Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1880 — Page 2

AFff RFPUBLiCAN M- BirrERS, Editor. Friday Mokmno. Feb. 27, 1880-

ThsTWmocratic national conven tion will be held at Cincinnati -on the 22d of Jone. \ - It it beneath the dignity of an editor to controvert the twaddle of M-hool boya and croea road politician*. We never cross sword* with anonym oua scribblers because they are an worthy of qur steel. If Bro. McEwen desire* to be recognised by the R«pvblicax he moat not attempt to palm off billingsgate conßaraiMcationsaaeditorials. Such things lower the standard of journalism and degrade the editorial faterujty. The Chicago Inter Ocean is for Grant, the Tribune for Blaine, and the Times for the candidate displaying the fattest pocket-book. Each speaks disparagingly of the other’s choice, and a stranger to the fasts wight safely conclude that each of the several candidates for the presidential nomination i« a Mobiliet in crime and a Ceaser in usurpation. When the nomination is made a few editors will have occasion to fall upon their stomachs and weep.

It docs well enough once in a while to set tho congressmen from Dixie on the ragged edge of their past crime and treason. This Mr. Conger did in congress when he objected to a petition referring to the Confederacy and insisted that it be called the rebellion. This fired the heart of the southron and some word play followed in which Mr. Conger, who is from Michigan, got a chance to say in reply that his objection to the bill, and to all bills like it, was that there was a constantly increasing tendency to ignor the war, or, at least, to call it by smooth sounding and uncolored names. It was, he said, “a war of treason, a rebellion, an insurrection, and not a ‘late unpleasantness’ merely.” Of course the Democratic majority passed the bill as offered. Apart from the excitement of politics this year the criminal record of the country promises to require the earnest attention of thoughtful men. We do not remember ever to have seen the journals of the land so overflowing with thp details of crime in all its varie ; ty, murder predominating. It may well alarm the public that life iq so many instances is held so cheap,J and that abundantcrime and horror occupy so large a part of the newspapers. It is not proper to criticize the publication of the facts connected with startling crfmmiflal acts, because occurrences of that kind have so important a bearing on the welfare of all the people that it is best that the largest number of people possible be informed respecting the situation. It is for the popular sentiment of the country to demand from the authorities some effective methods of reaching the sources of the epidemics of crime, one of which seems now to be sweeping over the land. And the sooner ‘ that demand is made the better. The crime of murder does not receive the kind of punishment that deters men from committing it, for some reason; therefore, it is high time now to inquire why this is true and to make an earnest effort to devise a remedy.

A new dodge in favor of maintaining the agitation in the Republican party based on the candidacy of General Grant for the party nom ination for the presidency starts lamely itvthe New York Times. Editorially that paper says that a near personal iriend of General Grant claims to announce the General's position authoritatively as follows: General Grant is not now, nor ha* he ever been, a candidate for presidential nomination. But, should the Republican national convent lion nominate him in the same manner a* any other candidate would be nominated, he wduld deem it bis duty to the country and the party to accept. Why the friends, or rather the self-comstructed advocates ot Ges. Grant's npmiuation issue bulletins like the above from time to time, without accompanying them with any name, we cannot understand. They are palpable falsehoods, or the men who start them would not be ashamed to,have their names connected with them. They prove that General Grant has not comroissoned anybody to speak forhim a and that those who do wbst talking is done behave like a set of sneaking conspirators whom Grant , would surely repudiate or himself lose the respect of the American people. These men are doing Grant a positive injury.’ How long do they suppoife tbo few earnest and honest men who perfer Grant will consent to see the Republican party dangled, at the heels of any one man who will not declare himself a candidate? Grant’s „ chances of election, even if 1 he would become a candidate, are passing away, and his advocates, by keeping him in a position where he would seem to be playing the fool with the party's favor, are gradually alienating from him the personal regard so many i Republicans have felt for our victorious soldier. It is Grant’s fault, partly, because he does not come frankly before ths public and either

take bi* name otrt of the coolest finally, or go into the fight with the other candidates of the party to win or lose according to the number of delegatee be can get the support of in the national convention. There are plain evidences of impatience with the dilly dallying abont Grant now being manifested in the party. “The hsart of the party is for Blaine,” is the remark which now finds general acceptance and is bejng repeated wtthoutcballenge over the whole country. And if the friends of Grant are living in hope of drawing a late consent from him and of capturing the Chicago convention by political trickery and trades for office with delegates, their utmost success will be a calamity in which the whole party will share. An exchange drops the following sensible remark: “If your local paper happens to tread on your toes a little in performing its mismion don’t get your back up and abuse its editor, but slop, take a long breath, and think tor a season, and see if yon can’t rembember some of the favors and kindnesses the paper has shown you in the past. Then reflect that it may not be long before you may want some favors again.”

