People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Scratch pads one cent up at Meyer’s drug store. We are the only steam laundry in town. Spitler & Kight. Everything nice, new and elean at H. J. Dexter’s new grocery. _ BUCKLIN'S AFtNIOA SALVE. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hanps, chilblains, corns and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by F. B Meyer. Wealth Of a Tammany Chieftain. Edwards, in McClure’s for November.) A few months after the Fassett committee had concluded its labors, Mr. Croker bought a residence near Central Park, on East Seventy-fourth Street, of the kind that requires the expenditure of at least thirty thousand dollars a year to maintain. For doing this he was Severely criticised by some of his friends in Tammany. The house itself is probably worth to-day not far from a hundred thousand dollars; but the cost of the. house alone represents only a part of Mr. Croker’s outlay, for it was decorated and furnished with a regal magnificence. The woodcarving, the frescoing, and the painting were of the finest that money could buy. The furniture was specially designed. The lighting was by electricity. In short, it was designed as the home of a man possessing great wealth, and the intention to use it for great entertainments. He bought a stock farm near Richfield Springs, spent a great deal of money in improving it, and stocked it with promising young horses, his outlay, according to common report, being not far from a hundred thousand dollars. Not long after, he bought four or five high-priced racehorses. He paid twenty-four thousand dollars for “Yorkville Belle;” ten thousand for another, ■“Fairy*.’’ fifteen thousand for ■“Red” Banner,” and twenty thousand for the famous “Dobbins.” Besides, he offered fifty thousand dollai s for the brood mare “Thora,” and thirty thous and dollars for the filly “Helen Nichols.” Here, altogether, was an expenditure made and proposed of nearly two hundred thousand dollars. But Mr. Croker ■did not stop here. Only a few months later he bought a half interest in what is perhaps the most famous stud in the United States, at least east of California, paying two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for it. Among the horses included in this last transaction were Blackburn,” “Iroquois,” “Inspector 8.,” “Tremont,” “Clarendon,” and “Enquirer.” At the same time Mr. Croker bought the famous “Longstreet,’, paying thirty thousand dollars for him. Here, then, was an investment, in racing farm and stud, of at least half a million dollars, made by a man who, less than three years before, had testified to his comparative poverty.

DEALS IN DIRT. Warranty Deeds When Not Otherwise Specified John W. Paxton and wife to Thomas Smith and wife, Oct. 1, Its 5,6, bl 10, Newton’s Addition, Rensselaer, $2075. Nancy James Coleman, et al, to Stephen G. Coleman, et al, Aug. 20, es swf 7-31-5, Walker, 80 acres. $75. Joseph F. Iliff and wife to Robert and Walter M. White, Oct. 7, It 3 pt Its 8 and 9, bl 9, Rensselaer. $2525. Harvey J. Dexter and wife, and James H. Cox and wife, to Robert and Walter M. White, Oct. 4, It 10, bl 9, Rensselaer, $2250. John E Dech man, to F M Merger, x July 31, ’94. n| sw 3 30-6, Barkley, $3,600. G Small to Sylvester H Young, Oct. 4, se ne 20-28 5. S6OO. Sidney King to Mattie A Tyner, Sept. 17, It 16, e£ It 18, bl 29, Weston Add, Rensselaer, $l4O. John E Randle to A McCoy, Mattie McC Rinehart, July 12, w| se sw 33 29-5, 20 acres, Hanging Gr’e S3OO. Wm D Sayler to Alfred McCoy, Oct. 5, 50 acres in ne 5-28-7, SISOO. Carroll C Kent to Alfred McCoy and Walter V Porter, Oct. 8, 974 acres in 8-9-16, 17-30-7, Union, $11,688. Wilbur O Florence to Wm B Austin, Sept 17, Its 12, 13, bl 4, Leopold’s Add Rensselaer, $275. Cornelius M Horner to Edward Cull, Aug 10, wf, nw ne 3-30-7, 360 acres, Union, bond for deed, $11,700.