Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1886 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

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MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Eatr .... INDIANA Hn tfc* Courts of Jaspsr aud adtffcMe oou-ntiss. Makes colleetioss a spef&gJbr ■ Offloa on north aids of Washington slisst, •nposita Court H ouss- tinl ■HMKP. THOMFXOK, DATID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON ft BROTHER, Rekssblabe, - . Indiana Prastiaa in ail ths Courts. ICARION L. BPITLER, Collector and AbstracterTfapay j xrticular attention to paying: tax- * selling and leasing lands. r 2 nAB >. FRANK. W. Bit COCK, 4|t||?nGy at Law Aiul Real Estate Broker. fcaetica* in all Courts of Jaspor, Newtor »nd Bsuton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. CollectioKLS sl jSpecieilt3r. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, AND NOTARY PUBLIC, .Ofilce upstairs, in Mareever’s new yoiiding, liens selaer. ind.

EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-ATvLAW, Rensselae •, Ind. ISyOffic* Over Mnkeever’a Bank. May 21. 1885. H. W. SN fDER, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. JOLLECTIONS A IiPECIALTY. Yj W. HARTSELL, M D HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN ft SURGEON. EBNSSILAER, - - INDIANA. VChronic Diseases a Specialty..^ OITICI, ia Makeever’s Hew Bloik. Residues at Makeerer House. July 11, ISS4. Dd. dai.b, ■ ATTOKNEY-AT LA\T HONTICSLLO, - INDIANA. Back building, up stair*. i i ii i jh J.H. LOUGHRIDGE. F. P, BITTERS LOUOHRIDGE & BITTERS, Pkysieians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Tea per cent, interest will be added to all Meonnts running unsettled longer than three months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician ft Surgeon, Rimsselaer Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will girt special attec Mon to the treatment of Chronic Di*«*»«». CITIZENS* BANK, RENSSELAER, IND., R.«. Dwieenrs, F. J. Siam, Val. Sire, Preeideat. Vle-Presideat. Cashier. TAOEB A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS\J C;rtiflcates bearing interest issued; Exefcaagebonrht and sold; Moneyloaned on farms at lowest rates and on most favorable terms April IMS. ALFRBP M COT, THOMAS THOMPSON. Banking Mouse fIFA.MoOOT AT. THOMPSON, sueeessers ft* A, MeOey ft A. Thompsea. bankers •easselaer. lad. Does geaeral Haakiag ha, Bay and sell ezehaoge. ColleetUas 251? *? ** •▼•iUWe poiafcii Money .. t®A*»eet paid ea specified time deposits. !>•« »*■• »la«« ae eld dm es ▲. MeOo ft —... aprH.’U

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY MARCH 12 1886.

The District Teacher.

The district school marm is a numerous, useful, pretty, quiet, unassuming, unpretentious, lamblike creature, whose mission in life is to do good and to get good. Sh v is a constitutional enemy of ignorance and vice. In the great civilizing influences of the world she is the principal factor. No community can prosper or be happy without her presence at least half the year. She is the foundation stone of church and state; the great bulwark of modern civilization.

The district sell >ol marm, unlike your town teacher, does not spend all the year in school and in vacation pleasure trips, but when winter w r anes, when days lengthen, when the busy time of the year comes on, she changes her vocation; she quits the school and goes forth to engage in other less remunerative, and by a vain world’s esti *. ation, less honorable pursuits. W hatsoever honest hands find to do she does. Through all the long spring and summer she labors on and on quietly earning lier bread by the sweat of her brow.

Through this protracted period of retirement and of manual labor, she is almost forgotten by the world, her humble pursuits have reduced her to the ranks of the common herd. Now mark you the change that must soon come. She can not longer enjo this quiet and retirement. Duty will soon call her from the field, the shop, the garden, the needl?, the kitchen. When the autumnal tinge has touched the flower* leaf and v : ne; when the katydids have sung their last vespers; when mosquito and gallinipper have had their last moonlight pic-nic; when the singing birds have left the fields and groves:.when the “frost is on the puna "Kin and the fodder is m the shock,” then the district school marm, in all her freshness, innocence, and beauty, comes forth from her retirement.

A though she has been almost entirely forgotten for a full half year, yot hsr coming is hailed with delight. She comes now to bless aiui cheer the clishearted and downcast rustics who in saduess are beginning to look out upon a faded world— upon a world lately vocal with m lody and adorned with life and beauty. Summer, sweet summer, is gone, the dead and dreary season of the year is come —all is melancholy, melancholy. It is indeed a wise provision of Providence that the school marm is permitted to come just at this sorrowful season; fur she comes to take the place of departed beau-ties—-she comes to fill the place of vanished verdure.

