Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1874 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, Friday, N0v.27,1874.

Of Beechers church there are twelve member* who have offered him SIO,OOO to prosecute libel suits against the news--407 convicts are in the State Prison South at present, which is said to be the largest number of convicts ever incarcerated there since the Northern Prison was established. Grangers in ‘Wisconsin have on hand $250,000 toward a State Agricultural Implement Society. There is a movement on foot in Tennessee to establish a similar enterprise. It is announced that on the first day of December the railway companies will advance their freight rates and reduce the wages of employee. If such a thing is done we may expect a huge strike. It is proposed by the Grangers in the counties bordering the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, between St. Louis and Jefferson City, to organise a joint stock association, to run a line of steamers between the two cities. The Logansport Journal aays there were ninety-four Democratic votes in the last congress, and of these, fifty-two were obliged to take the modified rebel oath before they could take their seats. This is the material which will control a Democratic congress should the country ever be afflicted with such a body. In an article entitled “The Grange the Farmers’.University,” a late number of the Northern Granger gives the following sensible and good example and suggestive remarks: “The perfection of the Grange will be reached only when those who been reared under its influences are as intellectual, as refined and as polished as the best class of the inhabitants of our larger towns and cities, without their follies, immoralities and vices. By joint efforts, through’the medium of the Grange, libraries can easily be procured, lectures delivered, and various means of instruction and entertainment provided at a trifling expense to the individual, but of the greatest value to all. Each of one hundred members bv contributing the small sum of one dollar towards the purchase of a Grange library, would thereby place it in the power of each member to enjoy the advantages of a hundred dollar library, all for .the inconsiderable sum of one dollar. Such is the value of co-operation.— Thus, through the instrumentality of the Grange, do we place in our homes hundreds of good books and scores of conveniences and pleasures which are practicably unattainable by the individual. It will have been noticed by all who are observant that those fanners who are best informed, are the most prosperous and most contented. This is true of other occupations as well as that of farming, but it is of the occupation of agriculture only that we speak at this time. Farmers generally, and especially farmers’ wives, are overworked. They work too many hours in a day, too many days in a week, and too many weeks in a year. — Nothing is thus gained in the end by thus slaving the life away. Though most farmers regard it a neeessity, yet it is thro' the Grange that we are to learn better; and the sooner we set about it the soonei shall we see that we might have done sc before. Let us get together in the Grange, and by thinking a little, devise some plan of dividing our hard work with the sleek and well-fed middle-man, and of sharing a portion of his elegant leisure. Of course he will object to this show oi generosity on our part, but we must press our courtesy upon him until there shall be something like a fair distribution oi the good things of this world betwee n us We do not demand extraordinary privileges ;we demand justice. We do col labor to pull others down ; we labor t< build ourselves up. Six thousand yean of single-handed effort has failed to accomplish any satisfactory results iu that direction, and it is but the part of common wisdom to try other means to lighter our labors and enhance our profits. The Grange is the salvation of th< farmer, and neeeds only to be maintained by energetic, intelligent, and, above all harmonious action, to accomplish all th< desirable results within the scope of anj human institution. Stand by the Grange, then! .Sustain it by zealous labor, and the persistence which of itself insure* success. With it you are sovereign* with your soepters in your hands; without it you are on the high road to vassal age.

Mach has been said in efforts to account for the Republican reverses in the late elections, and to make them seem no }>ermanent defeat or disapproval by the jxjople. We have thought it might be partly owing to Republicans, in power so long, and confident of their majority, not duly heeding the unprecedented former’s movement during two years .past, so as to

ascertain, and satisfy, so far as possible and right, their claims. The agriculturists procure the sustenance we all depend on; and are hence the most important class of people, worthy of the most consideration. When they clamor for some right against some wrong we may presume the wrong exists, however it may be misunderstood. The matter should receive attention and investigation, and the right! of labor guarded and secured. If the late Republican defeat shall cause the party to consider duly every interest of labor and exchange in due regard to its importance, and thereby enlist the laboring and all industrial classes generally in their cause, and in political co-operation, giving farmers interests due prominence, not as against but in connection with all others, their fall will turn to good. — Valparaiso Mdette.

FATAL ACCIDENT.

