Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

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THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL. dkmccuatic newspaper. PUBLISHED EVERY FxJDaY, BY Jas. V. McEwen RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. O»eyear SijnoEtkt. ‘ 5 Advertising Rates. One column, one year, SBO 00 Half column, “ *0 guartcr « « 30 oo Ightb “ , 10 oo Tenpcrceot. added to foregoing price if Jlvcrtisements arc set to occupy more than angle column width Fractional parts of a year at equitable rates Business cards not exceeding 1 inch space, $5 a year; $3 for six months; $ 2 for three All legal notices and advertisements ates•ablished statute price. Reading notices, first publication 10 cents line; fcach publication thereafter s cents a Nearly advertisements may be changed quarterly (once in three months) at the opion of the advertiser, free of extia charge. Advertisements for persons not residents of Jasper county, must be,paid for in advance oi first public 'tion. when less than one-quarter column in size; aud quarterly n advance when larger.

Alfred McCoy. T. J, McCoy E. L. Hollingsworth. A. WRDT ■BANKEH. (Succegtois to A. McCoy & T. Thompson ,) Rensselaer. Ind. DO a fie; eral banking business. Exchange 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 ttORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attoraey-at-Law ENSSELAER. I VDIANA Practices 'in the Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vinl BIMON F. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at- Law. Notary Pul lie. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. ARION L. SPITLER, Collector and AbstractorWe pay p irboular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v2n4B yy H. H. graham, ATTOr.M E Y AT-LA W. Rbesdei atr, Indiana. Money to loan or. long time at low interest. Sept. 10,‘86. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, > RNEY'-AT—LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, gr Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new .ailding. Rent selaer. Ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND,

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Over Makeever’s Bank. May 2L 1885. WM. W WATSON, A TTO Jrt IST Hl Y - AT-Tu A. "W Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazav, RENSSELAER IND. W. HARTSELL, M D SOMfEOPATHIC JPHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a, Specialty. OFFICE, in Makeever’s, New Block. Resi- ♦ dence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. .UH. LOUGHRIDGE Physician and Surgeon. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vinl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, liensselaer, Ind. Galls promptly attended. Will give special atteD lion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. BANK, RENSSELAER, IND., * R. S. F. 3, Sears,’ Val. Seib, President. Vic-President. Cashier Does a general banking business. C rtiflcates bearing Interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on farms t low Ist rates and on Svorable terms. April 1885,

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY- DECEMBER 24 11186.

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Examine quality and ascertain prices of overcoats at Elsner’s. You will buy. A large and well selected stock of School Suits for Boys, stylish, •handsome, cheap, and durable, just received at Ralph Ferfdig’s. Mrs. J. M. Hopkins knits ladies’ hoods at her millinery store. Notice is hereby given that on and after Wednesday, December Ist, 1886, the undersigned Banking houses will be open for business at 8 a, m., and will close at 4 p. m. A. McCoy & Go’s Bank. Citizens Bank. Baumers’ Bank.

De Profundis. To wake at midnight when the world is still And moonless darkness broods on all around, WhenXhe loud ticking clock and cnoket shrill Makes the weird silence only more profound. To wake and hear the lonesome autumn rain , Beat fitfully against the window-pane, While in his kennel whines the restless hound And lonesome, ghostly winds go wailing round and round. To lie with acMng eyes that cannot sleep Because of visions that do not fill them quite. Wraiths of the past in panoramic sweep Of wan-eyed phantoms trailing through the night. To hear the death-watch sound its measured beat And cdunt the graves we’ve passed with trembling feet. To search abysses for one guiding ray And wander up and down and search in vain alway. This is to drink of griefs ecstatic wine In melancholy’s cypress-shaded vale. Where autumn leaves are always drifting down, ' And autumn winds eternally bewail. This is to pass the threshold of that door Above which one hath writ “hope nevermore.” To walk a demon round in ceaseless pain, And cry to senseless walls, and beat on bars in vain. Poor captive, in thine own inferno lost, Think’st thou thy prison hinges ne’er will turn? Think’st thou, the circling mountain summits crossed. No happy suns on happier lands will burn? Hush, hush thou. Heart. Know, for thine egress fair, Hope builds through sleep a wide, enchanted stair. Then close sad eyes, fold tired hands so wan. And wake a-top in flush and glow of rose-red dawn. —Mrs. L. A. McGaffey.

A COMICAL ADVENTURE.

