Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1891 — Page 1

VOLUME XV

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the new RENSSELAER. IND. Ch S. DALE, Propnet > r mordecai f. chilcote. Attorney -at-Law „ . - INDIANA tl ENBBELAEB. street, opposite Court vln DAVID .1. THOMPSON 8 Attorney-at. Law. » ™ THOMPSON & Ebhssedakb. Practicein all the Courts.■ ARION L.SFITLER, Collector and. Abstractor We pay attention to paying tax . selling and leasiag lands. . H. 11. GRAHAM, ’’ ’ ATTORNEY- at-law, Kbebdblatb, Indiana. Money to loan on JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTOMKYSAT-I.AW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, in rear room over Hemphill & HoC’V store? Rensselaer, Ind. IRA W. YEOMAN, attorney at X-aiw, notary public Real Estate and Collects AemP REMINGTON, INDIANA. Will practice in all the Courts of NewtoiP listen and Jasper counties.

VICTOR E. LOUGH RIDGE , H LOUGHRIDGE & SON, Physicians an * geco „ d floor OfflCe second d r oo"r right-hand side of hall: XET“»»® e three months. - DR.1.8. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon Rensselaer, Ind. M b HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - “ vChronic Diseases a OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. ResiC deuce at Makeever House. July 11. 1884- . ““’’msident. r Vic^Pr A e“ident VAL ' Cashier CITI ZENS’STATEB A NK RENSSELAER VD Does a general banking business: Oortiflcates bearing literest issued, Exshangebw^W^^/o^^^jAaMele^nis 8 ™ 8 at lowest rates and onmosfavorable terms >jan. 8. 88. Wni, c‘Si J FARMERS BANK, F jjsrOpposite Public Square*®# Lssanm, - - - - •Receive Deposits. Buy and Sell Exchange Collections made and promptly remitted. C Money Loaned. Do a general banking Business. August 7, 1 883 - y JW. HOETON, _ . DENTIST. All diseases of teeth and gums carefully treated. Filling and Crowns a specialty . Over Ellis & Muraay’s Rensselaer, la<jl a< j £ WOOO.OO a yelr h brfnj* b’ R. ty f'iy Goodwin,Troy,N.Y.,ni v-tk i ’er, <SA yoti may not make as mu.-hj.iit • in yea quickly how to rum iron ,to v- at tlie start- »‘>d mcrr > ..j ro HE -l. Beth sexes, all ages. Ju any part of -** you can commence at home, givB •> all your time,or spare momenta only to w the work. All is new. Great pay St’RE for \>r V every worker. We start yon, famishing lAk . ’ everything. EASILY, SPEEDILY learned. I’AKTICULAKfi "FREE. Address at once. \ aGLSBOS A 10., FORT la SIU MAISK

The Democratic Sentinel.

ANOTHER “PRESS” DIAGRAM FRAUD.

Indianapolis Sentinel. The New York Press’ daily diagram seems to be a daily fraud. A good many of the stories which the Press thinks to make impressive by the uso of diagrams have been shown up, and may safely be assumed as to any of them, in the absence of conclusive evidence te the contrary, ftiat it is either wholly false or one of those half truths which are worse than square lies. Recently the Press published, with a diagram, the foillowing: A “high tariff democrat” sends us word of a firm of large manufacturers of flannels at Laporte, Ind., whose busin ss has been so stimulated by the passage t>f the McKinley bill that the cost of manufacture has been reduced. They are now able to offer, and are offering, flannels which they sold at 60 ents a yard last year, at 47 cents a yard this year. The Sentinel has been at some pains to investigate this matter, and as the results of its inquiries it is able to say: 1. That if there is a single high tariff democrat at Laporte his identity is not known to the people of that city. 2. The bestfflannels made only retail at 40 cents a yard, as everybody can demonstrate by inquiry at any dry goods store. The Press says the Laporte flannels have been reduced from 60 to 47 I "cents. When wool was $1 a pound during the war flannel only sold for 57 cents, and it sold from the Laporte mills as low as 50 cents. We are assured that flannel was never sold as high as 60 cents. 3. There has been no reduction in the prices of the flannels made at Laporte since the McKinley law took effect, and no change except that trade is a little duller than usual an ‘he mills have been shut down for some time. The price of flannels is 30 cents a yard for the best grades, weighing from four to four and a half ounces per yard, and that has been the average price for many years. Wool at Laporte is bringing the same prices as last year—from 20 io 25 cents per pound. The Laporte mill men buy mostly at Chicago, where they have large assortments to select from. The Clear Lake Woolen mills sell entirely to jobbers, Marshall, Field & co. take the bulk of their product. They get 27 to 27| cents a yard instead of 47 cents as stated by the Press, and this is the price they have been getting fer several years. 4. The letter to which the Press refers was evidently not written from Laporte, because spefils of the Fox Brotheis as the proprietor of one of the Laporte woolen mills. There was such a firm, but it was dissolved six years ago, since which time Mr. 8. Fox has been the sole proprietor of the mill. That able journal, the Laporte Argus, reprints the Press story and, among other thin?s, says: This will indeed be news to the people of Laporte. The mills have been standing still and it is understood here to be because of an unusually light demandfor flannels. Besides this, there has been no reduction in the price of flannels made here, and there never was a yard of such flannel as is made here that sold for 60 cents. * * * The whole report is a fake, and the “High Tariff Democrat” is purely au imaginary being, or some “smart Alick” republican, who is “intoxicated by the exuberance of his own verbosity.” Here, where all the facts are known, this story will create a broad?grin, but it is safe to say nobody will expect an increase of wages from the great flannel boom “caused by the McKinley bill.”— Neither will the farmers rush into town with wool to get the increased price, because “the increased price” is not yet visible to the eye of the honest granger. We have gone into some detail in exposing this fraud, because the opportunity to procure ihe exact facts was so good.— We care say that if all the New York Press’ so-called “tariff pictures” were looked into as closely the results would be the same. The Press evidently manufactures its “facts” (?), or else it obtains them from others who do. It is quite probable the “tariff picture” above exploded, which was published in the Rensselaer Republican last week, was intended for localities more remote than this, where there would be less possibility of exposure of the fraud. We venture to say the Republican will not correct the fraud upon its readers of which it was made the innocent vehicle.

