Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1890 — EAGLE KILLS A DEER. [ARTICLE]

EAGLE KILLS A DEER.

“Jasoer,” in the Republican this week, in response to the statement of present prices of cereals, bee', and farm products g morally, published in the Sentinel, says: yes! I an recollect when »y father got 37^cents per bushel for wheat, 12 cents for corn, certs foi dressed pork and less than 1 cent for beef. Those weie in the good old Democratic days, “befo’ de war.” Yes, in thinly populated and widely scattered settlements, with no demand at home, no quick transit, and the comparatively cheap transportation of to-da , such was no doubt the case but it ean be no argument in defense of the low ruling prices that now exist. In anothsr column we publish a communication from the lato republican attorney general, D. P. Baldwin, which should prove profitable reading to “Jasper.” The Republican cheerfully gave space for the “Lamentations” of its republican friend Bill Jones, and permit him ato censure hiu wife to his heart’s content, but would yield no spaoe to another equally good republican who de* sired to give his reasons why the present trustee should not be renominated. Had the parties been Democrat.! the Republican would not have required the name of the author to be attached thereto tj insure its publication. The Supreme Court of the State of Indiana has decided that the School Book Law is constitutional, mandatory, very binding, must be obeyed, and that the Trustees must do their duty. Had the majority of the tiusteesof Jasper county obeyed tue law a consider* able sum of money would have been saved to the patrons of our schools. The republican trustees in Jas* per county thought themselveg bigger than the Legislature, but they will haidly antagonize the Supreme Court. 12,619,50 was saved 4 to the sflioo 1 patrons of White county the present term. Trustees obeyed the law. The young ladies of Hammond have formed a protection Ciub, with a constitution as long as your arm, wherein they refuse to recognize young men who frequent saloons, and drink of the firewater. Be careful what you write op a postal card. The extreme penalty for writing on a postal card any thing intended to reflect injurious, ly upon the character of another, is a fin* of SSOO and imprisonment for five years. The editor of the Edgar (Neb.) Times says he regrets “that butchers who buy fat cows at two cenls a pound and sell steak at fifteen cents a pound, cannot afford to advertise, but, thank God, liver is on the free list.”

The swindlers who are about to ruvide “an immense estate” in Europe among heirs in this country are industriously working Indiana again. It is curious how the fools will bite at thin bait and send money to hunt up proof of their heirship. The School Book Trust, thei* 1 hired agents and tools, are flooding the Stat? with circulars, endeavoring to make the people believe that the new School Book £>aw of Indiana is a failure; that the books selected and adopted by the State Board of Education are j not near so good as those published by the monopoly houses. The

following statements made by County School Superintendents in their official capacity, to the County •omirissioners, show the savings to .he people by the adoption o. *he new school books: Dear* boi-, *1,496.06; Green, $1,893.10; DeKaib $1,773.90; Martin, $615.* P n ‘ Sc tt, 1*839.70; W $869.15; Gib <>1.292.05; Tipton. *680; Mar hall. $1,748.35; Sullivan, $2,140.76; losev, $1,803.50; Warrick, $2,156.40; Pike, $1,148.38; Uinton. $1,676.15; Well >,494.65: White $2,613.5'*; L 619 5o; Dubom,£l,3v. , t 2 809.95; LaPorte, $3,582.05 f an<liu, $939 rw;Crawford;s6/i; ‘Tad-.on, $2,629.55; Union. $681.75. These am unts *how the sa ings to the patrons of the sch ols in the countries named for one-quar-iur. No man shouin be elected to the office of trustee in Porter county, at the ensuing April olection, who is not in favor of the new school book law and the adoption of the new books in our sehools. Down with the monopo’y school books.

An Odd Happening on Twin lake Stream In the Adirondacks. James D. Sloan killed an eagle over on Twin Lake Stream recently under circumstanoes that have excited a good deal of interest among the woodsmen, writes a .North wood, N. Y., correspondent. Sloan was looking for a suitable spruce for shingles. He was carrying his rifle, he says, on account of the possibility of seeing a rabbit or a bear, two sorts of game now in season. About two miles below the North Lake road two large birds flev up from the brush before him very unexpectedly and alighted in a tree not more than six rods away. Sloan thought they were hawks, but of such enormous size that he at once raised his rifle and shot the largest one, when the other flew off in & lumbering fashion and disappeared. Then Sloan looked at the bird and found that it was a real bald-headed eagle, with wings that spread a bit wider than he could span with his arms, or perhaps 6J feet. On examining the brush where the birds were first seen the body of a freshly killed fawn, born last spring, was found. It had been killed by the eagles, and they had then eaten so much of it that apparently they were too tired to lly far when alarmed. Eagles, and especially bald eagles, are rarely seen in this country, while the oldest inhabitant does not remember such a circumstance as a deer being killed by them.