Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1882 — Indiana Female Reformatory. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Female Reformatory.

The annu d rbport to the Governor of the man gers of the Indiana Reformatory Institution of Women and Girls is quite lengthy ami contains much valuable information. There are at present in the penal department fifty-five convicts. During the year thirty-three have been received into the institution, one recaptured and twenty-two have been discharged upon the expiration of their terms and one has been released for new trid. In the reformatory department there are now 144 girls. During the year fifty-one have been received on new commitments and seven re turned from ticket-of leave; twenty-one have been discharged, forty released on ticket-of-leave and one has died. A number of escapes have occurred but all have been retaken. In the two departments the average nunflier of inmates during the year ha -. beenl92; five gi eater than that of any previous year. The expenditures, including all salaries repairs and improvement-, have been $28,000, being the amount of the general appropriation. Total amount dtav. n for State ti eaxury .Itf.ooo.co Deduct amount expended in repairs.... 1 eaves cost of siv port, salat lea, etc.5J5,4(11.153 Deduct from this the amount paid into the State treasury, net earnings of inmate , $070.00, and the amount paid into the State treasury by the counties for clothing and subsistence of child) en committed to the reformatory department from said counties, $8,178.92, make a total of $8,855.01, which shows the total expense of the institution to the State for clothing, support and caring for 192 inmates during the past year, $16,590.6?. The expense of each inmate to the State was $2.89 per week An attempt is to lie made to run locomotives, or rather trains, through the St. Gothard tunnel by means of electricity. At present the products of combustion left in the tunnel make travel very uncomfortable,

We wl«h you dear reader, "A Bai* ; y New Ye«'t.“ *— ■ It is now thought that, notwith standing the apparent improvement In ek-Govern r Hendricks’ health. hi s ffc jvery is ninwsjt hopi*lv£s. Senft i(." Voorhees says that lio was in f. >rd I, Mr, Hendricks himself that >. >■ but little liApe f his gmtbi' v 'j th' ci-sease liu6 been artist > v. i et' it fir.-t. showed itseil, but liivti : .i-t ' Hintr I;' v soon h may appeal rs anotner piner. The diffi-ulty i s le gangrene, a d sense from wki.-h. ■ physicians say, no one has eve,' ■'.m ka ;W!i to recover. ' At the nieffiorable dinner given in •.■ Not . city in 1880, after the re tar s of the <• ection had come in. )i 5 a<;'.idency Chester A. Artbui made a little speech which gains i« i .tere»t with age. After ettiigis irally alluding to the manner in whit h Indiana had been carried, he said: ‘ The gentlemen in New York stood i-o iy behind the Nation- i commit 1 tre and responded actively and en tmisiusticaiiy, but Mr. Dorsey, with his powe; for organization, his tire less energy, his wonderful courage : nd bis cool head, was able to aceom pltsh the result ha did in Indiana; and that r<stilt saved, more titan any t king <dsc, New York to the Republican ; arty.” The amount of “soap” used by the illustrious Dorsey was hoi then mentioned, but that mau h te recently given out how much ic took to carry the Democratic State <if Indiana” for the Republicans. to-, wit: $400,000. Dorsey now threatens io expose the whole game, in which Arthur is undoubtedly deeply impli cab d if tho latter does not interfere to save him from punishment for his star route robberies But then Guis lean male him President and was permitted to hang. Dorsey onlv made him Vice President, and it i b probable the lawj will be allowed Io take its course'.

It k seldom that a person is bro’; prominently before the public ’under circumstances that involve great responsibility who inspires his fellow citizens with so much hope and con lldence as has Mr. Cleveland, the Governor eject of New York. This’ perhaps is to bo attributed to the fact i hat he is a man of unsullied eha ran' '■‘-if. While before the public as a candidate for the office to which he has been elected no one had the temerity to assail his reputation, In whatever capacity, whether as a pri ite citizen, a politician, ora statesman, It may bo truly said f him that ;m is “sans peer et sans reproche.” The State of New York, compared with other States, has always been pre-eminently factional, and has, •en fore supjccted her Executives to greater burdens than perhaps any other State, Gwing to conflicting inInterests, and the peculiar condition of things now existing, these burdens Hi d responsibilities will be greatly si - leased, and it will require an extraordinary amount of wisdom and - c.ttsmanship to overcome the difficiihies that will have to be met Gov Cleaveland exalts patriotism far above pariyism and, if his utterances may be relied u f on as a criterion, he will be found the right man in the right place. At a recent reception, in the city of New York, he gave expression to sentiments relating to the late election and the duty of persons elected to office, which are worthy of thoughtful consideration. In the course of hi« remarks, he said:

