Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1883 — A QUICK DIVORCE SUIT. [ARTICLE]

A QUICK DIVORCE SUIT.

The ghost of the late William Hall who met a violent death at Warsaw haunts the railroad traek near that place. It le said, and two night watehmen hare thrown up their situation rather than to meet the ghost X dfudant General Carnahan's an nual report to the war department sb‘)vrlDg the number ot men in In** diana available fer militaiy duty Dt t (-ember 31. 188 i, Ineluding -all the age of eighteen and forty-fire, to be 369,045. The ground heg. wbem common i< porn* eay makes hie appearance on February gd, to take observation as to the prospects for an early break up of wißter, and whose shadow If Br«u by himself vlrtully settles the matter In the negative, was agreebly disappointed, and we mar soon look for the feathered harbinger of spring, the bluebird. Dexey has been assigned Garfield’s former chair in the House. If any* il.ing could rouse the dormant energies of a human uiiud, it is the worthy example of our martyred president. It elevated him Bro. Carr. He forthwith procured for himself a private Secretary. Whatr for? Heaven only knows. The Indianapolis NWs, Republican says “Tbs amendments are dead they were born dead." Just se. They were the abortion of a radical legis. lature, and wae held ovsy to this present legislaturs for burial. In the meantime eertaln leading radU csls and their organs tried to palm them eff upon the innocent people as ulir#;and kicking. The whole thing was a trisk, and a fraud upon the voters of the State.

Senator Beck recently said “while the average daty propesed by tbe “reformed" tariff wa* 411 par east, and whleh It waa olalmad waa baraly sufficient to protaet American labor, yat the wagaa paid ft many of our industries waa only 174 par cant, of the value of tha produat and that tha manufacturer's prafita were 384 ear cent. If. therefore, “protection ta American labor’* waa the object, a duty of 17| par cant, would cover all the interact labor had in it. It will not ba long before tha American laborer will understand that a tariff has nothing to do with hia wages, and is not laid for hia benefit.

Id the rural distrlets the radical organs are very persistent-in theirefforta to show that tha Democrats In the State Senate dafaated submis* aion of the amendments—tha Montioello Herald, Kentland Grzatte and the Rensselaer Republican, labor hard in that direction, while the Indianapolis Timas, radical State orpan, edited by Halloway, attinr inlaw of the late Governor Moiton.is very grateful for tha defeat, and claims that tha credit belong* to the Republican Senitors who voted for the majority report, which held that the amendments were not legal y before this legislature. They soma how or ether don t consist.

A very important fact, worthy of serious consideration by worlting'men, brought out by tha tariff discussion in Congress, is found in t a statement by Representative Williams, that only about 6 per cantjof our population are engaged in manufatures protected by a/high tariff. Thus the’many laborers who reoel ve only from 75 cents to $1.85 per day are according to the theory of the protectionist, heavily taxed on wolo' ens, sugars, teas, coffees, and many other importint products which even the poorest classes must have, to enable the manufacturers to pay their employes from $2 to $4 per day. It is therefore very important for the average workingman to eon-, aider how much more he, and his olasa oan afford to contribute of their small remuneration for hard work, to maintain the higher rates of wages paid to the very small per oentage of laboring men engaged In manufaetures favored by a high tariff.

lad ianajfoils New*, Republieaa, Indianapolis queensware merohaats are in a terrible straight over the iaorease of duty oa their good*, whioh i* proposed by the prefect measure* in congress called a reduction of the tariff. Why should our merchants complain? Is not our policy of pro tectiDg home manufacture* to be ad hered toJ It will cost our merchant* many thousand dollar* perhaps, but see what it oo»ts the 5*.000,000 of peo pie oT this country, Tney have to loot the bills at|an increase price on ' evtry piece es ehinathey buy and have had to do this from the begin nirg. It is said that this policy i* only for factories at two places. That is nothing. Our tariff on matches ani nickel is for the benefit of only one concern in each instance. All the people in this country must pay a vast increase in price for the ben* eflt.of these firms, in whose power they are plaoed without relief. Our queensware merchant* should stand up and pay the tax for the benefit of New Jersey and Ohio factories with* or.t grumbling, or else they should declare that they will oppose on pihicipal ail taxes levied on one man for another man’s benefit, and to work toward the end, ' ' -

The Republicans in the United & rates Senate have reformed the tatIff *n vetton by increasing it from 15 to 135 per sent. We have received Vol 1, No. I, of the Logansport Weekly Advertiser, William k Longsvell, publishers and proprietors. We wish them success*

Senator Harrison was interviewed in New York Sunday. He thinks if the temperance question Is out of the way that his party will carry the. Stats in 1884. • The Chicago later-Ocean 'asks: Shut! Hibbtdlism be rebuke'll?* Yes' it shall. It wms reb«k»d in Horem ber 1882. It will be rebuked again »nd again as ofteh as the people qan *et a Wtucit at it at the polls. Hues to the amount of $985 were paid into the school fund at the present term of Cass Circuit Court, Gamblers paid $575, Saloons. $300; prostitutes $75, allowing miners to play pool. s3o* assault and battery $5. The prosecutor of that Circuit seems to be« whooping ’em up. An exchange very wisely says: ‘Never growl because a newspaper fails to give eWy scrap of news, eo long as you tuke no particular pains te give the editor information. The average editor isn’t a medium nor a mind reader, but gets his news jest the same as a milkman gets his milk —by pumping."

