Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1885 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME IX.

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MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE, Attorney-at-Lyr Renssblabb, .... Indiana Practices Fin the Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vlnl SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Renssblabb, - - - Indiana Praoticein all the Courts. H.ARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor. We pay p irticular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B FRANK W. B iLCOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor and Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts es Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collectlosis a. Specialty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORMEYsAT-LAW and notary public, .IST Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new building. Rensselaer. Ind.

EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-ATsLAW, Rbnsselae , Ind. tsF" Office Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885. H, W. SN tDEE, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A BPECIALTY. W. HARTSELL, M D-. HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a Specialty..JgJ OFFICE, In Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11, 1884. Dd. dale, . ATTOKNEY-AT LAW MONTICELLO, - INDIANA. Bank building. up stairs. J. H. LOUGHBIDGE. F. P. BITTEBS LOUGHRIDGE A BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all aecounts running uusettled longer than t>ree months. vlnl

DR. L B. WASHBURN, Physician A Surgeon, Renuelaer, Ind, Galls promptly attended. Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CITIZENS’BANK, BENSSBLAEB, IND., ' * R. S. Dwtccime, F. J. Seams, Val. Seie, President. Vic«-President. Cashier. DOIS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS: Certificates bearing Interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on Arma at lowest rates and on most favorable terms. April 1886. meme m coy. ntoMAsnrowseaS**ki** AF A- McCOI A T. THOMPSON, saecsason W to A. MoOey A A. Theaipcen. SukorsBesssolMr, lad. Doos goaoral Seakiac »s, siasss Bay aad soil oxohaogs. Gdllooßoae made an all available potato i Moaoy loaned interest paid on.spooiflsdtiaso deposits. y . Office same place as old Ina of A. McOcA Uli J

RENSSELAER JASPEB COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, JULY 3. 1885.

WHERE TO ATTEND SCHOOL

1. —Where you can get good instruction in whatever you may wish to study. 2. —Where you can get good accommodations and good society. 3. —Where the expenses are least. 4. Where things are just as represented, or all money refunded and traveling expenses paid. Send or special terms and try the Cenral Indiana Normal School and Business College, Ladoga, Ind.

A. F. KNOTTS, Principal.

In some places the Fourth of July has degenerated into a mere money-making scheme by which hucksters fleece people without giving them adequate returns. — Such is not the design of the celebration at Renss laer. We will have a grand, good time. Everybody invited.

There is another point against Mr. Roach and his Dolphin. In ex-Secretary Chandler’s advertisement for bids to build the Dolphin and the cruisers, there occurs this important passage: “The three cruisers must be completed within eighteen months, and the dis patch boat within twelve months £rom the execution of the respective contracts.” Mr. Roach took the contracts for all the ships. That for the Dolphin was signed by him on the 23d of July 1883, nearly two years ago. That for the Boston on the same day; that for the Chicago on the 26 of July the same year, 1882. The Dolphin should, therefore, have been completed last July, and the other ships should have been completed last Janurry. The contrcts provide that the Government need not accept the ships unless they are according to contract. Mr. Roach perhaps can explain. He took the contact from Chandler, probably with the understanding that Blaine would succeed Arthur.

FOURTH OF JULY!

BOOM! BOOM!! BOOM!!! Hear the guns! Listen for the bells! Don’t be alarmed at the shouts and huzzas; it is only the joyful peals and music, and glad voices welcoming the glorious 4th of July at Rensselaer. There’ll be chiming of bells, music and speech making, songs and choruses, and a good, glorious old-fashioned time, to wind up with a fine display of fire-works.

A new medical remedy for certain people in Rensselaer: Take one pint of good common sense, one pound of charity, two ounces of truth, one ounce of liberality, a half pound of pure justice, and a handfull of attend to your own business. Mix all together and take a dose on going to bed. It will cure fanatics, cranks, thieves, tattlers, extremists and all manner of cussedness that is generally prevailing in society. No charge for this recipe. GIVE US A REST.—This ha® been a good season for work and the time has been well improved. Let everybody make a day of rest and recreation of our great National Anniversary. COME to town, meet your neighbors, hear good speeches and soul-sturing music fend you will return to your work refreshed nad reinvigorated and taka a ney W-

My a, 18851 AT RENSSELAER, IND. PROGRAMME OF EXERCISES: Assemble on Public Square at 10 o’clock a. m. 1. Music by Cornet Band. 2. Opening Song, by the Glee Ciub. 3. Prayer by Rev. Rice. 4. Reading of Declaration, by C. C. Warner. 5. Music by Cornet Band. 6. Address by the President of the Day, Hon. E. P. Hammond. 7. Music by Glee Club. 8. Female Suffrage, by Mrs. R. S. Dwiggins. 9. Remarks by William B. Austin. 10. Remarks by Dr. Samuel W. Ritchey. 11. Song by Glee Club. 12. Remarks by James W. Douthit. 13. Music by Cornet Band. 14. Remarks by H. R. W. Smith, of New York. 15. Remarks by Milton Makeever, jr. 16. Remarks by William B«ck. 17. Music by Cornet Band.

SAM JONESISMS.

