Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1889 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XIII-

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yyUL. W WATSON, gp- office np Stairs, In Leopold’s Bam, rensselabr . yvT W. HAKTSEUL, M- P homoeopathic physician a surgeon. RENSSELAER, - ‘ INDIANA. vChronte Diseases a Specialty.^! OwwTCE in Makeever’s New Block. Rest- ™ dence at Makeexer House. Jnly 11.1884. , H. LOUBHBIDGE. VICTOR E. LOUGHBIDGE j, H. LOUGHBIDGE & SOM, Phvsiciana and Surgeons. Office in the new Leopold Block, secovd floor, second door right-hand side of hall. Tan per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than <hree months. VIUA DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon Renwelaer, Ind, Jallf* promptly attended. Will give special atteu Son to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. jyI'ARY E. JACKSON, M.D., PHYSICIAN ft SURGEON. Special attention given to diseases of women and children. Office on Front street, corner of Argelica. 12. .24. Zimri Dwiggihs, F. J. Seabs, Vae, Seib, ’ Presidest. Cashier CITI ZKN S’STATEBA NK RENSSBEAE2 ' Vi> Does a general banking business; Certificates bearing Interest Issued;' Exchanse bought and sold; Money loaned on farms at lowest rates and on mos;f avorable terms

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY, MAY 17 1889

FROM SOUTHEAST MARION

Rev. McGuire, of Rensse'aer* preached at the Omeara school house Sunday. Miss Avanall Daugherty is teat hing music.in 111. Miss Daugherty is an accomplished musician, and will no doubt make a successful instructor. Birthday surprise suppers is all the rage now. Joseph I Adams has erected an addition to his residence. Art. Dauglier.y is working for J. M. Wasson. A Sabbath school is to be rganized at Fh atiag Palace. The young people report a pleasant time at the party at John Gwinn’s last Saturday evening. A correspondent in last week’s Republican r jpoited that Charles Payne had left for parts unknown. It is a mistak, as Payne is working for his = brother-in-law, Jesse Smith. 01. Daugherty and 'Charley Chamberlain, after several unsuccessful attempts have at last succeeded in raising a mousctache. 3« texture and color they resemble a butterfly’s feathers.

May 13.

FROM UNION TOWNSHIP.

Pastures are excellent and cattle doing well. A petition is in circulation to locate a public highway, commencing at Moffit’s switch and extending southward to the Fair Oaks road. Frank J. Gant has been working for Alfred Donnelly, in Marion township. James Wiseman, sr., has traded farms with Levi Hodge. Survetus Girard has built an additiou to his residence and erected a new windmill besides doing considerable improving in the way of out-houses, fences, Ac. He also boasts of the best piece of wheat in the ownship, if not in the connty. Dwight Babcock, the insurance man, entertained our people last Wednesday and Thursday with big stories about lightning, fire and tornadoes, some of whieh would excite the envy of the average Dakot\ editor. Dwight has an admirable imagination and an eye to business. David W. Shields will soon erect a naw wind mill on his farm. James H. McClanahan will also erect one in his pasture north of Michael Schultz’s. Austin N. Lakin and Ma+hias Petty have leased Daniel Melon’s farm for three years. Mr. Melon has moved te Chicago. John Masterson has left for parts unknown. Barney D. Comer will soon befln the addition to his house. — eter Barker will do the carpenter work. The schools are progressing finely and teachers report good attendance for this season of the year. Somo of our people who are patrons of the Blackford post office were much disappointed over the failure of Miss Mattie Casey to secure the appointment of post mistress at that place. Miss Casey is well qualified and would have made an excellent post mistress. Her petition was signed by the best citizens of this and Barkley townships. H 3wever, one of the bosses kicked and s.iid that “no d- d Dunkard should have the office” if he could help it, and stated his grievance to Senator Thompson who in turn reported to W. D, Owen, whieh unholy combination accomplished her defeat. A man by the Barae of Stitzhas taken the place of James Nolan on the Horner farm. Nolan moved to Benton cc unty. Abe Myers has just finished building a house on George W. Casey’s land. No part of the county has improved for several years past as rapidly as this township. Even the immense bullfrogs that inhabited the marshes, whose croak is so familiar to the old time iesidents, departed during the Cleveland administration to tho dismal

sw mps of the Kankakee. 5—13. Grape Island.

