Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — Page 1

VOLUME VH.

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL saczz : —' ■ ■ ~ A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, by Jas. W. McEwen. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. flue year sl.s** Bis month* 75 hree months 60 Advertising Rates. 0«e «jiu*ih, one year, sß# 00 stair column, “ tQ 0) i«* r . t « r “ “ SO 00 Eighth “ io oo Ten per ce«t. added to foregoing price if wvertisements are set to occupy more than imcle eolumn width. * Fractional parts of a year at equitable rates Business cards not exceeding 1 inch space, i n y , ear ! S 3 f . or six months ;% 9 for three . jM* legal notices and advertisements at established statute price. Reading notices, drst publication 10 cents nB « 1 each publication thereafter s cents a ■taie. j T early advertisements may be changed quarterly (once in three months) at the option ®f the advertiser, free of extia charge. Advertisements for persons not residents «i Jasper county, must bo paid for in advance *f first pnblie <t.ion. when less than oae-quarter column in size; aud quarterly n advance when larger.

M-ORBECAI F. CKILCOTE. Attorn ev-at-Law BbKSSELAEB. - - . . ‘ I VDIANA Practices tin the Courts of Jasper aDd'adoinlng counties. Makes collections a spetfnlty. Ollice on north side of Washington Street, opposite Court House- ’ vinl, K,S. DWIGOTN* 7 ZIMRI DWIGGIN* K. ». & z. I> WIGGINS, Attonaeys-at-L,aw, HEXSSELIER ■ ■ j * | NDIANA Practice in'the Courts of Jasper and ad joining counties, make collections, etc. t,« Office west corucr Newels’ Block. v„nl SIMON P. THOMPSON. DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at- Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Hensseda&k, - - . Indiana Practice in all the Courts. MARION L. SPITLER, Collector mid Abstractor.’ v\ e pay , irticular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasing lands. V2ni« Fit AN iv vt. B vCCR. &■£ ZaSilrS Ami Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor *nd Benton counties. Lauds examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collectloas-s a. Speclalts*-. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and NOTARY PUBLIC fea&l Maieever’s ... H. W. SN ODER, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. ©OLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. IRA W. YEOMAN, Attorney at Law, NOTARY PUBLIC, Real Estate and Collecting Agent, practice iQ all the Courts of Newton Beaton and Jasper counties. Office:—Up-stairs, over Murray’s Citj drug Store, Goodland, Indiana. DD. DALE, ■ ATTOKNEY-AT LAW MONTICELI.O, - INDIANA. Bank building, up stairs. /. H. LOUGHKIDGE. F. P, BITTEBS LOUGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vinl ESR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer lvd. Stalls promptly attended. Will give special atter tlon undo treatment *f Chronic Diabase*. R. S. Buriggins. Ziznri Dwiggins, President. Cashier Citizens’ Bank, RENSSELAER. IND., Ttoes a general Bankina: biisincso; gives ■ speeded attention to eoiWMoti*- r «,„jn tauces made on day of w.',-t <-rit *t aurrent *'•"* 1 ,, - | don balances : <&rtlficates bearing interest issued; exchange bought and sold. Phis Bank owns the Rn-glar Safe, which toek the premium at the Chicago Exposition 1878 v. This Uafe is protected by one of Sargent s TimeLoeks. The bunk vaultused fe as good as can b« built. It will be seen £om thn foregoing that this Jtank furnish** as good sacurity to depositors as ean be. ALFRED M COT. THOMAS THOKPSOb. Banking House AI 1 A- McCOY & T. THOMPSON, sueoeeeors U to A. ueUey k A. Thompson. AwHtere, Rensselaer, Ind. Does general Ranking business Buy and sell exchaoge. Collections made sn all available points. Money loaned Interest paid on specified time deposits, &c ; Offlee same place* as old firm of A. McCoy & I Thompson. * aprU.’gi !

The Democratic Sentinel.

TQOUAS J. HE®. lull, logs, Ms, Caps,

Mm [ li^-SHOES IfEVERY PAIR WARRANT'D / FOR SALE BY THOMAS J. F ARDEN, 3 Doors East -of P. O; Rensselaer, Ind. A complete line oi light and heavy shoes for men and hoys, women and misses, always in stock at bottom prices. • Increase of trade more an object than large profits. See our goods before buying.

Bents' Furnishing Goods! N WARNER & • SONS . DEALERS IN Hardware, Tinware. South. Side Washington Street, REM SSEIb - - 2MB2AM.D BEDfH & «, </ Dealers In G roceries, Hardware, . Tinware, W oodenware, Farm Machinery, BRICK & .TILE, Our Groceries are pure, and will he sold as low as else where. Ln onr Hardware, Tinware and Woodenware Depart meny will be found everything called for. Our FannMachinery, in great variety, of the most approved styles. Brick a n.l I lie, manufactured by us, and kept constantly on hand. We respectfully solicit your patronage. BEDFORD & WA RNER.