From the time it is known that the district school marm is in the vicinity in which she is to teach, the whole aspect of nature is seemingly changed. Every face is wreathed in smiles, her name is upon every tongue, she is the object sought by every eye; no regrets now over silenced melodies and departed beauties. The subjects of conversation are now changed. No longer do you hear discussions over the condition of growing crops; no longer» o housewives, when they meet, make inquiries concerning each other’s garden truck and poultry products; the idle tale, the state of the market, the latest fashion, neighbors’ misdoings; these things no longer furnish topics of conversation; there is now but one thought, tigre is now but one theme—the district school marm and her school. The interest in the scho *1 marm and her school never wanes; for night after night the dear little children carry to their homes volumes of school re oorts —reports of the teacher’s sayings and doings; reports of things seen and of things unseen; of things done and of things that are not done. Upon these reports volumes of parenial commentations approving and disapproving are offered. The district school marm and her school are complimented and criticised in evary house. Her

con duct,; public and. private, is discussed at every fire side. Every one feels himself her special guardian and adviser, hence all feel it their duty to direct and control her.

The district school marm, being himan, is liable, in the faithful discharge of her duties, to make enemies; is liable to array neighbor against neighbor. But her enemies are happy enemies. She gives them delightful work. They enjoy annoying her. She is the only being that I know, that is a source of infinite delight to her opposers. She is the only being that I know, that can kick up a row in which all can pleasantly engage. The district schoel marm is a blessing to her friends, and double blessi gto her enemies. Search the profession high and low —get the very be t of all the good, and when you think you have perfection in human form, wmpare your selection with the district school marm, and you will find that she alone is perfect. Wh°t more can Isay for What more need I say? Is not the dish ict school marm truly lovely, and do not all her oaths eventually lead to paths of peace? Now, my fell;''” teacher--, in conclusion let me say, Oh! all hail my dear district school marm, thy praise shall be lisped by posterity’s tongue; the gentle winds and the softening dews may, in time, undermine and wear down the kn.ty Himalays; old Time in his flig’t may move on, and on, and on, till the sunbeams drink the ocean dry, till the heavens grow old and pass away, but thy nam* and thy deeds shall still survivq|Cr 't when He cometh to make ujfflis jewels, methinks thou wilt be a shining star in His crown; a reflecting diamond, pure and permanent from everlasting to everlasting.

UNION ITEMS.

Most of the schools have closed for the season. Brushwood closed on Friday last with a number of visitors present, and a general good time. During the forenoon the r g lar programme was carried out, and in the afternoon there was speaking, Ac., after which the “teacher,” Chas Yeoman, departed for his home in Newton township. The Arithmetic drills continue at the “Rose Bud,” and are doing much good. The political excitement is at its height. The Republicans have Stephen Tv Comer before the people for Trustee. Ha is a good man and competent for the place. (The Democrats have plenty of good timber to select from.) Ben McColly and Moses Cox are out for Assessor, but whichever gets the nomination will be badly defeated by Billy Myers. The church building still g :es on—on paper—and it is to be hoped that the community will soon be blessed with a hou e for the exclusive purpose of worshiping

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NEWTON ITEMS.

The weather is fine and the voice of the “wild goose” is heard in the land. Chas. Y. Henkle, a teacher of Kankakee, snent Saturday, Sun day and Monday visiting relatives and fr ends in this township. Newton boasts of five graduates of the common schools this year. They are Emma Goetz, Mary Wuarthner, Winnie Sayler, Everett Halstead and Newton Warren. The yearly entertainment given by the township, will be held Saturday night, March 13th, at the Sayler school house. Everybody is invited to come and witness Newton township talent. Political excitement is not very intense in this part of Adam’s inheritance, but men are talked of for the different offices. Joseph Paxton is talked of for Trustee by the Democrats. He is a fine young man, and well qualified for the place. W. D. Bringle, an enterprising young teacher of this township,

departed for Kansas Tuesday last. We bid him God speed. Two of the Paxton boys—Will and Ralph—intend to start for Texas before long. Success to them. Mother’s Boy.

STRANGER THAN FICTION.

