Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1883 — Page 4

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We give in another place quite an extended account of Emi Kennedy’s big narrow gauge railroad scheme/ From the Indianapolis Journal we learn that seventeen stockholders of the company met Friday at Indianapolis and elected directors and officers. At the meeting it was decided to build about 11,000 miles of road audio issue capita] stock to the amount of 360,000,000. One of the circulars issued by the company loads out in this manner. “The People’s Railway company of America—from the people, by the people, and for the people. A chance to elevate, a chance to co-operate, a chance to alleviate, a chance to emigrate, a chance to speculate." Beaders of Tnp Republican'are of course at liberty to form their own opinions as to the merits of the scheme, end if the majority of them, as we suppose they will, set down' the whole thing as a wild and impractible dream of visionary enthusiasts, their’s will be but, what seems to us, the natural conclusion under the circumstances.

On the first day of next month the voters of Marion township will vote upon the question of appropriating $17,400 to aid the Rochester, Rensselaer & St. Louis Railway Company. The company offers, if the tax is voted, to build the road through the township, and the town of Rensselaer, before any of the tax will become due. ' Many a fine town has been “split wide open” so to speak, and suffered irreparable and unending injury, ere this, by permitting, through lack of a little wise liberality, a railroad to pass them by on the other side. Look at Fowler, in Benton county, for instance. Fowler, the boastful and the pretentious! Fowler, the fruitful mother of candidates! That town, for lack of a few paltry thousands of dollars, permitted the Chicago & Great Southern road to pass within two miles of the limits of the town, and has thus sustained injuries, immediate and prospective, direct and- indirect, through damage directly inflicted, and loss of benefits that would have accrued, which are simply incalculable in their extent, and unending in their duration. Arid look at Rensselaer itself. What man’of business, or of public spirit, is there in this town who

does not, figuratively speaking, tear his hair and vote himself kicked whenever he thinks of the new railroad. through Beaver Prairie, and the booming young towns which are springing up along its line, and waxing fat and insolent upon business taken from Rensse- . laer? Mount Airy, for instance. Why, the -very name of the place ■' Will serve as a perpetual reminder of the wind it has knocked out of Rensselaer's rigging! This question of voting a tax de-, mands, and should receive, the earnest attention 1 of every voter in the township. It should be decided upon its merits, as a matter of • dollars and cents, and of public convenience, rather than by shortsighted parsimoniousness and blind predjudices against “cussed monopolies” and “soulless corporations. ” / Don’t let us be obliged to say With Othello, that: “Like the base Judean, we have thrown away a peaflricher than our whole tribe. ” Or, in language equally forcible, if hot so poetic, let us not bite off

our nasal organs to spite the rest of ouf countenances, or twist the neck of the goose which is anxious to lay ns a whole nestful of golden gooseberries. The Republican suggests the advisability of calling a mass convention of the voters of Marion township, Rt an early day, for the purpose of giving the subject a thorough discussion.

10,000 Miles of Narrow Gauge Coming to Rensselaer.

. TwcSrailroad companies were incorporated at Indianapolis last Thursday. The directors were the same in both companies. Their names are Edwin Evans, Henry M. Williams, William Rodgers, Montgomery Hamilton, August C. Trentman, Geo. W. Pixley and Chas. McCulloch. The name of one of the companies is the Fort Wayne, Peoria, & Galesburg Railway Company, and is organized for the purpose of building a double track narrow gauge road, extending from the Indiana and Illinois state line to Fort Wayne, running through the counties of Newton, Jasper, Pulaski, Fulton, Miami, Wabash, Whitley, Huntington and Allen. A line of railroad which would intersect all these counties could not easily miss Rensselaer. These companies are the outgrowth of a most gigantic narrow gauge scheme which certain parties have been working up, in Indianapolis for some time past. The scheme certainly possessess the element of novelty in an eminent degree. The following account of the plan'we quote from the Indianapolis Journal of last Friday:

“For a month or more past there have beenrumors afloat of a stupendous ‘railroad scheme, whereby everybody who engaged in it was to become enormously rich. The old trunk lines were to have their usefulness forever destroyed, and various other great reforms jwere to be instituted. . On the sth ot the present month the Journal contained an outline of the scheme, and considerable information about it, the substance of which is as follows: Two double-track narrow-gauge roads are to be built, traversing the country in opposite directions, from New York to San Francisco, and from Chicago to New Orleans, or, as the circulars state, ‘ ‘from ocean to ocean and from lake to gulf.” Eight series of stock of $25,000,000 each are to be issued, and the bonded debt on double-track road properly equipped is to be but $20,000 to the mile; on single track, $12,000. Indiana will be allowed but 100 stockholders, and the organizers of the scheme say that seventy-five of these stockholders can be residents of Indianapolis. About the time of this publication petitions were circulated in business circles calling for a convention to be held in this city yesterday. So far as is known the convention was held yesterday, a number of gentleman who signed the call received postal cards informing them that the meeting would be held at Plymouth Hall last night. During the evening a Journal reporter dropped over there and informed the doorkeeper that he was a capitalist and desired to purchase a few railroads, but his assumed disguise was too thin, and he was gently but firmly invited not to come in, the invitation being emphasized by the door slamming in his face. From various sources it was learned that the new company is to be known as “The People’s Railroad Company of America,” Every employe of the company is to be a stockholder, and the profits are to be divided upon this basis. It was stated last night that California capitalists were willing, yea in feverish anxiety, to advance the money to get the colossal scheme in active operation. Emi Kennedy, of this city, seems to be the prime mover in the matter, and among the other stockholders are “Plan” Eunchanan, S. L. Hinton. S. Souls, W. F. Hays, Fred Horton, and others. The capital stock is to be $200,000,000, and 10,000 miles of narrow-gauge are to be built. It is expected that the new railroad system will do away with all the old establish ed fines, and various other glittering promises are made. The scheme, in all its details, is not very explicit, but so far as can be gathered, it is a gener-

al uprising against railroad monopolies, so as to give every man a railroad, or at least an interest in one, for himself. None of Colonel Seller’s enterprises ever equalled it in magnitude or promise—and now is the time to invest. After the meeting last night, a Journal reporter corralled delegate and askqd him about it. He said the meeting was altogether secret, but that a public meeting would be held at 11 o’clock this morning. He was not very well acquainted with the details of the scheme himself, further than that he had been receiving $4 a day, and traveling expenses, to solicit stock, and had procured subscriptions to the amount of $40,000. The scheme, he said, did not originate with Mr. Kennedy, but with San Francisco capitalists who sorely felt the oppressions of the Central Pacific. As soon as they were convinced that the people generally would go into the scheme and would subscribe $10,000,000 in stock, they would at once put in $90,000,000 and commence active operations, Stock is to be issued to the poor people in 850 shares, face value, for which they were to pay S3O in twelve monthly installments of $2.50 each. The Journal’s informant said further that at the meeting last night there were capitalists from all parts of the country, and that everybody was enthusiastic. At present there are 201 stockholders who are life delegates to all conventions that may be held, and after $5,000,000 has been subscribed in any State a State organization will be effected. The object of the present meeting is to organization and to send men throughout the length and breadth of the land to organize the people.” •

“Pull for the Shore, Sailor."

