Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1883 — A HORRIBLE DEATH. [ARTICLE]

A HORRIBLE DEATH.

The Washington Republican expresses the no + lon that the Republicans will be whipped in 1884. Amenl Senator brogans are cocfiidcrrtble too la-ge for Tom Brown. Tom must resume eating meat. At Sellersburg, tbil State, on Tuesday I st, a negro outraged Mrs. Taylor in her ow : hou*®. and fled, but was captured by the Incensed citizen •and hung. Theories of floods come no.w along wi h the fact. The denudation of the forests Is held responsible for it t and correctly perhaps. Meantime ti,o tariff on lumber must not be removod but we must as a wise and prudent people continue to pay a county for the stripping of our wooded lunds. Clarisla Linzey, widow of a Revo lutionary oldier, and as such a pen. tidier, supposed to be one hundred y-urs old, died at Vincennes Monday nig't. -pi t km same wfcht, at she Aa.me place, Jacob Taylor, • colored centenarian, a former servant of GenJackson, and a participant in the battle Of New Orleans, also died

A fire broke out under the stairs of the second floor of the school bouse attached to the German Roman Cath : olic Church of the Most Holy Be* deeraer, 4th Street, betireen Ave - ue A. and First Avenue, New York City, at quarter past 3 P.M. Tuesday. Over 700 scholars attended the school, and no less than fourteen children lost their lives. Since 1861 our congressmen have given away to tnerailroads the enor mous amount of 195,000,000 acres of land. This amount has been virtu* aily squandered in the shape of donatio*; s at diflerent times to corporations to aid in the perfecting and carrying out of some railroad enterpise. The money value of these giants will fall but little short of $2,000, 000,000 and it is a fact beyond contioveisy that the railroad corporations have little or no legal right to them by reason of a failure to comply with the terms and provisions upon which suca grants were made.

Joliet, Illinois, a few months ago had 107 saloons, the license fee for which in each case was SSO. A JDem. city council concluded to better affairs nj it raised the license fee from S;SO to SSOO. The first effect was to c ose forty-seven of the worst rum shops The next effect to increase tht $5,350 which the 107 saioons at Cra'o each paid to the city, to $30,00® which the sixty remaining saloons no w pay yearly. The continuing es. f ct has been a marked increase in public order and a marked decrease in drunkenness. In Nebraska a high liceuso law of 1,000 coupled with a local option provision has been in operation for a year and a half with the result in Omaha, a city of < 0,1)00 population of reducing the number of saloons from 150 to ninety and increasing the revenue from $25,000 to $90,000. In small towns where there were eighteen or twenty doggeries there are now but two or three-reputable 3aloous. There is less drunkenness less poor liquor sold and less loafing and rowdyism. In a number of towns, ranging in populations from 500 to 3,000 people, prohibition exists.

“Protectionist*” and the old slave power are compared as parallel relics or barbarism by the Chicago Times* That paper says: At present the interests of a few hundred men in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania control the action of Congress on matters of the most vi tnl importance to the people. As poluicans care more for the perpetuation of their respective parties than they do for the general prosperity of she country, they will not allow any question in regard to the tariff to be decided in National convention that will tend to alienate any considerable number of voters. In this respect the history of the old slave powv i is repeated. In fact, the parallel between the supporters of the institution of slavery and the supporters es the institution of the tariff might be continued indefinitely. Both had their birth in barbaious countries, and both are oppressive In their open; t.o ns. The great mass of the people were opposed‘to slavery, but tor a century they took no decided notion toward Its abolition. What wiis cnce true of slavery is now true o. the tariff. Give the people a fair c hance so vote direotly on the tariff issue, and protection will share the late of the other lelio of oarbarism.