We have permission of Mr. James McClintoc, of Iroquois township, formerly a member of the Greenback party and a believer in its principles, to say, that the course o£ the leaders in Maine has cured him, seeing as he does, where the party is tending. We are glad to be able to say this much. Mr. McClintoc is a man wbo reads and thinks, and reasons for himself and always tries to arrive at just conclusions, and preferring to decide for himself, what party is entitled to his confidence in the greatest degree.—Kentland Gazette. Many of our exchangee have given prominence to the fact tliat Simon P. Thompson, of Rensselaer, was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress. From a personal acquaintance of several years jhe editor of the Record can vouch for the sterling integrity, uncommon ability and sound notions on finance which so well qualify Mr. Thompson for the position to which, he aspires, and we are free to say that no man yet suggested for the office suits the Record so well as our friend Simon, and until such a one is suggested the Flora Record will boom for him —Flora Record.

D. R. Locke (Nasby) is for Grant. So are Senators Cameron, Conkling. Logan, and hosts of other leading Republicans, including a large percentage of Representatives in Congress aud public men in and out of office. His following is as unselfish as that of any other candidate, and Republicans should be careful about spinning or smirching the men wbo have been -true in every hour of trial and whose counsels have always led us to victory. Personally we are for Sherman, but recognize the right of every man to go for some other candidate if he sees fit. Let os have no threats or bolting. The -nearer -the candidate is like Grant the better he will suit the people. The third term bugaboo should frighten rtobody. The Constitution sets no limit, and the sovereign power of the people will be exercised whether we like it or not. —Rochester Republican. Secretary Sherman will be able to accomplish his purpose of reducing the public debt below $200,000,000 before the end of his term, and have about a year of grace. His last debt statement shows that only s7oo,oooremain above these figures. This is a very gratifying exhibit, and will go far to make a favorable contrast in the public mind against the Democrats wbo all the time struggle to defeat the present admirable policy of the Government. Not the least gratifying feature of the present condition of financial affairs is that the revenue is all the time improving. The flourishing condition of all kinds of business has a wonderful effect in aiding the Government. The general confi dence felt in the management of the Republican party has also increased the value of all kinds of Government securities, and thus strengthened the Government credit, and helped to smooth the way of the administration.—Crown Point Register.

Democratic journals have special hatred for the proposed first constitutional amendment which looks to honest elections through the protection of the ballot-box,-and will fight it bitterly, though pretending not to dislike the seutament, by of faring some possible objections to the manner in which the amendments are to be submitted. But what matters it, now that the legislatures have acted upon them and it only remains for the people to vote “for” or “against” them, whether they were psssed upon by the legislatures or by a convention "rgamzed for no other purpose? Wbst matters it if the constitution will be yet imperfect, and other amendments desirable? Should we on this account defeat one when kgrfHy presented and very desirable? No; and we trust every republican to a man will turn out with his individual ’vote and influence “for” the proposed constitutional amendments. —Valparaiso- Viiette.

WHICH IS THE LUNATIC?

IPO -'■ ‘ < liLittleflel* the Mosrter he la Represented to Bet Goml> for the Cwaalpefa. Chicago, Feb. 21,1880. ’ XdUer JtfMMlatr Bgwiliiw TWr Ar.Some one inßemeiogton ba*kindly forwarded to Mrs. Ellen R. L. Littlefield a “Notice of abandonment” cut from your paper, also an anonymous paragraph, purporting to be a statement of facts in rela-tion-to his wife, her relation, and Ms unsuccessful visit to Chicago. I feel assured whoever published the paragraphs referred to, would willingly refute the slanderous charges contained in them, in refeoce to a much abused woman..’ As to the abandonment, Mr. Littlefield conspired -with relatives and others, and incarcerated his sane wife, a true and faithful wife, in the Indiana State Insane Asylum, where she was a charge upon the county and Slate, like a common pauper; thus Mr. Littlefiteld abandoned his wife to the tender mercies ot strangers. He took her to- his brother-in law’s, J.O. Lewis, about two weeks previous, and abandoned her to the threats and fiendish orgies of beings without one trace of pity, who tortured her two days and nights, in order to fit her for the asylum. They miserably failed; but would not be so easily balked in their hellish schemes.

