Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — Page 1

VOLUME VIII.

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL if A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. 1 1 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, Jas. W. McEwen. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year , $1.50 Six months 75 hree months 50 Advertising R,ate3. One coiunm, one year. SBO oo Half column, “ 40 oi Quarter “ 30 oo Eighth " 10 oO Teupcrceot. added to foregoing price if «lvertisements are set to occupy more than Single column width. Fractional parts of a year at equitable rates Business cards not exceeding l inch space, fa a year; $3 for six months; 12 for three All legal notices and advertisements at esapltshed statute price. Reading notices, first publication 10 cents • Hue; each publication thereafter s cents a ine. Pearly advertisements may be changed luarterly (once in three months) at the oplonof the advertiser, free of extra charge. Advertisements for persons not residents >f Jasper county, must be paid for in advance of first pnblie xtion, when less than me-quarter column insrze; aud quarterly n advance when larger.

ffiORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Uaw gpfSSBLAEB. .... IVDIANA ’raetices {in thb Courts of Jasper and adotfalng counties. Makes collections a spe■iftlty. Office on north side of Washington ;treat, opposite Court H ouse- vml t, 8. DWIGGIN C ZIMEI DWIUGINs R. S. & Z. DWIGGINS, Attorneys-at-Law, tEKSSELAEB * - § INDIANA practice in the Courts of Jasper and ad oinmg counties, make collections, etc. tc •Office west corner Nowels’ Block. v_nl IMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attornoy-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, IENSSELAEB, - . - INDIANA Practice in all the Courts. OARION L. SPITEER. Collector and Abstractor. . < H’tumlar atfemion to paying tax- , selling and basing lands. v2nis FRANK w , B .COCK, fktto&n&y at Law And Real Estate Broker. ‘radices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor nd Benton counties. Lands examined .bstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collections a. Specialty. .TAMES W. DOUTHIT, (TTORNEYSAT-LAW. AJJB NOTARY PUBLIC, 1 H. W, SNIDER Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. r ' IRA W. YEOMAN, Attorney at Law, NOTARY PUBLIC, ■■ Real Estate and Collecting Agent. STill practice in all the ‘Courts of Newton Beaton and Jasper counties. Office:—Up-stairs, over Murray’s Cit; >rug Store, Qoodland, Indiana. 1 ' -d —- ~ —— —— - - Dd. dale, ■ ATTORNEY-AT LAW VONTICELI.O, * * INDIANA. Bank buildine. up stairs. fell-.'- 111 —m i mu. ,|. I . H.DOUGHRIDGE. F. P, BITTEBS LOTJGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all MJcounts running unsettled longer than hree months. vlnl »R. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer Ind. Jails promptly attended. Will give special attei tlon te the treatment of Chronic Diseases. R. S. Dwiggina, Zimri Dwiggins, President. Ca»Mer Citizens* Bank. * RENSSELAER. IND., Does a general Banking business; gives special attention to collections; remittances made on day of payment nt current rateo'oxchangc: . ( t paid balances: oertificates bearing Interest issued; exchange bought and sold. This Bank owns the Bu-glar Safe, which took the premium at the Chicago Exposition P 1878 V r a,e . lß Protected by one of {argent s Time Locks. The bunk vaultused sas good as can be built. It will be seen !«WSSSg«SateiKSfif1 ; - * ALFRED M cot, THOMAS THOMPSON • Banking House AF A- McCOY & T. THOMPSON, successors y to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. Bankers ROUsselaer. Ind. Does general Banking bu - siness Buy and sell exchaoge. Collections made sn all available points. Money loaned Interest paid on specified time deposits &e )fflce same place as old Arm of A. McCoy & Thompson. aprli/m

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nus j. rum. Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps,

«gs I fe, JFEVERY Rftlß WARRAKI'D “FOR SALE BY THOMAS J. FARDEN, 3 Doors East of P. O. Rensselaer, Ind. A complete line ot 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, Tinwar Sto «s South Side Washington Street, REHSSEI.AER, - - ' INDIA W. BEDFORD & Win, Dealers In Groceries, Hardware, Tinware, Wooden ware, Farm Machinery, BEICK & 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 and Tile, manufactured by us, and kept constantly on hand. We respectfully solicit your patronage. BEDFORD & WA EtNER.

THE HEW RENSSELAER, IND. JV*- OPENED. New and finely furnished.— Cool unci plcanant room*. Table furmnbed wnh the b«M the market affords. Uood Sample Rooms on flr>t floor. Free Bus to and from Depot. , „ PHILIP BLUE, Proprietor. Rensselaer. May 11.1888 ts. LEAR HOUSE, J. H. LEAR, Proprietor, Opposite ( nnrt House. Ulonticellc, Ind „ Has recently boon new furnished throngb r p omß ,are 1 urge and airy.tho iosa ton central, making it the most conve Jen and desirable hopee in town. Trv it

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY JULY 11, 1884.

