Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1882 — Constitutional Amendments. [ARTICLE]

Constitutional Amendments.

The following are the four amendments proposed to be made to the State UonstL tuiion. They were adopted by the las t legislature and will be befoie the next le gislature for adoption er rejection: Sec. 1. There shall be elected, by th* voters ot the State, a Secretary, an Audie tor, and a Treasurer of the State, whoshall severally hold their offices for four years. They shall perform such duties as may be enjoined by law; and no person shall be eligible to either of said offices more than one term, of four years, in any period of eight years'. Sec. 1. There'shall be elected in each county, by the voters thereof, at the time ot general elections, a Clerk of the Circuit Court, Auditor, Recorder, Treasurer, Sheriff, Coroner, and Surveyor, who shall severally hold their offices ror four years, oi one term, in any period of eight years Sec. 1. The manufacture, sale, or keeping for sale, in said State, spirituous, vinous, malt liquors or any other intoxiliquors, except for medical, scientifical, mechanical, and wines for sacramental purposes, shall be hereby forever prohibited in the State of Indiana. Sec. 2. In all elections not otherwise provided for by the Constitution, every citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years and Upwards, who shall have resided in the State during the six months, and in township sixty days, and in the ward or .precinct thirty days, immediately preceding such election, and every person of foreign birth of the age of twenty-one years and up. wards, who shall have resided in the United States one year, and who shall have resided in this State during the six months, and in the township sixty days and in the ward or precinct thirty days’ immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his or her intention to become a pitizen of the United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to a vote in the township ward or precinct where he or she may inside if he or she shall have been dulv reck» tered according to law.

f 1 In Germany boes are now stupefied by e' 'ctricity. Honan’s for your ifurnuhing Good • Cyprian locusts are again being slaughtered to protect the crops. A full line of watches, clocks and je ffelry at Kann al’s An Atlanta hose lactory makes large thipinents of socks to New York. Call at Kannai’s for AUbastrim r t the great substitute for white wash.

An army of blackbirds recently devastated twenty acres of corn in one af* ternoon in Georgia. Such a rush this week at Honan’?. It is net generally known that a few sprigs of cedar brush mixed with hay or any kind of litter tor hen’s nests will keep them entirely free from hen lice.J Honan’s for your Millinery. An Illinois woman of eighty has bro’t suit for a divorce against her husband of twenty-five. She thinks he martied her for money, and not tor love. Honan’s for your Fancy Notions. A student of Oxford University on being asked "Who was Esau?”' replied:— “Esau was a man who wrote fables and sold his copyright for a mess of potash.” Patent medicines, of all kinds, at F. B Leamifig’s. Tharp’s old stand. Why do elderly spinsters'have a predilection for parrois? Well, they have no man about the house, and they waul something around that can swear. Go to Kannal’s Drug & Jewelry Store to get your watch or clock repaired—H. B Smith the competent watch maker.

"Confound it, you’ve shot the dog! I thought you told me you could hold a gun ?” Pat —“Sure and so I can, your honor’ It’s the shot, sorr, I couldn’t howld!” A full stock of Harps, Accordeons» Viol.ua, Violin Strings, Bows, and Bridges at Kannai’s. A soft answer; “My dear,” said a husband to his wife, "what kind of a stone do you think they will give me when I am gone?” She answered, coolly, “Brimstone, John.” “I can’t talk of dead heroes for money,” said “Colonel Bob,” refusing pay for his Decoration Day oration. But he will even up things by making Star Route thieves “whack up” with their plunder from the United States Treasury. A full line of White Wash Brushes cheap at Kannai’s Drug Store. A newspaper agent being told by an old lady that it was no use to subscribe for the papers, as Mother Shipton said the world was coming to an end this year, said: “But won’t you want to read an account of the whole affair as soon as it is over?” “That I will,” answered the old lady; and she subscribed,

Stop at F. B. Learning’s for your wall paper, a stock imferior to none, and prices rock bottom. “She’s a dear girl,” said a St. Louis young man in reference to a Chicago fair one; ‘I assure you father, she is all soul.’ ‘Yes,’ replied his stern parent, the old prejudice against the Garden City embittering his words, “I saw her foot-print in the sand by the lake side. You are right; she is all sole.”—Boston Transcript. The attraction of the town, is the popular Millinery Store of E. P. Honan. Tne Texas Legislature, at its recent called session,enacted a law which reads: “From every person, or association of persons selling or offering for sale the illustrated Police News, Police Gazette, and other illustrated publications of like character, the sum of five hundred dollars in each county in which such sale may be made or offered to be made.” An old pair of trowsers had been hanging in a barnyard in Reno for some time, and they had become the home of a nest of hornets. An Indian begged the trow sers of the owner, and was gratified at having his request granted. The redskin with great pride, put on the garment and started down the street. Ere long he set up a war-whoop and darted off like a deer..

Borax water will instantly remove all soils and stains from the bauds, and heal all scratches and chafes. To make it, put some crude borax into a large b tile, and fill with water. When the borax is dis solved, add more to the water, until at last the water can absorb no more and a residuum remains at the bottom of the bottle. To the water iu which the hands are to be washed after gardening, pour from this bottle enough to make it very soft. It is very cleansing and healthy. By its use the Lands will be kept in excellent condition —soft, smooth and white} The following postal cards, says the New York Tribune, will explain themselves: Philadelphia, May 28, 1882. Hon. Roscoe ConklingI’m in hot water, as you may have observed, and it’s growing hotter hourly.— What would you do if you were me? Agitatedly yours. Don* New York, May 29, 188 a. Hon. J Don Cameron: In answer to your favor of the 28th inst\ I would say that, if I were you, I would think how I would act were I in your place, and then I’d take precious good care not to act that way. Pensively, yours. Roscoe.

Diphtheria.—Quite a discovery in the treatment of diphtheria has been made. A young man whose arm ha t Lean amputated, was attacked by diph. theria before healing took place, and instead of the matter from that disease being deposited In the throat, the greater portion appeared on the wounded aim, and the disease was very light and easily managed. Dr. la-is, of Mankato, profited by tins, and in his next case of diphtheria blistered his patient’s chest, and on the blistered part the chief deposits appeared. This was also an easy case The theory of Dr. Davis is that diphtheria usually appears in the thro it because of the thinness of the lining of the ihroat Hence, when the blister breaks the sain upon any other part of the body, the disease appears there.