Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1885 — Page 1

The Democratic sentinel.

VOLUME IX.

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL. A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, BY Jas. W. McEwen. ■ mi ■ ■■ . RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year $1.50 Six months 75 hree months 50 Advertising Rates. One cdiamn, one year, SBO 00 Half column. “ 40 oi Quarter “ 30 oo Eighth “ 10 oO Tenpcrceot. added to foregoing price if divcrtisements arc set to occupy more than Mngle 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‘ablished statute price. Beading notices, first publication 10 cents a line; each publication thereafter s cents a Pearly 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 publication, when less than one-quarter column in size; aud quarterly n advance when larger.

MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Law Rensselaeb, .... Indiana Practices |in 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, Rensselaeb, - . Indiana Practice in all the Courts. MARION L. SPITLER, Collector and AbstractorWe pay p irticular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 ntß FRANK W. BABCOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor and Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared; Taxes paid. Collections a. Specialty. JAMES W.DOUTHIT, ATTORNEYsAT— LAW and notary public. upstairs, in Maieever’s new building, Rensselaer. Ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-ATxLAW, Rensselae •, Ind. ESTOffice Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885. H. W. SNCTER, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. W. HARTSELL, M D , HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11, 1884. TV D. DALE, JU . ATTOKNEY-AT LAW MONTICELLO, - INDIANA. Bank building, up stairs. j. h. louohridge. f. p, bittees LOUGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special after tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CITIZENS’ BANK, RENSSELAER, IND., R. S. Dwiggins, F. J, Sears, Val. Seib, •President. Vic-President. Cashier. Does a general banking business: Certificates bearing interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on farms at lowsst rates and on most favorable terms April 1885. ALFRED M COT. THOMAB THOMPSONBanking House OF A. McCOY &T. THOMPSON, successors to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. UankersRensselaer, Ind. Does general Hanking bu, siness Buy and sell exchaoge. Collections made sn all available points. Money lo i interest paid on specified time deposits, Office same place as old firm of A. McCov & Inompson. aprl4,'Bl

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 7. 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 least4. —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,

For Cholera and Diarrhoea.

Dr. Wolf, commissioner of health of Chicago, says: In the majority of cases in the milder epidemics the disease is ushered in by <1 passive diarrhea from one to five days duration. In more severe forms the patient in apparent.perfect health passes, after a single dejection, into the stage of a well-defined cholera. — The active treatment of the premonitory diarrhea is of the most pressing necessity in all cases, and it is the universal experience of the profession that where this stage of the disease is properly managed, many cases of choler i are averted. Whatever else the person suffering from diarrhea in cholera days proposes to do, he should at once place himself at rest. Without this nothing may avail, and if he neglects this, he may readily pass into the full formed disease. Abstinence from all food, or at least except that of the blandest quality —as boiled rice—is desirable. A thick poultice of flax-seed meal or Indian cornmeal, spiced with mustard, and applied to the abdomen hot as can be borne, is useful. The following remedy I know to be helpful in the conditions above referred to: Take of aromatic sulphuric acid, 1 ounce; tincture of opium, 8 scruples; sirup of ginger, sufficient to make 4 ounces. Mix: Take one tablespoonful in a wine glass of water every two or three hours until diarrhea is checked.

What a Little Advertisement Bid.

Logansport Journal: One of the most far reaching results of a little advertisement that has ever come to the writer’s notice was related to him the other day by a gentleman of this city. In 1872 a man named Ira 0. Hoops, of New Paris, Ind., was visiting in Sandusky, Ohio. While there he picked up a copy of the Sandusky Register, which had been used in tying up a package which had been delivered to his room, containing advertisement of the Northwestern p ormal School at Republic, Ohio. Hoops was interested in the advertisement and wrote to the school for a catalogue. The catalogue was sent him, accompanied by a personal reply to his letter by the Principal, who was none other tha Prof. J. Fraize Richards, now of this city. The correspondence resulted in Mr. Hoops entering the school where he became a warm personal friend of i rof. Brown, who was a teacher in the institutic n. Brown was ambitious and was desirous of establishing a school of his own. Thro’ Hoops he learned of a vacant building in Valparaiso, Ind., and in the spring of 1873 Mr. Brown visited Valparaiso, examined the building and canvassed the ‘situation. A few months later he returned to the Hoosier village, accompanied by Miss M. E. Baldwin and Mr. M. E. Bogarte, who were also teachers in Prof. Richards’ school, and who are yet with Mr. Brown, at Valparaiso. The Northern Indiana Normal School was established by Mr. Brown, with the assistance of Mr. Bagarte and Miss Baldwin, in the fall of 1873, and is now the largest school, of any kind, on the American Continent —larger than Harvard, Yale and Ann Arbor combined. In 1873 its students numbered less than fifty. In 1884, accord-

ing to the report of State Superinintendent Holcomb, it had 3,435. Mr. Brown went to Valparaiso with three hundred dollars in his pocket; he is now worth half a million, and can trace hfs good fortune back to the little advertisement inserted in the Sandusky Register that met the eye of his friend Hoops. ,

Why Illinoisans are Called Suckers.

