Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1886 — Page 1

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Alfred McCoy, T. J, McCoy E. L. Hollingsworth. A. MSCSOY * SB A M K B MSj (Successors to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer.lnd. DO a flei.eral hanking business. Exchange bought and sold "Certificatos bearing interest issued Collections made oa all available points Office same place as old firm of McCoy & Thompson April 2,1886 MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-I. a\ir Rensselaer, - Indiana Practices [in the Courts of Jasper and adorning counties. MAkqs colleetions a spe<* cialty. Office bn north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vml SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary. Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. MARION L. SPITLER, Collector and AbstracterWe pay) irticular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 nis

FRANK W. B ABCOCK, 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. Collections a Specialty. •TAMES W. DOUTHIT, 'TTDRNEYsAT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new building. Rensselaer. Ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-ATSL AW, Rensselaer, Ind. Over Makeever’3 Bank. May 21. 1885. w watsonT ATTOjkNEY-AT-LAW Office up Stairs, in Leopold's Bazav, RENSSELAER, ■ ' 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. J H. LOUGHRIDGE. F. P, BITTERS EOUGHRIDGE & 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. vlni DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CSTISjEHS 9 BANK. RENSSELAER, IND., 9 R. S. Dwiggins, F. J. Sears, Val, Seib, President. Vic-President. Cashier. Does a general banking businessCertificates bearing interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on forms at lowast rates and on most favorable terms. April 1886.

KENSSEIAEB IASPEB COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY.. AUGUST 13; 1886.

A National Cattle Trail.

I have said that the annual drive from Texas will probably be from 750,000 to l,000,0iX) cattle. A large proportion of these will be stock cattle—cows, heifers, and young steers. Where are these cattle to be held until lit for market? At the Cattle Growers’ Convention, held m St. Louis, Nwv.;. ; u« r, 1884, the Texas cattle-growers w r ere unanimous in advocating the creation of a national cattle trail, siv p-* ’ 1 tv3 Hfk pr? extending from Texas to mr boundary. The Northern gnzHT.t 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 w T hat 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 many 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 grass 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 native cattle can be driven on to the grazing ground of Texas and live. The Spanish fever stalks abroad thero. The Northern men assert and re-assert that the opening of the trail would endanger their herds. They ignore the fact that the first heavy frost kills the Spanish fever, and ends all danger. They endeavor to conceal their real reason for opposing the opening of the trail, which is the danger of overstocking the Northern grazing ground if the Texas men are allowed to drive their surplus young steers thero. They dread having from 200,000 to 800,000 young steers annually driven North to feed on a range that they all realize will, under the present land laws, be speedily overstocked, and eventually destroyed, and destroyed by the greed of the cattle men. Underlying all talk of renting the public lands, or of buying them, and of any and all schemes concerning the disposition to be made of the public domain that emanate from the cattlegrowers, is the determined purpose to secure the land, and to place it under the control of the cattle-growing associations, and then limit the number of cattle that shall be allowed to graze on it. The spectre that is ever present to the Northern cattle-growers is overstocking. All talk of their desire to conserve the public domain is false. They 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.

Casting His Horoscope.

Col. Sumter Mcßride, of Austin, Tex., while in New York on a visit, read the advertisement of clairvoyant in a morning paper. He went to the female for-tune-teller to have his horoscope cast. She cast horoscopes with a dirty pack of cards, which she spread out on a table. “You will marry an unusually wealthy lady and be Very happy. Everything in your past, present, and future is an open book to me.” “I suppose you know everything about my future?’* said the. colonel. “Not only about your future,' but about your past and present.”*— “It’s wonderful, incomprehensible. Good morning, madame.” “Hold on there. A dollar, if you please,” said the female wizard, holding out her hand. “Well, that is strange. You know everything about my past, present, and future, and you didn’t know I left all my money with the clerk of the hotel before I started out to have my fortune told. It’s wonderful, incomprehensible,” remarked the colonel, as he passed out —Texcu Sifting *. Secretary Whitney is a nephew of the inventor of the cottin-irin.

Postage Sixty Years Ago.

