Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1886 — Page 1

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Altrbd McCot, T. J, McCot E. L. Hollingsworth. A. MSCOY & C»., BANKEHS, (Successors to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer. Ind. BO a fie; eral banking business. Exchange bonght and sold Certificates bearing interest iesuefi Collections made on al! available points Office same place as old firm of McCor * Thompson April 2,1886 MORBECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorn ©y-at-Law Rensselaer. .... Indiana Practices fin the Courts of Jasper and ad«inlng counties. Makes collections a spssifalty. Office on north.side of Washington afreet, opposite Court House- vlnl SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Bknssblabb, • . Indiana Practice in all the Courts. MARION I* SPITLER, Collector and Abstractci • We pay r trtocular attention to paying tax- , selling and ieasiag lands. v 2 n4B FRANK W. R aICOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor and Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared; Taxes paid. Collections a. [email protected]. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, f WORNEY'-'AT—LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. AT* Office upstairs, in .Ma leaver's new /aiming, Rensselaer. Ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. i#"Office Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885. W WATSON, A.TTOAtTTHJ'ST- A W Office up Stairs, in Leopold's Bazar, RENSSELAER, I ND . H. W. SN PDER, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. yy W. HARTSELL, M- DHOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. «“Chronic Diseases 1 Specialty.^! OFFICE, in Makeerer’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. j.H. LOUGHBIDGE. F. P, BITTEKS LOUGHRIDGE & 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. vlnl 5 DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer , Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special atteu tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CITIZENS’ BANK, RENSSELAEB, IND., R.- S. Dwiggins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Vic-President. Cashier. BOEB A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS: C;rttficatee bearing Interest issued: Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on farms at low »st ra:es and on most favorable terms. April 1886.

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY MAY 7, 1886.

DUNNVILLE SQUIBS.

Cold and wet. The first of May brought with it quite a frost, which done but little if any hurt. The song of the mosquito is now heaid in the land. It sings the same song, and, like the landlord, is always ready to present its bill. Quite a number collected along the banks of the Kankakee to picnic and try to c pture some of the ■finny tribe, last Saturday, but went home empty handed. ' here are prospects for a gristmill at Dunnville in the near future. Just vhat the farmers want. Ed. Brigg* is agent for the Champion machines. Prices have been re uced to suit the times. P. Linstedt, the copper smith, is at home with his family on a vacation. This township has been infested for the last ten days with a traveling dry goods store, selling goods to farmers in large qnantities, and where cash could not be had, took bankable notes due in 8 months. If our farmers should turn up swindled, they will profit by the “Moral —Patronize home merchants.”

Friends of E. Spencer, from DeMotte, spent Sunday here. Our new blacksmith has all the work he can do, i < well pleased with the place, and intends to build a nice dwelling soon. I. I>. Dunn was at Rensselaer last Saturday and Sunday. Isaac, can’t you get Thompson to draw off and give you a clear field? O, if he only would! Mrs. J. M. Johnson leaves this week to visit relatives at Reynolds. Mrs. John Dunn returned home Saturday, and John is happy.

May 5, 1886.

The election on Monday was conducted by sll parties with “push” and “spirit.” The Democracy held their ground manfully, and while there was some scratching of candidates by both parties, we have yet to learn of a single instance where it was done in the interest of a trade. The statement of the Republican in that particular is false. Below is the vote for each candidate: FOR TRUSTEE FIRST DISTRICT. R. P. Benjamin, rep 160 Allet Catt, dem 101 TRUSTEE, SECOND DISTRICT. C. F. Wren, rep 174 J. T. Randle, dem 97 TRUSTEE, FOURTH DISTRICT. Wm. Greenfield, rep 177 C. B. Steward, dem 94 FOR TOWN CLERK. C. C. Warner, rep 146 A. F. Long, dem 126 FOR TOWN TREASURER. C. C. Starr, rep 176 Moses Tutuer, dem 90 FOR TOWN MARSHAL. William Warren, rep 167 Peter Minikus, dem 104

C. C. Warner and Abe F. Long, candidates for town clerk at the election last Monday, are both popular young gentlemen. The contest was conducted in a kindly spirit throughout, and our young Democratic friend, Abe F. Long, took a considerable slice out of Charlie’s anticipated majority.