"We aland to-night in the full glare us a grand and brilliant manifestation of popular will, and, in the light of it ho?. vain and small appear tfao tricks of politicians and the move-m-'nt of party machinery He must be blind who cannot see that the peopie well understand their power, and are- determined to usc.it when their rights and interests are threatened, There should be no skepticism to, night as to the strength and perpetuity of our popular gover. : m*nt. Pa--tisau leaders have learned, too, that the people will not unwittingly and blindly follow, and that something | more than unmeaning devotion to party is necessary to secure their al legiunce. I am quite certain, too, that the late demonstration did not spring from any pre existing love foi the party which was called to power, nor did the people place the affairs of State in our hands to be by t em for gotten, They voted for themselves and in their own interests. If we retain their confidence, we must deserve it, and we may be sure they will call on us to give an account or our stewardship. We shall utterly foil to read aright the signs of the times if we are not fully convinced that parties are but the instruments through which the people work their will, ami that when they become less or more the people desert or destroy them.The vanquished have lately learned these things, and the victors will act wisely if tney profit by the iessorr. * v * My only aspiration is to faith fully perform the duties of tne office io which the people of my State have called me, and I hope a d trnst that proud endeavor will light the way to i a success!ul Administration.” —f ___ f The following persons have been - drawn'as Jurors for the January term, i 1883, of the Jasper Circuit Court: i Grand Jury—Ralph W. Marshall, I Steward C. Hammond, Jos. G. Hunt’ j Ezra Bowman, Henry I. Adams, John j B. Lefler. Petit Jury-John N. Baker,Fritz Zard, John W. Jacks, William Wash burn, Stacy English, William Bull, , Micha Halstead, James W. Conde*, j Lewis Rich, Spencer Hamilton, Peter } Eoulks, Jno. Q. A. Lamborn. The officer's of Prairie Lodge No i 125 F. & A. M. were installed Wed- ; ■nesday night. • j

= - • Jasper Circuit Court convenes next Monday Dr. J. H. Doughridge and Frank B. Meyer went to Chicago yesterday. Zimrl Dwiggins, wife and babies spent Christmas in Rensselaer.

Mr. Zirnri Paris, who has been in Dakota for the past year, is visiting friends her**. The County Clerk has thus fur in tho’year 1882 issued ninety-eight mar* riage licenses Miss Urn Thompson, Delos Thomp--on and Elm-r l)»i pubis an* spend* ng the hol’d lytittl home Hugh Gamble, who is m the employ f tho C. & G‘. S. By Co,, visited i'lieudi here tha first of tho week. • William Hockley, aged eighty-two years, died hr. Sunday nigh.t. Tie was an ininatc of she county poor house.

Among the ‘Quads’’ in the l ist issue ,;f the Pup; ! - an 1 Printing Trad-.-s Journal we fin the following. it’s ratbci hard mi the .always) “long, lean, slab- ■ •di d Yur-kee type,” bai no ther char?.c!er would till the bill in this instance. ; There is a pet spider in the editorial rooms of the Pap r and Printing Trades’ J.-iurn-i’. The devil made a pet of him ofm night while waiting for copy. He found tiie spider mi the d isk, promptly dipped him ia the i/ik-Hu I, and let him crawl over a - hint of clean paper. That spider ne. er misses being about now. and the wav Le p t.ads foi the u.-uihl bath shows a wholesome thirst for literature. A few of his efforts are kept lying around for the benefit, of stray callers, who may tie anxious to see the copy for the next quarter’s Journal, and tha effect on some • f them we only wish it were p ssibie to describe. Yesterday we were trying to get through a roiice. when in dropped a long, lem, slafi-sided comp., who liad evidently “just run across tor a change.” ‘.Say. boss.l’ he commenced, "got.a:iy opening for -t ty pe'sctiing machine. Oldest machine out; beats the latest ir ventions into fit-: works day and night Alim required; hez im dangerous biler hkely to bust; provides its own fuel at current rates, ami consumes its own .-moke, Say, can I sail in and show yonr comps how to sling type ?” We took L's mens, tire, put a heading to one cf ihg spider’s productions, and, handing it >yer, told him he had come up the wrong stairs for an engagement, but as there was burry tor a proof ol that par ieulai article, he could g° to a trame. “If you bring us a clean proof,” we added, “in decent timej we will ask the m mager to take you pa ” Oil' he rusl -d, without ’poking at the copy, and we followed. He got to work, whipped up the head, then glanced at the lest o ! ’ the matter —his right hand hovering about the upper case ready for the first cap, something like ‘holy gosh!’ was heard; be dropped his composingstick, grabbed the copy with both hands, and glxred at the spider’s cop per-plate’ There was a pause, a rush of cold air through the office, and —a vacant ca =c.

Several statements concerning the womb-nut properties of the soil of Dakota arc now going the rounds of the press. One is that pumpkins are not raised there because tho vines grow so fast that they wear the fruit out dragging it over the prairies. Another item is that a farmer plants a bean in the apring and in the fall nulls it out and bricks up the excavation for a cistern . Why not tell all of the story? Cucumbers grow so large there that the settlers scoop them out and use them for ferry boats, and use th-. 1 vines for cables upon which to work the boat. Cabbages hnve to be chosped down in the fall with axes and the stocks are left standing to be used as hitching .posts - . Potatoes are not much planted, because they grow ho large the neighbors become separated by hills. Wheat is so strong that its stalks are used for fire Wood, and all bearded graia there .is shaved before sent to market. Beans are not raisad cither, htibause—well, enough has been,said "to.show that .Dakota is a great, great country.

A man named Thomas was brought before an ImliatmpoHs justice a few days since, for soiling a calf which he bad taken up unde; ti.<- - stray law. He ronsultei with anMliei jn-iice some time ago and was advised nndef the circum--fance.s to ‘‘chance’' it and .-a ll the animal. The law provides, ::v;ng ether Ihl gs, that where stock is taken up which is valued at $lO or over it shoul be hMd for a year aw iiiing a claimant. In this case the amount of tqe appraisement was $lO, but under the condition of the stock markets, although the animal was increasing in weight it was decreasing m value. In view of ghe case the animal was sold. No one has ever laid claim to it. Mr. Tbornas was fined §5 for violation of the statute. The costs were sls.