Twenty years ago Hon. John Over* raeyer. now Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee es In •liana, publicy confessed, it is said that be had been concerned in an attempt to assassinate Gov. Oliver P. Mortou and to obstruct in every way possible the efforts of the State to aid the general government in putting down the rebellion. To-day Chair man Overm yer is a rampant Republican, and insolenty asks, “What are you going to do about it?”

“Politics mates arrange bedfellow*. Twenty years ago Gen. JReuben Wil'lams, now editor of tha Warsaw In - , dianian, sat upon a military commission which tried, convicted and condemned to death upon the acaffold Coi. Lambdin, P. Milligan, of Hunt ington, for an alleged conspiracy upon tha life of Gov. Oliver P. Moron ana disloyalty to tha Government. To-day Gen. Williams and Col. Milligan occupy front seats to. gether in the Republican synagogue. Col. Milligan has become a patriotic saint since he was baptised into the Republican faith. And now if MrHeffren would only act with tha Republican organization, in their estim ate he would be as pure as honorable, ioyal and grand as Milligan, Bowles and Horsey.

Notwithstanding .Logan, the Cotswold Lion of the prairies, made a speech against Fitz John Porter of tremendous length and leanness, it is doubtful if it fully developed the great analytical powers of his mind. The fallowing fragment of a speech delivered by him on the 24th of’ June, 18T0, does Mr. Logan full justice. The question before the House relates to the readmission of Georgia to the Union.. Logan said: Now, sir, when a State asks admission into this Un on,' the first thing decided is that she is entitled, or she is not. If not, there are reasons for it; ii she is, it is because she nas complied with all that is prece <Je it to her admission. If she has, then she is entitled to admission: if not. then she is not entitled to admission into this Unian, ene is entitled tojadmissioa on a perfect equality with the rest of the States. If she is entitled to that. I have no right to put conditions on her as conditions precedent te her admission or condition subsequent, whatever you may call them. That speech gives the size of Lo*» gan, and it is quite likely Republicans will nominate him for President.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald gives his paper daily information relating to the designs of monopolists and the aid and comfort they are receiving from Republican Senators and Congressmen. In a late communioa ien he says: Washington was never so full of lobbyists as at present. The' dozen or twenty monopolisms whlofc thrive on the present tariff have their agents and sometimes their principals here in full force to take care that duties are not lowered or made less complicated. Another sort Pf monopolists, who have grown up under the fost ering care of the internal revenue laws, are here to prevent the abolition of those needless taxes the levy, ing of which proved to to the control of several kinds es industry by a few groat capitalists and the extirpation of competitors of moderate means. It Is not extravagant to say that the Rt publicans in Congress are in league,, with these capitalists monopolists who fatten on bad and unjust laws. * * *** It is a truth that ought to be understeed that the Republican chiefs have made themselves and are making their party the agents of wealth monopolists, whose service they are doing at the expense of every other interest in the country, manufaoturing and agricultural. Apparently they believe that the next election is to be carried on by money, and they are ms ing frieads of those great capitalists and monopolists who floarieh at the oosfe of the taxpayers and by the help of bad laws and the imposition of needless taxes. Such statements are valuable as indicating the purposes of the Republican besees in the campaign of 1884. — A. proposition is before Congress to suspend the coinage of silver dollars. It is a National Rank movement, and if money ean be of any avail the first step towards the demonetization of silver will be Uken. The National Banks want to supply the country, with all the circulating medium required-

A resident of Washington is so much pleased with our senior Sena, tor that he writes as follows under date of January 31; Senator Toorhees is a man of the people. His great, warm heart ia open to all. He is always accessible; no one is afraid to approach him: no one tears being treated otherwise than ia thv most kind and cuortcous manner when they appeal to him in any way. Yet his heart never runs away with bead, nor is t«se bronze statue upon the dome of the Capitol more invulnerable to principal and loyal devotion to the true interest of the people he represents. Today, ss I drank In eagerly overy word of his glowing and beautiful tribute to Georgia’s deceased- Senator —by fur the most touching ami appropriate of the able anti eloquent addre-s----ses delivered -I thought, as I xo'iced certain exquisite pussuges, that he was unconsciously pronouncing a filling eulogy of himsely. euly. great as my admiration of Senator Hill, my inmost hr art pronounce i his eulogist a purer, nobler, loftier type of outnlKod still.

As Illustrating some of the remarkable laws of this State on the subject of divorce, Hon. fhaddeus P. Rollins, yesterday related a story of a divorce which he procured is Cass County, some years since, before Judge Chase. The allegations in the complaint were drunken* s and general worthlessness of the defendant. When the case came on a witness was called to prove t lie character and habits of the defendem. Mr. Rollins asked him the question: “Do vou know Mr. , the defendent in this case, Mr. Biard?" The asnwer was in the affirmative. At this point Judge case looked up and said: "Mr. Biard, tell me if that man is the same, Mr. - ,wbo was in Company K. of the - —lndiana Regiment durthe War?” “The same man, Judge was the answer. “You need go no farther. Mr. Rollins,” said the Judge, “the divorce is granted,” and a judgment was entered accordingly for the plaintiff. After Court adjourned the Judge was joked abojt the hasty entry of the judgment, referring to the fact that no evidence had been introduc ed into the dhse. “Why, gentlemen " said his honor, “I know that fellow. He was in my Company during the War.ard I cav er will let a woman live with him if she asks me for a divorce. I know him better thau any witness who can be brought here.