A writer in the Baltimore Sun, whose ability and candor are vouched for by that paper, has been em ploying himself with the study of the '‘-tariff Tor revenue” period between xßgGJind iB6O, .and its effect upon wa ' es and their purchasing power. The San says: His comparisons indicate that it is n cruel perversion of facts to say , hat a“ high tariff is the poor man’s friend.” in the period from 1860 to 1860 the average tariff rate was 16 pci-rent, of the value of the goods i«,.ported; in the decade from 1870 to 1880 it was, as now, over 48 per cent. In the former period the value o! our exports exceeded the value of oUr imports by $40,000,000, while unde hitrh protection the balance has been for the most part the other way. During tte decade from 1860 to 1860 articles from American manufacture constituted 15 per .cent, of c ur total exports; in the period from , q 7 n to 1880 but 14 per cent; showing :X<Ze -Oder wages of bands In woolen $869.26 per annum; in

1879 bat $296,05 showing a decline under a high tariff of $6421 a yeai,and i hot the workman was about 2 p r r cent, better off in wages under , ow tariff. In the cottea mills the ! average wages of 1860 were $361-40, . an 1879 $,240.17.; decline or $121.2 * or about 34 per cent. For botn iu dustries the wages average less in i New England, the paradise of protection, than anywhere else in the United Stotts. Other industries would show similar results, in comparison, m favor of the low tariff pariod. Wages are worth what they will buy. In 1860 money would buy more than now’. Comparing tue cost of tifry eight articles, necessaries if life, including rent, fuel, meats, vegetables, flour, etc, in 1860, with the t cost in 1876. our correspondent gets their result: Thai the cost of the whole fltty eight article-* in eertaiu qu nitities in the latter year wassloo. or $1,75 each, while in 1860. they could be brough for $76 28, or $1.35 each, a difference of purchasing power for ihont-y of 33i per cent. »n favor of the low tariff period. The conclusion drawn from these facts is that in pretending to “protect" the American workman from foreign “pauper labor” our tariff lords a»e in reality pauperizing American labor.

High commendations are due to Hon. Frederick Hoover, who voted on every occasion to submit toe amendments to the people. Mr. Hoover remaias true to his pledges in spite of the pressure brought to b»ar against him, and deserves a hearty recognition from his Benton county Tribune. Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Irwin were very pleasantly surprised on Friday evening of last week by a large number of their friends calling on them, the occasion being the 10th anniversary or their wedding day, in other words their tin veddmg. We were not favored with a list of the pr {gents, but have been informed that i. ey were numerous, usehd, valuable and ornamental, some of them beiuS’particularly unique and original In design and manufacture, the result evidently of inventive genius and mechanical still of a high order, combining the beautiful, practical and suggestive,—Remington News.

Two boys from Monticello, named Suelson and Gregory, aged twelve and eight year# respectively, came to town Monday in a coal car, having letl their homes clandestinely to have time of their own. A telegram was received soon aficr their arrival and Constable Lally took cnarge es Master Greeory While th§ other boy paid a visit to Wm. Hollingsworth who is a relative, ana on Tuesday they were returned in chargo ol an older brother, to their homes, where there was probably a good sized apanking in (•tore for them, as a gentle reminuer that boys of their tender years had better stay at home and obey their parents.—Rimington News* Messrs. A. M, Traugh and David Nelson retu'ned lrom Florida Wednesday morning, both looking remarkably w T ell s though the trip had a beneficial eftec;.« They spent some time in Jacksouvill , bu 1 the greater part of the time, soutn of that city some hundred and tlfty mile-, where they report the climate as being delightfully pleasant, the thermometer being from 60 to 80 degress, and the nights just warm eneufch to sleep under a a sheet with windows wide open. Orange trees are in bloom, some of them hanging full of fruit, a sample of which through the generosity of Mr - Traugh, we have been permitted to te3t, and pronounce them very fine. They found the climate fully up to their expectations and eVen beyond them, but the board was found to be very inferior in comparison with that furnished by northern hotels. It was an impossibility to get any good beef, and the water was uo better than surface water is here in mid-summer, such as is found in sloughs on the prairie.—Remington News.

