Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1885 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME IX.

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MORDECAI F. CHELCOTE. Attorney-at-Law Rensselaer, - Indiana Practices (In thb Courts of Jasper and adoinlngcounties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court H ouse- vlnl BIMONP. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselabb, - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. MARION L. SPITLiER, Collector and Abstractor. We pay j irticular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B FRANK. W. B Ai.COCK, Attorney at And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtoi And Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collectlon-s a, Speclalty- ~ .TAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTOENBYsAT-LAW and notary public, Office up stairs, in Maieever’s new building, Rensselaer, Ind.

EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, RENSSELAE , IND. ' Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885. H. W. SF £DEK, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. JOLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. W. HARTSELL, M D , HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, . » - INDIANA. Diseases a Specialty..*®) OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. Dd. dale, . ATTOKNEY-AT LAW MONTICELI.O, - INDIANA. Bank building. np stairs.

J. H. LOUGHBIDGE. F. P, BITTERS LOUGH RIDGE & 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. vlml DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind . Calls promptly attended. Will give special atter tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CITIIERB* BANK, RENSSELAER, IND., K. S. Dwiogins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Vic'-President. Cashier. DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS: C.rtificates bearing interest issued; Exchange bought and sold: Money loaned on farms at low ?st ra:es and on most favorable terms. April 1885. ALFRED M COT. THOMAS THOMPSORBanking Mouse OF A. McCOY &T.THOMPSON,successors to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. UanliersRensselaor, Ind. Does general .Banking bu. siness Buy and sell exchaoge. Collect:'):.* made sn all available points. Money lo ■ tuterest paid on specified timo deposits, Office same place as old firm of A. McCo & Thompson. uprU/8t

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 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, Principal.

Mr. Hendricks on Ireland.

Chicago Citizen: The Citizen does not, under ordinary circumstances, set much value on the utterances of American politicians, of any party, in regard to the Irish question. It has been the habit more or less, since the conclusion of the civil war, for American public men to express sympathy for Ireland, just about the period immediately preceding a general election. But the significant speech of Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice President of the United States, at Indianapolis, on Tuesday nignt, in support of Mr. Parnell, cannot be classed with time-sei ving utterances of the kind alluded to. On the contrary, Mr. Hendricks has chosen a time three y -ars ahead of the next National election to come out manfull * in support of Ireland’s demand for legislative independence, which is the true interpretation of what is called home rule or ocal self-government. The speech of Mr. Hendricks is truly a new departure. He is the first American, ranking higher than Senator that has, since the days of President Tyler, declared himself unequivocally on the side of Ireland’s just demands. And he has done so in language at once simple, forcible and far-reaching. The moral effect of his speech in England will be very great. Its importance can not be over-estimated, because, in a, war of words and ideas such as Parnell is now w r aging, the heavy moral guns count as much as would their more materi 1 prototypes in a war of force and bloodshed.

Mr. Hendricks lias, evidently, been a close student of moder Irish history. He did not forget to place before his hearers the fearful loss in population sustained by Ireland within forty years. His high position will insure the reading of that implied indictment of the British Government by hundreds of millions of people. He did noi fear to say that Ireland had been harshly,cruelly dealt with,and that the only remedy for her great ills is to allow her to manage her own affairs. His allusion to the fact that the State of Indiana, which is about the size of Ireland, with less than half the population that Ireland now possesses, would not tolerate the interference of any other State in affairs that concerned her alone was exceedingly well timed. It was an illustration that sunk into the American mind, and that will bear excellent fruit.

The advocacy of Ireland’s claim to self-government by the Vice President of the United States rescues that cause from the position of friendlessness which, outside of the Irish Americans themselves, it seemed to have fallen into of late. No prominent American, since the death of Wendell Phillips, had said a strong word in public for that cause until Mr. Ridclleberger spoke in the Senate jjagEinst the Bayard resolution, and now Mr. Hendricks, nothing daunted by the displeasure which he well knows will come upon him 4 ,from English sources, speaks out his mind, like the great, broad-viewed, independent American that helis. The Irish people, wherever situated, must feel deeply grateful to Mr. Hendricks for his manly words, andij f° r the kindly, wholehearted way in which they were uttered. '! he Irish-American, whether he "be Democrat, Republi-

