Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1889 — FIF .Y YEARS AGO. [ARTICLE]

FIF .Y YEARS AGO.

Road ex -Senator MbDobsl’s better on Judge Wo r 4s’ charges ia the Dudley cas*-. Indictud election law violators are squealiitg on 6ach otker to U S. Attorney 'lajpool. — ♦* Senator Kenna has been reelact d to the United Stata-s Senate from West Tirgicia. ■■■ Republican Senators Plumb and Hale ' ecently, in the United States Senate, highly complimented Secretary Whitney on his success in building »p the navy.

W. W. Dudley escaped indictment in the Federal Court by but twovotes, notwithstanding Judge Woods’ “suplemental” and the political east of the grand jury He may yet be indicted. Harrison’s Secretary of State, Blaine; treasurer, ‘ mdum; postoffice, Wanamaker; iuterior Noble; attorney-general, Miller" navy, Thomas; war, Husk; agri" culture, Miller. - The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that a purchaser of real estate at an administrator s •ale is not entitled to cord wood theron, nor to crops sowed and planted by tenants of the heirs before the administrator’s petition for an order to sell wa» tiled. The wood and crops were personal property. So far the Democratic legislalure of inis State has given a black eye to ‘Trusts,’ store, school-btfok monopoly, etc.> •te. It has passed an election reform law, and we think when its labors have ended it will be found to have accomplished & vast amount of mucu-needed and wholesome legislation, in spite of the efforts of Johnson, of Wayne, DeMotte, of Porter, and other Republican obstructionists to prevent it. The new American navv provided for by a democratic administration, will when fully completed, consist of twenty-two vessels ranging from the armored cruiser Maine, carrying 444 men down to a first-class torpedo boat, carrying four officers and eighteen men.— There will be 5,786 men on board the twenty-two vessels—soo officers and 5,286 sailors and marines. So it appears that Cleveland’s ad. ministration has done much in the way of substituting an effective navy in place of the rotten hulks which were left as a legacy to the country by the management of Secor Robinson and Bill Chandler.

Tke other day in the state senate ‘windy’ Johnson, of Wayne, jumpec 1 to his feet, as usual, and made a long speech. MrJßarrett said that the senator reminded him of Paul Jones’parrot. “Paul Jones had a parrot and a terrier dog.— Jones had taught the parrot to talk a great deal, and among other things to say ‘Sic’em I’‘Bio’em!’ at the terrier. One day the par ot escaped from his cage and, seeing the terrier, began to scream, *Bic ’em!’ ‘Sic ’em!’ The terrier seeing nothing but the parrot, went for it, and in a few minutes the parrot was deprived of -its plumage and otherwise badly scratched, but happened to escape to his perch on the pest. When his master quired: ‘What parrot replied: damn much.’

Rev. Mr. Scott, chairman of the Presbytenal committee, has directed Rev. Mr. Wells to continue his labors in Rensselaer another week. Everybody invited. am Danitl 8. Makjsever, after a protracted illness, died at his resden e on Division street, Bnnday mornin K - las:, months and 16 days. He came to Jasf er county with his paren s in 1845, wher*. he has resided ever since. Funeral services were he'd it the F W. Baotist church Wedne da,. last, at iO a. m, Rev. B. F. Fergus >n inducting the same.— His remains were interred in W ston cemetery in accordance with the rites of the I. O. OF. Two sons and a daughter urvive him. Katie O. infant daughter of Isaac a a Ell* Reubelt, died oh Monday morning 1 at, aged 1 year and 5 mouths. Rav. E. G. Pelley conducted funeral services at the esi enee, Tuesday afternoon. Katie was he fi st and only child and much sympathy is felt for the bereaved parents. Remington News: *ev. E. B. Woodson is suffering from a very severe attack of pneumonia, at the home of J. E. Hollett Tb« .|patn of Esquire William Tharp is hourly expected, Axis a about 67 years, makes his case nopelsss.

Wooden clocks had only been in use one year. The daguerreotype was invented in France. The Massachusetts abolition party was organized. The Mormons were driven from Missouri to Nhuvoo, 11l The banks in -he United States resumed specie payment. John C. Fremont and Jesse Benton were secretly married. The first normal school was organized at Lexington, Mass. Old Black Hawk, the noted Indian chieftain, died at Keokuk, la. Beet sugar was first made by DaY.d L. Child, of Northampton,Mass« John Ericsson was allowed letters patent on a steam “propeller” boat. A survey was made by John Bally for a canal across Central America. The first patent was granted to Goodyear for vulcanized india-rub-ber g^ods. David G. Burnett began to serve as Acting President f the “Republic of Texas.” Was estaolished the first commercial college in America, “Com- • *r’s College” of Boston. The Cherokee lndiansjwere remove from Georgia and placed west of t e Mississippi rivwr. A law was enacted against dueling in the Distriot of Columbia. It grew out of the Cilly-Graves duel.

T. h© first stoam fire engine ever made was testedjin Now York d was invented by Captain John Ericsson. One thousand reformed drunk ards marched in procession at the first anniversary of the Washingtonian Society Ihe Sirus and Great Western, the first Ocean steamships, entered New York harbor oia their return trip No. 1. The first wheat was shipped from Chicago, amounting to seventyeight bu shels. It was sent eastward by the lakes to .Buffalo. Joseph A. Ada a. s, for the first time, made use of the idea now embodied inttheartof electrotyping by reproducing from wood “cuts.” The first power-loom for weaving carpets was set in motion by E. B. Bigelow, of Boston. Ten yards a day was its original capacity.

Congress appropriht-d 1,000 toward compiling agricultural statistics by the large importation of breadstuffs shipped to America that year. Ihe first railroad spike machine was put into use, making fifty a minute, forming both point and head. Henry Burden, of Troy, N. Y., was the inventor. It ranked among the best paying inventions of modem times. The popnlation of the United States was only 17,697,420. The census cost the government $833,427. There were slaves in all the States except Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont and Michigan.— lewa had 16 slave I Wisconsin, 11; Ohio, 3; Indiana, 9; Illinois, 331; total in all the States and Territoriee wee 2,486,228.