Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1883 — SELLING. CONFESSES. [ARTICLE]

SELLING. CONFESSES.

A Democratic Congress will likely reduce taxes and stop the flow of money into an overrunning treasury Governor Porter thinks Indiana was carried for the Republicans in 1880, by his magnificent hand-shaking. The new state of Dakota will take for its motto: “Fear God and take your own part. The Soldiers’ Home, at Dayton. O. gav Hoadiy, Democrat, for Covertor 91 majority. They “vote as they shot.*" The Democrats of Indianapolis jollified last Tuesday night ever the result in Ohio. Speechmakiug, music and bonfires were used to enthuse the Democratic heart. Great crowd were in attendance. The “Arabian,” the old locomotive that attracted so much attention at Chicago during the Railway exposition, was destroyed in the fire at the Pittsburg exposition, along with many other valuable relics. The Democrats have to elect five more Senators to capture the legislature of Connecticut. The legislature elected this fall elects a successor to Senator Platt, and if the Democrats secure the legislature Platt's successor will be a Democrat. According to the statistician of the London Times, the United States is $10,000,000,000 richer than the Uuited Kingdom. And the United States is young. What will the nehes ot the nation aggregate if our prosperity increases in like ratio to the increase of*»he past century? The United States is but paitlv developed, Tire Monticello Herald fails to respond and give its authority for the absenteeism of former Presidents* We notice our neighbor copies the Herald’s statement, which we publish ed last week, and may be he can give the desired information If not let the fact be undisputed that it was rmmufactursd for the purpose of ’ending a precedent to Arthur. 1 The Uuited States Supreme Court has decided that the sections es the Civil Rights act relating to prosecutions Tor not admitting colored per-, sons b- equal privileges in hotelscars nnr! theaters, etc , is unconstitu tiona! and void s-» far as the States are concerned. Republicans are beging to admit that the States have reserved rights under the Constitution.

The first Republican Governor a man meets in traveling from the Atantie westward is Porter, of Indiana The first Item it> lie an governor a man roe-tsin traveling from the golf northward is Porter, of ludiana The first Republican governor one meets in traveling from the lakes southward is Porter, of Indiana. He was saved in 1880. How saved? Arthur says Dorsey did it with soap. Porter, evidently, is a “high-olds lonesome” Governor. "When die Grand Old Bepublicau Party rises wearily and easts its watery eye over the vast field of Atner •' ican polities it sees hut oue green oasis, and that is lowa, which flies a badly used up flag inscribed “i 2,000 maj.” The young doctor who went West and huug out his shingle, as a practitioner wrote t:» his old precept or in describing his first case of obstetrics: "The child is dead, the m filler is deachbut with heaven** help I will save the old man.” With a littie divine assistance the “Grand Old Party” will probably be able to preserv lowa.—New Yoir World. The Boston Herald says: “Mr. John C. Calhoun, the larg* employer of negro labor, having stated before the Senat» committee that the tariff b«ars hard upon this class, the Philui elphia American challenged him in specify any article the coat of which to the negroes is increased by the tariff. To. this the Chatlston Hews replies, specifying that the tie groes j«;iy a tax of 55 to 60 per c.-nt. on the calicoes they wear. 72perce:if. on the thicad they sew with, 60 tolOO percent, on glassware. 65 per cent, on salt, 50i070 per cent, oil sugar and molasses, 79 to 100 per cent, on blankets, GO to»90 per cent on flannel. And it points out that there is no compensating benefit. The price of corn is not raised by protection, and the price of cotton is fixed in European marts. Neither, farmers nor, agricultural laborers anywhere reap any compensating advantages from the tariff, since the price of their products has come to be regulated by the foreign demand.”