“Walton’s Register” for the year 1823 shows that there were 168 post-offices in Vermont at that time, and that about $20,000 was annually paid on the postage of letters, papers, and pamphlets by the citizens of Vermont. The compensation of the postmasters was on the •‘' of 30 per cent, on uie first slvX) of receipts and 25 per cent on the next SIOO. Brattleborough was then the largest office in the State. The salary of Asa Green, the postmaster, was $680.89. The rates of postage were: For a single letter of one piece of paper for any distance not exceeding 30 miles, 6 cents; over 30 and not exceeding 80 miles, 10 cents; over 80 miles and not exceeding 150 miles, 12£ cents; over 150 and not exceeding 400 miles, 18| cents; over 400 miles, 25 cents. Letters composed of two pieces of paper were charged triple rates, and more than three pieces quadruple postage. The highest salary paid any of the 4,000 postmasters in the United States was then $2,000, and there were only 10 who were paid that sum, while 27 received SI,OOO and upward. The population of the State was about 235,749, an increase of 17,835 in 10 years, of which 50,951 persons were engaged in agriculture, 776 in commerce, and 4,484 in manufactures. There was an enrolled militia force of 20,781, and Gov. C. P. Van Ness was the captain-general of the forces.—Burlington {Vt.) Press.

A Subject For Judge Lynch.

A Reading, Pa., telegram says: City Supt. of Schools Balliet was informed a few days ago of a pupil who has just entered the public schools here who shows a remarkable mania for torturing persons and animals with fire. His name is Rueben Briner, aged 7 years, a scholar in one of the Ninth ward schools. The teacher can do nothing with him,. and is compelled to keep him seated on the platform near her clesk, where he once tried to set her dress on fire. Until recently he resided with his parents in Philadelphia. There, while his parents were absent, he lit a piece of paper at the stove and deliberately ret fire to the clothing of his little brother, aged 18 months, whose limbs were burned to a crisp until he died, while the youug fiend enjoyed it, and gleefully told -his parents what he had done. He was penned in the garret and kept on bread and water for a month, after which he was sent to Reading, as he expressed an intention to cut his two brothers’ throats with a butcher-knife. He continually wants to set things on fire in school, and has several times been detected just in time to prevent the destruction of buildings. While his grandmother, with whom he is now living, was away from home, he caught the large house cat, placed her on the redhot stove, and roasted her to death. Such inhuman acts of cruelty innumerable have been reported of him.

Whittier’s Tribute to Tilden. Boston, August 11. — I The following poem up. peered in to-Bigiit’s Transcript: S. J. T.-GREYSTONE, AUG. 4, 1886. Once more, O all-»djusting death. The math n’e Pantheon opena wide; Once m-/re a common sorrow saith A strong, wise man has d ed. Faults doubtless had he. Had we not Our own, to questio* or asperse The worth we doubted or forgot Until we stood b side his hearse ? Ambitions, cautions, yet the man To strike down fraud with resolute hand. A patriot, if a partisan, He loved his native land. So iet the mourning bells be rung, The bannerdroop its folds half-way, And let ihejpublic pen and tongue Their fitting tribute pay. Then let ns vow above his bier To set our feet on party lies; And w* und no more a living ear With words that d ath denies. John G. Whittier.

COL. DAVID H. PATTON.

Col. David H. Patton, independent candidate for this senatorial district, is a Kentuckian by birth, 49 years of age. Excepting two years passed in the public school of Covington Kenr tucky, his life, like .hat of most American boys, was spent working on a farm—that best place of all to develops muscle, manly independence and good habits. In 1857 the family bale adieu to tfieir Kentucky home, takiny up their residence at Waveland, Montgomery county, Indiana,’where David, then in his twe. tietb year, entered the Wave land Collegiate Institute, completing a scientific course in the year 1860 Cnoosing the Medicr 1 profession he began bis studies under Dr. Florer, one of the most skillful practitioners in that county of learned medical men While engaged in the study of bis chosen profession, Fort Sumpter was bombarded, and the South sought by force of arms to destroy the government In those xciting times the youths of that obscure village felt the shock of battle, and many hastened to tender their services to their country. A meeting was held by t s e sub-