Our citizens were horrified on Thursday morning at the discovery of the dead body of a man lving in one es the vacant lotsjust east of the stock yards. Upon examination it proved to be the body of Tom Watson. He was lying on bis back, his face partially covered with the contents of his stomach, giving it aghss' Iy and sickening appearance, and when first found about 8 o’clock! the body was not rigid yet, indicating that death had taken place only a few hours previous. I he man had been at work nil day Wednesday and was last seen, so far as we b&ve learned, Detween 9 and 10 o’block that.night, being then considerably under the influence of liquor, ana it is probable that he waa on his way home, and had reached the point above indicated, being 2o cr 80 rods from his house, when he fell upon the ice and from some cause yet unknown, was unable to rise and .fin ally died. A great deal of theorizing ts indulged In as the immediate cause of death, some of the more reasonable causes assigned, being that in fallirg ho sustained injuries ot a fatal character, or that he was rendered temporarily insensible, and strangled to death vhile in the act of vomiting, or that death was the result of excessive exposure: The Coronor has been notified but at this writing has not arrived, and the result of the in quest will doubtless throw some light on the direct or indirect csu3e of death. He was a young man yet and was regarded when sober, as a good, peaceable citizen, and a good workman, and but for his habits of dissipation, might now be in the enjoyment of good health- He leaves a wife and several children; in destitute circumstances —Remington jSTews. Ho», W. W. Gilman’s'bill before the legislature concerning railway construction and freight tariffs is an important one. It was read a first and second time and 300 copies ordered printed. The bill prohibits the entry on any land (except for preliminary survey) for the constructions of lailways without o - taining a title to the land or the owner’s written eonset t". It prohibits disorimlna:lng freight rates as res gards short or long (distances or between persons er places, and forbid? discrimination between persons as to rebates; fixes p nalities for forcible entry on land to construct roads and previsions for redress; bold railway companies liable for unnecessary delay in furnishing oars to shippers, or refusing to do so. Altogether, it is a solid bill. It applies to all roads op - erated wholly or partly in Indiana.

The narrow guage bridge was demorlized to suoh an extent as to pre vent trains from crossing it. Fortutunately the new bridge of the Air Line was juet about completed at that time which obviated the necessity of repairing the old structure.—Monticello Herald. Mr. Jay W. Williams and family will remove to Benaselaer early in March. He enters in the brokeage business in partnership with his father-in-law, they having offices already fitted up for business.—Kentland Gazette.

£ Lodges of the H. B. 8. will soon be instituted at ‘Remington, Reusselear and Winamac. —MoDticello Heraii 1 . In the Benton Circuit Court the jury sustained indictment in a liquor cose and assessed a fine of $75 ae the penalty for selling liquor to a minor. The minor swore he bought and paid for the liquor- The vendor adjnitted the-sale, but made it on the declaration i f the minor that he was of age.

After denouncing Redmond, late o* the Fowler Review, is a. scoundrel, etc., the Kentland Gazette, in last week's issue, parades him before the public, os uuthori'y for Republican campaign thunder It seems that Redmond is now writing for tte Era? a paper be very roundly abused, ->heu . conducting the Review. In response to bis statements with reference to Democratic campaign funds.—where they came from aud for what they were disbursed, the ohuirman of tbe Benton County Dem •cratlc Committee invites an examination of tbe books to set at rest bis charges. However, the Gazette will now believe Redmond, in preference to all the books bearing upon the questions that cau be produced.

Florence. Kelley, daughter of Congress-, man Kelley, of Philadelphia, has gone abroad with her brother, and proposes to wa.k through Europe. "Oh. dear!," exclaimed Mrs. Fender* sod, when she read ot the disaster of th e Ulty of Brussels, ‘ and I was going to buV a new carpet in the spring, and I suppos e this will make them awful high." "When I was a young man," savs philosopher Billings, ‘‘l was always in a hurry to hold the big end of the log and to do all or the lifting, but now 1 seize hold of the little end and do all the grunting.” Mr. K light, the superintendent of the Maginois cotton factory at New Orleans, makes the prediction that in twen ty year# all the mill# of the United States producing plain brown cotton goods will Ije located in the south. A new way to compliment a mean mania to fay: ‘‘He is pretty mean in Home respects, but, then, after all, be is meaner in other respects." That sort of lets him dawn easy, and makes him think he is not so confouoded mean after all. Governor Alexander H. Stephens’ approval of the joint resolution of tlie legislature of Georgia, providing for a lifesize portrait of the late senator Ben H< Hill, read: “Without reference to the preamble, the resolution is approved by me." - .. » t Innianiacs of all Darties wonder wha has become of Senator Harrison In the United States Senate he appears like a poor boy at a frolic, or a cat in a strange garret. He is solemn as an owl and dumb a 3 an oyster. As a leader he is what the ass said of himself as a dancer, • Tie poorest animal what is.”—lndiana polls Sentinel.