Two Mob Killed and Five Injured by the Fall of a Wall. The following telegram we found in the Inter-Ocean of Monday last: » [Special Telegram to the Inter- Ocean. J South Bxnd, Ind., Nov. 22.—About 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, while some la* borers were engaged in digging a trench for the purpose of laying sewer-pipes alongside atwo-stery sixteen inch wall, forty-five feet long, of Studebaker Brothers’ new wagon works, it fell with a terrible crash, killing two men and seriously injuring four others, one, it is feared, fatally. The ditchers had been warned not to dig deeper than the foundation, as the building was not completed and the mortar still green. They disobeyed orders, undermined the wall, and the catastrophe followed. The two victims were Daniel Donovan and Godfrey Goerst. Three others had been with them in the ditob, but were ordered elsewhere a few minutes previous to the accident. Donovan had a bruise on his left temple, and his right leg was broken. Goerst’s right ankle was crushed. Neither of them had received bodily injuries sufficient to cause death.— They had evidently been suffocated. The four men who escaped with their lives were Wilson Overacker, Marshal Urquhart, John W. Harbon, and Lorenz Jackowaick. These men were carpenters, who, at the time of the accident, were at work on a beam in the second story, one end of which rested on the walL Overacker’s recovery is doubtful, but the injuries of the others are not so severe. , Less than an hour after the fall of the wall, while a crowd of laborers were engaged ia clearing away the debris, a portion of the overhanging roof and flooring gave way, breaking the leg of Paul Gyzilski. This afternoon a meeting of mechanics was held at the Opera House, when resolutions of condolence were adopted and steps taken for holding another meeting to-mor-, row night to. provide for raising a fund to defray the funeral expenses and give aid to the sufferers, who will not be able to work for some time. The damage to the building is estimated at $1,600.

An Address.

To the People of Jasper County: As was some time since intimated would be the case, the day has come in which you are called upon to render substantial assistance to the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago division of the Chicago & South Atlantio railroad. This Company asks the people of Jasper county to subscribe and donate the sum of $75,000 to further the enterprise. No payment is demanded until the road is completed to Rensselaer, and a train of cars has passed over it. The project is an earnest one, the Company promising to complete their work by the first day of January, 1875, or all subscriptions are void. Parties are actively soliciting for private subscriptions. Many citizens who own bfit little property subscribe liberally, while others who own many broad acres, contiguous to,_and near our town, positively refuse to assist in the work. Unless owners of land lying within a few miles of stations proposed to be locate by the road subscribe largely, it will be impossible to raise the amount of local aid required, without resorting to taxation. The prospect now is, that the voluntary subscriptions offered will not exceed $35,000 or $40,000. This will be taken by a very few of those who will be benefited by the construction of the road. If the amount required cannot be raised by subscription, the voters in the townships through which the line of the road passes will have an opportunity presented them to vote a two per cent tax, which will raise $1,300 in Milroy township, $16,800 in Marion, $5,000 in Newton and SI,OOO in Union, or $24,000 in all, leaving still in addition to the $35,000 or $40,000 made up by private subscriptions, 10,000 or 15,000 dollars to be raised otherwise. Should this proposit ion promise to be unsuccessful, an effort will be made to vote* a county tax of three-fourths of one per cent., which will raise nearly 30,000 dollars, then a tax of one and one-fourth per cefit. additional in the several townships through which the road will pass, will add a little over 10,000 dollars more,s when the remaining 35,000 will be subscribed, without doubt, by the willing friends of public improvement. The law has been materially amended since we voted the two per cent, tax in 1871. December 24th, 1872, a supplemental act was passed by the legislature requiring the levy to be released in case

that the railroad is not completed. Section 3 of said supplemental act is as follows: “In all cases where the levies of taxee have been made in pursuance of said act and remain uncollected, end such railroad company has failed to oommenoe work on, or to complete such railroad as required by said act, the tax-payers or parties against whom said levies stand charged, shell be released and discharged from the payment thereof."

The original act was further modified by a law passed January 30th, 1873, section 2 of which reads as follows: “In nil enses whore stock has been taken or donations made by any county or township for the purpose of aiding in the construction of any railroad pursuant to the above entitled act, and the special tax authorised thereby bat been placed upon the duplicate of the proper county for collection, the auditor and treasurer of such county shall suspend the collection of snob tax, but the .same shall be carried forward on the duplicate without being returned delinquent, until such road is permanently, located in said county or township, and has expended an amount of money in the actual construction of said railroad in said county or township equal to the amount of the money to be donated to or stock to be taken in said railroad company by caid county or township; and if said railroad company shall not, within three years after said tax has been placed upon the duplicate of the proper county for collection, have expended in the actual construction of said railroad in said county or township, an amount of money equal to the amount of money to be donated to or stock to be taken in said railroad company by said county or township, the a board of commissioners may, in their

discretion, make an order annulling and canceling such subscriptions of stock or donations of m 'ney, upon the application of twenty-five free holders of the county through which said railroad shall pass, upon said free holders having given thirty days public notice immediately preceding the term of the commissioners court at which said application is to be made, of their intention to make said application; Pro tided, further, that whenever it is shown to the satisfaction of the board of commissioners that the amount of work done by any railroad company in aDy county or township taking stock in or donating money to such railroad company is equal to the stock taken or donation made, it shall be the duty of the board of commissioners to order said tax to be collectedjat once, as though the same had never been suspended.” The taxable property of Jasper county, as shown by the present tax duplicate, is as follows:

TOWNSHIPS. VALUE OF PROPERTY

Hanging Qrove $ 244,553 f $ 1,834.04 Gillam 293,133 f 2,198,60 Walker 147,724 I 1,107.43 Barkley 853,821 f 2,653.74 Marion and twn 1 of Rensselaer / 843,945 2 16,878.90 Jordan .. 272,208 f 2,041.68 Newton 268,662 2 6,073.24 Keener 114,892 f 861.69 Kank.-tkeee 109,181 4 818.85 Wheatfield 129,667 f 972.60 Carpenter and 1 twn Remingt’n j 1,081,087 | 6,308 15 Milroy 66,425 2 1,308.50 Union 140,116 f 1,050.87 Total tax in county $43,098.44 Making allowance for difference in appraisement and loss in collection, should a majority vote for taxation, it would realize, counting two per cent, in townships through which the road will pass, and three-fourths of one per cent, in the balance of the county, 40,000 dollars; leaving 35,000 dollars to be procured by private subscription, which amount will be made up mostly in Marion and Newton townships. Marion township will have to contribute about 30,000 dollars of it, making her proportion at least slg per cent., and in individual cases from ten to thirty per cent, on taxable value of property. Let the citizens of Jasper county act' as becomes them in this emergency, and none will regret having aided an enterprise that will enhance the wealth of the county, and benefit its inhabitants. It will provide home markets for all surplus products. It will add to the value of every acre of land in the county. The road bed, rolling stock, warehouses, depot buildings and telegraph lines will add not less than 350,000 dollars more value on the tax duplicate of our county. While building the road labor will be in demand at good wages, money will be put in circulation in the county, business will revive, and times will be very much bettered. All we have to sell will command larger prices, and what we must buy can be obtained at less cost. We call your attention in this connection especially to lumber, all kinds of buildißg material, and the shipment of grain. The above and foregoing statements are respectfully submitted for the earnest and candid consideration of our fellewcitizens. Alfred McCot, A. Leopold, Thos. Boroughs, D. I. Jackson, Simon P. Thompson, November 16,1874. Committee.

Railroad Store.

Go to W. S. Bedford's for prints, muslins, gents' and ladies’ tarnishing goods, etc.— Good* are all new and will be sold cheap.— Has on hands a tall Btock es clocks, watches, jewelry, etc., with a full line of holiday goods. Also a first-class assortment of table and pocket cutlery, and tbo best and cheapest cigars in town.

A boy in California whose tongue protraded four inches from his mouth, has had it cut off to the common length and rounded sdf at the end, and now it looks and seems like other people’s.— Valparaiso Vidette. Yes, we havo seen a great many people in our life whose tongues are too long, and who ought to follow the example of this boy.

PITTSBURG, CINCINNATI & St. LOUIS RAILWAY. CONDENSED TIME CARD. amuranßus svati wsm MAY 31st, 1874, GOING WEST. . ZZ, *• Pittsburgh ....jiMn, m,. .6*26 a. m. Columbus,... .~J.'R,BO “ 6,26 p, m. Urbana, ..............12,06 p, tn. 7,68 “ Piqua, A....1/1S “ 9,06 “ Bradford Junction,.l,4o “ 9,86 “ Union City, >2,66 “ 10.60 “ Ridgevi11e,............8,80 “ 11,27 “ Hartford . 4.27 “ 1: ,27 a,m Marion, 6,20 “ 1,16 “ Bunker Hill 6,38 “ 2,21 “ Logansport, —7,10 “ 8,00 « Reynolds, > ** 9,02 “ State Line, - p,m. 10,40 “ GOING EAST. Wo. 5. Wo. T State Line >6,66 p,m, Reynolds, 8,46 “ Logansport, 6,40 a,tn. 8,80 p,ra. Bunker HiU, >...7,25 “ 4,10 “ Marion, B,B£ “ 250 “ Hartford 9.30 •« 6,08 “ Ridgeville, .......10.23 “ 7,04 “ Union City,........—10,67 *• 7,40 “ Bradford Junction,ll,6o “ 8,86 “ Piqua,.... 12,88 p. m. 9,06 “ Urbana 1,48 “ 10,01 “ Columbus, 8,40 “ 11,40 “ Pittsburgh, —.12,01a,m, 6,66 a,m. No. 10 leaves Bradford Daily, except Sunday, and will arrive in State Line daily, except Monday, and in Chicago at 8.00 A.M. daily. Alt other trains ran daily, except Sunday. Nos. 6,6, and 7 have no Chicago connections. T - W.-IirO’BRIEN, General Passenger tfe Ticket Agent. TRAINS PASS REMINGTON TO-WIT : Going West. - Going East. Mail A Ex 9: 46 A M Mail AExBOO P M Accom’tion 820 P M Accom’tiom 603 A M Accom’tion 800 P M Accom’tion 840 A M ROBERT PARKER, Agent.

