Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — BLACKFORD ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD ITEMS.

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By a vote in the United States Senate the tenure-of-office law has been repealed.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.

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 ....... ..

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