Mr. Littlefield himself, she informed me, set about the consummation of the desired object—to get rid of bis wife. He told her he “would get rid of her without giving her a cent.” Lewis’s folks had asked her if she would go east and remain; she replied she would be glad to do so, but they said they would not trust her. I am the “sister at Chicago,” who “by some means secured Mrs. Littlefield’s release.” The “means” w’as the good old writ of habeus corpus. I learned of her imprisonment by a letter from her pastor’s wife. Littlefield wrote me Nov. 2d that she was very sick, at a time when she had been at the asylum twelve days, as we afterward learned. I wrote immediately to a cousin, a merchant in Indianapoljs, denying that Mrs. Littlefield was insane, and asking him to visit her. Ho did so and demanded an examination; and wrote me that she was “all right and patient, which was more than he was.” Her attending physician had already recommended her discharge as sane.

Upon the issue of the habens corpus writ, we, with five witnesses, were promptly in court. The Sup’t came in with the attending physcian and Mrs Littlefield. We won the case, and she was released as sane; no one appeared to contest the case. Mr. Littlefield is under contempt of court as he was notified by a sub" poena issued by Judge Howe. I had letters with me from State’s Att’y Luther Laflin Mills, and other prominent Chicagoans, who all wished me God-speed on my mission to free my sister from of evil men. Being myself a resident of Chicago, the past fifteen years, I need not waste time to refute the silly slanders as to my own sanity, which has uever been questioned; no more has Mrs. Littlefield’s sanity been doubled by any of her friends. “Mr. Littlefield proceeded to Chicago” when informed Lis wife was released, because, he feared she would expose his conduct, and he suffer pecuniary loss, thro’ a divorce suit. Once more in his power and she would not find escape, even by way of an insane asylum—as that did not prove a grave. Mrs. Littlefield naturally refused to see one who had abandoned her and conspired with her worst enemies. lie gained admission to the bouse, accompanied by a gentlemen, a stranger to us. Calling for Mrs. Littlefield, he was directed to our apartment, and the stranger, Rev. J. P. Stoddard, presented his card to me, and asked for Mrs. Littlefield. I told them I would speak to her; and escorted them to the Sitting-room. I then told the gentleman that I would like to ( speak a few words with him, closing the door, before he could enter between him and Littlefield. I then requested him to walk up to our rooms, as I could see that he was a gentleman. He did so, and had a long conversation with sister, who informed him of the outrages to which she had been subjected, and gave her reasons for utterly refusing to see her unfaithful spouse. Mr. Littlefield became anxious, and sent the girl up to call the gentlemen, evidently fearing that he might learn of some of his inhuman deeds. After they left I went down town, calling on the way to inform Mr. Stoddard more fully, in regard to Mrs. Littlefield ample vindication of the charge of insanity, preferred only by her husband and her enemies. While I was gone Mr. L. prevailed on the gentleman to return to the house, on the plea that I “would*not Ltt him see his wife.” He pretended to feel so badly,

mor* to call and give him a ehan«J to ascertain if ho could aw bis wife. Again abe refused to see him. The statement that the “Rev. gentleman was well acquainted with every member of the lunate household” is as false in the M part as a* it is well known to be || every particular. The ‘'wife’s mother” It “refused to permit hifajo enpw the bouse.” lam quite sure »he wpulp do so if living! Our mother died Feb. 29, 1864, in Aurora, 81., was buried with the services,Tor a pastor’s wife. Doubtless Mr. Litwk field’s guilty conscience jnight have conjured up the image of his wife’ll dead mother, barring the way to prevent bis entrance to the house, as a father outrage to her child—adding insult to injury. She was covered with bruises of his infliction when taken to the asylum, which were seen by two ladies of Remington that day. I hope yon will give equal publicity to this, with the paragraph mentioned. Respectfully,

MARY A. LADEL.

