Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1887 — Page 1

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Alfred McCot, T. J, MoCot E. L. Hollingsworth. A- M«COY & CO., BANKEBB, (Succeeiois to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer, Ind. 0O a fiei ersl banking business. Exchange 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 "dORDECAI F. CHIX.COTE. Attorney-at-Law 1 ENSBELAEB, - INDIANA Practice? |in tin. Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vlnl 6IMONP. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer. - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. ARION L. SPITLER, Collector aud AbstractorWe pay j irtieular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B ir H. H. GRAHAM, ATTOkNEY-AT-LAW, Reesdjslatr, Indiana. Mosey to loan on lotg time at low interest. Sept. 10,‘86. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, -*‘ r T.BNEY'-AT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, £T Office up stairs, in Maieever’s new .uilding. Rent seiner. Ind. i EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885.

yyM. W WATSON, ATTORNEY -.A.T-lli.A.'W Z£jr Office up Stair?, in Leopold’s Bazar, RENSSELAER US’D. W. HARTSEEL, M D HOMCEOPATHIC ‘PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. '©“Chronic Diseases a Specialty.«jg3 OFFICE, in Makcever’s New Block'. Residence at Makeever House. July 11, 1884. . H EOUGHRIDGE Physician and Surgeon. Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, second door,right-liand side of hall: Ten per cent, interest will be added to ail accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vlni DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physiciau & Surgeon, Rensselaer , Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special attec cion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CHTUEBHS* BASKRENSSELAER, IND., ’ R. 8. Dwisgivs, F. J, Sears, Yal. Seib, - President. Vic-President. Cashier Does a general banking bustness: Certificate* bearing I ttre'st issued; Exriiance Wuekt aa i sold; Money loaned on farms t lowsst rates and ozstcsAavorablc te 8 April Via.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY: APRIL 1, 1887.

CASTORIA

for Infants and Children. “Css tori* is so well adapted to children that I CaitorU cures Colic, Constipation, (recommend it as superior toanr prescription I Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, known to me.’* H. A. Amb, U d., I EU L J 2 i ormB * « lves promotes dl1U So, SC, Brooklyn, N. Y. | Witlout°iniuiious medicattoa. Tffli Centaur Comeaux, 188 Fulton Street, N. Y.

—DEALERS IN — ■k»K B < I «3 e spin, Eowers and Binders, Deering Reapers, Mowers and Binders, Walter A. Wood Reapers, Mowers and Binders, Grand Detour Company’s Plows. Cassady Plows. Farmers’ Friend Corn Planters. Ciquillard Wagons. Bast Wire Fencing, etc. Stath Side Washington Street, RENSSELAER, INDIANA

“It (the Journal) can give notice to artists and contractors, anent the soldiers’ monument, for instance. that the bill authorizing the same has a signature, the validity of which is disputed by one >f the branches of the Legislature, and that, therefore, they will have to take their chances of having it disputed.”—lndianapolis News. “It is not creditable to the News to continually and persistently misthe Soldiers’ Monument bill was passed by the Senate before the laadlock, and that nobody disputes the validity o* the signature of the then legal presiding officer of jt. 'Che News knows that Speaker Sayre signed and had sent to the Governor every bill passed by the Senate before the 24th of February, and thabthey all became laws by virtue of such action. The News knows that nobody disputes the validity of Smith’s signature previous to that date. It knows that the House did nothing to interfere with the c urse of legislation until the Senate brutally a. d forcibly expelled the Lieuten-

ant-Governor from its chamber when he appeal ed to discharge his constitutional duties, but, on the contrary, that the House did everything it could to facilitate the completion of all legislation passed by the Senate up to that date. The position of the House was constantly maintained throughout. So much can not be said for the Democri tic Journal. We confess to amazement in reading these lines. We wish sincerely that every voter in the State could read them. Here we have the leading Republican organ of the State, wh ; ch for months assailed l. resident Smith with the vilest abuse, openly confessing - “Nobody disputes the validity of Green Smith’s signature previous to February 24.” „ Then what in the name < f all that’s decent, was the row about? Certainly nothing happened on February 24 to justify the House in refusing to operate -with the Henate». If President Smith’s signature was good before February 24, it -was good after February 24. We frankly admit we have been

thunderstruck.—lndianapolis oentjnel.

THEIR TITLES NOT COOD

Washington, March 28.—The Commissioner of the General Land Office has approved and sent to the Secretary of the Interior for transmission to Congress reports from the Surveyor General of New Mexico in private land claims, as follows: The Sierra Mosea claim for 115,200 acres. He recommends this c'aim for rejection on the ground that the evidence is not sufficient to make out a case. The Alameda (Spanish) claim for 106,274 acres. The surveyorgeneral says that the evidence in this case fails to show that the grantee ever entered into the actual possession of the land or complied with other conditions of title required by the royal laws of Spain. The claim is recommended for rejection. The Arro o He San Lorpnzo claim for 138,139 acres was also recommended for rejection for similar reasons. The San Clements claim for 89,413 acres, ond the Muestra Senora Del Pilas claim for 22,578 acres were recommended for rejection on the ground that the evidenoe of any right or title in the claimants to the tracts described had not been produced.

One of the original characters and best-known men in Indiana is Hon. Daniel Bloteher, of Scott county. He states that on April 7,1812, his father, Matthias Blotcher, arrived from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, with Jonas, Jeff and Harvey Howard. Jonas Howard was the father of Hon. Jonas G. Howard, congresman for this district, and Jeff Howard was the father of the ex-warden of the prison south. The party landed at London’ between Madison and Louisville. — Mr. Bloteher says liis father and family lived for months in a bark tent, in which one of his daughters was born.