Mr. Samp. Erwin had his mind made up to fish in Cedar Lake last Thursday, picnic or no picnic, excursion or no excursion. When, therefore, he found that the Ladies excursion had been abandoned, on account of the weather, he bundled up his fishing tackle, and, went anyhow, taking his son Jim along to do the rowing. There was considerable wind on the lake and the water consequently rough, and between trying to keep the boat headed in the same direction all the time, and at the same time to avoid frightening the fish by the violence of his exertions, Jim experienced considerable difficulty and provoked from his father many of the latter’s characteristically mild objurgations. “Whyin and 7 don’t you keep the boat straight,” being something like the burden of his invocation. Finally the time came for rowing to the shore, and Mr. Erwin insisted that he should change places with Jim, and show the latter how a boat ought to be rowed. “The muscles of Hamp’s brawny arms are strong as iron bands” for a fact, and for fifteen minutes, by actual observation, it is stated, he pulled at the oars most manfully. Three several times he paused from his labors long enough to wipe the moisture from hands and countenance, and to demand, in anxious tones, how far they were from the landing place. Jim’s answer always was that they did not appear to be making much headway, and that he had better be allowed to assist in the rowing. Samp, would comfort himself with the observation: “By he could keep the boat headed right anyhow” and renew his exertions. Finally at the third pause, after fifteen minutes of the hardest kind of rowing, Jim happened to glance at the bow of the boat and quietly remarked, “Father don’t you think we would get along a little faster if you were to take in that anchor?” The boat had been fast anchored to the same spot for the whole fifteen minutes!

What observations, if any, Mr. Erwin indulged in, on making this discovery, history does mot record, but if anyone noticed a peculiarly blue appearance in the clouds that rolled down from the Northward, last Thursday afternoon, and concludes that a volcanic eruption of profanity broke out at Cedar Lake, at about that time, they will probably have arrived at the true explanation of the phenomenon.

The Public Debt reduction for the nionth of June reaches the enormous figures ,of $18,098,201. The reductidn for the fiscal year ending Jun 6 30’ is 137,823,253.

The Ladies Foreign Missions Society will meet to-morrow afternoon at the residence of F. L. Cotton, across the river. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Sears and Mr. and Mrs W. T. Jones picnicked and investigated “Christmas trees" at Fair Oaks, yesterday. Some very hot weather this Week. Tuesday, about noon the thermometer is stated to have registered over a hundred, in the shade, in Rensselaer. \ Mr. Cicero T atman, a member, many years ago, of the Jasper county bar, but now residing in Nashville, 111., paid a brief visit to Rensselaer this week.

S. P* Thompson did not “Orate” at Goodland yesterday. Reason—the train on the Chicago & Great Southern did not reach the junction, Fair Oaks, of the L. N-A. & C. road. Miss Lydia Parris, started yesterday morning for Dakota, where she will visit friends and “grow up with the country” during the greater part of the summer vacation.

W. H. Tilden, of Medaryville* writes us a breezy letter which we shall publish next week, if it keeps until that time, and we gues6 it will if the weather don’t get to all fired hot. 1 Railroad AcciDENT.-The North bound evening train, on the L. NA. & C. road, last Monday, was delayed about three hours by a wreck below Lafayette. Two freight trains collided, badly wrecking them both, killing the conductor of one of them, and badly injuring a fireman.

Yesterday being the ever Glorious Fourth, rendered it necessary that this paper should be got ready for the press, or nearly so, by Tuesday evening. This faqt will explain the omission of considerable correspondence, and some other matters. ILL 1 . 1 L—"IL -a No Summer Normal.—County superintendent Nelson requests us to announce to the teachers of Jasper county, that, owing to the impossibility of procuring a proper room for the purpose, there will be no Summer Normal this year, in Rensselaer. The annual Teacher’s Institute will be held in the latter part of August, and continue for two weeks.

A large number of the best men of Remington have been taken in, and badly done' for, lately, by a wandering sharper by the name of Geo. Brown, who went among the good people of that unsophisticated town and represented himself as being a competent horse trainer, and anxious to impart his knowledge and skill, in that respect, to the Remmgtonians for a reasonable consideration. He got up a class of twenty-five men, each of whom paid him ten dollars, in advance, and for which Brown was to give a course of twenty lectures. He, gave two of them, and then suddenly departed, leaving his victims with less wealth, but more wisdom.