EDITORIAL REMARKS

< . The anonymous article referred Io by the author of the above was not a communication but. an editorial, and the statements made were just as spoken to us by Mr. Littlefield. He said substantially this: “My wife became deranged in mind. Very reluctantly I had her placed at the Asylum at Indianapolis, to be cured. Her sister at Chicago, who has been twice treated for insanity, got my wife out of tho Asylum and took her to Chicago wilhoutmj knowledgeor consent. Learn ing she was there and. that her friends charged me with conspiring to get rid of my wife, I had a statement written up affirming that Mrs. Littlefield was insane at the .time she was conveyed to the asylum,and this document was signed by A’ large number of the best citizens of Remington and Carpenter township acquainted with thefacts. [Acopy of the statement with signatures was exhibited at this office. lie said he had left the orginal at Chicago with his wife’s friends.] Armed with this positive evidence I went to Chicago and was refused an interview with my wife, and she refusing to again live with me I have concluded to publish a notice of abandonment.”

Mr. Littlefield appeared to be a very devout man and excceedingly sorrowful that such dire misfortune had overtaken him. .Now this is all we know “about the fight/”. We had reason to accept what Mr. L. s»id as truth, and notwithstanding the statements in the forgoing letter, we have not sufficient evidence yet to cause us to change our mind, and yet Littlefield may be the inhuman monster he is represented by his Chicago sister-in-law. We will be pleased to hear further from Mary, for our readers are anxious to arrive at the facts. i

REMINGTON RAMBLES.

The Blue Ribbon Society has purchased a new organ, and an increased interest is manifested in their meetings. The week opened up with an exceedingly spiing-like appgrance and now looks as though the coming season is to be one of unusual thrift and activity.* ' The protracted religious meetings have been discontinued. Not much interest was manifested by the people generally and but very few accessions were made to the ehnrehs. Sam Heaver has moved with his family, goods and chatties to Michigan City. That place seems to be the one spot toward which the skill, talent and industry of this section Is tending. Public sales are on the wing as usual at this time of the year. Last Saturday John W. O’Conner sold off his personal effects, preparitory to emigrating, and next Saturday C. 11. Scheaffer will do the same. Jeptlia Hart, a former resident oT this place, but for the past two years of Wichita, Kan., is now here on a visit. He looks as though that country agrees with him, and says no inducement can be offered that would bring him back here. There seems to be considerable sickness roundabout, though not of a fatal nature. Diphtheria, in a mild form, still crops out occasion" ally, and there are a few cases of typhoid and scarlet fevers. P. H. Lally’s elders daughter has-the diphtheria. There never was a time when half the amount of corn was stored in Remington as now. Besides the warehouses being full thers are probably 150,000 bushels in cribs. The railroad is unusually active, There are from one to three freight trains every day, Sundays not excepted. Wm. Howard, a well-known and respected farmer, living five miles southwest of town, met with a serious accident, last Friday. While attempting, to remove the silk and corn busks from the fan of a shelter his baud was caught and drawn between two cog wheels, mangling it in such a manner that amputation

ma Tho anai all ready a cripple in one leg. will doubtless te remembered by mawy<eaders of tbe local papers, that fast fair*4>air ot horses and a buggy were found in a cornfield, near this place. They were advertised according to law and the horses remained in possession 01 Albert Ellis until a few weeks ago, when having crippled his hand so ayjto be nnable to attend to them, lie turned over his claim to one Myners, trking a bond for them. After so long a time the owner,Trom near Danville, 111., has traced them up and come for them. Myers, about the same time disposed of one hoi se and lit out with the other. Hie location is known, and he will have an opportunity to cancel his bonds. The horses were stolen from a camp-meeting. W

Educational Department.

Edited by D. B. Novels, Ou. Superintendent. Institue at Union school house, Marion township, Saturday. One week from Saturday, special examination at the school bouse in Rensselaer. The “Certificates of Honor” will not be sent to the teachers for presentatloOo their “perfect pupils,” as some suppose. They will first have to be iesued by order of the County Board of Education, which order cannot be made until their meeting in May. They will be presented by th« County Sup’t in such manner and at such time and place as he shall hereafter designate. Teachers in making their final reports will please place a star opposite the names of those who have lost no time for the whole term.