Labor Troubles and Protection.

Chicago News: It is notable that at the present time the three countries of Christendom in which protectionists are the most strongly intrenched politicallv—the Unifed States, Germany and France —are those v tn whih labor is in the most restless and distracted condition. in the United States there are and have been great strikes in the iron, coal, textile and building industries. In France there is dissatisfaction on the part of nearly every department of labor—an ominously disaffected political condition among the proletariat In Germany the strike outbreak of the labor of the country is so general that it woulJ appear to be an organized co-operation of the trade centeis. in Hamburg, the masons, carpenters and plumbers are ail out, on the refusal of their employers to .nciease their wages. At Eberfieid the manufacturing works are cl os d unu the men are out. At Nuremberg the carvers and wigmakers are out! At Berlin the masons at a late meeting decided to inaugurate a general strike in the building trades. The prominent feature of the German industrial situation, meanwhile, is the rapid augmentation of what ary called ‘conventions” —another name for trusts —among manufacturers in order to artificially peg up prices. The German tariff acts having been conceived for tne protection of agriculture as well as manufactures, the effect has been to increase the cost of raw material to manufacturers and of living to artisans and agricultural laborers. Hence, on the one hand thbse strikes, and on the other such depopulation of certain rural districts of the country that it has been seriously proposed to import Chinese and Indian coolie labor to work the deserted farms. And yet during the last'presidential campaign our high tariff journals were continually calling attention to the prosperous and happy effect of Germany’s increased duties on imports.

JUNO.

The New Election [?]aw.

Frankfort Crescent: The reform legislature that just adjourned passed a law that will put an end to the election corruption in Indiana. The new law will go into effect in June, 1890, and will render the ballot absolutely secret.. One must prepare his ticket in secret, and a marked ticket will not be counted. Electioneering is not permitted within fifty feet of the polls. If some boodler buys your vote, either on an election or a primary, you can bringlsuit and recover from him any sum not more than S3OO with attorney’s fees without danger to yourself. The original process in such case as a warrant for the arrest of the offender, just as in a bastardy proceeding, and if the judgment is unpaid he may be imprisoned until it is paid. This is known as the “Lacy Bribery Law” and it is now in force. The Barrett law also provides for the fine, imprisonment and disfranchisement of any boodler vho attempts to buy votes either at an election or primary. A candid te who uses money cr promises of reward to secure his nomination or election cannot hold office. Any oie who is suspected of us r ng mo ey or promises to influence the vote of another may be challenged and he cannot then vote until he has made affidavit that the charges are untrue. If the affidavit is false he may be convicted of perjury. All these laws applies to the buyer, exclusively. The seller is not included. It breaks up the supposed respectability of corruptionists and makes them the criminals thevjare. Men who have made election reform a careful study regard the Indiana law as a model one. According to a Kansas preacher “hell is just two miles from Kansas City.” Direction not stated.

□Benton Review: lhe trial of Douglas Gobin, eharg.?d with rape, was commenced in circuit conrton Wednesday of last week and lasted until Friday evening. S. P. Thompson was on the bench. This case was a most peculiar one and intense interest was manifested in it as it progressed from the fae* that there was a belief generally held by the people that Gcbm was innocent, but was to be made to suffer, if possitle, for *he guilt of others. Conspiracy to bring about such a result was charged agains* certain parties upon the street and elsewhere and some crookedness w"s believed to exist. Burt, the other defendant, turned state’s evidence for the purpose of saving himself and swore positively that Gobm was the guilty person, and that he saw him dr g his victim into the alley at the time of the assault charged. The little girl swore as positively that Burt, accompanied by a stranger to her did the deed and that Gobin was not one of the party. On Friday evening the case was given to the jury who brought in a verdict of “not guilty” without delay. Bnrt is still under bonds but the guilty accomplice is at large. Words are insufficient to express proper contempt for those who would cause an innocent man like Gobin to suffer in jail for the crimes of villains—what must be the contempt felt when they would go farther and consign him to years of confinement and labor within the walls of the penitentiary? It is to be hoped that justice will in a righteous manner be meted out to them. Messrs. Walker & Gray and a Frankfort attorrey defended Gobin, who was prosecuted by the state, represented by Prosecutor Marshall and Issac H. Phai es