NOTICE TO HEIRS- AND CREDITORS OF PETI TION TO SELL REAL ESTATE. ®TATE OF INDIANA,) Jasper County, i David Gray, Administrator’ . of the Esta e of Thomas S. Peregrine, Deceased, e«. Mariah Peregrine, Michael Peregrine, Clara O. Peregrine, | M:lry A. Peregrine,- | Alonzo F. Peregrine, i Nancy A. Peregrine, | Ellon H. Peregrine, | In Jasper John L. Peregrine, | Circuit Court Martha Peregr.ue, ) To Catharine Parcels, | October Term John Parcels, | 1883. Janies Peregrine, , „■ | Emily Peregrine, The Abtna Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, Simon P. Thompson, / Duvid J. Thompson and Marion L. Spitler Notice is hereby given to all the above named defendants, nnd to all other persons interested, that David Gray, Administrator of the Estate of Thomas S. Peregrine, deceased, has filed his petition in the Jasper Circuit Court to sell the Hehl Estate of said decedent, the personal estate of said decedent being insufficient to pay his debus; and tliat said petition will bo heard on the second day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court, said term commencing at the Court House in Rensselaer, in said County and State, on the Thial Mondav of October, 1883. Witness the Clerk and seal of said f rtt. 1 Court, this 25th dav of June; 1888. CHARLES H.’PRICE; Clerk. 0 w by James A. Burnham; Deputy, Thompson <fr Bro, A ttys sos Aduurtr. June 28 July 5-12-

Sheriff’s Sale: By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed from the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Conrt, in a cause wherein tie Union Central Life Insuhan&p Company is plaintiff and George Dickinson, Eliza M, Dickinson, Eleanor .1. Ford and Lewis T. Fora are defendants, requiring me to. make the sum of Three Hundred and Fifty-one dollars and Ninety-two cents ($351.92/ Together with interest and costs, I will expose at public sale, for cash in hand, on Saturday, July 21st, 1883, between the honrs of 10 o’eloek a. m.. and 4 o’clock p. m.. of said day. at the door of the Court House in the town of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, the rents and profits, for a term notexeeedlng seven years, of the follow' Ing described Real Estate, to-wit: The Northwest quarter [U] of the Southwest quarter [H] of Section Four [4j Township Twenty-seven [27] North, Range six [6] West. Jasper county, Indiana. And should such refits and profits not sell for a efficient sum tn discharge said decree, interest and costs, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said Real Estate, or so. much thereof as shall be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief from valuation or appraisement laws, and in accordance with the order of Court in said decree, JOHN W. POWELL, Sheriff. R. S. A Z, Dtoigginn, Atlya for Plaintiff. June 28 July 5-12-19- Press Fee 212.50.

Sheriff’s Sale. BY virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed, from the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit court, in a cause wherein Charles L. Anderson is plaintiff, and Mary H. Hawhe soleheir of Arthur J. Hawhe. deceased, is defendant, requiring me to make tile sum of Sixteen Hundred and Sixty-two Dollars and Forty-seven cents, (21662.47) together with interest and costs, I will expose at public sale on Saturday the 28th day of July 1883, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m„ and 4 o’clock p. m., of said day, at the door of the Court House, in the town of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, the rents and profits, for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described Real Estate, to-wit: The West half (&) of the Northeast quarter (X) of section Four(4), West half (X) of the Northwest quarter (X? of the Southwest quarter (X) of section Nine [9). aud the Northwest quarter (X) of said section Nine (9) all in Township Thirty-one (31, North, Range Five (5) West. Jasper county, Indiana. And should such rents and profits not sell for a sufficient sum to discharge said decree, interest and costs, I will at the same time and place expose to Public sale the fee simple of said Real EMate or so much thereof as shall be sufficient /to discharge said decree, interest and costs Said safe will be made with relief from valuation and appraisement laws, and in accordance with the order of court in said decree. JOHN W. POWELL. Sheriff Jasper county, Indiana Thompson & Bro. Attys for Plaintiff. July 5-12-19-26. Pr. Fee $12.50.

