Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1886 — Page 1

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Alfred McCoy, T. J, McCoy E. L. Hollingsworth. A. MSCOY & CO., BANKERS, (Successors to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer. Ind. ~B|O a fie, eral banking business. Exchange upstairs, in >uilding, Rene selaer. Ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT*L AW, Rensselae”, Ind. Over Makeever’s Bank;May 21. 1885. H. W. SN CTEB, Attorney a.“fc Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A .SPECIALTY. yy W. HARTSELL, M D HOMOEOPATHIC 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 MONTICELLO, - INDIANA. Bank building, up stairs. J.H. LOUGHRIDGK. F. P, BITTERS LOUGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel Ten per cent. mtereaAwill be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vim «r — ■ - DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special atteo tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CITIZENS’ BANK, BENSSBLABE, IND., ’ R. 8. Dwigoins, F. J, Sears, Val. Seib. President. Vic-President. Cashier. Does a general banking businessC;rtiflcates bearing interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on farms ai low jet ra:ce and on most iavbrahle terms. A pril 1885.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, APRIL 16 1886.

A National Cattle Trail.

I have said that the annual drive from Texas will probably be from 750.000 to 1,000,000 cattle. A large proportion of these will be stock cattie—cows, heifers, and young steers. Where are these cattle to be held until fit for market? At the Cattle Growers’ Convention, held in St. Louis, November, 1884, the Texas cattle-growers were unanimous in advocating the creation of a national cattle trail, si?t miles wide, and extending from Texas to our northern boundary. The Northern graziers opposed the proposed trail on the ground that the Texas cattle were infected with a disease known in the business as the Spanish fever. They asserted—and truthfully, —that the driving of through Texan cattle along the trail would infect their herds. The Spanish fever does not injure Texas cattle; but all native cattle —that is, all Northern stock, no matter what their blood—catch the disease by grazing on the ground over which through Texas cattle have passed, and they generally die. Here were two parties disputing about a fact that both knew to be a fact, both cunningly endeavoring to conceal their real hopes and fears. There are Territorial and State laws in force in the West that forbid the driving of through Texas cattle on to tnany ranges. A national law enacted for the purpose of providing a cattle trail would override these local laws, which many lawyers pronounce unconstitutional, and open the Northern grazing ground to the Texas cattle. The Southern stock-growers want the trail created so that they can drive young steers that are strong enough to endure the severe winters of the Northwest through to the bunch and buffalo pastures of Wyoming and Montana in one season, and so avert overstocking their home range, which is secure from invasion of Northern herds, as no naThey desire to secure absolute possession of the range; and if they succeed, they will as surely stop agricultural settlers from entering the arid belt to acquire low-lying farms along the streams as if they owned the land in fee-simple. —Frank Wilkeson, in Harper's Magazine for April. It is claimed that E. W. Dexter, of the town of Liberty, near New London, is the soldier mentioned in Grant’s memoirs who surrounded and captured a half-dozen Mexicans on a roof at Chapultepec, at the storming and capture of that place during the Mexican war. Grant did not know the name of the soldier, but Mr. Dexter, while applying for a pension in 1880, told Mr. Patchen the incident. The wound on which he based his application was received on the roof, after the capture, while waving the flag he had taken.

Stradivarius Violins.

“We have persons coming in here every day with so-called Stradivarus violins.” said a maker of violins in the Bowery. “They are common German violins with a copy of the Stradivarius label printed or pasted on the inside. Pretty much every violin, no matter by whom it is made, has some such label, so that labels nowadays do not count for anything. . Inexperienced persons may be fooled by them, but anyone who knows anything about violins pays no attention to them. “I suppose makers put the label on because some people like to pretend they have a valuable violin. A Stradivarius violin is worth anywhere from $3,000 to $15,000, and they are not very plenty. They can be told by their shape and by the kind of varnish on them. “It is unsafe to pay a big price for a violin until it is passed upon by experts. I have known a label to be taken off a genuine Stradivarius and inserted in an imitation one, for the reason that one could be sold on its merits, while the other needed the label”— N. Y. Sun.

Insuring Women’s Lives.

Of the many life insurance companies of this city, says the New York Mail and Express, only one is managed by women in the interests of women. The attorney for the company, when asked by a reporter for some particulars regarding its work, said: “All the officers are ladies of wealth, and they expect no salary. What they claim is that, if a woman desires to insure, she should have the same unrestricted freedom as a man has in such matters. The company was started in 1883, and is now on a paying basis. It has a hundred agents, and its large agency in Philadelphia is managed by a woman. Some of the statistics that wc gather will surprise the public, I think For instance, I have just received the report of the English registrar general for last year. It shows that out of every 1,000 living persons 487 are males and 513 females; that of births, to every 100 females born there are 103 5-100 males; and that at every age of life the death-rate is lower among females than among males. From his figures he shows mat the mean expectation of life of males is 41.32, and of females 44.62. He also finds a diminished death-rate in both sexes, and the improvement in living is shown to be greater in females than in males. This proves a statement made in 1861 by one of the English government actuaries, that on genera! principles, if there should be a general improvement in living, it would first be manifested in females. In this country we find from statistics that the same things prevail This making a special subject of woman insurance has had the effect of inducing women to insure who never before thought of the subject.” “Have there been any attempts made by them to defraud?” “Yes, there have, but where we find • • • 1 1,10 HVUiail ACAI, 11V7 ILIJ ULJ 9 but receiving quite a shock to her nervous system. Within two weeks after, as we found out, she took a two-hundred-mile trip, returning after ten days, and going at her regular business again. After a month or two she presented a claim, together with a doctor’s certificate, and asked for $250 on account, as a partial payment of the liability. For the sake of being liberal we gave her this, thinking that would end the matter of course. But at the end of six months what does this enterprising woman do but present us a bill for indemnity for the entire of that time! We had personal knowledge that she had not been disabled during that time, and it was perfectly evident to everybody that she had not. We refused to give her any more, and she knew so well that she had no claim in law that she gave it up. A curious fact observed about woman insurance is that the moment the applicant learns that there is any doubt about her being accepted she is ten times more eager than ever to be Insured.

