Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1885 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME IX.

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MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE, Attorney-at-Law Bbsssklakb. .... Indiana Practices |in the Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a speoialty. Office on north side of Washington rfk»eet, opposite Court H ouse- vinl SIMONP. THOMPSON, DAVID#. THOMPSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Renbsklakb, - . Indiana Practice In all the Courts. MARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstracter. We pay; irticular attention to paying tax- , sailing and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B FRANK W. BABCOCK, Attorney at vj And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, New tor and Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts cf Title prepared; Taxes paid. Celloctleaa-s a. Syecla,ltjr. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTOBNKYsAT-LAW and notary public, fcfr Office upstairs, in Maieever’s n*y building. Renteelaex.lnd. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselae -, Ind. Over Makeover’s Bank. May 21. 1885.

H. W. SN fDEB, Attorney ai Lav” Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A BPECIALTY. yy W. HARTSELL, M D . HOMEOPATHIC ‘PHYSICIAN * eUlUi'■'ON. RENSSELAER, - INDIA ■ A Diseases a Specialty jv* OFFICE, in Makcever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. Dd. dale, . attokney-at law MONTICELLO, - INDIANA. Bank building, rp stairs. !__■.! LJ*!,* J. H.LOUGHBIDGE. F. P, BITTEBS LOUGHRIDG E & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be afL’ ?d to all accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vinl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. Calls promptly attended Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. eiTiiSNS 9 Sank, BENSSELAEB, IND., R. S. Dwiogins, F. J. Sears, Val, Seib, President. Vic«-President. Cashier. Does a general banking business: Certificates bearing interest issued: Exchange bought and sold; Moneyloancd on farms at lowest rates aud on most favorable terms. April 1885. ALFBEP M COY. THOMAS THOMPSONBanking Bouse OF A- McCOY & T. THOMPSON, successors to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. sankersRensselaer, Ind. Does general .Banking bn, siness Buy and sell exehaoge. Collections made sn all available points. Money lo i■■ u interest paid on specified time deposits, Office same place as old firm of A. McCov & Thompson. apri*,’Bi

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY INDIANA. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 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 Cen; ral Indiana Normal School and Business College, Ladoga, Ind.

A. F. KNOTTS,

Reminiscences Suggested by a Tragedy.

Philadelphia, August 31,1885. Tc the Editor of the Democrat and Sentinel: The following telegraphic report of a common enough western tragedy? which I happen to know will excite some local interest in Lewistown and vicinity, aopeared in the daily morning papers on Friday last

Killed Lynch and Got Lynched. Dead wood, Dak., Aug. 27. — Dr. H. P. Lynch, of Sturgis, was shot dead Monday night in his office by Corporal Ross Hollis, of Company A, 25th United States Infantry, stationed at Fort Meade, and the latter was lynched Tuesday by a mob. Some time ago Hollis beat a colored woman and broke three of her ribs. Dr. Lynch was called to attend her and was also summoned as a witness before the grand jury. Hollis was indicted and threatened to kill the doctor. The night of the murder he deserted the fort, got a change of clothing, went to Sturgis, crept stealthily up to the doctor’s office, and fired at his victim through the window. Reading this telegraphic news item set me to thinking, and thinking of it prompts me to write. To the general reader the item possessed no special interest, of course, and was read if read at all by such only as an every-day-order of news paragraphs, to be forgotten within the hour. But to the writer it was not so. To him it came with the startling suddenness of a personal dispatch conveying intelligence of a personal sorrow. To him it possessed the vital interest of a brief and unsatisfactory report of th a tragic death of an intimate companion of his youth and a highiy esteemed friend of his mature years. The pleasant remembrances of other days in connection with the victim of this most foul assassination awakened by the reading of this report of the occurrence, impels me to speak of them through the columns of the Democrat. I believe that lam not mistaken in assuming that there are ;lo,= among your regular readers who will bo interested in what I may write.

Nearly forty years ago, during ■ the summer and succeeding winter,; of 1847, three young men then in their “teens,” did all the work of printing and issuing the Lewistown True Democrat, then under the editorial direction of H. J. Walters, Esq. The names of these three you jg men, in the order of their years and experience in the business, were John M. Bowman, William F. Shaw and H. P. Lynch. The first named had served his hi) l term of apprenticeship of three years “for his victuals and clothes ’ in the Lewistown Gazette office, under the direction of Capt. William Ross, who died some years ago, and at the time spoken of was “doing” his first “journey work.” Shaw had worked for some time at the business, I cannot say how long, in one of the offices at Mifflintown. Lynch was an apprentice, and, although physically able to “down” either of his companions in the office, including the “boss,” if occasion demanded, was therefore the junior boy or “devil” of the establishment—an appellation, by the way, which he never accepted kindly, and which he promptly resented when applied to him in an offensive sense.

