Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1883 — THOMAS WATSON [ARTICLE]

THOMAS WATSON

VErdict ok Coroner’s Jury We the undersigi ed jurors impanneled and -worn on the sth day of February, in th- year 1883. in the township of < "appealer, county of Ja-per and State ot Indiana, by Charles E. Harlackfer, a Justice <>f the Peace, acting as Coronor. to enquire nnd true presentment make i n. what manner and bv «hom, Thomas Watson, whese body was found near the stock yards, m the town, of Remington, on the 15 h, day of February, in th" year of 1883. came to his death. After hearing the evidence and examining Ihe body, we do fluu that the deceased came to his death by a fall upon the ice, coup led with drunkenness and strangulation by vomitinir, which the jury do find caused the immediate death of said person. wtiose body was found as aforesaid. Given under our bands at Ihe time and p'ace of said iimuisition above mention■d. D. W. Peck. J<>hn F. Fork, C. R Griffith, J W. Mowrer, John J >rdon, O. M. Vickery, Jis Kniffht, A. G Haidy, J. H. Allman, ’’’ami. <’amber’. Jno A. Thomas, B. H. Patton, J. K. Stoundt, Jonathan Rauk, Chas M Campbell.

An autograph letter of Washington owned by Mrs. Lucy Woods, ot Staunton, Va,, has j.st t-cen m--de public. It. was written to the citizens <«f iSheperdstown, October 12. 1796. in respond to a t' -rmal adi’iess tendered by them to the first President on bis announcement of his determination to retire to private life and run< in part as follows: “That beiificent Providence which hitherto has preserved us in peace and ‘ncreased our prosperity w| I not, I tru-t withdraw it's protecting hand, while we >n <>ur part endeavor to merit a con innance of its favors. Equally persuaded <m I that that no inconvenience wii re--uh from mv retreat to the walks <-t private life. The goo 1 scn r e of my countrymen will always discern and can neyer t>M at a loss to choose a fit character to administer the Ex -cutive Government of hese United States If it ha-< been my •rood fortune through my civil and mi' itary employments to have met the approbnt'on of my countrymen, my wishes will be consummated and I shall have found the only reward I ever had in view.”

The Fowler Review contains this .reference to Senator Hiover: We called upon the Hon F'-ed Hoover, Senator from this district, and found him at his post, Carefully weighing every measure that came up for the consideration of the Senate. Mr. Iloov r is one •>f tho-e solid men, such »S we need for our law makers. A man who has th** m erest of'he people at h-art and will ■ ver carefully guard their interest Ihe people of this district could not have done bette- in tl eir selection if they bad canvassed the State. We are proud of Fred and can do or say no more than that his course in the Senate will reflect honor upon him and leave a warm spot in the hear s of ifl9 constituents for Fred Hoover.

Reporting the death of a Mrs. Biker, at F -rt Fairfield, Me., on the lath inst, at the age of 97 yeais and 11 months, a correspondent of the Lewision Journal says: ‘Many years ago she came with her husband and three small chirldren to the upper St. John, where they made for thetpselves a home in the wilderness. They sefflpfl qn was afterward the disputed territory. hgker. beirg a patriotic woman manufai-turnd American flag, which her husband flung to the bieeze on a 4th ot July mornin; . For this display of Yankee patriotism on what was claimed as Britisa soil, Mr Baker wa- arrested and lodged in jail at Frederick town, where he remained for ovi r a year while his heroic wife man-, aged the farm and kept everything in gooff prder at hQßfte,”

The Jat’kill (N. Y ) Mail tells of a builder of that village who has taken a rather novel contract even in this fast age—that of building a village in Columbia county, in that state, for the accommodation • f the workmen employed by the Hudson Ore and Iron company. The houses are to be modeled alter a gampip already erected, and will be built on fopr parallel streets. Each cottage will be 16x36 feet, twq stories high, with a cellar They will be built eighty-three feet apart from the center o c tfle building, and will be arranged to accommodate a family oo each floor thus furnishing rooms for 10$ families. The entrance to :he second fl >ors will be by covered stairways, built outside of the main buildings, out really under tbe same roof.

Here is the tariff swindle as maraged by the Republican leaders in a nutshell. The Lewiston Gazette saysi Maine is biibed hy a-high protective tariff on lumber to vole for a high pro tectlve tariff on sugars, iron and Halt; Louisiana, bribed by a high protective tariff on sugar, to vote lor a tiigh protective tariff on lumber, salt and iron, New York, bribed by a high protective tariff ou salt to vote for a h’gh protective tariff on sugat, iron and lumber, Pt-upsyl vani», bribed by a high protective tariff <>n iron, to vole for a high protective tar iff on salt, lumber and sugar; and so on through the list of Blates. And the gen eral scalping, stealing and robbing continues.