. Sheriff’s Sale. I BY virtue of a certified copy of a decree, to me directed, from the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, in a cause vvljerein Samuel J. Wirick and George W. Cook are plaintiffs, and OJinthaa V. Walters, Euphie Walters and Sechler & Co., (An incorporated company of which David M. Sechler is president and Thomas M. Sechler is secretary.) are defendants. requireing me to make the sum of seven hundred and thirty-eight dollars and forty - seven cents, ($738.47) together with interest and costs. 1 will expose'at publie sale, for cash in hand, on Thursday the 19th day of July 1883. between the hours of 1C o’clock a. m., and 4 o’clock p. m., of said day, at the door of the Court House in the town of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, the reins and profits, for a teriii not exceeding seven years, of the following described property, to-wit: The south-west quarter (*4) of the north-east quarter (X), and the north-west quarter (X) of the south-east quarter (X) of section fourteen (14) township twenty-eight, (2ft) north, range six (6) west, Jasper cbunty, Indiana. Ana should such rents and profits not sell for a sufficient sum to discharge said decree, interest and costs. I will, at the same time and place, expose at public sale the fee simple of said Real Estate, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be njade without any relief from valuation or appraisement laws, and in accordance with the order of said Court in said JOHN W. POWELL, Sheriff Jasper County. Thompson <jt Bro., Atty's for Plain tis, June 21-28 July 5-12, Pr. Fee 212.50,

Sheriff’s Sale. * BY virtue of a certified copy of a decree, to me directed, from the clerk of the Jasper Circuit court, in a cause wherein Simon P. Thompson was plaintiff and Florence Pierce, Wiley H Pierce, Walter Gum and Rose Gum his wife were defendants, requiring me to make the sum of Three Hundred andNinetythree and 75-ICO Dollars, together with interest and.costs, I will expose at public sale, for cash in hand on Saturday the 21st day of July, 1883, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m., and 4 o’clock p. m., of said day, at the door of the Court House, in the town of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, the rents nnd profits, for a term not exceeding seven years, the following described Real estate, to-wft: Lot No. Eight (8) Block No. Kind (9; Western' Addition to Remington, Jasper county, Indiana. And should such rents and profits not sell for a sufficient sum to discharge said decree, interest and costs. 1 will, at the same time and place, expose- to sale the fee simple of said Real Estate, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Said Sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws and in accordance with the order of court in said decree. JOHN W. POWELL, Sheriff Jasper county. Thompson <t Bro. Att'ys for pl'tff. June 28 July 6*12-19. Press Fee $lO. SPECI AL TERM OF THE JASPER CIRCUIT COURT. The time for holding the June Term of this Court for the year 1883 having expired, and the business of said term not having been finished, it is ordered by the court, that an adjourned term of said court be held, commencing on the 12th day of July, 1883, at 2 o’clock 1. M„ continue until such business shall be and the Clerk is ordered to gi\e notice of such adjourned term by ptiblisniug a copy of this order in the Rknsselaek REPVBI.IUAX, Democratic Sentinel and Bemiifyton Sews, tor two insertions, and by posting a like notice on the door of the Court House for ten days before said 12th day of July, and that Court do now adjourn until the 12th day of Julv. 1883. Signed , June 23d, 1888. PETER 11. WARD, . adge. STATE OF INDIANA, I - Jasper County. J 3 P* J. Charles If. Price, Clerk of ( rouit Court within and for the County and sute aforesaid, certify that the foregoing is a irtie, full complete copv of order of said court, entered of record on page 74 of Civil Order Book number 12, on the 23d day of Juue, 1888. Witness rhy hand and the seal of (krili said Court at Rensselaer. Indiana. I J J the 28th dav of June, 1888. CHARLES 11. PRICE, Clerk, by James A. Burnham.Deputy: Juno 28 July 5 f ? L>