Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1884 — Page 1

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THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL, A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, Jas. W. McEwen. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year SI-S'* Six months 75 bree months ; 50 Advertising Rates. One couimi), one year, 1 SBO oo Half column, “ 40 o) Eigktfii- “ 10 oo Te®per ceot. added to foregoing price if advertisements are set to occupy more than Angle column width. Fractional parts of a year at equitable rates Business cards not exceeding 1 inch space, *5 a year; $3 for six months; $ 2 for three All legal notices and advertisements at es‘ublished statute price. Reading notices, first publication 10 cents nne; each publication thereafter s cents a .in©. Yearly advertisements may be changed quarterly (once in three months) at the option of the advertiser, free of extra charge. Advertisements for persons not residents of Jasper county, must be paid for in advance of first pnblic’tion, when less than one-quarter column in size; aud quarterly n advance when larger.

MORDECAX F. CHILCOTE, Attorney-at-Law ReNSSELAEB. - - . - INDIANA Practices fin the Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vinl B, 8. D WIGGINS ZIMRI DWIGGINS R. s». & Z. DWIGGINS, Attorneys-at-Law, Reksselaeb - ~ | * Indiana Practice in the Courts of Jasper and ad ’Oining counties, makecblioctions,etc. tc Office west coruer Nowels’ Block. v„ nl 6IMONP. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaeb, - - Indiana Practice in allthe Courts. * HARION 1.. SPITLER, Collector and Abstracter. We pay , irticular attention to paying tax- , selling, and leasing lands. v 2 n4B FRANK tv. U (OCR, Attorney at Lain? And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtoi ind Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. CollectJ.o22.o a. Specialty. .TAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORNEY"'AT-Law and notary public, H. W. SNfDER, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. IRA W. YEOMAN, Attorney at Law, NOTARY PUBLIC, Real Estate and Collecting Agent. Will practice in all the Courts of Newton Benton and Jasper counties. Office:— Up-stairs, over Murray’s Citj ■Drug Store, Goodland, Indiana. DD DALE, • ATTOKNEY-AT LAW XONTTCBLLO, - INDIANA. Bank building, up stairs.

I. H. LOUOHBIDGE. T. P, BITTEES LOUGHRIDGE A BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to till accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vim DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician A Surgeon, Rensselaer, lnd. Calls promptly attended. Will give special atter Uon te the treatment of Chronic Diseases. ft. S. D wiggins. Zimri Dwigglns, President. Cashier , Citizens 9 Bank, RENSSELAER. IND., Does a general Banking business; gives special attention to collections; remittances maud on day of payment at etirrepr cateofexchangesiute . Kipstden balances: certificates bearing interest issued; exchange bought and sold. This Bank owns the -Bu-glar Safe, which took the premium at the Chicago Exposition In 1878. This Safe is protected by one cf Sargent’s Time Locks. The bunk vault use/) te as good as can be built. It will be seen from thn foregoing that this .Bank furnishes as good sacurlty to depositors as can be. ALFBED U COT. THOMAS THOMPSOJ Banking House OF A- McCOY&T.THOMPSON,successors to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. .Bankers, Rensselaer, lnd. Does general .Banking business Buy and sell exchaoge. Collections made sn all available points; Money loaned Interest paid on specified time deposits. &e Office same place as old firm of A. McCoy & Thompson. aprii/si

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nous J. MM. Boots, Shoes, Hats, Gaps,

IknM [ IgP^HOES L, IfEVERY PAIR WARRANT'D Bn -. * for sale by THOMAS J. FARDEN, 3 Doors East of P. O. Rensselaer, Ind. A complete line oi light and heavy shoes for men and boys, women and misses, always in stock at bottom prices. Increase of trade more an object than large profits. See onr goods before buying.

Gents’ Furnishing Goods!

N WARNER & SONS . DEALERS IN Hardware, Tinware, South Side Washington Street. RENSSELAER, - - INDIAN/

BEDFORD & WAR®, Dealers In Groceries, Hardware, Tinware, W oodenware, Farm Machinery, BRICK & TILE. Our Groceries are pure, and will be sold as low as elsewhere. in our Hardware, Tinware and Woodenware Department, will be found everything called for. Our Farm Machinery, in great variety, of the most approved styles. Brick aud Tile, manufactured by us, and kept constantly on hand. We respectfully solicit your patronage. BEDFORD & WA EtNER.

