Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1886 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME X.

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL. A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, BY Jas. W. McEwen. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year Six months....' /L 75 hree months 50 Rates. Sue «oiumn. one year, SBO 00 alf column, “ 40 oi Quarter “ “ 3000 Eighth “ 10 &O Tenpcrceot. added to foregoing price if arc set to occupy more than angle column width. Jractional parts of a year at equitable rates usiness cards not exceeding 1 inch space, 15 a year; S 3 for six months; * 2 for three All legal notices and ad; ertisements at es‘anlished statute price. Reading notices, first publication 10 cents j line; each publication thereafter s cents a Yearly advertisements may be ehanged Suarterly (once in three months) at the oplon of the advertiser, free of extra charge. Advertisements for persons not residents of Jasper county, must be paid for in advance of first pntelic xtion, when less than one-quarter column in size; aud quarterly n advance when larger.

Alfred McCoy, T. J, McCoy E. L. Hollingsworth. A. 3PCOT&CO., BANKERS, (Successors to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer.lnd. ■flO a fie; e-al banking business. Exchange U bought and sold Certificates bearing interest issued Collections made on al.' available points Office same place as old firm of McCoy & Thompson April 2,1886 MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attomey-at-Laxr Rensselaeb, » Indiana Pra«tiees> 'in tht> Courts of Jasper and ad®nlng counties. Makes collections a speefiilty. Office on north side of Washington Afreet, opposite Court House- vlnl BIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID .T. THOM PBON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. MARION L. SPITLER, Collector and AbstractorWe pay ; xrticular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B FRANK W. B tn COCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor Ind Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collectiezis a. SpecialtsrJAMESW. DOUTHIT, /’TTORNEYsAT-LAW and notary public. Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new >uilding, Rensselaer. Ind. EDWINI HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselae”, Ind. QSF°Office Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885. H. W. SNfDEB, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. W. HARTSELL, M D HOMOEOPATHIC 'PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases i Specialty.UO 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. LOUGHBIDGE. 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 atteu tian to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. aWBS’IAKi RENSSELAEB, IND., R. S. Dwiggins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib,' President. Vic-President. Cashier. Does a general banking business-. Certificates bearing interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on farms at low *«t race and on most favorable terms. April 1885, .

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, APRIL 30 1886.

The Festive News Agent.

The reader has often noticed how the self-satisfied and complacent news agent stalks, through the train as though he owned the train, the. company. and the road. Like “the sun and I,” he's “very wide awake,” and if one gives him half a chance he’ll either talk the unwary passenger blind oOpompel him in the interest of selfnigservation to buy some of the cheap literature with which lie is loaded down. Brit even the great and only news agent left” occasionally, of which fact a ■Chicago Tribune reporter was an amused witness the other day. A Michigan Central train drew up at the station at Hammond, Ind., and as lank and uncouth a countryman as ever had chills and fever in the Calumet marshes got off. He was accompanied by two females of similar personal characteristics, and he had apparently just returned from his first visit to Chicago and his first ride on a train. In his band was a paper book probably worth at train prices about a quarter of a dollar. In less than thirty seconds after he had reached the station platform the news agent pounced upon him like a hawk on a June bug. “Here, young feller,” he exclaimed savagely, “where’re you goin’ with that book ? You didn’t think J was makin’ you a present of it, did you?” Surprise, doubt, and defiance showed in rapid succession on the countryman’s face. The spectators began to snicker. Suddenly it occurred to him that the newsboy was imposing upon him and he put the book behind him. “B’gosh, ye just chucked it down inter the seat ’thout nobody’s askin’ ye,” he answered surlily, looking around for confirmation of his statement to his two companions who, stood open-mouthed, too astonished to speak. •‘O, Lawd!” wailed the news agent “If the dummed don’t think Igive it to him for nothin’! Give us a quarter, young feller, an’ I’ll call it square. “Yew be gol durned,” responded the countryman, moving off. “I’ll have you jerked if you don’t hand over that quarter,” yelled the news agent furiously. “Don’t git mad naow, sonny; you’ll spile if you don’t keep cool,” was the response. “Gimme the book,” bawted the news agent “or I’ll knoock a lung out of ye.” “Naw yew don’t,” responded the countryman, dropping his satchel and squaring off with the awkwardness of an unbroken steer and about the same amount pf strength. The ntews agent’s ardor was visibly dampened by the demonstration and he was once more beginning to resort to argument when the conductor shouted “All aboard!” and the train moved off. The news agent gained the platform and scowled back a deadly, unspoken threat of arrest and divers other ills and calamities. The spectators, evidently in sympathy with the countryman, laughed uproariously and the backwoods hero moved off complacently with his females, remarking that he’d “Got a heap interested in that ’erebook and it ’ud make gol danged good Sunday readin’—all ’bout detectives and burglars and ‘lnvisible Ike, the Grave Robber.’ ”

A Mender of Clothes.