Wilcox's SEWING MACHINE MOTOR FOR MANUFACTURERS AMD HOUSEHOLD USE. Considered by Physicians and others as THE Ladies Friend! It can be readily attached to any make of Sewing Machine. It makes 1000 revolutions per minute without the slightest assistance from the operator except to the speed and to start it. It will run one hour at full speed without renewal of potfer, which can be renewed by a six year Old child. Price $16.00, sent C. O. D. provided one third of the price accompany the order, wkich is only a necessary precaution to secure us against loss. The Machine may be returned and the money refunded provided it will not perform all we claim for it. Agents Wanted in every County in this State with whom liberal arrangements will be made and exclusive rights sold. Correspondents should be particular to write their address plain and full. BENSON A MURRAY, Prop’s., 2 Iron Block, Indianapolis, Indians. • -tJ [nß,4w]

am’m t of TAX.

RATS

Excellent Lands A»» Cheap Homes For the Industrious HUMIDITY! ... f I? ■ Ho! Every One who Desires to Hake Profitable Investments in Land! The Lands of the ,-j INDIANA & ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY in Jasper county, Indiana, are new pntupon the market for sale, for the first time. They were Selected with Great Care some twenty yeaas ago, and many of them comprise the BUST FARMING AND GRAZING LANDS IK OCR COENTT. They consist of about 10,000 ACRES, FAR T PRAIRIE AND PART TIMBER! well located os to roads and school houses, and will make Desirable* 1 Farms for partied' wishing tor Secure permanent homes. *->t Lands generally in this county are rapidly increasing in value, and are being readily taken by actual prices asked for them. So ihoeewka-waitt to seoure GOOD INVESTMENTS 4 had better attend to the matter at once. Propositions to purchase any or all of these lands, IN LARGE OR SMALL QUANTITIES, will be received by the undersigned at the Clerk’s office in Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, who will at all times take great pleasnie in showing the lands and famishing all necessary information'as to quality, price and terms of sale. Title perfect. MARION L. SPITLER, Agent for Trustee of Ind. & 111. C. R. W. Co. [D-ly.]

~ TIE OLD LIKE DEOO STORE! HARDING & WILLEY, Would say that they are ready a 1 all times to wait on their customers. They keep Constantly on hand a good and fresh supply of Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, And Dye Stuffs THEY KEEP A GOOD SUPPLY OX SCHOOL BOOKS, PAPER, ENVELOPS ; PENCILS , TOILET SOAPS, PERFUMERY Ac. ALSO, ALL THE POPULAR PATENT MEDICINES OF THE DAY. Phy siciaOm Prescriptions CAREFULLY prepared. We are ready at all times to see ou FRIENDS.

We Mean Buisness for the Year 1874! WE wish to call your attention to our Stock of Saddlery. We have the largest and most complete Stook of Saddlery Ware ever kept in this county, consisting of SADDLES OF ALL THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS. Long and Short Tug Harness, Horse and Mulb Collars, Sww ny Collars made on purpose for horses having lumps on the sides of their necks. Plow and Stage Hames for Horses, Short Haines on purpose for Mules and Small Horses, — TRACE CHAINS, HALTER CHAINB, TEAM, WAGON AND BUGGY WHIPS, &c., &c., &c. Together with a Large Stock of Oak tanned leather and Saddlery Hardware Of all kinds, all of which WE will Sell Lower than any other Shop in this or adjoining Counties, Grangers or any Other Men for CASH* We have been over EIGHTEEN YEARS in the COUNTY, and sold over 860 sets of light and heavy Harness in the last TWO YEARS. It is our'intention to make this our permanent home; and wish •to deal fairly with our customers, that we may always hove their trade. WE WARRANT OUR WORK TO WEAR WELL, AND NOT TO RIP OR GIVE WAY WITH FAIR USAGE. WJS also have for sale the Singer Sewing Machine and fixings. Also, Home, Grover & Baker and Common Sense needles, and Machine Oils. Respectfully Yours, Win. H. A €. RHOADES, Manufacturers, Rensselaer, Ind.

