Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1885 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME IX.

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL. A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, Jas. W. McEwen. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year sl.sf> Six months .75 hree months 50 Advertising Rates. One commit, one year. SBO 00 Half column, “ 40 o) Quarter “ “ 30 oo Eighth “ “ 10 oO Tenpcreeot. added to foregoing price if jdvertisements are set to occupy more than Jingle column width. Fractional parts of a year at equitable rates Business cards not exceeding 1 inch space, to a year; $3 for six months; $ 2 for three All legal notices and advertisements at es‘ablished statute price. Reading notices, first publication 10 cents -»line; each publication thereafter s cents a line. Vearly advertisements may be changed quarterly (once in three months) at the option of the advertiser, free of extra chargeAdvertisements for persons not residents of Jasper county, must be paid for in advance of first pnblic rtion, when less than one-quarter column in size; aud quarterly n advance when larger.

MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Law RENSSELAER, .... INDIANA* Practices fin thb Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vlnl •IMONP. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaeb, - . Indiana Practice in all the Courts. MARION L SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor. We pay r articular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B FRANK. W. B Ah COCK, Attorney at Law And Real-Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jaspor, Newtot Mid Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared; Taxes paid. Collections a. Specletltsr. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORNEYsAT-LAW and notary public, . upstairs, in Maieever’s new building, Rensselaer.lnd. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-ATsLAW, Rensselae , Ind. Over Makeever’s BaDk. May 21. 1885. H. W. SMDER, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. JOLLECTIONS A IiPECIALTY. Iff W. HARTSELL, M D , HOMCEOPATHIC '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 MONTICELI.O, - INDIANA. Bank building. up stairs. I. H.LOUGHEIDGE. F. P, BITTEBS LOUGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer , Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special attei tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. ClfllENS 5 BANK. RENSSELAEB, IND,, R. S. Dwiguins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Vio-President. Cashier. Does a general banking business-. Certificates bearing Interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned, on farms at lowist rates and on most favorable terms. April 1885. ALFRED M COY, THOMAS THOMPSONBanking House OF A. McCOY & T. THOMPBON, successors to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. BankersRensselaer, Ind. Does general Ranking bu, •mess Buy and sell exchaoge. Collections made snail available points. Money lot interest paid on specified time deposits, r Office same place as old firm of A. McCo & lho m pnon. aprU.’Bl

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 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. E. KNOTTS.

The Happy By-gone Days.

There was a time when the children in all parts of the State could detect the odor of broiling spare-ribs in the air. There was a time when they fattened on back-bone pie, and when they could go to bed and dream of the great hunks of fatty-bread they had consumed. Those were the golden days of prosperity, and the State will never be prosperous until the farmers renew the system of making their own provisions. The State may be filled up with factories of one sort or another, but all prosperity is fictitious that is not based on the substant'a! prosperity of the farmers — A u ”tion.

oxGiinage says : •* met any one wno has an attack of lockjaw take a small quantity of turpentine, warm it and pour it on the wound, no matter where tL f wound is, and relief will follow in ’ than a minute. Nothing better car applied to a severe cut or bruise cold turpentine ; it will give certain lief almost instantly. Turpentine is a sovereign remedy for croup. Sati * a piece of flannel with it and plact flannel on the throat and chest, an every case three or four drops on a 1 of sugar may be taken inwardly.” Dr. Ebrard, of Nimes, states that has for many years treated all his cases of sciatic and neuralgic pains with an improvised apparatus, consisting merely of a flat-iron and vinegar, two things that will be found in every house. The iron is heated until sufficiently hot to vaporize the vinegar, and is then covered with some woolen fabric, which is moistened with vinegar, and the apparatus is applied at once to the painful spot. The application may be repeated two or three times a day. Dr. Ebrard states that, as a rule, the pain disappears in twenty-four hours, and recovery ensues at once. Salt in Diphtheria. —la a paper read at the Medical Society of Victoria, Australia, Dr. Day stated that, having for many years regarded diphtheria, in its early stage, as a purely local affection, characterized by a marked tendency to take on putrefactive decomposition, he has trusted most to the free and constant application of antiseptics, and, when their employment has been adopted from the first, and been combined with judicious alimentation, he has seldom seen blood-poisoning ensue. In consequence of the great power whiah salt possesses in preventing the proto*factive decomposition of meat and other organic matter, Dr. Day has often prescribed for diphtheritic patients living fax away from medical aid the frequiat use of a gargle composed of a teaspoesful or more of salt dissolved in a tumble* of water, giving children who oannot gargle a teaspoonful or two to drink occasionally. Adults to use the gargle as a prophylactic or preventive, three or four times a day.

GEN. IRWIN INSANE.