MYSTERY SOLVED AT LAST. Lafayette, Ind , Oct. 16.— Jacob Nelling, the murderer of Ada Atkinson made a full confession this morning. It occasioned the greatest excitement. Ntdlin.sr’a confession was as follows: “I, Jacob M. Nelling. being duly sworn, acknowledge that I killed Ada Atkinson with my pocket-knife shown to day in open Court in the Benton County Court House. I killed her un(j- r Hu- j,.| owing B р. 1 Marh ti to do <: something can e .»\er me that n d icei rue ‘o I sim t- <' from the fenci on the t: st si lo < f s’,»e orchard to the nouse 1 er. eed the .vmth door of th ■ bj'i ■ • I wnt a:> .sif.ixs :nd found Aci .er-. I saio io her: “AUa. i am go: sto kid y •> ’ dhe■ raid ir'i to <i<» ) that sue <iid »<<■.' w.uit to die that way. < >ld he I would do it, but J donut : cl loci what sli said'. Then ! t,->ok hold r’ her and tltr< w uer (lav non the floor, ('lien* I cut I throat; The:. I b cau-e freuaied and made tue oilier cuts R a-ems l did not с. what I was doing I can not explain tirc: raising of _i*;r clothes, or the rest of the cutting, but i suppose 1 did tt all. I had no motive that I iemembet of for killing her in tins manner, and I did tiot atiemot u» ravAt her and had t o desire to do so. As LI aft the house 1 went to the lrn'k-house aDd washed mv hands and the k life in the basin, which I had lying oj tne end o; the milk tank, near the door. 1 then ihrew the water in the yard ami likely it soaked info the ground. I did not getxnyol'-thes bloody because the blood did not iiy. It seemed to me that I had hold of the handaer-. chief which was around her neck, and I might have twisted it when I cut her throat. After washing ihe blood off mv !lands and the knife I went back through the orchard to my work ldo solemnly sviear that Jacob Ladd is innocent of the murder, and that he die not visit me that day, and that the previous statements 1 have made about niiu a' r false in every particular. [Signed) Jacob ¥ . Nelling ” ‘•I will state that I ha* ? not been spreed to make this confession, and that I make it voluntarily without any expectation of immunity from justice. [Signed] Jacob M. Nelling.” Witnessed by John C Harris, of Chicago, and Paul E Coroner of Benton county. He v a*, brought into Court this afternoon m./ reiterated it substantially. There v great, excitement, but the prisoner v >s got into jail safely. To-night the ,ail is strongly guarded by the sheriff' an 1 posse. There is a mob, but it has n© loader. It is be lieyed an effort will be made to force an entrance into the jail, bat the general opinion is they will not sreceed. Adjutant General Carnahan has been directed to take the militia and go to Fowler. The men are ao scattered he could not get them together to-night but will start < n the early train. la. m.— Ihe latest irur-no *tion from Fowler is that the crowb cf several huns dred is still suiroundin/r as jail. Two attacks have been repul. They still Lick leacle. Ip The men are gathering railroad ti mil threaten to break open the doors

Governor I'orier in speeches in Ohio deebros ihet D-: 0)J did not carry* Indiana. In or- 0 of thorn in closing he said: • “There are ninety at-, ounties in the State. Tbs* cand.'. for gover nor spoko in eighty -I.:. them, and the good feeling ihl high that 1 believe I fall f. *.r beiov,- . . mark when I say that he shoo!: ids at the speaking places with u.. e than 50,* 000 persons." Hand shaking and floating curls had sornthitig to dow:A a*!