J ohn W. Me die as, Plasterer & Cistern Builder. All kinds of Plain and Ornamental woOk dona lp the latest style. Leave orders at Tharp’s Drn* Store. A WIDE A WANE DRUGGIST Mr. F. B. Learning is nlu-ays wldawake to his business and spares ne pains to secure yie 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 care known for Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness. Asthma, Hay Fever, Bronchitis, or any affection ot the Throat and Lunge. Sold on a positive guarantee. Wili give you a trial bottle free. Regular size $1 00 ■«». — Any make of Sewing Machine sold by 0. B. Steward.

MEETIONG OF THE DEMOCRATIC 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, Ezm ra C. Nowels in the chair, to-wlt:

The basis for delegates to the Judicial and Representative Conven* tions was agreed upon, ktteh township is entitled to one delegate, and one one additional for every fraction over fifty votes cast for Secretary of State Myers, at the laßt election, as follows: Township. Delegates. Hanging Grove, 1 Gillam, 1 Walker. 2 Barkley, 3 Marion, 5 Jordan, 1 Newton, 3 Keener, 1 Kankakee, 1 Whea. field, 1 Milroy, 1 Union, 3 Carpenter. . 4 i\o. 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 oue for each fraction over, cast for Secretary of State Myers at the last election, and is as follows: Township Delegates. Hanging*.! rove, 4 Gillarn, 5 Walker, 6 Barkley, 11 Marion, 20 Jordan, , 5 Newton, 7 Keener, 2 Kankakee, 4 Wheasfield, 3 Milroy, 3 Union, 6 Carpenter, 15 No. of Delegates, 91 The delegates to the Judicial and Representative Conventions will be Selected at tno same time and place as those for the County Convention, provided the conventions are not called ter an earlier date. In case the Judicial and Representative Con ventions meet that, it is recommended that delegates be selected on the aturduv previous John G. Culp, Joel F. Spriggs, Lewis Rich, B. H. Patton and W.L.Brin* gle were appointed a Committee o' Ways and Means. The several townships are recommended to select delegates to the Con entions named, on the first Saturday in August next. It was and carried, that Committee and Club rooms be secured for the campaign, at the rate of $4 per month. EZRA C. NOWELS, Chairman, James W. Dodthit, Sec’y.

THOUSANDS SAY SO.

Mi. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kansas writes: “I never hesitate to recommend your Electric Bitters to my customers, they give entire satisfaction aud are rapid sellers.” EleHric Bitters are the puzest and best medicine known and will positively cure Kidney and Liver complaints. Purify the blood and regulate the bowels.— No family can afford to be without them. They wili save hundreds of dollars in doctor’s bills every year.flold at fifty cents a bottle by F. B Learning. 8 So fab from being injured by severe labor, carried on under normal conditions, the brain is improved by it. Metal activity, like muscular exercise, keeps the brain in a healthy state. When, therefore, a man says he is suffering from the effects of mental overwork, I want to know what his views are. Worry may be one of these; worry is exhausting. The worries of life do infinitely more harm than the work of life, how ohorous soever it may be. —Dr. B. Brtrtholow, before Philadelphia Medical Society.

Mr. Blaine and the Administration.

[Washington Special.] Thus far the Administration has not shown the least desire to promote the success of the Chicago ticket. Close friends of Mr. Blame do not conceal tlie-r dissatisfaction at this lukewarmness, hi or do they refrain from accusing the President, personally, of coolness toward the nominations of his party. The only sign of favor given at W ashington was the telegram from the President announcing in formal terms that he would support Mr. Blaine because he was the regular candidate. This cold comfort is not acceptable to enthusiastic managers like Elkins and Chaffee, who are running the campaign, who have proposed to make it live] y with the aid of the Administration, and who have a large stake on the success of their efforts.

The friends of Arthur and of Edmunds know perfectly well that if Blaine should win they would be proscribed. In that event, they would expect as radical a change in the persons and in the policy of the party as if the most pronounced Democrat was made President. Indeed they are free to say more generous treatment might be expected from a Democratic President than from Blaine, who is full of resentment against the Administration and its chief supporters. Mr. Blaine was quite willing and even anxious to get favors for his family from the President, and to billet sons, brothers, and cousins of several degrees on the Treasury. But he has nq,grali( ude for this treat*, ment when personal ambition 1 and selfish interests are concerned. Why, then, should the President or the cabinet go {out of the way to help Mr. Blaine?— They will nrobaby vote for him, but it is asking too much to require them to take off their coats and to unstrap their purses to put an open enemy in the White House.

