Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — Page 4

semo era tic Sentinel ■» f BID AT DECEMBER 24 188 G Ei teied at the poatoffice at Renenelaer, Ind., as aecond-claae matter.) RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. Passenger Trains. North. South. 4:39 a.m. 11:27 a.m. 8-46 a. m. 7:54 p. m. 4:01p.m. 10:50 p.m.

NOTICE TO TEA CHERS.—As Christmas falls upon the last Saturday of the month the State Superintendent of Public Instruction has ordered that the Regular Monthly Teacher’s Examination be held on the following Monday, December, 27th, 1886. D. M. Nelson. Co. Sup’t. The other day Billy Owens votrd against consideration of the question of tariff reform. Voorhees and Turpie—A Senatorial combination which would rank Indiana No. 1 in the United States Senate.

By a vote in the United States Senate the tenure-of-office law has been repealed. The bill now goes to the House.

The Republican members of the House voted against even consideration of a bill in the interest of tariff reduction.

Senator Vance betng asked recently for his opinion with reference to taking the duty from sugar, replied: “My opinion of the propriet / of r ducing the duty on sugar is so dependent on circumstances that I can not give you any positive expression in regard to it. I certainly don’t favor taking off the sugar tax, which is nine-tenths pure revenue, and keeping on the duty of 95 pe'' cent, on blankets and wool hats, which is only one-tentb-revenue and nine-tenths robbery. I want sugar down if other and more necessary things can come down with it. liev°nne reform means with ma not simply relief to the Treasury by avoiding a surplus, but relief to. the people i y reducing taxes on the necessaries of life. In other words, a tax reduction in the interest of the man" facturers is a fraud. The tax re" duction I want is that which looks to the interests of the Government and the people alone.”

The Kentland Gazette of this week contains no less than three items concerning Dr. Dabney, re cently appointed medical examiner • in the p nsion office, who, it all. ges, was| “an Andersoavillefprison guard.” Dr. Dabney has gi en this an emphatic contradiction, says he was but fourteen years old when the war was onwas not in the army, was never at Andersonville. The Gazette is aware of this denial, but goes on the principle that the interests of its party demands “the lie to be well stuck to.”

Having arrived at the conclusion that the Democrac} 7 of this Stat will not permit a theft of the United States Senatorship by the Republicans, our neighbor of the liepublican gets off tne following littl bit of moral declaration for his party: “The Republicans can not afford to - gain any advantage for themselves or to defeat any schemes of their opponents by any means that are not fair and honorable.” This for a party that perpetrated the theft Of the Presidency in 1876, and whose long lease of power was the fruit of fraud, violence .-’nd ccoundrelism of the mo t in.auij j? and character.

BLACKFORD ITEMS.

Health is good at present. Christmas will soon be here. Farmers have completed gathering corn. We are glad to learn that the literary at Independence prove to be a success. A. Arnold has returned from W abash. Look out for another wedding near here before many days. J. I. Burns, who has been sick for the past few days, is some better. Nubin-Ridge has another chronic attack of gossip. Everybody should attend the Christmrs festivities, at Barkley church, Christmas night. he Brushwood meetings have been well at ended by some of our people. S. B. Jenkins thinks of boring for a gas well. Geo. McElfreso was in town last* h ednesday. H. Darner and John Casey are the busiest men in town.

A. H. Arnold and J. Willey are in the jewelry business. Wood-chopping at Mrs. I. B. Price’s last Saturday. J. Frazee and C. Hammond are the boss rabbit catchers. They report catching one in six days David Daniels and wife have returned from Nebraska. iohn Miller and family have moved to Miami county. We are sorry to lose so good a neighbor. “Bill” made his quarterly visit last Saturday night. Everybody says that “MossBack” is dead, but he comes up this week with a few more items, and still remains the same old rusty “MOSS-BACK.” ■

In Remington, las s Wednesday evening, Mr. Jacob Shen retired in apparent good health, but was found dead by his family about 9 o’clock. Mr. Shew was among the first settlers of Remington, and was well known by many of the citizens of Rensselaer and vicinity Wright Williams, at on* time express agent and operator at Remington, died from consumption, last Saturday, at Los Angelos, California, whither he had gone, accompanied by his mother, in h< pis of improving his health.

Postmaster Bates is visiting his mother, in Carroll county, having received information that she is quite ill.