Don’t Disappoint Them. Teacher, do you suppose your pupils would like to be disappointed at the coming fail? Ask them. -If they are wide-awake, ; bright-eyed child red, instructed by a live, public9|Hiited tgacher—one who has the welfare of his pnplils and the eleva" tionof Ins profession alhefirt—they will say yes. But doubtless the reply to a selfish, narrowminded school-fc«per would be no. The answer you will get depends largely upon your own zeal and industry. If yoji have thrown the very fire of your enthusiasm into your winter’s work, and taught your pupils that manly self-reliance and courage which overcomes obstacles however stubborn, they will be glad to make any undertaking. Sincerely, teachers, do 1 desire that all the schools be represented. It will cost yon nothing to make the display but a little effort. That is cheap, you know. The more of it we expend the stronger we are. I have given you the greatest latitude possible in the preparation of yonr work. Anything meritorious executed as school work will be received. In arranging it observe the instructions heretofore published as nearly as possible. Common foolscap paper is good enough to prepare your work on. Keep it neat and clean, and write with pen and ink. In short let us all do oaf best and then come to the County Fair this fall and suprise ourselves by seeing what a collective effort can do.

School Government.

The question of discipline is one th St forces itoelf upon the mind of the teacher. Be he ever so well educated, without the ability to govern, he will fail. To sway the minds of adult scholars required tact and rare judgment. Children are men and women in minature. They have their own peculiarities, their weak points and their prejudices. These must be studied by the teacher. lie must adapt himself to their natures, and not expect all to conform to his ideas of deportment. He must build the pupil’s self-respect, that he may afterward respect the teacher. A child without respect for itself or for others is a criminal. When “that boy,” the terror of the neighberhood and the evil genius of nil previous schools arrives a few weeks after school begins, with his Landa brow# and cracked from the arduous labors of the farm, and with evil lurking his in eye for bis supposed enemy, the teacher, greet him kindly and call him “mister.” Did you ever see a boy raise his head and try to look unconscious when be first heard that magic word that divides boyhood from manhood? He is better, nobler, manlier after every token of respect shown him. Try it. The word “mister” is a sesame to the heart of every bad boy.

E. R. PRICH.

I. P. A.

The members of the Iroquois Poultry Association are hereby notified that it will convene at Rensselaer, on Wednesday, March 3d, at 10 o’clock a. m. Business before the association is ofdmportance. - Subject for investigation, “Best cheap method of building poultry houses.” Let there by a full attendance. Parties interested in poultry are cordially invited to meet with

C. W. CLIFTON,

us.

Bargains for Farmers.

Every farmer must admit that Irult Tree*do best if transplanted where acclimated and in their native soil. The symmetry and thrift of tay treesis seldom excelled, and the variety ot fruit is of the most desirable and profitable kinds. My prices are the lowest. Give me a

salt?. i February 17 th.

JOHN COEN,

KehMclaer, Indiana.

L^ve£aMn^ OrA ' 6*o * S S*o p m Arrive at Monticello .. * T:lft » m »*• p m SRS JSRS XOBTHWAKH Leave Delphi •*• a m kllpa Arrive at Monticello ... 10*8 a m 6*5 p n Leave Monticello Ift*s am CIS p m Arrive at Bradford 11*0 au> 6:50 p m Leave Bradford 11*0 a m 7:10 p m Arrive atßensselaer ... 11*0 atn 8:10 p j» S. N. YaojLUf, Gann Manager.

2DR. -W. Xu TTAMA3I, DENTIST. *' 1 wi *** to . *• all citizens ■zwKyg?SBKS», of Rensselaer jSEßESigCr^ and Jasper county th.t I have reinovcd my <> slice vgvW to the room formerly oc- '«» > HrWWI copied byDr. FJ, Washburn,in the rea|> of THE JEWELRY STORE, And that I am now better than ever prepared to execute all kinds of work in my branch of business in the highest style of the art and at lowest poasibe prices. W. L. HAMAR. NOWELS HOUSE, Rensselaer, - - Indiana, KIRTLEY & SOW, Prop’r. rpHE NOWELS HOUSE is a new, threuA story brick hotel, just opened. The proprietors formerly kept the Broadway House at Peru, Ind., and nave had much experience as caterers to the wants of the traveling public. Their tables are supplied with au abundance of the best food known to the culinpry art, the bed-rooms are large, well lighted, properly ventilated and comfortably furnished, tbe beds and bedding are all new. clean and healthful. The traveling public is respectfully solicited to give them a call. • Day and week boarders will nnd it so their interest to stop at the Nowles House. IJ-«. KIRTLEY A SON.