S. A. Taylor, dealer in fruit trees, is nofgood, he didn’t get in his vote | It’is a consolation to him, however, to know that the darkey was not deprived of the franchise.

The Big Tour is broken up, and Farden, D. J. Thompson and Dr. Hart sell mourn the withdrawal of Douthit from the Club.

Free Wool. — There is no wiser nor mor needed provision in Mr. Morrison’s bill than that making wool free. It will benefit both the wool growers and manufacturers, for without free wool the American woolen manufacture,now prostrate, can not be revived, and as no American wool is shipped abroad the price here can not rise unless the woolen manufacture s can prosper. American wool growers ought to look at the results of the many different rates of duty on foreign woe Is which have beea imposed from 1847 to 1883. They would be surprised to see that the highest price paid for wool in all that period was in 1859, when wool was duty free. American wool growers have never got as high pi ices as urn er free wool except in the wool famine year—lß72—when prices were driven up by an actual scarcity. The / got 59 cents under free wool. They have never got as much under the present or the higher wool tariff of 1867 except, as before said, in the years when there was a wool famine. In their case protection does not protect, and for the plain reason, often urged by woolen manufacturers, that it is impossible, with hope of profit, to use in this industry only the wool of our country. It is only by mixing wools of diff rent qualities, grown in different parts of the world, thatja woolen manufacturer can build up this industry on a steady and permanent basis. So extreme is the depression and oppression of the woolen industries at present in consequence of the ruinous duties on wool that a Rhode Island manufacturer entreated the treasury within a few days to admit combed wool, which is a raw material, at the same rate of duty weich was borne by worsted cloths. His object was to get wool in at a rate which would enable him to set his people to work making cloths.—Washington Letter to N. Y. Herald.

KANKAKEE.

Suppose a government officer should come to a man and say, “Mr. Manufacturer says he is losing money, and that unless he can get help he will have to close his factory. The government is going to help him, or, rather, compel you to do it. You must give him SIOO every year.” What would be thought of such a proceeding as that? Yet it is nothing but protection in its sweet and pure simplicity, stripped of all disguise.— Does it raise wages? Does it develop or diversify industry? Cert inly not; all that it does do is to take the SIOO from the man to whom it belongs and give it to the man to whom it does not belong.

Difference in Tariff Rates. —Under the present Tariff, the poor woman’s shawl is taxed 89 per cent, while fine shawls, such as a rich woman wears are taxed 66 per cent If there is to be any discrimination in this class of woolen goods, it ought to be in favor ot those of the cheaper grade. But Tariff laws are not only made to protect rich manufacturers by allowing them to charge higher prices than +heir wares are worth, but also to protect rich people generally, by making the tax upon fine goods less than the tax upon coarse goods. The advantages of the Tarifl are all on one side. If the Morrison bill becomes a law, the tax upon woolen shawls will still be 35 per cent. Even this is too much, but the people will be thankful for the reduction it will bring in the prices of necessary articles of clothing. For instance, a shawl that now costs fifteen dollars ought not to cost more than eight dollars if the Morrison bill is passed.

Cheapening One-half.—Under the present Tariff laws webbings, gorings, beltings, bindings, fringes, gimps, buttons and the innumerable small articles that go to the adornment and finishing of dresses are now taxed about 67 per rent. If the Morrison bill is passed, the tax upon these articles of universal use will be reduced to 36 per cent.,

thus cheapening them nearly onchalf. A democratic administration has wrought many reforms and improvements iu the transaction of public business, but none that ap peals more directly to the comfort and convenience of a large number of citizens and strangers than the present methods of examining and passing the baggage of transatlantic p'-ssengers. Under republican rule every arrival was considered to be a smuggler until he had proved himself willing to submit to blackmail. Unless the sworn statement was accompanied sooner or later by a heavy gratuity there was no telling what annoyance and delay might be imposed upon the innocent traveler. Instead of being taken as a prima facia evidence of good faith a declaration of dutiable artioles was held to be a partial confession of guilt, and unless the corrupt exemplar of the beauties of a protective tariff was “handsomely insulted” by the passenger, the inspector proceede to pull his baggage to pieces and often ended up by sending the whole to public stores. The government neyer saved or gained a cent by such lack of discrimination aud consideration, but simply earned the name of maintaining the most corrupt and abusive customs system in the world. Nor is the democratic government to-day losing or wasting a dollar of revenue by the adoption of a more liberal and intelligent policy toward travelers. Nothing in the letter or spirit of our laws can be construed into a suspicion that a man loses his character because he goes abroad or seeks these shores; but the inconveniences and indignities that nave been heaped on arrivals in this country have been the subject of comment and criticism the world over. This is only the first, and not the most important, of a series of long hop d for changes that the present administration is pledged to. When the democratic party is through with the question of tariff reform, we shall expect to see the minds of the people set sternly against the possibility of republican misrule in the future. — ihe Star. -