The policy of the coal barons in restricting production so as to keep up the price of coal, is causing deplorable suffering among the miners in Pennsylvania. Many of the families are destitute of the necessaries of life, and the men can find nothing to do until the operator j are ready to open the mines. Meanwhile the price cf coal is kep‘ up and the consumer is bled at one end of the route while the miner starves at tie other. Is there no remedy for such things?—Springfield Union. A good deal of a reined / would be the removal of the bounty of seventy-five cents a ton whieh th« tariff gives the coal baron. But for this he could not stop work as he pleases, eerner the market and keep np prices. Having to compete with outside coal supplies he would have to sell his goods under the same rule that the laborer who works for him has to sell his labor, namely, for what it will bring In the market. Thus the consumers woulp get coal at a steady and lower price. The miner would in the same way have work at a steady rate, The whole matter instead of being an arrangement of the coai barons would be an arrangement of the laws of supply and demand, —[lndianapolis News, republican.

Margaret Henndnck, a eolored woman residing in the Garrettsb irg Ky., pr emct, recently gave birth to twins, both of them girls and one white and one colo.’e-.'. The white one is perfectly white and tne other an African oi the deepest dye. The woman is a fullblooded negro, and these twins are one of the most wonderful freaks of nature on record. ■■■■ ■ An Italian boy in Philadelphia possesses four ears, one double ear on the left side, and two perfectly formed ears oa the right side. “What are you going to do about that dreadful black and blue swelling under youi eye?” “Weil, I’m going to try and live it down.” A swallow may not make a summer, but a frog makes a spring.

EPOCJI. The transition from long, lingering and yainful sl.Lnoss to robust health u aks an epoch In the life of theindi vidual. Such a remarkable event is treasured in the memory and the agency whereby the good health has been attained is gratefully blessed Hence it is that so much is heard in praise of Electric Bitters So many feel they owe their restorutio > to health .to the use of the Great Alter ative and Tonlo If you are troubled with any disease of Kidneys, Liver or Stomach, cf long or short standing, you will surely find relief by use jf Electric Bijters Sold a: 50c and SI per Lottie at F .. Meyet’e Drug Store 8

So old Geiural Harney is dead. Think of him as one whose name ••>as on the roll of merit when the late General U. S. Grant was a barefoot poy, rnd you may gain an idea of his age. The wires say he was born in 1800, but the Army Register re ords that Wil iam Selby Harney was born in Davidson County, Kentucky, in August, 1797. In 1818 Lieutenant Harney svood six feet three—a deep-chested, broad-shouldered young Ma -s. He chased Lafitte; served as aid to General Jackson in Florida; ascended the Missouri; had Jeff Davis under him; fought the Seminoles; fought in the Black Hawk war; got out of the “Billy Bowlegs” massacre by the skin of his teeth; fought in the Mexican war; married a rich Creole; kept in the background during the civil war; upon the death of his first wife remarried at ninety, etc., etc. There’s a life for you.—Philadelphia Record ... 1... H■ i -I.—-. # —— Rev. Edward C. Towne, late of Cambridge, but now of New York, threatens to sue Chauncy Depew for 51,500 for preparing material to be used by Mr. Depew in hiß Centennial speech. James L. Duhcan, of Hancock county has a hog nine months old with six perfectly fo±med feet; also a pig with a nose like a fish’s bill.

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