The editor ■ " ;be let --otipolis Sentinel does not -lie vc tuoy did. He rev ews the p■ ;ech in'tfiG fashion: Bv all the gods of the Greeks was there ever such a peroration since the day when Dorsey,J|tbe convicted liar the brazen, impudent robber, the ceraole biiber, the m. versally «o kncwledged thrice damned viliian, was feasted at Del mo rue ire and eulogized by Grant, Arthur’ Ber-cher. et al? It. has been known arid recorded that Dortf'-y carried Indiana H. P. Conner, uu unimp-aoned Republican, discloses ->veV Ins own signature that Dorsey proposed to bin to import voters from Illinois and offered the money required to make the flagitious crime a success. ' S ! tl(. Governor Porter, in Oni-v .ffiempi • to find some other reason for -■ irryiirg Indiana ihrap the pe.ni'i'iiv. i ciirr perpetrated |by fjors»v <<• i >!«• Did- Son. W. P, Fishba- . T .'ihltoac , fiiciul, living it; tluisau •• -ii\ ••vithG' rer Porter, pioeutum d uv> i Ids o m .'gnaturein the publi- }• eiij(.that • ein Indian apolis sfl>:>'.• >!> were ■ .'ended to corrupt ions, ■ that Re publican* ..i,'.n m ofi.<- • connived at such :rim.-s bribing .‘eenioc offic ials to stuff ! iiot-bovc:. end falsify election returns, and thus other Re. publican scoundrels aieed theescap e ts arrested villains who rnd comm ed the crime- of repeating, for'wbdcf hey had been rewarded. And it i e J iu testimony an means «f j carrying Indiana the. '.parts were | employed to teach Republican rascals j how to vote and cousf. wotible tickets, j aud this testimony, is given by Republicans who stand high in the party as does Goveno- Porter himself. In the fii« eof sti-: h Republics testimony. that. has not and never w Do coniradtc ed —* * rnoi.y v, i j which we assumv Govt <r Porter i entirely familiar-lie piv :imcs to to < j allied Republicans hew Indiana wa i ! carried, without so much as an allu*- | sion to ihe real forefs and factors ; which secured a Republican victory in Indiana in iSBO. Ho seems to at- ; tribute the victory to his 3peeehes|and , his handshakings. If every hair in he yellow locks that curl around ud Adorn his classic head had been hand, and all could have been ahak j ! e n a thousand times a day. Dorsay i i would not havegiven a* tinker’s dam” , for the shakes. Dorsey knew tha' ] power of forgery, perjury, bribery, I

the importation of voters and repea ters, and he disbursed the $400,000 in a way to secure the end sought, and when the most villiaoeue crimes were committed,, W. H. Fishbae.i says Republican “high officials” conuived at tnem. In 1880 the Republican majority in lowa was 79,000;' at he late election it. was about 20,000. In the last Hense they had nearly fifty in the next they will have about five. Con - siderable of a break. Mr. H- T. Rateliffe the other day p.eseuted us with a copy of the new County History, published ny F. A. Battey&Co,, of Giiieago. It is a readable book, and contains considerable matter >f interest to the eople gee ciily. The portrait, of Judge Hammond is excellent, but we cannot say so much for that of our old friendi David Nowels. A story of a characteristic Amelia can traveler is told in the Scotch Highlands. Tired and thirsty he had came*BUddenly up»n a little shaoting box on the hills. The proprietor, an intensely proud Highlander, stood at the gate and regarded the intruding foreigner without a sign of hospit&li ty. The American, taking a leisure ly look at the ground, said: “Do you belong to the place?” “No nr,” in a dignified manner, “the place belongs to me.” “Well, you ate a poorer cuss than I thought, if you own this loca tion,” was the answer. ♦ i « •' - ■ —— The knot of nautiaal mile is variously reckoned at from 6.076 feet to 6,125 feet. According to the standard of the British Admiralty the knot is the length of on* minute of longitude at the eauator, or 6,086 feet 1,1527 statute inohes. The mean length of latitude, sometimes reckoned as a knot, is 6.076 feet 1.151 statute mile. A marine league is three of these sea miles. - - ■ - If a lamp is filled quite full in a cold room, and then is brought into a warm one, the heat will cause the oil to expand and overflow, and lead to the suspicion that the lamp leaks. This should be avoided by not filling completely; knowing that this may oocur sufficient space should bo left to allow for expansion Lord Lome has shipped two Buffaloes from the plains to his place in Scotland. A bea-tiok woven in 1675 is shown at Canton, Conn., lair.