Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1886 — Page 1

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Alfred McCoy, T. J, McCoy E. L. Hollingsworth. A. M?C3©Y Ss BANKBHSj (Successors to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer,lnd. tfAO t fie; era! hanking business. Exchange MJ bought and sold Certificates hearing interest issued Collections made on all available points Office same place as old firm of McCoy A Thompson April 2,1886 MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. AttorneyaULav Rensselaer. .... Indiana Practices Kin thb Courts of Jasper and adorning counties. Makes collections a spe(sftdty. Offlec on north side of Washington afreet, opposite Court House- vlnl ——— ' *. * ■' ■ ... . ■■■ - , , , BUTCH P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOMPSON Attomey-at-Law. Notary Public.- •- THOMPSON ft BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. MARION It. SPITEER, Collector and AbstractorWe pay p trbcular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B

FRANK W. H ill COCK, Attorney at Lam And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor and Benton counties. Lauds examined Abstracts of Title prepared; Taxes paid. Collections a, Specialty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, /SrORNEYsAT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new -.uildintr. Rensselaer. Ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselaeh, Ind. ESPOffice Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885. WM. W WATSON ATTOkNEY-AT-LAW Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazav, RENSSELAER, IND. H. W. SN 7DER, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. W. HARTSELL, M D HOMOEOPATHIC ’PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. '©“Chronic Diseases a Specialty.,,® OFFICE, in l Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeover House. July 11,1884. J.H. LOUGHIUDGE. T\ P, BITTERS EOUGHRIBGE& BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, bolcnv Austin’s hotel Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer , Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give epecial atteu tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. ClflSlW BANK. RENSSELAER, IND., R. S. Dwiqoinh, F. J. Sears, Val. Ssm, President. Vic-President. Cashier. Does a general banking business-. C.rtificates bearing interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Mou<*y loaned on farms at low *st ra:ea find on most favorable terms. April 1885.

RENSSELAER JASPEB COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY MAY 14 1886.

IN THE JURY BOOM.

The Twelve Good and True Men Did Not Agrse. [Detroit Free Press.] The case siemed clear enough to a hoy ten years old. The plaintiff i-ued the defendant o,i a debt. The defendant admitted that he contracted the debt, aud that he had never paid it. He tried *o show, as an offset, that he onee lent plaintiff some money, but be failed to even establish the date of he transaction. Ttm amount, sued for was S4OO, and the Judge charged us to return a verdict in favor of tho plaintiff. When we got set'lea in the juryroom and elected a foreman he said: “Well, 1 suppose wa must return & vordict for the fu 1 amount?” “Well, I dou’t!” replied one of the jurors- a man whom I had selected as an honest, conscientious juior. '‘But isn’t it a plain case?” “No, sir! The plaintiff had two lawyers, while the defendant had hut one. There was nothing fair about that!"

"But the Judge charged us to return a verdict for the amount,” observed another juror. “’Sposing he did!” exclaimed an old man on his left, "if the Judge knows more about this case than we dJ then what are we here for?* “WbioS of ’em was the plaintiff, anyhow?’*solemnly inquired a solemn juror, whom I hdd seen sleeping thro' most of the trial. “The red-headed man, of course,” replied a young man who wore tight paninloons and chewed plug tobacco with great ambition. “Was it? Why, I thought it was the fat man!”cxclaimed juror No. 6. Tho foreman suggested that we maik on slips of paoer the amount each juror tnoughc the plaintiff entitled to. His suggestion wad follow* ed, and the amounts run from fifteen cents to S4OO. “It seems to me,” he reflected, “that the defendant either owes him SIOO or nothing.* “I don’t believe he owes him nuthin.” replied one of the twelve. “But you heard the evidence?" 1 v “Hangthe evidence,” Some one suggested that we add up the sums marked and strike an average.

Another suggested that we return a veidict for the defendant. A third tffered to flip a cent and head or tail (or the S4OO or nothing. A fourth wanted some one to tell him if the debt hadn’t been outlawed. It was finally discovered that we sto'd five for the plaintiff and seven for the defendant, and the for* *nan wanted to know what we should do. “Well.” said o'e of tho seven, “if we agree with you in this case will you agree with us in the next?” He couldn’t promise, and the lead* er of the dissenters declared that he would remain in that room a 1 fetime before he would agiee with the five. At the end of an hour there were eight men willing to return a verdict for $75. At the end of two hours there were seven men who d dn’tcare a cent and five who were in favor «f the defend-, ant.