. There is no confidence in the circles of the Administration that Mr. Blaine can be elected. The reports fr im the best informed sources are unfavorable i o his success. The argument most effective in procuring the nomination at Chicago was that the October State of Ohio would lead off with a great majority, and thus largely determine the result in November. The German-Ameri-can citizens hold the balance of power in Ohio. They elected Governor Hoadly by more than 12,000 majority over Foraker, under very adverse circumstances, and in an aggregate vote verv nearly equal to that of the iprecedmg Presidential election when Garfield’s majority over Hancock exceeded 30,000. • The great change in so short a time was caused by the sumptuary legislation which drove the Germans, who|had hitherto been the mainstay of the Republicans to the other side. They would n..t submit to an

encroachment on their personal rights, and they abandoned party to vindicate a principle. * nat is the present situation? There are seventeen Republican papers published in the German language in Ohio.— They naturally exercise a large influence over that population. Every one of themnas declared against Blaine and Lcgan. Hence the outlook for the Chicago ticket in that State, which was thecorner-stone of Blaine’s strength in the convention, is by no means cheerful. A similar sentiment prevails among the German-Americans in Ind iana, Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, and other Western States, which is also largely shared by those in the great Eastern cities. If this vote should be detached from the Republicans as now seems probable, it is difficult to discover

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how the loss can be. made up, without so m e unexpected change m the relations of par* 1168.

The Economical Mice of Iceland.

Dr. Henderson, in his Travels, gives his testimony to the correctness of th« nular belief amongst the natives oi and, of the remarkable instinct of a species of monse, the accounts of which have been doubted by Borne naturalists. He says: ‘‘This animal, which is supposed by Olafsen and Povelson (writers on zoology) to be a variation of the wood, or economical mouse, displays a surprising degree of sagacity, both in conveying home its provisions, and the manner in whioh it stocks them in the magazine appropriated for that purpose. In a country, says Mr. Pennant, where berrios are but thinly dispersed, these little animals are obliged to cross rivers to make their distant forages, their return with the booty to the majm azmes, they are obliged to ropass tfll stream; of which Mr. Olafsen (Olufsen and Povelson) gives the following account : ‘The party, which consists of from six to ten, select a flat piece of some light substance on which they place the berries on a heap in the middle; thon, by their united force, bring it to the water’s edge, and, after launching it, embark, and place temselves round the heap, with the heads joined over it, and their baoks to the water, their tails pendant in the stream, serving the purpose of rudders.’ Mr. Hooker, in his ‘Tour in Iceland,’ ridicules the idea of any such process, and says, that every sensible Icelander laughs at tlio accouut ns fabulous.” Dr. Henderson then goes on to corroborate the statements of Olafsen and Pennant: ‘‘Haviug boon apprised of the doubts that wore eutortained on this subject, before setting out on my second excursion I made a point oi inquiring of different individuals as to the reality of the account, and lam happy in being able to say, that it is now established an an important faot in natural history, by the testimony of Wo eyq witnesses of unquestionable voracity, the clergyman of Briamshek, and Madame Benediction, of Btickesliolm, both of whom assured m« that they had seen the expedition performed repeatedly. Madame li. in particular recollected h.iv ng spent a whole afternoon, in her younger days, at the margin of a lake on which these skillful navi-

galops had embarked, and amused herself and her companions by .driving them away from the sides of the lake as they approached them. I was also ' informed that they make use of dried mushrooms i s sacks, in which they convey their provisions to the river, and thence to their homes. Nor is the structure of their nests less remarkable. From the surface of the ground a long passage runs into the earth, similar to that of the Icelandic houses, and terminates in a large and deep hole, intends ed to receive any water that may firm its way through the passage, and searing at the same time os a place for th«r novel craft. About two-thirds of the Sassage, in two diagonal roads, lead to leir sleeping apartment and the magazine, which they always contrive to keep from wet.”— The Eye.

A Problem in Mathematics.

“I am stumped,” said little Willie Bulltriger the other day, as he mournfully laid his slate ana arithmetic on his teacher’s lap, and he rubbed his throbbing brow with the knuckle joints of all his fingers. “What’s the matter, Willie?” said the mistress in her kindest tones. “Which one is it!” “Oh! —it’s that’n about the eggs and the old hen and bad boy.” “Oh! I see. ‘lf a hen lays two eggs a day for seven days, and a bad boy breaks one each alternate day for two weeks, how many eggs will be left in the next!’ Why, that is not difficult to understand, Willie. That is easy I” “Yes. Part of it’s easy enough; hut I can’t get the rest of it through my head. The boy can break the eggs easy enough; but I can’t understand the rest.” “Now, Willie if the hen lays two eggs each day for seven days, how many wul there be in the nest, u nobody bothers them?” “Why, fourteen, of course.” “Yes. Well, now, how many days are there in one week ?” “Seven.” “That’s easy. Now, if there are seven days in one week, how many are there in two weeks?” “Fourteen.” “There. You are getting on nicely. Now if a bad boy breaks an egg on each alternate day, he will break just half as many eggft, as there are days, in two weeks, wifi he not ?" “Yes’um.” “Therefore, he will break how many eggs?” 44 Seven. ** “That is right. Now, if there are fourteen eggs in the nest, and seven are broken, how many will remain?” “Why, seven.” “That is right, Willie. You see it is a very easy problem.” “Naw ’taint. That aint where I was stumped. I got it that way before. I understand that part; but the part about the hen’s what bothers me.* “About the hen?” “Yes. Ma says no hen in Amerioan can lay two eggs a day.”—-Through Mail -