THE NEW IBBSm RENSSELAER, IND. TV 3 . ornsjm. New and finely furnished.— • J pleasant rooms. Table furnished wirli the best, market affords. Wood Sample Rooms on first floor. Free Bus to and from Depot. PHILIP BLUE, Proprietor. Rensselaer. .May 11.1883 ts. 8 LEAR HOUSE, J. H. LEAR, Proprietor, Opposite tiv. r t House, Alonticellc, Iruf ' * Ho-s recently boon now furnished through Out. The rooms are large and airy.tholoaa tlon central- making it to. most conve and desirable hopsc in town. Try it

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John W. Medicus, Plasterer & Cistern Builder. All kind* of Plain and Ornamental woOk done lp the latest style. Leave orders at Tharp’s Drug Store. A WIDE AWAKE DRUGGIST Mr. F. B. Learning is always widawake in his business ami spares ne. pains to secure the best of every are tide m his line. He has secured tho agency for the celebrated Dr. King’s New. Discovery for Consumption.— The only certain cure known for Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness. Asthma, Hay Fever, B’ ouchitis, or any affection or the Throat and Lungs. Sold on a positive guarantee. Will give you a trial bottle free. Regular size $1 00 * Any make of Sewing Machine sold by C. B. Steward.

MEETING OF THE DEMOCRAT C CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF JASPER COUNTY.

Pursuant to notice, the members of the Democratic Central Committee of Jasper county, Ind., met at the Committee rooms, in Rensselaer, on Saturday, May 31st, 1884, and the following proceedings were had, Hzra C. Nowels in the chair, to-wit: The basis for delegates to the Judicial and Representative Couven* tions was agreed upon Each town* ship is entitled to one delegate, and one one additional for every fraction over fifty votes cast for Secretary of State Myers, at the last election, as follows: Township. Delegates. Hanging Grove, 1 Gillarn, 1 Walker. 2 Barkley, 3 Marion, 5 Jordan, 1 Newton, 3 Keener, 1 Kankakee, 1 Whea field, 1 Milroy, 1 Union, 3 Carpenter, 4 Ao. of Del gates, 27 The basis for delegates to the County Convention, to be held In Rensselaei, August 9th, 1884, was fixed at one delegate for every 10 votes, and one for each fraction over, cast for Secretary of State Myers at the last election, and is as follows: Township Delegates* Hanging Grove. 4 >f Gillum, 5* Walker. 6 Barkley, H Marion. 20 Jordan, 5 Newton, 7 Keener, 2 Kankakee, 4 Wheasfleld, 3 Milroy, 3 Union, 6 Carpenter, 15 No. of Del 'gates, 91 The delegates to the Judicial and Representative Conventions will be selected at t.je same time and place a$ those for the County Convention, provided the conventions are not called far an earlier date. Incase the Judicial ami Representative Con ventlons meet tiist. It is recommended that delegates be selected on the aturday previous John G. Culp, JoelF. Spriggs, Lewis Rich, B. H. Patton and W.L.Brin-. gle were appointed a Committee of Ways and Means. The jeveral townships arc recommended to select delegates to the Con entions named, on the first Saturday iu August uext. It was moved, aud carried, that Committee and Club rooms be secured for the campaign, at the rate of $4 per month. EZRA C. NOWELS, Chairman. James W. Douthit, Sec’y.

THOUSANDS SAY SO.

Mr. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kansas writes: “I neve# hesitate to recommend your Eleetric Bitters to my customers, they give entire satisfaction and are rapid sellers.” Electric Bitters are the purest and best medicine known and will positively oure Kidney and Liver complalDts. Purify the blood and regulate the bowels.— No family can afford to be without them. They will save hundreds of dollars in doctor’s bills every year.Sold at fifty cents a bottle by F. B Learning. 8

THE CONVENTTONS.

As the time of the coin utioua is draw, ing near, it will be well enough to put this item where it can be found when wanted: State Republican Gonvention, Indianapolis, June 17th State Democratic Convention. Indianapolis, June ‘2sth National Democratic Convention, Chi* cago, July Bth. Queen Christina is a thorough Austrian, and she is intellectual She detests the Spanish bull fight

Pensicning Soldiers in Certain Cases.

Hon. Thomas J. Wood, our member of Congress, made the following speech in the House of Representatives, Monday, April 21st, on the bill (H. R. 6535) to regulate the granting of pensions in certain cases.— Mr. Wood said: Mr. Speaker: The bill before the House closes the gap in long-delayed justice to the brave men who d-d so well for the country over twenty years ago. There never was any reason in the pension law compelling the soldier, on application for pension to prove his soundness when he enlisted in the Army of the Union. None, for lie was duly examined by competent surgeons detailed for this duty, pronounced sound and fit for military service and was mustered into the ranks. There are very many cases where a truly good soldier who performed faithful and meritorious services is unable to make satisfactory proof that he was physically sound at the time ct enlistment, and is therefore deprived of a pension justly due him. Witnesses are dead or removed to distant homes, and human memory after lapse of time becomes fatally deficient on the precise point in issue, i his is natural, for nothing revives it in twenty years to carry it back to the facts and impressions of younger days, hen, who can swear to the physical soundness of friends and acquaintances over twenty years ago? If unsoundness is unknown at the time what neighbor, friend, what relative can come forward and testify to the fact? Such testimony when obtained is frail indeed when dissected by the analytical principles of legal evidtenoe: If the soldier served his country honorably and carries his honorable discharge from the Government, whether liis service was long or short, then the Government is in no position to require proof of his physical soundness when he entered its military service. Sound ness ought to be presumed to exist from the date of enlistment.