For many years th'e inhabitan s of Illinois have been called ‘Suckers,’ and numerous explanations of the origin of the term have been given. The one most commonly quoted is found in Wheeler’s “Vocabulary of the Noted Names of Fiction,” taken from the Providence Journal, and is as follows: “The Western Prairies are in many places full of holes made by the “crawfish” (a fresh-water shellfish, similar in form to the lobster) which descend to the water beneath. In early times, when travelers wended their way over these immense plains, they very prudently provided themselves with a. long, hollow tube, and, when thirsty, thrust it into these natural artesians, and thus easily supplied their longings. The crawfish well generally contains pure water, and the manner in which the traveler drew forth the refresh i g element gave him the name of ‘Sucker ’ ” This is very plausible, and the “down-Easterns” no doubt accept it as an historical fact, but as the old settlers of Illinois never heard of such a thing until they saw it in print, the statement is, to say the least, rather doubtful, Stephen A. Douglas, in a speech made at at Petersburg, Va., during the Presidential campaig i of 1860, offered the following explanation: “About the year 1778 George Rogers Clark applied to the Governor of Virginia, and suggested to him that as peace might be declared at any time between Great Britian and the colonies, it would be well for us to be in possession of the. Northwest Territory, so that when the Commissioners came to negotiate a treaty we might act on the well known principle iof uti possidetis —each party holding all they had in possession. He suggested to the Governor to permit him to go out to the Northwest, conquer the country and hold it until the treaty of peace, when we wouh become possessed of it. The Governor consented and sent him across the mountains to Pittsburg. From there he and his companions floated down the Ohio on rafts to the falls, where Louisville now is. After remaining there a short time they again took to their rafts and floated down to the Salines, just below ihe present Sha wneetown in Illinois. There they took up their march across the country to Kaskaskia, where the French had an old settlement, and by the aid of a guide reached the Oquaw River and encamped some little distance from the town. The next morning Clark got his little army together and took up his line of march for the French town of Kaskaskia. It was summer, and a very hot day, and as he entered the town he saw the Frenchmen sitttng on their little verandasj quietlv sucking their mint juleps through straws. He rushed upon them crying, ‘Surrender, you suckers, you! The Frenchmen surrendered, and from that day to this Illinoisans have been known as ‘Suckers.’” Mr. Douglas spoke in a humorous vein, and did not expect his listeners to think he was reciting history. The following account, however, is vouched for by early settlers as being correct: “For a number of years after the opening of the lead mines at Galena, 111., the majority of the miners, who lived in the southern part of the State and in the settlements on the Mississippi,were in the habit of going to their homes in the fall and returning to the mines in the spring. One day, in the autvmn of 1826, an old Missourian, who was watching a number of Illinois miners go on board a Southern-bound

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boat at the Galena wharf, asked them where they were going. They r-plied: ‘We are going down home.’ ‘Why,’ said he, ‘you put me in mind of the suck rs; they come up the river in the spring and in the fall go down again.’ He had reference to a freed water fish of the carp family which has the habit mentioned. The nick-name of ‘sucker’ was at once applied to Illinoisans and has stuck to them ever since. In the spring the miners, who remained at the mines during the winter, would say when the shoals of suckers were seen ascending the river, Tn a few days we shall see the real suckers coming up the river.’ ’,

Put Yours If In His P ac .