OOVXIHT’S rnmaamumM iMIOIDIQIcr STOMACH -=§gk BITTERS WILL POSITIVELY CUKE ~ and is uneoualkd as a Dyspepsia, Chills and ijw pi..j Fever, Kidney Disease, ,t 00< t . Liver Complaint, lllftwi. rUl'lfiei'. SSOO REWARD FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE CASES THAT THIS MEDICINE WILL NOT CURE OR HELP. s^a*,s?S?3 i S^ i S ! Tf i S ! T5 !e ? ,3f * =!r:Jr ® =a!!,i y s !!fV!S.tss?!yds w r a A d "“ii®? “ Js2?] dIMAM. One bottle uloue

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY JANUARY 25, 1884.

HUNTINGTON [?] EFFRONTERY.

A Washington Special says: I “The effrontery of C.P. Hunt- 1 mgton in coming before our | Committee to protest against j the forfeiture of the Texas Pacific grant amazed me,” said, Mr. Cobb, Chairman of the j House Committee on Public Lands “There is no doubt about his right, but when you know his connection with this grant you will see what I mean. The hill making the grant was passed in 1871, through Torn Scott’s efforts, giving 15,000,000 acres of land to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, the road to commefi#e at San Diego and be completed in ten years. Scott began the construction of the line, but became embarrassed, and Huntington helped to make liis situation more difficult. In 1878 I met Huntington, who was here to oppose the subsidy of the Texas Pacific by a guarantee by the Government of $29,000,000 of its bonds. His ground of opposition was that lie was building a road on a parallel line by private capital, asking no aid from the government. I believed in IMa bonafides and helped him to prevent the passage of tUb Scott bill. Huntington, in the meantime, had passed through California, New Mexico, and had reached Colorado. His plan was to go straight ahead without ever asking the Government or any one else for the right of way. In Colorado lie was making rapid progress through a military reservation, when he was stopped by an order from General Sherman as he was constructing a bridge over a river at Ft. Yuma. A detatcliment of soldiers was sent to enforce the order, and the' railroad men promised to desist. The soldiers and civilians* left the spot together, the former to remain in their quarters for the night. But Huntington’s men executed a nank move ment, and by morning had cars running over that bridge. This is a sample of how the Huntington road was rushed along. Scott died, and Jay Gould and Huntington made an agreemenfiwliereby, according to that part of it which was made public, the Texas Pacific grant was conveyed to the Southern Pacific. Finding that a patent was about to be issued, I came to Washington last summer and filed a protest against it. One Newell, who had done lobbying’ for Huntington, and had never been paid, was about at the same time and had filed a very damaging diary. He wanted access to certain records which the Interior Department rules closed to him as a private person. Mr. Payson aiid I were about to file our protest when Newell asked permission to act as an attorney, representing that it would give him the necessary access to the records. We made the appointment, stipulating the extent of his powers under it. In the meantime we left and Newell experienced a change of heart, from what cause I know not, and demanded back his diary, at the same time attempting to withdraw our protest against the patent. I came on again just in time to prevent this.” A FORTHCOMING REPORT THAT WILL BE INTERESTING READING.

‘ What is tlie reason for delay in reporting- a bill for the forfeiture of this grant*” “The Committee directed Mr. Payson and myself to prepare a report on the roan. _vt iirstj we decided to make this brief, but m writiug it we found so! much that was important for the House to be acquainted i with before voting that we! agreed that it would be best j to make it more exhaustive. — As Horace Greeley was wont to remark, it will be ‘mightv i interest! n readinV We shall i give a number of Huuting-! ton’s letters in this report. It will be ready to present to I

the Committee Tuesday, and it will be printed and placed before every member so that the following day, when we ean ask for a suspension, of the rules, we shall ask for the passage of the bill. In the next three months "20,000,000 acres of railrobd lands will certainly be declared forfeited to the Government and open to Dublic entry.”

SENATOR VOORHEES.

Defense of Young Nutt, the Slayer of his Father’s Murderer. Senator Voorhees’ effort at Pittsburg, last Monday, in defence of young Nutt, is described as a very eloquent ene. The following special gives a brief ontline of the eloquent Senator’s remarks: When the doors of the Court room were reopen’d at 1 o’clo’k an immense crowd struggled for admittance. At least 2,000 \wni turned away. Senator Voorhees and Colonel Bou dinot, with a number of ladies, could not get in for some time. The Senator took the matter g od-naturedly, but said: “Well, if I can’t get in there will be no speech for the people to hear.” In the crowd women fainted, clothes were torn, and there were frequent fights. Three men were seriously hurt. A s Voorhees entered all eyes turned upon him. His shock of hair was brushed heavily hack and Iris iron-gray beard smoothed down. His large, heavy features were set, and it was evident that he appreciated the importance of %e effort that devolved uporr Tliere was a general murmur among the audience as lie appeared, and all settled themselves for what should he the chef d’ouvre of the oratory of the trial. - When Voorhees began to speak every eye was turned upon him, and a phenomenal hush fell on the crowdHe began by saying that j uries for 200 years had not convicted a man accused of killing a man who invaded his home and destroyed the honor of liisVife. Ue cited a number of cases in which emotional insanity was the defense, and which resulted in a verdict of acquittal, and continued as follows: “Why did Dukes write those letters to Captain Nutt? God knows, but I do not. He was not forced into it. Hl was not goaded to it. And yet he wiote those awful letters. And what wo’d have been the result? He was as strong as Dukes, and if he had kilied Dukes do you suppose lie would have been convicted? He was strong; his son is weak. He is mentally below par; his father was not. He was a stronger man than