Death, Shipwreck, Drink, Poverty and Murder in a Minister’s Family. Philadelphia Press: In Woodland eemetery, under a small marble monument that is only a miniature of the tall white columns that surround it, lies the body of Rev. William Lougkridge, a brilliant young divine of long ago.— In the dead room of the Episcopal hospital, with bruised and broken limbs, lies the body of the aged, gray-haired M s. Annie Lough-, ridge. She was the ‘‘young parson’s pretty wife” grown old. In one of the Twenty-second district station s narrow cells lies a young man crazed whh dissipatio . He is William G. Loughridge, the parson s only son, and is charged with murdering his mother. In different cemeteries lie the bodies of the parson’s three pretty daughters. Two of them became wives before they died. This is parson Loughridge’s family. Nearly forty-five years ago the young Presbyterian minister married in Ireland, near Belfast, and brought his pretty wife across thß ocean to Philadelphia. Rev. Geok Potts, an excellent man, as all Philadelphia’s old Presbyterian’ft will testify, invited the youn§p Irishman to preach in his church, at Fifth and Gaskill streets, and his debut won him laurels that made him Mr. Pott’s succesao*. Then when the congregation had greatly increased under his pastorate they built the Fourth Presbyterian church, the chunky old edifice that stands on the southwest corner of Twelfth and Lombard streets. During the popular pastor’s five years’ work there three children were born to young Mrs. Loughridge, whom all the congregation had learned to know was the daughter of a wealthy Irish gentleman. The little Loughridges were then Lavinia, Martina, Gussie and Willie.

One day thirty-five years ago there was great grief at the parsonage at Tenth and Brainbridge streets for Rev. William Loughridge died, leaving the Fourth church without a pastor. *The body was interred in the church burying-ground at Twelfth and Lombard, and that little white monument marked the spot until the bones of the Fourth church’s patriarchs were taken to Woodland. Mr. Loughridge had been dead several weeks when Mrs. Loughridge decided to return to Ireland with her children. There were no steamers in those days and passage was taken on the packet Thomas P. Cope. Many of the Fourth church’s people stood on the dock and waved her farewells, and some of them wept, for they loved the dead parson’s pretty wife. The good ship was doomed, however, and hardly was she outside the capes when a fire occurred on board and seamen battled with the flames for seven long days before the crew of a roving bark rescued all on board, and the Loughridge family was brought back to Boston.— Then Mrs. Loughridge gave up her trip to Europe, and the hospitable groc r, William Johnson, invited the family to make his place at the southwest cornerof| Eleventh and Lombard streets their temporary home. Everybody in that vicinity knows William Johnson. For fo'ty-nine years his sign, “Groceries and Provisions,” has flapped to summer and winter winds, and he keeps his flour-bags piled up against the Lombard street entrance, and whiffs his strong pipe and thunders “the other side” to the people who don’t know the way in. He is a vigorous old human landmark. He said last night:

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After the burning <i' me ship Mrs. Loughridge and her children stayed with mi five months.” ~ yy- * at I wouldn’t tell him ' [f’ protested old Mrs. Johnson. But she did,” he replied. “My she was a haughty woman.” “Now, father!” i. was, said the determined Mr. Johnson, Then after they left here they went to live on Christian street near Twenty-second. I tell you there has never been a preacher like her husband; General Patterson used to go to hear him. “Mrs. Loughridge got into the niint, and she h d several hundred dollars a year from her father in the old country. The girls grew up. I hey were pretty misses.— Lavinia married a merchant here named Crawford. He and she are both dead. Martina married a Mr. . lyson. Hht’s dead, and he lives out west; and Gussie, she didn’t Quarry; she died.” Luf Hint t oy,” said the old man, ana he drew hard on Ins pipe, “was always had. He used to get his mother s money, make her give it to him, and drank it up. She was proud, and covered up his badness. •, B ft uir 1H turning'white, now,” said Mrs Johfison, kindly. Vv hue through rascality,” growled the old man. ‘Now, father.” “But it is,” he said. Mrs. Loughridge left the mint five years ago after her son’s debauches had the effect of putting him in an insane asylum. After gus release she was turned out of jjjeveral boarding-houses because have him with her and the landladies would not put up with him. Then she took the house at 2602 Sartaiu street, arcf<a mhimiing Fivne man robbed her. J Ins, coupled with her son’s bail habits, made her desperate, and Hhe began drinking with him.— i heir sprees together ended in the debauch on Luesday night a week, during which she rocetved fatal njurios, supposed to have been inflicted by her son.

Ex-Sheriff John \Y. Powell has leased the Halloran Livery and Teed Stables, and respectfully solicits a liberal share of the public patronage. '«♦- *»-- .... - n Kansas City Times: Wo are disposed to think that the kind of Democracy which upset Republican calculations- in 1884 and laid Brother Blaine on the shelf is pro? gressive nough to tie to for a few years more*.

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