. Wc want many men, women, boys and girls to work for ns right ta their own localities. Any one can do the wortc properly from the first start. The business will pay more than ten times ordinary wages. Expensive outfit tarnished free. No one who engages tolls to make money rapidly. Ton cr-n dnvoto your wnole time to the work, or only your aparo momenta. Fall Information and all that 1- need ed sent free. Addreea Stinson & Co. fivnl. Portland. Maine.