People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1896 — Page 4

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Attention Populists.

Please remember that you are called to meet in precinct caucus on Saturday March 21. to elect a chairman who becomes a member of the county central committee. Do not neglect to attend this meeting, and have a care to elect your very best man for that office. Selecta worker, a man of integrity, ability and character. This is to be a campaign of more than ordinary importance; one in which judicious acts will count for much. Do not weight the party down with impracticable enthusiasts, there are plenty of level-headed men who can put their time and business ability into this work and you must insist upon their putting on the harness.

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The White County National is the very appropriate name of a People's party paper published in Monticello by J. C. Smith, the initial number of which was issued yesterday. It is a venture in tlie right direction and merits the best support the Populists of White county can give it. Its editorials are to the point and show a keen insight into the political issues of the times. The Pilot extends a cordial welcome.

In the fight “inside the party,” the white metal democrats, of this state, have scored the first knock down. The efforts of the gold-bug wing of the party to postpone the state convention, at Indianapolis, till after the Chicago convention, completely failed. To all appearances the silver men have things about their own way. Were the democratic state convention to be held to-day it would surely indorse the silver course of Sen ators Voorhees and Turpie, and instruct its delegates to vote for Gov. Matthews who stands with Voorhees and Turpie on the money question. What the outcome of all this will be is hard to tell. The leaders of the Indiana democracy and the rank and tile of the party are beyond question 16 to 1 silver men, but neither their presidential candidate nor their national platform will be silver. The Indiana demoorat who likes crow will vote a gold-bug ticket this fall but the independent voters, the men of the party who have opinions of their own, will eith er winter their votes or join with the Populists.

Slavery Days In Indiana.

Blackford Street Zion church was filled with colored people last night who have become in terested in the BookerT. Washington society’s meetings. The Walker Shaffer marriage at Muncie receutly—a case where a colored man married a white womar. awl was arrested and put under bond therefor—was indirectly under discussion. Two colored men from Muncie, W. H. Stokes and J. L. Burnham, were present. Stokes was criticised for introducing politics in the meeting in connection with his remarks. The society had invited William Watson Woolen to make an address on “Indiana’s Blacks and Black Laws.” He said: “I think it is not generally known that slavery ever existed in Indiana. Sept. 17, 1807, a law was approved by William Henry Harrison, then governor of the Indiana territory, which provided that it should be law ful for any person being the owner or possessor of any negroes or mulattoes, owing service and labor as slaves in any of the states or territories, or for anycitizeu purchasing the same to bring said negroes or mulattoes into the territory, and that it should be iawful to hold such negro or mulatto to service or labor, if a male, until he arrived at the age of 35, and if a female, until she arrived at the age of' 32 years. It was further pro vided that the children horn in the territory of a parent of color owing service or labor, according to law. should serve the master or mistress of such parent, the male until the age of 30 aod the female until the age of 2H years. I do not find that these laws were repealed at any time by a territorial general as setnHfy. "The same legislature that enacted the foregoing laws enacted laws which provided for the Whipping post, for thepUlory, for branding criminals with a

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red hot iron and capital punishment for the crimes of arson and horse stealing. It is to the credit of the first constitution of this state that these relics of barbarism were forever forbidden in the state, for by that con stitution it was expressly provided that cruel and unusual pun ishments should not be inflicted and that there should be neither slavery nor involuntary servi tude in this state, otherwise than for the punishment of crimes, whoreof the party shall have been dully convicted, and be it further to the credit of that constitution that the words ■•negro” and “mulatto” do not occur in it. Notwithstanding . the provision against slavery, an attempt within four years after its enactment was made to fasten slavery upon this state by judge made law, in the case .of the state against Laselle. “Polly” was a colored woman who had been purchased from the Indians in the territory north-west of the river Ohio, previous to the treaty of Greenville, and was owned by Lasselle. She was brought before the circuit court of Knox county in obedience to a writ of habeas corpus and the validity of her bondage was recognized by that court. An appeal was taken in the supreme court, where she was discharged.”—From the Philadelphia Times.

REMINGTON.