Thoughts From Recent Pulpit Discourses by the Georgia Snakewaker Some of you little sinners are sitting around here waiting for salvation to strike you as it did St Paul. Showbird waiting to be hit with a cannon ball. God adjust His ammunition to the size of the man he is after. Mustard seed shot will do for. Sow billiards, reap fools. Sow cards, reap gamblers. Sow whisky, reap drunkards. Sow germans, reap spider legs. The dude looks as if he was melted and poured into his pants. There’s many a 'fellow with a whitewash brush trying to clean up a little before he goes to God. Many men think the people don’t know that they are gamblers, but they do. You wear fine clothes’ and look like a gentleman, and think people don’t know what you are. But you don’t find the town full of greenies, you big old fool you. Some men are feeling all right, because all their boys are girls; but the first thing that you know the devil will pack off a drunken son-in-law on you. He couldn’t do anything worse than that if he had a thousand years to work up a bad thing. There is not a man in Chattanooga who doesn’t have family prayers that has got as much religion as a goat

The Gee ■ lub on the 4th will sing a number of their best new songs a* well as some of |he immortal old-time patriitic pei*e* a stirred the continental to | es raler, and that away* awaken the livelest and healthis emotion* tpr country and home.

THROUGH A BRIDGE.

Bad Wreck on the Air Line — Two Brakemen Fatally Hrut. Delphi Ind., July I.—A Frankfort Sunday-school excursion from Michigan City passed over the. Chicago & Indianapolis Air Line Railroad bridge across the Wabash river at this point in safety at 10: 45 last night. Fifteen minutes later a freight train came on. The flange on a wheel of a car loaded with lumber, broke. The car jumped the track and the bridge timbers gave way precipitating eleven carloads of lumber into the river, thirty feet below. Two brakemen Horsley and Goodwin, went down and both are probably fatally injuree. Horsley was taken out a once; Goodwin was found aliv. at 4 o’clock. Conductor Robinson jumped into the mill-race and escaped injury. Lee engineer, has been in every wreck on this division for a year. Trains last night left the road here and went over the Wabash to Lafayette, striking the main line there. Hereafter trains will transfer here and back out. The bridge is ruined- Two spans are entirely gone and the third ready to fall to peices. Hundreds of citizens are out sight-seeing. A hack line has been started and is doing a big business. On the 4th of July, 1776, the declaration went forth from our Continen al fore fathers which laid the foundation for all our National greatness and private prosperity. Come let us meet together on next Saturday and celebrate the birthday of dtir Nation. i* Mn. Stockton, of Lafayette, » visiting her father, Mr. John Mak*cv«r,ju BcMMlacr.

NUMBER 23

COMMUNICATED.

In looking over the list of names of the stockholders of the Jasper County Agricultural Society I find that it comprises men who rank among the most public spirited of the community. This, then, being the fact, the question arises what will they do on the 11th of July, when they convene in answer to the call of the President of the Society, with reference to the much needed repairs recited in that call. Surely there will be no difference of opinion as to the kind of improvement necessary to be made. But the ques ion of raising the amount of revenue needed for the construction of a new r Amphitheater, Floal Hall, Office, Fence and Stalls sho’d meet with a full, free and intelligent discussion. A visit to the farms and homes, and an inspection of the stock and methods of farming of any of those gentlemen will convince the most doubtful that our County Fairs have been the source of great good to the county,' and beneficial to the people, in the way of advancing the grades of all kinds of stock, improvement in methods of farming, and introduction of new and improved machinery. There is still room for advancement, and in my opinion the way to accomplish this is by putting our Fair Grounds in the best of repair, making them inviting, which will, with the premiums offered, induce stockmen to place their stock on exhibition, manufacturers to mkae a display of their machinery and products of inventive skill and industry.— Then, too, farmers and their wives and daughters will take pride in striving to make the Fair attractiive in the display of the products of the soil, orchards and the dairy. Then let every one interested in the success of the enterprise attend the meeting on the 11th inst.

Sam Nichols has been re-ap-pointed to his old position as night operator at this point. Ed. Sampson. tliinks of going to Michigan. — Prof. Kirsch and family took their departure for their new field of labor yesterday. The kind wishes of our people go with them. ’ mb a Tuesday morning last Hanso pleaded guilty of whipping his wife and was fined $lO and cost. Let the whipping-post be erected for wife-beaters.

Prof. W. Reubeltof Noblesville,, visited Rensselaer Wednesday with a view of filing his application for the Superintendency of our public schools.

Mrs. Jennie, wife of Frank Osborne, died at her residence, in Barkley township, Monday morning last after, a lingering illness. A husband, four children and many friends sustain a severe loss in this bereavement

Aaron Frazier, who killed John M. Walton near St. Paul, Decatur county, in 1882, at the instance of Mrs. Walton and Oscar M Garrett, is applying for a new trial. He plead guilty and was sentenced by Judge Bonner to the penitentiary for life, and went there a happy man, to think that ee had escaped hanging. The Supreme Court has recently decided that where a person pleads guilty to mruder in the first degree the judge can not assess the penalty, but must leave that to a jury. Frazier has now filed a writ of habeas copus asking his release from the penitentiary, which) is to be heard next Monday. If this is granted he will be brought back and tried by a jury.

FARMER.