Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — The Reason Why. [ARTICLE]

The Reason Why.

J. J. Hawes of Indian , who was recently dismissed from the Pension Bureau, has been trying to find out the reasons for discharge but beyond Commissioner Black telling him that there was nothing against him or his standing as an efficient clerk or an honorable gentlman, he could learn nothing. —Washington Dispatch. J. J. Hawes was appointed by Colonel Dudley. Mr Hawes practiced Repulican politics in the Fifth Ward in this city. If he wants to find out the reason he was “bounced,” or at least the reason why he ought to have been ♦ ‘bounced.” h should call on the Sentinel. While he re he was one of the most offensive partisans. He had peculiar method s of carrying primary elections. In 1880 Mr. Hawes was a United States Commissioner, and during the election of that year, as will be remembered, the Republicans ransacked the Nation for thugs, thieves, repeaters and ballot-box stuffers and brought them into Indiana, into this city. Whenever Democratic vigilance succeeded in capturing one of thes : imported repeaters, he was taken before Mr Hawes as United States Commissioner, and that wor hy officer let the offender go on straw bail. After having thus violated his duties as a citizen he boasted about it as a “smart trick,” and claimed an appointment, which he got, as a reward for his infamous acts. The sooner all officeholders of the Hawes ilk are “bounced” the better it will be for common decency and the public service.— Indianapolis Sentinel.

Ponsler <fc Co. are pasturing several hundred head of cattle on their huckleberry lands in the upper Iroquise.

The “pickers” go forth to pick, dressed in gaudy array. , The cattle, attracted by the novel scene, come near to make sure what the strange, unusual sight may be. The timid searchers after fruit in immient fe-’r of the cattle, fling out their banners, and a stampede, costing to the owners of cattle hundreds of dollars is the result. Ponsler & Co. are clever gentlemen an would gladly give away the berries, bushes and all, but for the saving of their cattle ask that the merry berry pickers go not inside their enclosure.

The following named teachers have been engaged by the School Board to conduct the Public Schools of Rensselaer the ensuing year: Superintendent.—Prof. F. W. Reubelt of Noblesville. Principal of High School —Miss M. Hill, Carthage. Third Grammar.—lsaac Rubelt, Perkinsvilje. Second Grammar.—Kiss F. G. Pym, Cambridge city. First Grammar.—Miss Mary J. Cox. Plainfield. Second Primary.— Miss Emma Yantis, Logansport. * First Primary Miss Alice Irwin, Rensselaer.

NOTICE.—The agents we employ are not allowed to carry samples of Fruit in glass jars. Any one leaving their orders with “Turkey” Joe Sharp or Allen Catt, will receive prompt attention. J. B. Harris & Co., Proprietors of Home Nursery, located at Champaign, 111.

Remember! that trees brought from Eastern Nurseries are not as well adapted to our soil as are those shipped from Illinois. Tn_ quire into the standing of the Nursery of J. B. Harris & Co. Bela C. Kent, Gen. Agent