can or Independent, who would be ungrateful to Mr. Hendricks after his most timely utterance, must be all unworthy of his Celtic blood and oblivious to the interests of his native land. □Mr. Hendricks has shown the courage of a true man, the heart of a philanthropist, and the wisdom of a profound observer of the best interests of the people of all misgoverned countries. He has not locked himself up in home selfishness, like a snail in its box, but has permitted his generous voice to cross the Atlantic, and bear a message of hope and encouragement to the suffering, struggling people of Ireland and their devoted and intrepid leader. He has not hesitated to take the side of the weak and the friendless against the mighty and the opulent. His high office has come to him not alone as a crowning gift for his own honor, but also as %, means of throwing over the shoulders of unfortunate Irelan- ’ the mantle of its dignity in the hour of her travail and her sorrow. May Ireland in the future find many champions such as Thomas A. Hendricks, to give comfort to her friends and to rebuke her persecutors!

Legislation in Favor of Labor.

The late Democratic Legislature of Indiana, as near as possible, did its duty in favor of the laboring masses:

011 page 36 an act begins which requires all persons or corporations doing business requiring the employment of manual or mechanical laborers to make full settlement with and payment of their employes at least once a month. — This act also provides that all debts due for manual labor shall b 1 a preferred claim against any person whose property nWy pass into the hands of an assignee or receiver. At page 65 is an act providing for the proper ventilation and inspection of coal mines and requiring the owners to protect their employes from danger in these mines. The act on page 95 pravides that whenever an 7 person’s property is levied upon by virtue of any execution or where any debtor’s business is suspended by the actions of his creditors or his property is put into the hands of an assignee, receiver or trustee, that in any such cases all debts due laborers to the extent of SSO or less, occurring within the last six months preceeding such continuancy, shall at once become preferred claims against such property and such laborers be paid in full before other creditors, if there be sufficient property. The act at page 123 prohibits assessments by railroads or other corporations or employers of their employes for the maintenance of any hospital, reading room, library, gymnasium or restaurant without the consent of their employes.

At page 153 the act prohibits the importation of foreign laborers into this State under contract to work for the parties bringing them here. The law at page 176 requiring the poll at all elections to be opened at 6 a. m., on the petition of twenty voters and householders of the precinct, is directly in the interest of laboring men who usually go to work before the polls are open. This law allows them to vote on their way to their work and does not require them to either lose part of their time or their vote. The act at p tge 217 regulates the employment of children under 12 years of age. prohibits their employment entirely in metal, machinery and tobacco works, and provides that they shall not be allowed to work more than eight hours a day at any other employment. At page 236 is an act amending the law of 1883 on the subject of mechanics’ liens, giving laborers and material men a lien on the right of way and franchises of railroad companies for labor done or material furnished in the construction of railroad lines. General Longstreet is keeping a hotel at Gainesville, Georgia.

The old saying “a new brot m sweeps clean” is exemplified in the recent letter of Coionel John S. Williams, of Indiana, Third Auditor of the Treasury, to the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Daniel Manning, in regard to the manage, ment of his offi'e. Auditor Williams states that on the first day of May, 1885, when he assumed the duties, of Third Auditor, the business was largely in arrears, the plea being hat the clerical force vas not sufficient for the prompt dispatch of the work; that the pension division was nearly a year behind in its examination and settlement of the accounts of pension agents, involving the sum of $75,000,00 ; that in the'horse claim division over 11,000 claims were pending and unsettled, involving $716,396; that the unsettled accounts of army quartermasters and commissaries amounted to $5, 000,000 ; that the unsettled accounts of engineers amounted to $104,527,017. In the short space of four months, ending August 31st, Auditor Williams has examined and settled up the accounts of all the pension agents to the first of J une, and the clerks in that division are now examining and settling the accounts of the last quarter, which is current work. As showing the improvement in working capacity of the clerks in that division, Auditor Williams states that during the months of May, Jun?, July and August of ’B4 there was examined and settled accounts aggregating $16,223,580. For the corresponding four months of 1885 the same clerks, with perhaps three or four exceptions, examined and settled accounts aggregating $75,105,778. The figures between Republican and Democratic administration make their ownlcomment. In the horse claims in 1885, 613 claims have been adjusted or rejected, involving $76,275, besides carrying on a voluminous correspondence necessary to the proper disposal of the remaining cases. During the same period in 1884, 200 cases were adjusted or rejected, involving $27 774. The accounts of the quartermasters, commissaries and engineers are up as far as it is possible for them to be, and the clerks in the divisions are now engaged in current work. Auditor Williams recommends a reduction o, the clerical force; the law now provides for 158 clerks. The services of sixteen clerks, he says, can be dispensed with, maxing a saving of $24, 000 a year to the Government. This is a sample of the practical civil-service reform inaugurated by President Cleveland in every department of the General Government, and to make such reforms possible the President must have public officers in full political accord with his Administration.