Correspondence of People's Pilot.. N John W. Phelps”, our local horse dealer, has been engaged in buying and shipping horses from this point for several months past. His last shipment was two car loads on This shipment was made up of some first class horses, and he expects to realize handsome proits from the sale of the same. He reports the prices of horses of the various grades as slowly improving, so that good horses are no longer a drug on the market.

Fred Burger, who has been dangerously sick for time past, is now convalescing nicely. He is reported to be able to sit up and be about the house most of the time One of Photographer Beasley's little girls has been very dangerously ill with typhoid fever for some time past. At this time she is some what improved, and it is to be hoped that she may speedily recover. She is a bright little girl.

The committee to view and investigate the various water work systems in Illinois returned home last Friday evening, and will submit their report so that an outline of the same will probably appear in the “Remington Press” next Saturday. The committee is very favorably impressed with some of the plants they investigated. It is thought a plant can be put in suitable for the needs of our town for about $7500. We vote on the proposition as to whether or not we will bond the town for this purpose April Ist next. Our former fellow townsman, Ezra Bowman, who moved to Anderson, Indiana, last fall, will return to Remington as soon as he can get possession of his house here, which is at present occupied by Mr. Tedford. Nine times outof ten people who leave Remington for other localities in the hope of improving their financial condition, are sadly disappointed, and are eager to return. Remington is probably as good an all round town as can be found anywhere. Rev. A. P. DeLong, formerly pastor of the M. E. church here, and at present stationed at Goodland, conducted the quarterly meeting ere last Saturday and Sunday, assisted by the home pastor. Rev. W. R. Nickels The meetings were well attended.

Mrs. P: N. Lally who had come down from Michigan City last week to spend a few weeks with her daughter. Miss Maud, received a dispatch that her little son Wilbur was dangerously sick with diptheria. She returned home at once. J. D. Rich of Brook, Ind., has ceased to edit the Brook Reporter and leased the paper to his former foreman. We presume “Jake” will devote his entire attention to other business affairs, viz., hardware, law, and real estate. The Presbyterian church bazar held in Durand Hall, Wednesday and Thursday last, the 18th and 19th, was in point of numbers in attendance, a great cess, and the money received

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would also indicate that the affair proved a financial success. This is as it should be. Many of the citizens of Remington have been in Rensselaer the present week, the occasion being the necessity for some of our sporting fraternity to attend Circuit Court, and answer to several indictments found against them at the last term of court. •'Winter still lingers in the lap of Spring,” Vet we hope soon to hear the wood-pecker sing; To see the buds budding, and the green grass growing. To hear the lambs bleating, and the wild grousecrowing. The above is supposed to be poetry

MILROY TOWNSHIP.