NEWTON ITEMS.

Some corn planted. The weather is fine. Plowing for corn is progressing rapidly. Oats looking well, and there is likely to be a heavy yield. There is a ditching plow at work in the northern part of the township ditching the Iroquois marsh. Chas. Y. Henkle returned from Kankakee last week, where he has been teaching during the past winter. Sunday school at Saylerville at 10 o’clock. Preaching second and fourth Sundays of each month, at the same place, at 2 o.clock. A number of the candidates before th * Republican convention, and their friends, feel very sore over the result of its action. Mrs. Jared Benjamin, wife of the ex-Trustee, started to-d y (Monday) i.or Dakota, where she will spend some time visiting the family of her brother, D. T. Halstead, a former well-known citizen of She intends visiting in lowa, also May 3,1886. Democrat.

George H. Bishop tried the experiment of setting a hen on a double-yolked egg with success. After proper incubation a little head came peeping through each end of the egg, and when the shell was removed two chicks were found. They were slightly uni fce 5, but were easily separated.

Cartersville, Ga., is proud of Joe, a dog of superior intelligence. He has been known to seize an ear of corn, carry it to a rat hole, shell off a few kernels, back off out of sight, and then pounce upon the rat thus enticed to destruction.

American Enterprise.

No invention of the nineteenth century has worked a greater revolution in household economy or conferred more of a benefit on humanity than the sewing machine.

The first productions were crude and uncouth in the extreme, and it was reserved for American skill ''nd ingenuity to bring forth a machine of any practical value. In order to appreciate the great advancement which has taken place it is only necessary to compare one of the machines built during the infancy of the invention with one of the latest improved ‘ Light-Running New Home ” AH the really good points contained in other machines have been utilized in its construction.— Many new improvements and devices have also been added, the result of which is a machine as nearly perfect as it is possibie to make one.

For simplicity, durability, ease of management and capacity for work, the “Light-Running New Home” has no rival, and the happy possessor of one may re it assured that he or she has the very beat the world affords. See ad-, tertisement on another page of THIS PAPER.

Ex-Sheriff John W. Powell has leased the Halloran Livery and Feed Stables, and respectfully solicits a liberal share of the public patronage.

“Do you know the last words that passed and J ehn Sherman ?” person, formerly a official, asked me to®v. and, on my replying in the negative, he continued: “It was in the treadH department at Washington. IwilT not say who was present besides Conkling and Sherman. Sherman will remember. Their conference had been long and heated. As Conkling rose to leave he assumed one of the most tragic figures, and, stalking toward the door with his hat ia his hand, turned half about to say in a tone that was suited by his action, “Sir, you are a perfidious wretch.” It was quite tragic, I assure you, and not a bit funny to the few persons who heard it. They have never let the scene become known.”—New York Special.

BUCKXiEN’S ARNICA SALVE.

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Good Results in Every Case.

D. A. Bradford, wholesale pape dealer of Ohatt .nooga, Term., write that he was seriously afflicted with a severe cold that settled on bis lunge had tried many remedies without oens eflt. Being Induced to try Dr. King’s Ifew Discovery ior Oonsumption, did so and was entirely cured by use of a few bottles. Since which time he has used it in his family for all Coughs and Cclds with bept results This is the experience of thousand, whose lives have been saved by this Wonderful Discovery. Trial Bottles free at F. B. Meyer’s Drug Store. 5»

Out of 137 counties in Georgia, prohibition operates in one way or another in 116 counties.

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