Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1884 — MUTUAL ADMIRERS. [ARTICLE]

MUTUAL ADMIRERS.

Tames Murdock, warden of the northern was stricken with paralysis ou Thursday of last week, Bro. Marshall is aLer the scalp of the Strawberry Roan of the Fowie r Era We’ll hold the hat of the Fogr Horn tootist while he ruffles Miss Nan< y’s kangs. Mon ieello Herald: “John Harris was afflicted with mental alteration and so he didn’t steal the personal property at Idaville of whi-h he was aecus d. So say the. “twelve sovereigns/ The Monon correspondent of tho Monticello Herald says: “There was a rather sudden death about five miles west of here last week in the person of JohnL. Robinson, of Hauging Grove township, Jaspsr county. He was reasonably well krown in our town, The cause of his death was seme kind of a fever which is pervading the entire family.” From the Monticello Herald we leant that W. W. Davis,on trial there •a the char e es robbery of Esquire Hammelle Christmas night, attempted suicide by cutting hie throat Sat urday moraing. The Hernld says. “The doctor dressed his wound, which was only a trifling cut on the side oi his threat, ar d • xamined. him carefully. * The prevailing impress sion is that he wasfeigni.ig insanity, feeing t‘neouragod to do so by the result of Harris’ ease decided in om.rt the preceding day. Dr. Bushnell inclines to the belief that he is ailin*? physically, and that he mad* the attempt on his life while delirious from f ■vici/l Pui ;Uan7 to sail the Republican ma’s convention met at the House last Saturday, There were forty or fifty preaeat. all told, this town and township h iving the controlling voice. A few of ths pu:side townships were represented-mainly by parties having axes to grind. At an early stage of the proceedings it kveame evident that f ictions were coatending for the supremacy. The ball opened with a motion by Dr. Washburn, Secretary of the Board of Health, in the interest of Thompson. Chilcote and Babcock immediately joined forces to insure its defeat.— After wrangling narly the whole of the afternoon the motion with ameniments were laid on the table. An “omnibus” motion was then sprung • by Powell, and under its operation Thompson catriei the day. securing th* chairman arid secretary of the committee. Carnenterjtownship preferred Dr. Alter, butthe obsiinatejopposltion encountered induced the withdrawal of.his uame. The hand some, and we think appropriate, endorsement of Judge H-tmmond fo*the Supreme bench, was no doubt in stigated, by selfishness of aspirant 8 in their scramble for place. • *

At the.annual dinner of he Trenton Board of Trade last night. Congressman Abram 8. Hewitt had been asked t > respond to the toast. “O t manufactures —to the capital, skill, brains and labor thus employed we owe m”ch of our prosperity.” Unable to fee piWhnt he sent a letter, tn which he auid: “I regret excesdingly that my duties in Washington will make it impassible for me to be present on the occasion, Iregiet this more because ii would afford me a convenient op, ertunity for oi-ab.ising the pnblic mind of some prejudices which have been seriously instilled by interested persons as to the effect of my views in regard to the reformation of tho tariff. The industries of Trenton are suffering from use less obstructions imposed by the ex* isting tariff I seek to remove he obstruction, in order that the capital and labor employed in branches of business uff'Otcd by them may have steady and remunerative occupation, which is now impossible The removal of the duty upon crap it on. for example, which benefits no existing industry whatever, would enable every idle train in Trenton to be run day and night; and the money which Is now paid for foreign rods would be largely distributed among the work isgmen of Trenton, who are now condemned to idleness through no fault of their own, and every business industry in the city would flourish in a corresponding degree. If the prot ctive system be the panacea for all the sufferings of the wprkintfmen, anu the want of remuneration of capital, how cemes it to pass that at no time

in its history were the industries of Trenton in so unpromising a eondl* tion as they are at the present time? Tne truth is, that they are taxed out of existence, and the workingmen lack employment because they have not yet learn id the bitter lesson that every dollar of taxation by law is deducted from earnings otherwise t. ey would have for the suoportjof their families. I du not wonder that the artisans of Trenton do not y t appreciate the evH effect of obstructive dutfe®, when I reflect that for the greater portion of my .life I was myself deceived as to the effect of such duties, and have been brought to my coiiclu-icn only atper an exp uience as convincing as it has been disagreeable.’’ The National Republican in mu article JiHt.ning Fitz John Porter to Benedict Arnold, say-: “Porter, by re using prompt .bedienee to his suporioi in command in iron: of the fuesny, enabled the lat’er to slaughter thousands of bis comrades in arms and to win an easy v.ctory." It is unfortunate taat so many persons allow themselves to be misled on this subject by partisan prejudice. It is not true that Porter stood still and allowed thousands of his comrades tu be slaughtered. It is not true that thousands es soldiers fell on the evening when Tor ter received the order to fall on Jackson’s flask. It is true that Porter by saving hie little corps of less than ten thousand men on the evening of the 29th of August., froia an assault upon double the numbers, that would have been hopeless and ninons, was suable;, to fight a splendid battle the next day. It is clear that if Porter fiad rushed wi h ten thousand meh upon twenty thousand on the evening of August 28, in a blind mho's bufl perform ance, that Pope’s army, instead of sufferinir honorable and not to al defeat next day, after a gillant struggle, would have been destroyed. We have no personal or partisan feeling in this matter, but we must show fair play—[t inoinnati Commercial Gazette, Republican. ■ • w

A somewhat inconsiderate item in regard t® certain trouble at Genter school, in Barkley township, which was inadvertently allowed to ppear in our Barkley cone-pondence last week, iius called qut.a still’ more inconsiderate response from a “Patron'’ in that towns ship. “Patron” claans in effect that the “school nia’ani” secured the victory through a refusal of the trustee to hear the “oilier side of the story”, ect. etc.—Republican. From all w« can leurn the “school ma’am" deserved the and the trustee determined to assume the responsibility of his acts. It seems the Republican i? noted for its publication of “inconsiderate’’items, and it is just beginning to find it out.

The Joliet (Illinois).Republic and Sun: “The Rensselaer Republican. One of the best weekly newspapers in the State of Indiana," etc. To which the Rensselaer Repubii can responds as follows; '‘The Joliet, Illinois, Republic and Sun, one oi the best, papers publis - ed in that State," etc. Now, Rro. Marshall should correct the statement of the Joliet paper with reference to the ‘independent’ status of tne Republican’ and then extend a kiud invitation to the editer to call and see the “cylinder press." ■ Tell him “it’s a daisy."