Correspondence of the People’s Pilot. The weather has been very changeable, and the roads so very rough that people can hardly get around. There is more water on the ground than there has been for several years. We understand that the “Blue Sea” in Milroy township has been rented to Al Robertson of Monon for §I,OOO. We don’t know how he will get his money out of it unless he fences it up for wild ducks. J. Clark had a sale last Tuesday. Everything sold high. Hogs sold at the rate of six dollars a hundred. Rev. Hufeton has purchased the old Wesley Meadows farm and intends moving there this spring. There is quite a number on the sick list; J. Johns, Chariey McDonald and Mrs. R. Foulks. Old Uncle Peter Foulks is getting better. The wheat looks very sickly in Milroy this spring, on account of a fly being in it last fall. The blades are dead around the stem in patches' Some of the young people are attending protracted meeting at Lee. Rev. Deveneau of Chicago is holding the meeting. Enos.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Elizabeth Rodgers to John O. Rodgers. Sept. 24. 1892.5 e nw 7-31-6. 40 acres *BOO.OO George Wright to Oscar H. Eldred Jan. 7. 1890. sw se 19-31-5, se sw 19-31-5- HO acres 800.00 Theodore F. Warne to Greenleaf L. Thornton. March 12,1896, s Vi sw 22-30-7.80 acres 2,220.00 Lillie J, Seymore to Isabella Hicks Jan. 31, 1896, Its 4. 5. 6. 10, 11. 12. bl 2. Bartoo’s add. Remington 1,*4.00 Charles G. Spitler to Walter H. f Hirschman, March 4. 1896, s Yt ne se Jo-31 -5, 2o acres . 50.00 Walter H. Hirschman to Benjamin J. Giffo-d. March 14. 1896. s Vs ne se 30-31 -5. 2o acres 35.00 George K. Hollingsworth et al to John Sworts March 11. 1896, sw 30- 160 acres 3, 600.00 Samuel hM. Laßue to Gertrude Smlll. March 14. 1896. pt nw nw 26- 3 acres 1.500.00 John E. Hill to C. K. Peters. Jan. 4, 1896 (Hogan) [it L-31-6.. ISo.oo Isabel Myers to Jane Nichols, March 7,1896. Its 9 and 10, bl 4, Graham s add to Wheatlield 500.00 Hugh McKinney to W. Hlrschey and Emma E. Hlrschoy. Feb. 29. 1896. nw nw 33-29-6, ne ne 32-29-6, 80 acres 4,800.00 Marian E. Learning to Kittle M Beam, Feb. 2n. 1896. Its 14. 15, 16. hi 33. Weston’s 2d add to Renssehier 1.200.00 Martin O’Connor to Charles Goss, March 2, 1896, e ■/* sw 28-27-7, 80 acres 4,000.00 Joseph M. Clark and Robert K. Clark to William O. Clark. Jan. 24, 1895. Fr sw 19-27-7 143.07 Eli bl 4 Goodland. Foster’s add. QC-D 512.00 John Makeever to Lee M. Birch, March 4, 1896. se 22-31-7 e Vi sw 2231- 240 acres 6.000.00 George K. Hollingsworth to &ertrude Small, March 14. 1896. wild Vi e Vi ne 27-29-6. 80 acres 1.’i00.00 Gertrude Small go Hollingsworth & Hopkins, March 14, 1896. e '4 ne 27- acres’ pt nw nw 26-29-6 3 acres 1.a00.00 Abraham Leopold to Henry Maekep, Feb. 28. 1896, It, 3. bl 11, Leopold add, Rensselaer 225.00 Maty M. Martin to Laura H. Mellender. March 13. 1896. It 5. id 10, Leopold add, Rensselaer 525.00 William H. Young and Simon Foster to Isaac Johnson. March 2, 1895, s Vi 23-27-7, s Vi nw 23-27-7. e Vi ne 23-27-7. 479 l-lo acres llavid C. Makeover and Daniel C. Makeover to Mary E. Lester. Oct. 19, 1895. w ‘4 nw 20-29-7. pt se Mary E. Lester to James Yeoman. March 2, 1896. w !4 n w 20-29-7. pt. se ne 19-27-i, 1L acres 3.000.00 JesSe Osborne to Thom a- L. Smit h March 12, 1896. wVi ne l-30-5 8o a 2.600.00 John Makeever to Lilian M. Neblock, March 13. 1896, pt nVi ne2o- . William Sterns to Amos F. Shesler Feb. 29. 1896. sw 29-28-7. 160 acres. t 1.400.00 Columbia Implement Company to Nehemiah Littlefield. March 16. 1896. It 1. bl 3. Columbia add to Rensselaer 55.00 Thomas Randle to William 11. Murray and Charles W. Murray. March 14. 1896, n end w half so 3-29-6, 60 ac.es, n pt e half sw 3-29-6. 65 acres, w half ne 3-29-6. mv 3-29-0.211. 35 aci es 15.000.00 Horace) Marble to Michael J. Delahanty and Margaret A. Delahanty. Feb. 5, 1896. sw 16-32-6. nw 21-32-6 7,975.00 Horace Marble to Henry Ward Marble. Feb. 25. 1896, ne 27-32-6. 160 acres 4.000.00 Cliaeles G. Spitler to Lovl Monoids and William H. Stephan. March 2. 1896, e half 11-31-5: w half 12-31-5. s half ne 12-31-5, ne 11 e 12-31-3 13.ii80.00

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