A HAPPY WANAMAKER CHILD.

[New York Sun.[ A friend pf the Wanamaker family tells the following story of one of the small Wanamakers: The little girl was saying her prayers a few days ago, and, like her respected father when he got home from his Western trip a few days ago, found a great deal to thank the Lord for. "Oh, Lord,” she said, “I thank yonfoi my beautiful pony, and the cow that gives me such good mi k to drink, and for my dear father and mother and brothers and sisters, and— oh, Lord, don’t you wish von was us?”

IMPORTATION OF TIN-PLATE.

(Philadelphia Record.] The imports of tin-plate for April, 1891, were 93,782,039 pounds, valued at $3,392,274. This was nearly double the quantity imported in April, 1890. The imports for May and June will probably be still heavier. Several vessels are now on their way to this port with large consignments. If they should fail to reach their < estination before July 1 the duty to be paid would be more than doubled. Superintendent Warren is attending the State Convention of Superintendents at Indianapolis this week.

•‘A FIRM ADHERENCE TO CORRECT PRINCIPLES.”

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA FRIDAY. .JUNE 26 1891 i

HOW THE TARIFF WORKS AND “WORKS."

Indianapolis News, republican: There was a pretty little case of “going for w’ool and getting shorn," illustrated recently by the Home Market Club of Boston, which wrote to Mr. A. B. Farquahar, of York, Pa. that “having recently seen a statement attributed to you that your firm sells goods in the Latin countries south of us and in south Africa at prices from 5 to ID per cent., less than they are sold for in this country," they wanted to know if it was a fact; and they wanted to know several other things. Their thirst forknowledge was gratified, in an unexpected way, we imagine, for Mr. Farquahar answered yes, that it was true that his firm sells implements and machinery through Mexico, South America and Africa “at prices from 5 to 10 per cent, less than they are sold for in this country, and that the manufacturer who is able to export his goods can have no use for protection except to enable him to extort more money from home purchasers than he is able to get fvom tho- e abroad. He further said, in answer to questions, that his firm sent about half its manufactures abroad, and that The reason we do not get as good prices abroad as at home is that we have to compete with countries having the great advantage of free raw materials in their manufactures and the further advantage of better transportation facilities. Great Britain, in pursuance of herfree-trade policy, has for years been extending her foreign commerce; while we, pursuing an opposite policy, have left her in full possession. The Clyde ship yards arc open to every European Investor who wishes to start a line of steamers, while we must satisfy ourselves with vessels luilt at a dozen disadvantages. Further, said Mr. Farquahar, “thevalue of the raw material in a plow certainly averages more than half its total cost. We manufacture thousands of four-horse plows, for instance, for the Africanlmarket. This plow r is delivered on board vessels in New York for less than ss—about the cost of the material in it if purchased at retail prices.” Handles and beam, - - $1 00 Steel and iron, - - - 200 Boxing, freight, etc., - - 55 Total, . $3 55 —leaving about $1 for cost of labor and profit. He further goes on record thus: I would unhesitatingly favor a repeal of the duty on all the manufactured goods we make. Since we can and do export, the duty can be of no possible service: and since it tends to provoke retaliation, wo find it a serious obstacle. He adds that he believes that American manufacturers generally would be able to sell many more goods abroad than now if they had free raw material. The importation of this material would of itself stimulate a demand for American products abroad, it is difficult to estimate the percentage, but he should expect an increase of at least 25 per cent. All which we respectfully commend to the American consumer, and particularly the farmer, who can’t buy American plows within 5 or 10 per cent, as cheap as the “niggers” in Africa buy then - -all on account of our tariff.

THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.

As Illustrated by a Stoby Told by THE HUMOBOUS PbIVATE John Allfn. . Th ; Mississipians are agreed that the country needs more money. On the broad gallery of the Jackson Hot 1 there is entire unanimity as to that proposition.— And while these hot June days bring forward cotton plant, and it is nip and tuck between weeds on the one handandmule and nigger o . the other hand, the politicians discuss financial theories with great vigor and shrewdness. Private John Allen says the situation reminds him of a story about an old Virginia gentleman who had the courtly manners of a Chesterfield and not a bit of business sense. One day this old gentlemarf and Mr. Allen met, and the former inquired with great particularity after the latter’s health. Gradually leading the conversation up to what was on his mind, the old gentleman said: “Mr. Allen, you are a man of general information. Can you tell me how I shall go about it to getja loan from the bank. I need a small amount of money. I have very little acquaintance with these finan. cial matters, and it occurred to me that you could tell me the best way to go about it.“ -Oh, yes!" Mr. Allen said, “I can tell you how it is done. The transaction is a simple one. How much do you want? ” “Only SSOO, sah!” replied the old gentleman. “Well,” said Mr. Allen, “all you have to do is to go to the bank and deposit your collateral. The bank will at once advance the money to you, ” “ Collateral?” ’ inquired the old gentleman, looking a little puzzled. “Yes,” said Mr. Allen; “say SSOO in U. S. bonds, or something as good. There is no trouble at all about getting the money.” The old gentleman’s face cleared up as he said: “Oh, yes I understand. Thank you, sah, for the information, ” and passed on as if entirely satisfied. A few days after that Mr. Allen met his venerable and respected friend. After the usual prolonged greetings and inquiries, the old gentleman suddenly asked: “Oh, Mr. Allen, as to that matter we were speak - ing about the other day— can you tell me wheie I could get about SSOO in United States bonds?”—Jackson special St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Elder L. E. Murry, of Delphi, will preach in the new Christian church next Monday evening, at 7:30. The Missionary Baptist church will hold services in the Court| House next Sunday..—Sunday school at 9:30 a. m.; Preaching at 10:45.

Bargains: * Bargains: —HT THE—CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Another large uurchase at the fountain-head where Every Dollar was made to do double duty in buying at the vGreat Clearance Sales*? Of Summer Dry Goods, Shoes, Slippers, Clothing, Hate, etc., etcA Great Reduction in CLOTHING.

—AND— Ladies' Spring and Summer Jackets; And if you want to save a hard-earned dollar come early to the Pioneer store of Low Prices in Uard j Goods, f And secure the Matchless Borgains now offered at one price, for cash below all competition, at the Chicago bargain store?)

GOSPELTEMPERANCt y xro g’x’axn.xxie, —AT THE—COURT HOUSE, RENSSELAER, INDIANA, Sunday. June 28 1891, 2:30 r. m. 1. Openingßong—No. 21. 2. Scripture dreading by Mrs. Wasson. 3. Prayer, by Rev. I. I. Gorby. 4. Song—No. 10. 5. Miscellaneous business. 6. Speech, by Rev. T. F. Drake. 7. Declamation, by Mary Peacock. 8. Oration, by Horace Henkle. 9. Musio—Allie Kinney and Nellie Hooking. 10. Declamation, by Flossie Wright. 11. Speech, by Charlie Bine. 12. Declamation, by Pearl Hollister. 13. Singing and signin 'the pledge. 14. Benediction, by Rev. T. F. Drake. HOWARD L. WILSON, Chm’n Programme Com. James F. Antbim. Secy

Monon Excursions.

GRAND INTERSTATE DRILL TOURNAMENT. The Monon will sell excursion tickets at one lowest limited first class fare for the round trip, on the occasion of the Grand Interstate Drill Tournament at Indianapolis, Ind., June 30th to July 7th, 1891. -Tickets to be sold July 2d, to be pood going only on date of sale, and limited to return until and including July 6th, 1891. For Military Companies of not less than 20, traveling together in uniform, on one solid ticket in each direction, a rate of one cent per mile, distance traveled, per capita may be made: tickets to be good for continuous passage only, good to arrive at Indianapolis not later than July 2d, 1891, and good returning on July 6th 1891, only.