Gen. Black, Commissioner of Pensions, having been the object of widespread attacks on account of his drawing a pension of SIOO a month,|by special act of Congaess, he wrote the following letter to a friend in Illinois, and without his knowledge the letter was given to press. It is a complete vindication of the General from mean and malicious accusations of drawing a pension' l which his disability did not justify. He says: “I was wounded on the 7th of March, 1862, and again on the 7th of December of the sames year.— The bones of 1 oth arms were affected in the joints, that of the right arm being splintered, broken, or scraped, and that of the left broken in many pieces. I have had six operations performed in all, the first of which took place in December, 1862, when seventeen pieces alone were taken from one arm, and the last in that long winter of misery and trouble at Danville in 1876-7, at»which time an entire elbow of the right arm was removed, owing to the diseased condition of the closed wounds. Prior to the final operation, and during all this time, they opened andjclosed at regular intervals. I have been sick a hundred times from blood-poison-ing from ray "wounds. Physicians may be able to tell the reasons for these things. I only know the facts. The result of the last sickness and operation was an enforced absence of two years from all professional duties —from 1874 to the middle of 1876, —at which time, as you remember, I took the stump as a candidate for Congress, but you know the condition I was in at that time. My enforced absence from work in the attempt at saving my life had wasted fearfully the little accumulations of peacefid life which I had had, for you know I was a hard-working, self-support-ing boy and college student. I had no friend to back me financially. I entered the army from college and I studied law after my return from the army. The d ctor bills and surgical bills ate up and ran away with all I could gather, and in the winter of 1876-7 I had very littl ; more than when I had taken my sword in the service. It is painful for me to think now of that horr ble winter, with its cuttings and pinchings of a broken arm, and its unutterable ghastliness of surgical operations and executions, and I have lived through six such scenes, and now carry an arm which is anchylosed at the left elbow one-half, and which, on account of the cutting of the nerves, is paralyzed as to the exterior muscl s of the left hand, and in the other elb wless arm carry a constant, open, suppurating wound. If any man th nks that I have made money out of the government by pensions, he need only remember that for twenty years a ceaseless drain of my strength has been going on day and night to realize something of the balancing of accounts. 1 would give all I have if I could start armed and barefoot, but strong, in the "world at the age of 46. I would gladly assume all the burdens of poverty if I could only have strength—had my hands, as other men, to give to labor and t j friendship. I can only keep one position in my bed, and that is fla

• upon my back, without being aroused by the pain or the threatening nervous numbness, which arises on account of my troubles in any other position, and there is scarcely one night in ten and lately no night when my sleep is not broken by these causes. I seem pretty strong. I don’t go around grumbling. I have told but few men the long story of mv troubles as I tell you, but I feel them none the less. I applied for a pension shortly after I left the service, which was granted me. I don’t remember when, but upon ample testimony for full disability according to my rank at the time the injury was inflicted. Subsequently, under the operation of the law it was increased to the sum of SSO, and up to this time no man had been called upon to give me any favor. I have tut a very indistinct recollection of many of the things which occurred during that deadly winter at Danville, but I do recollect you and Senator Voorhees being at my rooms and taking my testimony in the case. I think Voorhees then saw my condition. I believe that he thought I would die, and soon, and I believe it was at that time, acting upon his or the suggestion of some other friends, that I made application for arrears of pensions. This application was all that I ever made. I made it out in due and formal manner. I filed proof of my disability under it. I had regularly employed pension attorneys in Washington looking to this interest. I never was near the capital city during all that time. I subsequently was made aware that a bill was pending in my behalf.— This bill was put before Congress in the shape in which it subsequently passed without my knowledge. It was advanced without my co-operation substantially, and in various respects that induced it.— I had no particular knowledge iu.til one Sunday morning I received a dispatch at home from Senators Voorhees and Davis announcing th it the bill had been passed. Subsequently the bill was certified to me. I have never had an hour’s doubt of the correctness of the action. I have not had any hesitancy in believing that if pensions were granted on the grounds of suffering that I was entitled to all that had ben given me. As pensions are given foT physical disability I need only add that according to the same standard set up for others, I am physically totally disabled for labor. lam not aware of auy manual labor which I can perform. I have not raised my hand to my face for eight years. The little woi;k which I do with the pen causes my arm to swell, and this you can understand when I tell you that half of its muscles are entirely cut and have never been reunited. Others have been granted as much pension. Hundreds are receiving under the name of “retired” very much larger support for their disabilities and their honorable wounds. First lieutenants and second lieutenants and all of them vastly exceed me in the amount which they receive. lam glad that such of them as have been wrecked or torn in battles are able to receive beneficence of the government. I casually mention t is fact byway of illustration in regard to the falsity of the charges that mine is the only instance of t e kind. More than that, I have never received the arrears of pension given to private soldiers and commissioned soldiers alike by the general acts. These sums have reached'in many instances to thousands of dollars — SIO,OOO being no unusual sum to be paid out. I rejoice in the payment of every dollar paid to any one of these recipients. Many a private soldier, many a non-commissioned officer and line officer is now in receipt of $72 per month for disabilities, and this given to him by the general law lam glad of it. Nothing can ever compensate 1 hem for the loss of the senses incurred in the service of the country. But Igo on talking and talking. You have opened the gates to my reminiscences and memory, and for half

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