Charles Mathews’ Wit.

A correspondent of the Whitehall Review writes: “Let me tell you a semitheatrical story, which I do not think has ever been in print When 1 was a boy I used to go to the office of an eminent firm of solicitors, the head partner in which used to give me tickets for the theater. One day he asked me if I would like to see Charles Mathews. I replied in the affirmative. ‘Well,' he said, ‘l’m just sending a writ up to him, and I’ll ask for a ticket for you at the same time.’ I returned in the afternoon, and my friend banded me a pass for the theater, and at the same time gave me Charles Mathews’ letter which accomSanied it. The letter ran: ‘Dear Blank—ferewith the ticket for which you have writ’ ” Lartigo, the chief bull-fighter of Madrid, gets a salary of $6,000 for the summer season, and makes still more by his tours in the provinces during the winter.

NEWTON ITEMS.

Roads muddy. The recent rains, and subsequent warm weather, have caused the grass to grow, and should the weather continue favorable there will soon be enough for the cattle to subsist on. We are glad to be able to state that the children of John Sayler, who have been sick for some time past, and the eldest, Mabel, dangerously so, are on a fair way to recovery. Misses Anna and Mattie Henkl depart for Greensburg, Kansas, Tuesday. The best wishes of the community follow them. A. Freeland, father of Jackson Freeland, trustee elect, arrived at the eighty-sixth mile-stone of life’s journey on the 11th of this month. He is becoming rather infirm, but nevertheless he was able to go to the polls on the sth, and deposit a ballot for Democracy. We earnestly hope he may live many years yet and prosper. Quarterly meeting was held last Saturday and Sunday at the Curtis creek school house. Rev. B. F. Ferguson conducted the services. Miss R •sella Coen, who has 1 een sick for some time pa 4, is now improving. R. J. Yeoman, a former resident of this township, now engaged in the hardware business at Mt. Vyr, has been elevated to the honorary position of Justice of the Peace dust and debris of ages, and we carve out of the Nile between two deserts to see the Khedive and hear the drums of the English soldiery. The Khedive was ever so courteous, and at mv special instance and request reopened the sarcophagus of Thothmes HI, the dear, sweet old l haroah of the Script. I was afraid to shake hands with him, he had been so ‘hardened’ and yet so dusty. My health has not been restored by my trip as I hoped. Yesterda/ I had a sort of hemorrhage that betokens ill. The King of Greece is a clever, well-meaning man. When I was up yesterday among the theatrical sects of Dionysius Theatre, on the Acropolis, he sent word for me to call. I ‘called’ and had a good time. Then I called on Dr. Schliemann and was invited to breakfast at his home.” In view of the fact that the health of Mr. Cox has not been benefited by his residence at Constantinople the opinion is expressed here that he wquld accept a return to Congress. The resignation of Mr. Pulitzer affords an opportunity to eiect Mr. Cox in his place,and his re-entry in the House would give unmeasured satisfaction to his late colleagues of all political parties, General Bragg, who used to love Grover Cleveland for the enemies he had made, was noted in the army for faithful attendance at religious services. One Sunday, when the regiment in which he was then Major was encamped near that town he went with a fellow officer to church at Fredericksburg. It was the most fashionable church

in town, and the people did not have any great amount of love for Union officers. The sexton glanced at the blue uniforms and then started to lead the visitors up stairs. “What are you going there for?’’ inquired Bragg. “That gallery is for niggers, isn’t it?”— “Yes.” “See here; do you know where the parson’s pew is?” quietly asked Bragg. “I do, sir,” replied the sexton, beginning to look scared. “Then show us to it;” and the order was promptly obeyed “The hymnals showed we sat in the pastor’s pew that Sunday,” says his companion, who tells the story.— “The church was well filled, but that pew contained only the two Union soldiers.”

Interesting to Ladies.

Our lady readers can hardly fail to have their attention called this week to the latest combination of improvements in the most useful of all domestic implements, the “sewing machine.” As we understand it, a machine for family use should meet first of all these requirements: It should be simple in its mechanism; it should run easily; it should do a wide range of work ; it should be as nearly noiseless as possible; it should be light, handsome, durable, and as cheap as is consistent with excellence throughout. These conditions the “LightRunning New Home” certainly meets. It has also several very over a ten-acre cowpasturfvDon’t talk to me about advertising.”— New York Sun. Ex-Sheriff John W. Powell has leased the Halloran Livery and Feed Stables, and respectfully solicits a liberal share of .the public patronage.

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Good Results in Every Case. D. A. Bradford, wholesale pape dealer of Ohatt mooga, Tenn., write that he was seriously afflicted with a severe cold that settled on bis lungs had tried many remedies without oens eflt. 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 for alii Coughs and Cclds with bept results. This is the experience of thousand, whose lives have been saved by this Wondenul Discovery. Trial Bottles free at F. B. Meyer’s Drug Store. 5-

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