Louisville, Ky., Oct. 14.— Gen. "VV illiam Howard Irwin, who was an officer in the IVlexican war, and was on W. S. Hancock’s staff during the civil war, has become hopelessly insane, and was ordered to be incarcerated in the Anchorage asylum this morning. His mania is homicidal, and he has tried to kill his wife and son. During his lucid intervals he has begged his wife to have him confined. Gen. Irwin is 65 years old, and about ten years ago married Miss Julia Chambers, the daughter of a wealthy citizen and the reigning belle of Louisville society. He has been connected with many important local enterprises, and was highly esteemed. With startled regret we perused the above. The General was a friend and acquaintance in our very early youth. He was a gentleman of handsome and command'ing presence, a lawyer by proses sion, and one of the most eloquent speakers. He served with distinction in the war with Mexico, and was severely wounded at Molino-del-rey. In the war for the Union, by the side of our brother, Maj. W. T. McEwen, they faced the

liowlmg mob in Baltimore, and led the first company to the defense of Washington in response to the first call for 75,000 men for three months. He was Attorney-Gen-eral of Louisiana while under the military direction of Gen. Han cock. He was appointed Adjutant General of Pennsylvania by Gov. Pollock, and prepar d and secured the adoption of laws wbicb give the military system of Pennsylvania such high rank. In 1856 lie was the Republican candidate for Congress in the district now represented by Gov. Curtin, but was defeated. He is a relative of Gen. McClellan, and supported him for the Presidenc . In the eampaign of 1880 he canvassed southern Indiana in behalf of Gen. Hancock. It certainly sad when such calamities fall upon men gifted as the subject of this item was. He will be remembered by many residents of this and adjoining counties.

Principal.

Delphi Journal: One day last week a few charges of dynamite were placed where it was thought they would do the most good, in that portion of the old dam yet remaining in t 1 e Wabash river at Pittsburg, for the purpose ot blowing out the timbers that obstruct the channel, and to prevent the washing away of the west bank of the river, and also to protect the Air Line railroad bridge from damage. There was no secret or malicious intent about the matter, and the object| in blowing it out, was for the purpose of abating a nuisance Carroll county should have commenced an action for damages long ago against the parties who claim td own the franchise of thg old canal, of which the dam is a part, as thousands of dollars have been lost to the county and to property owners, by permitting the old structure to remain in the shape it has for the last six or eight years.

Ibid: The s tmewliat celebrated Loucks-Louthian case, bro’t here from Cass county, is set for trial, on the sth Monday, 9th Nov. of the court. It is expected that Judge Hammond will preside at the trial. Ibid: The publisher of the J ournal scores seventy years to-day— Sixty-ons years of.which, have been spent in a printing office. The Monticello Herald: Our old frier d and neighbor, J. W. McEwen, of the Rensselaer Sentinel, was in town Monday, looking as young and hearty as ho did fifteen years ago. Mac 1 is a candidate for the Rensselaer postoffice, and according to the eternal fitness of things he should have the appointment. He has served his party faithful y and well in a strong republican county, and to commission him postmaster would be nothing more than a just recognition of his valuable services. Ibid: The jury in the cause of the State against Wm. Fisher, charged with malicious mayhem, came in last Thursday with a verdict of not guilty. The indictment against Charles Shafer on a similar charge was thereupon nol prossed, and upon affidavit the two were rearrested on the charge of simple mayhem and will be again tried at the next term of court. Simple mayhem comes under the head of misdemeanors and is therefore not a penitentiary offense.

Indianapolis Sentinel: A Globe-Democrat reporter, in conversation with the Vice President remarked that the civil service law oeemed to be an obstruction in the way to office. “Yes, the Civil Service Commis-

Some Inaccuracies,

sion is not exactly in harmony with the Democratic theory of government, but all tilings will adjust themselves to the spirit as well as the letter of the Chicago platform in due time.” “Judge Thomnn, especially, is out of harmony, is he not?” “Very much so, indeed. I know Judge Thom an very well, and personally I like him.” “If you had your own way in the matter, would you r tain the Judge because of your personal liking for the ma . ?” “By no means. My idea is that Judge 1 homan should he nvited to step down and out of the commission, and not only he, but every other member of it. Then I wo’d appoint a new board of entirely different material from the old cue.” “But would that avail you anything, since the letter of the civil service law would remain the same as under the present commission?” “Possibly rot as much as I sho’d I ke. But, you see, the law as it stands is diametrically opposed to the Democratic theory of a govermment b r the people, and it will have to he cut cjown, altered and changed very materially, and I am in f&vor of having it done at the earliest day possible. Then again, my idea of the way to reform the Government in all its parts is to put Democrats into all the offices, from the lowest to the highest, and from the highest to the lowest. I don’t believe in a Democratic administration giving 'he benefits of its victory to Republicans, nor do I believe a Republican administration would be justified in giving office to their opponents. In short, ‘to the victor belongs the spoils.’ ” “Do you think the Senate will antagonize the administration?” “I think it will without a doubt, especially the matter of confirming appointments. That must'be expected.” “Will that cripple the administration, think you?” “Well, it won’t be of any material help to it, I can assure you.” The foregoing appeared in the Globe Democrat of Sunday morning, and was copied into the Sentinel of yesterday. In conversation with Mr. Hendricks regarding the views expressed, we find that they are inaccurate in some respects.— In reference to Judge Thoman, Mr. Hendricks says that while he has the kindest feelings and much r espect for him, he thinks that with the resignation of the other members of the Commission the Judge will have to retire, and with a new commission there wouli probably follow a modification of the law and the rules under it, making them more acc-ptable to the Democracy, and, indeed, to the whole country. The Vice President does not think that an indiscriminate removal would follow, and he is not personally in favor of such a removal ; but he believes such changes sho’d be made as justice and fair play demand consistently with an effi cient public service. These views are consistent with those expressed in his letter of acceptance. In respect to the position of the Senate towards the appointments made by the President the Vice President expressed no opinion to the GlobeDemocrat reporter.