At the end of three houis six men were in favor of S4OO, and the other six were playing poker. In another hour /wo of us favored S4OO an i the other ten had made up their minds that at least two out of the three lawyers ought to be in jail. We finally marched in witn the innounceraent tkat we couldn’t agree, when the juror who didn’t know plaintiff from defendant raised hig voice ana protested: “Judge, wo could have agreed all richt if anybody ha t told us what the case was about. 1 think we orter be furnished with diagrams.” Isaac Fisher, for fiftv-two years in the servics of the Government as a mail carrier, died at Altoona last week at the age of eighty-two years. Mr. Fisher was a stage driver between Lewis owu and Greensburg as far biok as 1837, and numbered among his paeeengora Henry Clay, Daniel Webster’ Lewis Cass, Andrew Jackson, Horace Greeley and Charles Sumner. Mr. Fisher remained i a the service until several weeks ago when be was obliged to retire ou account of rheumatism, which he contracted while on duty last winter.

During tlie war Mrs. Terry, of North Adams. Conn , cursed back to life a stranger who was prostrated by fever. Th* man who was a brother of ex-Gov Leland Stanford, of California, died recently, leaving her $15,000.

Ome Flag.—The rea werkingmen --the reai American* of Ohicago—will aet to It that the American flag does n >t give place to the red flag there—New York Sun.

GREENBACK MEETING.

Rensselaer, Ind., ) May Bth, 1886. j County Central Committee met at Court House, in pursuance of call, was called to or., er by Chairman, Wm. E. Moore. In the absence of the Secretary, W. W. Reeve was chosen Secretary pro. tern. On motion of W. C. Pierce, it it was decided to hold a Mass Convention in the Court House, at Rensselaer, on Thursday, June 3d, 1886, at which time and place will also be held the Greenback District Congressional Convention. On motion of Dr. S. W. Ritchey, the Central Committee was directed to solicit subscriptions for Greenback newspapers. Asa Brown, of Walker to vnship, was added to the committee. Adjourned to meet on the call of the Chairman. WM. E. MOORE, W. W. Reeve, Chairman. Sec’y pro. tem.

Pennsylvania Coal and Nebraska Corn. —In his remark* on the inter-state commerce biil recently, in the U. 8. Senate, Mr. Van Wyck, of Nebraska, was most pointed. The State of Nebraska, in which, as Mr. Van Wyck said, it required 150 bushels of corn to buy one ton of hard coal, is not the only Western st ite or territory that suffers from such evils a* he portrayed; but it is, unfortunately, the only one of the far Western states which has a representative in the Senate who is opposed to the system which thus oppresses the people. Watered stock,{bogus bonds, combinations, an<| pools stand between the coal miner of Pennsylvania and the corn producer of Nebraska. The aoal miner wants the corn, and suffers from because he cannot get it. The farmer vtants the coal, and sometimes suffers 'because he cannot get it. The fact that the exchange cannot be made with profit to both is very conclusive proof that something is wrong.

DEMOCRATIC UNITY.

Capt. David F. Allen, of Frankfort Gives His Views and Advice on Several Topics. (Indianapolis Sentinel.) Captain David F. Allen has been a soldier and also a member of tlie Republican party. About three years ago the Sentinel gave an interview with him on the question of the tariff which had the effect of alarming his former political friends very much and strengthening at the same time the convictions of his Democratic admirers that he ought to be a disciple of Jefferson and Jackson. In local matters he occasionally crossed the line of party, but it was not until the Cleveland campaign that he come boldly out as a member of the great Democratic party. He appeared as a forcible speaker at meetings in his county and vicinity and contributed greatly to the advancement of the interests of Democracy, notwithstanding the fact that many of his former neighbors and friends endeavored to dissuade him from what they called his blind course. He did not weaken in the least, as ke is a soldier by nature, and to-dav, altho’ the administration is not quite up to his expectations, he is nevertheless an admirer and defender of President Cleveland and his Democratic adminsstration. CLEVELAND HAS DONE WELL. On this point a Sentinel representative questioned Mr. Allen, drawing out the following responses: '"President Cleveland is a great improvement uoon his predecessor, not alone in his manly way of doing things, but especially in the moderation that characterizes his methods and his views. He has found rascals to turn out of course, and, indeed, it was only last night that I saw some figures showing

how largely he did send them off. Indianians can have no just cause for complaint in this respect, nearly every old hanger on has been cut loose and cast aside, and in nearly every case good men or women put in their places. A few remain clinging to the pnblic teats, but in his good time Mr. Cleveland will cut away their fastening, too. Besides three foreign ministers, he continued, Indiana eas also been given a representation on the Civil Service Board of Commissioners, which, though it makes me laugh to say it, is an opportunity for me to declare, through the Sentinel, that