his son. He was a business man of honor, butlie wo’d not have been convicted, jjje had thrown into his face that which was worse than vitriol. It seemed that hell had opened and spawned a monster of unusual type to do that thing. On the doctrine of emotional in sanity,Nutt could have been acquitted. I would have said, ‘take a shotgun, fill it four INCHES DEEP WITH BUCKSHOT, wail until you see him on the street, then shoot him down.’ I would have done it. God forgive me not if I would not. I am talking of a stiong man. a man born strong, and if no I such man lias been convicted of this crime what will von do j with I hi.'- v. ak boy." Was there ever .... m a blow i a fal ther as the letter of Dukes?— | It was marked, ‘Head in pri- | vate.’ It meant read in tor- ! ture! read in blood! read in | flarftes! I have read thehisto- | ry of our country and know i something of its stories of mar- ! tyrs. When 1 was going from j Uniontown to Connellsville an old citizen of Fayette said:— j “There is where Colonel Craw ! ford was burned in the old In-

NUMBER 52.

ciian War.’ I remember the story. Cranford was burned at the, stake, and when Simon Gerty was ask, 1 by the poor victim to shoot him, Gerty replied coolly: 'I have no gain. 1 His torture was no more than that of Captain Nutt. And his son, what of him?

DUKKS D*ATH. ‘‘H was filled with an unnatural calm until the trial of Dukes came alnut. All of that time he held the awful canker in his breast. A slmd der of horror ran through the world when Dukes was acquitted. The man who wrote those letters to Captain Nutt was unlit to live. There is no use arguing about this.” Mr. Voorhees then analyzed the boy’s condition up to the killing, and said: “Whether weak or stroi ;g, Janies Nutt has lived up to the divine principle, which is the last at the grave and tin: first, in creation. If he has been weak, I shall commit him to you as Christ committed the weak to the strong.” The speaker expressed his astonishment at Mr. Johnson’s attack on Mr. Nutt for letting James carry a pistol, and said: “What ha rai has James done with a pistol? Why should he not have a pistol? He did right with it. Who can find fault with what he did with a pistol, except that lie put Dukes in his grave, where he ought to be, and some of his apologists here m Court,where they ought not to be. I thank God he had a pistol, and I think he used it well. Where has lie used a pistol unlawfully? Where has he ever abused the use of it? What was the harm 3of his having it? He never used it where he ought net to have done.”.

LIZZIE NUTT’S ASSERTION.

in speaking of Miss Lizzie’s connection with the affair. Mr. Voorheessaid: “MissN tthas lived since father’s death in the glare of light, and that glare has proven the charge to be false. It is easier to believe that Dukes, repulsed in his lust, tried to ruin the girl and her family, than to believe he succe ed e d and then wrote those letters. I can say on the authority of the girl, and on my own deductions, that the charges of Dukes were false. I believe her.” The Senator spoke one hour and forty minutes, and he was most attentively listened to. Mrs. N utt and daughter wept copiously. There were very few dry eyes in the house.— Several times the audience cheered.

Voorhees’ closing remarks were grand and eloquent.— Turning to the Jury, he said: “You will not send that poor woman home without her son. There can be no compromise. He shot him; shot him three times. Yet find him guilty, and there will be a wail go up that would drown the thunder of the Heavens. Erect a gallows to hang him, and the women of the country would rescue him from the men. There are some cases that try themselves. The officer of the Court of Fayette comes down here and lets on that he expects a conviction, “e expects nothing of the kind. No one expects it. All nature cries out against it. I would like to have you render a verdict in the face of all here? but at any event render a verdict to the effect that when Dukes fell, the act that caused him to fall was the result of air irresistable im pnlse.”

UUI .v° u over have another wife beside mother ? ” “ Xo, my bov • what possessed you to ask such a que t .' !. 10n ? ‘ Because I saw in the old fam*7 . . you married Anne Jonnrn in 1835, and that isn’t mother lor her name Was Sally Smith.” . A Cambripob youth wrote the follow- “•? autograph album : In the chain of friendship regard me its a missing link;” and after «i gu W lm luuQo !»‘e added underneath bv wav » pnx.aeupt: “But do not mistake£ie i.«>i i.'s., wm s missing one 1 ”