FOR THE MEETING OF THE SONS OF VETERANS Of Indiana it Lafayette, Ind., June 22d to 25th, 1891, the Monon will sell excursion tickets at one fare for the found trip from points in Indiana oulv; tickets may be sold June 21st to 22d, good going only on date of rale and good retmrning until and including June 26th, 1891. For the meeting of the Annual Session of the Island Park Assembdy at Roms City, Indiana, the Monon will sell excursion tickets at one lowest limited first class fare for the round trip from all points in Indiana; tickets to be sold July 27th to August 12th inclusive, to be good going only on date of sale and good to return until and including August 15th, 1891. The Monon, as usual, will sell excursion tickets July 3d and 4th to all points on its lines, good returning until July th at one first class fare for round trip.

BUCKLEN’S ARNICA SALVE. The Best Salve in the world for Ouh, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fev ; r Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or.no pay required. Il is guaranteed to give satisfaction, or meney refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by F. B. Meyer, MY ENTIRE LINE —OF—DRYGOODS Will be sold without REGARD TO COST! Until further disposition is made. Ludd Hopkins.

Horace Peacock is filling up his new shop on Washington street, opposite the Nowels House, with a large stock of harness, bridles, haltere, etc., etc., of his own manufacture, and made from the best material in the market. Prices reasonable. Those in want of goods in his line are respectfully invited to give him a call. He solicits an inspection of his work before going elsewhere.

Advertised Letters—nA 0 ? 11 Franze Scheid, Miss Inez Walker, Mr. Henry Zacher, Mr. Wm. Zuik. Persons calling for letters in the above list will please say they are advertised. Ed. Rhoades. Drunkenness, or the Diauor Habit, positively Cured by administering Dr Haines’ Golden Specific. It manufactured ae a powder, which can be given in a glass of beer, a cun of coffee or tea, or in so >d, without the knowledge of the patient It is aosolutelj harmless, and will effect a perml anent "ure, whether the patient is a moder >te drf Kes or an alcoholick It has been gived tn thousands of cases, and in every instance a perfect cure has followed It never fails. The system once impregnated with the Specific, it comes an ntter impossibility f r toe liquor 'ippetitc to exist . Cares gu«rranteed book of particulars free. Address GOLDEN SPECIFIC CO.. 185 Kace St., Cincinnati, O. vlsnl-ly The estibule north. Thursday afterternoon, killed a Jersey cow belonging to T. F. Clark.

NUMBER 23

AT RENSSELAER. JULY 4, ’9l. It Ml Surely Take Place.

A GRAND BALLOON 011 And Parachute Leap. By Prof. M. M. Foreman, Of Peoria, 111., One of the most successful and Daring Sky Skimmers of the Age. Hon. Dudley H. Chase, Of Logansport, principal Orator of the day. A Matched Game of BASE BALL Between the Famous Indian Nine, the Young Americans of Rensselaer and the Goodland Club. An Original and Highly Improved WILD WEST SHOW. 100 yards Foot Race; 500 yards Foot Race; Potato Race. Music by the Monticello Band, of Eighteen Pieces.

Judge H nimond is presiding over the Cass Circuit Court this week. A meeting of the W.-C. T. U. at the M. E. church, Tuesday, June 30th. E. L. Hollingswirth and wife have returned from Texas. Hon. Geo. H. Brown, wife, and daughter, Mrs. Kerr, are visiting relatives in Missouri. They expect to return to Rensselaer this week. The Range Line gravel road case has been appealed from the Commissioners' to the Circuit Court. The Masonic pic-nic held in Spitler’s grove, at this place, Wednesday, was largely attended and highly enjoyed by brethren and invited guests, Harvey W. Wood, having declined the appointment of County Assessor. Mr. 0. E. Mills, of Carpenter township has been selected for the position. John W. Paxton has invested in Rensselaer lots, and will erect a residence at an early day. John Sullivan has purchased the lot adjoining his residence and moved his outbuildings thereon. John has now a handsome and substantially improved property —— Th old Baptist church building has been demolished preparatory to the erection of a new edifice on the old site. Nick Zimmer has taken change of venfrom this township to Hanging Grove. Mr . Jno. D. Stokes, of Easthampton, N. Y., and Mrs, J. J. Hane, of Marion, O. the former a sister and the latter a cousin of Jay W. Williams, are visiting Mr. W. and family in Rensselaer. Mis. Mary Beadenkopp, of Delaware, is visiting her brother, Geo. McCarthy, at, this pl ce. John King has a new girl at the restaurant, and is happy.