Sometime during the autumn of 1816 ho had come into the office in response to an editorial request for a boy io learn the printing business, with the usual qualifications* “a boy from the country preferred.’ Red faced, broad shouldered, big fisted, and decidedly a countryfled looking youth—the sou of a Ferguson valley Irish farmer —he was rather an unpromising looking subject, so far as outward appearances indicated, out of whiel :o make a printer. He soon proved, however, that he was not s.‘ much of a fool as he looked. He was aggressive in his ambition to acquire a knowledge of the trade, and took it up rapidly, so that in an unusually short time he was able to do his full share of all .work in the office. His robust physical development gave him unusual strength for a boy of his years, and this made him especially desirable to have about the office on press day. The old-fashioned Hoe hand-pr ss was but a plaything in his sturdy arms, and he could run off the edition of the paper in less time and with greater ease then anybody about th*, affix \ He was generous to a mult and good matured; but would not be imposed upon. If anybody attempted any practical joke upon him, orito take any unfair advantage of him in any way, his Irish blood was up in an instant, and somebod'. was liable to be hurt — This was Peter Lynch—“ Pete,” we called him for short —the printer’s apprentice in the True Democrat . office in Lew istown in 1847—the original of the man Dr.. H- P.fLynch who fell a victim to the in sane vengeance of a cowardly ii 'gro assassin at Sturgis, Dakota, in 1885, as briefly told in the news dispatch above printed. Perhaps by the time this reaches you the papers will ffurnish fuller details of the tragedy. * It was part of my plan, in conceiving this letter, to add a brief sketch of the subsequent career of each of these three young men in connection with my notice of the tragic death of one of their number, but I discover that such sketch, however brief, would extend my letter to too great length. It occurred to me that such details as I would be able to give respecting them in after life would be especially interesting to the older members of the Apprentices’ Literary Society of Lewistown who still linger in your midst, of which very worthy organization all three were active members. And here permit me to say, parenthetically that while I do not know how far their connection with this society influ•ncee. the subsequent lives and conduct of its members generally, or to what extent it awakened their skim boring intellect end inspired tkc .t. -mental activity aud intellectual improvement, one of them at least gratefuily acknowledges his indebtedness to it for much of the inspiration that made a better man of him than he otherwise might hav 3 been. Reluctantly abandoning the idea, therefore, of the proposed personal sketches, suffice to say that each of the three developed some individual talent, aid did not live in vain. Each pi-, cd a part in the affairs of the world by no means obscure and not wholly ivithout results. But one of the trio remains, and he the senior < f the three. He helped to bui y his early companion Shaw in this city some two years ago, and still lives in good health and vigorous intellect to record with sadness the death of the junior of the trio. To him it is a melancholy and admonishing reflection that of the many, office companions of his youth, men and boys, but two, so far as he knows, remain—Adam J. Greer, of Altoona, his first';boy acquaintance in a printing office, and Henry Frysinger, of Chester, the last with whom he worked in the old Gazette office. Harry Devine, his old yireeeptor, William H. Wilson, William R. McCay, Charley Matthews, Jimmy Stackpole, Henry Snyder, Billy McKinney, Jimmy McEwen, Will Shaw, Peter Lynch —a long list—are all gone. The

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list of those remaining is noticeably short and u ill soon be obliterated. While death has been thus ruthless in tlie ranks of his office companions, it is a noticeable fact that the two employers to whom he rendered the most service in Lewistown are still living —H. J. Walters and George Frysinger.— May their span of life be further lengthened and their days yet many and peaceful in the land. With man / kind greetings to old friends who may recognize the hand of the writer in this letter, many of whom will join him in deploring the untimely and tragic death of his friend, Dr. Lynch, he subscribes himself Very truly yours,

2335 St. Albans Place.

A Miserable Business.

Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution: The speec i of Senator Sherman and the platform of the lowa Republicans leave no doubt that the Republican politicians of the North have determined to fight the next campaign on the sectional issue. As a Democratic newsr r.per the Constitution is glad to see this issue made piominent am 1 the bloody shirt once more waved above the Republican camp. As an American newspaper the Constitution regrets it. This country will never again be carried by appeals to sectional prejudice. The war is over and the embers of war are dead. The people of this great republic, long estranged, are now united in a union that, cemented with the blood of its best ;nd bravest sons, is indissoluble forever. Neither fools, or fanatics, or demagogues can rekindle the passions that burned themselves out amid the terrible scenes of the war. Those who attempt it are doomed to defeat and disgrace. Mr. Blaine was beaten for the Presidency jwhen he yielded to fools’ advice, and in Ohio furled the bar nor that waved above his flushed and victorious army and ran up the wretched rag of crimson which he himself despised.— When ha made that bitter speech in Augusta, after the election, he re. unciled to his defeat half a million voters who, until then, sere unreconcilable. If anything is settled it is that the masses of the people, North and South, are tired of strife. They w ant peace. They have so declared over and over again, and the thunders of their declaration have drowned again and again the vicious outcries of the politicians.- - Whatever party pledges itself to the reopening of wounds, but lately healed, and the relighting of consuming fires that were extinguished twenty years ago, will be repudiated at the polls. If the Republican party commits itself to this narrow and insane policy, the Democratic party will remain in power until new parties and new issues arise.

The duty of the South is plain. The manliness and sincerity of her course, so long plain to observers, must be maintained. She was brave enough to meet the shock of war without quailing,and was brave enough to accept its results without reservation. Instead of sulking amid the ashes and ruins of her homes, she set earnestly to work to repair the desolations of war, and fashion her fortunes anew out of such piiiful resources as was left her. From first to last she has been earnest, sincere and honest in her re-established relations with the North. By slow but sure process this simple truth has cut its way through the sophistries of the politicians, and carried conviction to the people of all sections. The election of Mr. Cleveland was proclamation that at last the real purpose of the South was understood by the North, and confidence restored. The sensible and conservative course of the South, since Mr Cleveland’s election has confirmed this confidence. Policy, then, as well as patriotism, will hold the Southern people to the large-minded and abiding love of th j Union, the manly and

candid desire for peace and b~ ciherbood, the deep and inspumg sympathy with American institutions and American glory, that lives in the hearts of her people and makes itself manifest on eve - ry proper occasion. Far above the mere triumph of party or the petty plunder of office, the election of Mr. Cleveland was precious to her] in that it closed the chasm into which she had cast her blood and her treasure, and it reunited in heart as in hand the Union ‘she had honestly sought to divide. It is her concern chiefly that the Presidency won chiefly by her votes has been so administered as to strengthen mutual confidence, dispel suspicion and doubt, and bring to the deathbed of the illustrious American whose taking away tin country still mournp, the full real ization of his immortal appeal,V'Lot us have peace.” The Republican politicians may 'rave the bloody shirt, the Republican party may plant itself on the platform of sectional hate. So lx H. Neither will avail against the inevitable. The St'nth cannot be shaken from her consciousness of honeyt and patriotic purport nor diverted from the straight and simple way she has marked out. The North can not be again misled by prejudice or deceived by misrepresentation. The people have-come together and have shaken hands and made up. The politicians can not again divide them.

J.M.B.

THIRTEENTH ANNUAL

Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicano. REFTEMBEII 2 TO OCTOBER 17, JBSS. Of all the Exhibitions of this class which have been started in the world only two have been able to maintain themselves for any considerable term of years without intermission. The American Institute of New York, is one of the two, and has been either se//-sustaining, or has a sufficient endowment to establish it as a permanency. The only other, and by tar the most eminently successful, in all respects, is the one at Chicago. Opening for the first time, September j2sth, 1878, it has held twelve annual consecutive Exhibitions, of the very highest class—its field being Industry, Science and Art. Its unvarying success is evidenced by the fact that, with an admission fee of only 25 cents, its treasury has never failed in any one year to realize from $35,000 to $50,000 net. Its visitors who paid fadmission have averaged about 8,000 per day for forty days—and this attendance, made up as it is of the most progressive, wide-awake people on the face of the earth, is ample evidence of the genuine merit of the Exhibition itself. The truth in a nut-shell is, that no intelligent poison within reach of ,\icage, who desires to keep abreast of the progress of mankind in the mechanic and fine arts, can afford, for even a single year, to miss the opportunity for observation and study which these annual Exhibitions offer. Railroad fares during the forty days are reduced to the lowest figures.

CHEAPER THAN CHEAP!

The Excurtlon to Chicago Next Tuesday. A big excursion will be run over the Monon Route, next Tuesday, Sept., 15th, to Chicago and return. It will afford a fine opportunity to visit the Exposition and the Illinois State Fair, which will then be open. The fare for the round trip, from Rensselaer has been put at the very low price of $1.25; or a little less than one third the regular rates. Persons desiring to remain over in the city, until the next day, can procure two day tickets for 75 cents in addition to the regular price. The train will pass Rensselaer at 8:14 a. m., arrive in Chicago at 11 a. m. and leave there at 8 p. m.

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