Good Results in Every Case. D. A. Bradford, wholesale paper dealer of 0 hatt mooga, Tenn., writes that he was seriously afflicted with a severe cold that settled on bis lungs: had tried many remedies without oeneflt. Being induced to try Dr. King’s New Discovery lor Consumption, did so and was entirely cured by use of a few bottles. Since which time he has used it In his family so- all Coughs and Colds with bept results. This is the experience of thousands whose lives have been saved by this Wonderful Discovery. Trial Bottles free at P. B. Meyer’s Drug Store. 5

V bite County Democrat: Rcj corder Simons, by order of the Commissioners, has had the newspapers on file at the Recorder’s office neatly and durably bound. The first volume is that of the V lute County Jacksonian for the month of December, 1858, and the V bite County Democrat from Wednesday, March 23, 1859, to Wednesday, March 6, 1861. The latter was published by Janies W. McEwen, the veteran editor of Northern Indiana. These old files would be extremely interesting to an old resident of the county and contain much valuable information. Bro. McEwen printed bis issue of May 4, 1859, in blue ink, but fails to give a reason. Patent medicine advertisements occupy more space than in modern newspapers. The 2d annual fair of the White County Agricultural Society was held at Reynolds Sept. 22d and 23d, 1859. In the programme for celebrating the glorious fourth, 185°, Dr. Haymond figured as the orator of the day. The fact that the doctor has been in demand ever since for such occasions, is sufficient proof that liis sp ech was satisfactory. The democratic county ticket was nominated the first of April, 1860, the following being the nominees: Auditor, Joseph D. Cowdin; SherMat. Henderson; Treasurer, John E. Dale; Com miss : oner, Francis G. Kendall; Coronor, Robert Tinsdale. Mathew Henderson was the only one who “got there.”These files are incomplete, but are valuable as records, and it is proper that they be preserved in this m a«ner. The files of the Herald run from 1869 to 1884. The Constitutionalist from 1867 to 1878; the Monticello Democrat from ’77 to ’79; the White County Democrat from 1882 to 1884.

The venerable President of Princeton College is always referred to by the students as Jimmie McCosh, by gosh. Queen Christina is a thorough Austrian, and she is inteUecttml. SE’e detest# the Spanish bun fight ——— —■■ ——— A Captain’s Fortunate Discovery. Capt. Cokm n, schr. Weymouth, plying between Atlantic City and N. Y.. had been troubled with a cough so that he was unable to 3leen, and was induced to try Dr: King's New Discovery for Consumption. It not only gave him instant relief, but allayed the extreme soreness In his breast His children were similarly affected and a single dose had the same hapny effect. Dr. King’s New Discovery is now the standard remedy in the Coleman household and on board the schooner. Free Trial Bottles of this Standard Remedy at F. B. Meyer’s Drug Store. 4

Appointment of Administratrix. "\TOTICE i* hereby given? that the undersigned has been/appointed Administratrix of the Estate of Samuel Odom, late of Jasper county, Indiana, deceesed. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. iCATHARINE ODOM, Administratrix. E. P. Hammond, Attorney. October 2, 1885. iuntmn au: NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Administratrix of the Estate of Samuel Odom, deceased, will offer far sale at Public Auction, at the late residence of the decedent in Giilam township Jasper county, Indiana, on SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 24,1885, the Personal Property of said Estate* consisting of Horsee, Mules, Cows* Calves, Hogs, Wagon, Buggy; and Farming Implements, and of Household and Kitchen Furniture, and various other articles. Sale to begin at 10 o’clock, a. m. TERMS—Sums of Five Dollars and under cash; over Fi e Dollars, a credit of one year will be given, the purchaser giving note at 6 per cent, interest from date, with attorney fees, and waiving benefit of valuation, with good security. CATHARINE ODOM, 0c’!|2, 1885; Administratrix!

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