A. SOLEMN MET! No Matter Who the other Man is, BUT, WILLSTdSIGLER, THANKFUL for p«st favors, and content with the Reward of Merit, Quo be found at their old Stand in the Post-Office BUILDING, with the LAJ&GEBI assortment of DRY GOODS, BOOTS A SHOES, READY MADE CLOTHING, HATS, GAPS, GROERIESYANKEE NOTIONS, Ac., Ac., Ac. In fwt Ever, thing thnt enn bn foond in n well Selected »tcck or O«nenit M.*CH.!t.. nm K»«r offered to the Pnhllc in <hli Merkel. All of which the, doBEU. the LARGEST AMOUNT for the LEAST MONEY of any firm nr TOWNDon't pass Them by in search of something new. Square Dealing is their Motto. CALL AND SEE THEIR GOODS BEFORE BUYING.

WO. 1006. New Goons at the Pioneer Stoke of F. J. SEARS & CO., DEALERS IN STAPLE # FANCY Dr? Goods, Boots & Shoes, Groceries, Clothing, £c. AU Goods Cheap For CASH. Call and be Satisfied of the FACT. Rensselaer, - - Ind.

HOPKINS’ CORNER! lows STRICT attention to business & have note fortune yet; nor have I “Basted” yet. To avoid the “Bust” I only buy what GOODS My money will pay for at the time of . purchase. FIVE PER GENT. PROFIT. I pay no rents. Pay no Clerks, and what is better for all parties, SELL FOB CASH OR ITS EQUIVALENT. Ltjdd Hopkins.

Snul Display of In DRY GOODS, AT the OLD RELIABLE cheap CASH STORE, IN THE STONE BUILDING. Has just received for the coming seesen a full line of ALPACAS, BLACK MOHAIRS, BLACK CASSIMERES, * BROWN & BLACK MUSLINS, TABLE LINEN, TOWELS A* Also, a foil line of Ready Hade Clothing, mmd Beets and Shoes; A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF WINTER SHAWLS, AND LADIES' FURNISHING GOODS. Call and Examine Stock Before purchasing. R. FENDIG. nl In,

Headquarters, in Rensselaer, FDR BUILDERS’ HARDWARE MECHANICS TOOLS, CUTLERY .TINWARE, STOVES, NAILS, Ac,, Ac.,' &c n at the “LIBERAL CORNER.’* * V Our stock will; be found to embrace t)-> ,< most every conceivable, article in .the Hard- • ware line. ... We also havea' TIW SHOP in connection with our establishment, and aiw prepared to do all kinds of CUSTOM WORK and REPAIRING ou SHORT NOTICE. On Front street, north of “ Liberal Cornertee have a WA GON A CARRIAGE Manufactory and Blacks smith Shop, . . ' Strict Attention Paid to Custom Work. Wagons & Carriages Made to Order. WE guarantee all goods AS represented, - and to give entire satisfoction. REMEMBER THE PLACE, and GIVE US A Call, Norman Warner. Ihogf P. kglirty's, LATCH-STRING 18 ALWATI OCT, And he would be glad at all times to sew his old friardg and patrons and every bojbr else who want Cheap Groceries and FAMILY SUPPLIES, Ax His Nxw Rooms Next Door to the Citv Bakery. Besides a full line of Staple Groceries, he keeps constantly on hand a good line of Queensware, Glassware, Spices and Flavoring Extracts, Catsups and Pepper Sauee, Baking Powder, Canned Fruits, Starch,. Indigo, Stove Blacking, Ground Cfnnamoar and Matches, etc., etc., etc. Besides, the best quality of Tobacoo and Cigars,*N uts. Candies and Plain and Fancy * Confectioneries, All at astonishingly low PRICES. All kinds of Produce wanted, for which will be paid, the highest MARKET PRICK. Bo Not Fail To Give Him A Call.

DUVALL'S DAILY> HACK LIAS AND Livery (Stable, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. United States Mail Hacks run dally , except Sundays, between Rensselaer and Frcmcetville. Making connections at the latter place with trains on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, and conveying passengers and freight eaeh way. Extra teams sent at any time on application.— Goods or money shipped by express to any part of the United States. Livery Teams, With or without driven, famished on application. Stock boarded by the day or week. Office wd stable on Front street, above Washington, Rensselaer, Indiana. J.W. Duvall.