“When well-to-do men fail to die without leaving - property, their families .are often compelled,” said a lady conspicuous in charitable work, “to do something to help themselves. This is very hard for women who have been trained up in idleness. Some teach music and others teach school, but those ways of earning a living are already overcrowded. As for domestic service, it is simply impossible to make living wages at it. I have known of women who made money by preparing cakes and preserves. Many paint plaques, Christmas cards, and make other fancy articles, but they are hurt by the competition of women who do the same thing without the necessity of earning money, and who are willing therefore to sell for almost any price. I know of one practical young woman who supports herself in a singular way. She does the mending for a number of families. She is proficient in darning and in other ways of repairing clothing, and she makes visits at regular intervals and repairs all the clothing that needs repairing.”— New York Sun. Mr. H. H. Fudge is evidently angry, as appears from the following card, which he prints in the Albany (Ga.) News: “Whoever poisoned my dog is a low-down puppy, and mean enough to do anything. lam satisfied that it is a white man and of good standing in this town, and he ought to be found out. I am afraid of him only in one way, and that is he will burn me up while asleep. I hope whoever it may be when he reads this he will stop, as he is called a puppy, and is not man enough to resent it. I am satisfied it is a white man, as no negro could get so much poison from the druggist without some notice being taken of it. lam responsible for every word in this card, and can whip the man that poisoned my dog. No man will resent an insult that will steal, lie, burn houses, and slip around at night and poison a man’s dog.”

A Great Conspiracy Against the People.—A coterie of eight men, sitting in the parlors of a New York banker named J. Pierpont Morgan, decided recently to limit the anthracite coal production of Pennsylvania during the present year to 3.3,500,000 tolls. It is hardly necessary to point out the illegal character of the combination that issues such a decree. The parties to it are guilty of criminal conspiracy for attempting to restrain trade. They array themselves against public policy, and they endanger the charters of the companies for which they act. Since the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the Duncan and Patent cases, it has been evident that the Reading and other railroad companies which were engaged in the business of mining were violating the highest law in the State without a shadow of an excuse for their action. They could have no serious defense in any proceeding which might be brought against them to annul their charters. Under these circumstances their managers should have busied themselves to protect these great properties from the entanglements of litigations: but, instead of taking a wise course, they have gone in the contrary direction by combining to restrain trade and advance the price of an article which enters into general consumption. This was done by what they call “an understanding between gentlemen.” They decided, after an hour’s consultation, to levy a tax of $8,000,000 a year upon the coal consumers of the New England and Middle States, doing this by the issuance of an order for an advance of 25 cents per ton on the price of coal. —Philadelphia Record.

•Cure for Rheumatism.—A gentleman of this borough, *ho has been suffering for some time with rheumatism,received from a f.iend the following cure for that painful disease. It i, embodied in a letter from a German c to an English paper, and is as follows: I have had a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism, and was healed in two days by a soup made of the staiks and roots of celery; therefore I desire to make this simple remedy known through the columns of your valuable paper, for the benefit of sufferers from font or rheumatism of any form. was induced to try it by seeing the following notice: ‘ Numerous cures of rheumatism by the use of celery have been announced by English papers. New discoveries—or what claim to be discoveries —of the healing virtue of plants, are continually being made. One of the latest is that celery is a cure for rheumatism; indeed it is asserted that the disease is impossible if the vegetable be cooked and freely eaten. The fact that it is always put on the table raw prevents its therapeutic power from being known.” —West Chester Republican.