“CIVIL SERVICE IS A SHAM. “It was inspired by the Republican party, in view of that party’s waning power and a sentimental Democratic Senator was made its champion; and now we have it perpetuating a privileged class of Republicans, many of whom, according to the President, can not be removed except for cause. Those, then, hold office while others, equally capable and more deserving, are barred through civil service scheming. lam for President Cleveland, notwithstanding. I think he is giving us an excelle t, conservative administration. And while I do not claim that it is as it should be in all respects, it is at 1 ast as good as we could expect under existing circumstances. A Democratic President is not expected to be a violator of United States statutes; nor, on the other hand, is he to be unmindful of his party’s interests and of the men who accomplished his election. “OUR INDIANA DEMOCRATS have an especial duty to perform this time. They ought to be united and save the State at the coming election. The Indiana Democracy has no just cause to break with the President, and it can not afford it even if it had cause. — President Cleveland and his Democratic administration must be the rallying cry by which the Democratic masses are to be enthused and united and solidified now that Vice Presid nt Hendricks is with us only in his works and in memory. lam ra her averse to saying so much since I am new in the party, but you know it is often said that converts are nearly always more enthusiastic than those to whose principles they have been converted. In fact lam not a convert at all in that sense, for I have always h d notions and fixed principles of my own, and I simply found that my political faith on some of the great questions up for discussion was such as I found existing in and taught by the Democratic party.”

THE FARMERS SATISFIED. Captain Allen continued, on being interrogated on this point: “I find in my intercourse with the farming and producing classes that they are generally satisfied with the administration. They are intelligent enough to know that, while times are not the best, yet what dullness we are experiencing is the result, not of what the present Administration has done or failed to do, but rather as a consequence of the maladministration of the Republican party. Steady prices if low, with a cutting of expenses and lessening of taxes, w.ll add to the popularity of the Democratic party with the farming and producing classes.

“THE LABOR TROUBLES “are all the result of the teachings and legislation of the Republican party. That party protected the manufacturer, but never considered the farmer or laborer as worthy of consideration. A year or so ago I was treated as a traitor because I differed from my Republican friends on their villainous tariff policy. The laboring people have been discriminated ag dnst, while the wealthy and the manufacturers have been legislated for; and now labor is up in arms asking for its rights. Why should it be wrong for laborers and mechanics to do the things that railroads and large corporations do? The

people of this city and county paid over a million dollars to get four railroads so as to insure us competition on rates, but now pool commissioner Fink says to these ra-1-roads, “You shall naul grain from Frankfort for twenty-five cents, but not one cent less— in other words, they strike and combine against the citizens and the business men. But as soon as the laborers or mechanics do-the same thing in their interests, they are hounded down, when the tactics they are following have been taught them by their corporations and by the Republican party. The great anthracite coal kings combine, and not a pound of coal do thev allow to be mined beyond that with which they propose to regulate the market, aud to do this they sometimes inspire and create strikes of their own. The same thing is the case with the nail mills and others of our leading industries.”

D. F. ALLEN & BRO. The firm of Allen & Brother is composed of D. F. Allen and E. A. Allen. They are tke largest manufacturers and|grain dealers in this part of Indiana. Their roller mills nave a capacity of 176 barrels,.. while they annually handle over a million and a quarter bushels of grain. Their elevators at Frankfort have a capacity of 100,000 bushels, while those at Qircleville ani Boylston are by no m°ans inconsiderable. The Allen brothers are the most prosperous business men in central Indiana. Socially they are equally notable and in every respect commend themselves to a host of friends and acquaintances throughout the State. Captain Allen served through the war in the Tenth Indiana Regiment and was wounded in the service.— The Sentinel has formerly given his record and can now point to him as a patriot and a citizen of high and honorable standing.

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 sowing machine. The first productions were crude and uncouth in the extreme, and it was reserved for American skill rnd 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 e Light-Running New Home ” All 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 J assured that he or she lias the very best the world affords. See adTERTISEMENT ON ANOTHER PAGE OF THIS PAPER.

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

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