ject of this sketch and his former classmates and friends, at which ir was determined tnat their services j hould be tendered the government just as soon as it meart protracted, earnest, deadly war. Wbeu toe news came of the disastrous defeat, of the Federal forces at Bull Run, the future Gel. laid aside his books, relinquish' ed his cherished ambitions for the with twelve others hastened to New Albany to join the 38th Indiv '’ready organized and ready for the field. It can never be supposed : hat tl ey enlisted from any but patriotic motives, as the regiment was thoroughly or anized; nor was oneof the thirteen knewn to a man in the organization. Of the Held and staff officers of that regiment, history make honorable mention; Col.B. F. Scribner, since general, and popu« larly known in the army as “gaiiant little Scrib;” Lieut. Col- W. I Gresham, historically kuowu as Gen. Gresham, since postmaster general, and now the distinguished and popular judge of the federal court; adjut.-, ant D. F. Griffin, since Col., who died full of honors. It would seem as if the chances of preferment of the unassuming young man from the country village was meagre, indeed, in the company of such men. He was chosen by his Col. one of the color guards, The regiment passed into Kentucky, and after innumerable skirmishes and marching and counter marching for nearly 1 800 miles, they were face to face with the confederates at Perryvfile, where a battle was fought, either in the interest of the confederacy or idiotically, no one has yst been able to determine which. It was the fate of the 38th Indiana to bear a onspicuous part on that field where thetr per tentage of loss was as great as that of either of the contending armies at Waterloo. Of the color bearer and guard, Patton and Sullivan alone stood erect, and the former, as Col. Scribner will testijy could touch the colors any time during the engagement. Of the seven that lay upon the ground five were killed outright and one dangerously wounded. The flag staff was shot In two twice, and the colorsjwere shot into shreds on thatjdav. and willjbejsbowa to the .citizen s oUthis district as they were when carried off the field on that occasion. Their next severe engagement was at Stone River, whore the colors wero pierced by 31 balls and private Patton again so distinguished himself that Col. Scribner rewarded his gallantry with promotion. The regiment participated in the capture of Look-out Mountain and the “battle in the clouds,” in which they again distinguished thomselves. The regiment served in the Atlanta campaign, parti Dipating in all the battles till that city was taken. I i the battle of Jonesboro, Lieutenant Patton rendered signal service to his tountry and received the highest praise of ’ is commanding officer being styled the “Hero of Jonesboro’s Skirmish line.” To fully understand :he importance of the service rendered| it must Le understood that Jonesboro was the key to Atlanta, and that certain works lying in front of Carlins’b igada was the key to Jonesboro; and Carliss brigade was ordered to take the works Two regiments were ordered to attack, but were repulsed with heavy loss. Two more were ordered to the attack which were also repilsed, but they ha 1 succeeded in getting < 1 »e enough to the works to leirn that an abatis lay just in front cf the work that would have to be torn away to make room for the assaulting column General Carlin ordered Lieut. Col Gtiffih to take the 38th as it was al there was left, and he must take the works Col. Griffin ordered Company G, Captain H- F. Pt rrj, and company H, Lieutenant David H. Patton, as skirmishers to take advantage of the smoke and gathering shades of evening, reserving their fire, to move noiselessly as possible tearaway the abatis and open a way to carrv the works. To the bravery of Col. Patton on that occasion Col. Griffin, in his farewell address to the regiment (page 336 Indiana’s Roll of Honor, vol. 2d,) feelingly alludes, vhen he says; “To the brave boys I can but sav ibat everything is due to their valor on the field, and remember that now you have a leader in the commander of Jonesboro’s gallant skirmish line,” meaning Captain Patton. After the fall of Atlanta the 38th went with Sherman to the ea; from Savahnah they marched into North Carolina, where the commissioned officcts of the regiment, to settle ali doubts as to seniority and to make tne service more efficient drew up the following agreement: Camp 38th Ind. Yet. Vol. Infantry . Goldsboro, N. C. Apr. 3d, 1865. We the underoigned officers o' the 38th Regiment Indiana Ve'. Vol,. believing ths£ on account of disputed titles to Senio. ity and for other reasons, that it will be conducive to the