The honorable Dan enjoys a distinction which probably no other man in Indiana can boast—that of having shaken hands with all the governors of Indiana except Governor Jennings, first governor of the state. He lias filled every office from constable to representative in Scott county, and now, nt the hale old age of seventy, feels that his cup of political honor has been filled to overflowing. “Uncle” Dan lives at Holman, wh he has a be atiful home and deer park, the antlered herd of which provides enough venison in season for himself, family an- friends, tn unique feature in stock raising in Indiana. “Uncle” Dan is the man who once saved the day for the Indiana democracy by lending an indige*. t and barefoot voter his shoes and socks to go to the polls, and afterward had to go there barefooted himself. This was when Ed. 0. Hannigan was elected to the United States senate by one vote. —Jeffersonville sp cial to Indianapolis News.

The DisaoVery of Fuitz wheat.

To the Editor of the Millstone: Sir —As you want to know when, where and how I discovered Fultz wheat, I will give you a true statement of it: In 1862 I was harvesting for my j neighbor, Mr. Christian Yeoder. I' was binding after the reaper, and as I was going along I came to a place where the wheat was all down, except three heads which were standing erect. I cut them off and put them in my hat. During the evening I handed them to Mr. Yeoder, and requested him to plant the berries, remarking that it might be a new r kind of wheat. He asked me to take and plant them, which I did that fall. The first year 1 got about half a pint from the three heads; the next year I gleaned about six quarts. At the following planting time I tried drilling, but the drill wouldn’t sow it thick enough; then I put another kind ol wheat on top and sowed them together, and at harvest time hunted out the leads of the new- wheat, and

thrashed them, obtaining something over a half bushel. Then I had more fowork with uud could drill it. Iu he harvest of 1863 I had quite a large quantity. Of the first lot 1 distributed one bushel went to Mr. C. Detjyeiler. He sowed it in an o chard along the fence, and the snow dr fted on and smothered it, so that it didn’t do very well. He pro; juneed it a fraud, but tried it again the following year, sowing three acres from which he derived ninety-seven and a half bushel.-!. It is the best wheat we have for yield, and is uniform good quality. This is the history of the discovery and start of Fultz wheat. Respectfully yours, Abram Fultz. Allenville, Mifflin county, Pa., Feb. 18.

Early Potatoes.— Beside commanding a high price, there are other oonflideratafis that come in to make the early crop of potatoes valuable. Tht Early Rose continues to Bo as go xl ai the best., not. only for tiro early but the late crop, and always fetches a remunerating price in the market. But there i* this additional advantage in the early crop—it can be harvested and removed and the ground put in good order for fall crops. The best lU.mips we hava ever known came out of a piece o| Sound D-st cleared of .ly potatoes, deed, ne do not kno v of a more Erofitable arrangement of crops than to uve turnips follow potatoes. The wound usually has to be pretty good for potatoes, but it is not essential that the manure be very much decayed. Home, indeed, contend that long, strawy manure is all tho better for a Eotato crop. The turnips, on the other and, must have the manure very well decayed, in order to give out its best results. Hence, after the potato has done with its fertilizer, there is enough left for the turnip to thrive upon. Wheat and rye also thrive very well on land which has been previously wellmanured for potatoes. In all these cases the early potato has a groat advantage over the late one. They allow of • mueb-earlier preparation of tire ground lor the subsequent crop. There is still another advantage in an early potato. In this part of the country at least the plant is subject to the attacks of the stem-borer. They usually commence their ravages about the end of June. They bore out tho whole center pith of the stems, and before the end of July the plants are all (lead, being dried up before the potato is matured. In such cases there are not often fifty bushel* of potatoes to the aero, aud of these half of them are too small to be salable. By getting the potato early in the ground and using varieties which mature early, the tubers are of pretty good size befsea tho insects got to work, and thwAkei e is a groat gain. It seems to us we ci n almost do without any more late kinds. We say nothing here of the depredations of the beetle, as it has been so completely met and overthrown aa hardly any longer to be considered as a serious injury to the crop, early or late. - Q+ravmlovm Telegraph.

Seward of Industry.

A poor friendless lad might have been seen wandering along the streets looking for employment. Ire presently halted in front of a butcher shop, and, walking boldly up to the proprietor, asked for a job. There was something in the young man’s frank, honest countenance, which struck the proprietor favorably, “ Not afraid of hard work 1” he asked, “No,” responded the lad with a trembling voice. “ I have supported my mother and two sisters for five years by hard work.” He w_as put on trial at $5 a week mauling leathery beef, and his sturdy frame and healthy constitution came in good play. One day an old lady came in t<> get some beef, and the proprietor told him to attend to the customer. “A tenderloin steak, if you please,'" said she. “Here’s a cut that nobody but the first families get,” responded the boy smilingly as he sliced off four pounds of tough round and cast it with a heavy hand on the scales, jamming it down with a quick, dexterous movement, until the indicator marked »x evv.u pounds. Then he snatched it off before the delicate machinery, used to weigh beef, had time to recoil.

“ Six pounds and a half, madam,” ho said, looking her square in the face with his clear blue eyes. The proprietor of the stall called him in that night* :®d remarking that he had watched his course carefully, added that V a reward for his quick, comprehensive away of the business he would raise his fciary to $26 per week. This shows th* advantage of doing everything well, nn4 when the boy’s mother back in New Jersey hears of bis success these will be jay in that household. Young men starting ont in life should learn to adapt themwires te their surroundings a id never gjfportgQffi |>as».—<sfoff LwU

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