Alt American Imprisoned and Fined fox Joking in Bad German. Some time ago a successful but somewhat impudent young man, residing in the valley of the Mississippi, married a beautiful maiden who had lied from a convent in order to share the joy and burden of life with him. It was determined that the wedding trip should comprise a tour of Europe. The excursion across the sea and as far as Herbistal, near where Belgium borders on the confines of Rhenish, Prussia, was accomplished in a piping and pleasant way. At Herbistal the French garde gave way to a German Schaffner, and when the young American was asked by the new conductor to show his ticket, lie swiftly marshaled his knowledge of German, and inquired: “Sind wir in Preussen?" (Are wc in Prussia?) and, receiving an alHrjnat'/v e answer, he said: Aus diesem land kommen alle unserc spitzbuben her." (From this country come all of our tramps.) Among the Germans of the Mississippi valley the word “spitzbuben” is sometimes used in the sense of tramp. In Germany it means thief and rascal. What was more unfortunate still, the railroad on which the American was traveling was the property of the state, and the conductor wore the regulation uniform of the imperial railway service, and according to law as well as to public sentiment an insult offered to a uniformed person serving his majesty the king in any capacity is a grave misdemeanor, punishable with fine or imprisonment, or both. When the conductor heard the words of the American he replied with some excitement: “leh werde ihnen ziegen woe die spitzbuben sind wen wir in Aachen ankommen" (I will show you where the spitzbuben are when we arrive at Aachen). The window of the coupe went down with a crash, and the train sped on across the Prussian frontier, on over a spur of the Ardennes, and twenty minutes later rolled into Aachen, the famous old kaiserstadt The conductor was true to his promise. As the train halted two policemen approached the coupe occupied by the bridal pair and requested tne husband to step out He indignantly refused, and was helped out. No words were wasted. No explanations were allowed. -The prisoner was hurried along the dark and narrow streets of the city, and the young bride, ignorant of the language and unable to comprehend what was transpiring, saw her husband dragged forcibly from her, and found herself alone at night in a strange land, amidst strange faces, hustled along by an officer of law toward a second-class hotel, where she threw herself on a sofa and lay prostrate for hours, dumbfounded and dazed at the remarkable scene which had taken place. About midnight a policeman came to the United States consulate, and, arousing the consul, related the incident, and handing him the prisoner’s passport, intimated that the American citizen would like to have him call at the prison as early as possible the next day. The consul dressed himself and went to the place of imprisonment at once. He found tiie American in a narrow cell resting on a bed of straw. He told the story of his misfortune and begged the consul to ascertain the whereabouts of his wife and afford her all. necessary protection. The consul left the prison and proceeded to the residence of the chief of police, where he presented the details of the case to that officer with the request that the American should be released, vouching at the same time for his appearance at court the next day. The order for the release was granted, and at 3 o’clock in the morning the western gentleman was given back to

ms young onde, whom he found hail crazed with fright and anxiety. At 10 a. m. tTie next morning all parties concerned met at the office of the police commissioner and the consul, fully aware of the severity of the German courts in all eases of majestat* beleidigung (insult to the crown) endeavored to effect a settlement, but without avail The testimony was heard. The conductor swore that the prisoner said “Alte Preussen sind sptfabuben” All Prussians are spitzbuben). The American insisted that the conductor had misunderstood him, and that he had only intended to say in fun that “from Prussia came all of our western tramps.” Of course the grave German court saw nothing very funny about it; and, the conductor’s testimony having been taken, the prisoner was sent before the amtsgeric/it, where the evidence was reviewed, and from there the case went to the schoffcngcricht for final trial. It usually requires days, and sometimes weeks, to dispose of such a case, but by energetic management seventeen hours' after the alleged offense had been committed the final judgment of the court was made known. The prisoner was sentenced to pay a fine of S6O, in addition to S4O in costs and he was warned that the mild and merciful sentence was owing to his ignorance of the law and the true meaning of the offenivc phrase by which iie had insulted a uniformed servant of his majesty the king. The prisoner easterly settled the demands of the court and started at once with his bride for the railway station. As the train moved away he opened the window of his compartment and said, in somewhat niutlfod tones, to the consul: “Mum is my name until 1 get' out of this country, but i’ll watch for the frontier, -and when we cross it I'll open my mouth as wide as th ?, delta of the Mississippi and siicut: hank God, we are safe on c more!’ ”■— lie publican.

A Curious Savings Bank.

Some years ago, an old wooden bridge spanned the Schuylkill river al the foot of Penn street, Reading, Pa. In the course of time a more substantial striieiu.e was imcwssary, and the timbers of the old bridge were carefully taken apart, alid reserved for use in repairing am! rebuilding the smaller county bridges. While preparing some as this old timber for its new use, a few days ago, it became necessary to saw oil several feet fi’o.m a heavy piece, wlf ch was to be used as a girder in a small bridge under contemplation. When the end portion dropped to the ground, the workman was astonished to hear a jingling sound as of gold and silver coin. A summons of such good omen insured a speedy investigation, which resulted in finding eagles, half eagles, silver dollars, halves, and quarters mixed together in. careless confusion. The source of supply was found in n section about eighteen inches in length and five inches deep, which had been hollowed out of the log with auger and chisel. An inch thick cover had been fitted over the opening so cleverly and sealed with so much care that detection, other than accidental, was hardly possible. The treasure had been confined in a home-knit woolen stocking, and as the saw cut off the toe, a part of the contents was discharged. The value of the deposit, though reported to be considerable, was not made public. The money was probably hidden away a number of years ago, as specimens of three, five, ten, twentyfive, and fifty cent scrip, nicely folded up in a piece of writing paper, were among the contents. Not a line indicated the ownership. The question of possession is consequently divided as to whether it should go to the workman who discovered it, the owner of the timber, or the county. The finder probably inclines to the first suggestion.

