Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1890 — SENATOR VEST’S SON. [ARTICLE]

SENATOR VEST’S SON.

He Marries a St. Louii Heireait Despite Many Tribulations of a I.one Courtship. A St. Louis (Mo.) dispatch says: Alex-, ander Vest, son of Senator Vest, is the hero of a romantic courtship that has extended over five years, and has now terminated in marriage. He obtained a license to wed Katherine Servis, a social star, and an heiress. The news caused much surprise, as it was generally believed that the affair of heart which had existed between them had been broken off forever (when Miss Servis nearly a year ago jilted Vest a few days before the date set for their marriage. Vest, who is paymaster for the Granite Mountain mine, came here a year ago to wed Miss Servis. The date had been set, but much opposition developed on the part of the lady’s mother and friends. Miss Servis refused at once to make a planned trip to Europe, said she proposed to marry her sweetheart and arranged to have the ceremony take placj at a married sister’s residence. Just before the day set, however, the young lady gave way to the importunities of her friends, broke the engagement and sailed for Europe. Vest, dejected and sad, returned to his Montana home alone. A sow months later it was reported that the young man was to marry a Montana lady. Early last October Miss Servis returned from Europe and lived with her mother in the suburbs; She seemed to have lost all desire for society. That she and Vest were corresponding does not appear to have been known to anybody, but the securing of a marriage license by them is conclusive evidence that they have been writing to each other. No doubt Vest came to the city on her promise to wed him. and,after all their trials and tribulations, they are finally to find happiness m each other’s society. I Thomas A. Edison and wife, accompanied by Marchioness Demayer, daughter of Marquis Demayer, of Paris, have been uisiting relatives in Norwalk, Ohio.

Dr. Cronin and every eoußp.rutor arrented for and connected with hi* minder were republicans, and it wub because the doctor accused n. pernon who was an intimate friend of Blaine with misappropriating funds of the order ti.at he met liia death. A party closely Connected with the Clau na-Gael and r-.e.riised of complicity in the death Cronin in to-day holding an appointment from Harrison, ■ «-* « <»•*- ! n !: case of Smoot vs. the coal ! uhoed, the jury brought in a verdict for 85.000. The ease was Warmly ai d ably contested by the attorneys on both side , but the weight A evidence be big on the sid<- of iho j biintiff, and the jury being composed of as sensible aad solid men aH can be found in the county, the right prevailed.— Kentland Democrat. - —«- —— he democrats assumed control of the city govern m nit of Indianapolis last week and not only found the city treasury empty, but an overdraft of e 14,0 a O, orders to hat amount having been issued by the retiring ring. In the earlier days of the repub l * lie when a new State was admitted into the Union it was the fashion to send tin* brainiest men it had to the Henate. But the tashion lias changed. Look over the list from the two Dakotas and Washington. They have picked cut their richest men. Boocuiators, corporation attorneys, land gran-, bers, mine owners or cattle kings, hav) pushed their way to the front and have become a perilous factor 111 all legislation affecting moneyor corporate interests. -Philadelphia Itecor- ’.

Tho new governor of Virginia— Fiulip W. McKinney -was never known to utter a profane wort], never smokod, never chow id toba co and never drank liquor in his life. Although these are heinous offences which it is extremely difficult to forgive, wo wili try to rest satisfied with the fact that ho is in every other respects a gentleman, a good Democrat and a man of unimpeachable honor.—New York Herald. Mr. Yoohees the othor day introduced in the Senate a resolution having for its object the investigation of the conduct of TT, y. Attorney in advising against the arrost of the notorious Dudley on his recent visit to Indianapolis. The remarks of the Senator were not very complimentary to the trioChambers, Woods and Harrison. A few days ago the Indiana supremo court rendered a decision regarding sin olios of oflicial bonds that 1 as an important bearing through the state. Priori tho defalcation of County Clerk Sullivan, ouo of his bondsmen asked to be released, and the county com* missioners granted tho request* When Sullivan fled an effort was made to hold the released bondsman for the loss, and the cash went up to the supreme court, which has held that the bondsman was liable. The court laid down the broad doctrine jthat, while the county cbmissioners may approve official ©ends, they are not vested with power to relieve bondsmen, and cannot legally do so. Heretofore a re.'ease by a county eommis- j loner was regarded as relieving a