“WE RISE TO EXPLAIN” That the finest and best selected stock of Watches, Clocks AND JEWELRY, Also Silverware, Spectacles, Musical Instruments. &c„ Ever exhibited in Rensselaer ean now be had at Orwin’s old stand. Mr. Hardman, the Jeweler. will still attend to the Watch-repairing and Jobbing department. All work warranted. 10dec.<9 HAMAH.

CLARK’S TSTIE'W HARDWARE S T O 18. E. Be it known that Ezra L. Clark has iuet opened a Hardware Store in Nowels’ Building, Rensselaer, Indiana, and will keep constantly in stock a fulZ line of HARDWARE, TINWARE, WOODEHWARE, Carpenters’ Tools, Table and Pocket Cutlery. Silverware, Revolvers, Ammunition of all kinds, STOVES, OILS, FARM AND GARDEN SSSDS and every thing else usually found in a first-class Hardware Store. All goods sold at LOWEST CASH PRICES. Parties wishing anything in my line will do Well to call, examine goods and learn prices. I . E. L. CLARK.

THE BROAD GAUGE STORE! O——S—ARRIVAL OF THE LARGEST STOCK OF 4| SPRING GOODS> A.T LEOPOLD'S BROWIXT-STOME BTTILDITVG, ■. ■ ■ e ~ <; • Ever* Exhibited in Rensselaer. y ?*.' ■' * , ' ‘ . J- ’■ * . <i I ' The goods consist of the Latest Styles of Clothing for Men, Boys and Youths and will be sold at j THE VERY LOWEST PRICES FOR CASH. These goods are fully ten per cent, cheaper than they can be bought at any other store in Jasper county. l| BOOTS AND SHOES. |l I have also the largest, best and cheapest stock of Boots and Shoes in the market, and in these, also, I defy competition. My stock of A GENTS’FURMISHING GOODS, Is full and complete, and my immense line of |D|R|T| |G|o|O|Djsi~ j Can’t be surpassed in quality, variety and prices. It was bought with great care and selected with reference . to the wants of my numerous customers. As everybody knows,! was in the market and purchased these goods a few days before the great boom took place and therefore got them at least 10 per cent, lower than those who purchased later. This with my faoilk ties for buying for cash only, gives me a decided advantage over all competitors. Thankful fpr past iivorc and a contiuatien of the same, I remain your most obcdiaut servant, * A. LEOPOLD. Brown-Stone Building, Rensselaer, Indiana.

Sec’y.

MAWPACTCUB A» »KALSB IN- *■ (I Anddo U notdri^'e^'fAsT‘ 11 ' ° U ' HARNESS! SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS, . WHIPS, ETC. I work none but the best Chestnut-Oak Leather and warrant every article Bold. Special attention given to repairing. Shop opposite McCby <fc Thompson's Bank, RENSSELAER, IND. WJ. WRIGHT, The Old and Experienced UNDERTAKER! HAS on hand a full and complete lino of Burial Cases and Caskets. Burial Robes of all styles and sizes. He is also prepared to i perform Embalming, which is now used by all professional undertakers. No charge for the Hearse. Calls attended at all hours of day or night. Store Room one door west of Leopold’s.

FALLEY & HOES’ BOOTS AND SHOES Solid Inoles. Solid Counters. Hand Made. Every Fair Warranted ‘None are genuine without Our Diamond Shaped Green Paper Stamp bearing ouryfirmjname, on the Bottom.of Every Pair. We cut into our goods only the CELEBRATED West Virginia Tanned Stock. Our goods, for Style, Fit and Wear have no equals. Ask for them. FALLEY & HOES, LaFayette, Indiana. Genuine Fallcy & Hoes Boots and Shoes are sold by A. Leopold, Rensselaer, Indiana, at Bass’ stand. 11-49-6 in

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