We Pause to Hesitate.

When it becomes necessary to call a larger man a liar. When the assessor asks if there are any dogs concealed under the house. When an undertaker asks us to patronize him as liberally as possible. When the clergyman hints that he would not be averse to eating dinner with us. When a bore enters our office, puts his feet on the table, and expects us to spare his life. When the butcher asks us if we won’t just settle that little matter now and be done with it When we are asked to join a temperance society by a man whose breath smells like free lunch and a brewery. When we are expected to eat the same old hash three times a day and lay aside the nails and things we find in it. When our beloved wife requests us to get up and light the fire about three hours before daylight on a cold morning. When the dentist attempts to beguile us into his parlors where the painless system is in vogue. It is universally conceded that nothing hurts so much as painless dentistry. Nevada is the paradise of the school teacher, where the average salanr is $l4O per month for males and $96 for women.

MISSING LINKS.

A movement is on foot to erect a statue of Gen. Robert Toombs, at Atlanta, Ga. China has 563 books on behavior, 861 of which refer directly to the ceremonial of dining. At Penobscot, Me., a poster announcing a church festival had this postscript: “No flirting allowed.” Dan Rice, the one time noted circus down, is lecturing in Texas, and is said to receive SSOO a week for his oratorical ground and lofty tumbling. Grace Hubbard, a graduate of the lowa University, has adopted the profession of civil engineer and is employed by the United States government survey in Montana to make maps. A revolver in a glass case, surrounded by pictures of beats and surmounted by the motto, “Pay or Pray,” aids a Nebraska photographer in conducting his business on the cash plan. Ex-Senator Bradbury of Maine, who served with Webster, is 82 years old, but has a firm step and bears few marks of great age. He was a collegemate of Hawthorne and Longfellow at Bow* doin.

Judge Noah Davis was asked to write an opinion in favor of a proposed mar-riage-license law. His answer .was: “I believe true public policy requires that marriage slicvdd be made easy and divorce next to impossible.”

Hereafter all the Chinese going over the southern division of the Grand Trunk Railroad will bo passed in bond, and the conductors will bo held responsible to see that none of the Mongolians are allowed to stop in Canada. Boston experts criticise Howell’s last story, where he gives a carefully elaborated scene in a police station, but represents the captain as asking the young woman who makes a complaint to him what her age, height and weight are. The cost of suppressing locusts in Cyprus since the British occupation amounts to over $330,000. But the government engineer states that, largo as the expenditure has been, it is certain that it has already been recovered by the island many times over in the value of the crops saved. A discussion going on in Boston as to who is the oldest living member of the Masonic fraternity in New England has brought forth the names of several who hav- belonged to the order for more than half a century, among thcnl David McDaniels, of Morristown, Vt., who joined ifk 1812, when twenty-one years old.

The usual story of the remarkable travels of a pin is at hand. This time the scene is laid in Newton, lowa,where thisteen years ago Mrs. Cyrus Gage dropped a pin in her ear. The pin Tn course of time dropped into her throat and was swallowed. The other day a doctor took it out of her left leg near the ankle.

One of the most ingenious processes which has lately come into vogue in the treatment of iron—an Austrian invention—is that of giving to the metal a silver surface, this being effected by first covering the iron with mercury and then silver by the galvanic process. By heating to 300 degrees, C., the mercury evaporates and the silver layer is fixed.

“Lord Rowton,” says the London World, “is very angry about the publication of Lord Beaconsfield’s early letters. He regards it as a direct and unwarrantable infringement of his rights as his late chief literary executor, and as calculated to diminish the interest of the great work which has occupied his exclusive attention during the last two years.”

Henner, the Alsatian, is one of the few artists in Paris who sell all their pictures for good prices in hard times as well as good. To a friend who admiringly remarked to him that he must be making $40,000 a year, “Very likely,” he said; “I keep no account of it. But I might earn still more if 1 were not bothe. d and hindered. These bourgeois are such cattle.”

The “Old Reliable” is under the management of Norm. Warner & Sons. They keep constantly on hand an extensive stock of stoves, in great variety, hardware, agricultural implements, etc. They know when, where and how to buy, and put their goods on the market at bottom prices.

An End to Bone Scraping. Edward Shepherd,ol’ Hrrisburg, 111 ‘■ays: ‘Having received sc much benefit from Electric Bitters, I feel it my duty to let sutlering humanity knoja it. Hrve had a running sue on my leg t r eight years; my doctors told me 1 w< ■ Id have t<> have the bone scr ip/d or .eg amputated 1 used, instead, thr e bottlrs ot Electric Bitters and sex er. boxes Bucklen’s Arnica Halve and my leg,is now sound and well,” Electee Ritters are sold at fifty cents, a hottie, and Arnica Salve a. ; 2 5. per box by F. B.

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