good of the Regiment to designate the persons to fill the field offices by ballot among tne officers; Do hereby designate our desire to hold sack ballot, and waive all rtght or supposed right of Seniority Robert Middleton, Ist Lisut. Cow “C." J. L. Mirtyn, Capt. Co. “A. ” Win. C. Shaw, Capt. Co. j . M.ll zznrd Lieut, and A djutar.t. S. Pawsen, Chaplain. George W. Faulkner, Capt ~G “ EmsfrylH. wastfrtn i W.D. Moore, Capt. Company J. * Benj. Owen, Ist Lieut. A . J. Crandall Ist Lieut. Co. “H * Milton H. Jordan, Ist Lieut. C '.“E.” John A. Sueckels, Capt. Co K J. A. Donelson, Ist Lieut. Co. “D.* J H. Seaton, Ist Lient. Co. “K. * Ben. Park Dewey, Capt. Co. U F. W D. H. Patton, Capt. Co. ‘ And held an election with the following result: For Col.— P. n. Patton, 15 votes, showing that ne was the unanimous choice of his brother officers, every one voting for him, The following recommendation o f Lieutenant Coj- McMahon, of the 2.lst Ohio, to Adjutant Terrell and Gov. Morton is highly complimentary of itself, but rendered mure highly so when it is remembered that t* 4> person recommended, if honored with the commission, would supercede that brave and generous offioer; Headquarters 21st Rrgt. Ohio Yj®. Vol. Goldsboro, N C., March 20, lS€dL W. H. H. Terrell, Adjutant Gen. of Indian*. Sit: I have the honor to serve In the Brigade with the 38th Indiana Vet Volunteer Infantry. The offiC ts of that regiment afe i e;Qmna«»ding their senior Captain, David M. Patton, for promotion, and J, being long associated with this Regiment in our brigade, feel uo in erest in its success, and in the promotion of an officer wno has long since deserved the honor sought for nltn. During the Campaign againat AU lanta, Savannah, Columbus*, anil Goldsboro, I had an opfio,ifufeßy to form a high opinion of Captain Fatton’s merit as an officer arid true &o|* -dior which justifies my recommending him to his Governor as well qualified ror a Regimental Commander, I iug in command of the Brigade during the afternoon of March lfith, at the battle before Bentonviile, North Carolina, and Captain Patton being iu command of bis Regiment after the fall of Captain Lowe* The eon* duct #f Captain Patton in battle came under mp notice. 1 eansot speak too highly of bis conduct on that field- Ho fought bis Regimoat skillfully, and to its utmost capaos-y. I am with great respect, Your obedient servant, A. McMAHAN, Lieut. CvL Com’g 2let Regt. Ohio Infantry Yol». A r d in conclusion of this matter we will say that Oapt. Patton edbis commission making of his regimeDt and comtnafilgfr oj his brigade. He enlisted in tho regiment the least known and the most unassuming man In it, and without social or political Influence, aided only by his own brave heart, upright life and strong arm, he won hia wajr to the h’ghest honors of the eonr* mand, and left it the best known and most loyed man of all. in civil life he has been equally successful whe*» ther as a student iu college, a man ia his proiession.'a citizen, orbreederof fine stock. He nas betraved no trues, but bravely met every responsibility and conscientiously discharged every duty. Always aid at ail ti'ares the unobtrusive and efficient man, and though he does not boast of “an eaijr competency.” he has the far greater satisfaction to know that he lias made easy the path of lire for many; increased the burdens of none, not has he e ei taken advantage of the ignorance or straightened circumstances of his fellow man ts pil* up ill gotten gains, but for efiij®.; dollar that he possesses he has retXifhed to the government and society an honest equivalent. His military record is a heritage that his children will prize above gold and silver, and will stimulate them to noble deeds and aspirations. Victory always perches upon the banner where he fights, aurl after his battle in November, the stars and stripes will proudly wave over him as they did at C hanap on Hills, Stone River.* at Lookout craggy heights; at Buzzard's Boost Gap; at Kenesavr Moulin ß 7 Jonesboao’s deadly field; at Atlanta; as they did from Atlanta to the sea; as they did at Bentouville where tej struck the confederacy the last tfme. If a stainless life; if fair deatisg wPh his fellow man; if eminent ah Sity, ifc distinguished military service, if any or all these are yet esteemed and honored among men. then, w® colonel David H. Patton be be next Senator from this district.:- Goodland Herald.

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