I said this bill is an act of delayed justice. I have labored for it ever since I have been in this Congress, and I trust it will pass the House without opposition. lam too much of a friend of the gallant soldier not to speak for this bill. I appreciate his service for my country, and I see the grand results of his sacrifice in all parts of the Union to-day. '! he brave men h 3 met on Southern battle fields, where nerves of steel were shaken, are proud to-day the old Union of the States was not dissolved; they are proud the old Government was maintained and are its earnest friends in peace, and are ready to become its valiant friends in war. lam proud also to witness this devotion to a common country and this fraternal feeling I oward the soldiers of the Union, for I accept it as a reconciliation of the unhappy elements of discord that threatened the old structure in the days of my boyhood. All patriotic people rejoice that the wounds of that desolating strife are healed, and the man who would now break them open is a bloodless traitor to the flag and an arch enemy to the public peace, a wrecker of national prosperity in all the sections of the Union. The policy of the pension laws has been to raise nearly a conclusive presumption that the soldier discharged without wounds is a sound and ablebodied man. There may be a few, but how man y? I turn to the history of the war and see four years of the most terrible campaigns of all the ugly work of men. I read of the rapid, forced marches in heat and cold, over mountains and thro’ the swamps. I read of the

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bloody days, of merciless bat ties fought that chilled the souls of men far away from the ensanguined field. Tell that the very life centers >t the brave men who acted so well were not shocked at the awful forces sweeping life and limb away with less mercy than the demons of woeful ruin. I see the faithful guardians of the country in the alert day and night thro’ the inclement seasons, wading mud and fording rivers, obeymg then* command, the map of the war shows me the thousands of miles tramped from State to State, from town to city, all over the South. For tour years the soldier had hardly an hour ot the peace and joy of home. That was found wherever he slept under a peaceful sky. though the earth, his bed, was crimson with the blood of relatives, triends, and comrades. On Southern homes lie joined the clash of arms, met the-raining lead, walked among bursting shells, and faced the scattering fragments of death like the true hero that he was. He passes through this ter nble ordeal, fights all the battles tlirough and peace is restored; he is mustered out of the service and receives the plaudits of grateful countrymen. He finds him? elf not the same man he was when lie gave himself to his country, mi asks for a pension. 1 lie special examiner sees no bullet-holes and his worthy claim is rejected. He pleads his Infirm iti e s that begun somewhere back in those four years of unequaled service to the country, and he is coolly told he must prove that he was able-bodied after the Government duly accepted him.lhe fairness and justice of all perdition is more admirable than this. I believe of necessity that there can not be many sound, able-bodied soldiers, and every rule of evidence should make easy the proof of infirmities rather than reject them altogether,!for the reason a most worthy case may be rejected. Then it is an exceptional hardship upon the widows and orphans. Removal, death, want of personal knowledge, and treacherous memory make the application for a pension by the widow or minor children difficult to sustain.

In speaking of James G. Blame s candidacy for Presi* dent, Henry Ward Beecher utt the nomination:— He (Blame is doomed to illustrate how near you can get to a thing without being able toputyourhanduponit. He has wonderful nerve, and hope and endurance, but he can never place his loins in the Presidential chair; There is no very striking resemblance ou general principles between Moses and Blaine, but they are alike in one respect as twin brothers —both are permitted to go up on the hill top and take a good, square look at the promised land, but that’s where they stop. Men with no qualities of leadershtp manage to reach the journey’s end, and live on the milk and honey denied to his ravenous hunger.” Chicago, June 9.— I The"local Committee on Arrangements to prepare for the National Democratic Convention have directed an architect to prepare plans for the rearrangement of Convention Hall, by which the seating capacity will be enlarged so as to admit 20,000 people. The accommodations tor the press will also be enlarged. Tlie local managers confidently expect a larger outside attendance than was the case with the Republican Convention, as Democratic political clubs from all parts of the country have announced their intention to be present. T wenty-six sheep were ki lied by a lightning bolt in a storm near Harmony, O.