Remind Him of It. - When you hear a Republican tall; about ‘Democratic frauds in Indiana,’ at the late election, remind him of the important fact that a Unite I States Grand Jury in the Federal Court at I dianapolis investigated the fraud charges for fully three weeks and the only evidence found sufficient to base an indictment on was against Republicans. The jury was composed of a majorit, of Republicans, it is reported, and all were selected before the election took place. There is no doubt tha t the inves l igation was thoroughly and honestly conducted, and it effectually sets at rest all talk about “Democratic frauds.” A party that carried through the Hayes fraud and the Dudley-Dorsey campaign four years later, to say nothng about the late campaign, is hardly in a position to talk much about frauds in electons.—Laport' Argus. 1 ....... ..

Our readers should not overlook the advertisement of Mrs. Frank Leslie which appears in this ptfper. The proprietor f this well-known and enterprising publishing house offer-i a splendid statuette of Bartholdi’s “Liberty,” free of chatge, to every subscriber t . the Illustrated Newspaper or the Popular Monthly, or for two subscriptions to the Sunday Magazine.— Each of these public.-lions have hosts of old readers and friends in all parts of the country, who do not need to be told that t ey are among the very best issued. The statuette is an exact fa -simile of the colossal figure in Ixew York Harbor, of the same material, and is an exceedingly pretty and effective parlor or mantel ornament - “not for a day, but for all time.” Mrs. Leslie with her usual enterprise, has secured absolute control, for premium purposes, of the statuette, and it will be offered by no other publisher. The Frank Leslie Publications are all of a high order of ex -el’once, and enjoy well-de-jerved pqmmiity.

WHY FARMERS ARE POOR

Every M an’s n and Against Them AND ALL ON ACCOUNT OF the Tariff. Chicago Times: Everything a famer has to sell is very low; everything, or nearly everything, that the farmer has to buy is comparaively high. Wheat, over a large portion of the legion in which it is produced, brings the raiser but 50 cents a bushel. The price of grain harvesters and self-binders, however, remains the same as when wheat is worth $1 a bushel in the place where it is raised. The same is the case with the plow that turned the furrow, the harrow that pulverizes the soil, and the seeder that put in the crop. Everything that is turned off from the farm is very cheap, but everything that is turned off from the factories is very dear. The old scale of prices for farm products has been all changed, but the scale of prices for produce of manufactories remains practically unchangad. Beef, mutton and wool are all low, but posts and wire necessary to fence a pasture cost as much as they ever did. “he price of cloth is not affected aporeciably by the fall in the price of wool. A farmer may get a small price for hi s hides, but he pays a high price for the bootc and shoes and harness that he is obliged to purchase. Potatoes are cheap, but the bags in which they are put, and the wagon that is used for taking them to market, cost as much as they did when pot toes brought twice the money that they do at present. It is also noticeable that the rates of transportation, and the commission merchant’s charges for selling them, are as high as when potatoes brought $1 a bushel. Formerly the prices of articles required for food governed the prices of almost everything else. price of most articles was regulated by that of wheat, as that was regarded as the most important of all products. All this is changed now. Farmers have nothing to do in regulating prices; they take what is offered for their products, “he price of nearly every article they are obliged to purchase, however, ia regulated by associations and combinations formed among manufacturers, “he manufacturers of nerly every important article combine to limi t production and keep up prices, “liese even combine to prevent the establishment of factories similar to their own.— In many departments of manufacturing there is no competition between different establishments. A uniform scale of prices is adopted, which is rig dly adhered to. In many cases our patent laws and tariff syatem enables them to establish and perpetuate the most oppressive monopolies, “he western farmer learns the price of wheat by reading the market reports of Liverpool. lie gets no information a' out the price of cloth and articl s made from iron and steel by consulting the quotations. in the papers of Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham, “hese quotations are of no value in this country, except to enable our enterprising manufacturers to double the figures. The producers of articles or food in this country are obliged to compete with the producers of similar products in every part of the world, but our manufacturers. whose goods farmers are obliged to have, have no competition except among themselves. As before stated, they generally manage to prevent such competition. With such a state of affairs, it is no great marvel that farmers are not prosperous.

Vory Remarkable Reovery.