Ex-Governor Curtin, according to the Washington correspondent of the Lancaster Intelligencer, is busy putting in shap* his correspondence and other data of the war period preparator /toturning it over to a friend for historical purposes, and they say it will make a sensation when given to the public. The governor has had numerous offers for an autobiography and publishers have besieged him with proposals. He won’t listen to any of them. He has made his selection of an editor. —Philadelphia Times. At the foot of Alain street, in Danbury, Conn., stands a house built by Elnathan Osborn in 1696. It is a low, hip-roofed house, studded with enormous beams, and lighted by very small diamond window panes. When the British under Tryon fired the village this was the only house spared. There is an increasing and bitter agitation in Nova Scotia for severance from Canada

DUNNVILLE SQUIBS.

Farmers all busy putting in crops. Oscar Graves has returned from Chicago, and reports work scarce. I. D. Dunn has returned from Maine, reports a pleasant trip, and from this time until the convention will look after political f nces. Danville has the honor of two post-offices, with J. M. Johnson and J. Bentley as postmasters. One or the other should resign. Wonder if Isaac hasn’t a white elephant on his hands. '.The two remaining schools of Kankakee will close in two weeks. B. F. Jones planted a field of corn last week. Frank is determined to be ahead. Our trustee has the northern part of the township well ditched Ijy letting out a few jobs just before the late election. Say! can’t you distribute the ditching a little more evenly? We would like to know if I. D. Dunn is the best timber the g. o. p. has to represent Jit’s interests in th s district. If so, may the Lord protect! John Anderson, who has been sick for some time at his father’s, a few miles south of here, has been removed to Chicago to be treated. His friends hope for the best results. Jesse Woods is the happy father of a 10-pound boy. .arrived last Saturday. What We Wish to See. I. D. Dunn left in the nomination; J. N. White employ home talent in our schools; J. Bently patronize our worthy p. m.; Farmers improving their stock; Thos. M. Jones Superintendent of a Sunday School; The Democracy elect their Trustee in Kankakee.

Wheatfield Hurrygraphs.

Weather cool. Rain storm and rainbow lad evening. The farmers as a general thing have their corn all in the ground and are awaiting results. The Rev. B. F. Ferguson made Wheatfield and vicinity a flying visit last week. He visited the Republicans only of course. The pioneer merchant of Wheatfield, John M. Welsh, is this week engaged in opening up a new and full line of goods, in all departments, having recently received two car loads. James H. Hallett, the merchant who located in Wheatfield not long since, is carrying a full line of groceries in stock, and says Ue will sell them at bottom figures.| Oats are looking fine and doing fine this fine weather. The apple and cherry orchards are a profusion of white and pink and the prospect for a rich harvest is at present flattering in the extreme, providing frost does not commit great havoc. Fishing with spear is the enchanting sport this spring for the boys, the middle-aged men, and in fact, the old men join a hand in the sport occasionally. All have been successful so far, if one fish to half a day’s spearing can be styled a success. However, some few have been successful, Ed. Ingram having speared a sixteen pound “Buffalo,” and several others ranging from ten to fourteen pounds. The Wheatfield Singing Association hold sessions every Saturday night at the Wheatfield school house. These meetings are resulting in much good if current reports are to be credited. Personal. Mrs. J. M. Welsh has just returned from a visit to her and friends in San Pie; re. Miss Mollie Melser is on the sick list this week. Miss |Minnie Lidke has been visiting friends in Judson the past week. John *3. Tilton made a flying visit to North Judson last Friday on business. J. J. Keller, of North Judson,

visited our place last Monday. D Ingram made a trip to Judson last week.

April 27, 1886.

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 important attachments and “notions” of its own, which go fur to make good its claims to popular favor. The “New Home” specially recommends itself to purchasers on account of its superior mechanical construction, ease of management and reasonable price. Over half a million have been sold in the last three years, all of which are giv--1 g. universal satisfaction. This unrivalled machine is manufactured by the New Home Sewing Machine Co., Orange, Mass., and JO union Square, New York

Rev Mr. Lindsey was able to boast that he was born four months after his mother had been buried. His mother, who resided in Stewartville, S. C., fell ill, and to 11 appearances died, and was buried in Stewartville cemetery. The night following her interment, ghouls, for the purpose of securing some jewelry that was buried with the body, unearthed the remains, when consciousness returned and she was enabled to return to her home. Arriving at her late r sidence she rapped at the door and was answered by her husband, who demanded to know who was there.— To his great astonishment the answer came: “ft is your wife.” He was not quick in opening the door, but finally did so. and was overjoyed to meet again in life his beloved wife whom he hadmournel as dead. Four months afterward Rev. Mr. Lindsey was born, and his mother survived several years. 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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