Colonel Jonn H. Savage, a member of Congress years ago, and now a resident of McMinnville, Tenn., says that he has two things to be proud of One is that a certain speech delivered by him is spoken to this day in every log schoolhouse in the West,; the other that during ihe War “I wrote Jeff Davis an impudent letter, resigning my command and telling him he ought to resign, too.” New hotel regulations: Guests jumping from the fifth-storv windows will be charged extra. In the office of the h tel is a large fire-proof sate; the proprietor will not he liable tor any guest who does not deposite himself in it for the pight. Johnsor fire-pumps served in the rooms, charged extra. Guestsare.reqnested to pay their bills before going to bed, as they maynot have time while the fire is burning. A woman in Virginia sent to a Richmond bookseller ssooo in Confederate bonds, in payment of a $1 book, and received in return *he desired book and $2 50 of legal currency . This shows that the booksel’er considered Confederate bonds worth as much now as thev were in 1864, when the Confederate Government was In existence. In the latter part of ’64 a barrel of flour was hard to Set in Richmond for $1,200. Twelve liun red dollars worth of Confederate bonds are now worth $8 40 there, and that sum will buy a barrel of good flour'.

Senator Va~ce fells of a fellow in North Carolina, named Wilson, who dragged through life awfully elongated feet. When going with others to a barbecue in “Bunkum’’ county, Wilson, finding no other means of conveyance, proposed to ride a mule. H,e was tol 1 “that no man .ever did or could ride that mule.” They said, “He will work to a buggy or plow, but no man can stay on his back;” and the determined man instructed several negroes to catch the mule and hold him. The animal plunged and kicked, but finally Wilson secured a seat in the saddle. Every one expected to see him dashed to the ground, but the mule looked around, saw the man’r feet and walked peacefully away. He thought he was between a pair of shafts,

On Sunday about a dozen Monticello kids boarded a bob-sled, padded with tw© feet of straw, and sped away toward the Dunkardchurch, at Idaville. When about half way to the end of their journey, one ot the “kids!’ dropped his “snip©,” which fifed the straw, and the driver bounded upon the seat and whip ped up the steeds to send the flames toward the boys in the reer. “The flames rolled on, they could not stay,” and veu never saw such a “get’n\ out ot the burning straw. Tbe horses reared and plunged—the flames grew fierce, and the boys rolled and tumbled—over one another —out into the “beautiful snow.” The sled struck a stone and the driver “Oh where was he.” He landed in a fenee corner about twenty feet away, with beels high in the air. Although the boys were badly spilled over a quarter section of snow yet no bones were broken .—Monticello Democrat.

Ihe concealment of some animals is easily effected on account of the adaptation of their colors to those of surround ing objects in their native wilds. This adaptation is the mimicry of animals, and seems to be a wise provision of Nature for the protection of some ot her creatures. In the coarse oT “a lesson in comparative zoology," Dr. H W. Mitchell says that the giraffe has. perhaps, the most astonishing mimicry of any animal. Its great size, which enables it to feed upon lofty tree-boughs in its ualiye African forests, makes it also a most conspicuous object o its en- mies, of Which the most dreaded are the lion and man. Such is its mimicry, however, that the most practised eye has failed to distinguish the giraffe from one of the dead and blasted trees which abound in the haunts of this animat. evidence assures us that lions-have been kpown to gase long and earnestly at a motionless giraffe, and, being unable *o :bcide that it was not a tree, to turn and skulk away.

Even Yankees are becoming dis- i gusted when Rhode Island is refer* red to as a Sta te. To call a dwarf a I giant, an infant a man. a gnat a giraffe, or an ant-hill a mountain they say is not doing greater violence to language than to call Rhode Island a State. W> y not call it Sprague’s Shooting Park, Conkling’s Race Cou se, or Katydiddom?