bondsman from liability in case of loss. There is considerable talk over what appears to he a great discrepancy m tl e sketch of Colonel Gideon C. Moody, Sen ator from South Dakota, as printed in the K’ongressionai Directory and the Records of the war of the Reoellion issued by the War department. The Congressional Directory sketch says. “Iri April, 1861, entered the service as captain in the Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry; served therein as captain, lieutenant colonel and colonel; was appointed in An gust, 1861, captain in the Nineteenth United States Infantry; resigned therefrom March, 1864.” In volume 16, part 2, “War of the Rebellion, Official Records,” page 315, is the following: “Huntsville, Ala-, Aug. 12. 1872—12 m. (Received Washington; 6:50 p. in.) ‘General Halleck: “I request authority to muster Colonel Moody, of the Ninth Indiana, out of the service. It is absolutely necessary for the good of the regiment and the service. “D. C. BuJJll, “Maj. Gen., Commanding.” On page 328, General Hal leek’s reply is printed: “Washington, D.C., Aug. 13, ’62 “Maj. Gen. Buell, Huntsville, Ala.: “You are authorized to muser out of service Colonel Moody, of the Ninth Indiana. Notify the Governor of the vacancy. “H. W. HallSok, General-in-chief.” On page 327 is the official notification; 1 12aLK|UAHt2h, HUNTSVILI& “Aug. 13,1862. Governor Morton, Indiana polio: In compliance with instructions from the War Department Colonel Moody, Ninth Indiana, will be mustered out of service. This is necessary lor the public good. 1 hope Lieutenant Colonel Blake will succeed the vacancy. He is an officer of merit. He has been in no way instrumental in the removal of Colonel Moody: on the contrary, it is done with out his knowledge or consent and in opposition to his wish to withdraw from the regi Tie date of muster out will be sent you. . “d. C BiQ-l, Maj. General.” In the beautiful and valuable collection of,cut and uncut American gems sent by Tiffany Ac Go. to the great Baris Ex position are a number of beau tiful blood-red garnets which have a curious history. They came from Fort Defiance Am’, a locality that has produced some of the finest garnets in the world. Here they are associated with the olive-green mineral peridot pebbles are called by the natives “Job’s tears;” the garnets are known as rubies.” Ants as well as scorpions, abound in the re gion, and their hills, formed of the earthy material excavated in digging their subterranean homes, are numerous on the plains. The Indians the Navajoes - and the sold ; <* , lrom the fort go out anion,,, these hills, and upon their surface, mixed with other and worthless pebbles, they find, of course in a rough state, scores of the gem stones, gar net and peridot. The jewels they gather md sell at good prices to collectors and jewel ers. Many thousands of dol lars’ worth of gems have thus reached the market.

Thousands of men, womer ’ and ehildaen, in Treverton, Pp : and the villages round aboir are suffering for food, and wih presently starve to death un less relief is rendered from without. The trouble is that the men can get no work. The reason that they can get no work is that Philadelphia and Read mg Coal and Iron Company i has a monopoly of the only val*

uable product of the country, coal, and the rich men who own that monopoly have de cided that it will pay thun better, to suspend operations for a few months than to continue them. The idleness of the entire population is noteing to these rich men. The cries of the helyless, starving women and children do not plague their ears. They consider only how bei-t to manipulate their monopoly of a natural product so as to make it pay the largest possible dividends upon watered stock, every share of which bears a lie upon its face and represents a grinding of the faces of the poor. The case is not an isolated one. it represents only the condition into which monopo** ly inevitably brings every business upon which it can fasten its fangs—a condition that makes a few rich men absolute masters and all the n-t slaves, in worse plight than plantation negroes ever were, for they were sure, at least, of food as the gift of their owners’ self-interest. It is into this condition that the monopolists seek to bring Hi the industries of the country, and it is in aid of their scheme that iniquitous tariffs, false!y called proteetive, levy burdens upon all the people and exclude them from the benefits os competitive trade. This is the use that plutocracy makes of the political power it purchases with the money it has wrung troin the unrequited labor of the poor and the helpless. -New York World.