. Gee. V. Willing-, of Manchester, Meh , wiiles: 'My wife Ims been almost five years, so helpless that stie could not turn over in the bed alone. She,used two bodies of Electric Bitters, and is so tinijn improved, that she is able now t-> do her own work.’ C ee:r><- i'iiti rs will do all that is el iime<i tor them. Hundreds of te»ti mouials attest their greet curative pewe:s Only fiftv cents a bottle at F. EMoyer's. Aug 29~2. — ~ About tltp busiest establishment in this locality is the flouring mill near the depot, under the management of Messrs. Snyder & Stamp It is being ru i to its utmost caj acity, and the quality of the woik is very satisfactory. Victor Loughridge and Abe F Long are heme for the holiday s.

The Rochester, Rensselaer & St. Louis Railroad Revived.

A couple of prominent and reliable citizens of Winamac, last week positively assured a weil known resident of Rensselaer that the long talked of, Rochester, Rensselaer & St. Louis Railroad would certainly be built, from Rochester, Ind., to Gilman 111., during the coming year; that the contract for building it had lean let and that they had seen the articles of the agieement. The explanation of the causes of the resuscitation of this project is very plausible, and great y tends to strengthen faith in the truth of the report. The Indiana, Illinois & lowa Railway, which has heretofo>e terminated at North Ju Is m, has served as a valuable feeder for lhe Chicago & Atlantic road; but since its extension to Knox, during the present year, it has found another and better eastern out let in the Nickel Plate Road, which it intersects at Knox. The Chicago /Atlantic being thus deprived of this valuable feeder, finds it necessary to promote the building of the R. R. & St. L , to supply the deficiency. That this line, if built, would serve as a most valuable feeder to the Chicago & Atlantic, there is no room for doubt, and that company being wealthy and powerful, is a combination of circumstances which makes its early building a matter of great probability. —Republican.

We call attention of our readers to an advertisement of the Chicago Cottage Organ Company in another column, and we take pleasure in recommending to the general public a company whose Organs have attained a popular reputation for their superior musical qualities, art stic beauty, and general excellence. This company ranks among the largest and best in the United States, having capacity for manufacturing 1200 Organs per month, and its organs are shipped into nearly every inhabit able portion of the globe. The members composing the firm of the Chicago Coßage Organ Company are men of experience, n tegrity, skilled in their line, con duct their business on an equitable basis, and'their future is destined to be a bright one.

A Sad Suicide.

James Jessen, of Julian, Newton county, an old settler and a ra r >'-t estimable man, committed suicide’ on Thursday nigh", of last wee , by cutting his throat with a razjr. He had gone out in the evening ostensibly to visit a neighbor; but he failed to return, ami the next morning his body was found in his own field. The razor was his own and he had undoubtedly secreted it about his person, some time during the previous day, for the purpose of using it in the manner he finally did. He had for some time past shown a moody aud brooding disposition, and there is probably no doubt but that his mind, in some particularshad teen affi cted. He was the father of John Jessen, of Rensselaer, and himself well known to many of our citizens, especially among the old settlers. His age was about 55 years. —Republic in.

Buy overcoats for your boys at Ralph Fendig’s. He has a spierdid stock, good goods, utthe lowest figures.

A bad freight train wreck occurr< d on the L., N. A. & 0. JKaiiroad early Sunday morning, at Woodyard Station, 4 miles north of Bloomington, which resulted in the deatli of Engineer Daniel Heaphey. His train, number 34, north bound, broke in two about two miles south of the station, and in endeavoring to keep out of the way of the rear portion he ran into the station at a lively speed, and iuu into the rear section of train number 33, which was getting on lo the switch. Heaphey jumped <ff his engine just before the smash, and in doing so struck a switch and was thrown back under tiie cars and both legs cat off, and otherwise terribly m ogled. He resided nt Lafayette, where he leaves a wife and three children, — 411,

E. QU IVEY, ~ DENTIST, tT? Special attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth. Artificial teeth inserted from one io sn entire set. All work warranted. over Warners’ Hardware Store, Nov. 27.1885. Rensselaer, .nd. John Makeevbb Jay Williams, Pres.dett Cashle farmers bank, ' ’'-Public RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA Receive DsposHi Buy and Soil Exchang Collections made and promptly remitted. Money Loaned. Do a general Banging Breiness. Augurt 17,1883. Gun & Locksmith, (Shop on Biver bank, south of Schoo, House, Rensselaer, Ind.) All kinds of Iron and Wood turning, and fine wot Kim Ironi Steel and Brass, on short notice, and at reasonable rates. Give me a call. v5n4Q

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