BST* Garfield sends greeting to Senator Sherman, the author of the bloody-shirt campaign in Ohio, as follows: The man who attempts to set up apolitical excitement in this country on the old sectional issues will find himself without a party and without support. The man who wants to serve his country must put himself in the line of its leading thought, and that is the restoration of business, trade, commerce, industry, sound political economy, hard money and honest payment of all obligations; and the man who can add anything in the direction of the accomplishment of any of these purposes is a public benefactor.” Sherman can’t expect to accomplish these things with the bloody-shirt.

The* N. Y. Evening Post propounds the following conundrum to John Sherman: “If the colored man has been shorn of his rights during five successive terms in which the Republican party has held all the federal offices, how is his condition to be improved by another term of the same sort? Is | there any guarantee that a sixth I w T ould yieU any better results than the five that have gone before?”

Letter from John G. Culp.

W AUKESHA, Wis., ) Sept. 21,1885. \ Friend Mac. : I promised, when I left Rensselaer, to give you a short communication from this place. I arrived at Waukesha depot, at 12:10 p. m. on 9th inst., anticipating to see a small town, visited by a few diseased persons, but in that I was mistaken. I found a nice little cit ■of over 4, 000 inhabitants, composed of wide-awake,, energetic business people, with 3,000 visitors to the fifteen mineral springs during the past three months, from all parts of the country. The rush is now about over, except peril Ips 300 guests from the South.

The city has ninety hotels and boarding houses, charging all the way from $4 to $25 per week, and generally, I am told, good board. There are eight churches in the place, some or them good structures; the Baptist church cost $25,000, and has a $1,600 organ. I think the mineral springs of YV. are destined 111 the near future to be a great health resort, as 1 am certain from personal knowledge of less than two weeks that these waters contain medical virtues. lam feeling better than at any time within two years, aud could I remain here one or two years, or probably less, I am of the opinion I would be a well man, using nothing but these crystal-like waters, —for they are as clear as crystal, and perfectly pure. Their analysis show the principal composition to be bicarbonate of lim e and biearbonat of magnesia, with a small amount of iron, soda, alumina, etc. To-day I will send a barrel of this mineral water home, and I think it will be a great benefit to my ailment, and probably effect a cure in my case. Mrs. Dr. Caldwell, of Bethesda spring, one of the most thorough analyzers in the West, tells me, in her opinion, .six months constant use of these waters will effect as near a cure as can be in my cape. Since my arrival here I have talked with men from nearly every Southern State, ailing with different ailments, and all tell me they have been largely benefited by using those wate.s. 111 looking at the people who are residents here I see the picture of health in nearly all; and possession of good health makes them in part the most courteous people I ever met with in the same latitude. If I were in a financial condition to afford it, I would like to live in Waukesha, but it takes more money than in Rensselaer for a family ’’ to keep up with the style of the people. The dimensions of the Fountain House, under the management of Mat. Laflin, formerly of Chicago, from the best information I can get, is: It is 400 feet long, with two wings, each 300 feet in length, and will accommodate 800 guests, being the number stopping there when our own Tom Hendricks was given the grand reception some three or four weeks ago. The grounds are very nicely kept, with mineral spring near the house, and a handsome park for the enjoyment and pleasure of the guests, with a good driving track. Well, Mac., I can tell you more than I can write, and will close for the present. Expect to get home about the 25th.

The Pittsburgh Dispatch: “Tha eff ctiveness of a word or two at the right—or wrong —juncture seems to get an especially strong illustration from Mr. Blaine’s estimate of what the Rev. Dr. Burch* ard’s alliteration cost him. A correspondent who has visited Mr. Blaine says that the latter calculates that the three R’s cost him exactly 17,000 votes. As this is 5,666 votes to each word, it seems likely that Mr. Burchard can claim pre-eminence in the effect of his eloquence.” The postmaster at Chica, Cal., has been removed for “offensive ! partisanship.” A $2,000 shortage i discovered in his accounts.

NUMBER 34

JOHN G. CULP.