Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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liant reputation and 1 rejoice in my heart that the governor ot *he great and beloved sta*e of Indiana spoke so well on such a notable and splendid national day. With kind re* gards, as ever, your friend, “D. W. VOORHEEB.” Governor Matthews immediateb ly replied as follows: Executive Department, “Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 26, '96. “My Dear Senator—l have read with pleasure your kind|note of the 19th and thank you for its generous expressions. Such commendation as yours on this subject is to be highly valued. “Although our last legislature provided no means for Indiana’s repieseutation on this great occasion, 1 still flatter myself that we, in a modest an 1 unassuming way, made a fair sLrwing. Other states made ample provision, Ohio $16.000, Illinois and other sta es $5,000. Indiana, with the second largest number of military organ* zations engaged, and her troops in the most desperate encounters on that fi-ld, through her legislature did nothing. To hive not been officially represented would have been humiliating, so we did the best we could, an* 1 believe Indi* ana held her own with other states This is a sad commentary on a republican legislature, witn all their professions for the veterans. The old sold.ers who bore the brunt of that hard battle deserved better at at their hands. “The gem of all that week was Gordon’s oration. It was classic, and magnificently delivered.— What an rator he is! I wish you could have been there, too. Sincerely yjuis, “Claude Matthews. “The Hon. D. W. Voorhees, Terre Haute, md.”

Indianapolis Sun: C. F. R. Wappenhans, who xorecasts the local weather, and often knows a g. eat dei! about it, s*ys weather history shows that every seven years this section of the country has exceedingly hot and .dry summers. At the same time there are many warm winters in the south. A hot summer is generally followed by a very cool one. One warm vear is invariably followed by a cooler one. Collectively a number of cool summers and cold winters are followed by a numb ir of worm ones. There hav9 been in the last 26 years only few interruptions in this rule. The summer just ended was warmer than the one of 1894, but the summers of 1874, 188Uand 1887 were much warmer. The mean tempeiature for last summer was 75.4. In 1874 it was 76.8: in 1881, 77.10 and in 1887 it was 75.8. The summer of 1895 will be remembered for many years as a verv Ion" and tryingone—one when Old Sol fried the earth on one side for twelve hours and then went on